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Love is a war in which only the fearless may conquer. The loss of
love is a test in survival. Love. It's such an understated word. It
has the ability to grip you so hard you become completely consumed
by it, and when it releases you, you find yourself on your knees.
Lilly Parker has me on my knees and I cannot muster the will to
stand. Betrayal. It's all worse when it comes from those we love.
The pain, that much more intense. The loss, that much more heart
breaking. I took a chance on Theodore Ellis and I lost. How hard is
Theo willing to fight for the woman he loves? Can Lilly fight her
demons, or will she push away the only man capable of facing them
with her? Conquered is the emotional, gritty second part of Lilly
and Theo's story.
This book prepares girls for what to expect from puberty and offers
advice on what they can do to cope with the emotional,
psychological and physical changes and stay happy and confident as
they go through their early teens. It covers all the topics that
girls want to find out about, including moods and feelings, periods
and how to survive them, what happens to boys, diet, eating
disorders, exercise, body image, sex and relationships,
contraception, sexual health, self-confidence, drink and drugs,
exam stress, cyberbullying, and staying safe - both out and about
and online. It guides young teenagers through this exciting and
sometimes daunting stage as they start taking full responsibility
for many aspects of their own lives for the first time.
If the sky was the limit, what would you do to become the best
educator that you can be? In 2016, Ollie Lovell asked himself this
same question, and concluded that asking the world's foremost
leaders in education what they do would be a great place to start.
And so he did just that. Over the past five years, Ollie has spoken
to sixty of the world's most prominent teachers, leaders, and
education researchers. With guests including John Hattie, Tom
Sherrington, Anita Archer, Dylan Wiliam, Jim Knight, Judith
Hochman, Jay McTighe, Tom Bennett, Daisy Christodoulou, Bill
Rogers, Daniel Willingham, and many more, Ollie digs deep to work
out what works in education, and what doesn't. This book aims to
share those insights with you. It summarises the most useful
techniques, tactics and mental models from these sixty
conversations, and presents them in a clear, practical, and
actionable form for you to start improving your teaching and
learning from the first page. Tools for Teachers will help you to
teach, lead, and learn like the world's best educators.
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Various Artists - Slow West (CD)
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What is it that enables students to learn from some classroom
activities, yet leaves them totally confused by others? Although we
can't see directly into students' minds, we do have Cognitive Load
Theory, and this is the next best thing. Built on the foundation of
all learning, the human memory system, Cognitive Load Theory
details the exact actions that teachers can take to maximise
student outcomes.Written under the guidance, and thoroughly
reviewed by the originator of CLT, John Sweller, this practical
guide summarises over 30 years of research in this field into clear
and easily understandable terms. This book features both a thorough
discussion of the core principles of CLT and a wide array of
classroom-ready strategies to apply it to art, music, history,
chemistry, PE, mathematics, computer science, economics, biology,
and more.
The CEO of Disney, one of Time’s most influential people of 2019, shares the ideas and values he embraced to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world and inspire the people who bring the magic to life.
Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company in 2005, during a difficult time. Morale had deteriorated, competition was intense, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company’s history. His vision came down to three clear ideas: Recommit to the concept that quality matters, embrace technology instead of fighting it, and think bigger—think global—and turn Disney into a stronger brand in international markets.
Fourteen years later, Disney is the largest, most respected media company in the world, counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and 21st Century Fox among its properties. Its value is nearly five times what it was when Iger took over, and he is recognized as one of the most innovative and successful CEOs of our era.
In The Ride Of A Lifetime, Robert Iger shares the lessons he’s learned while running Disney and leading its 200,000 employees, and he explores the principles that are necessary for true leadership, including:
- Optimism. Even in the face of difficulty, an optimistic leader will find the path toward the best possible outcome and focus on that, rather than give in to pessimism and blaming.
- Courage. Leaders have to be willing to take risks and place big bets. Fear of failure destroys creativity.
- Decisiveness. All decisions, no matter how difficult, can be made on a timely basis. Indecisiveness is both wasteful and destructive to morale.
- Fairness. Treat people decently, with empathy, and be accessible to them.
This book is about the relentless curiosity that has driven Iger for forty-five years, since the day he started as the lowliest studio grunt at ABC. It’s also about thoughtfulness and respect, and a decency-over-dollars approach that has become the bedrock of every project and partnership Iger pursues, from a deep friendship with Steve Jobs in his final years to an abiding love of the Star Wars mythology.
