Subject(s): Learning | Early childhood education Summary: "The characteristics of effective learning -- playing and exploring, active learning and creating and thinking critically -- underpin young children's learning and development and are central to the revised Early Years Foundation Stage. Practitioners need to be confident of plann

Subject(s): Success | Self-realization | Self-actualization (Psychology) Summary: "Raise the bar to become the best version of you-and have fun doing it. As a cognitive neuroscientist, anthropologist, and entrepreneur, Bob Deutsch has spent a lifetime studying people. What he has found is that most of us set the bar too low in our lives, bo

Subject(s): Barrow, Mare (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Teenage girls -- Fiction | Ability -- Fiction | Blood -- Fiction | Princesses -- Fiction | Government, Resistance to -- Fiction Summary: Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities

Subject(s): Furniture making -- Amateurs' manuals | Furniture design -- Amateurs' manuals | Do-it-yourself work Summary: Featuring 30 designs by leading designer-makers from around the world DIY Furniture shows you how to use simple techniques to make stunning designer furniture from scratch. All the projects can be easily assembled usi

Subject(s): Special education | Inclusive education | Early childhood education Summary: Filled with research about all aspects of educating young children with special needs, this book discusses key approaches and tools needed to provide an optimal setting for young exceptional children with special needs and their families Holdings:&

Subject(s): Architecture, Modern -- Themes, motives -- 20th century | Architecture, Modern -- Themes, motives -- 21st century | Architecture -- Details Summary: "Dissects fifty of the world's modern masterpieces, constructed from 1950 to the present, through specially commissioned freehand drawings that reveal the principles and details

Subject(s): Automobiles -- Automatic control | Adaptive control systems | Automobiles -- Motors Control systems Summary: "This engineering textbook is designed to introduce advanced control systems for vehicles, including advanced automotive concepts and the next generation of vehicles for ITS. For each automotive control problem considered

Subject(s): Non-governmental organizations -- Muslim countries | Social service -- Muslim countries | Social service -- Religious aspects Islam Summary: "Muslim NGOs are continuously expanding their field of activities to various areas, including education, medical services, environment, aging societies, gender issues, and inter-religious d

Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Polar regions | Oceanography -- Polar regions Summary: 'As climate change thrusts the Arctic and Antarctic towards the top of the global political agenda, this timely collection provides a broad overview of the issues, the options, and the rules and institutions that are already in place.'--Michael Byers,

Subject(s): Democracy -- Economic aspects | Economic development -- Political aspects | Political science -- Economic aspects | POLITICAL SCIENCE / General Summary: "Is democratic governance good for economic prosperity? Does it accelerate progress towards social welfare and human development? Does it generate a peace-dividend and reduce co