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How Children Learn
Par Sean MacBlain. 2014
Understanding How Children Learn is a vital part of working with children. Every child is unique and understanding differences in…
learning helps all to benefit. This book goes beyond simply understanding the work of key theorists and the various theories of learning to recognise what learning actually looks like and how it is best facilitated in any setting. Each chapter includes: Exercises to help you evaluate your understanding and practice Examples taken from real experiences to illustrate concepts beyond the theory Summaries to help you take the key messages from each chapter Suggestions for further reading to help push your own learning further. Looking at key topics such as brain development, technology in childhood and barriers to learning, this book will explain what learning really is. Why not also have a look at the companion title Learning Theories in Childhood to explore the key learning theories? Sean MacBlain is Reader in Child Development and Disability at the University of St. Mark & St. John, Plymouth.
A Death for a Cause: A feisty heroine and a cause worth fighting for (A Euphemia Martins Mystery #8)
Par Caroline Dunford. 2015
'A sparkling and witty crime debut with a female protagonist to challenge Miss Marple' LIN ANDERSON, Award winning Scottish crime…
author A Death for a Cause - the eighth edition of the gripping and twisty Euphemia Martins Mysteries!_______________When Euphemia Martins accompanies her employer Richenda Muller to London, she envisages a pleasant few days spent taking tea and visiting the shops. Her hopes are dashed when Richenda gets her involved in a suffragettes' march which soon turns nasty. Euphemia finds herself getting quite physical in the defence of her fellow marchers when the police turn on them, and she is imprisoned for her pains.Euphemia soon realises this is no ordinary imprisonment when her old acquaintance Fitzroy enrols her in the latest of his schemes for King and Country. An important civil servant has been murdered, and Fitzroy believes one of the women imprisoned with Euphemia knows the reason why. Euphemia must work out who it is... a task made more complicated when one of her fellow prisoners is also murdered. It's up to Euphemia, with help from Richenda and Richenda's brother Bertram, to trap the guilty party - and fast!_______________Readers LOVE Caroline Dunford's compelling crime novels!'In summary, these are wonderful mysteries, with great characters and good plots. I highly recommend them...' ***** Reader review'Caroline Dunford has written another gripping adventure for her heroine, I would recommend this book and the whole series...' ***** Reader review'A great harking back to the Golden Age of detective fiction with a feisty female lead' ***** Reader review'Interesting characters and plot. I enjoyed it' ***** Reader review
This book presents an interdisciplinary and international reevaluation of urban critical theories, bringing together key perspectives from around the world…
on contemporary urban studies.Engaging with a wide range of issues related to the urban question – including urban sprawl, housing, and the accelerating rates of urbanization globally – it weaves together interconnected dimensions of urban inequality, analyzing how class, gender, and race serve as fundamental axes shaping contemporary social phenomena. The book also possesses a crucial capacity to integrate various interrelated issues within urban studies while fostering dialogue between established scholars and emerging researchers, ultimately seeking to move beyond the confines of the Global North by devoting only one-third of its content to this context, while emphasizing perspectives from other regions and problematizing the imperialism issue in an urban context. Additionally, it aspires to offer a book that not only serves an academic audience but also possesses a broader, accessible character, appealing to politically engaged individuals, including those involved in progressive political parties and social movements.As such, the volume will appeal to scholars across disciplines, as well as politically engaged individuals, who are interested in critical theoretical analyses of contemporary urban and spatial transformations, as well as the phenomenon of planetary urbanization. Its primary objective is to bring together diverse perspectives and ongoing debates on the urban question.
Comprehensive overview of how to ensure adequate power resources in a decarbonized world powered by renewable energy Power System Resource…
Adequacy for Clean Energy explores and addresses the challenges and solutions associated with ensuring adequate power resources as power grids transition toward a decarbonized and renewable energy future, discussing assumptions, methodologies, modeling frameworks, detailed inputs, and result analysis. The book illustrates the methodology, approaches, and nuances of resource adequacy studies to determine seasonal planning reserve margins as well as resource peak capacity contributions to meet peak demand. The saturation effects of renewable resources and energy-limited resources are highlighted, and importance of resource adequacy verification is emphasized. Written by an expert with a wealth of real-world experience in the field, Power System Resource Adequacy for Clean Energy includes information on: The impact of climate change, seasonal planning reserve margins, multi-metric criteria for resource adequacy Wind and solar generation profiles, energy storage and thermal generation modeling, and the flexibility of hydroelectric generation Operating and balancing reserve, effective load carrying capability, saturation effects, and marginal and average ELCC Resource adequacy verification, a critical concept in ensuring that the peak demands are truly met by built resources Power System Resource Adequacy for Clean Energy is an excellent reference on the subject for power system planners, federal and state energy policy makers and commissioners, and professors, researchers, and graduate students in Electrical & Computer Engineering.
