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BSL Mini TOPICS for TOTS: Greetings & Manners, Colours, Weather, Minibeasts, Happy Birthday: British Sign Language Vocabulary (Let’s Sign Early Years)
Colourful illustrations with pictures and signs to educate the senses and stimulate hand and mind coordination. A simple and enjoyable route to learning.
In addition to the clear needs of individuals who are deaf or partially hearing, sign language is also used in communication with children and adults with a wide range of special needs such as:
• Learning disability
• Down Syndrome
• Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
• Additional speech, language & communication needs
• To benefit development through Baby Signing
• English as a second languageBeing able to identify and name everyday objects and events can enhance young children’s self esteem and sense of achievement.
Learn how to greet people, the names of colours, what’s the weather like today, is that a bee or a wasp? And how to sign ‘Happy Birthday’ to your friends and family.
This book is also available as a Kindle ebook. Tablets and touch-screen technology can be particularly beneficial to reluctant readers and are an important way to engage key groups of young children where literacy is a concern.
The same Colour, Weather and Minibeast topics are also separately available as Kindle ebooks in Flashcard format, one sign per page for easy mobile reference for smart phone and tablets – low-cost and easy to carry and refer to on the go with appeal to learners of all ages and abilities.
This printed book provides a collection of their contents with some extras.
The key-word vocabulary enables constructions in both British Sign Language (BSL) and Sign Supported English (SSE). Ideal for young children who are deaf or have special educational needs (SEN) in addition to all sign language learners and baby signers.
Includes: Basic Handshape Key and Fingerspelling Alphabet.
Each topic is colour-coded for easy reference and begins with a summary page of the signs, making a useful reminder page to go back to and test what you have learned.
Additional pictorial graphics based on the Mulberry Symbols with kind permission.
Some signs, particularly those for colours, have a number of regional variations and the illustrations show more than one option..
The most commonly used versions of signs have been chosen but regional variations need to be checked with your local BSL community and face to face contact with native sign language users is recommended as the best way to learn.
Supported by the Let’s Sign BSL publications.
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Barbie: All Dolled Up: Celebrating 50 Years of Barbie
As the world’s most famous doll celebrates her 50th birthday, this fully illustrated, interactive book commemorates five decades of Barbie history in fabulous style “Barbie: All Dolled Up” is a vibrant, interactive celebration of Barbie’s 50th anniversary. Fully illustrated, this unique book features rare artwork and memorabilia throughout: original 1960s packaging, old Barbie comic books, designers’ sketches and much, much more will be reproduced both as flat art and as 3-d pieces, for a tactile presentation which truly brings Barbie to life. The book will be broken into chapters according to key eras in Barbie’s development – 1959-60s, the Mod Era of ’67-’70, the big, bold ’80s, the Totally Hair ’90s, up to the present day. The narrative combines historical detail with personal memories of Barbie through quotes from mums & daughters, celebrities, designers and more. Fully licensed by Mattel: “Barbie: All Dolled Up” piggybacks a year of events and marketing initiatives being staged for the 50th Anniversary. Media event: The anniversary year has already acres of coverage in the fashion press (“Elle”, “Vogue”, “Glamour” etc) and national newspapers (“Guardian”, “Telegraph”, “Independent”, “Metro” etc). Remarkably large audience: From 5 to 50, Barbie bridges the generations. Interactive features and rare artwork: Original ’60s packaging, old Barbie comic books, designers’ sketches and much more will be reproduced both as flat art and 3-d pieces, for a tactile presentation of the rarest Barbie ephemera. High profile names: Noted celebrities and fashion designers including Diane Von Furstenburg, Anna Sui, Vera Wang and Badgley Mischka have contributed quotes on Barbie and her influence for use in the book. Huge collectible market: Limited edition Barbie dolls sell for hundreds of pounds, and collectors websites and magazines abound.Read more
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Fascinating Facts to Blow Your Curious Mind: An awesome collection of the wildest trivia about everything on Earth … and beyond!
Did you know that the reason you can never find the end of a rainbow is because they are actually full circles?
Or that our fingers shrivel up when they get wet because our bodies are adapting to give us a better grip in the water?
Fascinating Facts to Blow Your Curious Mind features unlikely and hilarious trivia on everything from history and animals to the ocean and space, as well as a special section on little-known knowledge which one day just might save your life.
Inside, you can also find answers to such key questions as:
Are we all related?
What is more dangerous, a koala or a crocodile?
Did the Pope cause the Black Death?
Why was ‘New York’ once known as ‘New Orange’?
Should you use spiderwebs as a bandage?
How much bamboo would it take to cover the Taj Mahal?Read more
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Squishmallows Official Collectors’ Guide: The Perfect Gift For Fans Of The #1 Plush Property
This authorised book is the perfect gift for fans of the #1 plush property
Based on the bestselling squishy toy, this adorable collector’s guide is the perfect gift for any Squishmallows fan!
They’re lovable, they’re squishy―they’re Squishmallows! This OFFICIAL Collector’s Guide is packed with quirky tidbits, top-ten lists, bios & stats, and a “rarity factor” for Squishmallows’ collectible characters. Filled with hundreds of colorful photos and unique art styles. Avid fans, new collectors, young or old, Squishmallows: The Collector’s Guide is perfect for just about anyone!
Squishmallows are plush toys that are here to fill your hearts with love and affection. Since 2017, the versatile Squishmallows have grown into an international phenomenon and offer comfort, support, and warmth as friends, couch companions, bedtime buddies, and travel teammates. With more than 500 Squishmallows characters to collect, young fans can aspire to be like their favorite characters. Each Squishmallow has its own unique name and storyline to add to the fun.
