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Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747807361ISBN 13: 9780747807360
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The history of the British home in the 1940s is dominated by the Second World War. In the first five years of the decade homes were adapted to better survive the affects of bombing. The 1930s home became the wartime home with the addition of anti-blast tape to the windows, sandbags round the door, and a Morrison shelter in the kitchen. In the garden, lawn and shrubs gave way to vegetable plots and chicken coops. For those whose houses were damaged or destroyed, or those moved out of their homes by post-war rehousing schemes, the picture was very different. For many the pre-fab became home, and new designs of furniture made under the utility scheme furnished rooms cheaply and stylishly. And new estates, different from anything tried before the war, rose from the bomb sites, offering state-of-the-art sanitisation and modern facilities to thousands. 56 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747595410ISBN 13: 9780747595410
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - NOMINATED FOR THE KATE GREENAWAY MEDAL_______________'Gently introduces pre-schoolers to global warming . It ends with the reassuring hope that we can change and make our world better' - National Geographic'Delightfully illustrated' - The Sunday Telegraph_______________From the author of the bestselling No Matter What comes a cautionary tale for readers young and old about the use and misuse of the planet - featuring dragons!The world is populated by some beastly dragons who care nothing for how much they pollute the oceans, chop down the trees, gobble up all the food and use everything up without stopping to think.Those dragons need to wake up to what they are doing to their world before it is too late .An energy-filled picture book that addresses concerns about the environment in the most child-centric and delightful way possible._______________'Tackles global warming for pre-schoolers: no easy task but beautifully done as an allegory of wasteful dragons who heat the world by breathing fire' - Sunday Express magazine 32 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747599823ISBN 13: 9780747599821
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Ovid and Lorelli Thornthwaite have been trying to kill each other for so long that neither twin can remember which act of attempted murder came first. But whoever struck first, trying to take each other's lives is simply what they do. Until one day a lawyer arrives at their house to take stock of its contents, and his accompanying son attracts their attention. Soon a new battle evolves - one in which the twins have to work together to solve the mystery of their parents' deaths. Can Lorelli and Ovid overcome their old animosities, and will they ever get to finish that game of chess 288 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 1408800772ISBN 13: 9781408800775
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The most controversial book in Britain''Urgent and vivid . A serious, writerly, self-critical account of what it means to feel that, despite love and hope and good intentions, you have failed as a parent, and that the child you bore (while still eerily, painfully familiar) is lost to you.' Daily Telegraph'An aching, empty-nest memoir: a mother mourning for her uncomplicated little children, now grown, whom she could care for, write about without comeback, love - and control' The TimesOne bleak, late winter's day, Julie Myerson finds herself in a graveyard, looking for traces of a young woman who died nearly two centuries before. As a child in Regency England, Mary Yelloly painted an exquisite album of watercolours that uniquely reflected the world she lived in. But Mary died at the age of twenty-one, and when Julie comes across this album, she is haunted by the potential never realised, the barely-lived life cut short.And most of all, she is reminded of her own child.Because only days earlier, Julie and her husband locked their eldest son out of the family home. He was just seventeen. How could it have come to this After a happy growing-up, it had taken only a matter of months for this bright, sweet, good-humoured boy to completely lose his way and propel his family into daily chaos.He had discovered cannabis and was now smoking it everyday - and nothing they could say or do, no help they could offer, seemed to reach him. And Julie - whose emotionally fragile relationship with her own father had left her determined to love her children better - had to accept that she was, for the moment at least, powerless to bring back the boy she had known.Honest, warm and often profoundly upsetting, this is the parallel story of a girl and a boy separated by centuries. The circumstances are very different, but the questions remain terrifyingly the same. What happens when a child disappears from a family What will survive of any of us in memory or in history And how is a mother to cope when love - however absolute, however unconditional - is not enough to save her child 336 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0230577636ISBN 13: 9780230577633
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This handy guide helps science students to develop essential skills for success in their discipline. Featuring top tips, memorable illustrations and real scientific examples, it shows them how to record their observations accurately, interpret their results accurately and develop good time management skills and study habits. It also contains practical guidance on tackling different types of assignments, responding to feedback and preparing for exams. This is an invaluable resource for science students on both further and higher education courses. 96 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747594708ISBN 13: 9780747594703
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'A brilliant book' - Mary Wesley, Daily Mail 'She is simply dynamite . There are no apparent bounds to Trapido's skill, her inventiveness and her knowledge' - Philip Hensher, GuardianSparky Christina and her saintly adopted sister Pam couldn't be more different. And when they meet similarly mismatched friends Jago and Peter, the four embark on a dazzling series of pairings and partings, outrageous coincidences and eleventh-hour entrances interrupted one disastrous Halloween when schoolboy revelry turns horribly wrong. Three years on, as Christina has made it to Oxford to study English. While she analyses the wit, cruelty and crossed genders of Shakespearean comedy, the cast of her own life reunites and the curtain falls on some gloriously unexpected partnerships.'Juggling by Barbara Trapido is, I think, already well known but it should be even more so. It has the best piece of Shakespeare criticism in it I've ever read' - Katherine Rundell, Guardian'A joy to read . Supremely skilful' - Observer'She weaves a cat's cradle of wit and erudition around her high-stepping characters, take breath-taking risks and triumphs against all the odds' - Independent 320 pp. Deutsch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747594724ISBN 13: 9780747594727