Telescope Eyepieces: Optical Theory and Design
Par Sean G. Ryan. 2026
Anyone who has looked through binoculars, a telescope or microscope has used an eyepiece. Telescope Eyepieces: Optical Theory and Design…
explores the wide range of eyepiece designs. It introduces optics theory progressively to build understanding of how lenses control light in an optical system, both generally and in eyepieces specifically, linking optics fundamentals, design evolution and the implications for image quality. This book presents a logical narrative starting with Snell’s law of refraction at a flat surface, progressing to paraxial and real rays at spherical and aspherical surfaces, lenses and thin-lens systems. It demystifies the origin of aberrations by considering wavefront deviations, all brought to life in the context of the familiar eyepiece. Principles are explored both descriptively and mathematically, and carefully interpreted so the reader is not swamped by a sea of equations. This book contains many diagrams of ray tracing results to illustrate optical principles and the consequences of design choices, enabling the reader to visualise their impact on image quality and to cut through the puffery that is sometimes found in the marketing of telescope eyepieces. It bridges the gap between introductory books and expert-level optical design texts, written jointly for an astronomy readership and for physics and optical-design students.Key Features: Develops an understanding of optics by focusing on the design variations of a particular multi-lens system – the eyepiece – which readers will have used when looking through binoculars, telescopes and microscopes Combines descriptions and interpretations of theory with many illustrative visualisations of eyepiece designs to help the reader develop an intuitive understanding of optics and aberrations in the familiar context of eyepieces Written by a Professor of Astrophysics with experience as both an amateur and professional observer using telescopes at observatories around the world
A Plague of Serpents (Daniel Pursglove)
Par K. J. Maitland. 2024
K.J. Maitland's gripping Jacobean historical thriller series comes to a dramatic conclusion...'What a wonderful storyteller Maitland is' THE TIMESLondon, 1608.…
Three years after the Gunpowder Treason, the King's enemies prepare to strike again.Daniel Pursglove is tasked by royal command with one final mission: he must infiltrate the Serpents - a secret group of Catholics plotting to kill the King - or risk his own execution. But other conspirators are circling, men who would blackmail Daniel for their own dark ends.In the Serpents' den, nothing is quite as it seems. And when Daniel spies a familiar face among their number, the game takes a dangerous turn.As plague returns to London, tensions reach breaking point. Can Daniel escape the web of treason in which he finds himself ensnared - or has his luck finally run out?PRAISE FOR THE DANIEL PURSGLOVE SERIES'Dark and enthralling' ANDREW TAYLOR'Colourful and compelling' SUNDAY TIMES'Full of tension and danger... powerfully atmospheric' JENNIFER SAINT'Goes right to the heart of the Jacobean court' TRACY BORMAN'Spies, thieves, murderers and King James I? Brilliant' CONN IGGULDEN'There are few authors who can bring the past to life so compellingly... Brilliant writing and more importantly, riveting reading' SIMON SCARROW'A beautifully crafted thriller... Breathtaking and bone-chilling' MANDA SCOTT'Maitland is a superlative historical novelist' REBECCA MASCULL'Devilishly good' DAILY MAIL'The intrigues of Jacobean court politics simmer beneath the surface in this gripping and masterful crime novel' KATHERINE CLEMENTS'Beautifully written with a dark heart, Maitland knows how to pull you deep into the early Jacobean period' RHIANNON WARD
The Red Hot Typewriter: The Life of John D. MacDonald
Par Hugh Merrill. 2000
Although John D. MacDonald published seventy novels and more than five hundred short stories in his lifetime, he is remembered…
best for his Travis McGee series. He introduced McGee in 1964 with The Deep Blue Goodbye. With Travis McGee, MacDonald changed the pattern of the hardboiled private detectives who preceeded him. McGee has a social conscience, holds thoughtful conversations with his retired economist buddy Meyer, and worries about corporate greed, racism and the Florida ecolgoy in a long series whose brand recognition for the series the author cleverly advanced by inserting a color in every title. Merrill carefully builds a picture of a man who in unexpected ways epitomized the Horatio Alger sagas that comprised his strict father's secular bible. From a financially struggling childhood and a succession of drab nine-to-five occupations, MacDonald settled down to writing for a living (a lifestyle that would have horrified his father). He worked very hard and was rewarded with a more than decent livelihood. But unlike Alger's heroes, MacDonald had a lot of fun doing it.
