“Parents are constantly concerned about the health and well-being of their children – physical, emotional and developmental – and often turn to various resources with conflicting advice.

I wanted to create a single, trusted resource that parents can use as their “go to” in sickness and in health. ”

Finally. A trusted all-in-one handbook on parenting and paediatrics that keeps it real amid the confusing frenzy of information available on Dr Google and AI.

Prof Claudia Gray, an experienced paediatrician and mother-of-four, has crafted a book which is scientifically sound, realistic and tried-and-tested. Every stage from birth to adolescence is described with expertise and empathy, peppered with humour and personal experiences.

Packed with practical advice, simple checklists and upto-date medical info - helping you feel calm, confident and informed.

Reading poetry is almost as much an art form as is writing poetry. You don't just skim the words of one and go on to the next. You read the words, maybe even speak them aloud, and listen to what they have to say. You focus on your own reaction, hear what the words have said to your heart, find that knowing place where Truth lives. You hold that poem for a while, live with it, taste it. Only when you have absorbed all you can for the moment do you set it down gently and rest. Claudia Stuart combines reflective poetry, powerful prose and whimsical penguin illustrations in her latest collection of textual and visual creations, Poetry, Prose & Penguins. Evocative as well as provocative, Poetry, Prose & Penguins features brilliant illustrations that portray the unique qualities of penguins, ever cooperative and communicative. Poetry, Prose & Penguins: Includes an opening section on free verse. Features a unique format that encourages the reader to slowly and carefully navigate the witty ideas which serve as ""food for thought."" Presents reflections on the author's personal life as well as pressing issues of the larger world around us - including human conditions in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and legal immigration.

Among medieval Christian societies, Byzantium is unique in preserving an ecclesiastical ritual of adelphopoiesis that pronounces two men as brothers. It has its origin as a spiritual blessing in the monastic world of late antiquity, and it becomes a popular social networking strategy among lay people from the ninth century onwards, even finding application in recent times. Located at the intersection of religious and social history, brother-making exemplifies how social practice can become ritualized and subsequently subjected to attempts of ecclesiastical and legal control. Wide-ranging in its use of sources, from a complete census of the manuscripts containing the ritual of adelphopoiesis to the literature and archaeology of early monasticism, and from the works of hagiographers, historiographers, and legal experts in Byzantium to comparative material in the Latin West and the Slavic world, this book is the first exhaustive treatment of the phenomenon.

A collection of episodes of the CBeebies animated series for preschoolers based on traditional African folk tales and voiced by Lenny Henry, Meera Syal and Shaun Parkes.

Cover all the knowledge that students need to know for Key Stage 3 Science in one book. Powered by cognitive science principles, this knowledge-rich book enables students to keep revisiting content, see the links between the sciences, and develop deeper understanding. Our expert author team have used their extensive experience of research-informed teaching practice to create this carefully thought-out Knowledge Book. It will establish and embed the key scientific knowledge and skills that students need to succeed at KS3, ensuring they feel enthused and confident about progressing to GCSE. > Take a new approach to KS3 Science. This Knowledge Book sequences the National Curriculum with unprecedented precision, enabling students to progress through KS3 with ease and fluency. > Reduce cognitive load. Every topic is explained through a succinct and focused table of questions and answers, which captures all the essential knowledge that pupils need. > Use visual aids to further understanding. Complex topics are paired with annotated diagrams, and worked examples are provided to illustrate key skills and calculations in further detail. > Strengthen scientific skills throughout. 'Working Scientifically' pages integrate principles and concepts into students' understanding, using questions and answers, diagrams, tables and more.

Provide all the independent practice needed for your Springboard Science course with over 1000 questions in each Practice Book. Designed to be used alongside our Knowledge Book, our Practice Books provide shed loads of practice (SLOP) for students to consolidate, apply and extend the knowledge that they have learnt. With decades of teaching experience and extensive knowledge of applying cognitive science in the classroom, you can trust our author team to have created carefully crafted and varied questions for independent practice. > Improve students' long-term retention. Spacing is built in throughout this Practice Book, improving retention over time. > Highlight connections between topics and Sciences. Interleaving of content encourages students to recognise and focus on the connections, similarities and differences across science, enabling them to reflect on their learning in more depth. > Build confidence in the key skills. Question sets include coverage of the key mathematical and working scientifically skills that students need to understand, ensuring that this knowledge is embedded throughout their independent practice. > Support every student. Links to the relevant worked examples in the Knowledge Book are highlighted throughout each unit for easy reference. > Prepare for the next step. Questions increase in difficulty throughout each topic, enabling students to progress through the KS3 curriculum and prepare for KS4 and beyond. Answers are available online for free, and also embedded into the lesson presentations in our Boost digital teaching and learning resources for easy in-class independent practice review.

