Get ready for more girly games giggles & gossip in this bestselling series featuring a group of girls brought together by the boys & bunk warfare fun & sun of one cool summer camp. Natalies film-star dad has been nominated for an Oscar & shes going to the awards show in LA with him
- which also means she can catch up with Tori! Tori plans to spend some quality time with Nat but when a new boy arrives on the scene the two friends fall out in a big way. Meanwhile wannabe actress Brynn is preparing for the most important role shes ever had but boyfriend Jordan is taking up so much of her time she cant even learn her lines properly! How can she decide whats most important especially when breaking up with Jordan could mean upsetting her gal-pal Priya Jordans closest childhood friend. Girls will be lining up to share all the latest secrets in the next batch of Summer Camp Secrets which are sure to attract new fans everywhere!
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School can be a frustrating & confusing experience for children who have not developed their communication skills. not only will access to the curriculum be difficult so will developing co-operative skills & friendships. This book has been developed to teach & develop oral language & social interaction skills to children aged 4-6. Containing 40 sessions designed to take place two to three times a week the book aims to help teachers to develop the rules" of interaction with the help of the character Ginger the Bear who features in all the activities. Skills taught include: eye contact; taking turns; sharing; greetings; awareness of feelings; giving; following instructions; listening; paying attention; & play skills. The book should provide a useful resource for Literacy Hour & curriculum Key Stage 1." ...

The power of effective listening is recognised as the essential tool of good management. In this book Kline describes how we can achieve this & presents a step-by-step guide that can be used in any situation. Whether you want to have more productive meetings solve business problems or build stronger relationships this book offers you a new world of possibilities. ...

Human beings have a strong desire to travel through time. Although scientists are not yet taking out patents on a time machine they are investigating whether it is possible under the laws of physics. In Newtons three-dimensional world this would have been inconceivable. But with Einsteins theory of relativity a fourth dimension time enters the frame. Is it really inconceivable that we can travel along the timeline? In this book Richard Gott offers an intellectually expansive witty & engaging study of the viability of time travel which takes us from the dream of time travel itself in H. G. Wellss path-breaking novel THE TIME MACHINE to cutting-edge research into astrophysics & quantum teleportation. He explores the scientific social & moral implications of time travel & looks at recent remarkable experiments in which fundamental particles were actually sent into the future. ...

This is the extraordinary love story of Clare & Henry who met when Clare was six & Henry was thirty-six & were married when Clare was twenty-two & Henry thirty. Impossible but true because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets & he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future. In the face of this force they can neither prevent nor control Henry & Clare's struggle to lead normal lives is both intensely moving & entirely unforgettable. ...

We think of Queen Elizabeth I as ' Gloriana': the most powerful English woman in history. We think of her reign (1558-1603) as a golden age of maritime heroes like Sir Walter Raleigh Sir Richard Grenville & Sir Francis Drake & of great writers such as Edmund Spenser Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson & William Shakespeare. But what was it actually like to live in Elizabethan England? If you could travel to the past & walk the streets of London in the 1590s where would you stay? What would you eat? What would you wear? Would you really have a sense of it being a glorious age? & if so how would that glory sit alongside the vagrants diseases violence sexism & famine of the time? In this book Ian Mortimer answers the key questions that a prospective traveller to late sixteenth-century England would ask. Applying the groundbreaking approach he pioneered in his bestselling Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England the Elizabethan" world unfolds around the reader. He shows a society making great discoveries & winning military victories & yet at the same time being troubled by its new-found awareness. It is a country in which life expectancy at birth is in the early thirties people still starve to death & Catholics are persecuted for their faith. Yet it produces some of the finest writing in the English language & some of the most magnificent architecture & sees Elizabeth's subjects settle in America & circumnavigate the globe. Welcome to a country that is in all its contradictions the very crucible of the modern world." ...

The past is a foreign country
- this is your guide. We think of Queen Elizabeth I's reign (1558-1603) as a golden age. But what
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Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology
- a world where dark & dangerous heroes fight to protect us. Prepare
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Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology
- a world where dark & dangerous heroes fight to protect us. Prepare
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The grassroots movement that started Sept. 17 2011 with a protest in a park near Wall Street has mushroomed into a series of demonstrations in hundreds of cities around the world. In a year of protests from the Middle East to Madison Wis. the Occupy uprising a passionate outcry for economic justice has been defined by its lack of definition. Now from TIME comes an illuminating collection of stories that answers many of the key questions about Occupy: How did it get started? What's behind the anger of the so-called 99% this group claims to represent? Who leads this leaderless movement? What should its agenda be? How can it transcend the occupation of tiny Zuccotti Park in lower Manhattan? What Is Occupy? "
Includes: chapters from the pages of TIME by columnists like Joe Klein & Rana Foroohar as well as new chapters original to the book plus the results of exclusive TIME polls. "
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