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Move, Play, and Learn with Smart Steps

Sequenced Activities to Build the Body and the Brain (Birth to Age 7)

By: Gill Connell,Cheryl McCarthy,Wendy Pirie

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Move, Play, and Learn with Smart Steps

Sequenced Activities to Build the Body and the Brain (Birth to Age 7)

By: Gill Connell,Cheryl McCarthy,Wendy Pirie

Build the body-brain connection with step-by-step activities that help children develop physical, cognitive, social, and emotional foundations for early learning and school readiness. Early childhood educators will find clear information on creating the move-to learn environment, managing safety, and optimizing the connections between language development, movement, and readiness for formal learning. An observational tool lets teachers pinpoint children’s specific developmental stages and assess progress. The easy-to-follow, full-color format includes diagrams and photos along with teaching tips to advance and automate children’s foundational physical capabilities while providing incremental challenge. Grounded in best practices and current research, Move, Play, and Learn with Smart Steps is both a hands-on resource for any classroom teacher, care provider, or parent and an ideal tool for coaches, mentors, and professional development trainers. Digital content includes customizable forms from the book.

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Free Spirit Publishing

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1631980742

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9781631980749

Late Bloomers

By: Brendan Gill

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Late Bloomers

By: Brendan Gill

Offers brief profiles of seventy-five men and women whose greatest achievements came or were recognized in later life

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Artisan Books

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1579651089

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9781579651084

Previous Convictions

Assignments from Here and There

By: A.A. Gill

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Previous Convictions

Assignments from Here and There

By: A.A. Gill

Critic, essayist and cultural savant A.A. Gill is probably the most widely read columnist in Britain. His books The Angry Island and A.A. Gill is away have found delighted fans in America as well, and sparked a loyal following. His new book of travel essays, Previous Convictions, ranges from Gill's nearby domestic locales of Glastonbury and the English countryside to Haiti, Guatemala, Pakistan and exotic, dangerous, downtown Manhattan. In this collection of notes from the corners of the globe, and sometimes from the edge of sanity, he confesses about his travels far and wide, "The more I see of the world, the less I think I understand. Familiarity breeds even more astonishment. The world just gets wider and deeper and weirder." These pieces are wickedly funny, sometimes pointedly -- even purposely -- critical of many cultures and traditions, and always edifying and enchanting. As an adventurer and as a writer, Gill never disappoints; while he may take others to task for their customs, habits, idiosyncrasies and plain bad taste, his own indefatigable curiosity keeps him going back again and again for more, and provides us with spectacular entertainment along the way.

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Simon and Schuster

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1416583661

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9781416583660

Renewable Energy for Your Home

Using Off-Grid Energy to Reduce Your Footprint, Lower Your Bills and be More Self-Sufficient

By: Alan Bridgewater,Gill Bridgewater

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Renewable Energy for Your Home

Using Off-Grid Energy to Reduce Your Footprint, Lower Your Bills and be More Self-Sufficient

By: Alan Bridgewater,Gill Bridgewater

A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader.

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Simon and Schuster

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1569759413

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9781569759417

100 Alien Invaders

By: Gill Williams

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100 Alien Invaders

By: Gill Williams

This is a fun science photographic exposure of one of the greatest threats to the planet after climate change and overpopulation.

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Bradt Travel Guides

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1841623598

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9781841623597

Power Plant Performance

By: A B Gill

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Power Plant Performance

By: A B Gill

Power Plant Performance discusses the different procedures and practices involved in the operation of power plants. The book is divided into four parts. Part I covers general considerations such as steam cycles; the sampling, analysis, and assessment of coal; and pumping – its related terms, the different types of pumps, and the determination of sizes and efficiency. Part II tackles the important measurements in power plants such as temperature, pressure, and gas and water flow. Part III deals with the operation of power plant components such as the boiler, turbine, and condensers. Part IV tackles other related topics such as steam turbine heat consumption tests; plant-operating parameters; and the costs of outages. The text is recommended for professionals involved in the development, maintenance, and operation of power plants, especially those who would like to be familiar with the basics.

