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  • The Aural Advantage: Designing Through the Modality Principle

    Audio, Graphics, and the Neurological Proof Against Written Text in Multimedia Learning

    by Jenny E. Thomas ...
    Decades of instructional design in the corporate and academic world have relied on a fundamentally flawed format: displaying a complex graphic on a screen right next to a massive paragraph of explanatory text. Cognitive psychology has definitively proven that this approach actively destroys learning. To optimize comprehension, educators must obey the Modality Principle. Pioneered by Richard Mayer, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Is That It Then?

    by Jenny Thomas ...
    Set against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic in North London, Is That It, Then? follows a diverse cast of mainly older characters who have found, or who are looking for, new relationships.Is That It, Then? is a poignant and authentic portrayal of a generation often overlooked in novels. This moving narrative delves into the lives of characters grappling with anxiety, frustration, desire, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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    Ravishing the Heiress

    by Sherry Thomas ...
    Narrated by Jenny Sterlin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 9 min

    Millicent understands the terms of her arranged marriage all too well. She gets to be a Countess by marrying an impoverished Earl. And in return, the Earl Fitzhugh receives the benefit of her vast wealth, saving his family from bankruptcy. Because of her youth, they have agreed to wait eight years before consummating the marriage--and then, only to beget an heir. After which, they will lead ... Read more

    $28.84 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Global Politics

    A New Introduction

    Edited by Jenny Edkins, Maja Zehfuss, Thomas Gregory ...
    Global Politics: A New Introduction engages directly with questions that those coming to the study of world politics bring with them. From that innovative starting point, it explores key issues through a critical and inquiring perspective, presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies.Revised and updated throughout, the ... Read more

    $79.99 CAD

  • The Silver Swimmers

    by Jenny Thomas ...
    Laura and Terry have retired, Annie and Frances are made redundant, Beth's children have left home, Marie's partner has died, Jo's husband is divorcing her, Helen can't trust hers and Lynne's mother is descending into dementia. These women, brought up with feminism, pop music, drugs, the pill, university grants, free health care and no wars - had ambition, careers and independence. Now over 60, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Meaning in Interaction

    An Introduction to Pragmatics

    by Jenny A. Thomas ...
    Series series Learning about Language
    Meaning in Interaction: An Introduction to Pragmatics is a comprehensive introductory text which discusses the development of pragmatics - its aims and methodology - and also introduces themes that are not generally covered in other texts.Jenny Thomas focuses on the dynamic nature of speaker meaning, considering the central roles of both speaker and hearer, and takes into account the social and ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The Short End of the Sonnenallee

    A Novel

    by Thomas Brussig ...
    Translated by Jonathan Franzen, Jenny Watson ...
    Thomas Brussig’s classic German novel, The Short End of the Sonnenallee, now appearing for the first time in English, is a moving and miraculously comic story of life in East Berlin before the fall of the WallYoung Micha Kuppisch lives on the nubbin of a street, the Sonnenallee, whose long end extends beyond the Berlin Wall outside his apartment building. Like his friends and family, who have ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Transplanting Modernity?

    New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment

    Edited by Thomas B. Robertson, Jenny Leigh Smith ...
    Series series
    In general, “development” denotes movement or growth toward something better in the future. International development—widespread in the decades following World War II—was an effort at purposeful changein landscapes around the world. Contributors to this volume argue that these projects constituted an effort to transplant modernity, such as knowledge or technology, from places seen as more ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Spoken English on Computer

    Transcription, Mark-Up and Application

    Edited by Geoffrey Leech, Greg Myers, Jenny Thomas ...
    This book has evolved from a Workshop on Computerized Speech Corpora, held at Lancaster University in 1993. It brings together the findings presented in a clear and coherent manner, focussing on the advantages and disadvantages of particular transcription or mark-up practice. ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Researching Your Family History Online For Dummies, UK Edition

    by Nick Barratt, Sarah Newbery, Jenny Thomas, Matthew L. Helm, April Leigh Helm ...
    Navigate your way through your family’s pastInterested in family history? Keen to discover who your ancestors really were? Want to find out more from the comfort of your own home? If so, this book is for you. Walking you through the process of researching, organising and presenting your family tree online, this expert guide makes it simple. So what are you waiting for? Get plugged in and start ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • World Yearbook of Education 2006

    Education, Research and Policy: Steering the Knowledge-Based Economy

    Edited by Jenny Ozga, Terri Seddon, Thomas S. Popkewitz ...
    Series series World Yearbook of Education
    This volume considers the ways in which educational research is being shaped by policy across the globe. Policy effects on research are increasingly influential, as policies in and beyond education drive the formation of a knowledge-based economy by supporting increased international competitiveness through more effective, evidence-based interventions in schooling, education and training systems ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Power of Sociology

    Grasping Our Unequal World

    by Gudmundur Oddsson, Jenny Stuber, James M. Thomas ...
    Explore the world of sociology through a defining feature of all societies: power.The Power of Sociology: Grasping Our Unequal World introduces students to sociology through the discipline’s primary concern: the causes and consequences of social inequality, and at its core, power. The central organizing principle of social life, power is relevant to every reader and fundamental to all major sub ... Read more

    $125.99 CAD