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  • The New Biology

    A Battle between Mechanism and Organicism

    by Michael J. Reiss, Michael Ruse ...
    In this accessible analysis, a philosopher and a science educator look at biological theory and society through a synthesis of mechanistic and organicist points of view to best understand the complexity of life and biological systems.The search for a unified framework for biology is as old as Plato’s musings on natural order, which suggested that the universe itself is alive. But in the twentieth ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Islam and Health Policies Related to HIV Prevention in Malaysia

    by Michael J. Reiss, Sima Barmania ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This salient text presents a culturally aware public health approach to the HIV epidemic in Malaysia, a country emblematic of the Muslim world's response to the crisis. It explores complex interactions of religion with health as a source of coping as well as stigma and denial, particularly as Islam plays a central role in Malaysian culture, politics, and policy. At the heart of the book, a ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

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    The Black Count

    Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

    by Tom Reiss ...
    Narrated by Paul Michael ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 30 min

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “richly imagined biography” (The New York Times Book Review) of General Alex Dumas, who rose from slavery to command vast armies in the French Revolutionary Wars—and whose exploits were immortalized in his son’s novels The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers“Fascinating [and] entertaining.”—The Wall Street Journal“Remarkable.... ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Rethinking Biology: Public Understandings

    by Michael J Reiss, Fraser Watts, Harris Wiseman ...
    'Rethinking Biology offers many useful perspectives on a range of topics: why neuroscience and brain imaging threaten to create a reductive view of self and behaviour every bit as misleading as the genetic one, why adaptationism needs taming in evolutionary narratives …'Public Understanding of ScienceBiologists always need to grapple with integrating two explanatory approaches. On the one hand, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Values in Sex Education

    From Principles to Practice

    by Mark Halstead, Michael Reiss ...
    Sex education is rarely out of the news. Despite this, there exist surprisingly few studies of the principles, policies and practice of sex education. This book provides such an examination, focusing on the values to which children are exposed in sex education. Sex education inevitably involves the transmission of values, regardless of whether this is intended by teachers. Throughout the book, ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Teaching Biology in Schools

    Global Research, Issues, and Trends

    Edited by Kostas Kampourakis, Michael Reiss ...
    Series series Teaching and Learning in Science Series
    An indispensable tool for biology teacher educators, researchers, graduate students, and practising teachers, this book presents up-to-date research, addresses common misconceptions, and discusses the pedagogical content knowledge necessary for effective teaching of key topics in biology. Chapters cover core subjects such as molecular biology, genetics, ecology, and biotechnology, and tackle ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Key Issues in Bioethics

    A Guide for Teachers

    Edited by Ralph Levinson, Michael Reiss ...
    Young people are increasingly being exposed to the huge and complex ethical dilemmas involved in issues such as genetic modification, animal rights and cloning, and they are bringing their views into the classroom. But how can teachers be sure they are sufficiently well-informed to help their pupils make sense of the diverse and emotive arguments surrounding these issues?This book holds the answer ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Multicultural Dimension Of The National Curriculum

    Edited by Anna King, Michael Reiss ...
    Given the National Curriculum Council's failure to issue any formal guidance on the subject, multicultural education is becoming increasingly marginalized and left to individual schools. This book provides guidance and advice to schools on issues of racial equality and cultural diversity. It helps teachers, managers and governors implement the requirements and expectations of new educational ... Read more

    $86.99 USD

  • Evolution Education Re-considered

    Understanding What Works

    Edited by Ute Harms, Michael J. Reiss ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    This collection presents research-based interventions using existing knowledge to produce new pedagogies to teach evolution to learners more successfully, whether in schools or elsewhere. ‘Success’ here is measured as cognitive gains, as acceptance of evolution or an increased desire to continue to learn about it. Aside from introductory and concluding chapters by the editors, each chapter ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Enhancing Learning with Effective Practical Science 11-16

    Enhancing Learning with Effective Practical Science begins with an exploration of the reasons why practical work is often less effective than it could be. It provides 72 full and clear lesson guides for effective practical lessons in biology, chemistry and physics for students aged between 11 and 16. Each lesson guide presents the practical work to be undertaken, the apparatus and materials ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Learning Science Outside the Classroom

    Edited by Martin Braund, Michael Reiss ...
    This book shows how a wide range of contexts for learning science can be used outside of the classroom, and includes learning:at museums, science centres and planetariafrom newspapers, magazines and through ICTat industrial sites and through science trailsat zoos, farms, botanic gardens, residential centres and freshwater habitatsin school grounds.With contributions from well known and respected ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Sociology, Curriculum Studies and Professional Knowledge

    New Perspectives on the Work of Michael Young

    Edited by David Guile, David Lambert, Michael J. Reiss ...
    This volume brings together an international set of contributors in education research, policy and practice to respond to the influence the noted academic Professor Michael Young has had on sociology, curriculum studies and professional knowledge over the past fifty years, and still has on the field to this day. It provides a critical analysis of his work and the uses to which it has been put in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD