Lesley: 835 books
Understanding and Supporting Children with ADHD
Strategies for Teachers, Parents and Other Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2007
'This book provides a succinct overview of issues relevant to understanding and supporting pupils with ADHD. It is well written and includes authentic case studies... The real strength of the book is in its careful consideration of how collaborative working can enable youngsters with an ADHD diagnosis...
Knowing the Day, Knowing the World
Engaging Amerindian Thought in Public Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Based on more than a decade of research in Palikur lands known as Arukwa in the state of Amapá, Brazil, Knowing the Day, Knowing the World reconsiders the dialogue between formal scholarship and Amerindian ways of knowing. Beginning and ending with a public archaeology project in the region, the...
by Bundy Donald; Patrikios Anthi; Mannathoko Changu; Tembon Andy; Manda Stella; Sarr Bachir; Drake Lesley
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2010
This Review was undertaken by the Networks of Ministry of Education HIV&AIDS Focal Point from countries in sub-Saharan Africa participating in the Accelerate Initiative, together with stakeholder and partner representatives.The education sector has become increasingly recognized as playing a key 'external'...
Hope and Grief in the Anthropocene
Re-conceptualising human–nature relations
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
The Anthropocene is a volatile and potentially catastrophic age demanding new ways of thinking about relations between humans and the nonhuman world. This book explores how responses to environmental challenges are hampered by a grief for a pristine and certain past, rather than considering the scale...
Understanding Transference
The Power of Patterns in the Therapeutic Relationship
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Emotional links between therapists and their clients can help or hinder the therapeutic process. This comprehensive book examines how the main approaches deal with transference, looking at the technical and ethical difficulties in understanding transference from a theoretical point of view and with clinical illustration.
Social Work and Domestic Violence
Developing Critical and Reflective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Domestic violence affects all areas of social work. This book shows how social workers can intervene in everyday practice with victims, their families and perpetrators of domestic abuse. It provides students with knowledge of theory, research and policy to put directly in practice across a variety...
Fieldwork in the Human Services
Theory and practice for field educators, practice teachers and supervisors
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2000
'This book offers an excellent guide for all those committed to the provision of high quality field teaching and assessment in the human services. The international line-up of top contributors confirms the widespread importance now given to field education.'
Professor David Howe, University...
Molecular and Cellular Toxicology
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Toxicology is the study of the adverse effects of chemical, physical, or biological agents on people, animals, and the environment. Toxicologists are trained to investigate, interpret, and communicate the nature of those effects.
Over the last ten years the subject of toxicology has changed...
Lenses on Reading, Third Edition
An Introduction to Theories and Models
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Widely adopted as an ideal introduction to the major models of reading, this text guides students to understand and facilitate children's literacy development. Coverage encompasses the full range of theories that have informed reading instruction and research, from classical thinking to cutting-edge...
A History of Science in Society, Volume I
From the Ancient Greeks to the Scientific Revolution, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A History of Science in Society is a concise overview that introduces complex ideas in a non-technical fashion. Ede and Cormack trace the history of the changing place of science in society and explore the link between the pursuit of knowledge and the desire to make that knowledge useful. Volume I...
by Lesley Jeffries, Daniel McIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Stylistics is the linguistic study of style in language. It aims to account for how texts project meaning, how readers construct meaning and why readers respond to texts in the way that they do. This book is an introduction to stylistics that locates it firmly within the traditions of linguistics....
by Philippa H. Francis-West, Lesley Robson, Darrell J.R. Evans
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Craniofacial development is a multistep and intricate process initially involving a number of inductive interactions that control neural and neural crest development, which are followed by a series of epithelial-mesenchymal interactions that control outgrowth, patterning, and skeletal differentiation....
Opting for Self-management
The Early Experience of Grant-maintained Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
Originally published in 1991. This book examines the early experiences of the first grant-maintained Schools and considers the challenges facing the self-managing school in the 1990s. The book looks at the context of the change of status, what it means to be grant-maintained, and reviews the types...
by Lesley J Doherty
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Make the most of your life. Take it from me a woman that has wasted most of mine. As you walk along the path, Gather friends, bit like moss pictures of empty rooms. And sun through the nets. Things we have all done, places we have been have made us the person we are today. There is honor in experience....