This highly acclaimed step-by-step guide provides the relevant physiology available evidence & rationale for each clinical skill. In a highly readable format Skills for Midwifery Practice" offers self-assessment & short summaries as well as detailed instruction on achieving a range of clinical skills." ...

Following-on from The Study Skills Handbook " this book enables students to think about personal academic & career goals & to plan a path to success. Rich in activities that develop valuable career skills this edition has a new chapter on Understanding your Personal Performance & updated information on job applications." ...

Janet Tolan defines the key tenets of the approach
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* Clear links between Resistant Materials lessons & industry give students a valuable insight into how the skills they learn are applied in real life. * Plenty of thought-provoking activities develop designing & making skills. * Full teaching support helps you make the most of the resources in the classroom. * A wealth of photocopiable sheets with focused practical tasks & extra information
- ideal for homework!
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Skills-based Learning in Caring for a Loved One with an Eating Disorder" equips carers with the skills & knowledge needed to support & encourage those suffering from an eating disorder & to help them to break free from the traps that prevent recovery. Through a co-ordinated approach this book offers information alongside detailed techniques & strategies which aim to improve professionals & home carers ability to build continuity & consistency of support for their loved ones. The authors use evidence based research & personal experience as well as practical support skills to advise the reader on a number of difficult areas in caring for someone with an eating disorder these include: Working towards positive change through good communications skills; Developing problem solving skills; Building resilience; & Managing difficult behaviour. This book is essential reading for both professionals & families involved in the care & support of anyone with an eating disorder. It will enable the reader to use the skills information & insight gained to help change eating disorder symptoms." ...

The Know the Game Skills series is the perfect introduction to a sport for every budding player. Each book aims to teach young players the basic skills of the game they need to start enjoying the sport
- by giving plenty of simple practice drills & showing how the star players do it. Football: Goalkeeping aims to teach the basic skills needed to become a great goalkeeper. It teaches the young player how to: control the area & narrow angles handle the ball block shots clear the ball by punching or kicking come off the goal line set up counter attacks. Clearly illustrated & written by a professional coach this book will give every player all the skills & confidence they need to enjoy football
- from the playground kickabout to competitive matches.

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Two of the UKs most exciting nature writers. A thoughtful adventure in learning simple skills that help connect people to nature. Guardian Skimming Stones & Other Ways of Being in the Wild is a book of simple skills that can help us to interact with nature achieve a deeper connection with it & even step inside another dimension. Rob Cowen & Leo Critchley teach us for example making & flying a kite making an elder whistle damming a stream & building a den
- & at the same time teach us about life. Their techniques are intended to be not only of practical value but also techniques for meditation. They help us to live in the moment recover ancient insights & rhythms & encourage nature to reveal to us her secrets & treasures. They write that.. .there are forces deep in everyones subconscious that find a pure expression in the simplest of activities. This book explains why we should be taking the time to do them. It is born out of a wish to share our passion for our landscape & the contemplative reflective pleasures & joys that were well-known to our grandparents but which are in danger of being lost & forgotten. They will help us get back to a place where we all belong. Skimming Stones was awarded the Robert Deakin Grant from the Authors Foundation by the Society of Authors. Essential reading. Daily Express At its simplest their book gives advice on connecting with nature through twelve activities...but Skimming Stones delves deeper. Each section draws the reader lyrically into deeper philosophical waters...I was simply carried along by the authors sense of awe & their quiet belief that our lives can be enriched through a deeper connection with nature. 4* BBC Wildlife Skimming stones teaches you how to get back to nature and: * Skim a stone * Find a fossil * Forage for food * Make a kite * Carve an elder whistle * Track an animal * Build a den * Light a fire * Build an igloo * Catch a fish * Dam a stream * Walk in the wild
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When the decomposed body of a young woman is found near railway tracks just outside Bristol one morning all indications are that she's committed suicide. That's how the police want it too; all neatly squared & tidied away. But DI Jack Caffery is not so sure. He is on the trail of someone predatory someone who hides in the shadows & can slip into houses unseen. & for the first time in a very long time he feels scared. Police Diver Flea Marley is working alongside Caffery. With the traumas of her past safely behind her she's beginning to wonder whether their relationship could go beyond the professional. But then she finds something that changes everything. Not only is it far too close to home for comfort
- it's so horrifying that she knows that nothing will ever be the same again. & this time no one
- not even Caffery
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The corpse of a young woman is found bludgeoned frozen & burnt to death. Then the post-mortem reveals that she recently gave birth. & evidence suggests the baby may still be alive. Detective Kate Farrer must find the missing newborn if it's going to have any chance of surviving. & catch the dead woman's murderer before her own personal demons overwhelm her... ...

On a cold January morning a nightmare awaits in a small Sussex village. A deranged young man goes on the rampage shooting everyone in his path before taking his own life. It is a senseless tragic event but sadly not an unfamiliar one. At least that's what everyone thinks. Only Julia Trent
- believed to be the sole survivor
- knows that there was a second man involved. But after being shot & badly injured her account of the massacre is ignored. But she cannot let it rest there. Together with Craig Walker the journalist son of one of the victims Julia sets out to find the truth. As they peel back the layers of a dark & dangerous conspiracy they discover the slaughter didn't begin on that bitter day in January. & worst of all it won't end there.

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