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SQE Bundle FLK 1 & 2: 3e (SQE1)
The Law & Professional Practice (FLK1 & FLK2) bundle contains all 15 study manuals that have been specially collated to focus on the Law area of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) syllabus for the Solicitors Qualifying Examination (SQE1) in a concise and tightly focused manner.
Published and updated regularly, these user-friendly study manuals are designed to help you successfully prepare for the SQE1 exams. They provide solid knowledge and understanding of fundamental legal principles and rules, while bringing the law and practice to life with example scenarios based on realistic client problems.
Each title is complemented by worked examples and sample assessment questions that enable you to test your knowledge and understanding through single best answer questions that have been modelled on the SRA’s sample assessment questions.
For students at The University of Law, the study manuals are used alongside other learning resources and the University’s assessment bank to prepare students not only for the SQE1 exams, but also for a future life in professional legal practice.
The legal principles and rules contained within this study manual are stated as at 1 April 2023 (titles with tax elements to 30 April 2023)
Titles included in this bundle:
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Personal Injury Pleadings
Personal Injury Pleadings is the authoritative stand-alone source to assist the professional draftsman settling claimants and defendants statements of case. The sixth edition deals with contemporary challenges in litigation as diverse and demanding as the requirements for pleadings in fundamentally dishonest QOCS cases; relief from sanctions applications; cases involving foreign travel; the consequences of BREXIT in Personal Injury litigation; post-ERRA pleadings requirements as to breach of statutory duty; and much more. It provides informed, accurate, in-depth model pleadings, covering the whole gamut of personal injury work, drawn from many years practical experience of real cases. Comprehensive subject coverage is combined with up-to-date informed analysis of recent case law, legislation and subordinate legislation, changes in the Civil Procedure Rules, costs issues, and the minutiae of troublesome practical problems such as the special difficulties involved in fatal accident and late-onset terminal disease claims.Read more
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Tolley’s Health & Safety at Work Handbook 2022
This essential title provides an authoritative reference source covering key aspects of health and safety law and practice. Adopting a user-friendly A-Z format, the handbook presents clear narrative on the latest legislative changes, how to comply with current law and practice, and how they affect the role of the health and safety manager. Leading experts in health and safety offer insight and guidance on a range of subjects, from accident reporting, welfare facilities, mental ill-health, an aging workforce, absenteeism, travel safety and personal safety. This essential handbook also provides an authoritative reference source covering key aspects of health and safety law and practice, as well as related environmental and employment information. Updated annually, this title fully equips busy practitioners with everything to deal with day-to-day issues quickly.Read more
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Employs consistently templated chapters, bulleted content, key facts, a variety of tables, annotated images, pertinent references, and an extensive index for quick, expert reference at the point of care
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Handbook of Conspiracy Theory and Contemporary Religion: 17 (Brill Handbooks on Contemporary Religion)
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Trinity College London Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces From 2020: Grades 3-5 (Notation & Guitar Tab): Fingerstyle & Plectrum Pieces for Trinity College London Exams 2020–2023
Trinity’s new Acoustic Guitar syllabus reinvents the popular Plectrum Guitar syllabus, keeping it vital and relevant to today’s guitarist by giving teachers and learners the flexibility to develop fingerstyle and plectrum playing. A selection of the best-loved pieces from the previous syllabus has been retained at every grade for continuity.
This book contains all the exam pieces for Grades 3 to 5, covering a wide range of styles at each grade folk, acoustic, rock and pop styles, jazz, blues, country allowing candidates to follow distinct stylistic pathways as they progress. All pieces are printed in both tablature and standard notation so are accessible for any learner.
Note: As of April 2023, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar 2020-2023 Syllabus will no longer operate with an end date. Therefore, Trinity’s Acoustic Guitar Exam Pieces 2020-2023 books will be valid indefinitely (subject to copyright) and any planned updates will be announced at least 12 months in advance. Trinity will be gradually amending the covers on these books upon reprint to ‘from 2020’, however there are books in circulation with the previous date range. In those cases, the change to syllabus arrangements overrides the dates printed on the cover of the book.
Contents:
Annie’s Song (Denver, arr. Walker)
Bayou Blue (Walker)
Hotel California (Felder, Henley & Frey, arr. Walker)
Joyride in a Pink Cadillac (Morandell)
Setting Sail (Pells)
Tomorrow Will Be Better (Powlesland)
Tuesday Bluesday (Powlesland)
Turn to Dust (Powlesland)
Chillout (Powlesland)
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Love Yourself (Sheeran, Bianco & Bieber)
Mean Street (Powlesland)
Pinky Plays the Blues (Morandell)
Sepia Toned (Walker)
Sun Song (Lester)
Your Song (Elton John, arr. Rose)
Bonnie’s Bounce (Walker)
Ho Hey (Fraites & Schultz, arr. Rose)
Marry You (Mars, Lawrence & Levine, arr. Morandell)
One More Time (Chilton)
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Rockroach (Powlesland)
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That’s the Way It Is (Morandell)
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Claiming the B in LGBT: Illuminating the Bisexual Narrative
Even as the broader LGBT community enjoys political and societal advances in North America, the bisexual community still today contends with decades of misinformation stereotyping them as innately indecisive, self-loathing, and untrustworthy. Claiming the B in LGBT strives to give bisexuals a seat at the table. This guidebook to the history and future of the bisexual movement fuses a chronology of bisexual organizing with essays, poems, and articles detailing the lived experiences of bisexual activities struggling against a dominant culture driven by norms of monosexual attraction, compulsory monogamy, and inflexible notions of gender expression and identity. Kate Harrad’s anthology of a thriving identity yearning to realize itself provides a vision of bisexuality that is beyond gay and straight, rather than left to merely occupy the space between.Read more
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Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America
American evangelical Christianity has lost its way. While the witness of the church before a watching world is diminished beyond recognition, congregations are torn apart over Donald Trump, Christian nationalism, racial injustice, sexual predation, disgraced leaders, and covered-up scandals. Left behind are millions of believers who counted on the church to be a place of belonging and hope. As greater and greater numbers of younger Americans bleed out from the church, even the most rooted evangelicals are wondering, ‘Can American Christianity survive?’ In Losing Our Religion, Russell Moore calls his fellow evangelical Christians to conversion over culture wars, to truth over tribalism, to the gospel over politics, to integrity over influence, and to renewal over nostalgia. With both prophetic honesty and pastoral love, Moore offers a word of counsel for how a new generation of disillusioned and exhausted believers can find a path forward after the crisis and confusion of the last several years. Believing the gospel is too important to leave it to hucksters and grifters, he shows how a Christian can avoid both cynicism and complicity in order to imagine a different, hopeful vision for the church. The altar call of the old evangelical revivals was both a call to repentance and the offer of a new start. In the same way, this book invites unmoored and discouraged Christians to step out into an uncertain future, first by letting go of the kind of cultural, politicized, status quo Christianity that led us to this moment of reckoning. Only when we see how lost we are, we can find our way again. Only when we bury what’s dead can we experience life again. Only when we lose our religion can we be amazed by grace again.Read more
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World Religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam (KS3 Knowing Religion)
Provide students with a strong understanding of religion with high quality, engaging and content-rich resources building a firm foundation for the new GCSE 9-1 Religious Studies.
