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  • Housing: Where’s the Plan?

    by Kate Barker ...
    Series series Perspectives
    Housing is a fundamental necessity, and yet it is generally acknowledged that we have a ‘housing crisis’ in the UK. The housing market has worked well for many people (who have enjoyed the steeply rising values of their homes), which is why change, especially new building, is resisted. But for increasing numbers it now works less well, as home ownership is out of reach. Government finds it easier ... Read more

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  • The Wrangler's Wedding Pact

    by Kate Barker ...
    He needs a wife—temporarily.But will love find them on their journey?For Charlotte Carpenter, a job out West as a child's caretaker represents freedom and independence. But when she arrives, circumstances dictate that she must marry the child's father for propriety's sake. Charlotte has always seen marriage as a trap, an opinion that's shared by her groom, Paul Harrison. He assures her their match ... Read more

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  • Principaled

    Navigating the Leadership Learning Curve

    Veteran principals Kate Barker, Kourtney Ferrua, and Rachael George draw back the curtain on their years of experience, revealing the strategies, mind-sets, and practices that have helped them flourish in their roles. With humor, humility, and candor, the authors detail the key ingredients to finding balance as a school leader: taking time to reflect and learn, seeking out mentors, crafting simple ... Read more

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  • Life and Death in Private Law

    Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
    Private law regulates life; this is self-evident, but how does it regulate death? This edited collection explores this question.Life and death are the beginning and end of the legal person: the instigator and terminator of rights, interests and obligations. They are also the nominal separator of particular fields of law (medical law from succession law, for example). As such they act as fault ... Read more

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  • Migration, Mobility and Education

    Examining the Role of Family and Schooling

    Series series Routledge Advances in Sociology
    This book examines the role of family and schooling through an interpretive, qualitative, intergenerational case study. It examines the formation of academic and vocational aspirations by second generation (G2) migrant students from diverse international backgrounds.Looking at the influence of family background, the changes and impacts of the migrant experience, and the effectiveness of the ... Read more

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  • Faith in the Town

    Lay Religion in Northern England, 1740–1830

    This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Across eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century northern England, religious faith continued to affect the lives of men, women, and children in profound ways. Rather than ... Read more

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  • The Faber Book of Bedtime Stories

    A comforting story tonight for a happy day tomorrow

    A stunning collection of bedtime stories for 5-7 year olds which promote modern-day messages of inclusivity, acceptance and bravery in the face of adversity.Stories that are full of hope and courage brimming with positivity as an antidote to the often close-minded, anxiety-inducing world we currently live in.A gift of great beauty to be treasured for years to come.With stories from: Aisha Bushby, ... Read more

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  • Galvanizing Performance

    The Alexander Technique as a Catalyst for Excellence

    The Alexander Technique is a specific form of mind/body practice that focusses on improving efficiency through learning and understanding movement and behavior. Galvanizing Performances applies the teachings of this practice to the performing arts. Through theatre, music, and dance, the contributors, all artists themselves, demonstrate how deliberate movement can improve an individual's art and ... Read more

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  • STEM, Social Mobility and Equality

    Avenues for Widening Access

    Series series Education (R0)
    This book examines the role of the family in intra and inter-generational social movement. The authors take a genealogical approach to researching social mobility, using a university chemistry department as a case study to explore participants’ motives for pursuing a STEM undergraduate degree and the influences that have shaped them. Assessing the roles of genealogy, family and higher education in ... Read more

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  • Large-Scale Brain Systems and Neuropsychological Testing

    An Effort to Move Forward

    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This leading-edge volume offers a new framework for neuropsychological testing rooted in the current evidence base on large-scale brain system interactions. Expert coverage brings traditional discrete areas of cognitive functioning (e.g., attention, memory) in line with highly nuanced relationships between cortical and subcortical processing. The new findings point to more accurate and targeted ... Read more

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    The bestselling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, advice, criticisms, and coaching into productive listening and learningWe swim in an ocean of feedback. Bosses, colleagues, customers—but also family, friends, and in-laws—they all have “suggestions” for our performance, parenting, or appearance. We know that feedback is essential for healthy ... Read more

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  • Damned Whores and God's Police

    by Anne Summers ...
    Sexual harassment, domestic violence and date rape had not been named, although they certainly existed, when Damned Whores and God's Police was first published in 1975. That was before the Sex Discrimination Act of 1984 and before large numbers of women became visible in employment, in politics and elsewhere across society. It's hard to imagine an Australia where these abuses were not yet fully ... Read more

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