Designed by award winning artist & sculptor Jim Shore White Woodland from Heartwood Creek celebrates the peaceful beauty of nature in a subtle palette of muted tones & gentle hues with hand crafted detail & Jim's unmistakable folk art style Leaping through the woodland Santa steers his steed with precision The regal reindeer prances with elegance; riding with a mission Santa & his trusty transport will certainly deliver this Christmas On Course For Christmas figurine is supplied in branded gift packaging with a photo on the front Unique variations should be expected as product is beautifully h&-painted & crafted from high quality cast stone with intricate styling & attention to detail including glistening sugary finishes A beautiful addition to any home at Christmastime perfect as a table centrepiece Not a toy or children's product Intended for adults only ...

ON COURSE STRATEGIES FOR CREATING SUCCESS IN COLLEGE & IN LIFE STUDY SKILLS PLUS 3rd Edition empowers you with the tools you need to take charge of your academic & lifelong success A self-assessment at the beginning of the text helps you identify behaviors & beliefs you may wish to change in order to achieve more of your potential in college & in life Through short articles & distinctive guided journal entries the author encourages you to explore & develop eight keys to your success personal responsibility self-motivation self-management interdependence self-awareness lifelong learning emotional intelligence & self-esteem As you develop these skills you'll find yourself making more effective choices & achieving greater success The Toolbox for Active Learners provides numerous study skills that will help you excel in all of your college courses As you learn these new strategies you'll have the opportunity to practice applying them to solve academic challenges With enhanced critical & creative problem-solving you'll be able to achieve greater success in all parts of your life Another self-assessment before & after the Toolbox for Active Learners will show you how much you've learned about being an effective learner ...

& Craftsmanship has again become fashionable in high places just as it did in the last few recessions& The concept of craftsmanship has never been as relevant & timely as it is today Assailed on all sides by
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- flexible working short-termism portfolio careers quick-fix training & the cult of celebrity it has recently re-entered public debate with a new sense of urgency Why? This series of linked essays by the man who ran the Royal College of Art for many years explores the crafts in education in history & literature in the contemporary arts landscape in the language in the digital age & takes an unsentimental hard-headed look at craftsmanship today Only when the romantic cobwebs have been blown away it argues can the key importance of the crafts be fully understood

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Insightful & humorous On Cricket is an intelligent exposition of the game's idiosyncratic culture & its enduring appeal by Mike Brearley one of England's finest cricket captains 432 pages Brearley Mike ...

This is a sweeping survey of the current state of Critical Pedagogy offering inspiration to everybody invested in the future of radical educational change For thirty years Henry Giroux has been theorizing pedagogy as a political moral & cultural practice drawing upon critical discourses that extend from John Dewey & Zygmunt Bauman to Paulo Freire This impassioned book starts with the crucial role of pedagogy in schools before extending the notion to the educational force of the wider culture Giroux focuses on five crucial elements associated with critical pedagogy First he presents an overview of the term as it applies to schooling & to larger cultural spheres Second he analyzes the increasingly empirical orientation of teaching focusing on the culture of positivism Section Three examines some of the major economic social & political forces undermining the promise of democratic schooling in both public & higher education Giroux then outlines increasing attempts by both right wing & liberal interests to reduce schooling to training & students merely to customers Finally the book focuses on the legacy of Paulo Freire & issues a fundamental challenge to educators public intellectuals & others who believe in the promise of a radical democracy Commemorating the 40th anniversary of Pedagogy of the Oppressed the new series Critical Pedagogy Today provides a range of incisive overviews & applications of Critical Pedagogy across fields & disciplines Building on the work of Paulo Freire the series reinvigorates his legacy & provides educators with an array of tools for questioning contemporary practices & forging new pedagogical methods ...

Four years ago Jocelyn Butler left her tragic past behind in the States & started over in Scotland burying her grief ignoring her demons & forging ahead without attachments Her solitary life is working well
- until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core 432 pages Young Samantha
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A compelling first-hand look at one of today's most fascinating food trends
- the practice of cooking with & eating insects The
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First published in her pioneering treatise Statecraft the opinions & projections of the former Prime Minister on Europe remain potent & resoundingly prophetic Margaret Thatcher foresaw the European Union as a swelling superstate gradually eroding Britain's freedom Irreparable & doomed European integration did not allow for the birthright of nationhood It was the most recent incarnation of an idea that has been tried many times before & the outcomes were far from happy " During my lifetime" she says "most of the problems the world has faced have come in one fashion or other from mainland Europe & the solutions from outside it" ...

A rousing 7-step plan for living a life filled with hope & possibility from an inspirational speaker who survived a near-fatal fire at the age of nine & now runs a successful business inspiring people all around the world When John O' Leary was nine years old he was almost killed in a devastating house fire With burns on one hundred percent of his body O' Leary mustered an almost unimaginable amount of inner strength just to survive the ordeal The insights he gained through this experience & the heroes who stepped into his life to help him through the journey his family the medical staff & total strangers changed his life Now he is committed to living life to the fullest & inspiring others to do the same An incredible & emotionally honest account of triumph over tragedy On Fire contains O' Leary's reflections on being that little boy the life-giving choices made then & the resulting lessons he learned O' Leary very clearly shares that without the right people providing the right guidance at the right time he never would have made it through those five months in the hospital let alone the years that followed as he struggled to regain mobility embrace his story & ignite clarity of his life's purpose On Fire encourages us to seize the power to choose our path & transform our lives from mundane to extraordinary Once we stop thinking solely on the big moments in our lives we can begin to focus on those smaller opportunities that tend to pass us by These are the events that can determine how we feel about life now where we are headed in the future & how many lives we can impact along the way We can't always choose the path we walk but we can choose how we walk it Empowering inspiring remarkably honest & heartfelt O' Leary's strength & incredible spirit shine through on every page ...

' Truly great cities' writes Jonathan Glancey 'have always been a heady mix of the planned & the unplanned the rational & the irrational the dreamlike & the matter-of-fact' Nowhere is this more true than in Bath which in the eighteenth century was transformed from a small provincial spa to one of the most fashionable & architecturally dazzling cities in the world By the end of the eighteenth century Bath was the tenth largest city in the country In the early years of the following century however its star suddenly faded & growth came to a virtual standstill For the past 200 years the city's residents have struggled to come to terms with that extraordinary legacy These fifteen walks published to coincide with the 25th anniversary of Bath's designation as a World Heritage Site explore the resonances of that legacy today As well as shedding new light on familiar landmarks they go in search of hidden treasures in out-of-the way corners before heading out to explore old villages absorbed by the city Erudite never patronising witty & even sometimes like his eighteenth-century namesake acerbic & satirical Dr Swift is the perfect companion to guide you round the World Heritage Site Lavishly illustrated in full colour with photographs engravings & archive maps to guide you on these walks range from gentle strolls around the city's streets to challenging climbs through woods & along country lanes to visit spectacular buildings high in the hills above Nine of the walks are step-free or have step-free alternatives indicated & all start & end in the heart of the city ...