Students of the arts are empowered to explore new concepts, communicate confidently and grow into creative, critical thinkers. Teaching the Arts: Early Childhood and Primary Education emphasises the fundamental nature of the arts in learning and development. Arranged in three parts and focusing on the key areas of dance, drama, media arts, music and visual arts, this book encourages educators to connect to the 'why', 'what' and 'how' of arts education. This fourth edition continues to prov...

Professional Writing and Speaking is a business communication and professional communication textbook filled with timeless instruction that endures, regardless of the changing dynamics affecting today's organizations. Unique in its approach, this textbook has helped thousands of university students increase their ability to write and speak well in their organizations. With clear explanations, practical model documents, and empowering mnemonics, this book is a vital tool for learni...

For many years, there has been quite a bit of talk about employee engagement as a means to lift corporate profits and reduce absenteeism and turnover. However, this talk has not produced better companies. In fact, the evidence shows that incivility and instances of employee abuse are getting worse. Additionally, with profit as the primary goal of organizations, most employees view any benign treatment they receive as a secondary convenience that will dissipate once corporate fortunes decli...

When I agreed to interview Alexis, all I knew was that she was a recent college grad looking for some summer work.When she walks into my office, I'm struck by her beauty. There's no way I can have her living under my roof. She's pure temptation.There's just one problem… after being picky during my interviews, I now need someone to start next week. I have no choice but to hire her.I just need to keep my distance.It shouldn't be hard. Life has...

Blood, ashes, and bones.That's all she saw.When she awoke amongst the debris and dead bodies drenched in a mysterious substance, she found two things.A single initial on her half-burnt uniform's nametag.And all her memories erased.Abandoned, confused, hungry, and cold, K trudges on into a small town she doesn't recognizeFailing to consider that she looks like an escaped, dangerous convict…That her appearance would tur...

Pinter’s World: Pinter and Company is not a full-scale biography but a series of illuminating chapters about Pinter’s life, character, and thought, employing new information found in his “Appointment Diaries,” recent biographical sources such as Simon Gray’s memoirs, and Henry Woolf’s reminiscences in addition to personal discussions with several in Pinter’s world. This book provides a fresh illumination of Pinter’s life and art, his friendships, obsessions, and concerns.Material is arrang...

William wrote this short but empowering piece to help others expand their mindsets and take advantage of the one organ we all seem to fear: The Brain. This short book discusses perspectives on situations with things like changing your vocabulary, how motivation and luck don't exist, making decisions versus sacrifices, and much more.

This is the first book-length study of the work of contemporary writer Bernard Kops. Born on November 28, 1926 to Dutch-Jewish immigrants, Bernard Kops became famous after the production of his play The Hamlet of Stepney Green: A Sad Comedy with Some Songs in 1958. This play, like much of his work, focuses on the conflicts between young and old. Identified as an “angry young man,” Kops, like his contemporaries John Osborne, Shelagh Delaney, and Harold Pinter, belonged to the so-called new ...

I never imagined I'd be working for New York's most powerful billionaire.Somehow, I landed a job as his assistant.I'm nothing like the other women he's used to—innocent, naïve, and definitely not looking for a relationship. I've been too busy raising my younger brother to care about anything else.But there's something about him I can't ignore.He's cold, ruthless, and untouchable, but when he looks at me... It's different.There's a da...

Every student of literature needs to understand how to use literary theory to analyse and interpret the text. Literary Theories challenges the out-dated notion that theory is something separable from the act of reading and interpretation and, believing that the best way to learn is through practical application, plunges the student into the midst of a range of critical readings. Clearly argued and lucidly written, these essays offer the student reader an interactive introduction t...

This story is a fantasy about the exploits of a young boy that includes various fictional characters such as dragons, fairies, and evil challenges of several kinds.He finds himself in the Underminity, which is inside the earth. He meets many challenges, and is ultimately captured.

Born in Ireland in 1822, Timothy Warren emigrated to New Brunswick in 1849 and quickly became involved in the life and politics of the city of Saint John and the colony. As founder and editor of the newspaper the Freeman, he came lay spokesman for the large, mainly lower-class Irish Catholic population in Saint John, supporting its attempts to alleviate the poverty and harshness of life in New Brunswick and voicing its desire to be accepted as a responsible part of the community. Although ...