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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Science Dictionary for Kids provides hundreds of science terms with kid-friendly definitions and illustrations, perfect for any teacher of science or parent helping a child with science homework. It's an ideal companion to 'Math Dictionary for Kids.'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'informative, succint, circumspect; an exacting introduction to Leavis as an incisive master critic. Ideal for today's students and general readers' - Chris Terry, Times Higher EducationF.R. Leavis is a landmark figure in twentieth-century literary criticism and theory. His outspoken and confrontational work has often divided opinion and continues to generate interest as students and critics revisit his highly influential texts.Looking closely at a representative selection of Leavis's work, Richard Storer outlines his thinking on key topics such as:literary theory, 'criticism' and culturecanon formationmodernism close reading higher education.Exploring the responses and engaging with the controversies generated by Leavis's work, this clear, authoritative guide highlights how Leavis remains of critical significance to twenty-first-century study of literature and culture.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Supporting Children's Learning in the Early Years is aimed at early years practitioners who are developing their knowledge and understanding of professional practice through studying at undergraduate level. The book encourages readers to consider their professional development as reflective practitioners, building on and supporting the government agenda to provide quality provision for young children and their families.Combining theory and practice, and bringing together current research and thinking in a broad range of areas, the book covers:Learning environments: young children as learners, assessment of learning, well being and children's rights, diversity and inclusion.Learning and development: children's development including social and emotional development, literacy and mathematical development, the potential of ICT, fostering creativity, musical development and knowledge and understanding of the world.Reflective practice: the learning environment, safeguarding and wellbeing, the reflective practitioner.Throughout, the contributions in this book encourage the reader to consider the diverse range of experiences which young children bring to early years and early primary settings and suggest ways in which they can be supported. The book will also be a valuable and unique resource for training providers of a range of courses at further and higher education level that prepare people to work with, and lead in, early years settings in the UK.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Russia's engagement with Germany on the Eastern Front during World War II was ferocious, unprecedented and bloody, costing millions of civilian and military lives. In this challenging new book, Lee Baker distinguishes myth from reality and deflates the idea that this war, while gargantuan in scale, was in essence a war like any other.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - We are all experts about Hollywood. We have to be, given its iconic power as the global source of so much entertainment. Designed to add to existing expertise as a movie-goer, The Contemporary Hollywood Reader enables students to enter into the thematic, critical, artistic, economic, and political debates on Hollywood. The Contemporary Hollywood Reader is a dynamic selection of scholarly writings on Hollywood from the post-World War II period onwards, divided into three sections, each with contextualizing introductions from the Editor. The sections, Production, Text, and Circulation, address all the major perspectives on Hollywood allowing equal attention to the field, in both thematic and disciplinary senses. In this collection, Toby Miller offers a plural, open guide to major scholarly tendencies in writing about Hollywood with a mixture of familiar and less familiar works. While the Reader draws on research undertaken within US-UK film or cinema studies, it also ventures further afield, bringing together the most stimulating materials available on the subject.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Key Issues in Early Years Education is the second edition of The Early Years: A Reader. This essential text for students and professionals is unique in its range of voices and topics and in its determination to see the child as central to learning and development. As in the first edition it not only has chapters written by key figures in the field of early childhood education and care but also by students on a range of early childhood programmes. Notable key figures from the first edition have been added including Helen Penn, Henrietta Dombey, Hilary Faust and Charmian Kenner. Rosemary Nalden, who is involved in significant work with children in South Africa, has added her voice to give us examples of children acting both as learners and teachers.This fully revised collection is a comprehensive investigation into the key issues in early years education which:provides a blend of real life examples and theory, drawn from a diversity of early childhood settings and classesis written in an accessible voicebrings theory to life by linking it with practiceexamines how children explore, express and represent their worlds.Many of the original sections have been revised and updated to take account of changes to the education system over the last decade. Two new sections in this edition are Children as Thinkers and Problem-Solvers and Learning: A Second Chance, which looks at adults learning something new and considers the similarities and differences that might exist between them and children.This fascinating and highly readable book will be of interest to teachers, practitioners, students and anyone concerned with the care and education of our youngest children.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recent tensions accompanying the removal of the 'Bronze Soldier' monument have revealed the political and social impact of places of memory in the Baltic Sea region, which are addressed here in broader historical and theoretical perspectives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Title in the 'Routledge Historical Biographies' series.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This unique and comprehensive book builds bridges between palliative and neurological care expertise, recognising that such people may require intensive input from rehabilitation and therapy teams at the same time as complex symptom management and supportive non clinical care.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book is the first systematic study of the capacities of the most recognized intergovernmental organizations with a security mandate.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Presents an introduction to the question famously posed by Socrates: How is life to be lived This title examines the major forms of ethical subjectivism and objectivism - including expressivism, error theory, naturalism, and intuitionism.

