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Supporting Children and Families

Lessons from Sure Start for Evidence-Based Practice in Health, Social Care and Education

by Graham Bowpitt, Alison Edgley, Marjorie Finnigan, Brid Featherstone, Sarah Chaudhary, Mairi Ann Cullen, John Carpenter, Valerie Wigfall, Barbara Sianesi, Miranda Thurston, Alissa Goodman, Pamela Graham, Sharon Hodgson, Pauline Hall, Matthew Pearson, Susan McQuail, Nicky Nicholls, Ann Martin, Martin Manby, Lynn McKenna, Geoff Lindsay, Jill Jesson ...

Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes and local evaluation studies, with chapters ... Read more

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Supporting Children and Families gathers together the lessons learned from perhaps the largest scale social experiment ever undertaken in England - Sure Start, the programme designed to improve the emotional development, health and education of children.It boils down the huge amount of knowledge and experience generated by the Sure Start programmes and local evaluation studies, with chapters
... Read more
Women and Political Violence

Female Combatants in Ethno-National Conflict

by Miranda Alison ...

Series series Contemporary Security Studies
This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants’ involvement in ethno-national conflicts.Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in which women have traditionally been depicted. Whereas women have predominantly been seen as victims of conflict, this book acknowledges the ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This book directly challenges the stereotype that women are inherently peaceable by examining female combatants’ involvement in ethno-national conflicts.Drawing upon empirical case studies of Sri Lanka and Northern Ireland, this study explores the ways in which women have traditionally been depicted. Whereas women have predominantly been seen as victims of conflict, this book acknowledges the
... Read more
Play and Curriculum

Play & Culture Studies

by Marleah Blom, Miranda D'Amico, Beth Ferholt, Abby Loebenberg, Robert L. Mack, Laurel Bongiorno, S. Lynneth Solis, Sudha Swaminathan, Alison Hooper, Juana Gaviria-Loaiza, Cailin Kerch, Brian A. Stone, Lora Lorentsen, Meghan Schmidt, Heather J. Pinedo-Burns, Ilfa Zhulamanova, Jeffrey Trawick-Smith ...

Series series Play and Culture Studies
Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the ... Read more

$38.89 USD

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the
... Read more
Women, Gender, and Terrorism

by Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry, Alisa Stack, Farhana Qazi, Grace Cooke, Jennie Stone, Katherine Brown, Katherine Patillo, Miranda Alison0, Stacy Reiter Neal1, Swati Parashar2 ...

Series series
In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.Throughout most of the twentieth century, it was rare to hear about women terrorists. In the new millennium, however, women have ... Read more

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In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.Throughout most of the twentieth century, it was rare to hear about women terrorists. In the new millennium, however, women have
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Miranda Hart’s Joke Shop

The Complete BBC Radio Comedy Series

by Miranda Hart, James Cary, Simon Day ...

Narrated by Miranda Hart, Patricia Hodge, Sarah Hadland, Tom Ellis, Alison Steadman, Morwenna Banks, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

2 hours 23 min

The complete BBC Radio 4 collection by the BAFTA nominated and NTA award winning Miranda Hart.Miranda is an unconventional woman. She’s six feet tall, self-conscious and posh. And is frequently mistaken for a man. She’s also invested her inheritance in a joke shop that she runs with her friend Stevie while trying to deal with her outrageously embarrassing mother.Though surrounded by chocolate ... Read more

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The complete BBC Radio 4 collection by the BAFTA nominated and NTA award winning Miranda Hart.Miranda is an unconventional woman. She’s six feet tall, self-conscious and posh. And is frequently mistaken for a man. She’s also invested her inheritance in a joke shop that she runs with her friend Stevie while trying to deal with her outrageously embarrassing mother.Though surrounded by chocolate
... Read more
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Saving Mr Pinto

by Alison Lester ...

Narrated by Miranda Nation ...

Series series Bonnie & Sam Collection
Unabridged

38 min

Bonnie and Sam are best friends. No one loves horses the way they do. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. Now it's time for the Royal Show, and the girls are going to help their riding teacher get ready for a big competition. But in a backyard near the showgrounds they see a sad, starving pony – and it's ... Read more

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Bonnie and Sam are best friends. No one loves horses the way they do. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. Now it's time for the Royal Show, and the girls are going to help their riding teacher get ready for a big competition. But in a backyard near the showgrounds they see a sad, starving pony – and it's
... Read more
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The Shadow Brumby

by Alison Lester ...

