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How Good is That?

The Story of a Reluctant Heroine

By: Jane and Mike Tomlinson

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How Good is That?

The Story of a Reluctant Heroine

By: Jane and Mike Tomlinson

Following a seven-year battle with cancer, Jane Tomlinson died at the age of 43 in September 2007. Almost exactly one year earlier, on 1 September 2006, Jane finished a gruelling nine-week, 3,700-mile cycle ride from the west coast to the east coast of America. Her journey was hailed as one of the greatest endurance feats ever by a terminal cancer sufferer. How Good is That?takes the reader behind the scenes of this extraordinary last ride across terrain and in temperatures which were to prove almost untenable as Jane's illness worsened. She was defiant to the end.The book, already substantially written by Jane for her part before her death, has been completed by Mike to give an incredible and moving insight into his wife's final days as well as the achievements, emotional and physical, of a woman who inspired a nation.

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Simon and Schuster

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1847398944

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9781847398949

The Intelligent School

By: Barbara MacGilchrist,Jane Reed,Kate Myers

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The Intelligent School

By: Barbara MacGilchrist,Jane Reed,Kate Myers

`This is a challenging book and makes for uncomfortable reading at times because one realises that there is so much more to be accomplished in education. How can the teacher who wants to follow this further find out more? Barbara MacGilchrist, Jane Reed and Kate Myers have given the next step: each chapter has a conclusion and "questions for discussion and activities" which are very open and will lead to considerable introspection′ - Education Review `I have rarely been so enthusiastic about a book. Reviewers are supposed to highlight some imperfections - I am at a loss. Recommend this book to all you meet′ - Mervyn Flecknoe, Improving Schools `This book would be an invaluable read for all who work in schools including LEA advisors, inspectors and consultants. It contains a chapter on teachers′ learning and has some excellent questions for discussion at the end of each chapter that could usefully stimulate ideas for staff development sessions. It would be great if this book were read and taken seriously by those who make policy as well as those who try to put it into practice′ - Escalate `The book is easy to use, clear, well organized, full of practical examples and equally practical questions. It could be a signpost to the future - if the days of educational diktat are really almost over′ - Michael Duffy, Times Educational Supplement, Friday Magazine `This Second Edition of The Intelligent School offers a concise and accessible insight into the key aspects of educational leadership. In my view, it ought to be read by anyone who is keen to develop their understanding of theoretical frameworks expertly illustrated through practical examples′ - Neil Saunders, Primary Phase Inspector - Hampshire LEA ,(Doctoral Student - The University of Hull) `This is an excellent book. I will use its insights and the wealth of practical questions it offers to help with my present politically driven imperative - the transformation of London′s secondary schools. If I have this book at my elbow and make sure it′s well thumbed, there is every chance that we can create 411 intelligent schools across London. The new insights in The Intelligent School are a testament to the extraordinary proficiency of these three authors. As the waiter in the restaurant says when serving the meal "Enjoy"′ - Tim Brighouse, Times Educational Supplement Barbara MacGilchrist, Kate Myers and Jane Reed have written a masterpiece. The First Edition of the Intelligent School in 1997 was an outstanding book and it is no surprise that a Second Edition has followed relatively quickly to share more good news for practitioners, policymakers, researchers and scholars. The First Edition shaped my thinking more than most in the late 1990′s and I cited it in scores of presentations in different countries around the world. It was a perfect complement to our work on the self-managing school. In this Second Edition, the concept of the Intelligent School is expanded and the different kinds of intelligences are carefully explained and illustrated. The authors are able to draw on more than five years of implementation in the field and further and broader work in the research and development centres with which they are associated. They offer the best synthesis of the international literature on school effectiveness and school improvement that I have seen. They have performed a great service in making this literature accessible to the profession. I recommended the First Edition as essential reading for all the work in schools. Those who did not do so should certainly acquire the second, but it is important that policymakers and academics do the same. `This book will quickly gain recognition as the leader among an increasing number of books that provide hope that all students in every setting can achieve a high quality education. It is one of the truly outstanding features of this book that it also conveys an unbridled spirit of optimism′ - Brian Caldwell, Professor & Dean, Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne In writing The Intelligent School, Second Edition, the authors offer a practical resource to schools to help them maximise their improvement efforts. The aim is to help schools to be intelligent organizations; to be the type of school that can synthesise different kinds of knowledge, experience and ideas in order to be confident about current achievements, and to be able to decide what to do next. This Second Edition has been fully revised and updated particularly in terms of new research evidence about how to improve the quality of learning and teaching in classrooms. The authors set out fresh thinking about the nine intelligences and provide a new framework for school improvement which includes the exploration of spiritual, ethical and emotional intelligence. The book also includes examples of Intelligent Schools in action.