Exploring some of the world's eeriest places, Abandoned Islands features American civil war forts, Europe's last leper colony and South Atlantic whaling stations, along with once grand mansions and colonial settlements and churches, and much more. Arranged geographically, the book takes us from New York's East River to islands off Alaska, from a French Napoleonic-era fort off the coast of Normandy to deserted villages on remote Scottish isles, from Venetian sanatoria to Croatian penal colonies, Japanese mining colonies to Sudanese deserted ports and abandoned atolls in the Indian Ocean. Leafing through these pages, the reasons for abandonment are revealed: climate change sealing off fresh water or river channels, shifting economic forces making life too hard, religious conflict, or wars disrupting daily life - or the absence of war rendering a military settlement unnecessary. With more than 180 outstanding colour photographs and fascinating captions, Abandoned Islands is a brilliant pictorial exploration of lost worlds.

This Handbook provides a critical analysis of the evolution of the contemporary niche tourism phenomenon. By framing discussions around sustainable development thinking, concepts and practical applications, each chapter provides specific reflections on niche tourism trends, successes and/or failures, and the challenges and opportunities that destinations that pursue tourism as a vehicle for sustainable development face around the world. The Handbook includes a blend of academic and practitioner contributors providing a balance of theoretical, conceptual and empirical elaborations on the topic, with case studies from across the globe. It covers a broad range of critical thematic areas, including: nature-based tourism, rural tourism, heritage and culture based tourism, dark tourism, spiritual, religious and wellness tourism, and social and inclusive tourism. Chapters also examine the latest developments in niche tourism, including the impact of Covid-19. This invigorating and comprehensive study of niche tourism will benefit sustainable tourism scholars, as well as tourism researchers and students more broadly. It will also be useful to policy makers and tourism practitioners seeking a better understanding of this increasingly important field.

This timely Research Handbook provides a broad analysis and discussion on how academics are managed. It addresses key issues, including the changing nature of academic work and academic labour markets, issues of power, leadership, ageing, human resource management practices, and mobility. As academia is increasingly questioned as an elite profession, a narrative of casualisation, precarity, inequality, long hours, surveillance, austerity, erosion of pay, exacerbated competition, and harmful power relations has come to dominate. Expert contributors provide multiple perspectives on how academics are managed and how the management of academics influences their roles and careers. Chapters consider how academics' characteristics, such as gender, age, and position in their academic career, influence or are influenced by the way in which academics are managed. Drawing together a range of theoretical approaches as well as a broad geographical coverage, this Research Handbook offers an important contribution to the debates surrounding the shifting frontiers of managing academics and the questions raised for individuals, higher education institutions, and higher education systems. This Research Handbook will be a useful resource for academics and advanced students with an interest in human resource management, management and universities, and management education. Higher education professionals and policy makers will also find it to be a helpful guide.

This incisive book presents a critical compilation of empirical studies assessing local government performance in Latin America. Analysing original administrative data from municipalities in the understudied countries of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru, Claudia N. Avellaneda and contributors pose the titular question: what works in Latin American municipalities? Chapters operationalize municipal performance across six different dimensions and policy areas, including: fiscal inputs, effectiveness in grant acquisitions, education outcome quality, financial efficiency, participatory decision-making, and responsiveness to climate change. The six studies test different theoretical frameworks derived from political science, public policy, and public administration literature, focusing on the variety of individual, organizational, and contextual factors affecting municipal performance across the region. Examining a diverse range of factors, from mayoral characteristics and bureaucratic expertise to guerrilla presence and intergovernmental cooperation, the book highlights the complexity of identifying what works in Latin American municipalities and ultimately makes the case for how future research should be undertaken. Timely and original, the book will be an essential read for public administration, public management, and local government practitioners. Its original empirical research will also prove beneficial to students and scholars of government, public policy, political science, and public administration across Latin America and the rest of the world.

