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Herman Melville
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 244

Herman Melville

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-24
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  • Publisher: McFarland

This reference work covers both Herman Melville's life and writings. It includes a biography and detailed information on his works, on the important themes contained therein, and on the significant people and places in his life. The appendices include suggestions for further reading of both literary and cultural criticism, an essay on Melville's lasting cultural influence, and information on both the fictional ships in his works and the real-life ones on which he sailed.

The Inner Circle
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 257

The Inner Circle

Driven by declining profits and government regulation, a new form of class-wide business leadership has emerged: a transcorporate network that is giving a new coherence and power to business in both America and Britain. This book delineates the "inner circle" of top executives who play a leading role in this network, advising the highest levels of government and working to promote a political environment favorable to all business.

Leisure and Recreation Management
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 623

Leisure and Recreation Management

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-12-06
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This revised and updated edition reflects the changes that have taken place within the field of leisure and recreation management in recent years. Issues such as social inclusion, cultural strategy, exercise for health have risen to the top of the policy agenda. Commercial pressures, changes in the voluntary and public sector and emerging leisure professions such as sports development and playwork are all profoundly influencing the professional landscape. Leisure and Recreation Management is the only book to cover leisure history, key leisure concepts, trends, provision, management practices and operational issues in one comprehensive volume. · Leisure and Cultural Heritage - the social and...

Evolutionary Playwork and Reflective Analytic Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

Evolutionary Playwork and Reflective Analytic Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-07-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this comprehensive and accessible text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children's play, its meaning and purpose, and argues that adult-free play is essential for the psychological well-being of the child. The book divides into three main sections. The first examines the fundamentals of evolutionary playwork, from creating the right play environment to issues of safety and participation. Secondly, the book explores the theory underlying playwork. Finally, the book offers new models to help the playworker develop their own professional practice. Throughout the text, the author brings his argument to life with vivid reflections on a lifetime's experience of play and playwork. Evolutionary Playwork and Reflective Analytic Practice is the first book of its kind, and represents essential reading for all playwork students, practitioners and researchers. It also incorporates dedicated material for parents looking to better understand and enhance the development of their children.

Evolutionary Playwork
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Evolutionary Playwork

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-03-01
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Play is a crucial component in the development of all children. In this fully updated and revised edition of his classic playwork text, Bob Hughes explores the complexities of children’s play, its meaning and purpose, and argues that adult-free play is essential for the psychological well-being of the child. The book is divided into fourteen chapters that together examine the fundamentals of evolutionary play. Firstly, Hughes examines the very earliest ideas of playwork and its impact on brain growth and organization today. He then goes on to explore and explain the key theoretical concepts underlying playwork. These include discussions on free play and creating suitable play environments ...

Having To (Routledge Revivals)
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 299

Having To (Routledge Revivals)

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-10-14
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  • Publisher: Routledge

First published in 1985, Having To summarises the situation of more than a million parents in the UK alone that survive as single parents. This thought-provoking book is based on interviews with more than 200 women and men of all ages and backgrounds. The accounts of what life can be like in the world of one parent families are revealing, sometimes disturbing, and above all, moving. In this book, parents talk in depth about their experiences when confronted by violence, infidelity, lesbianism, child abuse and paranoia. They portray stories that will provoke many questions about the state of the nuclear family.

Blacklisting in Employment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Blacklisting in Employment

The report to this evidence published as HC 1071, session 2012-13 (ISBN 9780215056832)

The Stray Lamb
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 228

The Stray Lamb

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: eNet Press

A hilarious string of adventures of poor, ordinary, faithful, Mr. Lamb who exchanges the mundane for the slightly insane when a chance encounter leads him to experience the world through the eyes of various animals.

San Diego Magazine
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 222

San Diego Magazine

  • Type: Magazine
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  • Published: 2007-04
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  • Publisher: Unknown

San Diego Magazine gives readers the insider information they need to experience San Diego-from the best places to dine and travel to the politics and people that shape the region. This is the magazine for San Diegans with a need to know.

The Michigan Alumnus
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 624

The Michigan Alumnus

In volumes1-8: the final number consists of the Commencement annual.