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Emily thinks that she's just a normal kid, who until she met Eddie was quite content with her boring life. Going to school and humiliating the obnoxious bully 'Brent' and learning the piano were the most exciting things going for a 10-year-old kid living in Doon, a quiet and wintry port city nestled in the hills of New Anderson far away from the rest of the world in the far corner of the great Oceania Sea. But Emily hides a secret. Her secret ...

A moving account of how a chess team made up of council estate children inspired an entire working-class community to take up the game that had normally been played by those from a more privileged background.Micklefield School in the heart of a working-class community was inspired by a formidable teacher called Mr. Green who made it his quest to form a chess team that would make the school and the area proud. After two years of training the sc...

A moving account of how a chess team made up of council estate children inspired an entire working-class community to take up the game that had normally been played by those from a more privileged background.Micklefield School in the heart of a working-class community was inspired by a formidable teacher called Mr. Green who made it his quest to form a chess team that would make the school and the area proud. After two years of training the sc...

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The fascinating history of area around the Grand Western Canal, illustrated through old and modern pictures.

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An engaging defence and critique of the various arguments from both science and religion on the fine-tuning of the Universe.

Steve Van der Walt, a South African detective, signs a contract with the De Beers diamond mining company in Kimberley, Eastern Cape. His mission is to seek out and apprehend a gang of diamond thieves who are gradually draining the mining company dry. He is aided in the venture by his Brazilian secretary Jarla, and wine growing friend Johannes Oosthuizen from the Cape. The gang of thieves are headed by a professional criminal named Viktor Mendo...

If you are a leader you are a culture-creator, for some kind of culture-a strong or shaky one, an inspiring or discouraging one, a vivid or fuzzy one, a healthy or toxic one-will be created and perpetuated on your watch. The only question is whether you will be an accidental or intentional culture-creator, and what kind of culture "soil" you will set out to create.In Ways of the Relay-Racers, Brian J. Lewis explores what it means to develop a ...

If you are a leader you are a culture-creator, for some kind of culture-a strong or shaky one, an inspiring or discouraging one, a vivid or fuzzy one, a healthy or toxic one-will be created and perpetuated on your watch. The only question is whether you will be an accidental or intentional culture-creator, and what kind of culture "soil" you will set out to create.In Ways of the Relay-Racers, Brian J. Lewis explores what it means to develop a ...

This book is a comprehensive guide to radiopharmaceutical chemistry. The stunning clinical successes of nuclear imaging and targeted radiotherapy have resulted in rapid growth in the field of radiopharmaceutical chemistry, an essential component of nuclear medicine and radiology. However, at this point, interest in the field outpaces the academic and educational infrastructure needed to train radiopharmaceutical chemists. For example, the vast...

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Ferry to Hong Kong is a gloriously honest romp through the loves and lives of the young men posted to the Far East after WWII. Together they explore the world, many for the first time, and experience the mishaps and adventures of life away from the safe arms of mother England. Part fiction, part biography, you'll find characters to admire and others to laugh with, as you explore Hong Kong at the beginning of a new world dawning after the con...

This collection of essays takes stock of the 'new British queer history'. It is intended both for scholars and students of British social and cultural history and of the history of sexuality and for a broader readership interested in queer issues. British queer history builds on the first wave of sexual diversity scholarship in the 1970s but, since the turn of the millennium, there has been a remarkable efflorescence of deeply researched, theo...

This book is an unorthodox biography of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Lord Leverhulme (1851-1925), the founder of the Lever Brothers' Sunlight Soap empire. Unlike previous biographies, which have focused on the man's life story and eccentricities, or just considered one aspect of his career, So clean places him squarely in his social and cultural context and is fully informed by recent historical scholarship. Much more than a warts-and-all biogra...

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