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For anyone becoming employed, or in employment, with hidden impairments such as dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADHD or ASD the work setting can be a real challenge.

In a year that sees a Scottish referendum on independence, the author analyses some of the forces that have unified Britain in the past. She examines the mythology of Britishness, and how far and why it has faded. She discusses the Acts of Union with Wales, Scotland and Ireland, and their limitations, while scrutinizing England's own fractures.

A classic of women's literature in a new, elegant edition.

An inspiring investigation of courage in all its forms, from battlefields and bullrings to earthquakes and opera houses.

For any adult with specific learning difficulties, going to college or university can be a challenge. From study skills to budgeting, from cooking to relationships, Amanda Kirby identifies routes to success in both education and socially. At the heart of How To Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties at College and University is its practical approach to provide information and advice that is easy to access and to use.Drawing on decades of practical, professional and academic experience, Amanda Kirby provides solutions that are very accessible. How To Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties at College and University provides opportunities for further reading and directs you to relevant apps and websites. Prior to Amanda Kirby's book, helpful information was very difficult to obtain; now, having this information all in one place is like a gold mine.How To Succeed with Specific Learning Difficulties at College and University covers:- Preparing for College and University- Getting and Staying Organised- Independent Living- Study Skills- Socialising and Feeling Good- Preparing for the WorkplaceFor any adult with specific learning difficulties going to college or university can be a challenge. These can present in the work and home setting, learning new skills, meeting new people, and coping with a new environment. From study skills to budgeting, from cooking to relationships, Amanda Kirby identifies routes to success in both education and socially. At the heart of this book is its practical approach to provide information and advice that is easy to access and to use. Drawing on decades of practical, professional and academic experience Amanda Kirby provides solutions that are not only very accessible but also directs you to further reading and resources including apps and websites. Having this information all in one place is like a gold mine, as it has been previously scattered and very hard to find.

Set in Cornwall at the turn of the twentieth-century, Madeleine Brent's first novel follows the fortunes of Cadi Tregaron, a sixteen year-old fisherman's daughter.

Since his mother's death, Tom and his father have fashioned a strained peace on their farm. After a catastrophic volcanic eruption ignites the nation's smoldering discontent into open revolution, Tom, his father and Carine find themselves questioning their loyalties to one another and their determination to salvage their way of life.

Sandi Toksvig delivers an entertaining and fascinating guide to what to do and why in the confusing world of modern manners.

When her father marries his second wife, Chrissy gets a new step sister. Three years older than her, Queenie is beautiful and kind, someone everybody wants to be friends with. Chrissy worships her. But when Queenie runs away at eighteen, their lives quietly diverge.

The first major biography for forty years tells the tragic story of ballet's great revolutionary, Nijinsky.

The definitive history of the political, cultural, military and personal forces which shaped Europe's path to the Great War.

We are publishing The Deceivers in our Story-Tellers series in order to introduce John Masters to a new generation of readers.

Tells the story of Anne, a young woman who breaks her ankle in a daring escape from prison. She makes it to a highway where she's picked up by a motorcyclist, Julien, who's also on the run. As they travel through nights and days together, they fall in love and must do whatever they can to survive, living their lives always on the edge of danger.

A book to help you through the pain of loss and a guide to starting your new life.

Focuses on how marketers can and should make much more of a difference in making their companies more financially successful - and reap the rewards and recognition for that success. This guide shows how the marketing function within a business can and should become its most important driver of growth.

A moving, hilarious, and deeply perceptive novel of universal themes: family, love and greed.

A controversial and illuminating new study of the Templars and the Crusader States.

How to improve your head for figures: the concepts and techniques that are crucial for every aspiring manager to know.

Fusing adventure, anthropology, linguistics and psychology, and drawing on Everett's pioneering research with the Amazonian Pirahas, this book argues that language is embedded within - and is inseparable from - its specific culture. It presents the controversial idea that language is not an innate component of the brain.

An account of an epic tragedy, the battle of Gallipoli. It explains that from the initial landings - which ended with so much blood in the sea it could be seen from aircraft overhead - to the desperate attacks of early summer and the battle of attrition that followed, it was a lunacy that was never going to succeed.

39 essential rules to delivering impeccable service - from the man who ran Disneyworld.

From Bronze Age India to a Surrey Stationers via pencil wars and accidental inventions: a hilarious insight into the familiar yet unexpectedly bizarre world of stationery.

Timeless business wisdom from an award-winning business writer

Published in the highly-acclaimed Human Horizons Series, established as the pre-eminent list for people with disabilities, the elderly and the afflicted, and those who care for them.

Shows how everyday Romans sought to survive and thrive under the afflictions of disease, war, and violence, and to control their fates under powers that both oppressed and ignored them. In this book, the author seeks out the ordinary people who formed the fabric of everyday life in ancient Rome and the outlaws and pirates who lay beyond it.

The Great War was the first truly global conflict, and it changed the course of world history. In this magnum opus, the author examines the conflict in every arena around the world, in a history that combines scholarship with vivid and unfamiliar eyewitness accounts, from kings and generals, and ordinary soldiers.

Tells the story of their quest to coach the team and eventually, organise an international fixture - Pohnpei's first since a 16-1 defeat many years ago. This book shows how the passion and determination of two young men can change the face of football - and the lives of total strangers - on the other side of the world.

Now with a new postscript by Thomas Buergenthal telling the moving story of his mother's search for him after the war.

Suspended in a strangely modern-day version of limbo, a young man must create a life for himself in the wake of incarceration. Known only as the Kid, and on probation after doing time for a liaison with an underage girl, he is shackled to a GPS monitoring device and forbidden to live within 2,500 feet of anywhere children might gather.