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Education, Disability and Social Policy brings together for the first time unique perspectives from leading thinkers including senior academics, opinion formers, policy makers and school leaders to explore this increasingly vital contemporary issue in British social policy.

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In this true story and journey of discovery, Bill McKenna shares a life of intense experiences. He earned his black belt, learned to fly planes and helicopters, ran marathons, 50 and 100-mile endurance races, survived a several hundred foot free-fall in a skydiving mishap, and saw his life's dream shipwrecked by an unseen island. The journey brought financial success and catastrophe, a constant struggle with crash-and-burn relationships and a ...

Numerous books have been written by philosophers and scientists about how creationism and intelligent design are not part of science, but scholars have largely ignored two of the main historical and philosophical issues underlying the attack on science. First, conservative Christian scholars commonly claim that Christian theological doctrines are the source of modern science. To them, modern science is the stepchild of medieval Christian theol...

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The book explores the way our traditionally monolingual school systems are being challenged by students from diverse language backgrounds, forcing educationalists to question entrenched ideologies of language and challenging teachers in their everyday classrooms to rethink their relationships to language learning and the issue of diversity.

Schizophrenia: The Final Frontier is a unique project reflecting the contribution that Robin M. Murray has made to the field of Psychiatry over the past 35 years, with a particular focus on the advances that have been made to the understanding and treatment of schizophrenia. International contributors have been brought together to pay tribute to Robin M. Murray's work and exploring the latest findings in the area. Sections cover: - development...

This edition contains over twenty illustrations, a thematic guide and the texts of the libretti in the original with literal translations. There is also a bibliography, discography and DVD guide, together with a list of websites that will allow the reader to explore the opera further.

Where did the old social barriers break down at the coming of Christianity? In homes. Where did practice join theology to break down the division between rich and poor or Jew and Greek, so that they ate together? In the hospitality of house church hosts and hostesses. What happened to the barrier between slave and free? Gone when they prayed together. The intense reserve between men and women? Dissolved as hosts and hostesses served the friend...

AUTHOR-APPROVED Postcolonial Literary Studies Series Editors: David Johnson and Ania Loomba This series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature. The books relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and geographical contexts, and to contemporary issues of neo-colonialism and global inequality. Each volume not only provides a comprehensive survey of the existing field of schol...

AUTHOR-APPROVED Postcolonial Literary Studies Series Editors: David Johnson and Ania Loomba This series examines how Postcolonial Studies reconfigures the major periods and areas of literature. The books relate key literary and cultural texts both to their historical and geographical contexts, and to contemporary issues of neo-colonialism and global inequality. Each volume not only provides a comprehensive survey of the existing field of schol...

Addresses issues of national identity and nationalism in Scotland from a political and linguistic perspective.

Professor Dani Wadada Nabudere, a respected academic and educator from Uganda, dedicated his life to applying and spreading the notion of 'community sites of knowledge', which simply means using indigenous tools of knowledge to revitalise the lives of Africa's people. He staunchly believed that the liberation of Africans depended largely on self-reliance, and that any dependence on imported knowledge and material instruments could only lead to...

This fascinating and compelling novel about the life story of Sir Alexander Ismay Strang, managing director and vice-chairman of Walbank Holdings, and of his friend Jervis Andrew Taylor the eventual Archbishop of Lancaster, takes the reader from the Prologue where Commander Robert Strang RNR goes down with his destroyer after sinking a German U-Boat in July 1942, to Chapter One where in 1955 his orphaned son Alexander Strang begins his enginee...

Albert Schweitzers humanitäres Engagement in einem afrikanischen Urwald-Krankenhaus und seine Lehre von der Ehrfurcht vor dem Leben sind gerade in Krisenzeiten wichtige ethische Orientierungspunkte. Im Herbst 2009 lässt der Filmproduzent Alexander Thies den internationalen Erfolgen LUTHER und BONHOEFFER seinen großen Spielfilm SCHWEITZER folgen, der von einer zweiteiligen ARD-Dokumentation begleitet wird. Der Spielfilm zeigt einen Schweitzer, ...

This book discusses peer relationships and social skills in school-age children. The historical and current understanding of the importance of peer relationships and effective social skills for development and well-being are discussed herein. In addition, this book reviews and discusses the concepts of social skills and social competence, as well as current understanding of the social difficulties of children with ADHD, autistic spectrum disor...

The first new biography of Oliver Cromwell in several years, this rounded account does equal justice to his public and private life, to his political career, his military abilities and his passionate religiosity. Ian Gentles synthesizes much recent research including Cromwell's activity as a lay preacher, his patronage of the arts and his promotion of horsebreeding. Gentles also provides fresh findings on Cromwell's pay as a soldier, his perso...

From one of America's most respected writing professors-practical, motivating strategies for making writing a tool for learning, and for integrating it into content area instruction. This resource helps new and veteran teachers work smarter, not harder. Prompted by a "near-total neglect of writing" in content areas outside English, and drawing on the work of expert teachers, Bill Strong shows how write-for-insight coaching strategies enhance c...

Dimensional analysis is an essential scientific method and a powerful tool for solving problems in physics and engineering. This book starts by introducing the Pi Theorem, which is the theoretical foundation of dimensional analysis. It also provides ample and detailed examples of how dimensional analysis is applied to solving problems in various branches of mechanics. The book covers the extensive findings on explosion mechanics and impact dyn...