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The Garbage Collection Handbook The Art of Automatic Memory Management

The Garbage Collection Handbook The Art of Automatic Memory Management

Published in 1996 Richard Jones's Garbage Collection was a milestone in the area of automatic memory management. Its widely acclaimed successor The Garbage Collection Handbook: The Art of Automatic Memory Management captured the state of the field in 2012. Modern technology developments have made memory management more challenging interesting and important than ever. This second edition updates the handbook bringing together a wealth of knowledge gathered by automatic memory management researchers and developers over the past sixty years. The authors compare the most important approaches and state-of-the-art techniques in a single accessible framework. The book addresses new challenges to garbage collection made by recent advances in hardware and software. It explores the consequences of these changes for designers and implementers of high performance garbage collectors. Along with simple and traditional algorithms the book covers state-of-the-art parallel incremental concurrent and real-time garbage collection. Algorithms and concepts are often described with pseudocode and illustrations. Features of this edition Provides a complete up-to-date and authoritative sequel to the 1996 and 2012 books Offers thorough coverage of parallel concurrent and real-time garbage collection algorithms Discusses in detail modern high-performance commercial collectors Explains some of the trickier aspects of garbage collection including the interface to the run-time system Over 90 more pages including new chapters on persistence and energy-aware garbage collection Backed by a comprehensive online database of over 3 400 garbage collection-related publications The adoption of garbage collection by almost all modern programming languages makes a thorough understanding of this topic essential for any programmer. This authoritative handbook gives expert insight on how different collectors work as well as the various issues currently facing garbage collectors. Armed with this knowledge programmers can confidently select and configure the many choices of garbage collectors. http://gchandbook. org | The Garbage Collection Handbook The Art of Automatic Memory Management

GBP 59.99
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Attachment Relationships and Food From Cradle to Kitchen

Attachment Relationships and Food From Cradle to Kitchen

Using attachment theory as a lens for understanding the role of food in our everyday lives this book explores relationships with other people with ourselves and between client and therapist through our connection with food. The aim of this book is twofold: to examine the nature of attachment through narratives of feeding and to enrich psychotherapy practice by encouraging exploration of clients’ food-related memories and associations. Bringing together contributions from an experienced group of psychotherapists the chapters examine how our connections with food shape our patterns of attachment and defence how this influences appetite self-feeding (or self-starving) and how we may then feed others. They consider a spectrum from a secure attachment to food through to avoidant preoccupied and disorganised including discussion of eating disorders. Enriched throughout with diverse clinical case studies this edited collection illuminates how relationships to food can be a rich source of insight and understanding for psychotherapists psychoanalysts and other counselling therapists working today. | Attachment Relationships and Food From Cradle to Kitchen

GBP 31.99
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Can War Be Justified? A Debate

Can War Be Justified? A Debate

Can war be justified? Pacifists answer that it cannot; they oppose war and advocate for nonviolent alternatives to war. But defenders of just war theory argue that in some circumstances when the effectiveness of nonviolence is limited wars can be justified. In this book two philosophers debate this question drawing on contemporary scholarship and new developments in thinking about pacifism and just war theory. Andrew Fiala defends the pacifist position while Jennifer Kling defends just war traditions. Fiala argues that pacifism follows from the awful reality of war and the nonviolent goal of building a more just and peaceful world. Kling argues that war is sometimes justified when it is a last-ditch necessary effort to defend people and their communities from utter destruction and death. Pulling from global traditions and histories their debate will captivate anyone who has wondered or worried about the morality of political violence and military force. Topics discussed include ethical questions of self-defense and other-defense the great analogy between individuals and states evolving technologies and methods of warfighting moral injury and post-traumatic stress disorder broader political and communal issues and the problem of regional security in a globalizing world. The authors consider cultural and religious issues as well as the fundamental question of moral obligation in a world saturated in military conflict. The book was written in the aftermath of the war on terrorism and includes reflection on lessons learned from the past decades of war as well as hopes for the future in light of emerging threats in Europe and elsewhere. The book is organized in a user-friendly fashion. Each author presents a self-contained argument which is followed by a series of responses replies and counter-arguments. Throughout the authors model civil discourse by emphasizing points of agreement and remaining areas of disagreement. The book includes reader-friendly summaries a glossary of key concepts and suggestions for further study. All of this will help students and scholars follow the authors’ dialogue so they may develop their own answer to the question of whether war can be justified. Key Features Summarizes the debate between pacifism and just war theory Considers historical and traditional sources as well as contemporary scholarship and applications Models philosophical dialogue and civil discourse while seeking common ground Discusses issues of concern in contemporary warfighting and peacemaking while offering an analysis of the war on terrorism | Can War Be Justified? A Debate

