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Manual of First and Second Fixing Carpentry

By: Les Goring

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Manual of First and Second Fixing Carpentry

By: Les Goring

Les Goring’s book covers all the detailed knowledge required for carrying out first fixing carpentry – such as modern and traditional roofing and fitting and fixing modern and traditional floor joists on new-build sites before plastering or drylining of walls and ceilings takes place – and second fixing carpentry – such as fitting staircases, hanging doors, skirting and architraves and kitchen units after dry-lined plastering has taken place and the shell of the building is watertight. In the opening chapters, this work also covers reading-of-drawings' knowledge, tools and fixing-devices. This new edition, with over 500 coloured drawings supporting its step-by-step approach, has been updated throughout to take into account current industry practices and changes in the UK’s Building Regulations. Two new chapters have also been added, covering the formwork carpentry for casting in situ, reinforced concrete stairs and landings, and making and fixing different shelf arrangements to correct spans. The breadth of coverage and clear ‘how-to-do-it’ text makes this book an essential in-and-after-college resource for the 2000 apprentices per year taking NVQs and the 1500 students following Construction Awards within the Wood Occupations from the City & Guilds’ Construction Skills. The in-depth technical detail and practical focus makes this book an essential purchase for all aspiring woodworkers, craft teachers and construction lecturers – to either read now and/or use as a future reference manual. It should also be of value to general builders and DIY enthusiasts, whose carpentry knowledge might (understandably) be sketchy in certain areas.

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1351584200

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The Man Who Invented Christmas

How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

By: Les Standiford

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The Man Who Invented Christmas

How Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol Rescued His Career and Revived Our Holiday Spirits

By: Les Standiford

As uplifting as the tale of Scrooge itself, this is the story of how Charles Dickens revived the signal holiday of the Western world—now a major motion picture. Just before Christmas in 1843, a debt-ridden and dispirited Charles Dickens wrote a small book he hoped would keep his creditors at bay. His publisher turned it down, so Dickens used what little money he had to put out A Christmas Carol himself. He worried it might be the end of his career as a novelist. The book immediately caused a sensation. And it breathed new life into a holiday that had fallen into disfavor, undermined by lingering Puritanism and the cold modernity of the Industrial Revolution. It was a harsh and dreary age, in desperate need of spiritual renewal, ready to embrace a book that ended with blessings for one and all. With warmth, wit, and an infusion of Christmas cheer, Les Standiford whisks us back to Victorian England, its most beloved storyteller, and the birth of the Christmas we know best. The Man Who Invented Christmas is a rich and satisfying read for Scrooges and sentimentalists alike.

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Crown

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0307449734

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9780307449733

Knowing Horses

Q&As to Boost Your Equine IQ

By: Carol A. Butler,Les Sellnow

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Knowing Horses

Q&As to Boost Your Equine IQ

By: Carol A. Butler,Les Sellnow

Did you know that a miniature horse weighs just a few pounds, while a giant draft horse can weigh well over a ton? Or that from a standstill a mule can jump, kangaroo-like, more than five feet high? With answers to hundreds of questions about behavior, physiology, training, and special breed characteristics, Knowing Horses has all your horse quandaries covered.

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Storey Publishing, LLC

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1603429115

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Collected Poems

By: Les Murray

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Collected Poems

By: Les Murray

Les Murray's Collected Poems displays the full range of his poetic art. This volume contains all the poems he wants to preserve, apart from the verse novel Fredy Neptune, from his first book The Ilex Tree (1965) to Poems the Size of Photographs (2002). In tracing Murray's artistic development, it shows an ever-changing power, grace and humour, as well as great versatility and formal mastery. "He is, quite simply, the one by whom language lives." - Joseph Brodsky "There is no poetry in the English language now so rooted in its sacredness, so broad-leafed in its pleasures and yet so intimate and conversational." - Derek Walcott

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Black Inc.

