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"Miss, I don’t give a sh*t": Engaging with challenging behaviour in schools (Corwin Ltd)
by Adele BatesDo you want to be an inspiring teacher for everyone you teach, even the trickier cherubs in your class? Or maybe you just want to get through a lesson without a desk flying at you or a blazer being set alight? In this down-to-earth book Adele Bates shares practical approaches, strategies and tips from the classroom on how to help pupils with behavioural needs thrive with their education. Packed full of real-life classroom scenarios, student voice and relevant theory, every chapter offers an Action Box helping you to implement these strategies – next lesson, next week and long term. From relationship building and teaching self-regulation, to fostering inclusivity, paying attention to your own self-care and schoolwide approaches, Adele Bates unpicks some of the most difficult aspects of being a teacher and empowers you to grow as a confident classroom professional.
"Miss, I don’t give a sh*t": Engaging with challenging behaviour in schools (Corwin Ltd)
by Adele BatesDo you want to be an inspiring teacher for everyone you teach, even the trickier cherubs in your class? Or maybe you just want to get through a lesson without a desk flying at you or a blazer being set alight? In this down-to-earth book Adele Bates shares practical approaches, strategies and tips from the classroom on how to help pupils with behavioural needs thrive with their education. Packed full of real-life classroom scenarios, student voice and relevant theory, every chapter offers an Action Box helping you to implement these strategies – next lesson, next week and long term. From relationship building and teaching self-regulation, to fostering inclusivity, paying attention to your own self-care and schoolwide approaches, Adele Bates unpicks some of the most difficult aspects of being a teacher and empowers you to grow as a confident classroom professional.
Miss Dimple Disappears: A Mystery (Miss Dimple Mysteries #1)
by Mignon F. BallardIt's 1942, almost a year since the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, and the residents of the small town of Elderberry, Georgia, have been rattled down to their worn, rationed shoes. For young teacher Charlie Carr, life and love aren't going exactly as planned—her head dictates loyalty to the handsome corpsman, Hugh, but whenever she thinks of her best friend's beau, Will, her heart does the Jersey Bounce. Charlie is doubly troubled by the disappearance of beloved schoolmistress Miss Dimple Kilpatrick one frosty November morning just before Thanksgiving. Miss Dimple, who has taught the town's first graders—including Charlie—for almost forty years, would never just skip town in the middle of the school year, and Charlie and her best friend, Annie, are determined to prove it.
Misplaced Myths and Lost Legends: Model texts and teaching activities for primary writing
by Adam BushnellBring myths and legends alive in your classroom. *20 myths and legends from across the UK are presented here as model texts for teaching writing in Key Stages 1 and 2; *Teaching ideas and activities are included in all chapters alongside writing tasks for your class, based on parts of the stories; *The activities support children to bring their own voices alive through their writing; *They are encouraged to imagine characters, create settings, develop storylines and weave themes and challenges into their narratives. A ′how to′ guide for teaching children in primary schools to write their own myths and legends.
Misplaced Myths and Lost Legends: Model texts and teaching activities for primary writing
by Adam BushnellBring myths and legends alive in your classroom. *20 myths and legends from across the UK are presented here as model texts for teaching writing in Key Stages 1 and 2; *Teaching ideas and activities are included in all chapters alongside writing tasks for your class, based on parts of the stories; *The activities support children to bring their own voices alive through their writing; *They are encouraged to imagine characters, create settings, develop storylines and weave themes and challenges into their narratives. A ′how to′ guide for teaching children in primary schools to write their own myths and legends.
Misinterpretation
by Ledia XhogaLonglisted for the Center For Fiction 2024 First Novel Prize “Absolutely gorgeous. Taut as a thriller, lovely as a watercolor.”—Jennifer Croft “Deft and insightful. . . . exceptional.”—Idra Novey In present-day New York City, an Albanian interpreter reluctantly agrees to work with Alfred, a Kosovar torture survivor, during his therapy sessions. Despite her husband’s cautions, she soon becomes entangled in her clients’ struggles: Alfred’s nightmares stir up her own buried memories, and an impulsive attempt to help a Kurdish poet leads to a risky encounter and a reckless plan. As ill-fated decisions stack up, jeopardizing the nameless narrator’s marriage and mental health, she takes a spontaneous trip to reunite with her mother in Albania, where her life in the United States is put into stark relief. When she returns to face the consequences of her actions, she must question what is real and what is not. Ruminative and propulsive, Ledia Xhoga’s debut novel, Misinterpretation, interrogates the darker legacies of family and country, and the boundary between compassion and self-preservation.
