This substantially revised text provides a comprehensive, highly accessible, and student friendly introduction to the principles, concepts, and methods currently used in educational research. This text provides a balanced combination of quantitative and qualitative methods and enables students to master skills in reading, understanding, critiquing, and conducting research. Many examples and article excerpts are used throughout the text to demonstrate and highlight best practices in educational research. Evidence-based inquiry is emphasized in two ways: (1) Introductory chapters focus on the added importance of data driven decision-making, (2) Methodological chapters provide explicit guidelines for conducting empirical studies.

Nicole and Tom's lives are changed overnight by a ten-million-pound lottery win.

Before they know it they've moved into a state-of-the-art Glass Barn conversion in the stunning grounds of Lancaut Manor in Gloucestershire. But their dream quickly turns into a nightmare when Tom is found dead in the swimming pool, with a wound on his head.

Someone close to home must be responsible. But other than the young couple who live in the Manor, and their housekeeper in the Coach House next door, there's no one around for miles.

Who among them is capable of murder?

Current debates in life course studies increasingly reference theories of individualization, standardization, and differentiation in the structure of the life course. This volume brings together leading scholars from a variety of fields to assess the theoretical underpinnings, the empirical evidence, and the implications of existing arguments. The contributions include comparative-historical work, demographic analysis, and detailed survey research. The topics covered include historical, cross-cultural, and racioethnic variation in the transition to adulthood, the school-to-work transition, educational careers, retirement, activity characteristics over the life span and the life course context of psychological well-being. The various contributions expand our understanding of the contemporary life course and its implications. The authors offer innovative theoretical and methodological approaches that demonstrate the utility of holistic approaches to conceptualizing the life course and understanding its implications for modern society.

"Why do so many preachers make the most exciting news in the world sound so boring?" That is the question driving this unusual book. In a series of honest, personal, and humorous letters the author also answers the question. "What will it take to inspire great preaching for the 21st century?" Ronald Boyd-MacMillan rejects the modern fixation with form in current homiletics and advocates a return to the practice of eight fundamentals for great preaching. The insights from 2,000 years of preaching history and twenty years of personal preaching experience across three continents are applied to the needs of the 21st century. This is a humorous yet hard-hitting guide to explosive modern preaching.

The LEGO (R) City police patrol need your help! Young LEGO (R) fans can help solve the crime and save the day as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this cool board book. Race after burglars in a police car, soar through the air in a helicopter and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to see who you caught red-handed - all in a day's work for brave little heroes! Helps budding officers to: - enhance motor skills - develop hand-eye coordination - play as they read - be imaginative and creative LEGO (R) City. Police Patrol is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO (R) City. Fire Station, LEGO (R) City. Building Site and LEGO (R) City. Merry Christmas.

Keep your cool and get the results you want when faced with crucial conversations. This New York Times bestseller and business classic has been fully updated for a world where skilled communication is more important than ever.

The book that revolutionized business communications has been updated for today’s workplace. Crucial Conversations provides powerful skills to ensure every conversation―especially difficult ones―leads to the results you want. Written in an engaging and witty style, the book teaches readers how to be persuasive rather than abrasive, how to get back to productive dialogue when others blow up or clam up, and it offers powerful skills for mastering high-stakes conversations, regardless of the topic or person.

This new edition addresses issues that have arisen in recent years. You’ll learn how to:

• Respond when someone initiates a crucial conversation with you
• Identify and address the lag time between identifying a problem and discussing it
• Communicate more effectively across digital mediums

When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation poorly and suffer the consequences; or apply the lessons and strategies of Crucial Conversations and improve relationships and results.

Whether they take place at work or at home, with your coworkers or your spouse, crucial conversations have a profound impact on your career, your happiness, and your future. With the skills you learn in this book, you'll never have to worry about the outcome of a crucial conversation again.

