New Releases by David Kirk

La obra ''Educación Física y Currículum. Introducción crítica'' aparece dentro de la literatura hispana específica en un momento en que el estudio del currículum despierta un gran interés dentro del mundo de la educación fisica española. Sin embargo, debemos recordar que la preocupación por los temas del currículum en la educación fisica surge, desde sus inicios, en conexión con la génesis del currículum como campo de estudio alrededor de los años veinte del siglo XX.

Managing Your Band: A Guide to Artist Management is your go-to guide for artist management in the new music industry, especially independent artists taking the DIY route. Industry insiders Steve Marcone and Dave Philp tackle the work and knowledge required of an artist manager and band member, focusing on earning revenue from an artist''s three major revenue streams: songwriting and publishing, live performance, and recording. The book investigates the roles of the many industry intermediaries, illustrating how many of today''s artists, including DIY artists, function as their own entertainment companies. This seventh edition includes updated information for the twenty-first-century artist and manager, including key information on the impacts of COVID-19 on the industry. New sections and chapters include: The twenty-first-century DIY manager The live ecosystem Music publishing Social media Analytics offered by streaming services Each chapter includes learning objectives, a summary, and suggested projects for course usage. For access to the free instructor''s manual which includes a sample syllabus and test questions, please email [email protected]. apter includes learning objectives, a summary, and suggested projects for course usage. For access to the free instructor''s manual which includes a sample syllabus and test questions, please email [email protected]. apter includes learning objectives, a summary, and suggested projects for course usage. For access to the free instructor''s manual which includes a sample syllabus and test questions, please email [email protected]. apter includes learning objectives, a summary, and suggested projects for course usage. For access to the free instructor''s manual which includes a sample syllabus and test questions, please email [email protected].

Sunny Patch School Was the best place to goTo study the lessons All bugs ought to know.When the first day of school arrives, Little Miss Spider is almost beside herself with excitement. She gobbles her breakfast ("a fresh flower plate") and runs all the way to Sunny Patch School. But poor Miss Spider is in for a day of frustration. She can''t seem to master the new lessons: dung digging, leaf drilling, stinging, or flying. As the day draws to a close, Miss Spider bemoans her lack of skills. Isn''t there anything she can do well? We are all soon to find out...

Como el título lo indica, un aspecto clave de la propuesta es la perspectiva reflexiva, planteada a veces con foco en la propia materia para apelar a la reformulación de sus fines, sus medios o sus principios disciplinarios, otras veces dirigida al docente, considerado como un sujeto capacitado para conducir su desarrollo profesional y modificar sus concepciones y actuaciones. Sin embargo, la reflexión que aquí se postula no quiere ni puede sustituir a la experiencia y a la acción, características fundamentales de la motricidad. Precisamente, el "giro reflexivo" supone que la motricidad no debe ser desvalorizada. El lugar de la Educación Física en la sociedad contemporánea, el papel del cuerpo en los procesos de identidad individual y social, las relaciones entre motricidad y cultura, entre actividad física y salud, el impacto de la formación inicial de los profesores en la identidad profesional, el cuestionamiento y el replanteo de la metodología y la didáctica de la Educación Física, los formatos de evaluación, son algunos de los temas en los que se centran las diferentes colaboraciones, cuya finalidad parece ser, pese a sus diversos terrenos y situaciones de origen, la de reflejar el estado de la cuestión en los tiempos que corren.

Japon, 1600. Musashi Miyamoto était le plus grand guerrier de tous les temps. Avant que lui et ses hommes ne soient vaincus lors de la bataille de Sekigahara qui a vu les Armées de l''Est renverser l''ancien pouvoir. Survivant mais seul, Musashi doute. Jusqu''alors, il avait vécu et combattu comme un samouraï, fier de sa tradition, loyal aux préceptes de la Voie. Depuis sa défaite, se soumettre aux exigences de l''Honneur, l''une des sept vertus du samouraï, signifie se donner la mort. Et Musashi veut vivre. Mais, considéré comme un ennemi de la nation, sa tête est mise à prix. S''il a renoncé à la violence, il lui faut se protéger et préparer sa vengeance contre ceux qui veulent sa mort. Pour cela, il n''a qu''un adage : « Le sabre donne la vie. Le sabre donne la mort. » Après le somptueux Samouraï, David Kirk livre une épopée captivante du Japon au XVIIe siècle et fait revivre une figure emblématique : le guerrier de légende Musashi Miyamoto, auteur du célèbre Traité des Cinq Roues. « Musashi est un personnage inoubliable et, avec ce roman, David Kirk est en passe de devenir un maître de la fiction historique. » Booklist

