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Children and the Internet
Wiley 2013; US$ 26.95Is the internet really transforming children and young people’s lives? Is the so-called ‘digital generation’ genuinely benefiting from exciting new opportunities? And, worryingly, facing new risks? This major new book by a leading researcher addresses these pressing questions. It deliberately avoids a techno-celebratory approach... more...
La valutazione funzionale del paziente con scompenso cardiaco cronico
SEEd Srl 2009; US$ 14.51Il testo offre una panoramica sui metodi che si possono utilizzare in ambito clinico per la valutazione funzionale del paziente con scompenso cardiaco cronico. Particolare attenzione č riservata ai pazienti con disabilitā avanzata che sono in aumento nella popolazione generale e non si prestano ai test di valutazione classici a causa della loro ridotta... more...
Managing Professional Development in Schools
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 63.95The importance of professional development for teachers cannot be overstated. In recent years there has been much debate on how to raise standards in schools and it is now recognised by theorists, policy-makers and practitioners that the professional development of teachers is an important factor in this context. For professional development co-ordinators... more...
Managing Discipline in Schools
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 57.95The management of discipline is an essential element in educational practice, and at a time when teachers and managers are anxious about reported increases in violence and other forms of anti-social behaviour there's a need for practical guidance and a review of current thinking. Based on the author's experience and research in a range of secondary... more...
Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Japan and National Anthropology: A Critique is an empirically rich and theoretically sophisticated study which challenges the conventional view of Japanese studies in general and the Anglophone anthropological writings on Japan in particular. Sonia Ryang explores the process by which the postwar anthropology of Japan has come to be dominated by certain... more...
Young People and New Media
SAGE Publications 2002; US$ 65.00Combining a comprehensive literature review with original empirical research on young people's use of new media, this book provides a fresh and in-depth discussion of the increasingly complex relationship between the media and childhood, the family and the home. more...
Enrique's Journey
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 16.00In this astonishing true story, award-winning journalist Sonia Nazario recounts the unforgettable odyssey of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States. When Enrique is five years old, his mother, Lourdes, too poor to feed her children, leaves Honduras to work in the United States. The move allows... more...
Audiences and Publics
Intellect 2005; US$ 10.00In today?s thoroughly mass-mediated world, audiences and publics are, of course, composed of the same people. Yet social science traditionally treats them quite differently. Indeed, it is commonplace to define audiences in opposition to the public: in both popular and elite discourses, audiences are denigrated as trivial, passive, individualised, while... more...
Ghost, Interrupted
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99There's Scott Wilder: The founder of the firm, Scott has a head for business and a passion for the paranormal. His motto is: Ghosts don't kill people. Running away from ghosts, tripping and breaking your neck in the process, kills people. There's Anjali Kumar: A reluctant psychic, Anjali can communicate with the dead but can't beat the house... more...
World-Wide Shakespeares
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 38.95Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare?s plays in film and performance around the world. In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions and contexts.... more...









