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Holiday Explorer is a short course in English for young students
which includes fascinating real world content and images from
National Geographic.
Tackle the core component of your Engineering and Manufacturing T
Level with this comprehensive resource published in association
with City & Guilds and EAL. With topics ranging from essential
maths and science to mechanical, electrical and electronic
principles and engineering project management, this clear and
accessible textbook will guide you through the qualification's core
unit and will equip you with a solid understanding of the key
principles, concepts, theories and skills you need to shape your
career in engineering and manufacturing. - Track and strengthen
your knowledge using learning outcomes at the beginning of every
chapter and 'Test Yourself' questions throughout. - Improve your
understanding of important terminology with a 'Key Terms' feature,
as well as a detailed glossary. - Contextualise your learning with
real-world case studies that explore some of the dilemmas you can
expect to face in the workplace and reflection tasks to ensure you
are set up for success. - Understand how to avoid hazards and
minimise risk with regular health and safety reminders. - Prepare
for your exams and the Employer Set Project using tips, assessment
practice and model answers. - Build the functional skills you need
to thrive in the industry with English and maths exercises. -
Develop your professional skills with helpful tips from expert
authors Paul Anderson and David Hills-Taylor, who draw on their
extensive teaching and industry experience.
Exam board: Pearson Edexcel Level: GCSE Subject: Design and
Technology First teaching: September 2017 First exams: Summer 2019
Target success in Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) Design and Technology
with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Key
content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical
tips to create a revision guide that you can rely on to review,
strengthen and test your knowledge. With My Revision Notes you can:
- Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the
topic-by-topic planner - Consolidate subject knowledge by working
through clear and focused content coverage - Test understanding and
identify areas for improvement with regular 'Now Test Yourself'
tasks and answers - Improve exam technique through practice
questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid -
Get exam ready with extra quick quizzes and answers to the practice
questions available online.
Exam board: AQA Level: GCSE Subject: Engineering First teaching:
September 2017 First exams: Summer 2019 Target success in GCSE
Engineering with this proven formula for effective, structured
revision. Key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks
and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can
rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My
Revision Notes, every student can: - plan and manage a successful
revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner - consolidate
subject knowledge by working through clear and focused content
coverage - test understanding and identify areas for improvement
with regular 'Now Test Yourself' tasks and answers - improve exam
technique through practice questions, expert tips and examples of
typical mistakes to avoid - get exam ready with extra quick quizzes
and answers to the practice questions available online.
First published in 1988, Africa examines the varied pattern of
development in the continent, the progress and the disappointments
experienced, and the prospects. This picture is set firmly within
the frame of the continent’s geography. From a general synthesis,
the books moves to a country by country analysis of the
interdependence of geography and economic development. The
authors’ analysis of the effects of varied development strategies
in Africa leads them, in the final section, to discuss what lessons
maybe learned from these earlier initiatives and to assess the
changes in development policies that were later implemented. This
book will be of interest to students of geography, economics and
development studies.
Impassable roads, poorly maintained railways, bankrupt airlines,
congested cities, and inefficient ports -- how do these conditions
inhibit the economic progress of developing countries? With case
material from Latin and central America, Southeast Asia, and
Africa, author David Hilling illustrates the differences in
transportation strategies and structures between the developed and
developing worlds. In examining such projects as inland waterways,
ports, railways, roads, and air and urban transportation networks,
Hilling emphasizes the relative importance of timing, location,
technology, and decision making structures in each case, and then
illustrates how these factors contribute to the success or failure
of economic development strategies.
