Reflexology is an ancient healing system that helps relieve existing health conditions and detect future ailments. Reflexology Plain & Simple introduces the history and basics of this form, from beginner’s techniques to more specialized treatments and the use of aromatic oils. Discover which areas of the feet and hands correspond to the body’s tissues, glands, and organs; how much pressure to apply and when not to proceed at all; and how to get started indulging friends, family, a...

Becoming a Successful Teacher of Maths is a practical guide for newly qualified teachers of secondary mathematics. It develops the essential core knowledge, skills and understanding demanded by the new DfEE requirements for courses of initial teacher training. It is based on research findings relating to the organisation and management of maths classrooms, teaching approaches, assessment and the common misconceptions which often hinder pupils' progress in key areas of the National...

As the National Numeracy Strategy (NNS) extends into secondary schools this book for trainee and practicing mathematics teachers provides practical guidance on developing effective strategies for the teaching of numeracy at KS3 and 4 based on the DfEE requirements.The teaching and learning approaches suggested in the NNS are analyzed and explained using case-study examples from secondary schools. Many of these ideas were developed by teacher inquiry groups in the Raising Standards ...

In this book, we revisit the teachers, students and their families who helped shape the landscape of Calvin Coolidge High School in Washington D.C., from 1941 through 1970. It was and still is a school grounded in history and chronicles the ups and downs of living in the nation’s capital. The story unfurls over decades of war and peace, civil rights, voting rights, the end of segregation, and the assassinations of public figures, including a president. After the school was renovated in 199...

Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion” and “body” through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript argues that all human interaction and practice, including religious praxis, engages “body” through at least one of the human senses (touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight, kinestics/proprioception). Unfo...

The life of the independent trucker in space. Hauling things and having adventures while just trying to make your payments to the bank. At least until something goes desperately wrong.

There are monsters out there. Sometimes, they come inside, too.Are you ready for the dark and hungry things that emerge from the blackness of space or the beauty of an alien world?Join more than a dozen of your favorite storytellers as they look into those dark corners. And find those eyes reflecting back at you.

Jonathan Swift sent Lemuel Gulliver to a variety of interesting places. The lands of giants, tiny people, flying islands, and even Houyhnhnms.Come see what the Boundary Shock Syndicate did when challenged to think about "Gulliver's Other Travels" and the wondrous sights and adventures yet to be had as you head out beyond the edges of the map.And the ends of your imagination.

Pirates!Space Pirates, Cyberpirates, Sea Pirates, Ice Pirates. Tales of adventure and derring-do as we stick it to the man.Join your rowdy crew on the high seas and cold spaceways for another,exciting adventure of Boundary Shock Quarterly.

Forest Whispers is a spiritual survival guide for modern day living. In this recently published book, styled with nature inspired photography and prose to invoke a sense of calm, Natalie Cooper, author of 'Forest Whispers', explores her personal journey of spiritual awakening and how meditation changed her life with channelled guidance from co-author and her spiritual mentor Sonia Wynn-Jones.In the book 'Forest Whispers

A disturbing, darkly funny fictionalization of the life of Fred A. Leuchter, the garage tinkerer turned execution authority who became a darling of the neo-Nazi movement, and subject of the Errol Morris documentary, Mr. Death.He comes to fix your photocopier, but really, Fred’s an inventor. At night, he goes to work. He has goals, ambitions, and when offered the task of building a better electric chair, he jumps at the chance. People have to die—he believe...

Why use qualitative methods? What kinds of questions can qualitative methods help you answer? How do you actually do rigorous and reflective qualitative research in the real world?Written by a team of leading researchers associated with NatCen Social Research (the National Centre for Social Research) this textbook leads students and researchers through the entire process of qualitative research from beginning to end - moving through design, sampling, data collection, analysis and r...