A fantastic write-in book that helps children learn to write their
own stories. Includes lots of different writing activities
including a fictional school journal, writing a comic strip, and
forming a story around a picture. Packed with writing tips and a
'storywriting toolkit' to inspire budding authors. Concealed spiral
binding that allows the book to open flat but doesn't get in the
way as you write. Perfectly complemented by Usborne's Write Your
Own Story Word Book, an inspiring write-in book that helps children
find the right words for engaging stories.
This interdisciplinary book addresses the highly relevant debates
about authenticity in North America, providing a contemporary
re-examination of American culture, tourism and commodification of
place. Blending social sciences and humanities research skills, it
formulates an examination of the geography of authenticity in North
America, and brings together studies of both rurality and urbanity
across the country, exposing the many commonalities of these
different landscapes. Relph stated that nostalgic places are
inauthentic, yet within this work several chapters explore how
festivals and visitor attractions, which cultivate place heritage
appeal, are authenticated by tourists and communities, creating a
shared sense of belonging. In a world of hyperreal simulacra,
post-truth and fake news, this book bucks the trend by
demonstrating that authenticity can be found everywhere: in a
mouthful of food, in a few bars of a Beach Boys song, in a statue
of a troll, in a diffuse magical atmosphere, in the weirdness of
the ungentrified streets. Written by a range of leading experts,
this book offers a contemporary view of American authenticity,
tourism, identity and culture. It will be of great interest to
upper-level students, researchers and academics in Tourism,
Geography, History, Cultural Studies, American Studies and Film
Studies.
The Pictorial Third: An Essay into Intermedial Criticism examines
the extent to which poetry intertwines with painting and the visual
at large, and studies the singular relationship established between
language and image, observesing the modalities and workings of what
is termed 'intermedial transposition'. By following a critical
method of the close analysis of texts, the book examines to what
extent the "pictorial" tool may be of help to analyze literary
texts and thus enlarge and enrich literary criticism. Examining the
technical notions typical of the medium and its history, including
perspective, framing, colour, anamorphosis, trompe-l'oeil, Veronica
veil, still life, portrait, figure, illusion, apparatus, genres and
styles, this volume presents a pragmatics of image-in-text and of
the visual-in-text as an operative tool. This "pictorial" reading
necessarily includes synesthesia and the senses; it also functions
as a reading event , or what happens to one when one unawares
encounters a picture (be it present in the book or the object of an
ekprhasis). Thus the body is eventually given back a role to play.
The sensitive approach has its own resonances and the eye or the
gaze sometimes sees double in such intermedially oriented texts.
This volume proposes to identify the pictorial third as the
phenomenon which can be apprehended in terms of effect or affect
not only as a concept.
This book examines the path that name, image, and likeness (NIL)
has taken in the first years of the policy, how the expansion has
led to differing approaches across state and universities, and how
administrators in selected states are dealing with the rulemaking
power they have. After an introduction contextualising how NIL
policies have impacted the administrative approach at institutions,
the remaining chapters focus on how NIL has altered the role of
compliance offices and administrators tasked with monitoring
academic and financial activity in athletic departments. Chapters
leverage theories of policy diffusion and implementation to offer
context on the topics from administrative and policy perspectives,
whilst also examining how entrepreneurs are both using the policies
to advance the status of the athletic arms of their institutions
while dealing with these compliance struggles. The authors conclude
with a discussion of an unsettled policy landscape and whether
stricter guidelines are on the horizon. Name, Image, and Likeness
Policies will appeal to both scholars studying sport and law,
public policy, public administration, state politics, and
governance, as well as readers seeking to better understand what
impacts NIL is having on the college system, and students connected
to major sports such as college football and basketball.
Cultural creativity in China between 1796 and 1912 demonstrated
extraordinary resilience at a time of intense external and internal
warfare and socioeconomic turmoil. Innovation can be seen in
material culture (including print, painting, calligraphy, textiles,
fashion, jewellery, ceramics, lacquer, glass, arms and armour,
silver, and photography) during a century in which China’s art,
literature, crafts and technology faced unprecedented exposure to
global influences. 1796 – the official end of the reign of the
Qianlong emperor – is viewed as the close of the ‘high Qing’
and the start of a period of protracted crisis. In 1912, the last
emperor, Puyi, abdicated after the revolution of 1911, bringing to
an end some 2,000 years of dynastic rule and making way for the
republic. Until recently the 19th century in China has been often
defined – and dismissed – as an era of cultural decline. Built
on new research from a four-year project supported by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council and with chapter contributions by
international scholars from leading institutions, this beautifully
illustrated, 336-page book edited by Jessica Harrison-Hall and
Julia Lovell sets out a fresh understanding of this important era.
