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RADICAL LIVES Vol I

15 True Life Stories You Just Won't be Able to Put Down

By: Balcombe Lisa Janet

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RADICAL LIVES Vol I

15 True Life Stories You Just Won't be Able to Put Down

By: Balcombe Lisa Janet

Discover great life hacks straight from the heart's of these remarkable survivors. 15 true life stories you just won't be able to put down. Adrian Pritchard ‒ armed robber gets a second chance Anita Mary ‒ hardcore alternative street survivor Bernadette Soares ‒ serial over-achiever & entrepreneur Beryl Henwood ‒ from widow to warrior woman Bill Subritzky ‒ international healing evangelist Brian France ‒ IRA bomb-blast survivor Cheyne Hakaraia ‒ drug lord to entrepreneur David Silver ‒ the reluctant Jew finds his voice Janet Balcombe ‒ meth-survivor to author of The Wild Side Koebi Hart ‒ from abuse & addiction to heaven & restoration Matthew Needham ‒ suicide survivor to man on a mission Norm McLeod ‒ from sex, drugs & rock'n'roll to Maori leader Phil Paikea ‒ from gang leader to anti-violence campaigner Ray Curle ‒ from pirate to preacher Tawhiri Littlejohn ‒ from session drummer to spiritual leader

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0473386585

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Take a Walk on the Wild Side

From P Addiction, Hell and Heartbreak to Life and a Date with Destiny

By: Janet Balcombe

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Take a Walk on the Wild Side

From P Addiction, Hell and Heartbreak to Life and a Date with Destiny

By: Janet Balcombe

Janet Balcombe didn't have a plan for her life, but sitting in prison staring at the punk rocker with ALEX tattooed around her neck in neo-Nazi script was a little disappointing. Sitting on a raft of charges including kidnapping, guns, drugs and counterfeiting - if this wasn't rock bottom it would do until she got there. Years later as she lay amongst the ruins of her toxic life, she knew she had finally arrived. Where do you go when you hit rock bottom? When you've got what you thought would make you happy, and it hasn't? When the freedom you crave slowly tightens around you like a python, squeezing a little tighter every time you exhale, until the very things that once meant the most no longer mean anything at all. Not even life itself. Meth-addiction. Grief. Adultery. Evil. Brokenness. Her life was a psychotic hybrid of Breaking Bad and Paranormal Activity. There had to be a divine intervention or things just weren't going to end well. Pull back the spiritual curtain, have a look at the black doors her choices opened; and see what it took to close them. No matter how bad things get, there's hope. Take a walk on the wild side, if you dare!

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0473280078

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9780473280079

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

By: Janet Balcombe

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0992572665

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The Wild Side

True Story. Betrayal. Grief. Meth-addiction. Paranormal Activity. Redemption.

By: Janet Lisa Balcombe

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The Wild Side

True Story. Betrayal. Grief. Meth-addiction. Paranormal Activity. Redemption.

By: Janet Lisa Balcombe

There is hope for the addicts, the rebels, and the broken-hearted. Sitting in prison on a raft of charges including kidnapping, guns, drugs and counterfeiting was very different to Janet's plan. Her search for identity and meaning nearly killed her but she got her answers; insight into true spiritual power, and real answers about life.

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0473411334

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9780473411336

Brighton and Hove

By: Janet Cameron

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Brighton and Hove

By: Janet Cameron

A look at the dark side of life, Victorian-style, when nothing was quite as it seemed and a public execution could be an entertaining family day out. Murderers, poachers, thieves, pickpockets and vagabonds all went about their business with impunity. Crime took place on the streets, on public transport, in homes, pubs, prisons, asylums, workhouses and brothels - it was all part of everyday life in Brighton and Hove in the late 1800s. Read about the notorious railway murderer, Percy Lefroy, who appeared at his trial in full evening dress and went to the gallows in an old brown suit. Gasp at the audacity of a temptress who fell in love with a doctor and tried to poison his wife, with strychnine laced chocolate. Then there's little Emily, a girl who received imprisonment with hard labour for stealing a few tempting pieces of gingerbread while a gaggle of disruptive young women loved causing a riot, flirting with men and smashing windows. It was madness and mayhem in those weird and wonderful times - and it's brought vividly to life by Janet Cameron in Brighton and Hove - Murder and Misdemeanours.

