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  • Red Alert

    by Peter Bryant ...
    Every minute of every hour of every day,there are American Bombers in the air,loaded with nuclear weapons,ready to fly into action at the mere spark of the right radio signal.These are the planes of the Strategic Air Command.What happens once that signal flashes is described vividly in this tensely dramatic novel.The command came to the men of the 843rd Wing,high in the air near the Russian border ... Read more

    $3.25 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Red Alert

    The Novel that Inspired Dr. Strangelove, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

    by Peter Bryant ...
    The basis for Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Dr. Strangelove: A chilling Cold War thriller in which unchecked power unleashes total nuclear disaster.Air Force Brigadier General Quinten is a dying man suffering from the paranoid delusion that he can make the world a better place by ordering a full-scale nuclear attack on the Soviet Union. Receiving word of the attack already underway, the president ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Using Mathematics to Understand the World

    How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics

    by Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant ...
    Using Mathematics to Understand the World: How Culture Promotes Children's Mathematics offers fundamental insight into how mathematics permeates our lives as a way of representing and thinking about the world.Internationally renowned experts Terezinha Nunes and Peter Bryant examine research into children’s mathematical development to show why it is important to distinguish between quantities, ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Handbook of Children’s Literacy

    Edited by Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant ...
    PETER BRYANT & TEREZINHA NUNES The time that it takes children to learn to read varies greatly between different orthographies, as the chapter by Sprenger-Charolles clearly shows, and so do the difficulties that they encounter in learning about their own orthography. Nevertheless most people, who have the chance to learn to read, do in the end read well enough, even though a large number ... Read more

    $305.09 USD

  • Learning and Teaching Mathematics

    An International Perspective

    Edited by Peter Bryant, Terezinha Nunes ...
    The authors of this volume, which is newly available in paperback, all hold the view that mathematics is a form of intelligent problem solving which plays an important part in children's lives outside the classroom as well as in it. Learning and Teaching Mathematics provides an exciting account of recent and radically different research on teaching and learning mathematics which will have a far ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Phonological Skills and Learning to Read

    by Usha Goswami, Peter Bryant ...
    Series series Psychology Press & Routledge Classic Editions
    In this classic edition of their ground-breaking work, Usha Goswami and Peter Bryant revisit their influential theory about how phonological skills support the development of literacy. The book describes three causal factors which can account for children’s reading and spelling development:pre-school phonological knowledge of rhyme and alliterationthe impact of alphabetic instruction on knowledge ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Phonological Skills and Learning to Read

    by Usha Goswami, Peter Bryant ...
    Series series Essays in Developmental Psychology
    This book sets out to integrate recent exciting research on the precursors of reading and early reading strategies adopted by children in the classroom. It aims to develop a theory about why early phonological skills are crucial in learning to read, and shows how phonological knowledge about rhymes and other units of sound helps children learn about letter sequences when beginning to be taught to ... Read more

    $115.99 USD

  • Improving Literacy by Teaching Morphemes

    by Terezinha Nunes, Peter Bryant ...
    Series series Improving Learning
    With reports from several studies showing the benefits of teaching young children about morphemes, this book is essential reading for anyone concerned with helping children to read and write.By breaking words down into chunks of meaning that can be analyzed as complete units rather than as strings of individual letters, children are better able to make sense of the often contradictory spelling and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Perception and Understanding in Young Children

    An Experimental Approach

    by Peter Bryant ...
    Series series Psychology Library Editions: Perception
    Originally published in 1974: ‘This book sets forth a theory of cognitive development based on simple but powerful processes of inference. The theory is applied with great ingenuity and freshness to complex phenomena found during intellectual development. Dr Bryant has written an important and original book.’ (J.S. Bruner)‘In this elegant, timely and brief volume, Dr Bryant produces strong ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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    From the New York Times–bestselling authors, this "chilling and engrossing" nuclear-showdown thriller packs "a multi-megaton wallop" ( Chicago Tribune).Originally published during the Cuban Missile Crisis, this suspenseful novel takes off as a group of American bombers—armed with a deadly payload of nuclear weapons—heads towards Moscow, their motives unknown. Suddenly, a nuclear apocalypse looms ... Read more

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  • Honorable Treachery

    A History of U.S. Intelligence, Espionage, and Covert Action from the American Revolution to the CIA

    by G.J.A. O'Toole ...
    A "splendidly written, impeccably researched, and perfectly fascinating" look at clandestine operations from colonial times to the Cuban Missile Crisis ( The Washington Post Book World).We've always depended on intelligence gathering to drive foreign policy in peacetime and command decision in war—but that work has often taken place in the shadows. Honorable Treachery fills in these details in our ... Read more

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  • 15 Minutes

    General Curtis LeMay and the Countdown to Nuclear Annihilation

    by L. Douglas Keeney ...
    Packed with startling revelations, this inside look at the secret side of the Cold War exposes just how close America came to total annihilation."With access to newly declassified documents, Keeney delivers a jolting year-by-year history of SAC's transformation into a massive worldwide force primed to launch bombers within 15 minutes of the order." — Publishers WeeklyOne of the most detailed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD