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Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2017. Fifteen-year-old Blaze and
Noah live in the same village, Sible Hedingham, more than 100 years
apart. They both have the same gift or curse - they find they must
draw pictures that later come true. In the 1860s Blaze is bullied,
cheated and accused of being a witch and 'swam'. In the present
day, Noah is used to everyone, even his parents, being afraid of
him and is desperate to keep his drawing a secret. But as he gets
closer to Beth, he must decide whether or not he can tell her the
truth. Can Blaze's history help Noah and Beth work out their own
story? Can the future be changed?
This volume provides comprehensive protocols that researchers can
use to dissect out fundamental principles and molecular mechanisms
of hypertension, extending from genetics of experimental
hypertension to biomarkers in clinical hypertension. Hypertension:
Methods and Protocols guides readers through chapters on genetics
and mmics of hypertension; the Renin-Angiotensin-Aldosterone
System; vasoactive agents and hypertension; signal transduction and
reactive oxygen species; novel cell models and approaches to study
molecular mechanisms of hypertension; vascular physiology; and new
approaches to manipulate mouse models to study molecular mechanisms
of hypertension. Written in the highly successful Methods in
Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to
their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and
reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols,
and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.
Authoritative and cutting-edge, Hypertension: Methods and Protocols
aims to ensure successful results in the further study of this
vital field.
In Alchemy for the Mind: Create Your Confident Core, Rhian
Sherrington, life coach and behaviour change specialist, draws upon
neuroscience, positive psychology and theories of behaviour change
to offer a concise and informative way to create and nurture a
'confident core' to enable you to succeed and flourish in your
life.
Understanding Decentralized Finance demystifies DeFi, locating the
integration points between decentralised and centralized finance to
help finance professionals unlock valuable opportunities. DeFi -
the next evolution of cryptocurrency - has brought a new wave of
investors into the world of finance. As fintechs and financial
institutions seek to integrate with DeFi, this book explores its
history, its present context, and its future. It explains the world
of DeFi by comparing it to the traditional finance sector,
highlighting points of similarity, difference and integration.
Understanding Decentralized Finance explores the technologies
underlying the DeFi market and how they differ from those of
traditional financial markets. It scrutinizes the difference
between centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, how
NFTs fit into DeFi and how collectibles can be financialized.
Readers will also find out how collateralized loans, derivatives,
margin trading and liquidity provision work in a world where there
is no centralized institution to coordinate these activities - and
how regulators in different jurisdictions are ensuring that
financial regulations keep up with these innovations. With examples
from key actors in the field, including the movement of luxury
organizations like Christie's and Sotheby's into the NFT space and
the SushiSwap vampire attack, this is an essential read for anyone
working in finance, fintech and technology who needs to understand
the fast-moving world of DeFi.
This practical and positive guide shows how good, effective
reflection can help people to stay on track, as well as understand
what is working well and what might be improved – essential
skills for leaders at all levels of practice from newly qualified
staff to senior managers. Supporting readers to link theory and
action with reflection, the authors illustrate how practitioners
can exercise their own kinds of leadership to strengthen, improve
and thrive. Taking a realistic and achievable view of leadership,
the book: reviews the different leadership approaches and styles
that help to inform us about what makes a good leader; explores the
role of emotional intelligence, appreciative intelligence and
narrative intelligence in leadership, especially in complex,
challenging and continually changing healthcare settings; and uses
case studies and practice examples to ensure the book is relevant,
current and helpful. Reflective leadership is fundamental to
providing safe, effective healthcare to all patients, as well as
enhancing resilience for individuals, teams and organisations. This
guide is an essential read for healthcare students and
practitioners, no matter at what stage or level they are at as a
leader.
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This practical and positive guide shows how good, effective
reflection can help people to stay on track, as well as understand
what is working well and what might be improved – essential
skills for leaders at all levels of practice from newly qualified
staff to senior managers. Supporting readers to link theory and
action with reflection, the authors illustrate how practitioners
can exercise their own kinds of leadership to strengthen, improve
and thrive. Taking a realistic and achievable view of leadership,
the book: reviews the different leadership approaches and styles
that help to inform us about what makes a good leader; explores the
role of emotional intelligence, appreciative intelligence and
narrative intelligence in leadership, especially in complex,
challenging and continually changing healthcare settings; and uses
case studies and practice examples to ensure the book is relevant,
current and helpful. Reflective leadership is fundamental to
providing safe, effective healthcare to all patients, as well as
enhancing resilience for individuals, teams and organisations. This
guide is an essential read for healthcare students and
practitioners, no matter at what stage or level they are at as a
leader.