Anbieter: Smartbuy, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Selected as a Radio 4 Good Read by Maggie O'Farrell______________________'Sprinkled with magic' - Sunday Times 'Audacious, energetic and dazzing . There aren't many novelists whose stories one doesn't want to end, but Barbara Trapido is one of them' - Philip Hensher, Mail on Sunday______________________Sisters Ellen and Lydia live out an idyllic girlhood in Oxford, their wayward adventures of no concern to their passive, donnish father and their chilly stepmother. Even when Lydia is killed in a car accident, death isn't enough to keep her from her sister, cheerfully returning to haunt her. But Ellen, unwittingly, is herself haunting the lives of those around her: there is Jonathan Goldman, whose flat Lydia is running from when she is knocked down; his daughter Stella, the 'nuisance chip'; and Stella's genius painter-boy lover Izzy. As Trapido's myriad pairings collide, part, and then reunite in breathtaking comedy of manners, The Travelling Hornplayer climaxes in a joyful and unexpected finale.______________________'Reading Barbara Trapido is sheer pleasure' - Independent on Sunday Books of the Year 'This woman is brilliant. And she actually makes you laugh . I enjoyed every page of this book, which is so shimmering with wit, hectic energy and crazy convolutions of plots that I ended up in a state of sublime, satiated exhaustion' - Daily Mail 'She has the mind-teasing skills of a crime-writer combined with a sense of humour as dry as a Martini' - Sunday Telegraph 272 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 140812467XISBN 13: 9781408124673
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The only difference between me and the people judging me is they weren't smart enough to do what we did.'One of the most infamous scandals in financial history becomes a theatrical epic. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founding partners Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, who became 'the most vilified figure from the financial scandal of the century.'Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, Enron follows a group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light on the financial turmoil in which the world finds itself in 2009.The play is Lucy Prebble's first work for the stage since her debut work The Sugar Syndrome, winner of the George Devine and Critic's Circle Awards for Most Promising New Playwright. Produced by Headlong, Enron premiered at Chichester's Minerva Theatre on 11 July 2009 and opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in September, before transferring to London's West End Jan - May 2010 and to Broadway April 2010. 128 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 1408114410ISBN 13: 9781408114414
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A light-hearted look at the lock-keeper's job, be it a rural little lock on the canals, or an ultra-modern affair at a huge marina. Jake Kavanagh presents a humorous survey, using his inimitable cartoons and anecdotes, of the scrapes people get into when trying to use locks. He focuses on notable events like the Henley Regatta which afford many opportunities for horrors to unfold. Readers have enjoyed Jake's tales for decades; this is the perfect book for his devotees.'Do not read this book while edging your 52ft hired narrow boat towards an impossibly small lock. It would seriously damage shipping.'Southern Evening Echo'Excellent reading whilst queuing for those over-busy Thames locks on a summer weekend.'Waterways World 112 pp. Englisch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 140880140XISBN 13: 9781408801406
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In 1954 a fisherman is found dead in the nets of his boat, and a local Japanese-American man is charged with his murder. In the course of his trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than one man's guilt. For on San Piedro, memories grow as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries - memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and a Japanese girl; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbours watched.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747598509ISBN 13: 9780747598503
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Well now, prove it, Sheila. As John would say, 'Put your money where your mouth is.' Be a depressed widow boring the arse off everyone, or get on with life. Your choice.'.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747596743ISBN 13: 9780747596745
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'Agnès Humbert bears devastating witness to her time . An insider's account of the germination of the French Resistance' William Boyd'Sober and testifying, sardonic and humorous . A beautiful and powerful work of literature' The TimesIn the summer of 1940, as the German Occupation tightened its grip on Paris, Agnès Humbert helped to establish one of the first resistance cells. She had no experience in warfare: she was an art historian, as were most of her early comrades, colleagues from the Musée de l'Homme in Paris. All they had was an unquenchable desire to free their country from the horrors of Nazi occupation.Within a year the group was publishing a news bulletin, helping allied airmen escape and passing military information back to London. Then came the catastrophe of betrayal, followed by arrest and interrogation, imprisonment and trial and, for Agnès, deportation to slave labour camp in Germany. Résistance is the secret journal of a woman who never gave up hope, even in the face of impossible odds.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 0747596662ISBN 13: 9780747596660
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In December 1795, seventeen-year-old Marie-Thérèse, the only surviving child of Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI, fled Paris's notorious Temple Prison. Kept in solitary confinement after her parents' brutal execution during the Terror, she had been unaware of the fate of her family, save the cries she heard of her young brother being tortured in an adjacent cell. She emerged to an uncertain future: an orphan, exile and focus of political plots and marriage schemes of the crowned heads of Europe. Susan Nagel tells a remarkable story of an astonishing woman whose life was shrouded in mystery, from her birth in front of rowdy crowds at Versailles, to her upbringing by doting parents, through to Revolution, imprisonment, exile, Restoration and, finally, her reincarnation as Saint and Matriarch.
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Jul 2009, 2009
ISBN 10: 1845117689ISBN 13: 9781845117689
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The new model of intervention that emerged from Bosnia and Kosovo signalled a revolution in International Affairs. The crises in the Balkans revealed a new division of labour amongst Western states: US forces are primarily responsible for military action while European partners are more committed to Peace Support Operations and the subsequent building of 'security communities' via integration into the NATO and EU. This model has been evidenced in the post-9/11 'war on terror'. Here Moustakis and German examine the emergence and practice of this new Western model of intervention, which combines 'hard'/military and 'soft'/peace approaches, and assess its success and failures in the light of recent operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Georgia, and Nagorno-Karabakh. The fragile democratisation processes unfolding in the Balkans and the Caucasus offer important insights into the challenges of securing volatile regions and peripheries.