Gillian: 813 books
by Gillian Linscott
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2001
Verona North had seemed the perfect daughter. She'd surprised her friends by leaving her home to attend art school in London, but they'd thought it was a normal, youthful rebellion which wouldn't last very long. However, when she did return home in the summer of 1914, it was to die--pregnant and with...
From Independence to Revolution
Egypt's Islamists and the Contest for Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
From Independence to Revolution tells the story of the complicated relationship between the Egyptian population and the nation's most prominent political opposition -- the Islamist movement. Most commentators focus on the Muslim Brotherhood and radical jihadists constantly vying for power under successive...
Gender and Welfare States in East Asia
Confucianism or Gender Equality?
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014
Contributors address questions about gender equality in a Confucian context across a wide and varied social policy landscape, from Korea and Taiwan, where Confucian culture is deeply embedded, through China, with its transformations from Confucianism to communism and back, to the mixed cultural environments of Hong Kong and Japan.
Whole School Projects
Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this new and practical contribution to the importance of imagination in learning, Kieran Egan and his colleagues demonstrate how individual contributions to a coherent large-scale project can produce enormous results of great educational value. Helping all participants to feel pride for more than...
Exercise and Fitness Training After Stroke - E-Book
a handbook for evidence-based practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
This brand new book is the first of its kind dedicated to exercise and fitness training after stroke. It aims to provide health and exercise professionals, and other suitably qualified individuals, with the necessary information to design and evaluate exercise and fitness programmes for stroke survivors...
Intersexions
Gender/class/culture/ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1991
Do writings about ethnicity, class and gender form a 'holy trinity' or challenge previous unidimensional analyses?
Intersexions accepts the triple perspective but goes further. One aim is to understand the processes by which relations of power are maintained, reproduced and resisted. Intersexions...
by Gillian Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book explores the international politics behind the identification of human trafficking as a major global problem. Since 2000, tackling human trafficking has spawned new legal, security and political architecture. This book is grounded in the premise that the intense response to this issue is...
by Dr. Gillian Lockwood, Jill Anthony-Ackery, Jackie Meyers-Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
This friendly guide combines professional and personal advice on every aspect of fertility and infertility. From deciding when to seek help and what help to seek, to the emotional, fi nancial, and medical considerations of fertility treatments, you'll be reassured every step of the way with all the...
by Judith Cullen, Enid Jones, Linda Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
This book supports trainee teachers working towards primary QTS in teaching primary English across all areas of the curriculum.
Focused on teaching a more integrated and inclusive curriculum, this text draws out meaningful cross curriculur links and explores how the teaching of English can...
Therapeutic Relationships with Offenders
An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Forensic Mental Health Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2008
Working in any area of mental health nursing presents complex issues regarding the nurse-patient relationship. For those working in prolonged clinical contact with offenders, relationships with patients and colleagues can be particularly emotionally intense and sometimes difficult to express. This...
Walking in Italy's Stelvio National Park
Italy's largest alpine national park
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The 38 summer day walking routes in this guidebook explore the renowned Stelvio National Park in the Italian Rhaetian Alps. Bordering the Dolomites to the east, and Switzerland to the west, the Stelvio is one of the largest protected areas in all of the Alps. The walks explore each of the Stelvio's...
by Janet Kelsey, MSc, BSc(Hons)
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2008
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is a textbook of clinical skills that offers an excellent resource for all professionals providing care for children and young people. It presents a detailed step-by-step approach to clinical skills...
Disasters in Field Research
Preparing for and Coping with Unexpected Events
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From ravenous ants and temperamental gear to debilitating illness and unpredictable politics, field research can be fraught with challenges and opportunities for mishap. Disasters in Field Research is your guide to what can go wrong while conducting fieldworkâand what you can do to avoid or minimize...
Walking in Tuscany
43 walks including Val d'Orcia, San Gimignano and the Isle of Elba
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
A guidebook to walks in the Italian region of Tuscany. 43 graded routes range from 2.5 to 18km, and take in the Renaissance splendour of Florence and Siena, the World Heritage scenery of Val d'Orcia and San Gimignano and the stunning island of Elba. Alongside detailed route descriptions and clear...