Misfit: Growing Up Awkward in the '80s
by Gary Gulman“One of my favorite books of all time.” ―Amy SchumerA tour de force of comedy and reflection about the perilous journey from kindergarten to twelfth grade and beyond―from the beloved stand-up comic and creator of The Great DepreshFor years, Gary Gulman had been the comedian’s comedian, acclaimed for his delight in language and his bracing honesty. But after two stints in a psych ward, he found himself back in his mother’s house in Boston—living in his childhood bedroom at age forty-six, as he struggled to regain his mental health. That’s where Misfit begins. Then it goes way back. This is no ordinary book about growing older and growing up. Gulman has an astonishing memory and takes the reader through every year of his childhood education, with obsessively detailed stories that are in turn alarming and riotously funny. We meet Gulman’s family, neighbors, teachers, heroes, and antagonists, and get to know the young comedian-in-the-making who is his own worst―and most persistent―enemy. From failing to impress at grade school show-and-tell to literally fumbling at his first big football game―in settings that take us all the way from the local playground to the local mall, from Hebrew School to his best (and only) friend’s rec room, young Gary becomes a stand-in for everyone who grew up wondering if they would ever truly fit in. And that’s not all: the book is also chock-full of ‘80s nostalgia (Scented Markers, indifference to sunscreen, mall culture).Misfit is a book that only Gary Gulman could have written: a brilliant, witty, poignant, laugh-until-your-face-hurts memoir that speaks directly to the awkward child in us all.
Misery: En Espanol (Plaza Y Janes Exitos Ser.)
by Stephen KingThe #1 New York Times bestseller about a famous novelist held hostage in a remote location by his &“number one fan.&” One of &“Stephen King&’s best…genuinely scary&” (USA TODAY).Bestselling novelist Paul Sheldon thinks he&’s finally free of Misery Chastain. In a controversial career move, he&’s just killed off the popular protagonist of his beloved romance series in favor of expanding his creative horizons. But such a change doesn&’t come without consequences. After a near-fatal car accident in rural Colorado leaves his body broken, Paul finds himself at the mercy of the terrifying rescuer who&’s nursing him back to health—his self-proclaimed number one fan, Annie Wilkes. Annie is very upset over what Paul did to Misery and demands that he find a way to bring her back by writing a new novel—his best yet, and one that&’s all for her. After all, Paul has all the time in the world to do so as a prisoner in her isolated house...and Annie has some very persuasive and violent methods to get exactly what she wants... &“King at his best…a winner!&” —The New York Times &“Unadulteratedly terrifying…frightening.&” —Publishers Weekly &“Classic King…full of twists and turns and mounting suspense.&” —The Boston Globe
The Misanthrope And Tartuffe
by MolièreThe Pulitzer Prize winner’s classic translations of Moliere’s comic masterpieces satirizing shallowness, self-righteousness, and hypocrisy.The Misanthrope is a searching comic study of falsity, shallowness, and self-righteousness through the character of Alceste, a man whose conscience and sincerity are too rigorous for his time. In Tartuffe, a wily, opportunistic swindler manipulates a wealthy prude and bigot through his claims of piety. This latter translation earned Wilbur a share of the Bollingen Translation Prize for his critically acclaimed work of this satiric take on religious hypocrisy.In brilliant rhymed couplets, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur renders two of seventeenth-century French playwright Moliere's comic masterpieces into English, capturing not only the form and spirit of the language but also its substance.“Mr. Wilbur has given us a sound, modern, conversational poetry and has made Moliere’s The Misanthrope brilliantly our own.” —The New York Times Book Review“Richard Wilbur’s translation of Tartuffe is a continuous delight from beginning to end.” —Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award–winning poet Richard Eberhart
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
by John Hope FranklinJohn Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining twentieth-century transformation, the dismantling of legally protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5-million-copy bestseller, From Slavery to Freedom. Born in 1915, he, like every other African American, could not help but participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened—once with lynching—and consistently subjected to racism's denigration of his humanity. Yet he managed to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard; become the first black historian to assume a full professorship at a white institution, Brooklyn College; and be appointed chair of the University of Chicago's history department and, later, John B. Duke Professor at Duke University. He has reshaped the way African American history is understood and taught and become one of the world's most celebrated historians, garnering over 130 honorary degrees. But Franklin's participation was much more fundamental than that.From his effort in 1934 to hand President Franklin Roosevelt a petition calling for action in response to the Cordie Cheek lynching, to his 1997 appointment by President Clinton to head the President's Initiative on Race, and continuing to the present, Franklin has influenced with determination and dignity the nation's racial conscience. Whether aiding Thurgood Marshall's preparation for arguing Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, marching to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, or testifying against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, Franklin has pushed the national conversation on race toward humanity and equality, a life long effort that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1995. Intimate, at times revelatory, Mirror to America chronicles Franklin's life and this nation's racial transformation in the twentieth century, and is a powerful reminder of the extent to which the problem of America remains the problem of color.
