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Which Pet Is Best? (Paperback)
Bruce Johnson; Illustrated by Erin Marie Mauterer
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We Read Phonics is an innovative series that combines a fun story
with simple phonics games. The games are quick and easy to play,
and are designed to help children read the story and improve their
reading skills. The result is faster reading development and kids
who love to read.
Which Pet Is Best? Choosing a pet can be really hard. Some are
cute, most are fun, and all of them are so interesting Join a young
girl on a trip through a pet shop in this amusing and easy-to-read
book for beginning readers
Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the
decisive role that sound has played in history and culture.
Although beginning with reference to antiquity, the primary focus
is the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over
the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the
medieval period to the contemporary world. Since mythic times,
sound has been an essential element in the formation of belief
systems, personal and community identities and the negotiations
between them. The varied case studies included in the book cover
major reference points in the changing politics of sound,
particularly in relation to the status of the other major conduit
of social transactions, vision. Earshot is not a work of cultural
theory but is anchored in social practices and material culture and
is therefore a valuable resource for conveying sound to both
undergraduate students as well as the general reader.
Earshot: Perspectives on Sound awakens an understanding of the
decisive role that sound has played in history and culture.
Although beginning with reference to antiquity, the primary focus
is the changing status of sound and hearing in Western culture over
the last six hundred years, covering the transition from the
medieval period to the contemporary world. Since mythic times,
sound has been an essential element in the formation of belief
systems, personal and community identities and the negotiations
between them. The varied case studies included in the book cover
major reference points in the changing politics of sound,
particularly in relation to the status of the other major conduit
of social transactions, vision. Earshot is not a work of cultural
theory but is anchored in social practices and material culture and
is therefore a valuable resource for conveying sound to both
undergraduate students as well as the general reader.
A developer's knowledge of a computing system's requirements is
necessarily imperfect because organizations change. Many
requirements lie in the future and are unknowable at the time the
system is designed and built. To avoid burdensome maintenance costs
developers must therefore rely on a system's ability to change
gracefully-its flexibility. Flexible Software Design: Systems
Development for Changing Requirements demonstrates the design
principles and techniques that enable the design of software that
empowers business staff to make functional changes to their systems
with little or no professional IT intervention. The book
concentrates on the design aspects of system development, the area
with the most flexibility leverage. Divided into four parts, the
text begins by introducing the fundamental concepts of flexibility,
explaining the reality of imperfect knowledge and how development
participants must change their thinking to implement flexible
software. The second part covers design guidelines, stable
identifiers, stable information structures, the Generic Entity
Cloud concept, and regulatory mechanisms that give business staff
control over system modifications. Part three relates strategic
information systems planning to flexible systems. It examines the
elicitation of requirements and the relevance of agile methods in a
flexible systems environment. It also discusses practical aspects
of stable identifier design and compares the testing of traditional
and flexible software. In part four, the book concludes with
details of the flexible UniverSIS system and an explanation of the
applications and extensions of the Generic Entity Cloud tools. The
combination of smart design and smart work offered in Flexible
Software Design can materially benefit your organization by
radically reducing the systems maintenance burden.
In Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience the stories of 60
graduate teachers are documented as they grapple with some of the
most persistent and protracted personal and professional struggles
facing teachers today. Narratives emerge detailing feelings of
frustration, disillusionment and even outrage as they struggle with
the complexity, intensity and immediacy of life in schools. Other
stories also surface to show exhilarating experiences, documenting
the wonder, joy and excitement of working with young people for the
first time. This book makes sense of these experiences in ways that
can assist education systems, schools, and faculties of teacher
education, as well as early career teachers themselves to develop
more powerful forms of critical teacher resilience. Rejecting
psychological explanations of teacher resilience, it endorses an
alternative socio-cultural and critical approach to understanding
teacher resilience. The book crosses physical borders and
represents experiences of teachers in similar circumstances across
the globe, providing researchers and teachers with real-life
examples of resilience promoting policies and practices. This book
is not written as an account of the failures of an education
system, but rather as a provocation to help generate ideas,
policies and practices capable of illuminating the experiences of
early career teachers in more critical and socially just ways at an
international and national level.
