A fun, fact-filled and, let's be honest, much-needed alternative to the outdated UK citizenship test, from the beloved No Context Brits Twitter account. Do you know what year the Harrier jump jet was developed? What about the name of the first king
Escape into A World of Cozy Bookstores. A Colouring Book for Book Lovers.Step into a realm where every page allows you to de-stress and unleash your creativity. A World of Cozy Bookstores beckons you to explore 46 enchanting scenes filled with reading nooks and literary spaces, both real and imagined.
A thrilling adventure of curses, myths and legends set in ancient Egypt, perfect for fans of Emma Carroll and Horrible Histories. Its 1249 BCE in ancient Egypt and eleven-year-old Henut is sceptical of just about everything, even the gods. But a mysterious break-in, an unsettling dream and a strangely familiar shadowy figure lead her into a dangerous quest she could never have imagined. Will she really venture into a tomb in the Valley of Kings? She might not have a choice Packed with real historical details of the rule of Pharaoh Rameses II, mummification, hieroglyphs, historical figures and the pyramids of Giza, this page-turning thriller about the myths and magic of ancient Egypt will have readers gripped.
Mack never thought he'd find love, but now two boys want to be with him. Will he choose Karim or Finlay? And can true love last for ever? A must-read queer love story for fans of Sarah Crossan and Sex Education, written in verse by Dean Atta. Fifteen-year-old Mack is a hopeless romantic - he blames the films he's grown up watching. He has liked Karim for as long as he can remember, and is ecstatic when Karim becomes his boyfriend - it feels like love. But when Mack's dad gets a job on a film in Scotland, Mack has to move, and soon he discovers how painful love can be. It's horrible being so far away from Karim, but the worst part is that Karim doesn't make the effort to visit. Love shouldn't be only on the weekends. Then, when Mack meets actor Finlay on a film set, he experiences something powerful, a feeling like love at first sight. How long until he tells Karim - and when will his old life and new life collide?
World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing distance in time has allowed historians to think differently about how to describe it, how to explain its course, and what subjects to focus on when considering the wartime experience. For instance, as World War Two recedes ever further into the past, even a question as apparently basic as when it began and ended becomes less certain. Was it 1939, when the war in Europe began? Or the summer of 1941, with the beginning of Hitler's war against the Soviet Union? Or did it become truly global only when the Japanese brought the USA into the war at the end of 1941? And what of the long conflict in East Asia, beginning with the Japanese aggression in China in the early 1930s and only ending with the triumph of the Chinese Communists in 1949? In The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two a team of leading historians re-assesses the conflict for a new generation, exploring the course of the war not just in terms of the Allied response but also from the viewpoint of the Axis aggressor states. Under Richard Overy's expert editorial guidance, the contributions take us from the genesis of war, through the action in the major theatres of conflict by land, sea, and air, to assessments of fighting power and military and technical innovation, the economics of total war, the culture and propaganda of war, and the experience of war (and genocide) for both combatants and civilians, concluding with an account of the transition from World War to Cold War in the late 1940s. Together, they provide a stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible and fascinating episodes in world history.
A SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF 2023 'A superb writer' EMMA STONEX 'Stylish and raw' ANNE ENRIGHT 'Mesmerising and beautiful' DAILY EXPRESS 'Gripping and visceral ' IRISH EXAMINER 'A powerful, riveting read ' ELIZABETH MACNEAL 'Astonishingly absorbing' i PAPER 'That's a good thing about you, Martha. You keep secrets . . .' East Anglia, 1645. Martha Hallybread, a midwife, healer and servant , is a trusted figure in her beloved coastal village of Cleftwater - even though no one has ever heard her speak. One day, the peaceful atmosphere is disrupted by the arrival of a witch-hunter, and suspicion threatens to tear the community apart. When Martha is drawn into the search, she finds herself torn between protecting herself or her friends. As the tide of suspicion builds and events hurtle towards a terrible reckoning, Martha's silence is a choice that could cost her everything. Autorid: Margaret Meyer
*** 'Eddie was there very early doors. His story is of the many.' Paul Weller 'A total riot! Takes me right back to the 70s. A Superb book' Mani, The Stone Roses 'What a wonderful book. Mod isn't about what decade you lived in, it's about your attitude, and this book has tons of it' Kenney Jones, The Small Faces 'A charismatic storyteller, witty and unpretentious, he is at once an engaging protagonist and an indisputable authority, giving a live-wire, visceral perspective on mod life in that short flash of time. He manages to create a welcoming space in this rather exclusive world while never losing his formidable edge as a narrator' - The Big Issue 'Buy it on sight. You won't be disappointed' - Louder Than War 'Eddie's book is really good!' - Robert Elms 'Akin to being in the company of someone with plenty of entertaining tales to tell.... the comradery and spirit of like-minded souls is inspiring.' - Paul Ritchie, Shindig! Magazine WITH A FOREWORD BY PAUL WELLER This is the memoir of a teenage mod from the East End of London. A journey of discovery for a schoolboy dabbling with punk, funk, record shops, discos and clothes, and then... WHAAAM! An unstoppable wave of like-minded kids fall headlong in love with 60s mod culture, revived and reformatted for the 70s and 80s generation. Eddie Piller was one such kid. His life was changed forever. Written with humour, passion and attention to detail, CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES is perhaps the ultimate mod memoir, taking us from meeting the Small Faces as a toddler, to the 1979 Mod revival, through the more purist 1980s mod scene and eventually to Acid Jazz. A born storyteller, Eddie takes us evocatively into a world of scooters, clothes, and music. We run with the crowd to decaying seaside towns, East End backstreet boozers and sweaty teenage gigs, all fizzing with an uncontainable excitement and often exploding into violence. Once mod touched your soul it changed the way you looked at life, unexpectedly broadening your horizons. In Eddie it awakens a can-do attitude that sees him setting up a fanzine, putting on club nights, hustling jobs in the music industry, and eventually setting up a record label. It even takes him to Ireland at the height of the troubles and to Australia where the local mods take him on a military exercise... Visceral and always entertaining, CLEAN LIVING UNDER DIFFICULT CIRCUMSTANCES is a stand-out memoir that relives the thrill of the 70s and 80s, and the movement that helped make mod the most enduring and successful British youth culture of all time. Autorid: Eddie Piller, Paul Weller
What is the role of early childhood practice in understanding the needs of parents and carers today?This book:*Considers the perspectives of those parents/carers marginalised by current practice*Provokes thinking about how settings can become more inclusive in their practice*Supports students to challenge their own assumptions about parentsEach chapter considers a group of families that may be marginalised in practice. The book suggests respectful, co-productive ways for students and early childhood practitioners, across the sectors, to work together. Each chapter asks current and future practitioners to reflect on and challenge their current practice. Supports early years students and practitioners to build effective partnerships with parents and carers in early childhood. Autorid: Philippa Thompson, Helen Simmons
There was a little fur family warm as toast smaller than most in little fur coats and they lived in a warm wooden tree. The Little Fur Family tells the story of a little fur child's day in the woods. The day ends when his big fur parents tuck him in bed "all soft and warm," and sing him to sleep with a lovely bedtime song. Cuddle up to a classic with this timeless story! Garth William's soft illustrations join Margaret Wise Brown's rhythmic text to create a gentle lullaby. Bound in imitation fur, Little Fur Family is sure to comfort and delight. Autorid: Margaret Wise Brown, Garth Williams
