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Scottish Monuments and Memorials - Roger Smith
An extraordinary book, with its origin in the author⠙s long-standing interest in monuments and memorials, arising from many years of wandering Scotland⠙s hills and glens. It reflects and encapsulates a huge variety of monuments in every style imaginable ⠓ pillars, towers, obelisks, mausoleums, cairns and many more curious shapes. Everything from much-loved dogs and horses to seemingly obscure members of the aristocracy have been commemorated. Sculptors, artists and designers have let their imagination run free resulting in a glorious collection of places to visit. Grouped into 20 categories, the monuments and memorials are placed in proper context, which is important in understanding their timing and location.With the aid of this book readers will be able to anticipate the joy of discovering a monument and unearthing the reason for its creation.
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National Parks, Monuments, and Historic Sites Sticker, Color
Celebrate the diversity of the National Park Service with 500+ stickers, 50+ activity and coloring pages, instructions for fun activities, and so much more!With National Parks, Monuments, and Historic Sites Sticker, Color Activity Book, you can take a closer look at the 425+ parks, preserves, recreation areas, and monuments across the United States.In addition to the 63 places designated as official National Parks, there are hundreds of other places to visit. Each tells a chapter of our national story and helps conserve our natural and cultural heritage. From battlefields and military parks, to lakeshores and scenic trails, to historic sites and national parkways, they exist for the benefit of current and future generations.Now you can get into the spirit of exploration and partake in some park-themed activities. Relax, explore your creativity, and add fun to your free time with:Exquisitely illustrated stickers: Use them to decorate envelopes, gift wrap, letters, scrapbooks, or photo albums. On the backs of the sticker pages are inspiring quotes from nature enthusiasts and authors.Enchanting coloring pages, featuring line-drawn images of all kinds of parks and monuments. Each full-page design has a meditative pattern on the back that you can color in any way you like, regardless of your artistic abilities. You could even adorn your finished works of art with the stickers.Word games such as mazes, trivia, matching, sudoku, national park name generator (and more!), plus instructions for activities such as embroidery, geocaching, stargazing, and so much more!With beautiful foil accents on the cover, so many pages to look at, so many things to do, and so much fun to be had with these pages, National Parks, Monuments, and Historic Sites Sticker, Color Activity Book is the perfect book to have on hand when a free moment strikes. It’s also a delightful gift for anyone who enjoys stickers, coloring, word games, history, nature, and a whole lot of fun.
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Property Law - Roger Smith
Understand and evaluate modern land law doctrine Property Law (Longman Law series), 10th Edition, by Roger J. Smith, is an indispensable guide to all aspects of this essential subject. It combines clear and engaging explanations of core property law principles with in-depth analysis of key theoretical concepts â ” making it easily accessible to both undergraduates and those pursuing more advanced studies. New to this edition: The tenth edition has been fully updated with all significant legal developments in the area of property law, including: Regency Villas Title Ltd v Diamond Resorts (Europe) Ltd on recreational easements Marr v Collie, relating to the scope of Stack v Dowden NRAM Ltd v Evans and Antoine v Barclays Bank UK plc, which elucidate the meaning of â ˜mistakeâ ™ for rectification of registered titles The Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018 on obligations of landlords A Law Commission Report on updating land registration For additional web updates accompanying this text, please visit go.pearson.com/uk/legalupdates. This edition is also available as an Enhanced ebook to enrich your studying experience. It has features like self-assessment questions with dedicated feedback to help gauge your progress, deep links to key case reports, statutes other sources of interest that provide access a wealth of wider reading, end-of-the-chapter quizzes that give further opportunity to consolidate understanding. Roger J. Smith is a leading academic, and has taught law at Magdalen College, Oxford, for many years. Pearson, the worldâ ™s learning company.
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Tools and Weapons - Brad Smith, Carol Ann Browne
*THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM BOOK CLUB PICK* A clear, compelling guide to some of the most pressing debates in technology today. Bill Gates A colourful and insightful insiders view of how technology is both empowering us and threatening us. From privacy to cyberattacks, this timely book is a useful guide for how to navigate the digital future. Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Steve JobsFrom Microsoft s President and one of the tech industry s wisest thinkers, a frank and thoughtful reckoning with how to balance enormous promise and existential risk as the digitization of everything accelerates. With new chapters on the pandemic and beyond. __________Microsoft President Brad Smith operates by a simple core belief: when your technology changes the world, you bear a responsibility to help address the world you have helped create. This might seem uncontroversial, but it flies in the face of a tech sector long obsessed with rapid growth and sometimes on disruption as an end in itself. While sweeping digital transformation holds great promise, we have reached an inflection point. The world has turned information technology into both a powerful tool and a formidable weapon, and new approaches are needed to manage an era defined by even more powerful inventions like artificial intelligence. Companies that create technology must accept greater responsibility for the future, and governments will need to regulate technology by moving faster and catching up with the pace of innovation.In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith and Carol Ann Browne bring us a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world s largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no pre-existing playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech s relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy, far and near. While in no way a self-glorifying Microsoft memoir, the book pulls back the curtain remarkably wide onto some of the company s most crucial recent decision points as it strives to protect the hopes technology offers against the very real threats it also presents. There are huge ramifications for communities and countries, and Brad Smith provides a thoughtful and urgent contribution to that effort.__________In Tools and Weapons, Brad Smith takes us behind the scenes on some of the biggest stories to hit the tech industry in the past decade and some of the biggest threats we face. From Edward Snowden s NSA leak to the NHS WannaCry ransomware attack, this book is essential reading to understand what s happening in the world around us.Praise for Tools and Weapons: The de facto ambassador for the technology industry at large. The New York Times In Tools and Weapons, Brad and Carol Ann Browne wrestle with some of the world s toughest technology challenges with common sense and valuable insight reflecting their inside experience. The ideas in Tools and Weapons won t solve all our problems, but they re a very good place to start. - Reed Hastings, CEO, Netflix Tools and Weapons is a glimpse behind the curtain as Microsoft reckoned with the Snowden revelations, defended against the vicious cyberattacks, and took both the Obama and Trump administrations to court. - Rolling Stone
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Scottish Nature and Wildlife Sticker Book
Explore Scottish Nature!Scotland is full of wonderful nature and wildlife with amazing things to see. In this fun-filled sticker book, you ll explore Scottish creatures, plants and birds and the different landscapes they live in. From highland cows and orcas, to lochs and mountains, you ll be amazed by what you see. You might even spot Nessie!Have fun using stickers to bring each colourful page to life. Let your imagination go wild!Packed with hundreds of stickers, this book is perfect for rainy days and journeys. Plus, the reusable stickers mean hours of enjoyment.
