While some people look back on school as the best days of your life for others the experience can be unpleasant & gruelling. Learning without School" is a practical handbook for parents who want to educate their children at home but are unsure that they have the skills & know-how required to give their child the best education possible. This book explains what home education is; the advantages & disadvantages of choosing this route; how to begin home educating; what you need to do & how to help your child adjust; & how home education affects childrens social skills & friendships. It also covers technical aspects such as the curriculum core Subjects exams & timetables. Ross Mountney also considers children with learning difficulties or special needs & how to approach home education differently for this group of children. Each chapter contains a summary of key points useful websites hints & tips & real-life case studies. This practical guide offers indispensible support for parents who are considering home education for their child &

Includes:: a broad philosophy of education that will interest all parents & professionals involved in education & child welfare."

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If I knew I was going to die today Id still want to hear the cricket scores
- J.H. Hardy. Prepare to be hit for six by this witty
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A Mulliner collection In the Angler's Rest drinking hot scotch & lemon sits one of Wodehouse's greatest raconteurs. Mr Mulliner his vivid imagination lubricated by Miss Postlethwaite the barmaid has fabulous stories to tell of the extraordinary behaviour of his far-flung family: in particular there's Wilfred inventor of Raven Gypsy face-cream & Snow of the Mountain Lotion who lights on the formula for Buck-U-Uppo a tonic given to elephants to enable them to face tigers with the necessary nonchalance. Its explosive effects on a shy young curate & then the higher clergy is gravely revealed. Then there's his cousin James the detective-story writer who has inherited a cottage more haunted than anything in his own imagination. & Isadore Zinzinheimer head of the Bigger Better & Brighter Motion Picture Company. Tall tales all
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When a body is found floating in the Thames river lock one damp & dreary morning Superintendent Duncan Kincaid & Sergeant Gemma James are summoned from Scotland Yard to the Chiltern Hills outside London. The dead man is Connor Swann son-in-law of London's most renowned opera personalities. & prints on his neck suggest that Swann was strangled. As Duncan & Gemma explore the quiet woods above the Thames & the flamboyant world of London opera in search of answers they discover a tangled web of family secrets & hidden emotions. & when Duncan finds himself dangerously drawn to a suspect he & Gemma must sort out their complicated feelings for one another... ...

Whitman is today regarded as Americas Homer or Dante & his work the touchstone for literary originality in the New World. In Leaves of Grass he abandoned the rules of traditional poetry
- breaking the standard metred line discarding the obligatory rhyming scheme & using the vernacular. Emily Dickinson condemned his sexual & physiological allusions as disgraceful but Emerson saw the book as the most extraordinary piece of wit & wisdom that America has yet contributed. A century later it is his judgement of this autobiographical vision of the vigour of the American nation that has proved the more enduring. This is the most up-to-date edition for student use with full critical apparatus. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford Worlds Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxfords commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more.
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In this memoir of personal discovery loss & renewal Claire Bloom looks beyond the stage & unveils her true identity. One of the most beautiful & gifted actresses of her generation Claire Blooms achievements in theatre & television have been celebrated throughout the world. Bloom traces her fatherless years in the 1930s to her apprenticeship in the British theatre & her rise as an actress in Charles Chaplins Limelight before she was 20. She recounts professional & personal relationships with Laurence Olivier John Gielgud Anthony Hopkins & Paul Schofield & tells of her long entanglement with Richard Burton. She recalls failed marriages to Rod Steiger & Hillard Eskins & the book concludes with a stark account of the most important relationship of her life with writer Philip Roth. ...

In one of the most remarkable memoirs of recent years the acclaimed writer respected thinker & outspoken former bishop Richard Holloway takes us back through a life defined by the biggest questions: Who am I? & what is God? At the tender age of fourteen Richard Holloway left his home in the Vale of Leven north of Glasgow & travelled hundreds of miles to be educated & trained for the priesthood by a religious order in an English monastery. It was an intense cloistered education for an impressionable young man. By twenty-five he had been ordained & was working in the slums of Glasgow. Throughout the forty years that followed Richard touched the lives of many people in the Church & in the wider community. But behind his confident public face lay a restless unquiet heart & a constantly searching mind. How can anyone claim a complete understanding of the mystery of existence? Why is the Church which claims to be the instrument of Gods love so prone to cruelty & condemnation? & how can a man live with the tension between public faith & private doubt? In his long-awaited memoir Richard seeks to answer these questions & to explain how after many crises of faith he finally & painfully left the Church. It is a wise poetic & fiercely honest book. As a portrait of an inner life plagued by doubt it is unsurpassed. ...

This book is the winner of the PEN/ Ackerley Prize 2013. At the tender age of fourteen Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria north of Glasgow & travelled hundreds of miles to be educated & trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been ordained & was working in the slums of Glasgow. Through the forty years that followed Richard touched the lives of many people as he rose to one of the highest positions in the Anglican Church. But behind his confident public faith lay a restless heart & an inquisitive mind. Poignant wise & fiercely honest Leaving Alexandria is a remarkable memoir of a life defined by faith but plagued by doubt. ...

London 1933. Some two months after an Indian woman Usha Pramal is found murdered in a South London canal her brother turns to Maisie Dobbs to find the truth about her death. Not only has Scotland Yard made no arrests but evidence indicates they failed to conduct a full & thorough investigation. Before her death Usha was staying at an ayahs hostel a refuge for Indian women whose British employers had turned them out. As Maisie learns Usha was different from the hostels other lodgers. But with this discovery comes new danger
- soon another Indian woman who was close to Usha is found murdered before she can speak out. As Maisie is pulled deeper into an unfamiliar yet alluring subculture her investigation becomes clouded by the unfinished business of a previous case. & at the same time her lover James Compton gives her an ultimatum she cannot ignore.. .
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It is a cold February night in 1925 when two teenage sisters
- Mollie & Annemarie
- escape from their home in a tiny Irish village.

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