Continuum imprint: 595 books
The Lent Factor
Forty Companions for the Forty Days of Lent: The Mowbray Lent Book 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2014
Human character is best described by telling stories about people. The Lent Factor describes forty very different people - one for each day of Lent - who have a special quality about them, and uses their stories to reflect on how faith and character are connected. A theme from each brief story is...
An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
Society and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2011
This is a definitive introductory text to modern sociolinguistics that looks at the study of language and society through the concept of identity. It uses these sociolinguistic constructs of identity to tie together current concepts and methods in the field, offering a full overview of the discipline,...
by Andy Miller
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Ignored by virtually everyone upon its release in November 1968, 'The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society' is now seen as one of the best British albums ever recorded. Here, Andy Miller traces the perilous circumstances surrounding its creation, and celebrates the timeless, perfectly...
by Dr. Justin Skirry
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
René Descartes is arguably the most important seventeenth-century thinker and the father of modern philosophy. Yet his unique method, and its divergence from the method of hisscholastic predecessors and contemporaries, raises complex and often challenging issues. Descartes: A Guide for the Perplexed...
by Shannon Green, Dr. Gavin Reid
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2007
This useful, resourceful and practical guide provides those working with dyslexic children one hundred ideas of how to support their learning development. Lists range from identifying the needs of individual pupils and their learning styles to developing pupils reading, writing, numeric and communication skills.
by Dr Katherine J. Morris
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Merleau-Ponty was one of the most important European philosophers of the 20th century, whose work made enormous contributions to the development of phenomenology and the concept of the lived-body. Clearly and thematically structured, covering all Merleau-Ponty's key works and focussing particularly...
Ontology and Providence in Creation
Taking ex nihilo Seriously
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
Ontology and Providence in Creation critically examines a particular Leibnizean inspired understanding of God's creation of the world and proposes that a different understanding should be adopted. The Leibnizean argument proposes that God's understanding encompassed a host of possible worlds, only...
Film and the Holocaust
New Perspectives on Dramas, Documentaries, and Experimental Films
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2011
When representing the Holocaust, the slightest hint of narrative embellishment strikes contemporary audiences as somehow a violation against those who suffered under the Nazis. This anxiety is, at least in part, rooted in Theodor Adorno's dictum that "To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric."...
by Dr Geoff Kewley, Mrs Pauline Latham
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2008
Providing 100 practical ideas to enhance and develop learning, this is a resourceful guide for anyone working to support pupils with ADHD. Each idea has been successfully tried and tested. Ideas range from preparing to teach the ADHD child to helping develop the child's social skills and self esteem.
Federalism
A Normative Theory and its Practical Relevance
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Using case studies from around the world, this book develops a new theory of federalism, showing that it can enhance deliberative democracy and civil society.
by Mal Leicester
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2009
Learning how to be critical and how to think for oneself are vital elements of becoming an independent learner. Critical thinking could be thought of as a tool box of skills which enables us to think more deeply, clearly and logically about our beliefs; providing a platform for making sound and valid...
An Introduction to Conversation Analysis
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This introduction is designed to give an overview of conversation analysis. It begins by locating conversation analysis as a methodology amongst other methodologies, and describing conversation analysis as body of knowledge which reveals the ways in which language works in communication. The chapters...
Teacher Cognition and Language Education
Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2008
The study of teacher cognition - what teachers think, know and believe - and of its relationship to teachers' classroom practices has become a key theme in the field of language teaching and teacher education. This new in paperback volume provides a timely discussion of the research which now...
Barefoot Disciple
Walking the Way of Passionate Humility -- The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
The rediscovery of genuine, passionate humility as a healthy, life-giving and community-building virtue, capable of transforming our BSE (Blame Someone Else) society.