A TIMES POLITICAL BOOK OF THE YEAR A LONGMANHISTORY TODAY BOOK OF THE YEAR The award-winning history of the British Welfare State -now fully revised & updated for the 21st Century A masterpiece' Sunday Times Giant Want Giant Disease Giant Ignorance Giant Squalor Giant Idleness These were the Five Giants that loomed over the post-war reconstruction of Britain The battle against them was fought by five gargantuan programmes that made up the core of the Welfare State social security health education housing & a policy of full employment This book brilliantly captures the high hopes of the period in which the Welfare State was created & the cranky zeal of its inventor William Beveridge telling the story of how his vision inspired an entire country The pages of this modern classic hum with the energies & passions of activists dreamers & ordinary Britons & seethe with personal vendettas forced compromises awkward contradictions & the noisy rows of the succeeding seventy years The Five Giants is a testament to a concept of government that is intertwined with so many of our personal histories & a stark reminder of what we might stand to lose ...

The Penguin English Library Edition of The Five Orange Pips & Other Cases by Arthur Conan Doyle' He is the Napoleon of crime Watson He sits motionless like a spider in the centre of its web but that web has a thousand radiations & he knows well every quiver of each of them' Sherlock Holmes scourge of criminals everywhere whether they be lurking in London's foggy backstreets or plotting behind the walls of an idyllic country mansion & his faithful colleague Dr Watson solve these breathtaking & perplexing mysteries In Arthur Conan Doyle's The Five Orange Pips & Other Cases we encounter some of his most famous & devilishly difficult problems The Penguin English Library
- 100 editions of the best fiction in English from the eighteenth century & the very first novels to the beginning of the First World War
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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 Biography of Red Nichols a gifted country boy who comes to the big city & becomes a famous trumpeter ...

THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is a wonderfully moving fable that addresses the meaning of life & life after death in the poignant way that made TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE such an astonishing book The novel's protagonist is an elderly amusement park maintenance worker named Eddie who while operating a ride called the ' Free Fall' dies while trying to save a young girl who gets in the way of a falling cart that hurtles to earth Eddie goes to heaven where he meets five people who were unexpectedly instrumental in some way in his life While each guide takes him through heaven Eddie learns a little bit more about what his time on earth meant what he was supposed to have learned & what his true purpose on earth was Throughout there are dramatic flashbacks where we see scenes from his troubled childhood his years in the army in the Philippines jungle & with his first & only love his wife Marguerite THE FIVE PEOPLE YOU MEET IN HEAVEN is the perfect book to follow TUESDAYS WITH MORRIE Its compellingly affecting themes & lyrical writing will fascinate Mitch Albom's huge readership ...

The bard tiptoes out of his room the crow-dream still echoing in his head making him twitch at imaginary creaks of iron wings The bard must leave Thornbury It is not safe for him to stay Rue his new apprentice travels with him
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Despite what you might have been told we're not inherently selfish The truth is we're inherently kind Scientific evidence has proven that kindness changes the brain impacts the heart & immune system is an antidote to depression & even slows the ageing process We're actually genetically wired to be kind In The Five Side Effects of Kindness David Hamilton shows that the effects of kindness are felt daily throughout our nervous system When we're kind we feel happier & our bodies are healthiest In his down-to-earth & accessible style David shares how Kindness makes us happier Kindness is good for the heart Kindness slows ageing Kindness improves relationships Kindness is contagious ...

A commemorative edition of the landmark book from Patrick Lencioni When it was published ten years ago The Five Temptations of a CEO was like no other business book that came before Highly sought-after management consultant Patrick Lencioni deftly told the tale of a young CEO who facing his first annual board review knows he is failing but doesn't know why Refreshingly original & utterly compelling this razor-sharp novelette plus self-assessment (written to be read in one sitting) serves as a timeless & potent reminder that success as a leader can come down to practicing a few simple behaviors?behaviors that are painfully difficult for each of us to master Any executive can learn how to recognize the mistakes that leaders can make & how to avoid them The lessons of The Five Temptations of a CEO are as relevant today as ever & this special anniversary edition celebrates ten years of inspiration & enlightenment with a brand new introduction & reflections from Lencioni on the new challenges in business & leadership that have occurred in the past ten years ...

Please note this is a Region Free Blu-ray & will play on all Blu-ray players The director & writerstar of Forgetting Sarah Marshall team up again for the irreverent comedy The Five-Year Engagement Beginning where most romantic comedies end the new film from director Nicholas Stoller producer Judd Apatow (Knocked Up The 40-Year-Old Virgin) & Rodney Rothman (Get Him to the Greek) looks at what happens when an engaged couple Jason Segel & Emily Blunt keeps getting tripped up on the long walk down the aisle The film was written by Segel & Stoller ...

Emily Blunt & Jason Segel star as a couple who ride out an unusually long engagement in this romantic comedy from producer Judd Apatow Nicholas Stoller directs from his own script co-written by Segel with a supporting cast that

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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 On their one-year anniversary sous chef Tom Solomon (Jason Segel) plans to surprise his girlfriend violet Barnes (Emily Blunt) with an engagement ring The lovers do end up engaged but the fact that the proposal does not go exactly as planned proves to be a harbinger of things to come Each time they try to set a date various obstacles stand in their way As more & more time passes Tom & violet begin to wonder if perhaps their marriage is not meant to be ...