This incisive Research Handbook identifies and assesses the emerging trends in competition enforcement, investigating how such changes impact the enforcement approach of competition authorities and the behaviour of companies in an ever-evolving business and regulatory environment. Insightful contributions from experts in the field of competition enforcement law cover anticompetitive agreements, unilateral conduct, and merger control, as well as exploring topics such as algorithmic collusion, market power and data, big data, industrial policy, consumer welfare, common ownership, and competition enforcement in digital platforms. Combining academic, practitioner, and enforcer perspectives, this expansive Handbook sheds light on topical developments concerning competition enforcement, representing an expansion of existing enforcement practices. The Handbook concludes by considering how competition authorities could address the proliferating competition enforcement challenges arising from the appearance of new markets, novel business models, and technological developments. Bringing together unique perspectives on new trends affecting competition enforcement, this timely Handbook will prove invaluable to law firms with an international competition or merger law practice, as well as to economic consultants and competition and regulatory authorities. Comprehensive and accessible, its analysis of the latest developments and perspectives in competition enforcement establish the Handbook as essential reading material for scholars of law and business across the globe.

Don't miss the first-ever graphic novel for Five Nights at Freddy's, an adaptation of the #1 New York Times bestselling novel, The Silver Eyes, illustrated by fan-favourite game artist Claudia Schroeder! Ten years after the horrific murders at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza that ripped their town apart, Charlie - whose father owned the restaurant - and her childhood friends reunite on the anniversary of the tragedy and find themselves at the old pizza place which had been locked up and abandoned for years. After they discover a way inside, they realize that things are not as they used to be. The four adult-sized animatronic mascots that once entertained patrons have changed. They now have a dark secret ... and a murderous agenda. With tense, terrifying illustrations! Fans won't want to miss this graphic novel adaptation Don't miss books 2 and 3 in this stunning graphic novel series: The Twisted Ones and The Fourth Closet

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

How can we create more meaningful and intimate connections with our loved-ones? By using moments of discord to strengthen our relationships, explains this original, deeply researched book. You might think that perfect harmony is the defining characteristic of a good relationship, but the truth is that human interactions are messy, complicated, and confusing. The good news, however, is that we are wired to deal with this from birth - and even to grow from it and use it to strengthen our relationships, according to renowned psychologist Ed Tronick and paediatrician Claudia Gold. Scientific research - including Dr Tronick's famous 'Still-Face Experiment' - has shown that working through mismatch and repair in everyday life helps us form deep, lasting, trusting relationships; resilience in times of stress and trauma; and a solid sense of self in the world. This refreshing and original look at our ability to relate to others and to ourselves offers a new way for us to think about our relationships, and will reassure you that conflict is both normal and healthy, building the foundation for stronger connections.

Our beautiful planet is in danger: the warning signs are there, year after year – from vast forest fires across Australia to coral bleaching in the Pacific and the rapid break up of polar ice and the consequent rise in sea levels, threatening low-lying coastal communities everywhere. Arranged by continent, Endangered Places introduces the reader to many of the most stunning natural locations from the around the world that are currently under threat. Learn about the magnificent Bornean rainforest, home to threatened species such as orangutans, probiscis monkeys and the Sumatran rhinoceros; marvel at the beauty of the Great Barrier Reef, stretching 2,300 kilometres along Australia’s east coast and built by billions of tiny organisms, known as coral polyps; explore the Aral Sea, formerly the fourth largest lake in the world and today less than 10 per cent of it’s original size after the rivers that fed it were diverted by Soviet irrigation projects; and understand the process of desertification, which has led to the huge expansion of the Sahara Desert and the dramatic shrinkage of Lake Chad. Illustrated with more than 180 photographs of more than 100 threatened locations, Endangered Places celebrates the beauty of our planet while reminding us of how easily this can be lost through human behaviour and climate change.

Pharmaceutical Care in the Digital Revolution: Blending Digital with Human Innovation, Second Edition provides readers with an updated view on how to use technology to improve pharmaceutical care (PC) and enhance drug outcomes with digital tools. Organized into four parts, including Global Healthcare Systems Under Pressure, Digital Advances to Innovate Pharmaceutical Care Journeys, Conditions to Drive Combinatoric Pharma-Digital Innovation, and What to do Tomorrow as a Pharmaceutical Care Leader, the book further examines digital developments that will optimize the PC process and prepare stakeholders for a dynamic future that will optimize the life of patients against a sustainable cost model. This edition also discusses recent advances in the digital health arena that will change the way we approach healthcare and prevention while also providing interactive links to lectures and technologies, tutorials on how to implement advances in your own working environment, and examples of pharmacists who are successful in building synergy between digital and pharma.

