Aimed at increasing professional and public awareness of the importance of health promotion activities for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, this book covers a range of health promotion activities including: family interventions; health promotion in schools; community health p[...]

"Wendy Lesser's extraordinary alertness, intelligence, and curiosity have made her one of America's most significant cultural critics," writes Stephen Greenblatt. In Why I Read, Lesser draws on a lifetime of pleasure reading and decades of editing one of the most distinguished little magazines in th[...]

Increasingly, academic and industrial leaders are recognizing that college graduates need new skills to address business and technical issues in a service business environment. Because services depend critically on people working together and with technology to provide value for others, these new sk[...]

Focusing on basic contemporary business principles and strategies, this book explains the current state of the coaching profession and offers advice and strategies so that you can plan your practice to operate well. Whether you are an established coach or just starting out, this book is for you.[...]

Baroque music in its cultural, social, and intellectual contexts.

Critical literacy investigates how forms of knowledge, and the power they bring, are created in language and taken up by those who use texts. It asks how language might be put to different, more equitable uses, and how texts might be recreated in a way that would tell a different story. This book is[...]

Boys' underachievement is grabbing headlines in the education debate, and it has never been more important to solve the problem. This book offers clear and practical strategies to headteachers, classroom teachers and other professionals for ways to address the issue. The book looks at:

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Wendy Hollway explores a subject that is largely absent from the topical literature on care. Humans are not born with a capacity to care, and this volume explores how this capacity is achieved through the experiences of primary care, gender development and later, parenting. In this book, the author [...]

Social work is developing its own research orientation and knowledge base, springing from the research traditions of sociology and psychology and grounded in human rights and social justice. Effective social research relies on critical thinking and the ability to view situations from new perspective[...]

"Understanding the Te Whåariki Approach is a much-needed source of information for those wishing to extend and consolidate their understanding of the Te Whåariki approach, introducing the reader to an innovative bicultural curriculum developed for early childhood services in New Zealand. It will e[...]

Sadly, women often feel they have no alternative but to give up breastfeeding, having being prescribed or purchased medication. In many cases, however, this is unnecessary. This book outlines the evidence-base for the use of medication during breastfeeding. Breastfeeding and Medication presents a co[...]