Geof Smith's Books

Meet Tracker! (PAW Patrol)

By: Geof Smith

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Join Chase, Marshall, Skye, and the rest of Nickelodeon's PAW Patrol as they find adventure and make a new friend named Tracker. Boys and girls ages 4 to 6 will love this Step 1 Deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader. Step 1 Readers feature big type and easy words. Rhymes and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story. For children who know the alphabet and are eager to begin reading.

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Random House Books for Young Readers

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0553522884

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9780553522884

Ecological Public Health

Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

By: Geof Rayner,Tim Lang

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Ecological Public Health

Reshaping the Conditions for Good Health

By: Geof Rayner,Tim Lang

What is public health? To some, it is about drains, water, food and housing, all requiring engineering and expert management. To others, it is the State using medicine or health education and tackling unhealthy lifestyles. This book argues that public health thinking needs an overhaul, a return to and modernisation around ecological principles. Ecological Public Health thinking, outlined here, fits the twenty-first century’s challenges. It integrates what the authors call the four dimensions of existence: the material, biological, social and cultural aspects of life. Public health becomes the task of transforming the relationship between people, their circumstances and the biological world of nature and bodies. For Geof Rayner and Tim Lang, this is about facing a number of long-term transitions, some well recognized, others not. These transitions are Demographic, Epidemiological, Urban, Energy, Economic, Nutrition, Biological, Cultural and Democracy itself. The authors argue that identifying large scale transitions such as these refocuses public health actions onto the conditions on which human and eco-systems health interact. Making their case, Rayner and Lang map past confusions in public health images, definitions and models. This is an optimistic book, arguing public health can be rescued from its current dilemmas and frustrations. This century’s agenda is unavoidably complex, however, and requires stronger and more daring combinations of interdisciplinary work, movements and professions locally, nationally and globally. Outlining these in the concluding section, the book charts a positive and reinvigorated institutional purpose.

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434

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Routledge

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1136482717

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9781136482717

Exploring Disability

By: Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer

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Exploring Disability

By: Colin Barnes,Geof Mercer

The second edition of this widely used text has been carefully rewritten to ensure that it is up-to-date with cutting-edge debates, evidence, and policy changes. Since the book's initial publication, there has been an expansion of interest in disability in the social sciences, and disability has come to play an increasingly prominent role in political debates. The new edition takes account of all these developments, and also gives greater emphasis to global issues in order to reflect the increasing and intensifying interdependence of nation states in the twenty-first century. The authors examine, amongst other issues,the changing nature of the concept of disability, key debates in the sociology of health and illness, the politicisation of disability, social policy, and the cultural and media representation of disability. As well as providing an excellent overview of the literature in the area, the book develops an understanding of disability that has implications for both sociology and society. The second edition of Exploring Disability will be indispensable for students across the social sciences, and in health and social care, who really want to understand the issues facing disabled people and disabling societies.

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339

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John Wiley & Sons

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0745698913

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9780745698915

The Art of The Matrix

By: Lana Wachowski,Larry Wachowski,Andy Wachowski,Geof Darrow

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The Art of The Matrix

By: Lana Wachowski,Larry Wachowski,Andy Wachowski,Geof Darrow

The art was the best thing about the movie. This book provides an opportunity to appreciate it without the blight of Keanu Reeves' acting. Serving as a pre-production archive of the work related to The Matrix, this coffee table edition includes the complete script, along with stills from the movie, four double-sided gatefolds featuring conceptual drawings, and commentary by the artists. Some in color, some in black and white, approximately 700 storyboards (including three cut from the final film) tell the story with a comic book sensibility. Author William Gibson provides an afterword. c. Book News Inc.

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504

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Newmarket Pictorial Moviebooks

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1557044058

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9781557044051

Coping with Special Needs

A Guide for New Teachers

By: Geof Sewell

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Coping with Special Needs

A Guide for New Teachers

By: Geof Sewell

First published in 1986. Following the Warnock report, schools attempted to integrate the teaching of children with special needs into ordinary classrooms. Many teachers had no experience of teaching children with special needs and the new developments were likely to pose a substantial challenge. This book provides a guidance for inexperienced, especially new, teachers in how to teach children with special needs in ordinary classrooms. An important feature of the book is realism – the book grows out of the author’s own experiences and research. The author describes what really happens and bases his suggestions on practices which are likely to bring results.

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216

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Routledge

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0429995865

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9780429995866

Computational Statistics

By: Geof H. Givens,Jennifer A. Hoeting

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Computational Statistics

By: Geof H. Givens,Jennifer A. Hoeting

This new edition continues to serve as a comprehensive guide to modern and classical methods of statistical computing. The book is comprised of four main parts spanning the field: Optimization Integration and Simulation Bootstrapping Density Estimation and Smoothing Within these sections,each chapter includes a comprehensive introduction and step-by-step implementation summaries to accompany the explanations of key methods. The new edition includes updated coverage and existing topics as well as new topics such as adaptive MCMC and bootstrapping for correlated data. The book website now includes comprehensive R code for the entire book. There are extensive exercises, real examples, and helpful insights about how to use the methods in practice.

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496

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118555481

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9781118555484

Knight Fever

By: Geof McMoody

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Knight Fever

By: Geof McMoody

Mysterious deaths at an army camp in Cornwall takes the doctor to meet another old friend.In the second Doctor Aldrin Novel we are drawn into the world of the Knights of King Arthur.

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169

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Lulu.com

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1445702231

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9781445702230

Reshaping Remedial Education

By: Geof Sewell

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Reshaping Remedial Education

By: Geof Sewell

First published in 1982. After the economic crises of the late seventies and early eighties, remedial education was affected particularly badly. Due to lack of funding, a child had to be labelled and diagnosed before they could receive any remedial education. For some children this labelling produced unintended and destructive consequences. The author examines this context of failure, and analyses various approaches to remedial education.

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209

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Routledge

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0429995989

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9780429995989

Tina Finds a Way

By: Geof Smith

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Tina Finds a Way

By: Geof Smith

Tina is disappointed that she can only invite two members of her family to see her in the school play because the theater is so small. She has an idea, though.

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