Skyrocketing phone bills. Layovers and missed flights. Countless hours spent pining, worrying, and wondering, Why do we do this to ourselves? Long-distance love can be one challenge afteranother, but as most committed couples will tell you, the rewards well outweigh the stresses. In this sensitive yet sensible guide, long-distance veterans Chris and Kate provide strategies for making the distance seem shorter and outline eight essential skills for relationship success:Communi...

The Mid-Norfolk Railway is a distinctive heritage line which runs for nearly 12 miles through the rolling Norfolk countryside between the market towns of Dereham and Wymondham. Deservedly popular with families as well as enthusiasts, the railway offers a range of enticing days out by rail through a well-balanced blend of steam and diesel services.After passenger services ended in 1969, freight traffic survived for another twenty years. That lifeline meant local people had time to p...

This study examines the implications for evaluation and assessment when more responsibility for the learning process is given to the learner. The text includes sections on peer assessment, self-assessment, styles of evaluation, references, and the roles of teacher and learner.

This book is for all teachers who have curriculum and management responsibilities in primary schools or who aspire to those positions. It provides an analysis of those responsibilities and of how they may best be exercised in the changing climate of primary education. It takes account of the many radical policy changes that have influenced the management of primary schools since 1988. Above all it offers practical guidelines on which effective strategies for managing primary schools may be...

A Mathematical Tour introduces readers to a selection of mathematical topics chosen for their centrality, importance, historical significance, and intrinsic appeal and beauty. The book is written to be accessible and interesting to readers with a good grounding in high school level mathematics and a keen sense of intellectual curiosity. Each chapter includes a short history of the topic, statements and discussion of important results, illustrations, user-friendly exercises...

These papers discuss flexible learning, the term used to describe more learner-centred approaches to teaching and learning, and its potential application in colleges and universities. Flexible learning offers these institutions opportunities to improve their quality of instruction.

First Published in 2005. Assessment and evaluation are essential to education and training. Whether informal or formal, at their best they assist the learning process by providing feedback to 'learners' and 'teachers', facilitate quality assurance and control, and provide a mechanism whereby education and training can be attuned to the needs of the individual and society. This edition of the World Yearbook focuses upon a wide range of assessment and evaluation issues from all over the glob...

Six short stories to shake you to your core.O****ut and Back by Barbara RodenAn abandoned amusement park attracts unwary thrill seekersThe Game of Bear - Reggie Oliver & M. R. JamesReggie Oliver completes M. R. James' unfinished classic.Shem-el-Nessim: An Inspiration in Perfume - Chris BellVenturi - Richard Christian MathesonParty Talk ...

Health Communication and Sport: Connections, Applications, and Opportunities aggregates sport and health communication into a collective resource that advances scholarly inquiry at the intersection of these two fields. Through bringing together a collaborative of scholars and practitioners who are doing work in areas ranging from mental health, to media, to youth sports, and social media, this volume evaluates health communication issues in sport contexts and inspires work that will answer...

Red's plan is to drop off treats at her grandmother's cabin, and maybe catch a glimpse of the Wolf everyone's warned her about. But she's about to discover that some legends are dangerously real—and impossibly tempting.The Wolf doesn't just want to catch her… he wants to claim her.One sniff of her scent, and this alpha's primal instincts roar to life. This curvy girl is his fated mate, his omega, and he's ready to chase her down, knot her tight, and show he...

Turns out getting a fairy godmother is great. Getting caught by four feral alpha wolves? That's… complicated.Ella's spent years as an unpaid servant in her own home, but when a royal decree commands every unmated omega to attend the Prince's mating ball, her evil stepmother makes one thing clear: servants don't get to play princess.Enter one meddling fairy godmother with a flair for dramatic transformations and very specific rules about midnight.The...

“NXIVM meets Southern suspense…. Gripping, timely, and ominous.”—Allison Buccola, author of Catch Her When She FallsThree women work to uncover the scorching lies and scandal behind a self-help movement, igniting a powder keg of secrets that could blow their town apart, in this suspense novel perfect for readers who love Southern mystery.It’s early morning in the small Texas town of Edenberg when the body of sixty-five-year-old Beverly Hoff...