Product Description: This is a true story. It tells how a young, Welsh girl, with no previous theatrical experience found herself in the West End production of ANNIE. It is written with a young reader of between 8 and 14 yrs in mind, but would be of interest to anyone who has ever dreamt of being on the stage or has children who dream of such things...read more

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Product Description: 'Follow your own star and when you have achieved your goal you will have that with you for the rest of your life ...' It is 1928 and the world is changing. Anyone can see that. Mrs Dixie's dress shop on the high street is selling ladies' trousers and Amelia Earhart lands in the sea off Wales, in an airplane! But when Ida Gaze announces she is leaving the turquoise waters of the town's new lido to swim the treacherous Bristol Channel, with the help of her best friend Frieda, gossips say it can't be done...read more

Product Description: In the aftermath of the Normandy Landings, Martine battles to keep her animals fed and shelter her German boyfriend, torn between his love for Martine and fear of his SS superiors. Meanwhile, in England, the young wife of Colonel David Clarke assuages her loneliness with an affair with an RAF officer...read more

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Provides a practical guide to Institutional Repository (IR) issues. This book uses real-life experiences to address and highlight issues raised in the first half of the book.

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Product Description: 'Enlightenment' and 'Emancipation' as separate issues have received much critical attention, but the complicated interaction of these two great shaping forces of modernity has never been scrutinized in-depth. The Enlightenment has been represented in radically opposing ways: on the one hand, as the throwing off of the chains of superstition, custom, and usurped authority; on the other hand, in the Romantic period, but also more recently, as what Michel Foucault termed 'the great confinement,' in which 'mind-forged manacles' imprison the free and irrational spirit...read more

Product Description: A compelling new novel by the author of A Regimental Affair Yvie first meets Adam and Pammy Clifton as neighbours on the same patch' in Germany, where she has been posted with soldier husband, Richard. Their friendship is cemented by the shared experience of army life, but is put to the test when the relationship between Adam and Yvie turns into a short-lived but passionate affair...read more

Product Description: Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate...read more

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Discusses the establishment of the Marine Corps unit made up of Navajo Indians who served as radio operators, using their own language as a secret code, during World War II (view table of contents)

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Product Description: Academics, policy makers and social service personnel present a balance between the helpful compilation of factual material, general overview and critical analysis of social policy.