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SAGE

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1446231720

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9781446231722

Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Geography

By: Jane Ferretti

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Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Geography

By: Jane Ferretti

Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Students: Geography provides specific guidance on: recognising high ability and potential planning challenge, differentiation and enrichment in Geography using questioning to challenge the more able support for more able pupils with special educational needs (dyslexia, ADHD, sensory imapirment etc.) beyond the classroom: visits, competitions, summer schools, masterclasses, links with other institutions. The book includes comprehensive appendices with linked resources available online that feature: useful contacts and resources lesson and homework ideas audit and record keeping frameworks For secondary teachers, subject heads of departments, Leading Teachers for G&T Education (Gifted and Talented co-ordinators), SENCos and Childrens' Services advisers.

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Routledge

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1135396078

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9781135396077

You Can't Take it with You

By: Jane Tomlinson,Mike Tomlinson

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You Can't Take it with You

By: Jane Tomlinson,Mike Tomlinson

Jane and Mike Tomlinson have raised over £1.4 million for charity. In YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU, the Tomlinsons explain how they achieved that incredible goal, and why Jane, who has a terminal cancer diagnosis, chose to put her long-suffering body through such difficult experiences. The book takes us from Jane and her brother Luke's cycle ride from John O'Groats to Lands End with Jane stopping twice for chemotherapy en route, on to her incredible ride with Luke from Rome to Leeds and then out to Florida for the full Ironman triathlon. This last challenge is almost inconceivable to the average person involving as it does a 2.5-mile swim, a 112-mile cycle and then a full marathon run. Battling severe pain, Jane completed the course in 15 hours and 48 minutes. In summer 2006 Jane cycled from San Francisco to New York, an epic 6,700-kilometre journey that took her to breathtaking altitudes and through searing heat. But Jane's ultimate goals are rather more straight-forward. She would simply like to live long enough to see her daughters and young son grow towards independence and to experience every day to its utmost.

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328

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Pocket Books

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1416511369

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9781416511366

Education Policy, Practice and the Professional

By: Jane Bates,Sue Lewis,Andy Pickard

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Education Policy, Practice and the Professional

By: Jane Bates,Sue Lewis,Andy Pickard

This introductory textbook explores education policy, looking at where we came from, where we are and where we are going. In this introduction to educational policy, practice and the professional, the authors focus first on historical policy from the state's first interventions in education through to Thatcherism, and Blair's Education, Education, Education. They then explore the key contemporary policies of recent times and offers a critique on how they have worked in practice, before moving to look at the hysteria that often surrounds education policy, with focus on media representation and the effects this has for the teaching profession. Commentaries and case studies are presented throughout providing an accessible link to what it was really like to learn, teach and live at the time the policy was in place. This title is an essential reading for all undergraduate education studies students.

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179

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1441120491

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9781441120496

Reel Women

An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women

By: Jane Sloan

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Reel Women

An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women

By: Jane Sloan

In the last several decades, the number of films featuring female protagonists has increased significantly. Many of these films reflect the vast cultural and sociological changes that have taken place since the early 1960s, highlighting not only a wide spectrum of female characters depicted onscreen, but the creative work of women behind the camera as well. In Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women, media librarian Jane Sloan has assembled an impressive list of more than 2400 films—from nearly 100 countries—that feature female protagonists. Each entry includes a brief description of the film and cites key artistic personnel, particularly female directors, producers, and screenwriters involved in its production. Reel Women also contains a critical survey in which Sloan charts the changes women have undergone both on screen and off, as moviemaking and audience sensibilities have evolved in the last forty-plus years. Listing many more films on the subject of women than can be found in any other source, this reference brings together important titles from area studies and genre markets along with titles associated with women's cinema and feminist film. In addition to title and actor indexes, the book contains a subject index that provides detailed access to place names, historical characters, time periods, and storylines, as well as the backgrounds—religious, racial, and ethnic—of the main characters. This directory is an ideal reference tool for researchers studying the evolution of female characters in films around the world, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. It is also a resource for casual viewers who are looking for films that reflect the diversity of women's roles that can be found in independent and national cinemas as well as commercial blockbusters.