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1921825448

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A Coventry Kid

By: Les Ryan

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A Coventry Kid

By: Les Ryan

This collection of memoirs and newspaper articles, (previously printed in The Coventry Evening Telegraph), charts the fascinating story of an ordinary boy growing up in extraordinary times. Les Ryan offers a priceless snapshot of working class life during the twentieth century. Starting from his birth during the First World War, Les' memoirs progress through 1920s poverty and strife, the 1930s Depression, early manual jobs, his time spent serving in the army during World War II, the tough post-War years working on a car factory assembly-line and his time working as a Special for the Coventry Police during the 1960s. A priceless piece of social history with tales of sadness, joy and hilarity.

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1291083413

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A World Ablaze

By: Les Endrei

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A World Ablaze

By: Les Endrei

Finding a meaning from a seemingly meaningless life to spiritual fulfilment, though loss and loneliness: moments of grief, peace and gladness. My story, like that of others is a saga of a human being from frustration to contentment: Through suffering and joy, from sadness to happiness in an increasingly turbulent world, beset by changes, catastrophes and undreamt of achievements. I feel luckier than most for having found a meaning of my life. My tribute to Charles Dickens for the thought: I feel, that I've become the hero of my own life, rather than its victim.

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1304204103

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The Wirral in 50 Buildings

By: Les Jones

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The Wirral in 50 Buildings

By: Les Jones

Explore the rich history of the Wirral in this guided tour through its most fascinating historic and modern buildings.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445687518

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Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology

In Alphabetical Order

By: Les Goring

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Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology

In Alphabetical Order

By: Les Goring

This is an ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, or Architecture, etc. It should also be of use to the Construction-related legal profession, Property Managers and Letting Agents. Builders (and homeowners, interested in identifying faults in their property), should also benefit from this book. Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology covers a wide range of new and old building terms, techniques, technologies and materials, but much more extensively than the average dictionary. The alphabetical format makes it easy to check up on terms and subject-areas quickly – and the detailed coverage (including helpful drawings by the author) provides clear guidance to the reader. This book covers a multitude of subject-areas, including condensation problems, cellar rot, wet rot and dry rot, thermal cracks, settlement cracks, metal wall-tie corrosion-and-expansion cracks, subsidence cracks, roof-spread recognition, bulging- and/or leaning-walls, etc. Further subject areas include inspecting and analysing residential building-structures, both internally and externally; appraising underground drainage systems; and personal commentary on survey report writing.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000614875

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Comparative Urban Land Use Planning

Best practice

By: Les Stein

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Comparative Urban Land Use Planning

Best practice

By: Les Stein

Throughout the world, city planners and governments grapple with the challenges of urban planning using remarkably similar land use regimes. Yet the realisation is increasing that real urban problems – crime, decay, drug abuse, inequality, depression and alienation – are not easily solved by the classic devices of a strategic plan and a zoning map. Planning regimes are therefore in constant flux, as planners and governments adjust and experiment to address these problems, often with little awareness as to what they are trying to accomplish. In Comparative Urban Land Use Planning: Best Practice, Leslie A. Stein digs deeper, drawing on examples from around the world to discover the best practice responses to the critical issues of planning and urban social problems. Although every city has its own cultural and political milieu, patterns of change and levels of success can be discerned and universal lessons learned. By comparing different urban planning approaches and considering their underlying ideologies and assumptions, he proposes a more insightful approach to the role of land use planning. This book is both scholarly and emotional, expressing a great love of cities and calling for a more clear-eyed approach for their care.

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Sydney University Press

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1743324677

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Manual of Purpose-Made Woodworking Joinery

By: Les Goring

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Manual of Purpose-Made Woodworking Joinery

By: Les Goring

A practical introduction to woodworking and purpose-made joinery, this book starts with the basics of interpreting drawings and works right the way through to designing and making stairs. Les Goring introduces each chapter with a brief historical overview of the topic, then goes on to explain how to carry out each task in a step-by-step manner. Including several hundred images, this book covers everything a student or keen hobbyist needs to know in order to carry out their own work. The breadth of coverage and easily accessible approach makes this book an ideal resource for apprentices taking NVQs and those following Construction Awards within Wood Occupations from City & Guilds/Construction Skills. The technical detail and practical focus ensures that this book will be a vital purchase for all students, and an essential reference for any experienced carpenter or joiner. In-depth, practical and accessible approach – ideal for new apprentices and experienced tradespeople alike. Fully up to date with the current Building Regulations and developments in the trade. Clear layout makes it easy to follow instructions. Also by this author: Manual of First and Second Fixing Carpentry, Third Edition 9781856177689

