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Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives

Women in Mid-twentieth Century Rural Wales

by Sally Baker, Brian J. Brown ...

Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians, even within Wales. "Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives" rectifies that mistake, drawing on a wealth of family stories about women's roles in education, the church, and the family in order to address ... Read more

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Despite the great changes that the twentieth century brought to the lives and roles of the women of rural Wales, there has been scant attention paid to the topic by social scientists and historians, even within Wales. "Mothers, Wives and Changing Lives" rectifies that mistake, drawing on a wealth of family stories about women's roles in education, the church, and the family in order to address
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Questioning Care in Higher Education

Resisting Definitions as Radical

by Sally Baker, Rachel Burke ...

Series series Education (R0)
This book explores questions of care in higher education. Using Joan Tronto’s seven signs that institutions are not caring well, the authors examine whether students and staff consider universities to be caring institutions. As such, they outline how universities systematically, structurally, and actively ‘undercare’ when it comes to supporting students and staff, a phenomenon which was amplified ... Read more

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This book explores questions of care in higher education. Using Joan Tronto’s seven signs that institutions are not caring well, the authors examine whether students and staff consider universities to be caring institutions. As such, they outline how universities systematically, structurally, and actively ‘undercare’ when it comes to supporting students and staff, a phenomenon which was amplified
... Read more
How To Feel Differently About Food

liberation and recovery from emotional eating

by Sally Baker, Liz Hogon ...

Sally Baker and Liz Hogon, informed by helping thousands of clients achieve a sustained healthy approach to eating, have researched and written How To Feel Differently About Food to break the painful cycle of yo-yo dieting and emotional eating. The book cuts a clear path through the conflicting nutritional information that fills the popular media to reveal the best way to eat for improved health ... Read more

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Sally Baker and Liz Hogon, informed by helping thousands of clients achieve a sustained healthy approach to eating, have researched and written How To Feel Differently About Food to break the painful cycle of yo-yo dieting and emotional eating. The book cuts a clear path through the conflicting nutritional information that fills the popular media to reveal the best way to eat for improved health
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Seven Simple Steps to Stop Emotional Eating

targeting your body by changing your mind

by Sally Baker, Liz Hogon ...

Did another 'New Year's resolution' to lose weight fail? Maybe overeating and staying overweight are unconscious 'survival decisions' for you or someone you care about? If they are, no matter how many tried-and-tested diets you follow, you will not succeed. Therapists Sally Baker and Liz Hogon offer this practical guide to understanding the emotional reasons for overeating and how to overcome ... Read more

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Did another 'New Year's resolution' to lose weight fail? Maybe overeating and staying overweight are unconscious 'survival decisions' for you or someone you care about? If they are, no matter how many tried-and-tested diets you follow, you will not succeed. Therapists Sally Baker and Liz Hogon offer this practical guide to understanding the emotional reasons for overeating and how to overcome
... Read more
Academic Talk for Higher Education

In Support of Equity and Academic Preparedness

by Marion Heron, Sally Baker, Kieran Balloo ...

Series series Great Debates in Higher Education
Academic Talk for Higher Education brings together several current debates around oracy, dialogic teaching, and the role that academic talk can play in both widening access to higher education and creating more equitable learning opportunities.Exploring the notion that a focus on purposefully using academic discourse in university classroom settings can support students to better engage, argue, ... Read more

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Academic Talk for Higher Education brings together several current debates around oracy, dialogic teaching, and the role that academic talk can play in both widening access to higher education and creating more equitable learning opportunities.Exploring the notion that a focus on purposefully using academic discourse in university classroom settings can support students to better engage, argue,
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Philosophies of Research into Higher Education

by Dr Brian J. Brown, Dr Sally Baker ...

Research in higher education could be more useful, innovative and better designed if we were clearer about the philosophical and epistemological basis of the theories that underlie our research methods. People who have to interpret research would do a better job if they were able to interrogate research more critically and appreciate its strengths and weaknesses. This volume provides this ... Read more

$161.99 USD

Research in higher education could be more useful, innovative and better designed if we were clearer about the philosophical and epistemological basis of the theories that underlie our research methods. People who have to interpret research would do a better job if they were able to interrogate research more critically and appreciate its strengths and weaknesses. This volume provides this
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Small Acts Of Kindness

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

by Trevor Preston ...

