This brand new resource has being specially written for the revised CCEA GCSE

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Great for boys with a huge collectability factor bolstered by the cards in the back of the books & links to an excellent interactive website. Malvel has created another ferocious Beast for Tom to battle! Tecton is a massive creature that even Tom might find hard to defeat. Luckily Tom's father Taladon is here to help. Will Tom & Taladon prevail or will it end in tragedy? ...

Anecdotal & immensely charming Ted & I is a unique portrait of a shared childhood between Gerald Hughes & his younger brother Ted one of the finest & best-loved poets of modern times. Hughes brings alive a period when the two brothers would roam the countryside camping making fires pitching tents hunting rabbits rats wood pigeon & stoats. Teds fascination with all wildlife subsequently fed directly into his sublime poetry. Gerald describes watching his brother evolving into a great poet & describes them continuing their relationship even when many miles apart. Containing a great many unique & never-beforeseen family photographs of Ted Hughes as well as unpublished material this extraordinary memoir is an achingly poignant tale of childhood & youth & togetherness; the tenderness of brotherly love & the development of a poetic mind as Hughes went into the air force onto Cambridge where he published his first poems & met Sylvia Plath before settling in Devon with Sylvia where their children were born. Ted & I also features a foreword by Geralds niece Frieda Hughes the daughter of Ted Hughes & Sylvia Plath & herself a well-known painter & poet. ...

In the Poet to Poet" series a contemporary poet advocates a poet of the past or present whom they have particularly admired. By their selection of verses & their critical reactions the selectors offer intriguing insights into their own work. Here Simon Armitage selects Ted Hughes." ...

For the first time one volume surveys the life works & critical reputation of one of the most significant British writers of the twentieth-century: Ted Hughes. This accessible guide to Hughes writing provides a rich exploration of the complete range of his works. In this volume Terry Gifford: offers clear & detailed discussions of Hughes poetry stories plays translations essays & letters;

Includes:: new biographical information & previously unpublished archive material especially on Hughes environmentalism; provides a comprehensive account of Hughes critical reception separated into the major themes that have interested readers & critics; offers useful suggestions for further reading & incorporates helpful cross-references between sections of the guide. Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature" series " Ted Hughes" presents an accessible fresh & fascinating introduction to a major British writer whose work continues to be of crucial importance today."

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Reinhard ' Teddy' Suhren fired more successful torpedo shots than any other man during the war many before he even became a U-boat commander. He was also the U-boat service's most irreverent & rebellious commander; his lack of a military bearing was a constant source of friction with higher authority. Valued for his good humour & ability to lead his nickname was acquired because he marched like a teddy-bear. Despite his refusal to conform to the rigid thought-patterns of National Socialism his operational successes protected him & he found himself accepted in the highest circles of power in Germany. He was one of the lucky third of all U-boat crewmen who survived the war largely because his abilities led to a senior l&-based comm&. He was also one of the first to publish his reminiscences his account being typically forthright
- its German title Nasses Eichenlaub suggesting that although he was decorated with the Oak Leaves he was always in hot water. He died in 1984 but interest in his career was revitalized by the discovery of photographs documenting one of his operations in U 564 published with great success in 2004 as U-Boat War Patrol by Lawrence Patterson.
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In early 1954 on a late train from Southend someone pulled the communication cord. The train ground to a halt. Light bulbs were smashed. Police arrested a gang dressed in Edwardian suits. In April two gangs also dressed Edwardian-style met after a dance. They were ready for action: bricks & s&-filled socks were used. Fifty-five youths were taken in for questioning. The following August Bank Holiday the first Best Dressed Ted Contest was held. The winner was a twenty-year-old greengrocers assistant. The Teddy Boy myth was born. Originally published in 1979 The Teds is a classic of British documentary photography. It is a vivid & absorbing book combining image & text to tell a fascinating story that spans some three decades. ...

* Each theory point is immediately backed up with exercise practice to consolidate learning. * All the exercises are presented in Teeline for all-important reading practice. * The reading & dictation passages prepare students for exam work. * Special outlines distinguishing outlines & word groupings are highlighted so that they can be accessed quickly. ...

The flexible Teeline system of shorthand is based on the English alphabet & gives students scope for developing their own style of writing. This student pack consists of one copy of each of three Teeline Gold" books
- the course book the workbook & the word list."
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What makes a film a teen film? & why when it represents such powerful & enduring ideas about youth & adolescence is teen film usually viewed as culturally insignificant? Teen film is usually discussed as a representation of the changing American teenager highlighting the institutions of high school & the nuclear family & experiments in sexual development & identity formation. But not every film featuring these components is a teen film & not every teen film is American. Arguing that teen film is always a story about becoming a citizen & a subject Teen Film presents a new history of the genre surveys the existing body of scholarship & introduces key critical tools for discussing teen film. Surveying a wide range of films including The Wild One Heathers Akira & Donnie Darko the books central focus is on what kind of adolescence teen film represents & on teen films capacity to produce new & influential images of adolescence. ...