In whose best interest

In Whose Best Interest

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In Whose Interest?

What is the social cost of privatising public services? And what effect has the failure of previous privatisations had? This book tells how social wor

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Best of Ogden Nash

Includes poems that display the talent of the man whose verse entranced America from the time of the Great Depression until his death in 1971.

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Native Americans in Children's Literature

Build high-interest theme lesson plans that accurately portray Native peoples and cultures with this authoritative guide to the best children's fictio

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Irishman in China

It was a long journey--in more ways than mere geography--from a childhood in Northern Ireland to becoming the most influential foreigner in 19th-century China. This historical novel follows the life of Robert Hart, whose career in China spanned more than half a century during the turbulent last decades of the Qing dynasty. As the Qing government's Inspector General of the...

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Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education

The fifth edition of the best-selling text, Ethical Leadership and Decision Making in Education, continues to address the increasing interest in ethic

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Marian Maternity in Late-Medieval England

Long takes advantage of the fifteenth centuryÂ’s intense interest in the Virgin Mary, the best-documented mother of the medieval period, to examine th

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In Search of Us: Twelve Adventures in Anthropology - Lucy Moore

<p>***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick***The story of the pioneering anthropologists and their adventures among civilisations that were first thought of as being primitive and savage. What they discovered, however, would change the way we think about ourselves.In the late nineteenth century, when non-European societies were seen as 'living fossils' offering an ...

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Flowers For Algernon: The Best of the SF Masterworks - Keyes Daniel

Anotace: Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary. Winne...

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Flowers For Algernon: The Best of the SF Masterworks - Daniel Keyes

<p>Charlie Gordon, IQ 68, is a floor sweeper and the gentle butt of everyone's jokes - until an experiment in the enhancement of human intelligence turns him into a genius. But then Algernon, the mouse whose triumphal experimental transformation preceded his, fades and dies, and Charlie has to face the possibility that his salvation was only temporary. Winner of t...

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The Catcher in the Rye (9780241950425)

Kniha - anglicky "The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the we...

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Pops Fatherhood In Pieces - Chabon Michael

Anotace: Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand y...

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Pops Fatherhood In Pieces - Michael Chabon

<p>Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood. You are born into a family and those are your people, and they know you and they love you and if you are lucky they even, on occasion, manage to understand yo...

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All Together Now! (FilmTie In) - Quick Matthew

Anotace: Amber Appleton has a lot to be thankful for.ORAmber Appleton has never had it easy.Both are true. On the one hand, she`s got the best friends a seventeen year old could ask for and a loyal dog, Bobby Big Boy. On the other, her mum frequently has too much to drink, Amber`s never quite sure where her next meal will come from and ever since her mum`s latest boyfrie...

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An Irishman in China - Changtian Zhao

Anotace: It was a long journey--in more ways than mere geography--from a childhood in Northern Ireland to becoming the most influential foreigner in 19th-century China. This historical novel follows the life of Robert Hart, whose career in China spanned more than half a century during the turbulent last decades of the Qing dynasty. As the Qing government`s Inspector Gene...

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Maybe in Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reidová

Anotace: From the acclaimed author of Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold-with stunningly different results At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with h...

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Maybe in Another Life - Taylor Jenkins Reid

From the acclaimed author of Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo comes a breathtaking novel about a young woman whose fate hinges on the choice she makes after bumping into an old flame; in alternating chapters, we see two possible scenarios unfold—with stunningly different results At the age of twenty-nine, Hannah Martin still has no idea what she wants to do with her life. Sh...

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Fault In Our Stars - John Green

<p>Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten. Insightful, bold, irreverent, and raw, `The Fault ...

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The Catcher in the Rye - Jerome David Salinger

<p>"The Catcher in Rye" is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it's relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the we...

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The Shadow of Perseus: A compelling feminist retelling of the myth of Perseus told from the perspectives of the women who knew him best - Claire Heywood

<p>'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was gripped by the human drama at the novel's heart' ELODIE HARPERMyth remembers Perseus as one of its greatest heroes. A slayer of monsters. A rescuer of damsels.But the women who knew him best have a different story to te...

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American Pravda : My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News - O´Keefe James

Anotace: The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O`Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not. Their investigati...

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American Pravda : My Fight for Truth in the Era of Fake News - James O´Keefe

<p>The one real difference between the American press and the Soviet state newspaper Pravda was that the Russian people knew they were being lied to. To expose the lies our media tell us today, controversial journalist James O'Keefe created Project Veritas, an independent news organization whose reporters go where traditional journalists dare not. Their investigativ...

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In the Upper Country: LONGLISTED FOR THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL FICTION 2024 - Kai Thomas

<p>WINNER OF THE ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2023 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD COSMOPOLITAN'S 10 BEST HISTORICAL FICTION BOOKS OF 2023'Fresh and propulsive . . . a veneration of those whose tales are often forgotten' New York Times'A mesmerizing, lyrical testament to the power of storytelling' Atwood Gibson Writer's Trust Fi...

