Katie's teenage life was slow and uneventful, until one misty night when she was spirited away into the very game that she played to indulge her love of "all things spooky". Where she found herself was a far cry from the safe board game of GhostHunt, where the ghosts and vampires were only on playing cards. Trapped in a land of werewolves, witches and undead creatures, Katie had to become more daring and resourceful than she had ever been before. Winning a real life game of GhostHunt in th...

Do more than just teach students to follow grammar rules. With this important book by your side, empower students to shape their own narratives and seize control of their writing destinies.Introducing the revamped Grammar and the Teaching of Writing (GTW), a book that helps you teach students to craft good writing.A follow-up text toGrammar and the Teaching of Writing: Limits and Possibilities, the newGTW leverages students’ implicit lang...

This book examines the rise and agency of International Organizations (IOs) and their bureaucratic bodies— the International Public Administrations (IPAs)— as a reflection of an ongoing transfer of political authority and power from the domestic to the international level.It shows that IPAs represent actors per se, with autonomy and resources that allow them to exert an independent influence on global policy-making processes and outputs. Providing a combination of novel conceptual ...

What are the basic attitudes, values, and practices that are essential for effective work with the expressive arts? This book explores the answer to that question.The authors examine in depth the concepts of 'presence' - a way of 'being' - and 'process' - an open and trusting way of working - in the professional helping relationship and in the making of art. They introduce readers to the premise of the 'uniqueness of persons' that underpins these ideas, and look at how to realize t...

As European countries become more interdependent, the provision of common goods increasingly must be organized across national boundaries, levels of government, and sectors. In addition, former adversaries in the public and private sectors must learn to collaborate rather than compete. These changing paradigms call for new institutional and instrumental arrangements that move beyond existing modes of national governance. Offering a unique focus on the emerging role of private actors, this ...

This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the development, making and implementation of European Union environmental politics and identifies the central areas and instruments of EU environmental policy. It analyses the factors influencing not only the formulation but also the implementation of environmental measures in the complex multi-level setting of the EU. On this basis, it takes a critical look at the EU’s effectiveness and problem-solving capacity in the environmental field...

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining underpinned by cutting-edge research. Bringing together analysis of classic works alongside the most recent developments in the field, this book is guided by the following three crucial questions: What is public policy? Who participates in making and putting public policy in practice as well as in assessing its s...

“I never wanted to be hearing. I said this out loud in my TED talk, and the audience went bug-eyed, struggling to process this heresy. How could anyone not want to be hearing? I wasn’t anti-hearing. I just felt my life would be simpler if everyone else were deaf.” So begins the compelling story of acclaimed TED speaker Rebecca Knill as she guides us through a life shaped by hearing loss. Throughout, Knill offers eye-opening insights into disability and celebrates the power of technology to...

Radio Head Gal tells the compelling story of acclaimed TED speaker Rebecca Knill as she guides us through a life shaped by hearing loss. A provocative memoir, Radio Head Gal challenges the notion that life with a disability is inferior, instead advocating for it to be viewed as just another aspect of human diversity, like race or gender. Through unexpected twists encompassing faith, love, betrayal, adaptation, and discrimination, Knill na...

Come meet Farmer Brown and his friends, moo, neigh, bark, bark and more.Who is putting those mysterious holes in the house.Who is yip, yip?And why is he being chased off the farm? What animal likes to be sheared?Farmer Brown is an interactive story using animal sounds instead of animal names as it is being told. The story can be told in a variety of fun ways to learn about concentration, animal sounds, reading and spelling.It may be used to read with one child or with a group of ch...

Poetry is increasingly used in therapy, and it already occupies a central place in expressive arts therapies. This book is the first to explicitly combine theory and practice from the field of expressive arts with poetry and poetics.The book offers both a guide and poetic encouragement for using poetry in expressive arts work. Within this arts context, poetry is offered as a way to create hope and confidence, providing clients with a platform for healing, reconciliation, problem so...

A fresh analysis of policy convergences across nations, which identifies their key driving forces.To what extent and in which direction can we empirically observe a convergence of national policies? In which areas and for which patterns of policy is convergence more or less pronounced? This text addresses these central questions with clarity and rigour.With growing economic and institutional interlinkages between nation states, it is often assumed that there is an overall t...