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Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

Based on deep analysis of Mass Observation wartime diaries Food in Wartime Britain explores the food experience of the British middle classes in their own words throughout the course of the Second World War. It reveals that while the food practices of the population were modified by rationing and food scarcity social class and personal circumstances were key dimensions of the wartime food experience that demand to be taken into account in the historical narrative of the Home Front. | Food in Wartime Britain Testimonies from the Kitchen Front (1939–1945)

GBP 38.99
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Handbook of Wise Interventions How Social Psychology Can Help People Change

Handbook of Wise Interventions How Social Psychology Can Help People Change

Precise shifts in the ways people make sense of themselves others and social situations can help people flourish. This compelling handbook synthesizes the growing body of research on wise interventions-brief nonclinical strategies that are "wise" to the impact of social-psychological processes on behavior. Leading authorities describe how maladaptive or pejorative interpretations can undermine people’s functioning and how they can be altered to produce benefits in such areas as academic motivation and achievement health well-being and personal relationships. Consistently formatted chapters review the development of each intervention how it can be implemented its evidence base and implications for solving personal and societal problems. | Handbook of Wise Interventions How Social Psychology Can Help People Change

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Mentoring and Coaching Tips How Educators Can Help Each Other

Mentoring and Coaching Tips How Educators Can Help Each Other

This book is for educators at all levels and is packed with creative use-now tips and activities to support new and struggling teachers. Combining real-life scenarios with current research the author demonstrates how educators can get the most out of available resources promote a school culture devoted to helping and caring and meet common school challenges head-on! New and noteworthy—by providing creative activities and acknowledging the complexity inherent in school culture this practical guide can really help educators implement a mentoring/coaching program that works! | Mentoring and Coaching Tips How Educators Can Help Each Other

GBP 105.00
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Anyone Can Code The Art and Science of Logical Creativity

Anyone Can Code The Art and Science of Logical Creativity

Anyone Can Code: The Art and Science of Logical Creativity introduces computer programming as a way of problem-solving through logical thinking. It uses the notion of modularization as a central lens through which we can make sense of many software concepts. This book takes the reader through fundamental concepts in programming by illustrating them in three different and distinct languages: C/C++ Python and Javascript. Key features: Focuses on problem-solving and algorithmic thinking instead of programming functions syntax and libraries; Includes engaging examples including video games and visual effects; Provides exercises and reflective questions. This book gives beginner and intermediate learners a strong understanding of what they are doing so that they can do it better and with any other tool or language that they may end up using later. | Anyone Can Code The Art and Science of Logical Creativity

GBP 56.99
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Rising Fascism in America It Can Happen Here

Rising Fascism in America It Can Happen Here

Rising Fascism in America: It Can Happen Here explores how rising fascism has infiltrated U. S. politics—and how the media and academia failed to spot its earlier rise. Anthony R. DiMaggio spotlights the development of rightwing polarization of the media Trump’s political ascendance and the prominence of extremist activists including in Congress. Fascism has long bubbled under the surface until the coup attempt of January 6th 2021. This book offers tactics to combat fascism exploring social movements such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter in mobilizing the public. When so little scholarship engages the question of fascism Anthony R. DiMaggio combines the rigor of academic analysis with an accessible style that appeals to student and general readers. | Rising Fascism in America It Can Happen Here

