W o lester smith (75 risultati)

Paper Cover. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition. Pelican Original.

gebundene Ausgabe. Condizione: Gut. 220 Seiten; Das hier angebotene Buch stammt aus einer teilaufgelösten Bibliothek und kann die entsprechenden Kennzeichnungen aufweisen (Rückenschild, Instituts-Stempel.); der Buchzustand ist ansonsten ordentlich und dem Alter entsprechend gut. In ENGLISCHER Sprache. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 225.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Good condition paperback pictorial cover. No DJ. 247 pages browning good with clear print.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. good condition.

hardcover. Condizione: Good. Acceptable Jacket. 1954 edition Posted within 1 working day. Royal Mail Tracked 24 to UK. Tracked Airmail worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging. Picture is the actual item.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. A soft cover non-fiction in very good condition. Clean and unmarked pages in excellent condition. The print remains dark and vivid. The cover is clear and sharply defined with no major signs of wear.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fair. Fair condition soft cover, some wear to cover and spine, tanning to pages, previous owner inscription to inside page, otherwise in a good readable condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good-. A Pelican original - an introduction to education and teaching. Owner's stamp on the inside of the cover.

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good +. First Printing. Pelican Book A380.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Reprint. with .238pp .-illustrated --- .very good condition.

Condizione: Good. Reprint. Good condition paperback. Book may have inscriptions, toning and foxing. Covers may have light wear. There will be no loose pages.

Condizione: Good. Reprint. Good condition paperback. Book may have inscriptions, toning and foxing. Covers may have light wear. There will be no loose pages.

Hardbound. Condizione: Very Good-. Fourth Edition. Ex-library with markings; 220 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Reprint. With 240pp - good condition.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Reprint. Reprint with revisions, 248 pages.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Good pbk reprint. Staining to the covers. Inscription on the front endpaper. (Pelican Book ; A380). 18499.

paperback. Condizione: Good. No Dust Jacket. Fifth Edition. Rather tanned and grubby externally, but contents are fine - clean and bright. Used.

Trade Paperback. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Condition: 'NF. Light shelfwear' Notes: Pelican paperback.

Condizione: Good. 1954. Reprinted. 200 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over orange cloth covered boards. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing. End-papers are more notably tanned. Text block edge is moderately foxed. Previous owner's inscription to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean. Boards are bowed. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good ++. No Dustjacket. Reprint. 240 pages. Flyleaf missing? Blue and white background covers - mostly cream spine lightly browned. Light/moderate wear to covers' corners and edges. Page-edges lightly browned/foxed, ink name to half title page, light foxing to prelims and last pages o/w pages clean.…

Condizione: Good. 1968. Reprint. 207 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt decoration and lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and tanning.…

Soft cover. Condizione: Worn, Browned. Revised, Reprinted. A Pelican Original.

Condizione: Very Good. 1969. Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Previous owners name on FFEP. Light wear to spine, remains very good. . . . .

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Reprint With Revisions. Intended for the general reader, this book attempts to provide an account of modern trends in educational theory and practice, and it reviews current problems. Owners name inside cover.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic, Scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). …

