Learn from 50+ year-old fitness expert Linda Mitchell how to erase your doubts, boost your self-esteem, and amp up your workout routine, even after 50. This book has tips for all ages, including:*50+ delicious (and simple) gluten-free, sugar-free recipes*A 7-day cleanse to recharge your metabolism*2 unique eating plans tailored to your lifestyle*21 high-octane SOS S.W.E.A.T. workoutsTips on how to conquer your cravingsThe keys to ending girl-...

This book uses case studies of Aotearoa New Zealand policy formulation and practice to explore early childhood education and care (ECEC) as a site for democratic citizenship and social justice. Addressing fundamental questions about the purpose of education, it argues for explicit values focusing on children and childhood as a basis for ECEC policy to replace discourses of economic investment and child vulnerability that are dominant within policy goals in many countries. A commitment to d...

The ketogenic diet is a very low-carb, high-fat and adequate-protein diet for people with certain medical conditions. It has many therapeutic benefits that come with it such as improvement in mood, energy levels, body composition, weight loss and more. Although the keto diet is not for everyone as some people may feel a little uncomfortable adapting to such a drastic change in their food intake. However, many others are eager to try it out for themselves due to its amazing benefits! Keto D...

This groundbreaking book explores the interactions of three powerful concepts in early childhood education (ECE): early childhood settings as sites for democracy, belonging as a human need and basis for participation, and relationships with land. Through exemplars of pioneering practice, it renews thinking about democracy and broadens understanding of belonging in culturally diverse societies.Drawing from three research projects undertaken with teachers as collaborators in 11 early...

This title was first published in 2001: Although 17th- and 18th-century English language theorists claimed to be correcting errors in grammar and preserving the language from corruption, this new study demonstrates how grammar served as an important cultural battlefield where social issues were contested. Author Linda C. Mitchell situates early modern linguistic discussions, long thought to be of little interest, in their larger cultural and social setting to show the startling degree to w...

You may have heard the old story about the frog. If you put a frog in some cool water, he'll be quite comfortable. If you slowly heat the water, the frog will not jump out, even if the water starts to boil, because during the slow process of bringing it to a boil, the frog adjusts. He will be boiled alive because he has become comfortable with his surroundings. Don't be comfortable. You can change before your crisis becomes too difficult. Don't wait until you are boiled alive!C...

Learn from 50+ year-old fitness expert Linda Mitchell how to erase your doubts, boost your self-esteem, and amp up your workout routine, even after 50. This book has tips for all ages, including:•50+ delicious (and simple) gluten-free, sugar-free recipes•A 7-day cleanse to recharge your metabolism•2 unique eating plans tailored to your lifestyle•21 high-octane SOS S.W.E.A.T. workouts•Tips on how to conquer your cravings•The keys to ending gir...

As this lively new study effectively demonstrates, dictionaries serve as far more than just simple reference tools; they also offer a rich fund of information about people in society. Before now, the extent to which dictionaries encode social history, as opposed to merely relaying linguistic information, has gone almost entirely unnoticed. In this illuminating new book, Linda C. Mitchell analyzes the complex and changing relationship in the early modern period between authority and lexicog...

How are the kids doing? Are they scared? Happy? Sad? Angry? They probably are feeling all those emotions.In good times or bad, children show a range of emotions. Use your words! That's what parents and teachers often say to kids, but sometimes kids don't know the words to say. Now they will. How Are You Today? A Celebration of Children's Emotions, is a game-changing book for educators, counselors, and parents to use in their efforts to teach kids to name their feelings. Those emot...

The Decommodification of Early Childhood Education and Care: Resisting Neoliberalism explores how processes of marketisation and privatisation of ECEC have impacted understandings of children, childcare, parents, and the workforce, providing concrete examples of resistance to commodification from diverse contexts.Through processes of marketisation and privatisation, neoliberal discourses have turned ECEC into a commodity whereby economic principles of competition and choic...

This volume provides a selection of primary documents from medieval England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, thereby enabling readers to directly access information about life long ago in the region.Voices of Medieval England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life provides a broad selection of primary documents that are appropriate in level and content for a variety of readers. It includes dozens of primary document excerpts that ...

This is the book that teachers of courses on women in the Middle Ages have been wanting to write-or see written-for years. Essays written by specialists in their respective fields cover a range of topics unmatched in depth and breadth by any other introductory text. Depictions of women in literature and art, women in the medieval urban landscape, an the issue of women's relation to definitions of deviance and otherness all receive particular attention. Geographical regions such as the Byza...