A stunning new look for Jenny Valentine's debut novel winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize The mini cab office was ...

Ken Robinson author of the international bestseller The Element" & the most viewed talk on TED.com offers a practical guide to discovering your passions & natural aptitudes & finding the point at which the two meet: " Finding Your Element". Through a range of stories from his own experience & those of people from all walks of life Ken Robinson explores the diversity of intelligence & the power of imagination & creativity. For some finding their element has brought fame & success like Ellen Mc Arthur's unusual journey from growing up in a landlocked ex-mining town to achieving sailing glory. However many of the inspiring stories are of ordinary people who read the first book & were moved to share how its principles have transformed their lives like the man who found fulfilment as a magician after years of working as a computer engineer. This book also provides the tools techniques resources & advice you need to discover the depth of your abilities & identify opportunities for change. It looks at the conditions that enable you to find yourself: why it's so important to connect with people who share your element & why your attitudes may be holding you back. " Finding Your Element" shows that age & occupation are no barriers to discovering what makes us happiest & that once we have found our path we can help others to do so as well. Sir Ken Robinson Ph.D is an internationally recognized leader in the development of creativity innovation & human potential. He advises governments corporations education systems & some of the world's leading cultural organizations. His 2008 talk on how schools kill creativity is still the most watched video on TED.com with over 13.5 million views to date. Lou Aronica is the author of two novels & coauthor of several works of nonfiction including " The Culture Code" (with Clotaire Rapaille) & " The Element"." ...

Examining the mind-body connection in specific relation to the chakras & feet this treatment manual will appeal to both holistic professionals & dabblers. Key issues & ailments are listed for each particular aspect of the foot along with further explanations & case histories-including overall shape shoes broken nails calluses footprints & bunions. The format & illustrations allow for quick reference as well as in-depth insight when required. ...

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Award-winning poet Kathleen Jamie has an eye & an ease with the nature & landscapes of Scotland as well as an incisive sense of our domestic realities. In Findings" she draws together these themes to describe travels like no other contemporary writer. Whether she is following the call of a peregrine in the hills above her home in Fife sailing into a dark winter solstice on the Orkney islands or pacing around the carcass of a whale on a rain-swept Hebridean beach she creates a subtle & modern narrative peculiarly alive to her connections & surroundings." ...

It is the day before Christmas Eve & there is lots to do but disaster strikes when Pettson sprains his ankle. How can they celebrate Christmas now with no tree ham meatballs or gingerbread? For all their resourcefulness Findus & Pettson are close to giving up when suddenly there is a knock on the door... ...

A Fine & Private Place: Jesmond Old Cemetery tells the remarkable story of Newcastles own necropolis since its opening in 1836. This Highgate of the North contains a wealth of social history. From merchants to murder victims from philanthropists to fever fatalities Alan Morgan also describes over 100 of the famous
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- who lie in Jesmond Old Cemetery. John Dobson the founder of Fenwicks Bainbridges Malings the Hancock Museum & many others who helped shape the city we know today found their last resting place here. The haunting beauty of the cemetery & some extraordinary examples of the monumental masons art are celebrated in fine photography.

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For carvers or crafters looking to create something different this gorgeous book offers the novel & romantic idea of a lovespoon
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Set in mid-1970s India A Fine Balance is a subtle & compelling narrative about four unlikely characters who come together in circumstances no one could have foreseen soon after the government declares a ' State of Internal Emergency'. It is a breathtaking achievement: panoramic yet humane intensely political yet rich with local delight; & above all compulsively readable. ...

The only woman to serve as a soldier in the First World War the Englishwoman Flora Sandes became a hero & media sensation when she fought for the Serbian Army & pursued a distinguished career in its ranks as officer. This account charts her incredible story from her tomboyish childhood in genteel Victorian England her mission to Serbia as a Red Cross volunteer & subsequent military enrolment her celebrity lecture tours of Europe her marriage to a fellow officer & her survival of a Gestapo prison during the Second World War to her final years in Suffolk. A fascinating character of her times & an inspiration to women the world over Flora Sandes is brought to life & restored to her rightful place in history by this authorized biography
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If you loved A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian you'll love The Fine Colour of Rust. Single mother Loretta Boskovic may have fantasies about dumping her two kids in the orphanage & riding off on a Harley with her dream lover but her reality is life in a dusty country town called Gunapan. A self-dubbed 'old scrag' Loretta's got a big heart & a strong sense of injustice. So when Gunapan's primary school is threatened with closure & there's a whiff of corruption wafting through the corridors of the local council she stirs into action. She's short of money influence & a fully functioning car but she does have loyal friends who'll do whatever it takes to hold on to the scrap of world that is home. The Fine Colour of Rust is a wryly funny beautifully observed life-affirming novel about friendship love & fighting for things that matter. In Loretta Boskovic Paddy O' Reilly (writing as P. A. O' Reilly) has created a truly endearing heroine who gives us all permission to dream. ...