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She is determined to live the life she wants…Cassandra Trent does not like being told what to do. So when she is forced to leave behind her beloved Bardsley and join her aunt in London, she is furious. She wants nothing to do with polite society and useless noblemen.But Cassandra finds some comfort in the friendship she forms with her kind and gentle cousin, Susannah Berrinden. Despite being destined to marry Simeon Giffard, a charming and – more importantly – wealthy young man, Susannah has other ideas…And it seems Simeon does too. He has eyes only for Cassandra – but winning her over might prove to be a near impossible task.A heartwarming historical saga perfect for fans of Elisabeth McNeill, Rosie Goodwin and Gloria Cook.

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When Megan and Ben meet the attraction is instantaneous. The only problem? Ben is bound for Australia in just a week’s time!Determined not to let what they’ve just found go, Ben suggests they get married so that she can go with him. Megan is shocked but doesn’t want to lose him, so she agrees.Virtual strangers the two embark on an unforgettable journey, determined to make a success of their hasty marriage…An adventurous contemporary romance perfect for fans of Maeve Binchy

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A troublemaker about to get kicked out of school. An eccentric grandmother with a canary yellow Land Rover and a camera. A girl who loves books. A sheep that turns into an internet sensation overnight. A long dusty road. An unforgettable journey.

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Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she'll ever see her beloved mother and father again.Once in England she is taken in by elderly Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But in 1945 Mrs Pelling dies. While her will cannot be found, her money-grabbing niece appears out of the blue to claim her inheritance and turfs Christa out, with only a suitcase to her name. The prejudice against Germans still runs high in England, and Christa is unable to secure a job or a place to stay...Luck comes her way when a lady she saves from being mugged turns out to be Mayne Esher's friend Daniel's mother. Taking pity on Christa, they take her to Rivenshaw where they plan to start a new life as part of the Esher building firm.There Christa is welcomed with open arms and she soon develops a love for the place, the people and, Daniel... But Esherwood is not the trouble-free sanctuary she first thinks. Determined to do their bit for soldiers returning from the war they have agreed to allow the council to build prefabs on some of Esherwood's garden. But an empire-building town planner seems set on taking all of Mayne's land for the war effort... Mayne has also discovered a secret door at the back of the old Nissen hut, with a complicated locking mechanism that has local locksmiths dumbfounded.Just what is hidden behind the door to warrant such high security?

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AP Teachers’ #1 Choice!Ready to succeed in your AP course and ace your exam? Our 5 Steps to a 5 guides explain the tough stuff, offer tons of practice and explanations, and help you make the most efficient use of your study time. 5 Steps to a 5: AP Physics 1: Algebra-Based Elite is more than a review guide, it’s a system that has helped thousands of students walk into test day feeling prepared and confident.Everything You Need for a 5: 3 full-length practice tests that align with the latest College Board requirements Hundreds of practice exercises with answer explanations Comprehensive overview of all test topics Proven strategies from seasoned AP educators Why the Elite edition? 200+ pages of additional "5 Minutes to a 5" AP content 5-minute daily activities to reinforce critical AP concepts AP educators love this feature for bellringers in the classroom! Study on the Go: All instructional content in digital format (available online and on mobile devices) Interactive practice tests with answer explanations A self-guided study plan with daily goals, powerful analytics, flashcards, games, and more A Great In-class Supplement: 5 Steps is an ideal companion to your main AP text Includes an AP Physics 1:Algebra-Based Teacher’s Manual that offers excellent guidance to educators for better use of the 5 Steps resources

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From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not so adept, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis Team and stalwart of the Kardomah coffee bar, his game improves.Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize.

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It is a general understanding that the advanced economies are currently undergoing a fundamental transformation into knowledge-based societies. There is a firm belief that this is based on the development of high-tech industries. Correspondingly, in this scenario low-tech sectors appear to be less important. A critique of this widely held belief is the starting point of this book. It is often overlooked that many of the current innovation activities are linked to developments inside the realm of low-tech. Thus the general objective of the book is to contribute to a discussion concerning the relevance of low-tech industries for industrial innovativeness in the emerging knowledge economy.Providing examples of both theoretical and empirical research in this area, Innovation in Low-tech Firms and Industries will be of great interest to postgraduate students and academic researchers in innovation studies. It will also appeal to policy makers in the field of innovation policy as well as industrial economists and sociologists interested in traditional industries in advanced economies.