Deliver a rich, coherent RE course at KS3 and equip pupils with a deep understanding of religion with ready-made, flexible and high quality KS3 lessons.
‘Knowing Religion’ is written by an author team of experienced RE teachers and led by series editor Robert Orme of West London Free School.
- Discover the history and beliefs of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism as well as these religions in the modern world
- Start teaching straight away with Teacher Guide resources available on Collins Connect, including teaching ideas and support along with answers to questions in the student books
- Give pupils the grounding they need to excel at GCSE RS
- Ignite an interest in religion through a compelling narrative, fascinating facts and extraordinary people
- Aid pupil memory with a ‘knowledge organiser’ at the end of each unit covering key vocabulary, people, places, and dates
- Spark discussion and assess understanding with questions for each lesson including longer-form discursive questions to provide extended writing and essay practice
- 16 lessons on each religion to offer flexibility and map onto the school timetable with ease
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Quaint Deeds: Unlikely Adventures in Teaching and Treasure-hunting: A Memoir
From the bestselling author of The Unlikely Voyage of Jack de Crow,a hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life.
A hilarious and heart-warming memoir of teaching, treasure hunts and finding your own way in life
A.J. ‘Sandy’ Mackinnon is best known to readers as a much-loved travel writer. But between eccentric voyages, he has for almost forty years taught at schools in Australia and the UK. In Quaint Deeds he brings his trademark wit and warmth to the classroom, recalling the ups, downs and unexpected detours of a teaching life. Along the way, he shares the lessons his students have taught him, often in the most unlikely moments – whether playing pranks, experimenting with home-made fireworks, or searching for buried treasure in the English countryside.
Uproarious and insightful in equal measure, Quaint Deeds is an irresistible ode to the magic and mystery of youth.
‘Not just an adventurer, but an artist, philosopher and keen observer of the world around him’ -The Canberra Times
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Complete Chinese Cookbook: the only comprehensive, all-encompassing guide to Chinese cookery, fronted by much-loved chef Ken Hom
Ken Hom is widely regarded as the world’s leading authority on Oriental cuisine, and with the Complete Chinese Cookbook, he has created a seminal collection of his best-loved dishes. Beautifully illustrated with full colour photography, and popular favourites and new tastes to discover, this is the perfect addition to anyone’s kitchen shelf.
‘A fantastic collection of recipes… A great investment’ — BBC Olive
‘If there’s one man who knows about Chinese cooking it’s Ken Hom’ — Woman’s Way
‘This Chinese cracker of a book is all you need to wok and roll’ — You! Magazine
‘This is the best Chinese cookbook I own’ — ***** Reader review
‘Could this be the only Chinese cookery book you need to own? Quite possibly!’ — ***** Reader review
‘Really easy to follow recipes. Delicious’ — ***** Reader review
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With Cantonese stir-fries and spicy Sichuan favourites alongside new discoveries from the lesser-known culinary styles of Yunnan and Hong Kong, this comprehensive collection is filled with mouth-watering, accessible and easy recipes, demonstrating the amazing depth of flavour that is only now being fully appreciated in modern Chinese cuisine.Set to become a kitchen classic, this all-encompassing cookery book guides you through the essential cooking techniques, equipment and ingredients, all with Ken’s trusted blend of experience and enthusiasm. Featuring 250 recipes covering all aspects of Chinese food (including meat-based and vegetarian recipes), Ken offers tips and inspiration for a wealth of dishes that use simple, healthy ingredients to create quick and delicious meals.
Over the past 25 years Ken has brought Chinese cookery into mainstream British homes, and in this beautifully photographed cookbook, he brings together all of his expertise to offer the ultimate guide to the flavours of China.
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Fairy Tales Gone Bad Series Collection 3 Books Set By Joseph Coelho (Zombierella, Creeping Beauty, Frankenstiltskin)
Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched Collectively:Fairy Tales Gone Bad Series Collection 3 Books Set By Joseph Coelho (Zombierella, Creeping Beauty, Frankenstiltskin):
Zombierella:
A yellow moon hangs in a satin sky the night Cinderella, barefoot and in hand-me-downs, slips at the top of the stairs … and dies. But not for long. The Shadow of Death arrives to breathe life back into her bones and, for three nights only, Cinderella goes forth as ZOMBIERELLA. With her skin as cold as ice and her faithful horse Lumpkin back by her side, can she seek revenge on her three cruel, fake sisters, once and for all?Creeping Beauty:
Eshe and her twelve sisters are Fairy Godmothers, honoured for the incredible gifts they can bestow. But Eshe’s special abilities are a little different – she can glimpse into the future! And, one day, Eshe foresees something terrifying: a world blanketed in creeping vines and a girl covered in thorns. Eshe needs to stop her vision becoming true, but it will require old and powerful magic. And she won’t be able to do it alone…Frankenstiltskin:
Joining the family business, animal-lover Bryony proves to be an extraordinary taxidermist, whose tender fingers create displays which comfort, educate and astound. But when Byrony’s proud father boasts of her skill, who should come calling but the secretive King of all Mythica. Locking her away, he gives her three horrible tasks … three impossible tasks! It’s only then that a strange, sinister creature emerges from the shadows of the castle, offering Bryony a helping hand… But at what cost?Read more
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Lessons in Teaching Computing in Primary Schools
Whether you are currently teaching or training to teach the primary computing curriculum, you need to know what effective teaching of computing in primary schools actually looks like. Written for non specialists and trainees, this book uses exemplar primary computing lessons as a starting point for developing subject knowledge. It′s a unique but tried and tested approach to developing your computing subject knowledge alongside your teaching practice.The current computing curriculum is explored in manageable chunks and there is no “scary” tech speak; everything is explained clearly and accessibly. You will find example lesson plans alongside every element of the curriculum that can be adapted to suit different year groups and different schools. This resourceful guide inspires an approach to teaching computing that is about creativity and encouraging problem solving using technology as a tool.
NEW TO THIS EDITION: Updated throughout and includes information on new apps and other resources for teaching and a brand new chapter on teaching with tablets in the primary classroom.
This book is part of the Lessons in Teaching series and includes additional online resources on its accompanying website.
