This accessible guide to Child Development is specifically aimed at students on Early Childhood Studies & Early Years courses. The text begins by examining the context of early childhood today & goes on to look at childrens development in detail including comprehensive development charts for reference. It considers the biological/social debate in child development holistic development & factors affecting development. Finally the text makes essential links between theory & practice helping the reader understand how to apply their learning in a real-life setting. Throughout activities are included to help the reader interact with the text to gain a better understanding. ...

National concerns about young childrens confidence & well being have lead to a realisation that knowledge about childrens emotional social intellectual & physical needs may well lead to more effective learning. Child Development in Practice" gives students managers & early years practitioners a base from which to plan ways of working with children which will help them become confident interactive & independent learners. Implementing the requirements of the Early Years Foundation stage & the developmental needs of children this book discusses both the theory & practice behind encouraging children to become engaged in learning. The book also lays out a series of practitioners frequently asked questions designed to help you create a responsive learning environment whilst observing & planning for childrens learning needs & the nature of the key person relationship. In helping trainers & practitioners to understand the theory behind child development the book also highlights practical methods towards fully utilising the key areas of the early years setting including: the garden; the book area; the creative area; the role play area; the graphics; & the construction area. Embodying a manageable holistic & Cross-Curricular focus with numerous practical suggestions " Child Development in Practice" is an important aid to all students practitioners & managers in the field of Early Years education." ...

The Child in Time opens with a harrowing event. Stephen Lewis a successful author of children's books takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line his attention is distracted & his daughter is kidnapped. Just like that. From there Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife his psyche & time itself. ...

In 1965 Lennart Nilsson published images from inside the human uterus the first photographs of prenatal life. The book that was to follow A Child is Born" stunned the world
- offering an unprecedented glimpse at the unseen world within our bodies & our own beginnings. Using high-definition ultrasound technique scanning electron & light microscopes & advanced fibre optics Lennart Nilsson documents the miracle of human reproduction: the egg travelling down the fallopian tube; the sperm racing to meet it; the moment of fertilization; the very first cell division; the tiny embryo attaching to the uterine wall; the growth of eyes ears fingers & toes; & finally the moment of delivery itself
- providing an astonishing glimpse of the first moments of life. In this the fully revised fifth edition "A Child is Born" is redefined for a new age. With a completely new accompanying text the images are rendered in astonishing detail utilising revolutionary new photographic technology with the photographs themselves the dominant driving force of the narrative."

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Routledge English Language Introductions" cover core areas of language study & are one-stop resources for students. Assuming no prior knowledge books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject with activities study questions sample analyses commentaries & key readings
- all in the same volume. The innovative & flexible two-dimensional structure is built around four sections
- introduction development exploration & extension
- which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can be read across these sections enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained. " Child Language": provides a comprehensive overview of language acquisition in children; introduces students to key theories & concerns such as innateness the role of input & the relation of language to other cognitive functions; teaches students the skills needed to analyse childrens language;

Includes:: sections on the bilingual child & atypical language development; & provides classic readings by key names in the field such as Brian Mac Whinney Richard Cromer Jean Aitchison & Eve Clark."




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This is a key text for all those studying for degrees & foundation degrees in early childhood early years & related disciplines. It enables students to appreciate the central role of observation for understanding planning for & educating early years children. It covers the theoretical background in detail & highlights important works.

Includes:: guidance on techniques & recording & analysing & consideration of the ethical implications. The text helps students to understand how their observations can be effectively used to draw conclusions or to prompt further study. This second edition

Includes:: new chapters on the curriculum & recording & analysing.



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She grew up in the shadows of lies. Now the past will come to light.. . As a child she was Baby Celeste the one thing that kept her mother in touch with reality. But now her mother is in an institution & sixteen-year-old Celeste Atwell is alone in the world. Adoped by a wealthy couple Celeste has everything a girl could desire: designer clothes luxury cars even a handsome boyfriend. But her indulgence may come at a steep price
- because the secrets hidden within her new family are too dangerous to keep under wraps.. .
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To escape her possessive & drunken step-father Kate is sent away from teaming Jarrow to work on the Ravensworth Estate. Swapping a life of hardship for this rural idyll she is soon attracting the attention of charming headstrong Alexander a distant cousin of the Earl. Kate dares to dream of a future with Alexander; but when their love is consummated in one stolen night of passion those dreams are shattered. With her lover forced into an unwanted betrothal Kate discovers she is pregnant & must return to face the wrath of her step-father & a bleak future. But she refuses to give up hope that one day Alexander might return to claim her & their love child. A CHILD OF JARROW (the second novel in the Jarrow Trilogy) is a poignant & compelling story with an engaging heroine who will steal your heart. ...

' The Jago had got him & it held him fast.' In the worst of London's East End slums in an area called the Jago young Dicky Perrott is used to a life of poverty crime & violence. Gang warfare is the order of the day deaths are commonplace & thieving the only way to survive. At first Dicky dreams of becoming a High Mobsman
- one of the aristocrats of Jago crime
- but the efforts of Father Sturt to improve conditions offer him a different path. Dicky's journey takes him through a savage but colourful community of pickpockets & cosh-carriers where the police only enter in threes & where murder erupts with an unusual horror & intimacy. Morrison's portrayal of the Victorian underclass & its underworld drew attention to the bleak prospects for children living in such surroundings & it is a classic of slum-fiction. In this edition Peter Miles provides a rich contextual background to the creation of the novel & the social debates to which it contributed. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.

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In 1980 seven-year-old Sabine Kuegler & her family went to live in a remote jungle area of West Papua among the recently discovered Fayu
- a tribe untouched by modern civilisation. Her childhood was spent hunting shooting poisonous spiders with arrows & chewing on pieces of bat-wing in place of gum. She also learns how brutal nature can be
- & sees the effect of war & hatred on tribal peoples. After the death of her Fayu-brother Ohri Sabine decides to leave the jungle & aged seventeen she goes to a boarding school in Switzerland
- a traumatic change for a girl who acts & feels like one of the Fayu. Fear is something I learnt here she says. In the Lost Valley with a lost tribe I was happy. In the rest of the world it was I who was lost. Here is Sabine Kueglers remarkable true story of a childhood lived out in the Indonesian jungle & the struggle to conform to European society that followed.


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