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Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod
Your gateway to criminal law: drawing on the exceptional clarity and authority of Smith and Hogan, with a wealth of unique supportive learning features and guidance on assessment.Smith, Hogan, Ormerod s Essentials of Criminal Law takes students to the heart of this fascinating subject, providing focused, expert coverage alongside a wealth of student-friendly learning features to aid study.- Combines the authority you would expect from a Smith, Hogan, and Ormerod title with numerous supportive learning features and an eye on developing analytical and assessment skills- Offers a thorough, accessible, and unique introduction to criminal law for the student reader- Numerous learning features across the text highlight key cases, sources for extra reading, and assessment advice, and flag common areas of confusion to avoid- Each chapter includes a section on reform including noted academic criticism of the law, furthering students analytical understanding- The updated sixth edition includes new content on section 45 of the Modern Slavery Act 2015, the Online Safety Act 2023, and recent case law such as Grey (2024), Marland v DPP (2023), and Mahmud (2024).Digital formats and resourcesThe sixth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources. - The enhanced e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-test questions, videos, animated diagrams, audio introductions, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooksThe online resources, accessible via Law Trove and the enhanced e-book, include:- Over 400 self-test questions - A selection of videos from the authors explaining key topics and principles - Sample exam questions with answer guidance to help hone your assessment skills - Chapter summary sheets - Animated diagrams- Audio introductions to each topic - Further reading
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The First Person and Other Stories - Smith Ali
A form-bending and endlessly inventive collection of short stories - from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet A glorious collection that celebrates and subverts the short story form Independent A middle-aged woman conducts a poignant conversation with her gauche fourteen-year-old self. An innocent supermarket shopper finds in her trolley a foul-mouthed, insulting and beautiful child. Challenging the boundaries between fiction and reality, we see a narrator, Ali , as she drinks tea, phones a friend and muses on the relationship between the short story and a nymph. Innovative, sophisticated and intelligent, The First Person and Other Stories effortlessly appeals to our hearts, heads and funny bones in equal measure. One-of-a-kind Ali Smith and the short story are made for each other.***** Hurrah for Ali Smith . . . A bold and brilliant collection of stories by a writer unafraid to give it to us as it is The Times Gleefully turns the short story inside-out . . . Smith is such a dazzling author that finishing one of her books is always bittersweet Scotland on Sunday
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Ancient Rome in Fifty Monuments - Paul Roberts
A sweeping new history of the city of Rome, told through its emperors and the monuments they built to make their mark on one of the great capitals of the classical world. ‘What is worse than Nero? What is better than Nero’s Baths?’ – so wrote the poet Martial in the first century AD, demonstrating the power that buildings have on public consciousness. In ancient Rome, who built a monument and why mattered as much as its physical structure. Over centuries and under many different emperors, a small village in Italy was transformed into the crowning glory of an empire. Seeking out the personalities behind the great building projects is key to understanding them. With this firmly in mind, Paul Roberts takes the reader on a tour of ancient Rome, vividly evoking the sights and sounds of the city: from the roar of the crowds at the Circus Maximus and the Colosseum, to the dazzling gleam of the marble- and mosaic-covered baths of Caracalla and Diocletian. He tells this story emperor by emperor, drawing out the political, social and cultural backdrop to the monuments and ultimately the very human motivations that gave rise to their construction – and destruction. These fascinating buildings are further brought to life with reconstructions that show how the ancients themselves would have experienced them. When and why were these monuments built? What did they add to the lives of the people who used them? What impact did they have on the shape of the city? Roberts expertly weaves together the latest archaeological research with social and cultural history, to tell the story of the Eternal City, always in some way rising, falling and being rebuilt.
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Feminism Beyond Left and Right - Holly Lawford-Smith
An unquestioned assumption of contemporary politics is that the left owns minority groups, in the sense that the left, exclusively, champions the interests of minorities and is for that reason owed the allegiance of minorities. This, in turn, gives rise to the sense of dissonance created by right-wing dissenters⠔the black social conservative, the gay ultra-nationalist, the female libertarian, the poor pro-capitalist. This same dissonance exists for women and feminism, creating a default assumption that a feminist is a left-wing woman. We don⠙t make a distinction between left-wing feminists and feminists; we don⠙t need to. There⠙s nothing a philosopher loves more than an unquestioned assumption, and in this book political philosopher Holly Lawford-Smith systematically dismantles the assumption that feminism is an exclusively left-wing project. Once dismantled, the path is clear to a new set of questions. Who counts as a feminist in the first place? If women from anywhere on the political spectrum can be feminists, who is it that feminists should⠔or shouldn t⠔be working with? And what can be said, more generally, about the ethics of alliances and coalitions?In Feminism Beyond Left and Right Lawford-Smith makes the case for non-partisan feminism, feminism outside the constraints of the left-right political spectrum, a feminism for and about all women as women.