It presents a stunning array of objects and artworks to create a
detailed visual account of responses to war, technology,
urbanisation, political transformations and external influences.
The inventory of knowledge that is generally warehoused under the
classification of biodynamic is rich and timeless, and yet very few
farmers have even a nodding acquaintance with the subject. This
book performs a rescue operation. A practical, how-to guide to
making all of the biodynamic preparations, this book will provide
what you need to put these proven techniques to work in your
fields. Perhaps the best of the many biodynamic titles currently
available. Further explains how to achieve success through
CSA-style market garden marketing.
Fill an icy landscape with penguins. See how long a line you can
doodle without stopping. Complete a crowd of monsters marching
across the page or transform shapes into a gallery of faces. This
eclectic activity book has lots of exciting ideas for you to
explore with your pencils, crayons or felt-tip pens. There's even a
herd of giraffes who need you to colour in their patches!
Discover the stories of 100 women and men whose activities in the
19th century laid the foundations of modern China. Through telling
the lives of one hundred significant individuals, this book
explores how China transformed from dynastic empire to modern
republican nation during the period 1796 to 1912. Both famous and
surprisingly little-known women and men are brought together in
eight thematic sections that bring to life the complexities of
China’s path to modernity. Featured figures include the Dowager
Empress Cixi, the power behind the throne of the Qing dynasty for
fifty years; Yu Rongling, the aristocratic daughter of a Qing
diplomat who trained in Paris with Isadora Duncan and is now seen
as one of the founders of modern dance in China; Shi Yang, the most
powerful woman pirate in the world, celebrated in popular culture
as a female icon; the Manchu-Chinese Duanfang, a lynchpin of late
Qing government and an avid collector of international art,
murdered by his own troops in the 1911 Revolution that ended
dynastic rule; Luo Zhenyu, a pioneer of Chinese archaeology whose
discoveries and research empirically confirmed the antiquity of
Chinese civilization; and many others. Written by an international
team of specialists, this book populates the landscapes of modern
Chinese history with extraordinary individuals, making sense of the
drama and creativity of the country’s ‘long 19th century’.
This research monograph describes a large programming project in
which an underwater organism, capable of perceiving, learning,
deciding, and navigating, is computationally simulated. The
developed computational model serves as a contemporary theory of
perceptual-motor performance, embodying much of what is known about
human vision and some of what is known about other cognitive
processes. This artificial intelligence project has substantial
contributions to make to the development of autonomous underwater
vehicles. It also makes a specific theoretical statement about the
organization and nature of organic perceptual motor systems that
may be useful to psychologists, neuroscientists, and theoreticians
in a number of other fields.
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The Lion in Winter (DVD)
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Historical drama starring Patrick Stewart and Glenn Close. In 1183,
after the death of his eldest son, King Henry II (Stewart) must
decide which of his three remaining sons will succeed him. As the
time for him to announce his successor approaches, Henry frees his
imprisoned wife, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Close), who he held captive
after she plotted to overthrow him. It soon becomes clear, however,
that Eleanor favours first child Richard (Andrew Howard), while
Henry sees his youngest, John (Rafe Spall), as the next in line
but, in the weeks ahead, the King begins to have serious doubts if
any of his sons are capable of becoming the new ruler.
Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape curates the
current state of untested sexual assault kit research and
highlights emerging best practices by exploring the past, the
present, and the future of our collective response to rape. This
book is the first to address the most critical topics related to
untested sexual assault kits and the Department of Justice's Sexual
Assault Kit Initiative, bringing together leading US scholars,
practitioners, policy makers, and survivors. In a series of
well-researched and thoughtful thematic chapters, the book explores
the current state of knowledge related to untested kits, survivors,
and perpetrators, while also documenting fundamental and necessary
changes in how societal systems respond to rape. It provides an
opportunity to learn from our past, highlight what we could do
differently now, and envision a better future for victims of rape
and those tasked with ensuring justice. It may also serve as a
cautionary tale for those jurisdictions that have yet to face their
backlog or who have failed to embrace the practice and policy
changes that have emerged from the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.
