Adamson: 191 books
The Aesthetic Experience of Dying
The Dance to Death
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Structured around a personal account of the illness and death of the author’s partner, Jane, this book explores how something hard to bear became a threshold to a world of insight and discovery.
Drawing on German Idealism and Jane’s own research in the area, The Aesthetic Experience of...
by Philip E. Vernon, Georgina Adamson, Dorothy F. Vernon
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Originally published in 1977, this book looks at the problem of educating highly intelligent and gifted children, which it felt was of paramount importance to modern society. In the 1970s education increasingly focused on average pupils, and often made excellent provision for handicapped children,...
by D J Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
Say hello to Lillian Dove, a discount liquor store clerk battling to stay out of mayhem. And keep herself from opening a bottle of Absolut.
Lillian has a hard time letting go her old ways. It’s not so much the drinking. Sobriety has been easy. It’s that she still gets in trouble even though...
by Hugh C. Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2006
Growing out of the teachings of the B_b, who introduced the idea of the coming of a great prophet (the one promised in the scriptures of all the world's major religions), the Bah_'' Faith was founded by Bah_'u'll_h, when in 1866 he publicly declared that he was the One the B_b prophesized. The 2nd...
Improving Outcomes for Children and Families
Finding and Using International Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, so successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is therefore essential.
This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking...
by Ali Dastmalchian, Paul Blyton, Ray Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
First published in 1991, this book investigates not only the processes of industrial relations themselves but also the climate in which they work. As well as studying union behaviour, it views the topic from the wider perspective of human resource management and integrates theories of industrial relations...
An Era of Expansion
Construction at the University of Cambridge 1996–2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
Changing conditions in Higher Education and national funding regimes preceded a proliferation of construction projects in universities between 1996 and 2006. This book reviews a hundred projects between 1996 and 2006, and uses 9 detailed case studies from the author's time in charge of capital projects...
Building Great School Board -- Superintendent Teams
A Systematic Approach to Balancing Roles and Responsibilities
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
To address urgent challenges and drive continuous improvement effectively, school board members, superintendents, and school leaders must develop strong school board/superintendent teams. The authors offer a systematic approach for establishing a unified school leadership team that can efficiently...
Nannies, migration and early childhood education and care
An international comparison of in-home childcare policy and practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2016
Once considered the preserve of the wealthy, nanny care has grown in response to changes in the labour market, including the rising number of working mothers with young children and increases in non-standard work patterns. This book presents new empirical research about in-home childcare in Australia,...
Real Moms Love to Eat
How to Conduct a Love Affair with Food, Lose Weight and Feel Fabulous
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2012
Healthy lifestyle and nutrition expert Beth Aldrich loves to eat-and she thinks everyone else should too. In Real Moms Love to Eat, she seduces readers with her amazing secrets to help them lose weight, look great and feel fabulous-while still enjoying the foods they love. Complete with pleasure-invoking...
by Ryan Andrew Brown, Grant N. Marshall, Joshua Breslau
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
Concerns about access to behavioral health care for military service members and their dependents living in geographically remote locations prompted research into how many in this population are remote and the effects of this distance on their use of behavioral health care. The authors conducted geospatial...
Beyond the Bubble Test
How Performance Assessments Support 21st Century Learning
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
Performance assessment is a hot topic in school systems, and educators continue to analyze its costs, benefits, and feasibility as a replacement for high-stakes testing. Until now, researchers and policymakers have had to dig to find out what we know and what we still have to learn about performance...
by Pierre Emmanuel, Ginette Adamson
Language: French
Release Date: May 3, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 3, 2016
« C’est que notre époque se trompe sur elle-même : elle se croit rationnelle et l’est fort mal ; révolutionnaire, et n’est sans doute que totalitaire. Le totalitarisme, ce virus, rend les uns euphoriques de bien-être et les autres enragés de destruction. Que faire alors, pour le salut...
by Lydia Adamson
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
For the first time in one volume, two twisting tales featuring off-off Broadway actress turned sleuth Alice Nestleton and her crime-solving cats Bushy and Pancho…
A Cat in a Manger
It’s the holiday season and Alice is hoping for a merry little Christmas peacefully cat-sitting at...