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This book provides an expert overview of the empirical evidence and offers critical commentary on the state of knowledge in the field of flexible working and new forms of work.

Speaking, Listening and Understanding is a practical resource packed full of games to improve young children¿s communication skills. The second edition contains a programme of games and activities to foster the speaking, listening and understanding skills of children aged from 5 to 7 years.

Developing Baseline Communication Skills is a practical resource designed to fit with baseline assessments in primary school. The second edition contains a programme of games and activities to foster personal and social development, and promote language and literacy skills in 3-5 year olds.

This book explains how projects can be designed that increase food security through subsistence production. Focusing on particular people and projects, it gives a sociological analysis of why this is so difficult to manage.

This volume draws on a Foucauldian understanding of governmentality to explore how EU civil society funding policies depoliticise civil society organisations. It questions whether international civil society funding always depoliticises civil society organisations, as literature on governmentality and international civil society policies argues.

This is a book for all faculty who are concerned with promoting the persistence of all students whom they teach.Most recognize that faculty play a major role in student retention and success because they typically have more direct contact with students than others on campus. However, little attention has been paid to role of the faculty in this specific mission or to the corresponding characteristics of teaching, teacher-student interactions, and connection to student affairs activities that lead to students' long-term engagement, to their academic success, and ultimately to graduation.At a time when the numbers of underrepresented students - working adults, minority, first-generation, low-income, and international students - is increasing, this book, a companion to her earlier Teaching Underprepared Students, addresses that lack of specific guidance by providing faculty with additional evidence-based instructional practices geared toward reaching all the students in their classrooms, including those from groups that traditionally have been the least successful, while maintaining high standards and expectations.Recognizing that there are no easy answers, Kathleen Gabriel offers faculty ideas that can be incorporated in, or modified to align with, faculty's existing teaching methods. She covers topics such as creating a positive and inclusive course climate, fostering a community of learners, increasing engagement and students' interactions, activating connections with culturally relevant material, reinforcing self-efficacy with growth mindset and mental toughness techniques, improving lectures by building in meaningful educational activities, designing reading and writing assignments for stimulating deep learning and critical thinking, and making grade and assessment choices that can promote learning.

Addresses the teaching dilemmas that instructors and students encounter in service-learning courses. Recognising that teaching, in general, and service-learning, in particular, are inherently political, this book faces up to the resulting predicaments that inevitably arise in the classroom.

Serves as a sourcebook to enhance and evaluate safety programs, generate solutions and interventions, comply with legislation, and present practical steps and guidelines to establish best practices. This book pays attention to the factors that may give rise to crime.

The Basic Bookshelf for Eyecare Professionals is a series that provides fundamental and advanced material with a clinical approach to clinicians and students. A special effort was made to include information needed for the certification exams in ophthalmic and optometric assisting, as well as for surgical assistants, opticians, plus low vision, and contact lens examiners. This book moves beyond basic exam skills into the arena of more advanced diagnostic testing. Topics include biometry and echography, electrophysiology, psychophysical testing, and microbiology. Special tests such as exophthalmometry, pachymetry, and ophthalmoscopy are also covered. This is the ultimate how-to book for those performing detailed patient exams.

The book details the modeling, performance, design, and control of reluctance synchronous and flux-modulation machines developed for low cost and high efficiency. It covers one and three phase reluctance synchronous motors in line-start applications and reluctance flux-modulation motors in pulse width modulation converter-fed variable speed drives.

The book will be devoted to quantitative models and computational techniques for risk management of equity-linked insurance. Although there have been research papers on the valuation of a great variety of investment guarantee products, they were primarily based on financial option pricing theory from the policyholders¿ perspective. This book is aimed at addressing the risk management issues from the insurer and regulator¿s viewpoints.