Un grande romanzo storico Sopravvissuto alla battaglia di Sekigahara, dove decine di migliaia di soldati sono rimasti sul campo, il giovane samurai Musashi Miyamoto, ormai solo, deve guardare in faccia il futuro. Non senza dolore decide di abbandonare la Via, si dichiara un “senza padrone” e conduce una vita ai margini. Ciò che un tempo gli sembrava degno di rispetto e onorevole ora gli appare frutto di superstizione. Ma nonostante tutto il suo nome è ancora sulla lista di coloro che hanno offeso Yoshioka, e anche se ora Miyamoto ha rinnegato la violenza, dovrà trovare il modo di difendersi e salvarsi la vita. Un racconto epico di dedizione, onore e tenacia «Un romanzo affascinante, avvincente e ben scritto. Kirk riesce a creare personaggi di grande intensità. Un vero gioiello.» Conn Iggulden, autore di Il soldato di Roma «Il libro più atteso dell’anno! (...) Una vera scoperta.» Anthony Riches, autore di L’impero «Uno straordinario esordio. Da non perdere.» Steve Berry, autore di Il terzo segreto David Kirk è nato a Peterborough ed è cresciuto a Stamford, nel Lincolnshire, ma attualmente vive a Sendai, in Giappone, dove insegna inglese. Il suo interesse per la storia giapponese è nato quando, all’età di dodici anni, ha letto il romanzo Shogun di James Clavell. Dopo L’onore del samurai, il suo straordinario romanzo d’esordio, la saga da lui ideata prosegue ora con La spada del samurai.

Being a teenager has so many things going on all at once. Social dynamics are developing at the same time as puberty and you are supposed to be learning math, science and language arts, sports, girls, boys, mean people, school drama, & sex. All this with no real experience to speak of or to draw from. I am writing this book as a survival guide to the hardest part of life you will ever have to face, your teen years.

IN THE EPIC HISTORICAL NOVEL SWORD OF HONOR, DAVID KIRK CONTINUES THE SAGA OF MUSASHI MIYAMOTO, THE GREATEST SWORDSMAN IN JAPANESE HISTORY, AS HE JOURNEYS TO THE ANCIENT CITY OF KYOTO TO FIGHT FOR HIS LIFE AND HIS IDEALS. Having survived the cataclysmic battle of Sekigahara, which established the mighty Tokugawa Shogunate, young Musashi Miyamoto travels through Japan determined to proclaim his revolutionary epiphany that the “way of the samurai,” the ancient code that binds warriors to their masters, needs to be abolished. But during the battle Musashi insulted an adept of the powerful Yoshioka school, and a price has been put on his head. Musashi is drawn to Kyoto, domain of the Yoshioka, driven by anger and certain that he will deal a crushing blow to the traditional samurai dogma by destroying the school. Musashi will learn, however, that the capital of the nation is rife with intrigue and potential rebellion against the newly established government, a struggle into which he unwittingly enters. Among other outcasts, Musashi will find the worth of his spectacular skill with the sword weighed against the deep cunning of manipulative Lords, and must make his reckoning with the Yoshioka, the way of the samurai, and ultimately his own nature. Only then will he be able to take one step closer to becoming the wise old sage who wrote The Book of Five Rings. Sword of Honor seamlessly blends meticulous research, mesmerizing action sequences, and a driving narrative to bring this extraordinary figure to life.

In this powerfully argued and progressive study, Kimberly Oliver and David Kirk call for a radical reconstruction of the teaching of physical education for girls. Despite forty years of theorization and practical intervention, girls are still disengaging from physical education, dropping out of physical activity, and suffering negative consequences in terms of their health and well-being as a result. This book challenges the conventional narrative that girls are somehow to blame for this disengagement, and instead identifies important new ways of working with girls, developing a new pedagogical model for ‘girl-friendly’ physical education. The book locates our understanding of the experiences of girls in physical education in the broader context of young people’s multifaceted engagements with popular physical culture. Adopting an activist perspective, it outlines a programme of action informed by principled pragmatism and based on four critical elements: student-centred pedagogy; critical study of embodiment; inquiry-based physical education centred-in-action, and listening and responding to girls over time. It explores the implications of this new thinking for teaching, research, PETE and policy, and outlines a future agenda for work in this area. Offering a profound theoretical critique of contemporary research and practice, as well as a new programme of action, Girls, Gender and Physical Education is essential reading for all researchers, advanced students and practitioners with an interest in the issues of gender, equity and inclusion in physical education.

Billy learns the importance of sharing & that people matter more than things.