The Mirror Sisters: A Novel (The Mirror Sisters Series #1)
by V.C. AndrewsFrom the legendary New York Times bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic and My Sweet Audrina (now Lifetime movies) comes the first book in a new series featuring identical twin sisters forced to act, look, and feel truly identical by a perfectionist mother. For fans of Ruth Ware (The Woman in Cabin 10) and Emma Donoghue (Room).Alike in every single way...with one dark exception. As identical twins, their mother insists that everything about them be identical: their clothes, their toys, their friends...the number of letters in their names, Haylee Blossom Fitzgerald and Kaylee Blossom Fitzgerald. If one gets a hug, the other must too. If one gets punished, the other must be too. Homeschooled at an early age, when the girls attend a real high school they find little ways to highlight the differences between them. But when Haylee runs headfirst into the dating scene, both sisters are thrust into a world their mother never prepared them for—causing one twin to pursue the ultimate independence. The one difference between the two girls may spell the difference between life...and a fate worse than death. Written with the taboo-breaking, gothic atmosphere that V.C. Andrews is loved for, The Mirror Sisters is the latest in her long line of spellbinding novels about mysterious families and tormented love.
Mirror Image (Orca Currents)
by K.L. DenmanSable wears only black and has always felt that doom is near. Lacey wears pink and seeks beauty everywhere. A sadistic art teacher pairs Sable and Lacey together for their final project. The girls have to get to know one another and select a suitable poem for the back of each other's decorative mirror. Sable is less than thrilled at having to spend time with Lacey, who she believes to be nothing more than a brainless doll. As the project progresses, and Sable gets past her resentment, she learns some surprising truths about who Lacey really is. All of Sable's images begin to change, including the one she holds of herself. This short novel is a high-interest, low-reading level book for middle-grade readers who are building reading skills, want a quick read or say they don’t like to read! The epub edition of this title is fully accessible.
The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences (Princeton Modern Knowledge #7)
by Professor Katja GuentherHow the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awarenessSince the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects—humans, infants, animals, and robots—in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the possible means for answering the question: What makes us human? In The Mirror and the Mind, Katja Guenther traces the history of the mirror self-recognition test, exploring how researchers from a range of disciplines—psychoanalysis, psychiatry, developmental and animal psychology, cybernetics, anthropology, and neuroscience—came to read the peculiar behaviors elicited by mirrors. Investigating the ways mirrors could lead to both identification and misidentification, Guenther looks at how such experiments ultimately failed to determine human specificity.The mirror test was thrust into the limelight when Charles Darwin challenged the idea that language sets humans apart. Thereafter the mirror, previously a recurrent if marginal scientific tool, became dominant in attempts to demarcate humans from other animals. But because researchers could not rely on language to determine what their nonspeaking subjects were experiencing, they had to come up with significant innovations, including notation strategies, testing protocols, and the linking of scientific theories across disciplines. From the robotic tortoises of Grey Walter and the mark test of Beulah Amsterdam and Gordon Gallup, to anorexia research and mirror neurons, the mirror test offers a window into the emergence of such fields as biology, psychology, psychiatry, animal studies, cognitive science, and neuroscience.The Mirror and the Mind offers an intriguing history of experiments in self-awareness and the advancements of the human sciences across more than a century.
The Miracles of the Bible Viewed Differently: Part 1 the New Testament
by Maximilian LedochowskiDid Jesus Christ really rise from the dead, or did the lance thrust accidentally save his life? Did the Mother of God become virgin with child, or did a mistranslation turn the “young woman” into the “virgin” Mary? How could Jesus walk on water, and is there an explanation for the miraculous multiplication of bread? Is it possible that the blind, the mute, the paralysed or the lepers are suddenly healed? Why do we like to believe in miracles so much? How do miracles come about in the first place? The physician Dr. Maximilian Ledochowski gets to the bottom of these and many other questions and tries to explain the miracles of the Bible with modern knowledge.
