Kath Wells's Books

Depressed Mother

By: Kath James

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Depression in new mothers is very common, but it is often not simply a case of "the baby blues". Most mothers are suffering from general depressive disorders related to their living and/or social circumstances. Examining symptoms and causes of general depression amongst mothers, and its effects on mother-infant relationships, this book gives a comprehensive overview of the causes and effects of depressive disorders, particularly in relation to mothers and their families. It considers preventative measures, including physical treatments and counseling. Worksheets and projects for individual and group use are included. The book aims to empower students to identify the client's needs, prescribe treatment, and provide help and support for the family.

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A&C Black

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0304334634

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9780304334636

Globalizing Boxing

By: Kath Woodward

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Globalizing Boxing

By: Kath Woodward

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Boxing is a traditional sport in many ways, characterized by continuities in the form of practices and regulations and heavy with legends and heroes reflecting its traditional/historical values. Associations with class, hegemonic masculinity and racialized inclusions/exclusions, however, sit alongside developments such as women's boxing and involvement in Mixed Martial Arts. This book will be the first to use boxing as a vehicle for exploring social, cultural and political change in a global context. It will consider to what degree and in what ways boxing reflects social transformations, and whether and how it contributes to those transformations. In exploring the relationship it will provide new ways of thinking critically about the everyday.

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A&C Black

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1849667993

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Planet Sport

By: Kath Woodward

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Planet Sport

By: Kath Woodward

Sport generates some of the most intense feelings and levels of commitment. It is big business globally, but also the source of the most powerful personal identifications and individual and collective pleasures. Sporting events are routine and embodied, whether in the gym, on the field or at the training ground, and they are also spectacular, for example in mega events at the stadium or, for followers at a distance, through the media of television, radio and the Internet. Large numbers of people are caught up in personal and collective investment and public engagement with sport. Why does it matter so much? In this book, Woodward demonstrates why sport matters and how, arguing that we should take sport seriously, and explore what is social about it. Sport is not just another domain to which social theories can be applied; it is also distinctive and generates new ways of thinking about social issues and debates. Sport is affected by the global economy and social, political and cultural processes – but it also shapes the wider social terrain of which it is part. Sport reproduces inequalities as well as offering opportunities. It is not always a level playing field. Sport is more than play. Planet Sport is an engaging and concise introduction to some of the big issues in contemporary debates about sport in globalised societies, and will appeal to students, academics and general readers alike.

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Routledge

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1136646582

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9781136646584

Birth and Death

Experience, Ethics, Politics

By: Kath Woodward,Sophie Woodward

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Birth and Death

Experience, Ethics, Politics

By: Kath Woodward,Sophie Woodward

Usually conceived in opposition to each other – birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending – this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experiences of being in the world and part of living. Written by two authors, this book takes an intergenerational approach to highlight the connections and disconnections between birth and death; adopting a relational approach allows the book to explore birth and death through the key relationships that constitute them: personal and social, private and public, the affective and social norms, the actual and the virtual and the ordinary and profound. Of interest to academics and students in the fields of feminism, phenomenology and the life course, the book will also be of relevance to policy makers in the areas of birth activism and end of life care. Drawing from personal stories, everyday life and publicly contested examples, the book will also be of interest to a more general readership as it engages with questions we all at some point will grapple with.

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1351212613

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9781351212618

Social Sciences

The Big Issues

By: Kath Woodward

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Social Sciences

The Big Issues

By: Kath Woodward

Social Sciences: The Big Issues second edition offers an introduction to the big debates within the social sciences and to what the social sciences can provide as a means of explaining the changing world. The social sciences focus upon people as individuals and as members of wider communities and networks, and look at all aspects of human relationships from the personal and intimate to the public and political. The book covers contemporary concerns with identities, citizenship, migration, diversity, new technologies, and the changing and often uncertain impact of globalization. The second edition has been extensively updated with new illustrations and examples, and additional discussion of the responses of the social sciences to the mobilities of contemporary life, such as migration, living in multiethnic and often rapidly changing communities, new forms of citizenship, the impact of the material world, the perception that we live in a more insecure and dangerous world and the role of the media in presenting ideas about the changes that might be taking place.

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1135217238

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Psychosocial Studies

An Introduction

By: Kath Woodward

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Psychosocial Studies

An Introduction

By: Kath Woodward

There is expanding global interest in the relationship between the psychological and the social. The bringing together of affect, emotion and feeling with social, political and cultural forces offers a creative, innovative and rich set of ways of understanding what Charles Wright Mills called the links between personal troubles and public issues. This book is an introduction to psychosocial studies. Drawing on different approaches to the field, the book introduces the main theoretical influences on psychosocial studies and their development and impact, through – for example – concepts such as the unconscious, self and identity, affect, emotion and the cultural and social unconscious. It explores the theoretical frameworks of psychosocial studies, and psychosocial research methods. The book offers examples of case studies which illustrate the diversity of psychosocial studies and what makes it distinctive. It asks: what is social about the inner worlds of the psychological? What is psychological and psychic about social worlds and social life? This clear, accessible introduction will be of interest to students and researchers across the social sciences and humanities, in particular in sociology, psychology, cultural geography, social policy and politics and cultural studies.

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1317964853

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Animate Planet

Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

By: Kath Weston

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Animate Planet

Making Visceral Sense of Living in a High-Tech Ecologically Damaged World

By: Kath Weston

In Animate Planet Kath Weston shows how new intimacies between humans, animals, and their surroundings are emerging as people attempt to understand how the high-tech ecologically damaged world they have made is remaking them, one synthetic chemical, radioactive isotope, and megastorm at a time. Visceral sensations, she finds, are vital to this process, which yields a new animism in which humans and "the environment" become thoroughly entangled. In case studies on food, water, energy, and climate from the United States, India, and Japan, Weston approaches the new animism as both a symptom of our times and an analytic with the potential to open paths to new and forgotten ways of living.

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Duke University Press

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0822373823

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9780822373827

A Nurse's Survival Guide to Mentoring

By: Karen Elcock,Kath Sharples

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A Nurse's Survival Guide to Mentoring

By: Karen Elcock,Kath Sharples

Are you mentoring students? This is an indispensable handbook for: - both new and experienced mentors seeking practical advice - academic staff who deliver mentorship programmes - link lecturers who support mentors in practice. - Guidance and tips on supporting and assessing - Understanding accountability – mapping to NMC standards - Skills focus, using case studies - Hints, tips, insights and humour - Supporting the student with a disability - Using simulated learning - The role of the sign-off mentor

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702047724

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9780702047725

Clinical Placements

A Pocket Guide

By: Kirstie Paterson,Jessica Wallar,Kath MacDonald

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Clinical Placements

A Pocket Guide

By: Kirstie Paterson,Jessica Wallar,Kath MacDonald

A handy, pocket-sized guide designed to help student nurses prepare for their clinical placements. Clinical placements are an essential part of nurse training, but they can be extremely daunting, especially for new nursing students. This unique pocket guide provides a wealth of practical detail, tips and advice to help the student nurse get to grips with and make the most of their practice learning experiences. The information is presented in digestible chunks (lists, tables, bullets, even cartoons) so you can find the essential information quickly without wading through pages of text, and there is space to add notes specific to the particular placement. The pocket-sized format means the book is extremely portable (it really will fit in a pocket!) and the ring binding allows it to be opened flat – useful when adding your own notes, for example. Written by recent nursing graduates based on their own experiences, reviewed by students and checked by a clinical supervisor – this guidance has been produced specifically with student nurses in mind. What lecturers are saying about Clinical Placements: "A practical book that provides students with a range of essential information, tips and advice about what to expect on clinical placement which should help them to make the most out of their placement. Information is easy to access making it easy for students to quickly navigate information. The small spiral bound format makes it accessible and ideal for students to keep in their uniform pocket." "This book is just what is needed, relevant information that will help students make the most out of their placement and reduce the anxiety!" "I have had a look through the Pocket Guide Clinical Placements book and think that it's an excellent little book that will support students in preparing for their first placement and future placements until they gain confidence. There is just the right mix of appropriate illustrations and text and I particularly like the areas for notes that can be added if needed." "I found this an excellent little resource for students as well as a reminder for staff." Pocket Guides is a series of handy, pocket-sized books designed to help students make the most of their practice learning experiences.