''Een fascinerend en intrigerend boek... Een juweeltje.'' - Conn Iggulden ''Kirk bewijst een waardig samoeraischrijver te zijn, het boek bruist van de adrenaline.'' - Publishers Weekly Leerling. Krijger. Samoerai. Zijn naam was Bennosuke, zoon van de grote Munisai Shinmen, die eind zestiende eeuw in het keizerrijk bekendstaat als een van de grootste krijgers die ooit geleefd heeft. Het was zijn lot om, net zoals zijn vader, een grote krijger te worden. Een samoerai, een van de meest gevreesde en gerespecteerde ter wereld. Maar als tiener leidt hij een eenzaam leven. Zijn moeder is gestorven toen hij nog klein was en zijn vader Munisai, die samoerai is, heeft hem verlaten om zijn meester Shinmen te dienen. Bennosuke is opgevoed door zijn oom Dorinbo, een Shinto-monnik die hem op het hart drukt geweld te vermijden en net zoals hij een teruggetrokken leven te leiden. Maar Bennosuke aanbidt zijn afwezige vader, vooraanstaand krijger in Shinmens leger. Nieuwe allianties leiden ertoe dat Munisai schuldplichtig wordt aan de gehate Nakata-clan. De escalerende gevolgen van deze vete zorgen ervoor dat ook Bennosuke zich gedwongen ziet het pad van de samoerai te betreden. Hij begint aan een reis die hem leidt naar de historische slag van Sekigahara, waar zal blijken of Bennosuke in de voetsporen van zijn vader zal treden...

Il deviendra un guerrier. Une légende. Un samouraï. A treize ans, Bennosuke n''a qu''un rêve : devenir un grand guerrier à l''image de son père, l''un des samouraïs les plus redoutés et les plus respectés du Japon. Mais avant d''accéder à la gloire, il doit prouver qu''il est digne d''un tel héritage. La voie du sabre est faite de sang, de vengeance, d''héroïsme. Le jeune garçon l''apprendra, parfois à ses dépens, avant de remettre en question des siècles de tradition : pourquoi un samouraï devrait-il préférer la mort au déshonneur ? Quel prix devra-t-il payer pour entrer dans l''Histoire sous le nom de Musashi Miyamoto ? Autour de la figure emblématique du légendaire samouraï Musashi Miyamoto, auteur du Traité des cinq roues, David Kirk brosse la fresque étincelante du Japon du XVIIe siècle, marqué par des codes moraux immémoriaux et des combats épiques, à la culture aussi cruelle que raffinée. Un roman fascinant dans la lignée de Shogun de James Clavell ou du Ran de Kurosawa.

The purpose of the research will be to determine if CT examinations increased over the last 15 years even though referring physicians are aware of the potential risk to patients being exposed to increased ionizing radiation.

Kämpfer Sein Name ist Bennosuke. Seine Bestimmung: ein großer Samurai zu werden, bewundert und gefürchtet im japanischen Reich. Legende Furchtlos kämpft er im Duell – und siegt. Doch den schändlichen Mord an seinem Vater kann er nicht verhindern. Bennosuke muss fliehen. Samurai Fortan hat er nur noch ein Ziel: unter dem Kämpfernamen Musashi Miyamoto den Tod seines Vaters zu rächen ... «Ein faszinierendes, aufwühlendes Buch, Kirk schafft Charaktere von großer Tiefe. Ein echtes Juwel.» (Conn Iggulden, Bestsellerautor) «Fliegt dahin wie ein flink geführtes, glitzerndes Katana-Schwert ... Informativ und fesselnd – schlicht: ein richtiger Lesespaß.» (Library Journal) «Kirk brodelt in seinen Beschreibungen – von den großen Schlachtfeldern bis hin zum rituellen Selbstmord – geradezu vor Energie. Er zeigt das feudale Japan als eine komplexe Kultur, in der Hinterlist und Poesie unentbehrlich, Tod und Vergeltung unausweichlich sind.» (Publishers Weekly)

