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Kina, the camel is travelling through the desert with Rana, the kite seller. Can Kina teach Rana how to have good manners and be kind to others? Or will Rana continue to be mean and selfish? Find out in this playscript set in the Arabian desert. Kina and The Kite Seller is part of the Galaxy range of books from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Galaxy provides captivating fiction and non-fiction for Pink A to White band. The rich collection of highly decodable books immerses children in a range of cross-curricular topics and genres. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding.Reading age: 6-7 years

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Ruudt Peters (b. 1950) is a pioneering conceptual jewellery artist who challenges traditional definitions of adornment by pushing the boundaries of context, wearability, material and presentation. On the occasion of his retrospective exhibition he gives the first complete overview of his forty-four-year oeuvre. All series of his work are comprehensively presented in texts and photographs of objects and portraits. Many previously unpublished views of installations and exhibitions as well as numerous drawings and sketches enhance the review, all complemented by video clips that can be accessed via QR codes, which provide the reader with short movies featuring background information about Peters's work, and those who wear his pieces and the art of jewellery. The last chapter of the catalogue will be dedicated to Peter's latest, hitherto unpublished series. This book accompanies an exhibition, to be held at the CODA Museum, Apeldoorn (NL), 12.11.2017 - 28.1.2018; followed by venues in Huangzhou (CN), Tallinn (EE) and Vincenza (IT) (dates not yet confirmed).

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"A small business is not a little big business." Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are considered the engines of worldwide economies and the main sources of job creation. Management in these companies is different from management in larger/older enterprises with their already established concepts and instruments. In view of the high importance of SMEs in emerging, developing and developed economies worldwide, the De Gruyter Handbook of SME Entrepreneurship investigates the underlying mechanisms and practices of management within these companies with a focus on entrepreneurship, growth and innovation. It argues that it is time for a dedicated theory of "SME Entrepreneurship" to emerge. Entrepreneurial thinking and behavior in SMEs must be differentiated from that of start-ups and large companies. On the other hand, it also explores the different entrepreneurship manifestations that exist within a widely heterogeneous group of SMEs. The handbook provides a theoretical framework in which to understand, compare and contrast the complexity of SMEs in both domestic and international processes and addresses the strengths, achievements, and challenges of entrepreneurship in SMEs.

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Experience the interdisciplinary performance scene of the 1980s and beyond through the eyes of one of its most compelling witnesses. Jacki Apple’s Performance / Media / Art / Culture traces performance art, multimedia theatre, audio arts and dance in the United States from 1983 to the present. Showcasing 35 years of Apple’s critical essays and reviews, the collection explores the rise and diversification of intermedia performance; how new technologies (or rehashed old technologies) influence American culture and contemporary life; the interdependence of pop and performance culture; and the politics of art and the performance of politics. Apple writes with a journalist’s attention to the immediacy of account and a historian’s attention to structural aesthetic and personal networks, resulting in a volume brimming with big ideas but grounded in concentrated reviews of individual performances. Many of the pieces featured in this collection originally appeared in small press journals and magazines that have now gone out of print. Preserved and republished here for current and future readers, they offer a rich portrait of performance at the end of the millennium.

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Based on the classic fairy tale. The vain emperor has some beautiful new clothes made that only clever people can see - or can they? Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading.Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools.The Emperor's New Clothes is a Level 1 Read it yourself title, suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words.

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Before the war! How long shall we go on saying that, I wonder? How long before the answer will be 'Which war?' The approach of the Second World War finds suburban insurance agent George Bowling in a reflective mood. As he thinks back to the sedate Oxfordshire village of his Edwardian boyhood, he contemplates regretfully what has happened to England since then, from the First World War, in which he served, to the seemingly inescapable money-grubbing and mechanization of everyday life in modern London. A lucky windfall allows Bowling to make a secret return to his idyllic birthplace: a fortifying respite, he hopes, from the struggles of life in a modern city on the verge of war. But is there really any going back? Published in 1939, Coming Up for Air is the most accomplished of Orwell's early realist novels, casting light on the development of Orwell's distinctive thinking as a cultural critic. The novel explores many of the themes Orwell later reprised in 1984: nostalgia, memory, and disillusionment in the face of modernity's ills, including industrialisation, capitalist exploitation, and endless war.