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Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

In comparison with Literary Studies and Media and Film Studies the disciplines of Theatre and Performance with their strong anthropocentric heritage have been relatively slow in responding to such things as climate change species extinction or pollution and toxicity etc. However in the wake of recent work on animals cyborgs and objects as well as publications with a specific focus on ecology and environment there are real signs that theatre and performance scholars are beginning to make their own contribution to the Environmental Humanities. But if theatre critics are engaged in new forms of ecocritical analysis it is worth posing a pertinent question from the outset: namely what can theatre do ecologically? In this book leading researchers and practitioners seek to answer that question from a number of perspectives and with diverse methodologies. Topics include: reflections on rehearsal processes scores for performance site-based interventions ideas of conflict investigations of temporality and time ecology ecospectating and the experience of disappointment. Taken together these essays make an important intervention in the emergent (inter)disciplines of the Environmental Humanities and further our understanding of the ecological potential of Theatre and Performance in ways that are cautious tentative but also generative. This book was originally published as a special issue of Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. | Performance and Ecology: What Can Theatre Do?

GBP 38.99
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Cooking for Health and Disease Prevention From the Kitchen to the Clinic

Cooking for Health and Disease Prevention From the Kitchen to the Clinic

Poor diet and substandard nutrition are underlying causes of many diseases including cardiovascular disease diabetes and cancer. Collectively these ailments are the leading causes of premature death most of which are preventable. Cooking for Health and Disease Prevention: From the Kitchen to the Clinic helps demonstrate cooking as a fundamental bridge between ideal nutrition and long-term health. Clinicians patients and the public often lack adequate knowledge to help select and prepare foods for optimal disease management. This book provides information to clinicians and their patients about foods and cooking principles to help prevent common health conditions. Features: Focuses on disease endpoints reviewing the disease biology and epidemiology and presenting dietary interventions for disease prevention. Provides recommendations for translating dietary and culinary principles of health prevention into clinical practice and includes a recipe appendix with practical examples. Features information on healthy cooking techniques as well as food selection storage and preparation to help maximize nutritional value. Introduces the reader to fundamental concepts in nutrition and culinary principles explaining the relationship between food processing and food preparation and nutritional quality of foods. This book is accessible to patients and offers evidence-based practical interventions for healthcare professionals. It is authored by Nicole Farmer physician scientist at the NIH Clinical Center and nutrition researcher Andres Ardisson Korat awarded a doctorate degree in nutrition and epidemiology from the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. | Cooking for Health and Disease Prevention From the Kitchen to the Clinic

GBP 44.99
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News 2.0 Can journalism survive the Internet?

News 2.0 Can journalism survive the Internet?

There have never been so many ways of producing news and news-like content. From podcasts to YouTube blogs and the phenomenal popularity of social media seismic shifts are underway in global media. News 2. 0 bridges the gap between theory and practice to present an integrated approach to journalism that redefines the profession. Key ideas in journalism theory political economy and media studies are used to explore the changing cultures of journalism in an historical context. Hirst explains the fragmentation of the mass audience for news products and how digital commerce has disconnected consumers from real democracy. He argues that journalism requires a restatement of the role of journalists as public intellectuals with a commitment to truth trust and the public interest. | News 2. 0 Can journalism survive the Internet?

