Presents the history of the British Paratrooper, from 1940 to 1945, that details the training, weapons and equipment used by these elite troops. This book brings the history of the ordinary paratrooper to life, drawing on the author's position as a former curator of the Regimental Museum.
This book contains practical ideas and techniques for supporting children's communication development. It explores the science behind emotional regulation and the role of the adult, and shows how understanding the impact of emotions and communication can help early years educators improve the outcomes of children's learning and mental health.
This accessible resource is packed full of practical ideas and techniques to support speech and language development in young children. It will help you to develop language-rich interactions to facilitate language development in your everyday work and will encourage reflective practice in your setting.
RETAIL SELLING POINTS Fully updated for Rails 4 New and improved testing examples More options for creating APIs Written by Rails community leaders AUDIENCE It is helpful for readers to have a background in Ruby, but no prior Rails experience is needed.
Sponsored by the Quadrant Global Cultures group ... and by the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Building Strong Communities is an introductory textbook that contains practical tools, down-to-earth frameworks and useful methods, a valuable resource for working with communities. A key focus of the book is on empowering the grass roots – building people, groups, organisations, partnerships and networks. In particular, it describes how strong communities might look with seven key features and introduces a new ‘Wheel of Participation’ as a useful planning framework. Written by a practitioner for both students and other practitioners, the book combines theory and practice, draws on recent research and is packed with practical examples. This is key reading for Community Studies, Social Work or Youth and Community programmes, and will also be useful in many different settings, such as regeneration, local government, health and housing.