Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 6 helps students to practise: adverbs past-tense verbs meanings & definitions & masculine & feminine words. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 7 helps students to practise: synonyms & antonyms pronouns using an apostrophe & making analogies. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. Springboard 8 helps students to practise: conjunctions connectives compound nouns prefixes using speech marks thesaurus words idioms & writing a balanced argument. ...

Springboard is a series of nine graded activity books designed to help build the functional English skills required at school at work & in other aspects of day-to-day life. Illustrations are used throughout to support the wide variety of activity types included ranging from simple word reading & letter formation exercises to complex writing tasks requiring considerable precision & attention to detail. The Springboard Introductory Book helps students to practise: Alphabetical order Initial & final word sounds vowels Rhyming words Consonant blends. ...

The Springboks & the Holy Grail" is the epic story of South Africas amazing quests for the Rugby World Cup written by a man who not only experienced all four campaigns but had a ringside seat at the incredible events & off-the-field dramas that unfolded at each tournament. From the triumphs of Ellis Park in 1995 & Paris in 2007 to the heartbreak of 1999 & the shame of 2003 renowned journalist Dan Retief faithfully recorded the stories of human heroism & frailty of great dignity & patent jealousy that transcended the realm of sport. Writing for the " Sunday Times" & " Super Sport" he was one of an elite few who were privy to the secrets & machinations of South African rugbys inner sanctum. " The Springboks & the Holy Grail" provides fascinating insight into an event that is now one of the biggest in the world of sport & contains numerous interviews with key players & administrators as well as well-known figures who were touched by these campaigns. A candid glimpse behind the scenes this compelling saga often reads like pure fiction. This is the first book to focus on the Rugby World Cup tournaments from a Springbok perspective & it is perfectly timed to come out ahead of the seventh RWC tournament to be held in New Zealand in September & October 2011. The Springboks will travel to New Zealand as the defending champions with a chance to become not only the first team to successfully defend the Webb Ellis Cup but the first to win it three times. It lifts the lid on the intrigues around the Springboks the rugby community & the media in a forthright & honest way. The final chapter provides an interesting discussion on the many similarities & qualities common to the teams who have won the cup. Will be a key work of reference as it contains a record of all the Springboks RWC matches & their opponents statistics & records. It is written by arguably South Africas most senior & respected rugby writer. It

Includes:: 16 pages of photographs."

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The village of Burracombe is looking forward to the Coronation but 1953 is to prove a year of heartbreak as well as celebration. While Stella begins to plan her wedding her sister Maddy is only just coming to terms with the loss of her own fiance; Val & Luke are wondering if they will ever become parents & Hilary's chances of marriage seem first to come closer then to recede. The Tozer family also face anxiety. As grandmother Minnie fights for her life Tom & Joanna's premature twins battle with their own crisis & Jackie working & living in Plymouth is determined to live her own life. Meanwhile the life of the village goes on with all its ups & downs its feuds & differences. Bossy Joyce Warren tries to organise everything & everyone Miss Kemp & Stella plan yet another event for the school Jacob Prout strives to keep Burracombe looking its best for the festivities
- & romance comes from a quite unexpected direction...
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Springwatch British Wildlife is the perfect year-round countryside introduction to the much-loved wildlife of the popular BBC2 television series. The book guides you through Britains rich & diverse natural heritage allowing you to enjoy the nations wildlife at its finest
- learning how the animals live & where to find them why they do what they do & how we can appreciate them. You will be introduced to the birds mammals & plants that inhabit our gardens cities & countryside with detailed species descriptions & beautiful photographs allowing you to understand their appearance behaviour & habitats. Discover the best-kept secrets about garden birds fascinating fungi facts & what leaves & seeds tell us about our thriving plant life. Join the Springwatch team as they help you to explore the natural world & unlock the mysteries to British wildlife.
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Which birds have the most air miles? Are adders born venomous? Springwatch Unsprung brings together all the most-asked questions from the surprise hit BBC 2 TV spin-off of the same name. The heart of the book is what has become the star of the TV programme
- the viewers anecdotes & questions. Many seemingly simple questions turn out to have complex answers & some that seem difficult have a very simple explanation. All wildlife questions
- be they trivial idiosyncratic baffling or strange
- are covered making this compilation equally as entertaining & enlightening as it is educational. Arranged by season the book allows people to discover what is going on around them at any particular time of year. The book is peppered with elements from the Unsprung TV programme such as quizzes wildlife suggestions for each season & practical ideas of how to preserve wildlife in your garden. Each seasonal section comprises: * A short introduction to the season including what the wildlife-watcher might expect to see at this time of year * Questions & answers drawing on the latest research but translated by the Springwatch experts. * Quizzes
- simple mostly multiple choice questions e.g. who collects the most air miles? Spring sees the arrival of many of our migrant birds but which travels the furthest? * What You Can Do
- suggestions of seasonal activities including top tips on how to help wildlife at any given time of year plus 3 or 4 things to make & do. e.g. helping your hogs
- what & how to feed hedgehogs & what to do if you find an underweight one that should be hibernating. Springwatch Unsprung will entertain inform & empower anyone interested in British wildlife.





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Amazing but true: Brentford Town Council in an act of supreme public-spiritedness (and a great big wodge of folding stuff from a mysterious benefactor) has agreed to host the next Olympic Games. The plans have been drawn up contracts money & promises are changing hands. Normans designed some stunning kit for the home team & even the Flying Swans been threatened with a major refit (gasp!). But something is very wrong...primeval forces are stirring in ancient places...dark magic is afoot in Brentford & someone must save the world from overpowering evil... Jim Pooley & John Omally come on down! This must be the daring duos toughest assignment yet. No longer can they weigh up the situation over a pint of large at random moments during the day. No this time to save the world as we know it the lads must contemplate
- nay undertake
- the most horrible the most terrifying the heretofore untried
- REGULAR EMPLOYMENT!!!


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With over 50 000 copies sold this is the indispensable guide to SPSS. With its student-friendly layout accessible style & unbeatable coverage it provides you with a step-by-step tour & equips you with the knowledge you need to succeed in your degree. Written especially for psychology students this book shows you how to get the most out of SPSS & will be an essential resource no matter what your level of study is. Key features of the new edition:
- Fully updated to cover SPSS version 20 & backward-compatible with other versions
- New material on bivariate (simple) regression & expanded coverage of multiple regression
- Two new SPSS data files for several complex statistical inferential tests
- New how to report results boxes guide students through their findings
- Accessible layout & writing style perfect for students In addition a number of sample exercises datasets & other useful resources can be found at www.palgrave.com/psychology/brace




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