Solution Focused Coaching in Practice is a practical 'how-to' guide that provides an invaluable overview of Solution Focused Coaching skills and techniques. Reflecting upon published research on the solution focused approach, Bill O'Connell, Stephen Palmer and Helen Williams bring their own experie[...]
Provides essential information for practitioners working with linguistically struggling children.
Covering the primary/secondary transition, this book offers material for individual presentation, working in pairs and working in groups; cross-curricular 'skeletons' for children to fill in and develop their language skills; advice on flexible progression and working to a child's ability; and, sugg[...]
Provides a range of practical suggestions for teaching non-fiction writing skills and linking them to children's learning across the entire curriculum. This title provides techniques for using speaking and listening, drama and games to prepare for writing. It also includes planning frameworks and 's[...]
Offers practical suggestions for teaching non-fiction writing skills and linking them to children's learning across the curriculum. This title provides information on the organisation and language features of the six main non-fiction text types (recount, report, instruction, explanation, persuasion [...]
An illustrated dictionary designed especially for hairdressing students. It contains technical, professional and assessment vocabulary required for NVQ Levels 1, 2 and 3 for various awarding bodies. It includes a pronunciation guide to enable correct pronunciation and a more professional personal pr[...]
Being a goddess is a lot less fun than you might think. Especially when you're only a half goddess, and you only found out about it recently, and you still don't know what you're doing half the time. And when you've just used your not-so-reliable powers to burglarize the booby-trapped office of a va[...]
From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "Tempt the Stars" comes the latest in the series that's "well worth getting hooked on"(Fresh Fiction).
You d think that being chief seer for the supernatural world would come with a few perks. But as Cassie Palmer has learned, being Pythia doesn t[...]
When an earthquake of historic magnitude leveled the industrial city of Tangshan in the summer of 1976, killing more than a half-million people, China was already gripped by widespread social unrest. As Mao lay on his deathbed, the public mourned the death of popular premier Zhou Enlai. Anger toward[...]
In the history of the modern world, there have been few characters more sinister, sadistic, and deeply demented than Baron Ungern-Sternberg. An anti-Semitic fanatic whose penchant for Eastern mysticism and hatred of communists foreshadowed the Nazi scourge that would soon overtake Europe, Ungern- S[...]
Seven years after the financial crisis of 2008, financiers remain villains in the public mind. Most Americans believe that their irresponsible actions and complex financial products wrecked the economy and destroyed people's savings, and that bankers never adequately paid for their crimes. But as E[...]
Biochemical abnormalities play a key role in human illness. To pinpoint effective curative solutions, biochemical pharmacologists use drugs to discover new information about biosynthetic pathways and their kinetics.[...]
A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education.
Tagline: Make work work for you! Work isn't working. We all love to hate our jobs.
Statistical methodology is of great importance to medical research and clinical practice. The Encyclopaedic Companion to Medical Statistics contains readable accounts of the key topics central to current research and practice. Each entry has been written by an individual chosen for both their expe[...]
Genetic epidemiology is a rapidly developing field, and has continued to grow enormously in international importance over the last ten years. This book provides a unified text that draws together material genetics, epidemiology, public health and statistics.[...]
A convenient how-to guide for maximizing your WordPress experienceWordPress is a state-of-the-art blog publishing platform with nearly ten million active installations. Eight minibooks provide you with expanded coverage of the most important topics to the WordPress community, such as WordPress basic[...]
This Third Edition of Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation expands this illustrated review and introductory guide to nuclear medicine physics and instrumentation. The authors present nuclear medicine-related physics and engineering concepts clearly and concisely. Included in the text are int[...]