Early Childhood Assessment
A new guide to conducting more comprehensive and meaningful psychological assessments of young children. Early Childhood Assessment presents a thorough, step-by-step approach to the comprehensive psychological assessment of young children. In addition to covering major psychological tests, this invaluable resource includes specific guidelines and formats for interviewing parents and other caregivers, observing children and caregiver-child interaction, conducting dynamic assessments, writing reports, and evaluating outcomes of recommended interventions.

The Story of Early Chemistry
later published under the title
Story of Alchemy and Early Chemistry
by John Maxson Stillman

Originally published under the title The Story of Early Chemistry. Tells the story of the development of chemical knowledge and science, from the beginning of time to the end of the 18th century. Contents: practical chemistry of the ancients; earliest chemical manuscripts; theories of the ancients of matter and its changes; early alchemists; chemical knowledge of the Middle Ages; chemistry in the 13th century; chemistry of the 14th and 15th centuries; progressive 16th century; chemical currents in the 16th century; chemistry of the 16th century; the 18th century, rise and fall of the Phlogiston theory; development of pneumatic chemistry in the 18th century; early ideas of chemical affinity; Lavoisier and the chemical revolution.

Ancient Europe 8000 B.C.--A.D. 1000: An Encyclopedia of the Barbarian World
Прекрасно иллюстрированная энциклопедия - двухтомник, включающая карты, хронологию, биографические справки, подробные описания по каждой стране.
In addition to post “Encyclopedia of the Barbarian Europe” (poster Maria)
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Aimed at the nonspecialist reader this set is appropriate for upper class high school and university students, professionals, and public library patrons.
Humans and Environments, Origins and Growth of European Prehistory, Settlement Patterns and Landscapes, Trade and Exchange, Status and Wealth, Ritual and Ideology, Archaeology and Language, Warfare and Conquest, Postglacial Foragers, 8000--4000 B.C, The Mesolithic of Europe (by each region), Crops of the Early Farmers, Domestication of the Horse, The Iceman, The Neolithic Temples of Malta, The Early, Middle and Late Bronze Ages in Central Europe, Celtic Migrations, Iron Age etc.

The Adventure of English: The Biography Of A Language

 

by Melvyn Bragg

 

 

Unabridged
read by Robert Powell

 

English has become the primary language of the world. It is the language used for business, for air traffic control and of course the Internet. Quite an accomplishment for what began as a minor Germanic dialect in about the year 500.
This book is a history of the language itself. How did the language become so important? The Church fought the publishing of the Bible in English because this would allow anyone to read it rather than just the official priests.
Part of the reason for the spread of English has been the wealth of literature written in English. From Beowulf to Chaucer and of course the vulgar playwright William Shakespeare (who contributed 2,000 new words to the language).
The growth of English continues in spite of things like France making it illegal to use English words where good French words could be used. And English continues to change, the English of India for instance allows computer support desks to be located in Mumbai, but communication is not all that easy.
English is the collective work of millions of people throughout the ages. It is democratic, ever-changing and ingenious in its assimilation of other cultures. English runs though the heart of world finance, medicine and the Internet, and it is understood by around two thousand million people across the world. It seems set to go on. Yet it was very nearly wiped out in it’s early years.
In this book Melvyn Bragg shows us the remarkable story of the English language; from its beginnings to a minor guttural Germanic dialect to its position today as a truly established global language. Along the way its colourful story takes in a host of characters and locations, from the early tribes, Alfred the Great’s stubborn resistance to the Danes, and through its early literary masterpieces such as Beowulf and the bawdy Geoffrey Chaucer; Henry VIII’s battles with the church over bootleg bibles; a ‘coarse’ playwright named William Shakespeare; the songs of the Creole slaves and the words of Davy Crockett; street slang and Dr Johnson’s dictionary; the role of English in India and its adoption in the United States of America which returned the language with full interest.

David Starkey - Elizabeth
Elizabeth I holds a unique place in the English imagination as one of the nation's most powerful, charismatic and successful monarchs. She is usually imagined as the icy, untouchable figure memorably recreated on screen by Bette Davis and Judi Dench, but that vision of Elizabeth ignores the turbulent years of her early life, from her birth as the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, until her accession to the throne in 1558 following the death of her sister Mary. It is these early years which are the subject of David Starkey's fascinating Elizabeth I, written to accompany his television series about the life of Elizabeth.