* Fully updated throughout to cover all the Technical Certificate Diploma requirements & all the underpinning key knowledge for the NVQ. * Material on energy efficiency & sustainability is included saving hours of research time. * Straightforward language ensures that even the most technical concepts are accessible & a glossary of terms & updated end-of-unit knowledge checks enable students to track their progress at the end of each chapter. * Exam style multiple-choice assessment questions provide extra support for revision & exam preparation. ...

Carpet Burns is Tom Hingleys account of his life as lead singer of Inspiral Carpets one of the big three bands of the Manchester movement who along with The Stone Roses & Happy Mondays changed music for a generation. Toms own words provide an account of what it felt like to be in the eye of a pop hurricane & what happens when the hits end & the arguments kick in. ...

In the beginning there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet.. . That's the old story everyone knows & loves. But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes & peoples & there's a new story in the making. The story of Fray sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of power-hungry mouls
- & of two Munrung brothers who set out on an amazing adventure. It's a story that will come to a terrible end
- if someone doesn't do something about it. If everyone doesn't do something about it.. . Co-written by Terry Pratchett aged seventeen & master storyteller Terry Pratchett aged forty-three.

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In the beginning there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet... Thats the old story everyone knows & loves (even if they dont really believe it). But now the Carpet is home to many different tribes & peoples & theres a new story in the making. The story of Fray sweeping a trail of destruction across the Carpet. The story of power-hungry mouls
- & of two Munrung brothers who set out on an adventure to end all adventures when their village is flattened... First written by Terry Pratchett aged 17 & revised by the internationally acclaimed author at the age of 43 this edition now

Includes:: 16 pages of Terrys own full colour illustrations.


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For the Anfield faithful Jamie Carragher represents everything that is great about Liverpool Football Club prompting the Kop to sing 'we all dream of a team of Carraghers'. The club's vice-captain longest-serving player & one of a select band of players to have made more than 500 appearances for the Reds Carra never gives less than 100 per cent for the cause. He is the embodiment of old-fashioned football values
- a rarity in the modern game
- honest & uncompromising. In Carra: My Autobiography" the Liverpool defender takes us deep into the heart of Anfield into the club's past glories & its uncertain future. In his typically down-to-earth style Carra reveals what made him discard his blue Evertonian roots to become a fully fledged Red how he mended his wild ways to become a true professional & a multiple trophy-winner & the truth about a succession of managers
- Evans Houllier Benitez
- in the hottest seat in football. A Scouser through & through Carra also has some forthright views on the England team & tells why he rejected calls to return to the international fold. Full of sensational stories & controversial opinions of glory & heartbreak on & off the pitch " Carra: My Autobiography" is a football book unlike any other. The authentic voice of Anfield Carra is one of the Bootroom Boys in true Liverpool tradition & is as committed on the page as in every game he has played."



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Meet Carrie Bradshaw before ' Sex & the City!' The Carrie Diaries is the coming-of-age story of one of the most iconic characters of our generation. Before Sex & the City Carrie Bradshaw was a small town girl who knew she wanted more. She's ready for real life to start but first she must navigate her senior year of high school. Up until now Carrie & her friends have been inseparable. Then Sebastian Kydd comes into the picture & a friend's betrayal makes her question everything. With an unforgettable cast of characters The Carrie Diaries is the story of how a regular girl learns to think for herself & evolves into a sharp insightful writer. Readers will learn about her family background how she found her writing voice & the indelible impression her early friendships & relationships left on her. Through adventures both audacious & poignant we'll see what brings Carrie to her beloved New York City where her new life begins. ...

Carries War" is an unforgettable Second World War story about two evacuee children by Nina Bawden author of the Guardian Childrens Fiction Award winning novel " The Peppermint Pig". Perfect for fans of " Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian". It is the Second World War & Carrie & Nick are evacuated from London to a small town in Wales where they are placed with strict Mr Evans & his timid mouse of a sister. Their friend Albert is luckier living in Druids Bottom with Hepzibah Green who tells wonderful stories & the strange Mister Johnny who speaks a language all of his own. Carrie & Nick are happy to visit Albert there until one day when Carrie does a terrible thing
- the worst thing she ever did in her life... Based on her own childhood Nina Bawdens enchanting story " Carries War" has delighted readers for almost 40 years."
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Albert Carrie & young Nick are war-time evacuees whose lives get so tangled up with the people theyve come to live among that the war & their real families seem to belong to another world. Carrie & Nick are billeted in Wales with old Mr Evans who is so mean & cold & his timid mouse of a sister Lou who suddenly starts having secrets. Their friend Albert is luckier living in Druids Bottom with warm-hearted Hepzibah Green & the strange Mister Johnny who can talk to animals but not to human beings. Carrie & Nick visit him there whenever they can for Hepzibah makes life exciting & enticing with her stories & delicious cooking. Gradually they begin to feel more at ease in their war-time home but then in trying to heal the rift between Mr. Evans & his estranged sister & save Druids Bottom Carrie does a terrible thing which is to haunt her for years to come. Carrie revisits Wales as an adult & tells the story to her own children. ...

Carrie's Protector Bodyguard Wyatt Hawk's new mission is to protectï ½photographer Carrie Mitchell when she testifiesï ½about a terrorist plot
- instead an ambush sends them on the run. But saving Carrie from the terrorists was the easy part...because all too soon he finds himself succumbing to Carrie's seductive allure. Now all he's left unguarded is his heart. For the Baby's Sake Burned in the past Detective Sawyer Montgomery's learned to stay guardedï ½when a beautiful woman's involved. Problem is when his witness & beautiful counsellor Liz Mayfield's client suspiciously vanishes joining forces is the only option. But when Liz's life is threatened the desire between them willï ½testï ½everyï ½fibre of Sawyer's selfcontrol...
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The 40th anniversary edition of Nina Bawden's much-loved Second World War classic. Carrie & her little brother are evacuated to Wales & billeted at the home of the bullying Mr Evans & his timid sister Lou. Unhappy at home they love visiting fellow evacuee Albert at the farm of Druid's Bottom. Here they meet Hepzibah Green who knows magical stories & Mister Johnny who speaks a language all his own. But then things go wrong & Carrie takes things into her own hands
- without guessing the awful consequences. Nina Bawden was one of the Uk's best writers for both adults & children. She has often used her own childhood experiences in her books
- Carrie's War" is set in the mining valley in Wales where she lived as an evacuee in wartime. She studied philosophy politics & economics at Somerville College Oxford & finished her first novel the year after she took her degree. She won the Guardian Award for Children's Fiction for The Peppermint Pig & died in 2012."

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