The Understanding Reasoning series helps pupils to understand & answer correctly reasoning questions as found in the 11+ 12+ 13+ & other school selection tests. The books provide concise explanations & examples of all the question types occurring in the 11+ together with practical workbook-style activities to consolidate learning. The step-by-step explanations are clear & include 'how to' instructions. Intensive practice enables pupils to gain confidence as they tackle each new question type. Correct answers are provided at the back of each book for quick & easy marking. Verbal reasoning activities use letters & words to explore pupils' understanding of language & meaning. Using methods that are quite distinct from traditional literacy activities pupils' verbal skills are stretched to the full. Question types covered include the following: alphabet & word patterns vocabulary spelling mathematical questions & problem solving. ...

From the start of their training its crucial for nursing students to be able to understand & evaluate current research to support their learning & reading for assignments. However many books focus on how to do research rather than how to understand & evaluate research. This book helps students recognise what good research is by providing an entry-level guide to the main research methodologies used in nursing. It puts research into context for student nurses explaining how they need to use the skills of critiquing & evaluating research throughout their course & how this is linked to evidence-based practice. ...

The current debate on the growing role of the voluntary & community or third sector in delivering public & social policy is impoverished by its lack of understanding of the historical events which have shaped the sector & its relationship with the state. This widely anticipated book draws on a range of empirical studies of aspects of the history of voluntary action to illuminate & inform this debate. Chapter contributions range across two centuries & a variety of fields of activity geographical areas & organisational forms. Four key themes are addressed: The moving frontier between the state & voluntary action; the distribution of roles & functions between them; the nature of their inter-relationship; The springs of voluntary action
- what makes people get involved in voluntary organisations or support them financially; Organisational challenges for voluntary agencies including growth cleaving to their missions & values & survival; & Issues of continuity & change
- how & to what extent has the nature of voluntary action & its role in society remained essentially the same despite the changing context? This book is essential reading for all practitioners involved in charities & voluntary & non-profit organisations for those who work at the interface between government & the third sector & for those who are involved in making & implementing public & social policy.

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This book makes explicit connections between young children's spontaneous repeated actions & their representations of their emotional worlds. Drawing on the literature on schemas attachment theory & family contexts the author takes schema theory into the territory of the emotions making it relevant to the social & emotional development strand in early childhood education. Based on research carried out alongside children parents workers & co-researchers at the world-famous Pen Green Nursery & using case studies of a small number of individual children the author shows new links between cognition & affect. The book

Includes:: a brief summary of a method of Child Study using video & reflections on video sequences. This book will be of interest to students & practitioners on Early Childhood undergraduate & postgraduate courses as well as those taking modules on schema theory.

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Understanding Science is a series of books designed to reinforce skills & knowledge at Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum. Each book focuses on a particular science topic with explanations & teaching points exercises answers section & glossary of terms. Animals & Plants come in all shapes & sizes but have you ever wondered exactly how they relate to their surroundings & to one another? Living creatures both support & compete with each other as they feed grow & reproduce. This book describes & explains the key features that they share & highlights some important differences between them. The Animals & Plants book
Includes:: life cycles seed dispersal germination habitats adaptation micro-organisms/decay & food chains.
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Understanding Science is a series of books designed to reinforce skills & knowledge at Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum. Each book focuses on a particular science topic with explanations & teaching points exercises answers section & glossary of terms. Forces & Electricity propels you into two particularly exciting areas of science. Forces influence every aspect of your life making things go faster or slower rise or fall float or sink. Equally important is electricity
- a form of energy that helps you with many everyday tasks. Both these topics are covered in detail & include enjoyable activities. The Forces & Electricity book
Includes:: magnets friction air & water resistance gravity weight & electricity.

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Understanding Science is a series of books designed to reinforce skills & knowledge at Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum. Each book focuses on a particular science topic with explanations & teaching points exercises answers section & glossary of terms. Using Materials is full of interesting information about the materials you see around you. It looks separately at different types of material such as solids liquids & gases describing how to investigate them & what you can do with them. The book also explains the differences between natural & manufactured materials helping you to think carefully about their special features. The Using Materials book
Includes:: materials & their properties rocks & soils conductors & insulators solids & gases.
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Understanding Science is a series of books designed to reinforce skills & knowledge at Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum. Each book focuses on a particular science topic with explanations & teaching points exercises answers section & glossary of terms. Light Sound & Space explores the intriguing science of light & sound & how you experience them through shadows reflections vibrations & music. The book also answers some tricky questions about the Earth Sun & Moon & how they relate to one another widening your understanding of our world & some of its neighbours in space. The Light Sound & Space book
Includes:: the sun & other light sources shadows & reflections sound & air vibration movement of the Earth & Moon.
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Bryan Petersons previous book Understanding Exposure was a runaway success & has sold over a quarter of a million copies worldwide Now in this companion volume he goes into one aspect of exposure
- shutter speed
- in depth. A whole series of examples of the same shot taken with the wrong shutter speed & then with the right one illustrate the crucial difference the correct choice can make especially when dealing with the challenges presented by a fast-moving subject or poor lighting conditions. With the help of this book photographers at all levels of experience & using both digital & film formats will quickly develop the confidence to deal with techniques for freezing motion blurring it panning or zooming including using Photoshop to render motion effects. Bryan Peterson also the author of Understanding Exposure (9780817463007) Learning to See Creatively & Understanding Digital Photography is a professional photographer & teacher of photography. He writes a column for the American magazine Popular Photography & runs workshops & online photography courses on PPSOP.com. He has homes in both the US & France.

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Ioan Lewis details the history & culture of the Somali people providing a unique window into this little-known culture & its increasingly public predicaments. He provides insight into the complex social historical & cultural hinterland that is the Somali heritage & pays close attention to the pervasive influence of traditional nomadism especially its extremely decentralized nature. Lewis also addresses developments in the Somali political region since the collapse of the Republic in 1991 including the formation & steady development of the democratic state of Somalil&. Though it has grown into a de facto personality this self-governing outpost of democracy is still officially unrecognized internationally. Lewis concludes with a discussion of the Islamist movement that brought a brief but astonishing period of stability to much of Southern Somalia in late 2006. ...