Washington State is about to enter the phase of the 'math wars'. Since the late 1980s, the debate over how best to teach mathematics to schoolchildren has raged worldwide among educators, politicians, and parents. This title assesses the state of math education, and reviews its history and development.
The Mughal Empire dominated India politically, culturally, socially, economically and environmentally, from its foundation by Babur, a Central Asian adventurer, in 1526 to the final trial and exile of the last emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar at the hands of the British in 1858. Throughout the empire's three centuries of rise, preeminence and decline, it remained a dynamic and complex entity within and against which diverse peoples and interests conflicted. The empire's significance continues to be controversial among scholars and politicians with fresh and exciting new insights, theories and interpretations being put forward in recent years. This book engages students and general readers with a clear, lively and informed narrative of the core political events, the struggles and interactions of key individuals, groups and cultures, and of the contending historiographical arguments surrounding the Mughal Empire.
People from South Asia have been coming to Britain since the beginning of the 17th century. From the 1950s, increased immigration produced new generations of British Asians, who experienced both racism and economic hardship as they strove to express their entrepreneurial spirit and assert their religious identity. This book presents their story.
The authors tackle the issues of scalability from processes, to people, to performance, to the highly technical.
Walking around the North Staffordshire town of Leek, you will hear the unusual saying `Leek - out of the noise'. Tucked away in between hills, this quaint market town is the setting of this nostalgic-steeped memoir that returns the reader to walk the gas-lit streets of Michael Fisher's post-World War II childhood.