Escaping Peril: A Graphic Novel (Wings of Fire Graphix)
Par Tui T. Sutherland. 2025
The graphic novel adaptations of the #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series continue to set the world…
on fire!Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes.There's just one problem: a strangely persistent SeaWing, Turtle, insists on coming along, too. Turtle is worried about his friends, who left to search for Scarlet and haven't returned. Peril is worried that she might accidentally burn Turtle -- or burn him on purpose, for being so annoying -- and frustrated that she keeps saying and doing the wrong things. She can't escape her firescales, and she can't escape her reputation as the deadliest dragon in Pyrrhia.So when she's offered a chance to trade everything for a new life, Peril has to decide who she's really loyal to . . . and whether her own scales might actually be worth saving.The #1 New York Times bestselling Wings of Fire series soars to new heights in the eighth graphic novel adaptation, with art by Mike Holmes.
The Beach Girls (Murder Room #542)
Par John D. MacDonald. 1959
Leo Rice seems like a nice enough guy, but why does he have to choose their beach? He could head…
ten miles up the Florida strip and everyone could just live happily ever after - no questions asked.But Leo Rice does ask questions ... and suddenly Stebbins' Marina, an oasis of easy living, hard drinking and free love for its residents, is in jeopardy. And in less than a month, their paradise will be interrupted by twisted emotions, buried hatred - and brutal murder.
Cancel All Our Vows (Murder Room #95)
Par John D. MacDonald. 2013
Fletcher Wyant and his wife Jane had been married for fifteen years. They had built the perfect marriage - two…
wonderful kids, a warm beautiful home, and their own private never-ending love affair.Fletcher thought he knew Jane completely. No dark secrets. No hidden past. Then one hot summer week everything changed. And suddenly, brutally, Jane became a cold stranger.
Drawing on Jeffrey Schnapp’s conceptual framework, this book examines political exhibitions organised by the Portuguese Estado Novo between 1934 and…
1940 as spaces where regimes manipulated national history to legitimise their authority, crafting myths of origin and narratives of national pride.The Portuguese Estado Novo invested heavily in political exhibitions to consolidate its power and project a favourable image abroad, making them a key instrument of propaganda and cultural diplomacy. By analysing national exhibitions, as well as Portugal’s participation in the international fairs in Paris (1937), New York, and San Francisco (1939), this book explores how the regime’s efforts to construct a shared past reinforced its consolidation and provided a unifying foundation for its internal factions. It also examines how Salazarism, navigating both missteps and successes, designed its pavilions to develop visual propaganda and a teleological narrative aimed at fostering loyalty and devotion to its core values. By bridging the local and the global, Showing Salazarism demonstrates how the Estado Novo leveraged these events to forge alliances, influence international audiences, and strengthen ties with the Portuguese diaspora – embedding its cultural strategy within the broader framework of the interwar period.This volume fills a critical gap in the historiography of Salazar’s Portugal while offering fresh insights into the study of political exhibitions and will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in the studies of fascism and European history.
Megaprojects in Central America: Local Narratives About Development and the Good Life (Routledge Studies in Development, Displacement and Resettlement)
Par Katarzyna Dembicz, Ewelina Biczyńska. 2026
Embedded in Southern voices and epistemologies, this book explores how local communities in Central America understand development and the good…
life in the context of large-scale infrastructure projects.The analysis focuses on six case studies: the Reventazón hydropower plant and the Guanacaste tourism projects in Costa Rica, the Barro Blanco hydropower plant in Panama, the Bahía de Tela tourism area in Honduras, and the La India and La Libertad gold mines in Nicaragua. The book draws on extensive in-depth interviews, participatory workshops and surveys to demonstrate how different social groups interpret the impacts of megaprojects. It critically examines the tensions between externally-driven investment initiatives — and the values they promote — and locally-rooted worldviews, wellbeing and ways of life. The volume concludes with a practical workshop proposal to help communities strengthen their resilience and formulate alternative development pathways based on their own cultural and social frameworks.This book will be of particular interest to scholars in the fields of development and Latin American studies, as well as policy makers and practitioners working in the region.
