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Accessible and practical guide for all practising and training
kindergarten and primary teachers Covers all aspects of online
teaching for early years, such at platforms, classroom management,
body language, class size, feedback, assessment, and activities
Filled with tried-and-tested exercises, takeaways and reflective
questions for teachers to use, adapt, and integrate into teaching
practice Written in a structured, cumulative manner that allows
readers to read chapters based on relevance and interest
This accessible introduction to the structure of English, general
theories in linguistics, and important issues in sociolinguistics,
is the first text written specifically for English and Education
majors. This engaging introductory language/linguistics textbook
provides more extensive coverage of issues of particular interest
to English majors and future English instructors. It invites all
students to connect academic linguistics to the everyday use of the
English language around them. The book's approach taps students'
natural curiosity about the English language. Through exercises and
discussion questions about ongoing changes in English, How English
Works asks students to become active participants in the
construction of linguistic knowledge.
Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from
Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world
championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times
World Champion Vishy Anand. This book is written by an all-star
team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World
Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand
Chess Tour. Michael Adams has been the top British player for the
last quarter of a century and was a finalist in the 2004 FIDE World
Championship. Graham Burgess is the author of thirty books, a
former champion of the Danish region of Funen, and holds the world
record for marathon blitz chess playing. John Nunn is a three-time
winner of both the World Solving Championship and the British Chess
Federation Book of the Year Award. John Emms is an experienced
chess coach and writer, who finished equal first in the 1997
British Championship and was chess columnist of the Young
Telegraph. The 145 greatest chess games of all time, selected,
analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British and
American experts and illustrated with over 1,100 chess diagrams.
Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two
centuries of international chess, and develop your own
chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard. Instructive
points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned.
First published in 1998, a second edition of The Mammoth Book of
the World's Greatest Chess Games in 2004 included an additional
twelve games. Another new edition in 2010 included a further
thirteen games as well as some significant revisions to the
analysis and information regarding other games in earlier editions
of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess software.
This 2021 edition, further updated and expanded, now includes 145
games. The authors have made full use of the new generation of
chess analysis engines that apply neural-network based AI.
Some things which feel truly lost, are really there all along,
safely hidden, just waiting to be found... France. Summer 1981: In
a small village in southern France, a wilful English girl is
falling in love. Frances Langley has fallen under Benoit's romantic
spell, and their summer of love finds Frances willing to do almost
anything for the handsome art collector, even hiding a precious
artefact for him, stolen by the Nazis decades before. England.
Summer 2022: Frances's son, Harry, finds himself packing up the
clutter and chaos of his late mother's home. Little does he know
that his mother had sent a letter to Tabitha, the lost love of his
life, begging the pair to find a priceless jewellery box, hidden in
her cottage. Harry quickly dismisses the search, but as an art
historian, Tabitha cannot risk the chance to recover something so
valuable that was long thought to be lost. And so they embark on a
journey of discovery, but soon find themselves searching for much
more than a missing piece of art...
Problems in Lexicography is an essential, classic work of practical
lexicography (the practice of writing dictionaries) and
meta-lexicography. Originally published over sixty years ago, it
was based on the proceedings of the Indiana University Conference
on Lexicography, held November 11-12, 1960. It set a standard that
still holds today, three generations later. This critical and
historical edition, brilliantly researched and presented by Michael
Adams, explores the enduring legacy of this classic work and
promises to extend its life further into the twenty-first century.
Problems in Lexicography: A Critical / Historical Edition amply
demonstrates that this unique work is a book of historical
significance and a worthy prologue to lexicography's present.
This edited book explores the impact of globalisation on the
relationship between religion and politics, religion and nation,
religion and nationalism, and the impact that transnationalism has
on religious groups. In a post-Westphalian and transnational world,
with increased international communication and transportation, a
plethora of new religious recompositions religions now take part in
a network society that cuts across borders. This collection,
through its analysis of historical and contemporary case studies,
explores the growth of both national and transnational religious
movements and their dealings with the various versions of modernity
that they encounter. It considers trends of religious
revitalisation and secularisation, and processes of nationalism and
transnationalism through the prism of the theory of multiple
modernities, acknowledging both its pluralist world view but also
the argument that its definition of modernity is often so inclusive
as to lose coherence. Providing a cutting edge take on 21st century
religion and globalization, this volume is a key read for all
scholars of religion, secularisation and transnationalism.
