Bøker av Helen Wright

This book is a no-nonsense, snappy guide to managing your teenage daughter, distilling the knowledge and wisdom acquired over two decades by one of the UK's leading Head Teachers, and an active proponent of girls' education. It is a fount of knowledge and will be a source of enormous encouragement to parents. It aims to demystify the tricky teenage years and it gives profound, practical advice about how to manage this turbulent time in your daughter's life. Key learnings are turned into memorable messages, grouped in each section under 'What Parents Need to Know' and 'What Parents Need to Do', enabling parents to dip in and dip out for tips.Every parent should read it.

In this short, to-the-point book, renowned international educationalist Dr Helen Wright explains why global competence is so important for schools now, and why it provides the answer to the problem of how to future-proof education. She sets out a very clear and practical framework for schools to adopt in putting the development of global competence at the absolute heart of the school curriculum, and - addressing teachers and school leaders directly - she presents a persuasive but forceful case for the re-orientation of the school curriculum to ensure that the quest for greater global competence underpins all their activity. Crucially, she explains exactly how schools can achieve this.

This is a 'how to' book for scientific visualization. The book does not treat the subject as a subset of information visualisation, but rather as a subject in its own right. An introduction on the philosophy of the subject sets the scene and the theory of colour perception is introduced.

This is a remarkable story of the building of the Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton in California. Helen Wright's informative account vividly describes the founding of the observatory by the millionaire James Lick, as well as the pioneering role that Captain Richard Floyd played in its eight-year construction.