12 Déc

Knowing History – Twentieth Century British and World History 1900-2020: (Second edition)

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Provide a coherent chronological KS3 history curriculum with 50 knowledge-rich lessons on twentieth century world history. Spark pupils’ curiosity, develop their understanding of the past and equip them to investigate the past as a historian.

Ignite an interest in twentieth century history through memorable and compelling narratives, rich contextual detail and extraordinary people
Help all students to think critically about the past by focusing on the knowledge they need and then checking their understanding
Build secure positive identities and cultural capital with culturally and geographically diverse coverage including five new global history units for the 2nd edition
Support pupils’ long-term learning with knowledge organisers on key vocabulary, people, places, and dates
Put knowledge into context with a full timeline covering the broad geographical scope of the period studied
Easy to implement in your school with the 10 unit/ 5 chapter structure and overarching enquiry question per unit
Deliver excellent lessons and save time planning with the Teacher Guide available free on Collins.co.uk, containing teaching ideas, suggested sources, assessment, answers, essay titles and extended writing examples
Unit 1: The First World War
Unit 2: The USSR
Unit 3: Germany and the Nazis
Unit 4: The Second World War
Unit 5: Wartime Britain
Unit 6: Modern China
Unit 7: The Cold War
Unit 8: Civil Rights in the USA
Unit 9: Decolonisation
Unit 10: Postwar Britain
Fundamental Electrical Engineering
13 Nov

Fundamental Electrical Engineering – Pr. RAHMOUNE CHEMSEDDINE

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This book was intended for students in scientific and technical fields of universities and engineering schools. It provides a technical support on electrical engineering fundamentals and covers the majority of electricity and electrical circuits bases topics, ranging from AC single phase circuits to magnetic and three phases circuits systems.

It contains lectures and fundamental notion in electrical engineing as successive chapters aimed to prepare and guide readers to start and navigate in this facinatingand vast world.

To better support students, problems are presented at the end of each chapter.

This first part of fundamental electrical engineering covers six chapters. The first chapter covers complex numbers. The second chapter addresses the Fundamental laws of electricity. The third and fourth chapters deal with single-phase circuits and three-phase circuits. Finally the fifth and sixth chapters are the last ones where fundamental laws of electromagnetism and magnetic circuits are neatly approached.

This book is particularly aimed at second-year Science and Technology (ST) students, as well as those in other fields with similar programs.

The content of this first part of this book complies with the program of the electrotechnical majors fundamentals. It is recommended and established by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESRS).

Finaly, I hope that this work will be useful and beneficial to all those who are interested in learning or teaching electrical engineering fundamentals.

Solved Problems On Electrical Engineering : +130 Solved problems
13 Nov

Solved Problems On Electrical Engineering : +130 Solved problems – Pr. RAHMOUNE CHEMSEDDINE

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This book was intended for students in scientific and technical fields of universities and engineering schools. It provides a technical support on electrical engineering fundamentals and covers the majority of electricity and electrical circuits bases topics, ranging from AC single phase circuits to magnetic and three phases circuits systems.

It contains lectures and fundamental notions in electrical engineering as successive chapters aimed to prepare and guide readers to start and navigate in this fascinating and vast world.

To better support students, problems are presented at the end of each chapter.

This first part of fundamental electrical engineering covers six chapters. The first chapter covers complex numbers. The second chapter addresses the Fundamental laws of electricity. The third and fourth chapters deal with single-phase circuits and three-phase circuits. Finally the fifth and sixth chapters are the last ones where fundamental laws of electromagnetism and magnetic circuits are neatly approached.

This book is particularly aimed at second-year Science and Technology (ST) students, as well as those in other fields with similar programs.

The content of this first part of this book complies with the program of the electrotechnical majors fundamentals. It is recommended and established by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (MESRS).

Finaly, I hope that this work will be useful and beneficial to all those who are interested in learning or teaching electrical engineering fundamentals.