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Technical Analysis for Beginners: A Practical Guide for Charting
TECHNICAL ANALYSIS FOR BEGINNERS-A Practical Guide for Charting includes:
- Technical Analysis for Beginners Part One – Stop Blindly Following Stock Picks of Wall Street’s Gurus and Learn Technical Analysis
- Technical Analysis for Beginners Part Two – Riding the Stock Market Cycle
Many improvements have been added to previous versions:
- More than 180 full-color illustrations to facilitate the learning of the visual trader
- Improvements for the buy and sell signals on charts
- Bitcoin and cryptocurrency is now part of the book
- A glossary of technical analysis terms
- An alphabetical index
PART ONE: Stop Blindly Following Stock Picks of Wall Street’s Gurus and Learn Technical Analysis
This book has been written to help the new traders who trust blindly in those close to them, their colleagues or financial gurus, and want to understand chart patterns before investing. Learn how to use tools allowing detection of buy-and-sell signals. Inside, you’ll find examples, tables, charts, and comments of popular stocks and cryptocurrencies. Most of the charts show entry points, exit points, and false signals. After you read this guide, you’ll know:
- How to use charts to enter and exit the market at the right time
- How to enrich the charts with indicators
- How to use technical analysis to evaluate financial markets and detect stock trends, support and resistance
- How to avoid many traps and learn about trading psychology using the cycle of market emotions
- Learn about the bullish and the bearish patterns and candlesticks patterns
PART TWO: Riding the Stock Market Cycle
This book focuses on the four stages that make up the stock and crypto cycle. Being able to detect, before the crowd, the appropriate time to enter an upward stage is the key for any investor. Each stage can be recognized using technical indicators. The use of technical indicators remains fairly simple. In this book, you’ll know:
- How to use leading indicators that detect reversals
- How to use lagging indicators that launch buying and selling signals
- How to find the best stocks, ETFs and cryptocurrencies
- How to spot the positive and negative divergences
- Learn the basics about cryptos and Bitcoin
The combination of indicators, volume, lines, and patterns with the stages of the stock market cycle leads to better control of trading. Understanding each stage is a great way to anticipate the reaction of the markets.
Technical Analysis for Beginners – A Practical Guide for Charting will give a great boost to your trading performance by learning technical analysis. This guide helps make a better decision and increase your chances of greater profits. Don’t let the money to the sharks of Wall Street.
Charles G. Koonitz is the author of the books:- Ichimoku Charting & Technical Analysis
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The Art of Effective Technical Writing: Developing in-demand skills from Technical Writing to API Documentation for career advancement
Master the art of crafting compelling technical writing portfolios and explore best practices of API documentation and efficient SOP creation for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
Key Features
- Explore nuances in technical terminology, decode jargon, and simplify intricate concepts for diverse users
- Acquire skills in managing technical writing projects and collaboration with SME’s
- Discover optimal approaches to API documentation, integrating code examples, and assimilating developer feedback
Book Description
Dive into the world of technical writing with this comprehensive guide that equips you with the expertise to produce crystal-clear, concise, and captivating content across a myriad of technical domains.
Begin your journey with an introduction to technical writing, mastering project management and seamless collaboration with experts for exceptional documentation creation. The book then delves into an array of sought-after technical writing domains, encompassing API documentation, cybersecurity policy writing, SOP’s, knowledge management, grant proposals, white papers, case studies, and user manuals Uncover the power of tools like Swagger and Postman for user-friendly API documentation, and familiarize yourself with industry-leading tools like Jekyll, LaTeX, and MadCap Flare. Throughout the book, you’ll explore practical examples and engage in hands-on exercises for each documentation type, refining your writing skills. The journey culminates in crafting a robust technical writing portfolio and gaining valuable insights on securing a competitive role in the field.
By the end of the book, you’ll be well-prepared to thrive in a fulfilling technical writing career, equipped with the skills and knowledge that set you apart from the crowd.
What you will learn
- Build a captivating portfolio with organized writing samples for seamless navigation
- Craft policies in accordance with regulatory frameworks, and proposals that align with funding requisites
- Establish professional online presence and broaden your industry network
- Master the architecture and formats of white papers & case studies
- Gain insights into API documentation types, and user behavior analysis
- Learn tech writing skills across varied documentation, elevating your earning potential
- Gain hands-on experience in composing SOP’s for portfolio enrichment
Who This Book Is For
This book is intended for technical writers, product managers, software developers, developer advocates, and individuals tasked with the upkeep of technical documentation. Encompassing a thorough exploration of technical writing principles and techniques, it provides invaluable perspectives and actionable advice suitable for professionals at varying levels of proficiency. A foundational grasp of grammar and writing is presumed, given that the book primarily centers on best practices and strategies in technical writing.
Table of Contents
- Introduction to Technical Writing
- Managing Technical Writing Projects and Working With Subject Matter Experts
- API Documentation
- Cybersecurity Policy Writing
- Standard Operating Procedures
- Knowledge Management
- Grant Proposals
- White Papers
- User Manuals
- Creating a Technical Writing Portfolio
- Finding a Job As a Technical Writer
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Next Generation Safety Leadership: From Compliance to Care
Next Generation Safety Leadership illustrates practical applications that bring theory to life through case studies and stories from the author’s years of experience in high-risk industries. The book provides safety leaders and their organisations with a compelling case for change. A key predictor of safety performance is trust, and its associated components of integrity, ability and benevolence (care). The next generation of safety leaders will take the profession forward by creating trust and psychological safety. The book provides safety leaders with actionable goals to enable positive change and translates academic languages into practical applications. It leaves the reader with a clear strategy to move forward in developing a safety plan and utilizes stories, humor, and case studies set in high-risk industries. Written primarily for the safety community and can be used to influence day to day safety operations in high-risk organisations.
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Clever Fox Self-Care Journal – Wellness & Daily Reflection Notebook – Mental Health & Personal Development Journal – Self-Care, Meditation & Mood Journal for Women & Men – A5…
- FOCUS ON SELF-CARE WITH 90 DAYS OF WELLNESS PLANNING: Clever Fox Self-Сare Journal is a 3-month guided mental health journal that will help you prioritize your well-being and develop a habit of daily self-care.
- BUILD A HAPPIER & HEALTHIER MINDSET FOR YEARS TO COME: This self care notebook is filled with prompts, open-ended questions, wellness trackers, and many other tools to help you pinpoint the changes you can make to improve your well-being.
- SUPPORT A POSITIVE OUTLOOK ON LIFE WITH DAILY JOURNALING: Every morning, practice gratitude and choose your affirmation to foster positivity. Every evening, reflect on your day and build self-awareness by answering two questions that change daily.
- A5 SIZE, STICKERS & OTHER FEATURES: This A5-sized mood journal (14.5 x 21cm) has an eco-leather hardcover, thick 120gsm paper, pen loop, elastic closure, and 3 bookmarks. The mood journal comes with 3 sheets of stickers and user guide.
- 60-DAY MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE: We will exchange or refund your meditation journal if you aren’t satisfied with your daily reflection journal for women for any reason. Reach out to us via message to refund your personal development journal.
