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Recounting the life and times of one of the most respected men in
the world, The Snowball is the most fascinating financial success
story of our time. Warren Buffett, the legendary Omaha investor has
never written a memoir, but finally has given Alice Schroeder
unprecedented access to him and all those closest to his work,
opinions, struggles, triumphs, follies and wisdom. The result is
this personally revealing and complete biography of 'The Oracle of
Omaha', indispensable reading for those who wish to know the man
behind the outstanding achievements.
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given
area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject
in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of
travel. They are relevant but also visionary. This insightful
Research Agenda offers unique perspectives into the different
strands of social innovation research, covering the history and
theory of this ever-growing research field. Chapters show the range
and depth of the social advances that characterize this vibrant and
contested subject, and analyse the strong increase in political and
public interest in social innovation. Exploring the potential
influence of social innovation on important social factors, the
Research Agenda looks at education, poverty reduction,
environmental policies, and health and social care. Contributors
examine the approaches and successful initiatives that illustrate
the strengths of social innovations in manifold areas and in
establishing sustainable patterns of consumption, while coping with
demographic change. Possible future research pathways are outlined
and new topics such as social innovation ecosystems, epistemic
diversities and sustainable development are examined in detail.
This discerning and innovative Research Agenda will be an ideal
read for social innovation researchers, policy-makers and
innovation-policy stakeholders. It will be a welcome addition to
the literature for innovation practitioners and entrepreneurs
looking for theoretical insights into this influential subject.
The world is an amazing place. Get up close with Look, a
seven-level series for young learners of English. See something
real with amazing photography, authentic stories and video, and
inspiring National Geographic Explorers. Help learners make
connections in English between their lives and the world they live
in through high-interest, global topics that encourage them to
learn and express themselves. With short, fresh lessons that excite
students and make teaching a joy, Look gives young learners the
core language, balanced skills foundation and confidence-boosting
exam support they need to use English successfully in the 21st
century.
The American Council on Exercise is proud to introduce The Exercise
Professional's Guide to Group Fitness Instruction. This textbook
teaches the instructional techniques, leadership skills, and
professional responsibilities that instructors need to lead safe,
effective, and enjoyable group fitness classes. In response to an
evolving fitness industry, this textbook addresses teaching classes
in environments outside the traditional fitness facility, from
outdoors to online. In addition to offering cueing and leadership
strategies specific to these environments, this text includes
coverage of legal considerations that are vital to the success of
the ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor (GFI), such as
shared-use agreements to ensure that you are using public land in a
safe and legal way and considerations for the proper, legal use of
music when livestreaming classes or offering prerecorded sessions.
In addition, features are included throughout--including Apply What
You Know, Think It Through, Expand Your Knowledge, and the ACE
Mover Method™--that bring theoretical concepts to life and ask
you to pause to gauge your understanding of the topic being
discussed, as well as your comfort level with utilizing that
knowledge when teaching classes. We encourage you to take advantage
of these application-based tools so that you will be better
prepared to thrive in real-world situations. GFIs can apply the ACE
Mover Method--a behavior-change philosophy that centers on the
needs, goals, and values of participants--both before and after
class using the ACE ABC Approach™ when privately engaging with
participants. This textbook introduces the ACE RRAMP Approach™,
on the other hand, as a unique way to implement the ACE Mover
Method by engaging with participants as a group while leading a
group fitness class. The ultimate goal is to use these approaches
and other behavior-change strategies to create a caring and
task-involving environment that allows participants to progress
through the stages of learning and experience the intended outcome
of the class while also having a positive experience. This textbook
is organized into four sections: Section I: Group Fitness
Fundamentals explains the role and scope of practice of the GFI,
exercise and behavior-change principles, and the foundations of
movement and healthy eating. Section II: Preparation and Design for
Group Fitness Classes explains choreographic methods and the basic
components of a group fitness class; key considerations regarding
apparel, equipment, and music; program design, including
structuring and sequencing movements and developing a class
blueprint; and onsite procedures and responsibilities. Section III:
Elements of Leading Group Fitness Classes focuses on
participant-centered instruction, including participant learning
styles and the teaching of multilevel classes; teaching techniques
and styles, including cueing strategies and leadership
considerations; the specific considerations stemming from teaching
classes outdoors and online; and working with participants with
health considerations ranging from cardiac conditions to low-back
pain. Section IV: Professional and Legal Considerations covers
participant safety, including injuries and medical emergencies, as
well as the legal and professional guidelines that all GFIs must
consider. Finally, in response to cultural shifts both inside the
fitness industry and in the world at large, this textbook
emphasizes the importance of equity, diversity, and inclusion
(EDI). In addition to features explaining the current state of the
fitness industry and how you as a GFI can help the industry move
forward in a more inclusive way, EDI considerations are included
throughout in the context of participant motivation and adherence,
as well as the ability of the GFI to provide a welcoming and
empowering climate for all participants. Along with serving as a
study aid for the ACE Group Fitness Instructor Certification Exam,
The Exercise Professional's Guide to Group Fitness Instruction is a
valuable resource for both new and veteran instructors that not
only provides the critical knowledge you will need to effectively
lead a class, but also application-based tools to help you master
that content and then utilize it to create memorable movement
experiences and empower your participants through person-centered
instruction and behavior-change strategies.
