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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...

This is the fifth and final volume in David Roy's celebrated translation of one of the most famous and important novels in Chinese literature. The Plum in the Golden Vase or, Chin P'ing Mei is an anonymous sixteenth-century work that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. The novel, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of th...

In this first of a planned five-volume set, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of Hsi-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of the narrative art form--not only from a specifically Chi...

Ex-soldier Sam Painter is a security consultant - whatever that means. It just about pays the bills. His humdrum life takes a seriously disturbing turn when he is given the job of protecting a foreign climate scientist on a brief visit to Belfast. Sam is soon caught up in a world of intrigue he could never have throught possible....

Charisma is something that we know when we see it. When a charismatic person walks into a room, everybody knows it. It's that one quality that makes us attracted to this person. To want to be with this person. To listen to everything this person says. Luckily, charisma is not genetic or random. It is based on scientific interpersonal principles that you can learn, and you can exhibit. Communication skills, reading and projecting body language, and the inner ideas and beliefs you ca...

David arrives on the Western Front in 1918 and wonders how he can ever survive life in the Army. This is a short story written in the centenary year of the outbreak of World War 1. The proceeds of this book will go to SSAFA.

This may not be your type of thing but it's cheap and it might make you smile. It's all about my honeymoon and it's better than it sounds.....

‘What can you see?’‘Nothing.’‘Keep looking.’Ted strained his eyes to see better in the dark….but it was the dark which was the problem; impenetrable, complete.Ted is given his first mission to occupied Europe. He is to kill a killer but first he has to find him....

Matt Conner is sixty-two. He caught the tail end of Vietnam and came home in 72 full of anger and guilt. Whiskey was Matts anodyne, and barroom brawls were his way of dealing with the America he felt had betrayed him. When he wasnt drinking and fighting, he worked on a bridge-building crew in Tacoma. He became tough and mean and filled with anguish.And then he met Pam, a hippy from Shreveport who worked in a coffee shop he used to sober up in. An angry vet and a hippy chickit shoul...

In this second of a planned five-volume series, David Roy provides a complete and annotated translation of the famous Chin P'ing Mei, an anonymous sixteenth-century Chinese novel that focuses on the domestic life of His-men Ch'ing, a corrupt, upwardly mobile merchant in a provincial town, who maintains a harem of six wives and concubines. This work, known primarily for its erotic realism, is also a landmark in the development of narrative art--not only from a specifically Chinese ...

The untrue story of the Northern Irish Formula One Team.

Kitty wants her life to be different. She's married to an abusive man, pregnant with his child and worried about the future. Her unlikely salvation comes in the form of the Guillemot Club.