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Scion Publishing Ltd

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1908625465

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A Toolkit of Motivational Skills

How to Help Others Reach for Change

By: Catherine Fuller,Phil Taylor,Kath Wilson

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A Toolkit of Motivational Skills

How to Help Others Reach for Change

By: Catherine Fuller,Phil Taylor,Kath Wilson

A Toolkit of Motivational Skills, Third Edition, draws on the latest research to show how the Motivational Interviewing approach can be effectively utilized to draw out and sustain an individual’s internal motivation for behavioral change. Updated with a wide range of applications and practical examples of motivational techniques which have effectively helped others to change Updated with a wide range of applications and practical examples of motivational techniques which have effectively helped others to change Features a variety of supplemental resources including 16 online video examples of MI in action, with a workbook chapter that helps readers analyse each video in detail Includes new illustrations and diagrams designed to amplify the text and make it an engaging and enjoyable reading experience

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118510291

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9781118510292

Boxing, Masculinity and Identity

The 'I' of the Tiger

By: Kath Woodward

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Boxing, Masculinity and Identity

The 'I' of the Tiger

By: Kath Woodward

Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent contradictions of extreme violence and beauty and of discipline and excess have long been a source of inspiration for writers and film makers. Essential reading for anyone interested in the sociology of sport and cultural representations of gender, Boxing, Masculinity and Identity brings together ethnographic research with material from film, literature and journalism. Through this combination of theoretical insight and cultural awareness, Woodward explores the social constructs around boxing and our experience and understanding of central issues including: masculinity mind, body and the construction of identity spectacle and performance: tensions between the public and private person boxing on film: the role of cultural representations in building identities methodologies: issues of authenticity and ‘truth’ in social science.

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Routledge

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1136804838

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Nursing Ethics E-Book

By: Ian E. Thompson,Kath M. Melia,Kenneth M. Boyd,Dorothy Horsburgh

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Nursing Ethics E-Book

By: Ian E. Thompson,Kath M. Melia,Kenneth M. Boyd,Dorothy Horsburgh

The eBook version of this title gives you access to the complete book content electronically*. Evolve eBooks allows you to quickly search the entire book, make notes, add highlights, and study more efficiently. Buying other Evolve eBooks titles makes your learning experience even better: all of the eBooks will work together on your electronic "bookshelf", so that you can search across your entire library of Nursing eBooks. *Please note that this version is the eBook only and does not include the printed textbook. Alternatively, you can buy the Text and Evolve eBooks Package (which gives you the printed book plus the eBook). Please scroll down to our Related Titles section to find this title. The fifth edition of this highly popular text offers a lucid and readable account of ethical issues affecting nurses and other health care practitioners, which will be of value throughout their careers. Nursing ethics offers a highly practical approach with a direct focus on ethical issues that might be encountered by health practitioners in training, in practice and in management. It is also interactive and case-based, encouraging readers to reflect on their current and future areas of practice. The concluding chapters discuss the role of moral theory and give practical models for ethical decision-making. The authors have developed a holistic approach that explores: ethics in hospital and community settings, inter-disciplinary teamwork, ward and hospital management, nursing research, performance management and the political ethics of nursing administration, health service re-structuring and reform. The content has been substantially revised for this edition and significant new material added to reflect developments in theory and practice. - covers a wide range of ethical issues - much more than just 'clinical' dilemmas and decision-making skills - a down-to-earth and practical approach to applied ethics - user-friendly layout - material on moral theory kept to a minimum (but dealt with thoroughly at the end of the book) - focuses on ethical issues in nursing and case studies taken from nursing practice i.e. the concrete concerns of nurses and other front-line workers - pedagogical features include: chapter aims, learning outcomes and further reading for possible essay, tutorial and project topics - also useful as a general work of reference on ethic in health care•An up-to-date analysis of professions in the context of modernity, to enable health professionals to make sense of global cultural & social developments •An analysis of the ethics of evidence-based practice •An examination of professional accountability and ethics in performance management to help practitioners/managers understand the ethical basis of management•useful web links and teaching notes on a dedicated website:http://evolve.elsevier.com/Thompson/nursingethics/

