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Tim Burton directs this fantasy adventure based on the bestselling
book by Ransom Riggs. When Jacob Portman (Asa Butterfield)'s
grandfather dies, he leaves him clues to a mysterious place called
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob determines to
discover the story behind this strange establishment and the
unusual Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), he finds that the peculiar
children in question are so-called because they have extraordinary
powers and it is his destiny to protect them from an evil force
intent on destroying them. The all-star cast includes Judi Dench,
Samuel L. Jackson, Chris O'Dowd and Rupert Everett.
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The Heat (DVD)
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Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy star as two mismatched cops in
this comedy from 'Bridesmaids' director Paul Feig. Unaware that her
colleagues hate her, prim and priggish FBI special agent Sarah
Ashburn (Bullock) is seconded to Boston where she's forced to team
up with foul-mouthed, take-no-prisoners detective Shannon Mullins
(McCarthy). When the pair are ordered to take down a local drug
baron, the two cops' wildly contrasting styles - and mutual hatred
- soon threaten to derail their mission. But as the weeks pass, a
grudging admiration for each others' methods brings about a thawing
in hostilities, as the ill-starred crimefighters turn out to be a
force to be reckoned with.
The eleventh edition of General, Organic, and Biochemistry offers a
problem-solving approach and is designed to help undergraduate
majors in health-related fields understand key concepts and
appreciate significant connections among chemistry, health, and the
treatment of disease. This new edition is available in ALEKS,
featuring: * ALEKS Topics to assign as pre-requisite assignments to
boost student confidence and help those lacking math skills. *
End-of-Chapter Questions aligned to the text for homework, test,
and quiz assignments. * Virtual Labs to be used as pre-lab prep
assignments, or lab replacement. * Video Assignments that break
down key concepts and show step-by-step solutions. * The ALEKS
Drawing Tool, an easy-to-learn tool that mirrors the drawing action
of pencil & paper and supports Fischer and Haworth Projections.
Amazon's No. 1 Children's Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2019 is an
illustrated encyclopedia of Greek mythology like no other.
Mythologica features startlingly beautiful and exquisitely
otherworldly portraits of mythological characters in eye-popping
colour from artist Victoria Topping and authoritative text from
Classics scholar and Greek mythology expert Dr Stephen Kershaw.
Uncover the colourful lives of 50 powerful gods and goddesses,
earth-dwelling mortals and terrifying monsters as you journey back
in time to ancient Greece. From the fearless Athena and her
meddlesome ways to the brave and bold Odysseus and his remarkable
journey home, discover why these incredible stories are still a
part of our culture today. Each boldly designed spread presents a
figure from the myths, including their name in Greek, their
defining attributes and a summary of their story, along with
multiple sidelights that provide additional facts. Interspersed
with the profiles are summaries of famous mythological tales and
historical events, like the Odyssey, the Trojan War and the story
of the Argonauts. An electrifying visual portrayal of each figure
transports you directly into their wild world. With over 18,000
followers on Instagram, Victoria Topping's artwork is a fusion of
technological and traditional techniques that combines photography,
painting and cut-paper collage to perfectly express the blending of
human and fantastic traits from which mythical beings are made. The
thrilling images and digestible text provide the perfect
introduction to the lively world of Greek mythology and a beautiful
display reference for the whole family. Prepare to be amazed as you
uncover the epic, heroic and sometimes terrible lives of mortals,
monsters and gods.
Aimed at children aged 7+, this educational and fun series promotes
creativity and stimulates the imagination.
