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. ...

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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. ...

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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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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
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Tony Blair said his three priorities were Education Education Education. Andrew Adonis played a decisive role in turning this slogan into a reform programme. This book describes his quest to transform standards & opportunities in Englands schools & his ambition to make English education truly world class. The reinvention of the comprehensive school was the central Blair project. In 1997 a majority of comprehensives were failing or seriously underperforming with calamitous consequences for society & the economy. Academies replaced comprehensives by a radically new form of independent state school characterised by strong leadership & an ethos of aspiration success & social mobility. Adonis tells the story of academies from the germ of a reform idea in the late 1990s to the national movement for educational transformation they have become today. Adonis argues that wider reform is imperative to make Englands schools world-class & sets out a manifesto for change including higher salaries & better training & selection to make teaching the nations most prestigious profession & further radical innovation in the creation of new & better schools to tackle school drop-out & the challenges of the future. Education Education Education is optimistic about the power of politics to transform society for the better & practical about the ways to make it happen. ...

Education is seen as central to economic competitiveness the reduction of poverty & inequality & environmental sustainability. The editors have selected key writings that examine the social & economic limits- & possibilities of-education in addressing these fundamental problems. This new reader establishes the field of sociology of education with a particular focus on papers that analyse the nature & extent of globalization in education. A general introduction presents the key concepts in the sociology of education & outlines the major theories & debates especially in relation to globalization. Each section is accompanied by a part opener explaining & contextualizing the readings within a larger educational & sociological context. ...