Dave Hill

A comedian contributor to This American Life presents an uproarious collection of essays, mostly versed, that recount such misadventures as an accidental lunch with a high-end prostitute, an unwitting theft of 300 pounds of meat and the time he lost his innocence to a Japanese toilet.

...and Other Misguided Attempts at Personal Growth and Validation

Tasteful Nudes

Out of His Skin

How the Boy from Wolverhampton Rocked the World with Slade

So Here It Is

Betty Wind (illustrator)

The Boy Who Gave His Lunch Away

Manufacturing the '80s Pop Dream

Designer Boys and Material Girls

a pop life

Prince

'No Slade = No Oasis. It's as devastating and as simple as that' Noel Gallagher With six consecutive number one singles and the smash hit ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’, Slade were unstoppable. Now, the man whose outlandish costumes and unmistakable hairstyle made Slade one of the definitive acts of the Glam Rock era tells his story. But there’s more to Dave’s life than rock 'n' roll and good times. So Here It Is also covers the band’s painful break-up, Dave’s subsequent battle with depression, and his recovery from the stroke that threatened to cut short his performing career. If you’ve ever wondered what it feels like to be a working-class lad from the Midlands suddenly confronted by unimaginable fame, So Here It Is is the definitive account, told with heart and humour and filled with never-before-seen photos.

The Autobiography

Susanna Davidson

Princess Polly, who loves riding, enters the Pony Dressing-Up Race in disguise.

Princess Polly and the Pony

This book advances a powerful critique of neoliberalised education - privatization, marketisation, new public managerialism, increasing control and surveillance of schools and colleges - in eight of the rich countries of the world: USA, Canada, England and Wales, Finland, Greece, Taiwan, Israel, and Japan.

Diminishing Democracy, Equity and Workers' Rights

The Rich World and the Impoverishment of Education

Shakespeare's Insults

A Pop Life

Neoliberal education policies have privatised, marketised, decentralized, controlled and surveilled, managed according to the business and control principles of new public managerialism, attacked the rights and conditions of education workers, and resulted in a loss of democracy, critique and equality of access and outcome. This book, written by an impressive international array of scholars and activists, explores the mechanisms and ideologies behind neoliberal education, while evaluating and promoting resistance on a local, national and global level. Chapters examine the activities and impacts of the arguably socialist revolution in Venezuela, the Porto Alegre democratic community experimental model in Brazil, the activities of the Rouge Forum of democratic socialist teachers and educators in the USA, Public Service International, resistance movements against the GATS (General Agreement on Trade in Services), and trade union and social movement and community/parental opposition to neoliberal education policies in Britain and in Latin America.

Public Resistance and Collective Advance

Contesting Neoliberal Education

Peter McLaren

Mike Cole

Glenn Rikowski

Written by renowned British and American educational theorists, Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory—a substantially revised edition of the original 1999 work— examines the infusion of postmodernism and theories of postmodernity into educational theory, policy, and research.

Marxism Against Postmodernism in Educational Theory

Baldwin

Ingram

Thomas L. Albright

Provides a variety of student aid for mastering the book's material. It includes chapter outlines tied to the learning objectives, review questions, exercises, problems, and forms tailored to the text's end-of-chapter assignments.

Study Guide and Forms to Accompany Finanical Accounting

Schooling, Teacher Education and the Radical Right,in Britain and the U.S

Schooling, Teacher Education and the Radical Right in Britain and the USA

Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue

Deborah Kelsh

Sheila Macrine

In contemporary pedagogy, "class" has become one nomadic sign among others: it has no referent but only contingent allusions to similarly traveling signs. Class, that is, no longer explains social conflicts and antagonisms rooted in social divisions of labor, but instead portrays a cultural carnival of lifestyles, consumptions, tastes, prestige and desire, or obscures social conflicts through technicist accounts of incomes and jobs. Class in Education brings back class as a materialist analysis of social inequalities originating at the point of production and reproduced in all cultural practices. Addressing a wide range of issues – from the interpretive logic of the new humanities to racism to reading, school-level curricula to educational policy – the contributors focus on the effects that the different understandings of class have on various sites of pedagogy and open up new spaces for a materialist pedagogy and critical education in the times of globalization and the regimes of the digital.

Knowledge, Pedagogy, Subjectivity

Class in Education

A photo story about a young girl who takes the ultimate revenge on her friends.

Don't Hate Kate

A guide to creating music with computers offers a detailed overview of the Ableton Live interface, covering the basics of digital audio, live performance, integrate Live with other applications, the new features of the latest version of the software, and step-by-step instructions on how to mix, remix, and compose with Live. Original. (Intermediate)

Ableton Live 2 Power!

Chad Carrier

Get ready to make music that rocks using the amazing new features of Ableton Live 4. This comprehensive guide is designed to help you take full advantage of this revolutionary live performance and studio software. Written for all Live users, from digital audio beginners to seasoned pros, "Ableton Live 4 Power! explores each fundamental feature within Live and provides power-user tips and insider tricks for integrating Live into your home or professional studio. But you won't stop there! Learn what this amazing software has to offer for live performers. Whether you use Live for producing, composing, DJing, film, or television, "Ableton Live 4 Power!" helps you to put the fun back into making music with computers.

Ableton Live 4 Power!

Confessions of an imperfect father... Dave Hill's Dad's Life is a witty, touching account of single fatherhood, and the highs and lows of being a dad. Perfect for fans of David Nicholls' Us or Graeme Simsion's The Rosie Project. 'A witty and upbeat look at the joys of single fatherhood' - The Big Issue Joseph Stone loves being a father to his 3 young children but finds he has to radically revise his Perfect Father game plan when his partner leaves him and he is left to bring them up on his own. Surely Single Fatherhood is no more onerous than running the local football team? But instead of 4-4-2, he's dealing with 11 and 3/4s, 8 and 6. And then he meets and falls hopelessly in love with Angela and has another child by her, but when his previous partner returns, wanting more involvement with her children, Joseph's life threatens to turn into a chaos of competing needs and domestic mayhem. What does a real man do in these circumstances to avoid relegation to the lower divisions of the paternal sub-species? What readers are saying about Dad's Life: 'Quite simply the best book I've read this year' 'Dad's Life is the perfect book for everyone' 'Enjoyable, witty and well observed' 'A really delightful, funny and honest story... You couldn't do better for a smart and entertaining read'

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