Based on their Financial Times Weekend column philosopher Julian Baggini & his psychotherapist partner Antonia Macaro offer intriguing answers to lifes questions. Can infidelity be good for you? What does it mean to stay true to yourself? Must we fulfil our potential? Self-help with a distinctly cerebral edge the shrink & the sage
- aka Julian Baggini & Antonia Macaro
- have been dispensing advice through their FT column since October 2010. Combining practical advice on personal dilemmas with meditations on the meaning of concepts like free will spirituality & independence this book
- their first together
- expands on these columns & adds much more. Through questions of existential unease metaphysical trauma &
- for instance
- how much we should care about our appearance intellectual agony uncle & aunt team Baggini & Macaro begin to piece together the answer that wed all like to hear: what is the good life & how we can live it?





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Fast fresh & fun shrink plastic jewellery! Best-selling craft author Kathy Sheldon teaches you to draw colour stamp & even print designs & photos onto the plastic cut or punch it into various shapes & then shrink it in an oven toaster oven or with a heat gun. You can add some basic findings such as jump rings or ear wires to make your own stylish jewellery. Sixteen leading jewellery designers & crafters present instructions for more than 30 gorgeous & inspiring projects
- from fantastic necklaces & bracelets to stylish brooches & rings
- so you can take shrink plastic to a whole new level! It comes with bonus doodles from Aimee Ray & 15 pages filled with graphics to trace or print right onto your shrink plastic!

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The fifth gloriously funny & poignant book in Jean Ures series of secret diary stories. Lily & violet are twins
- physically identical
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violet is normal-sized one minute & pocket-sized the next! Its the BIGGEST day in violets life. All she has ever wanted to do is ride Plunger the scariest roller coaster around. & tody she is finally TALL enough. 1.4 meters to be exact. But just as violet is about to climb into one of Plungers carriages someting totally crazy happens. violet shrinks! She is suddenly as small as a fish finger. Although violet doesnt stay little for long her chances of ever riding Plunger are ruined. She never wants to shrink again... Bt then Granny is accused of stealing & tiny violet might just be the only one who can catch the thief. With doodles special fonts & illustrations. ...

violet is desperate for a dog but she's not allowed one. Luckily there's a dog walking scheme that she & her friend Nisha can join. The girls love playing with their designated puppy. Until violet surprises Nisha by shrinking to the size of a dog biscuit! Sometimes being tiny is terrifying! But then disaster strikes at the dog show & violet discovers her small size might win her a prize... ...

Shriver & Atkins Inorganic Chemistry fifth edition represents an integral part of a students chemistry education. With the same broad coverage as its predecessors
- making it the ideal companion for the duration of an undergraduate degree programme
- the fifth edition extends from the foundational concepts of inorganic chemistry to the forefront of contemporary research. The book seeks not just to impart knowledge but to engage & enthuse its readers. Its unique Frontiers chapters cover materials science nanotechnology catalysis & biological inorganic chemistry & have been fully updated to reflect advances in these key areas of contemporary research & industrial application. Further examples throughout show the relevance of inorganic chemistry to real-life situations to encourage students to engage fully with the subject. Inorganic chemistry spans a huge range of elements whose characteristic similarities & differences students must be familiar with. Inorganic Chemistry rises to this challenge by setting out the key trends exhibited within the periodic table & by the elements comprising each Group. These trends & behaviours are illuminated with illustrative examples placing the content in a clear relevant context. The Online Resource Centre contains: For students: Tables for group theory
- comprehensive group theory tables available for downloading Videos of chemical reactions
- Video clips demonstrating some key chemical experiments Web links
- web links to a range of additional physical chemistry resources on the web 3D rotatable molecular structures
- nearly all of the numbered structures from the book in rotatable format Answers to self-tests & exercises For registered adopters of the book: Artwork & tables of data
- electronic versions of the figures structures & tables from the book are available to download Figures in PPT
- almost all of the figures are available in PPT Molecular modelling problems Test bank
- in Word format








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The unspoiled county of Shropshire is among the most appealing in England for lovers of architecture. The countys many historic towns of which Shrewsbury & Ludlow are the largest are especially plentiful in Georgian & timber-framed buildings. Shropshires villages intriguingly varied in plan & building materials reflect the diverse landscape of plains hills & moorland & the rich & complex underlying geology. The Cistercian abbey of Buildwas is the finest of several notable monastic ruins & outstanding medieval parish churches & castles are also numerous. Many of the country houses have a central place in the story of English architecture: the fortified mansions at Acton Burnell & Stokesay thirteenth-century design at its most sophisticated; the vigorous Baroque houses of John Prince & Francis Smith; John Nashs Italianate villa at Cronkhill looking like something in a Claude painting; Norman Shaws splendid Late Victorian mansion at Adcote. Shropshire is also unrivalled for its early industrial remains including the spectacular bridge at Coalbrookdale the first in the world to be built of iron. More ancient cultures are represented by the numerous prehistoric hill-forts & the celebrated Roman town at Wroxeter. Each city town or village is treated in a detailed gazetteer. A general introduction provides a historical & artistic overview. Numerous maps & plans over a hundred new colour photographs full indexes & an illustrated glossary help to make this book invaluable as both reference work & guide. ...

A Shropshire Lad (1896) is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at Housmans own expense after several publishers had turned it down much to the surprise of his colleagues & students. At first the book sold slowly but during the Second Boer War Housmans nostalgic depiction of rural life & young mens early deaths struck a chord with English readers & the book became a bestseller. Later World War I further increased its popularity. Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859
- 30 April 1936) usually known as A. E. Housman was an English classical scholar & poet best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad. Lyrical & almost epigrammatic in form the poems were mostly written before 1900. Their wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside in spare language & distinctive imagery appealed strongly to late Victorian Edwardian & Georgian taste & to many early twentieth century English composers (beginning with Arthur Somervell) both before & after the First World War. Through its song-setting the poetry became closely associated with that era & with Shropshire itself. Housman was counted one of the foremost classicists of his age & has been ranked as one of the greatest scholars of all time. He established his reputation publishing as a private scholar & on the strength & quality of his work was appointed Professor of Latin at UCL & later at Cambridge. His editions of Juvenal Manilius & Lucan are still considered authoritative.
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The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse & comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays patient in a demonstration of nursing skills she is horribly brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously & it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. ...

The young women of Nightingale House are there to learn to nurse & comfort the suffering. But when one of the students plays the patient in a demonstration of nursing skills she is horribly brutally killed. Another student dies equally mysteriously & it is up to Adam Dalgliesh to unmask a killer who has decided to prescribe murder as the cure for all ills. ...