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The Organized Child An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential—in School and in Life

The Organized Child An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential—in School and in Life

Are you sick of nagging your child to write down homework assignments? Is his or her backpack a black hole that eats up papers books and gym clothes? Organizational skills problems aren't just frustrating-they get in the way of school success and wreak havoc at home. Fortunately help is at hand. This unique resource stands out from other books because it is based on a scientifically tested program that works. Learn how you can teach your 7- to 13-year-old specific skills to: *Organize school materials and toys. *Track assignments. *Improve time management and planning. *Overcome brain "Glitches"-mischievous creatures that trip kids up. *Create and follow effective routines. Concrete examples tips for strategically using praise and rewards and practical tools (you can download and print additional copies as needed) help you implement each step of the program. Maximizing your kid's potential starts now-here's how. A Greater Good Favorite Parenting Book of 2018 Mental health professionals see also the related intervention manual from Gallagher et al. Organizational Skills Training for Children with ADHD: An Empirically Supported Treatment. | The Organized Child An Effective Program to Maximize Your Kid's Potential—in School and in Life

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Sustainability Civil Society and International Governance Local North American and Global Contributions

Sustainability Civil Society and International Governance Local North American and Global Contributions

How can civil society and global governors come together in new ways to improve links among trade environmental and social values? In this important and wide-ranging volume an unparalleled array of contributors examines the many new processes of civil society engagement that have been introduced at the local regional and global levels. Assessing what more can be done to strengthen the productive partnerships between civil society and global governance the book draws on the extensive inventory of existing practices and community-based alternatives to demonstrate how particular mechanisms for civil society participation in global governance have enhanced or impeded the specific economic environmental and political outcomes that many seek to achieve. | Sustainability Civil Society and International Governance Local North American and Global Contributions

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Time for Adventure: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children

Time for Adventure: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children

Jem’s friend Lottie has come to play but Jem is taking all the toys for herself. She learns that adventures are more fun when you share. Targeting Subject-Verb-Object sentences and pronouns this book provides repeated examples of early developing syntax and morphology which will engage and excite the reader while building pre-literacy skills and make learning fun as well as exposing children to multiple models of the target grammar form. Perfect for a speech and language therapy session this book is an ideal starting point for targeting client goals and can also be enjoyed at school or home to reinforce what has been taught in the therapy session. | Time for Adventure: A Grammar Tales Book to Support Grammar and Language Development in Children

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AI for Creativity

AI for Creativity

What is computational creativity? Can AI learn to be creative? One of the human mind’s most valuable features is the capacity to formulate creative thoughts an ability that through quantum leap innovations has propelled us to the current digital age. However creative breakthroughs are easier said than done. Appearing less frequently and more sporadically than desired it seems that we have not yet fully cracked the creative code. But with the rapid advances in artificial intelligence which have come to provide an ever-closer proximity with the cognitive faculties of mankind can this emerging technology improve our creative capabilities? What will that look like and will it be the missing link in the man–machine enigma? AI for Creativity provides a fascinating look at what is currently emerging in the very cutting-edge area of artificial intelligence and the tools being developed to enable computational creativity that holds the propensity to dramatically change our lives.

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Digital Religion: The Basics

Digital Religion: The Basics

Digital Religion: The Basics explores how digital media and internet platforms are transforming religious practice in a digital age and the impact this has had on religious culture in contemporary society. Through exploring six defining characteristics of how religion is acted out online including multisite reality convergence practice networked community storied identity shifting authority and experiential authenticity the book considers how digital religion both shapes and is influenced by religion offline. Questions asked include: How is religion being performed and reimagined through digital media and cultures? In what ways do the practices of religion online merge or correspond with shifts in perspective taking place in offline religious practice? How do the key findings of religion online reflect broader social cultural and structural practices observed within mobile networked society? With case studies and further readings Digital Religion: The Basics is a must-read for students wanting to come to grips with how religion is changing and experienced through digital media.

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Social Work: The Basics

Social Work: The Basics

This revised second edition of Social Work: The Basics is an insightful introduction to the often misrepresented world of social work. This accessible book presents a broad view of contemporary social work exploring its roots and its possible future. It dispels myths surrounding social work addresses media debates and offers a balanced account of what social workers do. Arguing for a social work that is partisan in support of social justice questions covered include: How did social work arise? How and why do people come into contact with social workers? What are the true aims of social work – to help or to control? What is the relationship between social work and social policy? How and why do people become social workers? What’s it like to be a social worker? Can social work cross borders? Drawing examples from the full range of social work practice this book is valuable reading for all individuals interested in the field of social work. It will provide a helpful introduction for students considering a career in social work those beginning social work courses and other professionals whose work brings them into contact with social workers.

