This collection of essays on seventeenth-century Virginia, the first such collection on the Chesapeake in nearly twenty-five years, highlights emerging directions in scholarship and helps set a new agenda for research in the next decade and beyond. The contributors represent some of the best of a younger generation of scholars who are building on, but also criticizing and moving beyond, the work of the so-called Chesapeake School of social history that dominated the historiography of the r...

Learning Communities in Education explores the theory and practice of learning communities from an international perspective. Covering primary/elementary, secondary and tertiary levels in a variety of educational contexts, leading researchers discuss:* theoretical issues and debate* processes and strategies for creating learning communities* learning communities in actionThe current experience of the learning community is examined with reference to case...

Learn the key standards—iBeacon, Eddystone, Bluetooth 4.0, and AltBeacon—and how they work with other proximity technologies. Then build your understanding of the proximity framework and how to identify and deploy the best solutions for your own business, institutional, or consulting needs.Proximity technology—in particular, Bluetooth beacons—is a major source of business opportunity, and this book provides everything you need to know to architect a solution to capitalize on that o...

This edited collection presents a study of innovation in teaching, learning, assessment and teacher development practices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The thirteen research-based chapters in this collection examine recent innovations in English language teaching, drawing on classroom, administrative and learning experiences from seven of the countries in the region. The major trends analyzed across the volume include the language skills of reading and writing and the prevale...

This book contains a collection of papers dealing with a range of controversial issues which exercised the minds of local authority officials from 1884-1908. The 28 items reproduced cover a wide range of matters. They are presented chronologically because many of the papers deal with more than one topic but also because it provides a clearer guide to the development of views on numerous inter-related issues. These issues are still of interest and relevant today: most of the papers deal wit...

A classic tale of love and acceptance from the Brothers Grimm is beautifully rendered in this magical retelling, now with an audio recording.Hans is an unusual boy. Born a hedgehog from the waist up, he knows what it’s like to truly be an outcast. Even his amazing fiddle playing can’t help him fit in. So Hans flees to the forest with his herd of loyal pigs and only his music to keep him company. But then a most unusual thing happens: When Hans crosses paths with tw...

Leadership Best Seller with #1 for Business Coaching and Team Skills on AmazonLEAD is here to help you lead yourself – and others - through life’s unpredictable challenges towards your aspirations.If you are looking for fresh insights, tools and inspiration you won’t be disappointed.LEAD focuses on the top 3 priorities of a leader. To Map. To Navigate. To Grow. It enables you to:● MAP the journeys that you w...

Leadership Bestseller with #1 for Business Coaching and Team Skills on AmazonLEAD is here to help you lead yourself—and others—through life's unpredictable challenges towards your aspirations.If you are looking for fresh insights, tools, and inspiration, you won't be disappointed.LEAD focuses on the top three priorities of a leader. To Map. To Navigate. To Grow. It enables you to: MAP the journeys that you want to make in work and ...

Eight episodes from the 1980s sitcom about a jobsworth caretaker pursued by an over-amorous cleanerKnow Your Place ran for two series and 15 episodes between January 1982 and August 1983. Included here are all eight of the surviving shows, starring Roy Dotrice as curmudgeonly caretaker Ramsay Potts and Patricia Hayes as cheery cleaning lady Elsie Spurgeon.Janitor Ramsay works at Worthing Court, a once-prestigious b...

Richard Beckinsale and Robert Lindsay star in this BBC radio sitcom about a single dad left holding the babyBryan Archer's girlfriend has run off with the electrician, leaving him to raise their 18-month-old son, Albert, alone. Fortunately, Bryan's mum Pat is around to help out, but he still needs to get a job and earn enough money to pay the rent. Can he find an employer who'll let him bring Albert along?These seventeen episodes follow Bryan's mishaps and ...

Tools for Teaching in an Educationally Mobile World examines the challenges that undergraduate and postgraduate teachers often encounter when working with students from different national and cultural backgrounds. It focuses on the consequences for interactive teaching and for course design in a world where students, ideas and courses are mobile, using examples and experiences from a wide range of disciplines and national contexts. It not only considers Anglophone countries, inclu...

Learn how to master the one skill you can’t do without in today’s global economy.As an award-winning author and global business leader, David Livermore applies his social science and cultural intelligence (CQ) expertise to teach others how to thrive in increasingly multicultural workplaces and a globalized world. Now, in this essential book, he shows you how to leverage the benefits of cultural intelligence for themselves--including improved decision-making, negoti...