Narrated by Miranda Nation ...

Series series Bonnie & Sam Collection
Unabridged

38 min

Bonnie and Sam are best friends and love all horses and ponies. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. They thought they knew all the horses in their small town of Currawong Creek but one night a wild shadow brumby slips into town ... ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Bonnie and Sam are best friends and love all horses and ponies. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. They thought they knew all the horses in their small town of Currawong Creek but one night a wild shadow brumby slips into town ...
... Read more
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Racing the Tide

by Alison Lester ...

Narrated by Miranda Nation ...

Series series Bonnie & Sam Collection
Unabridged

39 min

Best friends Bonnie and Sam know all the horses in Currawong Creek. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. The girls ride together whenever they can. This summer they are longing to help with the mustering but are diverted by some suspicious tracks leading out to the beach ... ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Best friends Bonnie and Sam know all the horses in Currawong Creek. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. The girls ride together whenever they can. This summer they are longing to help with the mustering but are diverted by some suspicious tracks leading out to the beach ...
... Read more
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Tales from the Mausoleum Club

13 full-cast curious tales

by Ian Brown, James Hendrie ...

Narrated by Terence Stamp, Spike Milligan, Andrew Sachs, Jim Broadbent, Roy Hudd, Miranda Richardson, Stephen Fry, Timothy Spall, Alison Steadman, Martin Jarvis, Full Cast ...

Unabridged

5 hours 52 min

An all-star cast attend a mysterious private club in this hilarious parody of classic horror talesMembership of the exclusive Mausoleum Club isn't for the faint of heart. The Honorable Clarence Green wants in, but to join he must first hear the spine-chilling stories of the existing members, before enthralling them with one of his own. But are their stories fact or fiction? And will Green still ... Read more

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An all-star cast attend a mysterious private club in this hilarious parody of classic horror talesMembership of the exclusive Mausoleum Club isn't for the faint of heart. The Honorable Clarence Green wants in, but to join he must first hear the spine-chilling stories of the existing members, before enthralling them with one of his own. But are their stories fact or fiction? And will Green still
... Read more
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The Circus Pony and Other Stories

by Alison Lester ...

Narrated by Miranda Nation ...

Series Audiobook 1–3 - Bonnie & Sam Collection
Unabridged

2 hours 4 min

Bonnie and Sam are best friends. No one loves horses the way they do. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. The girls have the best adventures, like the time they practised trick riding before the circus came to town, or the time they found suspicious tracks leading out to the beach .... This is a ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Bonnie and Sam are best friends. No one loves horses the way they do. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. The girls have the best adventures, like the time they practised trick riding before the circus came to town, or the time they found suspicious tracks leading out to the beach .... This is a
... Read more
Audiobook

Bonnie & Sam: Books 1–4

by Alison Lester ...

Narrated by Miranda Nation ...

Series Audiobook 1–4 - Bonnie & Sam Collection
Unabridged

2 hours 37 min

Bonnie and Sam are best friends. No one loves horses the way they do. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. Now it's time for the Royal Show, and the girls are going to help their riding teacher get ready for a big competition. But in a backyard near the showgrounds they see a sad, starving pony - and it's ... Read more

$8.99 USD

Bonnie and Sam are best friends. No one loves horses the way they do. When Bonnie whispers to them, they understand, and Sam always knows if they need a drink, or a hug, or a race around the paddock. Now it's time for the Royal Show, and the girls are going to help their riding teacher get ready for a big competition. But in a backyard near the showgrounds they see a sad, starving pony - and it's
... Read more

Dying to Win

The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism

by Robert Pape ...

Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but there is great confusion as to why. In this paradigm-shifting analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for this growing threat.One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject, Professor Pape has created the first ... Read more

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Suicide terrorism is rising around the world, but there is great confusion as to why. In this paradigm-shifting analysis, University of Chicago political scientist Robert Pape has collected groundbreaking evidence to explain the strategic, social, and individual factors responsible for this growing threat.One of the world’s foremost authorities on the subject, Professor Pape has created the first
... Read more

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