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131793783X

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Operations Management in Context

By: R. Les Galloway,Les Galloway,Frank Rowbotham,Masoud Azhashemi

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Operations Management in Context

By: R. Les Galloway,Les Galloway,Frank Rowbotham,Masoud Azhashemi

Operations Management in Context is a straightforward and accessible text which provides students with a good grounding in the theory and practice of operations management and its role within organisations. The structure is clear and logical, leading the newcomer to the subject through the topics in a way to maximise comprehension, highlighting key issues and using case studies and examples from business to contextualise learning. Chapters are structured to enable incremental and progressive learning with a logical development of the content. Each chapter is linked and ends with a summary of the key points met in the text to aid revision. Exercises and self assessment questions are included to reinforce learning and maintain variety, with answers included at the end of the book. The text is accompanied by a lecturer's supplement. Written in a clear and logical style; ideal for students who are taking the subject for the first time Key issues will be highlighted and supported by real life case studies and examples from business Self assessment questions and feedback to reinforce learning

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0750642807

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Putting the Tea in Britain

The Scots Who Made Our National Drink

By: Les Wilson

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Putting the Tea in Britain

The Scots Who Made Our National Drink

By: Les Wilson

From the Indian Mutiny to the London Blitz, offering a ‘nice cup of tea’ has been a stock British response to a crisis. But tea itself has a dramatic, and often violent, history. That history is inextricably interwoven with the story of Scotland. Scots were overwhelmingly responsible for the introduction and development of the UK’s national drink, and were the foremost pioneers in the development of tea as an international commodity. This book reveals how Darjeeling, Assam, Ceylon and Africa all owe their thriving tea industries to pioneering work by Scottish adventurers and entrepreneurs. It’s a dramatic tale. Many of these men jeopardised their lives to lay the foundation of the tea industry. Many Scots made fortunes – but it is a story with a dark side in which racism, the exploitation of native peoples and environmental devastation was the price paid for ‘a nice cup of tea’. Les Wilson brings the story right up to date, with a look at the recent development of tea plantations in Scottish hills and glens.

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Birlinn

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1788852877

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Operations Management in Context

By: Frank Rowbotham,Masoud Azhashemi,Les Galloway

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Operations Management in Context

By: Frank Rowbotham,Masoud Azhashemi,Les Galloway

Operations Management in Context provides students with excellent grounding in the theory and practice of operations management and its role within organizations. Structured in a clear and logical manner, it gradually leads newcomers to this subject through each topic area, highlighting key issues, and using practical case study material and examples to contextualize learning. Each chapter is structured logically and concludes with summary material to aid revision. Exercises and self-assessment questions are included to reinforce learning and maintain variety, with answers included at the end of the text.

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1136375406

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Poems the Size of Photographs

By: Les Murray

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Poems the Size of Photographs

By: Les Murray

Brief, that place in the year when a blossoming pear tree with its sweet laundered scent reinhabits wooden roads that arch and diverge up into electronic snow city. --"Brief, That Place in the Year" In Poems The Size of Photographs, Les Murray deftly maneuvers through familiar themes--the local terrain of the Australian people, politics, and landscape, as well as the terrain that is harder to render tangible: history, myth, and symbol. As if trying to find the fissure through which to crack open his subject matter, Murray has sharpened his form to an ideogrammatic brevity. Each snapshot-like poem in this volume develops before the reader's very eyes, as the initially observed object or moment in time changes meaning and grows in complexity and resonance line by line.

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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1466894784

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All That Glitters

She escaped, into a trap

By: Les Cowan

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All That Glitters

She escaped, into a trap

By: Les Cowan

A unique combination of spiritual journey and fast-paced crime. Very mature writing; an outstanding achievement." - Ron Ferguson, author and columnist It was a trap. Her dream had been to escape Belarus for a new life in the West, but in Edinburgh the dream becomes a nightmare. Now the choice is simple. Comply or die. Meanwhile, Pastor David Hidalgo's mind is reeling with too many things that don't add up. Accounts showing millions that shouldn't be there. A trusted friend dead, with illegal files on his computer. A grieving widow convinced her husband was framed. Could there be a connection between people trafficking, a new church that isn't all it appears to be and a financial investigator who got too close? David and Tati's worlds are about to collide. Will either escape unscathed?

