The coaching metaphor first entered the educational literature over twenty-five year ago when Ted Sizer urged classroom teachers to model the pedagogical relationship between coaches and athletes. Yet, since then, educators have rarely drawn direct lessons from the athletic arena for their practice... until now. DeMeulenaere, Cann, Malone and McDermott, in this groundbreaking analysis, explore the implications of athletic coaching for improved pedagogy. They offer concrete lessons and sugg...

In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father's complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.In clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto the frontline of the pandemic – documenting the experience and trauma of a COVID-bereave...

Wild Life by James McDermott explores the nature of queerness, the queerness of nature, and the queerness of 'natural' masculinity. In bold poems that root themselves firmly in the coastal landscapes of North Norfolk, a vivid and radical dialogue between nature, sexuality and self-discovery emerges. McDermott brings a lyrical physicality to poetry which focuses on the body, desire, shame, and tenderness, creation and re-creation, and where there is 'everything alw...

Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service. Swiftly, they gained two opposing yet equally unflattering reputations. In the eyes of the military, they were soft, obstructionist ‘old duffers’. To most of the men who came before them, they were the unfeeling civilian arm of a remorseless grinding machine.This work, utilising a rare surviving set of Tribunal records, cha...

Modern avionics can reduce workload, improve precision, and expand situational awareness, but only when pilots understand what the system is doing, why it is doing it, and what it is likely to do next.Managing Automation brings automation theory into the cockpit. Drawing on human-factors research, official accident and incident investigations, and practical operating principles, Matthew James McDermott examines how highly capable systems can produce mode confusion, automation surpr...

Why listen? Because it's the door to understanding, and that leads to ability, which in turn makes you quite powerful! This power cannot be bought nor can it be bestowed upon you. Listening gains understanding which enables you to make an informed decision and that is very impressive…..no matter who you are. Learning to listen is an acquired skill that can be learned quickly and easily from this book. You'll see the benefits of it almost immediately. Good luck! Jim Davidson.

Resolving conflicts, common conflicts with solutions, dealing with difficult people, psychological games, and more ...Whenever we think of the word ‘conflict’ most of us have a tendency to think of it as something we don’t want in our lives and, undoubtedly, there are lots of conflicts that are hurtful and even devastating. Yet, based on the nature of the universe and humankind, conflict is inevitable, and without it we would be unable to survive. For us, ...

The language of negative power, how to give critical messages without criticising, and more....This is a difficult of all communication tasks for many people. It is evidenced by the number of times we avoid confrontation. A kind of non-communication takes place. When critical issues are avoided, they don’t go away, they just go underground and then raise their heads in all sorts of ugly fashions. This will be addressed in a subsequent section about handlin...

This new edition of the rarest and most influential blackjack book in the history of the game brings together the most famous contributors in the game. Privately published in 1957 in an extremely limited quantity, this was the first book ever to print the correct winning strategies for the game of blackjack. This instant collectors item includes a foreword by blackjack legend Edward O. Thorp, whose best-selling classic, Beat the Dealer (which relied on the original Playing Blackjack to Win), ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2016, held in Porto, Portugal, in March/April 2016 co-located with the Evo*2016 events: EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EvoApplications.The 11 revised full papers presented together with 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field. Thus, we see topics as diverse ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2017, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in April 2017, co-located with the Evo* 2017 events, EvoCOP, EvoMUSART, and EvoApplications.The 14 revised full papers presented together with 8 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field. Thus, we see topics and ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 2015, held in Copenhagen, Spain, in April 2015 co-located with the Evo 2015 events, EvoCOP, Evo MUSART and Evo Applications. The 12 revised full papers presented together with 6 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected form 36 submissions. The wide range of topics in this volume reflects the current state of research in the field. Thus, we see topics as diverse as semanti...