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Practical Programming for Strength Training
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Holly Webb Series 2 – Animal Stories, Pet Rescue Adventure – Puppy and Kitten 10 Books Collection Set (Books 11 To 20)
Holly Webb Series 2 Puppy and Kitten 10 Books Collection Set. Titles in this set are: The Puppy who was Left Behind, Alone In The Night , The Abandoned Puppy, The Rescued Puppy, The Missing Kitten, The Lost Puppy , The Kitten Nobody Wanted, The Secret Puppy, Smudge The Stolen kitten, The Frightened kittensRead more
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Christmas at the Wartime Bookshop: Book 3 in the feel-good WWII saga series about a community-run bookshop, from the bestselling author (The Wartime Bookshop, 3)
**Available for pre-order now**
Alice, Kate and Naomi want to keep the magic of Christmas alive in their village of Churchwood but a thief in the area and a new family that shuns the local community are only the first of the problems they face.
Naomi is fighting to free herself from Alexander – the man who married her for her money, then kept a secret family behind her back. But will she be able to achieve the independence she craves?
Alice’s dreams came true when she married sweetheart Daniel. Now he has returned to the fighting, but Alice is delighted to discover that she’s carrying his child. Will the family make it through the war unscathed?
While Kate’s life on Brimbles Farm has never been easy, she now has help from land girls Pearl and Ruby. But what will it mean for them all when Kate’s brother returns from the war with terrible injuries? And why has pilot Leo, the man she loves, stopped writing?
As ever, the Wartime Bookshop is a source of community and comfort. But disaster is about to strike…
Christmas at the Wartime Bookshop is the third novel in the uplifting Wartime Bookshop series, perfect for fans of Donna Douglas and Elaine Everest.
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**Real readers are LOVING The Wartime Bookshop series**
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‘Oh I loved this book… please carry on the good writing’
‘Wow what a brilliant start to a new series’
‘Outstandingly fabulous, warm and inviting… so glad there is going to be a follow-on’
‘I was only two pages in when I knew this would be a 5 star read… I honestly can’t put my excitement into words at the thought of reading the next one’
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Charlotte Perriand: Inventing A New World
- A sweeping overview of Charlotte Perriand’s career, exploring the interrelation of art, architecture, and design in the work of this legendary 20th century modernist
- Includes essays by her daughter, Pernette Perriand, and by Jacques Barsac, author of the Charlotte Perriand Catalogue Raisonné
- Accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Louis Vuitton Foundation from 2 October, 2019 to 24 February, 2020 on the 20th anniversary of Perriand’s death
Charlotte Perriand (1903-1999) was a pioneer of modern design in France during the twentieth century. Her avant-garde vision was expressed in colour, organic forms, and streamlined functionality, elements which are still at the heart of contemporary design today. Her furnishings were created from aluminium, rubber, chrome, leather, bamboo, and above all, wood; their appeal is timeless.
This lavishly illustrated book, accompanying a major retrospective at the Louis Vuitton Foundation in Paris, explores how much in the vanguard she was in her use of materials, in her social and political awareness, and in her collaborations with artists, architects, and other designers. The show presents a global vision of her creativity, talent, and inventiveness, exploring her commitment to women and to a humanist design ethos that took into account the middle and working classes with an emphasis on rationalising costs and space. This book, with essays by an international roster of art, architecture, and design historians, offers a plurality of perspectives and explores Perriand’s creative legacy through the 20th century and beyond.
Contents:
A New Art of Living: Context and Training;
House Equipment;
A New Art of Living: Space and Body
Nature as Inspiration: From Machine to Nature;
Living with Nature;
Architecture of Leisure
Commitments: Political Militantism;
Giant Photo-Montage;
Reconstructing
Meeting Japan: Discovering Cultures;
Japan as Horizon
Synthesis of Arts: Art Dialogues;
Synthesis of Arts;
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Frans Hals
An illuminating study of the singularly gifted Dutch artist Frans Hals, a true revolutionary in the field of portraiture and one of the most sought-after painters of his generation
This beautifully illustrated book offers a fresh scholarly appraisal of Frans Hals, more than 30 years since the last large exhibition devoted to his work. Essays cover all the important aspects of Hals’s oeuvre, including his militia paintings, his spectacular family portraits and his depictions of laughter: he was one of very few artists throughout the history of Western painting who successfully managed to paint people smiling and laughing. The texts also provide an overview of the artist’s life, and examine his extraordinarily virtuoso technique, which involved painting extremely fast straight on to the canvas.
The authors set out to place Hals and his work firmly in the context of his time, employing new previously unpublished archival research and technical findings. For the first time, an overview is given of all the apprentices who worked for Hals. Other themes, such as the design for portrait prints or the humour seen in the works of Frans Hals, have never before been treated separately.
Published by National Gallery Global/Distributed by Yale University Press
Exhibition Schedule:
The National Gallery, London
(September 30, 2023–January 21, 2024)
The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
(February 15–June 9, 2024)Read more
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Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker
The first monograph to examine Lavinia Fontana’s work in over two decades, and the first to focus on her striking portraits
Lavinia Fontana: Trailblazer, Rule Breaker explores this female Renaissance artist’s fascinating biography and the cultural climate that enabled her to become the first woman artist in Western Europe to gain commercial success beyond the confines of a court or a convent. Bringing together several strands of scholarship on Fontana and her contemporaries, it provides context to her career and examines areas underrepresented in current scholarship on the painter, including information on her workshop practice.
