Thriving at School aims to help children flourish in the crucial early school years and beyond. This easy-to-read, practical guide is designed to help parents develop their children's attitudes, values and good habits and so help them become happy and effective learners. Highly regarded authors Dr John Irvine and John Stewart consider ways to help a child succeed in the classroom, be stimulated to learn, deal with difficulties in the playground, and get on well with others at school and at home.
This book goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging key connections in the brain. Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., presents a ground-breaking new way of thinking about the emergence of the human mind and the process by which each of us becomes a feeling, thinking, remembering individual. Illuminating how and why neurobiology matters, this book is essential reading for clinicians, educators, researchers, and students interested in human experience and development across the life... More info
Re-Authoring Lives is a collection of inspiring interviews and essays. It makes compelling reading for counsellors, therapists and anyone who is interested in the important questions about how people live their lives More info
Young readers will learn to appreciate creative expression as the busy bees dance, sing, juggle and declaim in the style of well-known Broadway performers. When Bambina Bee asks Grandma why bees sing, Grandma takes her on a tour of all the different types of performance that let little bees express what they feel in their hearts—from Choir Bees to Ballerina Bees to Shakespearean Bees to Acrobat Bees! With engaging four-color illustrations by the award-winning Lyn Martin and an embedded sound chip with an original song, readers will not be... More info