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Elsevier

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1483100006

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9781483100005

Addictions From an Attachment Perspective

Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

By: Richard Gill

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Addictions From an Attachment Perspective

Do Broken Bonds and Early Trauma Lead to Addictive Behaviours?

By: Richard Gill

This outstanding book is an important collection of papers from the 2013 John Bowlby Memorial Conference by accomplished clinicians from different modalities who share their experience of working with people with different kinds of addiction. The papers bring together an in-depth understanding that addictions are a response to, and hold the pain of, broken attachments and are best treated within healthy interpersonal relationships. For a long time the person with an addiction has been seen as the problem with society being able to live in denial of the causes. These papers open up innovative and effective ways of working with people troubled by addiction from an attachment-informed perspective. Contributors: Cara Crossan, Richard Gill, Lynn Greenwood, Bob Johnson, Liz Karter, Edward Khantzian, Arlene Vetere, Kate White, Jason Wright

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Routledge

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0429910576

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9780429910579

Lawson Lies Still in the Thames

The Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson

By: Gill Blanchard

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Lawson Lies Still in the Thames

The Extraordinary Life of Vice-Admiral Sir John Lawson

By: Gill Blanchard

The story of an ordinary seaman born in Scarborough who would go on to play a key role in some of the major events of seventeenth-century England.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445661241

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9781445661247

Materials Beneficiation

By: Charles B. Gill

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Materials Beneficiation

By: Charles B. Gill

The purpose of this book is to provide a broad, comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of current beneficiation techniques and processes that are used for both metallic and nonmetallic minerals; and for other materials, such as household and industrial solid wastes, that are also processed by conventional beneficiation methods in their standard methods of recycling and reclamation. Conservation of natural resources is an adjunct of beneficiation in that we have used up once-available deposits of high-grade ores, leaving only the low-grade deposits that must be beneficiated to upgrade them to sufficiently high levels for processing and metal recovery by current extractive technology. Conservation is also important in the reclamation and recycling of indestructible, noncorrosive materials, so that they may be recovered and reused many times over. The mainly physical, relatively uncomplicated, beneficiation treatments also save large quantities of energy, as these comparatively simple operations are all relatively low energy consumers, when compared with the later separation operations of pyro and electrical nature, which are very high energy consumers. Environmentally, both air and water pollution from beneficiation treatments are either quite low or can easily be controlled, and are gas-free and operated at ambient temperature, to make them one of the cleaner and lower polluting processes used in material treatments.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461230209

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9781461230205

Easy Electric Smoker Cookbook

100 Effortless Recipes for Crave-Worthy BBQ

By: Marc Gill

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Easy Electric Smoker Cookbook

100 Effortless Recipes for Crave-Worthy BBQ

By: Marc Gill

Make smokehouse-quality BBQ at home with your electric smoker The electric smoker is the great equalizer between novices and pro pitmasters, making it easy for anyone to cook up a tantalizing, bacon-wrapped piece of barbecue heaven. Get the most out of your electric smoker with help from The Easy Electric Smoker Cookbook, filled with expert advice and 100 set-and-forget recipes for creating delectable barbecue in your own backyard. You'll find effortless recipes for poultry, pork, beef, fish, and seafood—plus marinades, rubs, sauces, sides, and even desserts. This beginner-friendly electric smoker cookbook includes: An intro to electric smokers—Begin with a straightforward appliance overview that includes simple instructions for firing up both chest-style and pellet electric smokers, as well as tips for safety, troubleshooting, and maintenance. Creative flavor combinations—This electric smoker cookbook teaches you how to mix and match sauces, marinades, and rubs with different meats to switch up the flavors of your barbecue. Guidance on woods—Explore the flavor profiles and characteristics of various smoking woods, and get suggestions for what cooks best with each one. A smoke-time cheat sheet—Find a handy chart that breaks down the smoking temperature, smoking time, and internal temperature for all the meats, seafoods, and veggies featured in this electric smoker cookbook. Create barbecue magic with help from The Easy Electric Smoker Cookbook.

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Sourcebooks, Inc.