In Promoting Early Career Teacher Resilience the stories of 60
graduate teachers are documented as they grapple with some of the
most persistent and protracted personal and professional struggles
facing teachers today. Narratives emerge detailing feelings of
frustration, disillusionment and even outrage as they struggle with
the complexity, intensity and immediacy of life in schools. Other
stories also surface to show exhilarating experiences, documenting
the wonder, joy and excitement of working with young people for the
first time. This book makes sense of these experiences in ways that
can assist education systems, schools, and faculties of teacher
education, as well as early career teachers themselves to develop
more powerful forms of critical teacher resilience. Rejecting
psychological explanations of teacher resilience, it endorses an
alternative socio-cultural and critical approach to understanding
teacher resilience. The book crosses physical borders and
represents experiences of teachers in similar circumstances across
the globe, providing researchers and teachers with real-life
examples of resilience promoting policies and practices. This book
is not written as an account of the failures of an education
system, but rather as a provocation to help generate ideas,
policies and practices capable of illuminating the experiences of
early career teachers in more critical and socially just ways at an
international and national level.
Story - Fun information about the world's most popular pet,
including some of the special ways dogs help us, such as serving as
guide dogs.
After all the hours of studying, reading and preparation, the
nights spent revising and the writing and re-writing of
assignments, 'success' for university students can often be
represented with a single grade or digit, summing up a wide range
of activities. The authors of this timely book ask how fair that
assessment is. This book is about a long-ignored determinant of
student satisfaction, concerning the perception of how fairly
students are judged, marked, ranked and rewarded for demonstrating
their capabilities at university. In the high stakes competitive
field of higher education, students are increasingly positioned as
customers whose views on their university experience are considered
vitally important. Yet paradoxically, little research has been
undertaken to find out more about how students decide whether they
have been treated fairly and what they do about it. This book fills
a major gap in our understanding of these issues, responding to
four key questions: Why is the assessment of students' capabilities
the core business of universities? What are the main sources of
student frustration with assessment arrangements? What do students
do when they think they have been treated unfairly? What can be
done to promote fair assessment at university? In doing so, this
book goes beyond the superficial consideration of university
assessment as a 'necessary requirement' by unravelling the
underlying issues that really count - what is considered fair
assessment and what is not. Towards Fairer University Assessment
will be of interest to higher education academics, administrators
and managers, researchers in the areas of education policy and
politics, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate
students.
After all the hours of studying, reading and preparation, the
nights spent revising and the writing and re-writing of
assignments, 'success' for university students can often be
represented with a single grade or digit, summing up a wide range
of activities. The authors of this timely book ask how fair that
assessment is. This book is about a long-ignored determinant of
student satisfaction, concerning the perception of how fairly
students are judged, marked, ranked and rewarded for demonstrating
their capabilities at university. In the high stakes competitive
field of higher education, students are increasingly positioned as
customers whose views on their university experience are considered
vitally important. Yet paradoxically, little research has been
undertaken to find out more about how students decide whether they
have been treated fairly and what they do about it. This book fills
a major gap in our understanding of these issues, responding to
four key questions: Why is the assessment of students' capabilities
the core business of universities? What are the main sources of
student frustration with assessment arrangements? What do students
do when they think they have been treated unfairly? What can be
done to promote fair assessment at university? In doing so, this
book goes beyond the superficial consideration of university
assessment as a 'necessary requirement' by unravelling the
underlying issues that really count - what is considered fair
assessment and what is not. Towards Fairer University Assessment
will be of interest to higher education academics, administrators
and managers, researchers in the areas of education policy and
politics, as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate
students.
This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics
gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific.
Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with
veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese
sources, this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for
the Pacific. Detailing the background to the Japanese attack on
Pearl Harbor it shows how the decision-makers in Washington,
following consultation with the leaders of Britain, Australia and
New Zealand, moved to stop Japan from its drive toward Australia by
initiating a counterthrust in the Solomon Islands. It also shows
how qualities and character of leadership are crucial to winning
wars, detailing how Admiral Ernest J. King managed to commit the
Marine Corps to ground action in the South Pacific six months
earlier than originally planned, by ignoring the Roosevelt's
commitment to defeat Germany prior to fighting Japan, and by
outmaneuvering Gen. Douglas MacArthur for leadership. It also
explains how Marines under Maj. Gen. A.A. Vandegrift, despite
inadequate logistical support, managed to prevail in the Americans'
first ground campaign of World War II, making Japan's ultimate
defeat inevitable. In addition to recounting these key events, it
traces how censorship and patriotism influenced the reporting of
the conflict in America, how Hollywood films further shaped public
opinion by portraying the significant events in particular ways,
and how certain crucial decisions such as the early bombing raid of
Tokyo, and giving Douglas MacArthur command of the war effort in
Australia, were "political" rather than "strategic," and were made
to foster morale rather than to gain any military advantage. This
book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of
Military History, and to all readers with a general interest in
World War II, particularly in the conflicts of the Pacific, Pearl
Harbor and Guadalcanal.
This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics
gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific.
Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with
veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese
sources, this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for
the Pacific.
Detailing the background to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor it
shows how the decision-makers in Washington, following consultation
with the leaders of Britain, Australia and New Zealand, moved to
stop Japan from its drive toward Australia by initiating a
counterthrust in the Solomon Islands.
It also shows how qualities and character of leadership are crucial
to winning wars, detailing how Admiral Ernest J. King managed to
commit the Marine Corps to ground action in the South Pacific six
months earlier than originally planned, by ignoring the Roosevelt's
commitment to defeat Germany prior to fighting Japan, and by
outmaneuvering Gen. Douglas MacArthur for leadership. It also
explains how Marines under Maj. Gen. A.A. Vandegrift, despite
inadequate logistical support, managed to prevail in the Americans'
first ground campaign of World War II, making Japan's ultimate
defeat inevitable.
In addition to recounting these key events, it traces how
censorship and patriotism influenced the reporting of the conflict
in America, how Hollywood films further shaped public opinion by
portraying the significant events in particular ways, and how
certain crucial decisions such as the early bombing raid of Tokyo,
and giving Douglas MacArthur command of the war effort in
Australia, were "political" rather than "strategic," and were made
to foster morale ratherthan to gain any military advantage.
This book will be of great interest to all students and scholars of
Military History, those with a general interest in World War II,
particularly in the conflicts of the Pacific, Pearl Harbor and
Guadalcanal.
Pedagogies of Possibility for Negotiating Sexuality Education with
Young People offers a sustained and critical consideration of the
possibilities and politics of engaging with young people in the
redevelopment and delivery of contemporary approaches to Sexuality
Education. Drawing on research undertaken as part of an Australian
Research Council (ARC) Linkage grant, this book explores the
affordances, tensions and challenges of participatory methodologies
and pedagogies that authorize young people's perspectives and
visions for Sexuality Education. Foregrounded are the
contradictions between what young people want to learn more about
and the risky forms of praxis that are necessary to engage with
various understandings of Sexuality Education and the important
role of adult allies in supporting young people to navigate these
contradictions. Each chapter chronicles and captures both adult
allies and young people's experiences of the project by drawing on
data produced through visual-arts based methods and various
ethnographic techniques, such as participant observation, focus
group interviews, and guided conversations.