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702033456

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9780702033452

Social Geographies

The Basics

By: Kath Browne,Dhiren Borisa,Mary Gilmartin,Niharika Banerjea

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Social Geographies

The Basics

By: Kath Browne,Dhiren Borisa,Mary Gilmartin,Niharika Banerjea

Social Geographies: The Basics introduces what social geography is, and what it might be. It outlines the key contours of social geographies, and also disrupts some of the conventions of the discipline in both its content and structure. This book approaches social geographies by beginning with the resistances, contestations and ‘solutions’ that communities use to challenge exclusions in place and space in order to create equitable societies. It then addresses the inequalities, precarities, and ‘problems’ that prompt these interventions. This allows the book to emphasise the importance of activism in the here and now, and to show how activism often makes issues visible and contested in ways that are then theorised by academics. Social Geographies starts with solidarities, communities, and networks before moving to examine difference, precarity, and mobilities. Each chapter offers key case studies that centre resistance, contestations of inequitable power, and local knowledges that can often be seen as ‘solutions’ to national and transnational issues, creating a decolonial understanding of ‘social geography from below’ within and across national contexts. This book is essential reading for undergraduate students and readers new to the area, as well as anyone studying introductory geography, social, cultural and critical geography, ‘the spatial turn’ and issues of spatialities, and key issues like precarity, power, difference, equality, and mobilities.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040012396

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9781040012390

Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City

By: Kath Browne,Leela Bakshi

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Ordinary in Brighton?: LGBT, Activisms and the City

By: Kath Browne,Leela Bakshi

Ordinary in Brighton? offers the first large scale examination of the impact of the UK equalities legislation on lesbian, gay, bi- and trans (LGBT) lives, and the effects of these changes on LGBT political activism. Using the participatory research project, Count Me In Too, this book investigates the material issues of social/spatial injustice that were pertinent for some - but not all- LGBT people, and explores activisms working in partnership that operated with/within the state. Ordinary in Brighton? explores the unevenly felt consequences of assimilation and inclusion in a city that was compelled to provide a place (literally and figuratively) for LGBT people. Brighton itself is understood to be exceptional, and exploring this specific location provides insights into how place operates as constitutive of lives and activisms. Despite its placing as ’the gay capital’ and its long history as a favoured location of LGBT people, there is very little academic or popular literature published about this city. This book offers insights into the first decade of the 21st century when sexual and gender dissidents supposedly became ordinary here, rather than exceptional and transgressive. It argues that geographical imaginings of this city as the ’gay capital’ formed activisms that sought positive social change for LGBT people. The possibilities of legislative change and urban inclusivities enabled some LGBT people to live ordinary lives, but this potential existed in tension with normalisations and exclusions. Alongside the necessary critiques, Ordinary in Brighton? asks for conceptualisations of the creative and co-operative possibilities of ordinariness. The book concludes by differentiating the exclusionary ideals of normalisation from the possibilities of ordinariness, which has the potential to render a range of people not only in-place, but commonplace. All royalties from this book will be donated to Allsorts Youth Project, Brighton & Hove LGBT Switchboa

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Routledge

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1317085159

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9781317085157

Health Care Ethics

Lessons from Intensive Care

By: Kath M Melia

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Health Care Ethics

Lessons from Intensive Care

By: Kath M Melia

Health Care Ethics examines the way ethical dilemmas are played out in everyday clinical practice and argues for an approach to ethical decision-making which focuses more on patient needs than competing professional interests. While advances in medical science and technology have improved the ability to save and prolong lives, they have also given rise to fundamental questions about what constitutes life and personhood, especially in the context of what are termed ′persistent vegetative state′ and ′brain death′. Drawing on the example of intensive care where such questions feature strongly in everyday practice, Kath M Melia examines how decisions are taken within the context of multiprofessional teamworking, including · whether to admit a patient and commence treatment · what the aim of treatment should be (i.e. palliation, care or cure) · when to limit, withhold or withdraw treatment · when to donate organs. As an area in which different professional groups work closely together, the author argues that there are lessons to be learnt from intensive care which can be applied to ethical decision making in all areas of health care for the greater good of patients. The book makes a significant contribution to the literature on ethics in health care and to the development of ethical decision making which prioritises the needs of patients. It is essential reading for ethicists, sociologists and health care professionals.