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Scarecrow Press

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1461670829

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9781461670827

EBOOK: Teaching 14-19: A Handbook

By: John Bostock,Jane Wood

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EBOOK: Teaching 14-19: A Handbook

By: John Bostock,Jane Wood

This book provides a comprehensive overview of how to teach younger learners in Post-Compulsory Education and Training (PCET). With clear guidance and offering practical strategies, Teaching 14-19 helps you understand how students learn, the theory that supports this and the role of assessment in this process. There is also an extensive focus on how to manage behavior, as this is the most frequently raised concern. The authors show that the overarching models of learning and teaching for 14-19 year olds are very different between school and PCET. The book explores these various models and in particular looks at how this understanding might help you in planning for learning. As well as appropriate models of practice relevant to this age group, further features of the book include: Practical hints, tips and suggestions for practice Case studies to help you learn from and reflect on practice Discussion of theoretical issues that will enable you to understand and underpin your practice Additional reading and resource suggestions This book is essential reading for trainee and practising tutors, teachers and lecturers in schools or colleges.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335241921

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9780335241927

Outside the Wire

The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants

By: Kevin Patterson,Jane Warren

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Outside the Wire

The War in Afghanistan in the Words of Its Participants

By: Kevin Patterson,Jane Warren

A remarkable collection of first-hand accounts written by soldiers, doctors and aid workers on the front lines of Canada’s war in Afghanistan. Visceral, intimate and captivating in ways no other telling could be, Outside the Wire features nearly two dozen stories by Canadians on the front lines in Afghanistan, including the previously unpublished letters home of Captain Nichola Goddard, the first female NATO soldier killed in combat, and an introductory reflection by Roméo Dallaire. Collected here are stories of battle and the more subtle engagements of this little-understood war: the tearful farewells; the shock of immersion into a culture that has been at war for thirty years; looking a suicide bomber in the eye the moment before he strikes; grappling with mortality in the Kandahar Field Hospital; and the unexpected humour that leavens life in a warzone. Throughout each piece the passion of those engaged in rebuilding this shattered country shines through, a glimmer of optimism and determination so rare in multinational military actions–and so particularly Canadian. In Outside the Wire, award-winning author Kevin Patterson and co-editor Jane Warren have rediscovered the valour and horror of sacrifice in this, the definitive account of the modern Canadian experience of war.

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Vintage Canada

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0307370852

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9780307370853

How to Make Your Money Last

The Indispensable Retirement Guide

By: Jane Bryant Quinn

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How to Make Your Money Last

The Indispensable Retirement Guide

By: Jane Bryant Quinn

With How to Make Your Money Last, you will learn how to turn your retirement savings into a steady paycheck that will last for life. Today, people worry that they're going to run out of money in their older age. That won't happen if you use a few tricks for squeezing higher payments from your assets--from your Social Security account (find the hidden values there), pension (monthly income or lump sum?), home equity (sell and invest the proceeds or take a reverse mortgage?), savings (should you buy a lifetime annuity?), and retirement accounts (how to invest and--critically--how much to withdraw from your savings each year?). The right moves will not only raise the amount you have to spend, they'll stretch out your money over many more years. You will also learn to look at your savings and investments in a new way. If you stick with super-safe choices the money might not last. You need safe money to help pay the bills in your early retirement years. But to ensure that you'll still have spending money 10 and 20 years from now, you have to invest for growth, today. Quinn shows you how. At a time when people are living longer, yet retiring with a smaller pot of savings than they'd hoped for, this book will become the essential guide"--

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384

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Simon and Schuster

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1476743770

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9781476743776

Managing Resources for School Improvement

By: Jane Martin,Jane Martin Nfa,Hywel Thomas

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Managing Resources for School Improvement

