★★★ Does your dog bark at passing pedestrians? ★★★Does your beloved pet growl at every visitor that steps into your yard? Does Fido hide in a corner whenever fireworks go off in the distance? Does a fun day at the dog park often boil over into a snarling standoff? Does your sweet pet bully or get bullied by other dogs?Whether your dog is aggressive, socially inexperienced, or perpetually anxious, the constant tension and discord that is cre...

What are the influences that govern how people view their worlds? What are the embedded values and practices that underpin the ways people think and act?Discourses We Live By approaches these questions through narrative research, in a process that uses words, images, activities or artefacts to ask people – either individually or collectively within social groupings – to examine, discuss, portray or otherwise make public their place in the world, their sense of belonging to (and ide...

The child has a very special place in society, and society defines and shapes childhood. Understanding childhood is essential to early years students and this book offers a great introduction.Taking a thematic approach, chapters cover:Historical and Cultural PerspectivesPolicy and Economic PerspectivesPsychological and Biological PerspectivesContemporary Views.Each chapter prompts you to reflect on core issues and interroga...

The screenplay writer in Hollywood was a pen-for-hire. Whatever your status elsewhere in the world here, in Hollywood, you were usually a high-paid weekly contract where your talents, your genius, were at the beck and call of others who spoke of Art but were really mad but we're really the mouthpieces of Commerce.But radio for the Hollywood studio system was all about marketing. On that basis something approaching art could be produced on a regular basis. This series produced some ...