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Tinseltown: Hollywood and the Beautiful Game - a Match Made in Wrexham - Ian Herbert

<p>The remarkable inside story of how two Hollywood A-listers, Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds, stunned the football world by buying a non-league club in North Wales. It was one of the most extraordinary takeovers British football has known. In February 2021, Ryan Reynolds joined with Rob McElhenney to buy Wrexham AFC, a non-league team in North Wales. Wrexham, a f...

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Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos : Complexity Theory, Deleuze,Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis - Dodds Joseph

Anotace: This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contributions from Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Jungian, and Lacanian traditions, the book discusses how psychoanalysis can help to unmask the an...

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Psychoanalysis and Ecology at the Edge of Chaos : Complexity Theory, Deleuze,Guattari and Psychoanalysis for a Climate in Crisis - Joseph Dodds

<p>This book argues that psychoanalysis has a unique role to play in the climate change debate through its placing emphasis on the unconscious dimensions of our mental and social lives. Exploring contributions from Freudian, Kleinian, Object Relations, Self Psychology, Jungian, and Lacanian traditions, the book discusses how psychoanalysis can help to unmask the anx...

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Funny Story: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry - Henryová Emily

Anotace: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry-----Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together...

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Funny Story: A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry - Emily Henryová

<p>A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common, from #1 New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author Emily Henry-----Daphne always loved the way her fiance Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together....

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Five Seasons Kitchen

In 2015 Pierre Gagnaire, whose 11 restaurants worldwide boast two and three Michelin stars, was voted 'Best Chef in the World' by his peers and 2016 s

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Beatles Couldn't Read Music?

From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures.

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Amelia Earhart Is on the Moon?

From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the hilarious biography series that casts fresh light on high-interest historic figure

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Lucille Ball Had No Eyebrows?

From the best-selling author of My Weird School: a new entry in the cheerful and engaging biography series centered on high-interest historic figures.

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Solar

Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. When Beard's professional and personal worlds collide in a freak accid

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Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre is one of the best-loved heroines in English literature: the poor orphan whose determination and spirit bring her to happ

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Trouble at Table 5 #1: The Candy Caper

From the author of Stick Dog comes the first book in a highly illustrated early chapter book series about three best friends whose plans, missions, an

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Selected Poetry and Prose

The British poet Charlotte Mew - whose 150th anniversary falls in 2019 - was regarded as one of the best poets of her age by fellow writers.

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131 Method

Now in paperback is the national best-selling nutrition and lifestyle book from Chalene Johnson, an award-winning entrepreneur whose revolutionary fit

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We Love Our Dad

A day in the life of a seemingly hopeless, mistake-making dad, whose children know he is the world's best dad after all.

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Homecoming's Fall

The fourth book in the critically acclaimed After The War Series, whose previous contributors include best selling authors Adrian Tchaikovsky, Justin

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Born to Dance

The first in a brand-new series about dancing, friendship and following your dreams from best-loved author Jean Ure, whose books are described by Jacq

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Suburban Hell

Bad Moms meets My Best Friend's Exorcism in this lite-horror-comedy about a group of women in the Chicago suburbs whose cul-de-sac gets a new neighbou

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Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd: A Flavia de Luce Novel (0425286630)

Kniha - autor Alan Bradley, 332 stran, anglicky, brožovaná bez přebalu matná It's Christmastime, and twelve-year-old Flavia de Luce is sailing home to England. But she is greeted with unfortunate news: her father has fallen ill. Only too eager to run an errand, Flavia delivers a message to a reclusive wood-carver - whose body she finds hanging upside down. His cat shows...

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Through the Eys of Franz Kafka

<p>Through the Eyes of Franz Kafka: Between Image and Language traces the writer Franz Kafka's interest in modern art and visual culture. Examining Kafka's relationship to visuality, the book explores the diversity of images that surrounded Kafka in his home city of Prague-a heterogeneous and multilingual metropolis whose visual environment shaped his everyday exper...

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Department of Sensitive Crimes

Mister Varg is a Sandinavian Blanc novel. Scandinavian Blanc is different from Scandinavian Noir: there is nothing noir about the world of Ulf Varg, a detective in the Sensitive Crimes Department in the Swedish city of Malmo. Ulf is concerned with very odd, but not too threatening crimes - injuries to the back of the knee caused by an unknown hand, young women who allow t...

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Complete Greek Myths: An Illustrated Book of Greek Myths - Brook Henry

Anotace: Comprehensive and beautiful volume of Greek Myths, including maps, glossary and every story you can think of! This comprehensive volume of Greek Myths is perfect for a family bookshelf, containing all of the best known myths, told in a detailed and fresh way to alight the interest of any child or adult with an interest in the gods and heroes of Ancient Greece. B...