The Nobile Index is a series of monographic publications of art
sales prices achieved at auction, for a selection of leading
20th-century British artists - Walter Sickert, David Bomberg, L.S.
Lowry, Stanley Spencer and Francis Bacon & Lucien Freud. They
involve the collaboration of a commercial art dealership, Piano
Nobile Works of Art and the University of Bristol's History of Art
Department; bringing together academic and commercial expertise on
the artists for the benefit of those with an interest in their
work. They are funded by the generosity of a private benefactor.
The studies are confined to analyses of auction art sales results
from 1990 to the time of the study. Although largely from UK sales,
data supplied by international salerooms are also included. Graphs
and interpretations of these figures are analysed and significant
trends and buying patterns revealed. It is envisaged that this data
will be of growing value to private and corporate clients, museums
and fine art funds. Accurate commercial appraisal has always played
an important role in the consideration of new acquisitions
throughout the history of art. No more so than today is this seen
with the fluctuating, but ever more significant rise in value
commanded by the best of many 20th-century artists' work.
Textual Wanderings: The Theory and Practice of Narrative Digression
This open access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled
by this literature: the still existing gap between adaptation
science and modelling and the possibility to effectively access and
exploit the information produced by policy making at different
levels, international, national and local. To do so, the book
presents the proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on
adaptation modelling, integrated with main results from the "Study
on Adaptation Modelling" (SAM-PS) commissioned by the European
Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) and
implemented by the CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Centre on
Climate Change, in collaboration with the Institute for
Environmental Studies (IVM), Deltares, and Paul Watkiss Associates
(PWA). What is the latest development in adaptation modelling?
Which tools and information are available for adaptation
assessment? How much are they practically usable by the policy
community? How their uptake by practitioners can be improved? What
are the major research gaps in adaptation modelling that needs to
be covered in the next future? How? This book addresses these
questions presenting the results of a study on adaptation modelling
commissioned by the European Commission's Directorate-General for
Climate Action (DG CLIMA) enriched by the outcomes of a high-level
expert workshop on adaptation also part of the research. This book
aspires to provide a useful support to academics, policy makers and
practitioners in the field of adaptation to orient them in the
expanding adaptation modelling assessment literature and suggest
practical ways for its application. This book, mainly addressed to
academics, policy makers and practitioners in the field of
adaptation, aims to providing orientation in the large and
expanding methodological/quantitative literature, presenting
novelties, guiding in the practical application of adaptation
assessments and suggesting lines for future research. This open
access book focuses on an issue only marginally tackled by this
literature: the still existing gap between adaptation science and
modelling and the possibility to effectively access and exploit the
information produced by policy making at different levels,
international, national and local. To do so, the book presents the
proceedings of a high-level expert workshop on adaptation
modelling, integrated with main results from the "Study on
Adaptation Modelling" (SAM-PS) commissioned by the European
Commission's Directorate-General for Climate Action (DG CLIMA) and
implemented by the CMCC Foundation - Euro-Mediterranean Centre on
Climate Change, in collaboration with the Institute for
Environmental Studies (IVM), Deltares, and Paul Watkiss Associates
(PWA).
Saramago's labyrinths is the first book-length study to focus on
the relationship between form and the content in Saramago's
writing, paying particular attention to Ensaio sobre a Cegueira
(Blindness) and Todos os Nomes (All the Names). Atkin provides a
close textual analysis of Blindness and All the Names, and suggests
that the labyrinth pervades Saramago's work, both in the form of
the text, and as a literary and philosophical trope. She makes
clear connections between these novels and Saramago's other
literary works, and identifies ways in which Saramago causes the
reader to return to and consider the philosophical, epistemological
and ethical concerns and dilemmas that are recurrent in his
literary output. Atkin's jargon-free approach to Saramago's complex
ideas, and her thorough understanding of Portuguese history,
culture and society, make this an accessible yet challenging guide
to Saramago's fiction, for undergraduate and postgraduate students
and scholars with or without prior knowledge of the Portuguese
context. -- .