This edited book explores the impact of globalisation on the
relationship between religion and politics, religion and nation,
religion and nationalism, and the impact that transnationalism has
on religious groups. In a post-Westphalian and transnational world,
with increased international communication and transportation, a
plethora of new religious recompositions religions now take part in
a network society that cuts across borders. This collection,
through its analysis of historical and contemporary case studies,
explores the growth of both national and transnational religious
movements and their dealings with the various versions of modernity
that they encounter. It considers trends of religious
revitalisation and secularisation, and processes of nationalism and
transnationalism through the prism of the theory of multiple
modernities, acknowledging both its pluralist world view but also
the argument that its definition of modernity is often so inclusive
as to lose coherence. Providing a cutting edge take on 21st century
religion and globalization, this volume is a key read for all
scholars of religion, secularisation and transnationalism.
The relationships among data, evidence, and methodology in English
historical linguistics are perennially vexed. This volume - which
ranges chronologically from Old to Present-Day English and from
manuscripts to corpora - challenges a wide variety of assumptions
and practices and illustrates how diverse methods and approaches
construct evidence for historical linguistic arguments from an
increasingly large and diverse body of linguistic data.
The ?eld of Business Process Management (BPM) is marred by a
seemingly e- less sequence of (proposed) industry standards.
Contrary to other ?elds (e.g., civil or electronic engineering),
these standards are not the result of a widely supported
consolidationofwell-understoodandwell-establishedconceptsandpractices.Inthe
BPM domain, it is frequently the case that BPM vendors
opportunistically become involved in the creation of proposed
standards to exert or maintain their in?uence and interests in the
?eld. Despite the initial fervor associated with such standardi-
tion activities, it is no less frequent that vendors either choose
to drop their support for standards that they earlier championed on
an opportunistic basis or elect only to partially support them in
their commercial offerings. Moreover, the results of the
standardization processes themselves are a concern. BPM standards
tend to deal with complex concepts, yet they are never properly
de?ned and all-too-often not informed by established research. The
result is a plethoraof languagesand tools, with no consensuson
conceptsand their implem- tation. They also fail to provide clear
direction in the way in which BPM standards should evolve. One can
also observe a dichotomy between the "business" side of BPM and its
"technical" side. While it is clear that the application of BPM
will fail if not placed in a proper business context, it is equally
clear that its application will go nowhere if it remains merely a
motivational exercise with schemas of business processes hanging on
the wall gathering dust.
The Mystery of Jesus Christ is a theology manual for the study of
Christology and Soteriology. It provides a sensible overview of the
many issues that must be treated in its field, but it does so with
clarity, treating complex questions not only in fair and
sophisticated ways, but also in ways that the ordinary student will
find most helpful.
Topics covered include: The fundamentals of business process
modeling, including workflow patterns, an in-depth treatment of
process flexibility, including approaches to dealing with
on-the-fly changes, unexpected exceptions, and constraint-based
processes, Technological aspects of a modern BPM environment,
including its architecture, process design environment, process
engine, resource handler and other support services, a comparative
insight into current approaches to business process modeling and
execution such as BPMN, EPCs, BPEL, jBPM, OpenWFE, and Enhydra
Shark, process mining, verification, integration and configuration;
and case studies in health care and screen business.
This book provides a comprehensive treatment of the field of
Business Process Management (BPM) with a focus on Business Process
Automation. It achieves this by covering a wide range of topics,
both introductory and advanced, illustrated through and grounded in
the YAWL (Yet Another Workflow Language) language and corresponding
open-source support environment. In doing so it provides the reader
with a deep, timeless, and vendor-independent understanding of the
essential ingredients of business process automation.
