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EBOOK: Parents Matter: Supporting the Birth to Three Matters Framework

By: Lesley Abbott,Ann Langston

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EBOOK: Parents Matter: Supporting the Birth to Three Matters Framework

By: Lesley Abbott,Ann Langston

This book explores the important role of parents and the extended family in the lives of babies and young children. It complements and extends the DfES Birth to Three Matters framework, which supports practitioners in working with children aged birth to three, and builds on the information provided in the companion book Birth to Three Matters: Supporting the Framework of Effective Practice (Open University Press, 2004). Written by academics, practitioners and policy makers interested or involved in the development of the Birth to Three Matters framework, this book argues that parent engagement is essential for developing partnerships within communities in order to give children the best start in life, and shows how this can be achieved. The book: Discusses ways in which services may be developed to involve parents more fully in the care and education of babies and young children Looks at the powerful role of parents and grandparents in the lives of children Considers how skilled practitioners can manage relationships to provide support for both parents and children at difficult times Explores the ways in which parents can be helped to fulfil their own needs at the same time as meeting their children’s needs Includes discussion of families whose children have special needs or disabilities Parents Matter is essential reading for early years professionals and students on courses in Early Education, as well as policy makers, professional development trainers, local authority trainers, social workers and health visitors who work with very young children.

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0335223982

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Parents Matter: Supporting The Birth To Three Matters Framework

By: Abbott, Lesley,Langston, Ann

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Parents Matter: Supporting The Birth To Three Matters Framework

By: Abbott, Lesley,Langston, Ann

Written by academics, practitioners and policy makers interested or involved in the development of the Birth to Three Matters framework, this book argues that parent engagement is essential for developing partnerships within communities in order to give children the best start in life, and shows how this can be achieved.

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0335219802

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Gene Worship

Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender

By: Gisela Kaplan,Lesley J. Rogers

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Gene Worship

Moving Beyond the Nature/ Nurture Debate Over Genes, Brain and Gender

By: Gisela Kaplan,Lesley J. Rogers

A wonderful antidote to the gene hysteria that is now so dominant! . . . What is most exciting about this book is the authors' ability to move seamlessly from research on how the brain works, to sociology, history, and philosophy. And that, I believe, is exactly how we need to understand gender--neither nature nor nurture, but a complex interplay." - Dr. Lynda Birke, author of Feminism and the Biological Body This work moves beyond the old nature/nurture debate concerning what makes us who we are to present a new understanding of gender and sexuality. Since the mapping of the human genome there has been widespread coverage of scientific discoveries in the offing, and of the host of human problems to be solved through gene therapy, from physical defects to mental disease and even so-called 'undesirable' behavior. As biologists with expertise in neuroscience, ethology, psychology, sociology and human ethos, Kaplan and Rogers are uniquely situated to evaluate the claims of their colleagues concerning the knowledge to be gained through the study of our biological make-up. They caution against the seductive belief that, once we understand our biological constitution, it is but a short step to complete mastery of human nature. Furthermore, they show that this belief is yet another example of how science can be subverted to defend the claims of the ruling ideology.

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Other Press, LLC

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1590514521

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9781590514528

Blossom

What Scotland Needs to Flourish. 2nd edition.

By: Lesley Riddoch

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Blossom

What Scotland Needs to Flourish. 2nd edition.

By: Lesley Riddoch

Blossom is an account of Scotland at the grassroots through the stories of people I've had the good fortune to know – the most stubborn, talented and resilient people on the planet. They've had to be. Some have transformed their parts of Scotland. Some have tried and failed. But all have something in common – they know what it takes for Scotland to blossom. We should too... Weeding out vital components of Scottish identity from decades of political and social tangle is no mean task, but it's one journalist Lesley Riddoch has undertaken. Dispensing with the tired, yo-yoing jousts over fiscal commissions, Devo Something and EU in-or-out, Blossom pinpoints both the buds of growth and the blight that's holding Scotland back. Drawing from its people and history as well as the experience of the Nordic countries, and the author's own passionate and outspoken perspective, this is a plain-speaking but incisive call to restore equality and control to local communities and let Scotland flourish.

