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Rules: Things are Changing at the Little School by the Sea (Maggie Adair #2)
by Jenny Colgan • Jane Beaton"Funny, page-turning and addictive... just like Malory Towers for grown-ups" - Sophie Kinsella ____________Maggie loves teaching English at beautiful Downey House but she is less keen on planning her wedding to dependable Stan. Instead, she's working on ignoring her crush on David McDonald, who teac... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Class: "Just like Malory Towers for grown ups" (Maggie Adair #1)
by Jenny Colgan • Jane Beaton'Just like Malory Towers for grown-ups' Sophie Kinsella The first book in The Little School by the Sea series - the perfect escape for anyone who ever dreamed of going to boarding school ___________________It's gloriously sunny in Cornwall as the school year starts at the little boarding school by t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Rules: Things are Changing at the Little School by the Sea (Maggie Adair #2)
by Jenny Colgan • Jane Beaton"Funny, page-turning and addictive... just like Malory Towers for grown-ups" - Sophie Kinsella For the first time, the girls caught sight of the turreted, castle-like building that would be home for the next nine months, the four towers of the main houses nestled in the hills, with the cliffs behind... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Class: "Just like Malory Towers for grown ups" (Maggie Adair #1)
by Jane Beaton • Jenny Colgan'Funny, page-turning and addictive . . . just like Malory Towers for grown-ups'Sophie KinsellaClass is the first novel in Jenny Colgan's beloved Maggie Adair series.**************Maggie went to the window and opened it wide, inhaling the lovely, ozoney air off the sea. Why had she never lived by the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Fundamentals of Fluid Power Control
by John WattonThis exciting new reference text is concerned with fluid power control. It is an ideal reference for the practicing engineer and a textbook for advanced courses in fluid power control. In applications in which large forces and/or torques are required, often with a fast response time, oil-hydraulic c... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Governing Shale Gas: Development, Citizen Participation and Decision Making in the US, Canada, Australia and Europe (Routledge Studies in Energy Policy)
Shale energy development is an issue of global importance. The number of reserves globally, and their potential economic return, have increased dramatically in the past decade. Questions abound, however, about the appropriate governance systems to manage the risks of unconventional oil and gas devel... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Cozy Case Files, A Cozy Mystery Sampler, Volume 13 (Cozy Case Files #13)
by Donna Andrews • Jane K. Cleland • M. C. Beaton • Diane Kelly • Ellie Alexander • Elizabeth Penney • Jess DylanLooking for a new cozy series? In the new edition of Cozy Case Files, Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of seven charming cozy mysteries publishing in Fall 2021 for free for easy sampling.The thirteenth edition of Cozy Case Files features the latest cozies by the following authors: Ellie Alexan... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Byron: The Poetry Of Politics And The Politics Of Poetry (Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London #18)
'It is no great matter, supposing that Italy could be liberated, who or what is sacrificed. It is a grand object - the very poetry of politics. Only think - a free Italy!!! Why, there has been nothing like it since the days of Augustus.' So wrote Lord Byron in his journal, in February 1821, only day... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Trish Had a Wish
Trish and her dad go for a fishing trip.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
Power Transformer Design Practices
by Fang Zhu • Baitun YangThe book presents basic theories of transformer operation, design principles and methods used in power transformer designing work, and includes limitation criteria, effective utilization of material, and calculation examples to enhance readers’ techniques of transformer design and testing. It inclu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
ASEAN Consumer Law Harmonisation and Cooperation: Achievements and Challenges (Integration through Law:The Role of Law and the Rule of Law in ASEAN Integration #18)
This is the first Western-language research monograph detailing significant developments in consumer law and policy across the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), underpinned by a growing middle class and implementation of the ASEAN Economic Community from 2016. Eight chapters examine co... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2019 -
Wise Practices: Exploring Indigenous Economic Justice and Self-Determination
Indigenous peoples in Canada are striving for greater economic prosperity and political self-determination. Investigating specific legal, economic, and political practices, and including research from interviews with Indigenous political and business leaders, this collection seeks to provide insight... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
