What if coaching wasn't just a job - but the catalyst for real change in people's lives?Building Resilient Pathways is your practical, powerful guide to coaching in the complex, emotionally charged world of employment services. Written by wellbeing expert and Master Coach Maria Smith, this book delivers the tools, frameworks, and stories job coaches need to build genuine trust, navigate challenging conversations, and help job seekers find meaningful, lasti...

The book Mama, Do I Belong To You? is a book that a parent would read to a child who is adopted. It features questions and answers along a tiger and lions journey together.

Maria A. Robinson-Smith presents an overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town setting, with bands coming together from communities all over Jamaica, engaging in the same practices, is a symbolic homeland where people celebrate their Africanness and sustain the collective memory of Revivalists.Revival iconograph...

Make learning to read fun for children with this decodable fiction book about everything there is to see on the Smiths’ farm! This book provides a built-in phonics review for young readers. Today, students need support with phonics concepts more than ever before. This illustrated book will engage and excite young readers while they gain practice with several high-frequency words: close, friend, group, nothing, school, state, strong, through, visit. Each book includes family engagement acti...

A guide to reading Tarot as a spark for community engagement and social change“A beacon of insight and action.” —Nyasha Williams, author of Black Tarot and I Affirm MeThe cards in the Tarot deck offer seventy-eight invitations for change, not only in our inner life, but beyond. Lane Smith invites us to read each card with an eye toward the collective—how we can contribute to liberation in the world.

Now into its fifth edition, Bradt's Iran continues to provide the most detailed background, history and cultural information available when visiting this 'Jewel of Central Asia'. This new edition has been thoroughly reviewed to provide all the latest information, from updated history and cultural developments to security, language and hotel prices, plus expanded practical information for independent travellers. Food and arts, rugs and handicrafts are all covered, plus new details of skiing...

This book presents a cutting-edge overview of the language models of in phonology, morphology, syntax, and pragmatics, proposed to underlie language phenotypes across aphasic syndromes, as well as the potential applications of linguistic theory to advance therapeutic treatment -and research- in aphasiology. It draws together examples from a range of aphasic syndromes, providing valuable insights into the way language-specific properties may affect the manifestation of language deficits acr...

Concise, practical, and packed full of clinical information, the Oxford Handbook of Surgical Nursing is the essential resource for all those working in nursing practice surgery and its sub-specialties. Easily-accessible, this handbook provides all of the information and practical advice needed to care effectively and professionally for surgical patients. This handbook provides a thorough introduction to the principles and practice of the care of patients undergoing the range of su...

How does it feel when someone you love develops dementia? How do you cope with the shock, the stress and the grief? Can you be sure that you and your family will receive the support you need?In Telling Tales About Dementia, thirty carers from different backgrounds and in different circumstances share their experiences of caring for a parent, partner or friend with dementia. They speak from the heart about love and loss: 'I still find it hard to believe that Alzheimer's has happened...

This book presents recent international research on how teacher educators, institutions and policy makers perceive, act on and experience the dual responsibility that teacher educators are required to develop. Teacher educators are both teachers and researchers, a hybrid position which might be challenging to fulfil.Teacher education has attracted much research over the years. It has also been subject to national and international debates about its goals and core features as well a...

Waterfront regeneration and development represents a unique opportunity to spatially and visually alter cities worldwide. However, its multi-faceted nature entails city-building with all its complexity including the full range of organizations involved and how they interact. This book examines how more inclusive stakeholder involvement has been attempted in the nine cities that took part in the European Union funded Waterfront Communities Project. It focuses on analyzing the experience of ...

From the bestselling author of Body into Balance, clinical herbalist Maria Noël Groves offers a comprehensive guide to the best herbs and natural practices to boost your gut microbiome, decrease your risk of chronic disease, and alleviate conditions like SIBO, leaky gut, irritable bowel syndrome, and GERD.A healthy gut is the key to good overall health—both physical and mental—and researchers are beginning to uncover the links between an u...