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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
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Perez the Mouse (Hardcover)
Luis Coloma, Ada Margarete Smith Moreton, George Howard Vyse
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`Browning really comes back to life in the marvellous third volume
of the new Oxford Browning', wrote John Bayley, choosing it as one
of his Books of the Year for 1988. While Volume III included six of
the eight Bells and Pomegranates pamphlets, the present volume
completes the series and includes the most remarkable of all,
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics. Here we find `Pictor Ignotus', `The
Lost Leader', `The Bishop orders his Tomb', `The Laboratory', `The
Boy and the Angel', and the first part of `Saul'. Also included are
Christmas-Eve and Easter-Day and the essay on Shelley. As the Times
Literary Supplement reviewer of the earlier volumes commented,
`readers of a poet like this need all the help they can get; and
Jack and Smith have provided it in abundance.' Each poem is fully
annotated, and accompanied by a detailed introduction which
provides information on the chronology of composition and on
Browning's sources.
This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively
and successfully with students who have Specific Learning
Differences (SpLDs). It enables teachers to gain a thorough
understanding of the nature of SpLDs and how these affect both
general learning processes and the mechanisms of second language
acquisition. In addition, the book explores the particular
inclusive methods and techniques of teaching and assessment that
foster success in language learning. Language teaching is embedded
in a wider social and educational context, and therefore the book
also provides an in-depth discussion of general educational issues
related to identifying and disclosing disabilities and to making
transitions from one institution to the other. The content has been
thoroughly updated and revised for the second edition, particularly
in the areas of inclusive pedagogies, new evidence-based methods
and tools for identifying SpLDs, and new conceptualisations of
neurodiversity. The book also includes the latest research on
assessment, transition and progression, and the impact of SpLDs on
additional language learning.
The permanent effects of traumatic brain injury (TBI) are not
limited to the person who suffers the injury. People who care for
the individual, particularly family members, suffer in various
ways. Family members are often confused as to the behavioral and
neuropsychological changes that they see in a brain-injured rela
tive. They can become frustrated and angry when the individual does
not return to premorbid levels of functioning. They can become
tired and worn down from repeated problems in trying to manage the
individual's difficulties while having only fragmented information
regarding them. Drs. Smith and Godfrey have provided a useful
service for family members by summarizing important
neuropsychological changes associated with TBI and providing
practical guidelines for coping with these problems. While the
neuropsychological problems they describe are not completely
understood, the authors provide a useful description of many of the
neuro behavioral problems seen following TBI in young adults. They
attempt to provide guidelines for family members that have
practical utility in understanding and managing these patients.
Theirs is a cognitive-behavioral approach that can have utility for
this group of individuals. I applaud their efforts to provide
something systematic and practical for family members."
Group Analytic Supervision uses group analytic concepts to cast
light on how group supervision works, covering history, theory and
practice. Margaret Gallop and Margaret Smith illustrate the
benefits that supervision can provide for post-qualification group
supervision. This book offers a model of group analytic
supervision, the clinical hexagon, to support supervisors of groups
in thinking about their supervision group and its process. Gallop
and Smith use vignettes to illustrate how supervision groups work
together to broaden and deepen their understanding of their
clients, including examples that demonstrate the benefits of this
multi-perspective approach for therapists providing dyadic therapy.
Group Analytic Supervision addresses several of the key tasks for
supervisors of groups, including establishing and maintaining
boundaries around the work, establishing good working
relationships, working with parallel process, transference and
countertransference. It describes using difference and diversity to
enrich learning and it stresses the importance of self-care. Group
Analytic Supervision will be essential reading for anyone who is
providing group supervision, particularly therapists who undertake
group analytic training. It will also be of great interest to
counsellors and therapists, social workers, probation officers and
healthcare staff who both provide and receive group supervision.
