Title: Vol 1: The Absorbent Mind Author: Maria Montessori Description: The Absorbent Mind is an analysis of the physical and psychological aspects of a child's growth during the most significant period of life. During this period the child learns motor co-ordination, language, the making of social adjustments, the setting of work habits, and the beginning of routines that set patterns for life. Dr. Montessori illustrates the unique mental powers of young children which enable them to construct and establish all the aspects of human personality. Price: € 16,50 / $ 18.95 / £ 10.95
	Title: Vol 2: The Discovery of the Child Author: Maria Montessori Description: In The Discovery of the Child Maria Montessori describes the nature of the child and her method. She believes that once the general principles of her method have been grasped, the verbal instruction can be replaced by 'material for development', which affords children the opportunity of teaching themselves by their own efforts. The teacher thus becomes a director of the children's own spontaneous work. Price: € 16,50 / $ 18.95 / £ 10.95
	Title: Vol 3: The Formation of Man Author: Maria Montessori Description: What is the Montessori Method? If we were to eliminate not only the name "Method" but also its common conception, this would become much clearer. We must consider the human personality and not a method of education. For the word "Method" we should substitute something like this: "Help given in order that the human personality may achieve its independence" or "means offered to deliver the personality from the oppression of age-old prejudices regarding education ". Price: € 13,50 / $ 14.95 / £ 8.95
	Title: Vol 4: What you should know about your Child Author: Maria Montessori Description: The Montessori Method is scientific education based on a sound knowledge of childhood. In this volume, Dr. Montessori examines the physical and mental development of the child in its early years and discusses what she considers to be the basic truths underlying the child's nature, growth and development. Price: € 13,50 / $ 14.95 / £ 8.95
	Title: Vol 5: Education for a new World Author: Maria Montessori Description: The purpose of this book is to expound and defend the great powers of the child, and to help teachers to a new outlook … to collaboration with nature ... The conclusion … is that the first two years of life are the most important ... So here begins a new path, wherein it will not be the teacher who teaches the child, but the child who teaches the teacher. Price: € 13,50 / $ 14.95 / £ 8.95
	Title: Vol 6: To Educate the Human Potential Author: Maria Montessori Description: This book is intended ... to help teachers to envisage the child's needs after the age of six. We claim that the average boy or girl of twelve years who has been educated till then at one of our schools knows at least as much as the finished High School product of several years' seniority, and the achievement has been at no cost of pain or distortion to body or mind. Price: € 13,50 / $ 14.95 / £ 8.95
	Title: Vol 7: The Child, Society and the World Author: Maria Montessori Description: This collection of speeches and lectures by Dr. Montessori provides the reader with a vivid and accurate understanding of the theories and working methods of the most important educationalist of the 20 th century. In addition, the teaching of peace, environmental awareness and universal responsibility lie at the heart of Montessori's ‘cosmic education'. Price: € 16,50 / $ 18.95 / £ 10.95
	Title: Vol 8: The Child in the Family Author: Maria Montessori Description: Maria Montessori discusses some of her basic principles of education and shows why it is so important for adults to ‘follow attentively all the spiritual expressions of a child'. She stresses the importance of adult respect and support for ‘all reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages' and emphasizes the value of understanding rather than interfering with such activity. Adults should help children to become independent while at the same time fully appreciating how sensitive children are to external influences. Price: € 13,50 / $ 14.95 / £ 8.95
	Title: Vol 9: The Advanced Montessori Method – I Author: Maria Montessori Description: Dr. Montessori presents her educational philosophy and methods for children of the ages of three to six years. Her aim is to appeal to the child's curiosity and to reveal ‘the immense potentiality of the child' which is a tremendous energy. She surveys the child's psychical health, freedom and spirit, and considers such phenomena as intelligence, attention, imagination and will. Price: € 16,50 / $ 18.95 / £ 10.95
	Title: Vol 10: Education and Peace Author: Maria Montessori Description: This collection of speeches, delivered by Dr. Montessori at international congresses and peace councils, vividly reveals her profound concern with the question of peace. In her crusade for peace she claims: ‘Establishing a lasting peace is the work of education … all politics can do is keep us out of war'. Price: € 13,50 / $ 14.95 / £ 8.95
	Title: Vol 11: Education for Human Development: understanding Montessori Author: Mario M. Montessori Jr. Description: This volume provides a fascinating insight into Dr. Montessori's personality, her role as a feminist, her philosophy of education and child growth and development and her ideas concerning the value of work in school and the correct use of educational materials. He also explores her views on the role of education in the formation of human personality in today's ever-changing world and the relationship of the individual to the cosmos. Price: € 13,50 / $ 14.95 / £ 8.95
	Title: Vol 12: From Childhood to Adolescence Author: Maria Montessori Description: Dr. Montessori first analyses the characteristics and needs of children from seven to twelve. It may be said that veritable metamorphoses takes place during this period and constitutes one of particular importance for moral education, the concept of justice and social adaptation; the passage to abstraction, the role of the imagination and ‘going out', the key to culture. She also discusses the education of Adolescence, the ‘Erdkinder' and at the University. Price: € 13,50 / $ 14.95 / £ 8.95
	Title: Vol 13: The Advanced Montessori Method – II Author: Maria Montessori Description: This book introduces the materials and techniques Dr. Montessori devised for teaching older children. In seven separate sections she applies her unique materials to the teaching of grammar, reading, arithmetic, geometry, art, music and poetic metrics. The book shows how these materials speak directly to the child's curiosity and lead to a step-by-step self-mastery of the fundamentals of elementary school learning. Price: € 16,50 / $ 18.95 / £ 10.95
	Title: Vol 14: Basic Ideas of Montessori's Educational Theory Author: Maria Montessori Description: These extracts from Dr. Montessori's writings and teachings provides a lively analysis of Maria Montessori's educational beliefs and methodology and discusses her views on the important problems of education in the family and in the pre-school and school environment. In addition it discusses religious education and its relationship to the child's natural development. Price: € 16,50 / $ 18.95 / £ 10.95
	Title: Vol 15: The California Lectures of Maria Montessori, 1915 Author: Maria Montessori Description: In 1915 Maria Montessori travelled to San Francisco, California to attend the Panama Pacific International Exposition at which she had built a glass-walled demonstration classroom. In this volume we publish a series of lectures she delivered at the Exposition, some lectures she gave elsewhere in California and several articles she wrote for the local press. This book is interesting for those interested in the history of education and the development of Montessori's educational theories and methods. Price: € 16,50 / $ 18.95 / £ 10.95