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The second book in Kereen Getten's action-packed mystery series for younger readers! Fayson has been dreaming of going back to the island ever since she left. But no sooner is she reunited with Di Island Crew than a mysterious case comes their way - a haunted wardrobe that keeps making a spine-chilling sound! And to make matters worse, the crew have all received a letter threatening to reveal their deepest secrets. With the clock ticking, Fayson must rally her friends and take charge of the detective agency to solve the eerie mystery. But with tensions rising and friendship squabbles getting in the way, can they work together to crack the case and keep their secrets safe? __________ READERS ARE LOVING Di ISLAND CREW: 'So much fun' 'I really enjoyed this mystery story and read it from start to finish in one sitting' 'A fun adventure with just the right amount of fear and peril... I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for the rest of the series' 'Great characters, brilliantly paced and a big fat recommendation from my daughter'

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Since the 2008 economic meltdown, market-driven globalization has posed new challenges for governments. This collection introduces the innovative concept of “grey zones” of global governance, where international rules are bent or ignored. These zones are significant, contested spaces for state policy and market behaviour to interact with respect to trade, the environment, food security, and investment.Powerful incentives exist in the global economy for states to harmonize their policies through trade and investment agreements. But grey zones both promote uniformity in many areas of public life and facilitate diverse forms of capitalism in market societies. They enable governments to balance national and global economic benefits as they advance their core interests. At a time of growing nationalist sentiment, Grey Zones in International Economic Law and Global Governance explores creative local engagement with international economic law and offers a bold new way to understand public concerns about international trade and investment, food security, green energy, subsidies, and anti-dumping actions.

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Police Misconduct is a comprehensive yet highly practical guide for practitioners and advisers covering the two major routes to remedying police misconduct: police complaints and civil actions in the courts. It equips the reader with the essentials for advising on the full range of procedures, strategies and tactics available and provides thorough procedural advice and step-by-step guidance from pre-issue considerations through to jury trial and appeal. There is detailed guidance on the most common torts - false imprisonment, malicious prosecution and misfeasance and clear analysis of developing causes of actions against the police such as negligence, privacy, discrimination and claims under the Human Rights Act 1998. Contents include: *The constitutional and organisational position of the police *Police complaints: overview, structure, initial stages, investigation and outcomes *Police disciplinary system *False imprisonment and deprivation of liberty *Personal injury, trespass to the person, and failure to protect from harm *Malicious prosecution and misuse of power *Land and property *Protest and freedom of speech *Information *Discrimination and vulnerable groups *Prosecutorial decisions *Bringing a claim against the police *Issue of proceedings to exchange of witness statements *The trial and appeals *Damages

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Brick has long been a trusted material, used worldwide by builders who appreciate its strength and versatility. It offers proven value to both traditional works and contemporary designs. The venerable material has even become a trendsetter; as the New York Times recently reported, “Bricks Return with Style in New High-End Buildings.” Following the popular first volume of Folio, Folio 2 features the most inspiring new brick buildings in North America and Australia. Here single-family homes, university buildings, cultural centres, showroom interiors, and more show the possibilities of brick. Each project uses material manufactured by Glen-Gery in a variety of shapes, colours, and textures, from conventional brick to glass brick to custom-designed brick for unique implementations. The buildings are thoroughly documented in photos and drawings, and with texts based on new interviews with their designers — a who’s who of both up-and-coming and established architecture firms.

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The 11th Origeniana conference took place at Aarhus University, Denmark, in August 2013. The theme of the conference was Origen and Origenism in the History of Western Thought. The present volume contains a large selection from the papers that were given at the conference. The majority of the papers deals with various aspects of the influence and reception of Origen and his thought and writings in Western traditions to this day. As was the case also in previous conferences, there was an opportunity to give papers on other aspects of current Origen research. The volume contains seven sections: Origen's thought in modern theology and philosophy; philological approaches to Origen's works; Origen's thought in the West in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance; Origen's thought in the West until John Scotus Eriugena; Origen in Western mysticism and liturgy; the reception of Origen in the East.

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During the last forty odd years, archaeological surveys have demonstrated that much can be said about changing patterns of regional exchange and settlement hierarchies based on surface observations. Walking the Mediterranean landscape, the most common indication of ancient human activity survey archaeologists come across are scatters of pottery and other ceramics. Enormous numbers of sherds are counted, collected, recorded, and interpreted in order to understand the ancient cultural, social, economic, and ritual landscapes. Some discrete scatters of ancient artefacts are interpreted as sites where people have lived and/or worked based on an analysis of both cultural and environmental data. These artefact scatters are modern phenomena affected by complex post-depositional processes such as cultivation which obscure potentional behavioural patterning. Artefact-based survey with its treatment of artefacts behaving as sediments in the soil enhanced with a detailed pottery analysis centred on use has the potential to greatly increase our understanding of the ancient rural world. This book offers an attempt to create a methodology for hypothesizing about the general activities taking place at sites identified by survey based on ceramics. The use typology is put forward as a tool for studying artefactual differentiation, and the method consists of establishing empirically generalized pottery indices of different human activities based on artefactual differentiation at Late Roman sites in Cyprus.

