Intended for use alongside the GCSE Essentials Resistant Materials Revision Guide this workbook

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Resisting Mr. Tall Dark & Texan Ethan Traub is bringing the family oil business & his sassy assistant Lizzie Landry to Thunder Canyon. Settling down wasnt part of this gorgeous bachelors plan but when Lizzie wants to go back to Texas to open a bakery he wont let her go so easily... Is this one deal Ethan will seal with a kiss? The Baby Wore a Badge Decorated police officer Jake Castro is hoping Thunder Canyon will prove the perfect place to raise his baby daughter... But when serious sparks start to fly between Jake & small-town Cinderella Calista Clifton hes suddenly not sure hes ready to settle down. Can he make Calistas dreams come true
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Maureen ODonnell is facing the darkest episode in her life. She owes more than she makes in a year in back taxes; Angus Farrell the psychologist who murdered her boyfriend is up for trial with Maureen as the reluctant star witness; & her abuser has arrived back in Glasgow in time for the birth of her sisters baby. On top of it all Maureen
- who identifies all too readily with the underdogs of this world
- has become embroiled in someone elses family feud. When an elderly stallholder at the flea market where Maureen & Leslie are selling illegally imported cigarettes dies in hospital after a brutal beating Maureen questions why anyone might want to kill the woman popularly known as Home Gran. She suspects Ellas son but Si Mc Gee is an upstanding member of the Scottish business community runs a chain of estate agents & has a health club in Glasgows West End. But she soon discovers that the health club fronts a much less respectable establishment. As Angus trial approaches Maureen is under threat once again & this time she has very few protectors.

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Reveals the underlying story form of all great presentations that will not only create impact but will move people to action Presentations are meant to inform inspire & persuade audiences. So why then do so many audiences leave feeling like they've wasted their time? All too often presentations don't resonate with the audience & move them to transformative action. Just as the author's first book helped presenters become visual communicators Resonate helps you make a strong connection with your audience & lead them to purposeful action. The author's approach is simple: building a presentation today is a bit like writing a documentary. Using this approach you'll convey your content with passion persuasion & impact. Author has a proven track record including having created the slides in Al Gore's Oscar-winning An Inconvenient Truth Focuses on content development methodologies that are not only fundamental but will move people to action Upends the usual paradigm by making the audience the hero & the presenter the mentor Shows how to use story techniques of conflict & resolution Presentations don't have to be boring ordeals. You can make them fun exciting & full of meaning. Leave your audiences energized & ready to take action with Resonate. ...

This is a complete resource for teaching creative writing & thinking at KS4 & KS5. This resource book is designed to engage students in the process of creative writing. Using ideas & activities he has put into practice himself. Johnnie Young guides the teacher through a series of creative lessons designed to stimulate creative thinking. Each activity is supported by lesson notes including ideas for starters pleanaries & follow up work as well as a photocopiable worksheet. ...

This fascinating & detailed book about acting is Miss Hagens credo the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself & those she teaches & an explanation of the means to the end. For those unable to avail themselves of her personal tutelage her book is the best substitute."
- Publishers Weekly " Uta Hagens Respect for Acting is not only pitched on a high artistic level but it is full of homely practical information by a superb craftswoman. An illuminating discussion of the standards & techniques of enlightened stage acting."
- Brooks Atkinson " Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience skill & a sense of personal & professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her object exercises display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation."
- Library Journal " Respect for Acting is a simple lucid & sympathetic statement of actors problems in the theatre & basic tenets for their training wrought from the personal experience of a fine actress & teacher of acting."
- Harold Clurman " Uta Hagens Respect for Acting is a relatively small book. But within it Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft."
- Los Angeles Times " Uta Hagen is our greatest living actor; she is moreover interested & mystified by the presence of talent & its workings; her third gift is a passion to communicate the mysteries of the craft to which she has given her life. There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by her."
- Fritz Weaver " This is a textbook for aspiring actors but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor. Respect for Acting is certainly a special book perhaps for a limited readership but of its " How-To" kind Id give it four curtain calls & two hollers of " Author Author
- King Features Syndicate"






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Respect for Acting This fascinating & detailed book about acting is Miss Hagen's credo the accumulated wisdom of her years spent in intimate communion with her art. It is at once the voicing of her exacting standards for herself & those she [taught] & an explanation of the means to the end." --Publishers Weekly " Hagen adds to the large corpus of titles on acting with vivid dicta drawn from experience skill & a sense of personal & professional worth. Her principal asset in this treatment is her truly significant imagination. Her 'object exercises' display a wealth of detail with which to stimulate the student preparing a scene for presentation." --Library Journal " Uta Hagen's Respect for Acting.. .is a relatively small book. But within it Miss Hagen tells the young actor about as much as can be conveyed in print of his craft." --Los Angeles Times " There are almost no American actors uninfluenced by Uta Hagen." --Fritz Weaver " This is a textbook for aspiring actors but working thespians can profit much by it. Anyone with just a casual interest in the theater should also enjoy its behind-the-scenes flavor." --King Features Syndicate" ...

Portable & productive the hand spindle has been responsible for creating the worlds yarn for millennia. In Respect the Spindle veteran spinner & spindle aficionado Abby Franquemont teaches spinners old & new how to create incredible yarn with this amazing yet simple tool. Many contemporary spinners view the hand spindle as a beginners tool suited to learn the basic steps of spinning before moving on to a spinning wheel. In Respect the Spindle Abby emphasizes the spindles importance & its use in making yarn in advanced ways for high-end to novelty cloth. The perfect how-to book for any spinner with a growing collection of spindles or even just a dowel Respect the Spindle
Includes:: Step-by-step photography with detailed illustrations making the spindle spinning techniques clear to even the novice spinner. Techniques from the basics such as getting started on the spindle to more specialized techniques such as using the spindle to make specific kinds of yarn faster than imagined. Profiles of spindle spinners from various traditions are presented in sidebars throughout the book which introduce heartwarming & historical fiber stories from around the world. Five simple projects give spinners practice in creating a variety of yarns & patterns. & more!
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Walter Tull (Tully) is one of Britains unsung heroes. This fascinating biography tells of his life as an orphan as a Premier League football player & finally as an army officer during the First World War. An incredible & moving story that describes how a poor orphan became the first black officer in the British army. ...

The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances & her slave Mehuru. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Bristol in 1787 is booming from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole a small dockside trader is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash & a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiahs protection Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants & finds her life & fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar rum & slaves. Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history & inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful haunting intensely disturbing this is a novel of desire & shame of individuals of a society & of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others. ...