In Giving Voice to My Music, David Wordsworth's engrossing
interviews take us into the world of twenty-four leading composers
of choral music, composers for whom writing for choirs is central
to their very existence. Here, they give voice to their
inspirations, their passions and the challenges they have faced in
working through the pandemic of 2020/21. They reveal how their life
experiences have influenced their compositions, how they choose and
relate to the texts they set, and how they interact with
commissioners, singers and conductors alike. Enhanced by an
extensive reference section and a revelatory list of the composers'
own favourite pieces, readers will discover music that has enriched
these composers' lives and encouraged their creativity. Giving
Voice to my Music will be relished by singers, composers,
conductors and above all audiences, for the new insights it offers
into works that are already well-known but also for its
introductions to new choral music that deserves to be better known.
(Music Sales America). Noel 2 is an exciting collection of Advent,
Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed voice choirs, from the easy
to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. The contents
range from the Renaissance to the present: from Bach and Sweelinck,
familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through
the ages to Howells and Leighton and works by today's composers
include Richard Rodney Bennett, Eric Whitacre, John Tavener, Tarik
O'Regan and Richard Allain. Among the 43 anthems, mixed voice
choirs of all levels will find new arrangements of favorite carols,
hymns with new descants, as well as stimulating original works for
the Christmas season. Songs include; Angelus Ad Virginem * Coventry
Carol * E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come (Manz) * Gloria, Dei Sir
Gesungen (Bach) * Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn) *
Lullay My Liking (Holst) * Once in Royal David's City * Of a Rose
(McDowall) * Resonet in Laudibus (Praetorius) * Rocking (Tavener) *
Threshold of Night (O'Regan) * Torches (Joubert) * What Sweeter
Music (Allain) * and more.
Originally published in 1976. This book helps beginning and
practising teachers to operate effectively in multiracial schools;
its emphasis is on practical guidance for the classroom. It
presents a review of the salient features of teaching in
multiracial schools, comprising a brief description of the three
largest ethnic minority groups; a selected list of studies related
to the assessment of ability and achievement; language
difficulties, specifically for West Indian, Asian and Chinese
pupils, and for second-stage immigrant learners.
Powerful personal accounts from migrants crossing the US-Mexico
border provide an understanding of their experiences, as well as
the consequences of public policy Migrants, refugees, and deportees
live through harrowing situations, yet their personal stories are
often ignored. While politicians and commentators mischaracterize
and demonize, herald border crises, and speculate about who people
are and how they live, the actual memories of migrants are rarely
shared. In the tradition of oral storytelling, Voices of the Border
reproduces the stories migrants have told, offering a window onto
both individual and shared experiences of crossing the US-Mexico
border. This collection emerged from interviews conducted by the
Kino Border Initiative (KBI), a Jesuit organization that provides
humanitarian assistance and advocates for migrants. Based in
Nogales, Arizona, and Nogales, Sonora-twin border cities connected
by shared histories, geographies, economies, and cultures-the
editors and their colleagues documented migrants' testimonios to
amplify their voices. These personal narratives of lived
experiences, presented in the original Spanish with English
translations, bring us closer to these individuals' strength, love,
and courage in the face of hardship and injustice. Short
introductions written by migrant advocates, humanitarian workers,
religious leaders, and scholars provide additional context at the
beginning of each chapter. These powerful stories help readers
better understand migrants' experiences, as well as the
consequences of public policy for their community. Royalties from
the sale of the book go to the Kino Border Initiative.
Every political aspirant and activist knows the media are
important. But there is little agreement on how an increasingly
diversified media operate in post-authoritarian transitions and how
they might promote, or impede, the pathways to a sustainable
liberal democracy in the 21st century. This book examines the role
of the media during Indonesia's longest experiment with
democratisation. It addresses two important and related questions:
how is the media being transformed, both in terms of its structure
and content, by the changing political economy of Indonesia after
the fall of Suharto? And what is the potential impact of this media
in enabling or hampering the development of democracy in Indonesia?
The book explores the relation between the working of
democratisation, by examining the role of ethnic identity and
nationalism; increasingly cheaper and diversified means of media
production, challenging state monopolies of the media; the reality
of personalised and globalised media; and the challenging of the
connection between a free media and democracy by global capitalism
and corporate control of the media. The book argues that the
dominant forces transforming Indonesia today did not arise from the
singular point of Suharto's resignation, but from a set of factors
which are independent from, but linked to, Indonesia's internal
politics and which shape its cultural industries.
