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“Farley and Claire is a love story, a biography, a Tale of Two Farleys, or perhaps three: the public one, the private one, and the secret one.”—Margaret AtwoodThe tumultuous, enduring love story between iconic writer Farley Mowat and his wife Claire, including excerpts from their passionate letters, published here for the first time.When Farley Mowat met Claire Wheeler in August 1960, the attraction was immediate, and within days they were lovers, despite the fact that Farley was already married. Their affair—partly aided and abetted by publisher Jack McClelland—included an extended correspondence until several years later, when Farley finally obtained a Mexican divorce and the two were married in Texas. They were together until Farley’s death 54 years later.Claire, a brilliant diarist, has given author Michael Harris complete access to her journals and letters, as well as Farley’s letters, and Harris has conducted extensive interviews with her and original research. The result is a literary love story for the ages, complete with photos of the couple who defied conventions of their time to be together.Published in partnership with the David Suzuki Institute.

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Today, Germantown is a busy neighborhood in Philadelphia. On October 4, 1777, it was a small village on the outskirts of the colonial capital that hosted one of the largest battles of the American Revolution. George Washington's attempt to recapture Philadelphia has been misunderstood and long overshadowed by the battles of Brandywine, Saratoga, and the difficult winter that followed at Valley Forge. Michael C. Harris, the award-winning author of Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777 (2014), has produced the first full-length book on the Battle of Germantown, lifting the pivotal engagement out of its undeserved obscurity.General Sir William Howe launched his campaign to capture Philadelphia in late July 1777. His army sailed aboard a 265-ship armada from New York and six difficult weeks later landed near Elkton, Maryland, moved north into Pennsylvania, and defeated Washington's American army at Brandywine on September

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Brandywine Creek meanders through the Pennsylvania countryside, but on September 11, 1777, it served as the scenic backdrop for the largest battle of the American Revolution, one that encompassed more troops over more land than any combat fought on American soil until the Civil War. Overshadowed by the stunning American victory at Saratoga, the British campaign that defeated George Washington’s colonial army and led to the capture of the capital city of Philadelphia was one of the most important military events of the war. Michael C. Harris’s impressive Brandywine: A Military History of the Battle that Lost Philadelphia but Saved America, September 11, 1777, is the first full-length study of this pivotal engagement based upon primary source materials and a complete understanding of the battlefield’s topography. General Sir William Howe launched his campaign in late July 1777, when he loaded his army of 16,500 British and Hessian soldiers aboard a 265-ship armada in New York and set sail. Six difficult weeks later Howe’s expedition landed near Elkton, Maryland, and moved north into Pennsylvania. Washington’s rebel army harassed Howe’s men at several locations, including a sharp skirmish at Cooch’s Bridge in Delaware on September 3. Another week of hit-and-run tactics followed until Howe was within three miles of Chads’s Ford on Brandywine Creek, behind which Washington had posted his army in strategic blocking positions along a six-mile front. The young colonial capital of Philadelphia was just 25 miles to the east. General Howe initiated his plan of attack at 5:00 a.m. on September 11. Obscured by darkness and a heavy morning fog, he pushed against the American center at Chads’s Ford with part of his army while the bulk of his command marched north around Washington’s exposed right flank to deliver his coup de main, destroy the colonials, and march on Philadelphia. Warned of Howe’s flanking attack at the last moment, American generals turned their divisions to face the threat. The bitter fighting on Birmingham Hill drove the Americans from the field, but their heroic defensive stand saved Washington’s army and proved that the nascent Continental foot soldiers could stand toe-to-toe with their foe. Although more fighting followed, Philadelphia was doomed and fell on September 26. Harris’s Brandywine is the first complete study to merge the strategic, political, and tactical history of this complex operation and important set-piece battle into a single compelling account. Nearly a decade in the making, his sweeping prose relies almost exclusively upon original archival research and his personal knowledge of the terrain. Enhanced with original maps, illustrations, and modern photos, and told largely through the words of those who fought there, Brandywine will take its place as one of the most important military studies of the American Revolution ever written.

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The ever-popular blue jean originated in the Old West frontier of San Francisco in the late 1800s, and here is an extensive look at the entire era of Old West denim. Gathered from collections around the world, it presents never-before-seen pictures of antique “miner’s denim” worn in the frontier communities of Nevada and California, including Levi denim that is over 120 years old. More than a dozen other brands that helped make blue jeans what they are today include Greenebaum Brothers, Neustadter Brothers, S. R. Krouse, A. B. Elfelt & Co., Heynemann & Co., Harman Adams, W. & I. Steinhart & Co., Toklas, Brown, and others. Many of these innovative blue-jean designs have been lost in the dust of history and were inaccessible to the public until now. Over 300 color photos and illustrations chronicle examples, patent drawings, and the histories of the manufacturers. This is invaluable information for fashion historians and collectors alike.

