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Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

Aerial Dance: A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness provides an introduction for the beginning aerialist. It covers rigging equipment advice on optimal conditioning and a step-by-step guide to technique including anatomical references space and time considerations and elements of force when working with and against gravity. Specific movements and choreography are framed anatomically and together reflect the pattern and order of an aerial technique class. Challenges inherent to this type of dancing are discussed as well as wellness instruction and methods of altering these techniques for intermediate and advanced dancing. A companion website hosts video that corresponds with the technique and phrasing in the book. | Aerial Dance A Guide to Dance with Rope and Harness

GBP 34.99
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The ADHD Guide to Career Success Harness your Strengths Manage your Challenges

The ADHD Guide to Career Success Harness your Strengths Manage your Challenges

Just as the classroom poses the greatest challenges for children and teens with ADHD the workplace is the arena where Adult ADHD poses the greatest threat. And while adults with ADHD are likely to face professional challenges it is possible to cultivate a work environment that enables them to thrive and uses the strengths of this unique condition to their advantage. Featuring a large open format with summaries at the beginning of each chapter and designed with the ADHD reader in mind this newly revised and updated edition offers an easy-to-follow progression of useful information interwoven with practical strategies for career success. | The ADHD Guide to Career Success Harness your Strengths Manage your Challenges

GBP 180.00
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Get Organized Digitally The Educator’s Guide to Time Management

Get Organized Digitally The Educator’s Guide to Time Management

In today’s world we’re often overwhelmed by our digital devices and the volume of available digital information. Get Organized Digitally! outlines a complete digital organizational system for the busy educator and helps you harness the power of technology to save time. This book is your go-to source presenting the nuts and bolts of exactly how to make technology work for you in both your personal and professional life. Special features of Get Organized Digitally!: Details of how to get started with the best digital organizational tools available today. Principles of digital organization that make all the components of your system work together. Stories that inspire and show how technology can make our lives easier. Time is the most precious resource we have; managing it well leads to greater productivity and less stress. Get Organized Digitally! shows educators how to harness the power of technology to spend time on what matters most—your school and your students. | Get Organized Digitally The Educator’s Guide to Time Management

GBP 24.99
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Policy and Marketing Strategies for Digital Media

Policy and Marketing Strategies for Digital Media

With digital media becoming ever more prevalent it is essential to study policy and marketing strategies tailored to this new development. In this volume contributors examine government policy for a range of media including digital television IPTV mobile TV and OTT TV. They also address marketing strategies that can harness the unique nature of digital media’s innovation production design and accessibility. They draw on case studies in Asia North America and Europe to offer best practices for both policy and marketing strategies. | Policy and Marketing Strategies for Digital Media

GBP 46.99
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Design for Motion Fundamentals and Techniques of Motion Design

Design for Motion Fundamentals and Techniques of Motion Design

Combining art and design principles with creative storytelling and professional savvy this book covers everything a serious motion designer needs to make their artistic visions a reality and confidently produce compositions for clients. In this updated second edition of Design for Motion author Austin Shaw explores the principles of motion design teaching readers how to creatively harness the essential techniques of this diverse and innovative medium to create compelling style frames design boards and motion design products. Lessons are augmented by illustrious full-color imagery and practical exercises allowing you to put the techniques covered into immediate practical context. Industry leaders pioneers and rising stars contribute their professional perspectives share personal stories and provide visual examples of their work. This second edition also includes updates on the following: Illustration techniques Typography Compositing Visual storytelling Incorporating 3D elements Social/mobile-first design Portfolio and concept development How to develop a distinct personal design style and much more Plumb the depths of core motion design fundamentals and harness the essential techniques of this diverse and innovative medium. An accompanying Companion Website (www. routledge. com/cw/shaw) features video tutorials a student showcase and more. | Design for Motion Fundamentals and Techniques of Motion Design

GBP 44.99
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Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in Construction

Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in Construction

This book describes current advances and future directions in the theory and application of intelligent agents and multi-agent systems in the Architecture Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector. It is the product of an international effort involving a network of construction IT and computing researchers investigating different aspects of agent theory and applications. The contributed chapters cover different perspectives and application areas and represent significant efforts to harness emerging technologies such as intelligent agents and multi-agent systems for improved business processes in the AEC sector. The first four chapters cover the theoretical foundations of agent technology whilst the remaining chapters deal with the application of agent-based systems in solving problems in the construction domain. | Agents and Multi-Agent Systems in Construction

