From singing to the postman when she was two years old to her annual sell-out tours in the 2000s, Barbara Dickson has been captivating her fans for the best part of sixty years. In her autobiography she describes the joys of growing up in Fife with her talented brother and loving parents, of moving to Edinburgh to find her place in the world and the stresses and strains of trying to make a living on the Scottish folk scene. Not content to have just a successful singing career, she turned to another: acting. A regular on prime-time television, Barbara also took to musicals and was the original lead role in Spend, Spend, Spend. Her hugely successful time onstage earned her many acting accolades but her pursuit of perfection led to complete exhaustion from which she fought hard to recover. Barbara writes beautifully about the close relationships she cultivated over these years with people such as Willy Russell, Elaine Paige and Billy Connolly. The result is a warm, fascinating story encompassing the best of British music, stage and television.
2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted 2016 Heritage Toronto Book Award — Nominated An account of the women working in high-security, dangerous conditions making bombs in Toronto during the Second World War. What was it like to work in a Canadian Second World War munitions factory? What were working conditions like? Did anyone die? Just how closely did female employees embody the image of “Rosie the Riveter” so popularly advertised to promote factory work in war propaganda posters? How closely does the recent TV show, Bomb Girls, resemble the actual historical record of the day-to-day lives of bomb-making employees? Bomb Girls delivers a dramatic, personal, and detailed review of Canada’s largest fuse-filling munitions factory, situated in Scarborough, Ontario. First-hand accounts, technical records, photographic evidence, business documentation, and site maps all come together to offer a rare, complete account into the lives of over twenty-one thousand brave men and women who risked their lives daily while handling high explosives in a dedicated effort to help win the war.
Maddi Madigan, while on vacation, careens into Dr. Gregory Connor on a snowy ski slope. Entangled with Greg and buried in snow, her heart skitters, almost as far as her ski poles. She soaks up the magnificent Rocky Mountain atmosphere over the next few days while avoiding an entanglement of another kind-romance. She bears the scars from a broken engagement, and is convinced men and a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis don't mix; at least that's what her head tells her. Too bad her heart has other plans. Greg, utterly smitten, pursues Maddi the same way he works-hard. When she lingers just beyond his romantic grasp, he rallies with dogged determination. Can Maddi make it through the week without her heart ending up in a puddle of slush at Greg's feet? How hard should she try? Could Greg truly offer hope for a Happily Ever After?
Now in full color! This high-yield "insider's guide" for the emergency medicine written board and in-service exams is written by residents and faculty who know what it takes to excel. First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Boards presents time-strapped emergency medicine residents and re-certifying physicians with a concise resource presenting quick, frequently tested, high-yield facts based on the most recent content outlines for the in-service and board exams. It is a complete review of emergency medicine topics tested on the written board exam. This third edition of First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Boards offers: Content mapped to the latest content outline Integrated review questions and/or integrated flashcards to enhance studying Condensed info to keep the book small as possible while focusing on high-yield information New full color design with ~150 images
DECAMERON 2020 - A Lockdown DiaryIn the iconic tradition of Giovanni Boccaccio's remarkable Decameronwritten shortly after the Black Death of 1346 a group of 10 friends, a couple of spouses and other contributors in Scotland amused themselves during the First Lockdown of the 2020 Pandemic by writing essays and poems and creating artworks and paintings to entertain one another.Every ten days a theme was chosen by one of the original ten and relayed through a Zoom meeting. With the youngest participant celebrating his 18th birthday and the oldest celebrating her 78th, this entertaining and thought provoking book comprises over 100 little masterpieces of memoir, observation and creative contemplation from a suitably distanced and uniquely diverse cross-section of contemporary society.Andrew Brown, Marie-Louise Brulatour Mills, Barbara Dickson, Jonathan Gibbs, Celine Hispiche, Dorothy Jackson, Roddy Martine, Jessie Ann Matthew, Mark McLeod, Catherine Maxwell Stuart, Mark Muller Stuart, Callum Stark, Pat Watson, Marie Weir.
The insider's guide to emergency medicine board success First Aid for the Emergency Medicine Boards, 2e is a concise review of every topic found on the emergency medicine written board examination. The book is a collection of hundreds of frequently tested, high-yield facts and visual aids based on the most recently administered in-service and board exams. Features Full-color insert with must-know clinical images Written by residents and ER doctors who passed the exam A chapter on how to prepare for the exam provides valuable test-taking advice
The marriages contained in this work were transcribed from microfilmed copies of the original county record books of Dickson County, Tennessee. There are approximately 1,100 marriages recorded, or approximately 2,200 individual names, arranged alphabetically by groom surname, with a Brides Index. Each entry contains the names of bride, groom and the date the license was issued and/or the date the marriage was solemnized.
This is the pupil's workbook on learning the position of the numbers 1-5 in a sequence, which is part of Module 1 of the Cambridge Primary Mathematics course.
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