Programs like philosophy for children, reciprocal teaching, problem
based learning and computerized games can help students’ critical
and creative thinking skills, but which are most effective? This
research-to practice book showcases how you can improve the
thinking (cognition) of your students, across the curriculum and
beyond. Each chapter focuses on a particular program, describes the
method and background research, offers examples, and explains key
processes in implementation. You'll learn about thinking programs
within a subject, across the curriculum, outside the curriculum,
and those which can be either within or outside the curriculum, so
you can choose a program which suits your context. You’ll also
find out what to consider when evaluating a thinking skills
program. And finally, you’ll discover shared features of the
methods—such as peer interaction, discourse, argumentation,
scaffolding, and transfer—so you can see the commonalities of the
programs and think about designing your own approaches. Whether
you’re a classroom teacher, department head, or other key
stakeholder, this powerful resource will help you determine what
really works for teaching thinking, so your students can apply such
skills and thrive long after they’ve left school. Note: This book
is part of a set; a companion book focuses on programs for teaching
metacognition, or thinking about thinking.
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St. Vincent (DVD)
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Bill Murray and Melissa McCarthy star in this comedy drama written
and directed by Theodore Melfi. Murray plays Vincent, a
misanthropic and curmudgeonly old man who becomes responsible for
his neighbour Maggie (McCarthy)'s son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher).
Maggie, who has enough on her mind with starting her new job at the
hospital while going through divorce proceedings from Oliver's
father, employs Vincent to take care of Oliver after school.
Unbeknown to Maggie, Vincent is a heavy drinker and smoker and
likes to hang around bars and racetracks in his spare time. But is
there more to Vincent than meets the eye?
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Top Cat (DVD)
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Collection of episodes from the Hanna-Barbera Productions animated
series following the antics of yellow-furred protagonist T.C.
(voice of Arnold Stang) and his gang of feline friends. The
episodes are: 'Hawaii, Here We Come', 'The Maharajah of Pokajee',
'All That Jazz', 'The $1,000,000 Derby', 'The Violin Player' and
'The Missing Heir'.
Programs like philosophy for children, reciprocal teaching, problem
based learning and computerized games can help students’ critical
and creative thinking skills, but which are most effective? This
research-to practice book showcases how you can improve the
thinking (cognition) of your students, across the curriculum and
beyond. Each chapter focuses on a particular program, describes the
method and background research, offers examples, and explains key
processes in implementation. You'll learn about thinking programs
within a subject, across the curriculum, outside the curriculum,
and those which can be either within or outside the curriculum, so
you can choose a program which suits your context. You’ll also
find out what to consider when evaluating a thinking skills
program. And finally, you’ll discover shared features of the
methods—such as peer interaction, discourse, argumentation,
scaffolding, and transfer—so you can see the commonalities of the
programs and think about designing your own approaches. Whether
you’re a classroom teacher, department head, or other key
stakeholder, this powerful resource will help you determine what
really works for teaching thinking, so your students can apply such
skills and thrive long after they’ve left school. Note: This book
is part of a set; a companion book focuses on programs for teaching
metacognition, or thinking about thinking.
This book, first published in 1981, provides a comprehensive
appraisal of China’s crafts. Its historical approach and numerous
illustrations not only reveal the ancient origins of many of
China’s arts, but also offer the means for evaluating modern
crafts in light of past achievements.
Written by reading research expert Keith Topping, who has had many
roles in assessment, including serving on the International Reading
Association task force. Appropriate for a variety of educators who
make decisions on reading programs, including teachers,
instructional/literacy coaches, librarians, curriculum supervisors,
and more. Contains practical strategies that districts can use to
improve implementation of online tools, which are growing in
importance due to COVID-19.
This volume compares and contrasts contemporary theories of
cognition, modes of perception, and learning from cross-cultural
perspectives. The participants were asked to consider and assess
the question of whether people from different cultures think
differently. Moreover, they were asked to consider whether the same
approaches to teaching and development of thinking will work in all
cultures as well as they do in Western, literate societies.
Written by reading research expert Keith Topping, who has had many
roles in assessment, including serving on the International Reading
Association task force. Appropriate for a variety of educators who
make decisions on reading programs, including teachers,
instructional/literacy coaches, librarians, curriculum supervisors,
and more. Contains practical strategies that districts can use to
improve implementation of online tools, which are growing in
importance due to COVID-19.
