Most Popular Books by Ian MacDonald

Rocket Phonics reading books are fully decodable phonics books allowing children to practise their phonic skills in context, developing emerging reading skills. Far away across the stars, there is an alien school, where tiny little aliens go to learn the alien rules ... Find out what young aliens get up to at school in this humorous rhyming story. How aliens get to school, what they learn, and what they have for lunch! Reading age: 5-6 years

Tom and Oscar are settling down to sleep in their tent in the garden, but they keep seeing scary shadows and hearing spooky sounds. Mum keeps reassuring them that there is nothing scary in the garden, but will they ever go to sleep?I''m not Scared is part of the Rocket Phonics range from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics builds a firm foundation in word reading through fresh and fully decodable phonics books for Pink A to Orange band. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6 years

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction, carefully selected poetry and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development.This exciting Graphic Texts pack contains 28 reading books, 1 each of: Chasing Birdy, The Wind in the Willows, The Pelican Chorus and other poems,Great Artists, Time Stealer, The Jungle Book, If and other poems, Great Inventors, The Sands of Deception, The Secret Garden, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and other poems, Great Naturalists, The Jurchen Recruits, Treasure Island, The PiedPiper of Hamelin, Great Space Explorers, Time''s Pendulum, Alice''s Adventures in Wonderland, Jabberwocky and other poems, Great Scientists, Antarctic Ambush, The Call of the Wild, The Raven and other poems, Great Engineers, Time Runs Out, Oliver Twist, For the Fallen and other poems, Great Pioneers. In addition, this pack contains 7 sets of guided readingnotes and 1 teaching handbook.

The student-friendly, uncluttered approach to GCSE revision, guides students through the core D&T content with succinct revision notes and practice questions that focus on the essential content needed for the exams.

Project X CODE Extra introduces more exciting adventure stories and stimulating non-fiction texts into the Project X CODE series. In this adventure in the Forbidden Valley zone, Max and Mini make friends with a baby dinosaur but soon realize their mistake! In line with the phonic, vocabulary and comprehension progression in Project X CODE, this book is ideal for additional practice outside of the core intervention sessions and for children who simply want to read more of the CODE adventure!

When two bags are accidently swapped at a train station, strange things start to happen to Seb. Voices echo in train carriages, pencils leap inside bottles and a white rabbit spoils a school football match. Inside the bag Seb finds a map that will lead him to dark tunnels and on the trail of Egyptian treasure!

Newspaper columns are written in the moment as part of a journalist''s first rough draft of history. But the judge of a columnist''s insight and interpretation of events, as well as the people who shape them, is how the analysis stands the test of time. This collection of columns and articles meets that test. From columns in theMontreal Gazetteand theNational Post, as well as longer-form pieces from the magazinePolicy Options, L. Ian MacDonald looks at Canadian and American politics and the principal players and events over the last decade: from Jean Chretien, Stephen Harper, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to Brian Mulroney and Airbus, as well as Jean Charest''s three terms as Premier of Quebec. Along the way, MacDonald''s clear and lively prose covers a range of topics from politics to cottages, while profi ling people as diverse as Jean Believeau and Bernard Derome.Politics, People, and Potpourribrings to life storied Montreal landmarks,from St Patrick''s Basilica to Windsor Station and commemorates the passing of notable fi gures such as Pierre Trudeau and Maurice ''Rocket'' Richard. This intelligent and amusing collection presents MacDonald at his best as well as a compelling view of Canadian politics and life.

The new edition of this influential and bestselling book is concerned with how people come together to achieve a productive purpose. Survival and success in business and social terms have always depended upon our ability to form and sustain social organisations. People have a deep need to be creative and to belong. By creating positive organisations we can fulfil these needs and build a worthwhile society. One of the failures of organisations is precisely the lack of efficient and effective social organisation, which is what this whole book is about. Poor social organisation, including poor leadership, are major drivers of poor productivity and lead people to give up or retreat into a minimalist approach of just doing what is needed to get by and survive. The authors provide a language for developing, discussing, thinking and working with propositions about organisations and management. They do not tell you what decision to make but rather present tools to help you consider, analyse and predict the consequences of your decisions. This new edition is much broader in its application areas - public, private and not-for-profit sectors. It contains new models and propositions with regard to types of social organisation, domains of work and the nature and use of authority. It contains a range of new case studies, and throughout looks at how these ideas can be used to achieve an organisation''s purpose while encouraging creative working. It is not a book about fads or fashion but an integrated approach that offers the user the benefit of foresight.

Developed with schools, this book provides students with a revision guide that covers the essential content and skills they need to pass their exam.