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Rita Bradshaw was born in Northamptonshire, where she lives today. At the age of sixteen she met her husband whom she considers her soulmate and they have two daughters, a son and six grandchildren. Much to her delight, Rita's first novel was accepted for publication and she has gone on to write many more successful novels since, including the number one bestseller Dancing in the Moonlight.As a committed Christian and passionate animal-lover her life is busy, and she enjoys reading, eating out and visiting the cinema and theatre, as well as being involved in her church and animal welfare.

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Billy Collins is one of America’s bestselling poets; he is also one of the rarest kind – an unalloyed pleasure to read.

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George Jacobs is generally considered ''the last of the Rat Pack'', a member of the exclusive club that has fascinated us for decades. He was Sinatra''s valet and confidant from 1953, when Ava Gardner had just left him, until the end of his marriage to Mia Farrow in 1968. Racy and revealing, this is a record of one of the longest and most outrageous mid-life crises ever as George helped Sinatra juggle his many mistresses - women like Marilyn Monroe, Judy Garland, Grace Kelly and Peggy Lee. Hollywood stars and Mafia bosses, the Kennedys and European royalty also all had a major part to play in Frank''s glory years. But above all there was the Rat Pack who accepted George as one of their own. Dean Martin tried his comedy routines out on him and Peter Lawford did his drugs in front of him. MR S gives an insider''s view of the highs and lows of life with the Rat Pack - the spectacle, the sex, the unrecounted brawls, violence, tensions and hatreds among the revellers at the wildest movea

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1. Introduction.- 2. Current Mental Health Nursing Practice around Formulation.- 3. Formulating Interpersonal Conflicts/Factors, Relationship Factors and Abuse.- 4. Formulation of those experiencing distress associated with perceptual experiences.- 5. Formulating experiences of extreme emotions and challenges associated with mood.- 6. Formulating and mitigating forms of personal distress focussing on self-harm and suicide.- 7. Formulating distress in adults and children experiencing physical health problems.- 8. Formulation of those experiencing distress associated with the use of substances.- 9. Support Approaches to Formulation Outcomes Mental Health Nursing Considerations.

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Over the course of two decades, John Hargrove worked with 20 different whales on two continents and at two of SeaWorld's U.S. facilities. For Hargrove, becoming an orca trainer fulfilled a childhood dream. However, as his experience with the whales deepened, Hargrove came to doubt that their needs could ever be met in captivity. When two fellow trainers were killed by orcas in marine parks, Hargrove decided that SeaWorld's wildly popular programs were both detrimental to the whales and ultimately unsafe for trainers. After leaving SeaWorld, Hargrove became one of the stars of the controversial documentary Blackfish. The outcry over the treatment of SeaWorld's orca has now expanded beyond the outlines sketched by the award-winning documentary, with Hargrove contributing his expertise to an advocacy movement that is convincing both federal and state governments to act. In Beneath the Surface, Hargrove paints a compelling portrait of these highly intelligent and social creatures, including his favourite whales Takara and her mother Kasatka, two of the most dominant cross in SeaWorId. And he includes vibrant descriptions of the lives of orcas in the wild, contrasting their freedom in the ocean with their lives in SeaWorId.

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Fifty thousand years ago - merely a blip in evolutionary time - our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led to its survival while the rest became extinct. Just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become masters of the planet? Ian Tattersall, curator emeritus at the American Museum of Natural History, takes us deep into the fossil record to uncover what made humans so special. Surveying a vast field from initial bipedality to language and intelligence, Tattersall argues that Homo sapiens acquired a winning combination of traits that was not the result of long-term evolutionary refinement. Instead, the final result emerged quickly, shocking our world and changing it forever.

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Charlie is a little chick with a BIG personality! Join him as he gets ready for school. Young readers will love seeing Charlie brought to life by ingenious paper engineering and eye catching pops. See him waking up to the alarm clock, eating his crackling cereal and racing to school. Will he get there before all his friends and in time for the bell? Open the gatefold flaps at the end to find out!Part of the best-selling Charlie Chick series co-created by Nick Denchfield and Ant Parker, this book is perfect for little ones who are starting school.

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Push, pull and slide the tabs to meet all the Busy Baby Animals. See lambs leaping in the field, piglets playing in the mud and cheeping chicks as they hatch.Young children will love playing with this bright and colourful board book with gentle rhyming text, lots to spot and talk about, and wonderful illustrations by Ag Jatkowska. Busy Baby Animals has been endorsed and recommended by Dr Amanda Gummer''s Good Toy Guide.Discover more animals in the Busy Book series with Busy Farm, Busy Zoo.

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