La serie Cambridge Handbooks for Language Teachers, composta da più di 40 titoli, fornisce un excursus delle teorie correnti sull'insegnamento dell'inglese, nonché idee pratiche e attività stimolanti.

Hardly a day goes by when nine year old Laurent Lepage doesn't cry wolf. From alien invasions, to walking trees, to winged beasts in the woods, to dinosaurs spotted in the village of Three Pines, his tales are so extraordinary no one can possibly believe him. Including Armand and Reine-Marie Gamache, who now live in the little Quebec village.

But when the boy disappears, the villagers are faced with the possibility that one of his tall tales might have been true.

And so begins a frantic search for the boy and the truth. What they uncover deep in the forest sets off a sequence of events that leads to murder, leads to an old crime, leads to an old betrayal. Leads right to the door of an old poet.

And now it is now, writes Ruth Zardo. And the dark thing is here.

A monster once visited Three Pines. And put down deep roots. And now, Ruth knows, it is back.

Armand Gamache, the former head of homicide for the Sûreté du Québec, must face the possibility that, in not believing the boy, he himself played a terrible part in what happens next.

Sustainability applies to everybody. But everybody applies it differently, by defining and shaping it differently—much as water is edged and shaped by its container. It is conceived in absolute terms but underpinned by a great diversity of relatively “green”—and sometimes contradictory—practices that can each make society only more or less sustainable. InPracticing Sustainability, chefs, poets, music directors, evangelical pastors, skyscraper architects, artists, filmmakers, as well as scientific leaders, entrepreneurs, educators, business executives, policy makers, and the contrarians, shed light on our understanding of sustainability and the role that each of us can play. Each contributor addresses what sustainability means, what is most appealing about the concept, and what they would like to change to improve the perception and practice of sustainability. What emerges from their essays is a wide spectrum of views that confirm an important insight: Sustainability is pursued in different ways not only due to different interpretations, but also because of varying incentives, trade-offs, and altruistic motives. Practicing and achieving sustainability starts with a willingness to look critically at the concept. It also means enabling rich and vigorous discussion based on pragmatism and common sense to determine a framework for best ideas and practices. With time and the much needed critical thinking, sustainable development will become a more integral part of our culture. By sharing experiences and crisp insights from today’s savants,Practicing Sustainability serves as a stepping stone to the future.

Pedersen brings to life the power of a child's imagination to entertain with her new children's picture book, AVA'S ADVENTURE, illustrated by Penny Weber. When Ava is invited by a friend to go snowboarding with him, her parents say no, explaining that they can't afford to send her on a weekend ski trip. Disappointed and frustrated, Ava escapes to her room to sulk. But what she discovers there is that her own creativity and some simple toys can be more exciting and fulfilling than any snowboard ride.

Using the Alexander method, learn how to better stand, walk, and sit, and watch stiff necks, backaches, and posture problems fade away

First developed by Frederick Alexander in 1890, the Alexander technique retrains the body to work in a more economical and less stressful way, and can be used for improved breathing and joint mobility, and staying calm under pressure. This practical book offers easy and effective solutions to posture problems at home and at work, with illustrated exercises to help you break bad habits and learn to let your body relax. Free Your Back will change the way you stand, walk, and sit. The advice provided will help you to ease those painful stiff necks and backaches and allow you freer movement and better balance throughout your body, for a healthier life free of back pain.

Il nuovo capitalismo emargina il corpo femminile e lo controlla. Le donne sono, a un tempo, consumatrici e consumate. Laurie Penny, giornalista femminista e blogger britannica, nei quattro capitoli del libro su sessualità, disordini alimentari, capitale di genere e lavoro domestico, svela le azioni di mercicazione del corpo sopravvissute a decenni di battaglie culturali per l'emancipazione femminile con la scusa, fallace, dell'ironia. Il volume, che deve molto agli scritti di Shulamith Firestone, Andrea Dworkin, Gloria Steinem, Germaine Greer, Naomi Wolf e Bell Hooks, non si perde in un'apologia del femminismo ma ne evidenzia le mancanze in epoca moderna, affrontando il tema della prostituzione, dello status delle donne transessuali e della tratta di lavoratrici sottopagate nel mercato del lavoro domestico, nella speranza di una progressione rapida del femminismo che includa tutti gli aspetti politici e pratici dell'oppressione femminile.

Ella is really frustrated. Lately it seems like the whole family has forgotten to how to be together. Instead of playing Hangman and making waffles, everyone is talking on cell phones, playing video games, and using the computer. What's a girl to do? When Ella finally makes her move, it gets everyone's attention. At first there is some confusion—could Ella just want a cell phone of her own? But Ella makes clear that what she really wants is her family back. Will they all agree that it's time to make some changes? And what word do you think Ella will use the next time she plays Hangman with her brother Carlos? This is a lively book about the issue of managing technology so that it can become more family friendly.