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Big Cats (Paperback)
Bruce Johnson
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R163
R136
Discovery Miles 1 360
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We Read Phonics is an innovative series that combines a fun story
with simple phonic games. The games are quick and easy to play and
are designed to help children read the story and improve their
reading skills. The result is faster reading development and kids
who love to read
Big Cats offers a fascinating look at some of the biggest cats
in the world. Lions, tigers, cheetahs, and even house cats - all in
a book that is perfect for the very beginning reader
Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that
in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically
covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in
the 1930s to present day Iran and China. The book presents an
overview of the two central terms and their development since their
contemporaneous appearance in cultural and historiographical
discourses in the early twentieth century, comprising fifteen
essays written by specialists on particular regimes situated in a
wide variety of time periods and places. Interdisciplinary in
nature, this compelling work will appeal to students from Music and
Jazz Studies to Political Science, Sociology, and Cultural Theory.
Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international
diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first jazz
recordings in 1917. This book studies the processes of the global
jazz diaspora and its implications for jazz historiography in
general, arguing for its relevance to the fields of sonic studies
and cognitive theory. Until the late twentieth century, the
historiography and analysis of jazz were centred on the US to the
almost complete exclusion of any other region. The driving premise
of this book is that jazz was not 'invented' and then exported: it
was invented in the process of being disseminated. Jazz Diaspora is
a sustained argument for an alternative historiography, based on a
shift from a US-centric to a diasporic perspective on the music.
The rationale is double-edged. It appears that most of the world's
jazz is experienced (performed and consumed) in diasporic sites -
that is, outside its agreed geographical point of origin - and to
ignore diasporic jazz is thus to ignore most jazz activity. It is
also widely felt that the balance has shifted, as jazz in its
homeland has become increasingly conservative. There has been an
assumption that only the 'authentic' version of the music--as
represented in its country of origin--was of aesthetic and
historical interest in the jazz narrative; that the forms that
emerged in other countries were simply rather pallid and enervated
echoes of the 'real thing'. This has been accompanied by challenges
to the criterion of place- and race-based authenticity as a way of
assessing the value of popular music forms in general. As the
prototype for the globalisation of popular music, diasporic jazz
provides a richly instructive template for the study of the history
of modernity as played out musically.
Jazz Diaspora: Music and Globalisation is about the international
diaspora of jazz, well underway within a year of the first jazz
recordings in 1917. This book studies the processes of the global
jazz diaspora and its implications for jazz historiography in
general, arguing for its relevance to the fields of sonic studies
and cognitive theory. Until the late twentieth century, the
historiography and analysis of jazz were centred on the US to the
almost complete exclusion of any other region. The driving premise
of this book is that jazz was not 'invented' and then exported: it
was invented in the process of being disseminated. Jazz Diaspora is
a sustained argument for an alternative historiography, based on a
shift from a US-centric to a diasporic perspective on the music.
The rationale is double-edged. It appears that most of the world's
jazz is experienced (performed and consumed) in diasporic sites -
that is, outside its agreed geographical point of origin - and to
ignore diasporic jazz is thus to ignore most jazz activity. It is
also widely felt that the balance has shifted, as jazz in its
homeland has become increasingly conservative. There has been an
assumption that only the 'authentic' version of the music--as
represented in its country of origin--was of aesthetic and
historical interest in the jazz narrative; that the forms that
emerged in other countries were simply rather pallid and enervated
echoes of the 'real thing'. This has been accompanied by challenges
to the criterion of place- and race-based authenticity as a way of
assessing the value of popular music forms in general. As the
prototype for the globalisation of popular music, diasporic jazz
provides a richly instructive template for the study of the history
of modernity as played out musically.
Jazz and Totalitarianism examines jazz in a range of regimes that
in significant ways may be described as totalitarian, historically
covering the period from the Franco regime in Spain beginning in
the 1930s to present day Iran and China. The book presents an
overview of the two central terms and their development since their
contemporaneous appearance in cultural and historiographical
discourses in the early twentieth century, comprising fifteen
essays written by specialists on particular regimes situated in a
wide variety of time periods and places. Interdisciplinary in
nature, this compelling work will appeal to students from Music and
Jazz Studies to Political Science, Sociology, and Cultural Theory.