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The Secure Base Model: Promoting attachment and resilience in foster care and adoption
All children need to feel secure in their relationships with the adults who look after them. Where children have not experienced the kind of sensitive parenting that promotes security and resilience, they will find it difficult to trust and will struggle with managing their feelings and behaviour. What strategies can be used to provide sensitive caregiving that develops secure close relationships? How can children be helped to recover from earlier harmful experiences and feel competent to face future challenges successfully and fulfil their potential? What can help children develop resilience, self-esteem and the capacity to reflect on their feelings and have a sense of hope for the future? Secure Base is a model of caregiving in fostering and adoption that is based on theories of attachment and resilience while also drawing on child placement research. It provides a valuable framework and a strengths-based approach for making sense of children s needs and behaviours and sets out the dimensions of caregiving that can support children to thrive and to fulfil their potential. This practical guide to the Secure Base is designed to support social workers and other professionals involved in all aspects of fostering and adoption practice, from recruitment, assessment and preparation to matching and long-term support for placements through to adulthood. It will enable workers to effectively promote attachment and resilience in foster care.Read more
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Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory (Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies)
Reassembling the Social is a fundamental challenge from one of the world’s leading social theorists to how we understand society and the “social”. Bruno Latour’s contention is that the word “social” as used by Social Scientists has become laden with assumptions to the point where it has become a misnomer. When the adjective is applied to a phenomenon, it is used to indicate a stabilized state of affairs, a bundle of ties that in due course may be used to account for another phenomenon. Latour also finds the word used as if it described a type of material, in a comparable way to an adjective such as “wooden” or “steely”.Rather than simply indicating what is already assembled together, it is now used in a way that makes assumptions about the nature of what is assembled. It has become a word that designates two distinct things: a process of assembling: and a type of material, distinct from others. Latour shows why “the social” cannot be thought of as a kind of material or domain, and disputes attempts to provide a “social explanation” of other states of affairs. While these attempts have been productive (and probably necessary) in the past, the very success of the social sciences mean that they are largely no longer so. At the present stage it is no longer possible to inspect the precise constituents entering the social domain. Latour returns to the original meaning of “the social” to redefine the notion and allow it to trace connections again. It will then be possible to resume the traditional goal of the social sciences, but using more refined tools. Drawing on his extensive work examining the “assemblages” of nature, Latour finds it necessary to scrutinize thoroughly the exact content of what is assembled under the umbrella of Society.
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Scarlet and Ivy Series 6 Books Collection Set by Sophie Cleverly (The Lost Twin,The Whispers in the Walls,The Dance in the Dark,The Lights Under the Lake,The Curse in the…
Titles in this set: The Lost Twin The Whispers in the Walls The Dance in the Dark The Lights Under the Lake The Curse in the Candleligh The Last Secret The Lost Twin A spine-tingling mystery set in a creepily atmospheric boarding school. Ivy must uncover the secrets behind her twin sister Scarlet’s disappearance before it’s too late. When troublesome Scarlet mysteriously disappears from Rookwood School, terrifying Miss Fox invites her quiet twin sister Ivy to ‘take her place’. Ivy reluctantly agrees in the hopes of finding out what happened to her missing sister. For only at Rookwood will Ivy be able to unlock the secrets of Scarlet’s disappearance, through a scattered trail of diary pages carefully hidden all over the school. The Whispers in the Walls The twins have been reunited, but are definitely not out of danger… Evil Miss Fox may have fled the scene, but headmaster Mr Bartholomew is back, imposing a reign of terror with his threats of epic punishments should any of the pupils step out of line. When possessions and food start going missing, and the finger of suspicion is pointed firmly at troublemaking Scarlet, she knows she must uncover the truth to clear her name. The Dance in the Dark With their evil headmaster, Mr Bartholomew, safely out of the picture and kindly Mrs Knight in charge, it looks like life at Rookwood School is looking up. There’s a ballet recital Scarlet is desperate to star in, and more clues to uncover about the twins’ mother. But after their beloved ballet teacher Miss Finch suddenly disappears and strange Madame Zelda takes her place, freakish things start happening. Poison letters are circulating the school, and ‘accidents’ are plaguing the students. It seems that the girls are in danger once more ……..Read more
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Spanish Sentence Builders – TRILOGY – Part I (The Language Gym – Sentence Builder)
The book contains 15 macro-units which concern themselves with a specific communicative function, such as ‘Describing people’s appearance and personality’, ‘Comparing and contrasting people’, ‘Saying what food you like and dislike’ or ‘Saying what you and others do in your free time’.Each unit includes:
- a sentence builder modelling the target constructions;
- a set of listening activities to model and input-flood the target language
- a set of vocabulary building activities which reinforce the material in the sentence builder;
- a set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;
- a set of translation tasks aimed at consolidation through retrieval practice;
- a set of writing tasks targeting essential writing micro-skills such as spelling, functional and positional processing, editing and communication of meaning.
- a “Bringing it all together” section to recycle and interleave the target language seen in previous units
At the end of each term, there is also an End of Term – Question Skills unit. These units are designed to model asking and answering the key questions which have been studied throughout the term. This is also an additional opportunity for structured production as students move towards routinising the language and producing spontaneous speech by the end of the term.
Each sentence builder at the beginning of a unit contains one or more constructions which have been selected with real-life communication in mind. Each unit is built around that construction but not solely on it. Based on the principle that each E.P.I instructional sequence must move from modelling to production in a seamless and organic way, each unit expands on the material in each sentence builder by embedding it in texts and graded tasks which contain both familiar and unfamiliar (but comprehensible and learnable) vocabulary and structures. Through lots of careful recycling and thorough and extensive processing of the input, by the end of each unit the student has many opportunities to encounter and process the new vocabulary and patterns with material from the previous units.
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Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate – French Sentence Builders (The Language Gym – Sentence Builder Books)
French Pre-intermediate to Intermediate Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by two modern languages educators with over 40 years of extensive classroom experience between the two, both in the UK and internationally.This ‘no-frills’ book contains 15 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout.
Each unit includes:
1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions;
2) A set of vocabulary building activities;
3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;
4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks;
5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning.Based on the Extensive Processing Instruction (E.P.I.) principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over.
Alongside the macro-units you will find:Question-skills units: two pages on understanding and creating questions. These micro-units occur after every unit in the book, so as to recycle the same question patterns in different linguistic contexts; Revision workouts: these are retrieval practice tasks aimed at keeping the previously learnt vocabulary alive. They too occur at regular intervals, after every other unit.
Please note that The Language Gym language-gym.com website is an ideal supplement to this booklet. Our website recycles every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via self-marking vocabulary, reading & listening workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful Verb, Listening Trainer and Vocab Trainer.
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Spanish Verb Grammar Pivots – Beginner to Pre-intermediate (The Language Gym – Sentence Builder Books)
The Spanish Verb Pivots book focuses on the present indicative, but also covers the immediate future, and gustar + infinitive (as well as ‘verbs like gustar’). It is aimed at learners in the A1-B1 proficiency range. It was conceived both for classroom and independent use, whatever the method, setting or course, as it offers ample opportunities for practice through a wide range of activities designed to appeal to learners with a variety of cognitive styles and learning preferences.It can be used to introduce the target verbs and associated grammar and lexicogrammar patterns to absolute beginners. It can also be useful if you teach lower-to-intermediate learners (years 9 to 11 in the U.K.) in order to consolidate, expand and deepen their mastery of those verbs and patterns. The latter learners, in our experience, are often able to master verb formation, but lack depth of knowledge, i.e. knowledge of verb collocations (which lexis the verbs partner with) and colligations (the rules which bind the verbs with what comes before and after them in a sentence).
Each macro-unit starts ‘small’ with the target verb being learnt within very basic sentence patterns and in the first person only. As each unit progresses the target verbs are modelled in sentence patterns which gradually increase in length and complexity. In order to enhance transferrability of learning and lexical depth, each verb is also practised with a variety of lexical sets. For instance, the verb Tener is practised with animals, classroom objects, clothes, physical description, emotional and physical states, age, etc.