Miracle Twins to Heal Them (A Tale of Two Midwives #2)
by Alison RobertsIn the second installment of Alison Roberts&’s A Tale of Two Midwives duet, one night of temptation with a gorgeous stranger leaves the midwife with two life-changing surprises! A DOUBLE SURPRISE FOR THE DOCTOR! Still healing from an unhappy childhood, midwife Jenni refuses to repeat her parents&’ mistakes. So she lives by these rules: no marriage, no babies. Besides, singledom has its benefits…like the freedom to spend a passion-filled night with brooding-but-gorgeous anesthetist Dan. Only, soon Jenni discovers she&’s pregnant—with twins! And the kicker? Dan doesn&’t believe he&’s the father. Jenni knows he&’s scared to hope after learning he can&’t have children, but his denial hurts. Can they let go of the past and embrace this miracle together?From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.A Tale of Two Midwives Book 1: Falling for Her Forbidden FlatmateBook 2: Miracle Twins to Heal Them
Minority Rights and Social Change: Norms, Actors and Strategies (Routledge Advances in Minority Studies)
by Kyriaki Topidi Eugenia Relaño PastorMinority movements tirelessly continue to engage in the process of social change, trying to promote and enforce minority protection norms and to have their world views, cultural practices, and norms recognized by the state. Through an examination of selected cases, this book problematizes how collective identities are not structurally guaranteed but rather constructed in dialectically interrelated positions and identity layers. The authors show the kind of impact that these processes can, or fail to, have on minority norms, actors, and strategies.Going beyond abstract normative principles, this collection reflects both Global North as well as Global South perspectives and examines through a variety of angles the role that race and ethnicity, culture, or religion play within social mobilization towards social change. The volume offers global insight on actor and strategy attempts to foster social change through the instrumental use and interpretation of minority rights as norms. This book will be of interest to those researching minority rights broadly understood within the disciplines of law, anthropology, sociology, and political science.
Minority Language Learning for Adult Migrants in Europe (ISSN)
by James Simpson Sari PöyhönenThis collection examines the learning and teaching of minority languages for adult migrants in Europe, with studies featuring perspectives from adult migrants themselves as well as local authorities, teachers, education planners and representatives from working life.The volume provides context on the attitudes and ideologies which inform adult migrant language education in different minority languages in Europe. Adult migrant language learners are understood here as newcomers settling and living in regions where the minority language is politically acknowledged and societally significant. The studies presented in the chapters are all original, and most are based on qualitative data such as interviews, ethnographic observations and policy documents. Some authors draw upon census and register data and surveys. The book is designed to be relatable to policy formation and implementation in other national contexts, in Europe and beyond.This book will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers in language education, language and migration, language and mobility, minority language studies, language policy and linguistic ethnography, as well as language policy professionals.
Minoans, Philistines and Greeks: B.C. 1400–900 (Routledge Library Editions: The Ancient World)
by Andrew Robert BurnMinoans, Philistines, and Greeks (1930) presents a historical narrative of the fortunes of the Aegean people, including invaders of and fugitives from the Aegean area, from the end of the fifteenth to the end of the tenth century B.C. It traces the gradual decline and fall of the Aegean culture, the first advanced civilisation in Europe, and the migrations of peoples such as the Philistines and Phoenicians across the Mediterranean.
Ministry of Mischief
by Alex FoulkesStep into a land where being bad is one BIG adventure. A hilarious journey filled with naughty magical creatures and unexpected friendships from Alex Foulkes, the bestselling author of Rules for Vampires, illustrated by Nikolas Ilic. Perfect for Halloween! Joey and Harry do NOT like each other. Stuck together on a school trip to a museum, things couldn&’t get any worse, until they meet some incorrigible monsters! The monsters are on a field trip of their own, bringing BAD LUCK to the human world. Quickly, they decide to take the children back to where they&’ve come from and feed them to their king. But what exactly lies ahead for Joey and Harry at the Ministry of Mischief? Will they make it back home in time for tea? Or will they be stuck with these misbehaving monsters forever?Praise for Rules for Vampires by Alex Foulkes: 'Fans of fast-paced, well-written gothic romps will devour Rules for Vampires' Phil Earle, bestselling author of When the Sky Falls &‘Deliciously dark, fangtastically feisty and gloriously gothic!' Laura Ellen Anderson, author of Amelia Fang &‘Brilliant! It&’s a deadly funny, twisty, gothic romp with the loveliest vampire. Sara Ogilvie&’s illustrations are the perfect match&’ Jenny McLachlan, bestselling author of Land of Roar 'Wonderfully atmospheric, humorous and touching&’ Radiya Hafiza, author of Rumaysa
