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Throwing The Emperor From His Horse Portrait Of A Village Leader In China 1923-1995

Throwing The Emperor From His Horse Portrait Of A Village Leader In China 1923-1995

This engaging book sketches an intimate portrait of the life of Wang Fucheng an illiterate peasant who served for thirty years as Communist party secretary of an impoverished village on the north China plain. Based on conversations over a seven-year period (1987?1994) between Wang Fucheng and Peter Seybolt the book unfolds as a continuous first-p | Throwing The Emperor From His Horse Portrait Of A Village Leader In China 1923-1995

GBP 130.00
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Words Together: Supporting Early Language Development in Young Children

Words Together: Supporting Early Language Development in Young Children

This set comprised of a guidebook and four colourful picture books has been designed for parents and practitioners supporting children to understand and use two-word sentences. Written in a friendly and reassuring tone the guidebook untangles questions and concerns that many parents and practitioners share around language development such as whether children are reaching important milestones whether they benefit from screen-time and dummies and what to do if there might be a problem. Bright and colourful illustrations in the storybooks provide rich opportunities for conversation and engagement using a serve and return structure and based around pivot words. The simple stories and repetition provide an opportunity for the child to hear and experience the sentence structure in new ways. The set includes: Helping Children Find Their Voices: A guide for parents and practitioners exploring questions and concerns that many parents and practitioners share around language development such as whether children are reaching important milestones whether they benefit from screen-time and dummies and what to do if there might be a problem. Down the Slide: A colourful picture book using the pivot word ‘down’ Hello!: A colourful picture book using the pivot word ‘hello’ Gone to the Park: A colourful picture book using the pivot word ‘gone’ Sleep Time: A colourful picture book using the pivot word ‘sleeping’ This is an exciting resource for early years practitioners parents and those working with children at an early stage of speech and language development. | Words Together: Supporting Early Language Development in Young Children

GBP 49.99
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Lesson Plans for the Elementary PE Teacher A Developmental Movement Education & Skill-Themes Framework

Lesson Plans for the Elementary PE Teacher A Developmental Movement Education & Skill-Themes Framework

This new book provides PE teachers with practical lesson plans for teaching movement at every elementary grade level. The book’s movement and skill theme-based approach which differs from the typical activity-based approaches found in many schools helps students develop overall health and well-being regardless of sports interests and hobbies. Each lesson plan is broken down into subsections to illustrate the physical cognitive and affective benefits the central theme or concept to be explored the grade level and the equipment needed. By sequencing these lesson plans so that students develop general body awareness and coordination before finer motor skills—like throwing and catching—the author offers a model of PE instruction that will promote healthy lifestyle choices long after graduation. | Lesson Plans for the Elementary PE Teacher A Developmental Movement Education & Skill-Themes Framework

GBP 28.99
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Helping Children Find Their Voices A Guide for Parents and Early Years Practitioners

Helping Children Find Their Voices A Guide for Parents and Early Years Practitioners

Designed to be used either independently or alongside the ‘Words Together’ storybooks Helping Children Find Their Voices is a guide for parents and practitioners supporting children in the early stages of learning to talk specifically to understand and use two-word sentences. Written in a friendly and reassuring tone the book untangles questions and concerns that many parents and practitioners share around language development such as whether children are reaching important milestones whether they benefit from screen-time and dummies and what to do if there might be a problem. Key features of this book include: • Chapters that can either be followed consecutively offering tips on how to encourage first words and the combining of words into two-word sentences or dipped in-and-out of according to the individual child’s level of development • Practical information and advice rooted in theory giving parents and practitioners the confidence and background knowledge to support communication • Activities that can be integrated into everyday interactions giving children the opportunity to hear simple sentence structures that they can progress towards in their own speech. Also available as part of a set with four colourful picture books this guide is an ideal resource for early years practitioners parents and those working with children who have delayed speech and language development. | Helping Children Find Their Voices A Guide for Parents and Early Years Practitioners

GBP 21.99
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Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the linguistic situation in Europe was one of remarkable fluidity. Latin the great scholarly lingua franca of the medieval period was beginning to crack as the tectonic plates shifted beneath it but the vernaculars had not yet crystallized into the national languages that they would later become and multilingualism was rife. Meanwhile elsewhere in the world languages were coming into contact with an intensity that they had never had before influencing each other and throwing up all manner of hybrids and pidgins as peoples tried to communicate using the semiotic resources they had available. Of interest to linguists literary scholars and historians amongst others this interdisciplinary volume explores the linguistic dynamics operating in Europe and beyond in the crucial centuries between 1400 and 1800. Assuming a state of individual societal and functional multilingualism when codeswitching was the norm and languages themselves were fluid unbounded and porous it explores the shifting relationships that existed between various tongues in different geographical contexts as well as some of the myths and theories that arose to make sense of them. | Language Dynamics in the Early Modern Period

GBP 130.00
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The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence

The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen: An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence provides detailed information for the safe use of knives and daggers in a theatrical setting and an in-depth understanding of safe theatrical weapons. The book starts with an extensive safety review then moves on to the basic techniques of dagger fighting starting with grip and body postures. Readers will then learn about the basic actions of cuts parries blocks and disarms. During this process they will explore the connection between body and weapon and start learning the elements of storytelling through choreography. Special attention is given to suicides threats and murder and how directors choreographers performers teachers and students can approach these techniques in a way that is physically and mentally safe. The book also covers the use of throwing knives knife flips and other tricks to help add a little flair to your fight. The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen teaches the safe theatrical use of the knife for directors performers educators and students of stage combat. | The Art of Knife Fighting for Stage and Screen An Actor’s and Director’s Guide to Staged Violence

