Product Description: Developed by Joseph Pilates almost 80 years ago, Pilates combines elements of yoga and bodywork. It is important that users follow the vital elements of Pilates in every workout and Pilates Personal Trainer Getting Started with Stretching dedicates the first half of the book to teaching those elements, including concentration, breathing, control and centering...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By exploring such diverse issues as the management of child abuse, legal reforms following sex abuse enquiries, moral explanations for the actions of child murderers, the impossible task faced by social workers and the limitations of children's rights campaigns, Michael King examines the revolutionary ideas of the social theorist, Niklas Luhmann. He demonstrates how Luhmann's theory of authopoietic systems compels readers to re-examine exactly what they mean by society. Questioning the relationship between personal morality and political will, it challenges the assumption that changing society is merely a matter of changing attitudes and highlights the pitfalls associated with formulating social reform.

Product Description: In this timely and controversial book, Michael King and Judith Trowell uncover a growing concern that the real needs of children are being obscured by the very legal system which claims to protect their interests.The authors identify a link between the law's colonization of child welfare and the steady depletion of resources throughout the 1980s...read more

Product Description: What if you were visited by visions and supernatural beings? What if the apparition gives you a hand? You follow her down a fantastic maze of dreams. Now the dreams turn sour. Can you find your way home? Locust walks alone, sidestepping his bleak world, shaping an obsession...read more

Product Description: Published by CUSTOM BOOK PUBLICATIONS NO ANSWER ‘No I just need to think, and the phone looks closer,’ Erik said with a smile he didn’t feel. After ordering a steak and egg combo, a glass of milk and coffee, he decided to try phoning home...read more

Product Description: This excellent second edition of Fisheries Biology, Assessment and Management, has been fully updated and expanded, providing a book which is an essential purchase for students and scientists studying, working or researching in fisheries and aquatic sciences...read more

This gardening guide looks at the possibilities of using grass for decorative effect, not just in lawns and meadows, but also in borders, as background shrubs to enhance other plants and as a means of creating dramatic contrasts. (view table of contents)

Presents a fresh vision of how to use tulips in contemporary gardens. A short introduction explores the history of tulips. The author then moves into the garden, to give detailed guidance on how tulips can best be combined with other bulbs, perennials, shrubs and trees. Full growing and maintenance instructions are also provided.

Product Description: Ideal for beginners, Pilates exercises in this book offer a gentle workout of light strength movements and key stretches. An easy-to-use format includes step-by-step photo sequences and a lay-flat binding. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book by Carr, Helen, Cottle, Stephen, Baldwin, Timothy, King, Michael

Product Description: This work examines the ways in which the law functions with regard to children. For example, it looks at the welfare/justice clash and the self-referentiality of the legal system, assesses the science of child welfare, and analyzes the child as a bundle of needs.

Product Description: They grew up in well to do families. The boys have dreams of becoming N.F.L. stars. Something was about to abruptly threaten these dreams and their lifestyle they had grown accustomed to. Wold the girls jealousy of the boys constantly getting the attention be the cause? Did they have the influence on the parents to cut off the boys allowance? I light of this the Austin brothers plan a heist...read more

Product Description: The Children Act 1989, together with the Guidance and Regulations, makes constant reference to co-operation and consultation. These are seen as embodying different aspects of the principle of partnership. However, as many of the contributions to this book clearly show, the notion of partnership in the daily practice of child welfare and protection is elusive...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Milton Radcliffe, a timid man with a gift for stepping inside picture frames to escape repressive Victorian London, is devastated when a fire destroys the painting in which he was visiting a beautiful woman called Lorien and sets out to find a missing sculpture of Lorien. A first novel.

Perhaps more than any other social theorist in recent history, Niklas Luhmann's work has aroused extreme, and often antagonistic, responses. It has generated controversies about its political implications, its resolute anti-humanism, and its ambitious critique of more established definitions of society, social theory, and sociology. Now, however, a steadily growing number of scholars working in many different disciplines have begun to use aspects of Luhmann's sociology as an important methodological stimulus and as a theoretical framework for reorientating their studies. This collection of essays includes critical and reconstructive contributions by a number of distinguished social theorists, political theorists, legal scholars, and empirical sociologists. Together, they provide evidence of Luhmann's extensive and diverse relevance to the issues facing contemporary society, and, at the same time, they enhance our understanding of the challenges posed by his theoretical paradigm to more traditional conceptions of social theory.

Product Description: Book by King, Michael, Green, Yolande

Moral Agendas for Children's Welfare examines the roles played by politics, religion, ethics, aesthetics, law and science in identifying children's needs and rights and critically analyses existing child welfare policies.Five sections cover the following Agendas:* Philosophical and Psychoanalytical* Psychological and Sociological* Religious * Social Policy* Child Protection.Moral Agendas for Children's Welfare will provide invaluable reading for students in law, social work and policy and sociology and professionals in welfare, health care and law.

Niklas Luhmann's social theory stands in direct opposition to the dominant 'anthropocentric' traditions of legal and political analysis. King and Thornhill now offer the first comprehensive, critical examination of Luhmann's highly original theory of the operations of the legal and political systems.