GBP 130.00
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Urban Playground How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

Urban Playground How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

What type of cities do we want our children to grow up in? Car-dominated noisy polluted and devoid of nature? Or walkable welcoming and green? As the climate crisis and urbanisation escalate cities urgently need to become more inclusive and sustainable. This book reveals how seeing cities through the eyes of children strengthens the case for planning and transportation policies that work for people of all ages and for the planet. It shows how urban designers and city planners can incorporate child friendly insights and ideas into their masterplans public spaces and streetscapes. Healthier children mean happier families stronger communities greener neighbourhoods and an economy focused on the long-term. Make cities better for everyone. | Urban Playground How Child-Friendly Planning and Design Can Save Cities

GBP 38.00
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The Power of Inner Pictures How Imagination Can Maintain Physical and Mental Health

The Power of Inner Pictures How Imagination Can Maintain Physical and Mental Health

This book is about inner pictures and how we can access and change these pictures through our imagination. It is written not only for specialists in the field of psychotherapy and coaching but also for the general public. With the authors as specialists in the field the authors have created a joint book that is both comprehensive and understan | The Power of Inner Pictures How Imagination Can Maintain Physical and Mental Health

GBP 145.00
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What Can We Know About Sex? A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

What Can We Know About Sex? A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

Despite the progress made by psychoanalysis since Freud’s discovery of the sexual nature of the unconscious analysts have tended to explore psychical causality independently of the role of the biological factors at play in sexuality. What Can We Know About Sex? explains how Lacan’s work allows us to make new links between the sexual laws of discourse gender and what Freud called the 'biological rock' in human life allowing a new perspective not only on the history of the sexual couple but on contemporary developments of sexuality in the 21st century. Gisèle Chaboudez’s insights demonstrate that the old phallic logic that has been so dominant is now in the process of being dismantled opening up the question of how people can relate sexually and what forms of jouissance are at stake for contemporary subjectivity. What Can We Know About Sex? will be a key text for analysts academics and students of feminism gender and sexuality. | What Can We Know About Sex? A Lacanian Study of Sex and Gender

GBP 29.99
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Incredible Consequences of Brain Injury The Ways your Brain can Break

Incredible Consequences of Brain Injury The Ways your Brain can Break

Incredible Consequences of Brain Injury: The Ways your Brain can Break explains the acquired brain disorders that can suddenly change a person’s life. Underlining the intricate workings of the human brain and the amazing things it does every day this book examines what happens when the brain stops functioning as it should. Through the use of case studies and historical examples this concentrated collection of different neuropsychological conditions provides the reader a glimpse into the lived experiences of each disorder. Each chapter is firmly rooted in relevant neuropsychological literature combined with easy-to-understand explanations and guided reflection. In its essence this book is a celebration of the human brain and the myriad factors that make it up serving to maintain hope in recovering from brain conditions and to marvel at the intricate workings of the brain. This valuable compendium is essential for anyone who wants to learn more about how the brain functions and dysfunctions and will be equally useful for students instructors and healthcare workers. It will further be of use to individuals with brain conditions and their dear ones and for the individuals who are interested in learning more about the human brain. | Incredible Consequences of Brain Injury The Ways your Brain can Break

GBP 44.95
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An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?

An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?

A critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay in which she argues that a core problem for the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) is that they have no platform to express their concerns and no voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods. A key theme of Gayatri Spivak's work is agency: the ability of the individual to make their own decisions. While Spivak's main aim is to consider ways in which subalterns – her term for the indigenous dispossessed in colonial societies – were able to achieve agency this paper concentrates specifically on describing the ways in which western scholars inadvertently reproduce hegemonic structures in their work. Spivak is herself a scholar and she remains acutely aware of the difficulty and dangers of presuming to speak for the subalterns she writes about. As such her work can be seen as predominantly a delicate exercise in the critical thinking skill of interpretation; she looks in detail at issues of meaning specifically at the real meaning of the available evidence and her paper is an attempt not only to highlight problems of definition but to clarify them. What makes this one of the key works of interpretation in the Macat library is of course the underlying significance of this work. Interpretation in this case is a matter of the difference between allowing subalterns to speak for themselves and of imposing a mode of speaking on them that – however well-intentioned – can be as damaging in the postcolonial world as the agency-stifling political structures of the colonial world itself. By clearing away the detritus of scholarly attempts at interpretation Spivak takes a stand against a specifically intellectual form of oppression and marginalization. | An Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?

