The Updated Fourth Edition of the Award-Winning Book that Offers Beginning Educators Everything They Need in Order to Survive and Thrive! Designed for new educators, this award-winning book covers the basic strategies, activities, and tools teachers need to know in order to succeed in the classroom. Now it its fourth edition, The First-Year Teacher's Survival Guide contains new and updated m…
Islamic finance often faces numerous challenges in a dynamic marketplace. This book aims to discuss contemporary issues and challenges in Islamic finance to inform discussions surrounding the governance system, the Islamic legal system, prudential regulations, Islamic home financing, and Islamic microfinance. Furthermore, corporate social responsibility (CSR), Islamic accounting, risk managemen…
Weygandt's Managerial Accounting provides students with a clear introduction to fundamental managerial accounting concepts. This edition helps students get the most out of their accounting course by making practice simple. Designed for a one-semester, undergraduate Managerial Accounting course, the authors provide new opportunities for self-guided practice allowing students to check their kno…
Starting with the big picture of financial statements first, Paul Kimmel shows students why financial accounting is important to their everyday lives, business majors, and future careers. Kimmel, Accounting is designed for a two-semester financial and managerial accounting sequence that dedicates equal time financial and managerial accounting topics and teaches the accounting cycle from a corpo…
A simple guide to get you started in astronomy, from observing the night sky to purchasing binoculars and telescopes.
Introducing Human Geographies is the leading guide to human geography for undergraduate students, explaining new thinking on essential topics and discussing exciting developments in the field. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated and coverage is extended with new sections devoted to biogeographies, cartographies, mobilities, non-representational geographies, population ge…
This delightful book gives a glimpse into the rich and diverse play and playful activities of children across developing, recently developed and developed societies. Analysing children's play across many different cultural communities around the globe, each chapter discusses children's play as an activity important for formal and informal education, mental health and childhood well-being, and c…
Why do we speak the way we do? What are the social factors that influence our choices of expression? This best-selling introduction to the study of language and society encourages students to think about these fundamental questions, asking how and why we select from the vast range of different words, accents, varieties and languages available to us. In this new and updated edition, students are…
Eagerly awaited, the new edition of this successful text is now available in paperback. Maxwell's Demon is a character in an 1867 thought experiment by the Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell, meant to raise questions about the second law of thermodynamics. This book explains the connection between Maxwell's Demon and the role of the observer and quantum eraser, showing that information scie…
Richmond Handbooks for Teachers are highly practical methodology guides written by teachers for teachers. This complete and user-friendly range provides- - Practical, realistic suggestions for the classroom; - Photocopiable activity worksheets; - Teacher development tasks; - Clear, jargon-free theory explanations; - Suggestions for dealing with everyday problems faced by teachers in primary, se…