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1647396344

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9781647396343

Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

By: Meredith J. Gill

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Angels and the Order of Heaven in Medieval and Renaissance Italy

By: Meredith J. Gill

This book examines the role of angels in medieval and Renaissance art and religion from Dante to the Counter-Reformation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107027950

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9781107027954

Underground Rap as Religion

A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion

By: Jon Ivan Gill

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Underground Rap as Religion

A Theopoetic Examination of a Process Aesthetic Religion

By: Jon Ivan Gill

Underground rap is largely a subversive, grassroots, and revolutionary movement in underground hip-hop, tending to privilege creative freedom as well as progressive and liberating thoughts and actions. This book contends that many practitioners of underground rap have absorbed religious traditions and ideas, and implement, critique, or abandon them in their writings. This in turn creates processural mutations of God that coincide with and speak to the particular context from which they originate. Utilising the work of scholars like Monica Miller and Alfred North Whitehead, Gill uses a secular religious methodology to put forward an aesthetic philosophy of religion for the rap portion of underground hip-hop. Drawing from Whiteheadian process thought, a theopoetic argument is made. Namely, that it is not simply the case that is God the "poet of the world", but rather rap can, in fact, be the poet (creator) of its own form of quasi-religion. This is a unique look at the religious workings and implications of underground rap and hip hop. As such, it will be of keen interest to scholars of Religious Studies, Hip-Hop Studies and Process Philosophy and Theology.

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Routledge

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1351391321

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9781351391320

Igneous Rocks and Processes

A Practical Guide

By: Robin Gill,Godfrey Fitton

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Igneous Rocks and Processes

A Practical Guide

By: Robin Gill,Godfrey Fitton

IGNEOUS ROCKS AND PROCESSES A practical introduction to igneous petrology for students and practitioners The newly revised Second Edition of Igneous Rocks and Processes: A Practical Guide, delivers an authoritative introduction to igneous petrology and helps students to develop key skills and confidence in identifying igneous materials and in naming and interpreting unknown igneous rocks presented to them. It serves as both a conventional course text and a practical laboratory manual. The authors review igneous nomenclature and subsequently describe specific compositional categories of magmatic rocks. Each chapter covers definitions, mineralogy, eruption and emplacement processes, textures and crystallization processes, geotectonic distribution, geochemistry, and aspects of magma genesis. Additional chapters address phase equilibrium experiments and physical volcanology. This latest edition offers readers extensively updated chapters, as well as access to a companion website with supplementary material. It also provides: Thorough introductions to magmas, magmatic rocks, and magma differentiation Exercises for each chapter, with answers provided at the end A detailed summary of techniques and optical data for mineral identification using a polarizing microscope An introduction to petrographic calculations and an extensive glossary Perfect for geoscience students taking courses in igneous petrology, Igneous Rocks and Processes: A Practical Guide, second edition will also earn a place in the libraries of postgraduate students and researchers in the field.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119455685

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9781119455684

The Ionian Islands

By: Nick Edwards,John Gill

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The Ionian Islands

By: Nick Edwards,John Gill

This guide to the Ionian Islands opens with a 16 page full-colour introduction, which highlights 20 things not to miss from windsurfing in Vassaliki to hiking the Corfu Trail. There is coverage of dozens of towns and resorts and practical guidance on getting off the beaten track, from the mountains of Cephalonia to remote Corfu beaches. The guide also provides details of the network of ferry and bus services and gives tips on how to plan your trip.

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Rough Guides

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1843530678

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9781843530671

Wild Wings

By: Gill Lewis

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Wild Wings

By: Gill Lewis

This “vividly imagined and well-written novel” (Booklist, starred review) tells a gripping story about a boy from Scotland and a girl from West Africa who join together to save a migrating Osprey—and end up saving each other. When Callum spots crazy Iona McNair on his family’s sprawling property, she’s catching a fish with her bare hands. She won’t share the fish, but does share something else: a secret. She’s discovered a rare endangered bird, an Osprey, and it’s clear to both her and Callum that if anyone finds out about the bird, it, and its species, is likely doomed. Poachers, egg thieves, and wild weather are just some of the threats, so Iona and Callum vow to keep track of the bird and check her migratory progress using the code a preservationist tagged on her ankle, no matter what. But when one of them can no longer keep the promise, it’s up to the other to do it for them both. No matter what. Set against the dramatic landscapes of Scotland and West Africa, this is a story of unlikely friendships, the wonders of the wild—and the everyday leaps of faith that set our souls to flight.