GBP 31.99
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Building Virtual Reality with Unity and SteamVR

Building Virtual Reality with Unity and SteamVR

Building Virtual Reality with Unity and Steam VR takes a hands-on approach to getting up and running with virtual reality using the Unity game engine. By utilizing the free SteamVR 2. x libraries this book and its example code are compatible with the main virtual reality (VR) head-mounted displays currently available. This book also looks at some of the main issues surrounding virtual reality such as motion sickness and performance issues providing practical ways to reduce their impact to make better VR experiences. Key Features: Discusses some of the key issues facing virtual reality and provides helpful tips for making better VR experiences Practical examples geared to work with any headset compatible with SteamVR including Oculus Rift HTC Vive and Valve Index Uses the SteamVR Interaction system for interactions such as picking up and throwing objects operating user interfaces and capturing input events for your own scripts Explore advanced spatialized audio with Steam Audio. Discover how to build user interfaces for virtual reality as well as discussing some best practices for VR-based user interface design Written by a games industry veteran with a proven track record having worked for IBM Research in educational VR research projects and having made and launched VR experiences. | Building Virtual Reality with Unity and SteamVR

GBP 48.99
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Sports Psychology Concepts and Applications

Sports Psychology Concepts and Applications

This book analyses the essential aspects of sports psychology by throwing light on issues related to the upkeep of athletes’ mental state and improving their performance in sports activities. On one hand it covers topics like anxiety stress conflicts overtraining and sports injuries and on the other it includes strategies helpful for managing and developing skills for better performance in various sports activities. In its wide coverage the volume discusses a range of key topics which include: Sports psychology: historical perspectives and the present position Contribution of heredity and environment the role of growth and development and the individual differences in sports psychology How factors like intelligence cognitive and emotional processes personality and motivation influence learning and the transfer of learning The role of attention concentration and focus in the performance of athletes Athletes’ mental and psyche levels displayed in the states of their anxiety stress and conflicts and aggression and violence Sports injuries and their management Overtraining and Burnout in Athletes Group dynamics and guidance and counseling in the learning and development of the athletes etc Engaging and reader friendly this book will be useful to students researchers and teachers of physical education psychology applied psychology and sports psychology. It will also be key reading for trainees of the various sport academies coaches sports associations managing bodies and sport psychologists. | Sports Psychology Concepts and Applications

GBP 34.99
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Technology and Terrorism

Technology and Terrorism

In this volume thirteen authors from all points of the English-speaking world provide a tour of the entwined labyrinths of technology and terrorism. They describe terrorism as an epistemological contact sport. With espionage one can often deduce from a few pieces of the puzzle a plan's goals and its roots its sources. But the goals of terrorists are both vague and hopelessly specific while their means are restrained by rational institutional thought. Thus terrorists can be equally expected to flail out without any thought at all as a child might exhibit in a temper tantrum and to be hyper-rational probing at the edges of the target for any weakness. Therefore how terrorists use technology may not be determined by any particular level of technology but in the probabilities for the target's expectation and defense regarding particular technologies. Fred Allen asks why Bin Laden and his organization were effective against the Russians but may have more trouble with free societies. Edward Tenner muses on the ironies of low-tech attacks and the dangers of over-reliance on high-tech sophistication. Such thoughts are tempered by direct and unreassuring reportage from the federal security front. Ann Larabee turns the telescope around with a history showing that bomb-throwing is as American as apple pie. Toby Blyth takes us inside the theorists' backroom for a look at the ever-mutating ways means and motives of war. It used to be about power money land resources or the ever-popular Pamir Knot Great Game. Now it seems that globalization has coughed up groups of people with little in common except for simultaneous feelings of helplessness and cultural superiority. Modern technology which once seemed to hold only promise now seems to harbor the potential for danger and destruction. The contributors to this volume are interested in the broader culture and how terrorism affects that culture-including how people go about researching terrorism.

GBP 130.00
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Social Policy and Administration Revisited Studies in the Development of Social Services at the Local Level

Social Policy and Administration Revisited Studies in the Development of Social Services at the Local Level

Originally published in 1965 this standard work sets out to explore the questions: What is ‘social administration’ and how can people prepare themselves for this work? It shows the social services in continuous evolution in response to political economic and social change and it ends with a deeply thoughtful and thought-provoking analysis of the processes and causes of this evolution and of the different contributions to change made by the various parties concerned. This analysis is based on the case studies presented in the book’s central chapters. Of this new version of the book first published in 1975 Professor Donnison wrote: ‘The first three chapters of the original book have been scrapped and a new introduction to the whole subject takes their place – an introduction not only to the literature about social policy and administration but to the point and purpose of the subject (for students who rightly expect to be convinced about this before devoting their time to it). Then follow eight case studies of innovations in the work and policies of local units of the social services – including housing education a home help service planning and legal aid besides social work services. These are the original studies untouched. I have returned to each agency and found out what has happened since our original studies adding a postscript to each outlining the main developments since the original research ten to twenty years ago. I don’t think anyone has ever done that before. In most cases the innovating trends we identified have gone further often becoming national orthodoxy by now. The one (on legal aid) where unexpected developments have occurred is at least as interesting. ’ Professor Donnison has added a ninth case study – of the Department of Social Administration at the London School of Economics where he was working when the original studies were made (Professor Richard Titmuss was head of the department at that time). This study traces the development of education for social workers at a seminal stage and the difficult problems which had to be resolved when major new departures occurred in this field. The chapter will be of lasting interest to historians of social work and social work education in Britain besides throwing light on the process of innovation in social policy. | Social Policy and Administration Revisited Studies in the Development of Social Services at the Local Level

GBP 29.99
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