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InterMedia in South Asia The Fourth Screen

InterMedia in South Asia The Fourth Screen

The emergence of new media today in South Asia has signalled an event the meaning of which remains obscure but whose reality is rapidly evolving along gradients of intensity and experience. Contemporary media in and from South Asia have come to sense a new arrangement of value sensation and force - new forms of becoming that might be usefully termed as 'media ecologies'. This evolution from nation-based forms of communication (Doordarshan All India Radio the national feudal romance) to simultaneous global ones conform and mutate the structures of feeling of local national diasporic and transnational belonging. This collection of original essays is concerned with understanding how people are making meaning from the new media and how subaltern tinkering (pirating peer to peer file sharing hacking noise jamming indymedia etc. ) does things to and in the new media. This exciting works helps us to make sense of the creation of new publics new affects and new experiences of pleasure and value in convergences of intermedia in a fast developing South Asia context. This book was originally published as a special issue of South Asian Popular Culture. | InterMedia in South Asia The Fourth Screen

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The Hot and Bothered Air Balloon A Story about Feeling Stressed

The Hot and Bothered Air Balloon A Story about Feeling Stressed

The Hot and Bothered Air Balloon is a therapeutic story about feeling stressed. In the story a hot air balloon is so hot and bothered that he is stuck high up in the air. With the help of a friendly puffin the hot air balloon is able to come down to earth feeling better and more relaxed. The story teaches children about how we can use relaxation and mindfulness techniques when we are feeling stressed and the benefits of finding an outlet for our emotional distress. This beautifully illustrated storybook will appeal to all children and can be used by practitioners educators and parents as a tool to discuss the importance of relaxation therapeutic outlets and dealing with stress. This story can be purchased alongside six other storybooks as part of a set (ISBN: 9781138556478) as well as in a set alongside the guidebook Nurturing Emotional Resilience in Vulnerable Children and Young People and six other storybooks (9781138556454). The guidebook outlines ways to use these beautifully told and visually appealing stories to nurture emotional resilience with children and will be invaluable tools for anyone working to build emotional resilience with children and young people. | The Hot and Bothered Air Balloon A Story about Feeling Stressed

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Budgeting and Performance Management in the Public Sector

Budgeting and Performance Management in the Public Sector

Public sector management and accounting scholarship has witnessed enormous change over the last four decades. Several reform paradigms have become well-known and disseminated worldwide under acronyms such as NPM – New Public Management NPG – New Public Governance and PV – Public Value. At the start of a new decade questions arise as to what will come next. This book reviews and investigates the key components of NPM NPM and PV and discusses what lies beyond these acronyms. It analyses the claimed benefits and drawbacks of each of the three paradigms using reviews of the pertinent literature as well as a raft of case studies. The integration of theoretical and empirical insights contributes to a better understanding of what has changed and what has remained the same over the years. Specifically this book stands out in its use of performance measurement and budgetary lenses to explore the multidimensional processes of reform and change in the public sector. By focusing on the crucially important transformations that have occurred in the field reviewing several paradigms and analysing different practices from a longitudinal and comparative perspective the book will be essential in guiding students and scholars of public management and accounting. | Budgeting and Performance Management in the Public Sector

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Information Science The Basics

Information Science The Basics

Information Science: The Basics provides an accessible introduction to the multifaceted field of Information Science (IS). Inviting readers to explore a modern field of study with deep historical foundations the book begins by considering the complexities of the term information and the information life cycle from classification to preservation. Each chapter examines a different area within IS surveying its history technologies and practices with a critical eye. This interdisciplinary field incorporates a wide range of approaches which it shares with humanities social science and technology fields. What makes IS unique is its emphasis on the connections between information technology and society. The need to share information more effectively in response to social environmental and biomedical challenges has never been so urgent; the volume discusses the risks as well as benefits that come with the emerging technologies that make it possible. The book also explores how IS with its long-standing commitment to intellectual freedom and digital inclusion and its keen attention to the protection of privacy data ethics and algorithmic transparency can contribute to the creation of a more open and equitable society. Information Science: The Basics is essential reading for anyone who wishes to know more about information and the impact it has on our world. It will be particularly useful for anyone intending to study IS at the undergraduate level or considering a shift to a career in the information professions. | Information Science The Basics

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Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

The US political system has come to depend upon money too much. The US health care industry spends the most on political lobbying among all the 13 industrial sectors in the US economy. The government regulatory agencies at both federal and state levels have been captured by the health industry interest groups meaning that the regulatory agencies respond to the interests of the industry but not those of citizens. This book employs a broad theoretical framework of crony capitalism to understand US health care system dysfunction. This framework has not been applied before in any serious manner to understand the shortcomings in the US health care system. Specifically the book examines the role of seven key players using this framework - politicians/interest groups pharmaceutical companies private health insurers hospitals/hospital networks physicians medical device manufacturers and the American public. Crony capitalism is a destructive force and is rampant in US health care system causing much waste inefficiencies and malaise in the system. Current efforts and initiatives such as patient-centered medical homes and precision medicine for improving/reforming the system are of mere academic interest and tantamount to taking aspirin to treat cancer. They do not even pretend to address the root cause of the problem namely crony capitalism. Offering prescriptions to fix the U. S. health care system based on a comprehensive diagnosis of the dysfunction this book will be of interest to researchers academics policymakers and students in the fields of health care management public and non-profit management health policy administration and economics and political science. | Crony Capitalism in US Health Care Anatomy of a Dysfunctional System