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When The Hunger Games series began in 2008, many commentators lumped it in with other young adult genre fiction. But The Hunger Games was always more political. It’s since become the defining story for a generation that’s grown up with economic crisis and never ending war. An uber-rich ruling class gorge themselves in their gleaming high-tech Capitol, while working people are left behind to survive in exploited districts. Revolution is a forgotten hope kept at bay by brutal policing, aching poverty, and rigid class segregation. Suzanne Collins' dark vision has only become more relevant as The Hunger Games generation are thrown into an arena of increasingly brutal competition from which it seems like there is no escape, amid the climate crisis, global pandemics, rampant inequality, authoritarianism, media misinformation, and violence and cruelty as TV spectacle. It's no wonder the story continues to resonate. Stay Alive uses the story to shed light on our own age of extreme inequalities and climate collapse, in which elites use state power, compliant media, and violent spectacle to pacify their populations. The elite endgame is leading us towards our own version of Panem, an authoritarian state order we’ll call Capitolism. The world is catching fire. Elites have no intention of burning with us. And yet there is hope, which Michael Harris finds for his readers in revolution and radical solidarity, in the anti-authoritarian, empathetic, cooperative politics of a generation that has no choice but to rebel.

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What does it mean that our most popular modern myth is a radical left story about fighting corporate authoritarianism? From its roots in the 1960s new left, Star Wars still speaks to millions of people today. By design, the saga mirrors our own time and politics. A real empire of corporate domination has arisen within weakened and corrupted republics. Now it threatens our existence on a planetary scale. But the popularity of Star Wars also suggests that if we tell the right stories, we can welcome many more people to the rebellion and the fight for a better world...

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Contain all the recorded material from the Students' Book.

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Contain all the recorded material from the Students' Book.

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12 thematic modules for Pre-Intermediate and 10 thematic modules for Elementary and Upper Intermediate, each divided into sections: - Topic Talk (opening page) - networks that provide guided choice by marrying functional language with lexical items - Grammar Skills - Writing Workshop - Speaking Workshop Text Builder in units for process writing Grammar Practice - Grammatical structures compared and contrasted. Students trained in choosing forms that best express given meanings and intentions Language Review/Self Assessment every second module. Revision exercises where students check their answers and use a feedback guide to choose what they need to practise more Listening with two levels of difficulty (slow speed and authentic speed) catering for different levels of students. Also gives the option of listening to the more difficult version after students have listened to the easier level Culture Choice - 6 x lessons at back of Students' Book every two units which include cultural input, literature, songs and projects At the back of the Students' Book: - Skills Builder - while doing listening, reading, writing and communicative activities, learners are given suport with strategies and language - Culture Choice (optional lessons which present reading texts, poems and songs with projects related to the students' own culture) - Language Choice booklet (further practice of vocabulary and grammar with a reference section for each language point that is presented)

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Contains all you need to know to understand statistics in medicine. Medical Statistics Made Easy has been a perennial bestseller since the first edition was published (it is consistently a #1 bestseller in medical statistics/biostatistics on Amazon). It is recommended and required worldwide on a variety of courses and programmes, from undergraduate medicine, through to professional medical qualifications. It is a book of key statistics principles for anyone studying or working in medicine and healthcare who needs a basic overview of the subject. It is ideal for non-statisticians who need to understand how statistics are used and applied in medicine and medical research. Using a consistent format, the authors describe the most common statistical methods in turn and then rate them on how difficult they are to understand and how common they are. The worked examples that demonstrate the statistical method in action include current articles from the medical literature and now feature a wider range of medical journals. This fourth edition continues with the same structure as the previous editions, with new sections on cut-off points and ROC curves, as well as a new chapter on choosing the right statistical test. It also features a completely revised and updated 'Statistics at work' section.

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Contain all the recorded material from the Students' Book.

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Contain all the recorded material from the Students' Book.