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Economic, social and political disruption, financial recession, international migration and rapid technological advancements have produced major changes throughout the world regarding the availability and access to knowledge, human communication, social relationships, learning and education. As socioeconomic, sociodemographic and sociocultural conditions are constantly changing in parallel with rapid scientific and technological progress, learning environments are also evolving. The increased complexity of educational processes calls for new research and theoretical inquiry to address how these global changes affect education, schools and academic learning. This volume in the Advances in Motivation and Achievement Series is dedicated to the role of motivation in that process. The fundamental assumption of the volume is that, on the one hand, change and challenge have a significant impact on students’ and educators’ motivation to learn and achieve and, on the other hand, motivation can have a significant impact on students’ and educators’ capacity to cope with change and challenge effectively. This book opens up a dialogue on how to support achievement motivation in challenging times as a means for successful academic trajectories and positive adaptation to school. Internationally leading researchers provide a critical understanding of the role of current motivational theories during unsettling times, discuss a number of challenges affecting motivation in education, and indicate potential implications of motivational theory and research for educational practice.

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As children, Charles and Mary Lamb took great delight in exploring their benefactor's extensive library; as adults they began writing children's books together that also appealed to all generations. In Tales of Shakespeare they wished to bring their favourite plays to life for children too young to read and appreciate Shakespeare's work. This collection of twenty of Shakespeare's stories begins with The Tempest, which explores themes of magic, power and reconciliation, and ends with Pericles, Prince of Tyre, an exotic play of love, loss and family ties. Between these two tales are twelve romances and comedies, all written by Mary, and six tragedies, all written by Charles. Each tale is told chronologically and retains much of Shakespeare's lyricism, phrasing and rhythm. Together, they form a captivating and accessible introduction to the Bard's work.

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Los cambios sociales obligan a la escuela a respuestas distintas y adecuadas a la realidad La presente obra es de un aporte de soluciones al problema nuevo de los alumnos inmigrantes, que presentan características y problemas claramente diferentes a los de la mayoría de nuestros alumnos.

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Directo, claro e informativo Hazlo Bien, Hazlo Seguro constituye un libro esencial para el adolescente, así como para todo aquel que desee saber todo lo relacionado con el sexo en los noventa. Unánimemente considerada una guía sincera y abierta se dirige a los adolescentes, así como a padres y profesores para insistir en que el gran peligro de hoy no es ya la falta de información que puede llevar a un embarazo no deseado. Todos los jóvenes que quieran hacerse una idea de lo que es el sexo, y también los menos jóvenes, han de encontrar en este libro la información básica, cómo pueden evitarse problemas y a dónde acudir si precisa ayuda.

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Cómo recuperar y transmitir a los niños y los jóvenes la pasión y las ganas de leer.Leer es una urgente necesidad pública y privada. La vida humana transcurre entre palabras. Nuestra inteligencia es lingüística y nuestra convivencia, íntima o política, también. Este libro es una introducción poética, científica y práctica a la lectura. Un manual para padres, maestros, profesores de secundaria y para lectores curiosos. Pero es, ante todo, un libro de magia. Mezcla, pues, recetas y consejos para lograr encantamientos prodigiosos. Quienes dividen la magia en blanca y negra se equivocan. Olvidan que la magia más poderosa y magnífica es la del negro sobre el blanco. La escritura, y la lectura, claro, que es su complemento. De ella emergen hadas y dragones, mundos nuevos y mundos antiguos, personajes, historias, sentimientos, leyes, poemas y ecuaciones. El lenguaje transfiguró a la especie humana. Tal vez La magia de leer haga lo mismo con usted.

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En un pueblo del sur de Alemania, tres chiquillos disfrutan de la amistad y de los días luminosos intentando dejar atrás su historia familiar, marcada por el dolor y la pérdida. Veinte años más tarde, convertidos ya en estudiantes universitarios, deciden viajar juntos a Roma, donde su vínculo se ve sometido a las duras pruebas del amor, la traición y la culpabilidad. Con su habitual lenguaje depurado, Zsuzsa Bánk muestra en Los días luminosos la posibilidad de redención que a veces nos conceden los demás, gracias a los cuales logramos salvaguardar la esperanza. Una conmovedora novela sobre la amistad y la traición, el amor y la mentira, los secretos del pasado y los decisivos instantes que pueden cambiar nuestras vidas.

