Never Give Up by Bernard Scott Thompson is an inspiring memoir that shares the author's journey from a meager upbringing on a small farm in Northern Michigan to a fulfilling life filled with adventure and success. Through heartfelt storytelling, Bernard reveals his struggles with poverty, his dreams of exploring the world, and the determination that drove him to create a better life for his family.The book captures the essence of resilience and perseverance. Each chapter offers ins...

This second edition of Values-Based Practice aids readers to understand the key role of values as a basis for effective practice across human services and beyond. Neglecting values when working with vulnerable people can lead to disastrous and unethical outcomes. However, the concept of values can be difficult to grasp.The authors combat this difficulty by fusing theoretical understanding with helpful practice guidance to clearly demonstrate how to keep values at the centr...

Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada's most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as individual experiences of Blackness are diverse across Canada, each contributor recounts aspec...

Strangers to Nature challenges a reading public that has grown complacent with the standard framework of the animal ethics debate. Human influence on, and the control of, the natural world has greater consequences than ever, making the human impact on the lives of animals more evident. We cannot properly interrogate our conduct in the world without a deeper understanding of how our actions affect animals. It is crucial that the human-animal relationship become more central to ethical inqui...

DID YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU LEFT SCHOOL?Survey results from 12-18 year olds:49% said 'NO'51% 'YES' and or 'Maybe'Of Nos: 29% felt anxious, nervous or uncertain.‘How to Sail Around the World Alone’ is the first in a series of ebooks designed as a parent – teacher resource to help 10-12 year olds start the journey towards answering: I KNOW!The story is based on Kay Cottee (the first) and Jessica Watson's (youngest...

K to 2 Linked to the Australian Curriculum, Social and Emotional Learning by Luke Kelly, Education LeaderTHE TWO GREATEST DAYS OF YOUR LIFE ARETHE DAY YOU WERE BORN &THE DAY YOU DISCOVER WHY.Morton Can't See, What Will Billie Do? is part of the Flying Pig Club series of books designed to engage young minds to start the journey towards confidently answering 'I KNOW WHAT I WANT TO BE'. Each book in the series will stimulate thought to creatively solve problems...

Spirituality, whether or not rooted in religion, is a core feature of what it means to be human. This important practice manual explains why spirituality and religion should be a fundamental consideration for professions that are centred around helping people tackle their problems and fulfil their potential.The authors draw on their considerable expertise to challenge thinking, promote reflection and improve practice through a framework that takes complex concepts and makes them ma...

Digital Signal Processing: Concepts and Applications, second edition covers the basic principles and operation of DSP devices. Its aim is to give the student the essentials of this mathematical subject in a form that can be easily understood and assimilated. The text concentrates on discrete systems, starting from digital filters and discrete Fourier transforms. These are then extended into adaptive filters and spectrum analysers with the minimum of mathematical derivation, concen...

What is ethics? Where do moral standards come from? Are they based on emotions, reason, or some innate sense of right and wrong? For many scientists, the key lies entirely in biology--especially in Darwinian theories of evolution and self-preservation. But if evolution is a struggle for survival, why are we still capable of altruism?In his classic study The Expanding Circle, Peter Singer argues that altruism began as a genetically based drive to protect one's kin and commu...

This book gives a clear and readable overview of the philosophical work of Jürgen Habermas, the most influential German philosopher alive today, who has commented widely on subjects such as Marxism, the importance and effectiveness of communication, the reunification of Germany, and the European Union. Gordon Finlayson provides readers with a clear and readable overview of Habermas's forbiddingly complex philosophy using concrete examples and accessible language. He then goes on to analyse...

This is a book about what many teachers know but are increasingly being prevented from talking about: that real education always involves a risk. The risk is there because, as W. B. Yeats has put it, education is not about filling a bucket but about lighting a fire. It is there because students are not to be seen as objects to be moulded and disciplined, but as subjects of action and responsibility. The Beautiful Risk of Education is organised around a critical discussion of seven key educ...

Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of the theses of these three authors on the dynamics and the ends of history, in order to provide an answer to the question: "Where are we headed?" Grounding his answer in the twin observati...