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What do pure mathematicians do, and why do they do it? Looking beyond the conventional answers--for the sake of truth, beauty, and practical applications--this book offers an eclectic panorama of the lives and values and hopes and fears of mathematicians in the twenty-first century, assembling material from a startlingly diverse assortment of scholarly, journalistic, and pop culture sources. Drawing on his personal experiences and obsessions as well as the thoughts and opinions of mathematicians from Archimedes and Omar Khayyam to such contemporary giants as Alexander Grothendieck and Robert Langlands, Michael Harris reveals the charisma and romance of mathematics as well as its darker side. In this portrait of mathematics as a community united around a set of common intellectual, ethical, and existential challenges, he touches on a wide variety of questions, such as: Are mathematicians to blame for the 2008 financial crisis? How can we talk about the ideas we were born too soon to understand? And how should you react if you are asked to explain number theory at a dinner party? Disarmingly candid, relentlessly intelligent, and richly entertaining, Mathematics without Apologies takes readers on an unapologetic guided tour of the mathematical life, from the philosophy and sociology of mathematics to its reflections in film and popular music, with detours through the mathematical and mystical traditions of Russia, India, medieval Islam, the Bronx, and beyond.

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‘An elegant, thoughtful book . . . beautifully expresses the importance and experience of liberation from the battery-hen life of constant connection and crowds.’ Daily Mail‘A compelling study of the subtle ways in which modern life and technologies have transformed our behaviour and sense of self.’ Times Literary SupplementIn a world of social media and smartphones, true solitude has become increasingly hard to find. In this timely and important book, award-winning writer Michael Harris reveals why our hyper-connected society makes time alone more crucial than ever. He delves into the latest neuroscience to examine the way innovations like Google Maps and Facebook are eroding our ability to be by ourselves. He tells the stories of the remarkable people – from pioneering computer scientists to great nineteenth-century novelists – who managed to find solitude in the most unexpected of places. And he explores how solitude can bring clarity and creativity to each of our inner lives. Urgent, eloquent and beautifully argued, Solitude might just change the way you think about being alone.‘Speaks to a long-overdue conversation we still haven’t properly had in our society.’ Vice‘A timely, elegant provocation to daydream and wander.’ Nathan Filer, author of The Shock of the Fall‘The leading thinker about technology’s corrupting influence on our collective psyche.’ Newsweek‘A poetic, contemplative journey into the benefits of solo sojourning.’ Elle

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Students' eText offers an interactive individualized learning experience. Students can access the course on any device, wherever they are and whenever they want to.

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MyEnglishLab provides an enriched learning environment and activities that are instantly graded and correlated to the course. It allows you the flexibility of personalising tasks for each student to help them reach their goals and instant access to a range of diagnostic tools. Teacher’s eText for Interactive Whiteboards helps to manage classes and keeps students focused. Students' eText offers an interactive individualized learning experience.

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*12 thematic modules for Pre-Intermediate and 10 thematic modules for Elementary and Upper Intermediate, each divided into sections: - Topic Talk (opening page) - networks that provide guided choice by marrying functional language with lexical items - Grammar Skills - Writing Workshop - Speaking Workshop *Text Builder in units for process writing *Grammar Practice - Grammatical structures compared and contrasted. Students trained in choosing forms that best express given meanings and intentions *Language Review/Self Assessment every second module. Revision exercises where students check their answers and use a feedback guide to choose what they need to practise more *Listening with two levels of difficulty (slow speed and authentic speed) catering for different levels of students. Also gives the option of listening to the more difficult version after students have listened to the easier level *Culture Choice - 6 x lessons at back of Students' Book every two units which include cultural input, literature, songs and projects * At the back of the Students' Book: - Skills Builder - while doing listening, reading, writing and communicative activities, learners are given suport with strategies and language - Culture Choice (optional lessons which present reading texts, poems and songs with projects related to the students' own culture) - Language Choice booklet (further practice of vocabulary and grammar with a reference section for each language point that is presented)

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Students' eText offers an interactive individualized learning experience. Students can access the course on any device, wherever they are and whenever they want to.

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12 thematic modules for Pre-Intermediate and 10 thematic modules for Elementary and Upper Intermediate, each divided into sections: - Topic Talk (opening page) - networks that provide guided choice by marrying functional language with lexical items - Grammar Skills - Writing Workshop - Speaking Workshop Text Builder in units for process writing Grammar Practice - Grammatical structures compared and contrasted. Students trained in choosing forms that best express given meanings and intentions Language Review/Self Assessment every second module. Revision exercises where students check their answers and use a feedback guide to choose what they need to practise more Listening with two levels of difficulty (slow speed and authentic speed) catering for different levels of students. Also gives the option of listening to the more difficult version after students have listened to the easier level Culture Choice - 6 x lessons at back of Students' Book every two units which include cultural input, literature, songs and projects At the back of the Students' Book: - Skills Builder - while doing listening, reading, writing and communicative activities, learners are given suport with strategies and language - Culture Choice (optional lessons which present reading texts, poems and songs with projects related to the students' own culture) - Language Choice booklet (further practice of vocabulary and grammar with a reference section for each language point that is presented)

