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Reflections from the Field

How Coaching Made Us Better Teachers

by Eric J. DeMeulenaere, Colette N. Cann, James E. McDermott, Chad R. Malone ...

The coaching metaphor first entered the educational literature over twenty-five year ago when Ted Sizer urged classroom teachers to model the pedagogical relationship between coaches and athletes. Yet, since then, educators have rarely drawn direct lessons from the athletic arena for their practice... until now. DeMeulenaere, Cann, Malone and McDermott, in this groundbreaking analysis, explore the ... Read more

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The coaching metaphor first entered the educational literature over twenty-five year ago when Ted Sizer urged classroom teachers to model the pedagogical relationship between coaches and athletes. Yet, since then, educators have rarely drawn direct lessons from the athletic arena for their practice... until now. DeMeulenaere, Cann, Malone and McDermott, in this groundbreaking analysis, explore the
... Read more
Romance in the Nudist Colony

Naturist Fiction for MSF, #2

by Ted Bun, Will Forest, Ana Jurić, Hannah Steenbock, Jacob M Drake, Stan Muir, James Gault, Matthew McDermott, Gregg B White, Andrew Calow, Linda Weber, Tanis Lang, Steve Wiiliams, Steve Green, Dave Zigzag, Fabien Barabé, Allen Knudsen ...

Series Book 2 - Naturist Fiction for MSF
The nude romance collection of this and any other year!Seventeen writers, eighteen stories, all with a common objective: portraying a romance at a naturist venue somewhere in the modern, Western world. Young love, love between seniors, love twixt people who have just met, the rekindling of old loves, laments for loves lost. They are all included.Naturist fiction is a relatively new genre where ... Read more

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The nude romance collection of this and any other year!Seventeen writers, eighteen stories, all with a common objective: portraying a romance at a naturist venue somewhere in the modern, Western world. Young love, love between seniors, love twixt people who have just met, the rekindling of old loves, laments for loves lost. They are all included.Naturist fiction is a relatively new genre where
... Read more
Playing Blackjack to Win

by Roger Baldwin, Wilbert Cantey, Herbert Maisel, James McDermott ...

This new edition of the rarest and most influential blackjack book in the history of the game brings together the most famous contributors in the game. Privately published in 1957 in an extremely limited quantity, this was the first book ever to print the correct winning strategies for the game of blackjack. This instant collectors item includes a foreword by blackjack legend Edward O. Thorp, ... Read more

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This new edition of the rarest and most influential blackjack book in the history of the game brings together the most famous contributors in the game. Privately published in 1957 in an extremely limited quantity, this was the first book ever to print the correct winning strategies for the game of blackjack. This instant collectors item includes a foreword by blackjack legend Edward O. Thorp,
... Read more
Artificial Intelligence Programming

by Eugene Charniak, Christopher K. Riesbeck, Drew V. McDermott, James R. Meehan ...

Artificial intelligence research has thrived in the years since this best-selling AI classic was first published. The revision encompasses these advances by adapting its coding to Common Lisp, the well-documented language standard, and by bringing together even more useful programming tools. Today's programmers in AI will find this volume's superior coverage of programming techniques and easily ... Read more

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Artificial intelligence research has thrived in the years since this best-selling AI classic was first published. The revision encompasses these advances by adapting its coding to Common Lisp, the well-documented language standard, and by bringing together even more useful programming tools. Today's programmers in AI will find this volume's superior coverage of programming techniques and easily
... Read more
Ageing and Spirituality across Faiths and Cultures

by Amy Rayner, Ann Harrington, Ann Peut, Dennis Roy McDermott, James Haire, Mohammad Abdalla, Ingrid Seebus, Ikebal Patel, Rachael Kohn, Purushottama Bilimoria, Subhana Barzaghi, Tracey McDonald, Robyn Simmonds, Rosalie Hudson, Jeffrey Cohen, Gabrielle Mary Brian, Elizabeth Pringle, Nicholas Stavropoulos ...

Health and social care practitioners are increasingly called upon to provide care to elderly people from a number of different faiths and cultures. This collection of essays examines ageing in the context of the many faiths and cultures that make up Western society, and provides carers with the knowledge they need to deliver sensitive and appropriate care to people of all faiths.Chapters are ... Read more

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Health and social care practitioners are increasingly called upon to provide care to elderly people from a number of different faiths and cultures. This collection of essays examines ageing in the context of the many faiths and cultures that make up Western society, and provides carers with the knowledge they need to deliver sensitive and appropriate care to people of all faiths.Chapters are
... Read more
Criticism: How to give it, how to receive it

by James McDermott Davidson ...

Series series The Relationships Series
The language of negative power, how to give critical messages without criticising, and more....This is a difficult of all communication tasks for many people. It is evidenced by the number of times we avoid confrontation. A kind of non-communication takes place. When critical issues are avoided, they don’t go away, they just go underground and then raise their heads in all sorts of ugly fashions. ... Read more

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The language of negative power, how to give critical messages without criticising, and more....This is a difficult of all communication tasks for many people. It is evidenced by the number of times we avoid confrontation. A kind of non-communication takes place. When critical issues are avoided, they don’t go away, they just go underground and then raise their heads in all sorts of ugly fashions.
... Read more
Father Myself

by James McDermott ...