Focusing on the portraiture for which she was renowned, Lavinia Fontana tells stories that will be universally familiar―tales of family bonds, sibling rivalries, engagements, weddings, births, and deaths. Written by Aoife Brady, with contributions from one of the leading scholars on Fontana, Babette Bohn, and a foremost expert on Renaissance fashion, Jonquil O’Reilly, this engaging book explores Fontana’s world and how she forged a successful career in the male-dominated world of Renaissance Italy.
Exhibition Schedule:
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
(May 6–August 27, 2023)Read more
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The Future of Religious Heritage: Entangled Temporalities of the Sacred and the Secular
The Future of Religious Heritage examines the resurgence of religious heritage in a secular age and frames such heritage as both legacy from the past and promise for the future.
Drawing on case studies from across Europe, this volume addresses the intersection of three well-defined areas of research: secularism, religious heritage and the question of renewal. Considering the heritagisation of religion and the sacralisation of heritage, contributions to the book consider to what extent the idea of renewal, so pivotal to religious and secular ontologies, is present in heritage formations. Thinking about the temporalities of re-enactment and reconstruction, this volume examines whether heritage practices incorporate religious time into secular practice. Problematising such temporalities of the sacred in our post-secular age, the volume explores how these intersections of religious and secular time in heritage practices inform constructions of the future.
The Future of Religious Heritage addresses the paradox of the secularisation of religion and the sacralisation of heritage in a post-secular age. It will appeal to academics and students with an interest in critical heritage studies, religion, and (post)secularism, and will also be of interest to those studying re-enactment, regeneration and renewal.
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Propaganda Prints: A History of Art in the Service of Social and Political Change
Propaganda Prints reviews the history, cultural diversity and artistic legacy of art produced in the service of social and political change from ancient times to the present day. The author presents the arts of state control, of opposition, of revolution, of advertising, politics and self-promotion in their historical contexts, with three hundred images to evoke some of the dreams and concerns which have driven humanity through the last five thousand years. The Ancient Mesopotamians are there with the Romans, the Crusaders, the Normans, the Victorians, the Suffragettes, the Nazis and the Hippies. The American, French, Russian, Mexican, Chinese and Cuban revolutions all contribute as do many, far too many, wars. From Gutenberg’s printing press to You Tube, from Alexander to Obama, this review of propaganda art reflects the best and the worst of us, and offers the pictures by way of consolation.Read more
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Hope
This portrait project began as therapy for myself and grew into
something quite unexpected. I painted the portraits of 101 NHS and
key workers through breast cancer treatment and covid, presented
where possible with a little ceremony, bling and publicity …… a little
morale boost at a very difficult time.
This book has captured snapshots and reflections of our covid
experiences before they are forgotten, so many different experiences
giving a little insight into the impact of covid on individuals and our
communities over the last three years. This has now become a ‘team’
book, a local story of our shared journey through covid. HOPE has
been a constant companion on our journey …………. HOPE for a
vaccine and survival (it sounds a bit dramatic now, but that is how it
felt at the time).All proceeds of this book goes to St Nicholas Hospice Care.
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Gordon Ramsay’s Maze
In a book inspired by the TV star and author’s Maze restaurant, in which patrons are served small portions of a wide variety of tastes, the reader will learn how to translate a dish from the restaurant into his or her home kitchen, in a guide with color photos that covers starters, entrees and desserts. 100,000 first printing.Read more
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Black’s Medical Dictionary
The 43rd edition, originally published in 2017, of the best-selling medical dictionary for over 100 years.Black’s Medical Dictionary is invaluable as a home reference and for all who need clear explanation of medical terms: nurses, health care professionals and students, health service management, actuaries, lawyers and journalists.
It contains over 5000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts with over 1000 diagrams, drawings and colour illustrations. It also provides helpful appendices on common medical tests and procedures, travel and health, measurements in medicine, health economics, complementary and alternative medicine, and an address list of support professional organisations.
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BTEC Nationals Sport Student Book 1 + Activebook: For the 2016 specifications (BTEC Nationals Sport 2016)
Updates to BTEC National Set Tasks for external assessment – April 2017
As a result of feedback from the Department for Education Pearson have made updates to the Set Tasks for some BTEC National qualifications. Therefore subsequent changes have been made to this product.If you have purchased this book before 13th April 2017, details of these changes can be found here. [link to www.pearsonfe.co.uk/BTECchanges]. Corrected copies will be available to purchase by June 2017.
Each Student Book and ActiveBook has clearly laid out pages with a range of supportive features to aid learning and teaching:
- Getting to know your unit sections ensure learners understand the grading criteria and unit requirements.
- Getting ready for assessment sections focus on preparation for external assessment with guidance for learners on what to expect. Hints and tips will help them prepare for assessment and sample answers are provided for a range of question types including, short and long answer questions, all with a supporting commentary.
- Pause point features provide opportunities for learners to self-evaluate their learning at regular intervals. Each Pause point feature gives learners a Hint or Extend option to either revisit and reinforce the topic or to encourage independent research or study skills.
- Case study and Theory into practice features enable development of problem-solving skills and place the theory into real life situations learners could encounter.
- Assessment practice features provide scaffolded assessment practice activities that help prepare learners for assessment. Within each assessment practice activity, a Plan, Do and Review section supports learners’ formative assessment by making sure they fully understand what they are being asked to do, what their goals are and how to evaluate the task and consider how they could improve.
- Literacy and numeracy activities provide opportunities for reinforcement in these key areas, placing the skills into a sport context.
- Dedicated Think future pages provide case studies from the industry, with a focus on aspects of skills development that can be put into practice in a real work environment and further study.