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SAGE

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1412932971

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9781412932974

Secrets My Mother Kept

By: Kath Hardy

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Secrets My Mother Kept

By: Kath Hardy

Kath grew up on a vast council estate in the 1950s, the second youngest of ten children. The two most important people in young Kath's life were her charismatic but manipulative mother Flo and her mother's sister Aunty. But Flo and Aunty were keeping secrets, a tapestry of lies that cast a harrowing shadow over the children's lives. Many years later Kath's mother died and while sorting through Flo's things, Kath discovered a bundle of secret letters that sent her on a journey to finally unravel the truth... Inspirational and moving, this is the story of a women brave enough to confront her past, and strong enough to let love not bitterness define her.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444763261

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9781444763263

Southern California

Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids

By: Laura Kath,Pamela Joy Price

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Southern California

Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids

By: Laura Kath,Pamela Joy Price

A guide to family-friendly beaches, hotels, restaurants, and attractions in Southern California. Stroll the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, take the Mystery Canyon tour through the desert in Palm Springs, ride the monorail through the natural habitats of the San Diego Wild Animal Park, and more.

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Insiders' Guide

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0762734426

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9780762734429

Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth

Tales of Belonging

By: Kath Filmer-Davies

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Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth

Tales of Belonging

By: Kath Filmer-Davies

This book examines how contemporary fantasy literature offers critical insights into western society and culture by drawing on the ancient myths of Wales. These books emphasise the need to have a set of social and personal values in order to be free from a sense of dislocation and alienation in a highly technologised society and in order to satisfy the sense of 'hiraeth' or longing for a place where one truly belongs.

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Springer

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1349249912

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9781349249916

Continuing Professional Development in the Lifelong Learning Sector

By: Peter Scales,Jo Pickering,Lynn Senior,Kath Headley,Patsy Garner,Helen Boulton

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Continuing Professional Development in the Lifelong Learning Sector

By: Peter Scales,Jo Pickering,Lynn Senior,Kath Headley,Patsy Garner,Helen Boulton

This comprehensive guide to continuing professional development (CPD) in the lifelong learning sector (LLS) provides teachers with practical support and guidance alongside development activities. It encourages teachers to reflect on their practice and subsequently shape and develop their teaching in response to the needs of their learners, their institution and local and national priorities. The book emphasises the importance of teachers as professional individuals who are responsible for their own CPD. It also helps senior managers to create a positive environment and 'learning organisation' in which teaching and learning can flourish. The book sets the context for CPD and: Offers an understanding of the CPD process and the need for undertaking reflective practice Meets the needs of new teachers, trainers and tutors in the sector Considers CPD for teaching and learning and subject-specific CPD Provides an introduction to action research and case studies of research into teaching and learning in the sector Accessible to anyone who is working, or training to work, in the LLS, this book will provide practical suggestions, ideas and activities to stimulate activities and research.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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033523819X

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9780335238194

English

By: Kath Jordan

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English

By: Kath Jordan

This revision guide for Key Stage 3 English contains in-depth course coverage and advice on how to get the best results in the Year 9 National Test. It has progress check questions and exam practice questions.

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Letts and Lonsdale

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1843150255

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9781843150251

Gender in Real Time

Power and Transience in a Visual Age

By: Kath Weston

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Gender in Real Time

Power and Transience in a Visual Age

By: Kath Weston

After decades of innovative scholarship that galvanized a field and shattered a world of preconceptions, the study of gender now appears to languish. It has been a long while since the publication of a provocative and influential text like Judith Butler's Gender Trouble . Kath Weston argues that the problem is one of time. For too long gender studies has been preoccupied with the visual, with ample attention given to issues of performativity and embodiment, all at the expense of time. Gender in Real Time makes a provocative and important new argument that will revolutionize the field of gender studies. Introducing temporality into the equation and examining the ways gender exists, Weston uses the tools of political economy, the history of mathematics, Darwinian evolution, and a bit of physics to propel gender studies toward the future. Startling new concepts like zero gender and the meaning of time claims are introduced. Moreover, the impact of our time-sensitive society, with its ever-increasing need for speed and accelerated development, is explored for its effect on the production of gender. With chapter titles including, Unsexed, The Ghosts of Gender Past, and The Global Economy Next Time, this book offers a pioneering addition to the field that will forever change our notion of gender.

