You want a holiday that is more thrilling than lying beside the pool but you are concerned about the impact on the environment. From husky sledding in Lapland to sea-kayaking in New Zeal&, Adventure Travel, written by award-winning travel writer William Gray, will stir your wanderlust. Ethical travel dilemmas will challenge your perceptions with tough questions on topics such as carbon offsetting & wildlife conservation, while first-hand accounts of fascinating adventures will fire your imagination. There's also advice on how to be a responsible traveller & plenty of practical information, whether you are an experienced adventurer or a beginner. ...

Having lost ten years to heroin addiction & recovery, the author emerges now as a fully-fledged & significant English poet. This book

Includes:: his poems that address Englishness, secular Jewishness, & the childhood pleasures of Oxfordshire
- an increasingly deceptive pastoral, stalked & eventually shattered by heroin.


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' Niccolo Machiavelli is misunderstood, ' argues the author in his twenty-first-century reworking of the Italian philosopher's masterpiece, The Prince. Illustrating each of Machiavelli's maxims with a description of events that occurred during Tony Blair's time as Prime Minister, this book is designed to be The Prince for modern times. ...

Aimed at effectively delivering the 2008 framework, the Pupil Books are packed with functional maths questions & spreads & ensure progression by providing differentiated material for each level. Year 7 Pupil Book 3 is fully levelled with built-in progression helping students to progress with complete confidence from level 5 to level 6. This Pupil Book: * Guarantees progression with colour-coded levelling & level boosters to help pupils work at the right level & progress with ease. * Enables pupils to develop vital functional skills & put maths into context with the help of the integrated functional maths questions & exciting real-world spreads. * Promotes personalised learning & self assessment using pupil-friendly learning objectives for every chapter. * Eases the class into understanding new concepts with worked examples. * Stretches & challenges the knowledge & skills of pupils using extension activities. * Provides rigorous maths practice with the hundreds of levelled questions. * Captures pupils' attention using the colourful design. * See the Teacher's Pack for more support & answers. ...

Offers an account of the ways in which successive media of electronic communication have been anticipated, debated, & taken up in the twentieth-century United States. Illuminating both the continuities & disjunctions between old media & new, this book offers insights into the relationship between technological change & cultural form. ...

I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper & jerked it under the tape. ' Shoot, ' I muttered when the paper sliced my finger.

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I stuck my finger under the edge of the paper & jerked it under the tape. Shoot I muttered when the paper sliced my finger. A single drop of blood oozed from the tiny cut. It all happened very quickly then. No! Edward roared.. . Dazed & disorientated, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm
- & into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires. For Bella Swan, there is one thing more important than life itself: Edward Cullen. But being in love with a vampire is more dangerous than Bella ever could have imagined. Edward has already rescued Bella from the clutches of an evil vampire but now, as their daring relationship threatens all that is near & dear to them, they realise their troubles may just be beginning.. .
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Since the first edition of " Natural alternatives to HRT" was published in 1997, a wealth of new knowledge has greatly altered our knowledge of HRT, this edition takes account of those changes. It features a plan of action & looks at the safety of HRT & new designer HRTs. ...

An anthology of contemporary poetry from Northern Ireland with an introduction that gives the reader historical perspective into political & cultural contexts. It contains a brief selection of classic poems by established authors that introduces the featured poets (born between 1956 & 1975). ...

A new edition of Jon Stallworthy's acclaimed anthology marks the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War. Complete with a revised introduction & 42 new poems, the volume offers diverse account of war poetry from Homer's The Iliad to poems written about the wars of the twenty-first century. ...