Hilary: 664 books
Distance Teaching for the Third World
The Lion and the Clockwork Mouse
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2010
This reissue, first published in 1980, is based on the experiences of the International Extension College in developing distance teaching. The volume begins by reviewing the world problems of educational quality and quantity, and then examines the ways in which print, broadcasts and group study have...
by Hilary Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
History in the Early Years is an innovative and accessible guide to helping young children explore the past through their environment, family history and story. This fully revised edition includes guidance on introducing children to the past at the Foundation Stage in school and pre-school settings....
by Hilary A. A. Miezah
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The book explores the organization, conduct and supervision of elections in emerging democracies. It covers the broad spectrum of the democratic electoral process. This project is a synthesis of the author’s practical knowledge and experience in the management of elections with the United Nations...
Up
How Positive Outlook Can Transform Our Health and Aging
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Why looking up matters
A positive attitude is important, but until now we didn’t know how important. In Up, a practicing physician and NIH-funded researcher draws on her research and experience to show that our outlook on life— our unique patterns of thinking and feeling about ourselves,...
by Elizabeth Walsh, Thelma Fisher, John Ventura
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2011
There's no such thing as an easy divorce. On top of the emotional turmoil, there are also numerous other concerns – from organising finances and splitting property, to breaking the news to children, and picking the best lawyer. This comprehensive guide shows that, with a clear-head and straight-talking...
Protecting Children and Adults from Abuse After Savile
What Organisations and Institutions Need to Do
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
The high profile reporting of child sexual abuse carried out by Jimmy Savile over decades has had far reaching-consequences, raising public awareness and concern, yet we continue to uncover new cases of institutional abuse which have been taking place under the radar for years.
This book distils...
Geography 3-11
A Guide for Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The advent of the National Primary Strategy has produced a welcome reminder to teachers of the importance of geography within the primary curriculum. This book aims to encourage this renewed awareness and to support teachers in teaching primary geography in different and exciting ways. It will show...
Capitalism’s Crises
Class struggles in South Africa and the world
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
The contributors to this volume draw on a non-dogmatic Marxist approach to explain the systemic and conjunctural dynamics of crisis inherent in global capitalism. Their analysis asks what is historically specific to capitalism's crises while avoiding catastrophic or defeatist claims. At the same time...
by Hilary Bradt, Janice Booth
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Discover the hidden secrets of this varied and beautiful region, from the 'English Riviera', where palm-trees abound and the sandy beaches of Torquay and Paignton attract numerous summer visitors, to the wild landscape of Dartmoor, England's highest landmass south of the Pennines.
Shopping Around
Feminine Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Shopping Around investigates the issues of contemporary popular narrative, feminine pleasure, and consumer culture, viewing the permutations of the feminine subject as a textual construction evolved through everyday life. A wide spectrum of texts are examined, exposing the fact that women "read"...
Novel Creatures
Animal Life and the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
Novel Creatures takes a close look at the expanding interest in animals in modern fiction and argues that the novels of this time reveal a dramatic shift in conceptions of "creatureliness." Scholars have turned to the term "creaturely" recently to describe shared aspects of human...
by Hilary A. Herbert
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
The author, in the following pages, is undertaking to write a connected story of events that happened, most of them, in his lifetime, and as to many of the most important of which he has vivid recollections; but, save in one respect, he has not relied upon his own memory for any important fact. The...
by Hilary Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Autism is a life-long developmental disorder affecting about half a million people in the UK. The autistic spectrum is very wide and each person can be affected differently.
Discovering your child has autism can be a bewildering experience. You will want to know exactly what autism is, what...
Changing the Score
Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2009
This study seeks to explore the role and significance of aria insertion, the practice that allowed singers to introduce music of their own choice into productions of Italian operas. Each chapter investigates the art of aria insertion during the nineteenth century from varying perspectives, beginning...