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Lion Fiction

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1782642544

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No Tears for the Clown

An Autobiography

By: Les Dawson

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No Tears for the Clown

An Autobiography

By: Les Dawson

Les Dawson's autobiography reveals the personal dramas in his life which were to have a profound effect on his life both on and off stage, and recalls the funnier moments that helped him through.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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1782431896

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Your First Atlantic Crossing 4th edition

A Planning Guide for Passagemakers

By: Les Weatheritt

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Your First Atlantic Crossing 4th edition

A Planning Guide for Passagemakers

By: Les Weatheritt

Answering all of the important questions, this book shows not just how to sail an ocean for the first time, but also how to enjoy it. There are insights into the social as well as nautical reality of preparing the boat, the comfort of having highly detailed plans, the inside story of life with a crew, coping with unexpected gales and calms, the live-or-die decision to keep watches or not and the ports of call from Spain to Tobago via the Atlantic islands and West Africa. This fourth edition has been substantially expanded, with extra information on: - types of boat, anchoring, sleep and watch keeping - weather and climate, and the impact of Atlantic weather systems on timings and conditions of crossings - latest developments in technology (navigation, self steering, equipment) - alternatives to the standard routes across - sailing back from the US to the UK - this edition will get you home! 'I shall enjoy dipping into this dream maker, time and again...an excellent guide to the planning of your Atlantic crossing. Read all the other books but keep this one beside you' Cruising Association 'Offers down to earth advice based on hard-won experience' Yachting Monthly 'Covers everything the novice sailor needs to know for a voyage across the Atlantic' Practical Boat Owner

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408188082

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Tales from the Present

By: Les Endrei

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Tales from the Present

By: Les Endrei

The stories in this book are attempting to capture recent history and the great issues of our time in the form of children's stories. In ancient times e.g. in the Dreamtime and through folktales of all cultures stories based on human experience were shared with children helping to clear the way to the realisation of the eternal values essential for survival and spiritual evolution and material prosperity. It is an attempt to get through to not only children but to their elders as well through short, reality based tales

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1312349298

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A-Z of The Wirral

Places-People-History

By: Les Jones

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A-Z of The Wirral

Places-People-History

By: Les Jones

Explore the Wirral peninsula in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its local history, people and places.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1398109371

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Film, Mobility and Urban Space

A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool

By: Les Roberts

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Film, Mobility and Urban Space

A Cinematic Geography of Liverpool

By: Les Roberts

Reevaluating the significance of location in contemporary film practice and urban cultural theory, Film, Mobility and Urban Space explores the role of moving images in representations and perceptions of everyday urban landscapes. Les Roberts draws on over 1,700 films of Liverpool from 1897 to the present and combines critical spatial analysis, archival research, and qualitative methods to navigate the city's cinematic geographies as mapped across a broad spectrum of film genres, including amateur film, travelogues, newsreels, promotional films, documentaries, and features.

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Liverpool University Press

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1846317576

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HR Transformation Technology

Delivering Systems to Support the New HR Model

By: Allan Boroughs,Les Palmer,Ian Hunter

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HR Transformation Technology

Delivering Systems to Support the New HR Model

By: Allan Boroughs,Les Palmer,Ian Hunter

HR Transformation Technology is a complete, business-orientated guide to the planning, design and delivery of HR information systems. It spells out the full scope of the applications required to support HR shared services, centres of excellence and business partner roles and goes on to set out the step-by-step process for managing the delivery of a major HR information system project, and ensure it remains on schedule and on budget. HR Transformation Technology provides: ¢ An understanding of the role of IT in HR and the way in which it supports key elements such as the HR shared service centre and HR Business Partners; ¢ A clear picture of the features and benefits of the main types of HR IT application and an overview of what can commonly go wrong; ¢ The knowledge to build and communicate a definitive business case for the project; ¢ Details of the processes to be followed when defining what you need and selecting the partners who can deliver it. The book also provides up to date, practical examples of what other major organizations have achieved along with an invaluable top ten list of dos and don'ts for the HR systems project manager. This book is indispensable for anyone with responsibility for delivering HR systems.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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0566088339