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Amberley Publishing

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1848681674

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Cat Culture

The Social World Of A Cat Shelter

By: Janet Alger,Steven Alger

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Cat Culture

The Social World Of A Cat Shelter

By: Janet Alger,Steven Alger

Even people who live with cats and have good reason to know better insist that cats are aloof and uninterested in relating to humans. Janet and Steven Alger contend that the anti-social cat is a myth; cats form close bonds with humans and with each other. In the potentially chaotic environment of a shelter that houses dozens of uncaged cats, they reveal a sense of self and build a culture—a shared set of rules, roles, and expectations that organizes their world and assimilates newcomers.As volunteers in a local cat shelter for eleven years, the Algers came to realize that despite the frequency of new arrivals and adoptions, the social world of the shelter remained quite stable and pacific. They saw even feral cats adapt to interaction with humans and develop friendships with other cats. They saw established residents take roles as welcomers and rules enforcers. That is, they saw cats taking an active interest in maintaining a community in which they could live together and satisfy their individual needs. Cat Culture's intimate portrait of life in the shelter, its engaging stories, and its interpretations of behavior, will appeal to general readers as well as academics interested in human and animal interaction.

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Temple University Press

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1439907722

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9781439907726

Early Years Foundations: Critical Issues

By: Janet Moyles,Jane Payler,Jan Georgeson

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Early Years Foundations: Critical Issues

By: Janet Moyles,Jane Payler,Jan Georgeson

The new edition of this best selling book looks critically at the 2012 Early Years Foundation Stage curriculum and draws attention to issues that underlie the EYFS and the implications for children from birth to five. With its questions for reflection and discussion, further reading and useful websites, Early Years Foundations is essential and informative reading for students studying any early years or early childhood course, or working towards Early Years Teacher Status. Among the many challenges facing early years professionals, there are continual dilemmas arising between perceptions of good practice, the practicalities of provision and meeting OfSTED requirements. This exciting and innovative new edition supports practitioners in thinking through their responsibilities in tackling some of the many challenges they encounter, for example, that children are still perceived as 'deficit' in some way and in need of 'being school ready' rather than as developing individuals who have a right to a childhood and appropriate early education. Chapters explore the rationale behind early years practice based on theory and research, covering important topics including: Prime and specific areas of learning and development Observation and assessment Pedagogy Working with parents Difference and diversity Contributors: Sue Bingham, Gill Boag-Munroe, Liz Brooker, Helen Clarke, Anne Cockburn, Rosie Flewitt, Jan Georgeson, Michael Jones, Lilian G. Katz, Caroline Leeson, Paulette Luff, Jayne Osgood, John Parry, Jane Payler, Karen Phethean, Linda Pound, Anne Rawlings, Jonathan Rix, Sue Rogers, Anita Soni, Suzy Tutchell, Judith Twani, Jane Waters, David Whitebread "Early Years Foundations: Critical issues is a timely and valuable edition for the early childhood bookshelf, offering high quality scholarship combined with deep understanding of early childhood practice. This is a book that values early childhood practitioners as critical partners and experts in young children's learning and development. At a time of fluctuating policy, the authors remind us of the need to advocate for what matters in early childhood and they suggest ways that we can provide excellent experiences for young children with potential to enhance their lives for the long term." Jane Murray PhD, Senior Lecturer, University of Northampton, UK "There seems to be a proliferation of publications currently in the field of early years education and care but this book stands out amongst the crowd for a number of reasons. In particular, the status of the three editing authors means that the content of the book is to be trusted to be both informed and thorough in its attention to detail, and this second edition has been carefully updated to incorporate recent reforms and initiatives. The editing authors' insistence on the creation of an early years text that centres on a critically reflective review of contemporary policy and research can only help to build the argument for a better future for young children's care and education. This is a book in which there are many chapters worthy of recommendation and which will form the basis for future debates and publications but Rogers' scholarly work on Enabling Pedagogy encapsulates some core research, essential to our understanding of our work with children, and is a strong and refreshing contribution, while Katz' notion of 'standards of experiences' for young children should give us all food for thought." Dr Kathy Goouch, Reader in Education, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK "This book is not another bland 'how to do it' manual to accompany the EYFS, it goes much further in offering a truly challenging critique. Helpfully contextualised within the changing policy and political context, each chapter focuses on a different aspect of the curriculum framework and is written by someone with recognised expertise in the field. The strengths of the current EYFS are recognised but the issues and tensions are also made explicit with arguments backed up by theory and research evidence. This should be essential reading for experienced practitioners as well as Early Childhood Studies students." Denise Hevey, Professor of Early Years, University of Northampton, UK.

