Search results for ""Author Ian Macdonald""
Vintage Publishing Revolution in the Head: The Beatles Records and the Sixties
As dazzling as the decade they dominated, The Beatles almost single-handedly created pop music as we know it. Today, their songs are cited as seminal influences by stars like Oasis and Blur. Eloquently giving voice to their time, The Beatles quite simply changed the world.Fully updated to include material from The Beatles Live at the BBC and the Anthology series, this acclaimed book goes back to the heart of The Beatles - their records. Drawing on a unique resource of knowledge and experience to 'read' their 241 tracks - chronologically from their first amateur efforts in 1957 to 'Real Love', their final 'reunion' recording in 1995 - Ian MacDonald has created an engrossing classic of popular criticism in which the extraordinary songs of The Beatles remain a central and continually surprising presence.
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Oxford University Press Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Level 6: Agnes, the Giant and the Bridge
Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education. These readers complement your existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press and can be used alongside them to support the teaching of Essential Letters and Sounds. Agnes, the Giant and the Bridge allows children to apply their phonics learning from Year 1 , Summer 1, Week 6 of Essential Letters and Sounds.
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Oxford University Press Project X Origins Graphic Texts: Dark Blue Book Band, Oxford Level 15: Time Stealer
Project X Origins Graphic Texts can help children to reach higher standards in comprehension. This action-packed, fiction story told in graphic form signals the start of a brand new time-travelling adventure for the popular Project X characters, Max, Cat, Ant and Tiger. The micro-friends go back in time to Saxon England and find themselves in the midst of King Alfred's battle against the Vikings! Can the friends help the king and stop the Tick-Tock Man from stealing his candle clock? This book also contains notes on the inside front and back covers with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions.
£10.70
Educational Printing Services Ltd The Mummy's Finger
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Oxford University Press Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Level 5: Simran Makes a Splash
Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education. These readers complement your existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press and can be used alongside them to support the teaching of Essential Letters and Sounds. Simran Makes a Splash allows children to apply their phonics learning from Year 1, Autumn 2, Week 4 of Essential Letters and Sounds.
£7.99
Rising Stars UK Ltd Reading Planet - Ants in the Pants! - Red A: Rocket Phonics
A man is lying on Ant's nest and blocking the ants from going in and out. Can Cat and Dog help Ant and get the man off the nest? Or will Ant have to find another way to get him moving? Ants in the Pants is part of the Rocket Phonics range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics builds a firm foundation in word reading through fresh and fully decodable phonics books for Pink A to Orange band. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 4-5 years
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Sort of Books Things Remembered and Things Forgotten
'If we want to understand what has been lost to time, there is no way other than through the exercise of imagination ... imagination applied with delicate rather than broad strokes'. So wrote the award winning Japanese author Kyoko Nakajima of her story, Things Remembered and Things Forgotten, a piece that illuminates, as if by throwing a switch, the layers of wartime devastation that lie just below the surface of Tokyo's insistently modern culture. The ten acclaimed stories in this collection are pervaded by an air of Japanese ghostliness. In beautifully crafted and deceptively light prose, Nakajima portrays men and women beset by cultural amnesia and unaware of how haunted they are - by fragmented memories of war and occupation, by fading traditions, by buildings lost to firestorms and bulldozers, by the spirits of their recent past.
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Badger Publishing Nightmare of the Scarecrows
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John Murray Press Essential Gaelic Dictionary: Teach Yourself
Is this the right book for me?With over 24,000 translations, including everyday idioms and expressions, Essential Gaelic Dictionary is the perfect tool to support your Gaelic learning. This edition is fully updated to reflect the recently published spelling conventions, and includes a guide to usage and insights from the author to help you learn and remember new words and phrases.Learn effortlessly with an easy-to-read page design, in particular: Author insightsLots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience.Not got much time?One- and five-minute informative summaries to get you started.Useful vocabularyAn extensive list of everyday words and phrases translated, to build a solid foundation for speaking.Want to learn more? Why not check out the Teach Yourself Library at library.teachyourself.com.
£16.99
Oxford University Press Essential Letters and Sounds: Essential Phonic Readers: Oxford Reading Level 5: Scruffy at the Show
Engaging fiction and non-fiction fully aligned to each week of Essential Letters and Sounds, allowing children to consolidate their phonic knowledge through reading in context. These fully decodable readers are 100% matched to the phonic progression of Essential Letters and Sounds. Essential Letters and Sounds is a systematic synthetic phonics programme validated by the Department for Education. These readers complement your existing decodable readers from Oxford University Press and can be used alongside them to support the teaching of Essential Letters and Sounds. Scruffy at the Show allows children to apply their phonics learning from Year 1, Spring 1, Week 1 of Essential Letters and Sounds.
£7.99
Oxford University Press Project X Origins Graphic Texts: Dark Blue Book Band, Oxford Level 15: Mixed Pack of 4
Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. This exciting Graphic Texts pack includes action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction, carefully selected poetry and comprehensive guided reading support to meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Each book contains inside cover notes with advice on supporting older children with their reading, ideas for follow-up activities and higher-level comprehension questions. Project X Origins guided reading notes offer step-by-step teaching support for each book with guidance about comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, spelling, punctuation, grammar and writing. Each set of notes has in-built assessment and is fully correlated to all UK curricula. This pack contains 1 set of guided reading notes and 4 reading books, 1 each of: Time Stealer, The Jungle Book, If and other poems, Great Inventors.
£46.23