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Other Stories and Other Stories - Smith Ali
A vitally alive and ever-surprising collection of stories from the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Women s Prize-winning author of How to be both and the critically acclaimed Seasonal quartet Bold and sensitive. Smith s prose is a joy IndependentIndividually lucid and luminous, these tales resonate subtly together. In examining the distances and connections between ourselves and others, expertly inching us closer to the bone, Ali Smith s storytelling has never seemed so necessary, so moving or so joyous.***** Captures quiet epiphanies of the extraordinary in the mundane Sunday Times These stories fizz with life The Times Literary Supplement
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The Oxford Textbook on Criminology - Roger Smith, Kate Williams, David Manlow, Steve Case, Phil , Academic Subject Leader (Criminology), Blackburn U
With its vibrant, student-focused approach and authoritative yet accessible coverage of all key topics, The Oxford Textbook on Criminology is the essential companion to exploring, explaining, and responding to crime. While other books simply impart information The Oxford Textbook on Criminology goes further, equipping readers with the confidence and skills to form their own views and treating them as fellow knowledge-generating criminologists.This highly engaging introduction supports undergraduates throughout their criminological journey, from their first encounter with the discipline to conducting independent research and considering career options. Its fresh, contemporary account of the subject includes chapters dedicated to the hot topics of global criminology, social harm, and green criminology, as well as New frontiers boxes which highlight recent and emerging developments in each area.At every turn, concepts and theories are set into a real world context and readers are encouraged to unpick the issues. What do you think? boxes challenge students to question their assumptions and critically reflect on their personal viewpoints, while Controversy and debate and Conversations boxes help students apply the knowledge they ve gained. The authors explanations are brought to life by the voices and experiences of a wide variety of people connected to criminology and the criminal justice system, from students and academics to police officers and crime victims.Digital formats and resourcesThe second edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats, and is supported by online resources.- The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient access along with self-assessment activities, answers to the review questions, and links that offer extra learning support: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks- These study tools that enhance the e-book are also available as stand-alone online resources for use alongside the print book.Online resources for students:- Over 300 multiple choice questions- Suggested answers to the end of chapter questions- Additional chapters on the criminal justice systems of the UK s devolved jurisdictions- Checklists, templates, and resources on academic writing; research ethics; and employability For lecturers:- Exam and essay questions for each chapter- Customizable PowerPoint slides for each chapter- A teaching pack for each chapter, containing ideas on how to use the book material in lectures and smaller groups- Downloadable versions of all figures in the book
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My First Colouring Book: Scottish Coast and Seashore - Eilidh Muldoon
Young children will love these colouring books featuring simple illustrations of a variety of Scottish themes. This colouring book will introduce budding artists to the beautiful coasts and seashores of Scotland.
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Youth Justice - Roger Smith, Nicola Carr
This textbook links theory to policy and practice and takes a comparative, international focus on current issues, making it vital reading for any student of Youth Justice. The authors draw on examples from Belgium, Scandinavia, Australia, New Zealand and US â “ as well as the UK, and include both well founded research and their own personal practical experiences. Comprehensive learning features include: chapter objectives, case studies with questions for reflection, a glossary of key terms
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Formula 1 All the Races: the 100 Greatest Races - Roger Smith, Kevin Turner
Formula 1 All the Greatest Races celebrates the most famous, and infamous, races in the 75 yearCelebrate Formula 1Â’s 75th anniversary with Formula 1: All The Greatest Races, a definitive guide to the sportÂ’s most unforgettable moments. This expertly curated collection highlights 100 iconic races spanning 75 seasons and 1,125 Grands Prix since the championshipÂ’s inception in 1950.Relive the closest finishes, dramatic last-lap victories, and breathtaking wet-weather masterclasses. Explore legendary comebacks, milestone triumphs, and thrilling duels that showcase the extraordinary talent of Formula 1 drivers and the sportÂ’s enduring allure.Each race is brought to life with unique statistics, captivating photography, and insightful analysis in the celebrated Formula 1 All the Races series style. Selected by a panel of Formula 1 experts, these races represent the pinnacle of drama, excitement, and unpredictability that define the worldÂ’s greatest motorsport.Whether you re a lifelong fan or new to the grid, Formula 1: All The Greatest Races is the ultimate tribute to racingÂ’s rich history and thrilling legacy.
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A Secret Scottish Escape - Julie Shackman
Escape to the beautiful Scottish Highlands for the perfect heartwarming and feel good cosy romance!When Scotland⠙s sleepiest hamlet becomes the centre of hot gossip, Layla Devlin finds herself caught in a mystery⠦When Layla⠙s fiancé has an unexpected heart attack and dies ⠓ in another woman⠙s arms, no less ⠓ Layla is determined to pack up and leave Loch Harris, the village she⠙s always called home. But an unexpected inheritance and love for her quiet corner of Scotland send her down a new path.Now Layla finds herself facing a whole new kind of drama. Rumours swirl that a celebrity has moved into Coorie Cottage and Layla is determined to have him headline her opening night at local music venue The Conch Club. But the reclusive star is equally determined to thwart Layla⠙s efforts. Rafe Buchanan is in hiding for a reason, and soon his past comes to Loch Harris to haunt him⠦Julie Shackman⠙s brand new novel, A Scottish Highland Surprise, is available now! Readers can⠙t get enough of A Secret Scottish Escape:⠘I loved the escape to the Scottish cottage, I truly felt like I was there!⠙ Maggie⠘A lovely book to add to your summer reading list⠙ Gea⠘Beautiful story with a beautiful cover⠦A new author for me and I cant wait to read more of her books⠙ Karen⠘Good to curl up with on a rainy afternoon⠙ Susan⠘This was such a cute book! I love the Scottish setting and the characters are so fun⠙ Cacie⠘The perfect escape⠦Lots of secrets come out that leave you wanting to read more⠙ Zoe⠘I loved traveling to Scotland in this book and reading about the small town life⠙ Arletta⠘I honestly enjoyed this book from the first page⠦we all love a happy ending⠙ Tracy⠘What a lovely story. Twists and turns all the way⠦You just have to read it⠙ Rosamond
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The Warrior Mindset - Roger Gracie
FOREWORD BY TOM HARDYI fight not just for myself, but for the Gracies... In the heat of the moment, how do you control your emotions and master your thinking?How do you suffer through hardship and grow through failure?How do you develop quiet inner grace?Ten-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu World Champion and former MMA World Champion, Roger Gracie is a martial arts legend and widely considered to be the greatest practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu of all time. His grandfather, the great Carlos Gracie, was the architect of modern day Brazilian jiu-jitsu and for Roger, growing up in the famous Gracie family, every conversation seemed to be about fighting. Within this family of supermen, this self-contained, once chubby kid promised little; in fact, nobody expected Roger to be the warrior he #39;d later become. But once he had made up his mind as a teenager to become the greatest, Roger #39;s star was firmly aligned with his purpose. Over time, he gradually became unstoppable, both in his thirst for jiu-jitsu knowledge and in his single-mindedness to reach mastery, just as his grandfather had done before him. For the first time, in The Warrior Mindset, Gracie shares secrets and lessons from a career of fighting at the highest level. Going far beyond the mat, this hard-won wisdom is applicable to everyone from any background and in any walk of life who longs to find strength, courage, health, and peace.
