By the school house at Shancarrig stands a copper beech its bark scarred with the names & dreams of the pupils who have grown up under its branches. Under Junior Assistant Mistress Maddy Rosss careful gaze the children play but out of school Maddys gaze lingers where it shouldnt. Maura Brennan a bundle of fun from the rough end of town plays with her pals: leap year baby Eddie Barton the apple of his mothers eye & Nessa Ryan who little realises as she carves his name at the roots of the copper beech on the very last day of school that shell get a lot more from one of her schoolmates than her first shy kiss. The copper beech is the gateway to Maeve Binchys marvellous portrait of a small Irish town whose untroubled surface conceals the passions rivalries friendships ambitions & jealousies beneath. ...

Jamie Ten Tons & Davies are mudlarks. To live they sell bits of coal rope & copper scavenged from the cold foul mud of the River Thames. When only they see a valuable piece of copper fall off a ship Ten Tons comes up with a daring plan to retrieve it. But it is a plan filled with great dan ...

Copperhead was the name given to Northern sympathisers of the Confederacy after a venomous species of North American snake. It is a name that sticks to Nathaniel Starbuck a preachers son who has run away from family college & a foolish love affair taking shelter in the Falconer legion. ...

Herbie Sykess Coppi is a beautiful unique evocation of global cycling legend Fausto Coppi. Built around an extraordinary collection of h&-picked never before seen images the book also features testimony from those who knew him intimately. Fausto Coppi remains the most iconic cyclist in the history of the sport. For twenty years either side of the war his extravagant talent allied to a unique charisma & human frailty captivated sports fans across Europe. Moreover he revolutionised the sport of bike racing itself laying the foundations for the generations who would follow. Coppi was Il Campionissimo his greatness so unequivocal that his celebrity transcended mere sport. As such both his professional & private lives were endlessly pawed over by his countrys insatiable post-war media. In deserting his wife & daughter for a divorcee in 1954 he traumatised Catholic Italy. Thereafter his life became a soap opera from which he was unable to escape until his dramatic death in 1960. These images many among them genuine masterpieces were unearthed through hours of painstaking research. Allied to the personal truths of those closest to him they reveal the man behind the Fausto Coppi myth. Put simply the book strips away many of the half-truths & downright lies which have been grafted onto his legend over the decades. As such its a very different kind of sports biography & a must-have for all genuine cycling fans. ...

Coppicing is an ancient method of enhancing woodland biodivesity & coppice woodlands are to be found all over Britain & parts of Europe. The key to successful coppicing is to nurture the new coppice shoots. In return a coppice will provide an endless supply of wood for a wide range of articles & the authors present detailed instruction on how to produce many kinds of woodland products from besom brooks firewood & charcoal to more challenging items such as hazel hurdles & coracles. ...

The Copts of Egypt who consist of 10-15 per cent of the population have traditionally been viewed as a beleaguered & persecuted minority. Using newly discovered Coptic archival sources Vivian Ibrahim presents a fresh & vivid alternative reading of the community during the twentieth century. Avoiding the established portrayal of a monolithic entity headed by the Coptic Pope Ibrahim examines the multifaceted

Dimensions of the Coptic community assessing Coptic-State relations on one hand & Coptic intra-communal

Dimensions on the other. Examining the impact of the British Occupation of Egypt on the making of new national identities she explores the emergence of a new politically active Coptic class; highlighting popular Coptic grassroots mobilisation during the 1919 revolution through the case-study of the Coptic priest Qommus Sergius. She discusses the centrality of the Copt & Wafdist Makram Ebeid on constitutional politics & his role as a whistleblower during the Black Book Affair. Breaking with the portrayal of a defenceless community Ibrahim also reveals a strong Coptic response to the emergence & threats of Political Islam through the press. She presents & analyses for the first time the unique satirical Ode to the Fezzed Shaykh aimed at Muslim Brotherhood leader Hassan al-Banna. In The Copts of Egypt Ibrahim also reveals fierce factionalism within the Coptic community in its struggle for modernisation. Examining mass corruption in monasteries & in the run-up to papal election campaigns she analyses the ways in which the Church used the Egyptian State to bolster its claim to political as well as religious representation over the community. Through the establishment of benevolent & philanthropic societies Ibrahim argues that Coptic youths were amongst the first to negotiate a role for themselves in post-revolutionary Egypt. Adopting President Nassers revolutionary rhetoric of tathir or cleansing Ibrahim examines how a group of Coptic youths abducted their Pope & forced through their own agenda of religious & political reform. This book will be essential reading for scholars of the Coptic community & Middle East Studies.



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Five years ago three little girls were murdered in their beds posed like sleeping angels by a twisted killer. With no witnesses & no clues Detective Kitt Lundgren was forced to look on helplessly
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Writing copy is often assumed to be a natural talent. However there are simple techniques you can employ to craft strong written content with ease. This new expanded edition teaches the art of writing great copy for digital media branding advertising direct marketing retailing catalogues & company magazines & internal communications. Using a series of exercises & up-to-date illustrated examples of award-winning campaigns & communication Copywriting Second Edition" takes you through step-by-step processes that can help you to write content quickly & effectively. Including insightful interviews from leading copywriters as well as illustrated case studies of major brands that explore the challenges involved in creating cutting edge copy this book will provide you with all the tools you need to become a confident & versatile creative copywriter." ...

When the three sailor lads Ralph Jack & Peterkin are cast ashore after the storm their first task is to find out whether the island is inhabited. Their next task is to find a way of staying alive. They go hunting & learn to fish explore underwater caves & build boats
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