Every political aspirant and activist knows the media are
important. But there is little agreement on how an increasingly
diversified media operate in post-authoritarian transitions and how
they might promote, or impede, the pathways to a sustainable
liberal democracy in the 21st century. This book examines the role
of the media during Indonesia 's longest experiment with
democratisation. It addresses two important and related questions:
how is the media being transformed, both in terms of its structure
and content, by the changing political economy of Indonesia after
the fall of Suharto? And what is the potential impact of this media
in enabling or hampering the development of democracy in
Indonesia?
The book explores the relation between the working of
democratisation, by examining the role of ethnic identity and
nationalism; increasingly cheaper and diversified means of media
production, challenging state monopolies of the media; the reality
of personalised and globalised media; and the challenging of the
connection between a free media and democracy by global capitalism
and corporate control of the media. The book argues that the
dominant forces transforming Indonesia today did not arise from the
singular point of Suharto 's resignation, but from a set of factors
which are independent from, but linked to, Indonesia 's internal
politics and which shape its cultural industries.
Originally published in 1976. This book helps beginning and
practising teachers to operate effectively in multiracial schools;
its emphasis is on practical guidance for the classroom. It
presents a review of the salient features of teaching in
multiracial schools, comprising a brief description of the three
largest ethnic minority groups; a selected list of studies related
to the assessment of ability and achievement; language
difficulties, specifically for West Indian, Asian and Chinese
pupils, and for second-stage immigrant learners.
Using a combination of existing and original research, this new
text provides a simple explanation for the low turnout in American
elections: rather than creating an environment conducive to
participation, the institutional arrangements that govern structure
participation, representation, and actual governance in the United
States create an environment that discourages widespread
participation. To explore this argument, the author examines the
origins and development of registration laws, single-member
districts, such as the Electoral College, and the separation of
powers and the impact these institutions have on turnout levels in
American national elections. To this end, the text employs a
narrative discussing the impact of institutions on turnout in the
United States and across nations, supported with extensive yet
accessible data analysis. Hill not only provides students with
explanations for the low turnout characteristic of American
elections, but also demonstrates the powerful impact of
institutions on political life.
Parents going through separation or divorce are understandably
worried about how the change in the family will affect their
children. This guide walks parents through all the factors they
should consider and offers step-by-step guidance on how to work
together to put their children first. From sharing the news with
children in an age-appropriate way to handling the issue of
custody, from concerns about affairs or abuse to embarking on
remarriage and blending families, Co-Parenting Through Separation
and Divorce offers a roadmap through one of life's most difficult
challenges with the goal of healthy, happy kids informing every
decision along the way.
Impassable roads, poorly maintained railways, bankrupt airlines,
congested cities, and inefficient ports -- how do these conditions
inhibit the economic progress of developing countries? With case
material from Latin and central America, Southeast Asia, and
Africa, author David Hilling illustrates the differences in
transportation strategies and structures between the developed and
developing worlds. In examining such projects as inland waterways,
ports, railways, roads, and air and urban transportation networks,
Hilling emphasizes the relative importance of timing, location,
technology, and decision making structures in each case, and then
illustrates how these factors contribute to the success or failure
of economic development strategies.
The Anglo-Saxon period was crucial to the development of the
English landscape, but is rarely studied. The essays here provide
radical new interpretations of its development. Traditional opinion
has perceived the Anglo-Saxons as creating an entirely new
landscape from scratch in the fifth and sixth centuries AD, cutting
down woodland, and bringing with them the practice of open field
agriculture, and establishing villages. Whilst recent scholarship
has proved this simplistic picture wanting, it has also raised many
questions about the nature of landscape development at the time,
the changing nature of systems of land management, and strategies
for settlement. The papers here seek to shed new light on these
complex issues. Taking a variety of different approaches, and with
topics ranging from the impact of coppicing to medieval field
systems, from the representation of the landscape in manuscripts to
cereal production and the type of bread the population preferred,
they offer striking new approaches to the central issues of
landscape change across the seven centuries of Anglo-Saxon England,
a period surely foundational to the rural landscape of today.
