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Gillespie and I
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As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades previously, with Ned Gillespie, a talented artist who never achieved the fame she maintains he deserved.Back in 1888, the young, (...)
Bob Dylan
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His foremost interpreter revisits more than forty years of listening to Dylan - weaving individual moods and moments into a brilliant history of their changing times. The book begins in Berkeley in 1968, and ends with a piece on Dylan's show at the University of Minnesota on election night (...)
Venetian Navigators
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In the 1380s and 90s, Nicolò and Antonio Zen journeyed from Venice up the North Atlantic, encountering warrior princes, fighting savage natives and, just possibly, reaching the New World a full century before Columbus. The story of their adventure travelled throughout Europe, from the workshop of (...)
The Everyday Dancer
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The Everyday Dancer is a new and honest account of the business of dancing from a writer with first hand experience of the profession. Structured around the daily schedule, The Everyday Dancer goes behind the velvet curtain, the gilt and the glamour to uncover the everyday realities of a career in (...)
Everybody Loves Our Town
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Grunge, also known as the Seattle sound , is the sludgy fusion of punk rock and heavy metal that emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 1980s. But it was the unexpected, seemingly overnight success of Nirvana s single Smells Like Teen Spirit, in the fall of 1991, that made (...)
TECNOLOGÍA INS. ELECTRICISTA
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En esta obra, el estudioso de la tecnología eléctrica encontrará los principales conocimientos tecnológicos en los que se fundamenta el oficio del Instalador Electricista, así como los principios teóricos y los fundamentos prácticos básicos para el ejercicio de su profesión.La materia tratada en el (...)
Lucifer Before Sunrise
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Volume fourteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Beginning in the winter of 1940/1 and ending with the uneasy 'sunrise' of peace in 1945, this volume sees Phillip Maddison striving idealistically to hold a balance while lamenting the division and possible total ruin of Europe, as he copes with (...)
The Art of Happiness
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'It is not our struggle to be happy that is mistaken; it is our false idea that we can find happiness anywhere but in ourselves... happiness does not depend on outward things. It is born of the mind, it is nourished by the mind, it is what rises, like breath in a frosty air, from the mind's (...)
The Possessions of Doctor Forrest
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Three respected Scottish doctors - psychiatrist Steve Hartford, paediatric surgeon Grey Lochran and cosmetic surgeon Robert Forrest - have been close friends since their Edinburgh boyhoods, and now live handsomely in suburban London. But for each, midlife has brought certain discontents, (...)
No Angel
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Private, mysterious and some say sinister, 79 year-old Bernie Ecclestone criss-crosses the globe in his private jet mixing with celebrities, statesmen and sporting heroes. Ecclestone s success has not just been to create a multi-billion pound global business but to resist repeated attempts to (...)
The Road to Inver
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The Road to Inver gathers the verse translations of Tom Paulin from four decades, and brings together distinguished versions of classical and European poets which have appeared in his previous collections, from Liberty Tree (1983) to The Wind Dog (1999). But The Road to Inver also includes dozens (...)
A Solitary War
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Volume thirteen of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. In September 1939, war with Germany casts its long shadow over the town and countryside. Phillip Maddison, now farming in East Anglia, still stubbornly believes that Hitler's chief aim is the defence of Europe against Stalin; but he is engaged in (...)
The Downfall of the Liberal Party, 1914-1935
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By 1914 the Liberal Party had been governing Britain ever since its stunning general election victory of 1906. Four years later the Party was out of office, and so enfeebled it would never again form a government. What prompted the Liberal decline in the years of The Great War, and why did this (...)
Women in the Wall
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'I am hungry for your presence. I hanker for the great blaze of your glance which when you turn it on me, will burn out the husk of my body and draw my soul to you.'Julia O'Faolian's second novel, first published in 1973, offers a rich, vivid portrait of the political and religious turmoil of (...)
The World for a Shilling
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Conceived as a showcase for Britain's burgeoning manufacturing industries and the exotic products of its Empire, the Great Exhibition at the Crystal Palace was Britain's first truly national spectacle. Michael Leapman explores how the exhibition came into being; the key characters who made it (...)
Old Men Forget
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Politician, poet and diplomat, Lord Norwich better known as Duff Cooper compiled his autobiography with the aid of his detailed and frank diaries. The many entries he quotes in these pages lend immediacy and humour to some of the most important events for twentieth-century Britain. During his (...)
The Gale of the World
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The final volume, volume fifteen, of A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Phillip Maddison is living apart from his wife, Lucy, in the year immediately following the Second World War. He has sold his farm and handed over the proceeds in trust for the family excluding himself. Now living alone on Exmoor (...)
Apostate
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I had arrived at the Greek view of nature. In wood and river and plant and animal and bird and insect it had seemed to me there was a spirit which was the same as my spirit… Born in Belfast in 1875, Forrest Reid would earn a reputation as the first Ulster novelist of European stature. He studied (...)
Long Time, No See
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Long Time, No See introduces us to the unforgettable world of Mister Psyche .In the isolated coastal townland of Ballintra in the Northwest of Ireland Recent school-leaver, occasional worker, full-time companion and Malibu-provider to Uncle Joe-Joe and his friend, The Blackbird, Psyche is a boy on (...)
Open City
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'The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float. Nigeria was like that for me: mostly forgotten, except for those few things that I remembered with outsize intensity.' Along the streets of Manhattan, a young (...)