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306

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Simon and Schuster

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1442414499

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9781442414495

Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English

By: Andrzej Zuczkowski,Ramona Bongelli,Ilaria Riccioni,Gill Philip

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Questions and Epistemic Stance in Contemporary Spoken British English

By: Andrzej Zuczkowski,Ramona Bongelli,Ilaria Riccioni,Gill Philip

This volume explores a model of epistemic stance, according to which speakers can communicate each single piece of information either as known/certain or uncertain or unknown. It presents a qualitative analysis of extracts from the Spoken British National Corpus 2014 to support the idea that questions come from two distinct epistemic positions: the Unknowing and the Uncertain; this latter ranges along two poles: Not Knowing Whether and Believing. In the epistemic continuum, Unknowing questions express a lack of knowledge and range from open to closed and dual wh-questions. On the other hand, Uncertain questions express a lack of certainty and range from maximum uncertainty (Not Knowing Whether-questions advancing a doubt) to minimum uncertainty (Believing-questions advancing a supposition). Both Unknowing and Uncertain questions can be directed either at the answerer’s Knowing or Believing position, depending on their aim. The volume will appeal to scholars concerned with the topic of question design and epistemic stance from a theoretical and analytical perspective, as well as those interested in applying these findings in their teaching practice.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527567346

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Moving People and Knowledge

Scientific Mobility in an Enlarging European Union

By: Louise Ackers,Bryony Gill

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Moving People and Knowledge

Scientific Mobility in an Enlarging European Union

By: Louise Ackers,Bryony Gill

The book can be seen as a welcomed contribution to this field of study. . . [it] raises some important questions and problems of scientific mobility. Høgni Kalsø Hansen, Papers in Regional Science This is a very timely book looking at East West migration, which has recently become a hot political issue in various West European countries. It does an excellent job in laying out the intricacies of mobility that affect different groups, particularly knowledge migrants . The book successfully shows that knowledge migrants follow different motivational routes than other groups of migrants in their choice of mobility between institutes and nations. It makes a valuable contribution to a growing body of research that seeks to change established thinking and rhetoric about migration and to shift it from a dualistic thinking of migration in terms of economic vs. non-economic migrants. What this book shows is that the professional identity of people often supersedes their nationalities in relation to why and where they move. Sami Mahroum, NESTA, UK Based on excellent empirical research on migrating scientists from Poland and Bulgaria to the UK and Germany, this book follows an innovative agenda which is crucial to the world today the movement of people and the movement of knowledge. It achieves this by a creative blend of analysing personal stories, embedded in their professional and family networks, on the one hand, and macro-scale discussions of brain drain, brain gain and national and European policy implications on the other. Russell King, University of Sussex, UK This book makes a timely contribution to understanding the circulation of scientific knowledge via international mobility. It skillfully combines an analysis of structural and institutional changes, with a focus on individual circumstances, life courses and motivations. The outcome is a compelling account of the role of international migration in the transfer of knowledge across borders, and in shaping the careers of individual scientists. This places people and human mobility at the heart of the debate about how the knowledge economy is produced and reproduced. Allan Williams, London Metropolitan University, UK Moving People and Knowledge provides a fresh examination of the processes of highly skilled science migration. Focusing on intra-European mobility and, in particular, on the new dynamics of East West migration, the authors investigate the movement of Polish and Bulgarian researchers to and from the UK and Germany. Key questions include: who is moving, how long for, and why? In addressing the motivations and experiences of mobile scientists and their families, insights into professional and personal motivations are provided, demonstrating how relationships, networks and infrastructures shape decision-making. This book provides a useful perspective on the implications of increasing researcher mobility for both sending and receiving regions and the individuals concerned which is necessary for the construction of future policies on sustainable scientific development. This empirical account provides a nuanced analysis of the duration and flow of scientific mobility showing the prevalence of repeat and shuttle moves in science careers. It will be of particular interest to researchers in European social policy, migration studies and EU law, as well as policymakers in the field of highly skilled migration especially those working on the free movement of persons provisions and the European Research Area and European Area of Higher Education.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1848444869

