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  • Finding Bicycles

    by Heather Piper ...
    In a future many years following the collapse of the technical age and a return of many societies to the simple ways of the Middle Ages, Rosalind tells you the story as she lives her life between being a member of a community of women who follow the ways of the Earth Mother and the avid traveler seeing the world with her Father. From a rather precarious event as a young girl on her way to be ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Moral Panic in Physical Education and Coaching

    Edited by Heather Piper, Dean Garratt, Bill Taylor ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society – Contemporary Perspectives
    This book focuses on sports coaching and sports teaching and how touching young sports participants has been redefined as dubious and dangerous. Coaches are constrained by a framework of regulations and guidelines which create anxiety, and many coaches now question the risks and benefits of their continuing involvement. The book includes some data from a recently completed ESRC project: (‘Hands ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Ethics and Academic Freedom in Educational Research

    Edited by Pat Sikes, Heather Piper ...
    Formal ethical review of research proposals is now almost the default requirement for all – staff and students – planning research under the auspices of colleges and universities in many parts of the world. With notable exceptions, the extant literature discussing educational research ethics takes a meta-ethical overview, is negatively critical about the ethics review process per se, or comes from ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Touch in Sports Coaching and Physical Education

    Fear, Risk and Moral Panic

    Edited by Heather Piper ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society
    In our increasingly risk-averse society, touch and touching behaviours between professionals and children have become a fraught issue. In sports coaching and physical education, touching young sports performers and participants has, in some contexts, come to be redefined as dubious and dangerous. Coaches find themselves operating in a framework of regulations and guidelines that create anxiety, ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Don't Touch!

    The Educational Story of a Panic

    by Heather Piper, Ian Stronach ...
    This book explores the problems involved in ‘touching’ children in an educational environment. It uses real-life examples taken from groundbreaking research into the mentality of today’s risk culture, and highlights a maddening state of affairs in which ordinary well-meaning professionals feel they cannot offer even very young children basic levels of comforting or affection.This fascinating and ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Researching Sex and Lies in the Classroom

    Allegations of Sexual Misconduct in Schools

    by Pat Sikes, Heather Piper ...
    The Anglophone world is gripped by a moral panic centred on child abuse in general and fear of the paedophile in particular. Evidence suggests an alarming rise in the number of false allegations of sexual abuse being made against teachers, and demonstrates that the fallout from being falsely accused is far-reaching and sometimes tragic. Many people in this position cannot sustain family ... Read more

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    by S. M. Stirling ...
    Series Book 14 - A Novel of the Change
    S. M. Stirling’s Novels of the Change are a “truly original combination of postapocalyptic sci-fi and military-oriented medieval fantasy”* about a future where mysterious Powers removed advanced technology, and humanity rebuilds society. However, this new world is not always a peaceful one....The spirit of troubadour Prince John, the brother of Crown Princess Órlaith, has fallen captive to the ... Read more

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  • A Geisha for the American Consul (a short story)

    by Lesley Downer ...
    Two cultures. One man and one woman. One moment in time.Cultures collide when Okichi, a beautiful geisha, is sent to work for the American envoy in Japan. Age and pride meet youth and grace. How will she survive in a home where no one speaks her language, where she understands nothing and she must submit to a strange barbarian's will? ... Read more

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  • When the River Sleeps

    by Easterine Kire ...
    A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams: to wrest from its sleeping waters a stone that will give him untold power. It is a dangerous quest, for not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses and daemons of the forest, there are men armed with guns on his trail. Easterine Kire’s novel transports the reader to the remote mountains of Nagaland, a place alive ... Read more

    $6.29 USD

  • Beauty's Sister: Penguin Special

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    by James Bradley ...
    Juniper, living deep in the forest with her parents, is stunned to discover that the beautiful girl living isolated in a nearby tower is her sister. When the two girls meet, what begins as a fascination and a friendship ultimately develops into something truly sinister.A story of jealousy, passion and power, Beauty's Sister is a dark and gripping reimagining of one of our oldest tales, Rapunzel, ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Under the Holy Lake

    A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan

    by Ken Haigh ...
    Series series Wayfarer
    Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a small high school, foreign travelers were as hard to find in the kingdom as telephones or toilet paper. Under the Holy Lake describes a two-year sojourn in the valley of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Little Mermaid: A Magic Beans Story

    by Linda Newbery ...
    The moving tale of a little mermaid, who was prepared to sacrifice everything for the love of a prince. This mesmerizing classic is one of the greatest love stories of all time.This story is a magic bean. It may not look much like a bean, but I can promise you that it is. For if you plant it in a young mind, it will grow into a love of story and reading. These beans are favourite fairytales and ... Read more

    $2.72 USD