By: Jane Martin,Jane Martin Nfa,Hywel Thomas

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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1134794681

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9781134794683

Guymon

By: Sara Jane Richter

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Guymon

By: Sara Jane Richter

Guymon, the "Queen City" of the Oklahoma Panhandle, has long been the linchpin of Panhandle commerce, education, and entertainment. As a community of over 12,000 residents, it has seen growth--especially in the past two decades--mainly because of a rise in its immigrant population. With a median family income of $46,000, a low unemployment rate, and nearly 900 businesses, many see it as a thriving and prosperous town. Above all, Guymon knows its past and revels in its history of pioneers who settled the area in the late 1880s amid dugouts and cattle ranches and the railroad. Frontier heritage is clearly reflected in Guymon's spirit of independence, friendliness, and irrepressibility. Guymon, a town older than the state of Oklahoma, is proud of its tenacity and will continue to be the mainstay of the Panhandle for years to come.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467111813

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9781467111812

How Good is That?

The Story of a Reluctant Heroine

By: Jane and Mike Tomlinson

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How Good is That?

The Story of a Reluctant Heroine

By: Jane and Mike Tomlinson

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1847398944

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How to Do Media and Cultural Studies

By: Jane Stokes

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How to Do Media and Cultural Studies

By: Jane Stokes

The Second Edition of this student favourite takes readers step-by-step through the theories, processes and methods of each stage of research, from how to create a research question to designing the project and writing it up. It gives students a clear sense of how their own work relates to broader scholarship and inspires understanding of why studying the media matters. Now 20% bigger, new features include: • Brand new chapters on the how and why of researching media and culture • All new case studies spotlighting the international media landscape • Online readings showing how methods get used in real research • Essential new material on ethnography, digital content analysis, online surveys and researching blogs. Perfect for students of all ranges, How to Do Media and Cultural Studies continues to provide the clearest and most accessible guide to media and cultural studies as students embark on their own research.

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SAGE

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1446271706

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Biology

By: Neil A. Campbell,Jane B. Reece

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Biology

By: Neil A. Campbell,Jane B. Reece

Neil Campbell and Jane Reece's BIOLOGY remains unsurpassed as the most successful majors biology textbook in the world. This text has invited more than 4 million students into the study of this dynamic and essential discipline.The authors have restructured each chapter around a conceptual framework of five or six big ideas. An Overview draws students in and sets the stage for the rest of the chapter, each numbered Concept Head announces the beginning of a new concept, and Concept Check questions at the end of each chapter encourage students to assess their mastery of a given concept. & New Inquiry Figures focus students on the experimental process, and new Research Method Figures illustrate important techniques in biology. Each chapter ends with a Scientific Inquiry Question that asks students to apply scientific investigation skills to the content of the chapter.

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Benjamin-Cummings Publishing Company

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0805371710

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9780805371710

Insiders' Guide to San Diego

By: Maribeth Mellin,Jane Onstott,Jacquelyn Landis

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Insiders' Guide to San Diego

By: Maribeth Mellin,Jane Onstott,Jacquelyn Landis

Terrific year-round weather, miles of ocean, and desert and mountains just a short drive away, make San Diego a visitor's--and resident's--paradise. Walk across the border to Tijuana, view the wildflowers in the Anza-Borrego Desert, check out the posh life in Palm Springs, and visit numerous wildlife attractions.

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420

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Falcon Guides

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0762730099

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9780762730094

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How Good is That?

How Good is That?

The Intelligent School

The Intelligent School

Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Geography

Meeting the Needs of Your Most Able Pupils: Geography

You Can't Take it with You

You Can't Take it with You

Education Policy, Practice and the Professional

Education Policy, Practice and the Professional

Reel Women

Reel Women

EBOOK: Teaching 14-19: A Handbook

EBOOK: Teaching 14-19: A Handbook

Outside the Wire

Outside the Wire

How to Make Your Money Last

How to Make Your Money Last

Managing Resources for School Improvement

Managing Resources for School Improvement

Guymon

Guymon

How Good is That?

How Good is That?

How to Do Media and Cultural Studies

How to Do Media and Cultural Studies

Biology

Biology

Insiders' Guide to San Diego

Insiders' Guide to San Diego

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