Written specially for the new Technical Certificate in Beauty Therapy this book will provide your learners with everything they need to know to succeed in their studies Complementing quality teaching this textbook covers all the knowledge required for each unit as well as illustrating practical skills with industry quality photographic illustrations- Carefully matched to the requirements of the new qualification this comprehensive textbook will provide you & your learners with all the guidance you need through this period of transition in clear & accessible language- Ensures learners can visualise all the necessary practical skills with over 1000 industry quality photographs- Provides invaluable guidance on preparing for the new written exams & practical synoptic end test ...

Written specifically for the new City & Guilds Level 2 Technical Certificates in hairdressing or barbering this book will provide your learners with everything they need to know to succeed in their hairdressing studies Complementing quality teaching this textbook covers all the knowledge required for each unit of study- Carefully matched to the requirements of the new qualifications this comprehensive textbook will provide you & your learners all the guidance you need through this period of transition in clear & accessible language- Contains over a thousand photographs to ensure learners can visualise all the necessary practical skills
- Provides invaluable guidance on the more rigorous assessment regime including written exams & synoptic end tests
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When the body of a murdered woman is found in the extraordinary decaying city of Beszel somewhere at the edge of Europe it looks like a routine case for Inspector Tyador Borlu of the Extreme Crime Squad But as he probes the evidence begins to point to conspiracies far stranger & more deadly than anything he could have imagined Soon his work puts him & those he cares for in danger Borlu must travel to the only metropolis on Earth as strange as his own across a border like no other With shades of Kafka & Philip K Dick Raymond Chandler & 1984 the multi-award winning The City & The City by China Mieville is a murder mystery taken to dazzling metaphysical & artistic heights ...

Clarke's masterful evocation of the far future of humanity considered his finest novel Men had built cities before but never such a city as Diaspar For millennia its protective dome shut out the creeping decay & danger of the world outside Once it held powers that rule the stars But then as legend has it the invaders came driving humanity into this last refuge It takes one man a Unique to break through Diaspar's stifling inertia to smash the legend & discover the true nature of the Invaders ...

In this twist-filled fantasy adventure set in the world of Take Back the Skies & The Almost King a young man must choose between two faces dangerous master of shadows or beloved of the future queen Noah is the finest mask-maker in all of Erova He is responsible & loyal & has won the heart & hand of the future queen Daniel is dangerous & daring Infamous He prowls the filthy rooftops of the maze-like lower city in search of secrets & crime Its people hungry & forgotten have come to need him Noah & Daniel are the same person & Daniel's life is beginning to tangle with Noah's ensnaring the people he loves in a complex web of deception & heartbreak that will become deadly unless Noah can decide once & for all who he really wants to be ...

One of Irish Times' Best Crime Novels of 2017! Dublin September 1940 An IRA attempt to capture the British diplomatic bag on its way from Ireland to England leaves a Guard dead on the streets of Dublin Two days later a pitched battle between warring gangs erupts at one of Ireland's biggest race meetings In the Irish countryside the cremated bodies of a family of four are found in their burned-out house Connections between these events become clear to Detective Inspector Stefan Gillespie when he is dispatched to investigate the four dead bodies
- or is he there to cover something up? He is soon treading on the toes of Ireland's burgeoning Intelligence industry
- Irish British & German all playing against each other all watching each other all plagued by rogue operators they can't control Meanwhile certainty grows that Hitler is about to invade England with Ireland in the firing line & then Stefan is asked to go to Berlin on a sensitive mission the Irish government doesn't want anyone to know about The journey will take him not only to Berlin & the heart of the war but to a murder that touches the city's small Irish community & opens a window on to the heart of Europe's darkness

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In life I was a scientist called Fanning Then in a jungle in Bolivia I died I died & then I was brought back to life Prompted by a voice that lives in her blood the fearsome warrior known as Alicia of Blades is drawn towards to one of the great cities of The Time Before The ruined city of New York Ruined but not empty For this is the final refuge of Zero the first & last of The Twelve The one who must be destroyed if mankind is to have a future What she finds is not what she's expecting A journey into the past To find out how it all began And an opponent at once deadlier & more human than she could ever have imagined ...

A hilarious fantasy adventure set in modern day London An exciting subterranean London adventure the first in a middle-grade trilogy Hyacinth Hayward has recently arrived from America & is having difficulty adjusting to her new surroundings especially being in the sole company of her eccentric mother Everything feels strange Very strange & it gets stranger the day she accidentally unleashes the power of a secret river running through London To prevent a second Great Fire Hyacinth needs to retrieve a single magically charged drop of water from somewhere in the city sewer system Along the way she encounters an eclectic cast of characters
- the shambling monstrous Saltpetre Men who kidnap her mother the Toshers who battle for control of magical artefacts & a giant pig with whom she has a tea party The clock is ticking
- will she figure out who to trust?

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The sixth edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic & contemporary writings on the city to provide the comprehensive mapping of the terrain of Urban Studies & Planning old & new The City Reader is the anchor volume in the Routledge Urban Reader Series & is now integrated with all ten other titles in the series This edition has been extensively updated & expanded to reflect the latest thinking in each of the disciplinary areas included & in topical areas such as compact cities urban history place making sustainable urban development globalization cities & climate change the world city network the impact of technology on cities resilient cities cities in Africa & the Middle East & urban theory The new edition places greater emphasis on cities in the developing world globalization & the global city system of the future The plate sections have been revised & updated Sixty generous selections are included forty-four from the fifth edition & sixteen new selections including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader The sixth edition keeps classic writings by authors such as Ebenezer Howard Ernest W Burgess Le Corbusier Lewis Mumford Jane Jacobs & Louis Wirth as well as the best contemporary writings of among others Peter Hall Manuel Castells David Harvey Saskia Sassen & Kenneth Jackson In addition to newly commissioned selections by Yasser Elshestawy Peter Taylor & Lawrence Vale new selections in the sixth edition include writings by Aristotle Peter Calthorpe Alberto Camarillo Filip De Boech Edward Glaeser David Owen Henri Pirenne The Project for Public Spaces Jonas Rabinovich & Joseph Lietman Doug Saunders & Bish Sanyal The anthology features general & section introductions as well as individual introductions to the selected articles introducing the authors providing context relating the selection to other selection & providing a bibliography for further study The sixth edition

Includes:: fifty plates in four plate sections substantially revised from the fifth edition

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Cities are among the most enduring & remarkable of human artefacts This study explains how & why cities took the shape they did Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes
- organic patterns the grid the city as diagram the grand manner & the skyline
- & interprets the hidden order of urban patterns Photographs historical views & specially commissioned drawings depict a global mosaic of citybuilding the shaping of medieval Siena; the creation of New Delhi as the crown of the Raj; the remodelling of Moscow as the self-styled capital of world socialism & the transformation of the skyline as religious & civic symbols yield to the towers of corporate business

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