"The landscape of higher education has undergone change and transformation in recent years, partly as a result of diversification and massification. However, persistent patterns of under-representation continue to perplex policy-makers and practitioners,raising questions about current strategies, policies and approaches to widening participation. Presenting a comprehensive review and critique of contemporary widening participation policy and practice, Penny Burke interrogates the underpinning assumptions, values and perspectives shaping current concepts and understandings of widening participation. She draws on a range of perspectives within the field of the sociology of education - including feminist post-structuralism, critical pedagogy and policy sociology - to examine the ways in which wider societal inequalities and misrecognitions, which are related to difference and diversity, present particular challenges for the project to widen participation in higher education. In particular, the book: - focuses on the themes of difference and diversity to shed light on the operations of inequalities and the politics of access and participation both in terms of national and institutional policy and at the level of student and practitioner experience. - draws on the insights of the sociology of education to consider not only the patterns of under-representation in higher education but also the politics of mis-representation, critiquing key discourses of widening participation. - interrogates assumptions behindWP policy and discourse, including assumptions about education as an unassailable good and critically reflecting on what is meant by educational participation"--

"A completely revised and updated edition of A Course in Language Teaching. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to English language teaching, and is suitable for teachers in a variety of educational settings, including compulsory education. It has been completely revised and updated to include essential new topics for the modern English language teacher, including English as an international language, Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) and using digital materials. It is ideal for initial teacher training and as a reference guide for practising teachers. The book combines theory and practice, with each unit containing tasks that encourage reflection and discussion, plus action tasks such as classroom observation and practice"--

Modern culture is obsessed with controlling women's bodies. Our societies are saturated with images of unreal, idealised female beauty whilst real female bodies and the women who inhabit them are alienated from their own personal and political potential. Under modern capitalism, women are both consumers and consumed: Meat Market offers strategies for resisting this gory cycle of consumption, exposing how the trade in female flesh extends into every part of women's political selfhood.

Now completely updated, expanded, and redesigned, expecting couples will find the latest edition of this authoritative and complete pregnancy ?bible? to be more readable, more visually appealing, more accessible and, of course, the medical information and advice has been completely updated:

-Accessibility: We've used a magazine layout featuring more photos, illustrations, and boxed features to call attention to the most interesting and salient information.

-Readability: The book reads less like a prenatal training guide and more like an interesting, informative book about pregnancy and childbirth (actually, it's both). Readers will find lots of new boxed features, including ?Q&A? (containing frequently asked questions with answers); ?Two Views? (first person accounts by mothers who present opposing views about common childbirth issues); ?In Their Own Words? (mothers describe their experiences, e.g. with labor or discomfort or pain-relief drugs in their own words); ?Fact or Fiction?? (the authors present common misinformation and the facts); ?Advice from the Authors? (which presents precisely that).

-Attractive Layout: The new look is more graphic, more visual, and borrows proven techniques from magazines and newspapers to make reading and finding information easier and more productive.

-Updated Medical Information and Advice:

?   Revised discussion on nutrition/serving sizes during pregnancy to reflect the latest information from the USDA

?   Information on complementary induction approaches, like acupuncture

?   Revised discussions on caffeine and fluoride, and their effects during pregnancy

?   Revised discussions on warning signs of complications, interventions during childbirth, preterm labor risk factors, prenatal exams and tests, and exercise during pregnancy to reflect the latest knowledge

?   Revised statistics and discussions on cesarean birth and vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC) to reflect the latest knowledge

?   Revised childhood immunization schedule and information on the vaccines

?   Revised discussion on circumcision

Meadowbrook Press expects the more accessible format and more readable information to expand the market for the book, which has trained more than a million mothers for childbirth over a 30-year period.

Ever been left spluttering over some fatuous fib trying to pass itself off as information, even as fact? Of course you have. We all have. It's bullshit, and as Laura Penny sees it, we're drowning in the stuff. Your Call Is Important to Us is Penny's brilliant take on the "all-you-can-eat buffet of phoniness" that is our lives today.

"We live in an era of unprecedented bullshit production," Penny says. While bullshit is not new, more money, more media, and more people at mics have led to a bullshit pandemic. Today, we are so used to exaggeration and obfuscation we rarely notice them any more.Thank goodness we have Penny as our witty, smart-aleck guide through the phoniness of advertising and public relations, the claptrap of big pharma, the gobbledygook of the media, and the poppycock of the service industry. Along the way, Penny takes direct aim at the major culprits and the insidious ways they distort reality.

As scathing as Michael Moore, as incisive as Naomi Klein, and as funny as Al Franken, Penny's take on the bullshit factor in modern life is a page-turner. Penny has a cheeky riff on that revealing question: "If my call is so important," she asks, "why doesn't anyone answer the damn phone?"