La straordinaria storia del più grande samurai di tutti i tempi Figlio di un guerriero. Padre della leggenda. Un grande romanzo che narra la straordinaria storia del ragazzo nato guerriero e diventato leggenda. Giappone, XVII secolo. Nel remoto villaggio di Miyamoto, nella provincia di Harima, vive Bennosuke, figlio del grande Munisai Shinmen, uno dei più valorosi guerrieri dell’impero. Ha tredici anni, sua madre è morta in un misterioso incendio, mentre suo padre ha abbandonato il villaggio dopo la tragedia, otto anni prima, e non ha fatto più ritorno. Di lui si prende cura lo zio Dorinbo, un monaco che spera che il ragazzo rifiuti la violenza e scelga invece la via della spiritualità e della contemplazione. Nel frattempo, però, Bennosuke si allena nelle arti della guerra sotto la guida di Tasumi, un anziano samurai. Quando un giorno, all’improvviso, il padre ferito torna a casa, il ragazzo decide che è arrivato il momento di reclamare la sua eredità: diventerà un samurai. Ma prima della gloria viene la battaglia, e Bennosuke dovrà guardare la morte negli occhi per poter essere chiamato Musashi Miyamoto, il più grande guerriero di tutti i tempi. Un''appassionante storia di dedizione, onore e tenacia L''epica storia del ragazzo che divenne il più grande samurai di tutti i tempi David Kirk ha 26 anni. Inglese, è nato a Peterborough ed è cresciuto a Stamford, nel Lincolnshire. Il suo interesse per la storia giapponese è nato quando, all’età di dodici anni, ha letto il romanzo Shogun di James Clavell. Vive e lavora a Sendai, nel nord-est del Giappone, come insegnante di inglese. L’onore del samurai è il suo straordinario romanzo d’esordio, di cui arriverà presto il seguito.

This groundbreaking textbook teaches readers how to program massively parallel processors to achieve high performance, and the approach does not require a great deal of hardware expertise. The presentation focuses on computational thinking techniques that enable readers to think about problems in ways that are amenable to parallel computing. Students will learn to complete a suite of API programming tools and techniques at least once, so that they will be able to apply the experience to other APIs and other tools in the future. This book teaches parallel programming for correct functionality and dependability, which constitute a subtle issue in parallel computing. Those who have worked on parallel systems in the past know that achieving initial performance is not enough. The challenge is to achieve it in such a way that you can later debug the code, reproduce the bugs when they reappear, and support the code. This book shows that with the CUDA programming model, which focuses on data parallelism, one can achieve both high-performance and high-reliability in their applications.

Shimmer volunteers to put her siblings to bed and discovers the job is not without its complications.

Cilia are multifunctional organelles implicated in many human diseases. Cilia project from the cell surface and thus are well-situated for roles both in motility and sensory reception. The green alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a useful model system for studies of cilia due to its combination of genetics, molecular biology, and biochemistry. At the base of cilia are modified centrioles called basal bodies, which are connected with cilia via a transition zone. Ciliary assembly and disassembly must be co-ordinated with cell cycle progression because the basal bodies must be freed in order to organize the mitotic spindle. Ciliary disassembly can occur either by deflagellation, a drastic stress response, or resorption, a gradual process normally occurring before cell division. I hypothesized that there might be commonality between the two pathways for ciliary loss. I discovered that cells with mutations in ciliary assembly invoke deflagellation in some circumstances, and resorption in others. Deflagellation mutants also exhibited resorption defects, supporting my hypothesis. To further explore the relationship between deflagellation and cell cycle, Qasim Rasi and I examined katanin, a microtubule-severing protein implicated in deflagellation in Chlamydomonas, and in mitosis in mammalian cells. A reverse genetics approach revealed that the only cells that can survive knock-down of katanin are mutants which already lack cilia. This led us to form the hypothesis that the role of katanin in the cell cycle is related to its cilia-severing activity. In support of this idea, I observed that wild-type cells entering mitosis sever their cilia to free the basal bodies. Katanin-mediated deflagellation is defective in fa2 mutants, and FA2 is a member of the Nek family of mitotic kinases. The Neks are a large family of kinases and through evolutionary analyses, Brian Bradley and I discovered that the family expanded early in eukaryotic evolution and it is likely that Neks co-ordinate the cycle of ciliary assembly and dissasemby with cell cycle progression. This study also identified the Chlamydomonas Nek CNK3 as an orthologue of the human disease gene Nek8, suggesting an avenue to further disease-related research.

Dragon learns a lesson when he pretends to be sick.

The insect''s from Sunny Patch teach young readers how to count from one to twenty.

Everybuggy does his or her part in Sunny Patch. Young readers are invited to come along with Squirt, Shimmer, Bounce, and the rest of the gang as they see what all the bugs do to help out. Full color. of reusable stickers. Consumable.

Spido et Frimousse sont ravis : ils ont adopté une chenille, baptisée Biscuit. Mais Biscuit est affamée, et elle se met à tout dévorer ! S''occuper d''un animal domestique n''est finalement pas si simple...

Squirt and his family have to store seeds in the stump for winter before they can go to Ned and Ted''s Summer''s Never Ending Party.

After his new circuits are wired, Sparky the robot dog experiences an amazing sense of smell.

While trying to learn how to fly, Squirt accidentally becomes Captain Sunny Patch, the new neighborhood hero.

"It''s the annual Sunny Patch spring festival and you''re invited! Come along as the Sunny patch kids find yummy surprises!"--Page 4 of cover