A book on how children learn to read.

An accessible and practical text providing essential coverage of inclusive practice for pre-service and in-service trainee teachers in the Lifelong Learning Sector.

An introduction to population, sociological and psychological influences on health and delivery of healthcare in the UK for medical students.

This thought-provoking work presents Confucianism as a living ethical tradition with contemporary relevance. While acknowledged as one of the world's most influential philosophies, Confucianism's significance is too often consigned to a historical or solely East Asian context. Discussing both the strengths and weaknesses of Confucian ethics, the volume's contributors reflect on what this tradition offers that we cannot readily learn from other systems of ethics. Developing Confucian ethical i...

Edited by two of the biggest names in the field, Windy Dryden and Rhena Branch, with 26 chapters by leading experts, this timely book alone as the most accessible yet comprehensive guide to CBT theory, skills, research and practice.

The harmonisation of company law has always been on the agenda of the European Union. Besides the protection of third parties affected by business transactions, the founders had two other objectives: first, promoting freedom of establishment, and second, preventing the abuse of such freedom. In fact, the fear of the Netherlands becoming the ‘Delaware of Europe' (in terms of competition among Member States) seemed real, until, ironically, at the beginning of the 21st century, it was the privi...

During a medieval wedding party at Cleves, the poet Veldeke reads from an unfinished romance. The next day, the manuscript has disappeared from the chest in which it was kept. But what is the point of stealing an unfinished book, and who would do such a thing? Master Henric tries to find out.

At the summer residence of the Metternich family in Bohemia, the governess Franziska is found in a pond, drowned. Was it truly suicide because of an unwanted pregnancy, as the doctor claims and many othe...

The fourth edition of this best-selling guide to Prolog and Artificial Intelligence has been updated to include key developments in the field while retaining its lucid approach to these topics. New and extended topics include Constraint Logic Programming, abductive reasoning and partial order planning. Divided into two parts, the first part of the book introduces the programming language Prolog, while the second part teaches Artificial Intelligence using Prolog as a tool for the implementatio...

Counselling skills are core to the social work undergraduate curriculum. This book takes readers through the theoretical models that they need to learn about for their course, and provides direct examples of how to use these in practice.