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The GR5 Trail - Vosges and Jura - Elizabeth Smith, Les Smith
Guidebook to a 687km (427 mile) trek through eastern France, traversing the Vosges and the Haut-Jura plateau. The route follows the GR53 from Wissembourg to Schirmeck, before picking up the central section of the GR5 from Schirmeck to Nyon on Lake Geneva, taking in wooded and grassy hills, river gorges and fascinating castle ruins.
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Hoverflies of Britain and Ireland - Roger Morris, Stuart Ball
A fully revised and updated edition of the bestselling photographic guideHoverflies of Britain and Ireland is a beautifully illustrated photographic field guide to this increasingly popular group of insects, focusing on the species that can be most readily identified. It is the perfect companion for wildlife enthusiasts, professional ecologists and anyone with an interest in this fascinating group of insects, and is designed to appeal to beginners and experts alike. This updated third edition covers 13 additional species and offers a host of improvements to aid reliable identification. Accessible, authoritative and easy-to-use, this book features an essential guide to hoverfly tribes and presents hundreds of remarkable photographs of hoverflies in their various life stages, including images of at least one representative from each of the British and Irish genera. The species included are mainly those that can be identified by eye or using a magnifying glass. Individual species accounts highlight key identification features, provide information on behaviour and habitat requirements, status, population trend and flight-period, and include an up-to-date distribution map covering Britain and Ireland. Sections on hoverfly biology, where and when to find hoverflies, legislation and conservation, recording, putting data to good use and gardening for hoverflies are also included. Features 1,048 stunning photographs, 400 more than in the previous editionProvides detailed information on 177 species, including at least one from each of the 69 genera recordedUpdated taxonomy, nomenclature and information on status and population trendsIncludes a complete list of the 285 species recorded to date, with an indication of how difficult each is to identify in the field and from photographs
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The Tarot of A. E. Waite and P. Colman Smith - Johannes Fiebig, Rachel Pollack
Arthur E. Waite, a modern mystic, created together with Pamela Colman Smith the most influential Tarot deck. With a selection of more than 800 images and texts, the pioneer of Tarot history, Johannes Fiebig contextualizes this unique deck. The kit includ
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Scottish Folklore - Raymond Lamont-Brown
Trace the roots of Scottish folklore from Arthurian legends to magical beasts, demons and witches, going A-Z location by location throughout the country.Scotland has one of the richest traditions of folklore in the world, and the nationÂ’s greatest writers have been influenced by the countryÂ’s abundance of customs, superstitions, ghost stories and folktales. Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Hogg and Robert Louis Stevenson all used Scottish folklore in their work.This book traces the roots and traditions of Scottish folklore and introduces all its key parts, combining a huge range of material from gypsy-lore and Arthurian legend to tales of magical beasts, demons and witches and lore associated with the natural world.
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Scottish Poems
Scotland, like so many other nations, has produced poetry that is patriotic, that paints landscapes, people and situations, that speaks to personal matters, and those equally everyday matters pertaining to the mind and to the spirit. The Christian heritage of Scotland has long been played out in verse, through Celtic devotional works, Catholic works, Protestant works, and not forgetting satires on the Puritanism in Scotland s post-Reformation identity. Language and culture have been equally multifarious in the nation so that three major languages: Scots, English and Gaelic (examples of which are translated in this anthology) compete and co-exist in poetry. The fifteenth century poet, William Dunbar, joked that there was no music in hell except for the bagpipes, and there speaks something of the historic lowland attitude to the Gaidhealtachd (Gaelic speaking Scotland, principally the highlands). Hostility and eventual harmony is a marker of the Scottish highlands/lowlands divide as much as for that between Scotland and England. Historic tension is not to be dismissed but, certainly, the poetic palette of Scotland is one of multilingual richness, and shows an enduringly high quality whatever the cultural vicissitudes that play a part. The medieval Makars, most prominently Robert Henryson, William Dunbar and Gavin Douglas, are often taken to represent a golden age when poetry in Scots ran the full range of mood, mode and subject matter. If this has, perhaps, never been bettered, the sixteenth century lyrics and sonnets of Alexander Montgomerie, Alexander Scott and other poets around the court of James VI, and the eighteenth century vernacular revival of Allan Ramsay, Alexander Ross, Robert Fergusson and Robert Burns represent at points equally brilliant periods; and the twentieth century modern renaissance of Hugh MacDiarmid, Violet Jacob and William Souter proved that Scots remained a viable poetic currency, as a living poet such as Tom Leonard continues to demonstrate. Poetry in Gaelic too has its tradition of peaks where the flame seems to burn more visibly at certain times than others. Alexander Macdonald (Alasdair Mac Mhaghstir Alasdair), Rob Donn (Rob Donn MacAoidh) and Duncan MacIntyre (Donnchadh BÃ n Mac an t-Saoir) make the eighteenth century a high point in achievement, while Sorley Maclean, George Campbell Hay and Iain Crichton Smith do similarly for the twentieth century: the latter three, arguably, making Gaelic verse the most able variety in Scotland during the last sixty years. Historically as many successes are scored in Scottish poetry in English. James Thomson, author of The Seasons, joins James Macpherson translator/creator of the poetry of Ossian in promulgating works that are seminally iconic and influential right across the artistic genres, painting and music as much as literature, in western culture. The romantic, patriotic poetic image of Scotland is sounded in English as much as in any other language, as the writing of Walter Scott or Lady Nairne attests. James (B.V.) Thomson, John Davidson, Edwin Muir, Norman MacCaig, W.S. Graham, Edwin Morgan, Liz Lochhead, Kathleen Jamie and Don Paterson are all deeply Scottish poets speaking through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to the worldwide audience that exists for creative utterance that both emanates from but is never limited by the particularity of place. Scotland s story is one that is never certain, but, enduringly and importantly its poetry is.
