He was a highly dedicated, abnormally skilled, confused and powerful boy, a trained killer who had hired himself to do a job. Seventeen-year-old Stephen Rinaldi went into the ring. Literal and internal, it was a ring with powerful, politically connected enemies. They wanted to crush him before he had even the chance of becoming a man. No training, no prayers, no prior life-experience had prepared him. Only for Now is a fast-paced action-adventure for adolescents of all ages. Told by his student and friend, Lenny Greenman, Only for Now tells how one individual took a beating in every way a person might, yet stood tall in a world that tried to kick him in another direction. Amidst the divorce of his parents, bitter backstabbing betrayal, the ridicule of buddies who once called him friend and the unexplained and hurtful end of his first love, Stephen leaves home for his first year of college. Exceptionally skilled in the Chinese martial art, he inadvertently challenges another karate/kung fu teacher named Yang. Yang and his school of more than 125 become Stephen's adversaries on a distant college campus far from home. His life literally goes into the ring, a struggle inside and out, between turning the other cheek and fighting back hard. In Only for Now, one person collides with the many people who want him gone. He faces formidable foes, inside and out, and literally goes under cover but in the end, Stephen Rinaldi emerges as a real-to-life Hero. Life is short, but very wide. Only for Now is wide and stands as a lasting testament to those who believe that growing up need not mean, giving in.
He was a highly dedicated, abnormally skilled, confused and powerful boy, a trained killer who had hired himself to do a job. Seventeen-year-old Stephen Rinaldi went into the ring. Literal and internal, it was a ring with powerful, politically connected enemies. They wanted to crush him before he had even the chance of becoming a man. No training, no prayers, no prior life-experience had prepared him. Only for Now is a fast-paced action-adventure for adolescents of all ages. Told by his student and friend, Lenny Greenman, Only for Now tells how one individual took a beating in every way a person might, yet stood tall in a world that tried to kick him in another direction. Amidst the divorce of his parents, bitter backstabbing betrayal, the ridicule of buddies who once called him friend and the unexplained and hurtful end of his first love, Stephen leaves home for his first year of college. Exceptionally skilled in the Chinese martial art, he inadvertently challenges another karate/kung fu teacher named Yang. Yang and his school of more than 125 become Stephen's adversaries on a distant college campus far from home. His life literally goes into the ring, a struggle inside and out, between turning the other cheek and fighting back hard. In Only for Now, one person collides with the many people who want him gone. He faces formidable foes, inside and out, and literally goes under cover but in the end, Stephen Rinaldi emerges as a real-to-life Hero. Life is short, but very wide. Only for Now is wide and stands as a lasting testament to those who believe that growing up need not mean, giving in.
Ensure your students navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach to Design, presented in global contexts. - Develop conceptual understanding with key concepts and related concepts, set in global contexts, at the heart of each chapter. -Prepare for every aspect of assessment using support and tasks designed by an experienced educator. - Extend learning through research projects and interdisciplinary opportunities. - Apply global contexts in meaningful ways with an internationally-minded perspective. - Develop practical and creative-thinking skills to solve design problems with a statement of inquiry in each chapter. - Confidently cover the framework with chapters covering digital, product and combined design. Table Content: Unit 1 Global Goals Design Challenge Unit 2 Design to help people express their emotions Unit 3 Playground design Unit 4 Lights change lives Unit 5 Service promotion Unit 6 Gamified exercise Unit 7 Pedestrian safety Unit 8 The importance of toilets Unit 9 Human impact animation Unit 10 Play with the past Unit 11 Dealing with change Unit 12 Turning drawings into products
THIS IS THE CLASSIC BOOK THAT STARTED AN ENTIRE GENRE – THE STORY OF THE MOST ICONIC HARDMAN OF THEM ALL. Lenny McLean was one of the deadliest bareknuckle fighters Britain has ever seen. He had dear, powerful friends, but he also had terrible enemies. So much so that he had two bullet wounds in his back – each from a different attack. He was also stabbed repeatedly – always from behind. But Lenny was also a warm, big-hearted grizzly bear of a man, whose main weakness was an overwhelming desire to put the welfare of his mates ahead of his own well-being. In his extraordinary autobiography, he tells of how the mafia flew him to New York to take on their greatest bareknuckle boxer in a multi-million pound illicit bout. The Mafia’s man lasted less than three minutes. When the IRA fronted up a London gang in a money-laundering scam, Lenny was brought in to intimidate the terrorists. The IRA, not surprisingly, backed off. . . His most serious trial came when he was accused of murder. Fighting to prove his innocence against a minimum sentence of twenty-five years, Lenny never gave up – and went on to be found not guilty. This is a tale of one man’s triumph against almost insurmountable odds, in a battle that Len fought every day for himself, and to ‘put steam on the table’ for his wife and kids.
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