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  • Make It Stick

    The Science of Successful Learning

    by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel ...
    To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • The Forgotten German Genocide

    Revenge Cleansing in Eastern Europe, 1945–50

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    The Potsdam Conference (officially known as the "Berlin Conference"), was held from 17 July to 2 August 1945 at Cecilienhof Palace, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Brandenburg, and saw the leaders of the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union and the United States, gathered together to decide how to demilitarize, denazify, decentralize, and administer Germany, which had agreed to unconditional ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Essex Witches

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    Medieval folk had long suspected that the Devil was carrying out his work on earth with the help of his minions. In 1484 Pope Innocent VIII declared this to be true, which resulted in witch-hunts across Europe which lasted for nearly 200 years. In 1645, England (notably Essex) was in the grip of witch fever. Between 1560 and 1680 in Essex alone 317 women and 23 men were tried for witchcraft, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Barnstormers, Wing-Walking and Flying Circuses

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    While large numbers of aeroplanes had been produced In America for the war effort overseas at the Western Front, it was found that that the British, French and Germans were far ahead of them when it came to flight technology, which led to a huge surplus of aeroplanes in the United States. The government's solution to recover some of the money was to sell the surplus stock off for as little as $200 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • RAF Southend

    1940-1944

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    RAF Southend focuses on the airport's role in the Second World War, between October 1940 and August 1944, from when it became a fighter station in its own right, until it became an armament practice camp later in the war. It describes the manning and maintenance of the forward fighter station, often under attack, and follows the varying fortunes of the staff and personnel who were posted there, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Voices from the Arctic Convoys

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    With the invasion of Russia by Germany in 1941, Britain gained a new ally and a responsibility to provide material for the new front. More than four million tonnes of supplies such as tanks, fighters, bombers, ammunition, raw materials and food were transported to Russia during a four-year period. The cost was high and by May 1945, the campaign had seen the loss of 104 merchant ships and sixteen ... Read more

    $6.81 USD

  • Southampton Airport Through Time

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    Series series Through Time
    Southampton Airport boasts a long history, with the first aircraft taking off from the original site at Stoneham Farm in 1910. Requisitioned by the War Office in 1917 as an aircraft assembly area, it was given to the US Navy to develop. The current airport was established in 1932, and was the test bed for R. J. Mitchell’s prototype Spitfire. The airport was commissioned as HMS Raven in 1939, and ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Manchester Airport Through Time

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    Series series Through Time
    Manchester Airport (EGCC) is a Category 10 international passenger airport located in Lancashire, UK, comprising three passenger terminals and a world freight terminal. It operates long-haul and short-haul flights to around 225 destinations worldwide. It is one of the largest centres of employment in the north-west of England, with more than 19,000 people directly employed on site, and supporting ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Prestwick Airport Through Time

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    Series series Through Time
    Prestwick Airport is a major international freight hub and is the only airport in Scotland to be connected by rail. It also has the second-longest runway in Scotland, accommodating all types of aircraft with no requirement for future extension. Prestwick sits in third place after Glasgow International and Edinburgh Airports in passenger traffic terms, and in 2016 was selected to become one of ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Shoreham Airport

    An Illustrated History

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    Shoreham is the oldest airport in the UK, aviator Harold Piffard first flying from there in 1910, although the aerodrome only officially opened on 20 June 1911. It served as a base for Alliott Verdon Roe (founder of Avro) and John Alcock (one of the first men to fly the Atlantic). At the start of the First World War, the first flight of British military aircraft left from Shoreham to join the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Edinburgh Airport Through Time

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    Series series Through Time
    The land around Turnhouse Farm was converted to a military airfield in 1916 following a Zeppelin attack on Edinburgh. Known as RAF Turnhouse after 1918, the site served as a base for fighter squadrons defending Edinburgh and the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh Corporation first expressed interest in February 1944 in operating civilian flights from Turnhouse after the war and in 1946 British European ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Southend Airport Through Time

    by Peter C. Brown ...
    Series series Through Time
    Southend Airport, one of the six main airports serving London, began life as a landing strip for pleasure flying. The largest flying ground in Essex, it was established by the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War as part of London's air defence network. During the Second World War, the RAF requisitioned the airfield and it served as a Spitfire base during the Battle of Britain and was an ... Read more

    $11.99 USD