Verlinden Publications; 1st edition (March 22, 2002)

WWII Aircraft Vol. III: Modeling, Detailing, Painting Weathering and Building Dioramas/by Francois Verlinden (Author)
Description
This 3rd installment in VPs popular Building WWII Aircraft series features 9 new articles covering the art of making military aircraft models. Four new articles from the workshop at VP studios include a super-detailed Accurate Miniatures SBD-3 Dauntless, with a second article on building a Pacific maintenance diorama for it, Painting & weathering the Tamiya Mosquito MK. II Night Fighter, and The Office, an article focusing on painting cockpits. Greg Cihlar unveils his first aircraft diorama featuring the Tamiya D0-335, and VPs own Charlie Pritchett presents an unusual Luftwaffe Scrapyard diorama. Finally, Spanish master-modelers Antonio Morant, Diego Lopez, and Rodrigo Navarro share their breath-taking talents with a checker-tailed P-51B Mustang, an intricately painted Bf-110G-4 Night Fighter, and the stunning bare-metal P-38J Marge flown by USAAF Top Ace Richard Bong. This latest book promises to inspire & amaze both novice and expert modelers, as well as aviation enthusiasts & historians around the world.

Pedagogy and Learning with ICT: Researching the Art of Innovation/by Somekh (Author)
Description
Bridget Somekh draws on her experience of researching the introduction of ICT into education to look at ICT development over the last twenty years. The book provides a fascinating, in-depth analysis of the nature of learning, ICT pedagogies and the processes of change for teachers, schools and education systems. It covers the key issues relating to the innovation of ICT that have arisen over this period, including:
* the process of change
* educational vision for ICT
* teacher motivation and engagement
* the phenomenon of ‘fit’ to existing practices
* systemic constraints
* policy and evaluation of its implementation
* students’ motivation and engagement
* the penetration of ICT into the home
* online learning and the ‘disembodied’ teacher.

Cyber-Marx: Cycles and Circuits of Struggle in High Technology Capitalism/by Nick Dyer-Witheford (Author)
Description
'In this highly readable and thought-provoking work, Nick Dyer-Witheford assesses the relevance of Marxism in our time and demonstrates how the information age, far from transcending the historic conflict between capital and its laboring subjects, constitutes the latest battleground in their encounter. Dyer-Witheford maps the dynamics of modern capitalism, showing how capital depends for its operations not just on exploitation in the immediate workplace, but on the continuous integration of a whole series of social sites and activities, from public health and maternity to natural resource allocation and the geographical reorganization of labor power.

The Britannica Guide to Modern China/by Jonathan Mirsky (Author), Britannica (Author)
Description
In 2008, as Beijing hosts the Olympic Games, the world's attention is focused on China - yet the most populous nation on the planet is still something of a mystery for many. This comprehensive introduction to the country gives an unbiased and lively overview of China's people, its culture and recent history.In an illuminating account of the rise of modern China, "The Britannica Guide" shows how this former peasant economy has been transformed in the last three decades to achieve its present position as a super-power - and the future looks set to be even more impressive. China is a country with a continuous culture stretching back 4000 years.Much of what makes the modern world started there - from gunpowder and the compass to paper and credit banking. This guide reveals those roots and the development of other innovations. It explains the differences between the Long March, the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution and the Four Modernizations. It looks at the key personalities - Sun Yat Sen, Mao, Deng Xiaopeng and Jiang Zemin - who transformed China into a modern state with the world's fastest-growing economy.

Engineering Materials Volume 1/by D R H Jones (Author), Michael Ashby (Author)
well laid out, logical order. Easy to include logically in a lecture course. Good case study examples. Very suitable as introduction to materials science. Covers complete course. Easy to read, same order of topics as lecturers.