Time to Listen to Children is a practical guide to effective communication with children. Professionals working with children in a variety of settings examine the skills required to help children articulate their problems & feelings. They discuss issues such as training cultural background & religion & give accounts of their work in the following settings: * education * social services * voluntary organizations * medical settings * law Contributors practice a variety of therapeutic techniques including play music & art therapy. Time to Listen to Children will be a valuable resource for social workers teachers & counsellors in training & for all professionals who wish to adopt a skilled reflective & active approach to their work with children. ...

At once a history of Holker Hall in Cumbria the story of a family a life a community & an exploration of continuity with the past & adaptation to the modern age. Hugh Cavendish Baron Cavendish of Furness owner of Holker Hall in Cumbria writes about the history of Holker which dates back to the sixteenth century & has never been bought or sold but has passed by inheritance through the family line with each generation leaving its impressions. He writes too about his family
- his grandparents who faced with serious financial embarrassment sat down with a list to find savings & having identified essentials they agreed to give up taking Country Life & having hot water & lemon after dinner
- but still thought it not unreasonable to plan to divert a river to run through the park; his mother (relations with my mother were never good & often spectacularly bad); his aunts (collectively identified as the Aunt Heap). He describes his own life as a child at Holker (when I look back I allow myself the indulgence of believing I was not quite as stupid as my schoolmasters held me to be; nor quite as lazy) & later as the owner of Holker finding a way of managing huge resources & responsibilities & also immense debt. & of course he writes about the garden.

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Time to Pray contains a simpified ' Daily Office': a pattern of prayer praise & daily Bible reading that is simple fresh & accessible. It offers two flexible services ideal for those seeking a simpler form a daily prayer or those just beginning a regular routine of time with God. While being straightforward & flexible to use Time to Pray draws the reader into a tradition that has been practised by Christians throughout the centuries & continues to be shared across the word today. Taken from the material provided in Common Worship: Daily Prayer it contains: Prayer During the Day (for every day of the week) Seasonal variations Night Prayer Selected Psalms Bound in imitation leather Time to Pray is lightweight & portable ideal to be used at home or on the move. ...

Welcome to Chestnut Hill the boarding school where every girls favourite subject is riding. Someone at Chestnut Hill has been accused of cheating! Who would possibly do such a thing? But while all her friends are busy gossiping no one seems to realize that Lani has problems
- & secrets
- of her own. More titles available: THE NEW CLASS (9781407130750) MAKING STRIDES (9781407130767) HEART OF GOLD (9781407130774) PLAYING FOR KEEPS (9781407130781) TEAM SPIRIT (9781407130798) ALL OR NOTHING (9781407130804) & CHASING DREAMS (9781407130811).

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Katherine Jenkins is an international singing superstar who has redefined a music genre: she has brought classical music to the masses & inspired young & old with her incredible voice her glamorous looks & above all her love for music her country & her fans. Born in Neath South Wales Katherine won national acclaim as the BBC Welsh Choirgirl of the year & soon after a place at the Royal Academy of Music. Auditioning for a terrifying panel of industry experts at Universal Music she came away with the largest recording deal in classical music history. & so began Katherines meteoric rise to stardom. TIME TO SAY HELLO is Katherines incredible story. Packed with laughter adventure heartbreak & music it is the tale of a dream coming true & one that will keep you gripped to the last note ...

School can be a frustrating & confusing experience for children who have not developed their communication skills. not only will access to the curriculum be difficult so will developing co-operative skills & friendships. This book has been developed to teach & develop oral language & social interaction skills to children aged 4-6. Containing 40 sessions designed to take place two to three times a week the book aims to help teachers to develop the rules" of interaction with the help of the character Ginger the Bear who features in all the activities. Skills taught include: eye contact; taking turns; sharing; greetings; awareness of feelings; giving; following instructions; listening; paying attention; & play skills. The book should provide a useful resource for Literacy Hour & curriculum Key Stage 1." ...

The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book Kline describes how we can achieve this & presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings solve business problems or build stronger relationships this book offers you a new world of possibilities. ...

Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although scientists are not yet taking out patents on a time machine they are investigating whether it is possible under the laws of physics. In Newtons three-dimensional world this would have been inconceivable. But with Einsteins theory of relativity a fourth dimension time enters the frame. Is it really inconceivable that we can travel along the timeline? In this book Richard Gott offers an intellectually expansive witty & engaging study of the viability of time travel which takes us from the dream of time travel itself in H. G. Wellss path-breaking novel THE TIME MACHINE to cutting-edge research into astrophysics & quantum teleportation. He explores the scientific social & moral implications of time travel & looks at recent remarkable experiments in which fundamental particles were actually sent into the future. ...

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare & Henry who met when Clare was six & Henry was thirty-six & were married when Clare was twenty-two & Henry thirty. Impossible but true because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets & he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control Henry & Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving & entirely unforgettable. ...

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there... Imagine you could travel back to the fourteenth century. What would you see & hear & smell? Where would you stay? What are you going to eat? & how are you going to test to see if you are going down with the plague? In The Time Travellers Guide... Ian Mortimers radical new approach turns our entire understanding of history upside down. History is not just something to be studied; it is also something to be lived whether thats the life of a peasant or a lord. The result is perhaps the most astonishing history book you are ever likely to read; as revolutionary as it is informative as entertaining as it is startling. ...