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Spanning the late 18th century to the present, this volume explores new directions in imperial and postcolonial histories of conciliation, performance, and conflict between European colonizers and Indigenous peoples in Australia and the Pacific Rim, including Aotearoa New Zealand, Hawaii and the Northwest Pacific Coast. It examines cultural "rituals" and objects, the re-enactments of various events and encounters of exchange, conciliation and ...

actions are formed and have impact. It also establishes a research agenda based on rigorous development of the framework for role analysis, and demonstrates the ways in which this agenda might be furthered.

Published in 2016. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.

Features 171 recognized dog breeds and 42 cat breed are included, organized alphabetically, with all information heavily referenced and based on the most recent research. This title deals with the diagnosis and management of breed relates medical conditions of dogs and cats.

This volume - a landmark contribution to the burgeoning theory and practice of place-based education - enriches the field in three ways: first, it frames place-based pedagogy not just as an alternative teaching methodology or novel approach to environmental education but as part of a broader social movement known as the "new localism, " which aims toward reclaiming the significance of the local in the global age. Second, it links the developme...

First Published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Volume 6 in the National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy's series of annual volumes reporting on current issues, research, and best practices in the field of adult basic education.

Intends to familiarize readers with the varieties of world Englishes used across cultures and to create awareness of some of the linguistic and socially relevant contexts and functions that have given rise to them. This volume emphasizes that effective communication among users of different Englishes requires awareness of the varieties in use.

The first major study in over three decades to explore the essential arguments of all the major theoretical interpretations of nationalism, from the modernist approaches of Gellner, Nairn, Breuilly, Giddens and Hobsbawm to the alternative paradigms of van den Bergh and Geertz, Armstrong and Smith himself. In a style accessible to the student and the general reader Smith traces the changing view of this hotly discussed topic within the current ...

School Bullying: Insights and Perspectives" gives a succinct and authoritative account of research into the nature and extent of bullying in schools and the ways in which it can be reduced. The book investigates the success of a number of different approaches to the problem of school bullying including strategies such as developing a school-wide policy, use of classroom and curriculum materials, training lunchtime supervisors, improving the pl...

Europe's Experimental Union challenges conventional writings on European integration by situating the analysis of the EU in the context of changing patterns of political and economic order. The authors conclude that the union is not evolving towards a federal superstate, but rather, is an arena of deep economic integration governed by a prismatic polity characterised by innovation, experimentation, pragmatism, decentralisation and devolution. ...

A distinctively human aspect of the mind is its ability to handle both factual and counterfactual scenarios. This brings enormous advantages, but we are far from infallible in monitoring the boundaries between the real, the imaginary and the pathological. In the early modern period, particularly, explorations of the mind's ability to roam beyond the factual became mainstream. It was an age of perspective art, anamorphism and optical illusions,...

Drawing on a wide diversity of disciplines, including sociology, psychology, policy studies, coaching, physical education and physiology, this comprehensive survey of young people¿s involvement in sport focuses on a key transitional period of our lives, from the later teenage years into the early twenties. Covering youth sport in all its forms and at all levels, from elite competition to leisure and school physical education, it also explores ...

First published in 1579, George Buchanan's influential political essay achieved almost instantaneous notoriety. It was immensely influential in Britain and on the Continent, making a notable contribution to the debates over the nature and location of sovereignty.

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Review of Adult Learning and Literacy: Connecting Research, Policy, and Practice, Volume 6, " includes chapters on: *Demographic change and low-literacy Americans, *The role of vocabulary in Adult Basic Education, *Implications of research on spelling for Adult Basic Education, *Issues in teaching speaking skills to adult ESOL learners, *The preparation and stability of the Adult Basic Education teaching workforce, *The adult literacy system i...

Sheldon, a delightful grasshopper saves the day after a storm by gathering together all his friends. He introduces them to the reader with a little song (to hear the song, link to sheldonthegrasshopper.com) and then, very dramatically, he begins to tell us about the big hurricane they have all experienced. This is a "fun" story which also teaches about insects and what they do. It also has four songs from the small musical soon to be produced ...

This book brings the emerging fields of practical theology and theology of the arts into a dialogue beyond the bias of modern systematic and constructive theology. It presents its theological claims through the careful analysis of several stories of communities around the world that have engaged in transformational practices through a specific art form, investigating communities from Europe, the Middle East, South America, and the U.S. The cas...

This book explores the complex events and the increasing religious and political discord that followed the coronation of James I and which culminated in the English Civil War.

Ricci Martin takes readers on a tour through his childhood, from the star-studded parties to the exploration of three marriages, eight kids, and one family, to the treasured one-on-one time he shared with his father.