The Palgrave Handbook of Feminism and Sport, Leisure and Physical Education
This handbook provides an original, comprehensive and unparalleled overview of feminist scholarship in sport, leisure and physical education. It captures the complexities of past, current and future developments in feminism while highlighting its theoretical, methodological and empirical applicatio... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Key Concepts in Sports Studies (SAGE Key Concepts series)
Written by experienced academics used to teaching the subject this book will help students and researchers find their way within the diverse field of sport studies. Clear, well researched entries explain the key concepts in the debates surrounding the social significance and social dynamics of sport... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Round the Block: An American Novel (Classics To Go)
In Round the Block (1864), John Bell Bouton, stirs together comedy and pathos to explore the schemes and dreams of the average and extraordinary people inhabiting and intermingling on a single New York City block. In the path of the novel's circumambulation lie mystery, romance, and a murder trial, ... More
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The Last Poems of D.H. Lawrence: Shaping a Late Style
by Bethan JonesIn the first book to take D. H. Lawrence's Last Poems as its starting point, Bethan Jones adopts a broadly intertextual approach to explore key aspects of Lawrence's late style. The evolution and meaning of the poems are considered in relation to Lawrence's prose works of this period, including Sket... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
Soil Fertility and Fertilizers: An Introduction to Nutrient Management, Eighth Edition
Soil Fertility and Fertilizers: An Introduction to Nutrient Management, Eighth Edition, provides a thorough understanding of the biological, chemical, and physical properties affecting soil fertility and plant nutrition. Covering all aspects of nutrient management for profitable crop production, the... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Play and Recreation, Health and Wellbeing
Geographies of children and young people is a rapidly emerging sub-discipline within human geography. There is now a critical mass of established academic work, key names within academia, growing numbers of graduate students and expanding numbers of university level taught courses. There are also ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
An Uncommon History of Common Things
Sometime about 30,000 years ago, somebody stuck a sharp rock into a split stick-and presto! The axe was born. Our inquisitive species just loves tinkering, testing, and pushing the limits, and this delightfully different book is a freewheeling reference to hundreds of customs, notions, and invention... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Improving Learning How to Learn: Classrooms, Schools and Networks (Improving Learning)
by Mary James • Sue Swaffield • Dylan Wiliam • Paul Black • Robert McCormick • Joanna Swann • Patrick Carmichael • Bethan Marshall • John MacBeath • Alison Fox • Richard Procter • Mary-Jane Drummond • David PedderLearning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn. This book makes a major contribution to the creation of such a profess... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Squirrels of the World
This is the most thorough treatment ever undertaken on the Sciuridae and promises to be the definitive book on squirrels for decades to come.Squirrels of the World, written by scientists with more than 100 years of collective experience studying these popular mammals, is the first comprehensive exam... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Learning How to Learn: Tools for Schools (Improving Practice (TLRP))
by Mary James • David Frost • Peter Dudley • Sue Swaffield • Dylan Wiliam • Paul Black • Robert McCormick • Patrick Carmichael • Bethan Marshall • John MacBeath • Alison Fox • Richard Procter • David Pedder • Colin Conner • Leslie HonourLearning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. This book offers a set of in-service resources to help teachers develop new classroom practices informed by sound research. It builds on previous work associated with ‘formative assessment’ or ‘assessment for learning’. However... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2006 -
At War: The Military and American Culture in the Twentieth Century and Beyond (War Culture)
by Susan L. Carruthers • Katherine Ellison • Scott Laderman • Christine Knauer • William Watson • John M. Kinder • Jennifer Mittelstadt • David Kieran • Jana K. Lipman • Edwin A. Martini • Mark R. Wilson • Christopher Hamner • Sahr Conway-Lanz • Stefan Aune • Nick Witham • Wilbur J. Scott • Kara Dixon Vuic • Richard P. Tucker • Bonnie M. Miller • Professor G. Kurt PiehlerThe country’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, its interventions around the world, and its global military presence make war, the military, and militarism defining features of contemporary American life. The armed services and the wars they fight shape all aspects of life—from the formation of racial a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023