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Addicted To Distraction

Psychological consequences of the modern Mass Media

by Bruce Charlton ...

For most of us the Mass Media is the focus of our lives - it provides the material which is discussed and debated, it articulates our responses and it provides the framework by which a vast potential volume of material is filtered, prioritised and interpreted.Headlines and sound-bites constantly vie for our attention, and thanks to the pace of its growth and advances in technology, the Mass Media ... Read more

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For most of us the Mass Media is the focus of our lives - it provides the material which is discussed and debated, it articulates our responses and it provides the framework by which a vast potential volume of material is filtered, prioritised and interpreted.Headlines and sound-bites constantly vie for our attention, and thanks to the pace of its growth and advances in technology, the Mass Media
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Quotationary - The A-Z Book of Quotations

Covering Over 14,000 Quotes in More Than 350 Topics

by Nasser Amiri ...

Compiled over many years by Nasser Amiri, this is by far the most comprehensive collection ever complied of carefully selected quotations from the world’s great philosophers, writers, historians, musicians and thinkers.Quotationary is a source of inspiration for every writer, book-lover and thinker. It contains the thoughts of many of the finest minds since ancient man started to express his wit ... Read more

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Compiled over many years by Nasser Amiri, this is by far the most comprehensive collection ever complied of carefully selected quotations from the world’s great philosophers, writers, historians, musicians and thinkers.Quotationary is a source of inspiration for every writer, book-lover and thinker. It contains the thoughts of many of the finest minds since ancient man started to express his wit
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Hot Flash

How the Law Ignores Menopause and What We Can Do About It

by Bridget J. Crawford, Naomi Cahn, Emily Gold Waldman ...

More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it.Menopause is a stage of life that half the population will inevitably experience. But it remains one of the last great taboo topics for discussion, even among close friends and family members. Silence and stigmas around many aspects of reproductive health—from menstruation to infertility to ... Read more

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More than half the population will experience menopause; it is time for the law to acknowledge it.Menopause is a stage of life that half the population will inevitably experience. But it remains one of the last great taboo topics for discussion, even among close friends and family members. Silence and stigmas around many aspects of reproductive health—from menstruation to infertility to
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The School Leader’s Year

Month-by-Month Progress, Every Lesson, Every Day

by Michael Harpham ...

This practical handbook offers a month-by-month guide to the curriculum, assessment, progress, and leadership over the school year. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and coherent structure to the academic year helping school leaders to prioritise their time and workload, supporting them and their team to work as efficiently and effectively as possible.Considering the statutory and key leadership ... Read more

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This practical handbook offers a month-by-month guide to the curriculum, assessment, progress, and leadership over the school year. It provides a clear, comprehensive, and coherent structure to the academic year helping school leaders to prioritise their time and workload, supporting them and their team to work as efficiently and effectively as possible.Considering the statutory and key leadership
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Criminal Procedure

Theory and Practice

by Jefferson L. Ingram ...

Criminal Procedure: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition, presents a broad overview of criminal procedure as well as a detailed analysis of specific areas of the law that require specialized consideration. The third edition provides students with an updated, comprehensive text written in reader-friendly language to introduce them to the field of criminal procedure.Significant edited legal cases are ... Read more

$106.99 USD

Criminal Procedure: Theory and Practice, 3rd Edition, presents a broad overview of criminal procedure as well as a detailed analysis of specific areas of the law that require specialized consideration. The third edition provides students with an updated, comprehensive text written in reader-friendly language to introduce them to the field of criminal procedure.Significant edited legal cases are
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Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of English (Annotated)

Enriched Edition. A Nineteenth-Century Study of Pennsylvania German Dialect and English Influence

by Samuel Stehman Haldeman, Laurel Emberford ...

Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of English is a compact but significant philological study of the German-derived speech of Pennsylvania's rural communities. Haldeman treats the dialect not as a curiosity but as a living linguistic system, attending to pronunciation, vocabulary, idiom, and the effects of sustained contact with English. Written in the precise, ... Read more

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Pennsylvania Dutch: A Dialect of South German With an Infusion of English is a compact but significant philological study of the German-derived speech of Pennsylvania's rural communities. Haldeman treats the dialect not as a curiosity but as a living linguistic system, attending to pronunciation, vocabulary, idiom, and the effects of sustained contact with English. Written in the precise,
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The Caste of Merit

Engineering Education in India

by Ajantha Subramanian ...

How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India.Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the ... Read more

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How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India.Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the
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ESSENTIAL ADULT CARDIOLOGY

A Textbook for Aspiring Cardiologists

by David H. Dighton ...