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Luath Press Ltd

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1910324493

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9781910324493

Saltwater Chronicles

Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun

By: Lesley Choyce

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Saltwater Chronicles

Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun

By: Lesley Choyce

The award–winning author celebrates the everyday disasters and discoveries that shape a life in this memoir of love, loss, and adventure in Nova Scotia. If Lesley Choyce was not a surfer, he would not have dropped out of graduate school in Manhattan in 1978 and moved to Nova Scotia—a decision that made all the difference. In Saltwater Chronicles, he reflects on the ambitious, idealistic, and brash young man he once was, while the older man ahead of him beckons him forward with a mischievous grin. In between, Choyce adapts to the crisis of becoming a respectable citizen. He experiences the death of his father and of his family dog. He helps guide his wife through cancer as they ride the North Atlantic waves and record a most human range of sorrows and joys. In this, his one-hundredth book, Lesley Choyce takes readers along as he writes about nearly everything under the sun from his home by the sea on the North Atlantic coast of Canada—all of it most ordinary and extraordinary at the same time.

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Nimbus+ORM

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1771088273

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9781771088275

This Far-Off Wild Land

The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson

By: Lesley Wischmann,Andrew Dawson

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This Far-Off Wild Land

The Upper Missouri Letters of Andrew Dawson

By: Lesley Wischmann,Andrew Dawson

In the mid-1800s, Andrew Dawson, self-exiled from his home in Scotland, joined the upper Missouri River fur trade and rose through the ranks of the American Fur Company. A headstrong young man, he had come to America at the age of twenty-four after being dismissed from his second job in two years. His poignant sense of isolation is evident throughout his letters home between 1844 and 1861. In This Far-Off Wild Land, Lesley Wischmann and Andrew Erskine Dawson—a relative of this colorful figure—couple an engaging biography of Dawson with thirty-seven of his previously unpublished letters from the American frontier. Three years after he landed in St. Louis, Dawson went up the Missouri in 1847 to what is now North Dakota and Montana, taking command of Fort Berthold, Fort Clark, and eventually Fort Benton, the premier fur trade post of the day. Fort Berthold and Fort Clark, where Dawson worked until 1854, remain two of the least documented American Fur Company posts. His letters infuse life, and occasional high drama, to the stories of these forgotten outposts. At Fort Benton, his insight in establishing commercial warehouses helped the company keep pace with the changing frontier. By the time Dawson returned to Scotland—after twenty years in what he labeled a far-off, wild land—he had risen to become the last “King of the Upper Missouri.” Thoughtfully annotated, Dawson’s letters, discovered only recently by his relatives, provide a rare glimpse into the lonely life of a fur trader in the 1840s and 1850s. Unlike the impersonal business correspondence that makes up most fur trade writings, Dawson’s letters are wonderfully human, suffused with raw emotion. Combining careful research with a compelling story, the authors flesh out the forces that shaped Dawson’s personality and the historical events he recorded.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806189339

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9780806189338

Developing Practical Nursing Skills

By: Lesley Baillie

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Developing Practical Nursing Skills

By: Lesley Baillie

Developing Practical Nursing Skills, Fourth Edition helps you learn and perfect the practical skills required to become a qualified nurse. Patient-focussed and adopting a caring approach, this essential text will also help you to integrate nursing values alongside physical skills in your daily practice. Key features include:Full colour text de

