New Releases by David Kirk

Dragon learns a lesson when he pretends to be sick.

Theories of learning physical activity - Psychological factors in learning physical skills - Motion - Forces and torques - Physiological dimensions of physical activity - Sociocultural dimensions_____________

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.

Four beautiful storybooks by David Kirk -- now in a gorgeous box set. A charming boxed set edition of the Biddle Books favorites, Bird, Pig, Bunny, and Mouse. Created especially for young children, David Kirk''s exciting Biddle Books series is perfect for little hands to hold. Biddle Books burst with warmth and humor that will set the littlest, biddlest fans on their own BIG journey toward reading.

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.

It''s Christmas Eve and Little Miss Spider is lonely--she doesn''t have a little brother or sister to help build snowy creatures and join in her holiday games. Just when Little Miss Spider is wishing her hardest for a friend, she gets whopped with a snowball and discovers Asparagus Beetle.

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!

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

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.

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.

Produced for unit ECS811 offered by the Faculty of Education in Deakin University''s Open Campus Program.