New Releases by David Kirk

This work demonstrates the basic concepts of parallel programming and GPU architecture. It explores various techniques for constructing parallel programs in detail and features case studies to illuminate the development process.

Can we imagine a future in which physical education in schools no longer exists? In this controversial and powerful meditation on physical education, David Kirk argues that a number of different futures are possible. Kirk argues that multi-activity, sport-based forms of physical education have been dominant in schools since the mid-twentieth century and that they have been highly resistant to change. The practice of physical education has focused on the transmission of de-contextualised sport-techniques to large classes of children who possess a range of interests and abilities, where learning rarely moves beyond introductory levels. Meanwhile, the academicization of physical education teacher education since the 1970s has left teachers less well prepared to teach this programme than they were previously, suggesting that the futures of school physical education and physical education teacher education are intertwined. Kirk explores three future scenarios for physical education, arguing that the most likely short-term future is ‘more of the same’. He makes an impassioned call for radical reform in the longer-term, arguing that without it physical education faces extinction. No other book makes such bold use of history to interrogate the present and future configurations of the discipline, nor offers such a wide-ranging critique of physical culture and school physical education. This book is essential reading for all serious students and scholars of physical education and the history and theory of education.

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

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...

Miss Spider is spinning with joy! She has met a wonderful spider man called Holley who is wise and kind. Perhaps he''s just the one to be Miss Spider''s Mr Right. Her well-meaning friends set out to find her a more dashing mate but their candidate, Spiderus Reeves, turns out to be only after her money! He attacks his rival Holley, but luckily Miss Spider saves him, and when he recovers, he asks Miss Spider to marry him!

Instead of sharing the berries, Spiderus eats them all and learns a lesson of giving from the other bugs.

This book invites the reader to come along for playtime with the Sunny Patch kids.

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.

"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

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.

Presents a collection of previously published tales featuring Miss Spider, as she celebrates her birthday, hosts a tea party, gets married, and shops for a car.

Miss Spider and Holly just can''t seem to get to bed on time, so their little bugs step in to help out.

Nova, a robot boy from the planet Roton, accidentally rockets himself into space during a class field trip and eventually stumbles across the energy source his planet needs for survival.

While hurrying home to join their family for a Holly Day feast, Miss Spider and her sons become trapped in a snowstorm before meeting up with some helpful insect friends.

Shimmer decides to put on a play for Bug-a-Boo Day, but her friends don''t seem to be as excited as she is about working on the project.

Hoping to be with other dragonflies, Dragon joins the Flying Aces, but he finds that he misses his insect friends and family.

Squirt and Shimmer care for a pet caterpillar, and even though it requires a lot of work, the end result is worth it.

On Heartwood Day in Sunny Patch, all the bugs have a big party and give and receive gifts, except for Dragon, who needs to learn how to share.

"Based on the TV episode A cloudy day in Sunny Patch, written by Steven Sullivan, from the animated TV series Miss Spider''s Sunny Patch friends"--T.p. verso.

Come along on a day with Miss Spider as she works and plays in Sunny Patch. This oversized, shaped board book features an adorable close-up of the title character. Full color.