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CRC Press

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1444175963

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9781444175967

Songs, Roars, and Rituals

Communication in Birds, Mammals, and Other Animals

By: Lesley J. Rogers,Gisela T. Kaplan

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Songs, Roars, and Rituals

Communication in Birds, Mammals, and Other Animals

By: Lesley J. Rogers,Gisela T. Kaplan

From the calling macaw and the roaring lion to the dancing lyrebird, animals all around us can be heard and seen communicating with each other and, occasionally, with us. Why they do so, what their utterances mean, and how much we know about them are the subject of Songs, Roars, and Rituals. This is a concise, yet comprehensive, introduction to the complexities of communication in animals. Rogers and Kaplan take us on an exciting journey through communication in the animal world, offering insights on how animals communicate by sight, sound, smell, touch, and even electrical signaling. They explore a wide variety of communication patterns in many species of mammals and birds and discuss in detail how communication signals evolved, how they are learned, and what song and mimicry may mean. An up-to-date account of the science of animal communication, this book also considers modern concepts (such as that of deceptive communication) and modern controversies, primarily those surrounding the evolution of human language and the use of symbolic language by apes. It concludes with a thought-provoking look at the future of communication between humans and animals.

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Harvard University Press

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0674008278

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9780674008274

John Huston's Filmmaking

By: Lesley Brill

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John Huston's Filmmaking

By: Lesley Brill

John Huston's Filmmaking offers an analysis of the life and work of one of the greatest American independent filmmakers. Always visually exciting, Huston's films sensitively portray humankind in all its incarnations, chronicling the attempts by protagonists to conceive and articulate their identities. Fundamental questions of selfhood, happiness and love are intimately connected to the idea of home, which for the filmmaker also signified a congenial place among other people in the world. In this study, Lesley Brill shows Huston's films to be far more than formulaic adventures of masculine failure, arguing instead that they demonstrate the close connection between humanity, the natural world, and divinity.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521586704

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9780521586702

Developing Practical Adult Nursing Skills

By: Lesley Baillie,Thomas L.

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Developing Practical Adult Nursing Skills

By: Lesley Baillie,Thomas L.

This is the third edition of the highly successful textbook, Developing Practical Nursing Skills, which has been revised specifically for nursing and health care students working with adult patients, offering a more comprehensive guide that will last throughout initial training and beyond. Maintaining the practical and easy-to-use style o

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1444154915

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9781444154917

Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury

Church and Endowment

By: Lesley Abrams

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Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury

Church and Endowment

By: Lesley Abrams

A survey of the landed endowment of Glastonbury Abbey before 1066, with a history of its estates. The early history of the religious community at Glastonbury has been the subject of much speculation and imaginative writing, but there are few sources which genuinely further our knowledge of Glastonbury Abbey in the Anglo-Saxonperiod. This has resulted in a lack of serious historical research and hence the neglect of an important ecclesiastical establishment. This study brings together the evidence of royal and episcopal grants of land and combines it with material from Domesday Book, to produce a survey of the landed endowment of Glastonbury Abbey before 1066, and an analysis of the history of its Anglo-Saxon estates. Although there is too little data to formulate a complete account of the Abbey's early landholdings, the surviving evidence, collected together here, outlines a history for each place named in connection with the pre-Conquest religious house; in addition, each case helps to establish an overall framework for the life-cycle of the Anglo-Saxon estate, building on our understanding of actual conditions of tenure and of the various fortunes ecclesiastical land might experience. LESLEY ABRAMS is Lecturer in History, Brasenose College, and Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University.

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Boydell & Brewer

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0851153690

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9780851153698

Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, 1998

By: Department of Trade And Industry Staff,Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry,Lesley Petrie

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Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, 1998

By: Department of Trade And Industry Staff,Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry,Lesley Petrie

2 vol. set: Main vol. contains the statistics for 1998; 2nd vol. Proposals for change. With insert: UK energy in brief dated July 1998 (27p.: 15 cm)

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0115154477

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Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change

By: Will Steffen,Andrew A. Burbidge,Lesley Hughes,Roger Kitching,David Lindenmayer,Warren Musgrave,Mark Stafford Smith,Patricia A. Werner

