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  • Project Restart

    From Prem to the Parks, How Football Came Out of Lockdown

    de Jon Berry ...
    It's an embarrassing truth for many football fans that it was only when professional football was eventually forced to close down that we recognised Covid-19 as a genuine threat to our way of life. Maybe just as shameful was the fact that once lockdown became normalised, it didn't take long for chatter to start about when the game might begin again. This book begins by charting what happened in ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • From Azeem to Ashes

    English Cricket's Struggle with Race and Class

    de Jon Berry ...
    From Azeem to Ashes charts the last, miserable days of Joe Root's captaincy in early 2022 through to the T20 World Cup victory before the breathless Bazball Ashes finale at the Oval. It's a book written for cricket lovers by a cricket lover, with voices from clubs, the boardroom and the commentary box.September 2020: cricket is in the headlines for the first time since the 2005 Ashes. But the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • An Armchair Fan's Guide to the Qatar World Cup

    The Story of How Football Came to the Desert

    de Jon Berry ...
    Zurich, 2 December 2010: FIFA president Sepp Blatter pulls the name Qatar from the envelope to reveal the hosts of the 2022 World Cup. The accusations fly and the recriminations start. But once it's all sunk in, we start to look at maps and temperature charts, and try to scrape together fragments of knowledge about kingdoms in the Arabian desert. The Armchair Guide looks beyond the myths and ... Leer más

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  • Hugging Strangers

    The Frequent Lows and Occasional Highs of Football Fandom

    de Jon Berry ...
    What is it like to follow one of English football's perennial non-achievers? Hugging Strangers is a celebration of what it means to support your club through thick and thin. It speaks to all who love the game but are lumbered - by way of family, geography or plain bad luck - with a team whose glory days are few and far between. At the end of the 1963/64 season Birmingham City stayed in the first ... Leer más

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  • Beneath the Black Water

    The Search for an Ancient Fish

    de Jon Berry ...
    "When I was very young and on holiday in Scotland, my cousin told me about giant trout that lived in small numbers at the bottom of the Highlands deepest lochs. They were called salmo ferox, and they were rumoured to be uncatchable." In his twenties, wholly accidentally, Jon Berry caught one. This led to an obsession that would cost him every pound he had to his name, a few thousand that he did ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Who Killed Oswald Grey?

    Race, the law and the last Black man hanged in Britain.

    de Jon Berry ...
    In November 1962, 20-year-old Oswald Augustus Grey, an immigrant from Jamaica who had been in the UK for less than two years, became the last man to be hanged in Birmingham’s Winson Green prison. There were only five further executions in the UK before capital punishment ended in 1965.His trial lasted fewer than five working days and his subsequent appeal less than an hour. There were 24 weeks ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Brutish Necessity

    A Black Life Forgotten

    de Jon Berry ...
    Oswald Augustus Grey was a Jamaican immigrant. He was 20 years old when he was executed and 19 when the crime for which he was convicted took place. To talk to people who lived in the city at the time, or to scour the nostalgia forums that proliferate online, is to discover an episode that has almost entirely disappeared in terms of public remembrance. This book unearths something of a place and a ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Putting the Test in its Place

    Teaching well and keeping the number crunchers quiet

    de Jon Berry ...
    This book privileges the experience and knowledge of classroom teachers over marketization and the constant assessment of their students' performance. In 'Teachers Undefeated' Jon Berry found that teachers had not fallen for a reduced and meagre view of what children should be offered by schools. Now he writes about schools that have made a collective decision to abide by the principles of ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Teachers Undefeated

    How global education reform has failed to crush the spirit of educators

    de Jon Berry ...
    Teachers Undefeated is about how teachers continue to do the best for their students. They do so despite clumsy interventions from governments who have no idea how difficult they have made school life. They do so despite the fact that they are pressurized into producing dubious outcomes and are over-scrutinized in every aspect of their professional lives. The book is filled with testimony from ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Seven Myths About Education

    In this controversial new book, Daisy Christodoulou offers a thought-provoking critique of educational orthodoxy. Drawing on her recent experience of teaching in challenging schools, she shows through a wide range of examples and case studies just how much classroom practice contradicts basic scientific principles. She examines seven widely-held beliefs which are holding back pupils and teachers ... Leer más

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  • Trust

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Trust is indispensable, yet it can be dangerous. Without trusting others, we cannot function in society, or even stay alive for very long, but being overly-trustful can be a bad strategy too. Trust is pragmatic, but it also has a moral dimension: trustworthiness is a virtue, and well-placed trust benefits us all. In this Very Short Introduction, Katherine Hawley explores the key ideas about trust ... Leer más

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  • Work

    A Very Short Introduction

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    The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work -- paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory -- is woven into the fabric of all human societies. For many of us, it becomes part of our identity. For others it is a tedious necessity. Living is problematic without paid work, and for many it is catastrophic. ... Leer más

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