This book is intended to help language teachers to work effectively
and successfully with students who have Specific Learning
Differences (SpLDs). It enables teachers to gain a thorough
understanding of the nature of SpLDs and how these affect both
general learning processes and the mechanisms of second language
acquisition. In addition, the book explores the particular
inclusive methods and techniques of teaching and assessment that
foster success in language learning. Language teaching is embedded
in a wider social and educational context, and therefore the book
also provides an in-depth discussion of general educational issues
related to identifying and disclosing disabilities and to making
transitions from one institution to the other. The content has been
thoroughly updated and revised for the second edition, particularly
in the areas of inclusive pedagogies, new evidence-based methods
and tools for identifying SpLDs, and new conceptualisations of
neurodiversity. The book also includes the latest research on
assessment, transition and progression, and the impact of SpLDs on
additional language learning.
These letters give an insight into the life of a writer whose
novels continue to be bestsellers. They reveal much about Charlotte
Bronte's personal life, her family relationships, and the society
in which she lived. Many of her early letters are written with
vigour, vivacity, and an engaging aptitude for self-mockery. In
contrast, her letters to her "master," the Belgian schoolteacher
Constantin Heger, reveal her intense, obsessive longing for some
response from him. Other letters are deeply moving, when Charlotte
endures the agony of her brother's and sisters' untimely deaths. We
learn also of the progress of her writing, including the
astonishing success of Jane Eyre, and of her contacts with her
publishers, including the young George Smith; and we recognize in
her letters the life-experiences which are transmuted into the art
of her novels. Contemporary society is brilliantly described in her
letters from London, when she writes of her encounters with famous
writers and with critics of her novels. We hear too of her visits
to art galleries, operas, and the Great Exhibition of 1851 at the
Crystal Palace. Dramatic letters written in December 1852 convey
the "turbulence of feeling" in the Haworth curate Arthur Nicholls's
proposal of marriage to her and in Mr Bronte's violent reaction to
it; and we subsequently hear of her secret correspondence with her
suitor, her father's eventual consent, and her tragically brief
happy marriage, cut short by her death in March 1855.
Wilma Rudolph was born into a large family and struggled with
health problems for the first several years of her life, including
polio. Though she had trouble even walking, her love of sport and
movement motivated her to rehabilitate her legs. Rudolph would
blossom into athletic talent and after earning a scholarship to
Tennessee State, qualified for the 1960 Olympic Games where she
became the first American woman to win three gold medals in track
and field. Throughout her life, Wilma Rudolph faced many barriers
and yet she was able to overcome the odds to become an Olympic gold
medalist. After hanging up her spikes, Wilma would teach second
grade and coach track at her former high school. This work
describes her life in detail, and includes a timeline of
significant events in her life.
This final volume of Charlotte Bronte's letters covers the period
from 1852, when she eventually completed Villette, to March 1855,
when she died at the early age of 38. Published in January 1853,
Villette reflects experiences and moods conveyed with sharp
immediacy in the correspondence of the preceding years. In December
1852 one of her most dramatic letters described the crucial event
in her private life: Arthur Nicholls's proposal of marriage, when,
'shaking from head to foot' he made her feel 'what it costs a man
to declare affection where he doubts response.' Mr Bronte's furious
opposition to the match was not overcome until 1854, the year of
Charlotte's marriage on 29 June. In the all too few months before
her death, she came to love and trust Nicholls, her 'dear boy' and
her 'tenderest nurse' during her final illness. The letters in this
volume include on the one hand Charlotte's brief curt note to
George Smith on his engagement to Elizabeth Blakeway, and on the
other a newly discovered letter describing with cheerful briskness
Charlotte's purchase of her own wedding trousseau. Complete texts
of letters previously published inaccurately or in part provide
valuable insight into her other friendships. Those to Elizabeth
Gaskell in particular have an important bearing on our
interpretation and assessment of her Life of Charlotte, published
early in 1857; and the inclusion of Harriet Martineau's angry
comments on the Life ('Hallucination!' [Friendship] was never
attained.') enhances our understanding of Charlotte's break with
Martineau after her review of Villette. The redating of a letter
has shown that the long estrangement between Charlotte and her
oldest friend, Ellen Nussey, caused by Ellen's hostility to the
idea of Charlotte's marriage with Nicholls, lasted without a break
from July 1853 until late February 1854. The volume includes some
of the touching notes from Charlotte's bereaved husband and father,
written in response to condolences on her death. Mrs Gaskell's
graphic account of her visit to Haworth in 1853 forms one of the
appendices; others provide the texts of fragmentary letters,
identify known forgeries, and list addenda and corrigenda for
volumes 1 and 2.
