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The unique profile of Edinburgh was born of a marriage between nature's sculpture & man's architecture. The epicentre is Castle Rock
- a volcanic plug
- which constantly draws the eye from all parts of the city. Sloping down from it is a jagged outline of impossibly high medieval tenements lining the Royal Mile which is punctuated at the foot of the tail of glacial debris by Holyrood Palace. That Edinburgh is beautiful is not in doubt. It is a city blended in to the countryside with the Firth of Forth as the northern backdrop a necklace of hills in all other directions. The history however has been less harmonious largely due to warring with the English but also because of religious turmoil & social unrest. The vibrant capital today draws thousands of visitors not only for the historical sights but also for the annual International Festivals of the arts music & literature.

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Edith Cavell was born in 1865 daughter of a Norfolk vicar & shot in Brussels on 12 October 1915 by the Germans for sheltering British & French soldiers & helping them escape over the Belgian border. Following a traditional village childhood in 19th century England Edith worked as a governess in the UK & abroad before training as a nurse in London in 1895. To Edith nursing was a duty a vocation but above all a service. By 1907 she had travelled most of Europe & become matron of her own hospital in Belgium where under her leadership a ramshackle hospital with few staff & little organization became a model nursing school. When war broke out Edith helped soldiers to escape the war by giving them jobs in her hospital finding clothing & organizing safe passage into Holl&. In all she assisted over two hundred men. When her secret work was discovered Edith was put on trial & sentenced to death by firing squad. She uttered only 130 words in her defence. A devout Christian the evening before her death she asked to be remembered as a nurse not a hero or a martyr & prayed to be fit for heaven. When news of Ediths death reached Britain army recruitment doubled. Diana Souhami brings one of the Great Wars finest heroes to life in this biography of a hardworking courageous & independent woman. ...

Never before has the account of Hollywoods most influential designer been so thoroughly revealed
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In 1903 Edith Wharton was commissioned by Century Magazine to write a series of articles on Italian villas & gardens. She gathered her household together & set off with her husband her housekeeper & her small dogs on a four-month tour of Italy. Her articles were published in 1904 as Italian Villas & their Gardens. One of the first books to treat the subject of Italian garden architecture seriously it influenced a generation of garden writers & landscape architects. Nearly 100 years later photographer & writer Vivian Russell set out on her own odyssey following Edith Wharton's footsteps around Italy to photograph the best surviving gardens from her book & to tell the story of how each one was made. her lively text describes the patrons & architects who created the gardens & explores their hidden symbolic meaning. ...

Both conservative & subversive Burkes beliefs have never been more relevant than in todays Big Society as MP Jesse Norman explains. Philosopher statesman & founder of modern conservatism Edmund Burke is both the greatest & most under-rated political thinker of the past three-hundred years. Born in Ireland in 1729 & greatly affected by its bigotry & extremes his career constituted a lifelong struggle against the abuse of power. Amid the 18th centurys golden generation that included his companions Adam Smith Samuel Johnson & Edward Gibbon Burkes controversial mixture of conservative & subversive theories made him first a marginal figure & finally a revered theorist
- a hero of the Romantics. He warned of the effects of British rule in Ireland the loss of the American colonies & most famously he foresaw the disastrous consequences of revolution in France. This he predicted would trigger extremism terror & the atomisation of society
- a profound analysis that continues to resonate today. In this absorbing new biography Conservative MP Jesse Norman gives us Burke anew vividly depicting his dazzling intellect imagination & empathy against the rich tapestry of 18th century Europe. Burkes wisdom Norman shows applies well beyond the times of empire to the conventional democratic politics practised in Britain & America today. We cannot understand the defects of the modern world or modern politics without him.

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An epic in four movements this is the third book in Robert Rankin's highly acclaimed meta-Victorian series. Comparable to Pratchett or Douglas Adams the Father of Far Fetched Fiction has pulled out all of the stops with this riotous tale of wicked women a dangerous detective & Darwin the educated ape. Lord Brentford has a dream. To create a Grand Exposition that will showcase The Wonders of the Worlds & encourage peace between the inhabited planets of Venus Jupiter & Earth. Ernest Rutherford has a dream. To construct a time ship powered by the large hadron collider he has built beneath the streets of London. Cameron Bell is England's greatest detective & he too has a dream. To solve the crime of the century before it takes place without blowing up any more of London's landmarks. Darwin is a monkey butler & he also has a dream. To end Man's inhumanity to Monkey & bring a little joy into the world. Lavinia Dharkstorrm has a dream of her own. Although hers is more of a nightmare. To erase Man & Monkey alike from the face of the Earth & to hasten in the End of Days. Then there is the crime-fighting superlady all those chickens from the past & the unwelcome arrival of The Antichrist. Things are looking rather grim on planet Earth. ...

As the 1982 school year begins Jack Sheffield returns to Ragley village school for his sixth year as headteacher. Nora Pratt celebrates twenty-five years in her coffee shop Ronnie Smith finally tries to get a job & little Krystal Entwhistle causes concern in the school Nativity play. Its the time of ET & Greenham Common. Price Williams birth Fame" legwarmers & the puzzling introduction of the 20p piece. Meanwhile for Jack the biggest surprise of his life is in store..." ...

Educating Special Children is the definitive guide to evidence-based practice & professionally informed approaches in provision for special children. Now in its second edition this book outlines ideas of best practice that relate to various disabilities & disorders & helpfully discusses what might constitute effective provision. International in its scope it explores issues surrounding: communication disorders & autism & Aspergers Syndrome developmental co-ordination disorders reading writing & mathematics disorders disorders of conduct anxiety & depression attention deficit hyperactivity disorder mild moderate to severe & profound cognitive impairment sensory impairments orthopaedic & motor disabilities health impairments & traumatic brain injury. This new edition has also been updated to cover: entitlement to special education global examples of distinctive provision raising standards in your setting basic brain anatomy & physiology thinking points & further reading list for reflection. Educating Special Children will be of interest to all students of special education professionals & others interested in gaining an understanding in the challenging field of offering provision for special children. ...

Lynn Barbers true story is now a major film of the same name scripted by Nick Hornby. At 16 Lynn Barber was an ambitious schoolgirl working towards a place at Oxford when she was picked up at a bus-stop by an attractive older man in a sports car. So began a relationship that almost wrecked her life. Barbers fascinating memoir takes us beyond this bizarre episode revealing how it left her with an abiding mistrust of men which paradoxically led her to a promiscuous life-style at university until she met her husb&-to-be. An Education" tells how she went on to work for seven years at daring (for the times) mens magazine " Penthouse before beginning her starry days as the Demon Barber
- Britains most entertaining & most feared interviewer. The book ends with an extraordinarily moving account of the early death of her husb&. Her writing is refreshingly frank & funny."
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