The Insistence of the Letter Literacy Studies and Curriculum Theorizing Originally published in 1992. What kinds of literacy are appropriate for life and work in the late twentieth century? What historically is the relationship between curriculum and literacy and how is it changing? The essays in this book provide an innovative forum for discussion for what are often two quite distinct enterprises: literacy research and curriculum studies. They re-frame and redraw the traditional boundaries between these two disciplines examining socio-cultural theories and classroom practices in a diverse and lively debate. They explore readings of the modernist/postmodernist debate and specific studies in curriculum politics and history rhetoric language and literacy education media studies and educational linguistics. This multi-voiced anthology brings together researchers from Australia the United Kingdom Canada and the United States in a common critical reassessment of the curriculum/literacy nexus. | The Insistence of the Letter Literacy Studies and Curriculum Theorizing GBP 4.99 1
When Happiness Had a Holiday: Helping Families Improve and Strengthen their Relationships A Therapeutic Storybook For effective use this book should be purchased alongside the professional guidebook. Both books can be purchased together as a set When Happiness Had a Holiday: Helping Families Improve and Strengthen their Relationships [9780367860547] This beautifully illustrated therapeutic storybook has been designed to support children and families to strengthen their relationships using solution-focused brief therapy. Healthy and supportive family relationships are essential to mental health and as referrals to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services continue to rise growing research demonstrates the benefit of involving families in the treatment of children and young people facing emotional and mental health difficulties. The storybook explores the struggles faced by a typical family in which relationships have become more tense and conflictual. It can be used to spark discussion about the struggles faced by a family and the ways in which these struggles can be overcome when they work together. This book features: An engaging story with attractive illustrations enabling difficult issues to be explored in a child-friendly manner An accessible and relateable narrative that allows for a discussion of family difficulties without assigning blame Several suggestions for practical steps that can be taken to allow happiness to return to a family. This is a vital resource for social workers counsellors mental health professionals and individual and family psychotherapists working with families and children. Also available is an accompanying workbook with resources and activities: When Happiness Had a Holiday: Helping Families Improve and Strengthen their Relationships: A Professional Resource. | When Happiness Had a Holiday: Helping Families Improve and Strengthen their Relationships A Therapeutic Storybook GBP 7.99 1
Transformation of Economy as a Real Process An Insider's Perspective First published in 1998 this volume is a contribution to the economic analysis of post-communist transformation in an evolutionary-institutionalist approach. The author shows convincingly the role of path dependency of the ways history matters for the success of otherwise sound policies and highlights structural hindrances to fast and successful transformation. Thence emerges the key concept of strain. The book addresses the question of how to create conditions for sustainable development in societies where these are lacking and stresses the importance of institutional change. It also emphasises the role of sound banking institutions and proper regulations the crucial issue of financial vulnerability and fragility the role of reputation means to fight non-payments limit to optimal policies etc. The author covers a broad international literature and relates it to his insights as a local observer which delivers an interesting reading. | Transformation of Economy as a Real Process An Insider's Perspective GBP 4.99 1
Routledge Revivals: The Efficiency of New Issue Markets (1992) First published in 1992 The Efficiency of New Issue Markets provides a comprehensive overview of under-pricing and through this assess the efficiency of new issue markets. The book provides a further theoretical development of the adverse selection model of the new issue market and addresses the hypothesis that the method of distribution of new issues has an important bearing on the efficiency of these markets. In doing this the book tests the efficiency of the Offer for Sale new issue market which demonstrates the validity of the adverse selection model and contradicts the monopsony power hypothesis. This examines the relative efficiency of the new issue markets which demonstrates the importance of distribution in determining relative efficiency. | Routledge Revivals: The Efficiency of New Issue Markets (1992) GBP 4.99 1
Opinion Polls and Volatile Electorates Problems and Issues in Polling European Societies Published in 1998 Opinion Polls and Volatile Electorates presents a comparative overview of the development of opinion polling in late-capitalist and post-communist societies. The author considers two related issues to help readers understand the role of polls in political affairs and the prospects for polling in the the future. Firstly it is argued that there are certain tendencies unfolding in both late-capitalist and post-communist societies (which the author terms Complex Politics) which make polling an increasingly difficult activity. The processes affect the ability of polls to measure public opinion effectively and to contribute to political democratisation. Secondly the book examines whether polls extend or inhibit democratic processes. The long-standing debate between advocates and critics of polls is considered and applied to both large-capitalist and post-communist societies. It is concluded that while opinion polls may in certain ways improve democratic practices they can also be used by powerful special interest groups to frustrate these aims. | Opinion Polls and Volatile Electorates Problems and Issues in Polling European Societies GBP 6.99 1
August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone Herald Loomis you shining! You shining like new money! - Bynum Walker August Wilson considered Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (1984) to be his favourite play of the ten in his award-winning Pittsburgh Cycle. It is a drama that truly examines the roots crossroads and intersections of African American and African American culture. Its characters and choral griots interweave the intricate tropes of migration from the south to the north the effects of slavery black feminism and masculinity and Wilson's theme of finding one's song or identity. This book gives readers an overview of the work from its inception on through its revisions and stagings in regional theatres and on Broadway exploring its use of African American vernacular genres—blues music folk songs folk tales and dance—and nineteenth-century southern post-Reconstruction history. Ladrica Menson-Furr presents Joe Turner's Come and Gone as a historical drama a blues drama an American drama a Great Migration drama and the finest example of Wilson's gift for relocating the African American experience in urban southern cities at the beginning and not the end of the African American experience. | August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and Gone GBP 7.99 1