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The Occult Harry Smith - Harry Smith
An unusual collection of writing by and about mystic artist Harry Smith• Explores in depth the occult and mystical side of Smith—his “heaven and earth magic”—focusing on how his varied artistic efforts were part of a comprehensive magical and alchemical practice• Includes unpublished photos of and letters from Smith, rare interviews, one of his unpublished texts, and essays by scholars and friendsHarry Smith (1923–1991) was a legendary twentieth-century artist, filmmaker, painter, anthropologist, ethnomusicologist, and archivist. Especially well known for his Anthology of American Folk Music, innovative abstract realms, and extraordinary collection of paper airplanes now housed at the Getty Research Institute, Smith also had a deep esoteric and mystical side, with experimentation in magic, Tarot, Kabbalah, and other occult practices. Like other alchemists, Smith’s life mission was to create a unified work from disparate elements, a synthesis of correspondences between seemingly unrelated topics—from music, string figures, and Seminole patterns to the relationship between sound and film imagery.Presenting the most diverse collection of writings about Harry Smith, this volume explores the far-ranging esoteric themes that run throughout his art and career. The book includes never-before-seen photos, rare interviews, personal letters, and an unpublished text by Harry Smith, The 96 Apparitions of the 96 Alchemical Formulae (1 to 36), as well as personal reminiscences from Smith’s friends and former students. Smith’s groundbreaking mystical wisdom, heaven and earth magic, and influence as an artist of the extremes leap from the pages in this book, confirming his contribution to art, music, film, and modern alchemy.
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Over to You! - Roger McGough
A brand new collection for children from beloved poet, writer and broadcaster - Roger McGoughJust when you are ready to write your first poem, along come the words and cause mayhem! Poems can be like that sometimes, says Roger McGough.Here Roger s witty poems take you from school and home to places far and wide, and back again just in time to finish the poem you first started.
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Scottish Celebrations - Gary Maclean
Gary Maclean is celebrating the very best in Scottish food and culture - with a few surprising tweaks.Scotland loves to celebrate an occasion, and we always serve up great food. Covering the most beloved national dishes and local specialities, Scottish Celebrations takes the reader on a journey through Scotland #39;s culinary calendar, from Burns Night in January to the biggest night of the year, Hogmanay. Scotland #39;s National Chef Gary Maclean, owner of seafood eatery Creel Caught, puts a contemporary spin on the nation #39;s classics. In this book he shows readers how they can prepare a bountiful Braemar feast for hungry Highland game fans or concoct a hearty meal as Martinmas brings the cold weather nearer. From Shetland to the Borders, this book is a perfect resource for readers who wish to celebrate the best of Scotland #39;s traditions, wherever they are in the world. #39;Gary brings us inspiration and influences from around the world, but these are all very much a celebration of Scotland, both the traditional and the modern. #39;From the foreword by Succession #39;s BRIAN COX #39;On every page of this book, I was transported back to Scotland #39;From the foreword to Gary Maclean #39;s Scottish Kitchen by Outlander #39;s SAM HEUGHAN #39;Gary is a very talented chef, and this book is testament to his skillset and knowledge. #39;MARCUS WAREING on Kitchen Essentials: the Joy of Home Cooking
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Priddy Explorers Volcanoes, Rocks and Minerals - Roger Priddy
Young children will love joining the Priddy Explorers to discover fascinating facts about volcanoes, rocks and minerals in this exciting new title by Priddy Books.Young readers can learn fascinating facts about volcanic eruptions, different types of rocks, fossils, minerals and gemstones in Priddy Explorers: Volcanoes, Rocks and Minerals. This vibrant book is full of interesting information, fascinating photographs and colourful illustrations.There are lots of amazing facts to discover, such as what happens inside a volcano before it erupts, how different types of rocks are formed, the use of different minerals, and much more. The specially commissioned illustrations and stunning photographs help children understand each topic and provide hours of fun.
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Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales from Burns to Buchan - Gordon Jarvie
Mystery and excitement abound in this lively collection of fairy tales, folklore and legends, which celebrate Scotland s enormously rich oral tradition and offers a carefully chosen combination of old favourites such as Tam Lin, Thomas Rymer and Adam Bell, as well as more modern stories by master story-tellers like Andrew Lang, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and John Buchan.
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Scottish Coast and Seashore: Magic Painting Book
Young children will love bringing to life these amazing images of Scotland⠙s coats and seashore by brushing with water to reveal colour. Very short captions (c. 10 words) describe the various scenes. Just dip the brush (included with the book) in water and apply directly to the page to bring the illustrations to vibrant life.Contents Include:An island village * Northern Lights * Seabirds * A lighthouse * A whirlpool * A castle * Playing on the beach * Rockpools * Dolphins and seals * Windsurfing and kitesurfing * A ferry * Fishing boats * Flowers by the sea * A harbour scene * Rocky cliffs
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Scottish Coast and Seashore Sticker Book
Get ready to explore Scotland!Come onboard for a voyage around amazing coastlines and seashores. You ll discover the creatures, plants and birds that make Scotland s coast such a special place. Find out how people travel between islands and enjoy life by the sea.Have fun using stickers to bring each colourful page to life. Let your imagination go wild!Packed with hundreds of stickers, this book is perfect for rainy days and journeys. Plus, the reusable stickers mean hours of enjoyment.
