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Readers learn about saving threatened species — and meet real owls! - in this endearing true story of an owl chick’s rescue. One day, Zalea, a three-week-old northern spotted owl, fell from her tree. Her parents were unable to carry her back to their nest. That meant Zalea, a member of a threatened species, would now be easier for predators to find. But Zalea got lucky. Wildlife biologists who saw her on the ground decided to rescue her. They ...

A new and innovative approach to Latin American Studies which makes an important contribution to contemporary debates about cultural appropriation and the integration of immigrant communities

This book investigates the experiences and vulnerabilities faced by adolescents displaced by humanitarian crisis. It will be a vital guide for humanitarian students and researchers, and for practitioners seeking to build effective, evidence-based policy.

This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.

Recent studies suggest that current policy approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. In the developing world, the problem is more challenging still, as highlighted by the large number of countries that are off track in meeting the child-related Millennium Development Goals. This timely book highlights the importance of integrating children's voices into the debate, bringing together a theoretical discussion of childho...

This book uses cutting-edge research to showcase how spoken learner corpora can define and explore the constituents of successful spoken English. Taking the approach that successful speakers can be effective while using some defective forms, it reassess the goals of learners, teachers and those wishing to analyse communicative competence.

In 1993, Malcom Jones found a Roman coin dated 33-44 AD. In 2007, he witnessed his first supernatural event. A Roman surgeon named Cateus, who happened to be the last owner of the coin, visited Malcom with unfinished business and a story to tell. Thus began Malcolm's adventure into the unknown, where he encountered more spirits, each with their own unwritten stories and legends to tell. Malcolm's task was to help reunite these earthbound spiri...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference of the CLEF Initiative, CLEF 2017, held in Dublin, Ireland,  in September 2017. The 7 full papers and 9 short papers presented together with 6 best of the labs papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. In addition, this volume contains the results of 10 benchmarking labs reporting their year long activities in overview talks and lab sessio...

This book presents an academically rigorous yet practical guide to efforts to understand how knowledge, policy and power interact to promote or prevent change.

Recent studies suggest that current policy approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. In the developing world, the problem is more challenging still, as highlighted by the large number of countries that are off track in meeting the child-related Millennium Development Goals. This timely book highlights the importance of integrating children's voices into the debate, bringing together a theoretical discussion of childho...