Team Spirit is a gripping account of a race on the edge & a young skippers determined journey to victory. The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race is the ultimate long distance challenge
- a 35 000-mile circumnavigation of the globe contested by amateur crews in identical racing yachts
- & the winners are those who keep their focus the longest. The 2010 winner was 28-year-old Brendan Hall & his crew in Spirit of Australia. Although Brendan was the youngest & least experienced skipper in the race the win was no accident
- it was the culmination of years of training skilled navigation & a leadership style way beyond his years. His leadership skills were soon put to the test
- in the middle of a North Pacific hurricane Brendan went to the rescue of an injured skipper on a competing yacht & skippered both boats across one of the most feared oceans in the world. Brendans brutally honest no-holds-barred account is revealing & instructive with valuable lessons in leadership & management
- as well as never giving up. Thrown in quite literally at the deep end he is pushed to the limit & learns lessons you can only learn the hard way.




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Welcome to Chestnut Hill the boarding school where every girls favourite subject is riding. When the riding team blames their coach Ms Carmichael for their poor performance Dylan starts a campaign to support her. But with all the whispers & secrets Dylan has no idea who is on her side
- & who is not... More titles available: THE NEW CLASS (9781407130750) MAKING STRIDES (978147130767) HEART OF GOLD (9781407130774) PLAYING FOR KEEPS (9781407130781) ALL OR NOTHING (9781407130804) CHASING DREAMS (9781407130811) & A TIME TO REMEMBER (9781407130828).
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The Team" series is suitable for use with both individuals or as a group tutor encouraging students to try ensemble playing from the very early stages. All of the books in the series are fully integrated allowing students using ' Team Strings' to play in ensembles with students using ' Team Woodwind' ' Team Brass' ' Team Percussion' & ' Team Recorder'. " Team Strings" is a flexible & adaptable course ideal for beginner violin players. The tutor can be tailored to suit the specific needs of each student. Each piece is carefully graded to ensure a logical progression at a sensible pace & students are introduced to a wide variety of musical styles throughout the book." Team Strings" has been specially written to support almost any combination of string instruments the teacher may encounter. Imaginative Piano Accompaniments have been provided as well as helpful notes & clear ensemble scores to aid the teacher. " Team Strings" also

Includes:: all of the scales for the relevant Grades set by the major examination boards. This volume comes complete with a CD of backing tracks designed to add a third dimension to practice sessions or performance when an accompanist is not available."

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This is both a practical & beautiful approach to the teapot. As well as covering the essential making methods such as throwing slab-building press-moulding slipcasting & more it also looks at the aesthetic & functional aspects of teapot design. A large part of the book will look at artists & their work
- covering both functional & non-functional teapots. The final chapter will also be a gallery of teapots making this a useful asset for the contemporary collector. This is a fantastic book that will capture the imagination of makers collectors & all other fans of the teapot.
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A Tear in the Curtain is a historical novel. The story tells of three families British Hungarian & Russian whose lives are linked for fifty years during the Cold War & afterwards. Their experiences reflect the danger bravery heartbreak joy & sorrow of those days when Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. Four eleven year-olds spend an idyllic seaside holiday in England in August 1956 just before the Suez crisis & the Hungarian Uprising intensify the Cold War. John Symons skilfully portrays how world events including the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 the Solidarity movement in Poland in the early 1980s the end of Communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 & in the Soviet Union in 1991 affected the lives of the four children & their families in their respective countries. The author draws on Russian documents not yet available in English to paint a picture of the Cold War in human terms & to show its origins in the rise of Lenin Hitler & Stalin & the Second World War. A Tear in the Curtain can be read with pleasure & interest by three generations. It is narrated in simple clear & fast-moving language that engages young people including those taking GCSE history. A fifteen year-old boy with dyslexia was absorbed by the story & read it twice in thirty six hours. He said how much it helped him to see the meaning of Hitler & the Second World War which he was studying for his exams. His mother loved the book's atmosphere & poetic sense of hope amid the fear & anxiety of the events described. & for an older generation A Tear in the Curtain expresses the meaning of all that shaped their lives after 1945. John Symons is a classical & modern historian with a passionate interest in Russia & the Soviet Union. He has travelled widely in Eastern Europe & Russia & has visited a former GULAG prison camp in Siberia. Described by a British Ambassador to Russia as 'an enthusiastic Russophile' his talks with people persecuted or imprisoned by the Gestapo or KGB give the book the ring of truth. He is the author of two biographies Stranger on the Shore & This Life of Grace. John Symons describes the tragedies that struck at the heart of a poor but devoted Cornish family. Humanity & the valour of the human spirit shine from every page.' This England reviewing Stranger on the Shore ' The writer is a consummate artist in style with a poet's eye for detail. The story is exceptionally vivid.. .expressing deep faith & perception of the meaning of life.. .' Professor C.F.D. Moule Cambridge on Stranger on the Shore. PROMOTION: This book will be reviewed in the local & national press. Ideal for giving GCSE & A level History students a taste of the human impact of the Cold War. ...

