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  • Feeling and Reason in the Arts

    by David Best ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, Feeling and Reason in the Arts raises an important question-how can a central role for the arts, and in particular the arts in education, be justified? The arts and the artistic judgments are often expressions of individual feeling and value, and it is a common belief that this necessarily implies a subjectivism that is incompatible with the notion that artistic judgments ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Pathways to Recovery and Desistance

    The Role of the Social Contagion of Hope

    by David Best ...
    Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This is the first book that uses the latest research evidence to build guidance on community-based rehabilitation with the aim of challenging stigma and marginalisation. The case studies discussed, and a strengths-based approach, emphasize the importance of long-term recovery and the role that communities and peers play in the process. Best examines ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • The Rationality of Feeling (RLE Edu K)

    Learning From the Arts

    by David Best ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This volume emphasizes the necessity for arts teachers to nurture the personal development of their students by expanding their artistic understanding and creativity. In aiming to provide a broader understanding for the effective teaching of the arts, the author provides powerful reasons for seeing the arts as agents of learning, understanding and development. The volume also demonstrates that ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Strengths-Based Approaches to Crime and Substance Use

    From Drugs and Crime to Desistance and Recovery

    Edited by David Best, Charlotte Colman ...
    Although there is a strong and growing literature in the two areas of desistance and addiction recovery, they have developed along parallel pathways with little systematic assessment of the empirical evidence about the co-occurrence of the relationship or how one area can learn from the other. This book aims to fill that gap by bringing together emerging literature on the relationship between ... Read more

    $75.99 CAD

  • Experimental Test Pilot

    Military Aircraft Research Flying

    by Chris Taylor ...
    Chris Taylor has had a very successful career as a Royal Navy officer, helicopter pilot, test pilot, instructor and as an internationally acclaimed civil certification test pilot. His first book, Test Pilot, concentrates on anecdotes and incidents from the most recent phase of his career. This book is the prequel and is his account of his ten years' service as an experimental test pilot, from 1994 ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Addiction, Behavioral Change and Social Identity

    The path to resilience and recovery

    Edited by Sarah Buckingham, David Best ...
    Changing health-related behavior is for many people a lonely and isolating experience. Individual willpower is often not enough, particularly in addressing addictive behavior, but research increasingly points to the potential of group identity to shape behavior change and support recovery.This important collection explores the social and cognitive processes that enable people who join recovery ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Addiction and Recovery in the UK

    Edited by David Best, Jeffrey Roth ...
    Addiction and Recovery in the UK captures the essence of the emerging addictions recovery movement and in particular the emerging evidence base that had been gathered around the umbrella of the Recovery Academy UK. The Recovery Academy was established with the aim of creating a forum for people in recovery, practitioners, commissioners and academics working together to describe and understand the ... Read more

    $111.30 CAD

  • The Handbook of Recovery Capital

    Understanding the Science and Practice

    by Lorana Bartels, Matthew Belanger, Jessica Best, Ana-Maria Bliuc, Elizabeth Bowen, Adela Bunaciu, William Cloud, Beth Collinson, Robert Granfield, Sharynne Hamilton, Philip Hodgson, Lauren Hoffman, Maike Klein, Tim Leighton, Amy A. Mericle, David Patton, Rebecca Smith, Arun Sondhi, Wouter Vanderplasschen, Corrie Vilsaint, Reed Yearwood, Clara De Ruysscher, Florian De Meyer, Deborah Louise Sinclair, Aline Pouille, William White ...
    This book brings together all the key evidence on recovery capital measurement and its application. It offers a clear and accessible overview of the development of the strengths-based approach in addressing behavioural health issues and quantifying and measuring recovery capital, along with the evidence base for this approach.The book sets out the proven benefits of this approach to measuring and ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Philosophy and Human Movement

    by David Best dec'd ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1978, Philosophy and Human Movement examines the major philosophical issues in the rapidly growing field of the study of human movement, physical education, and sport and dance. Issues which start with, and grow from, the central problem of the relation of body to mind. The author’s overriding aim has been to encourage clear, critical, independent thinking about the study of ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

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    Rosamond Lehmann: A BBC Radio Collection

    Four Full-Cast Dramatisations including The Weather in the Streets

    by Rosamond Lehmann ...
    Narrated by Julia Hills, Rosina Carbone, Annabel Scholey, Tom Ferguson, Diana Quick, David Lloyd, Eve Best, Jonathan Firth, Rachel Lewis, Janet Suzman, Susan Engel, Maureen O'Brien, Lin Sagovsky, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 38 min

    BBC adaptations of four of Rosamond Lehmann’s best-known novels, plus short stories and a bonus documentaryRosamond Lehmann’s first novel, Dusty Answer, was published in 1927 when she was just 26. It was a scandalous success, and was followed by six more acclaimed novels exploring human relationships and the emotional lives of girls and women. Four of the finest are dramatised here, alongside ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Pressure of the Universe

    A theory

    by John David Best ...
    The Pressure of the Universe is a new, lower-level, model of the universe, builtupon a foundation of rigorous logic, and well-established principles.It shows how laws of Newtonian mechanics and other naturalphenomena have simple, logical, explanations based purely inelectromagnetism. Along the way, a simpler, more elegant explanation for gravity is provided, and the observer-invariance of the ... Read more

    $4.12 CAD

  • The BUGS Book

    A Practical Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

    by David Lunn, Chris Jackson, Nicky Best, Andrew Thomas, David Spiegelhalter ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
    Bayesian statistical methods have become widely used for data analysis and modelling in recent years, and the BUGS software has become the most popular software for Bayesian analysis worldwide. Authored by the team that originally developed this software, The BUGS Book provides a practical introduction to this program and its use. The text presents ... Read more

    $118.99 CAD