A sweet funny & romantic novel from Sunday Times No. 1 bestselling author Jill Mansell. Nell ODriscolls known Marcus Kilburton for years
- according to her diary she even had a crush on him as a teenager. When he decides to open Kilburton Castle to the public Nell takes a job as his assistant
- & soon sparks are flying between them. But is Nell free to pursue Marcus when a figure from her past refuses to let go? Meanwhile Nells best friend Hetty Brewster has other problems. Her husband has abandoned her for a bitchy but successful writer. Now the press is full of stories about the frumpy boring wife losing out to a younger slimmer model. But Hettys about to get her chance for sweet revenge
- if she can stop being a nice person long enough to take it!


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This A4 spiral bound manual has been specifically designed to provide the necessary knowledge & techniques for the successful creation & manipulation of all your newsletters flyers posters etc. The accompanying data files on CD are designed to help demonstrate the features you are learning using a step-by-step approach. ...

Stella Rimington was educated at Nottingham Girls High School & Edinburgh & Liverpool Universities. In 1959 she started work in the Worcestershire County Archives moving in 1962 to the India Office Library in London as Assistant Keeper responsible for manuscripts relating to the period of the British rule in India. In 1965 she joined the Security Service (MI5) part-time while she was in India accompanying her husband on a posting to the British High Commission in New Delhi. On her return to the UK she joined MI5 as a full-time employee. During her career in MI5 which lasted from 1969 to 1996 Stella Rimington worked in all the main fields of the Services responsibilities
- counter-subversion counter-espionage & counter-terrorism
- & became successively Director of all three branches. She was appointed Director-General of MI5 in 1992. She was the first woman to hold the post & the first Director-General whose name was publicly announced on appointment. During her time as DG she pursued a policy of greater openness for MI5 giving the 1994 Dimbleby Lecture on BBC TV & several other public lectures & publishing a booklet about the Service. She was made a Dame Commander of the Bath (DCB) in 1995 & has been awarded the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws by the Universities of Nottingham & Exeter. Following her retirement from MI5 in 1996 she has become a Non-Executive Director of Marks & Spencer BG Group plc & Whitehead Mann GKR. She is Chairman of the Institute of Cancer Research & a member of the Board of the Royal Marsden NHS Trust. She has two daughters & a granddaughter.

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This is the book Chavez gave Obama: the hottest book written about the coolest continent. Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy a social & cultural narrative of the highest quality & perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology geography or political successions Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold & silver cacao & cotton rubber & coffee fruit hides & wool petroleum iron nickel manganese copper aluminum ore nitrates & tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent up to the Rio Grande & throughout the Caribbean & all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States & Europe. Weaving fact & imagery into a rich tapestry Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered & suffering people. ...

In the United Kingdom surface coal mining began in 1942 in response to a national shortage of deep-mined coal. By the 1980s when Dave Wootton began touring sites & taking photographs the industry was firmly established with major operations & very large machinery. His fully captioned pictures cover the period from 1986 until British Coal Opencast (BCO) was privatised in 1994. There are panoramic shots showing the scale of operations & fine close-ups of individual machines of many kinds at work. He

Includes:: several walking draglines such as the 4000-ton Ace of Spades the largest of its kind in Europe. Another record holder was O& Ks RH300 hydraulic shovel beautifully photographed by Dave at its Godkin Derbyshire workplace. Dave visited some two dozen sites in Derbyshire Northumberland Yorkshire South Wales & elsewhere capturing the full range of surface mining activities. The equipment was manufactured by famous names such as Caterpillar Ransomes & Rapier & Demag. BCO used contractors
- so Wimpey Taylor Woodrow Fairclough & others are all seen playing their parts. The surface-mining industry has changed considerably since 1994 meaning that this collection of photographs has great historic interest for enthusiasts. The author also

Includes:: a short history of BCO some machine specifications & copies of publicity material.




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Includes: Complete Coverage of the Open GL (r) Shading Language! Today's Open GL software interface enables programmers
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For 20 years meditators have relied on these simple teachings which offer advice on faith fulfillment & stillness. Serving as a perennial meditational diary this new edition presents inspirational & practical messages for everyone embarking upon the journey to find a true inner self & spiritual truth. Anyone who meditates-whether inexperienced or seasoned-will find these adages helpful & inspirational. A new foreword layout & revised illustrations create an accessible & uplifting treatise on daily spiritual satisfaction & internal happiness. ...

And there goes Juantorena down the back straight opening his legs & showing his class" is one of the best-known sporting faux pas ever uttered by a commentator. Said in total innocence by Ron Pickering as Alberto Juantorena pulled away from the chasing pack on the way to a gold medal at the 1976 Olympic Games it has made it into comic commentary folklore & is the inspiration for this collection of hilarious sports"es. Whether it is a confused cliche mixed metaphor a sports person stating the ridiculously obvious or a babbled banter of a post-match interview this magnificent collection of sporting"es celebrates the glorious slip-ups of sports stars & commentators. Every imaginable sport is featured as are many famous sporting greats proving that nobody is immune to the occasional gormless gaff." ...

Susan Jeffers has helped millions of people throughout the world overcome their fears heal their relationships & move forward in life with complete confidence & love. In Opening Our Hearts To Men she shares her own experiences & offers wisdom insights & practical advice on how to feel good about yourself & your relationships. Opening Our Hearts To Men is a book for every woman who wants to bring more love into her life. It will help you if: Your relationship is not working out in the way you had hoped. You want to develop greater intimacy in your relationships; You find it difficult to form lasting relationships with men; You are feeling lonely & unloved ...

A century can be understood in many ways
- in terms of its inventions its crimes or its art. In Opening Skinners Box Lauren Slater
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