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Who Is David Beckham? (Who Was?)
By Ellen Labrecque, Who Hq. 2020
Whether you call it football or soccer, there's no disputing that David Beckham is one of the best players in…
the history of the game! Whenever a young David Beckham was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he'd always answer with the same response: I want to be a footballer. This English native got his wish when he joined the Manchester United team in 1991. Since then, he has been crossing, bending, and free-kicking his way to stardom. In his twenty-year career as a professional soccer player, he has won nineteen major trophies, and appeared at three FIFA World Cup tournaments. David Beckham has become an international cultural icon for his soccer skills, his charity work, and his fashionable wife and family. Young soccer fans are in for a treat with this Who HQ book.ACT Premium Study Guide with 6 Practice Tests (Barron's Test Prep)
By Brian Stewart M.Ed.. 2019
Barron&’s ACT Premium Study Guide with 6 Practice Tests provides online practice, customizable study plans, and expert advice from experienced…
teachers who know the test. Step-by-step review helps you master the content, and full-length practice tests in the book and online provide realistic test experience so you&’re prepared for the exam.This edition includes:Three full-length practice tests in the bookTwo full-length online practice testsOne full-length diagnostic test in the book with guidance on how to use your results to determine the subjects you need to study moreEasy, medium, and hard practice passages that enable you to customize your studyStudy plan recommendations based on the amount of time you have to prepareExtensive subject reviews that cover all parts of the ACT: English, math, reading, science, and the writing testDetailed overview of the ACT with comprehensive answers to frequently asked questionsAdvice on optimizing the test-taking mindset and managing test anxietyProven test-taking strategies for students of all ability levelsOriginally published in 1984. The argument of this book is that the preceding 12 to 15 years saw significant changes…
in educationalists’ understanding and application of the concepts of leadership, and because of these changes two things happened. One, the relationship between participants changed; and two, policy and practice also changed. The papers in this collection have been specially commissioned or collected together with this thesis in mind. Each of them examines leadership with special reference to one or more aspects, sectors, roles or interests within the educational system of England and Wales.This book, first published in 1984, recounts the daily life, the politics, religion and leisure pursuits of Jamaicans in working-…
and middle-class Kingston. The study is based upon the author’s observations of life in Selton Town and Vermount, two neighborhoods of Kingston, between 1971 and 1982. The author analyses the local social conflicts and ideologies, thereby, demonstrating how larger issues of class domination and cultural hegemony pervade neighbourhood life. The study provides a detailed contextual account of the significance of belonging to different classes. It provides a different perspective of Caribbean anthropology combining the techniques of ethnography and political economy.Originally published in 1983, this comparative study of day-to-day industrial relations in two closely matched factories in Britain and Germany,…
the author examines the causes of the disorder in British manufacturing industry. The book describes how, in the absence of government in the British factory, workers took the law into their own hands in order to redress grievances over pay and to protect their position in the factory's earnings hierarchy. In the German workplace, management and works council successfully administer orderly and equitable pay structures.Published in 1984, this book reviews British industrial policy towards information technology within the context of the international trading system. …
It argues that the incoherence of British policy stems from the clash between its core liberal ideology and its centralised political system and that unless Britiain's traditional liberal ideology in trade policy was abandoned within this market, Britiain was set to become a mere technological dependency of America. It discusses how the British government needed to develop effective non-tariff barriers in the form of 'industrial policy' to minimise the political and economic costs of technological dependence.This comprehensive and engaging introduction to critical analysis delivers clear, step-by-step guidelines that provide students with the tools they need…
to systematically and rationally evaluate arguments, claims, and evidence. Fully up-to-date with examples from contemporary culture, politics, and media, this text helps students develop the skills they need to engage meaningfully with the world around them.All the Best, Neill: Letters from Summerhill (Routledge Revivals)
By Jonathan Croall. 1983
A. S. Neill, founder of Summerhill, the most admired and most feared of all progressive schools, was famous as a…
schoolteacher, educational reformer, and author of illuminating and stylish books about education and the mind of the child. But few people know he was also a dedicated, prolific, uninhibited, witty and often mischievous letter writer. This selection of gems, first published in 1983, has been chosen from hundreds of his letters by his biographer. It includes letters about education, children, politics, writing, fatherhood, the Bomb, old age and death. ‘All the best, Neill’ was the familiar ending of his letters to the famous – H. G. Wells, Bertrand Russell, Henry Miller, Paul Goodman, Wilhelm Reich, Homer Lane; to important educators – W. B. Curry of Dartington, John Aitkenhead of Kilquhanity, Bob Mackenzie of Braehead, Dora Russell of Beacon Hill; to unknown friends, parents, and even casual correspondents. To read these letters is to share the company of a great and always delightful man, who wrote each one with the same commitment and gaiety.The Neo-Stalinist State: Class Ethnicity & Consensus in Soviet Society