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

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0335262651

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9780335262656

Disabled people and European human rights

A review of the implications of the 1998 Human Rights Act for disabled children and adults in the UK

By: Clements, Luke,Read, Janet

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Disabled people and European human rights

A review of the implications of the 1998 Human Rights Act for disabled children and adults in the UK

By: Clements, Luke,Read, Janet

Over the past two decades, there has been increasing recognition of the ways in which disabled children and adults have been denied human and civil rights that others take for granted. In the year 2000, the Human Rights Act 1998 came into force. This book reviews the implications of the Act for disabled people. The book provides: an overview of key policy and legislative developments in the UK in relation to disabled children and adults in the post war period; an outline of the European Convention on Human Rights, The Human Rights Act 1998 and related procedures; an account of the ways in which disabled people's human rights have increasingly become a matter of concern and the implications of the Human Rights Act in relation to specific issues; a debate about the ways in which public bodies and practitioners within them can engage positively with the provisions of the Human Rights Act to develop better practice. Disabled people and human rights will be of interest to both disabled people themselves and organisations representing their interests, professionals whose work brings them into contact with disabled people, and students of social work, social care, disability studies and law.

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Policy Press

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1847425623

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9781847425621

Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law

Cases and Materials

By: David Howarth,Martin Matthews,Jonathan Morgan,Janet O'Sullivan,Stelios Tofaris

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Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law

Cases and Materials

By: David Howarth,Martin Matthews,Jonathan Morgan,Janet O'Sullivan,Stelios Tofaris

New to Hart Publishing, this is the seventh edition of the classic casebook on tort, the first of its kind in the UK, and for many years now a bestselling and very popular text for students. This new edition retains all the features that have made it such a popular and respected text, with extensive commentary, questions and notes supplementing the selection of cases and statutes which form the core of the book. Taking a broadly contextual approach, the book addresses all the main topics in tort law, is up-to-date, doctrinally sound, stimulating and highly readable.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1782255095

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9781782255093

Paranormal Brighton and Hove

By: Janet Cameron

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Paranormal Brighton and Hove

By: Janet Cameron

A fabulous collection of ghostly hauntings in Brighton & Hove.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445629933

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Kitty's War

The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton

By: Janet Butler

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Kitty's War

The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton

By: Janet Butler

The remarkable wartime experiences of Kit McNaughton Kitty’s War is based upon the previously unpublished war diaries of Great War army nurse Sister Kit McNaughton. Kit and historian Janet Butler grew up in the same Victorian district of drystone walls, wheatfields and meandering creeks, except many decades apart. The idea of this young nurse setting out on a journey in July 1915 which would take her across the world and into the First World War took hold of Janet Butler and inspired her to research and share Kit’s story. This decisive and dryly humorous woman embarked upon the troopship Orsova, bound for Egypt in 1915. Kit’s absorbing diaries follow her journey through war, from Egypt, where she cared for the Gallipoli sick and wounded,to the harsh conditions of Lemnos Island, off the coast of the Dardanelles, and then on to France and the Somme. Here she nursed severely wounded German soldiers for the British. During Passchendaele, a year later, she ran the operating theatre of a clearing station near the front line. Kit finished the war as Australia’s first plastic surgery nurse, assisting medical pioneers in this field as they repaired the shattered faces of Australian soldiers. Through Kitty’s diaries and Janet Butler’s thoughtful narration, we see the war through the eyes of a young Australian nurse as she is transformed by what she witnesses. Kitty’s War is an intimate and rare story of one woman’s remarkable experience of war.