GBP 6.50
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Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis Can Technology Really Save the World?

Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis Can Technology Really Save the World?

A radical and challenging book which argues that artificial intelligence needs a completely different set of foundations based on ecological intelligence rather than human intelligence if it is to deliver on the promise of a better world. This can usher in the greatest transformation in human history an age of re-integration. Our very existence is dependent upon our context within the Earth System and so surely artificial intelligence must also be grounded within this context embracing emergence interconnectedness and real-time feedback. We discover many positive outcomes across the societal economic and environmental arenas and discuss how this transformation can be delivered. Key Features: Identifies a key weakness in current AI thinking that threatens any hope of a better world. Highlights the importance of realizing that systems theory is an essential foundation for any technology that hopes to positively transform our world. Emphasizes the need for a radical new approach to AI based on ecological systems. Explains why ecosystem intelligence not human intelligence offers the best framework for AI. Examines how this new approach will impact on the three arenas of society environment and economics ushering in a new age of re-integration. | Artificial Intelligence and the Environmental Crisis Can Technology Really Save the World?

GBP 27.99
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Can We All Get Along? Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics

Can We All Get Along? Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics

In a nation built by immigrants and bedeviled by the history and legacy of slavery and discrimination how do we as Americans reconcile a commitment to equality and freedom with persistent inequality and discrimination? And what can we do about it? This widely acclaimed text by Paula D. McClain with new coauthor Jessica D. Johnson Carew provides a comprehensive and accessible overview of the historical and contemporary political experience of the major groups-African Americans Latinos Asian Americans and American Indians-in the United States. It explores the similarities and differences in these groups' representation and participation in law politics and policymaking discusses the enduring issues and concerns that they face and examines intra- and inter-group competition and coalition-building in the face of enduring conflict and inequality. The seventh edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include coverage of President Barack Obama's second term the 2016 election police brutality and Black Lives Matter and the Dakota Access Pipeline protest movement. With a brand-new chapter on the intersections of race and gender Can We All Get Along? remains unparalleled in its comparative coverage of the current landscape of minority politics in the United States. | Can We All Get Along? Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics

GBP 42.99
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Bulletproof Decisions How Executives Can Get It Right Every Time

Bulletproof Decisions How Executives Can Get It Right Every Time

We are told from a young age that we should strive to make the right decisions but we aren’t taught exactly how to do this. Every day we make over 35 000 decisions in our personal and professional lives. How many of those decisions do we get right? This book will help business executives systematically tackle these 35 000 decisions. Executives are forced to make critical decisions that impact their lives their employees’ lives and the lives of their customers. Decisions like what products to create who should be hired and what divisions to shut down are all commonplace in the executive suite. This book offers three strategies for dealing with decisions: problem-solving techniques routines and decision-making frameworks. Each strategy is designed to help readers achieve more clarity gain time back and improve the quality of their decisions. The first one focuses on helping readers solve the right problem instead of wasting time on the wrong one. The second strategy helps deal with decisions that need to be made once but can then be executed regularly. The third and final strategy provides a three-step framework for making the most important decisions in their lives. The focus of the author’s work is on helping readers use data to make better decisions. This book gives readers the tools to convert the insights they learn from their data into actionable decisions. | Bulletproof Decisions How Executives Can Get It Right Every Time

GBP 24.99
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Strategic Listening How Managers Coworkers and Organizations Can Become Better at Listening

Strategic Listening How Managers Coworkers and Organizations Can Become Better at Listening

Listening is so simple yet so difficult. Many times listening is taken for granted. One could therefore say that listening is the forgotten part of communication. Although organizations have more digital and analog communication channels than ever too little time is spent listening to customers employees and other influential groups. It is a shame that listening is not given more attention as it is linked to many positive values. Examples include better conversations increased trust and confidence more outstanding commitment and job satisfaction lower absenteeism due to illness higher productivity and quality of work increased sales better relationships with customers and employees and many other positive effects. To the extent that listening takes place organizations rarely take a holistic approach to it. Strategic listening means a given objective for listening thoughts about who should listen when it should happen and so on. An organization’s listening must become a strategic issue to exploit the great potential of increased listening. This book provides answers to the following: Why is listening important? What are the barriers to listening? How can both individuals and organizations become better at listening? How can organizations develop strategic listening skills? How does one build a system to improve an organization’s strategic listening? | Strategic Listening How Managers Coworkers and Organizations Can Become Better at Listening