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Devotion - Patti Smith
The National Book Award-winning author of Year of the Monkey, Just Kids, and M Train offers a rare, intimate account of her own creative process. A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic—its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist accomplish such an achievement, connecting deeply with an audience never met? In this groundbreaking book, one of our culture’s beloved artists offers a detailed account of her own creative process, inspirations, and unexpected connections. Patti Smith first presents an original and beautifully crafted tale of obsession—a young skater who lives for her art, a possessive collector who ruthlessly seeks his prize, a relationship forged of need both craven and exalted. She then takes us on a second journey, exploring the sources of her story. We travel through the South of France to Camus’s house, and visit the garden of the great publisher Gallimard where the ghosts of Mishima, Nabokov, and Genet mingle. Smith tracks down Simone Weil’s grave in a lonely cemetery, hours from London, and winds through the nameless Paris streets of Patrick Modiano’s novels. Whether writing in a café or a train, Smith generously opens her notebooks and lets us glimpse the alchemy of her art and craft in this arresting and original book on writing. The Why I Write series is based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, and visual artist. Her memoir Just Kids received a National Book Award, and her recent book M Train is a critically acclaimed New York Times best-seller. Smith was awarded the prestigious title of Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic, and in 2007 she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Smith lives in New York City.
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Scottish Myths and Legends - Judy Hamilton
Scotland is a nation made up of many peoples and cultures. This diversity of cultural influence is reflected in Scotland s vast store of myths and legends. This book contains a selection of these; some ancient, some obscure in origin; and, others based on fact.
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Confessions of a Heretic - Roger Scruton
A revised edition of the Notting Hill Editions essay collection by the late Sir Roger Scruton with a new introduction by Douglas Murray.Confessions of a Heretic is a collection of provocative essays by the influential social commentator and polemicist Roger Scruton. Each “confession” reveals aspects of the author’s thinking that his critics would probably have advised him to keep to himself. In this selection, covering subjects from art and architecture to politics and nature conservation, Scruton challenges popular opinion on key aspects of our culture: What can we do to protect Western values against Islamist extremism? How can we nurture real friendship through social media? Why is the nation-state worth preserving? How should we achieve a timely death against the advances of modern medicine? This provocative collection seeks to answer the most pressing problems of our age.In his introduction, the bestselling author and commentator Douglas Murray writes of what it cost Scruton to express views considered unpalatable, and of the importance of these ideas after Scruton’s death.
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Bread of Angels - Patti Smith
A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.The most intimate of Smith s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as Horses and Easter, Dancing Barefoot and Because the Night .She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again - the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.
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An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales - Theresa Breslin
Slithering stoorworms, mischievous brownies, fierce kelpies and magical selkies are exquisitely brought to life for children in Theresa Breslin s enchanting tales and Kate Leiper s otherwordly illustrations.
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A Case of Mice and Murder - Sally Smith
â ˜A delight from first page to lastâ ™ SUNDAY TIMESâ ˜I loved it! ... A whiff of Shardlake and a pinch of Rumpole ... a joyâ ™ S.J. BENNETT, author of THE WINDSOR KNOTWhen barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms at exactly two minutes to seven on a sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case â “ the disputed authorship of bestselling childrenâ ™s book Millie the Temple Church Mouse â “ that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep.But even he cannot fail to notice the judgeâ ™s dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest. In the shaded courtyards and ancient buildings of the Inner Temple, the hidden heart of Londonâ ™s legal world, murder has spent centuries confined firmly to the casebooks. Until nowâ ¦The police can enter the Temple only by consent, so who better to investigate this tragic breach of law and order than a man who prizes both above all things? But murder doesnâ ™t answer to logic or reasoned argument, and Gabriel soon discovers that the Templeâ ™s heavy oak doors are hiding more surprising secrets than heâ ™d ever imagined...Gabriel Ward will return in A CASE OF LIFE AND LIMB - available to pre-order now!â ˜A cunning and delightful mystery with rich, wonderful characters and period detail so vivid, you can touch itâ ™ IAN MOORE, author of DEATH AND CROISSANTSâ ˜Sir Gabriel Ward KC is endearingly eccentric. Intriguing, engaging, and thoroughly satisfyingâ ™ T.E. KINSEY, author of A QUIET LIFE IN THE COUNTRYâ ˜A total delight! ... Intelligent, insightful mystery ... all skilfully woven together with a poignant, human story. I devoured it in one sitting!â ™ SARAH YARWOOD-LOVETT, author of A MURDER OF CROWS
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Winter - Smith Ali
A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith s Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Winter? Bleak. Frosty wind, earth as iron, water as stone, so the old song goes. The shortest days, the longest nights. The trees are bare and shivering. The summer s leaves? Dead litter. The world shrinks; the sap sinks. But winter makes things visible. And if there s ice, there ll be fire. In Ali Smith s Winter, lifeforce matches up to the toughest of the seasons. In this second novel in her acclaimed Seasonal cycle, the follow-up to her sensational Autumn, Smith casts a merry eye over a bleak post-truth era with a story rooted in history, memory and warmth, its taproot deep in the evergreens: art, love, laughter. It s the season that teaches us survival. Here comes Winter.Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith s new novel, Companion piece, is available to pre-order now.***** Dazzling . . . Even in the bleak midwinter, Smith is evergreen Daily Telegraph Graceful, mischievous, joyful . . . Infused with some much-needed humour, happiness and hope Independent A novel of great ferocity, tenderness and generosity of spirit . . . Luminously beautiful Observer
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An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Mythical Creatures - Theresa Breslin
Theresa Breslin s Scottish tales of selkies, giants, fairies and monsters and brought to life by Kate Leiper s exquisite illustrations. A companion volume to An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales.