Traditional grammar and lexicogrammar intersect throughout the whole book, as, in order for the learners to be able to become creative with each sentence pattern, they must also master the manipulation of the changeable items in each sentence such as verbs, adjectives, pronouns determiners, etc. The teaching of grammar arises organically from the need to enhance the generative power of each target sentence pattern – this is a major innovation of this book.
The book is very mindful of cognitive load. Hence, each instructional sequence gradually increases the cognitive challenge, with receptive activities in the initial section of each sub-unit paving the way for the productive ones located at the end and with each task priming the next. It goes without saying that the repeated processing and the constant recycling also makes it easier for the content to become effortlessly entrenched.
How can one supplement this book to enhance its impact?
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Italian Sentence Builders – Pre-Intermediate to Intermediate (The Language Gym – Sentence Builder Books)
Italian Pre-intermediate to Intermediate Sentence Builders is a workbook aimed at beginner to pre-intermediate students co-authored by three modern languages educators with over 70 years of extensive classroom experience between them, both in the UK and internationally.This ‘no-frills’ book contains 15 units of work on very popular themes, jam-packed with graded vocabulary-building, reading, translation, retrieval practice and writing activities. Key vocabulary, lexical patterns and structures are recycled and interleaved throughout.
Each unit includes:
1) A sentence builder modelling the target constructions;
2) A set of vocabulary building activities;
3) A set of narrow reading texts exploited through a range of tasks focusing on both the meaning and structural levels of the text;
4) A set of retrieval-practice translation tasks;
5) A set of writing tasks targeting essential micro-skills such as spelling, lexical retrieval, syntax, editing and communication of meaning.Based on the Extensive Processing Instruction (E.P.I.) principle that learners learn best from comprehensible and highly patterned input flooded with the target linguistic features, the authors have carefully designed each and every text and activity to enable the student to process and produce each item many times over.
Alongside the macro-units you will find:
Question-skills units: two pages on understanding and creating questions. These micro-units occur after every unit in the book, so as to recycle the same question patterns in different linguistic contexts;
Revision workouts: these are retrieval practice tasks aimed at keeping the previously learnt vocabulary alive. They too occur at regular intervals, after every other unit.Please note that The Language Gym language-gym.com website is an ideal supplement to this booklet. Our website recycles every single lexical and structural item found in this book many times over via self-marking vocabulary, reading & listening workouts, in addition to engaging and fun games and a powerful Verb, Listening Trainer and Vocab Trainer.
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Never Feel Lost Again: The Ultimate Beginners Guide to the Gym
Have you ever felt lost when you’ve been in a gym?
That makes two of us..
When I first stepped foot in a gym, I was remarkably weak and completely out of my depth. And in all honestly, it took me years to get to where I wanted to be.
I’ve written this book to make sure that that doesn’t happen to you!
In this book, I’m going to tell you what you need to know so you can go from feeling lost in a gym, to feeling at home in one.
The contents of this book include:
– Overcoming your issues: in this section I’ll go over the most common problems that you may be suffering from right now. These problems include a lack of motivation, gym anxiety, a lack of confidence and more! I’ll also give you an achievable set of solutions for each one to make sure that nothing is stopping you from hitting your goals.
– Understanding gym terms: in this section I’ll go over the most commonly used terms that people use in the gym, so you sound like a pro in no time
– Choosing the right type of exercise for you: in this section I’ll go over what you should be doing to hit your specific goal
– A comprehensive 40+ exercise library: in this section I’ll go over some of the best exercises you can do in the gym, and how to correctly perform each one
– How to structure your weeks and workouts: in this section I’ll go over how to optimally structure your gym sessions, so you can get the body that you deserve
– Tracking and understanding your progress: in this section I’ll give you a timeframe on how long it may take you to hit your goals, and how you can know if you’re moving in the right direction or not
And more!
This guide is one of the cheapest, most helpful sources that you’ll ever find. So if you want to kickstart your fitness journey, you’ve come to the right place!
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Powers of Persuasion: The Inside Story of British Advertising: 1951-2000
During much of the second half of the 20th century advertising in Britain led the world. Yet no history of British advertising covering this heady period has previously been published. During those years advertising increasingly came to touch upon almost every aspect of every individual’s life, and reached its peak as a proportion of the Gross National Product. It boosted economic growth and peoples’ affluence. But at the same time the advertising industry was frequently under siege, as politicians, pressure groups, and others constantly sought to restrain its influence – and often succeeded.For several decades the creativity of British campaigns was preeminent around the globe. But Powers of Persuasion is not just about advertisements – it is about advertising. During those years Britain was also a world leader in setting industry benchmarks – innovating the account planning discipline, setting the standard for public service advertising, launching global advertising awards festivals, introducing the best system of advertising regulation, setting up both the world’s largest advertising archive and the world’s most comprehensive on-line advertising research databank. These were the keystones on which British creativity was built. Simultaneously, major British advertising companies – particularly Saatchi & Saatchi and WPP – raced to the top of the global league.
Powers of Persuasion tells the authoritative story of this dynamic, exhilarating era, with pen portraits of the personalities involved, anecdotes, case histories, and essential data. Written (from the inside) by one of the industry’s leaders, this is a book for all interested in advertising and its role in society, business, and the media.
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Native Advertising: The Essential Guide
Native advertising: paid-for media that looks and behaves like the content around it. It affects us all. If you own a smartphone, use social media or read content online, you will have been exposed to it – often without realizing. Influenced by digital trends such as mobile advertising, programmatic advertising, ad-blocking, fake news and artificial intelligence, native advertising is a multibillion-dollar industry. It is central to the digital success of many leading brands and companies.
This comprehensive study by one of the industry’s foremost authorities explores the rise of this exhilarating new channel – its impact on the digital media space, and what marketers and businesses need to know about it. Native Advertising explores the future of digital advertising and explains why its growth is inevitable, using real-life examples and interviews from marketing leaders around the world and a range of case studies including The New York Times and The Independent.
Native Advertising goes beyond sponsored posts on Facebook, promoted tweets and BuzzFeed branded articles. It looks at the heart of the matter: audience, budget, content and success measurement. It is full of first-hand advice for any marketer wanting to make the most of digital innovation.
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The Nurse’s Guide to Mental Health Medicines
A book written by nurses for nurses providing a simple guide to the most common medicines.
Spanning 8 concise and highly readable chapters, the book explains the pharmacology of different drug types in simple terms while also considering the practical aspects of working with people requiring mental health medicines.
Key features:
- A detailed ′Medicines List′ contained in each chapter providing the key information on dosages, brand names and possible adverse reactions
- Takes a life course approach highlighting specific considerations for children, pregnancy and older people
- Cuts through the complex terminology with clear and simple language supported by real world case studies
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Communication and Interpersonal Skills in Nursing (Transforming Nursing Practice Series)
The new edition of this well regarded book introduces the underpinning theory and concepts required for the development of first class communication and interpersonal skills in nursing.
