Macintyre: 124 books
by Ewan MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
MacIntyre’s Business Law is the foremost text for non-law students seeking an understanding of the legal principles that apply to business. Each chapter begins with a clear outline of the topics to be covered, helping you break your learning down into manageable chunks and fully grasp...
by Lawrence A. Shapiro, Shannon Spaulding, Daniel D. Hutto
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2018
The first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists considers the mind–body relationship from the perspective of athletic skill and sports practice.
This landmark work is the first systematic collaboration between cognitive scientists and sports psychologists...
Dyspraxia 5-14
Identifying and Supporting Young People with Movement Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Dyspraxia is increasingly common in young children. This fully revised and updated edition of Christine Macintyre’s invaluable companion explains the difficulties faced by children with dyspraxia in growing up and offers suggestions as to how these might be alleviated.
In this book the children...
Movement and Learning in the Early Years
Supporting Dyspraxia (DCD) and Other Difficulties
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2004
`This book achieves what it sets out to do - provide clear guidance to parents and professionals on key aspects of movement in the early years. The book however does more than that - it emphasises that movement in the early years is not the territory of experts, but through the use of this book, the...
Understanding Children’s Development in the Early Years
Questions practitioners frequently ask
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
Review of the first edition:
'This book provides a very accessible approach to building a better understanding of young children and their development and will be an interesting and useful read for both experienced early years practitioners and for students who are just beginning to build their...
by Benno Torgler, Maria A. Garcia-Valiñas, Alison Macintyre
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2010
For decades, social scientists have searched for factors that shape pro-environmental
behaviour. However, only a few studies have investigated the causes and
consequences of participation in environmental organizations. This book fills the gap by analysing in detail the determinants of environmental...
by Jean MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Charly applies for a position as a Farm Insurance Inspector, a position traditionally held by the male gender, and knows she has not chosen an easy path. This is confirmed when she comes up against a very antagonistic director of the company at her final interview. She issues a challenge to him -...
Bullying and Young Children
Understanding the Issues and Tackling the Problem
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
What is it that makes some children bully and some become victims?
What can you do if despite your best efforts, a child keeps on taunting another?
What steps can you take before communicating with parents and what will you say?
The practice of bullying endures in all schools...
The Unconscious
A Conceptual Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
This edition includes a substantial new preface by the author, in which he discusses repression, determinism, transference, and practical rationality, and offers a comparison of Aristotle and Lacan on the concept of desire. MacIntyre takes the opportunity to reflect both on the reviews and criticisms of the first edition and also on his own philosophical stance.
by Frederick L. Will, Kenneth R. Westphal, Alasdair MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 1996
'I have no doubt at all, that if philosophy is to prosper in the coming decades, it will have to treat with great seriousness that splendid seriousness that splendid body of philosophical writing of which the essays in this volume constitute one major part'. from the Foreword by Alasdair MacIntyre...
by Wendy MacIntyre
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Wendy MacIntyre creates a fictional dystopian world so dark that her characters’ chances of survival look next to impossible. When art-lover Lucia finds her most precious possession destroyed, she resolves finally to abandon The City. Along the way she gathers companions, including: the Outpacer,...
Dependent Rational Animals
Why Human Beings Need the Virtues
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 1999
"MacIntyre--one of the foremost ethicists of the past half-century--makes a sustained argument for the cetnrality, in well-lived human lives, of both virtue and local communities of giving and receiving. He criticizes the mainstream of Western ethics, including his own previous position, for...
Anglo–German relations during the Labour governments 1964–70
NATO strategy, détente and European integration
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Speaking at West Point in 1962, Dean Acheson observed that Britain had lost an empire and had still to find a new role. This book explains why, in the following years, as Britain’s Labour government contemplated withdrawal from east of Suez, ministers came to see that Britain’s future role would...
By Faith, Not By Sight
The Inspirational Story of a Blind Prodigy, a Life-Threatening Illness, and an Unexpected Gift
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2012
A moving story of hope, faith, persistence and the power of dreams.
A piano prodigy, a nineteen-year-old college grad, a Marshall scholar, and an American Idol finalist. This guy had it made. He could sing.
He could ski blind. What couldn’t he do?
Even if you saw him in concert,...