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The Professor (Hardcover)
Charlotte Bronte; Edited by Margaret Smith, Herbert Rosengarten
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For the first time a major novel by Charlotte Bronte appears in an
edition based directly on the author's manuscript. Like her other
mature work, The Professor owes much to her relationship with M.
Heger, her Brussels schoolmaster. The first of her full-length
novels, it is of special interest since it was written
comparatively soon after her experiences in Brussels in the early
1840s, but not published until 1857, after her death. A full
introduction gives an account of its composition, analyses the
manuscript, and describes the circumstances of its eventual
publication, in an inaccurate form, under the editorship of A. B.
Nicholls. Appendices include an unused `Preface' - one of Charlotte
Bronte's attempts to `recast' the novel - and a list of substantive
variants between the manuscript and the first edition. Her last
fragmentary novel, `Emma', begun after Villette, is now transcribed
directly from the author's rough draft, instead of from the
polished and revised text produced by Nicholls, George Smith, and
Thackeray for the Cornhill Magazine in 1860. The volume contains
full indexes to Biblical and literary allusions in Charlotte
Bronte's four major novels, thus giving a fascinating guide to the
nature and extent of her reading. The editors also make use of
continuing research by providing a list of additions and
corrections to all previous volumes in the Clarendon Bronte series.
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Villette (Hardcover)
Charlotte Bronte; Edited by Herbert Rosengarten, Margaret Smith
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R8,303
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Shirley (Hardcover)
Charlotte Bronte; Edited by Herbert Rosengarten, Margaret Smith
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R3,954
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Jane Eyre (Hardcover)
Charlotte Bronte; Edited by Jane Jack, Margaret Smith
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Group Analytic Supervision uses group analytic concepts to cast
light on how group supervision works, covering history, theory and
practice. Margaret Gallop and Margaret Smith illustrate the
benefits that supervision can provide for post-qualification group
supervision. This book offers a model of group analytic
supervision, the clinical hexagon, to support supervisors of groups
in thinking about their supervision group and its process. Gallop
and Smith use vignettes to illustrate how supervision groups work
together to broaden and deepen their understanding of their
clients, including examples that demonstrate the benefits of this
multi-perspective approach for therapists providing dyadic therapy.
Group Analytic Supervision addresses several of the key tasks for
supervisors of groups, including establishing and maintaining
boundaries around the work, establishing good working
relationships, working with parallel process, transference and
countertransference. It describes using difference and diversity to
enrich learning and it stresses the importance of self-care. Group
Analytic Supervision will be essential reading for anyone who is
providing group supervision, particularly therapists who undertake
group analytic training. It will also be of great interest to
counsellors and therapists, social workers, probation officers and
healthcare staff who both provide and receive group supervision.
Preparing the Next Generation of Oral Historians is an invaluable
resource to educators seeking to bring history alive for students
at all levels. The anthology opens with chapters on the
fundamentals of oral history and its place in the classroom, but
its heart lies in nearly two dozen insightful personal essays by
educators who have successfully incorporated oral history into
their own teaching. Filled with step by step descriptions and
positive student feedback, these chapters offers practical
suggestions on creating curricula, engaging students, gathering
community support, and meeting educational standards. Lanman and
Wendling open each chapter with thoughtful questions that guide
readers, whether unfamiliar with oral history or seeking to refine
their approach, in applying the examples to their own classrooms.
The bibliography of further resources at the anthology's close
provides interested educators with all the information necessary to
transform their lessons and show their students' history's power as
a living force within their own lives and communities.