By providing a simple to read overview of the central topics, students are able to quickly gain a solid, evidence-based grounding in the subject. Topics covered include: empathy; building therapeutic relationships; using a variety of communication methods; compassion and dignity; communicating in different environments; and culture and diversity issues.
Three new chapters have been added that point readers towards further ways of approaching their communication skills that are less model and technique driven and focusing more on therapeutic considerations, as well as looking at the politics of communication.
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The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson
‘A riveting read that skips along at pace. Illuminating and concerning, it lifts the lid on the tawdry world of Westminster powerbroking’ Tim Shipman, The Times
The explosive behind-the-scenes account of the plot to bring down Boris Johnson
YOU THINK YOU LIVE IN A WORLD WHERE THE ELECTED ARE CHOSEN BY THE PEOPLE.
THINK AGAIN.
When Boris Johnson came to power in 2019, he did so with the largest Conservative majority since Margaret Thatcher. Rewriting the political map, he united a party and shattered Labour’s fabled red wall. And yet, just three years later, he was ousted by the same members who had once greeted his leadership so rapturously.
What had gone so wrong?
The Plot is the seismic, fly-on-the-wall account of how the saviour of the Conservative Party became a pariah. Told with unparalleled access, from multiple inside sources talking with astonishing candour, it reveals the shocking truth about powerful forces operating behind the scenes in the heart of Westminster and those who became the architects of a Prime Minister’s downfall.
This is the story of a damning trail of treachery and deceit fuelled by an obsessive pursuit of power, which threatens to topple the very fabric of our democracy.
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JoyFull: Cook Effortlessly, Eat Freely, Live Radiantly
The much awaited debut cookery book from Radhi Devlukia-Shetty.
“What you eat―along with your daily habits and the thoughts you think―has the ability to completely transform every aspect of your health.” – Radhi Shetty
A passionate cook and nutritionist, Radhi Devlukia-Shetty’s JoyFull is abundant and inviting. With over 125 plant-based recipes, it is designed to balance health and satisfaction; her wide-ranging dishes bring vibrant flavours to every meal of the day and rely on accessible ingredients.
This beautiful collection includes:
• Morning Nibbles: Loaded Toast Four Ways, French Toast Casserole, Veggie Frittata Muffins
• Grounding Grains: Rainbow Grain Bowl, One Pot Lemony Spaghetti, Mexican Lasagna
• LBPs (Lentils, Beans & Pulses): Creamy Red Lentil Daal; Baked Falafel Pita; Sweet Potato, Cauliflower and Cashew Curry
• Bread is Life: Pull Apart Cheesy Bread, Spicy Bean Burgers, Tandoori Tacos, Pizza Quesadilla
• Salads: Butterbean and Tomato, Chilled Soba Noodle, Mum’s Old School Potato Salad,
• Sun to Moon Soups: Cheesy Broccoli, Beet and Dill, Cannellini Bean and Tomato
• Hero Veg: Sweet and Sour Broccolini, Crispy Sunchokes, Bombay Potatoes
• Drinks: Masala Chai, Strawberry Mint Lemonade, Tahini Matcha Latte
• Sweet Treats: Chocolate Mud Pie, Oatmeal Cookies, Pecan Upside Down CakeAnd because food alone cannot sustain us completely, Radhi shares her daily wellness practices: her revitalizing morning skincare routine,ancient rituals to nourish and strengthen your hair, meditations and prayers for staying present, and breathwork that will carry you through each phase the day.
As a student of Ayurveda, Radhi shares its transformative principles in a way that’s easy for anyone to incorporate into their life. She offers mindful practices around cooking and explains how, as we connect to our food and understand our body, we can improve our health. Whether satisfying comfort food or a warming bowl of grains and vegetables, each dish – and ritual – in JoyFull is intended to bring harmony to you and your body.
Written with generosity and kindness, Radhi takes you on a journey towards a JoyFull life.
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How Do You Hug a Cactus? Reflective Parenting with Teenagers in Mind
Have you ever wondered what’s going on in your teenager’s mind? This engaging book will give you the tools to understand just that to ultimately help you keep the close connection you both need during these tricky years.
Following on from her acclaimed book for parents of younger children, Sheila Redfern brings the reflective parenting model to parents of teenagers. Teenagers can be experienced as prickly and hard to get close to – like a cactus – but Dr. Redfern shows us how this stage of your child’s life can be more enjoyable and connected than you’d imagined. Rather than focusing on their behaviours, this book emphasizes how we can teach teenagers to manage their feelings and relationships in safe ways. It advocates theories underpinning reflective parenting – mentalizing, attachment, and neuroscience – as essential for building resilience and security in young people, which is crucial through the storm and stress of adolescence. Chapters are filled with everyday, relatable scenarios and practical advice on pressing issues such as self-harm, social media and gaming, risk, and ASD. There is also a chapter devoted to adoptive parents and foster carers.
This practical guide aims to help readers become more reflective and available as parents and understand what might be in their teenager’s head. It also serves as an essential resource for clinicians working with families.
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Occupational Therapy Disruptors: What Global OT Practice Can Teach Us About Innovation, Culture, and Community
This anthology collates 16 unique and powerful perspectives from occupational therapists around the globe, each highlighting the culture that they are a part of and how it informs their work and care. Ranging across almost every continent in the world including stories from Aotearoa to the Gaza Strip to Dhaka and beyond, Occupational Therapy Disruptors offers a decolonised re-examination of occupational therapy through a poignant, global lens.
Based on a series of interviews conducted by Sheela Roy Ivlev, each account provides candid and personal reflections and challenges found in occupational therapy in different cultural and political contexts and inspires occupational therapists to enrich their own practice with cultural awareness and reflexivity.
With reflection prompts and calls to action at the end of each chapter, this is an invaluable resource for occupational therapists looking to develop a more diverse, culturally-informed understanding of their practice.
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The Phone Fix: The Brain-Focused Guide to Building Healthy Digital Habits and Breaking Bad Ones
What is really happening in your brain when you use your phone, and how to harness it.
Humans are often fearful of the day the world will be ruled by machines, but have they not already taken over? The average person spends 4-5 hours a day on their phone, about a third of the time they are awake. We self-interrupt our work and social lives, forgo sleep, procrastinate important tasks and opt for digital distraction when we’re bored or feel uncomfortable.
NHS neurology doctor and neuroscientist Faye Begeti describes what is happening in our brain when we use our phones and why we have formed so many fixed and negative habits around them. She reflects on both deliberate choices and automatic behaviours, whilst also challenging myths around digital ‘addiction’, how dopamine actually works and the harmfulness of blue light.
Rather than recommending a quick fix digital diet, or total abstinence – unviable for most people – The Phone Fix offers a practical guide, based on neuroscientific techniques, on building supportive digital habits. Technology is not inherently bad or frightening and by better understanding what is happening in our brains, we can replenish our willpower and improve our focus, forming a healthier relationship with our phones - and therefore the real people around us.
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Food as Medicine: A Handbook of Natural Nutrition
How to use your diet to heal your body
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A History of Rugby in Leinster
Leinster – one of the most successful and influential Irish sporting teams of all time.