09 Jan

Legendborn: TikTok made me buy it! The New York Times bestseller

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SOME LEGACIES ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN.

An explosive fantasy debut that is taking TikTok by storm. Perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare, Leigh Bardugo, Sarah J. Maas and Cinderella is Dead!

Filled with mystery and Southern Black Girl Magic, Tracy Deonn’s New York Times bestselling Legendborn offers the dark allure of City of Bones with a modern-day twist on a classic legend . . .

After her mother dies in an accident, sixteen-year-old Bree Matthews wants to escape. A residential programme for bright high-schoolers seems like the perfect opportunity – until she witnesses a magical attack her very first night on campus . . .

A flying demon feeding on human energies.

A secret society of so-called “Legendborn” that hunt the creatures down.

A mysterious mage who calls himself a “Merlin” and who attempts – and fails – to wipe Bree’s memory of everything she saw.

The mage’s failure unlocks Bree’s own unique magic and a buried memory about her mother. Now Bree will do whatever it takes to discover the truth, even infiltrate the Legendborn. But when the Legendborn reveal themselves as the descendants of King Arthur’s knights and foretell a magical war, Bree must decide how far she’ll go for the truth. Should she use her magic to take the society down – or join the fight?

Winner of the Coretta Scott King – John Steptoe for New Talent Author Award
12 Déc

Knowing History – Modern British and World History 1760-1900: (Second edition)

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Provide a coherent chronological KS3 history curriculum with 50 knowledge-rich lessons on modern world history. Spark pupils’ curiosity, develop their understanding of the past and equip them to investigate the past as a historian.

Ignite an interest in modern history through memorable and compelling narratives, rich contextual detail and extraordinary people
Help all students to think critically about the past by focusing on the knowledge they need and then checking their understanding
Build secure positive identities and cultural capital with culturally and geographically diverse coverage including five new global history units for the 2nd edition
Support pupils’ long-term learning with knowledge organisers on key vocabulary, people, places, and dates
Put knowledge into context with a full timeline covering the broad geographical scope of the period studied
Easy to implement in your school with the 10 unit/ 5 chapter structure and overarching enquiry question per unit
Deliver excellent lessons and save time planning with the Teacher Guide available free on Collins.co.uk, containing teaching ideas, suggested sources, assessment, answers, essay titles and extended writing examples
Unit 1: The British Empire
Unit 2: Transatlantic Slavery
Unit 3: The Industrial Revolution
Unit 4: The Age of Reform
Unit 5: The Victorian Empire
Unit 6: Birth of the USA
Unit 7: The French Revolution
Unit 8: Nineteenth-century Europe
Unit 9: Qing China
Unit 10: Global Imperialism
12 Déc

Factfulness

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Factfulness: The stress-reducing habit of only carrying opinions for which you have strong supporting facts.When asked simple questions about global trends—what percentage of the world’s population live in poverty: why the world’s population is increasing: how many girls finish school—we systematically get the answers wrong. So wrong that a chimpanzee choosing answers at random will consistently outguess teachers, journalists, Nobel laureates, and investment bankers.In Factfulness, Professor of International Health and global TED phenomenon Hans Rosling, together with his two long-time collaborators, Anna and Ola, offers a radical new explanation of why this happens. They reveal the ten instincts that distort our perspective—from our tendency to divide the world into two camps (usually some version of us and them) to the way we consume media (where fear rules) to how we perceive progress (believing that most things are getting worse).Our problem is that we don’t know what we don’t know, and even our guesses are informed by unconscious and predictable biases.It turns out that the world, for all its imperfections, is in a much better state than we might think. That doesn’t mean there aren’t real concerns. But when we worry about everything all the time instead of embracing a worldview based on facts, we can lose our ability to focus on the things that threaten us most.Inspiring and revelatory, filled with lively anecdotes and moving stories, Factfulness is an urgent and essential book that will change the way you see the world and empower you to respond to the crises and opportunities of the future.
09 Jan

