Swaffer writes about living with a diagnosis of younger onset dementia, not as an autobiography but sharing how she feels and stories and thoughts from her heart, not only about dementia. Among her topics are the dementia train and not sweating the small stuff, children of people with younger onset dementia, care partners speaking out publicly about people with dementia, blogging and writing as interventions for dementia, and proof people with dementia can live beyond a diagnosis of dementia. Annotation ©2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Young animal lovers can enjoy pressing-out and creating these cool paper pets, including cats, dogs, and many more. Just like a real pet, they each have their own character and style! Perfect for playtime and sharing, kids can start a collection or trade pets with friends.

Practical Medical Procedures at a Glance covers all the practical procedures required of UK medical students, Foundation Doctors, and other medical students worldwide, and provides a vital introduction and quick reference to support clinical skills sessions and ward placements. Providing clear explanations of each skill so that they can be efficiently learned, and ultimately, safely practiced, this guide is the perfect companion to clinical practice.

Practical Medical Procedures at a Glance:
• Provides broad topic coverage based on the GMC guidelines as listed in Tomorrow’s Doctors, with concise and accessible explanation of the reasoning behind the skills
• Includes aide-memoires, Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and checklists for self-evaluation
• Uses large, clear photographs and diagrams in a ‘step-by-step’ approach to each procedure and skill
• Features valuable ‘contraindications’ that show when it’s inappropriate to carry out certain procedures

Beginning with basic procedures and progressing to more complex skills, Practical Medical Procedures at a Glance builds confidence and provides an invaluable overview of the skills needed throughout medical school and beyond, regardless of specialty.

This deluxe slipcased two-volume set is an insider's tour of twenty years of film-making magic at Weta Workshop and Weta Digital, the creative companies behind such celebrated films as The Lord of the Rings, Avatar, The Avengers, King Kong, District 9 and The Hobbit. Brimming with never-before-published content, including concept designs, sketches, making of and behind-the-scenes imagery, along with interview material from cast and crew members, it is a stunning look at how the costumes, creatures and characters, weaponry, and visual effects are created for some of the world's most iconic films. A director will have a vision in their head of the kind of movie they want to create but they always need great teams to realise that vision. This is what Weta Workshop and Weta Digital do. Based in Wellington, New Zealand, these two companies, founded by Peter Jackson, Jamie Selkirk, Tania Rodger and Richard Taylor have been an integral part of some of the most ground-breaking and acclaimed movies of all time.

Woody plants and cacti are vital staple foods for cattle, deer, and other wildlife in drought-prone South Texas. Ranchers, hunters, and land managers who need to identify these plants relied on A Field Guide to Common South Texas Shrubs (published by Texas Parks & Wildlife Press and distributed by UT Press), which is no longer in print. Responding to ongoing demand for the book, Richard B. Taylor has completely updated and expanded it with seven new species, new photographs, and a quick plant identification key. Common Woody Plants and Cacti of South Texas is an easy-to-use plant identification field guide to fifty species that comprise an estimated 90 percent of the region’s woody canopy cover north of the Rio Grande Valley. The species accounts include photographs, descriptions, values to livestock and wildlife, and nutritional information. The book also provides historical perspectives and information on brush management techniques and strategies, as well as habitat appraisal. All of these resources will enable readers to analyze stocking rates for deer and cattle, evaluate a prospective hunting lease, or buy property.

This book builds upon the foundation of Power's award-winning book, Dementia Beyond Drugs, to reframe the care and support of people living with dementia. Power presents a strengths-based approach that focuses on enhancing seven domains of well-being for individuals in all living environments. In doing so, he challenges many of our long-held practices and provides an innovative approach that can lead to sustained improvements in the lives of people with dementia and their partners in care.

As the scholarly and interdisciplinary study of human/animal relations becomes crucial to the urgent questions of our time, notably in relation to environmental crisis, this collection explores the inner tensions within the relatively new and broad field of animal studies. This provides a platform for the latest critical thinking on the condition and experience of animals. The volume is structured around four sections:

• engaging theory
• doing critical animal studies
• critical animal studies and anti-capitalism
• contesting the human, liberating the animal: veganism and activism.

The Rise of Critical Animal Studies demonstrates the centrality of the contribution of critical animal studies to vitally important contemporary debates and considers future directions for the field. This edited collection will be useful for students and scholars of sociology, gender studies, psychology, geography, and social work.

