The revolution is being televised. Countless stories on the Discovery Channel and PBS have revealed exciting new insights about the brain. Mainstream broadcast media such as ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN and publications such as Time and Newsweek have…
Someone once said that curriculum development is not something done to teachers but through and with them. This has the implication that teachers should have appropriate skills and knowledge to be able to make a contribution to curriculum…
What is astonishing about this statement is that, even so recently as a decade ago, it needed to be made at all. The gap in systematic boardroom development was generally unrecognized until the last decade of the twentieth century. Prior to that,…
From a situation nearly 30 years ago when it was virtually unknown, Islamic banking has
expanded to become a distinctive and fast growing segment of the international banking
and capital markets. There are well over 200 Islamic banks operating in…
The business man is the national hero of America, as native to the soil and as typical of the country as baseball
or Broadway or big advertising. He is an interesting figure, picturesque and not unlovable, not so dashing
perhaps as a knight in…
This book is a concise fact-file of theories, terminology and techniques for teachers.
Plus there are lots of tips  , traps  and articles preceded by a star icon that we hope will make learning and teaching even more effective.
We welcome…
This book was first planned as a revised edition of my What You
Should Know About Inflation, first published in 1960. But inflation,
not only in the United States but throughout the world, has since
then not only continued, but spread and…
This series brings together titles dealing with a variety of aspects of language
acquisition and processing in situations where a language or languages other than
the native language is involved. Second language is thus interpreted in its…