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Spring - Smith Ali
SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith s Seasonal Quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Her best yet, a dazzling hymn to hope, uniting the past and present with a chorus of voices Observer What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Rilke, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Pericles, one of Shakespeare s most resistant and rollicking works, Ali Smith tells the impossible tale of an impossible time. In a time of walls and lockdown Smith opens the door. The time we re living in is changing nature. Will it change the nature of story? Hope springs eternal.Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith s new novel, Companion piece, is available now.***** An astonishing accomplishment and a book for all seasons Independent Smith is a masterful storyteller . . . Savour it Evening Standard Infectious in its energy and warmth Daily Telegraph
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A Case of Mice and Murder - Sally Smith
An absolute delight JANICE HALLETT â ˜A triumph of ingenuityâ ™ DAILY MAILâ ˜I loved it! ... A whiff of Shardlake and a pinch of Rumpole ... a joyâ ™ S.J. BENNETT, author of THE WINDSOR KNOTâ ˜A guaranteed page-turner with secrets, twists and turns throughoutâ ™ WOMAN HOMEWhen barrister Gabriel Ward steps out of his rooms one sunny May morning in 1901, his mind is so full of his latest case â “ the disputed authorship of bestselling childrenâ ™s book Millie the Temple Church Mouse â “ that he scarcely registers the body of the Lord Chief Justice of England on his doorstep.But even he cannot fail to notice the judgeâ ™s dusty bare feet, in shocking contrast to his flawless evening dress, nor the silver carving knife sticking out of his chest. In the shaded courtyards and ancient buildings of the Inner Temple, the hidden heart of Londonâ ™s legal world, murder has spent centuries confined firmly to the casebooks. Until nowâ ¦As the police have no authority in the Temple, who better to investigate than a man who has dedicated his life to the law? But Gabriel soon discovers that murder is much messier outside the courtroom â “ and that behind the Templeâ ™s heavy oak doors are stranger secrets than he could ever imagine.Gabriel Ward will return in A CASE OF LIFE AND LIMB - available to pre-order now!â ˜A cunning and delightful mystery with rich, wonderful characters and period detail so vivid, you can touch itâ ™ IAN MOORE, author of DEATH AND CROISSANTSâ ˜Sir Gabriel Ward KC is endearingly eccentric. Intriguing, engaging, and thoroughly satisfyingâ ™ T.E. KINSEY, author of A QUIET LIFE IN THE COUNTRYâ ˜A total delight! ... Intelligent, insightful mystery ... all skilfully woven together with a poignant, human story. I devoured it in one sitting!â ™ SARAH YARWOOD-LOVETT, author of A MURDER OF CROWS
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The Tower of Living and Dying - Anna Smith Spark
KING OF RUIN. KING OF DUST AND SHADOWS. KING OF DEATH. HE WILL RULE ALL. THE KING IS COMING.Marith Altrersyr â “ father-killer, dragonlord, leader of the blood-soaked Amrath Army â “ is keeping his promises. He is determined to become King of all Irlast and take back the seat of his ancestors.Only Thalia, once high priestess of the Lord of Living and Dying, the holiest woman in the Empire, might stop Marith and his armyâ ™s deadly march. But she is torn between two destinies â “ and if she was to return home, what would she fi nd there? A city on the brink of ruin: diseased, despairing, dying?Crawling through a tunnel deep under the ruins of her city, Landra Relast vows vengeance. Her family has been burned, her home destroyed, and now Marith â “ once her betrothed â “ must die.But as Landra cuts through the wasteland left in the wake of Marithâ ™s army, she finds that she is not the only one who wishes him illâ ¦
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OCR A-Level Year 2 Chemistry A Workbook: Organic chemistry and analysis - Mike Smith, John Older
Exam Board: OCR Level: A-Level Subject: Chemistry First Teaching: September 2015 First Exam: Summer 2017Create confident, literate and well-prepared students with skills-focused, topic-specific workbooks.Our Student Workbooks build students understanding, developing the confidence and exam skills they need, whilst providing ready prepared lesson solutions.- Supplements key resources such as textbooks to adapt easily to existing schemes of work- Offers time-saving and economical lesson solutions for both specialist and non-specialist teachers- Provides flexible resource material to reinforce and apply topic understanding throughout the course, as classwork or extension tasks, or for revision- Creates opportunities for self-directed learning and assessment with answers to tasks and activities supplied online- Prepares students to meet the demands of the specification by practising exam technique and developing their literacy skills
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Bread of Angels - Patti Smith
A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the childâ ™s world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.The most intimate of Smithâ ™s memoirs, Bread of Angels takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as Horses and Easter, â ˜Dancing Barefootâ ™ and â ˜Because the Nightâ ™.She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again â ” the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.
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Essential SQA Exam Practice: National 5 Mathematics Questions and Papers - Mike Smith
Exam board: SQALevel: National 5Subject: MathematicsFirst teaching: September 2017First exam: Summer 2018Practice makes permanent. Feel confident and prepared for the SQA National 5 Maths exam with this two-in-one book, containing practice questions for every topic, plus two full practice papers - all written by an experienced examiner.- Choose which topics you want to revise: A simple grid enables you to pick particular areas of the course that you want to answer questions on, with solutions provided at the back of the book- Remember more in your exam: Repeated and extended practice of calculator and non-calculator questions will improve your numerical, algebraic, geometric, trigonometric, statistical and reasoning skills- Familiarise yourself with the exam papers: Both practice papers mirror the language and layout of the real SQA papers; complete them in timed, exam-style conditions to increase your confidence before the exams- Find out how to achieve a better grade: Answers to the practice papers have commentaries for each question, with tips on writing successful answers and avoiding common mistakesFully up to date with SQA s requirementsThe questions, mark schemes and guidance in this practice book match the requirements of the revised SQA National 5 Maths specification for examination from 2018 onwards.