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Large Hadron Collider Phenomenology

Large Hadron Collider Phenomenology

With the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) under construction and due to come online in 2007 it is appropriate to engage in a focused review on LHC phenomenology. At a time when most of the experimental effort is centered on detector construction and software development it is vitally important to direct the experimental community and in particular new researchers on the physics phenomena expected from the LHC. Large Hadron Collider Phenomenology covers the capabilities of LHC from searches for the Higgs boson and physics beyond the standard model to detailed studies of quantum chromodynamics the B-physics sectors and the properties of hadronic matter at high energy density as realized in heavy-ion collisions. Written by experienced researchers and experimentalists this reference examines the basic properties and potentials of the machine detectors and software required for physics analyses. The book starts with a basic introduction to the standard model and its applications to the phenomena observed at high energy collisions. Later chapters describe the key technological challenges facing the construction of the LHC machine the operating detectors of the LHC and the vast computing grid needed to analyze the data. In the final sections the contributors discuss the quark-gluon plasma (QGP) explore questions and predictions for the LHC program and examine the physics opportunities of the LHC using information from the forward region. By surveying the difficult challenges of the LHC development while also assessing the novel processes that the LHC will perform Large Hadron Collider Phenomenology aids less seasoned physicists as well as existing researchers in discovering the numerous possibilities of the LHC.

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Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

‘I have come to think that one of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence. ’ – Bertrand Russell Portraits from Memory Portraits from Memory is one of Bertrand Russell’s most self-reflective and engaging books. Whilst not intended as an autobiography it is a vivid recollection of some of his celebrated contemporaries such as George Bernard Shaw Sidney and Beatrice Webb and D. H. Lawrence. Russell provides some arresting and sometimes amusing insights into writers with whom he corresponded. He was fascinated by Joseph Conrad with whom he formed a strong emotional bond writing that his Heart of Darkness was not just a story but an expression of Conrad’s ‘philosophy of life’. There are also some typically pithy Russellian observations; H. G. Wells ‘derived his importance from quantity rather than quality’ whilst after a brief and fraught friendship Russell thought D. H. Lawrence ‘had no real wish to make the world better but only to indulge in eloquent soliloquy about how bad it was’. This engaging book also includes some of Russell’s customary razor-sharp essays on a rich array of subjects from his ardent pacifism liberal politics and morality to the ethics of education the skills of good writing and how he came to philosophy as a young man. These include ‘A Plea for Clear Thinking’ ‘A Philosophy for Our Time’ and ‘How I Write’. Portraits from Memory is Russell at his best and will enthrall those new to Russell as well as those already well-acquainted with his work. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new foreword by the Russell scholar Nicholas Griffin editor of The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell. | Portraits from Memory And Other Essays

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Leaving Well Activity Book Therapeutic Activities to Support Kids Aged 6-12 who are Moving to a New Country

Leaving Well Activity Book Therapeutic Activities to Support Kids Aged 6-12 who are Moving to a New Country

Moving from country to country is no small feat. This activity book is designed for use with children aged 6-12 to help those on the move to navigate the process of global transition smoothly. Based on the latest relocation and transition research wellbeing boosting strategies are shared for transition and beyond. Children are introduced to mindful activities and are encouraged to use their creativity by annotating and illustrating the pages as they move through the book allowing them to be an active participant in their move. Leaving Well Activity Book helps children to reflect on how they feel about the move to remember other moves and understand that change is a part of life. Full of valuable strategies to boost wellbeing as they move forward the text highlights top tips for expressing feelings that will help children prepare for departure. The book normalises mixed feelings helping the child acknowledge their hopes and fears and reflect on their sense of control. This book can be used effectively alongside: Arriving Well Activity Book which helps the child settle in their new place to reflect on the move and understand that change is a part of life. Moving On Facilitator’s Guide which offers guidance notes and prompts to help bring out the best experience for the child and is designed to help the adult feel confident in their delivery and in responding to any questions. It contains key points to consider examples of ‘what you could say’ as well as explains the theory behind the workbook activities. Acting as a tool for engagement Leaving Well Activity Book will help children come to terms with the move and help adults support children preparing to leave for a new country. | Leaving Well Activity Book Therapeutic Activities to Support Kids Aged 6-12 who are Moving to a New Country

