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- Kathleen Jamie Karen Lloyd takes us on a deeply personal journey around the 60 miles of coastline that make
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The Gatsby Affair explores Zelda Fitzgerald's affair with the French aviator Edouard Jozan who served as the prototype for F Scott Fitzgerald's most famous creation Jay Gatsby This book draws on the Jozan family papers photographs & archival materials & takes a bold new look at the creation of The Great Gatsby ...

The famed ancient Indian guide to lovemaking the Kama Sutra has been used to enhance sexual experiences since the fourth century Now a leading gay author has reinterpreted this iconic erotic manual to create a practical sex guide for gay lovers Clear empowering text celebrating the art of gay lovemaking is accompanied by exquisite sensual artworks from the original Kama Sutra & other homoerotic classical works & tasteful contemporary black & white instructional line drawings The book provides practical advice on sexual technique relationships & emotional wellbeing Featuring an illustrated journey through all the different sexual positions & covering everything from meeting a partner courtship & kissing to games & massage The Gay Man's Kama Sutra is the ultimate guide to satisfying exciting gay love ...

Would GCHQ recruit you? Pit your wits against the people who cracked Enigma in the official puzzle book from Britain's secretive intelligence organisation --------------------------------Odd word out The themes in the following words are identical but totally different! Which is the odd word out in each case? a) ANGLE BRING CLAMP DIRTY EXACT FIELD GRASS HEART IMAGE JAUNTb) ABBEY BURST COURT DRINK ENJOY FOUND GIANT HARMS IDIOT JUMPYIdentify Me My first is in a combine harvester but not in a ploughshare My second is in a pigsty but not in a cowshed My third does not exist My whole is in a farmyard but not in a jungle Identify me--------------------------------GCHQ is a top-secret intelligence & security agency which recruits some of the very brightest minds Over the years their codebreakers have helped keep our country safe from the Bletchley Park breakthroughs of WWII to the modern-day threat of cyberattack So it comes as no surprise that even in their time off the staff at GCHQ love a good puzzle Whether they're recruiting new staff or challenging each other to the toughest Christmas quizzes & treasure hunts imaginable puzzles are at the heart of what GCHQ does Now they're opening up their archives of decades' worth of codes puzzles & challenges for everyone to try In this book you will find
- Tips on how to get into the mindset of a codebreaker
- Puzzles ranging in difficulty from easy to brain-bending
- A competition section where we search for Britain's smartest puzzler Good luck!' Fiendish as frustrating divisive & annoying as it is deeply fulfilling the true spirit of Christmas' The Guardian ' Ideal for the crossword enthusiast' Daily Telegraph


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The GCSE Mindset 40 activities for transforming student commitment motivation & productivity written by Steve Oakes & Martin Griffin offers a wealth of concrete practical & applicable tools designed to supercharge GCSE students' resilience positivity organisation & determination At a time when GCSE teaching can feel like a conveyor belt of micromanaged lessons & last-ditch interventions Steve & Martin
- acclaimed authors of The A Level Mindset
- suggest a different approach underpinned by their VESPA model of essential life skills vision effort systems practice & attitude These five non-cognitive characteristics beat cognition hands down as predictors of academic success & in The GCSE Mindset Steve & Martin take this simple model as their starting point & present a user-friendly month-by-month programme of activities resources & strategies that will help students break through barriers build resilience better manage their workload & ultimately release their potential
- both in the classroom & beyond The book's forty activities while categorised thematically under the VESPA umbrella have been sequenced chronologically by month in order to better chart the student's journey through the academic year & to help them navigate the psychological terrain ahead Each activity can be delivered one-to-one to a tutor group or to a whole cohort has been designed to take fifteen to twenty minutes to complete & has been written with a pupil audience in mind However to complement the tasks' practical utility the authors also explore the underpinning research & theory
- including the pioneering work of Angela Duckworth Dr Steve Bull & Carol Dweck
- in more detail in the introduction to each section Informed by the authors' collective thirty-plus years of teaching & coaching this essential handbook for GCSE success also suggests key coaching questions & interventions for use with pupils &

Includes:: expert guidance on how schools can implement & audit the core components & outcomes of the VESPA approach in their own settings in addition
- & indeed pertinently in the present educational environment where empirical data is valued so highly
- the book features a chapter dedicated to the measurement of mindset written by guest contributors Dr Neil Dagnall & Dr Andrew Denovan from Manchester Metropolitan University They present the twenty-eight-item VESPA questionnaire which they helped Steve & Martin to design & take the reader through the research process behind its origins before going on to describe how it can be used to identify areas for development & to measure the impact of interventions Suitable for teachers tutors & parents who want to boost 14-16-year-olds' academic outcomes & equip them with powerful tools & techniques in preparation for further education & employment








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John Hughes meets Comic Con in this novel about a teenager who is trying to get his best friend to fall in love with him that's an "unabashed love letter & delightful inside joke for comic enthusiasts" (Kirkus Reviews) Peter Parker & Gwen Stacy Archie & Veronica Althena & Noth Graham & Roxy? Graham met his best friend Roxana when he moved into her neighborhood eight years ago & she asked him which Hogwarts house he'd be sorted into Graham has been in love with her ever since But now they're sixteen still neighbors still best friends & Graham & Roxy share more than ever-moving on from their Harry Potter obsession to a serious love of comic books When Graham learns that the creator of their favorite comic The Chronicles of Althena is making a rare appearance at this year's New York Comic Con he knows he must score tickets & the event inspires Graham to come up with the perfect plan to tell Roxy how he really feels about her He's got three days to woo his best friend at the coolest kookiest con full of superheroes & supervillains But no one at a comic book convention is who they appear to beeven Roxy & Graham is starting to realize fictional love stories are way less complicated than real-life ones ...