This book documents the "brave new world" of teacher,
administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept
across the United States in recent years. Its particular vantage
point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make
their way through their first months and years working in schools
in the New York City metropolitan area. The issues they grapple
with are not, however, unique to this context, but common problems
found today in urban, suburban, and rural schools across the United
States. The stories in this book offer a compelling portrait of
these teachers' encounters with the new culture of accountability
and the strategies they develop for coping, even succeeding, within
such demanding settings.
"Learning to Teach in an Age of Accountability: " *introduces
research on teaching and engages the "big ideas" concerning teacher
research, highlighting what we know and where that leads us;
*offers a rich set of teacher narratives that are organized to
widen the angle of vision from biography, to classrooms, schools,
and society; and
*includes questions and activities to encourage discussion and
further research about the ideas raised; and
*addresses the possibilities for best practice and curricular
decision making in light of the issues and ideas presented in the
book.
This volume--unique in its portrayal of new teachers' encounters
with issues of accountability--makes a singular contribution to the
educational literature on new teachers. It is relevant to everyone
interested in the contemporary world of teaching, and is
particularly appropriate as a text for preservice and in-service
students. All readers who believe that the key to agood school lies
in attracting and keeping good teachers will find the issues
presented here both personally engaging and deeply troubling.
Contents: Children of Neglect: An Overview of the Issues. What is Child Neglect? Definitional Issues. What Causes Child Neglect? Theoretical Issues. What Causes Child Neglect? An Analysis of Causal Models. What Impacts Children of Neglect? Public Policy. What Impacts Children of Neglect? Practice Strategies. What Impacts Children of Neglect? Practice Outcomes. Child Neglect and Culture. Child Neglect and Substance Abuse. Child Neglect an Poverty. The Children of Neglect: What do we Know? What do we Do?
This book provides a practical illustration of the skills, knowledge and understanding required to teach in the secondary classroom. As will as discussing concepts and ideas, the book gives a critical examination of some of the key issues, and will encourage the reader to engage with the ideas and consider their views and beliefs. It is an invaluable resource for those who are learning to teach or for those teachers who wish to reflect on their teaching practice. eBook available with sample pages: 0203166116
"Gentle reader, may you never feel what I then felt!" Throughout
the hardships of her childhood - spent with a severe aunt and
abusive cousin, and later at the austere Lowood charity school -
Jane Eyre clings to a sense of self-worth, despite of her treatment
from those close to her. At the age of eighteen, sick of her narrow
existence, she seeks work as a governess. The monotony of Jane's
new life at Thornfield Hall is broken up by the arrival of her
peculiar and changeful employer, Mr Rochester. Routine at the
mansion is further disrupted by mysterious incidents that draw the
pair closer together but which, once explained, threaten Jane's
happiness and integrity. A flagship of Victorian fiction, Jane Eyre
draws the reader in by the vigour of Jane's voice and the novel's
forceful depiction of childhood injustice, of the restraints placed
upon women, and the complexities of both faith and passion. The
emotional charge of Jane's story is as strong today as it was more
than 150 years ago, as she seeks dignity and freedom on her own
terms. In this new edition, Juliette Atkinson explores the power of
narrative voice and looks at the striking physicality of the novel,
which is both shocking and romantic.
A blend of theory and counseling techniques, this comprehensive
text provides readers with an overview of several major counseling
theories and their application to substance use disorders and
addiction counseling, along with related techniques and
interventions. Chapters incorporate cutting edge evidenced-based
research on neuroscience, psychological and sociocultural theories
explaining the biopsychosocial influences of substance use
disorders, and examine how substance use disorder risk factors can
be utilized when assessing someone who may have a substance use
disorder. The text additionally helps apply theory to practice,
offering intervention techniques and using accessible case studies.
Throughout the text, highlighted learning opportunities and key
terms further help students to practice and apply the theories,
interventions and techniques that the book discusses. Mental health
professionals, undergraduate and graduate students alike will
benefit from this deft mix of prominent theory, innovative research
and accessible case studies.
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