A Welsh adaptation by Elin Meek of When I am Sad that helps young children to start managing their emotions. They can lift the flaps, slide the tabs and turn the wheel to explore why they feel sad and how to move on from these emotions.
Dressy men as a type of celebrity have played a distinctive part in the cultural – and even in the political – life of Britain over several centuries. But unlike the twenty-first-century hipster, the dandies of the British past provoked intense degrees of fascination and horror in their homeland and played an important role in British society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. This book – illustrated with contemporary prints, portraits and caricatures – explores that social and cultural history through a focus on the macaroni, the dandy and the aesthete. The first was noted for his flamboyance, the second for his austere perfectionism and the third for his sexual perversity. All were highly controversial in their time, pioneering new ways of displaying and performing gender, as demonstrated by the impact of key figures such as Lord Hervey, George ‘Beau’ Brummell and Oscar Wilde. This groundbreaking study tells the scandalous story of fashionable men and their clothes as a reflection of changing attitudes not only to style but also to gender and sexuality.
One of the outstanding literary figures of the twentieth century, the Welsh poet and playwright Dylan Thomas is as famous for his poetry as he is for his dissolute, Bohemian lifestyle and tempestuous personal life. In The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas, journalist Hilly Janes explores the poet's life and extraordinary legacy through the eyes of her father, the artist Alfred Janes. A member of Thomas's inner circle, he painted the poet at three key moments: in 1934, 1953 and, posthumously in 1964, portraits which are at the heart of Janes' work. Drawing on her own personal archive, including drawings, diaries, letters and new interviews with Thomas's friends and descendants, The Three Lives of Dylan Thomas traces the course of the poet's life, from his birthplace in Swansea to his untimely death in a New York hospital in 1953.
This monograph by a distinguished Burke scholar discusses the British statesman's attempts to redefine his native Ireland as an integral part of Britain and, as a by blow, reduce the possibility of revolutionary insurgency a la the French Revolution. A novel use is made of parallel movements and ideas current in British India that fell under Burke's purview.
Ken Janes, a lifelong naturalist and amateur photographer, retired from a career in surgery in 2011. He and his wife Sandra moved to Kennebunk, Maine, where birdwatching became part of a daily routine. Recording and photographing the birds of the beaches, fields and rivers of the area, Ken has created a journal documenting the rich diversity of bird species found along the coast of southern Maine.
Throughout this recent treatise, published in Madrid, Spain in 2015 (Siruela), the great Spanish writer Clara Jan s (poet, essayist, novelist) and esteemed member of the elite Spanish Royal Academy (2015), accompanies us on a journey throughout different cultures and moments of time, from early years up to the present period, focusing on relatively unknown but significant writings by women. In a series of essays published here, she highlights unstudied literary texts written by women beginning with the first feminine poetic voice, the Akkadian High Priestess Enheduanna, and then moving on to Sappho and female Greek and Roman writers, and subsequently to Arab-Andalusian, Medieval and Renaissance, and Castilian early women writers, finishing up with works of contemporary Afghan Women poets. This extraordinary text presents a significant achievement for Jan s, for she establishes the importance of women writers throughout history, many of their texts completely unstudied but extremely valuable. Jan s' work becomes a vehicle by which to diffuse this knowledge and also a means to propose a contemporary approach to analysis that helps us return to the past and incorporate it into present and future moments. In doing so, Jan s opens up new paths of research and interpretation regarding women's writing and feminism, as she establishes a valid literary-historical perspective for the times. In her text she invites us to look back and examine ancient texts with new eyes and at the same time to discover other more recent ones that are equally valuable and pleasurable.
A children's picture book that has been written about the experience of living in a pandemic through the eyes of a toddler. We see how life completely changed for one child and how they have to adjust to a new way of living. The intention of this story was to raise awareness of how limited social interactions, global pandemic restrictions and measures may have affected children all around the world.
This book illustrates how goal-oriented, automated measurement can be used to create Lean organizations and to facilitate the development of Lean software, while also demonstrating the practical implementation of Lean software development by combining tried and trusted tools.In order to be successful, a Lean orientation of software development has to go hand in hand with a company’s overall business strategy. To achieve this, two interrelated aspects require special attention: measurement and experience management. In this book, Janes and Succi provide the necessary knowledge to establish “Lean software company thinking,” while also exploiting the latest approaches to software measurement. A comprehensive, company-wide measurement approach is exactly what companies need in order to align their activities to the demands of their stakeholders, to their business strategy, etc. With the automatic, non-invasive measurement approach proposed in this book, even small and medium-sized enterprises that do not have the resources to introduce heavyweight processes will be able to make their software development processes considerably more Lean.The book is divided into three parts. Part I, “Motivation for Lean Software Development,” explains just what “Lean Production” means, why it can be advantageous to apply Lean concepts to software engineering, and which existing approaches are best suited to achieving this. Part II, “The Pillars of Lean Software Development,” presents the tools needed to achieve Lean software development: Non-invasive Measurement, the Goal Question Metric approach, and the Experience Factory. Finally, Part III, “Lean Software Development in Action,” shows how different tools can be combined to enable Lean Thinking in software development.The book primarily addresses the needs of all those working in the field of software engineering who want to understand how to establish an efficient and effectivesoftware development process. This group includes developers, managers, and students pursuing an M.Sc. degree in software engineering.
This book illustrates how goal-oriented, automated measurement can be used to create Lean organizations and to facilitate the development of Lean software, while also demonstrating the practical implementation of Lean software development by combining tried and trusted tools.In order to be successful, a Lean orientation of software development has to go hand in hand with a company’s overall business strategy. To achieve this, two interrelated aspects require special attention: measurement and experience management. In this book, Janes and Succi provide the necessary knowledge to establish “Lean software company thinking,” while also exploiting the latest approaches to software measurement. A comprehensive, company-wide measurement approach is exactly what companies need in order to align their activities to the demands of their stakeholders, to their business strategy, etc. With the automatic, non-invasive measurement approach proposed in this book, even small and medium-sized enterprises that do not have the resources to introduce heavyweight processes will be able to make their software development processes considerably more Lean.The book is divided into three parts. Part I, “Motivation for Lean Software Development,” explains just what “Lean Production” means, why it can be advantageous to apply Lean concepts to software engineering, and which existing approaches are best suited to achieving this. Part II, “The Pillars of Lean Software Development,” presents the tools needed to achieve Lean software development: Non-invasive Measurement, the Goal Question Metric approach, and the Experience Factory. Finally, Part III, “Lean Software Development in Action,” shows how different tools can be combined to enable Lean Thinking in software development.The book primarily addresses the needs of all those working in the field of software engineering who want to understand how to establish an efficient and effectivesoftware development process. This group includes developers, managers, and students pursuing an M.Sc. degree in software engineering.