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Routledge

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1317958403

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Data for Social Good

Non-Profit Sector Data Projects

By: Jane Farmer,Anthony McCosker,Kath Albury,Amir Aryani

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Data for Social Good

Non-Profit Sector Data Projects

By: Jane Farmer,Anthony McCosker,Kath Albury,Amir Aryani

This open access book provides practical guidance for non-profits and community sector organisations about how to get started with data analytics projects using their own organisations’ datasets and open public data. The book shares best practices on collaborative social data projects and methodology. For researchers, the work offers a playbook for partnering with community organisations in data projects for public good and gives worked examples of projects of various sizes and complexity.

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Springer Nature

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9811955549

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9789811955549

Cinematic Virtual Reality

A Critical Study of 21st Century Approaches and Practices

By: Kath Dooley

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Cinematic Virtual Reality

A Critical Study of 21st Century Approaches and Practices

By: Kath Dooley

With reference to traditional film theory and frameworks drawn from fields such as screenwriting studies and anthropology, this book explores the challenges and opportunities for both practitioners and viewers offered by the 360-degree storytelling form. It focuses on cinematic virtual reality (CVR), a format that involves immersive, high quality, live action or computer-generated imagery (CGI) that can be viewed through head mounted display (HMD) goggles or via online platforms such as YouTube. This format has surged in popularity in recent years due to the release of affordable high quality omnidirectional (360-degree) cameras and consumer grade HMDs. The book interrogates four key concepts for this emerging medium: immersion, presence, embodiment and proximity through an analysis of innovative case studies and with reference to practitioner interviews. In doing so, it highlights the specificity of the format and provides a critical account of practitioner approaches to the concept development, writing and realisation of short narrative CVR works. The book concludes with an account of the author’s practice-led research into the form, providing a valuable example of creative practice in the field of immersive media.

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Springer Nature

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3030721477

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9783030721473

The Fiction of C. S. Lewis

Mask and Mirror

By: Kath Filmer

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The Fiction of C. S. Lewis

Mask and Mirror

By: Kath Filmer

This book examines the way in which the fictional writings of C.S. Lewis reveal much about the man himself and his quest for psychological and spiritual wholeness. There is new material dealing with C.S. Lewis's political writings, especially the correspondences between his thriller, That Hideous Strength and George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and some new insights into Lewis's attitudes to women.

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1349225355

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The Private Rental Sector in Australia

Living with Uncertainty

By: Alan Morris,Kath Hulse,Hal Pawson

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The Private Rental Sector in Australia

Living with Uncertainty

By: Alan Morris,Kath Hulse,Hal Pawson

This book explores the decline and growth of the private rental sector in Australia delving into the changing dynamics of landlord investment and tenant profile over the course of the twentieth century and into the present period. It explains why over one in four Australian households are now private renters and investigates the contemporary legal and regulatory frameworks governing the sector. The reform discourses in Australia and comparator countries, and debates around key concerns such as Australia’s advantageous tax treatment of investors in rental property and the power imbalance between tenants and landlords are highlighted. The book draws on rich data: 600 surveys and close to 100 in-depth interviews with tenants in high, medium and low rent areas in Sydney and Melbourne and regional New South Wales. The book provides in-depth insights into this large and expanding component of Australia’s housing market and shows how being a private renter shapes the everyday lives and wellbeing of people and households who rent their housing including short and long-term renters, those on low and higher incomes and older as well as younger people.

