New Releases by David Kirk

"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

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

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.

"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.

Wiggle is discouraged when he tries to paint in art class, but his teacher and family encourage him and help him feel self confident.

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.

Miss Spider invites you to meet her family! Pick a tab to find out all about each new friend.

Meet Miss Spider and her entire family.

Miss Spider worries that she is not a good mother when one of her recently hatched spiderlings goes off to find where an egg belongs.

Offers abridged versions of three of Miss Spider''s best-loved adventures.

Adopting an innovative systems-based approach, the authors provide the reader with both an understanding of particular services and functions within the hospitality industry and an overview of the industry as whole. Using an array of international case studies, Hospitality Operations provides a comprehensive, integrated analysis of a diverse and complex industry.

Written specifically with A-Level students in mind, this text presents a comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the educational, historical, social, political, cultural and psychological dimensions of performance, studied at this level.

Little Mouse, Biddle mouse has the run of the house.

The creator of the Miss Spider series presents the adorable tale of Biddle Pig, who thinks she is much too pretty to be rolling around in the mud with all the other pigs, until she begins to feel lonely and decides to dive right in!

Draws on letters and other sources to trace the experience of Bostonians George and Gerard Hughes as they progressed from apprentice pilots to flight instructors and combat pilots in the fledgling American Air Service during World War I. George was sent to France where he flew observation planes over the front lines. Gerard spent the war in Texas as an instructor, but joined his brother in France as the war ended. About a dozen photographs are included, and short sketches of people mentioned. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

This book explores the social construction of children''s bodies in Australian and British schools between 1870 and 1950, focusing on practices within physical training, medical inspection, and sport. The key argument is that there was a process of constructing the body in accordance with that phase of modernity Foucault calls ''disciplinary society''. The docile body produced was pliable, yet economically productive, a body that could, through close scrutiny and careful measurement, be regulated to ensure the healthy propagation of the race and a ready supply of economically productive citizens. Until 1915, a matrix of precise, meticulous and ponderous discursive practices to achieve this end was employed in Australian and British schools. The inter-war years saw a process of reconstruction, and by 1945, more liberalized forms of physical education had been introduced, which form the basis of contemporary practices that are only in the 1990s beginning to be challenged.

When lonely Miss Spider tries to host a tea party, the other bugs refuse to come for fear of being eaten!

Tertiary text introducing the socio-cultural dimensions of exercise, physical education, physical recreation and sport. Covers psychological, pedagogical, philosophical, sociological and historical aspects. Includes Australian and NZ examples, ideas for assessment tasks, a bibliography and an index. May be used with the companion volume, ''The Biophysical Foundations of Human Movement''. Also available in hardback. The authors teach in the department of human movement studies at the University of Qld.