GBP 35.99
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Managing People in the Hybrid Workplace

Managing People in the Hybrid Workplace

Managing People Effectively in a Hybrid Workplace is designed to ensure that both aspiring and experienced people professionals are equipped with in-depth knowledge of how workplace structures are being disrupted by new technology and working models. It explores analytics and capability to provide evidence-based insights that can shape employee experiences support adaptation to changing business conditions navigate risk drive workplace performance harness collaboration and open up new possibilities for HR and the organisation. The book has been designed both as a text to support students studying HRM on university programmes and as a handbook for professionals wishing to update their knowledge in contemporary HRM. The book also supports the core and specialist knowledge and core behaviours in the CIPD Profession Map. | Managing People in the Hybrid Workplace

GBP 32.99
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Recovery Meaning-Making and Severe Mental Illness A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy

Recovery Meaning-Making and Severe Mental Illness A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy

Recovery Meaning-Making and Severe Mental Illness offers practitioners an integrative treatment model that will stimulate and harness their creativity allowing for the formation of new ideas about wellness in the face of profound suffering. The model Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy (MERIT) complements current treatment modalities and can be used by practitioners from a broad range of theoretical backgrounds. By using metacognitive capacity as a guide to intervention MERIT stretches and strengthens practitioners’ capacity for reflection and allows them to better use their unique knowledge to help people who are confronting the suffering and chaos that often comes from psychosis. Clinicians will come away from this book with a variety of tools for helping clients manage their own recovery and confront the issues that accompany an illness-based identity. | Recovery Meaning-Making and Severe Mental Illness A Comprehensive Guide to Metacognitive Reflection and Insight Therapy

GBP 38.99
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The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century The Story of a Political Issue 1660-1802

The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century The Story of a Political Issue 1660-1802

First published in 1965 The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century directs light on English politics and government through studying the militia from the Restoration to the days of the younger Pritt. The militia occupied a significant place both in the quarrels between king and parliament in the later seventeenth century and in the struggle for power between the elder Pitt and the Duke of Newcastle. Raised and officered by the county and parish authorities its maintenance constantly posed the problem of how to harness the machinery of local government to national purposes. The gentry had to be induced to help and the militia like other institutions national and local was shaped by the fashion and extent to which they responded. The book will be of interest to students of history political science and literature. | The English Militia in the Eighteenth Century The Story of a Political Issue 1660-1802

GBP 130.00
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Icons of Sound Voice Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art

Icons of Sound Voice Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art

Icons of Sound: Voice Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art brings together art history and sound studies to offer new perspectives on medieval churches and cathedrals as spaces where the perception of the visual is inherently shaped by sound. The chapters encompass a wide geographic and historical range from the fifth to the fifteenth century and from Armenia and Byzantium to Venice Rome and Santiago de Compostela. Contributors offer nuanced explorations of the intangible sonic aura produced in these places by the ritual music and harness the use of digital technology to reconstruct historical aural environments. Rooted in a decade-long interdisciplinary research project at Stanford University Icons of Sound expands our understanding of the inherently intertwined relationship between medieval chant and liturgy the acoustics of architectural spaces and their visual aesthetics. Together the contributors provide insights that are relevant across art history sound studies musicology and medieval studies. | Icons of Sound Voice Architecture and Imagination in Medieval Art

GBP 38.99
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101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids Advice Quizzes and Activities for Dealing With Stress Expectations Friendships and More

101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids Advice Quizzes and Activities for Dealing With Stress Expectations Friendships and More

Pssst! Want to know a secret? Want to help gifted kids harness the power of their giftedness? The second edition of 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids is a must-read for gifted kids ages 8 to 12 who want to find success in school relationships and life. This book:Includes 101 awesome secrets tips and tricks for gifted kids. Is chock-full of fun quizzes activities and practical strategies. Covers bullying school performance perfectionism friendships sibling rivalries and managing intensities. Features Q & A sections from other gifted kids and preteens. Gives gifted kids insight into everything they've ever wanted to know about being gifted. Proven strategies for dealing with stress management parents' and teachers' expectations anxiety cyberbullying friendship troubles and more make this the must-have guide for every gifted kid. Ages 8-12 | 101 Success Secrets for Gifted Kids Advice Quizzes and Activities for Dealing With Stress Expectations Friendships and More

GBP 14.99
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Creating Classrooms of Peace in English Language Teaching