Gallant

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The Number 1 Sunday Times-bestselling novel, from the author of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and A Darker Shade of Magic. A darkly magical and thrilling tale of a young woman caught between the world and its shadows, who must embrace her legacy to stop the approaching darkness. The Secret Garden meets Crimson Peak, perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman, Holly Black and Susan Cooper. Fourteen-year-old Olivia Prior is missing three things: a mother, a father, and a voice. Her mother vanished all at once, and her father by degrees, and her voice was a thing she never had to start with. She grew up at Merilance School for Girls. Now, nearing the end of her time there, Olivia receives a letter from an uncle she's never met, her father's older brother, summoning her to his estate, a place called Gallant. But when she arrives, she discovers that the letter she received was several years old. Her uncle is dead. The estate is empty, save for the servants. Olivia is permitted to remain, but must follow two rules: don't go out after dusk, and always stay on the right side of a wall that runs along the estate's western edge. Beyond it is another realm, ancient and magical, which calls to Olivia through her blood…
12 Déc

Fairy Tale: Stephen King

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Legendary Storyteller Stephen King Goes Into The Deepest Well Of His Imagination In This Spellbinding Novel About A Seventeen-year-old Boy Who Inherits The Keys To A Parallel World Where Good And Evil Are At War, And The Stakes Could Not Be Higher - For Their World Or Ours. Charlie Reade Looks Like A Regular High School Kid, Great At Baseball And Football, A Decent Student. But He Carries A Heavy Load. His Mom Was Killed In A Hit-and-run Accident When He Was Ten, And Grief Drove His Dad To Drink. Charlie Learned How To Take Care Of Himself - And His Dad. Then, When Charlie Is Seventeen, He Meets A Dog Named Radar And Her Aging Master, Howard Bowditch, A Recluse In A Big House At The Top Of A Big Hill, With A Locked Shed In The Backyard. Sometimes Strange Sounds Emerge From It. Charlie Starts Doing Jobs For Mr. Bowditch And Loses His Heart To Radar. Then, When Bowditch Dies, He Leaves Charlie A Cassette Tape Telling A Story No One Would Believe. What Bowditch Knows, And Has Kept Secret All His Long Life, Is That Inside The Shed Is A Portal To Another World. King's Storytelling In Fairy Tale Soars. This Is A Magnificent And Terrifying Tale About Another World Than Ours, In Which Good Is Pitted Against Overwhelming Evil, And A Heroic Boy - And His Dog - Must Lead The Battle.
09 Jan

Educated: The international bestselling memoir

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Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for the moon to drip as if with blood. She spent her summers bottling peaches and her winters rotating emergency supplies, hoping that when the World of Men failed, her family would continue on, unaffected.

She hadn’t been registered for a birth certificate. She had no school records because she’d never set foot in a classroom, and no medical records because her father didn’t believe in doctors or hospitals. According to the state and federal government, she didn’t exist.

As she grew older, her father became more radical, and her brother, more violent. At sixteen Tara decided to educate herself. Her struggle for knowledge would take her far from her Idaho mountains, over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she’d travelled too far. If there was still a way home.

EDUCATED is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes with the severing of the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, from her singular experience Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
09 Jan

Hopeless

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us comes the beginning of Sky and Dean’s passionate love story – where well-kept secrets threaten to open wounds of a dark past.

Would you rather know a truth that makes you feel hopeless, or keep believing the lies?

Beloved and bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with the spellbinding story of two young people with devastating pasts who embark on a passionate, intriguing journey to discover the lessons of life, love, trust – and above all, the healing power that only truth can bring.

Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she’s tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious Holder has been keeping secrets of his own, and once they are revealed, Sky is changed forever and her ability to trust may be a casualty of the truth.

Only by courageously facing the stark revelations can Sky and Holder hope to heal their emotional scars and find a way to live and love without boundaries. Hopeless is a novel that will leave you breathless, entranced, and remembering your own first love.