Permacrisis and the Policy Continuum in the UK: Deepening Inequalities before, during and after COVID-19 (Routledge Studies in British Politics)
Par Anémone Kober-Smith, Anne Beauvallet. 2026
This book examines the UK’s enduring ‘permacrisis’—austerity policies, Brexit, climate change, inflation, and the rising cost of living—through the lens…
of the policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic as part of a policy continuum.The book demonstrates that the policy continuum cannot be considered as a mere attempt to tackle a range of social and economic issues but also as contributing to forging the permacrisis sui generis. It concludes that the government’s policy responses before, during and after the pandemic presented various flaws in governance, leadership and execution, constituting a crucial part of the permacrisis in the UK. Evidencing this through its assessment of policy outcomes in a number of key public policy fields, such as mental health, care and education, the book explores the impact of the pandemic on wide-ranging and long-term inequalities and vulnerable populations.This book is of key interest to scholars and students of British politics, policy studies and, more broadly, sociology and social policy.
Writing Sensation: Sense, Events, and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry
Par Andrew Mark Gillott. 2026
How do we convey felt, intimate encounters between people, shared objects, spaces, and atmospheres? How do we inquire of moments…
that make themselves felt with the sparest of signs, in flashing glances and gestures; the felt feeling of relations in which unfamiliar forms take shape? Just how might we set about writing sensation?Writing Sensation: Sense, Events, and Encounters with Creative-Relational Inquiry takes on these questions with creativity, speculation, and invention. This book illuminates the ‘creative-relational’ as a poietic and transversal concept of an inquiry capable of attending to the way events throw themselves together, and how forms take shape in the interplay of difference. Engaging with postfoundational and postqualitative approaches to inquiry, Writing Sensation offers readers both engaging, creative, and affirmative readings of scholars such as Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Erin Manning, and Brian Massumi, and enactments of how one may write the immanent moment of emergent circumstances. This book challenges traditional research methods and analysis and offers an approach to writing the sense of an unfolding world that is creative, relational, elusive, and profoundly real.Writing Sensation will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, and students of transdisciplinary and experimental research, post-structural and immanent philosophies, and postfoundational, postqualitative, and creative-relational approaches to inquiry. This book offers a creative and singular engagement with qualitative inquiry, urging a radical openness to the subtle, shifting worlds that unfold in our relational encounters.
Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Nobel Prize, Volume 4 (Synthetic Organic Chemistry and the Nobel Prize)
Par John G. D'Angelo. 2026
The Nobel Prize is the highest award in science, as is the case with nonscience fields too, and it is,…
therefore, arguably the most internationally recognized award in the world. This unique set of volumes focuses on summarizing the Nobel Prize within organic chemistry, as well as the specializations within this specialty. Any reader researching the history of the field of organic chemistry will be interested in this work. Furthermore, it serves as an outstanding resource for providing a better understanding of the circumstances that led to these amazing discoveries and what has happened as a result, in the years since.Key Features An outstanding resource which enables readers to better understand the conditions that led to these Nobel Prize amazing discoveries To an extent the roots of organic chemistry have been forgotten or lost and this set of volumes bridges the gap Unique set of volumes, no other book publication in the field competes and only press releases announcing the prizes from recent years exist "More than any other branch of chemistry, organic chemists look to history, so the readers will certainly enjoy this compilation" Appeals to a diverse audience including upcoming as well as modern practicing chemists, and provides the historical context of these discoveries
Rethinking Childhood in Modern Chinese History (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
Par Isabella Jackson, Yushu Geng. 2026
At the cutting edge of the growing field of the history of childhood, this book shows how placing children at…
the centre of historical analysis enables the past to be viewed in new ways.Demonstrating that changes in the way Chinese children were viewed and cared for emerged in the context of an international shift towards child-centred education, the book places Chinese childhood in a global context. It discusses how the state and the family interacted through policy, education, media and regime change, and highlights the centrality of science and technology to twentieth-century Chinese approaches to childhood. In addition, by seeking out the voices of children themselves, the book presents valuable testimony of the world viewed through young eyes.As a study of how class, gender and age affected both representations of children and childhood and children’s real-life experiences, this book will be a valuable resource for students and scholars of Chinese studies, modern Chinese history and Childhood studies.
Investigating How and Why Motor Vehicle Crashes Occur: To Err Is Human
Par Alison Smiley. 2026
Decades of research reveal that human error is a significant contributor to vehicle crashes, accounting for over 90 % of…
incidents. Humans possess inherent physical, visual, and cognitive limitations that can lead to accidents on the road. This book draws on the author’s 35 years of experience investigating approximately 500 motor vehicle crashes to explore these limitations and their role in causing accidents.In this title, ten specific crashes, each illustrating how human limitations contribute to accidents, are presented and analyzed. Technical solutions such as automated emergency braking are offered for each crash type. From passenger car drivers to pedestrians, motorcyclists to truck drivers, each chapter investigates the unique circumstances and human factors at play. In each case, the interdisciplinary science of human factors that applies is explained, covering issues such as visibility with low beam headlights, glare, fatigue, information processing demands, and false expectations. Including a final chapter on the author’s experiences acting as a human factors expert witness in court, this book delivers to the reader a vital overview of human error in vehicle accidents.Investigating How and Why Motor Vehicle Crashes Occur: To Err Is Human is an essential read for practitioners of human factors and ergonomics, occupational health and safety, automotive engineering, civil engineering, road and transport design, collision investigation and the law.