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Takes the study of international relations to the art museum. This book focuses on the British Museum, the National Gallery of London, the Museum of Iraq, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Getty museums, the Guggenheim museums, and 'museum' spaces instantly created by the attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Racial integration, and policies intended to achieve greater integration, continue to generate controversy in the United States, with some of the most heated debates taking place among long-standing advocates of racial equality.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Tourism and the Lodging Sector is a pioneering book, the first text of its kind to examine the lodging sector from a tourism perspective. The book highlights the importance of the lodging sector in tourism as a major income generator and essential part of the travel experience.The book offers an international perspective on topics such as sustainability, security, economic development, technology and globalization. The issues, concepts and management concerns facing this industry are examined, highlighting important topics such as:the place of accommodations in tourism and vice versa the social, ecological and economic implications of lodging development management and restructuring issues in a globalizing industry sustainable tourism and the accommodation sector cross-sectoral linkages between lodging, food services, gaming, conferences, and other intermediaries the interaction between supply and demand safety and security in tourism and lodging. Tourism and the Lodging Sector critically examines a wide range of lodging establishments from an industry and social science perspective, drawing parallels and distinctions between the various types of accommodation, from campgrounds for the cost-conscious or adventurous outdoor traveler, to luxury, 5-star resorts, and more innovative accommodation such as tree-house hotels and ecolodges.Essential reading for students of tourism this book is an indispensable guide, unprecedented in the field of tourism management.Dallen J. Timothy is Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, USAVictor B. Teye is Associate Professor, School of Community Resources and Development, Arizona State University, USAHigh profile authors approach lodging from a tourism perspectiveIncludes treatment of booming trends like timeshare and mobile lodgingTakes a global perspective on topics such as sustainability, economic implications and information technology.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Incorporating coverage of the ongoing turmoil in the world financial markets, this concise and affordable.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines the impact of changing state-society relations that shape contemporary conflicts over Chinese social service provision and looks at how the ongoing negotiation of political space between the state and society impacted the quality and nature of social service provison in transitioning states.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book studies the political transformation of Karnataka by focusing on three chief ministers who played an important role in making Karnataka more accommodative and democratic. It includes interviews and surveys which locate this work in social science literature and in comparative context alongside other Indian states.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Providing an overview of institutional developments and innovations in human rights politics, this volume discusses some of the most important current and emerging human rights issues. It takes stock of the initiatives, policy responses and innovations of past years to identify some of the challenges that will likely require bold and innovative solutions. The contributions offer a direct challenge to entrenched notions of state sovereignty and represent a departure from established ways of policy making.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Certain bizarre spaces, where disruption or disarray rule, leave us estranged and 'out of place'. This book examines such spaces, highlighting the emotional and mediated geographies of uncertainty and the state of being 'in-between'; of cognitive displacement, loss, fear, or exhilaration. It expands on why space is sometimes estranging and for whom it is strange.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book examines geopolitics in East Asia, focusing in particular on East Asia's contentious maritime territorial disputes. It examines how important factors including territory, natural resources and power relations influence state behaviour and relations between important powers including the United States, China, Japan and South Korea.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The expansion of the European Union to include ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe, followed by the inclusion of Romania and Bulgaria, has generated great media interest in recent times. This volume focuses on the migration flow between Britain and Bulgaria, placing it within the wider European perspective through a careful and grounded analysis. It will be of great interest to migration scholars and policy makers at local, national and international levels.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Placing the conflict between chance and order at the center of early modern French culture, these essays cluster around four problems: Providence in Question, Aesthetics and Poetics of Chance, Law and Ethics of Chance, and Chance and its Remedies. By demonstrating the breadth and intensity of the early modern questioning of chance, they offer an illuminating new perspective on French culture in the period.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book provides engineers, developers, and technicians with a detailed treatment of various models of software behavior that will support early analysis, comprehension, and model-based testing. The expressive capabilities and limitations of each behavioral model are also discussed.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Bringing together expert contributors, this book builds on the expanding evidence pointing to the importance of parents in facilitating their baby's development and examines a range of innovative psychological and psychotherapeutic interventions.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Taking a novel, easily accessible approach, this book presents an easy-to-read introduction to computer graphics and geometric modeling. Emphasizing high-level algorithms, it focuses on standard graphics, modeling, and mathematical methods, including ray tracing, polygon shading, radiosity, fractals, freeform curves and surfaces, vector methods, and transformation techniques. The author begins with fractals first rather than typical line drawing algorithms and also brings back the turtle from obscurity to introduce several major concepts in computer graphics. The text includes many exercises and programming projects and offers a website with PowerPoint slides.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book uses game theory techniques to address practical business, economic, and public policy issues. It also illustrates the benefits of employing strategic thinking that incorporates the uncertainty surrounding the behavior of other parties. The authors show how to build a model, analyze real-world problems, and find strategically sound decisions in uncertain environments. Through case studies from a variety of industries, law, and government regulation, they discuss economic and game theory concepts, including strategic value within a business game, static and dynamic games, complete and incomplete information sets, and asymmetric information.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The ideal introduction to semiotics, containing engaging essays from an impressive range of international leaders in the field. Featuring an extended glossary of key terms and thinkers as well as suggestions for further reading, this is an invaluable reference guide for students of semiotics at all levels.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together a collection of essays analysing the current scenario in South and Southeast Asia regarding the position of minority groups. Based on an investigation of some of lasting conflicts, they examine the social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of these struggles.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Come and be my geisha'. Responding to her solider husband's invitation, an American woman arrives in 1950's Japan and encounters something very different to the world of Madame Butterfly and Lafcadio Hearn she is expecting. Entertaining and insightful, this memoir captures the challenge and mutual incomprehension she experiences as she strives to learn about another culture and people, while they struggle to understand her. Written with tremendous zest and good humour, American Geisha is a timeless example of how to live abroad successfully in an increasingly global world, as well as a fascinating account of everyday life in Japan in the immediate post-war years.