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Gambling in Everyday Life: Spaces, Moments and Products of Enjoyment (Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies)
The book adopts a critical cultural studies lens to explore the entanglement of government and gambling in everyday life. Its qualitative approach to gambling creates a new theoretical framework for understanding the most urgent questions raised by research and policy on gambling.
In the past two decades, gambling industries have experienced exponential growth with annual global expenditure worth approximately 300 billion dollars. Yet most academic research on gambling is concentrated on problem gambling and conducted within the psychological sciences. Nicoll considers gambling at a moment when its integration within everyday cultural spaces, moments, and products is unprecedented. This is the first interdisciplinary cultural study of gambling in everyday life and develops critical and empirical methods that capture the ubiquitous presence of gambling in work, investment and play. This book also contributes to the growing cultural studies literature on video and mobile gaming. In addition to original case studies of gambling moments and spaces, in-depth interviews and participant observations provide readers with an insider’s view of gambling.
Advanced students of sociology, cultural theory, and political science, academic researchers in the field of gambling studies will find this an original and useful text for understanding the cultural and political work of gambling industries in liberal societies.
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Digital Gambling: Theorizing Gamble-Play Media (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture Book 42)
This book develops the concept of “gamble-play media”, describing how some gambling and gambling-like practices are increasingly mediated by digital technologies. Digital gambling brings gambling closer to the practices and features of videogames, as audio-visual simulations structure users’ experiences. By studying digital gambling from media studies, videogame and cultural studies approaches, this book offers a new critical perspective on the issues raised by computer-mediated gambling, while expanding our perspective on what media and gambling are. In particular, it critically analyses terrestrial, mobile and online slot machines, online poker and stock trading apps through a selection of case studies.
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Online Gambling and Crime: Causes, Controls and Controversies
Offering the first empirically driven assessment of the development, marketisation, regulation and use of online gambling organisations and their products, this book explores the relationship between online gambling and crime. It draws upon quantitative and qualitative data, including textual and visual analyses of e-gambling advertising and the records of player-protection and standards organisations, together with a virtual ethnography of online gambling subcultures, to examine the ways in which gambling and crime have been approached in practice by gamers, regulatory agencies and online gambling organisations. Building upon contemporary criminological theory, it develops an understanding of online gambling as an arena in which risks and rewards are carefully constructed and through which players navigate, employing their own agency to engage with the very real possibility of victimisation. With attention to the manner in which online gambling can be a source of criminal activity, not only on the part of players, but also criminal entrepreneurs and legitimate gambling businesses, Online Gambling and Crime discusses developments in criminal law and regulatory frameworks, evaluating past and present policy on online gambling. A rich examination of the prevalence, incidence and experience of a range of criminal activities linked to gambling on the Internet, this book will appeal to scholars and policy makers in the fields of sociology and criminology, law, the study of culture and subculture, risk, health studies and social policy.Read more
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The Politics of Language
A provocative case for the inherently political nature of language
In The Politics of Language, David Beaver and Jason Stanley present a radical new approach to the theory of meaning, offering an account of communication in which political and social identity, affect, and shared practices play as important a role as information. This new view of language, they argue, has dramatic consequences for free speech, democracy, and a range of other areas in which speech plays a central role.
Drawing on a wealth of disciplines, The Politics of Language argues that the function of speech―whether in dialogue, larger group interactions, or mass communication―is to attune people to something, be it a shared reality, emotion, or identity. Reconceptualizing the central ideas of pragmatics and semantics, Beaver and Stanley apply their account to a range of phenomena that defy standard frameworks in linguistics and philosophy of language―from dog whistles and covert persuasion to echo chambers and genocidal speech. The authors use their framework to show that speech is inevitably political because all communication is imbued with the resonances of particular ideologies and their normative perspectives on reality.
At a time when democracy is under attack, authoritarianism is on the rise, and diversity and equality are being demanded, The Politics of Language offers a powerful new vision of the language of politics, ideology, and protest.
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Central Asia in Art: From Soviet Orientalism to the New Republics
In the midst of the space race and nuclear age, Soviet Realist artists were producing figurative oil paintings. Why? How was art produced to control and co-opt the peripheries of the Soviet Union, particularly Central Asia? Presenting the ‘untold story’ of Soviet Orientalism, Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in the USSR alongside the creation of new art forms in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. From the turmoil of the 1930s through to the post-Stalinist era, the author draws on meticulous new research and rich illustrations to examine the political and social structures in the Soviet Union – and particularly Soviet Central Asia – to establish vital connections between Socialist Realist visual art, the creation of Soviet identity and later nationalist sentiments.Read more
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Catholic Missionaries in Early Modern Asia: Patterns of Localization (Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World)
Over recent decades, historians have become increasingly interested in early modern Catholic missions in Asia as laboratories of cultural contact. This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions, which has shown that missionaries in Asia cooperated with and accommodated the needs of local agents rather than being uncompromising promoters of post-Tridentine doctrine and devotion.
Bringing together some of the most renowned and innovative researchers from Anglophone countries and continental Europe, this volume investigates how missionaries’ entanglements with local societies across Asia contributed to processes of localization within the early modern Catholic church. The focus of the volume is on missionaries’ adaptation to four ideal-typical social settings that played an eminent role in early modern Asian missions: (1) the symbolically loaded princely court; (2) the city as a space of especially dense communication; (3) the countryside, where missionary presence was only rarely permanent; (4) and the household – a central arena of conversion in early modern Asian societies.
Shining a fresh light onto the history of early modern Catholic missions and the early modern Eurasian cultural exchange, this will be an important book for any scholar of religious history, history of cultural contact/global history and early modern history in Asia.
Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
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Hezbollah: A Regional Armed Non-State Actor (Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics)
This book examines Hezbollah’s transition from a domestic into a regional armed non-state actor (ANSA). Taking its point of departure in Hezbollah’s historiography on the military and political levels in Lebanon, it focuses on the participation of Hezbollah’s troops in Syria’s sect-coded civil war.
Initially limited, Hezbollah’s intervention in the Syrian conflict gradually increased into a full-scale engagement across vast swathes of Syrian territory, with Hezbollah instrumentalizing its sectarian (Shiʿa) identity to justify its engagement. Sect-centric narratives and victimhood were a mere tool for what was a geopolitical confrontation, and Hezbollah’s involvement launched it to becoming a regional ANSA. The book outlines that this transition was only plausible because of the interplay between three factors: Hezbollah’s sectarian mobilization and instrumentalization of its sectarian identity; the shift into a quasi-army combining classical with guerrilla tactics and formations; and its embedding as a partner in the axis which now extends from Beirut to Tehran. It was in 2018 that a set of conditions, impossible to reproduce, allowed Hezbollah to reach its culmination on both the domestic and regional theatres. This book shows that ANSAs are playing prominent roles in the regional order in the Middle East.
Meticulously researched, Hezbollah is a comprehensive study ideal for upper-level undergraduates and above with an interest in Middle East studies, Middle East politics, and international relations.
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Analysing Sign Language Poetry
This new study is a major contribution to sign language study and to literature generally, looking at the complex grammatical, phonological and morphological systems of sign language linguistic structure and their role in sign language poetry and performance. Chapters deal with repetition and rhyme, symmetry and balance, neologisms, ambiguity, themes, metaphor and allusion, poem and performance, and blending English and sign language poetry. Major poetic performances in both BSL and ASL – with emphasis on the work of the deaf poet Dorothy Miles – are analysed using the tools provided in the book.Read more
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Pole Dance Fitness: The Complete Book
Pole Dance Fitness is a guide to performing the best pole dance exercises to create one intense workout. The book contains specific information, practical descriptions, and full-color photos designed to help the reader understand the best approach for each exercise, movement, trick, or spin. Included also are detailed exercise sets to create your own best workout as well as information on stretching before and after performing the pole dance tricks. The workouts are designed to progress as your conditioning and fitness progresses, lowering the risk of injury. Technical notes for each pole figure and spin relate to its level of difficulty so you won`t find yourself performing an exercise that is beyond your ability. Not just a workout, the unique composition of the pole dance transitions combine to create different dance and acrobatic routines so not only will you improve your body posture and alignment and your overall fitness, you will also have a great time doing itRead more
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The Ultimate Dance Business Planner: Dated 2023/2024, Keep Focus, Make Goals, Evaluate and Build your Dance School with Purpose
The Ultimate Dance Business Planner is not just any planner it is a planner for dance business owners who like to keep focused, make goals, evaluate their business and feel purposeful and motivated to build their schools.
The dance planner is created by dance business expert and multi-passionate dancepreneur Deborah Laws. Deborah is on a mission to help dance school owners see themselves as business owners/ founders and company directors and not just dance teachers.
Through Deborah’s cleverly designed planner, not only will you have a new desk organiser to keep everything in one place, but you will be prompted to create strategies to grow your school, be mindful of keeping on track with your goals and stay focussed with guided to-do lists. This planner is fully dated and runs from August 2023 – July 2024.
It’s like having your very own business mentor by your desk!
Day-per-page diary, including goals and to-do lists
Create monthly strategies to work savvy and balanced in your business using Deborah’s special S.T.A.R.S systemMap out your yearly events and campaigns for retention and attraction
Evaluate specific dance business-related criteria each month and track growthBe inspired by weekly motivational quotesNot only do you get all of the above but you now get Deborah’s exclusive monthly mini pieces of training and tips on growing and managing your school via the QR codes at the start of each month. Your book is now packed full of fabulous content that makes it so much more than just a business planner. Enjoy!
This year could be your most organised, successful and profitable year yet with your Ultimate Dance Business Planner by your side!
This 394 page Planner is 8″ x 10″, paperback and full colour throughout
Printed on bold white paper and with a book industry-perfect binding and a beautiful matt cover, the crisp white paper has a quality that minimises ink bleed-through.
This book is suitable for pen or pencil.
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Gym Bodies: Exploring Fitness Cultures (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society)
Drawing on empirical research, this fascinating new book explores the embodied experiences of ‘gym goers’ and the fitness cultures that are constructed within gyms and fitness spaces.
Gym Bodies offers a personal, interactive, ethnographic account of the multiplicity of contemporary gym practices, spaces and cultures, including bodybuilding, CrossFit and Spinning. It argues that gym bodies are historically constructed, social, sensual, emotional and political; that experience intersects with multiple embodied identities; and that fitness cultures are profoundly important in shaping the body in wider contemporary culture.
This is important reading for students, tutors and researchers working in sport and exercise studies, sociology of the body, health studies, leisure, cultural studies, gender and education. It is also a valuable resource for policy makers and practitioners within the fields of sport, leisure, health and education.
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CIMA BA3 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting: Course Book
The Course Book provides all the knowledge required in a user friendly format with easy navigation. It is specifically designed to make your studies as effective and efficient as possible throughout.Read more
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Nursing in Care Homes 2e
Nursing in Care Homes is a practical guide for nurses of all levels working in care homes. It is directly relevant to everyday practice and covers clinical issues such as continence care, wound care, infection control, and nutrition, as well as information on a wide range of issues including legal requirements, care home standards, and liasing with social and health care services. The revised and updated second edition includes new chapters on maximising abilities, risk management, stroke, and diabetes and calls upon the recommendations of the National Service Framework for Older People and the requirements of the Care Standards Act (2002).Concise and easy to follow, Nursing in Care Homes is an essential guide to skilled professional care for all nurses in care homes. It will also be invaluable to nursing students undertaking their placements in care homes.
