This book gives a comprehensive account of sixty-five years of British childhood from 1959-2024, a period of immense social, cultural, and political change. The chapters survey the significant changes in education, physical and mental health, social care, lifestyle, the role of the family, child protection, Immigration, disability and class, and the covid-19 pandemic. These include the move from grammar to comprehensive schools, child mental health crises, the internet, mo...

Are you stuck in an unsatisfying job or feel like you’re in the wrong profession? An industry that just isn’t a fit? Don’t just settle but succeed in the right career!Get unstuck and land a new career—one you’re genuinely passionate about. Switchers helps you realize that dream. Written by celebrated career coach and psychologist Dr. Dawn Graham, the book provides proven strategies that will get you where you want to go.The first step is to recogni...

You just pinned on a badge that will open doors most people never walk through -- and it will close some you never imagined losing. Long shifts, hard calls, broken homes, and burned-out hearts have ended more law-enforcement careers than bullets ever have. Before you finish the police academy or within the first few years of this career, you need to hear this.In plain, straightforward language, this book walks you through the traps that quietly destroy careers, marriages, and faith...

Transforming International Institutions illuminates how a slow, quiet, subterranean process can produce big, radical change in international institutions and organizations. Drawing on historical institutionalism and interpretive tools of international law, Graham provides a novel theory of uncoordinated change over time. It highlights how early participants in a process who do not foresee the transformative potential of their acts, but nonetheless enable subsequent actors to push ...

Becoming Noise Music tells the story of noise music in its first 50 years, using a focus on the music's sound and aesthetics to do so. Part One focuses on the emergence and stabilization of noise music across the 1980s and 1990s, whilst Part Two explores noise in the twenty-first century. Each chapter contextualizes – tells the story – of the music under discussion before describing and interpreting its sound and aesthetic.Stephen Graham uses the idea of 'becoming' to capt...

This book was written after feedback suggested that stories and analogies were very helpful to students wanting to remember blood tests and their implications. For this reason each section, where appropriate, contains an analogy, in addition to an overview of the relevant anatomy, physiology and biochemistry. The book links tests and conditions, and gives strategies for clinical practice using simple language.It will be useful as a supplementary text for those studying nursing, healthcare and...

What are the fundamental aims and values underlying education?What values should education try to promote in a world of value pluralism?What is morality, and should schools teach it?In a secular society, how should schools treat the links between morality and religion?How should values enter into professional education and educational leadership?This book, an updated edition of Teaching about Values, will help the reader to think about these ques...

As the pandemic lessened its grip on the world, we have all been living through an extraordinary time in history. The start of Putin's brutal war on its peaceful Ukrainian neighbor, the devastating Gaza conflict, soaring inflation due in large part to inefficiencies created by the pandemic, dramatic increases in interest rates to combat the inflation, and the struggle by corporations to force employees out of their home offices and back to their cubicles, are just some of the significant e...

The Covid 19 Pandemic has upended every single country in the world.These immense changes began near the end of 2019 and continue disrupting the cultures, the laws and the political environment throughout the world that we live in today.Critical and pertinent and life-changing current events (political, social, ethnic, personal decisions and consequences) that occurred before, during, and presently worldwide concerning the COVID-19 pandemic are presented in this book in a s...

Contemporary Catholic environmentalism is at a crossroads, both theologically and politically. While the first half of the 20th century saw only fleeting references to environmental concerns in papal encyclicals, Pope John Paul II's 1990 New Year's Day address, later titled The Ecological Crisis, marked a pivotal shift. His stark warnings about the planet's mounting ecological challenges galvanized the Catholic theological community, prompting numerous regional bi...

Do you ever wonder what it might be like to not feel anxious all the time?The good news is you no longer have to feel alone and isolated.You, Me, and Anxiety helps you identify anxiety, recognize its symptoms, and take intentional action to manage and navigate it so that it no longer has a negative grip on your life. this book is perfect for anyone who ever:Struggles to get out of bed in the morning;Has stomach aches at the thought of going ...

How can we respark joy and hope after trauma or depression? Acclaimed psychotherapist and trauma expert, Graham Music, delivers a roadmap for reigniting zest and passion in adults and children.Many are unmotivated, have lost their mojo, listless, retreating inwards or addicted to screens or meaningless activities.Music outlines how to heal from a wide range of emotionally blunted states such as dissociation, depression, or helplessness, using cutting-edge science, profound ...