Written by Mark Walsh an experienced examiner & teacher of Health & Social Care this brand new textbook comprehensively covers the Single & Double award for GCSE Health & Social Care. It is endorsed by Edexcel & designed to get the best results from students. / Bring Health & Social Care to life with this brand new textbook covering the latest GCSE

Specification for Edexcel / Lead students to exam success with Chapter Checklists Assessment information & Knowledge Check questions that give students the chance to check & consolidate learning / Interest & inspire students to find out more with Over to You activities & Investigate! challenges / Save time with comprehensive teacher's resources including differentiated worksheets engaging activities teaching tips & guidance

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The life of American writer Edgar Allan Poe was characterized by a dramatic series of successes & failures breakdowns & recoveries personal gains & hopes dashed through despite which he created some of the finest literature the world has ever known. Over time his works have influenced such major creative forces as the French poets Charles Baudelaire & Andre Gide filmmaker D.W. Griffith & modern literary legend Allen Ginsberg. Best known for his poems & short fiction Poe perfected the psychological thriller invented the detective story & rarely missed transporting the reader to his own supernal realm. He has also been hailed posthumously as one of the finest literary critics of the nineteenth century. In Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales & Poems fans may indulge in all of Poe's most imaginative short-stories including The Fall of the House of Usher The Murders in Rue Morgue The Tell-Tale Heart Ligeia & Ms. In A Bottle. His complete early & miscellaneous poetic masterpieces are also here including The Raven Ulalume Annabel Lee Tamerlane as well as select reviews & narratives. ...

Weve got to go. Now. Its early morning & Dannys mother is at his bedside urging him to get up. Theyre on the run from Chris his mothers boyfriend a violent man who beats them both up & wont let them go. Chris pursues Danny & his mother from London to the north where they take refuge with Dannys grandparents. But even there nothing is safe. Danny is conspicuous as the only mixed-race boy in their small community & with the ever-present threat of discovery he has to learn how to live continually on the edge. A tense & chilling story to which the chase gives terrific drama THE EDGE shows the depth of character & the understanding of the predicaments of children today that gives Alan Gibbons his special quality. ...

The very best didn't get there by accident. The best have a different way of thinking & acting in their daily lives. & it's not enough to just to succeed
- they also have an uncontrollable desire
- the desire to get better. The good news for the rest of us is that success leaves tracks. Michael Heppell has spent his life studying successful people attempting to distil what it is that the very best do that others don't. He's interviewed entrepreneurs personalities & leaders from politics to education. He's studied the daily habits of the elite & during this time he's uncovered what they do that gives them ' The Edge'. By identifying & distilling this knowledge you'll discover how you can use this same insight. It's time to find your Edge.

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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

Christian I need your help. There is no one else I can turn to.. .L.' When Christian Allardyce sixth Marquess of Dearne reads these words his world is turned upside down. Lady Letitia Randall is a woman like no other & the day he left her behind to fight for King & Country was the most difficult of his life. He never forgot the feel of her lips against his but never expected to see her again. Yet now she seeks his help & Christian knows he cannot resist her plea. Letitia believes Christian abandoned her when she needed him most & she hates to call on his aid. But to clear his brother's name she has sworn to use every weapon at her command even it means seducing her former lover. Yet all the while Christian is waging a war of his won
- a campaign of pure pleasure & sweet revenge that will take them both beyond the edge of desire.
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Georgia is the most Western-looking state in todays Near or Middle East & despite having one of the longest most turbulent histories in the Christian or Near Eastern world no proper history of the country has been written for decades. Donald Rayfield redresses this balance in Edge of Empires focusing not merely on the post-Soviet era like many other books on Georgia but on the whole of its history accessing a mass of new material from the countrys recently opened archives. The book begins with the first intimations of the existence of Georgians in ancient Anatolia & ends with todays volatile President Saakashvili. It deals not only with the countrys internal politics but with its complex struggles with the empires which have tried to control fragment or even exterminate the country. All the worlds history
- Xenophons Greeks the Arabs the invading Turks the Crusades Chingiz Khan & Timur Lang the Persian empire the Russian empire Soviet totalitarianism
- is reflected in Georgias history. Donald Rayfield describes Georgias swings between disintegration & unity making full use of primary sources many not available before in an English-language book. He examines the history of a country which though small stands at a crossroads between Russia & the Muslim world between Eastern Europe & Central Asia & is a dramatic example of state-building & also of tragic political mistakes.

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There has been an array of books written about the Yorkshire Coast. Books about its people major historical events famous individuals its geology its geography its native fauna & wildlife its industries its towns its villages & its principal landmarks. This book is none of them & in some small way it is all of them. Written in a variety of styles & forms Edge of Heaven: The Yorkshire Coast" is a collection of individual responses by a group of exceptional writers. Each contribution offers a unique personal perspective on this haunting beautiful & much loved part of Yorkshire. " Edge of Heaven: The Yorkshire Coast" is a distinctive & imaginative publication that takes readers on a unique tour along the entire length of Yorkshires Coastline from Redcar & Saltburn to Spurn Head & Hull. This book presents a range of different places people stories & experiences from the Yorkshire coast giving readers a new perspective on this most iconic of coastlines. Ian Clayton writer & broadcaster recounts his time along the Yorkshire coast some years ago filming " Claytons Coast" while novelist poet & playwright Blake Morrisons contribution takes the form of a narrative
- a teenage trip to Scarborough which is interwoven with the history of the resort. It is fully illustrated with over 100 images many specially commissioned. All major landmarks settlements & coastal areas included. It is a book to read share & treasure."
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The world is peering into the terrifying chasm of a new kind of conflict where computers take over from missiles & global damnation comes at the click of a button. Cyber-warfare: the kind that brings nations to their knees switching off energy lifelines crippling the financial markets starving leaders of authority. An old Russian nuclear reactor goes into Chernobyl-style meltdown while on the other side of the world the US Eastern Seabord is plunged into darkness. Nobody knows -- yet -- who is responsible for the chaos. Hidden from the rest of the world an extraordinary meeting of the US President the Russian President & the British Prime Minister is about to take place. They have the weekend to save the world -- & they must do it alone. Meanwhile something serious is going on in Beijing: it looks as though the Chinese are preparing for the final thrust against their old enemies bringing them to their knees without a single shot being fired... ...

In April 1951 at the height of the Korean War Chinese troops advanced south of the 38th parallel towards a strategic crossing-point of the Imjin River on the invasion route to the South Korean capital of Seoul. The stand of the 1st Battalion the Gloucestershire Regiment against the overwhelming numbers of invading troops has since passed into British military history. In The Edge of the Sword General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley then Adjutant of the Glosters has painted a vivid & accurate picture of the battle as seen by the officers & soldiers caught up in the middle of it. The book does not however end there. Like the majority of those who survived the author became a prisoner-of-war & the book continues with a remarkable account of his experiences in & out of Chinese prison camps. This book is not an attempt at a personal hero-story & it is certainly not a piece of political propaganda. It is above all an amazing story of human fortitude & high adventure. ...