Young children learning [[electronic resource] /] / Barbara Tizard and Martin Hughes ; with a new foreword by Judy Dunn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910144140903321
• Autore: Tizard Barbara
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Malden, MA, : Blackwell Pub., 2002
• ISBN: 1-281-31917-1; 9786611319175; 0-470-70775-5; 0-470-77432-0; 0-470-77739-7
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Collana: Understanding children's worlds
• Altri autori (Persone): HughesMartin <1949 May 15->
• Disciplina: 155.42/3315; 370.1523
• Soggetti: Learning, Psychology of; Children - Language; Cognition in children; Home and school; Mother and child; Nursery schools; Teacher-student relationships; Speech and social status; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-240) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Foreword -Judy Dunn; Preface; 1.Why we studied children learning; 2.How we carried out this study; 3.Learning at home:play,games,stories and 'lessons '; 4.Learning at home:living and talking together; 5.The puzzling mind of the four-year-old; 6.Working-class verbal deprivation:myth or reality?; 7.An afternoon with Donna and her mother; 8.How the children fared at nursery school; 9.The working-class girls,including Donna,at school; 10.The gap between home and nursery school; 11.Young children learning; Statistical appendix; Notes; Index of children; General index
• Sommario/riassunto: This fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how young children learn and how best to teach them. In particular it turns upside-down the commonly held belief that professionals know better than parents how to educate and bring up children; and it throws doubt on the theory that working-class children underachieve at school because of a language deficit at home. The second edition of this bestselling text includes a new introduction by Judy Dunn. Fascinating account of an unusual research project challenges many assumptions about how

The history of the German resistance, 1933-1945 / / Peter Hoffmann ; translated from the German by Richard Barry

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782184203321
• Autore: Hoffmann Peter <1930->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montreal ; ; Buffalo : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 1996
• ISBN: 1-282-85431-3; 9786612854316; 0-7735-6640-6
• Edizione: [Third English edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: xviii, 853 pages : illustrations
• Disciplina: 943.086
• Soggetti: Anti-Nazi movement; Germany Politics and government 1933-1945
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Translation of Widerstand, Staatsstreich, Attentat.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 773-815) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Matter -- Contents -- Author’s Foreword -- Preface to the Third Edition -- The Background -- The Year 1933 -- Forms of Resistance -- Top-Level Crisis -- The Sudeten Crisis and the Attempted Coup of 1938 -- Operation ‘Green’ -- Foreign Policy and Resistance -- Beck’s Plans -- Halder’s Plans -- Plans for a Coup 1939–1940 -- Before the Outbreak of War -- Plans, Probings and Memoranda -- Halder’s New Plan -- Further Efforts -- Soundings Abroad -- Internal Political Plans -- SchmidNoerr -- Hassell -- Popitz -- Goerdeler -- The Kreisau Circle -- Socialists -- Contacts With the Enemy 1940–1944 -- Albrecht Haushofer 1940–1941 -- Hassell 1941–1942 -- Lochner 1941–1942 -- ; Trott, Bonhoeffer, Schönfeld 1942 -- Moltke 1943 -- Trott 1943–1944 -- Gisevius -- Miscellaneous Contacts -- ‘Eastern Solution’? -- Otto John 1944 -- Assassination Attempts 1933–1942 -- The Early Days -- Attempts of 1938–1942 -- Tresckow and Army Group Centre -- Preparations -- Projects of 1943 -- Abortive Plans -- ‘Valkyrie’ -- Stauffenberg and the Replacement Army -- Stauffenberg’s Career -- Assassination Attempts — Bussche, Kleist, Breitenbuch -- Procurement of Explosive -- Communications Planning -- Internal Political Planning -- Stauffenberg’s First Two Assassination Attempts -- 20 JULY 1944 -- ‘Wolfschanze’ -- Berlin: The Coup -- The Coup in the Provinces -- Prague, Vienna, Paris -- Collapse in Berlin -- Wreck of the Opposition -- Summary Court Martial -- Arrests -- People’s Court, Executions, Concentration Camps -- Notes -- Appendices -- Abbreviations and Glossary -- Sources and Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The English version of the book has been extensively revised and expanded since its original publication in German. This edition includes a new preface and an updated bibliography.