The world is an amazing place. Get up close with Look, a
seven-level series for young learners of English. See something
real with amazing photography, authentic stories and video, and
inspiring National Geographic Explorers. Help learners make
connections in English between their lives and the world they live
in through high-interest, global topics that encourage them to
learn and express themselves. With short, fresh lessons that excite
students and make teaching a joy, Look gives young learners the
core language, balanced skills foundation and confidence-boosting
exam support they need to use English successfully in the 21st
century.
School can be a frustrating and confusing experience for children
who have not developed their communication skills. not only will
access to the curriculum be difficult, so will developing
co-operative skills and friendships. This book has been developed
to teach and develop oral language and social interaction skills to
children aged 4-6. Containing 40 sessions, designed to take place
two to three times a week, the book aims to help teachers to
develop the "rules" of interaction with the help of the character
Ginger the Bear, who features in all the activities. Skills taught
include: eye contact; taking turns; sharing; greetings; awareness
of feelings; giving; following instructions; listening; paying
attention; and play skills. The book should provide a useful
resource for Literacy Hour and curriculum Key Stage 1.
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Flora's Magic House
Binette Schroeder
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R481
R349
Discovery Miles 3 490
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Now in its 9th Edition, Schroeder/Ehrlich/Schroeder Smith/Ehrlich's
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONS focuses on the current,
relevant terms you need to know to succeed in the health care
field. The program is designed to simplify the process of
memorizing complex medical terminology by focusing on the
importance of word parts -- common prefixes, suffixes and root
words. Every chapter helps you practice the pronunciation and
understanding of key terms through interactive activities,
real-life medical scenarios and critical thinking exercises.
Reflecting real-world practice, all terms, definitions, procedures,
illustrations and data are completely up to date. The latest
edition of this market leader includes expanded coverage of gender
identity and gender reassignment, COVID-19, advanced directives,
durable medical equipment, dental procedures, diabetic pathology,
and more. Also available: MindTap digital learning solution.
Noncognitivism is one of the most fundamental yet perplexing topics
in ethics and metaethics - this books explores and explains the
topic carefully and clearly and is used on several courses on
metaethics This second edition includes new sections on
expressivism, the main theory behind noncognitivism, as well as
updates to other chapters and further reading Useful additional
features such as glossary, chapter summaries, annotated further
reading, and exercises
East Asia's Monetary Future is an illuminating and valuable work
which uniquely focuses on a long-term monetary view of the region.
There are multiple and varied future scenarios which can be applied
to this region - an enlarged Singapore-Brunei currency area, a
greater China monetary bloc and even a Northeast Asian bloc
comprising Japan and Korea. Leading scholars from East Asia, Europe
and the US contribute valuable new insights to the key questions
facing the organization and future of the monetary system in East
Asia. Central questions discussed and analysed in the book include,
amongst others: should the region move towards monetary union?
Should countries peg their exchange rates to the US dollar? Is
complete dollarization an option for East Asia? The authors argue
that, having realized price stability over the last twenty years,
in contrast to Latin America and Africa, the next logical step
would be the gradual formation of various currency blocs within the
region. This comprehensive discussion of the fundamental issues at
stake will ensure the book's appeal to academics and researchers of
Asian studies and financial economics. Financial experts working in
this area and policymakers will also find much of interest to them
within this book.
1. Information presented is with contemporary musicians,
interviewed in the recent past 2. Focuses on the creative process
and the music, in additional to being biographical 3. Draws on
cultural issues of the day pertaining to race and diversity 4.
