5,000 years ago, the people who lived on the north Pembrokeshire coast moved their entire culture, along with as many as 8o 1-to-2 tonne “Bluestones”, 300km across country to the place now known as Stonehenge. Why? In this book you will find an answer – 50 years of archaeological discoveries and forensic science have been assembled into a fascinating story of Stone Age motivation and achievement.They first built a lunar observatory to try and unravel the Moon’s influence on the tid...

Applying a languaging perspective, this volume frames the teaching and learning of literacy, literature, language, and the language arts as social and linguistic actions that generate new questions to make visible social, cultural, psychological, linguistic, and educational processes. Chapter authors explore diverse aspects of a languaging framework, the perspective of language as a series of ongoing and evolving interactional social actions and processes over time. Based on their research...

Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the distribution of economic and well-being.The empirical results illustrate how incomes vary ...

The perfect portable companion for trainees and medical students on clinical placements in paediatrics. New to this edition: - Two new editors - Thoroughly updated and revised throughout Key features: - Part of the Kumar & Clark family of revision titles - Cases throughout - Key points boxes included - Includes self-assessment questions - Appendices cover resuscitation, practical procedures, prescribing, fluids and electrolytes, and common syndromes - Ideal for revision and examination pre...

"This satire offers a thought-provoking and scathing indictment that may prod readers to examine the more sinister possibilities of corporate- and media-dominated culture." —Publishers Weekly(starred review)For Titus and his friends, it started out like any ordinary trip to the moon — a chance to party during spring break and play with some stupid low-grav at the Ricochet Lounge. But that was before the crazy hacker caused all their feeds to malfunction, s...

Schenkerian Analysis: Perspectives on Phrase Rhythm, Motive and Form, Second Edition is a textbook directed at all those—whether beginners or more advanced students—interested in gaining understanding of and facility at applying Schenker’s ideas on musical structure. It begins with an overview of Schenker’s approach to music, and then progresses systematically from the phrase and its various combinations to longer and more complex works. Unlike other texts on this subject, Sch...

Can you feel the very energy in the air when you walk into a crowded room? Do you suddenly know the mood of the room when you do? Can you tell what people are thinking or feeling without ever talking to them? Does all of the above leave you feeling exhausted, drained, and ready for a long nap by yourself?If so, you may be an empath.Empaths are highly sensitive people—only around 20% of people have their special abilities. Empaths, in particular, are in tune with emotions. W...

How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students’ disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculumpresents a wide range of different apps and also assesses their valuefeatures methods for and apps related to planning instruction...

This book examines the idea of educational accountability, which has become a new secular gospel. But do accountability policies actually make schools better? Do business management theories and practices make organizations more effective? What if the most widely used management theories and assessment tools don’t work? What if educational accountability tools don’t actually measure what they’re supposed to? What if accountability data isn’t valid, or worse, what if it’s meaningless? What ...

The Virtual Work World ... You May Love It ... or Hate It!Do you manage a remote team?Are there times that you feel frustrated and stressed?Have expectations been set without the how-to in getting there?Today's work world is different. Workers are different. Employers are different. Locations at where to work are different. And expectations are different from leadership, management, employees, and customers....

Eli and his family have lived in the Compound for six years.The world they knew is gone.Eli’s father built the Compound to keep them safe. Now, they can’t get out.He won’t let them.Dad asked me if I wanted to see more of the Compound.I didn’t. We would have to wait fifteen years before it would be safe to go outside. Which left more than enough time to see the rest of the Compound.Our new world.A world I would soon hate....

Ann Aguirre's thrilling young adult novel Enclave is the story of two young people in an apocalyptic world--facing dangers, and feelings, unlike any they've ever known.New York City has been decimated by war and plague, and most of civilization has migrated to underground enclaves, where life expectancy is no more than the early 20's. When Deuce turns 15, she takes on her role as a Huntress, and is paired with Fade, a teenage Hunter who lived Topside as a ...