2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the social change brought about by Britain's 1967 Abortion Act However the struggle for abortion rights is far from over Judith Orr argues that it's time women had the right to control their fertility without practical legal & ideological barriers Combining analysis of media coverage statistics popular culture & social attitudes with powerful first-hand accounts of women's experiences she measures the Act's impact showing that full reproductive rights are yet to be won The book highlights current debates over decriminalisation & argues for abortion provision fit for the 21st century ...

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About a Boy is Nick Hornby&s comic & heart-warming million-copy bestseller& How cool was Will Freeman?& Too cool! At thirty-six he&s as hip as a teenager He&s single child-free goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear He&s also found a great way to score with women attend single parents& groups full of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet Marcus is a bit strange he listens to Joni Mitchell & Mozart looks after his mum & has never owned a pair of trainers But Marcus latches on to Will
- & won&t let go Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? & can Marcus help Will just to grow up? This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy starring Hugh Grant & Nicholas Hoult Fans of One Day by David Nicholls & Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere &A stunner of a novel Utterly read-in-one-day forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping& Marie Claire& About the awful hilarious embarrassing places where children & adults meet & Hornby has captured it with delightful precision& Irish Times& It takes a writer with real talent to make this work & Hornby has it
- in buckets& Literary Review

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About a Boy is Nick Hornby&s comic & heart-warming million-copy bestseller& How cool was Will Freeman?& Too cool! At thirty-six he&s as hip as a teenager He&s single child-free goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear He&s also found a great way to score with women attend single parents& groups full of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet Marcus is a bit strange he listens to Joni Mitchell & Mozart looks after his mum & has never owned a pair of trainers But Marcus latches on to Will
- & won&t let go Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? & can Marcus help Will just to grow up? This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy starring Hugh Grant & Nicholas Hoult Fans of One Day by David Nicholls & Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere &A stunner of a novel Utterly read-in-one-day forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping& Marie Claire& About the awful hilarious embarrassing places where children & adults meet & Hornby has captured it with delightful precision& Irish Times& It takes a writer with real talent to make this work & Hornby has it
- in buckets& Literary Review

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Growing up has nothing to do with age Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) & his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette) The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will&s secret & so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place & watch afternoon telly However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship Feature Commentary with Directors Chris & Paul Weitz& Making Of& Featurette Deleted Scenes with Directors& Commentary Badly Drawn Boy Music Videos Interview with Badly Drawn Boy DVD-Rom features Actors Hugh Grant Toni Collette Rachel Weisz Sharon Small Madison Cook Jordan Cook Nicholas Hoult Nat Gastiain Tena Victoria Smurfit Nicholas Hutchison Ryan Speechley Joseph Speechley Natalia Tena Laura Kennington & Tanika Swaby Director Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz Certificate 12 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English For The Hearing Impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Nick Hornby&s second bestselling novel is about sex manliness & fatherhood Will is thirty-six comfortable & child-free & he&s discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women
- through single-parent groups Marcus is twelve & a little bitnerdish he&s got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit & both can start to act their age
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At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman He's charmed
- perhaps too charmed suggests his wife Paola
- by her love of Virgil & Cicero but shocked by her appearance A few days later Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse
- & more sinister material
- in his company's trucks No stranger to mutual suspicion & competition between rival Italian police departments Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect but by the time the photograph arrives he himself is dead Was he killed because he got too close? & how is it that Franca Marinello is involved?



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Beautifully written & compelling About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr Growing up in Alaska young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams At nine he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home The next day unable to prevent it he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life The premonitions keep coming unstoppably He sleepwalks during them bringing catastrophe into his reach Then as unstoppable as a vision he falls in love at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy They flee south landing in Ohio where their daughter Grace is born & then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler as their waterside home is inundated Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning when the floods come he cannot face his destiny & flees He beaches on a remote Caribbean island where he works as a handyman chipping away at his doubts & hopes never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold After two decades he musters the strength to find out ...

Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works This book asks ' What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?' It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system The book consists of 28 units each containing around ten tasks plus a diagnostic introductory unit Units start at phoneme level & progress through words phrases & sentences on to complete texts Task-types include recognition categorisation matching explanation & application tasks Throughout the book the language is illustrated wherever possible from authentic sources so that the teacher can be sure that the English being studied represents current usage ...

The immensely funny & heartwarming number one bestseller tells the story of a woman who gets a second chance in life
- but will
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