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Design for the Changing Educational Landscape

Space, Place and the Future of Learning

By: Andrew Harrison,Les Hutton

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Design for the Changing Educational Landscape

Space, Place and the Future of Learning

By: Andrew Harrison,Les Hutton

The whole landscape of space use is undergoing a radical transformation. In the workplace a period of unprecedented change has created a mix of responses with one overriding outcome observable worldwide: the rise of distributed space. In the learning environment the social, political, economic and technological changes responsible for this shift have been further compounded by constantly developing theories of learning and teaching, and a wide acceptance of the importance of learning as the core of the community, resulting in the blending of all aspects of learning into one seamless experience. This book attempts to look at all the forces driving the provision and pedagogic performance of the many spaces, real and virtual, that now accommodate the experience of learning and provide pointers towards the creation and design of learning-centred communities. Part 1 looks at the entire learning universe as it now stands, tracks the way in which its constituent parts came to occupy their role, assesses how they have responded to a complex of drivers and gauges their success in dealing with renewed pressures to perform. It shows that what is required is innovation within the spaces and integration between them. Part 2 finds many examples of innovation in evidence across the world – in schools, the higher and further education campus and in business and cultural spaces – but an almost total absence of integration. Part 3 offers a model that redefines the learning landscape in terms of learning outcomes, mapping spatial requirements and activities into a detailed mechanism that will achieve the best outcome at the most appropriate scale. By encouraging stakeholders to creating an events-based rather than space-based identity, the book hopes to point the way to a fully-integrated learning landscape: a learning community.

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Routledge

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1134481977

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Call the Ambulance!

By: Les Pringle

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Call the Ambulance!

By: Les Pringle

Exploding pressure cookers, a thwarted wife's deadly revenge and transvestites in distress - manning an ambulance in the seventies kept you on your toes. Having survived the rites of passage as a probationer, Les Pringle now has to face up to the reality of life as an ambulance man in Thatcher's Britain. He does this with humour and fortitude - two qualities which are essential if he is to cope with cases ranging from the absurd to the heart rending. From attending murder scenes to delivering babies ... it's quite a life for Les, and one that he and his shift mates tread with warmth and humour in equal measure.

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Random House

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1407069411

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Cultural Sociology

An Introduction

By: Les Back,Andy Bennett,Laura Desfor Edles,Margaret Gibson,David Inglis,Ron Jacobs,Ian Woodward

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Cultural Sociology

An Introduction

By: Les Back,Andy Bennett,Laura Desfor Edles,Margaret Gibson,David Inglis,Ron Jacobs,Ian Woodward

Cultural Sociology: An Introduction is the first dedicated student textbook to address cultural sociology as a legitimate model for sociological thinking and research. Highly renowned authors present a rich overview of major sociological themes and the various empirical applications of cultural sociology. A timely introductory overview to this increasingly significant field which provides invaluable summaries of key studies and approaches within cultural sociology Clearly written and designed, with accessible summaries of thematic topics, covering race, class, politics, religion, media, fashion, and music International experts contribute chapters in their field of research, including a chapter by David Chaney, a founder of cultural sociology Offers a unified set of theoretical and methodological tools for those wishing to apply a cultural sociological approach in their work

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John Wiley & Sons

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1444362240

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Light is Life

By: Les Endrei

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Light is Life

By: Les Endrei

After 55 years of marriage can love still be unconditional? The road to a spiritual union is paved with acceptance, forgiveness and perseverance. It cannot be dependent on changes of mood or of physical attraction alone. It needs to become the union of two souls pursuing common goals bound together by selfless love.