Where China Meets India
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Since ancient times, China and India have been separated not only by the towering summits of the Himalayas, but also by a vast expanse of near impenetrable jungle, hostile tribes and remote inland kingdoms, stretching a thousand miles from what is today Calcutta across central Burma to the upper (...)
Writing at the Kitchen Table
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Elizabeth David was born into a upper-class family and pursued a rebellious and bohemian life as a student of art and then an actress in Paris, before running off with a married man to Greece and then settling in Cairo, where she worked for the British government. After the Second World War, she (...)
Like Punk Never Happened
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A controversial and honest account of My Life On The Road With Rock Group, a potted history of pop from '79 '85, and a serious analysis of the whole mess… Dave Rimmer has one great weapon at his disposal. He was there. David Quantick, NME As sharp a study of British pop as we'll get ... Rimmer s (...)
Weeds and Wild Flowers
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Weeds and Wild Flowers is a magical meeting of the poems of Alice Oswald and the etchings of Jessica Greenman. Within its pages everyday flora take on an extraordinary life, jostling tragically at times, at times comically, for a foothold in a busying world. Stunningly visualised and skilfully (...)
An Evil Eye
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When the body of a Russian agent is found down a monastery well, Yashim knows exactly who to blame. Fevzi Ahmet Pasha, commander of the Ottoman fleet.Years ago, when Yashim first entered the sultan s service, Fevzi Ahmet was his mentor. Ruthless, cruel, and in Yashim s eyes ultimately (...)
Theatre
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If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, 'many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical'. As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow, calls for nothing less than the (...)
That Sweet Enemy
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The English have always regarded the French with a passionate mixture of love and hatred. Simultaneously divided and linked by the English Channel or la Manche both countries continue profoundly to affect the other for good or ill. In his delightfully impressionistic appreciation of Britain s (...)
The Feast
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The germ of the idea for The Feast Margaret Kennedy s ninth novel and perhaps her most ingenious, first published in 1950 came to the author in 1937 when she and a social gathering of literary friends were discussing the Medieval Masque of the Seven Deadly Sins. The talk turned excitedly to the (...)
Founder
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By mid-nineteenth century, Meyer Amschel Rothschild's five sons controlled one of the most massive fortunes in Europe. The Rothschild name had become synonymous with the enormous political and social power that often accompanied that wealth, the amassing of which is remarkable considering the (...)
Mr Secretary Peel
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Norman Gash s magnificent two-volume life of Sir Robert Peel Mr Secretary Peel (1961) and Sir Robert Peel (1972) is the standard work on the great statesman, and is widely considered one of the great biographies of 19th-century prime ministers. Faber Finds is delighted to return both to print, (...)
Behind the Shades
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In virtually all areas of Dylan's life - his immigrant antecedents, his business dealings, his various addictions and his romantic attachments - Heylin is able to provide a fascinating picture of a man who changed the whole course of popular music in the sixties and, over thirty years later, (...)
The Coalition Chronicles
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They ve stopped holding late-night sessions in Parliament. Or have they? Imagine a House of Commons with the cameras switched off, the press and public excluded, but with the bar still open. What sort of vile abuse might hon. Members hurl at each other if they were pissed and off the record? In (...)
The Power of the Dead
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Volume eleven of The Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight. Twelve hundred acres of downland valley with a trout stream await an heir and Sir Hilary Maddison wants his only nephew Phillip to learn farming the hard way, beginning as a labourer and rising to a tenancy-for-life. But Phillip has other ideas. (...)
Procesos y contextos educativos: enseñar en las instituciones de educación secundaria
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Esta colección tiene por objetivo principal contribuir a la formación del profesorado y reflejar una visión coherente de la educación secundaria (obligatoria y bachillerato), tanto en lo que concierne a las finalidades de las etapas y enseñanzas que la conforman como a los planteamientos (...)
Motricidad y aprendizaje
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Este libro gira en torno a la integración del ámbito corporal en la escuela, el desarrollo de su potencial educativo y la formación de los maestros y maestras. El cuerpo y la motricidad representan una oportunidad para conocer mejor a los niños y niñas, para saber de sus intereses, conocimientos, (...)
Educación y protección de menores en riesgo
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Problemas, teorías y metodologías cuyo conocimiento es fundamental para quienes trabajan o van a trabajar en la protección y educación de menores en riesgo de exclusión, maltrato o conflicto social.
El Aprendizaje Autónomo en Educación Superior
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La formación y el desarrollo del conocimiento,en el ámbito de la Educación Superior, van a ocupar un lugar privilegiado en la agenda del desarrollo social y productivo. Ahora bien, esta formación, sus acentos, sus contenidos, así como los modos de generación de conocimiento, van a requerir de (...)
Matemática emocional
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La experiencia que se describe en este libro nace de la reflexión desarrollada por la autora en torno a la búsqueda de propuestas alternativas para estudiantes que fracasan en la matemática escolar.El trabajo que aquí se ofrece representa un logro tanto en la integración de la perspectiva afectiva (...)
Pedagogía social-Educación social
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Esta obra se dirige a los interesados por la "Pedagogía Social" y la "Educación Social" tanto desde la reflexión como desde el amplio campo de la acción social, abordando su evolución histórica, concepto, métodos y diferentes áreas de intervención.Su principio orientador es la búsqueda de la (...)
La gestión de incidentes críticos en la Universidad
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