The BPM field is in a continual state of flux and is subject to
both the ongoing proposal of new standards and the introduction of
new tools and technology. Its fundamentals however are relatively
stable and this book aims to equip the reader with both a thorough
understanding of them and the ability to apply them to better
understand, assess and utilize new developments in the BPM
field.
As a consequence of its topic-based format and the inclusion of
a broad range of exercises, the book is eminently suitable for use
in tertiary education, both at the undergraduate and the
postgraduate level, for students of computer science and
information systems. BPM researchers and practitioners will also
find it a valuable resource. The book serves as a unique reference
to a varied and comprehensive collection of topics that are
relevant to the business process life-cycle.
The 125 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed,
re-evaluated and explained by a team of British experts and
illustrated with over 1,000 chess diagrams. Join the authors in
studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international
chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your
current standard. Instructive points at the end of each game
highlight the lessons to be learned. First published in 1998, a
second edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess
Games in 2004 included an additional 12 games. This edition
includes a further 13 games as well as some significant revisions
to the analysis and information regarding other games in earlier
editions of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess
software.
Shortlisted in the Illustrated Book of the Year category for the
Sports Book Awards 2022 in association with The Sunday Times. Do
you remember the first football match you went to? The first time
you went to Anfield? Your first away match? Your first European
game? Visits to Wembley? Rome? Istanbul? If you have ever been to
watch Liverpool play, the chances are you will have a programme.
And if you have a programme, you will have a little bit of history
in your hands. Now, for the first time, 75 seasons of Liverpool
football programmes have been catalogued and assembled in one
place. Starting as World War II draws to a close, the book takes
you on a journey through the post-war history of Liverpool Football
Club, a journey on which the matchday programmes are your guide.
Each season is reviewed through the pages of the programmes,
recalling particular matches, players and managers. This
comprehensive book provides you with the definitive list of first
team programmes from all of Liverpool's matches from 1945/46 to
2019/20. A full-colour reproduction of every programme cover for
close to 5,000 matches is provided plus special features and
memorabilia from the club's six European Cup victories. This
stunning book shows you rare, obscure, and never-before-seen
programmes, discusses specific matchday editions, variants and
pirates, and shares tips on how to identify fakes, reprints and
reproductions. Travel with the Reds on their early tours to the
United States and Canada; discover the "forgotten tours" to
Czechoslovakia, Sweden and France; and, share in their dreams of
European conquest, starting with a bumpy plane ride to Reykjavik.
Along the way, relive the dramas, the comebacks, the tragedies and
the heroics - and the strangest season of all, in which Liverpool,
reigning Champions of Europe, were crowned Champions of England and
Champions of the World. This book does more than tell you the
history of the past 75 seasons, it lets you share in it and helps
you make it your own. With a foreword from the former FA chief
executive, Brian Barwick OBE. Written and painstakingly researched
by Andy Marsden, a fanatical Reds' supporter and collector of
Liverpool programmes for more than 50 years. All profits from the
book are being donated to the LFC Foundation charity to help create
life-changing opportunities for children and young people.
Problems in Lexicography is an essential, classic work of practical
lexicography (the practice of writing dictionaries) and
meta-lexicography. Originally published over sixty years ago, it
was based on the proceedings of the Indiana University Conference
on Lexicography, held November 11-12, 1960. It set a standard that
still holds today, three generations later. This critical and
historical edition, brilliantly researched and presented by Michael
Adams, explores the enduring legacy of this classic work and
promises to extend its life further into the twenty-first century.
Problems in Lexicography: A Critical / Historical Edition amply
demonstrates that this unique work is a book of historical
significance and a worthy prologue to lexicography's present.
'Excellent psychological thriller that hooks you from the get go
and won't let you go until you've read every last page.' *****
Goodreads reviewer YOU WAKE UP IN HOSPITAL. YOU DON'T REMEMBER WHO
YOU ARE. SO WHO CAN YOU TRUST? Totally gripping and full of twists,
this unputdownable psychological thriller will keep fans of Lisa
Jewell, Shari Lapena's THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR and Laura Marshall's
FRIEND REQUEST guessing until the last page. CHLOE DANIELS WAKES IN
A HOSPITAL WITH NO MEMORY OF HOW SHE GOT THERE. She doesn't
recognise the strangers who call themselves family. She can't even
remember her own name. As she slowly recovers, her parents and
sister begin to share details of her life. The successful career.