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1326559338

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Continuous Creation

Last Poems

By: Les Murray

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Continuous Creation

Last Poems

By: Les Murray

The final collection of poems by the great Australian poet Les Murray, Continuous Creation We bring nothing into this world except our gradual ability to create it, out of all that vanishes and all that will outlast us. In Continuous Creation, the final collection from Les Murray, the preeminent poet of modern Australia recalls moments from his youth and wryly observes the changing world, moving back and forth through time and history with characteristic curiosity and an ever-fresh commitment to capturing the rhythms of life in verse. This collection displays Murray’s miraculous ability to reinvent language in order to plant his and our reality on the page, whether he writes about the Australian landscape (“Kangaroo sleeping / ahead on the road turns out / to be twigs and leaves”) or unsold books sitting in department stores. Continuous Creation demonstrates, once more, that Murray was one of the great poets of the English language. As Joseph Brodsky said, he was, “quite simply, the one by whom the language lives.”

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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0374605645

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New Selected Poems

By: Les Murray

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New Selected Poems

By: Les Murray

A new selection from Les Murray, Australia's finest poet"--

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Macmillan

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0374220883

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Dial 999!

By: Les Pringle

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Dial 999!

By: Les Pringle

This is a re-issue of Blue Nights and Long Nights ISBN 9780552158527. Card-playing corpses, unfaithful husbands and 'flying' ladies - life as an ambulance driver in the 1970s was certainly varied ... At the age of twenty-three, Les Pringle decided to escape from office life, broaden his horizons and become an ambulance driver. Little did he realize how broad those horizons would turn out to be. Filled with warmth and humour, Dial 999! takes us back to a time when lonely old ladies could call 999 and have a cup of tea waiting when the drivers turned up for a chat; when learning to drive the ambulance meant going out for one test drive and managing not to hit a pedestrian; and every day brought a glimpse into other people's lives. Gripping, poignant and darkly funny, Dial 999!is an affectionate, warm-hearted look at a world gone by.

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1446497674

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Dark Side of the Moon

By: Les Wood

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Dark Side of the Moon

By: Les Wood

A blackly comic heist novel set in Glasgow’s famed underworld, reminiscent of early Christopher Brookmyre. Boddice, a crime lord looking over his shoulder for good reason, has assembled an unlikely band of misfit crooks. Their job is to steal a famous diamond worth millions, known as The Dark Side of the Moon. Despite the odds, the crew’s self-serving squabbles and natural incompetence, the plan progresses. As events build to an explosive climax no one really knows who is playing who. Full of twists and turns and laugh-out-loud moments, this is a hugely enjoyable romp from entirely the criminal’s point-of-view, with not a single cop in sight. ‘Neds, drug dealers, gangsters, molls, jakes, crazy old bag ladies, racketeering, and the biggest jewel heist ever seen in the UK. Welcome to Glasgow. No Mean City meets The Italian Job in this hilarious comic noir debut, as the dark underbelly of the city’s crimeland is spewed onto the page. With razor-sharp dialogue, superbly venal characters and a finely-tuned plot, The Dark Side of the Moon builds to an explosive firecracker of an ending.’ Douglas Lindsay, author of The Legend of Barney Thomson and Song of the Dead ‘Mix Irvine Welsh with Ocean’s Eleven. Set in Glasgow and BANG! Dark Side of the Moon is a fun and thrilling read with moments that will have you reflecting on life, and moments when you will be giving it LOLs. A boom-bastic read. Loved it.’ Michael Malone, author of Beyond the Rage and Bad Samaritan

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Cargo Publishing

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1911332015

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The Home Brewer's Recipe Database

By: Les Howarth

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The Home Brewer's Recipe Database

By: Les Howarth

This is not a recipe book. It is a database of ingredient information that should assist the home or craft brewer in creating their own recipes in order to attempt the replication of commercial beers. Instructions on how to convert the supplied ingredient information into recipes customised to the brewer's own equipment and technique are provided. This book also provides inspiration to brewers wishing to experiment with different ingredients since it gives an interesting insight into how professional brewers have used them in their own brews. Finally, this book should also be of interest to the discerning beer enthusiast who is curious about what goes into their favourite drink. This second edition provides substantially more data than the well-received first edition.