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Mamá rana despierta a sus 999 hijas. Es primavera! Ya podéis levantaros! Pero que ha pasado? Mamá rana cuenta a sus hijas una y otra vez, y solo hay 998. La hermana mayor aún no se ha despertado-una, dos, tresMamá rana cuenta a las pequeñas, pero solo hay 998.-Qué raro-dice, y justo después oye unos ronquidos.-Vaya! Hay una que todavía duerme-exclama mamá rana, sorprendida.-Es nuestra hermana mayor.-La mayor aún no se ha despertado.-Es una dormilona!Las ranitas se ríen de su hermana.

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The German Idealism Reader is a comprehensive account of the key ideas and arguments central to German idealists and their immediate critics. Expanding the scope beyond the four best-known representatives - Kant, Fichte, Schelling, and Hegel - and including those thinkers often considered as secondary, but who are also crucial for understanding of this period, the Reader presents an influential era in all its philosophical complexity. Through its broad coverage of philosophers and their texts, it offers a complete dynamic picture of the intellectual period and features: - Selections from key texts by Kant, Fichte, Schelling and Hegel - Readings from Reinhold, Schiller, Maimon, Schulze, Jacobi, Hölderlin, and Novalis - Responses to and critiques of German idealist thought by late nineteenth century thinkers, such as Schopenhauer, Feuerbach, Marx, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche - Selections extending beyond the typical focus on epistemology and metaphysics to include ethics, religion, society, and art - A general introduction and timeline, together with a chronology and bibliography to each thinker and introductory overviews to both thinkers and text With readings carefully selected to illustrate thinkers in dialogue with each other, The German Idealism Reader provides a better appreciation of the philosophical discussions central to the period. This is essential reading for all students of German idealism and the nineteenth-century German and Continental philosophies, as well as to those studying the important movements and periods of European intellectual history.

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Gabriela and her father become separated while visiting the zoo. She's worried that she won't find him. What can she do? Includes a parent who use a wheelchair.

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Digital information, particularly for online newsgathering and reporting, is an industry fraught with uncertainty and rapid innovation. Digital Information Ecosystems: Smart Press crosses academic knowledge with research by media groups to understand this evolution and analyze the future of the sector, including the imminent employment of bots and artificial intelligence. The book adopts an original and multidisciplinary approach to this topic: combining the science of media economics with the experience of a practicing journalist of a major daily newspaper. The result is an essential guide to the opportunities of the media to respond to a changing global digital landscape. Independent news reporting is vital in the contemporary democracy; the media must itself become a new “smart press”.

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This book offers a pragmatic guide to navigating through the complex maze of EPR/ESR spectroscopy fundamentals, techniques, and applications. Written for the scientist who is new to EPR spectroscopy, the editors have prepared a volume that de-mystifies the basic fundamentals without weighting readers down with detailed physics and mathematics, and then presents clear approaches in specific application areas. The first part presents basic fundamentals and advantages of electron paramagnetic resonance spectrscopy. The second part explores severalapplication areas including chemistry, biology, medicine, materials and geology. A frequently-asked-questions sections focuses on practicalquestions, such as the size of sample, etc. It's an ideal, hands-on reference for chemists and researchers in the pharmaceutical and materials (semiconductor) industries who are looking for a basic introduction to EPR spectroscopy.

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Together, images and conversations portray the underlying motivation, orientation and stances of some of the most prominent young architects, photographers, artists and filmmakers whose body of work gravitates around the world of architecture. Interviews with: Kersten Geers (Office KGDVS, architect), François Charbonnet (Made In, architect), Ila Bêka & Louise Lemoine (filmmakers), Junya Ishigami (architect), Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara (DOGMA, architects), Philipp Schaerer (visual artist), Go Hasegawa (architect), Bas Princen (photographer), Yuri Ancarani (visual artist) and Anne Holtrop (architect). Text in German.

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From the saints of the Dark Ages to modern-day sinners, Galway Bay is the source of some of Ireland’s most magical tales. In this book local storyteller Rab Fulton takes the reader through Galway’s past, recalling the myths and legend’s that shaped the area’s history – from the quarrelsome giants who in their rage created the Aran Isles to the corpse that flew through the air at the very first Galway Arts Festival. Also featuring tales of magic swans, miraculous nuns, a city beneath the waves and a cannibal king, this is a great companion for any visit to the county, for fascinating days out and finding exciting treasure on your doorstep.

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