Teaching Shakespeare to Deaf learners - it's time to break the silence…If teaching Shakespeare sometimes feels intimidating, then this is the book you've been waiting for. It cuts straight through the confusion, offering practical strategies for teaching the Immortal Bard's most commonly studied plays to Deaf students.This guide shows practitioners how to enable students to make sense of complex plots; how to unpack Shakespeare's language, and how to tackle humour, insults,...

Teaching English to Deaf learners - it's time to break the silence…This text offers real strategies for real classrooms. It is a book borne of years of educational experience and strives to give practitioners working in the field practical tools which they can employ in their everyday practice.If you're tired of academic texts that talk about teaching as though it's a noun, not a verb, then this is the book for you. The writers do not simply seek to outlin...

Step into the frostbitten streets of Ostler's Ford by Lamplight - a haunting and poetic play for voices that captures an unforgettable winter's evening in a fictional Fenland town. Told through a lyrical blend of dark humour, magical realism, and nostalgic visions, this atmospheric drama introduces a host of unforgettable characters, each wrestling with lost dreams, unspoken desires, and the weight of small-town life. At the heart of it all is the enigmatic Master of Time - a swee...

James Beard Award Finalist: Recipes from the Michelin-starred San Francisco restaurant—and the chef-owners' own home kitchen.From Sarah and Evan Rich, chef-proprietors of Michelin-starred Rich Table—one of San Francisco's most coveted reservations—this debut cookbook offers recipes from the restaurant as well as the meals the Riches cook for friends and family at home. Evan and Sarah Rich execute casual Californian fare with fine-dining precision, interweaving the ...

In Ducks Redux, enviro-science grad Maeve Wong gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of her life lusts for climate activism and justice, the other for resource exploitation at all cost. She needs to decide whose side she is on.

In Ducks Redux, enviro-science grad Maeve Wong gets caught up in a bizarre revolution with unscrupulous lawyers and oil barons to take over the government of Oil Land. One love of her life lusts for climate activism and justice, the other for resource exploitation at all cost. She needs to decide whose side she is on.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and the modern classics My Sister’s Keeper, The Storyteller, and more, comes a “complex, compassionate, and smart” (The Washington Post) novel about a family torn apart by a murder accusation.When your son can’t look you in the eye…does that mean he’s guilty?Jacob Hunt is a teen with Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder. He’s...

Bringing together international case studies, this book offers theoretical and empirical insights into the interaction between social work and social policy.Moving beyond existing studies on policy practice, the book employs the policy cycle as a core analytical frame and focuses on the influence of social work(ers) in the problem definition, agenda setting, policy formulation and implementation of social policy. Twenty-three contributors offer examples of policy making from seven ...

From the award-winning, #1 New York Times bestselling author whom USA TODAY calls a “master of the page-turner,” comes the spectacular story of a woman’s complex quest to form a family in this moving novel about love, marriage, identity, and parenthood**.**Every life has a soundtrack. All you have to do is listen.Music has set the tone for most of Zoe Baxter’s life. There’s the melody that reminds her of ...

Jodi Picoult, bestselling author of My Sister's Keeper and Small Great Things, pens her most riveting book yet with a startling and poignant story about the devastating aftermath of a small-town tragedy.Sterling is an ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens--until the day its complacency is shattered by a school shooting. Josie Cormier, the daughter of the judge sitting on the case, should be the state's best witness, but she can't ...

When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated—she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. In this provocative story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, “Picoult writes with unassuming brilliance” (Stephen King).Every expectant parent will tell you that they don’t want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O’Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if the...

Jodi Picoult is a #1 New York Times bestselling author whose books have been adapted for both the small and silver screen. In Perfect Match, she spins a story of a mother who does the unthinkable to protect her child. Lines blur when assistant DA Nina Frost learns that her five-year-old son Nathaniel was sexually abused by a priest. She takes the law into her own hands, killing the man accused. But then details surface clearing the priest and putting Nina's future in jeopardy.