Established in 1879, they boast a dazzling roster of players, past and present, including Brian O’Driscoll, Johnny Sexton, Jamie Heaslip, and current captain James Ryan.
But there is so much more to rugby in Leinster, and, for the first time, this book compiles its rich history, from its foundation, through the amateur years, to the club’s many spectacular championships in the twenty-first century, when the national love for rugby kicked up a gear. Doolin ruminates on the sport’s relationships with politics and class, and of course celebrates all the breathless victories enjoyed by Leinster teams at every level.
And success doesn’t stop with silverware; since the nineteenth century Leinster Rugby has been influencing the spheres of education, business and politics throughout the province and the country as a whole. Nothing reflects the complexities of politics and identity in Ireland more than rugby.
A History of Rugby in Leinster is a vibrant celebration of sporting greatness and of Leinster’s enduring commitment to teamwork, integrity and community.
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The Rough Guide to New Zealand (Travel Guide with Free eBook) (Rough Guides Main Series)
This practical travel guide to New Zealand features detailed factual travel tips and points-of-interest structured lists of all iconic must-see sights as well as some off-the-beaten-track treasures. Our itinerary suggestions and expert author picks of things to see and do will make it a perfect companion both, ahead of your trip and on the ground. This New Zealand guide book is packed full of details on how to get there and around, pre-departure information and top time-saving tips, including a visual list of things not to miss. Our colour-coded maps make New Zealand easier to navigate while you’re there. This guide book to New Zealand has been fully updated post-COVID-19 and it comes with a free eBook.
The Rough Guide to New Zealand covers: Auckland and around, Northland, Waikato and the Coromandel, Rotorua and the Bay of Plenty, Central North Island, Eastern North Island, Wellington and the south, Marlborough, Nelson and Kaikoura, The west coast, Christchurch and Canterbury, Otago, Fiordland and Southland.
Inside this New Zealand travel guide you’ll find:
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR EVERY TYPE OF TRAVELLER
Experiences selected for every kind of trip to New Zealand, from off-the-beaten-track adventures in Poor Knights Islands, to family activities in child-friendly places like Farewell Spit, or chilled-out breaks in popular tourist areas, like Auckland.PRACTICAL TRAVEL TIPS
Essential pre-departure information including New Zealand entry requirements, getting around, health information, travelling with children, sports and outdoor activities, food and drink, festivals, culture and etiquette, shopping, tips for travellers with disabilities and more.TIME-SAVING ITINERARIES
Includes carefully planned routes covering the best of New Zealand, which give a taste of the richness and diversity of the destination, and have been created for different time frames or types of trip.DETAILED REGIONAL COVERAGE
Clear structure within each sightseeing chapter of this New Zealand travel guide includes regional highlights, brief history, detailed sights and places ordered geographically, recommended restaurants, hotels, bars, clubs and major shops or entertainment options.INSIGHTS INTO GETTING AROUND LIKE A LOCAL
Tips on how to beat the crowds, save time and money and find the best local spots for wildlife spotting, hiking and diving.HIGHLIGHTS OF THINGS NOT TO MISS
Rough Guides’ rundown of Hot Water Beach, Whatipu and Christchurch’s best sights and top experiences helps to make the most of each trip to New Zealand, even in a short time.HONEST AND INDEPENDENT REVIEWS
Written by Rough Guides’ expert authors with a trademark blend of humour, honesty and expertise, this New Zealand guide book will help you find the best places, matching different needs.BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Comprehensive ‘Contexts’ chapter of this travel guide to New Zealand features fascinating insights into New Zealand, with coverage of history, religion, ethnic groups, environment, wildlife and books, plus a handy language section and glossary.FABULOUS FULL COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHY
Features inspirational colour photography, including the stunning Ninety Mile Beach and the spectacular Taieri Gorge Railway.COLOUR-CODED MAPPING
Practical full-colour maps, with clearly numbered, colour-coded keys for quick orientation in Wellington, Milford Sounds, and many more locations in New Zealand reduce the need to go online.USER-FRIENDLY LAYOUT
With helpful icons, and organised by neighbourhood to help you pick the best spots to spend your time.FREE EBOOK
Free eBook download with every purchase of this guide book to New Zealand allows you to access all of the content from your phone or tablet, for on-the-road exploration.Read more
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France 2024 – Tourist & Motoring Atlas A4 Laminated Spiral
Michelin’s France 100% laminated A4 atlas offers, in addition of Michelin’s clear and accurate mapping, an enhanced view of your journey thanks to its scale 1/250,000. Convenient and easy to use thanks to its spiral bound cover, this atlas comes with extra-resistant laminated pages on which you can trace and erase your journey. The route planner as well as the time distance charts will help you plan and optimise journey. Michelin’s new safety alerts warn you about dangerous driving areas and zones subjet to tighter speed checks. Michelin’s laminated France atlas also includes information on tourist sights, leisure facilities and scenic routes, as well as service areas to add pleasure and comfort to your journey. Michelin’s France laminated tourist and motorist atlas features: * Scale 1/250,000: for an enhanced view of your journey * Extra resistant pages: to draw/erase your journey as you go along * Key to map pages: to quickly access the region of your interest * A complete town index: To easily indentify to destination of your choice * Distance and time chart: to help you plan your trip * 6 major town plans: Paris, Bordeaux, Lille, Lyon, Marseille & Nantes * Michelin’s danger alers: to help you identify zones at risks for drivers and controlled speed areas * In English language: Keys, indexes and informationRead more
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Shakespeare in Bloomsbury
The untold story of Shakespeare’s profound influence on Virginia Woolf and the rest of the Bloomsbury Group
“A spirited dance of minds.”―Chris Vognar, Boston Globe
For the men and women of the Bloomsbury Group, Shakespeare was a constant presence and a creative benchmark. Not only the works they intended for publication―the novels, biographies, economic and political writings, stage designs and reviews―but also their diaries and correspondence, their gossip and small talk turned regularly on Shakespeare. They read his plays for pleasure in the evenings, and on sunny summer afternoons in the country. They went to the theater, discussed performances, and speculated about Shakespeare’s mind. As poet, as dramatist, as model and icon, as elusive “life,” Shakespeare haunted their imaginations and made his way, through phrase, allusion, and oblique reference, into their own lives and art.
This is a book about Shakespeare in Bloomsbury―about the role Shakespeare played in the lives of a charismatic and influential cast, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Lydia Lopokova Keynes, Desmond and Molly MacCarthy, and James and Alix Strachey. All are brought to sparkling life in Marjorie Garber’s intimate account of how Shakespeare provided them with a common language, a set of reference points, and a model for what they did not hesitate to call genius. Among these brilliant friends, Garber shows, Shakespeare was in effect another, if less fully acknowledged, member of the Bloomsbury Group.Read more
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When Science Meets Power
Science and politics have collaborated throughout human history, and science is repeatedly invoked today in political debates, from pandemic management to climate change. But the relationship between the two is muddled and muddied.
Leading policy analyst Geoff Mulgan here calls attention to the growing frictions caused by the expanding authority of science, which sometimes helps politics but often challenges it.