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Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change

By: Will Steffen,Andrew A. Burbidge,Lesley Hughes,Roger Kitching,David Lindenmayer,Warren Musgrave,Mark Stafford Smith,Patricia A. Werner

Australia's unique biodiversity is under threat from a rapidly changing climate. The effects of climate change are already discernible at all levels of biodiversity - genes, species, communities and ecosystems. Many of Australia's most valued and iconic natural areas - the Great Barrier Reef, south-western Australia, the Kakadu wetlands and the Australian Alps - are among the most vulnerable. But much more is at stake than saving iconic species or ecosystems. Australia's biodiversity is fundamental to the country's national identity, economy and quality of life. In the face of uncertainty about specific climate scenarios, ecological and management principles provide a sound basis for maximising opportunities for species to adapt, communities to reorganise and ecosystems to transform while maintaining basic functions critical to human society. This innovative approach to biodiversity conservation under a changing climate leads to new challenges for management, policy development and institutional design. This book explores these challenges, building on a detailed analysis of the interactions between a changing climate and Australia's rich but threatened biodiversity. Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change is an important reference for policy makers, researchers, educators, students, journalists, environmental and conservation NGOs, NRM managers, and private landholders with an interest in biodiversity conservation in a rapidly changing world."--Publisher.

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CSIRO PUBLISHING

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0643096051

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9780643096059

Australia

By: Peter Hinze,Paul Chadwick,Fiona Gillies,Gary Walsh,Carol Stuart,Anne Biging,Marc Marger,Andrea Brown,Ulf Marquardt,Wolfgang Koch,Uwe Seidel,Lesley Darlington

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Australia

By: Peter Hinze,Paul Chadwick,Fiona Gillies,Gary Walsh,Carol Stuart,Anne Biging,Marc Marger,Andrea Brown,Ulf Marquardt,Wolfgang Koch,Uwe Seidel,Lesley Darlington

The writing is superb... each (Nelles) guide is delightfully comprehensive, a solid source of reliable information for the traveller... All travel guides claim to be comprehensive, but we found Nelles Guides superior". -- Arizona Senior World "(The Nelles Guides are) . . . beautifully photographed . . . the maps are better than Insight's, and practical information is integrated with the text, not relegated to the end". -- National Geographic Traveller -- Quality writing, often by native writers -- Detailed sections on the history, culture, special features and festivals -- Accommodations, restaurant guides, sights to see, places to shop, how to get around

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Nelles Verlag

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3886180514

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9783886180516

Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, 1998

By: Department of Trade And Industry Staff,Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry,Lesley Petrie

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Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, 1998

By: Department of Trade And Industry Staff,Great Britain. Department of Trade and Industry,Lesley Petrie

2 vol. set: Main vol. contains the statistics for 1998; 2nd vol. Proposals for change. With insert: UK energy in brief dated July 1998 (27p.: 15 cm)

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Book's by Lesley Petrie

EBOOK: Parents Matter: Supporting the Birth to Three Matters Framework

EBOOK: Parents Matter: Supporting the Birth to Three Matters Framework

Parents Matter: Supporting The Birth To Three Matters Framework

Parents Matter: Supporting The Birth To Three Matters Framework

Gene Worship

Gene Worship

Blossom

Blossom

Saltwater Chronicles

Saltwater Chronicles

This Far-Off Wild Land

This Far-Off Wild Land

Developing Practical Nursing Skills

Developing Practical Nursing Skills

Songs, Roars, and Rituals

Songs, Roars, and Rituals

John Huston's Filmmaking

John Huston's Filmmaking

Developing Practical Adult Nursing Skills

Developing Practical Adult Nursing Skills

Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury

Anglo-Saxon Glastonbury

Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, 1998

Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, 1998

Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change

Australia's Biodiversity and Climate Change

Australia

Australia

Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, 1998

Digest of United Kingdom Energy Statistics, 1998

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