The seaside home. The near-fatal car crash. But Chloe senses
they're keeping dark secrets - and her determination to uncover
them will have devastating consequences as the shocking truth is
revealed... WHY READERS ARE RAVING ABOUT BETWEEN THE LIES: 'If you
like unsettling, brilliantly paced and gripping books you'll love
this!' ***** Goodreads Reviewer '[Adams] is adept at writing a
story that pulls you in whether you like it or not!' **** Goodreads
Reviewer 'I was absolutely hooked ... I would definitely recommend'
*****Goodreads reviewer 'This is an easily devoured book that I
lost myself in immediately' **** Goodreads Reviewer PRAISE FOR
MICHELLE ADAMS 'In Elle, Michelle Adams has created a truly
terrifying character who exerts her power from the first page,
drawing you in to the last. Intricately plotted, My Sister kept me
gripped to the stunning finale' Amanda Reynolds, Close to Me. 'A
fabulously chilling tale of two twisted sisters...grabs you by the
throat from first page to last.' Camilla Way, Watching Edie 'I
loved this dark and disturbing thriller. Tense and twisted, it
glued me to the sofa from the first page to the last C. J. Tudor'
The Chalk Man) 'A magnificent exploration of the toxic relationship
between two sisters and the hold they exert on each
other...chilling and tragic in equal measure' Nuala Ellwood, My
Sister's Bones 'SO fantastic; twisty and exciting yet original and
beautifully written. I'm in awe!' Gillian McAllister, Anything You
Do Say A first-rate shocker of a psychological thriller (Irish
Independent)
This is the fascinating story of Mary Maguire, a 1930s Australian
ingenue who sailed for Hollywood and a fabulous life, only to have
her career cut short by scandal and tragedy. Packed with celebrity,
history and gossip, AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART is perfect for readers
of SHEILA and THE RIVIERA SET. Mary Maguire was Australia's first
teenage movie star and she captivated Hollywood in the mid 1930s.
Mary lived on three continents and was celebrated in Melbourne,
Brisbane, Sydney, Los Angeles and London. Her life was lived in
parallel with seminal incidents of the twentieth century: the
Spanish Flu; the Great Depression; the Bodyline series; Australia's
early radio, talkies and aviation; Hollywood's Golden Era; the
British aristocracy's embrace of European fascism; London's Blitz;
and post-war American culture and politics. Mary knew everyone,
from Douglas Jardine, Don Bradman, Errol Flynn and Ronald Reagan,
to William Randolph Hearst, Maureen O'Sullivan and Judy Garland.
AUSTRALIA'S SWEETHEART in an irresistible never-before-told story
that captures the glamour of Hollywood and the turbulent times of
the twentieth century, with a young woman at its centre.
For courses in pharmacology. A holistic approach to pharmacology
essentials Pharmacology for Nurses: A Pathophysiologic Approach
simplifies pharmacology by linking it tightly to therapeutic goals.
Instead of learning about drugs in isolation, students approach
them by body systems and diseases in order to draw connections
between A&P, diseases, and drug interventions. Engaging
features and exercises relate pharmacology to nursing care, while
discussion of alternative therapies and cultural and lifespan
considerations give further context for clinical decisions. The 6th
edition adds the most current pharmacotherapeutics and advances in
pathophysiology. Also available with MyLab Nursing By combining
trusted author content with digital tools and a flexible platform,
MyLab personalizes the learning experience and improves results for
each student. MyLab Nursing helps students master key concepts,
prepare for success on the NCLEX-RN (R) exam, and develop clinical
reasoning skills. Note: You are purchasing a standalone product;
MyLab Nursing does not come packaged with this content. Students,
if interested in purchasing this title with MyLab Nursing, ask your
instructor to confirm the correct package ISBN and Course ID.
Instructors, contact your Pearson representative for more
information.
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