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Levels 1 and 2 cover the key objectives in the Council of Europe’s Waystage level (A2), corresponding to CESOL’s KET exam. Levels 3 and 4 cover all the key objectives in the Council of Europe’s Threshold level (B1), corresponding to CESOL PET exam, as well as some of the objectives in the Vantage level (B2). The Workbook and Multi-ROM include preparation and practice for these exams. Themes are: related to students’ own world (friends, shopping, films, neighbours, holidays, sport) cross-curricular (science and technology, history) develop citizenship education (belonging and identity, diversity, awareness of disability) about other cultures around the world (lifestyles, charity concerts, technology) Organisation: Get Ready page introduces topics First lesson presents grammar through reading texts and practice Second lesson develops reading, presents vocabulary and practises speaking Third lesson develops the story with a focus on speaking and listening Across Cultures lessons with reading, speaking project work Your Challenge writing tasks and Understanding Grammar spots The end of every module has a language check and learner development spot Fact or Fiction texts extend students’ language by deciding whether information is true or false Time Out magazine with fun activities like puzzles, games and reading for pleasure. Picture Dictionary

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12 thematic modules for Pre-Intermediate and 10 thematic modules for Elementary and Upper Intermediate, each divided into sections: - Topic Talk (opening page) - networks that provide guided choice by marrying functional language with lexical items - Grammar Skills - Writing Workshop - Speaking Workshop Text Builder in units for process writing Grammar Practice - Grammatical structures compared and contrasted. Students trained in choosing forms that best express given meanings and intentions Language Review/Self Assessment every second module. Revision exercises where students check their answers and use a feedback guide to choose what they need to practise more Listening with two levels of difficulty (slow speed and authentic speed) catering for different levels of students. Also gives the option of listening to the more difficult version after students have listened to the easier level Culture Choice - 6 x lessons at back of Students' Book every two units which include cultural input, literature, songs and projects At the back of the Students' Book: - Skills Builder - while doing listening, reading, writing and communicative activities, learners are given suport with strategies and language - Culture Choice (optional lessons which present reading texts, poems and songs with projects related to the students' own culture) - Language Choice booklet (further practice of vocabulary and grammar with a reference section for each language point that is presented)

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This third edition of Catch up Compendium contains the most up-to-date editions of the three existing Catch Up books: Biology, Chemistry and Maths & Stats. It provides over 600 pages of background material essential for any student studying courses in the biological and biomedical sciences. The book provides a bridge between school and university courses and provides invaluable support for the fundamental concepts covered during first year university modules. Catch Up Compendium is a unique combination: course book, revision guide, and reference source - your first year studies will be much easier with a copy by your side.

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This book will help you to understand and appraise clinical research articles and guidelines and assess how they should influence your practice. Assuming no prior knowledge, Clinical Evidence Made Easy starts by explaining the theory of evidence-based practice, including: understanding the hierarchy of evidence how to recognize bias assessing research papers making sense of qualitative research making use of clinical guidelines what to do with evidence from pharmaceutical companies how to apply the evidence in real life. The book concludes with a section covering clinical evidence at work (completely updated for this new edition) which: provides you with simple appraisal tools that you can use to evaluate research papers and clinical guidance uses extracts from original journal articles to show how you can put the appraisal tools and theory into practice. This new edition has been thoroughly revised and updated, and now features ‘Test your understanding’ questions for each chapter, along with answers at the end of the book.