Sexual Assault Kits and Reforming the Response to Rape is essential
reading for practitioners (including law enforcement, prosecutors,
victim advocates, mental health providers, forensic nurses, and
forensic scientists), stakeholders, legislators, and policy makers.
It will also be of interest to upper-level students and scholars
working on interpersonal violence, gender-based violence, and
forensic nursing in social/behavioral science fields.
Interdisciplinary research centers are blooming in almost every
university, and interdisciplinary research is expected to be a
cure-all for the ills of academic science. Do disciplines still
matter? To what extent are interdisciplinary problem-solving
approaches driven by socioeconomic stakeholders and policymakers
rather than by academics? And how is interdisciplinarity organized?
Through an in-depth sociological study of the development of
nanomedicine in France and in the United States - an area that
combines nanotechnology and biomedical research - this book
challenges two conventional views of interdisciplinary research and
academic disciplines. First, disciplines do not merely form
separate "siloes" which hinder the development of interdisciplinary
research: rather, they are flexible entities whose evolution
supports the long-term institutionalization of interdisciplinary
science in French and US academia. Secondly, interdisciplinary
research has no intrinsic virtue: its ability to respond to
societal issues and advance knowledge depends on continued
political support and long-term cooperation between stakeholders.
Interdisciplinarity might also be threatened by oversold promises
and struggles for recognition. A study of the many challenges
facing the formation of creative and sustainable interdisciplinary
scientific communities, The Policies and Politics of
Interdisciplinary Research tackles vivid debates among academics
and research managers and will appeal to scholars of sociology,
science and technology studies and science policy.
Interdisciplinary research centers are blooming in almost every
university, and interdisciplinary research is expected to be a
cure-all for the ills of academic science. Do disciplines still
matter? To what extent are interdisciplinary problem-solving
approaches driven by socioeconomic stakeholders and policymakers
rather than by academics? And how is interdisciplinarity organized?
Through an in-depth sociological study of the development of
nanomedicine in France and in the United States - an area that
combines nanotechnology and biomedical research - this book
challenges two conventional views of interdisciplinary research and
academic disciplines. First, disciplines do not merely form
separate "siloes" which hinder the development of interdisciplinary
research: rather, they are flexible entities whose evolution
supports the long-term institutionalization of interdisciplinary
science in French and US academia. Secondly, interdisciplinary
research has no intrinsic virtue: its ability to respond to
societal issues and advance knowledge depends on continued
political support and long-term cooperation between stakeholders.
Interdisciplinarity might also be threatened by oversold promises
and struggles for recognition. A study of the many challenges
facing the formation of creative and sustainable interdisciplinary
scientific communities, The Policies and Politics of
Interdisciplinary Research tackles vivid debates among academics
and research managers and will appeal to scholars of sociology,
science and technology studies and science policy.
Race, Representation & Photography in 19th-Century Memphis:
from Slavery to Jim Crow presents a rich interpretation of African
American visual culture. Using Victorian era photographs,
engravings, and pictorial illustrations from local and national
archives, this unique study examines intersections of race and
image within the context of early African American communities. It
emphasizes black agency, looking at how African Americans in
Memphis manipulated the power of photography in the creation of
free identities. Blacks are at the center of a study that brings to
light how wide-ranging practices of photography were linked to
racialized experiences in the American south following the Civil
War. Jenkins' book connects the social history of photography with
the fields of visual culture, art history, southern studies,
gender, and critical race studies.
The Making of Low Carbon Economies looks at how more than two
decades of sustained effort at climate change mitigation has
resulted in a variety of new practices, rules and ways of doing
things: a period of active construction of low carbon economies.
From outer space observations of the carbon in tropical forests, to
carbon financial reporting, and insulating solid masonry walls,
these diverse things, activities and objects are integral to how
climate change has been brought into being as a problem. The book
takes a fresh look at society's response to climate change by
examining a diverse array of empirical sites where climate change
is being made real through its incorporation into everyday lives -
a process of stitching climate concerns into the discourse and
practices of already existing economies, as well as creating new
economies. The Making of Low Carbon Economies adds fresh insights
to economic sociology and science and technology studies
scholarship on the multiple origins and heterogeneous operation of
markets, demonstrating the constraints and opportunities of an
economic framing of the problem of climate change. It covers the
obvious (and now well-researched) topic of carbon markets, as well
as new more unusual material on the low carbon reframing of already
existing markets and economies.
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