In Powerful Learning, Linda Darling-Hammond and an impressive list of co-authors offer a clear, comprehensive, and engaging exploration of the most effective classroom practices. They review, in practical terms, teaching strategies that generate meaningful K–2 student understanding, and occur both within the classroom walls and beyond. The book includes rich stories, as well as online videos of innovative classrooms and schools, that show how students who are taught well are able ...

Marketing has changed dramatically since the four classic Ps of the marketing mix (price, product, promotion and place) were proposed. The new marketing landscape is characterized by the demand for constant innovation, rising pressure on budgets, the growth of social media and the impact of issues of sustainability and ethics. As the business landscape has transformed so have the fundamental areas marketers need to master to succeed.The 20 Ps of Marketing ...

In this volume, two notable scholars trace the monumental shifts in theory, research, and practice related to reading education and literacy, with particular attention to what they consider the central goal of literacy—making meaning. Each section describes a specific epoch, including a brief snapshot of how the reader of that period is envisioned and characterized by researchers and teachers, as well as a deep discussion of the ideas and contextual events of that era. These developmental ...

This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort provokes the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and decorum.This collection of scholarly essays analyzes how NOFX's aesthetics of punk provocation and discomfort push the band's listeners to confront contradictions and conflicts in society concerning politics, identity, authenticity, and...

HIGHLY COMMENDED for the British Medical Awards book prize for Popular MedicineMost of us have some behaviours which are not fully under our control but when those start interfering with our lives and with who we want to be, we need this book. When we turn away from opportunity and excitement in case it makes us anxious, we lose the joy in our lives and can experience misery and depression as well as, oddly, even more anxiety.Get Your Life Back hel...

At the dawn of the 1990s, as the United States celebrated its victory in the Cold War and sole superpower status by waging war on Iraq and proclaiming democratic capitalism as the best possible society, the 1990s underground punk renaissance transformed the punk scene into a site of radical opposition to American empire. Nazi skinheads were ejected from the punk scene; apathetic attitudes were challenged; women, Latino, and LGBTQ participants asserted their identities and perspectives with...

A woman is found dead in a ditch. As the list of suspects grows, a town’s dirty secrets are revealed.It’s a cold winter evening and rain is sweeping in from the Atlantic when a young woman, having braved the weather to visit her sick mother in a remote part of Ireland, comes across an obstacle in the road. She clears the highway of stones from a damaged bridge only to see the body of a woman in a ditch. With no phone reception, she travels to the nearest police station to report wh...

Change is inevitable-but growth is intentional.Navigating Change - How to Adapt and Succeed in Uncertain Times is your trusted guide to staying grounded, resilient, and forward-focused when the world around you feels anything but stable. Whether you're facing personal transitions, professional upheaval, or global uncertainty, this book equips you with the tools and mindset to not only weather change-but thrive through it.Drawing from the latest resea...

The study of dissociation is relevant to anyone undertaking research or treatment of mental health problems. Cognitive Behavioural Approaches to the Understanding and Treatment of Dissociation uses a cognitive approach to de-mystify the processes involved in linking traumatic incidents to their effects.Kennedy, Kennerley and Pearson present a full and comprehensive understanding of mental health problems involving dissociative disorders and their treatment, bringing togeth...

Here is another miscellany of over forty short stories. As in volume one, there are a few tales for children, some futuristic ones, some science-fiction, the odd murder mysteries, but for most there is usually human nature shining through, for good or for ill.

Here is a miscellany of fifty short stories. Amongst them there are a few tales for children, some futuristic ones, some science-fiction, the odd murder mysteries, but for most there is usually human nature shining through, for good or for ill.

Here is another miscellany of fifty short stories. As in volume one & two, there are a few tales for children, some futuristic ones, some science-fiction, the odd murder mysteries, but for most there is usually human nature shining through, for good or for ill.