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University of Queensland Press

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0702251054

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The Wild Side

Betrayal. Grief. Meth-addiction. Paranormal Activity. Redemption.

By: Janet Balcombe

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The Wild Side

Betrayal. Grief. Meth-addiction. Paranormal Activity. Redemption.

By: Janet Balcombe

There is hope for the addicts, the rebels, and the broken-hearted. Sitting in prison on a raft of charges including kidnapping, guns, drugs and counterfeiting was very different to the scenario Janet had envisaged for her life. Her life had become a psychotic hybrid of Breaking Bad and Paranormal Activity. How did a country girl from a decent family become a hardcore Meth-addict? What would you do if you were visited by a demon with a deadly agenda? There had to be a divine intervention or things were just not going to end well. Janet's quest to find her true identity, and the meaning of life - took her to the very brink of death and hell. She nearly paid with her life, but Janet got her answers... insight into true spiritual power, treasures found in the darkness, and real answers about life.

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0473366215

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9780473366216

RADICAL LIVES Vol 2

20 True Life Stories of Courage You Just Won't be Able to Put Down

By: Janet Balcombe Lisa

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RADICAL LIVES Vol 2

20 True Life Stories of Courage You Just Won't be Able to Put Down

By: Janet Balcombe Lisa

20 true-life stories of courage you will never forget. Amos (Perese) Ale Head Hunter founder to servant leader Andrew Stroud World Superbike champion finds true riches Brock Davis Rebel police detective becomes muso for the Master David Laumatia Senior Sergeant, role model and prophetic artist Daz Chettle From the gutter to inspiring the next generation Gini Shepheard From rejection, abuse and gang life to social worker Hillary Kieft Through abuse and abortion to pro-life activist Jaewyn Major On a mission to give prostitution the red light Joshua Calles Family man, Police Constable and BROKEN rising star Louise Kapene-Green Whose heart speaks through her hands Marina Young Pro-lifer and author, The Unforgotten Babies Mark Mitchell Warrior of Zion leader who danced with the devil Omri Jaakobovich Israeli Paratrooper and founder of HIT International Owen Pomana Ex-hardman with a heart for the homeless Rosita Hendry World-class acrobat and circus superstar Stephanie Harawira Leader of the Pacific Pearls movement Talakimoana Hehepoto Ex-Mongrel Mobster and hope-bringer Tania Butler Widow of Chris Crean from the movie RESOLVE Trent Membrey Journey from meth hell to minister Tuhoe 'Bruno' Isaac Ex-Mongrel Mob leader and author of True Red

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0473414031

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9780473414030

Towards Another Summer

By: Janet Frame

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Towards Another Summer

By: Janet Frame

Self-styled writer Grace Cleave has writers block, and her anxiety is only augmented by her chronic aversion to leaving her home, to be ''among people, even for five or ten minutes.'' And so it is with trepidation that she accepts an invitation to spend a weekend away from London in the north of England. Once there, she feels more and more like a migratory bird, as the pull of her native New Zealand makes life away from it seem transitory. Grace longs to find her place in the world, but first she must learn to be comfortable in her own skin, feathers and all. From the author of An Angel at My Table comes an exquisitely written novel of exile and return, homesickness and belonging. Written in 1963 when Janet Frame was living in London, this is of a novel she considered too personal to be published while she was alive.

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1458784126

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RADICAL LIVES Vol I

RADICAL LIVES Vol I

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

Take a Walk on the Wild Side

The Wild Side

The Wild Side

Brighton and Hove

Brighton and Hove

Cat Culture

Cat Culture

Early Years Foundations: Critical Issues

Early Years Foundations: Critical Issues

Disabled people and European human rights

Disabled people and European human rights

Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law

Hepple and Matthews' Tort Law

Paranormal Brighton and Hove

Paranormal Brighton and Hove

Kitty's War

Kitty's War

The Wild Side

The Wild Side

RADICAL LIVES Vol 2

RADICAL LIVES Vol 2

Towards Another Summer

Towards Another Summer

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