Postcolonialism has become one of the most exciting popular & stimulating fields of literary & cultural studies in recent years Yet the variety of approaches the range of debate & the critical vocabularies often used may make it challenging for new students to establish a firm foothold in this area Beginning Postcolonialism is a vital resource for those taking undergraduate courses in postcolonial studies for the first time & has become an established international best-seller in the field In this fully revised & updated second edition John Mc Leod introduces the major areas of concern in a clear accessible & organised fashion He provides an overview of the emergence of postcolonialism as a discipline & closely examines its many established critical approaches while also exploring important recent initiatives in the field In particular Beginning Postcolonialism demonstrates how many key postcolonial ideas & concepts can be effectively applied when reading texts & enables students to develop their own independent thinking about the possibilities & pitfalls of postcolonial critique -- ...

A title within the Nursing & Health Care Practice series Beginning Reflective Practice provides pre-registration nursing & health care students with all the tools required to fully understand & develop skills for reflective practice with the goal of becoming a successful reflective practitioner Clearly written & highly accessible this new edition

Includes:: a wide number of examples & illustrations to assist with learning & understanding simple introductions to theoretical perspectives along with key developments in nursing including the growing role of e-learning technologies the relationship between reflective learning & evidence-based practice & the increasingly recognised linkage between reflection professional judgment & accountability Fully up-to-date in line with NMC standards this is an indispensable text for every trainee reflective practitioner This textbook is autopackaged with Course Mate Course Mate brings course concepts to life with interactive learning study & exam preparation tools that support the printed textbook & the textbook-specific website Course Mate

Includes:: an integrated e Book & interactive teaching & learning tools including quizzes flashcards videos & more & an Engagement Tracker a first-of-its-kind tool that monitors student engagement in the course



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Beginning theory has been helping students navigate through the thickets of literary & cultural theory for over two decades This new & expanded fourth edition continues to offer readers the best single-volume introduction to the field The bewildering variety of approaches theorists & technical language is lucidly & expertly unravelled Unlike many books which assume certain positions about the critics & the theories they represent Beginning theory allows readers to develop their own ideas once first principles & concepts have been grasped The book has been updated for this edition &

Includes:: a new introduction expanded chapters & an overview of the subject (' Theory after Theory') which maps the arrival of new 'isms' since the second edition appeared in 2002 & the third edition in 2009 --

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Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over what is the "right" way to help children learn to read Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over the "right" way to help children learn to read Drawing on a rich array of research on the nature & development of reading proficiency Adams shows educators that they need not remain trapped in the phonics versus teaching-for-meaning dilemma She proposes that phonics can work together with the whole language approach to teaching reading & provides an integrated treatment of the knowledge & process involved in skillful reading the issues surrounding their acquisition & the implications for reading instruction A Bradford Book ...

From multi-award-winning Irish author Celine Kiernan comes a dark fantasy adventure about witches" Ireland's answer to JK Rowling" Sunday Independent A middle-grade fantasy adventure perfect for fans of Frances Hardinge Katherine Rundell & Sally Gardner On the night that Aunty dies the Raggedy Witches come for Mup's mam Pale cold relentless they will do anything to coax Mam back to Witches Borough When they kidnap Mup's dad Mup & her mam must leave the mundane world to rescue him But Mam is strange on this side of the border
- striding powerful & distant Even if they can save Dad Mup is not sure anything will ever be the same again
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Rick Stevens is willing to do whatever it takes to try & win the heart of Nina Pennington Even if this means dealing with a mobster&s son a group of strippers his best friend&s horny mother his drug abusing boss a perverted principal a priest with a secret his suicidal mother & a patron saint who dispenses cryptic advice No one ever said love was easy ...

