The Solidarities of Strangers is a study of English policies toward the poor from the seventeenth century to the present that combines individual stories with official actions. Lynn Lees shows how clients as well as officials negotiated welfare settlements. Cultural definitions of entitlement rather than available resources determined amounts & beneficiaries. Indeed industrialization & growing wealth went along with restricted payments to the needy while universal allowances & insurance systems expanded as the economy faltered & world wars crippled budgets & drained resources. Although the English poor laws were a 'residualist' system aiding the destitute when neither family nor charities covered needs they went through cycles of generosity & meanness that affected men & women unequally. The long-term history of welfare in England & Wales has not been a story of continued progress & improvement but one determined by continually changing attitudes toward poverty. ...

Take a step-by-step guided tour of Solid Works 2010 that can be tailored to match your unique pace allowing you to progress easily & efficiently through the content to achieve your ultimate goal: using the software effectively. Harnessing the power of numerous & varied tutorial exercises SOLIDWORKS 2010 TUTOR will take you through a series of steps required for the completion of a final product whether it is a 3D part or an assembly file. Each chapter is arranged so that it builds upon the skills & commands covered in the chapters before beginning with an introduction to the software & the basics of navigating the user interface. Coverage then progresses to creating sketches then creating part files & finally creating assemblies. Using a combination of short comm&-focused exercises & longer more involved tutorial files you will find this a valuable tool for establishing a solid foundation in Solid Works & then once you have mastered that for fine tuning your skills. ...

Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father a man who likes to give his son lessons about life & has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas mother left when he was four (to find herself) & the story begins when father & son set off on a trip to Greece where she now lives to try to persuade her to come home. En route in Switzerland Hans Thomas is given a magnifying glass by a dwarf at a petrol station & the next day he finds a tiny book in his bread roll which can only be read with a magnifying glass. How did the book come to be there? Why does the dwarf keep showing up? It is all very perplexing & Hans Thomas has enough to cope with with the daunting prospect of seeing his mother. Now his journey has turned into an encounter with the unfathomable...or does it all have a logical explanation? ...

Furnace Prison
- Where death is the least of your worries. Escape is just the beginning... We thought we'd made it we thought we
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Charlie Bronson has spent three decades in solitary confinement & yet has stayed as fit as a fiddle gaining several world strength & fitness records in the process. Now in this no-nonsense guide to getting fit & staying fit he reveals just how he's done it. Forget fancy gyms expensive running shoes & designer outfits what you need are the facts on what really works & the motivation to get on with the job. From his cell at Wakefield Prison Charlie has complied this perfect guide to show you the best way to burn those calories tone your abs & build your stamina giving you the know-how you need to be at the peak of mental & physical form. ...

This book has everything a teen Witch could want & need between two covers: a magical cookbook encyclopaedia dictionary & grimoire. It relates specifically to today's young adults & their concerns yet is grounded in the magical work of centuries past. It is organised so that readers can skip over the parts they already know or read each section in alphabetical order. ...

August 1616. The whaling ship Heartsease has ventured high into the Arctic but now must begin the long journey home. Only one man stays behind: Thomas Cave makes a wager to remain here alone until the next season. No man has yet been known to survive a winter this far north. As the light recedes & the ice begins to close in Cave pits himself against blizzards avalanches bears
- & his own demons. For in this wilderness that is without human history his past returns to him: the woman he had loved the grief that drove him to the ice.
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If those pricks want a war lad well show what some proper soljas can do. The gripping debut novel by the bestselling author of Powder Wars is a mind-blowing tale that is all the more shocking because it is inspired by real-life events. From burgeoning organised crime to warped celebrity culture Soljas is an apocalyptic vision of a world in freefall. Dylan Nogger & their crew tax rival drug dealers using a red-hot steam iron & celebrate by making videos of themselves raping wannabe WAGs. In their world guns & knives are as common as mobile phones. But when an innocent three-year-old girl is killed in the crossfire a militarised police then controversial anti-terror laws & private military contractors are brought in to combat gang warfare. Will the mayhem stop? Will the teenage murderers find redemption? Or will they be elevated to superstar status in the media as well as the underworld? ...

Hope Solo thrives on competition. The post-feminist face of the modern female athlete shes driven to win & isnt afraid to say it or show it. Determined to succeed on her own terms shes never played it safe even if it cost her a starting spot with the U.S. team during the 2007 World Cup. That aggressive resolve is encapsulated in her forthright sometimes shocking & ultimately moving memoir. At the center of her story is the sweet & sorrowful relationship Solo shared with her father a philanderer & a con-man who was convicted of embezzlement when Solo was a child. Drifting into homelessness after prison he finally reunited with his daughter years later when she was in college. Reminiscent of Jeannette Walls in her acclaimed memoir The Glass Castle" " Solo" does not judge her unconventional parent. Like her teammate Megan Rapinoe bending a masterful corner kick " Solo" twists the familiar arc of the father-as-mentor theme to reveal how her dad not only taught her the game but also instilled in her the athletes mentality that defines who she is & how she plays. A woman who has repeatedly triumphed over adversity
- from suddenly losing her biggest champion her father to her battles with the U.S. national team to her recovery from painful shoulder surgery
- " Solos" story holds lessons & insight not only for her thousands of young fans but for us all."

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Meet Tilly Redbrow who doesn't just love horses
- she lives breathes & dreams them too! Tilly's first competition is fast approaching
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