This is a practical textbook of adult cardiology aimed at medical students, junior doctors, and those more senior who need to know more about cardiac trial results and recent research advances. It represents a digest of 50 years of practical clinical experience, much of which will be valuable to nurses and paramedics engaged with heart problems. The book covers basic topics through to advanced ... Read more

$23.79 USD

This is a practical textbook of adult cardiology aimed at medical students, junior doctors, and those more senior who need to know more about cardiac trial results and recent research advances. It represents a digest of 50 years of practical clinical experience, much of which will be valuable to nurses and paramedics engaged with heart problems. The book covers basic topics through to advanced
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Ethics on Trial

Protecting Humans in Canada's Broken Research System

by Janice E. Parente, PhD ...

Exposing the human consequences of Canada’s broken research system.The governance framework for human research in Canada is dangerously flawed and has the potential to lead to harm and suffering.Canadian researchers and research companies have been allowed to flirt with informed consent; choose research ethics boards with less restrictive oversight; and violate the rights, safety, and welfare of ... Read more

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Exposing the human consequences of Canada’s broken research system.The governance framework for human research in Canada is dangerously flawed and has the potential to lead to harm and suffering.Canadian researchers and research companies have been allowed to flirt with informed consent; choose research ethics boards with less restrictive oversight; and violate the rights, safety, and welfare of
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Allow Me to Retort

A Black Guy's Guide to the Constitution

by Elie Mystal ...

Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksThe New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal's reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds"After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don't understand—quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer . . ." —Michael Harriot, The RootAllow ... ... Read more

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Finalist, ABA Silver Gavel Award for BooksThe New York Times bestseller that has cemented Elie Mystal's reputation as one of our sharpest and most acerbic legal minds"After reading Allow Me to Retort, I want Elie Mystal to explain everything I don't understand—quantum astrophysics, the infield fly rule, why people think Bob Dylan is a good singer . . ." —Michael Harriot, The RootAllow ...
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The Rise of Organised Brutality

A Historical Sociology of Violence

by Siniša Malešević ...

Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows organised violence is, in fact, on the rise. Malešević demonstrates that violence is determined by organisational capacity, ideological penetration and micro-solidarity, rather than biological tendencies, meaning that despite pre ... Read more

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Challenging the prevailing belief that organised violence is experiencing historically continuous decline, this book provides an in-depth sociological analysis that shows organised violence is, in fact, on the rise. Malešević demonstrates that violence is determined by organisational capacity, ideological penetration and micro-solidarity, rather than biological tendencies, meaning that despite pre
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Indebted

How Families Make College Work at Any Cost

by Caitlin Zaloom ...

How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships. ... Read more

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How the financial pressures of paying for college affect the lives and well-being of middle-class familiesThe struggle to pay for college is a defining feature of middle-class life in America. Caitlin Zaloom takes readers into homes of families throughout the nation to reveal the hidden consequences of student debt and the ways that financing college has transformed our most sacred relationships.
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Shmoop Poetry Guide: The Cremation of Sam McGee

by Shmoop ...

Dive deep into The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning Poetry Guides are now available on your eReader. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert poetry-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is ... Read more

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Dive deep into The Cremation of Sam McGee by Robert Service anywhere you go: on a plane, on a mountain, in a canoe, under a tree. Or grab a flashlight and read Shmoop under the covers. Shmoop's award-winning Poetry Guides are now available on your eReader. Shmoop eBooks are like having a trusted, fun, chatty, expert poetry-tour-guide always by your side, no matter where you are (or how late it is
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My Revision Notes: OCR AS/A-level History: The Early Stuarts and the Origins of the Civil War 1603-1660

by Nicholas Fellows, Mary Dicken ...

Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthe... ... Read more

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Exam board: OCRLevel: A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam preparation activities and exam-style questions to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthe...
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The Borderline Personality Disorder Workbook

Understanding Your Emotions, Managing Your Moods, and Forming Healthy Relationships

by Déborah Ducasse, Véronique Brand-Arpon ...

Translated by Alison Duncan ...

Series series A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book
This workbook provides individuals who are undergoing therapy for borderline personality disorder with the tools to help them evaluate their emotional state, develop strategies to manage their moods and increase tolerance to stress, and learn techniques that will enable them to form and maintain healthy relationships.When you have borderline personality disorder (BPD), your emotions are always ... Read more

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This workbook provides individuals who are undergoing therapy for borderline personality disorder with the tools to help them evaluate their emotional state, develop strategies to manage their moods and increase tolerance to stress, and learn techniques that will enable them to form and maintain healthy relationships.When you have borderline personality disorder (BPD), your emotions are always
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Understanding the Concepts of English Prepositions

by Andrew Bruckfield ...

ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS are the mostfrequently occurring type of essential words in the English language and should be learned by everyone who wants to speak English fluently—whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner.Prepositions have a strategic function in the English discourse—especially for nonnative speakers. These (often logical) connectors have tremendous power and are of critical ... Read more

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ENGLISH PREPOSITIONS are the mostfrequently occurring type of essential words in the English language and should be learned by everyone who wants to speak English fluently—whether you are a beginner or an advanced learner.Prepositions have a strategic function in the English discourse—especially for nonnative speakers. These (often logical) connectors have tremendous power and are of critical
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Once Upon A Time It Was Now

The Arts & Craft of Writing Historical Fiction

by James Thom Alexander ...

