Stella was a clever girl, everyone thought so. Living with her mother & rather unsatisfactory stepfather in suburban respectability she reads voraciously, smokes until her voice is hoarse & dreams of a less ordinary life. When she meets Val, he seems to her to embody everything she longs for
- glamour, ideas, excitement & the thrill of the unknown. But these things come at a price & one that Stella despite all her cleverness doesn`t realise until it is too late.
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As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from `top-performing` education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of countries whose teenagers ranked top in the world in reading, maths & science. Cleverlands documents Crehan`s journey around the world, weaving together her experiences with research on policy, history, psychology & culture to offer extensive new insights into what we can learn from these countries. ...

The Adventure Series is an activity oriented map which shows detailed landscape information, like rivers, lakes, contours, bogs, tracks & other physical features. It provides detailed mapping in specific locations for the outdoor enthusiast such as mountaineers, hill walkers, cyclists & other users of the Irish countryside. The Adventure Series is printed on Water Resistant Paper. ...

Cleworth Hall in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map covers the eastern part of Tyldesley along Sale Lane & around Mort Lane. Stretches of the LNWR Eccles Tyldesley & Wigan line & the L&YR Pendleton & Hindley lines run across the map. The hamlet of New Manchester is at the eastern edge. This is a semi-rural area & principal features include New Lester Colliery, Makants, Madams Wood, Cleworth Hall, Cleworth Hall Colliery, Combermere Colliery (top left corner), Tyldesley Cemetery, etc. On the reverse is the 6” map, covering a larger area extending northward to Greenheys & Little Hulton. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Who will protect our planet from the corporations, governments, & individuals who pollute, destroy, & devastate our natural world? Step forward a fresh new breed of passionately purposeful environmental lawyers, whose client is the Earth itself. At the head of this legal army stands James Thornton, who takes governments to court, & wins. In Client Earth, we travel from Poland to Ghana, from Alaska to China, to see how citizens can use public interest law to protect our planet
- & our future.
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Surfing in Ireland was once considered little more than a fringe & slightly lunatic pursuit. The treacherous coastline & ice waters of the Atlantic did not sit comfortably with the stereotype of surfing as the favoured pastime of the bronzed & privileged. But with the discovery in the past few years of the gargantuan Aileen`s wave at the Cliffs of Moher & other heavy waves, the Irish coast has become one of the worst kept secrets in world surfing. In ” Cliffs of Insanity”, the ” Irish Times” sportswriter Keith Duggan tells the story of a dedicated group of surfers in County Clare whose lives revolve around the pursuit of Ireland`s wildest waves. The book traces the evolution of Fergal Smith, the young Mayo man whose intuition for big waves has earned him a serious reputation & explores the world of Mickey Smith, the roving Cornish man who discovered Aileen`s & whose breathtaking surf photography has caught the Irish landscape in an entirely new & original light. Bitter cold days, broken bones, busted boards, scars, near drownings & countless hours in the freezing water trying to read the ocean is the price they pay for those few transcendent seconds when they master a wave. ” Cliffs of Insanity” is about the importance of pursuing what matters in life but it is also about community & friendship, & the passionate pursuit of a way of life that flies in the face of everything championed in Ireland over the last decade. ...

Using an extensive postcard collection, this book will include locations such as the church where Agatha Christie married one Christmas Eve, a street of eighteenth-century houses, the railway through the rocks of Avon Gorge, Royal York Crescent, The Clifton Club, The Victoria Rooms, Watts Folly Clifton library, eighteenth-century Goldney House with its grotto made from West Indies sea shells, Clifton college, Lord Mayor`s mansion house, Merchant`s Hall, Brunel`s Clifton Suspension Bridge & lots more. ” Clifton: History You Can See” shows that evidence of the past can be seen in everyday surroundings & will fascinate all who know the area. ...

Clifton North & Wet Earth Colliery in 1907 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. The map was divided between Whitefield UDC, Outwood Parish & Barton upon Irwell Rural District. The River Irwell runs through the map & major features include Wet Earth Colliery, Pilkington`s Tile Works, Chloride Accumulator Works, a stretch of the Clifton Accrington railway with Molyneux Brow station, Dixon Fold station, the Wet Earth Railway, the Manchester Bolton & Bury Canal, Fletcher`s Canal, Outwood Bleach Works, Giant`s Seat Wood, Little Hurst Wood, Bolton sewage farm, Dixon Fold, St Anne`s church, Robin Hood Siding, etc. On the reverse is a large extract from 6” to the mile map 95SE giving fuller coverage of the around Clifton & Kearsley. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25” OS Series: Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. The plans have been taken from the Ordnance Survey mapping & reprinted at about 15 inches to one mile (1:4, 340). On the reverse most maps have historical notes & many also include extracts from contemporary directories. Most maps cover about one mile (1.6kms) north/south, one & a half miles (2.4kms) across; adjoining sheets can be combined to provide wider coverage.FOR MORE INFORMATION & A COMPLETE LIST OF ALL AVAILABLE TITLES PLEASE CLICK ON THE SERIES LINK. ...

Described by the poet John Betjeman as `the handsomest suburb of Europe`, Clifton stands overlooking the centre of the ancient maritime city of Bristol. Made famous by Brunel`s Suspension Bridge, Clifton is also well known for its splendid Georgian & Victorian architecture & its beautiful surroundings & views. It is home to the University of Bristol, the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery, Bristol Zoo Gardens & many other attractions such as the Downs, the Royal Promenade, the Avon Gorge & Clifton village itself. Clifton has a long & fascinating history from the Iron Age through to the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries, when it first became famous for housing visitors to the Hotwells spa & the home of wealthy Bristolian merchants & industrialists. In this book we see how Clifton has evolved while retaining its sense of community. Churches, pubs, shops & businesses have developed & changed through time but there is a remarkable feeling of continuous vibrancy & growth. History & modern life have truly melded together in Clifton & its neighbourhood. ...

Reviewing the history & causes of climatic change & evaluating regional models, this New Naturalist volume offers an important analysis of climatic variations. Much has happened in our knowledge of climate & weather over the past fifty years. The recording of relations between weather & natural history has continued to be of constant interest, with the weather providing a continual & essential backdrop to natural history accounts. But the significance of this backdrop has been very much widened by our better understanding of climate change & its effects on flora, fauna & biodiversity & also by our increased knowledge of historical climates & weather events. In this timely addition to the New Naturalist Library, leading climatologist John Kington offers a comprehensive & up-to-date survey of the diverse climate of the British Isles. Examining the ways in which regional climates evolve from the interplay of meteorological conditions & geography of the British Isles, the author analyses the climatic characteristics & provides a historical overview of changing weather patterns, which is complemented by fascinating & never-before published photographs. Kington reviews the many ways in which people have observed & recorded weather conditions throughout the ages. It is a story based on a rich & varied resource stretching back 2000 years. This approach has allowed climatic trends, anomalies & extremes to be identified over the past two millennia, putting our present experience of weather into striking perspective. ...