In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father's complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.In clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto ... Read more

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In 2022, James McDermott lost his sixty-year-old father to COVID after three weeks in intensive care. In* Father Myself*, his second collection from Nine Arches Press, McDermott explores his father's complex illness and death; grief; growth and how as a queer boy then a bereaved son, he had to learn to father himself.In clear-sighted and often hard-hitting poems, McDermott takes the reader onto
... Read more
Learn to shut up and listen in just two days

A Notion Publishing lifeguide

by James Mcdermott Davidson ...

Series series Relationships guides
Why listen? Because it's the door to understanding, and that leads to ability, which in turn makes you quite powerful! This power cannot be bought nor can it be bestowed upon you. Listening gains understanding which enables you to make an informed decision and that is very impressive…..no matter who you are. Learning to listen is an acquired skill that can be learned quickly and easily from this ... Read more

$3.91 USD

Why listen? Because it's the door to understanding, and that leads to ability, which in turn makes you quite powerful! This power cannot be bought nor can it be bestowed upon you. Listening gains understanding which enables you to make an informed decision and that is very impressive…..no matter who you are. Learning to listen is an acquired skill that can be learned quickly and easily from this
... Read more
British Military Service Tribunals, 1916–18

'A very much abused body of men'

by James McDermott ...

Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service. Swiftly, they gained two opposing yet equally unflattering reputations. In the eyes of the military, they were soft, obstructionist ‘old duffers’. To most of the men who came before them, they were the unfeeling civilian arm of a ... Read more

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Military Service Tribunals were formed following the introduction of conscription in January 1916, to consider applications for exemption from military service. Swiftly, they gained two opposing yet equally unflattering reputations. In the eyes of the military, they were soft, obstructionist ‘old duffers’. To most of the men who came before them, they were the unfeeling civilian arm of a
... Read more
Conflict: Causes and resolution

A Notion Publishing life guide

by James McDermott Davidson ...

Series series The Relationships Series
Resolving conflicts, common conflicts with solutions, dealing with difficult people, psychological games, and more ...Whenever we think of the word ‘conflict’ most of us have a tendency to think of it as something we don’t want in our lives and, undoubtedly, there are lots of conflicts that are hurtful and even devastating. Yet, based on the nature of the universe and humankind, conflict is ... Read more

$2.36 USD

Resolving conflicts, common conflicts with solutions, dealing with difficult people, psychological games, and more ...Whenever we think of the word ‘conflict’ most of us have a tendency to think of it as something we don’t want in our lives and, undoubtedly, there are lots of conflicts that are hurtful and even devastating. Yet, based on the nature of the universe and humankind, conflict is
... Read more
Audiobook

Best Interests

A BBC Radio 4 dramatisation

by Sasha Hails ...

Narrated by Alex Tregear, Elaine Caxton, Gerard McDermott, James Lailey, Jonathan Forbes, Peter Polycarpou, Susie Riddell ...

Unabridged

43 min

Two new dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas. When a confused young man with no I.D. and a Doctor Who fixation is brought into hospital, the staff have clear rules about how decisions can be made on his behalf. But when he starts to make his own wishes clear, are they right to listen? Starring Gunnar Cauthery, Clare Perkins, Simon Bubb, and Carl Prekopp. ... Read more

$5.99 USD

Two new dramas which get inside the emotional realities of dealing with ethical dilemmas. When a confused young man with no I.D. and a Doctor Who fixation is brought into hospital, the staff have clear rules about how decisions can be made on his behalf. But when he starts to make his own wishes clear, are they right to listen? Starring Gunnar Cauthery, Clare Perkins, Simon Bubb, and Carl Prekopp.
... Read more
Taking Chances

The Coast after Hurricane Sandy

by Karen M. O'Neill, Daniel J. Van Abs, Robert B. Gramling, Steven G. Decker, David A. Robinson, Daniel Baldwin Hess, Brian W. Conley, Adelle Thomas, Ashley Koning0, Daniel Redlaswk1, Joanna Burger2, Larry Niles3, Angela Oberg4, Julia Flagg5, Bonnie McCay6, Patricia M. Clay7, Lisa L. Colburn8, Kenneth A. Gould9, Tammy L. Lewis0, Mark Alan Hewitt1, Briavel Holcomb2, Clinton J. Andrews3, Mariana Leckner4, Melanie McDermott5, James K. Mitchell6, Frank A. Felder7, Shankar Chandramowli8 ...

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging exploration of the diverse challenges of Sandy and asks if this massive event will really change how ... Read more

$24.49 USD

Humanity is deeply committed to living along the world’s shores, but a catastrophic storm like Sandy—which took hundreds of lives and caused many billions of dollars in damages—shines a bright light at how costly and vulnerable life on a shoreline can be. Taking Chances offers a wide-ranging exploration of the diverse challenges of Sandy and asks if this massive event will really change how
... Read more

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