WINNER OF THE UK BLACK PRIDE LITERARY PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION DIVA AWARDS 2017 & AS SEEN ON TRANSFORMATION STREET ' Opens minds breaks down myths & vaporises prejudice
- I loved it!' Rebecca Root star of Boy Meets Girl 'funny thoughtful & honest I read most of it on the train & had to stifle laughs every few pages' Stylist' It's a boy!' or ' It's a girl!' are the first words almost all of us hear when we enter the world Before our names before we have likes & dislikes
- before we or anyone else has any idea who we are & two years ago as Juno Dawson went to tell her mother she was (and actually always had been) a woman she started to realise just how wrong we've been getting it Gender isn't just screwing over trans people it's messing with everyone From little girls who think they can't be doctors to teenagers who come to expect street harassment From exclusionist feminists to 'alt-right' young men From men who can't cry to the women who think they shouldn't As her body gets in line with her mind Juno tells not only her own story but the story of everyone who is shaped by society's expectations of gender
- & what we can do about it Featuring insights from well-known gender feminist & trans activists including Rebecca Root Laura Bates Gemma Cairney Anthony Anaxagorou Hannah Witton Alaska Thunderfuck & many more The Gender Games is a frank witty & powerful manifesto for a world in which everyone can truly be themselves


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Selected as a Book of the Year by The New York Times The Economist Independent Observer & Mail on Sunday THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 Dramatic & precise A thrilling & comprehensive account of what seems certain to be the most radical controversial & to borrow from the subtitle intimate science of our time He is a natural storyteller A page-turner Read this book & steel yourself for what comes next' Bryan Appleyard Sunday Times The Gene is the story of one of the most powerful & dangerous ideas in our history from bestselling prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee Spanning the globe & several centuries The Gene is the story of the quest to decipher the master-code that makes & defines humans that governs our form & function This is an epic moving history of a scientific idea coming to life by the author of The Emperor of All Maladies But woven through The Gene like a red line is also an intimate history
- the story of Mukherjee's own family & its recurring pattern of mental illness reminding us that genetics is vitally relevant to everyday lives These concerns reverberate even more urgently today as we learn to read & write the human genome
- unleashing the potential to change the fates & identities of our children The story of the gene begins in an obscure Augustinian abbey in Moravia in 1856 where a monk stumbles on the idea of a unit of heredity' It intersects with Darwin's theory of evolution & collides with the horrors of Nazi eugenics in the 1940s The gene transforms post-war biology It reorganizes our understanding of sexuality temperament choice & free will This is a story driven by human ingenuity & obsessive minds
- from Charles Darwin & Gregor Mendel to Francis Crick James Watson & Rosalind Franklin & the thousands of scientists still working to understand the code of codes Majestic in its ambition & unflinching in its honesty The Gene gives us a definitive account of the fundamental unit of heredity
- & a vision of both humanity's past & future



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The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of the perils of hubris the pitfalls of patriotism & duty unaccompanied by critical thinking' The most vivid moving
- & devastating
- word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written here re-introduced by Max Hastings CS Forester's 1936 masterpiece follows Lt General Herbert Curzon who fumbled a fortuitous early step on the path to glory in the Boer War 1914 finds him an honourable decent brave & wholly unimaginative colonel Survival through the early slaughters in which so many fellow-officers perished then brings him rapid promotion By 1916 he is a general in command of 100000 British soldiers whom he leads through the horrors of the Somme & Passchendaele a position for which he is entirely unsuited & intellectually unprepared Wonderfully human with Forester's droll relish for human folly on full display this is the story of a man of his time who is anything but wicked yet presides over appalling sacrifice & tragedy In his awkwardness & his marriage to a Duke's unlovely unhappy daughter Curzon embodies Forester's full powers as a storyteller His half-hero is patriotic diligent even courageous driven by his sense of duty & refusal to yield to difficulties But also powerfully damned is the same spirit which caused a hundred real-life British generals to serve as high priests at the bloodiest human sacrifice in the nation's history A masterful & insightful study about the perils of hubris & unquestioning duty in leadership The General is a fable for our times

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The General in his Labyrinth is the compelling tale of Simon Bolivar a hero who has been forgotten & whose power is fading retracing his steps down the Magdalena River by the Nobel Laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez author of One Hundred Years of Solitude & Love in the Time of Cholera ' It was the fourth time he had travelled along the Magdalena & he could not escape the impression that he was retracing the steps of his life' At the age of forty-six General Simon Bolivar who drove the Spanish from his lands & became the Liberator of South America takes himself into exile He makes a final journey down the Magdalene River revisiting the cities along its shores reliving the triumphs passions & betrayals of his youth Consumed by the memories of what he has done & what he failed to do Bolivar hopes to see a way out of the labyrinth in which he has lived all his life ' An exquisite writer wise compassionate & extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph' An imaginative writer of genius' Guardian' The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton ...