The Handbook of the Study of Play brings together in two volumes thinkers whose diverse interests at the leading edge of scholarship and practice define the current field. Because play is an activity that humans have shared across time, place, and culture and in their personal developmental timelines—and because this behavior stretches deep into the evolutionary past—no single discipline can lay claim to exclusive rights to study the subject. Thus this handbook features the thinking of evo...

Phenomenological sociology and ethnomethodology have many adherents and practitioners throughout the world. The international character of interest in these two areas is exemplified by the scholars from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Switzerland, and the United States who contributed to this collection. Together they exemplify the kinds of theoretical and research issues that arise in seeking to explore the social world in ways that respect what Edmund Husserl referred to as ...

Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Award - Honorable Mention for Essays (2023)In this brilliantly crafted essay collection, Tiffany Eberle Kriner weaves together literary criticism, nature writing, and memoir to explore what grows when we plant texts in the landscapes of our lives.The first time Tiffany Eberle Kriner walked the parcel of land that would become Root and Sky Farm its primary crop seemed to be chaos. Industrial a...

Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow, is a collection of humorous essays by Jerome K. Jerome. It was the author's second published book and it helped establish him as a leading English humorist.

The Essential 120,000 English-French Words Dictionary is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words and their French equivalent translations. It will be very useful for everyone (home, school, students, travel, interpreting and learning French or English). The words you will learn will help you in any situation!The Essential 120 000 mots anglais-français Dictionnaire ...

Did you know that an assassin is a hashish-eater and a yokel a country woodpecker? That Dr Mesmer mesmerized patients back to health or that Samuel Pepys enjoyed a good game of handicap? While we're at it, what have spondulics to do with spines or lawyers with avocados?Here Albert Jack collects more than 500 of the strangest, funniest-sounding, and most delightful words in the English language, and traces them back to their often puzzling origins.While brus...

THIS BOOK HAS BEEN PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED as the 'Millennium Phrase Book' It's filled with the same great content just a NEW updated title. 'The Contemporary Phrase Book'.Inside this exhaustive treasury you'll find fifteen wonderful categories intended for the hard working novelist, neatly organized, with many sub-sections ready to give your imagination a jolt. Of course there are wide ranging physical descriptions for your Hero/Heroine, Body Movemen...

This book is a guide to research methods for practitioner research. Written in friendly and accessible language, it includes numerous practical examples based on the authors′ own experiences in the field, to support readers.The authors provide information and guidance on developing research skills such as gathering and analysing information and data, reporting findings and research design. They offer critical perspectives to help users reflect on research approaches and to scrutini...

Increasingly, brides and grooms are spending their wedding dollars on environmentally friendly products and services. From the dress to the dinner, there are more green options available today than ever before. This book will teach the happy couple just how easy and affordable it is to: choose a stunning environmentally friendly location; create beautiful invitations printed on recycled paper; find the perfect eco-fashion; enjoy a gourmet organic caterer; find the right romantic honeymoon ...

How do you teach Shakespeare in school? This book provides five day lesson plans for over a dozen of Shakespeare’s greatest known plays. Lesson plans include: Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, Othello, As You Like It, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Midsummer's Night Dream, Richard III, Love's Labour's Lost, Anthony and Cleopatra, Henvry V, King Lear, and The Tempest. Each lesson plan may also be purchased separately.

Amazon makes it pretty simple to create an eBook version of your picture book  with their free Kids Book Creator. Their software will make your picture book look amazing on a Fire tablet or any other tablet. This short guide will show you how it works. Note: This guide is part of a larger book called “Creating Picture Books on a Budget.” This guide is short (about 1100 words). If you want more in-depth information about writing a picture book, then that would be a bett...

This complete guide to American prep schools covers the admissions process, financial aid, campus life and much more.US boarding schools offer superb preparation for college bound students, but they're not for everyone. American Prep is the only comprehensive guide for parents and students interested in exploring, applying to, and succeeding at these great schools.An alumnus of the Lawrenceville School and a current prep school parent, author Ronald ...