Product Description: How can we ensure our strategy will succeed, especially in changing and uncertain times? The answer, as explained in "Strategy Mapping for Learning Organizations", is to become a more responsive organization - one that captures its strategy in strategy maps, learns from that strategy and can adapt to deliver results...read more

Product Description: Considering the rights of the child is now central to good multi-agency working, Children's Right in Practice offers an explanation of the theoretical issues and the key policy developments that have impacted practice. It helps the reader to understand children’s rights in relation to their role in working with children and young people...read more

Product Description: To the crooks, the guys in the black hats, the baddies: Society is fed up with you. You are a menace to our safety and you are very expensive in terms of the social damage you inflict on us, not to mention the literal cost of keeping you locked up in warm prisons with three meals a day eaten off stainless trays...read more

Product Description: Rethinking Children's Rights explores attitudes towards and experiences of children's rights. Phil Jones and Sue Welch draw on a wide range of thought, research and practice from different fields and countries to debate, challenge and re-appraise long held beliefs, attitudes and ways of working and living with children...read more

Product Description: How is dramatherapy practised? What does research reveal about how dramatherapy offers therapeutic change? This book examines the many ways clients and therapists explore the therapeutic possibilities of drama. Whilst the first volume combined theory, practice and research in the field, this second volume concentrates on clinical material from a range of contexts, with thorough description and analysis of therapeutic work...read more

Product Description: Airport Mouse Activity Fun Book 1 is a collection of tracing, printing, coloring, numeral sequence puzzles, upper- and lowercase alphabet sequence tasks, color word identification, counting, simple following directions, and beginning sight-word reading tasks...read more

Product Description: Airport Mouse Explores On Opening Day Activity Fun Book 3 is a collection of coloring, printing, numeral and numeral word identification, beginning reading concepts of story sequence and quotations, one-to-one counting, and fill-in letter-to-word puzzles...read more

Product Description: Airport Mouse Becomes a VIP/VIM World Traveler Activity Fun Book 4 is a collection of tracing, coloring, letter printing, letter identification, and puzzle fill-in activities. The Activity Fun Book 4 provides the child with exposure and an introduction to historical cultures and costumes of different countries...read more

Product Description: Airport Mouse Works the Night Shift Activity Book 2 is a collection of tracing, printing, coloring, numerical sequence puzzles, upper- and lowercase alphabet identification and printing, numeral and numeral word recognition, simple following directions, and beginning sight-word reading tasks...read more

Product Description: Rethinking Childhood examines attitudes towards, and experiences of, childhood. Focus is placed on opposing the processes by which children are made to be 'other': the ways in which children are separated and segregated by adults...read more

Product Description: In book four of the Airport Mouse series, Airport Mouse continues to work the night shift at the new airport terminal with his friend and partner, Mr. Michelson. Airport Mouse and Mr. Michelson read books about the many flight destinations throughout the world...read more

Product Description: Supervision of Dramatherapy offers a thorough overview of dramatherapy supervision and the issues that can arise during the supervisory task. Phil Jones and Ditty Dokter bring together experts from the field to examine supervision in a range of contexts with different client groups, including dramatherapy with children, forensic work, and intercultural practice...read more

Product Description: Towns and cities in the UK are undergoing a major cycle of redevelopment resulting in the most dramatic transformation of the urban landscape since the post-war reconstruction. Drawing together this mass of information into a single coherent text whilst examining key aspects of the process from first principles, Urban Regeneration in the UK: " Introduces and contextualises the UK urban regeneration agenda " Brings together state-of-the-art research around key themes in governance, sustainability, competition and design " Uses case studies of UK contemporary regeneration projects " Mixes academic and theoretical explorations whilst linking theory and practice " Includes pedagogical features of key learning points, useful websites, a glossary and further reading...read more

Product Description: Childhood: Services and Provision for Children provides an important and timely contribution to the field of Childhood and Youth Studies. This cutting-edge text brings together, within a critical framework, an understanding and discussion of a broad range of services, ideas and themes, and debates the impact of them on children's lives...read more

Product Description: Generally (according to research) only 5 percent of employees understand their organization's strategy. If only 5 percent of your organization understand your strategy...whose strategy are the other 95 percent implementing? Phil Jones', "Communicating Strategy" is designed to help you communicate your strategy in a compelling and effective way, and dramatically improve implementation and the resulting outcomes...read more

Product Description: This new edition of Drama as Therapy presents a coherent review of the practice and theory of Dramatherapy. With a unique combination of practical guidance, clinical examples and research vignettes this fully revised second edition considers developments in the field over the last decade and researches the impact of the 'core processes' on clinical practice...read more

Product Description: Airport Mouse is left behind in the old airport terminal after construction of a new terminal. To his surprise, he is suddenly scooped up by Mr. Michelson who "saves" him and they become Mick and Manny of Maintenance. The story of Airport Mouse is an adventure of values and the meaning of friendship...read more

The success of personalizing learning in schools depends on the cohesive working between all parties that form the education system. Offering a perspective based upon practice examples, this book examines the roles and responsibilities of the key stakeholders: the government, local authorities, partnerships of schools and the industry.

Product Description: The Arts Therapies provides, in one volume, a guide to the different disciplines and their current practice and thinking. It presents:* A clear analysis of the relationship between client, therapist and art form.* An exploration of research, practice and key contributions made to the field by practitioners internationally and within many different contexts...read more

Product Description: In this book, Phil Jones gives a detailed account of the siege of Colchester, where Royalist soldiers made their stand against the New Model Army in 1648, turning the peaceful textile town into a front-line fortress.

Product Description: 'Phil Jones has written a clear and practical guide that will give you everything you need to become an expert in Visual Basic .NET. I'm impressed with this book: the tutorial sections strike an excellent balance between ease of reading and comprehensive coverage of object-oriented terminology, and the practical exercises are both fun and thought-provoking...read more

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