This book is a simple quick & easy to use guide to building a professional portfolio for nursing students. Students are required by the NMC to keep an ongoing record of achievement to demonstrate their competence at each stage of their programme. The portfolio is an essential part of the assessment of practice to demonstrate nursing competence. This book gives a step-by-step & practical explanation of how to compile a professional portfolio to succeed in these assessments. It can be used throughout nursing programmes & in initial nursing roles where portfolios are an essential tool for interviews & employee appraisals. ...

Successful Project Management 4th edition" is an essential guide for anyone who wants to improve the success rate of their projects. It will help managers to maintain a balance between the demands of the customer the project the team & the organisation. Covering the more technical aspects of a project from start to completion it contains practised & tested techniques covering project conception & start-up how to manage stake holders effective risk management project planning & launch & execution. Also including a brand new glossary of key terms it provides help with evaluating your project as well as practical checklists & templates to ensure success for any ambitious project manager." ...

Whether you are a new or experienced landlord this bestselling & fully up-to-date book by private rented sector expert & consultant David Lawrenson will show you how to buy the right property in the right location (including abroad) for high rents & capital growth whatever the state of the market. Get great property deals from developers & private sellers. Decide whether to use a letting agent or find & manage tenants yourself. Comply with all the laws & avoid the tenants from hell. Minimise your property tax bill. This new 2011 edition

Includes:: in particular: updated information on Local Housing Allowance; modified sample tenancy agreement with additional Data Protection clause; eight more tax tips; & revised text following the demise of HIPs (Home Information Packs).

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School placements can be anxious & uncertain experiences for trainee teachers & even for those with previous classroom experience a new school environment can be intimidating. This book is full of invaluable advice & practical suggestions that will help trainees prepare for enjoy & make the most of this experience. It deals with the full range of issues from finding out about the placement school to managing difficult behaviour on placement. This second edition is linked to the 2007 Standards for QTS & reflects recent documents & initiatives. ...

In a comprehensive study of early Islamic history Wilferd Madelung examines the conflict which developed after Muhammad's death for the leadership of the Muslim community. He pursues the history of this conflict through the reign of the four ' Rightly Guided' caliphs to its climax in the first inter-Muslim war. The outcome of the war which marked the demise of the reign of the Early Companions resulted in the lasting schism between Sunnite & Shi'ite Islam. Contrary to recent scholarly trends the author brings out Ali's early claim to legitimate succession which gained support from the Shi'a & offers a convincing reinterpretation of early Islamic history. This book will make a major contribution to the debate over succession. Wilferd Madelung's book The Succession to Muhammad has been awarded the Best Book of the Year prize by the Islamic Republic of Iran for the year 1997. ...

Georgina Kincaid has had an eternity to figure out the opposite sex but sometimes they still surprise her. Take Seth Mortensen. The man has risked his soul to become Georginas boyfriend. Still with Lucifer for a boss Georgina cant just hang up her killer heels & settle down to domestic bliss. In fact shes being forced to transfer operations...to Las Vegas. The City of Sin is a dream gig for a succubus but Georginas allies are suspicious. Why are the powers-that-be so eager to get her away from Seattle
- & from Seth? Georgina is one of Hells most valuable assets but if theres any way out of the succubus business she plans to take it
- no matter how much roadkill she leaves behind. She just hopes the casualties wont include the one man shes risking everything for...

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Succulent Flora of Southern Africa" first published in 1981 has long served as an authoritative guide for academics & lay enthusiasts alike. This long-awaited third edition takes into account intervening taxonomic advances & the discovery & naming of ever more species. All information has been fully revised updated & supplemented in line with the latest thinking & the book has been newly designed for clarity & ease of reference. Given the phenomenal extent & variety of our regions succulent flora this revised version is a timely addition to the botanical literature of southern Africa." ...

A family divided by war but united by love. Marianne seems to have everything. She is married to a handsome naval officer Neil Sheridan commander of a corvette. They have a daughter Libby & a beautiful home near Prince's Park in Liverpool. When war comes Marianne takes war work & moves into Crocus Street with her mother Mrs Wainwright & younger sister. Neil disapproves because the Wainwrights live so near the docks which are bound to be a bombing target but Marianne is firm. Meanwhile Libby is evacuated to the country to stay with Miss Williams who lives in an ancient house Tregarth at the head of a valley in North Wales & Libby the wheelchair-bound Matthew & Miss Williams assume they can settle down to see out the war in comparative safety. But Libby is forced to return to the city when her mother suffers an accident & her gran finds herself unable to cope.. . ...

What do you do when youre fat fourteen obsessed with the Catholic Church with Doing the Right Thing with scones & sweets with other boys & their private parts? Well if youre Benson you panic & flee hiding from the flesh as a novice in a monastery. Alas St Finbars monastery is as full of temptation as the grammar school hed left behind. The devils of desire find Benson once again & throw him back into the world from which hed tried to escape. Returned to school Benson is still trying to square the circle of his conflicting enthusiasms & desires. Can he be both gay & Catholic? Gay & Happy? Sucking Sherbet Lemons recounts the coming out experience of a gay man at a time when homosexual acts were illegal. Written in the late Eighties in response to those who condemned gay men in the light of the AIDS epidemic
- & instated Clause 28 to end discussion of the subject
- this is a powerful & hilarious broadside aimed at the forces of intolerance ignorance & fear. The times have changed with legalization & now even Civil Partnerships in Britain
- but the difficulties silence bewilderment & embarrassment of coming out have not. Sucking Sherbet Lemons is a coming out novel for the ages. We are proud to re-release this gay classic to help entertain
- & console
- a new generation gay straight & all points in-between.




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Languedoc-Roussillion (not forgetting the Midi-Pyrenees & Aquitaine) are the regions of France most settled by English expatriate colonists. Caroline Conran has spent much time there since the early 1970s & her collection of recipes reflect years of travel conversation cooking eating & drinking. She has shared her knowledge with English readers in a previous book Under the Sun: Caroline Conrans French Country Cooking but here she concentrates upon this single region of Languedoc which curls up from the Spanish border along the Mediterranean coast as far as the Rhone valley. This is not polite France this is in your face France; its history buried amidst the Crusades & Cathars its towns & cities
- Nimes Toulouse Carcassonne Narbonne Perpignan Montpellier Beziers
- making up a fiecely independent region. Its people are passionate about rugby about hunting & foraging with a cuisine of their own more Southern simpler more earthy & less influence by the Michelin style of cooking than the rest of France. There will be information on the particular specialities such as chestnuts sweet onions Bouzigues mussels & oysters salt cod poufres (baby octopus) charcuterie salades sauvages (salads of wild plants) the rose-coloured garlic of Lautrec wild asparagus & local mushrooms. There are descriptions of places where oysters truffles chestnuts or calcots
- a giant spring onion eaten roasted on a fire of vine-prunings
- are the obsession of everyone in the community.



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