This book is about the courageous story of Phoenix, a dog who suffered from abuse and neglect and was left to die by a neglectful owner. Phoenix was taken care of by many people over time for all sorts of conditions including many that ended up being worse than what some people originally thought.   This book is about the bond between a dog owner and a dog and how well a dog can recover when it is being supported by the right kind of caring person. The book shows just ...

British couple Hugh and Julia Pennington buy an old church to convert on a former cocoa plantation on a Caribbean island. When their estate agent fails to meet them at the airport, they accept a lift in a large American car from a charismatic local, Horatio. The couple are to become increasingly dependent on Horatio who ends up moving into their 'servants' quarters' but remains an enigma.Hugh and Julia want to 'get involved' in the life of their adopted island home. But they little...

This book reveals the potential of geography to engage with citizenship. It provides:theoretical signposts in the form of short, digestible explanations for key ideas such as racism, values, identity, community and social exclusiona number of inset activities 'for further thinking'a critique of the discipline and the pitfalls to avoid in teaching citizenship through geographypractical teaching suggestions.All the contributions to t...

Debates in Geography Education encourages early career teachers, experienced teachers and teacher educators to engage with and reflect on key issues, concepts and debates. It aims to enable readers to reach their own informed judgements with deeper theoretical knowledge and understanding.The second edition is fully updated in light of the latest research, policy and practice in the field, as well as key changes to the curriculum and examination specifications. Expert contr...

Changes in the nature of knowledge production, plus rapid social and cultural change, have meant that the 'curriculum question' – what is to be taught, and by extension, 'whose knowledge' – has been hotly contested. The question of what to teach has become more and more controversial. This book asks: what is an appropriate curriculum response to the acute, renewed interest in issues of race and racism? How does a school subject like geography respond?The struggle over the school cu...

Too often, when a life crisis hits, a marriage suffers—even a healthy one—and all the personality profiles and couples' therapy in the world won't keep your marriage from experiencing the tough stuff. So how do you and your spouse face the stresses put on your marriage and not only stay together but come out on the other side even more loving and committed?In Staying Power, two longtime couples offer insights, skills, and clear direction so that you can respond to trials i...

Engineering structures may be subjected to extreme high-rate loading conditions, like those associated with natural disasters (earthquakes, tsunamis, rock falls, etc.) or those of anthropic origin (impacts, fluid–structure interactions, shock wave transmissions, etc.). Characterization and modeling of the mechanical behavior of materials under these environments is important in predicting the response of structures and improving designs.This book gathers contributions by eminent re...

Billy is a young boy who lives in a house in England. One day, he is given a computer-generated emu, which is invisible to everyone but certain members of his family. Billy has a cousin named Colin, a librarian who finds a magical phoenix bookmark that sees him drawn into the stories that he reads.This short story - M Behaving Badly - is taken from much-loved author Merv Lambert’s first collection featuring Billy and his friends: Beware of the Emu.Children will love M Behaving Badly, which...

'Once, in a shining night, while the moon looked down and the stars glittered in the endless sky, and all the house was lost in dreams... the little girl woke and heard a cat. 'Miaow,' called the cat. 'Miaow.''David Almond is known for his subtle and intelligent imagination. This, his first picture book, demonstrates his brilliance as a storyteller - as he weaves together the dreams of Kate, the girl and her family... on a single night of magic with spellbinding illustrations by St...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Technology, Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Education, TIE 2023, held in Cambridge, UK, in September 2023.The 17 full papers were carefully selected from 44 submissions and cover four areas: international school projects; technology in education; technology for content creation and future content delivery.

In Mastering the Niger, David Lambert recalls Scotsman James MacQueen (1778–1870) and his publication of A New Map of Africa in 1841 to show that Atlantic slavery—as a practice of subjugation, a source of wealth, and a focus of political struggle—was entangled with the production, circulation, and reception of geographical knowledge. The British empire banned the slave trade in 1807 and abolished slavery itself in 1833, creating a need for a new British imperial economy. ...

The West India Regiments were an anomalous presence in the British Army. Raised in the late eighteenth-century Caribbean in an act of military desperation, their rank-and-file were overwhelmingly men of African descent, initially enslaved. As such, the regiments held a unique but ambiguous place in the British Army and British Empire until their disbandment in 1927. Soldiers of Uncertain Rank brings together the approaches of cultural, imperial and military history in new and illuminating ...