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9813366729

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Staging a Revolution

When Betty Rocked the Pram

By: Kath Kenny

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Staging a Revolution

When Betty Rocked the Pram

By: Kath Kenny

Claire Dobbin, Helen Garner, Evelyn Krape, Jude Kuring and Yvonne Marini mocked the ocker character beloved by Pram Factory playwrights, and performed monologues about men, sex, and how they felt "as a woman". Directed by Kerry Dwyer and produced by the Carlton Women's Liberation group, the play's frank revelations stunned audiences and shocked the Pram Factory world. Set against a backdrop of moratorium marches, inner-city cafes and share houses, and the rising tide of sexual liberation and countercultural movements, Kath Kenny uses interviews and archival material to tell the story of Betty Can Jump. On the 50th anniversary of this ground-breaking play, she considers its ongoing impact on Australian culture, and asks why the great cultural renaissance of women's liberation has been largely forgotten. She sets out her stake in this story, as a theatre reviewer today and as a child born into the revolutionary early 1970s. And she asks why feminism keeps getting stuck in mother-daughter battles, rethinking her own experience as a young feminist who clashed with Garner over the publication of The First Stone.

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1743822758

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Fun with the Family Southern California

Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids

By: Laura Kath,Pamela Price

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Fun with the Family Southern California

Hundreds of Ideas for Day Trips with the Kids

By: Laura Kath,Pamela Price

Written by parents, for parents, this opinionated, personal, and easy-to-use guide has hundreds of ideas to keep the kids entertained for an hour, a day, or a weekend! Fun with the Family Southern California leads the way to amusement parks, historical attractions, children’s museums, wildlife habitats, festivals, parks, and much more. The whole family will enjoy . . . Sampling aebleskiver (Danish pancake balls) in Solvang—the region’s “little bit of Denmark” Getting sea legs on a whale watch in the Santa Barbara Channel Strolling the Walk of Fame in Los Angeles Traveling back to the 1920s on the Fillmore & Western Railway

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0762774754

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People (LGBT) and the Criminal Justice System

By: Charlotte Knight,Kath Wilson

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Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans People (LGBT) and the Criminal Justice System

By: Charlotte Knight,Kath Wilson

This book explores the experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) communities as victims, offenders and staff within the criminal justice system. It draws on both emerging and existing LGBT research and campaigns to identify and explore issues relevant to the criminal justice system, including: agencies of the criminal justice system, victimisation, domestic violence and abuse, transgender experiences, LGBT people as offenders, international perspectives and the personal experiences of LGBT people. Charlotte Knight and Kath Wilson trace the legislative journey toward equal treatment before and after the Wolfenden Report. They consider why, for example, lesbians are over represented on death row in the US, how the prosecution characterises them and what part homophobia might play in offending and in sentencing. They raise important questions about the causes of, and responses to, same-sex domestic violence and abuse and how the system delivers justice to trans people. Sodomy laws and the treatment of LGBT people worldwide are also considered and models of good practice are offered. Their insights will be of interest to practitioners, policy makers and scholars of the criminal justice system, particularly those concerned with the rights of LGBT communities.

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1137496983

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Preceptorship for Newly Registered Nurses

By: Karen Elcock,Kath Sharples

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Preceptorship for Newly Registered Nurses

By: Karen Elcock,Kath Sharples

Newly qualified nurses can find their first year of practice a daunting experience. This book is specifically written to support new nurses through the demands of their preceptorship year. Each chapter provides friendly and practical support on the main areas of development needed for new nurses to become confident practitioners. The book is also designed for use on formal preceptorship programmes and covers each of the areas for professional development outlined in the Department of Health′s new Preceptorship Framework (2010). Packed with activities, case studies and down-to-earth advice, this book provides essential support for the newly registered nurse.

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Learning Matters

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100 Things to Do in the Upper Peninsula Before You Die

By: Kath Usitalo

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100 Things to Do in the Upper Peninsula Before You Die

By: Kath Usitalo

Touring Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.) is like taking a two-week trip by station wagon. Not in terms of time—you can sample plenty if four days is all you have. It’s about stepping back and appreciating a place of raw scenic beauty dotted with roadside attractions, blinker-light towns, rustic cabins and hand-painted signs advertising smoked fish and homemade jam. With 100 Things to Do in the Upper Peninsula Before You Die, discover a land mostly surrounded by the Great Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior, linked to the state’s Mitten-shaped Lower Peninsula by a five-mile suspension bridge spanning the Straits of Mackinac. The U.P. surprises with Victorian-era and car-free Mackinac Island, millions of acres of forests, waterfalls, wildlife, remnants of the prosperous copper mining era, and 1,700 miles of spectacular shoreline. It’s home to about 311,000 hardy Yoopers (U.P.-ers), just 3% of Michigan’s population across a third of the state’s territory. Cell phone service can be spotty and the top speed along two-lane highways is 55 mph—all the better to slow down and embrace the U.P., whether you’re in search of extreme sports experiences, soft adventure or a simple slice of solitude.