Tim Burton directs this fantasy adventure based on the bestselling
book by Ransom Riggs. When Jacob Portman (Asa Butterfield)'s
grandfather dies, he leaves him clues to a mysterious place called
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob determines to
discover the story behind this strange establishment and the
unusual Miss Peregrine (Eva Green), he finds that the peculiar
children in question are so-called because they have extraordinary
powers and it is his destiny to protect them from an evil force
intent on destroying them. The all-star cast includes Judi Dench,
Samuel L. Jackson, Chris O'Dowd and Rupert Everett.
In the early 1980s, concern about disruptive behaviour in secondary
schools had grown, being variously regarded as a symptom of a
decaying society or as a failure on the teachers' part. One
response was to 'throw money' at the problem and various different
kinds of special schools and units had been devised to deal with
disruptive adolescent pupils. Yet there was little systematic
evaluation of the different options - particularly in terms of cost
effectiveness. Originally published in 1983, this book reviews all
the available research on 21 alternative systems for the education
of disruptive adolescents at the time. These range from the highly
expensive residential special schools to on-site adaptations which
involve no extra cost. Most are based on developments in Britain
and the United States and the author concludes in favour of many of
the less sophisticated systems. This book will be interesting
historical reading for workers and students in educational
psychology, special education and educational policy.
This book, first published in 1981, provides a comprehensive
appraisal of China's crafts. Its historical approach and numerous
illustrations not only reveal the ancient origins of many of
China's arts, but also offer the means for evaluating modern crafts
in light of past achievements.
The Northumberland Archaeological Group’s (NAG) Wether Hill
project spanned the years 1994–2015 and was located on the
eponymous hilltop overlooking the mouth of the Breamish Valley in
the Northumberland Cheviots. The project had been inspired by the
RCHME’s ‘Southeast Cheviots Project’ that had discovered and
recorded extensive prehistoric and later landscapes. The NAG
project investigated several sites. Over the 11 seasons of
excavation, NAG recorded evidence of residual Mesolithic activity
(microliths), a burial cairn containing two Beakers in an oak
coffin, which was superseded by a stone-built cist containing three
Food Vessels, Iron Age cord rig cultivation and clearance cairns, a
series of Middle/Late Iron Age timber-built palisaded enclosures, a
cross-ridge dyke, which protected the southern approach to the
Wether Hill fort, and sampled the multi-period bivallate hillfort.
The hillfort sequence on Wether Hill began with a succession of
palisaded enclosures, which were later replaced by bivallate earth
and stone defenses; both phases appear to have been associated with
timber-built houses. Eventually the fort was abandoned, and three
stone-built roundhouses were constructed in the fort. The 18
radiocarbon dates obtained from various contexts in the hillfort
makes this site one of the better dated forts in the Borders. The
chronology of the Wether Hill fort spanned the Middle/Late Iron
Age, which corresponds with dates from palisaded enclosures
excavated elsewhere on the hilltop spur. Taken together, this
evidence provides a snapshot of settlement hierarchies and
agricultural practices during the later Iron Age in this part of
the Northumberland Cheviots. The excavations also help
contextualise some of the RCHME survey evidence, providing data to
model chronology, potential prehistoric settlement density and
land-use patterns at different time periods in the well-preserved
archaeological landscapes of the Cheviots.
Parental involvement in children's education is a subject of
growing interest and recent legislation in both the UK and USA has
given formal recognition of parents' rights. Learning to read is an
obvious area where parents can do a great deal to help, and some
schools have had programmes for parental involvement in reading for
some time. However recent research has shown the considerable
benefit in having carefully structured systems for parental
involvement. This book presents a review of past and current good
practice in this field. Details of a wide range of schemes
developed in local areas are given in a series of short contributed
papers, which are grouped into sub sections of Part 2 according to
the type of project. Part 3 is essentially a manual of materials
and methods. The emphasis throughout the book is on service
delivery to all children although there is of course considerable
discussion of remedial reading and children with special needs The
book should appeal to a wide audience in education, educational
administration and educational psychology.