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Joan Mitchell
A sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that shaped herJoan Mitchell (1925–1992) was fearless in her experimentation, creating works of unparalleled beauty, strength, and emotional intensity. This gorgeous book unfolds the story of an artistic master of the highest order, revealing the ways she expanded abstract painting and illuminating the transatlantic contexts that shaped her. Lavish illustrations cover the full arc of her artistic practice, from her exceptional New York paintings of the early 1950s to the majestic multipanel compositions she made in France later in her career. Signature works are represented here along with rarely seen paintings, works on paper, artist’s sketchbooks, and photographs of Mitchell’s life, social circle, and surroundings.
Featuring scholarly texts, in-depth essays, and artistic and literary responses, this book is organized in ten chronological chapters. Each chapter centers on a closely related suite of paintings, illuminating a shifting inner landscape colored by experience, sensation, memory, and a deep sense of place. Presenting groundbreaking research and a variety of perspectives on her art, life, and connections to poetry and music, this unprecedented volume is an essential reference for Mitchell’s admirers and those just discovering her work.Published in association with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Exhibition Schedule:
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(September 4, 2021–January 17, 2022)
Baltimore Museum of Art
(March 6–August 14, 2022)
Fondation Louis Vuitton
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Animate to Harmony: The Independent Animator’s Guide to Toon Boom
Want to create studio-quality work and get noticed? Just coming off Flash and looking for a Toon Boom intro? Are you a traditional pencil-and-paper animator? From scene setup to the final render, learn how to navigate the Toon Boom interface to create animation that can be published on a variety of platforms and formats.
Animate to Harmony guides you through Toon Boom’s Animate, Animate Pro and Harmony programs, teaching you how to create high-quality 2D animation of all complexities. The main text focuses onfeatures that are common across all three programs while “Advanced Techniques” boxes throughout the book elaborate on Pro and Harmony features, appealing to all levels of experience with any of the three main Toon Boom products.
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Kurt Jackson’s Sea
For Kurt Jackson (b.1961), Painting the sea could become an obsession, an entire oeuvre in its own right, an endless life absorbing task. And, as this book attests, Jackson s dedication to capturing its constant shape shifting stillness to thundering force, shallows to mysterious depths have brought forth paintings that communicate the sea’s ebb and flow, its magic and elusiveness.
Kurt Jackson’s Sea captures the beauty of the artist’s constantly evolving relationship with one of nature’s most challenging subjects. Two hundred colour images complement Jackson’s reflections on his interactions with inspirational coastal landscapes – largely experienced in his native Cornwall, but stretching way beyond the county too.
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BTEC Nationals Sport and Exercise Science Student Book + Activebook: For the 2016 specifications (BTEC Nationals Sport and Exercise Science 2016)
Updates to BTEC National Set Tasks for external assessment – April 2017
As a result of feedback from the Department for Education Pearson have made updates to the Set Tasks for some BTEC National qualifications. Therefore subsequent changes have been made to this product.If you have purchased this book before 13th April 2017, details of these changes can be found here. [link to www.pearsonfe.co.uk/BTECchanges]. Corrected copies will be available to purchase by June 2017.
The Student Book and ActiveBook has clearly laid out pages with a range of supportive features to aid learning and teaching:
• Getting to know your unit sections ensure learners understand the grading criteria and unit requirements.
• Getting ready for assessment sections focus on preparation for external assessment with guidance for learners on what to expect. Hints and tips will help them prepare for assessment and sample answers are provided for a range of question types including, short and long answer questions, all with a supporting commentary.
• Pause point features provide opportunities for learners to self-evaluate their learning at regular intervals. Each Pause point feature gives learners a Hint or Extend option to either revisit and reinforce the topic or encourage independent research or further study skills.
• Case study and Theory into practice features enable development of problem-solving skills and place the theory into real life situations learners could encounter.
• Assessment practice features provide scaffolded activities that help prepare learners for assessment. Within each assessment practice activity, a Plan, Do and Review section supports learners’ formative assessment by to making sure they fully understand what they are being asked to do, what their goals are and how to evaluate the task and consider how they could improve.
• Dedicated Think future pages provide case studies from the industry, with a focus on aspects of skills development that can be put into practice in a real work environment and further study.
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Law for Business Students
Explore the key aspects of business law through accessible, engaging real-life cas
Law for Business Students, 12th edition, by Adams, Caplan and Lockwood provides you with contemporary and comprehensive coverage of the fundamental legal principles relating to the business environment. It introduces legal concepts to non-law students in a practical and engaging way through real-life cases relevant to the business world. The book offers a range of features to help you understand, apply and analyse legal concepts, including scenarios to encourage the development of opinions and application of relevant legal concepts. The ‘Worth thinking about’ sections provide discussion points to analyse within the classroom, while ‘Exam tips’ help revision practice by pointing to areas of the law which are likely to appear in exam questions.
The new edition has been thoroughly updated to cover legal developments in a range of diverse areas relevant to the core topics of law: contract (including intellectual property), tort, employment and business organisations (including formation), governance, and dissolution. It reflects the changes in the law as a result of Brexit, as well as Covid litigation arising in relation to employment rights.
This title also has a Companion Website.