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1681060884

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Day Trips® from Los Angeles

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By: Laura Kath,Pamela Price

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Day Trips® from Los Angeles

Getaway Ideas for the Local Traveler

By: Laura Kath,Pamela Price

Day Trips® from Los Angeles is packed with hundreds of exciting things for locals and vacationers to do, see, and discover not far from Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles County has 9.8 million residents, and more than 60% of all visitors to Santa Barbara—a big part of this book—are from Los Angeles County! Trips are listed geographically, starting closest to downtown Los Angeles and radiating outward. Despite Southern California’s car-crazy reputation, this guide includes car-free options where applicable. * Do something star-studded: Explore Hollywood, Burbank, and Universal City & Universal Studios. * Do something sunny: Visit Malibu, twenty-three miles of sun, sand, and surf; Santa Catalina Island, a world away twenty-six miles out to sea; or Marina Del Rey/Venice Beach, quintessential So Cal. * Do something kid-approved: Get a taste of Buena Park/Knott’s Berry Farm, or visit the Happiest Place on Planet Southern California, Anaheim/Disneyland.

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0762767162

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9780762767168

Scepticism and Hope in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature

By: Kath Filmer-Davies

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Scepticism and Hope in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature

By: Kath Filmer-Davies

Filmer argues that, in secular society, the psychological need to hope is met in the literature of fantasy. She illustrates her thesis using the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Peter Beagle, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, George Orwell, Russell Hoban, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Alan Garner, Ursula LeGuin, and Patricia Wrightson. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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Popular Press

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0879725540

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Four Degrees of Wonder

Exploring the Many Wonder-Filled Ways God Breaks into Our Lives

By: Kath Wells

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Four Degrees of Wonder

Exploring the Many Wonder-Filled Ways God Breaks into Our Lives

By: Kath Wells

Whether it is an ocean view, a mountain range, glorious music, or tender occasions with family, we often experience moments that touch us deeply and bring us to wonder and worship. These encounters are often unforgettable, and some are profoundly life-changing. In Four Degrees of Wonder, author and life coach Kath Wells shares many of her stories and reflections on moments of wonder she has experienced through creation, Scripture, prayer, music and insightful writings. This exploration began after experiencing three profound occasions of wonder over one Christmas time. Kath began to wonder about wonder and found her nights awash with tears as she recalled the Lords interventions and life-changing words to her over many years. She shaped these into chapters on his acceptance, receiving his love, being surprised by the Spirit, wide-eyed wonder, miracles of provision, and many more. Kath includes moving stories from her friends and other authors, both historical and contemporary. You will be inspired and enlarged as you savor these stories and the insights from Scripture she shares. Kath encourages readers to learn to be open to being ambushed by his love and wisdom. Our confidence and openness to him will grow as we do this. Helpful questions are included at the end of each chapter for personal reflection and prayer or they can be used for engaging group discussion.

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WestBow Press

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1973624648

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Southern California

Family Adventure Guide

By: Laura Kath Fraser

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Southern California

Family Adventure Guide

By: Laura Kath Fraser

Globe Pequot's Fun with the Family "TM" series (formerly Family Adventures Guides "TM" ) leads the way to the best family travel spots in 26 states. Written by parents for parents, this new and improved series is opinionated, personal, and full of useful information. These revised guides feature detailed lists of restaurants and lodgings for each destination, precise maps, age-appropriate guidelines, and quick-reference icons in each entry. Reliable and fun to read, this series gives the lowdown on the most entertaining and educational places to go with younger children.

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1564407446

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Yes Means Yes

Getting explicit about heterosex

By: Kath Albury

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Yes Means Yes

Getting explicit about heterosex

By: Kath Albury

Explores women's diverse sexual desires and pleasures from a cultural studies perspective. Topics include the ethics and nature of heterosexuality, fetishes, and straight feminism.

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1741151589

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