Introduces a playful assortment of practical advice and creative suggestions for couples at all stages of romantic intimacy on how to spice up their love life. Original.
Shares a series of effective ways to prevent a loss of energy and to reclaim one's get up and go in order to wake up refreshed and tackle the everyday challenges of one's personal and professional life, with helpful tips on diet, exercise, and more. Original.
Put the va va voom back into your life! If you've mislaid your get-up-and-go, this collection of 101 simple purifying tips will help you invigorate your life and redisocver the energy you always knew you had."--Back cover.
Millions of us want to lose weight, find romance, look like models, kick start our careers and ditch the stress. And when we do, there's tons of advice out there to help us, an avalanche of books, magazines, websites and TV programmes. Sorting out this avalanche, this book looks straight to the heart of the issue.
Elisabeth, known as Liesje , was born in Indonesia when it was a Dutch colony. She came of age at the beginning of World War II, and when the Japanese invaded she was interned. She escaped from the Japanese concentration camp, a decision that put her into survival mode for the next five years. This is her account of her youth, of her life as a concentration camp escapee under the Japanese occupation, of her clandestine union with a noble Japanese military officer - a Samurai, of her subsequent journey to war-devastated Japan, and her life there after wards.
Are you in control of your life? Can you afford to down tools for ten minutes and do nothing? Thought not. More and more people are now living incredibly pressured lives, whether through career, family or lifestyle choices. Statistics on this subject are quite scary - the average couple spends only 10 minutes a day talking, 31% of people go to work even when they're sick, 24% don't take all of their annual leave, and only 21% of families eat together twice a week - most don't manage it even once. But there's a very quiet revolution happening - people are reclaiming time for themselves. Whether.
This book examines the impact of and response to the rapidly growing English language learner (ELL) populations in the southeastern United States on K-16 schooling. Using examples of policy and practice from seven states (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee), the book explores how the contemporary context of accountability regimes and neoliberal tenets affect educational responses to the increased linguistic and cultural diversity in schools and how these realities may be different from when traditional states (such as California or Florida) were developing their responses to (im)migration. The collection of chapters addresses key questions of teacher preparation, effective infrastructures, and frameworks for serving ELLs, dual language bilingual education, and advocacy efforts at the state, district, and local level in the Southeast. The authors describe promising practices in each state, but also note the need for more systemic, statewide approaches that resist the enduring monolingual discourse that has historically characterized much of ELL schooling. They call for transformative policies and practices that take current research into account and that stress the centrality of pluralistic principles to design effective schools for ELLs.
Goddess' contains the inspiration you need to be smart, sexy, charismatic and creative. Whether it's a pay rise you're after, or looking to downsize, taking your love life to a new level, creating your dream garden or unleashing creativity, then you'll find out how here.
The internet, e-mail and mobile technology have given birth to an 'instant gratification' society. It's almost impossible to not find yourself drawn into it. With this in mind 'The Feel Good Factory' has been created to bring the people what they want: helpful information that's verbiage-free, gets straight to the point, is easy to navigate and most importantly is actually pertinent to them. What comes off the production line are beautiful, helpful books that people actually enjoy looking at and reading. In "Mind-blowing, Earth-shattering Sex Secrets to Re-energise Your Relationship", Elisabeth Wilson reveals how you can get that loving feeling back with a little effort, a little imagination and by using these inspirational ideas. Discover inspiring and fun ideas to get your relationship back on track, including how to try new things without embarrassment, how to make your partner want you more, and how to tell your partner what you really want!
Sponsored by the American Association of Adult & Continuing Education"This monumental work is a testimony to the science of adult education and the skills of Wilson and Hayes. It is a veritable feast for nourishing our understanding of the current field of adult education. The editors and their well-chosen colleagues consistently question how we know and upon what grounds we act. They invite us to consider not only how we can design effective adult education, but also why we practice in a particular socio-economic context." --Jane Vella, author of Taking Learning to Task and Learning to Listen, Learning to Teach "This new handbook captures the exciting intellectual and professional development of our field in the last decade. It is an indispensable resource for faculty, students, and professionals." --Jack Mezirow, emeritus professor, Adult and Continuing Education, Teachers College, Columbia University For nearly seventy years, the handbooks of adult and continuing education have been definitive references on the best practices, programs, and institutions in the field. In this new edition, over sixty leading authorities share their diverse perspectives in a single volume--exploring a wealth of topics, including: learning from experience, adult learning for self-development, race and culture in adult learning, technology and distance learning, learning in the workplace, adult education for community action and development, and much more. Much more than a catalogue of theory and historical facts, this handbook strongly reflects the values of adult educators and instructors who are dedicated to promoting social and educational opportunity for learners and to sustaining fair and ethical practices.
This book brings together the expertise of two authors involved in initiating the development of Online Family Dispute Resolution (OFDR), while also examining the unique Australian system. The family arena generally comprises property or child-related disputes arising between parents, whether married or not, and whether the parties have lived together or not. A special feature of Australia’s OFDR system is that it deals with children’s issues rather than focusing on property distribution. The book first discusses how technological innovations have transformed dispute resolution services to families. It explores the need for OFDR and how such systems can potentially be implemented. In turn, the coverage shifts to screening tools used prior to a Family Dispute Resolution session to ensure that online systems are appropriate for the case under dispute and the people involved. Readers will then learn about the necessary training required – for administrators, practitioners and clients alike - for OFDR to be successful. In addition, the book offers a comprehensive evaluation of the system and reflects on the lessons learned to date. In closing, it suggests ways in which OFDR could be further developed and applied to family disputes around the world.
Stress is not a generic thing, although it's always treated that way. Some people are really good at avoiding some stresses without realising that they are slaves to another kind. Elisabeth Wilson looks at all the sources - occupational, relationship, genetic and environmental - and reveals 52 clever techniques and ideas that focus on the causes rather than simply telling people how to deal with the symptoms. Here are some of the chapters to be discovered: admit your addiction; give a little, get a lot; too stressed to sleep?; and the 'stop and collapse' effect. If you're fed up with getting sick on your first day of holiday, here's how to prevent it. Elisabeth Wilson trained as a doctor before becoming a journalist. She has written medical and consumer trade books and widely in national press. She was Health and Wellbeing Editor of She magazine.
The most comprehensive book on the work of Liza Lou, whose popular and critically acclaimed installations made entirely of beads consider the important themes of women, community, and the valorization of labor. Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen was shown at the New Museum in New York. Representing five years of individual labor, this groundbreaking work subverted standards of art by introducing glass beads as a fine art material. The project blurred the rigid boundary between fine art and craft, and established Lou's long-standing exploration of materiality, process, and beauty. Working within a craft métier has led the artist to work in a variety of socially engaged settings, from community groups in Los Angeles, to a collective she founded in Durban, South Africa. Over the past fifteen years, Lou has focused on a poetic approach to abstraction as a way to highlight the process underlying her work. In this comprehensive volume that considers the entirety of Lou’s singular vision, curators, art historians, and artists offer important perspectives on the breadth of the work.
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