Your Child's Development presents parents with a classic--a solid, fascinating, up-to-date and endlessly useful book on how children develop physically and mentally, how they learn to walk and speak and read and socialize, aquire reasoning power and a moral sense, contend withs sex, make friends and become independent. 325 photographs, drawings ...
This collection of contributions surveys the state-of-the-art in computer applications for graphics in art, animation and design. It provides an integrative view of the technological, computer-related aspects and considerations of the application of the computer as an artistic tool. This book is a valuable source of information for both the ...
Long before Magellan entered the Pacific in 1521 Westerners entertained ideas of undiscovered oceans, mighty continents, and paradisal islands at the far ends of the earth - such ideas would have a long life and a deep impact in both the Pacific and the West. With the discovery of Tahiti in 1767 another powerful myth was added to this collection: ...
William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) was an English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician. Having studied under Sir William Chambers and Alexander Cozens, he travelled to Italy in 1782 and promptly wrote a book on the subject: Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (1783). Shortly ...
In the 1970s and the early 1980s, there was an enormous volume of research and development into the subject of molybdenum disulphide lubrication, much of which was supported by national governments for the benefit of defence, aviation or space activities. There were already some well-established practical guidelines for deciding when and how to ...
This book is an important volume in the a "Tribology in Practice Series" (TIPS). Thoroughly updated and revised, "Lubrication and Lubricant Selection" is a much-welcomed third edition of this established and successful title. Since the publication of the earlier editions of this title there have been important developments in some aspects of ...
William Thomas Beckford (1760-1844) was an English novelist, art critic, travel writer and politician. Having studied under Sir William Chambers and Alexander Cozens, he travelled to Italy in 1782 and promptly wrote a book on the subject: Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents; in a Series of Letters from Various Parts of Europe (1783). Shortly ...
This concise but comprehensive book deals with the behavioural and development problems of very young children. It is written, without jargon, in a style that will appeal to a broad range of professionals in early education, medicine and child care, as well as to educational and clinical psychologists who work and advise in this field. The authors ...
In the aftermath of the theory wars, the imaginative, formal, and moral features of literature have been substantially marginalized, downgraded, and neglected. Yet for many readers such elements will always be central to the experience of reading, just as for writers they are central to the experience of writing. This study argues that literature ...
Based on a study of lubrications at high temperature, this book aims to provide, in a simple form which can be understood by non-specialists, information which is of value to engineers faced with the problems of lubrication at high temperature, whether those temperatures are less than 140 degrees centigrade or greater than 1000 degrees centigrade.
Colyn finds a knife buried in the potato paddock. His father lost it when he was ten. With his knife Colyn carves a dog that comes alive, then he cuts a door into the other world and enters it. Here, in the world of Kinroad, he is Rykone the Knife Lord, owner of a knife that dragons made and that will slay dragons. Ages 10+.
The Convention on the Rights of the Child introduces for the first time in an international human rights treaty, the concept of the 'evolving capacities' of the child. This principle has been described as a new principle of interpretation in international law, recognising that, as children acquire enhanced competencies, there is a diminishing need ...
Byron's poetic reputation is currently founded on his comic epic Don Juan and its cognates "Beppo" and "The Vision of Judgement"; works lying outside this goup are still regarded with some uncertainty. This study demonstrates that some of Byron's most deeply held critical and political convictions - but also certain aspects of his experience over ...
Terry Marsh had found fame as the fighting fireman from Basildon. Frank Warren, Thatcherite entrepreneur, had won fortune as his manager. Together they celebrated winning the World Light-Welterweight Championship. But then things started to go wrong, culminating in a trial for attempted murder.
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