GBP 26.95
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Out of Hiding Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can be Stopped

Out of Hiding Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can be Stopped

Out of Hiding: Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can Be Stopped explains how white supremacist extremism endures the varied forms it takes its relationship with systemic racism and what to do about it. The book draws on more than 30 years of extensive data and direct experiences with extremists to describe how white supremacy moved into the spotlight during the first two decades of the 21st century. The argument focuses on three moments between 2008 and today during which white supremacists took opportunities to move from pockets of underground activism to violent protests across the United States. The authors offer a corrective to observers who mischaracterize today’s racial extremism as a new form of ‘alt-right’ conservatism or ‘white nationalism’ emanating from an isolated poorly educated and economically disenfranchised online fringe. These misunderstandings reflect the limited attention given to the varied and persistent forms of racial extremism that have long simmered in America and an inability to acknowledge the appeal white supremacist messages can hold for a broad swath of the U. S. population. This volume contributes a longer view than other books to demonstrate that today’s white supremacy is less a unique eruption than a continuation –and an acceleration –of longstanding U. S. white supremacy. This is essential reading for scholars and activists interested in racism white supremacy and far-right extremism. | Out of Hiding Extremist White Supremacy and How It Can be Stopped

GBP 22.99
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Campfire Lessons for Leaders How Uncovering Our Past Can Propel Us Forward

Campfire Lessons for Leaders How Uncovering Our Past Can Propel Us Forward

This ideal companion for business leaders heading into a milestone moment offers practical advice to help them take something that can seem amorphous and abstract – living an intentional purposeful life – and turn it into reality. Though it might seem counterintuitive this book demonstrates that to move forward in the right direction you must understand and integrate your past into your present. Readers will see how they too can step back and consider the flashpoints of their past in a way that will serve them as they take the next step of their life from navigating a significant life change to simply living each day feeling less stuck and more purposeful. Leading coach Tony Martignetti shares the most powerful lessons from over 200 Virtual Campfire podcast interviews he’s conducted with driven individuals who decided to live intentionally rather than by default. As no two interviewees have faced the same challenges or pursued the same goals readers will be inspired by these diverse insights to embark on – and sustain – their own unique transformations. Packed with questions journaling prompts and real-world exercises to help readers understand their past at a deeper level and integrate it into their present this book provides a valuable toolkit for business leaders and professionals in any industry who feel unfulfilled and uncertain about what’s next for them. | Campfire Lessons for Leaders How Uncovering Our Past Can Propel Us Forward

GBP 31.99
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First Aid for Teacher Burnout How You Can Find Peace and Success

First Aid for Teacher Burnout How You Can Find Peace and Success

Offering clear strategies rooted in research and expert recommendations the new edition of First Aid for Teacher Burnout empowers teachers to prevent and recover from burnout while finding success at work in a sustainable way. Each chapter explores a different common cause of teacher burnout and provides takeaway strategies and realistic tips. Chapter coverage includes fighting low morale diminishing stress streamlining grading reducing workload leveraging collaboration using technology to your advantage managing classroom behavior advocating for support from your administration securing the help of parents and community and more. New in this edition the author expands on discussion about teacher activism using digital resources as well as a wealth of tips throughout for those teaching virtually. Full of reflection exercises confessions from real teachers and veteran teacher tips this accessible book provides easy-to-implement steps for alleviating burnout problems so you can enjoy peace and success in your teaching. | First Aid for Teacher Burnout How You Can Find Peace and Success

GBP 28.99
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