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This state-of-the-art Handbook encompasses theoretical and empirical research on Chinese organizational behavior over the last two decades of its renaissance, with prominent scholars providing critical reviews of empirical studies in Chinese societies on 14 important topics. This comprehensive Handbook explores limitations and challenges arising from attempts to develop indigenous theories and constructs applicable to Chinese social reality. Key contributors integrate the literature in their topic areas, providing directions for pushing forward the frontiers of research into a more culturally sensitive and powerful representation of Chinese organizational behavior. Areas examined include emotional intelligence, creativity and motivation, leadership, team conflicts, trust, power and business ethics. Experienced practitioner input is included. Scholars interested in research on international business and Chinese work behaviors and their effective management will find much of value in this compilation. Students of management, including organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic management, and international management will also find information and guidance that will prove invaluable as will practitioners who have business connections in China and other Chinese societies. Contributors: S. Aryee, M.H. Bond, P. Cardona, C.C. Chen, N.Y. Chen, X.-P. Chen, Z.X. Chen, F.M.-c. Cheung, M. Chong, W. Fan, R. Fischer, R. Friedman, P.P. Fu, D.N. Henry, S. Hornung, G.-h. Huang, X. Huang, K.-K. Hwang, T.-Y. Kim, S.J. Kulich, J.Y.M. Lai, C.K. Lam, L.W. Lam, D.C.-s. Lau, C. Lee, Y.-t. Lee, K. Leung, W. Li, W. Liu, V.M.-C. Lun, I. Ng, S.B.C. Ng, K. Peng, D.M. Rousseau, Y.F. Shang, P.B. Smith, L.J. Song, D. Tjosvold, A.S. Tsui, S.S. Wen, A. Wong, C.-S. Wong, J. Wu, M. Wu, J. Wuttke, E. Xu, J. Yao, H.H. Zhao, J. Zhou

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This state-of-the-art Handbook encompasses theoretical and empirical research on Chinese organizational behavior over the last two decades of its renaissance, with prominent scholars providing critical reviews of empirical studies in Chinese societies on 14 important topics. This comprehensive Handbook explores limitations and challenges arising from attempts to develop indigenous theories and constructs applicable to Chinese social reality. Key contributors integrate the literature in their topic areas, providing directions for pushing forward the frontiers of research into a more culturally sensitive and powerful representation of Chinese organizational behavior. Areas examined include emotional intelligence, creativity and motivation, leadership, team conflicts, trust, power and business ethics. Experienced practitioner input is included. Scholars interested in research on international business and Chinese work behaviors and their effective management will find much of value in this compilation. Students of management, including organizational behavior, human resource management, strategic management, and international management will also find information and guidance that will prove invaluable as will practitioners who have business connections in China and other Chinese societies. Contributors: S. Aryee, M.H. Bond, P. Cardona, C.C. Chen, N.Y. Chen, X.-P. Chen, Z.X. Chen, F.M.-c. Cheung, M. Chong, W. Fan, R. Fischer, R. Friedman, P.P. Fu, D.N. Henry, S. Hornung, G.-h. Huang, X. Huang, K.-K. Hwang, T.-Y. Kim, S.J. Kulich, J.Y.M. Lai, C.K. Lam, L.W. Lam, D.C.-s. Lau, C. Lee, Y.-t. Lee, K. Leung, W. Li, W. Liu, V.M.-C. Lun, I. Ng, S.B.C. Ng, K. Peng, D.M. Rousseau, Y.F. Shang, P.B. Smith, L.J. Song, D. Tjosvold, A.S. Tsui, S.S. Wen, A. Wong, C.-S. Wong, J. Wu, M. Wu, J. Wuttke, E. Xu, J. Yao, H.H. Zhao, J. Zhou

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Catch Up Maths & Stats covers the core maths skills you will need on any life or medical sciences course including: working with fractions and powers preparation of a dilution series how to calculate standard deviation using and understanding graphs analysing enzyme kinetics choosing the right statistical test Over 200 examples are provided to show the relevance and application of maths and stats to your course. This second edition also now provides further coverage of differentiation and integration alongside nearly 70 more questions and answers to help you test your understanding. Catch Up Maths & Statswill bring you up to speed in the shortest possible time, even if you didn't study maths at advanced level.

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THE LEARNER-CENTERED CURRICULUM “If an institution is to be truly learner-centered, all processes and practices need to be learner-centered, and the curriculum is no exception.”—From the Preface The Learner-Centered Curriculum is for educators and administrators who envision an educational environment that produces students who are creative and autonomous learners. By encouraging an appreciation and adoption of learner-centered practices, educators can transform their curricula to become more focused on the learner. The book presents a framework for curriculum design based on learner-centered principles while at the same time offering technical advice on implementation as well as the strategic use of assessment, technology, and physical spaces to support innovative design. The authors include several examples of existing curricula that illustrate their framework in practice. Throughout the book, they emphasize the need for assessment, both formative and summative, stressing the point that assessment is an effective driver of change. The book includes a wide variety of options both for individual classroom practice and for programmatic assessment. The Learner-Centered Curriculum explores the current technology and tools available to educators that can support learner-centered practices and foster autonomous learning and demonstrates how technology can assist in removing some of the obstacles to achieving a learner-centered design. In addition, the authors explain the importance of physical spaces in relation to learner-centered curricular design and show how to tie renovation to curricular implementation to foster incentive to innovate and provide a physical manifestation of learner-centered principles.

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