He dissects the complex history of states’ use of science for conquest, glory and economic growth and shows the challenges of governing risk – from nuclear weapons to genetic modification, artificial intelligence to synthetic biology. He shows why the governance of science has become one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century, ever more prominent in daily politics and policy.
Whereas science is ordered around what we know and what is, politics engages what we feel and what matters. How can we reconcile the two, so that crucial decisions are both well informed and legitimate?
The book proposes new ways to organize democracy and government, both within nations and at a global scale, to better shape science and technology so that we can reap more of the benefits and fewer of the harms.
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Hunt for the Shadow Wolf: The lost history of wolves in Britain and the myths and stories that surround them
‘Beautifully crafted, fascinating and unbearably poignant, I totally loved this book’. Isabella Tree, author of Wilding
‘Gow reinvents what it means to be a guardian of the countryside’. Guardian
Author of Bringing Back the Beaver and Britain’s favourite maverick rewilder Derek Gow embarks on an adventure to uncover the mythology, mystery and history of wolves in Britain.
Derek Gow’s dream is that one day we will see the return of the wolf to Britain. Wolf rewilding projects have been successfully implemented across the world – so what is holding us back in the UK?
Hunt for the Shadow Wolf is Derek’s quest to uncover the true nature of this magnificent creature. As Derek worked to reintroduce the beaver, he began to hear stories of the wolf, both real and mythical, and his fascination with it grew. He pieced together fragments of information, stories and artefacts to reveal a shadowy creature that first walked proud through these lands and then was hunted to extinction.
What Derek came to realise was that the underlying motives behind our hatred were actually rooted in power and profit. We turned the wolf into a savage beast and saw its extirpation as a civilising mission. But the wolf endured and Derek tells of his sightings through folklore and mythology, the records of grand estates and parish churches as well as wolf heads, both real and recreated.
With bitingly funny but also tender stories, Hunt for the Shadow Wolf makes clear why we must reconcile our relationship with this majestic animal before we can begin to bring it back to these lands.
‘Gow has a fire in his belly. We need more like him.’ BBC Wildlife Magazine
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The Game Master’s Book of Villains, Minions and Their Tactics: Epic new antagonists for your PCs, plus new minions, fighting tactics, and guidelines … original BBEGs for 5th…
A game master’s biggest challenge can be prep time. With busy lives in mind, this book provides new and exciting content to help GMs save hours of time preparing for a game. Inside, readers will find twenty-five “Big Bosses,” along with insights into how they use their minions strategically in order to decimate any heroic threat that might cross their paths. The Game Master’s Book of Villains, Minions and Their Tactics provides tips and strategies that readers can use to “drag and drop” a BBEG into a new or existing game, with full colour illustrations, lore, stats, combat tactics, and special abilities for each exciting entry. You’ll also find detailed tactics and combat strategies dozens of other minions found throughout the 5E game. In addition to providing three exciting one-shot adventures, the book also shows you how to create your own original villains, minions and monsters – the best of the worst your game has to offer.Read more
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Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones
‘I hope that as you gaze upon my life in clothing, it will inspire you to develop, and celebrate, your own sense of style. I value my freedom to look like and be my own true self more than anything else, and I hope this book will also give you the confidence to look like and be the person you want to be. Whoever you are, be that! And enjoy your journey behind the seams’ – Dolly
A beautifully illustrated celebration of Dolly Parton’s iconic sense of style through entertaining personal stories and 450 full-color photographs, including exclusive images from her private costume archive.
In Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, global superstar Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world.
Featuring behind-the-scenes stories from Dolly Parton’s life and career, and the largest reveal of her private costume archive, this gorgeously photographed book spotlights her most unforgettable looks from the 1960s to now. The sky-high heels, famous wigs, bold makeup, eye-catching stage clothes – she shares them all. Along the way, Parton discusses memorable outfits from her past, from the clothes her mother would sew out of feed sacks (including her “Coat of Many Colors”) and the bold dresses and hairdos that shook up Nashville, to the bunny suit on the cover of Playboy, evening wear at Studio 54, costumes from her most famous film and TV roles, and the daring styles that continue to entertain and inspire today.
Filled with candor, humor, and lots and lots of rhinestones, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones is a shining tribute to one of the most beloved musicians in history, a treasured keepsake for anyone who loves Dolly Parton, and an indispensable guide to forging your own path to beauty and confidence.
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Follow the Money: ‘Gripping and horrifying… witty and brilliant. Buy it’ The Times
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
‘This is a brilliant book. Buy it, read it and weep’ The Times
‘The antidote to naivety that our political class needs’ Sunday Times, Book of the Week
‘A treasure trove of killer facts’ Guardian
‘Read it, absorb it, and understand how the country works’ Laura Kuenssberg
‘If you want to understand why crazy politics routinely trumps economic rationality in government choices, read this’ Robert Peston
Paul Johnson and the enormously respected Institute for Fiscal Studies aim to hold Government to account – without which politicians will get away with their half-truths, elisions and dubious claims. This is a forensic examination – by the man best placed to do so – of the way the state raises and spends £1 trillion of our money every year. To follow the money. To provide an explanation, of where that money comes from and where it goes to, how that has changed and how it needs to change.
Government decisions determine the welfare of the poor and the elderly, the state of the health service, the effectiveness of our children’s education, and how prepared we are for the future: whether that is a pandemic or global warming. As a society, we are a reflection of what the government spends.
Johnson looks at what happened following the financial crisis of 2008-09 and the austerity years that followed. He examines the way that the government tackled the economy during Covid – when the UK budget shot up to over a trillion for the first time – and he analyses prospects for our future as we grapple with looming recession and the cost of living crisis.
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Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation
#2 UNCUT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
In 1979, 2 Tone exploded into the national consciousness as records by The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, The Beat, and The Bodysnatchers burst onto the charts and a youth movement was born.
2 Tone was black and white: a multi-racial force of British and Caribbean island musicians singing about social issues, racism, class and gender struggles. It spoke of injustices in society and took fight against right wing extremism.
The music of 2 Tone was exuberant: white youth learning to dance to the infectious rhythm of ska and reggae; and crossed with a punk attitude to create an original hybrid. The idea of 2 Tone was born in Coventry, masterminded by a middle-class art student raised in the church. Jerry Dammers had a vision of an English Motown. Borrowing £700, the label’s first record featured ‘Gangsters’ by The Specials’ backed by an instrumental track by the, as yet, unformed, Selecter. Within two months the single was at number six in the national charts. Dammers signed Madness, The Beat and The Bodysnatchers as a glut of successive hits propelled 2 Tone onto Top of the Pops and into the hearts and minds of a generation. However, soon infighting amongst the bands and the pressures of running a label caused 2 Tone to bow to an inevitable weight of expectation and recrimination.
Still under the auspices of Jerry Dammers, 2 Tone entered in a new phase. Perhaps not as commercially successful as its 1979-1981 incarnation the label nevertheless continued to thrive for a further four years releasing a string of fresh signings and a stunning end-piece finale in ‘(Free) Nelson Mandela’.
Told in three parts, Too Much Too Young is the definitive story of a label that for a brief, bright burning moment, shaped British culture.
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