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Thursbitch

From the author of the 2022 Booker longlisted Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

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Thursbitch

From the author of the 2022 Booker longlisted Treacle Walker

By: Alan Garner

A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle Walker Here John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead. So reads an enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, a mystery that lives on in the surrounding hill farms. John Turner was a packman. With his train of horses he carried salt and silk, travelling distances incomprehensible to his community. John brought ideas as well as gifts, from market town to market town, from places as distant as the campfires of the Silk Road. In the twenty-first century, two hundred and fifty years after John's life, Ian and Sal's world resounds with the echo John's death. Walking on the moor one day they slip between time and are lost somewhere between Jack's vanished world and their own. This poetic, fantastical novel is is an evocation of the lives and the language of all people who are called to the valley of Thursbitch. 'Eerie and immaculately written' Olivia Laing, Observer

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Random House

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1448162920

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9781448162925

The World and U2

One Band's Remaking of Global Activism

By: Alan McPherson

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The World and U2

One Band's Remaking of Global Activism

By: Alan McPherson

The Irish rock band U2, and especially its frontman Bono, are among the most effective activists ever. U2 has convinced wealthy governments to forgive tens of billions of dollars in loans while spreading its activist messages to billions of people, helping save millions of lives. So how did four boys from one of the poorest countries in the West achieve this? Who and what influenced them? What strategies did they use to succeed as much as they did as activists, and how did those strategies change over time? In particular, how did lead singer Bono make the leap into superstar lobbying? And, with so much attention on him, how has he handled critics who have taken to task his work on behalf of developing countries? In The World and U2: One Band’s Remaking of Global Activism, Alan McPherson trains a historian’s eye on the evolution and influence of the band’s activism from its formation in 1976 to its most recent album and concert tour. Throughout its nearly four decades, the band has held up a mirror to the increasing selfishness in the world while at the same time working to fill the void left by those who have abandoned the world’s poor to their plight. From raising awareness about war and human rights in the 1980s to engaging in direct action in the 1990s to moving mountains of cash for the planet’s poorest in the twenty-first century, the band, and especially Bono, have both raised the bar and set the example for other celebrity activists. But it is also a success that has brought a greater scrutiny to bear on U2’s activism and initiated a healthy debate about the merits of Western development aid. The World and U2: One Band’s Remaking of Global Activism tells this story of U2’s successful storming of the world’s philanthropic stage. It will enchant the band’s fans, engage its critics, and offer lessons—and warnings—to activists seeking to change things for the better.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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144224934X

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9781442249349

Coherence

The Science of Exceptional Leadership and Performance

By: Alan Watkins

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Coherence

The Science of Exceptional Leadership and Performance

By: Alan Watkins

Understand how to overcome the obstacles inhibiting performance and unlock the potential for brilliance that lies within every leader. Most leaders are operating nowhere near their optimal level of performance. In this book, Dr Alan Watkins helps leaders at every level understand how they can transform their output and unlock their true potential. He shares proven techniques that have helped thousands of leaders in FTSE 50 giants and SMEs across market sectors and geographies as well as the Olympic and Paralympic Rowing Team, resulting in them achieving their best ever medal haul in London 2012. Coherence shows how our ability to lead and deliver results is rooted in our biology. Dr Watkins explains the science of how to increase energy levels and become smarter, more resilient, happier, healthier and more successful in whatever we do. Drawing on case studies from prominent business leaders and insights from a diverse range of research fields, he reveals the secrets to exceptional leadership and how to be brilliant every day. Now in its second edition, this vital guide contains upgraded practical tools and new insights on how to transform productivity, manage complexity, accelerate innovation and drive greater commercial performance, all while becoming healthier and happier.

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Kogan Page Publishers

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1398601195

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9781398601192

Unbearable Bonds

A convicted man's 15 year search for the hidden truth behind the $33 million bank heist at a Major international bank

By: Alan Attah

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Unbearable Bonds

A convicted man's 15 year search for the hidden truth behind the $33 million bank heist at a Major international bank

By: Alan Attah

A gripping true story told by an convicted gang member who seeks answers as to why a multi-million pound heist from a London City Bankers went so horribly wrong. He and his east and south London associates had, what appeared to be, a simple, foolproof plan. It all started so well as they successfully smuggled out thirty three million dollars worth of bearer bonds from the bank's inner vaults; despite the High Tech security surveillance. Later that same day, they were all arrested although, at the time, the bonds were still missing. It soon became apparent that both the bank and the police knew in advance how and when the theft was going to unfold. Years later, after painstaking research and investigation, he came to a very dark conclusion about a secret that should have never been revealed.

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259

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Booktango

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1468948865

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9781468948868

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Volume 9

By: Graham Alan Webb

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Volume 9

By: Graham Alan Webb

Annotation As a spectroscopic method, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) has seen spectacular growth over the past two decades, both as a technique and in its applications. Today the applications of NMR span a wide range of scientific disciplines, from physics to biology to medicine. Each volume of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance comprises a combination of annual and biennial reports which together provide comprehensive of the literature on this topic. This Specialist Periodical Report reflects the growing volume of published work involving NMR techniques and applications, in particular NMR of natural macromolecules which is covered in two reports: "NMR of Proteins and Acids" and "NMR of Carbohydrates, Lipids and Membranes". For those wanting to become rapidly acquainted with specific areas of NMR, this title provides unrivalled scope of coverage. Seasoned practitioners of NMR will find this an in valuable source of current methods and applications. Specialist Periodical Reports provide systematic and detailed review coverage in major areas of chemical research. Compiled by teams of leading authorities in the relevant subject areas, the series creates a unique service for the active research chemist, with regular, in-depth accounts of progress in particular fields of chemistry. Subject coverage within different volumes of a given title is similar and publication is on an annual or biennial basis.

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360

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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0851869602

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9780851869605

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Chapter 4.6. Five-Membered Ring Systems: With O and S (Se, Te) Atoms

By: R. Alan Aitken,Lynn A. Power

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Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Chapter 4.6. Five-Membered Ring Systems: With O and S (Se, Te) Atoms

By: R. Alan Aitken,Lynn A. Power

The review covers work published in the calendar year 2012. The synthesis and reaction chemistry of five-membered heterocycles containing two oxygen atoms or an oxygen and a sulfur is reviewed.

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Elsevier Inc. Chapters

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0128056231

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9780128056233

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Thursbitch

Thursbitch

The World and U2

The World and U2

Coherence

Coherence

Unbearable Bonds

Unbearable Bonds

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Volume 9

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Volume 9

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

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