Named as Britains first designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty over 50 years ago the Gower Peninsula has long held a special place in the hearts of many. Gower" is a sumptuous celebration of this iconic stretch of coastline. Nigel Jenkins explores the deep history of his native area through a series of short essays combining humorous pieces with literary jewels that bring about an engaging personal & accessible volume. Filled with breathtaking images that catch Gower from unexpected angles David Pearls pictures are filled with texture depth & the intelligence of the photographers eye. Like Nigel Jenkins prose they speak to the reader familiarly & intimately evoking the true nature of Gower in all its glory." ...

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. ...

Gower & Davies is the clearest & most reliable text available to cover the increasingly complex subject of company law. Students as well as those involved in company law on a day-to-day basis can turn to Gower & Davies secure in the knowledge that it will be an interesting thought provoking & above all understandable exposition of both law & practice. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Surveys most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Exercise can help improve a wide variety of health problems including obesity heart disease depression & mobility disorders & GPs are increasingly referring their patients to local fitness professionals as part of their treatment. These GP referral schemes are one of the key pillars in the governments ten-year plan to improve levels of physical activity & the number of schemes in the UK has risen by 500% over the last ten years: there are now over 800 schemes in operation. This book gives fitness professionals everything they need to know to manage a referred client from fulfiling government recommendations to motivating & retaining clients &
Includes:: an outline of government policy; exercise guidelines for different medical conditions; working with GP referral clients; designing a programme; sample client evaluation & assessment questionnaires; client starter packs.
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This book focuses exclusively on the GPST / GPVTS Stage 3 selection centre & contains comprehensive details on how to approach the role play & prioritisation tasks which characterise the new format. Containing 45 practice role plays & 30 prioritisation exercises & a wide range of techniques that candidates can use to optimise their mark on the day it consttitutes an ideal preparation tool for any aspiring GP. ...

For decades Grace Coddington's personal touch has steered wildly imaginative fashion spreads in Vogue" magazine. Then came " The September Issue" the behind-the-scenes documentary that turned the spotlight on a woman with a no-nonsense attitude & an unerring visual instinct. Overnight the flame-haired Grace became a heroine for fashion insiders & the general public alike. Witty & forthright & illustrated throughout with vintage photographs & exclusive line-drawings " Grace: A Memoir" shares the excitement & vision that go into producing so many unforgettable fashion images. Here are the designers models photographers hairstylists make-up artists & celebrities with whom Grace has created her 'stories in pictures'
- whether it be Jerry Hall conquering the USSR or Tom Ford falling down a rabbit hole in Annie Leibovitz's version of " Alice in Wonderland". Grace's own life has been as dreamlike as one of her madcap fashion spreads. Brought up in windswept wartime Anglesey she arrived in London aged eighteen & quickly became a face of the Sixties. The muse behind Vidal Sassoon's Five Point Cut she posed for Bailey Donovan Duffy & Norman Parkinson in Swinging London & jumped into a pool in Saint-Tropez for Helmut Newton. Surviving a serious car-crash she later became a fashion editor at British " Vogue" & during the Seventies & the Eighties started to create the fantasy travelogues that would become her trademark. Friendships bloomed
- with Bruce Weber & Calvin Klein whose offer of a job took Grace to New York. While two early marriages to restaurateur Michael Chow & photographer Willie Christie were brief her romance with the hairstylist Didier Malige has endured. & her professional partnership with Anna Wintour
- with whom she has collaborated for over twenty years
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It is nearly fifty years since the horrific assassination in Dallas & during that time the appeal of John & Jackie Kennedy a uniquely glamorous presidential couple frozen in eternal youth by the terrible & sudden truncation of their reign has if anything only deepened. Until now however no single book has gone beyond the gossip & the conspiracy theories to tell the whole story of the Kennedy White House
- soberly comprehensively & compellingly. In a major work of history Sally Bedell Smith now does just that. Grace & Power is a compassionate & poignant chronicle of pivotal historical events seen from the inside out behind the headlines & the carefully staged television appearances. When John Kennedy entered the White House he was only 43; his stunning wife Jackie astonishingly was just 31. Amidst all the superficial opulence & lavish partying we see political crises like the Bay of Pigs & the burgeoning clamour for civil rights from the perspective of a president often barely well enough to appear in public & a lonely young woman wounded by her husbands insouciant philandering & trying to build a new identity for herself. We see how John Kennedy constructed his circle of advisers lieutenants & officials with equal measures of altruism & expediency & the claustrophobic dynamics of the Camelot court. With immense pathos Sally Bedells narrative shows how at the very moment when the President & First Lady had come through the first difficult years of his term & could begin to contemplate a campaign for re-election a snipers bullets ended everything & forced Jackie Kennedy to assume the biggest role of her life. Above all Grace & Power enables us to see the Kennedys & their inner circle beset by the sudden turns of history while at the same time their style & politics were shaping the history of America & indeed the world. For those too young to remember the era of the Kennedys as much as for those who will never forget it Grace & Power is the classic account of a historical moment that left an indelible mark on the last four decades.
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To Grace family has always meant her Ma her Nana & her cat Paw-Paw so when Papa invites her to visit him in the Gambia she dreams of finding the kind of family that is idealised in stories. But as Grace soon finds out families are what you make them. A warm & delightful follow-up to the international best-seller Amazing Grace. ...

John visits his ageing mother Mary in her nursing home by the sea & mourns the slow fading of her mind. Hoping to shore up her memory he prompts her with songs photographs & questions about the 1940s when she was a young woman & he a child in a small Cumbrian town. But he finds that most of all it is her own mother she longs for
- Grace the mother she barely knew. John sets out to recreate their buried family history delving into the secrets & silences of Mary's fractured childhood as he imagines the life of her spirited mother. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present this becomes a deeply moving reflective elegy on three generations linked by a chain of love loss & courage.
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