Built specifically for statistical computing and graphics, the R language, along with its amazing collection of libraries and tools, is one of the most powerful tools you can use to tackle data analysis for business, research, and other data-intensive domains. This revised and expanded third edition of R in Action covers the new tidy verse approach to data analysis and R's state-of-the-art graphing capabilities with the ggplot2 package. R in Action, Third Edition teaches you to use the R language, including the popular tidy verse packages, through hands-on examples relevant to scientific, technical, and business developers. Focusing on practical solutions to real-world data challenges, R expert RobKabacoff takes you on a crash course in statistics, from dealing with messy and incomplete data to creating stunning visualisations. The R language is the most powerful platform you can choose for modern data analysis. Free and open source, R's community has created thousands of modules to tackle challenges from data-crunching to presentation. R's graphical capabilities are also state-of-the-art, with a comprehensive and powerful feature set available for data visualization. R runs on all major operating systems and is used by businesses, researchers, and organizations worldwide. Autorid: Robert Kabacoff
Reporting Human Rights provides a systematic examination of human rights news and reporting practices from inside the world of television news production. From an interdisciplinary perspective, the book discusses the potential of journalism in contributing to human rights protection, awareness and debate, in ignoring, silencing or misrepresenting human rights issues around the world or, in extreme situations, in inciting hatred, genocide and crimes against humanity. It provides insight into how journalists translate human rights issues, revealing different reporting patterns and levels of detail in reporting, and suggesting different levels of engagement with human rights problems. The book explains the most important factors that encourage or limit the coverage of human rights news. Grounded in a close examination of the news production processes and key moments where possible human rights stories are contemplated, decided or eventually ignored, the book opens up new insights into the complexities and constraints of human rights reporting today. Reporting Human Rights provides a systematic examination of human rights news and reporting practices from inside the world of television news production. Autorid: Simon Cottle, Susana Sampaio-Dias
The heyday of small press publishing in San Francisco lives again This memoir that reads like fiction recounts the never-before-told story of the heyday of small presses in the 1980s and 1990s in San Francisco when Bay Area pressesarmed with arrogance and personal computerstook the publishing field. The invention of the desktop computer was akin to the invention of printing press at the end of the Middle Ages, heralding a renaissance in the book business and ushering in a hotbed of creativity recognized even by New York City, the long-held center of all things publishing. In these glory days, presses like Foghorn Press, Nolo Press, Ten Speed Press, Heyday Books, Wilderness Press, New World Library, and Chronicle Books were a just few of many to partner with independent neighborhood bookstores to stage the first San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival which drew 35,000 readers. This is the often comic story of one of those presses and its intrepid publisher, Vicki Morgan. At Foghorn Press, Vicki was 25, young and brash and ambitious. She set out to quixotically build a book publishing company from scratch with her eccentric brother to help. As part of their optimistic Morgan heritage, the siblings employed every strategy they had to grow Foghorn Press with no capital, 100-hour work weeks, cheap beer, irrepressible belly laughs, and no book publishing experience. Over 13 years, they assembled a cast of often preposterous authors and resistant staff while surviving a drunken ex-husband, a con artist, calculating distributors, a fleet of good ol boys, terrible cash flow, and their own differing aspirations. Books were brought to market and miraculously sold from their offices in the Boiler Room until Foghorn became a resounding success with sales, media, acclaim. But of course, the story doesnt end there. Autorid: Vicki DeArmon
A crusading attorneys death. Sabotage at a family winery. Secrets buried in Californias past When corporate attorney Noli Cooper visits her godparents Santa Cruz Mountain winery, shes hoping for a few quiet days to consider her future. But the future will have to wait. The body of her childhood mentor, a crusading social justice lawyer and local hero, is discovered in a rocky ocean cove. The sheriff is quick to call it suicide. Noli knows hes wrong. Teaming up with PI Luz Alvarado, Noli dives into a world where nothing is as it seems.As threats mount and the winery teeters on the brink of ruin, Noli and Luz must navigate a treacherous landscape of greed, revenge, and long-buried secrets. Their investigation weaves through the rich tapestry of Californias vineyard history, the mystery of zinfandel grapes, and the haunting legacy of the Vietnam War. With a murderer on the loose, predatory neighbors circling, and Nolis godfather framed for murder, the clock is ticking. Can two fearless women from different worlds unravel the truth before its too late? Autorid: Diane Schaffer
