' Up- to-date & reflective of new government policy this book will be an essential resource for all Senior Leaders & SENCOs.'
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Providing expert insight into the ways the nation's metropolitan areas are changing this book explores the land use issues that affect quality of life & makes recommendations for reducing sprawl & dependence on cars encouraging sustainability investing in infrastructure & addressing other issues such as workforce housing availability shopping & leadership in land use. ...

Anna Gallagher & Liam Harrison are happily married have successful careers & when Liams promotion comes through they plan to start a family. Thats until something happens to turn their world upside down. Annas sister Rachel is married to Gary is a stay-at-home mum to Alex & is expecting her second child. Everyone is delighted with the news except Rachel. The truth is she is horrified at the thought of becoming a mum again. Jill is the girls cousin & best friend & knows exactly what makes them both tick. Unfortunately she cant seem to help them understand each other. The Gallagher Girls have hard times ahead but when the going gets tough will blood really prove thicker than water? ...

Anna Gallagher & Liam Harrison are happily married have successful careers & when Liam's promotion comes through they plan to start a family. That's until something happens to turn their world upside down. Anna's sister Rachel is married to Gary is a stay-at-home mum to Alex & is expecting her second child. Everyone is delighted with the news except Rachel. The truth is she is horrified at the thought of becoming a mum again. Jill is the girls' cousin & best friend & knows exactly what makes them both tick. Unfortunately she can't seem to help them understand each other. The Gallagher Girls have hard times ahead but when the going gets tough will blood really prove thicker than water? ...

Chaos exists in systems all around us. Even the simplest system of cause & effect can be subject to chaos denying us accurate predictions of its behaviour & sometimes giving rise to astonishing structures of large-scale order. Our growing understanding of Chaos Theory is having fascinating applications in the real world
- from technology to global warming politics human behaviour & even gambling on the stock market. Leonard Smith shows that we all have an intuitive understanding of chaotic systems. He uses accessible maths & physics (replacing complex equations with simple examples like pendulums railway lines & tossing coins) to explain the theory & points to numerous examples in philosophy & literature (Edgar Allen Poe Chang-Tzu Arthur Conan Doyle) that illuminate the problems. The beauty of fractal patterns & their relation to chaos as well as the history of chaos & its uses in the real world & implications for the philosophy of science are all discussed in this Very Short Introduction.
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Chaos in Death When eye-witness testimony paints the killer as a green skinned monster with swollen red eyes & goblin ears even Eve Dallas is shaken. But as she gets closer the trail suggests something even more disturbing
- someone is playing at science.. . Possession in Death After a Russian woman whispers her dying words to Eve Dallas strange things begin to happen. Unable to concentrate on anything Eve realises that in order to reclaim her mind she must find the woman's great-granddaughter
- one of a string of young missing girls forgotten by all.

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Emilio & Rosa are childhood sweethearts engaged to be married. But it is 1942 & the war has taken Emilio far from Italy to a tiny Orkney island where he is a POW. Rosa must wait for him to return & help her mother run the family hotel on the shores of Lake Como in Italy. Feeling increasingly frustrated with his situation Emilio is inspired by the idea of building a chapel on the barren isl&. The prisoners band together to create an extraordinary building out of little more than salvaged odds & ends & homemade paints. Whilst Emilios chapel will remain long after the POW camp has been left to the sheep will his love for Rosa survive the hardships of war & separation? For Rosa is no longer the girl that he left behind. She is being drawn further into the Italian resistance movement & closer to danger as friendships & allegiances are ever complicated by the war. Human perseverance & resilience are at the heart of this strong debut & the small Italian chapel remains as it does in reality on the island of Lambs Holm as a symbol of these qualities. ...

Forty years ago Exeter Cathedral close was the scene of a vicious ambush. Afterwards the bodies left lying in their blood bore witness to the conflicts tearing at heart of the Cathedral itself. Today in 1323 more deaths have occurred. Is the first an accident? The second is surely not. Murder is again polluting the Cathedral close but this killer will not be easily caught. The victim Henry Potell was feared by many & held secrets that some wished to keep hidden... For Sir Baldwin Furnshill Keeper of the Kings Peace & his friend Bailiff Simon Puttock events become increasingly mysterious. Who among Henry Potells companions knows the truth about his death? What first appears to be a matter of lust or greed soon grows more troubling as Baldwin becomes aware of the ominous Chapel of Bones built long ago in reparation for a terrible murder... ...

On a summers day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita Kansas to New York City leaving behind a marriage thats not as perfect as it seems & a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe & eyes wild & wise beyond her fifteen years. This girl is hungry for stardom & Cora for something she doesnt yet know. Cora will be many things in her lifetime
- an orphan a mother a wife a mistress
- but in New York she is a chaperone & her life is about to change. It is here under the bright lights of Broadway in a time when prohibition reigns & speakeasies with their forbidden whispers behind closed doors thrive that Cora finds what she has been searching for. It is here in a time when illicit thrills & daring glamour sizzle beneath the laws of propriety that her life truly begins. It is here that Cora & her charge Louise Brooks take their first steps towards their dreams.

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Charlie Chaplin grew up in & around the music hall. His parents aunt & their friends all earned their precarious livings on the stage & Chaplin himself started out his career touring music halls with a dance troupe. His experiences of the culture of the music hall were a major influence shaping his style of acting & the films he made most famously Limelight which tells the story of a failing variety performer & which evoked painful memories of his own past. Chaplin was horrified to see how performers lives were ruined when their audience turned against them & he was relieved to exchange the stresses of live performance for screen comedy. Barry Anthony here tells the story of the lives & careers of Chaplins family & their music-hall circle
- from dashing Eva Lester to the great Fred Karno & from Chaplins parents Hannah Hill & Charles Chaplin to The Great Calvero himself. He reveals the difficult & often-tragic lives of Londons variety community in the late-Victorian & Edwardian years a time of great change in the music hall & entertainment scene & in doing so sheds important new light on the inspiration behind Chaplins genius providing a fascinatingly fresh perspective on this popular cultural icon of the twentieth century.
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