When Danny Harte finds out there's been an anonymous foreign buy-out of his favourite club City he's furious
- the fans were about
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Meet Danny Harte Football fan & crime detective Danny loves supporting his local team City FC So when everyone starts supporting the Italian team Forza FC Danny is angry His club is in jeopardy & needs their support Danny decides to investigate the sudden popularity of the new team
- starting with Forza's billionaire owner
- & that's when the danger really kicks off Can Danny uncover the sinister reasons behind Forza's success
- & save City at the same time?


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In this haunting memoir Alison Gold gives a luminous account of key moments in her life that brought her to be the writer she is They tell of her early activism; they tell of her descent into alcoholism; they tell of her recovery; they tell of her discovery of the power of writing to give a shape & meaning to a life Found & Lost is both a tender memorial to the extraordinary people in her life & a compelling tale of redemption Starting with her childhood experience of running her primary school ' Lost & Found' depot Gold develops though a series of letters a meditation on ageing friendship loss & the forces that link us to the dead In the very act of writing she begins to find a route out of depression & grief Alison Leslie Gold is best known for her works that have kept alive stories from the time of the Holocaust stories of courage & survival
- most famously her Anne Frank Remembered co-authored with Miep Gies (who risked her life to protect the Frank family) She has never chosen to write about her own life or what made her into a gatherer of other people's stories until now in Found & Lost For she has chosen to go back to her childhood in order to chart the origin of her need to save objects stories people
- including herself
- who she has sensed to be on a road to perdition


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One of the first Russian writers to make a name for herself on the Internet Linor Goralik writes conversational short works that conjure the absurd in all its forms reflecting post-Soviet life & daily universals Her mastery of the minimal including a wide range of experiments in different forms of micro-prose is on full display in this collection of poems stories comics a play & an interview here translated for the first time In Found Life speech condensed to the extreme captures a vivid picture of fleeting interactions in a quickly moving world Goralik's works evoke an unconventional palette of moods & atmospheres-slight doubt subtle sadness vague unease-through accumulation of unexpected details & command over colloquial language While calling up a range of voices her works are marked by a distinct voice simultaneously slightly naive & deeply ironic She is a keen observer of the female condition recounting gendered tribulations with awareness & amusement From spiritual rabbits & biblical zoos to poems about loss & comics about poetry Goralik's colorful language & pervasive dark comedy capture the heights of absurdity & depths of grief ...

What's the first Roman object you can think of? Hadrian's Wall? Did you know that thousands more stone metal pottery & wooden objects have been found from this time in human history? All of these objects can tell us a lot about the Romans We know about the animals they farmed the the tools & weapons they used & we know about their everyday life & culture from the remains of the homes they lived in All over Britain Roman artefacts have been Found! Uncover the stories of thirteen incredible finds what they can tell us about life back then & how they might relate to your life today Found! is a series of six books that span British archaeological finds from the Stone Bronze & Iron Ages Roman Britain the Viking Age & the Anglo Saxons Ideal for readers aged 9 studying history topics at Key Stage 2 ...

Foundation & Empire is the story of first contact between the two Foundations of Hari Seldon The Seldon Plan guided the First Foundation safely through two centuries of chaos as the Galactic Empire disintegrated Seldon's recorded holographic image appeared in the Council Chamber on Terminus at moments of crisis predicted by pshychohistory & his voice was heard Even war between the Foundation & the remains of the Empire was foreseen
- & planned for
- by the great scientist But Seldon had no way of predicting the birth of the Mule a mutant of uncanny power & unlimited ambition The Mule's conquests are effortless & his subjects mind-controlled slaves The Foundation is powerless against the supernormal force the Mule exerts The Seldon Plan is in tatters Two men & a woman from Terminus flee to the ruins of might Trantor in an effort to discover where the mysterious Second Foundation was established Its help is needed desperately against the mental powers of the Mule But the Mule using those same astonishing powers is also looking for the Second Foundation

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It is the story of the Galactic Empire crumbling after twelve thousand years of rule & it is the particular story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store a dark age of ignorance barbarism & violence that will last for thirty thousand years Gathering together a band of courageous men & women Seldon leads them to a hidden location at the edge of the galaxy where he hopes they can preserve human knowledge & wisdom against all who would destroy them Asimov went on to add numerous sequels & prequels to the trilogy building up what has become known as the Foundation series but it is the original three books first published in the Forties & Fifties which remain the most powerful imaginative & breathtaking ...

It is 498 years since the two Foundations came into existence
- half-way through the Interregnum planned by Hari Seldon The Second
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If you're like many of Excel's 750 million users you want to do more with your data-like repeating similar analyses over hundreds of files or combining data in many files for analysis at one time This practical guide shows ambitious non-programmers how to automate & scale the processing & analysis of data in different formats-by using Python After author Clinton Brownley takes you through Python basics you'll be able to write simple scripts for processing data in spreadsheets as well as databases You'll also learn how to use several Python modules for parsing files grouping data & producing statistics No programming experience is necessary Create & run your own Python scripts by learning basic syntax Use Python's csv module to read & parse CSV files Read multiple Excel worksheets & workbooks with the xlrd module Perform database operations in My SQL or with the mysqlclient module Create Python applications to find specific records group data & parse text files Build statistical graphs & plots with matplotlib pandas ggplot & seaborn Produce summary statistics & estimate regression & classification models Schedule your scripts to run automatically in both Windows & Mac environments ...