An Introduction to Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing: Fundamentals, Processing, and Applications
Par Murali Mohan Cheepu, Sivaprasad Katakam. 2026
This book covers the fundamentals of wire arc additive manufacturing processes including principles and processing procedures for developing near-net-shape components…
and their applications. It further addresses wire arc additive manufacturing of titanium, aluminium, nickel-based alloys, stainless steel, copper, bronze, and iron-based alloys backed by case studies and illustrations. It explains the metallurgical and mechanical features of the wire arc additively manufactured components. Overviews directed energy deposition processes and fundamentals of wire arc additive manufacturing process Deals with the most successful additive manufacturing process to create large-scale components Provides the comparison of productivity between wire arc additive manufacturing and other additive manufacturing processes for various materials Discusses solidification process, thermal gradient, and microstructural features Includes real-time case studies and numerous illustrations This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in manufacturing and materials science engineering, welding, and additive manufacturing.
The Global Positioning System and GIS
Par Michael Kennedy, Alexander Kennedy. 2026
Now in its fourth edition, The Global Positioning System and GIS arrives at a critical moment of transition— a time…
when new methods for collecting position and attribute data are reshaping how information is integrated into Geographic Information Systems (GIS).This edition is uniquely structured to reflect this shift: each chapter is divided into two sections— one covering “Newer Technology,” including the latest advances in hardware, software, and cloud- based data collection, and the other preserving and refining “Older Technology” techniques from the third edition.As GIS platforms represent the Earth with increasing precision and Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) deliver accuracy down to the centimeter, this book equips readers with proven, practical methods for building highly accurate and actionable geospatial datasets across a wide variety of devices and platforms.Features: Step-by-step tutorials for hands- on learning, balancing theoretical foundations with practical application Covers both ArcGIS Pro (ESRI) and QGIS (open- source), ensuring students and professionals can work across essential GIS platforms Supports a broad range of devices: Android, iOS, and Trimble receivers Provides downloadable datasets for instructors to use in exercises, examples, and exams Features an entirely new chapter by GPS World former Editor- in- Chief Matteo Luccio, along with exclusive interviews with GPS and GIS pioneers Brad Parkinson, Charlie Trimble, and Jack Dangermond Clear, practical, and deeply informed by the evolution of the field, The Global Positioning System and GIS, first published in 1996, remains the definitive resource for anyone working where geospatial accuracy matters— from students and researchers to GIS professionals across all disciplines.
Modelling Social Housing: Exploring the Interplay of Social Life and Built Environments on European Social Housing Estates (Explorations in Housing Studies)
Par Morten Nielsen, Mikkel Høghøj, Mette My Madsen, Anne Corlin. 2026
Modelling Social Housing delves into the intricate relationship between everyday social life and the architectural landscapes of social housing across…
European cities.Focusing on social housing across multiple temporal and socio-cultural European urban settings, this book traces how the confluence of distributed knowledges, technological resources, and architectural histories may have considerable effects across different scales, ranging from everyday interactions to welfare planning and economic policies. To capture these intricate socio-spatial relations, this book introduces the concept of ‘social urban modelling’ as a novel analytical approach to social housing research. Spanning historical trajectories, contemporary challenges, and future potentials, this book brings together scholars from diverse fields including architecture, history, anthropology, sociology, geography, and art history. Through examinations of architectural designs, urban planning assemblages, contemporary redevelopment projects, and everyday appropriations by residents, this book unveils the intricate layers of social housing dynamics in European cities. From the adoption of Mediterranean and Islamic architectural typologies in mid-twentieth century Denmark to the innovative bureaucratic structures of the London County Council in post-war Britain, each chapter provides new insights into the spatial and social transformations of European social housing. Through empirical cases from across Europe, we ask: How might resident-driven initiatives reshape urban landscapes? What are the implications of densification processes on social housing estates? And how do private investors influence the social fabric of these communities?With its timely interdisciplinary exploration of the modelling capacities of social housing estates, this book will provide an indispensable resource for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers engaged in housing studies, urban development, and architectural history.