Creating Classrooms of Peace in English Language Teaching

Timely and accessible this edited volume brings together leading scholars to discuss methods for supporting reconciliation peace and sustainable and social change in English language teaching. Around the world peace and reconciliation are urgent themes that are inextricably connected to the study and practice of teaching English. The book features a diversity of voices and addresses pedagogies of peace universal responsibility and global interdependence in the domain of English language education. Organized in three strands Part 1 addresses policy and implementation Part 2 addresses teacher education and Part 3 addresses content and lesson planning. With chapters drawn from a dozen countries and contexts this book paves the way for English language teachers to harness their social capital and pedagogical agency to create sustainable peace globally and locally and in and outside the classroom. It is essential reading for scholars and students in TESOL applied linguistics and peace education. | Creating Classrooms of Peace in English Language Teaching

GBP 38.99
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The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

By carefully conceptualising the domestic in relation to the self and the photographic this book offers a unique contribution to both photography theory and criticism and life-narrative studies. Jane Simon brings together two critical practices into a new conversation arguing that artists who harness domestic photography can advance a more expansive understanding of the autobiographical. Exploring the idea that self-representation need not equate to self-portraiture or involve the human form artists from around the globe are examined including Rinko Kawauchi Catherine Opie Dayanita Singh Moyra Davey and Elina Brotherus who maintain a personal gaze at domestic detail. By treating the representation of interiors domestic objects and the very practice of photographic seeing and framing as autobiographical gestures this book reframes the relationship between interiors and exteriors public and private and insists on the importance of domestic interiors to understandings of the self and photography. The book will be of interest to scholars working in photographic history and theory art history and visual studies. | The Domestic Interior and the Self in Contemporary Photography

GBP 130.00
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Critical New Perspectives in Early Childhood Music Young Children Engaging and Learning Through Music

Critical New Perspectives in Early Childhood Music Young Children Engaging and Learning Through Music

Exploring and expanding upon current understandings of early childhood music education this book provides a much-needed response to the rapid social cultural and technological developments affecting children’s experience of music today. Critical New Perspectives in Early Childhood Music returns to the core question of how children engage participate and learn through music and how we are to best harness musical resources to their benefit. Chapters move beyond conservative or traditional models of practice and draw upon new and emerging insights from the fields of childhood studies neuroscience psychology and sociology. In-depth analysis of research and real examples from practice illustrate the strengths and possible shortcomings of each approach and acknowledge the diverse impacts of digitisation increased child autonomy intensive parenting practices and cultural and economic diversity on the child’s experience of music. An invaluable theoretical overview of current thinking in relation to contemporary musical childhoods this book will support and challenge students and early childhood music educators as they rethink practice for the present day. | Critical New Perspectives in Early Childhood Music Young Children Engaging and Learning Through Music

GBP 35.99
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Plurilingual Pedagogies for Multilingual Writing Classrooms Engaging the Rich Communicative Repertoires of U.S. Students

Plurilingual Pedagogies for Multilingual Writing Classrooms Engaging the Rich Communicative Repertoires of U.S. Students

A much-needed resource on plurilingual pedagogies this book counters the common dominant English-only approach found in writing and composition classrooms by identifying practices and pedagogies that support multilingual students. Providing a window into a range of contexts and classrooms where students’ full identities are honored contributors offer research-grounded strategies and pedagogies that allow students to harness all of their language resources in order to build on their strengths and develop their writing abilities. The specific examples in this book drawn from high school and college writing contexts demonstrate the value of embracing linguistic diversity in writing programs. Presenting a wide range of models and strategies from top scholars that center students’ linguistic repertoires as strengths the volume addresses classroom teaching assessment curriculum school administration and more all from an asset-based orientation. This book is ideal for courses in composition and second-language writing pedagogy as well as for students scholars and educators in second language writing language and literacy education and composition studies. | Plurilingual Pedagogies for Multilingual Writing Classrooms Engaging the Rich Communicative Repertoires of U. S. Students

GBP 38.99
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Code-Switching as a Pedagogical Tool in Bilingual Classrooms Insights from a Secondary STEM Classroom in Zimbabwe

Code-Switching as a Pedagogical Tool in Bilingual Classrooms Insights from a Secondary STEM Classroom in Zimbabwe