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Todo arte creativo emplea ciertos patrones de diseño que garantizan su éxito. Cuando esos patrones llevan un tiempo funcionando se ordenan en una metodología. Y si esa metodología no tiene fisuras, el arte se convierte en ciencia.Hasta ahora se ha considerado que la buena comunicación tenía más que ver con el arte que con la ciencia. Diversos guionistas, oradores, comunicadores, literatos, periodistas, publicistas, 'storytellers', diseñadores de marketing o branding, coach, etc. han tratado de mejorar su técnica de comunicación basándose en su buen hacer y entender. Pero, y si logramos cientificar la comunicación?El diseño narrativo es más que un método. Es un cambio de paradigma. Mediante él podremos diseñar cualquier comunicación, desde la explicación de un balance hasta una novela, desde un 'storytelling' hasta un 'pitch elevator'. Aprenderemos cómo medir nuestra comunicación, estructurarla, pivotar cuando sea necesario, narrarla y motivar a nuestros usuarios hasta convertirlo

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El Himalaya es la cordillera con las montañas más altas del mundo. En sus cumbres de nieves eternas se cuentan antiguas leyendas que hablan del Yeti, la misteriosa criatura que habita en los parajes más inhóspitos y al que llaman el abominable hombre de las nieves, pero... será real su existencia o solo es un mito?

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The Catholic Church has always recognized that philosophy is necessary both to understand the faith as well as to defend it. The need for a philosophically informed faith has become more acute with the rise of secularism. Seat of Wisdom demonstrates that the philosophical principles developed in the Catholic tradition, especially as articulated in Thomism, provide the intellectual foundation for belief in God and are also the only reliable basis for a fully coherent vision of man's place in the world.Seat of Wisdom begins with an exploration of the relationship between faith and reason. Philosophy's essential role is to discover the rational principles underlying the intelligible order of reality. These principles act as a bridge connecting science and religious faith, enabling the believer to integrate all facets of human experience.Each of those first principles, as expressed in the transcendental properties, are then analyzed as the basis of the major philosophical disciplines. Starting with metaphysics' study of being, the argument proceeds to consider the true, the good, and the beautiful in terms of epistemology, anthropology, ethics, aesthetics, and political philosophy. Lastly, these principles are shown to point to God as creator.The strength of the Catholic philosophical tradition is evident when contrasted with reductive theories which fail to account for the breadth of human experience. Consequently, each chapter will introduce influential philosophers whose inadequate theories inform contemporary assumptions. Against this, the Thomistic argument is elucidated as being inclusive of the insights of the reductive position. It will be seen that this "both/and" approach is the only way to do justice to the glory of God and the gift of creation.Religion is prey to skepticism when it is isolated from the rest of knowledge. This integrative argument, uniting discussions of nature, politics, and theology according to common principles, enables the reader to grasp the unity of wisdom. Moreover, by engaging alternative positions, it provides the reader with tools to defend the Catholic worldview against those reductive philosophies which only deprive life of its full meaning.

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Im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert erfreute sich die Gestaltung und prachtvolle Ausmalung von Privatkapellen in Kirchen und Palästen großer Beliebtheit. Das Interesse dieser Untersuchung gilt sowohl der räumlichen Organisation der Bilderfolgen im Medium der Wandmalerei, als auch der Wahrnehmung der raumgreifenden Erzählung durch die Besucher. Vor dem Hintergrund medien- und literaturwissenschaftlicher Erzähltheorien sowie aktueller Forschungen zum spatial turn, zu mehrteiligen Bildformen und dem mobilen Betrachter sieht die Autorin die Zyklen in neuem Licht. Anhand von acht Privatkapellen wie der berühmten Bardi- Kapelle Giottos in der Florentiner Kirche Santa Croce oder der kaum erforschten Johanneskapelle im Papstpalast zu Avignon widmet sich die Publikation dem Wechselspiel von Bild, Raum und Betrachter. Dabei werden die Nutzung und Rezeption der Raumerzählungen unter Berücksichtigung der zeitgenössischen Predigtpraxis oder der Wiederaufnahme antiker Gedächtniskunst kulturgeschichtlich eingeordnet.

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Professor Philip Mortimer has decided to spend his holidays in Cairo with his trusty servant, Nasir. There he plans to meet an old friend, who offers him the fantastic opportunity of satisfying his passion for Egyptology - to take part in the deciphering of some recently discovered papyrus coming from mummies of the Ptolemaic age. They soon discover that one of the fragments deals with the Chamber of Horus - a fabled crypt that could contain priceless treasures...

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