Armani the Horse and Friends starts with the rescue and rehabilitation of a race horse. It then tells the story of the horse’s life and about all her animal friends.Armani will become very special, as readers learn just how important love is to animals. Though the book ends at Christmas, there is another book to follow. A sequel titled The Christmas Story is in the works.Explains the author, “I was motivated to write this book to try and tell children that sometimes life is hard and cruel,...

Jamal needs some extra money. He wants to get a job in the computer shop. Developed for teenagers and young adults who are learning to read, or who are learning English as a second language, these short stories follow Jamal as he settles into his new life in the UK and prepares for his future. The Building Bridges Series offers an insight into life in the UK and provides useful material for building vocabulary around everyday situations.

Jamal feels ill. He goes to see the doctor. Developed for teenagers and young adults who are learning to read, or who are learning English as a second language, these short stories follow Jamal as he settles into his new life in the UK and prepares for his future. The Building Bridges Series offers an insight into life in the UK and provides useful material for building vocabulary around everyday situations.

Jamal meets an old friend in the cafe. Developed for teenagers and young adults who are learning to read, or who are learning English as a second language, these short stories follow Jamal as he settles into his new life in the UK and prepares for his future. The Building Bridges Series offers an insight into life in the UK and provides useful material for building vocabulary around everyday situations.

Jamal and Ali look at all the things they would like to buy, if they had any money! Developed for teenagers and young adults who are learning to read, or who are learning English as a second language, these short stories follow Jamal as he settles into his new life in the UK and prepares for his future. The Building Bridges Series offers an insight into life in the UK and provides useful material for building vocabulary around everyday situations.

As house-mate Dan moves on with his life, Jamal must look for a new place to live. Developed for teenagers and young adults who are learning to read, or who are learning English as a second language, these short stories follow Jamal as he settles into his new life in the UK and prepares for his future. The Building Bridges Series offers an insight into life in the UK and provides useful material for building vocabulary around everyday situations.

Jamal plans to turn his childhood dream into reality. Developed for teenagers and young adults who are learning to read, or who are learning English as a second language, these short stories follow Jamal as he settles into his new life in the UK and prepares for his future. The Building Bridges Series offers an insight into life in the UK and provides useful material for building vocabulary around everyday situations.

Training for and pursuing a career in science can be treacherous for women; many more begin than ultimately complete at every stage. Characterizing this as a pipeline problem, however, leads to a focus on individual women instead of structural conditions. The goal of the book is to offer an alternative model that better articulates the ideas of agency, constraint, and variability along the path to scientific careers for women. The chapters in this volume apply the metaphor of the road to a...

This volume discusses why faculty and administrators of academe should care about implementing family-friendly policies and practices, as well as how they can advocate for policy changes.In section one, the book’s focus is on empirical studies that demonstrate the need for innovative programs and policies for faculty at colleges and universities. These pieces explore issues such as the value of work/life programs for employee retention, the need for a variety of family support poli...

Placing the experiences of victims at its heart, this book provides an authoritative overview of disability hate crime - explaining what it is, how it happens, its legal status, the impact on victims and how individuals and agencies should respond.The guide outlines innovative projects developed to address the problem, and provides tailored guidance for professionals spanning education, health and social care, and criminal justice. It also offers recommendations for effective multi...

This book is the outcome of an idea, and the idea is very simple. It is that the best way to understand the dramatic transformation any idea can bring and to successfully bring ideas across, is to think of them as profound insights and moments of clarity often disguised as wit, captured in one single Quote.Ideas and products and messages and behaviors spread faster when they carry your message in a single line or paragraph: a Quote.To feel the impact a Quote can have, here ...

Proverbs ... weve all grown up with them and we probably repeat them without much thought. Yes, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush and absence makes the heart grow fonder, but these sayings have almost become clichés and it is the same in every country and culture. Such pearls of wisdom play a key role in the moral guidance of societies everywhere. Sometimes the wisdom is distinctly odd, sometimes it has become outdated and sometimes it is simply contradictory. After all, do many ...