This volume is the first book-length account of Yves Montand's
controversial tour of the Soviet Union at the turn of the years
1956/57. It traces the mixed messages of this internationally
visible act of cultural diplomacy in the middle of the turbulent
Cold War. It also provides an account of the celebrated French
singer-actor's controversial career, his dedication to music and to
peace activism, as well as his widespread fandom in the USSR. The
book describes the political background for the events of the year
1956, including the changing Soviet atmosphere after Stalin's
death, portrays the rising transnational stardom of Montand in the
1940s and 1950s, and explores the controversies aroused by his plan
to visit Moscow after the Hungarian Uprising. The book pays
particular attention to Montand's reception in the USSR and his
concert performances, drawing on unique archival material and oral
history interviews, and analyses the documentary Yves Montand Sings
(1957) released immediately after his visit.
Discover how Visual Studio 2019 can improve your development
process. Visual Studio is an integral part of the daily life of
millions of developers worldwide. Even as this rich integrated
development environment approaches two decades, it has never ceased
in innovating ways to make developers' work life more productive.
Essential Visual Studio 2019 offers explicit guidance for the
developer who is already familiar with Visual Studio, but might
feel a little lost when it comes to understanding the more recent
features and advances of the IDE. Busy developers simply don't have
the time to digest and distill what the latest and greatest tools
are with each version. As a result, useful process and performance
features may be overlooked. This book, by simply focusing on the
most recent innovations in Visual Studio and its tangential
developer market, is the perfect "go to" for bridging that gap. Be
ready to plunge headfirst into key features and advances that have
been added, expanded, or improved, and topics such as unit testing,
refactoring, Git, debugging, containers, and more. You will procure
the basic concepts and value first, before diving into hands-on
code that is designed to quickly get you up and running. The goal
of this book is to bring the developer up to speed on Visual Studio
2019. It does not focus just on functionality added in Visual
Studio 2019, but takes a deep dive into the areas where Visual
Studio 2019 changed. That way, even if you're coming from much
earlier versions of Visual Studio, you can easily discern how
upgrading to Visual Studio 2019 can make you more productive. What
You Will Learn Know how the new features and improvements in Visual
Studio 2019 can make you more productive Understand the value of
modifications and when they can be used to take full advantage of
this powerful IDE Review changes to Visual Studio over the last two
versions and see where the development process is heading Discover
the cloud-based, containerized, dev-ops-aware, and
platform-flexible aspects of Visual Studio Gain clarity on the
areas that have the greatest impact to you personally Who This Book
Is For Developers who use Visual Studio on a daily basis.
Familiarity with earlier versions is helpful, as the book is not a
soup-to-nuts survey of the IDE and some basic functions will not be
covered.
This book challenges dominant thinking about early career teachers
and their work. It offers an in-depth and critical analysis of
policies concerning the work of early career teachers and how they
are supported during this critical period, when they are highly
vulnerable to leaving the profession. Moreover, the book provides
examples from actual practice that illustrate how to help early
career teachers make a successful transition into the profession.
These practices promote early career teachers' development and help
the profession as a whole to capitalize on the new knowledge and
skills that these teachers bring to their classrooms and their
students. The book is divided into two main parts. Part 1 deals
with the difficult to define process of retaining early career
teachers, and its respective chapters consider this broad issue
from an international perspective. They explore how policies and
practices have an impact on what happens in schools, and what it
means to be a teacher and to teach. In turn, Part 2 focuses on the
need to reconsider the policies and practices that create the
'problem' of early career teachers, and offers alternative ways
forward. Each chapter addresses a specific aspect of the early
career teacher retention issue, contributing to a greater
understanding of how we can rethink the work of early career
teachers so that they can more successfully transition into the
profession.
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