By Victor Zaslavsky. 1983
Underlying current controversies about environmental regulation are shared concerns, divided interests and different ways of thinking about the earth and…
our proper relationship to it. This book brings together writings on nature and environment that illuminate thought and action in this realm.Originally published in 1983. Extensive research into the archives of the lead industry has culminated in this comprehensive and fascinating…
account of the industry from the earliest times to the 1980’s. It traces the origins of the various types of lead manufacturing and the nineteenth-century expansion of the industry. The technological changes within the industry are traced in detail, and an appraisal of modern industry and its future prospects concluded this definitive and very readable history of the lead industry.The Energy Crisis: Ten Years After (Routledge Library Editions: Energy Economics)
By David Hawdon. 1984
This book, originally published in 1984 by a group of leading international commentators on the oil market and major corporate…
figures int eh market, investigates the underlying forces determining the oil market in the 1970s and 80s. It also discusses the important indicators which point to how the energy market was likely to develop with separate chapters on oil, coal and nuclear power.Essence Of Dogen
By Takahashi. 1983
Richard II: Critical Essays (Shakespearean Criticism)
By Jeanne T. Newlin. 1984
Originally published in 1984. The four parts of this collection of articles, from 1601 to the 1970s, look at the…
historical and political dynamics of the play, the play in the theatre, the psychology of its characters, and its poetry and rhetoric. Bringing together the best that was written about Richard II, this volume represents the collective wisdom of Shakespeare scholars and provides the most insightful criticism in one place. An unpopular play for many years due to the perceived weak main character and the theme of deposition, the play later gained popularity and interest in its psychology and political investigation. The poetry in particular has garnered enthusiastic response and is mentioned in most of the pieces included here.A sympathetic view of the fallen women in Victorian England begins in the novel. First published in 1984, this book…
shows that the fallen woman in the nineteenth-century novel is, amongst other things, a direct response to the new society. Through the examination of Dickens, Gaskell, Collins, Moore, Trollope, Gissing and Hardy, it demonstrates that the fallen woman is the first in a long line of sympathetic creations which clash with many prevailing social attitudes, and especially with the supposedly accepted dichotomy of the ‘two women’. This book will be of interest to students of nineteenth-century literature and women in literature.Adolescence and Developmental Breakdown: A Psychoanalytic View
By Moses Laufer, M. Egle Laufer. 1984
In this book, Moses and Egle Laufer contend that severely disturbed adolescents can be assessed and treated psychoanalytically, and that…
their illness differs from comparable in older patients, and that the psychopathology has its source in conflicts over the sexually mature body. Extensive case histories support their argument.Learning Veterinary Terminology (Second Edition)
By Douglas F. Mcbride. 2002
This text is newly updated to reflect the latest terminology and features numerous new and revised pedagogical features that make…
it an excellent resource both in the classroom and for self-study. Brand-new additions include several new appendices, new anatomical drawings, and a more extensive index. Many sections have been completely rewritten for consistency and greater reader comprehension, and review sections now include more thought-provoking questions and multiple-choice tests.Women, Family, and Community in Colonial America: Two Perspectives
By Linda Speth. 1983
Psychological Aspects of Learning and Teaching (Routledge Library Editions: Psychology of Education)
By Richard Riding, Kevin Wheldall. 1983
Educational psychology has much to offer teachers and trainee teachers which can be of help to them in their work.…
In this book, originally published in 1983, leading experts look at a number of important topics in educational psychology. The chapters present detailed overviews of these key issues, survey recent research findings and advances in the subject at the time, and discuss innovative techniques and approaches which are particularly relevant for classroom practice. This book, much needed at the time, will still be extremely useful to mature teachers and to all students of educational psychology.Advancing Social Work Practice in the Health Care Field: Emerging Issues and New Perspectives
By Gary Rosenberg, Dsw Helen Rehr. 1983
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Department of Social Work at the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City,…
this innovative and exciting book traces the growth of the social work mission and the development of vanguard social work programs at Mount Sinai. Leading social work educators and practitioners look at where the profession is today and speculate on where it might be going. Each article is new and original to this book, and each contributor is a distinguished representative from his specialty in the field. Advancing Social Work Practice in the Health Care Field, with its wealth of historical, practical, and theoretical information, reflects today’s state of the art in selected areas and should serve as an information source not only for practitioners and administrators, but also for educators who are committed to enhancing the social work services and the quality of social health care.Occupational Therapy With Borderline Patients
By Diane Gibson. 1983
This volume discusses and reviews the current knowledge in the concept and management of activity groups designed for borderline patients,…
who are defines as those with “self-destructive and maladaptive interpersonal relations.”