This third edition of The Teaching Assistant's Guide to Effective Interaction is the definitive guide to teaching assistant-pupil interaction and an invaluable professional development tool for classroom support staff and the teachers who work with them.Updated to include the latest research evidence and reflect the current educational context and varied roles that teaching assistants undertake, this highly practical and accessible book sets out a role for teaching assistants that ...

In the world of The Dragon Nimbus, this third volume takes the three O'Hara brothers, and their long lost sister (who doesn't think of herself as an O'Hara anymore) through the intricate worlds of dragon politics, corporate politics, and family grudges.Mark Kimmer (Kim), Martin Konner (Konner), and Mathew Kameron (Loki) O'Hara have been space-faring smugglers and pirates almost all of their lives. On the run, as usual, from the Imperial Military Police (IMPs) they fly through a rog...

In this sweeping debut novel by NBC News Anchor Morgan Radford, Now Then follows a Harvard student navigating her own path to self-discovery while uncovering her mother’s secret past fleeing the Cuban Revolution.Now — 1991 Cambridge, MA*.* Liliana Soto Walker is an 18-year-old freshman who arrives at Harvard from the humble Appalachian home of her Cuban immigrant mother and Black American father. Lily feels out of place in this ne...

A witch needs a wand, be it a fountainpen, a wooden spoon, or a chess piece.Newly divorced baker Daphne Deschants juggles a small business and three active teens. A sudden burst of puberty means this non-witch must teach a crash course in basic wizardry as well. Their philandering father needs to put aside his wandering ways and come home. Now.Then she finds a pentagram inlaid in the floor of her attic and members of the true magical community, rather than the wannabes that...

First-year undergraduate, Chris Rhodes, and lower-sixth form schoolgirl, Janis Boyd, become involved as innocent observers of rampant narcotics abuse in Rugby. On multiple occasions, they inadvertently come up against drugs buster, Detective Sergeant Tadman, just about avoiding being pulled in for interrogation. The cat and mouse stalk continues as Rhodes and Janis become acquainted with the speed house on James Street, a drugs den occupied by four apprentices. Something has to give as Tad...

Written by a designer and two philosophers, this short, highly illustrated book advances the idea that responsive cohesion is the essence of good design.Responsive cohesion refers to a state in which things ‘hold together’ (or cohere) due to the mutual responsiveness of the features that constitute them. This contrasts with fixed cohesion (in which things hold – or are held – together in a more forced, constrained, or non-mutually responsive way) and discohesion (in which things do...

“Tell me, did he commit suicide, or was he killed in his room; and if so how a murderer killed and vanished leaving no trace within a minute?”The Dilettantes Club is a gathering of five savants who dine once a fortnight in Soho, and debate any problem besetting mankind. One evening, into this distinguished company, there intrudes a Professor of Logic and Philosophy, an odd little man. The Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard is one of the Dilettantes, and a baffling pro...

The Free Lanes TrilogyShe should have been the best, but Nel Vaughn forsake a career with the Alliance and now sails the Free Lanes on the Tantamount with its misfit crew and absent-minded captain.The complete Free Lanes Trilogy, a space-faring fantasy series about found family making do while avoiding trouble with the authorities.Book 1: Tantamount – During a stopover for repairs, skipper Nel Vaughn and the Tantamount are coerced into ferrying medi...

The author of AlterKnits Felt shows knitters how to turn a little yarn into fun projects and gifts—including baby clothes, bags, and household items."Two needles and one (or one more) skein of yarn—the possibilities never cease to amaze me," writes Leigh Radford in the introduction to her new book. Radford's fascination with the creative potential of these raw materials is evident throughout One More Skein, where she melds the alternative approach ...

Alexis Mortensen rose from his chair in the first-class Pullman and walked into the corridor.None of the remaining occupants noticed that he had left them until after Death, travelling at 60 miles an hour, had reached out for him . . .Seven men and a woman were in the first-class coach of a train from London to Brighton. They had travelled together each evening for months. That night one of them, Alexis Mortensen, editor of a scurrilous newspaper, died fro...

Powerful insights from ministers, theologians, activists, leaders, artists and liturgists who are shaping the future."Christianity has been a source of the oppression of women, as well as a resource for unleashing women's full humanity. Feminist analysis and practice have recognized this. Feminist Christianity is reshaping religious institutions and religious life in more holistic, inclusive, and justice-focused ways."—from the IntroductionFeminism h...

This book is an autobiography tracing Rosemary Radford Ruether's intellectual development and writing career. Ruether examines the influence of her mother and family on her development and particularly her interactions with the Roman Catholic religious tradition. She delves into her exploration of interfaith relations with Judaism and Islam as well. Her educational formation at Scripps College and the importance of historical theology is also a major emphasis. Mental illness has also affec...