The new editions of Access to Historycombine all the strengths of this well-loved series with a new design & features that allow all students access to the content & study skills needed to achieve exam success. This Third Edition of this popular title has been updated to reflect the needs of the current A Level specifications. The title examines reasons why progress towards unification was so slow at first & why after 1850 it became so speedy. In doing so it gives due attention to the roles played by Cavour Mazzini Garibaldi Pope Pius IX Napoleon III Charles Albert & Victor Emmanuel & attempts to answer the question Who made Italy. Throughout the book key dates terms & issues are highlighted & historical interpretations of key debates are outlined. Summary diagrams are included to consolidate knowledge & understanding of the period & exam style questions & tips for each examination board provide the opportunity to develop exam skills. ...

Neither Commissario Brunetti nor his wife Paola have ever had much sympathy for the Italian armed forces so when a young cadet is found hanged at Venice's elite military academy Brunetti's emotions are complex: pity & sorrow at the death of a boy close in age to his own son & contempt & irritation for the arrogance & high-handedness of the boy's teachers & fellow students. The young man is the son of an ex-politician a man of an impeccable integrity all too rare in Italian politics. But as Brunetti
- & the indispensable Signorina Elettra
- investigate further no one seems willing to talk as the military protects its own & civilians keep their own counsel. Is this the natural reluctance of Italians to involve themselves with the authorities or is Brunetti facing a conspiracy of silence?

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Unimagined is the hilarious touching & powerful acclaimed memoir of Imran Ahmad who at aged one moved with his family from Pakistan to London. Torn between his Islamic roots & his desire to be accepted in the West Imran recalls the trials & tribulations of being an outsider wanting in. From shocking discrimination to side-splitting anecdotes Unimagined" provides the foreground for how the UK & world have changed immeasurably over the last three decades. As Imran grappling with identity purpose & life he also embraces that age-old universal desire
- for love."
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A seven-year-old girl puts a nail-gun to her grandmothers neck & fires. An isolated incident say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own mystery to solve: a bizarre scandal in the Taiwan timber industry. Hesketh has never been good at relationships: Aspergers Syndrome has seen to that. But he does have a talent for spotting behavioural patterns & an outsiders fascination with group dynamics. Nothing obvious connects Heskeths Southeast Asian case with the atrocities back home. Or with the increasingly odd behaviour of his beloved step-son Freddy. But when Heskeths Taiwan contact dies shockingly & more acts of sabotage & child violence sweep the globe he is forced to acknowledge possibilities that defy the rational principles on which he has staked his life his career & most devastatingly of all his role as a father. Part psychological thriller part dystopian nightmare The Uninvited is a powerful & viscerally unsettling portrait of apocalypse in embryo. ...

A sinister tale of haunting beauty from The Outcast author Sadie Jones. She was obeying a prompt an instinct: the instinct that makes a dog lying by the fire tremble of a sudden & whimper when there is no one near to see. The cake is iced. The wine decanted. The house gleams invitingly. But as Sterne prepares for Emerald Torringtons birthday supper who are the pale strangers struggling silently up the drive? A supernatural comedy & spellbinding thriller The Uninvited Guests strips away the respectable layers of Edwardian society to reveal the dark secrets beneath. What a delicious read! Like something written by a wicked Jane Austen. Passing like a spring fever here is a fairy tale that stays with you long after it is gone. Sarah Blake author of The Postmistress ...

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- X Factor 2012 had it all & much much more! Fans all over the country were divided like never before as
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Fourth in the series featuring investigative journalist Lindsay Gordon. When union leader Tom Jack falls to his death from her bedroom window after a spectacularly public row with Lindsay it seems the only way to prove her innocence is to find the real culprit. Leaving her new home in California for a trade union conference in Sheffield Lindsay Gordon finds herself in the company of old friends -- & enemies including Tom Jack. When this unethical union leader is found dead having catapulted out of Lindsays tenth-floor hotel room she is taken in for questioning by the police. Hoping to clear her name by finding the real killer Lindsay searches among hundreds of unruly union delegates for a murderer who may have struck once before. Along the way she uncovers a seething cauldron of blackmail corruption & abuse of power all brought to the boil by her investigation. ...

Vivid bawdy & bitter' (The Times) Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street young & old meeting the harsh challeges of poverty & survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly at eleven neglected & independent dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah knocking on sixty & still on the game; Joanne not yet twenty not yet married & already pregnant; Old Alice welcoming her impending death; Muriel helplessly watching the decline of her stoical husb&. & linking them all watching over them all mother to half the street is fiery indomitable Iris. ...

Dominic has always been a disappointment to his ambitious father but he has never understood why. Then he discovers that he had an older brother who died before he was born. Where his brother was a brilliant academic & scientist Dominic prefers to waste his time painting. His father cannot forgive him for it. Dominic decides to try to find out about his brother but he discovers more than he bargained for. Their father had Dominics dead brother cloned & Dominic is the result. How can he live with this mind-blowing discovery? If the truth is ever made public it could put peoples lives in danger
- including his own.
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We have searched the UK for the most unusual novel & quirky eating experiences be it the location the building the food the entertainment or all four. Choices include the charming Windmill at Cley Norfolk; Sunday lunch on a canal boat cruise through the quiet backwaters of Birmingham; dining with a smooth soundtrack at the renowned Jazz Cafe in Reading; & the cutting edge Inamo in London where you place your order via the interactive menus projected onto the tables! This experience entitles two people to a delicious two or three-course meal at a carefully selected restaurant. The number of courses & type of food varies according to the restaurant you choose & the variety has something to suit any taste. ...