In an original and wide-ranging study, Rhian Jones documents the
unique contribution which picturebooks and stories make to the
development of the infant mind between the ages of nine months and
two years, using video recorded data to chart the children's
progress. She then analyzes the connection between these very early
behaviors and subsequent achievements in literacy. The work
integrates research from a number of disciplines: linguistics,
psychology, literary theory, and anthropology, to draw out the
different levels at which book-based interactions may be seen to be
"working."
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The summer between school and sixth form college. When Hope doesn't
get into drama college, and her friends do, all her plans fall
apart. She's struggling with anger, grief for her father and a
sense that her own body is against her. She meets Reilly on the
ferry and his texts give her someone to talk to. But this isn't a
story about a boy fixing everything. It's about trying new things,
having the courage to ask for help and that when things seem to be
all over, that might be just the beginning.
Understanding Decentralized Finance demystifies DeFi, locating the
integration points between decentralised and centralized finance to
help finance professionals unlock valuable opportunities. DeFi -
the next evolution of cryptocurrency - has brought a new wave of
investors into the world of finance. As fintechs and financial
institutions seek to integrate with DeFi, this book explores its
history, its present context, and its future. It explains the world
of DeFi by comparing it to the traditional finance sector,
highlighting points of similarity, difference and integration.
Understanding Decentralized Finance explores the technologies
underlying the DeFi market and how they differ from those of
traditional financial markets. It scrutinizes the difference
between centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, how
NFTs fit into DeFi and how collectibles can be financialized.
Readers will also find out how collateralized loans, derivatives,
margin trading and liquidity provision work in a world where there
is no centralized institution to coordinate these activities - and
how regulators in different jurisdictions are ensuring that
financial regulations keep up with these innovations. With examples
from key actors in the field, including the movement of luxury
organizations like Christie's and Sotheby's into the NFT space and
the SushiSwap vampire attack, this is an essential read for anyone
working in finance, fintech and technology who needs to understand
the fast-moving world of DeFi.
This book examines three specific fictional texts as case studies
for an exploration of the ways in which masculinities are conceived
of and performed in urban Portuguese society over the twentieth
century. It interrogates the relationships between masculinities
and socio-political change in Lisbon.
I don't recall seeing books when I was a little boy. But the old
people, they grew up listening to stories. And so, every night,
when the old people were done their evening prayers, they would sit
and they would tell us stories too. At the time of the spring thaw,
the Rocky Cree fill their canoes with furs, eager to trade with the
new visitors in mistiwasahak (Hudson Bay). But not all of the new
visitors are welcome. When the canoes return home to the shores of
the misinipi river, the Rocky Cree begin to collapse one by one,
drenched in sweat and slowly slipping into delirium. Kakakiw
struggles to help the sick as more and more people pass into the
spirit world. Exhausted physically, emotionally, and spiritually,
he seeks guidance through prayer. Hope finally comes with a visitor
in the night: one of the Little People, small beings who are just
like us. If Kakakiw can journey to their home, he will be given the
medicine his people need. All he has to do is paddle through a
cliff of solid bedrock to get there. To save his people from
certain death, Kakakiw must overcome doubt to follow the
traditional teachings of the Asiniskaw Ithiniwak and trust in the
gift of the Little People. In this illustrated short story for all
ages, celebrated Rocky Cree storyteller William Dumas shares a
teaching about hope in the face of adversity. This book is a
companion story to The Six Seasons of the Asiniskaw Ithiniwak
series.
In WOMEN MAKE NOISE musicians, journalists, promoters and fans
excavate the hidden story of the all-girl band: from country belles
of the 20s-40s and girl groups of the 60s, to prog rock goddesses,
women's liberationists and punks of the 70s-80s; from riot grrrl
activists and queercore anarchists of the 90s to radical protesters
Pussy Riot and the most inspiring all-girl bands today. These
aren't the manufactured acts of some pop svengali, these groups
write their own songs, play their own instruments and make music
together on their own terms. All-girl bands have made radical
contributions to feminism, culture and politics as well as well as
producing some unique, influential and innovative music. It's time
to celebrate the outspoken voices, creative talents and gutsy
performances of the all-girl bands who demand we take notice.
