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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Steven A Wylie
For the young woman kidnapped on her way home from the pub, the nightmare is about to begin...Weeks after Caitlin Kinnear goes missing, the police are unable to break her case. Worse they are not even certain harm has come to her. But determined to pursue all leads, DI Damen Brook and his team begin to trawl through the murky world of cheap migrant labour. Convinced that the answers lie hidden within its depths, Brook soon begins to realise Caitlin is in terrible danger.When the body of another young girl turns up it becomes clear that Caitlin's abduction might not be an isolated incident and the race is on to save her. But with time running out, can Brook put the pieces together and find Caitlin before it's too late?
'I believe this book will change the conversation in schools on children's behaviour.' - Dr Luna CentifantiA School Without Sanctions offers an innovative approach to behaviour management in schools, prioritising compassion and behaviour modification over punishment. Drawing on their award-winning methods, Steven Baker and Mick Simpson explain why challenging behaviour occurs and provide a toolbox of non-confrontational approaches that will benefit the whole school community.When Steven and Mick set out to transform their school's approach to behaviour, it changed everything. With the help of Dr Alice Jones Bartoli at Goldsmiths, they developed a sanction-free approach in their special school for boys with social, emotional and mental health (SEMH) difficulties. Far from descending into anarchy, lessons began to improve and student–staff relationships flourished. The school is now rated outstanding in all areas, and more importantly, student outcomes have been remarkable.Steven and Mick apply this experience, as well as their work in pupil referral units and young offender institutions, to explore their strategies for managing behaviour without the need for zero tolerance, discussing exclusions, trauma, motivation and engagement along the way. Rooted in neuroscience and evolutionary psychology, this book will revolutionise the way you think about behaviour management, help boost student mental health and academic achievement, and protect teacher wellbeing.
Bountiful Creek: a legendary love story
Steven B. Weissman
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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In September 1972, Rodney Milburn of Opelousas, Louisiana, won the Olympic gold medal in the men's 110-meter high hurdles. Raised amid segregation and poverty in the 1950s and 60s, Milburn honed his skills on a grass track over wooden hurdles. In a career that spanned more than a decade, he established himself as the greatest hurdler of his era and one of the greatest athletes in track history. This biography chronicles Milburn's rise from poverty to international athletic stardom. Loved ones, as well as track legends Renaldo Nehemiah, Dwight Stones, Tonie Campbell, Brian Oldfield and Bill Collins, relate Milburn's remarkable achievements and humble nature.
We are living through a time when the extinction of humanity itself looms on our generational horizon. While technological approaches to climate mitigation are admirable, our current ecological crisis results ultimately from an inherited, unexamined concept of selfhood, one standing in reciprocal relation to our misconceived view of nature. Regardless of our concept of nature--conservation, preservation, exploitation, or aesthetic/spiritual appreciation--the received idea that our self exists inside our skull engenders an unexamined assumption that nature is "out there," with historically devastating results for us all. This book explores three new ways of thinking about the interrelation of ourselves and "nature": Merleau-Ponty's notion of embodiment, the connection between enactivism and affordances, and object-oriented ontology. These approaches to selfhood reorder our moral obligations: what are our responsibilities to ourselves, our children, and nature itself? An embodied ethic based on empathy, one compatible with object-oriented ontology that incorporates panpsychism, and one derived from the social imaginary can provide an ethic that transcends supposed cultural biases and offers a new way of confronting climate change. To meet contemporary environmental challenges, we need to change our minds about our minds.
A Closed Mind Is An Open Trap: New And Selected Poems
Steven Michael Pape
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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A CLOSED MIND IS AN OPEN TRAP New And Selected Poems is a collection of Steve Michael Pape's newest poetry combined with a generous helping of the best poems from his previous collections, as selected by the author. When he published "The Awakening Soul, his first book of poetry, in October 2009, Steven Michael Pape introduced himself to his readers by saying that he had been writing poetry for 18 years. Eighteen years is a relatively long time to be at your craft, especially when that time frame places Mr. Pape's first poetic efforts at the tender age of seventeen. 17 is a pivotal age for a young person, then, now and in any era, in this or any other century. And while many thoughtful adolescents write poetry, most of them do not continue to do so for more than a few years at most. They write until they feel that they have properly vented their innermost thoughts or until they are distracted by family, careers, video games or other worthwhile pursuits available in the twenty-first century. So here is Steven Michael Pape still at it, his soul still awakening, still believing in the potency of the spoken word: "This is the spoken word, and this is the truth An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth" ................................................... "Some of them real and some dredged from the depths There are tales of life and then tales of death." There are many poems here about life, death, and death in life, and life in death. The death in life poems are mainly about the machine, a recurring concept which seems to describe the lot of the present day working class young Englishman: "We are part of the machine Rusted by the sweat of innocents Held conscious by our thoughts." But then: "Some refuse the control, Militant minds in chaos united Trying to overthrow the machine." Innocence is another recurring theme, in both the new poems and in the selected, older poems. Despite the raging unemployment, the unpaid bills, the despair he sees everywhere in his native land, Mr. Pape finds solace in the word itself, in the memories of his own innocent times and in the faces of the children, just born and yet to be born, for whose future he is both cautiously optimistic and solicitous. While there is no more than a slight glimmer of hope in the poems about his city, there is something of a ragged beauty to be found there, amongst the stark, realistic observations he makes of the streets he walks daily. Much more beauty, hope and enlightenment appear in the frequent poems about nature, about the night and the moonlight: "Vibrant bright full moon tonight It's everywhere in my sight Eclipsing heaven with its glow Encased by planets with its show. A vast light bulb in the black sky Just a hint of cloud covers the eye Mysterious night full of desire Brightest midnight do not expire." This is a poet, who has come into his own, who writes out of anger, despair, love of family, love of nature and his own observing mind observing his soul observing itself: "People are born as others die, It's all the same in my minds' eye Buddhists teach of being reborn, A pretty girl, a rose, a thorn." In the poem, An American in Paris, which ends with the lines, Le po te est mort, Le po te est mort, Mr. Pape also writes: "Tonight will be his calling, the day of his rebirth In an upstairs apartment as the night draws still He feels the end approaching, he is ready The strangest life he has ever known." No doubt. you will come to the same conclusion when you have read and re-read and digested the poems in this fine collection by a richly talented and devoted writer: Le po te est vivant
Memories of a Hit Man: Three Short Stories
Steven Wilcox
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2012
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