GBP 12.99
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Arriving Well Activity Book Therapeutic Activities to Support Kids Aged 6-12 who have Moved to a New Country

Arriving Well Activity Book Therapeutic Activities to Support Kids Aged 6-12 who have Moved to a New Country

Moving from country to country is no small feat. This activity book is designed for use with children aged 6-12 to help those on the move to navigate the process of global transition smoothly. Based on the latest relocation and transition research wellbeing boosting strategies are shared for transition and beyond. Children are introduced to mindful activities and are encouraged to use their creativity by annotating and illustrating the pages as they move through the book allowing them to be an active participant in their move. Arriving Well Activity Book helps the child settle in their new place to reflect on the move and understand that change is a part of life. Full of valuable strategies to boost wellbeing as they move forward the text highlights top tips for settling in. The book normalises mixed feelings helping the child to understand the process of transition and reflect on their sense of control. This book can be used effectively alongside: Leaving Well Activity Book which helps children to reflect on how they feel about the move to remember other moves and understand that change is a part of life. Moving On Facilitator’s Guide which offers guidance notes and prompts to help bring out the best experience for the child and is designed to help the adult feel confident in their delivery and in responding to any questions. It contains key points to consider examples of ‘what you could say’ as well as explains the theory behind the workbook activities. Acting as a tool for engagement Arriving Well Activity Book will help children come to terms with the move and help adults support children through the arrival and settling in period. | Arriving Well Activity Book Therapeutic Activities to Support Kids Aged 6-12 who have Moved to a New Country

GBP 12.99
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Conquest and Redemption A History of Jewish Assets from the Holocaust

Conquest and Redemption A History of Jewish Assets from the Holocaust

In Conquest and Redemption Gregg J. Rickman explains how the Nazis stole the possessions of their Jewish victims and obtained the cooperation of institutions across Europe in these crimes of convenience. He also describes how those institutions are being brought to justice sixty years later for their retention of their ill-gotten gains. Rickman not only explains how the robbery was accomplished tracked stalled and then finally reversed but also clearly shows the ways in which robbery was inextricably connected to the murder of the Jews. The Nazis took everything from Jews-their families their possessions and even their names. As with the murder of Jews the Nazis' robbery was an organized institutionalized effort. Jews were isolated robbed and left homeless regarded as parasites in the Nazis' eyes and thus fair game. In short the organized robbery of the Jews facilitated their slaughter. How did the German people come to believe that it was permissible to isolate outlaw rob and murder Jews? A partial explanation can be found in the Nazis' creation of a virtual religion of German nationalism and homogeneity that delegitimized Jews as a people and as individuals. This belief system was expressed through a complex structure of religious rules practices and institutions. While Nazi ideology was the guiding principle how that ideology was formed and how it was applied is important to understand if one is to fully grasp the Holocaust. Rickman painstakingly describes the structural composition and motivation for the plundering of Jewish assets. The Holocaust will always remain a memory of unequalled pain and suffering but as Rickman shows the return of stolen goods to their survivors is a partial victory for the long aggrieved. Conquest and Redemption will be of interest to students and scholars in the history of the Holocaust and its aftermath. | Conquest and Redemption A History of Jewish Assets from the Holocaust

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The Silent Selkie A Storybook to Support Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Trauma

The Silent Selkie A Storybook to Support Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Trauma

The Silent Selkie describes a character who is unable to communicate in words and whose only way of communicating is through the weather which leads to disastrous consequences not only for the Selkie but also for everyone around her. But behind her golden scales the Selkie hides a secret wound that even she is unaware of and it is only when the Selkie’s skin becomes uncovered by the force of the sea that she remembers the terrible story of what caused her hurt long ago. Only then can the Selkie come to terms with her wound and begin a journey of healing that will bring her face-to-face with what she has needed all along. Beautifully illustrated and sensitively written The Silent Selkie deals with the effects of trauma on a young person – including hypersensitivity and emotional reactivity. The story uses the metaphor of trauma as a ‘hidden wound’ which in reality is an emotional or psychological pain that needs both acknowledgement and expression within the context of a safe supportive environment in which to begin to heal. This colourful storybook: Helps adults provide a safe environment for children to use non-verbal expression to communicate experiences that may be difficult to talk about. Uses creative metaphors and symbols to offer children a supportive way to communicate whilst maintaining a safe distance from the source of their emotional pain. Inspires and empowers children to begin their journey of healing. The Silent Selkie encourages young people who may have adverse childhood experiences or trauma to develop greater understanding of how this can affect them and is ideal reading for those working with vulnerable children and young people seeking to use the expressive arts to develop greater emotional literacy in children with a background of trauma. For effective use this book should be purchased alongside the guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set Supporting Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Trauma 978-0-367-63944-0 | The Silent Selkie A Storybook to Support Children and Young People Who Have Experienced Trauma

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