Osteoporosis is a worldwide epidemic. You might not even know you've got it until you fracture a bone. But it doesn't need to happen to you
- osteoporosis is treatable & preventable & this book will show you how. Find out why there aren't any symptoms how to tell if you've got it how to avoid it & how to boost bone health. Dr Marilyn Glenville looks at why some women are more at risk than others & discusses how to test for osteoporosis. Using the latest research & clinical practice she then looks at the optimum treatment approach & the importance of nutrition & exercise. She offers help & guidance that combines natural alternatives with conventional treatments. Whatever your worries this book will arm you with the facts you need to protect yourself.
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' It's not really kidnapping is it? He'd have to be alive for it to be proper kidnapping.' Kenny Sim & Blake are about to embark on a remarkable journey of friendship. Stealing the urn containing the ashes of their best friend Ross they set out from Cleethorpes on the east coast to travel the 261 miles to the tiny hamlet of Ross in Dumfries & Galloway. After a depressing & dispiriting funeral they feel taking Ross to Ross will be a fitting memorial for a 15 year-old boy who changed all their lives through his friendship. Little do they realise just how much Ross can still affect life for them even though he's now dead. Drawing on personal experience Keith Gray has written an extraordinary novel about friendship loss & suicide & about the good things that may be waiting just out of sight around the corner.. . ...

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Cambridge School Shakespeare editions offer an active approach to the Bard's works treating each play as a script to be acted explored & enjoyed. Resources available on Cambridge GO as a separate purchase: PDF Textbook
- an electronic version of the student text in PDF format that can be annotated & downloaded. Note: Cambridge School Shakespeare & New Cambridge Shakespeare contain the same version of the play text.
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A popular soldier & newly married man Othello seems to be in an enviable position. & yet when his supposed friend sows doubts in his mind about his wife's fidelity he is gradually consumed by suspicion. In this powerful tragedy innocence is corrupted & trust is eroded as every relationship is drawn into a tangled web of jealousies. ...

Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students with accessible on-page notes & explanatory illustrations clear background information & rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Othello is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition

Includes:: illustrations preliminary notes reading lists (including websites) & classroom notes.

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This is our best-selling York Notes Advanced title. This book will be packed with features to help the students improve their grade. Talking extensively to teachers examiners & students there seems to be a need for more information outside what the students already know. Features like check the book check the film & check the net will now offer students more opportunity to develop their researching skills & provide that extra information. More importantly there will be features that address the specific needs of students studying for the new AS & A2 exams. There will now be text boxes in the margin labelled ' Context' which will describe the literary historical cultural religious or philisophical context of specific references in the text (contextualisation is the new buzz word in the exam syllabuses). There will be at least 20 of these boxes in every book. The glossaries are now integrated in the text so that students don't need to turn the page to find out the meaning of a word. There will also be regular exam questions integrated in the text which will help students revise. Summaries will be cut down & bulleted where appropriate to make way for extra features (meaning extent remains the same) so that the books are now not only appropriate for students who buy the book to cram they are also important for higher-level students who need more information to get themselves the top grade. ...

THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes
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This is an intense drama of love deception jealousy & destruction. Desdemonas love for Othello the Moor transcends racial prejudice; but the envious lago conspires to devastate their lives. In its vivid rendering of racism sexism contested identities & the savagery lurking within civilisation Othello" is arguably the most topical & accessible tragedy from Shakespeares major phase as a dramatist. The play raises uncomfortable questions about ongoing questions of not only racial identity but also sexuality as Othello & Desdemonas sexual relationship becomes the voyeuristic site of lagos attempt to destroy them." ...

Seattle 1972: Neil Countryman & John William Barry two teenage boys from very different backgrounds are at the start of an 800m race. Their lives collide for the first time & so begins an extraordinary friendship. As they grow older Neil follows the conventional route of the American dream but the eccentric fiercely intelligent John William makes radically different choices dropping out of college & moving deep into the woods. Convinced it is the only way to live without hypocrisy John William enlists Neil to help him disappear completely drawing his oldest friend into a web of secrets & agonising responsibility deceit & tragedy
- one that will finally break open with an unexpected life-altering revelation.
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