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Communicable Diseases: A Global Perspective, 6th Edition
Completely updated and revised, and now published in its 6th edition, this book includes 20 chapters providing an essential overview of infectious diseases for almost 25 years. A comprehensive yet synoptic account of infectious diseases, it covers theory, epidemiology and control, then systematically groups diseases by their main means of transmission. There are special chapters on infections in pregnancy and the concern of new and emerging diseases, and an annex lists all 353 diseases in an easy reference table. This edition includes updates to all chapters and a new section on melioidosis. It provides information concisely so it can be found at a glance, includes numerous clear diagrams, bullet points and tables for rapid review and learning, and contains a new full-colour internal design and online lecture slides to facilitate teaching. This book is an essential resource for physicians, medical students and all those in public health, and for healthcare workers needing a comprehensive yet concise practical text.Read more
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Harry Potter Children’s Collection: The Complete Collection
‘One of the greatest literary adventures of modern times’ – Sunday Telegraph
‘Teachers say a chapter can silence the most rowdy of classes’ – Guardian
‘That rare thing, a series of stories adored by parents and children alike’ – Daily Telegraph
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Celebrate 25 years of Harry Potter’s spellbinding adventures with this magical boxed set of J.K. Rowling’s classic seriesEscape to Hogwarts with the unmissable series that has sparked a lifelong reading journey for children and families all over the world!
Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry’s eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news – Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The magic starts here .
These irresistible paperback editions, presented in a gorgeous slipcase featuring Hogwarts, are the essential Harry Potter. A must have for every child at the start of the most magical reading adventure. These books are to be treasured and read time and time again, as readers lose themselves in the greatest children’s story of all time.
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Hayao Miyazaki
A richly illustrated journey through the extraordinary cinematic worlds of beloved filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki A New York Magazine 2021 holiday gift guide pick For over four decades, Hayao Miyazaki has been enchanting audiences of all ages. His animated films, often featuring children navigating unfamiliar and challenging worlds, offer timeless explorations of youth and what it means to grow up. Celebrated and admired around the globe for his artistic vision, craftsmanship and deeply humanistic values, Miyazaki has influenced generations of artists. The universal appeal of his evocative natural settings and complex characters, many among them strong girls and young women, cuts across cultural boundaries. This book is published on the occasion of the 2021 inaugural exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles, in collaboration with Studio Ghibli in Tokyo. It accompanies the first ever retrospective dedicated to the legendary filmmaker in North America and introduces hundreds of original production materials, including artworks never before seen outside of Studio Ghibli’s archives. Concept sketches, character designs, storyboards, layouts, backgrounds and production cels from his early career through all 11 of his feature films, including My Neighbor Totoro (1988), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Princess Mononoke (1997), Spirited Away (2001) and Howl’s Moving Castle (2004), offer insight into Miyazaki’s creative process and masterful animation techniques.Read more
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Techniques of the World’s Great Painters (A QED book)
From the frescoes of Giotto to the contemporary works of David Hockney, a sampling of fifty of the world’s greatest artists, representing each major movement and time period, focuses on particular brush work and blendings of color to expose how they achieved their stylistic effects.Read more
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Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine (Oxford Medical Handbooks)
Fully revised for its third edition, the Oxford Handbook of Expedition and Wilderness Medicine continues to be the essential resource for all expedition medics and well-informed travellers, as well as nurses, paramedics, medical students, and other expedition members travelling in remote, wilderness areas of the world.Now containing more guidance about caving medicine, the third edition includes revised and additional illustrations and essential maps of the spread of diseases. Clear and concise, readers can rely on this handbook to provide the key knowledge and practical advice they need. It enables efficient preparation and planning before the journey, advises on camp logistics, risk management, and medical problems during the expedition, as well as highlighting rare but important risks to those visiting remote areas. Focusing on preventative measures, it also contains chapters dealing with crisis management, emergency care, and evacuation from challenging environments, with guidance about the obligations of a clinician joining an expedition, ethical approaches to such work, and medicine in various extreme environments.
This edition will give you the confidence and skills you need to travel to any extreme or remote environment. Incorporating the combined knowledge and experience of a team of experienced clinicians and expeditioners, this is a practical, easy-to-use guide to all aspects of expedition and wilderness medicine.
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Learning Scientific Programming with Python
Learn to master basic programming tasks from scratch with real-life, scientifically relevant examples and solutions drawn from both science and engineering. Students and researchers at all levels are increasingly turning to the powerful Python programming language as an alternative to commercial packages and this fast-paced introduction moves from the basics to advanced concepts in one complete volume, enabling readers to gain proficiency quickly. Beginning with general programming concepts such as loops and functions within the core Python 3 language, and moving on to the NumPy, SciPy and Matplotlib libraries for numerical programming and data visualization, this textbook also discusses the use of Jupyter Notebooks to build rich-media, shareable documents for scientific analysis. The second edition features a new chapter on data analysis with the pandas library and comprehensive updates, and new exercises and examples. A final chapter introduces more advanced topics such as floating-point precision and algorithm stability, and extensive online resources support further study. This textbook represents a targeted package for students requiring a solid foundation in Python programming.Read more
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Practical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury: A Guide for Working Clinicians (The Brain Injuries Series)
The book aims to acknowledge the complexity of working with clients who have an acquired brain injury but aims to give the interested reader practical and useable guides to develop their practice. Throughout the text, case studies and practical suggestions are forwarded to facilitate do-able practice. It is hoped that the book will become a gold standard in this particular area and is aimed at a range of professionals in training (for those responsible providing training in psychopathology, neuropsychology and psychotherapy), and those who have an interest in working with the issues commonly seen post acute brain injury rehabilitation settings.Read more
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Foundations of Adult Nursing
Covering the issues, themes and principles that explain what it means to be a nurse today, this book provides the theory you need to know and applies it to the diverse patient groups and settings that you will encounter on your placements.