Presenting a mixed methods study conducted in a bilingual mathematics classroom in Zimbabwe this text reveals the semantic pedagogical functions and linguistic forms of code-switching during STEM instruction. Code-Switching as a Pedagogical Tool in Bilingual Classrooms offers a detailed analysis of code-switching in the context of educational linguistics and reveals ten major pedagogical techniques which illustrate how teachers use code-switches to engage students and provide guidance clarification discipline and recaps during individual and whole-class interactions. Chapters highlight that code-switching can be used in a targeted manner to harness the cognitive potential of bilingual speakers and enhance instruction. Ultimately the text identifies implications for teacher education language policy and educational leadership more broadly and demonstrates intersections with key areas including functional critical and cultural literacy. This text will benefit researchers academics and educators with an interest in bilingualism applied linguistics and secondary education more broadly. Those specifically interested in multicultural education sociolinguistics and educational policy will also benefit from this book. | Code-Switching as a Pedagogical Tool in Bilingual Classrooms Insights from a Secondary STEM Classroom in Zimbabwe

GBP 38.99
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Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom

Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom

35th Annual Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards Nominee! This text will allow you to harness students’ love of comics and graphic novels while increasing critical thinking and engagement in the classroom. Author Tim Smyth offers a wide variety of lessons and ideas for using comics to teach close reading working with textual evidence literature adaptations symbolism and culture sequencing essay writing and more. He also models how to use comics to tackle tough topics and enhance social-emotional learning. Throughout the book you’ll find a multitude of practical resources including a variety of lesson plans—some quick and easy activities as well as more detailed ready-to-use unit plans. These thoughtful lessons meet the Common Core State Standards and are easy to adapt for any subject area or grade level to fit into your curriculum. Add this book to your professional library and you’ll have a new and exciting way of reaching and teaching your students! | Teaching with Comics and Graphic Novels Fun and Engaging Strategies to Improve Close Reading and Critical Thinking in Every Classroom

GBP 28.99
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Art Therapy and Creative Aging Reclaiming Elderhood Health and Wellbeing

Art Therapy and Creative Aging Reclaiming Elderhood Health and Wellbeing

Art Therapy and Creative Aging offers an integrated perspective on engaging with older people through the arts. Drawing from the author’s clinical research and teaching experiences the book explores how arts engagement can intertwine with and support healthy aging. This book combines analysis of current development theory existing research on creative programs with elders and case examples of therapeutic experience to critically examine ageism and demonstrate how art therapy and creative aging approaches can harness our knowledge of the cognitive and emotional development of older adults. Chapters cover consideration of generational cultural and historical factors; the creative cognitive and emotional developmental components of aging; arts and art therapy techniques and methods with older adults with differing needs; and examples of best practices. Creative arts therapists creative aging professionals and students who seek foundational concepts and ideas for arts practice with older people will find this book instrumental in developing effective ways of using the arts to promote health and well-being and inspire engagement with this often-underserved population. | Art Therapy and Creative Aging Reclaiming Elderhood Health and Wellbeing

GBP 29.99
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Little Readers Big Thinkers Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades

Little Readers Big Thinkers Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades

Young learners are full of questions and wonderings so much so that sometimes they need a guide for their curiosity. Author Amy Stewart brings her manageable approach to close reading in Little Readers Big Thinkers: Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades. With Stewart guiding you'll be able to harness the big thinking we know is inside their inquisitive minds. She showcases ways that close reading can teach even the youngest students new ways to enjoy texts think about them critically and share that thinking with peers and adults. With its description of the pillars of close reading multiple lesson sequences for grades K-2 and real-life classroom scenarios Little Readers Big Thinkers offers a trove of insights: What close reading is (and is not) How to encourage students to read like detectives Ways to weave close reading practices into your lessons How to cultivate real reading organic thinking and deep conversation Which books invite amazing learning and thinking experiences. By giving young minds a great foundation close reading will become a stepping stone to a lifelong love of reading. | Little Readers Big Thinkers Teaching Close Reading in the Primary Grades

GBP 27.99
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How to Create Autonomous Learners Teaching Metacognitive Self-regulatory and Study Skills – a Practitioner’s Guide

How to Create Autonomous Learners Teaching Metacognitive Self-regulatory and Study Skills – a Practitioner’s Guide

To achieve their full potential it is essential that children develop skills to become autonomous learners yet this skill does not come naturally to many learners. This book is a practical teaching and planning guide to the theory practice and the implementation of evidence-based approaches to develop essential metacognitive and self-study skills. How to Create Autonomous Learners explains how to get students parents and partners on board and how to implement these ideas across a class school or consortium. Areas covered include: • How to get children and young people ready to learn. • Why it is important to teach learning strategies. • Encouraging children to become more active in the process of learning while also nurturing the development of creativity. • How to harness learner motivation as metacognition and motivation are highly linked. Easily applicable in any classroom this essential resource supports children’s development of important metacognitive self-regulatory and self-study skills and provides teachers and school leaders with evidence-based approaches for implementing these ideas with the support of parents students and partners. | How to Create Autonomous Learners Teaching Metacognitive Self-regulatory and Study Skills – a Practitioner’s Guide