When Mad was turned into a magazine in 1954 every publisher & his uncle came up with his own version often using the same talent Behaving Madly presents 200 pages of never reprinted material by Bill Elder Jack Davis John Severin Al Jaffee Joe Maneely Jack Kirby Ross Andru Joe Kubert Russ Heath Bob Powell Howard Nostrand Basil Wolverton Steve Ditko Lee Elias & many others This coffee table art book is produced by comic strip historian Ger Apeldoorn & Eisner winner Craig Yoe Looking for a little more excitement in your life? Get mad & get Snafu Lunatickle Cockeyed Crazy Thimk Frenzy Frantic Loco Panic & Zany too! Meet the Author Vice magazine has called Criag Yoe the " Indiana Jones of comics historians" Publisher Weekly says he&s the "archivist of the ridiculous & the sublime" & calls his work "brilliant" The Onion calls him "the celebrated designer" The Library Journal "a comics guru" Boing Boing hails him "a fine cartoonist & a comig book historian of the first water" Yoe was Creative Director Vice President General Manager of Jim Henson&s Muppets & a Creative Director at Nickelodeon & Disney Craig has won an Eisner Award & the Gold Medal from the Society of Illustrators Ger Apeldoorn is a write for television stage & screen in the Netherlands writing & translating comics on the side As a comic book historian he has contributed to Alter Ego & Hogan&s Alley & runs the celebrated blog The Fabulous Fifties A lifelong fan of stire magazines he started his career translating for the Dutch Mad at 17 Forty years later he edited a revival of the Dutch Mad which ran for six glorious issues ...

Recognising that the economy is a complex system with boundedly rational interacting agents the book presents a theory of behavioral rationality & heterogeneous expectations in complex economic systems & confronts the nonlinear dynamic models with empirical stylized facts & laboratory experiments The complexity modeling paradigm has been strongly advocated since the late 1980s by some economists & by multidisciplinary scientists from various fields such as physics computer science & biology More recently the complexity view has also drawn the attention of policy makers who are faced with complex phenomena irregular fluctuations & sudden unpredictable market transitions The complexity tools
- bifurcations chaos multiple equilibria
- discussed in this book will help students researchers & policy makers to build more realistic behavioral models with heterogeneous expectations to describe financial market movements & macro-economic fluctuations in order to better manage crises in a complex global economy

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Generally recognized as the standard work in its field Behavioral Social & Emotional Assessment of Children & Adolescents is a comprehensive guide for conducting conceptually sound culturally responsive & ecologically oriented assessments of students' social & emotional behavior Written for graduate students practitioners & researchers in the fields of school psychology child clinical psychology & special education it will also be of interest to those in related disciplines Building on the previous editions this fifth edition

Includes:: updated references to DSM-5 & federal standards as well as an integrated approach to culturally competent assessment throughout the text In Part I Foundations & Methods of Assessment the author provides a general foundation for assessment practice & outlines basic professional & ethical issues cultural considerations & classification & diagnostic problems Part II Assessment of Specific Problems Competencies & Populations

Includes:: material on assessing specific social-emotional behavior domains including externalizing problems internalizing problems social skills & social-emotional strengths & the unique needs of young children A chapter on school-wide screening methods was also added with this edition By weaving together the most recent research evidence & common application issues in a scholarly yet practical matter Behavioral Social & Emotional Assessment of Children & Adolescents continues to be the pre-eminent foundation for assessment courses



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Second Edition of best-seller Behaviour Recovery from top selling author Bill Rogers Teachers frequently face the challenge of children with behaviour disorders in their classes Behaviour Recovery Second Edition gives teachers an educational model for teaching behaviour specifically to those children based on whole-school support The Second Edition of this well-known book has been revised & updated throughout New features include
- the practical options & programmes teachers use to address the challenge of children with emotional & behavioural disorders- attention deficit disorder (ADD) particularly with older primary & lower-secondary age children- issues relating to task avoidance task-focus & organization- discipline & behaviour management in an expanded form- photocopiable masters in the Appendix Behaviour Recovery Second Edition develops a structured approach that enables students to develop positive behaviours Bill Rogers' inclusion of real school experiences
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