The Ministry for the Future: A Novel
by Kim Stanley RobinsonONE OF BARACK OBAMA&’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR&“The best science-fiction nonfiction novel I&’ve ever read.&” —Jonathan Lethem "If I could get policymakers, and citizens, everywhere to read just one book this year, it would be Kim Stanley Robinson&’s The Ministry for the Future." —Ezra Klein (Vox)The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its setting is not a desolate, postapocalyptic world, but a future that is almost upon us. Chosen by Barack Obama as one of his favorite books of the year, this extraordinary novel from visionary science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson will change the way you think about the climate crisis."One hopes that this book is read widely—that Robinson&’s audience, already large, grows by an order of magnitude. Because the point of his books is to fire the imagination."―New York Review of Books"If there&’s any book that hit me hard this year, it was Kim Stanley Robinson&’s The Ministry for the Future, a sweeping epic about climate change and humanity&’s efforts to try and turn the tide before it&’s too late." ―Polygon (Best of the Year) "Masterly." —New Yorker"[The Ministry for the Future] struck like a mallet hitting a gong, reverberating through the year ... it&’s terrifying, unrelenting, but ultimately hopeful. Robinson is the SF writer of my lifetime, and this stands as some of his best work. It&’s my book of the year." —Locus"Science-fiction visionary Kim Stanley Robinson makes the case for quantitative easing our way out of planetary doom." ―Bloomberg Green
Mining California: An Ecological History
by Andrew C. IsenbergAn environmental History of California during the Gold Rush Between 1849 and 1874 almost $1 billion in gold was mined in California. With little available capital or labor, here's how: high-pressure water cannons washed hillsides into sluices that used mercury to trap gold but let the soil wash away; eventually more than three times the amount of earth moved to make way for the Panama Canal entered California's rivers, leaving behind twenty tons of mercury every mile—rivers overflowed their banks and valleys were flooded, the land poisoned. In the rush to wealth, the same chain of foreseeable consequences reduced California's forests and grasslands.Not since William Cronon's Nature's Metropolis has a historian so skillfully applied John Muir's insight—"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe"—to the telling of the history of the American West. Beautifully told, this is western environmental history at its finest.
Minimizing Utility Issues During Construction: A Guide
by Transportation Research Board National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine National Cooperative Highway Research Program Jesse Cooper Harshit Shukla Jenny Naranjo Cesar QuirogaRoadways intersect utility facilities above and below ground. Facilities such as water, sewer, natural gas, fiber optic, and electric lines may be impacted by highway improvement projects and often require relocation. Issues and conflicts between highway features and utility facilities can arise and impede highway construction projects, causing construction delays, economic impacts, and safety concerns. NCHRP Research Report 1110: Minimizing Utility Issues During Construction: A Guide, from TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program, provides practitioners with a guide to help mitigate utility conflicts using strategies such as improving pre-letting utility investigations, inspection procedures, and change order documentation. Supplemental to the report is NCHRP Web-Only Document 396: Strategies to Address Utility Issues During Highway Construction, a presentation, and an implementation plan.
Minimalwohnen: Situation und Formen des Wohnens von Arbeitsmigranten in den Megastädten Chinas
by Feng YangIm Zuge der Urbanisierung wird die Stadtbevölkerung bis 2050 weltweit um 2,5 Milliarden Menschen zunehmen. In China, dem Land mit der größten Stadtbevölkerung der Welt, wanderten bis 2016 136 Millionen vom Land in die Städte. An diesem Fall wird gezeigt, wie sich die Unterbringung entwickelte: auf der Ebene der städtebaulichen Eingliederung, der Wohnumgebung, der Gebäude und Wohneinheit. Das Wohnen der Arbeitsmigranten wird im Kontext von Chinas einzigartigem Hukou-System sowie seiner Boden- und Wohnpolitik analysiert. Typische Fälle in Peking, Shanghai und Guangzhou werden auf der Grundlage neu erstellter Typologie ihrer Wohnformen untersucht. Als Methode wird neben Befragen, Messen, Dokumentieren die teilnehmende Beobachtung benutzt. Der Autor wohnte in einer Art „Selbstversuch“ in den untersuchten Typen. Empfehlungen beziehen sich auf politische, stadtplanerische und bauliche Maßnahmen für bestehende sowie neu zu bauende Wohnräume für Arbeitsmigranten. China ist ein besonderer Fall - seine Lösungsansätze können den internationalen Diskurs anreichern, der über die Unterbringung der weltweiten Migrantenströme geführt wird.
The Mini Police, The Mighty Protectors: Billy and Tilly go to the Park
by Rachael RobertsWelcome to the city of Howard Lees, the home of the Mini Police crew! The Mini Police are the Mighty Protectors so they have an important job to do when it comes to keeping people in the city safe. Follow the Mini Police as they help Billy and Tilly go about their day. Will they make the right choices? Read through the story and help them to have a great day!