While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there.Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not.In Once Upon a Time ... Read more

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While a historian stands firmly planted in the present and looks back into the past, a historical novelist has a more immediate task: to set readers in the midst of bygone events and lead them forward, allowing them to live and feel the wonderment, fear, hope, triumph, and pain as if they were there.Learning historical stories is easy, creating stories based in history is not.In Once Upon a Time
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Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean

Edited by James Clackson, Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapietra, Nicholas Zair ...

Series series Cambridge Classical Studies
Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a number of case studies, which span the period from the seventh century BC to the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to ... Read more

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Migration, Mobility and Language Contact in and around the Ancient Mediterranean is the first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. Eleven chapters cover a number of case studies, which span the period from the seventh century BC to the fourth century AD, ranging from Spain to Egypt, from Sicily to
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The Littlest Learners

Preparing Your Child for Kindergarten

by Dawn R. Roginski ...

The Littlest Learners connects the most recent research on emergent literacy, the skills necessary to become a reader and concrete activities that parents and caregivers can do to maximize their child’s reading readiness. The book is divided into 5 activities:talking with young childrenreading with young childrenplaying with young childrenexploring the world with young childrentechnology tips for ... Read more

$23.89 USD

The Littlest Learners connects the most recent research on emergent literacy, the skills necessary to become a reader and concrete activities that parents and caregivers can do to maximize their child’s reading readiness. The book is divided into 5 activities:talking with young childrenreading with young childrenplaying with young childrenexploring the world with young childrentechnology tips for
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Broadway

An Encyclopedia

by Ken Bloom ...

This volume is another example in the Routledge tradition of producing high-quality reference works on theater, music, and the arts. An A to Z encyclopedia of Broadway, this volume includes tons of information, including producers, writer, composers, lyricists, set designers, theaters, performers, and landmarks in its sweep. ... Read more

$305.00 USD

This volume is another example in the Routledge tradition of producing high-quality reference works on theater, music, and the arts. An A to Z encyclopedia of Broadway, this volume includes tons of information, including producers, writer, composers, lyricists, set designers, theaters, performers, and landmarks in its sweep.
... Read more
Use Google forms for evaluation

Google forms and quizzes as effective educational tools

by Olivier Rebiere, Cristina Rebiere ...

Series Book 4 - eGuide Education
Evaluate your learners with Google formsAre you a teacher and are you feeling the need to put in place an alternative pedagogy to make your learners succeed? Want to know how to set up quizzes easily accessible on smartphone, tablet or computer? This little guide will help you! Discover a simple, step-by-step approach with screenshotsWe have more than a decade of experience in initial and ... Read more

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Evaluate your learners with Google formsAre you a teacher and are you feeling the need to put in place an alternative pedagogy to make your learners succeed? Want to know how to set up quizzes easily accessible on smartphone, tablet or computer? This little guide will help you! Discover a simple, step-by-step approach with screenshotsWe have more than a decade of experience in initial and
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Writing Thief

Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing

by Ruth Culham ...

'Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal.'--T.S. EliotWriting thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Author Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief - and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves, too!In The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing, Culham demonstrates ... Read more

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'Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal.'--T.S. EliotWriting thieves read widely, dive deeply into texts, and steal bits and pieces from great texts as models for their own writing. Author Ruth Culham admits to being a writing thief - and she wants you and your students to become writing thieves, too!In The Writing Thief: Using Mentor Texts to Teach the Craft of Writing, Culham demonstrates
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The Overachievers

The Secret Lives of Driven Kids

by Alexandra Robbins ...

The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teensIn Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. During the year of ... Read more

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The bestselling author of Pledged returns with a groundbreaking look at the pressure to achieve faced by America's teensIn Pledged, Alexandra Robbins followed four college girls to produce a riveting narrative that read like fiction. Now, in The Overachievers, Robbins uses the same captivating style to explore how our high-stakes educational culture has spiraled out of control. During the year of
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Liddell and Scott

The History, Methodology, and Languages of the World's Leading Lexicon of Ancient Greek

Edited by Christopher Stray, Michael Clarke, Joshua T. Katz ...

The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Despite continuous modification and updating, it is still recognizably a Victorian creation; at the same time, ... Read more

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The Greek-English Lexicon of Liddell and Scott is one of the most famous dictionaries in the world, and for the past century-and-a-half has been a constant and indispensable presence in teaching, learning, and research on ancient Greek throughout the English-speaking world and beyond. Despite continuous modification and updating, it is still recognizably a Victorian creation; at the same time,
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