These 48-page books are brilliant for any young child wanting to
learn how to draw. The books include simple step-by-step black and
white illustrations to follow to make the learning process easy and
fun. Once these titles have been mastered the budding young artists
will be ready and prepared to try some amazing drawings of their
own!
INTRODUCTION TO AEROSOL MODELLING Introduction to Aerosol
Modelling: From Theory to Code An aerosol particle is defined as a
solid or liquid particle suspended in a carrier gas. Whilst we
often treat scientific challenges in a siloed way, aerosol
particles are of interest across many disciplines. For example,
atmospheric aerosol particles are key determinants of air quality
and climate change. Knowledge of aerosol physics and generation
mechanisms is key to efficient fuel delivery and drug delivery to
the lungs. Likewise, various manufacturing processes require
optimal generation, delivery and removal of aerosol particles in a
range of conditions. There is a natural tendency for the aerosol
scientist to therefore work at the interface of the traditional
academic subjects of physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics and
computing. The impacts that aerosol particles have are linked to
their evolving chemical and physical characteristics. Likewise, the
chemical and physical characteristic of aerosol particles reflect
their sources and subsequent processes they have been subject to.
Computational models are not only essential for constructing
evidence-based understanding of important aerosol processes, but
also to predict change and impact. Whilst existing textbooks
provide an overview of theoretical frameworks on which aerosol
models are based, there is a significant gap in reference material
that provide training in translating theory into code. The purpose
of this book is to provide readers with exactly that. In following
the content provided in this book, you will be able to reproduce
models of key processes that can either be used in isolation or
brought together to construct a demonstrator 0D box-model of a
coupled gaseous-particulate system. You may be reading this book as
an undergraduate, postgraduate, seasoned researcher in the
private/public sector or as someone who wishes to better understand
the pathways to aerosol model development. Wherever you position
yourself, it is hoped that the tools you will learn through this
book will provide you with the basis to develop your own platforms
and to ensure the next generation of aerosol modellers are equipped
with foundational skills to address future challenges in aerosol
science.
A Teacher's Guide to Philosophy for Children provides educators
with the process and structures to engage children in inquiring as
a group into 'big' moral, ethical and spiritual questions, while
also considering curricular necessities and the demands of national
and local standards. Based on the actual experiences of educators
in diverse and global classroom contexts, this comprehensive guide
gives you the tools you need to introduce philosophical thinking
into your classroom, curriculum and beyond. Drawing on
research-based educational and psychological models, this book
highlights the advantages gained by students who regularly
participate in philosophical discussion: from building cognitive
and social/emotional development, to becoming more informed
citizens. Helpful tools and supplementary online resources offer
additional frameworks for supporting and sustaining a higher level
of thinking and problem-solving among your students. This practical
guide is essential reading for teachers, coaches and anyone
wondering how you can effectively teach philosophy in your
classroom.
This invaluable text draws together an impressive selection of
articles on inclusion from a broad base to bring clarity and
lucidity to a complicated subject. Whilst the majority of available
texts deal with inclusive education within narrow parameters, this
book aims to extend our understanding of inclusion by discussing
issues of race, social disadvantage, gender and other factors. It
successfully integrates rigorous theorising and sound empirical
research with clear, accessible and practical guidance for the
practitioner. The book has eighteen chapters divided into key topic
areas such as: * concepts and contexts * exclusion * gender, race,
disability and social class * action in schools * post-school *
promoting and managing systemic change. Each chapter ends with
questions and issues for onward reflection. The book also includes
an annotated list of further reading designed to prompt readers to
develop their own successful systematic research. This is an
important and useful text for postgraduate students, researchers,
academics and policy makers in education.
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