Teaching remains an incredibly demanding and often ‘downtrodden’ profession but being a teacher can be a fabulous and rewarding job. This book offers uplifting professional learning for all teachers. It shines a light on the brilliant aspects of the job and helps readers to learn from some of the inspiring educators in the UK today.Russell Pearson and Steve Eastes are Primary Deputy Heads who run a popular education podcast for teachers. Interviewing educators for the podcast has s...

John Engler, former Governor of Michigan, once claimed that redistricting is one of the purest actions a legislative body can take. Academicians and political leaders alike, however, have regularly debated the ideal way by to redistrict national and state legislatures. Rather than being the pure process that Governor Engler envisioned, redistricting has led to repeated court battles waged on such traditional democratic values as one person, one vote, and minority rights. Instead of being a...

The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, the theoretical debates are vividly illustrated by an array o...

This is the eBook version of the printed book.This Element is an excerpt from Ultimate Leadership: Winning Execution Strategies for Your Situation (9780131933866) by Russell E. Palmer. Available in print and digital formats.A nine-step process to start driving effective change in any organization, beginning right now.Success in leading transformations over the long run depends on the leader’s vision in developing a strategic plan. I believe any lea...

YOU’VE GOT JUST 60 MINUTES TO WIN OR LOSE YOUR NEXT SALE - HOW WILL YOU MAKE THEM COUNT?If your job is to win new business, then you’ll know it’s important to make a strong first impression. But do you realise that the first 60 minutes are critical to your chances of success?High Performance Sales Strategies is bursting with highly effective ways to make that first critical hour deliver. It’s a formula that’s been proven to work by thousands of sal...

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe AnimateClassroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does -- an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2021 release) contains lessons that cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you ...

Develop creative animation and multimedia using Adobe AnimateAdobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2023 release) uses real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:Harness controls for animation including ...

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Animate choose Adobe Animate CC Classroom in a Book (2019 release) from Adobe Press. The 11 project-based step-by-step lessons in this book show users the key techniques for working in Animate. Adobe Animate CC provides more expressive tools, powerful controls for animation, and robust support for playback across a wide variety of platforms. Create interactive virtual reality immersive envir...

Creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Animate choose Adobe Animate Classroom in a Book (2020 release) from Adobe Press. The 11 project-based step-by-step lessons in this book show users the key techniques for working in Animate. Adobe Animate provides more expressive tools, powerful controls for animation, and robust support for playback across a wide variety of platforms. Create interactive virtual reality imme...

The 2022 release of Adobe Animate provides significant new controls for animation with puppet warping and improvements to layer parenting, and enhancements to paint brush preferences and symbol options. Learn to use the revamped Asset Warp tool for a modern rigging approach to animating shapes and bitmap images. Work with a more robust set of playback options for graphic symbols that provides total control over looping. Quickly publish to social media channels with support for SVG, WebGL, ...

Tom Russell is Co-Founder and Director of The Facilitation Partnership (TFP) and Inky Thinking. He has 20 years’ experience in a variety of large, well known, complex organisations. More recently he has been facilitating meetings across the globe, partnering with clients to achieve breakthrough results in their meetings in companies including Airbus, Mars and SAP.

The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society…