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9781848444867

Far From Heaven

By: John Gill

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Far From Heaven

By: John Gill

Todd Haynes's 2002 film Far From Heaven has been hailed as a homage to 1950s Hollywood melodrama, although anyone tempted to take the film at face value should be warned that it aims to subvert as much as celebrate that genre. Impeccably constructed, with a care for detail unknown in films from the era, it sets out to make key themes from the genre – romance across racial barriers and class lines, and perhaps the period's greatest taboo, romance between members of the same sex – utterly explicit, when half a century ago those themes had to be encoded in allusion and metaphor. Haynes took as his main source Douglas Sirk's 1955 classic, All That Heaven Allows, although Far From Heaven also references Rainer Werner Fassbinder's bleak portrayal of inter-racial love, Fear Eats the Soul (1974). In the context of Haynes's background in the New Queer Cinema movement, with films such as Superstar, Poison and [safe], this admixture makes Far From Heaven a rather more complex film than just another well-dressed period pastiche. John Gill provides a revealing insight into how Haynes confronts issues of race, sexuality and class in a suburban 1950s American neighbourhood. Haynes has been evasive when pressed for a definitive explanation of his film, although as Gill contends, he has left enough evidence lying around on screen for the keen viewer to pick up on numerous disturbing strands at work beneath the glossy surface of this sumptuously presented weepie. While it may affect to pass as a classic of the genre, Haynes's ultimate aim, Gill contends, is to undermine the nature and notion of cinema and storytelling.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838715630

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9781838715632

Developing a Love of Reading and Books

Teaching and nurturing readers in primary schools

By: Angela Gill,Megan Stephenson,David Waugh

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Developing a Love of Reading and Books

Teaching and nurturing readers in primary schools

By: Angela Gill,Megan Stephenson,David Waugh

nursing children read for pleasure and develop a life-long love of reading is a priority for all primary school teachers. The National Curriculum focuses heavily on promoting reading for pleasure and engaging pupils using a range of diverse and inclusive texts and materials. This text supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS and Early Career Teachers to understand the importance of supporting children to become readers, enjoy reading for pleasure and develop higher level reading skills. It includes guidance, case studies and theoretical perspectives to show trainee teachers how they can develop children’s reading.

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Learning Matters

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1529756669

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9781529756661

Hollywood Double Agent

The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

By: Jonathan Gill

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Hollywood Double Agent

The True Tale of Boris Morros, Film Producer Turned Cold War Spy

By: Jonathan Gill

This true story of Golden Age Hollywood and Cold War espionage is a “captivating, fast-paced narrative [that] reads like a thriller” (Library Journal). Boris Morros was a major figure in the 1930s and ’40s. The head of music at Paramount, nominated for Academy Awards, he then went on to produce his own films with Laurel and Hardy, Fred Astaire, Henry Fonda, and others. But as J. Edgar Hoover would discover, these successes were a cover for one of the most incredible espionage tales in the history of the Cold War—Boris Morros also worked for Russian intelligence. Morros’s assignments took him to the White House, the Vatican, and deep behind the Iron Curtain. The high-level intel he provided the KGB included military secrets and compromising information on prominent Americans: his friends. But in 1947, Morros flipped. At the height of the McCarthy era, he played a leading role in a deadly tale. Jonathan Gill’s Hollywood Double Agent is an extraordinary story about Russian spies at the heart of American culture and politics, and one man caught in the middle of the Cold War. “Well-written and perceptive . . . Morros was an empty vessel who could be turned left or right depending on how it satisfied his personal interest.” —New York Journal of Books “Reads like an espionage thriller . . . with malevolent, powerful—and sometimes bumbling—characters.” —Kirkus Reviews “A fascinating and swift-reading biography.” —The Wall Street Journal

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Abrams

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1683358155

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9781683358152

Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community

A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650–1700

By: Catie Gill

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Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community