Condizione: Very Good. 1969. Paperback. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Previous owners name on FFEP. Light wear to spine, remains very good. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Condizione: Fair. Education by W. O. Lester Smith, published by Pelican in 1961, comes from that wonderfully earnest period when people still appeared to believe that education was something that could be examined, organised, improved and perhaps even understood if only enough sensible people in tweed jackets sat down and thought about it properly. This is a vintage Pelican study of education and the ideas, institutions and purposes surrounding it, written at a time when Britain was busy reconsidering what schools were actually for, who should have access to what sort of education, and whether the whole population might conceivably benefit from being taught things. Radical stuff. As with many Pelicans of the period, this was not intended as a decorative object for a fashionable coffee table. It was cheap, serious, accessible publishing for people who wanted to know something about the world without first enrolling at Oxford. The famous blue-spined Pelican series cheerfully tackled economics, politics, psychology, science, sociology and practically anything else that could be explained in a few hundred densely printed pages. Education is very much part of that tradition. Read today, a 1961 book on education inevitably has another layer of interest. It comes from a Britain of grammar schools, secondary moderns, expanding universities, post-war optimism and formidable committees producing reports about the nation?s children. Some ideas will feel surprisingly familiar; others may remind the reader that sixty-five years is quite a long time in educational policy, even if governments continue enthusiastically rediscovering many of the same problems. There is also something rather appealing about an era in which Penguin apparently assumed ordinary members of the public might voluntarily buy a paperback called Education , take it home, read it, and form considered opinions. Today we would presumably require a six-part podcast, an accompanying TikTok controversy and someone shouting about it on television. A good piece of social and educational history, therefore, as well as a useful example of classic Pelican publishing. Ideal for teachers, educational historians, collectors of old Penguins and Pelicans, students of post-war Britain, or anyone who enjoys discovering what intelligent people were worrying about in 1961. Condition: Fair. This is an old working paperback rather than a pristine collector?s trophy. Expect the normal evidence that it has survived since 1961: wear, ageing and the assorted indignities inflicted upon inexpensive paperbacks over more than six decades. It remains, however, a perfectly respectable survivor and has achieved something many educational theories have not: it is still here. No ISBN, because in 1961 books were apparently expected to manage without one. Sold by Crappy Old Books ? rescuing perfectly good old books from a world increasingly convinced that everything worth knowing was invented last Tuesday.…

The Home University Library of Modern Knowledge series, No. 210. 200 pp. Rust cloth boards. Overall condition VG. No dust wrapper.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. Government of Education is one of those gloriously earnest mid-century paperbacks that strolls up, adjusts its spectacles, and announces: Right. Let?s talk about who runs the schools, why they run them, and what on earth they think they?re doing. This is the 1965 Pelican Books edition by W. O. Lester Smith (no ISBN ? because it comes from the pre-barcode age when books didn?t need an identity number, they just needed a sturdy spine and a sense of purpose), offered in Good condition by Crappy Old Books . Expect the usual honest signs of a book that?s lived a sensible life: a little shelf wear, some age-toning, perhaps a gently worked spine ? but still solid, readable, and perfectly capable of judging modern education debates with a raised eyebrow. Lester Smith?s subject sounds dry until you realise it?s basically the wiring diagram of society: how education is governed , by whom, through what structures, and with what consequences. This isn?t a fluffy hymn to inspiring teachers or a sentimental montage of children running through sunlit corridors. It?s the machinery: committees, policies, authorities, administrative logic, and the uneasy dance between ideals and budgets. In other words, the stuff that decides what ?education? actually becomes once it leaves the speeches and meets reality. Reading it now has a particular pleasure. It?s like opening a time capsule from an era when Britain could still write about schooling with confident seriousness, as though the system might be calmly steered by rational adults in suits. (Reader: the suits were real. The rationality varied.) It?s also a reminder that the arguments we have today about education ? control, standards, freedom, bureaucracy, purpose ? are not modern inventions. They?re perennial. We?ve just updated the acronyms and replaced some of the paperwork with PDFs nobody reads. This book is ideal for: Anyone who enjoys peering behind the curtain to see how ?public services? are actually stitched together Readers who like their social history served as policy anatomy rather than nostalgia People who have ever said ?Why can?t they just??? and would like a sobering explanation of why they never just? Condition: Good means it?s not pristine, and that?s fitting. Pelicans were made to be carried, argued with, and underlined by people who thought ideas mattered. This copy may show mild wear, but it remains a dependable, readable survivor from the age of robust paperback seriousness. From Crappy Old Books , where we love the kind of title that sounds like it should be dull? and then quietly reveals itself as a map of power, priorities, and the eternal problem of trying to improve the future using committees. Not a bedtime story. More like the instruction manual for the classroom you?re currently arguing about.…

First Edition. Very good paperback copy; cover slightly creased and dulled as with age. Bright and clean internally. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Series: Pelican books ; A 380. Physical description: 240p. ; 18cm. Subjects: Education -- Great Britain. 1 Kg.

Paperback. Condizione: As New.