A New York Times No. 1 best seller, The Love Dare is a 40-day guided devotional designed to strengthen every marriage and the same powerful book that plays a pivotal role in the popular movie Fireproof. Unconditional love is eagerly promised at weddings, but rarely practiced in real life. As a result, romantic hopes are often replaced with disappointment in the home. But it doesnt have to stay that way.The Love Dare, the New York Times No. 1 best seller that has sold five million copies and was major plot device in the popular movie Fireproof, is a 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love. Whether your marriage is hanging by a thread or healthy and strong, The Love Dare is a journey you need to take. Its time to learn the keys to finding true intimacy and developing a dynamic marriage.This second edition also features a special link to a free online marriage evaluation, a new preface by Stephen and Alex Kendrick, minor text updates, and select testimonials from The Love Dare readers. Take the dare! "The Love Dare, (as featured in the popular new movie Fireproof (from the makers of Facing the Giants)], is a 40-day challenge for husbands and wives to understand and practice unconditional love. Whether your marriage is hanging by a thread or healthy and strong, The Love Dare is a journey you need to take. It's time to learn the keys to finding true intimacy and developing a dynamic marriage. Take the dare!--Back cover. Autorid: Alex Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick
Captured brings Berlin to life through the lens of international photographers in 200 images by 45 photographers.Captured brings cities to life through the eyes of talented photographers from around the world, with the mission of highlighting the beauty, diversity, and energy of urban landscapes and offering a fresh perspective on familiar places. With contributions from 45 different photographers in each edition, the Captured series offers a rich and varied view of every city. From iconic landmarks to hidden corners, each photo tells a story or captures moments that reflect the citys true essence. These photo books offer viewers a deeper connection to the cities they love or inspire them to discover new ones. Autorid: Roy Geneugelijk
"Isolated teen Pia must deal with the consequences of dark family secrets while also navigating first love"-- Provided by publisher. A bold and authentic reimagining of The Winters Tale full of tragedy, triumph, and forbidden romanceperfect for fans of Sabaa Tahir, Kathleen Glasgow, and Sarah Dessen. Pia and her brother, Max, live on an isolated farm in rural Maine, and its the only life they remember. Their father says the only way for them to stay protected is to stay on the farm. Pia doesnt question it. Pias entire world turns upside down when her father breaks his leg, and she must be the one to venture into town to make farm deliveries. And then she sees him. Felix, a boy who is both a stranger and somehow familiar, makes her question everything she thought she knew about herself, her past, and her family. But no matter how she feels about Felix, she must always obey her father, above all else. But Pia's feelings are too big to ignore, and the more she engages with Felix, the more she begins to see that theres promise for her beyond the isolated world to which shes grown accustomed. And the more she dreams about a better life, the more she wonders if her father is telling the truth about their familys past. Pia knows her father and his friend Anthony are hiding something, and soon Pia must reckon with the damage her father is doing to their community and the damage he has done to their own lives.Winter White is an astonishingly told and searingly authentic reimagining of Shakespeares The Winters Tale for fans of Sabaa Tahir, Kathleen Glasgow, and Sarah Dessen. Autorid: Annie Cardi
Three modern witchesan oracle, a necromancer, and a nature witchmust parlay with ancient gods and battle supernatural forces to stop a biblical entity from ascending to godhood, unaware their resistance plays perfectly into their enemy's plan.Set against the backdrop of modern-day New York City during a seemingly permanent supernatural eclipse, Bytchcraft follows a queer coven bound by magick and blood, each bringing their own flair to the craft: a pretentious oracle who speaks with gods, an emo necromancer with a forked tongue, and a nature wytch with the soul of a fairy tale princess. Under the guidance of their enigmatic guardian MTHR, the coven discovers they're at the center of an ancient prophecy, and all wytchkind hangs in the balance! God Save the Wytch. Autorid: Aaron Reese, Lema Carril
On August 13, 2018 Christopher Watts murdered his pregnant wife and two toddler daughters. Cheryln Cadle contacted him and started visiting him in prison. Christopher started writing her letters from his prison cell in Wisconsin. These letters had his confessions of things he had never told anyone else. Now she shares the letters and the truth about what happened that fateful night in Frederick Colorado to Shanann, Nico, Bella and Celeste Watts at the hands of their father. Was he just a monster or was it truly his girlfriend that he wanted to start a life with the reason he was willing to kill his family?