A Literary Study of Political Identities, 1650–1700

By: Catie Gill

Focussing on Quaker pamphlet literature of the commonwealth and restoration period, Catie Gill seeks to explore and explain women’s presence as activists, writers, and subjects within the early Quaker movement. Women in the Seventeenth-Century Quaker Community draws on contemporary resources such as prophetic writing, prison narratives, petitions, and deathbed testimonies to produce an account of women’s involvement in the shaping of this religious movement. The book reveals that, far from being of marginal importance, women were able to exploit the terms in which Quaker identity was constructed to create roles for themselves, in public and in print, that emphasised their engagement with Friends’ religious and political agenda. Gill’s evidence suggests that women were able to mobilise contemporary notions of femininity when pursuing active roles as prophets, martyrs, mothers, and political activists. The book’s focus on collective, Quaker identities, which arises from its analysis of multiple-authored texts, is key to its claims that gender issues have to be considered when analysing the sect’s emergent system of values, and Gill assesses the representation of women in male-authored texts in addition to female writers’ attitudes to agency. A bibliography that, for the first time, lists men and women’s involvement as contributors as well as authors to Quaker pamphlets provides a valuable resource for scholars of seventeenth-century radicalism.

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Routledge

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135187196X

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9781351871969

The Nature and Development of the Modern State

By: Graeme Gill

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The Nature and Development of the Modern State

By: Graeme Gill

Despite the increasing globalization of many aspects of social, economic and political life, the state remains the fundamental element of contemporary governance. This fully revised and extended new edition provides a broad-ranging introduction to the origins, role and future of the modern state tracing out how significant shifts in state capacity came about in relation to developments in economic, political and ideological power.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1349928801

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9781349928804

Humean Moral Pluralism

By: Michael B. Gill

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Humean Moral Pluralism

By: Michael B. Gill

Michael B. Gill offers an original account of Humean moral pluralism. Moral pluralism is the view that there are different ultimate moral reasons for action, that those different reasons can sometimes come into conflict with each other, and that there exist no invariable ordering principles that tell us how to resolve such conflicts. If moral pluralism is true, we will at times have to act on moral decisions for which we can give no fully principled justification. Humeanism is the view that our moral judgments are based on our sentiments, that reason alone could not have given rise to our moral judgments, and that there are no mind-independent moral properties for our moral judgments to track. In this book, Gill shows that the combination of these two views produces a more accurate account of our moral experiences than the monistic, rationalist, and non-naturalist alternatives. He elucidates the historical origins of the Humean pluralist position in the works of David Hume, Adam Smith, and their eighteenth century contemporaries, and explains how recent work in moral psychology has advanced this position. And he argues for the position's superiority to the non-naturalist pluralism of W. D. Ross and the monism of Kantianism and consequentialism. The pluralist account of the content of morality has been traditionally perceived as belonging with non-naturalist intuitionism. The Humean sentimentalist account of morality has been traditionally perceived as not belonging with any view of morality's content at all. Humean Moral Pluralism explodes both those perceptions. It shows that pluralism and Humeanism belong together, and that they make a philosophically powerful couple.

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OUP Oxford

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0191023418

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9780191023415

Imaging the Story

Rediscovering the Visual and Poetic Contours of Salvation

By: Karen Case-Green,Gill C. Sakakini

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Imaging the Story

Rediscovering the Visual and Poetic Contours of Salvation

By: Karen Case-Green,Gill C. Sakakini

Tell all the Truth but tell it slant." (Emily Dickinson) This course follows the contours of the salvation story through the lens of the arts. Putting visual art and poetry in conversation with the Bible, it seeks to engage the imagination. Rather than analyzing the narrative, the reader is invited to behold it and respond to it through "making"--either verbally or visually. At times, the church has treated the imagination like an embarrassing relative. Yet the Bible is image-rich, drawing widely on the imagination, and we are each made in the image of the creator God. It is time to bring the imagination out of the corner! "For we are God's handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do." (Eph 2:10 NIV) Whether following it as a group or reading it alone, this course book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the salvation story and the arts. It is particularly for those who feel permission is needed to pick up a paintbrush--or any other creative medium--just for the love of it.

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1498217346

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9781498217347

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