This timely Handbook brings together leading international scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geopolitical perspectives to interrogate the intersections between migration and global justice. It explores how cross-border mobility and migration have been affected by rapid economic, cultural and technological globalisation, addressing the pressing questions of global justice that arise as governments respond to unprecedented levels of global migration. Chapters analyse the key issues arising from tensions between international and national priorities, duties and laws, as well as visions for human coexistence and harmony. Featuring chapters written by researchers, political activists and contributors with lived experience of migration injustice, the Handbook explores central topics including failures in refugee protection, worker exploitation and violence against migrants. Looking ahead, it also discusses possible pathways to achieve global justice in and through migration, in terms of geopolitics, subjective experience, human rights and redistributive justice, global solidarity and political activism. Combining empirical case studies with cutting-edge theory, this Handbook will be an invaluable resource for scholars and students of migration, human rights and public policy. The application of the global justice concept to issues of migration and border control will also be useful for policy makers, practitioners and NGOs in these areas.

Byzantium is more and more recognized as a vibrant culture in dialogue with neighbouring regions, political entities, and peoples. Where better to look for this kind of dynamism than in the interactions between the Byzantines and the Armenians? Warfare and diplomacy are only one part of that story. The more enduring part consists of contact and mutual influence brokered by individuals who were conversant in both cultures and languages. The articles in this volume feature fresh work by younger and established scholars that illustrate the varieties of interaction in the fields of literature, material culture, and religion. Contributors are: Gert Boersema, Emilio Bonfiglio, Bernard Coulie, Karen Hamada, Robin Meyer, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, Claudia Rapp, Mark Roosien, Werner Seibt, Emmanuel Van Elverdinghe, Theo Maarten van Lint, Alexandra-Kyriaki Wassiliou-Seibt, and David Zakarian.

Think of Rome and you quickly picture so many treasures from the ancient world: the Colosseum, the Circus Maximus, the Pantheon, the Forum. At its height in the 2nd century CE, the Roman Empire, reaching out from its heart in the city of Rome itself, was the most extensive political and social structure in western civilization. Still today, almost 2000 years later, we marvel at how sophisticated and grand Roman society was - and how much of ancient Rome has survived for us to see in the modern Italian metropolis. From public baths to catacombs, from the Appian Way to small frescoes and sculptures, from temples to private houses to aqueducts, Visual Explorer Guide: Ancient Rome shows the reader both the world famous and lesser known sites in the city. What emerges is both a picture of the grandeur of Antiquity, but also the last days of pagan worships, as by Rome's final days temples were being converted into churches. Small enough to pack in your pocket, Ancient Rome is a fascinating exploration that gives the reader more than a glimpse of the grandeur of ancient Roman life.

Provide all the independent practice needed for your Springboard Science course with over 1000 questions in each Practice Book. Designed to be used alongside our Knowledge Book, our Practice Books provide shed loads of practice (SLOP) for students to consolidate, apply and extend the knowledge that they have learnt. With decades of teaching experience and extensive knowledge of applying cognitive science in the classroom, you can trust our author team to have created carefully crafted and varied questions for independent practice. > Improve students' long-term retention. Spacing is built in throughout this Practice Book, improving retention over time. > Highlight connections between topics and Sciences. Interleaving of content encourages students to recognise and focus on the connections, similarities and differences across science, enabling them to reflect on their learning in more depth. > Build confidence in the key skills. Question sets include coverage of the key mathematical and working scientifically skills that students need to understand, ensuring that this knowledge is embedded throughout their independent practice. > Support every student. Links to the relevant worked examples in the Knowledge Book are highlighted throughout each unit for easy reference. > Prepare for the next step. Questions increase in difficulty throughout each topic, enabling students to progress through the KS3 curriculum and prepare for KS4 and beyond. Answers are available online for free, and also embedded into the lesson presentations in our Boost digital teaching and learning resources for easy in-class independent practice review.