Encourage the jazz student/musician to compare and contrast with
their own career paths
This book offers a detailed account and discussion of Ludwig
Wittgenstein’s philosophy of mathematics. In Part I, the stage is
set with a brief presentation of Frege’s logicist attempt to
provide arithmetic with a foundation and Wittgenstein’s
criticisms of it, followed by sketches of Wittgenstein’s early
views of mathematics, in the Tractatus and in the early 1930s. Then
(in Part II), Wittgenstein’s mature philosophy of mathematics
(1937-44) is carefully presented and examined. Schroeder explains
that it is based on two key ideas: the calculus view and the
grammar view. On the one hand, mathematics is seen as a human
activity — calculation — rather than a theory. On the other
hand, the results of mathematical calculations serve as grammatical
norms. The following chapters (on mathematics as grammar;
rule-following; conventionalism; the empirical basis of
mathematics; the role of proof) explore the tension between those
two key ideas and suggest a way in which it can be resolved.
Finally, there are chapters analysing and defending
Wittgenstein’s provocative views on Hilbert’s Formalism and the
quest for consistency proofs and on Gödel’s incompleteness
theorems.
Appropriate for both undergraduates and MBA students, Operations
Management in the Supply Chain: Decisions and Cases, 8e is a guide
to operations that takes a unique approach to decision making with
a strong emphasis on case materials to put concepts into practice.
It provides a balanced treatment of both service and manufacturing
firms in a fully updated 4 color revision with modern real-world
topics, more Connect content and case solutions. This is the first
book to include cross functional decision making for non-majors. In
addition, current knowledge is included on global operations,
supply chain management, competency-based strategy, Six Sigma, lean
systems, artificial intelligence, analytics, sustainability, supply
chain risk, and digital technology content like 3D printing and
blockchain. Enhanced Connect content includes, SmartBook 2.0,
OMintheNews, Practice Operations, and Interactive Data Problems
designed to help students visualize key concepts.
During recent years, the topic of participation has increasingly
been gaining importance in Iran - in the scientific field, in
practice and rhetoric. However, in current scientific literature -
and especially in English literature - there is little knowledge on
the conditions, legal background, perceptions, experiences and
processes of citizens' participation in Iran. This book aims to
shed light on the paradoxical question of participation in Iran: it
is old and new, dysfunctioning and functioning, disappointing and
promising. This slippery status of participation convinces scholars
to suggest contradictory interpretations and understandings about
the existence, functionality, and potentiality of this concept. The
book therefore shows the different perspectives, interpretations,
historical developments and case studies of participation in Iran,
thus giving the reader a kaleidoscope view on the question of
participation in Iran.
From the Minds of Jazz Musicians: Conversations with the Creative
and Inspired celebrates contemporary jazz artists who have toiled,
struggled and succeeded in finding their creative space. The volume
was developed through transcribing and editing selected interviews
with 35 jazz artists, conducted by the author between 2009 and 2012
in New York City, with a historical essay on each artist to provide
context. The interviews feature musicians from a broad range of
musical styles and experiences, ranging from Gerald Wilson, born in
1918, to Chris Potter, born in 1971. Topics range from biographical
life histories to artists' descriptions of mentor relationships,
revealing the important life lessons they learned along the way.
With the goal to discover the person behind the persona, the author
elicits conversations that speak volumes on the creative process,
mining the individualistic perspectives of seminal artists who
witnessed history in the making. The interviews present the
artists' candid and direct opinions on music and how they have
succeeded in pursuing their unique and creative lives.
Affirming the Rights of Emergent Bilingual and Multilingual
Children and Families explores how the philosophy, principles, and
practices of the internationally acclaimed Municipal Preschools and
Infant Toddler Centers of Reggio Emilia, Italy, advance the social
justice and linguistic human rights of emergent bilingual and
multilingual children and their families, particularly immigrants
and refugees. The book is driven by the authors' research-based
discourse including an interview with Reggio Emilia educators and
direct observations in the Preschools and Infant-toddler Centers in
Italy. Chapters include survey and follow-up interviews, and
classroom examples from U.S. early childhood educators inspired by
the Reggio Emilia approach some of whom are in multilingual
settings. Recommendations are included for practitioners who are
intentional about advocating for the rights of emergent bi- and
multilingual young children. Also included are the researchers'
interpretations and reflexive narratives on contextuality,
intersectionality, and intertextuality, which interweave theories
and practice. The insightful examinations of scholarly work and the
critical review of the distinctive features of the Reggio Emilia
philosophy contribute to an early childhood education
transformative lens that challenges the status quo of inequities
and foregrounds the linguistic and cultural rights of learners who
speak different languages. The authors review research and theory
that inform the latest developments in culturally and
linguistically responsive practices in innovative early education
(infant through pre-k), family participation, and teacher
preparation and development. Of general interest to educators and
researchers around the world who work to ensure the rights of
emergent language learners, this is an essential text for
upper-level and graduate students, early childhood educators,
educational and community leaders, administrators, and researchers.
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