Exceptional Students: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century provides balanced coverage of the foundations of exceptionalities future teachers need to know to understand their students and responsibilities. The second edition has been updated to reflect the role of the special educator, while continuing to address the role of the general educator in serving special populations.

In a nightmarish world, the Human finds himself at a crossroads as wild adventure ensues and he's thrust into a morphing landscape of rolling hills, dense forest, and an ominous Crimson City. Chased by a crazed mob and mysterious characters neither friend nor foe, the Human takes an unexpected journey that will lead to his salvation… or damnation. Collects the four-issue miniseries.

* Inspired by the Stone Sour album House of Gold & Bones Parts 1 and 2.

* Includes variant covers by Frank Quitely, Kylz Hotz, Steve Morris, and Richard Clark.

' House of Gold and Bones #1 explores the fear of the unknown in interesting ways. Though the issue leaves a lot of unanswered questions, I look forward to reading how Taylor will develop the mystery.' - Bloody Disgusting

Novel about a romance between a teenaged girl and a mysterious family friend, set in Manhattan in the decade before the Civil War; based upon a diary kept by the author's great-grandmother.

This book provides teachers with scaffolding to develop reflective practice, moving towards an evolving philosophy of education.

Psychological Therapies for Adults with Intellectual Disabilities brings together contributions from leading proponents of psychological therapies for people with intellectual disabilities, which offer key information on the nature and prevalence of psychological and mental health problems, the delivery of treatment approaches, and the effectiveness of treatment.

• Offers a detailed guide to available therapies for adults with intellectual disabilities
• Includes case illustrations to demonstrate therapies in action
• Provides up-to-date coverage of current research in the field
• Puts forward a consideration of the wider contexts for psychological therapy including the relationship with social deprivation, general health, and the cost effectiveness of treatment
• Places individual interventions in the context of the person’s immediate social network including families and carers
• Includes contributions from leading proponents from around the world

Sharing the design of Academy Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, this must-have volume, packed with more than 1,700 images of concept artwork, photographs, development paintings and more, takes readers on a visually stunning tour of Middle-earth. 150,000 first printing.

€ 39,50

Interprofessional Rehabilitation: a Person-Centred Approach is a concise and readable introduction to the principles and practice of a person-centred interprofessional approach to rehabilitation, based upon a firm scientific evidence base.

Written by a multi-contributor team of specialists in physiotherapy, occupational therapy, nursing, psychology and rehabilitation medicine, this text draws together common themes that cut across the different professional groups and the spectrum of health conditions requiring rehabilitation, and sets out a model of practice that is tailored to the specific needs of the client. Showing interprofessionalism at work in a range of clinical contexts, the book argues that effective rehabilitation is best conducted by well-integrated teams of specialists working in an interdisciplinary way, with the client or patient actively involved in all stages of the process.

This book will be essential reading for students preparing for practice in an increasingly interprofessional environment, and will be of interest to any health care practitioner keen to understand how an integrated approach to rehabilitation can benefit their clients.

In spite of affirmative action law, minority students are less likely to finish college, even when given preference for admission. In this work for general readers, educators, and administrators, Sander (law, economics, UCLA) and co-author Taylor, a legal journalist, investigate this paradox of 'mismatch' in affirmative action, focusing on the debate on the law school mismatch. Drawing on interviews with students and university officials, they point out the deception and secrecy surrounding the results of racial preferences at universities and demonstrate how racial preferences backfire against the students they are supposed to help. The authors note that most universities neglect outreach to poor, working-class, and even middle-class students in their single-minded focus on race. They also offer an extended case study on what happened in California after the legal ban on racial preferences. The authors conclude by giving recommendations for closing the test score gap and making higher education admissions and outcomes more transparent. A companion website contains extensive technical and supplemental material. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Showcasing the work of 27 established and emerging artists in the area of science fiction and fantasy art, this breathtaking collection, featuring a foreward from film director Guillermo Del Toro, offers an in-depth look into wild imaginations through artist profiles and biographies. 15,000 first printing.

In 12 papers from a February-March 2007 conference at Marquette University, North American scholars of philosophy explore language, discourse, debate, and reasoning with a common focus on theological issues central to the three Abrahamic traditions. Among their topics are one divine and human language or many human languages, the indirect transmission of Arabic-Islamic philosophy in Medieval Judaism, Thomas Aquinas' Summa contra Gentiles and Averroes' Great Commentary on De Anima, Islamic humanism in the thought of Ibn Khaldun and Malik bin Nabi, Avicenna's suspended man argument, and Albert the Great on the structure and function of the inner senses. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)