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He Knew He Was Right - neuveden

Anotace: Jim Lovelock is an iconic figure in British science, a prophet whose prophecies are coming true. He is best known as the `father` of Gaia theory, which is established as the most useful way of understanding the dramatic changes happening to the environment of the Earth. This biography reveals his independent, original and inspiring life.

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Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social State of Man

Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767-March 25, 1825) was a French author, poet, and composer whose biblical and philosophical hermeneutics in?uenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Lévi and Gerard Encausse (Papus), and René Guénon. D'Olivet spent his life pursuing the esoteric wisdom concealed in the Hebrew scriptures, Greek philosophy, and the symbolism of many anci...

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Gulliver´s Travels - Jonathan Swift

<p>With an Introduction and Notes by Doreen Roberts, Rutherford College, University of Kent at Canterbury. Jonathan Swift's classic satirical narrative was first published in 1726, seven years after Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (one of its few rivals in fame and breadth of appeal). As a parody travel-memoir it reports on extraordinary lands and societies, whose names hav...

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The Forever War - Haldeman Joe

Anotace: One of the very best science fiction novels of all time. An intelligent and thought provoking allegory for the Vietnam War.Private William Mandella is a reluctant hero in an interstellar war against an unknowable and unconquerable alien enemy. But his greatest test will be when he returns home. Relativity means that for every few months` tour of duty centuries h...

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Puzzle MAXI - Život v lese/48 dílků - Larsen

<p>Enjoy puzzling with this cute, warm and eye-catching forest puzzle. You will find 24 curved edged pieces, surrounding the frame, consisting of various birds, insects, flowers and animals. In the centre of the puzzle, 24 additional interlocking style pieces are featured, which includes a scenic nature picture at the front. The picture displays a girl and a boy sit...

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New Wood Kitchens - Alonso Claudia Martínez

<p>The growing interest in using wood in modern residential architecture, due to the sustainability, versatility and economy of this material, is especially relevant in kitchen design. This volume showcases a vast amount of wood kitchen designs that emphasise the natural beauty of this environmentally friendly material. No matter which style you prefer for your home...

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Rules for Radicals - Alinsky Saul David

Anotace: First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky`s impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one." Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volume exhibit...

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Human Happiness

Created by the seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician Pascal, the essays contained in "Human Happiness" are a curiously optimistic look at whether humans can ever find satisfaction and real joy in life - or whether a belief in God is a wise gamble at best. Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - an...

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Rules for Radicals - Saul David Alinsky

<p>First published in 1971, Rules for Radicals is Saul Alinsky's impassioned counsel to young radicals on how to effect constructive social change and know "the difference between being a realistic radical and being a rhetorical one." Written in the midst of radical political developments whose direction Alinsky was one of the first to question, this volum...

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Maturita Solutions 3rd Edition Elementary Workbook (Czech Edition) - Falla Tim, Davies Paul A.

With 100% new content, the third edition of Oxford's best-selling secondary course offers the tried and trusted Solutions methodology alongside fresh and diverse material that will spark your students' interest and drive them to succeed. The Solutions Workbook is the perfect partner to the Student's Book, and helps consolidate the material taught in class. It contains fur...

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Maturita Solutions Third Edition Pre-Intermediate Workbook Czech Edition - Tim Falla, Paul A Davies, Eva Paulerová, Jitka Kubů

Anotace: With 100% new content, the third edition of Oxford's best-selling secondary course offers the tried and trusted Solutions methodology alongside fresh and diverse material that will spark your students' interest and drive them to succeed. The Solutions Workbook is the perfect partner to the Student's Book, and helps consolidate the material taught in class. It co...

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Puzzle MAXI - Sopečná činnost/70 dílků

<p>This puzzle shows a highly illustrative depiction of a volcano erupting, while drops of lava hit the mountains and fall into the sea. Birds fly nervously in the sky while helicopters and aeroplanes desperately try to put the fires out. Lightning strikes through the sky caused by electrically charged ash. Animals run to escape from the disaster while the molten ro...

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Amnesia: Memories (PC) Klíč Steam

In this visual novel, you'll play as the Heroine whose life depends on hiding your recent loss of memory while you navigate complex relationships with five men. Choose your romantic path from the start to piece together that which was forgotten. Will you write the lasting love story you deserve, or will your love – and life – come to an end? Key Features Selec...

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They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

Anotace: Adam Silvera reminds us that there`s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors` Choice of 201...

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The Dark Knight 1/2 Socha The Joker 96 cm

Why so serious?Prime 1 Studio is proud to present HDMMDC-01 THE JOKER from THE DARK KNIGHT. The Joker is crafted in 1:2 scale with attention to detail and Likeness, standing around 96 cm tall and is an ultimate Joker piece for all fans.The Joker was as a criminal mastermind who terrorized Gotham City and whose goal is to plunge it into anarchy. The Joker has been describe...

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