Based on a ground-breaking Department of Education-funded project
and written by experienced teachers and educational practitioners,
Reducing Teachers' Marking Workload and Developing Pupils' Learning
shares strategies for reducing marking workload without
compromising the quality of feedback pupils receive. This book
presents a range of marking strategies, describing the process of
trialling, testing and evaluating the impact which is relevant to
any classroom. The strategies included in this book, proven to be
immediately effective in schools, include: Advice on how to ensure
feedback is meaningful for pupils The benefits of self-assessment
and developing this in the classroom Marking for individuals,
groups and whole classes Written for teachers by teachers, Reducing
Teachers' Marking Workload and Developing Pupils' Learning is a
valuable resource for teachers, educators and student teachers
looking to develop their professional practice, demystify education
research and make the impact of their marking and feedback hugely
more effective.
This book presents a rigorous enquiry into life course processes
that are thought to influence health, integrating the latest
methodologies for the study of pathways that link socio-demographic
circumstances to health with an emphasis on the mediating factors
that lie on these pathways. Following an introductory chapter on
the application of formal mediation methods within the life course
framework, the book offers insights on the pathways that link early
life socio-economic circumstances to physical activity in later
life, the role of physical activity as a moderator and/or mediator
of the association between fertility history and later life health
and the evolution of self-rated health over the life course in two
generations born 12 years apart in 20th century Britain. Pathways
to Health presents a dynamic view on how to investigate specific
hypotheses within the life course framework and enhances the
ability of the social science community to investigate specific
mechanisms related to public health interventions.
Now thoroughly revamped with a diverse selection of poetic voices
from the last fifty years, this third edition of Rhian Williams's
bestselling book, The Poetry Toolkit guides readers through key
terms, genres and concepts that help them to develop a richer, more
sophisticated approach to reading, thinking and writing about
poetry. Combining an easy-to-use reference format with in-depth
practice readings and further exercises, the book helps students
master the study of poetry for themselves. As well as featuring
more contemporary voices, the 3rd edition of The Poetry Toolkit
includes an expanded practical section giving guidance on close
reading, comparative reading and advice on writing critically about
poetry. In addition, the book is accompanied by a companion website
offering audio recordings of poetry readings, weblinks and
overviews of key theoretical approaches to support advanced study.
Head to bloomsbury.com/Williams-the-poetry-toolkit for a host of
additional resources.
Are you interested in learning how to cultivate sustainable success
in the popular music industry whilst prioritising your health? If
so, this book is for you. Inside you'll find research-informed
advice and information that aims to help musicians, as well as
those that work with them, navigate their way through what can be a
challenging and demanding industry. This book covers the mental and
physical health problems research suggests musicians might come up
against and offers lots of tools and techniques to help aid
prevention. You'll also find information about the structure of the
industry, money management, and how to improve your skills as a
performer, creator, and CEO of your career. Expect original
interviews with leading researchers, health experts, business execs
and a host of artists including Laura Mvula, Will Young, Imogen
Heap, Wayne Hector, MNEK, Nina Nesbitt, Lauren Aquilina, Ella Eyre,
Jonathan Higgs, Lady Leshurr, and many others. You'll also find
quotes and advice from a long list of established artists like Ed
Sheeran, Lily Allen, Amanda Palmer, Matty Healy, Gary Numan, Billie
Eilish, James Blake, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, George Ezra,
Loyle Carner, Alicia Keys, Dave, and Mabel. Widely supported by
some of the biggest companies in the music business, Sound Advice
is the ultimate industry-backed guide for both seasoned
professionals and those just starting their career. It has been
produced with the generous support of Live Nation, Universal Music
UK, Sony Music UK, Warner Music UK, IFPI, Spotify, Hipgnosis Songs,
Vevo, PRS for Music, Polydor Records, and PPL.
Chondrules in primitive meteorites have excited and challenged
scientists since they were first described nearly 200 years ago.
Chondrules were made by some pervasive process in the early solar
system that formed melted silicate droplets. This 1996 text was the
first comprehensive review of chondrules and their origins since a
consensus developed that they were made in the disk of gas and
solids that formed the Sun and planets 4.5 billion years ago. Fifty
scientists from assorted disciplines have collaborated to review
how chondrules could have formed in the protoplanetary disk. When
and where in the disk did they form? What were they made from and
how fast were they heated and cooled? What provided the energy to
melt chondrules - nebular shock waves, lightning discharges,
protostellar jets? Following an exciting international conference
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the latest answers to these questions
are presented in thirty-four articles.
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