Exam Board SQALevel S1-S3 Subject English First Teaching September 2013 First Exam June 2014 This book brings together the essential close reading skills needed by students taking part in the Broad General Education Levels 3-4 (in S1 to S3) Split into two parts the first section uses examples models & active-learning tasks to teach key concepts of reading for understanding analysis & evaluation The second section provides 15 practice assessments based on a variety of fiction & non-fiction texts which become progressively more challenging As well as allowing learners to demonstrate BGE reading skills this section serves as a useful precursor to the style of assessment encountered later on at National levels This book will help students to- develop their close reading abilities- understand the distinction between key ideas & supporting details- analyse writers' language & style via a broad range of sample texts ...

You put together two things that have not been put together before & the world is changed In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar the pioneer balloonist & aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then finally he gives us the story of his own grief unflinchingly observed This is a book of intense honesty & insight; it is at once a celebration of love & a profound examination of sorrow ...

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The expert con artists of the hit crime drama Leverage are back for an all-new season of complex heists & high-stakes action With the team&s leader Nate Ford (Academy Award-winner Timothy Hutton) now behind bars & his nemesis working for Interpol a beautiful but mysterious stranger steps in to call the shots for TVs hottest gang of master thieves These tech-savvy grafters are highly skilled & ready to settle scores with the criminal underworld It&s time to take things to the next level Actors Timothy Hutton Ginal Bellman Christian Kane Aldis Hodge & Beth Riesgraf Director Dean Devlin Certificate 12 years & over Year 2010 Screen 1771 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play All 15 episodes from the fifth season of the American crime drama starring Timothy Hutton Former insurance investigator Nathan Ford (Hutton) leads a team of professional criminals
- cyber-geek Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge) martial arts expert Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) acrobatic cat burglar Parker (Beth Riesgraf) & charismatic con artist & actress Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman)
- in a quest for revenge against people & companies who misuse their power Actors Timothy Hutton Gina Bellman Christian Kane Beth Riesgraf & Aldis Hodge Certificate 12 years & over Languages English

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Disc 1 1 Jam In The Streets 2 Spellbound 3 Don&t Worry Be Happy 4 So Hot Hot Hot 5 Everything I Own 6 Stop The Messing Around 7 After Tonight 8 Rise Above 9 A Message To You Rudy 10 Where Is The Love? 11 Protected 12 Rice & Peas 13 Phenomenon 14 Stronger Wiser Smarter ...

Viewing politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as mathematics Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan retains its appeal for the modern reader not just in its elevation of politics to a science but in its overriding concern for peace This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction by CB Macpherson Written during the turmoil of the English Civil War Leviathan is an ambitious & highly original work of political philosophy Claiming that man's essential nature is competitive & selfish Hobbes formulates the case for a powerful sovereign or ' Leviathan' to enforce peace & the law substituting security for the 'solitary poor nasty brutish & short' life he believed human beings would otherwise experience This world view shocked many of Hobbes's contemporaries & his work was publicly burnt for sedition & blasphemy when it was first published But in his rejection of Aristotle's view of man as a naturally social being & in his painstaking analysis of the ways in which society can & should function Hobbes opened up a new world of political science Based on the original 1651 text this edition incorporates Hobbes's own corrections while also retaining the original spelling & punctuation & reads with vividness & clarity CB Macpherson's introduction elucidates for the general reader one of the most fascinating works of modern philosophy Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679) was an English philosopher & political theorist one of the first modern Western thinkers to provide a secular justification for the political state Regarded as an important early influence on the philosophical doctrine of utilitarianism Hobbes also contributed to modern psychology & laid the foundations of modern sociology If you enjoyed Leviathan you might enjoy Plato's Republic also available in Penguin Classics ...

With an Introduction by Dr Richard Serjeantson Trinity College Cambridge Since its first publication in 1651 Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan has been recognised as one of the most compelling & most controversial works of political philosophy written in English Forged in the crucible of the civil & religious warfare of the mid-seventeenth century it proposes a political theory that combines an unequivocal commitment to natural human liberty with the conviction that the sovereign power of government must be exercised absolutely Leviathan begins from some shockingly naturalistic starting-points an analysis of human nature as being motivated by vain-glory & pride & a vision of religion as simply the fear of invisible powers made up by the mind Yet from these deliberately unpromising elements Hobbes constructs with unparalleled forcefulness an elaborate systematic & comprehensive account of how political society ought to be ordered law-bound peaceful In Leviathan Hobbes presents us with a portrait of politics which depicts how a state that is made up of the unified body of all its citizens will be powerful fruitful protective of each of its members &
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- free from internal violence

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' Six days ago a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin ' The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero Benjamin Sachs & brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends the writer Peter Aaron What follows is Aaron's story an intricate subtle & gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness & complexity Combining an investigation of freedom & terrorism with all the tension mystery & allusive richness familiar from Auster's The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park Leviathan is an unmissable addition to the canon of 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers' (Times Literary Supplement)'A Brownian motion experiment of a plot
- chock-a-block with identity-swaps sideways sweeps & lateral leaps' Observer
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