A brilliantly funny picture book from the hilarious duo behind the phenomenal I Need A New Bum! series It's Halloween and I'm so excited! It's my favourite time of the year. I'd like to be scary, to wear something hairy. Or be a pirate my friends would fear. It's Halloween and one little boy is feeling VERY SPOOKY - WOOOOOOO! With all of his friends ready for trick-or-treat fun, and with brilliant costumes galore, this might just be the best Halloween ever! This next book in the New Bum series is a brilliantly funny - and cheekily spooky - picture book like no other!

The Fire Chief and her crew need your help! Young LEGO (R) fans can bring the fire station to life as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this cool board book. Open the fire station doors, make the helicopter take off and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to drive off in the fire engine - all in a day's work for brave little heroes! Helps budding firefighters to: - enhance motor skills - develop hand-eye coordination - play as they read - be imaginative and creative LEGO (R) City. Fire Station is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO (R) City. Building Site.

The illustrated biography of a Scottish country house, set beside the River Clyde, and of the people who made it their home over the past 850 years Written by four brothers, their sister and the eldest member of the next generation, Finlaystone offers an insidersa view of the house, its beautiful gardens and the surrounding estate. They tell about the lives of its former owners, many of whom played prominent roles in Scottish military, political, religious and cultural affairs. As Scotland moved forward from centuries of feuds between large feudal landowners to the reformation, the age of enlightenment and the industrial revolution, the building evolved from a fortress to a modest but attractive family home in 1746. Its present form as an imposing late Victorian mansion dates from when it was modernised and extended in 1900 by George Jardine Kidston, the great-grandfather of the older authors, who had grown wealthy from running one of the worlda s earliest steamship companies. In its hey-day, Finlaystone was managed for the comfort and leisure of its owners by a bevy of household servants living in a wing of the house, and by an army of workers, including gardeners, foresters, game-keepers, joiners and a laundry-maid. The prosperity that had made such a lavish life possible, however, soon started to decline, with George Kidstona s death in 1909, followed just 5 years later by war, the economic depression in the 1930s, and then World War II. Unlike many other large country houses, Finlaystone remains a family home, kept afloat largely by the hard work and adaptability of the members of the family who reflect in this book on the joys and travails that this implied.

Come and help the LEGO® City farmers on a busy day at the farm! Little LEGO fans can bring the farmyard to life as they push, pull and slide the tabs in this fun board book. Make the LEGO bricks move – drive the tractor through the fields, collect the eggs from the hen house and then slide the scene-changing mechanism to have fun at the farmer's market! Helps creative minds to: - enhance motor skills - develop hand-eye coordination - play as they read - be imaginative LEGO® City. Farmyard Fun is a great gift for toddlers with inquisitive fingers and minds. Add to the collection and bring more of the LEGO City to life with LEGO City. Space Mission, LEGO City. Safari Resuce, LEGO City. Police Patrol, LEGO City. Fire Station and LEGO City. Building Site.

A brilliantly funny picture book from the hilarious duo behind the phenomenal I Need A New Bum! series Today is race day! I'm here at the start. I so want to win - I have hope in my heart. I'm ready... I'm steady... And off I go! The hero of the New Bum! series is back and he needs to run fast but his bum is slowing him down! Will some balloons help? Or maybe a rocket bum BLAST? Find out in seriously silly story with hilarious illustrations Children and parents will love this book - no ifs, ands, or butts about it! Children will love giggling along to the cheeky and silly story by Dawn McMillan Ross Kinnaird's bright illustrations are laugh-out-loud funny, with lots of details for children to spot The New Bum! series is a global bestseller! COLLECT THE SERIES I Need a New Bum (paperback, board book) I've Broken My Bum! (paperback) My Bum Is So Noisy (paperback) My Bum Is So Cheeky! (paperback) My Bum is SO NOISY! (paperback) My Bum is SO NOISY! (sound book) My Bum is SO CHRISTMASSY! PRIASE FOR I NEED A NEW BUM "I can assure you right now that your kids will love this book. They will giggle, they will laugh, and they will want this book to be read over and over again because it is just plain silly and funny ... the perfect kid-combo." Storywraps