How can you tell if your pony is happy? Why shouldnt you stare at your pony? & how can a ponys ears reveal what he is thinking? Ponytalk" is a brilliant book for anyone who has ever wondered what makes ponies tick. It is packed with expert advice on how to communicate & have fun with your pony & make sure that he feels safe & contented. The perfect gift for everyone who loves ponies." ...

Everything you ever wanted to know about faeces but were too polite to ask... Hippos navigate by it sloths keep in touch through it rabbits eat it...and most grown-ups prefer not to mention it at all! However you look at it poo is probably the most useful stuff on Earth. It comes in all shapes & sizes & every animal has its own special sort. Find out what its for where it goes what we can learn from it & lots more. A lively & fascinating natural history book. ...

Finally what every bathroom has been waiting for
- the Poo Log" a journal for recording & studying the wondrous uniqueness
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Bertie can be a bit smelly! When he trumps it makes his mum cross embarrasses his dad upsets his gran & offends his sister. But they all have a secret & Bertie knows it! This hilarious book with trumping noises will delight all children with its wonderfully naughty noise! ...

The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument is widely used as the framework for providing activity-based care for people with cognitive impairments including dementia. The Instrument is recommended for daily living skills training & activity planning in the National Institute for Clinical Excellence Clinical Guidelines for Dementia (NICE 2006) & has been proven valid & reliable by a recent research study. It is an essential resource for any practitioner or carer wanting to provide fulfilling occupation for clients with cognitive impairments. This fourth edition of The Pool Activity Level (PAL) Instrument for Occupational Profiling"

Includes:: a new section on using the PAL Checklist to carry out sensory interventions together with the photocopiable Instrument itself in a new easy-to-use format & plans that help to match users' abilities to activities. It

Includes:: the latest research on the use of the PAL Instrument in a range of settings & new case studies as well as information about how a new online PAL tool complements & supports the book. The book also contains suggestions for activities together with information on obtaining the necessary resources & guidance for carrying out the activities with individuals of different ability levels as revealed by the PAL Checklist. This series constitutes a set of accessible jargon-free evidence-based good practice guides for all those involved in the care of people with dementia & their families. The series draws together a range of evidence including the experience of people with dementia & their families practice wisdom & research & scholarship to promote quality of life & quality of care."



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This title is winner of the FT Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2011. Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget on sugar? Does having lots of children actually make you poorer? This eye-opening book overturns the myths about what it is like to live on very little revealing the unexpected decisions that millions of people make every day. Looking at some of the most paradoxical aspects of life below the poverty line
- why the poor need to borrow in order to save why incentives that seem effective to us may not be for them & why despite being more risk-taking than high financiers they start businesses but rarely grow them
- Banerjee & Duflo offer a new understanding of the surprising way the world really works.

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This title comes from the award-winning founders of the unique & remarkable Abdul Latfi Jameel Poverty Action Laboratory at MIT a transformative reappraisal of the world of the extreme poor their lives desires & frustrations. Billions of government dollars & thousands of charitable organizations & NGOs are dedicated to helping the worlds poor. But much of the work they do is based on assumptions that are untested generalizations at best flat out harmful misperceptions at worst. Banerjee & Duflo have pioneered the use of randomized control trials in development economics. Work based on these principles supervised by the Poverty Action Lab at MIT is being carried out in dozens of countries. Drawing on this & their 15 years of research from Chile to India Kenya to Indonesia they have identified wholly new aspects of the behavior of poor people their needs & the way that aid or financial investment can affect their lives. Their work transforms certain presumptions: that microfinance is a cure-all that schooling equals learning that poverty at the level of 99 cents a day is just a more extreme version of the experience any of us have when our income falls uncomfortably low. Throughout the authors emphasize that life for the poor is simply not like life for everyone else: it is a much more perilous adventure denied many of the cushions & advantages that are routinely provided to the more affluent: if they do not have a piped water supply the poor cannot benefit from chlorination; if they cannot afford ready-made breakfast cereals they cannot gain the enriched vitamins & other nutrients; they are routinely denied access to markets; & they get negative interest rates on their savings while exorbitant rates are charged on their loans. The daily stress of poverty discourages long-term thinking & often leads to bad decision-making. Add to that the fact the poor are routinely denied the information that might help them manage the nightmarish predicament that in most cases they are born into through no fault of their own. Bannerjee & Duflo are practical visionaries whose meticulous work offers all of us an opportunity to think of a world beyond poverty. ...

With their penetrating psychological insight & their emphasis on human dignity respect & forgiveness Dostoyevskys early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major novels. Poor Folk" the authors first great literary triumph is the story of a tragic relationship between an impoverished copy clerk & a young seamstress told through their passionate letters to each other. In " The Landlady" Dostoyevsky portrays a dreamer hero who is captivated by a curious couple & becomes their lodger. Mr. Prokharchin inspired by a true story is a sly comedy centring on an eccentric miser & Polzunkov is a powerful character sketch which in common with the other tales in this volume questions the very nature of existence." ...

Who owns Scotland? How did they get it? What happened to all the common land in Scotland? Has the Scottish Parliament made any difference? Can we get our common good land back? In The Poor Had No Lawyers Andy Wightman author of Who Owns Scotland updates the statistics of landownership in Scotland & takes the reader on a voyage of discovery into Scotland's history to find out how & why landowners got their hands on the millions of acres of land that were once held in common. He tells the untold story of how Scotland's legal establishment & politicians managed to appropriate land through legal fixes. From Robert the Bruce to Willie Ross & from James V to Donald Dewar land has conferred political & economic power. Have attempts to redistribute this power more equitably made any difference & what are the full implications of the recent debt-fuelled housing bubble? For all those with an interest in urban & rural land in Scotland this updated edition of The Poor Had No Lawyers provides a fascinating analysis of one the most important political questions in Scotland
- who owns Scotland & how did they get it?
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What strange secret made rich beautiful tempestuous Bella Baxter irresistible to the poor Scottish medical student Archie Mc Candless? Was it her mysterious origin in the home of his monstrous friend Godwin Baxter the genius whose voice could perforate eardrums? This story of true love & scientific daring whirls the reader from the private operating-theatres of late-Victorian Glasgow through aristocratic casinos low-life Alexandria & a Parisian bordello reaching an interrupted climax in a Scottish church. ...