Presents both the problems & opportunities associated with the growth of management in the social care sector. This book looks at the nature of management in the human services sector & examines the issues affecting both the UK & USA. It covers topics such as diversity; performance measurement; risk & safety in the workplace; & more. ...

Provides a more detailed consideration of the fundamental issues in staff & educational development, analysing the context in which it functions, the roles undertaken by practitioners & also ways in which staff & educational development can be promoted & managed in senior & institutional levels. ...

Offering an introduction to middle school teaching, this title focuses on the instructional strategies that encourage adolescents to become active participants in their own learning within a world of accountability & standardized testing. It follows a constructivist approach to teaching that considers the whole child. ...

Traders can mentor themselves & further their development by drawing upon research & practice from psychology & various performance disciplines. Leading associate professor of psychiatry Brett Steenbarger provides a practical collection of validated strategies for enhancing trader performance & changing their psychological patterns. ...

Compares three historical apocalypses of the second century BCE found in the books of Enoch & Daniel & inquires into their sociological setting. This book indicates that not only was Judaism of that period heterogeneous, but that even within Jewish apocalypticism there were different responses to the political & religious environment. ...

Helena Bonham Carter stars in this feature-length BBC biopic as children's author Enid Blyton. An astoundingly prolific writer revered by an adoring readership, Blyton was, in her personal life, a self-absorbed, ruthlessly ambitious woman who manipulated those close to her for her own advantage. After driving her first husb&, publisher Major Hugh Pollock (Matthew Mac Fadyen) to drink & into the arms of another woman, Enid uses their two daughters, Gillian & Imogen (Sinead Michael & Ramona Marquez) as bargaining chips to get a divorce on her terms before marrying her lover, Doctor Kenneth Waters (Denis Lawson). Despite her image as a children's champion, Blyton willfully neglects her own children & packs them off to boarding school when they dare to challenge her. ...

This study looks particularly at Enid Blyton's " Noddy", The Famous Five & " Malory Towers". It draws extensively on the view of her readership, past & present, & uses a variety of critical approaches to show how adult criticism has consistently missed the secret of her appeal. ...