In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington an adopted child & the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story a painful past written over & repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt & humour & a fierce love of life. It is about the pursuit of happiness about lessons in love the search for a mother & a journey into madness & out again. It is generous honest & true." ...

In 1985 Jeanette Wintersons first novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit" was published. It tells the story of a young girl adopted by Pentecostal parents. The girl is supposed to grow up & be a missionary. Instead she falls in love with a woman. Disaster. Written when Jeanette was only twenty-five her novel went on to win the Whitbread First Novel award become an international bestseller & inspire an award-winning BBC television adaptation. " Oranges" was semi-autobiographical. Mrs Winterson a thwarted giantess loomed over that novel & its authors life. When Jeanette finally left her home at sixteen because she was in love with a woman Mrs Winterson asked her: why be happy when you could be normal? This book is the story of a lifes work to find happiness. It is a book full of stories: about a girl locked out of her home sitting on the doorstep all night; about a tyrant in place of a mother who has two sets of false teeth & a revolver in the duster drawer waiting for Armageddon; about growing up in an northern industrial town now changed beyond recognition part of a community now vanished; & about the Universe as a Cosmic Dustbin. It is the story of how the painful past Jeanette Winterson thought she had written over & repainted returned to haunt her later life & sent her on a journey into madness & out again in search of her real mother. It is also a book about other peoples stories showing how fiction & poetry can form a string of guiding lights a life-raft which supports us when we are sinking. Funny acute fierce & celebratory this is a tough-minded search for belonging for love an identity a home & a mother." ...

By tackling the most central ideas in chemistry Why Chemical Reactions Happen provides the reader with all the tools & concepts needed to think like a chemist. The text takes a unified approach to the subject aiming to help the reader develop a real overview of chemical processes by avoiding the traditional divisions of physical inorganic & organic chemistry. To understand how chemical reactions happen we need to know about the bonding in molecules how molecules interact what determines whether an interaction is favourable or not & what the outcome will be. Answering these questions requires an understanding of topics from quantum mechanics through thermodynamics to curly arrows". In this book all of these topics are presented in a coherent & coordinated fashion showing how each leads to a deeper understanding of chemical reactions." ...

Christians & Muslims together make up about 57% of the worlds population today & by the end of the century they will constitute about 66% of the worlds population. More than any other single factor the wellbeing of our children & grandchildren may depend on how well Christians learn to relate to Muslims
- & Hindus the next largest faith not to mention Buddhists Jews people of indigenous faiths & the nonreligious. We know how to have a strong Christian identity that is intolerant of or belligerent towards other faiths & we know how to have a weak Christian identity that is tolerant & benevolent. But is there a third alternative? How do we discover live teach & practise a Christian identity that is both strong & benevolent towards other faiths? In this provocative & inspiring book author Brian McLaren tackles some of the hardest questions around the issue of interfaith relations & shares a hopeful vision of the reconciliation that Jesus offers to our multi-faith world.
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WHY DID NOBODY TELL ME...that the gurus dont always know best.. .that you dont have to get your figure back six weeks after birth.. .that you dont need to worry about the other parents at the school gates.. .that its okay to let them eat dirt.. .that you dont have to have a naughty step & most importantly.. .that you should never buy a guinea pig? Drawn from the message boards of mumsnet.com & based on the assumption that if thousands of parents have found a piece of advice to be helpful then you can be pretty sure its worth knowing this book shapes that collective wisdom into dozens of dos & donts that will lead you through the minefield that is twenty-first-century parenting. ...

The child who dies of a terminal illness the mother of a young family killed by a drunk driver the young boy who takes his own life because he is bullied at school the children massacred when a crazed person takes a gun into their school. So many lives seem to end tragically
- world renowned medium Gordon Smith looks at why. In his work as a medium Gordon is constantly asked why a person had to die. Were they too good for this world? Did they go before their time? Why would a benevolent God let them suffer? Are they still suffering after death? For Gordon his work with the Spirit world is dedicated to healing the living. This book will answer many of the questions that torment the living when death steals away someone they love. This inspirational heart-felt book will give people a deeper understanding of the relationship between life & death & the journey we all take when we leave this life.
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With a foreword by Tim Rice this book will change the way you see the world. Why is it better to buy a lottery ticket on a Friday? Why are showers always too hot or too cold? & what's the connection between a rugby player taking a conversion & a tourist trying to get the best photograph of Nelson's Column? These & many other fascinating questions are answered in this entertaining & highly informative book which is ideal for anyone wanting to remind themselves
- or discover for the first time
- that maths is relevant to almost everything we do. Dating cooking travelling by car gambling & even life-saving techniques have links with intriguing mathematical problems as you will find explained here. Whether you have a Ph D in astrophysics or haven't touched a maths problem since your school days this book will give you a fresh understanding of the world around you.

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EVER WONDERED.. . Why we burp? What a wotsit is? Whether lemmings really jump off cliffs? Why vomit always contains carrots? & why do farts smell like rotten eggs? No subject is too strange & no trivia too tough for Mitchell Symons who has the answer to these crazy questions & many more. ...

Perfect for early elementary students who nned to know about their bodies & maintaining their health & hygiene this title in the My Body series explains dental care in a simple straightforward manner. Labeled diagrams illustrate body parts & processes & activities give kids a chance to explore to test themselves & watch how their bodies react. We are after all each a very interesting science experiment. Notes for parents & teachers are appended. ...

Perfect for early elementary students who nned to know about their bodies & maintaining their health & hygiene this title in the My Body series explains the importance of sleep in a simple straightforward manner. Labeled diagrams illustrate body parts & processes & activities give kids a chance to explore to test themselves & watch how their bodies react. We are after all each a very interesting science experiment. Notes for parents & teachers are appended. ...