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Lulu.com

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1409292258

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Out of Whiteness

Color, Politics, and Culture

By: Vron Ware,Les Back

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Out of Whiteness

Color, Politics, and Culture

By: Vron Ware,Les Back

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Outside the Whale1. Otherworldly Knowledge: Toward a "Language of Perspicuous Contrast"2. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? The Political Morality of Investigating Whiteness in the Gray Zone3. Seeing through Skin/Seeing through Epidermalization4. Wagner and Power Chords: Skinheadism, White Power Music, and the Internet5. Mothers of Invention: Good Hearts, Intelligent Minds, and Subversive Acts6. Syncopated Synergy: Dance, Embodiment, and the Call of the Jitterbug7. Ghosts, Trails, and Bones: Circuits of Memory and Traditions of Resistance8. Out of Sight: Southern Music and the Coloring of Sound9. Room with a ViewNotesIndex Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226873412

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The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson

By: Michael Les Benedict

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The Impeachment and Trial of Andrew Johnson

By: Michael Les Benedict

Probes into the efforts to remove Johnson from the presidency and details the results of the impeachment trial.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393319822

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9780393319828

Handy Guide to Murderville

By: Les Pobjie

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Handy Guide to Murderville

By: Les Pobjie

Visitors may find the Handy Guide to Manderville useful, but it offers no help to residents lost in a deadly maze of no-longer familiar streets, among newly sinister public places. Its pages extol the virtues of significant buildings, fine parks, and especially, the town’s upstanding citizens.

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Australian Self Publishing Group

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1922618349

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Real Hard Cases

True Crime from the Streets

By: Les Brown,Robert Jeffrey

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Real Hard Cases

True Crime from the Streets

By: Les Brown,Robert Jeffrey

This book presents more hard hitting cases from the authors of "Glasgow Crimefighter". As legendary Glasgow detective Les Brown re-investigates cases from Stratford in east London to Wick, via Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Renfrewshire, he finds that, often, the official police line doesn't quite add up...The body of a young electrician is dragged from a harbour. The police say the death was an accident, but a mysterious man confesses to murder. What is the truth? A young Scotsman is found dead on the pavement near to a multi-story London car park. Did he jump or was he pushed? Then there's the rape and strangling of 14-year-old Pamela Hastie and the killing of 11-year-old Tracy Waters...two of the most horrific and puzzling cases in West of Scotland crime. And the mystery of 12-year-old Moira Anderson's death in Coatbridge, the strange case of rape at a holiday camp, and the disturbing facts of a series of unsolved murders of street prostitutes.These and many more Real Hard Cases are re-opened by Les Brown, in this intriguing new book co-written with Robert Jeffrey, author of a best-selling string of true crime titles, including "Glasgow's Hard Men", "Gangland Glasgow" and "Glasgow's Godfather".

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Black & White Publishing

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1845026284

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9781845026288

Aquatic Monocotyledons of North America

Ecology, Life History, and Systematics

By: Donald H. Les

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Aquatic Monocotyledons of North America

Ecology, Life History, and Systematics

By: Donald H. Les

This book brings together information on the natural history, ecology and systematics of North American aquatic monocotyledons. The book is an overview of the biology of major aquatic species by compiling information from numerous sources that lie scattered among the primary literature, herbarium databases, and other reference sources. Information on more than 300 species in 87 genera of monocotyledons will be included. Recent phylogenetic analyses will be incorporated. Although focusing specifically on North America, the cosmopolitan distribution of many aquatic plants should make this an attractive text to people working virtually anywhere outside of the region as well. Key Selling Features: The primary source of natural history information on aquatic plants Comprehensive lists of ecological associates Synthetic overview of systematic relationships of aquatic species and genera Practical information for rare and invasive plant managers Essential guide to facilitate wetland delineation

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CRC Press

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1351679694

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9781351679695

Understanding Leisure

By: Les Haywood,Frank Kew,Peter Bramham

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Understanding Leisure

By: Les Haywood,Frank Kew,Peter Bramham

This book covers all the key aspects of leisure theory, policy and practice. Coverage includes leisure concepts and the dimensions of leisure, its activity forms, participants, provision, leisure and social theory and the future of leisure. Exercises and discussion topics are included at the end of each chapter to enable the reader to apply theory to examples. Excellent guides to further reading are also included.

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Nelson Thornes

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0748720596

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