Key features of the book are:
· Introduces the core aspects of adult nursing
· An evidence-based approach with discussion of literature, policy and research and suggested further reading for every chapter
· Over 30 case scenarios to help you understand the realities of practice across a range of settings including primary care and the community
· Activity boxes which challenge assumptions and encourage reflection
The book has been closely developed in line with the latest NMC Standards and Essential Skills Clusters and supports you across your entire degree programme as you develop into nurses of the future ready to deliver and lead care.
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Adobe Illustrator CC A Complete Course and Compendium of Features: 3
Adobe Illustrator: A Complete Course and Compendium of Features is your guide to building vector graphics, whether you’re creating logos, icons, drawings, typography, or other illustrations–and regardless of their destination: print, web, video, or mobile. First, with a complete Course that includes a set of projects and lessons derived from Adobe Certified Instructor Jason Hoppe, you will learn the procedures needed to use Illustrator effectively and professionally. Dozens of lessons are included that can be applied to any graphics you have in mind. Through these step-by-step lessons, you’ll be exposed to all of Illustrator’s features in practical contexts and its best practices for optimal workflows.
To complete the Course, we’ll supply lesson documents and their assets to download. These can even serve as starting points for your own projects.
Then, for greater depth of knowledge and subsequent reference, you’ll use the Compendium to uncover more of the “how” and “why” of Illustrator. With each topic easy to access, you can find and explore all of Illustrator’s key features and concepts in depth. With cross references between the Course and Compendium, the two parts of the book complement each other perfectly. Best of all, when the lessons in the Course are done, the Compendium will continue to serve for months and years to come.
Learn step by step how to:
– Draw basic shapes and lines
– Build graphics using Illustrator’s deep and diverse toolset
– Create complex icons using the Pathfinder and Shape Builder
– Use color with predictable and harmonic results
– Work effectively with type
– And much more!
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Production Pipeline Fundamentals for Film and Games
Every production is built on the backbone of the pipeline. While a functional and flexible pipeline can’t assure a successful project, a weak pipeline can guarantee its demise. A solid pipeline produces a superior product in less time and with happier artists who can remain creative throughout the grueling production schedule.
Walk through the foundational layers of the production pipeline, including IT infrastructure, software development practices and deployment policies, asset management, shot management, and rendering management. Production Pipeline Fundamentals for Film and Games will teach you how to direct limited resources to the right technological initiatives, getting the most for every dollar spent.
- Learn how to prepare for and manage all aspects of the pipeline with this entirely unique, one-of-a-kind guide.
- Expand your knowledge with real-world pipeline secrets handed to you by a stellar group of professionals from across the globe.
- Visit the companion website for even further resources on the pipeline.
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Gordon Ramsay’s Three Star Chef
Gordon Ramsay’s no-holds-barred television persona has garnered widespread attention both stateside and abroad, but his food continues to be his greatest achievement. His passion for fresh ingredients is fully apparent in this collection of fifty classic Ramsay recipes. Describing both the restaurant methods for preparation, along with a down-to-earth guide to recreating the dishes at home, this beautifully photographed book showcases Ramsay’s immense talent. Including Gordon’s signature Lobster Ravioli, Corn Reared Beef Fillet with Marrow Crust, Ginger Mousse and a Bitter Chocolate Cylinder with Coffee Granite, this cookbook is both a valuable cook’s resource and an arresting look at a man who has been dubbed the best chef of his generation.”Read more
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Alex Rider The Graphic Novel Collection 6 Books Box Set by Anthony Horowitz (Stormbreaker, Point Blanc, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia & Ark Angel)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:Alex Rider The Graphic Novel Collection 6 Books Box Set by Anthony Horowitz:
Stormbreaker The Graphic Novel:
Forcibly recruited into MI6 after the mysterious death of his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex is sent to infiltrate the organization of a sinister billionaire. Within days he’s gone from schoolboy to superspy.Point Blanc Graphic Novel:
Investigations into the “accidental” deaths of two of the world’s most powerful men have revealed just one link: both had a son attending Point Blanc Academy, a school for rebellious rich kids run by the sinister Dr Grief and set high in the French Alps.Skeleton Key Graphic Novel:
The hazy days of Wimbledon are the unlikely first link in a terrifying chain of events. Alex Rider, reluctant teenage spy, is forced into hiding after his recce mission as a ballboy makes him a target for a murderous Chinese gang.Eagle Strike Graphic Novel:
Relaxing in the south of France, reluctant MI6 agent Alex Rider is finally able to feel like any ordinary fourteen-year-old – until a sudden, ruthless attack on his hosts plunges him back into a world of violence and mystery.Scorpia The Graphic Novel:
Alex Rider series by Anthony Horowitz, teenage spy Alex travels to Venice to discover the truth about his past. But the truth lies with a criminal organization known as Scorpia, and Alex must make a choice.Ark Angel The Graphic Novel:
Alex Rider is in hospital and determined to put his spying days behind him. But he is forced back into action when the vicious terrorist group Force Three takes him prisoner. Alex makes his escape – yet his most perilous adventure is only just beginning.Read more
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A/AS Level Computer Science for OCR Student Book (A Level Comp 2 Computer Science OCR)
Written for the OCR A/AS Level Computer Science specifications for first teaching from 2015, this print student book helps students build their knowledge and master underlying computing principles and concepts. The student book develops computational thinking, programming and problem-solving skills. Suitable for all abilities, it puts computing into context and gives students a real-life view on professional applications of computing skills. Answers to end-of-chapter questions are located in the free online teacher’s resource. A Cambridge Elevate enhanced edition is also available.Read more
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