Children's Empowerment in Play: Participation, Voice and Ownership (Canning Natalie)(Paperback)

Children's Empowerment in Play: Participation, Voice and Ownership (Canning Natalie)(Paperback)

Children's Empowerment in Play is an accessible insight into the vital place of play in children's development. The book focuses on three main themes of participation, voice and ownership, and explores ways to positively and naturally develop play in early years settings. Drawing on primary

Outdoor Learning and Play: Pedagogical Practices and Children's Cultural Formation (Grindheim LIV Torunn)(Paperback)

This Open Access book examines children's participation in dialectical reciprocity with place-based institutional practices by presenting empirical research from Australia, Brazil, China, Poland, Norway and Wales. Underpinned by cultural-historical theory, the analysis reveals how outdoors and

Young Children's Play and Creativity: Multiple Voices (Goodliff Gill)(Paperback)

This book draws on the voices of practitioners, academics and researchers to examine young children's play, creativity and the participatory nature of their learning. Bringing together a wide range of perspectives from the UK and internationally, it focuses on the level of engagement and

BTEC Level 2 Firsts in Children's Play, Learning and Development Student Book (Tassoni Penny)(Paperback / softback)

Young Children's Play: Development, Disabilities, and Diversity (Trawick-Smith Jeffrey)(Paperback)

Young Children's Play: Development, Disabilities, and Diversity is an accessible, comprehensive introduction to play and development from birth to age eight that introduces readers to various play types and strategies and helps them determine when intervention might be needed. Skillfully addressing

Trauma and Play Therapy: Helping Children Heal (Goodyear-Brown Paris)(Paperback)

Trauma and Play Therapy synthesizes new developments in the study of children's trauma recovery to assist clinicians in combining play therapy with other powerful ways of addressing the needs of hurt children. The TraumaPlayTM model, formerly known as Flexibly Sequential Play Therapy, equips

Pagan Portals - Intuitive Magic Practice (Clarke Natalia)(Paperback)

A guide and companion on an individual journey to true self-empowerment through reclaiming the power of intuition, this book celebrates who you are, utilizes intuition, nature principles and elements and puts YOU and your magical practice at the centre. Aimed at beginners, Pagan Portals - Intuitive

Children's Picturebooks: The Art of Visual Storytelling (Salisbury Martin)(Paperback)

Children's picturebooks are the very first book we encounter and play a major role in introducing us to both art and language. But what does it take to create a successful picturebook for children? Children's Picturebooks, Second Edition is the revised edition of a bestselling title that carries

Thousand Ships (Haynes Natalie)(Paperback / softback)

In A Thousand Ships, broadcaster and classicist Natalie Haynes retells the story of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective, for fans of Madeline Miller and Pat Barker. This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night, a woman wakes

Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices (Shewell Christina)(Paperback)

Voice Work: Art and Science in Changing Voices is a key work that addresses the theoretical and experiential aspects common to the practical vocal work of the three major voice practitioner professions - voice training, singing teaching, and speech and language pathology.The first half of the book

The Rise and Fall of Little Voice - A Play (Cartwright Jim)(Paperback)

Blown fuses, real and metaphorical, punctuate the action with flashes of pent up energy in this acclaimed play. The diminutive heroine frequently plunges the dilapidated house she shares with her alcoholic mother into darkness by playing her dead father's records at a volume matched only by the

Your Voice in My Head (Forrest Emma)(Paperback / softback)

A dazzling and devastating memoir exploring breakdown and obsessive love, in a voice unlike any

Amina's Voice (Khan Hena)(Paperback)

A Washington Post Best Children's Book of 2017 'For inspiring empathy in young readers, you can't get better than this book.' --R. J. Palacio, author of #1 New York Timesbestseller Wonder 'Amina's anxieties are entirely relatable, but it's her sweet-hearted nature that makes her such a winning

Becoming and Being a Play Therapist: Play Therapy in Practice (Ayling Peter)(Paperback)

Becoming and Being a Play Therapist: Play Therapy in Practice presents a rich and illuminating account of current play therapy practice, with an emphasis on becoming and being a play therapist and on some of the varied clinical contexts in which play therapists work. Written by members of British

Coping with Diverticulitis: Soothe and Heal Your Gut (Cartwright Peter)(Paperback)

'A major step in patient education and participation in the management of diverticulitis' - Professor Frank A. Frizelle Diverticular disease (DD) is a digestive disorder caused by enflamed diverticula, or pouches, in the colon. A common cause is constipation due to lack of fibre in the diet

Digital Play in Early Childhood: What′s the Problem? (Sakr Mona)(Paperback)

Critically examining the fears that commonly surround young children′s play involving digital technologies, this book seeks to address each of the negatives and present the positive possibilities of technology when it comes to early childhood. Using observations of children in play and

Marrying Young in Indonesia - Voices, Laws and Practices(Paperback / softback)

Blackball (Pinckney Darryl)(Paperback / softback)

Blackballed is Darryl Pinckney's meditation on a century and a half of participation by blacks in US electoral politics. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, he investigates the struggle for black voting rights from Reconstruction

Chasing Masculinity: Men, Validation, and Infidelity (Walker Alicia M.)(Paperback)

This book analyzes men's experiences and perceptions regarding their participation in infidelity and offers a glimpse into the inner workings of their most intimate relationships, as well as the ways men negotiate marriages that fall short of their expectations.Using a sample collected from the

Wise Owl and Barn Owl (Canning Angela)(Paperback / softback)

By finding an injured pigeon in The Strand, two amazing variety club artists, Louis and Yvonne Veness, first began to care for wild creatures. Upon their move to Berkshire, they started up their own Newbury wildlife hospital, knowing of no other in the country.Foxes, badgers, deer, squirrels, a

Supporting Self-directed Play in Steiner-Waldorf Early Childhood Education (Long-Breipohl Renate)(Pamphlet)

An important overview on supporting children's play, and different types of self-directed

The Problim Children: Island in the Stars (Lloyd Natalie)(Paperback)

Mystery and mayhem abound in the final book in New York Times bestselling author Natalie Lloyd's middle grade series, as the Problim siblings board a pirate ship to rescue their missing Mama and baby brother from the villainous Cheesebreath, now available in paperback.Problim Children to the rescue

Real Property in Australia: Foundations and Applications (Hefferan Michael J.)(Paperback)

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth. Such assets do not exist in isolation - they are dynamic and forever evolving, impacted by a range of physical, economic, demographic, legal and

Rethinking Children's Rights: Attitudes in Contemporary Society (Jones Phil)(Paperback)

Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and