NICHOLAS J. HIGHAM is Professor of Early Medieval and Landscape
History at the University of Manchester; MARTIN J. RYAN lectures in
Medieval History at the University of Manchester. Contributors:
Nicholas J. Higham, Christopher Grocock, Stephen Rippon, Stuart
Brookes, Carenza Lewis, Susan Oosthuizen, Tom Williamson, Catherine
Karkov, David Hill, Debby Banham, Richard Hoggett, Peter Murphy.
This book conveys, in a self-contained manner, the fundamental
concepts for classifying types of contact, the essential
mathematical methods for the formulation of contact problems, and
the numerical methods required for their solution. In addition to
the methodologies, it covers a broad range of applications,
including contact problems in mechanical engineering,
microelectronics and nanomechanics. All chapters provide both
substantial background on the theory and numerical methods, and
in-depth treatments of cutting-edge research topics and
applications. The book is primarily intended for doctoral students
of applied mathematics, mechanics, engineering and physics with a
strong interest in the theoretical modelling, numerical simulation
and experimental characterization of contact problems in
technology. It will also benefit researchers in the above mentioned
and neighbouring fields working in academia or at private research
and development centres who are interested in a concise yet
comprehensive overview of contact mechanics, from its fundamental
mathematical background, to the computational methods and the
experimental techniques currently available for the solution of
contact problems.
Ryan has just got his licence. He's in the car with his mates. Tara
likes to go running. She's on her way back home. Neither of them is
paying much attention... The harrowing accident that follows
impacts many lives. A moving and compelling story of recovery, told
by one of New Zealand's foremost children's writers.
Our series Cancer Prevention - Cancer Control continues to address
the causes and prevention of cancer. In this volume, Hill, Elwood,
and English bring together a rich resource summarizing the state of
science underpinning the primary prevention of skin cancer. While
skin cancer causes an increasing burden, particularly in
populations of European origin, our understanding of the role of
sun exposure together with the genetic components of skin cancer
continues to grow. Given the emphasis on evidence-based medicine
and public health prevention efforts, it is noteworthy that,
although we can all access the same evidence base, countries around
the world have had remarkably different responses to the
application of this knowledge to prevent skin cancer. The
outstanding contribution of the Australian public health community
to the scientific understanding of skin cancer etiology and the
translation of this knowledge into national prevention efforts
uniquely positions the editors to compile this volume focused on
the primary prevention of skin cancer. In so doing they draw on an
international team of authors to present a "state of the science"
summary of skin cancer prevention and to identify those areas where
uncertainty remains. To achieve successful prevention of cancer we
must translate our scientific knowledge base into effective
prevention programs. This book offers the reader keen insights into
the depth of our understanding of etiologic pathways for skin
cancer. This etiologic science base is complemented by rigorous
prevention science placing emphasis on the social context for
effective and sustained prevention efforts.
Using a combination of existing and original research, this new
text provides a simple explanation for the low turnout in American
elections: rather than creating an environment conducive to
participation, the institutional arrangements that govern structure
participation, representation, and actual governance in the United
States create an environment that discourages widespread
participation. To explore this argument, the author examines the
origins and development of registration laws, single-member
districts, such as the Electoral College, and the separation of
powers and the impact these institutions have on turnout levels in
American national elections. To this end, the text employs a
narrative discussing the impact of institutions on turnout in the
United States and across nations, supported with extensive yet
accessible data analysis. Hill not only provides students with
explanations for the low turnout characteristic of American
elections, but also demonstrates the powerful impact of
institutions on political life.
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