Principles and Processes of Music Education: New Perspectives

Arts & Photography

Tait, Malcolm

Haack, Paul

Music

Teachers College Pr

Walker's Companion

Sports & Outdoors

Think Publishing

What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies

Presenting the complexities of doing planning work, with all its attendant moral and practical dilemmas, this rich ethnographic study analyses how places are made through stories of four diverse public and private sector working environments.The book provides a unique insight for educators, students and researchers into the everyday lives of planners and those in associated built environment occupations. This exceptional account of the micro-politics of a knowledge-intensive profession also provides an excellent resource for sociologists of contemporary work. The authors use team ethnography to push the methodological frontiers of planning research and to advance organisational ethnography into new areas.

Politics & Social Sciences

Vigar, Geoff

Schoneboom, Abigail

Slade, Jason

Social Sciences

Policy Press

Spatial planning is at a crossroads, with government reform undermining the traditional vision of state-employed planners making decisions about urban development in a unified public interest. Nearly half of UK planners are now employed in the private sector, with complex inter-relations between the sectors including supplying outsourced services to local authorities struggling with centrally-imposed budget cuts. Drawing on new empirical data from a major research project, 'Working in the Public Interest', this book reveals what it's like to be a UK planner in the early 21st century, and how the profession can fulfil its potential for the benefit of society and the environment.

The Future for Planners: Commercialisation, Professionalism and the Public Interest in the UK

Clifford, Ben

Gunn, Susannah

Inch, Andy

Published in conjunction with the Wildlife Trusts, this superb guide comprehensively covers more than 500 of the UK's top nature reserves, all of them owned and managed by the unique network of 47 Wildlife Trusts. Each entry includes information on access/conditions, opening times, facilities, how to get there, and local attractions. It is illustrated throughout with many colour photographs and maps. Wildlife Walks is the only guide you'll need to plan a great family day out.

Wildlife Walks: Great days out at over 500 of the UK's top nature reserves

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Bloomsbury Wildlife

Crocodiles lure unsuspecting, sympathetic victims towards them by crying. Hedgehogs steal apples by collecting them on their spikes. The chronicle of natural history is absolutely littered with mistaken notions like these, some embarrassing, some bizarre, and some downright hilarious. How did these fantasies ever come about? Take a look at a bevy of bestial boo-boos, wildlife no-nos, and artistic animal atrocities and discover the reality behind each myth. Among the astounding beliefs: that swallows hibernate under riverside mud (which explained their winter absence); that lemmings hurl themselves over cliffs (blame that one on Walt Disney); and that some creatures could kill with just a glance. Plus, there’s a look at misconceptions from everyday speechincluding blind as a bat.” (They’re not!)

Animal Tragic: Popular Misconceptions of Wildlife Through the Centuries

Biological Sciences

Presents one hundred animals and plants that are under the threat of extinction, providing information on population in the wild, conservation status, life span, geographic range, and threats, and includes ways the reader can help to save these animals and plants.

Going, Going, Gone?: Animals on the Brink of Extinction and How to Turn the Tide

Business & Money

Economics

Think Books

The Wildlife Companion is for anyone who has ever heard a bird sing, watched a moth flutter against a light, or ambled through a bluebell wood and wondered, just for a moment, how such a diverse and beautiful natural world could possibly have come about. Just leaf through these pages and discover the real truth about lemmings, how ladybugs retract their wings, the bizarre mating habits of dragonflies, how Aristotle cured elephants of insomnia, and how to say “blackbird” in Klingon. The Wildlife Companion will introduce you to a Cawdy Mawdy, a Mouldiwarp, a Hornywink, a Fiddle Dock, and more than 500 more animal amazements, ornithological oddities, and botanical beauties.

The Wildlife Companion (A Think Book)

Reference

Anova Books

Whether you’re a rambler or an ambler, a hiker or a nature-liker, this is an ideal companion. It’s packed with usefuland not so usefulinformation, including the ten oddest things ever done by sleepwalkers, the number of Bob Dylan songs that contain the word walk,” and how to prepare for a trek in the jungles of Borneo.

The Walker's Companion (A Think Book)

From the serious (why vultures are dying out in Asia) and the informative (why waxwings have waxy wings) to the bizarre (the parrot that can read minds), The Birdwatcher’s Companion is a veritable aviary of notes, quotes, and facts, as well as some of the finest writing about birds over the centuries.

The Birdwatcher's Companion (A Think Book)

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