GBP 22.99
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Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling A Method of Composition from Action to Text

Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling A Method of Composition from Action to Text

Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text offers a practical method for composing and performing personal narrative stories for artistic and academic purposes. It is designed to make storytelling accessible to seasoned performers and people who are engaging with the artform for the first time. The author’s unique method of composing stories from action to text privileges oral composition over writing. It draws on anecdotes from the author’s many years of coaching storytellers to illustrate concepts throughout the book making it entertaining and user-friendly. The methods contained in this book can help students and scholars communicate theoretical and scholarly arguments about culture gender race and the environment. Anyone looking to harness the power of personal storytelling to speak about the political and the personal - in a classroom or on a stage - will find Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling: A Method of Composition from Action to Text of great use. Additionally the book will be of interest to qualitative researchers and those applying autoethnographic and storytelling methods in communication studies and other related social science and arts disciplines. | Personal Narrative Performance and Storytelling A Method of Composition from Action to Text

GBP 36.99
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Finding Your Way with Your Baby The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies

Finding Your Way with Your Baby The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies

Finding Your Way with Your Baby explores the emotional experience of the baby in the first year and that of the mother father and other significant adults. This updated edition is informed by latest research in neuroscience psychoanalysis and infant observation and decades of clinical experience. It also includes important new findings about how the mother’s brain undergoes massive restructuring during the transition to parenthood a phenomenon that has been named ‘matrescence. ’ The authors engage with the difficult emotional experiences that are often glossed over in parenting books – such as bonding ambivalence about the baby depression and the emotional turmoil of being a new parent. Acknowledgement and understanding of this darker side of family life offer a sense of relief that can allow parents to harness the power of knowing owning and sharing feelings to transform situations and break negative cycles and old ways of relating. With real-life examples the book remains a helpful resource for parents as well as professionals interested in ideas from psychoanalytic clinical practice including health visitors midwives social workers general practitioners paediatricians and childcare workers. | Finding Your Way with Your Baby The Emotional Life of Parents and Babies

GBP 16.99
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Producing for TV and Emerging Media A Real-World Approach for Producers

Producing for TV and Emerging Media A Real-World Approach for Producers

Gain a thorough understanding of the nuanced and multidimensional role producers play in television and emerging media today to harness the creative technical interpersonal and financial skills essential for success in this vibrant and challenging field. Producing for TV and New Media Fourth edition is your guide to avoiding the obstacles and pitfalls commonly encountered by new and aspiring producers. This fourth edition has been updated to include: Focus on Emerging Media sections that highlight emerging media web video mobile format media and streaming media Sample production forms and contracts Review questions accompanying each interview and chapter Interviews with industry professionals that offer practical insight into cutting-edge developments in television and emerging media production Fresh analysis of emerging media technologies and streaming media markets Written especially for new and aspiring producers with an insight that simply cannot be found in any other book this new edition of a text used by professors and professionals alike is an indispensable resource for anyone looking to find success as a television or emerging media producer. | Producing for TV and Emerging Media A Real-World Approach for Producers

GBP 49.99
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Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families

Solution-Focused Brief Therapy with Families describes SFBT from a systemic perspective and provides students educators trainers and practitioners with a clear explanation and rich examples of SFBT and systemic family therapy. Family therapists will learn how SFBT works with families solution-focused therapists will learn how a systemic understanding of clients and their contexts can enhance their work and all will learn how to harness the power of each to the service of their clients. The book starts with an exploration of systems cybernetics and communication theory basics such as wholeness recursion homeostasis and change. Following this is an introduction to five fundamental family therapy approaches and an overview of Solution-Focused Brief Therapy. Next the author considers SFBT within a systems paradigm and provides a demonstration of SFBT with families and couples. Each step is explicated with ideas from both SFBTA as well as systems. The final chapter shows how SFBT practices can be applied to a variety of family therapy approaches. This accessible text is enhanced by descriptions case examples dialogue and commentary that are both systemic and solution-focused. Readers will come away with a new appreciation for both the systemic worldview of SFBT and SFBT principles as applied to systemic work.

GBP 38.99
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