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Autumn - Smith Ali
SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2017A once-in-a-generation series, Ali Smith s Seasonal quartet is a tour-de-force about love, time, art, politics, and how we live now. Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting The Times Daniel is a century old. Elisabeth, born in 1984, has her eye on the future. The United Kingdom is in pieces, divided by a historic once-in-a-generation summer. Love is won, love is lost. Hope is hand in hand with hopelessness. The seasons roll round, as ever . . .Discover all four instalments: Autumn, Winter, Spring and Summer. Ali Smith s new novel, Companion piece, is available now.*****ONE OF THE GUARDIAN S BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY Undoubtedly Smith at her best. Puckish, yet elegant; angry, but comforting The Times Bold and brilliant Observer Terrific, extraordinary, playful . . . There is an awful lot to lift the soul Daily Mail
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Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
Adam Smith (1723-1790) was one of the brightest stars of the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations was his most important book. First published in London in March 1776, it had been eagerly anticipated by Smith s contemporaries and became an immediate bestseller.That edition sold out quickly and others followed. Today, Smith s Wealth of Nations rightfully claims a place in the Western intellectual canon. It is the first book of modern political economy, and still provides the foundation for the study of that discipline.But it is much more than that. Along with important discussions of economics and political theory, Smith mixed plain common sense with large measures of history, philosophy, psychology, sociology, and much else. Few texts remind us so clearly that the Enlightenment was very much a lived experience, a concern with improving the human condition in practical ways for real people.A masterpiece by any measure, Wealth of Nations remains a classic of world literature to be usefully enjoyed by readers today.
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Cue and Cut - Roger Singleton-Turner
Cue Cut is a â ˜practical approach to working in television studiosâ ™ for anyone who might want to work in that medium. Written by a multi-camera producer-director, it presents both a way of handling studios and a source of information about how things have changed from the days of monochrome to HD tapeless modes - with some thoughts on 3D HDTV -- .
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A Case of Life and Limb - Sally Smith
As brilliant a cosy crime novel as you ll ever read JANICE HALLETT A masterful voice in the mystery world S. J. BENNETT1901. Gabriel Ward KC is hard at work on a thorny libel case involving London s most famous music hall star and its most notorious tabloid newspaper, but the Inner Temple remains as quiet and calm as ever. Quiet, that is, until the mummified hand arrives in the post...While the hand s recipient, Temple Treasurer Sir William Waring, is rightfully shaken, Gabriel is filled with curiosity. Who would want to send such a thing? And why? But as more parcels arrive - one with fatal consequences - Gabriel realises that it is not Sir William who is the target, but the Temple itself.Someone is holding a grudge that has led to at least one death. It is up to Gabriel, and Constable Wright of the City of London Police, to find out who before the body count gets any higher. The game s afootâ ¦
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Impact Theory and Practice - Roger Hawkey
This book analyses the impact of the IELTS test and the Progetto Lingue programme on a range of stakeholders.
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True to You - Dr Kathleen Smith
A beautiful blend of storytelling, science and practical tools. Smith uses her expertise to introduce true boundary setting tools to build (and rebuild) our relationships to others and ourselves. Eve Rodsky, New York Times bestselling author of Fair PlayWhen s the last time you felt as composed as you portray to your boss, family and friends? If there s a discord between the two, you re not alone. Humans are master pretenders - we often seem stronger, calmer and more mature than we really are, while the truth is we re full of doubts and self-criticism that pushes us to borrow reassurance from friends, beliefs from strangers on the internet, or attention that, in the moment, makes us feel successful, but leaves us totally hollow and burnt out. Dr. Smith uses examples from her own life and the lives of her therapy patients to explain how we borrow confidence, calmness and beliefs from our relationships and offers solutions and steps for building a life with our own best-thinking. She also unpacks the science of our social nature, explaining why we re so focused on others and teaching us how to interrupt anxious relationship patterns. If a reader is unsure if the career path they re on is one they want to stay on, Dr. Smith will show them how to redefine what a successful career means to them. If they only feel steady when overfunctioning for others, she ll help them learn how to let others be responsible for themselves. By the end of the book, readers will have learnt to stop people-pleasing and be armed with a new set of principles and a new sense of self, ready to stand strong in the face of any challenge.
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Anj Smith: Drifting Habitations
“Beauty, disgust, desire and dread mingle at the core of Smith’s painting.” –ArtforumCoinciding with the eponymous exhibition at Hauser Wirth, this catalog presents the latest body of work by the British painter Anj Smith (born 1978). Negotiating the space between the genres of portraiture, landscape and still life, Smith produces intricately rendered paintings that explore issues of gender, ecology, anxiety and eroticism. To that end, her latest series populates ecologically devastated landscapes with liminal beings and creatures. The luscious paintings invite viewers to consider the fluidity of their perceptions of the world.Anj Smith: Drifting Habitations features a conversation between psychologist Orna Guralnik—of Showtime’s Couples Therapy—and the artist, in which themes such as plurality, rewilding and repurposing are discussed, as well as a poetic intervention by author Claire-Louise Bennett, who conjures up a roiling world of her own and plays with readers’ understanding of reality, nature and self.
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Till the Boys Come Home - Roger Foss
Ever since the signing of the Armistice in 1918, theatre has played an important part in reflecting the experience of the â ˜war to end all warsâ ™. But on the Home Front, what role did those involved with British theatre play during those tumultuous four years and three months? Till the Boys Come Home salutes British theatre in wartime, when theatres became powerful generators for escapism, for stirring patriotism, for sharing experiences of loss and joy â “ and for raising vast amounts of charity money. It brings to life a Britain where theatre-going peaked in popularity, yet became full of the curious contradictions bred by war. Richly illustrated with original programmes, posters and ephemera, author and critic Roger Foss reveals a theatrical powerhouse, where all sections of the profession â “ from grand Shakespearian knights to lowly concert party artistes â “ were doing their bit, both at home and on the front line.
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