Narrated by Ann Beach, Christine Kavanagh, Gethin Anthony, Joanna Monro, Sally Orrock, Sean Baker, Stephen Greif, Susan Penhaligon ...

Unabridged

43 min

A BBC Radio 4 semi-autobiographical play by BAFTA award-winning writer Trevor Preston, telling the story of Charlie, who suddenly re-discovers the passion and energy of his youth. 'Small Acts of Kindness' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 15 March 2011. In the late 1950s Charlie was a violent and uncontrollable entrant to art school. His teacher changed the course of his life. ... Read more

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A BBC Radio 4 semi-autobiographical play by BAFTA award-winning writer Trevor Preston, telling the story of Charlie, who suddenly re-discovers the passion and energy of his youth. 'Small Acts of Kindness' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 15 March 2011. In the late 1950s Charlie was a violent and uncontrollable entrant to art school. His teacher changed the course of his life.
... Read more
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Ten Lessons In Love

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

by Various ...

Narrated by Alex Tregear, Daniel Rabin, Femi Oyeniran, Jane Wittenshaw, Josie Long, Nyasha Hatendi, Sally Orrock, Sean Baker, Stuart McLoughlin, Zawe Ashton ...

Unabridged

43 min

Ten short BBC Radio 4 plays from an eclectic mix of writers, including Josie Long, Nick Warburton and Tim Key, exploring one of the most important human emotions. 'Ten Lessons in Love' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 25 April 2011.This accumulation of mini-plays encompasses romance, heartbreak and some adult themes; each play offering a very different perspective on love. David ... Read more

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Ten short BBC Radio 4 plays from an eclectic mix of writers, including Josie Long, Nick Warburton and Tim Key, exploring one of the most important human emotions. 'Ten Lessons in Love' was originally broadcast as the 'Afternoon Play' on 25 April 2011.This accumulation of mini-plays encompasses romance, heartbreak and some adult themes; each play offering a very different perspective on love. David
... Read more
Possibilities of Educational Pathways to Refugee Resettlement

A Personal Journey from Kakuma Refugee Camp to Australia

by Dr William Mude, PhD, Dr Sally Baker, PhD, Professor T. Alexander Aleinikoff, JD, Professor Laura Hammond, PhD ...

Series series Forced Migration Studies
How can the lived experience of a refugee demonstrate the transformative power of education, and how can we better support education programmes for refugees?Through a series of vignettes, author William Mude traces his personal journey from schooling in a refugee camp in Uganda, to a serendipitous connection in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, and his subsequent career in public health and academia ... Read more

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How can the lived experience of a refugee demonstrate the transformative power of education, and how can we better support education programmes for refugees?Through a series of vignettes, author William Mude traces his personal journey from schooling in a refugee camp in Uganda, to a serendipitous connection in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, and his subsequent career in public health and academia
... Read more

Understanding Social Research

Thinking Creatively about Method

Edited by Jennifer Mason, Angela Dale ...

Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale′s book seeks to set out cutting-edge developments in the field of social research and to encourage students and researchers to consider ways of learning from different approaches and perspectives in such a way as to make their own research richer, more insightful and more rewarding.Social Researching brings together a wide variety of research methods - both ... Read more

$93.59 USD

Jennifer Mason and Angela Dale′s book seeks to set out cutting-edge developments in the field of social research and to encourage students and researchers to consider ways of learning from different approaches and perspectives in such a way as to make their own research richer, more insightful and more rewarding.Social Researching brings together a wide variety of research methods - both
... Read more
On Being Included

Racism and Diversity in Institutional Life

by Sara Ahmed ...

What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as ... Read more

$19.49 USD

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What does diversity do? What are we doing when we use the language of diversity? Sara Ahmed offers an account of the diversity world based on interviews with diversity practitioners in higher education, as well as her own experience of doing diversity work. Diversity is an ordinary, even unremarkable, feature of institutional life. Yet diversity practitioners often experience institutions as
... Read more

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Unwinding Anxiety

New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind

by Judson Brewer MD, PhD ...

**New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerA step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits**We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are ... Read more

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**New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerA step-by-step plan clinically proven to break the cycle of worry and fear that drives anxiety and addictive habits**We are living through one of the most anxious periods any of us can remember. Whether facing issues as public as a pandemic or as personal as having kids at home and fighting the urge to reach for the wine bottle every night, we are
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