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When Mary meets Monty, heir to a stately pile, happiness seems assured. But as the mansion crumbles, passion wanes along with the heating. Banker's wife Beth swaps Notting Hill for weekends at a bijou cottage. They only offered a smidgeon over the asking price. So why don't the locals like them? Eco-harridan Morag is the terror of the village, with her objections to everyone and everything. Über-WAG Alexandra needs a footballer's mansion and fast. There must be a Hello!-tastic country pile with spa, champagne bar and parking for six SUVs somewhere? Ambitions clash when the village launches an allotment project and no one escapes the bitter struggle over sex, power and money which threatens to blight more than everyone's carrots.
This reader contains source material for an up-to-date study of child development as it applies to major issues in child care and education. The emphasis is on studying early childhood in cultural contexts - in families and in preschool settings. Part 1 elaborates a socio-cultural approach to early development, taking emotional attachment, communication and language and daycare as examples. Part 2 considers how children's emerging capacities for empathy, inter-subjectivity and social understanding enable them to negotiate, talk about and play out relationship themes, both in the family and preschool. Part 3 concentrates on early learning, with chapters on the way parents support children's a...
This is Anita Worrall’s story and the story of her family. The story is set in the middle of twentieth-century Eastern Europe, at the time of the persecution of the Jewish people, followed by the communist regimes. Together with her family, she escaped from Romania by way of Israel and Cuba to land in Canada. She studied at Cornell University where she met her future husband, a South African Fulbright scholar. He promised her that South Africa would change and in no small way, he contributed to that change. It is a story that is attached to the millennia-long story of the Jewish people. It is a story of resilience, of taking risks, and of courage to move to uncertain futures and strange lands.
Take a deep dive into the psychology that drives legendary athletes to push themselves to the limits of human ability—elevating them from good to great. On the playing field, natural talent isn’t enough—there’s a mental component that determines whether athletes win the race or wipe out before the finish line. But what separates standout sports stars from the rest? In a paradigm-shifting new theory, acclaimed sportswriter Matt Fitzgerald identifies two key traits behind athletic success: strict self-regulation over thoughts and emotions and an unquenchable psychological need to pursue victory—even when it means enduring extreme mental and physical suffering. Drawing on modern psych...
Examination of literacy and reading habits in nineteenth-century Ireland and implications for an emerging cultural nationalism.
Iranian submarines launch missiles at the United States. How could this happen? By spring of 2010, Israel’s government has grown anxious about the extent of Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. At the same time, Jibril Atwan, advisor to the Supreme Leader of Iran, is developing plans to convert Iranian land-based missiles into weapons capable of carrying nuclear armed warheads, missiles that can be deployed from submarines. The President of the United States confronts Israel after a covert team on their payroll, is detected infiltrating into Iran, by an American nuclear submarine operating off the coast of Iran. Secret U.S. war preparations begin. Kilo submarines make contact with Iran, confirming they are heading to launch against the United States and Israel. Two Kilos are cruising towards each US coastline; a fifth will take up position off the coast of Israel. No target information is designated in their messages. But the U.S. and Israel both know that the Kilos are coming – and that they are targets. The task: to locate five Kilo Submarines and terminate or force them to surface and surrender.
Set in Ireland, this book tells the story of teenage hero Francie Brady. Things begin to fall apart after his mother's suicide - when he is consumed with fury and commits a horrible crime. Committed to an asylum, it is only here that he finally achieves peace. Shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize.
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and students, civic and religious leaders, and other interested citizens in order to help them better understand the world and the foreign policy choices facing the United States and other countries.
The story of Camp Rucker, Alabama, during the Second World War illustrates the colossal effort of a quiet nation to shake off its peaceful slumber and mobilize for total war. Camp Rucker's role in that mighty endeavor is told in these pages through vintage photographs from Fort Rucker's Army Aviation Museum. Select passages from the War Department's 1944 pamphlet Army Life complement these images to give a unique glimpse at the life of a U.S. Army training camp during World War II and the men and women who trained there. Today, Camp Rucker is known as Fort Rucker and is home to the United States Army Aviation Center. In 1941, however, it was simply a vast acreage of pine trees, scrub oak, and sub-marginal farmland. But following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the War Department decided to carve out a training camp in this southeastern corner of Alabama. By the spring of 1942, the first freshly mobilized units had entered its gates. In the following three years, Camp Rucker trained thousands of Army soldiers, WACs, and nurses. Many of these young Americans were destined for the battlefields of the Pacific and Europe.