Dean Williams was born into the tough Scartho area of Grimsby in 1972. His father was a violent hard-drinking trawlerman who spent most of the year at sea & his shore time drinking & fighting. Obsessed with making young Dean man up Bob beat him & locked him in a cupboard under the stairs for days on end. Deans mother Andrea did her best but was also terrorised by Bob Williams. From the age of seven Dean was known locally as the spike thrower for accidentally impaling the head of a young tormentor with part of a bicycle. The aftermath was a wayward teenage life expulsion from school & notoriety through football hooliganism. But there were also times when Deans childhood captured echoes of a simpler way of life playing out until dusk catching newts & nicking gobstoppers. This astonishing memoir although touched by darkness & violence is infused with the sharpest humour. It has the atmosphere of a David Peace novel colliding with a Shane Meadows film. Like a cutting-edge nouveau Dead Mans Shoes or a Somebody Up There Likes Me for the 21st Century it is an uncompromising account of a life lived on the margins & the power of the creative spirit. ...

THE NO.1 LADIES DETECTIVE AGENCY introduced the world to the one & only Precious Ramotswe
- the engaging & sassy owner of Botswanas
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A talented songwriter Shawn Gallagher spends his days lost in reverie & wonder oblivious to the wiles of women & the ways of the world. He claims that hes content with his life but his music tells a different story
- one of loneliness & desperate longing. No one understands why Shawn doesnt put his musical gift to profitable use
- least of all Brenna OToole a fiercely independent tomboy who has been secretly in love with him for years. But it is only when Shawn gives into the mysteries of magic that he gets the chance to fulfill his destiny as a man & a musician.

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Sixty-three years. Sixty-three years & Technical Analysis of Stock Trends still towers over the discipline of technical analysis like a mighty redwood. Originally published in 1948 & now in its Tenth Edition this book remains the original & most important work on this topic. The book contains more than dry chart patterns it passes down accumulated experience & wisdom from Dow to Schabacker to Edwards & to Magee & has been modernized by W.H.C. Bassetti. Bassetti a client friend & student of John Magee one of the original authors has converted the material on the craft of manual charting with TEKNIPLAT chart paper to modern computer software methods. In actuality none of Magees concepts have proven invalid & some of his work predated modern concepts such as beta & volatility. In addition Magee described a trend-following procedure that is so simple & so elegant that Bassetti has adapted it to enable the general investor to use it to replace the cranky Dow Theory. This procedure called the Basing Points procedure is extensively described in the new Tenth Edition along with new material on powerful moving average systems & Leverage Space Portfolio Model generously contributed by the formidable analyst Ralph Vince. author of Handbook of Portfolio Mathematics. See whats new in the Tenth Edition: Chapters on replacing Dow Theory Update of Dow Theory Record Deletion of extraneous material on manual charting New chapters on Stops & Basing Points New material on moving average systems New material on Ralph Vinces Leverage Space Portfolio Model So much has changed since the first edition yet so much has remained the same. Everyone wants to know how to play the game. The foundational work of the discipline of technical analysis this book gives you more than a technical formula for trading & investing it gives you the knowledge & wisdom to craft long-term success. ...

Technical drawings or flats are essential for anyone working in the fashion industry. Used to convey design ideas & garment details to pattern cutters & machinists it is essential that they are drawn accurately to avoid misunderstanding & costly mistakes in sampling & production. Technical Drawing for Fashion" explains how to create a technical fashion drawing using a simple & straightforward step-by-step method accompanied by some time-saving tips. This method is explained for those who wish to use Adobe Illustrator as well as for those who prefer to draw by h&. The second part of the book presents over 250 technical drawings of garment types styles & construction details the basic key shapes of which are shown alongside a specially created & photographed calico toile. Accompanying each illustration will be a list of all the terms by which that garment is known. This unique presentation illustrates the relationship between the three dimensional garment & the two-dimensional drawing allowing readers to really understand how to render technical drawings." ...