Product Description: This book demonstrates that blind faith in the law as a beneficent agent of social change is misplaced. Thornton argues that not only does the liberal commitment to individualism undermine the communal or class-based nature of discrimination, but the legal culture itself operates to uphold the power of social superordinates...read more

Product Description: This pathbreaking book examines the experiences of women in the legal profession in Australia. Based on interviews with more than 100 women lawyers, it sets out to explain why simply "letting in" more women to public life does not necessarily change the masculine culture of the profession...read more

Product Description: Jenny Carter had always led a sheltered life. Leaving school at fourteen, she is expected to help her mother run Pleasant View boarding house in Blackpool. To the holidaymakers it is a welcoming retreat, but to Jenny and her sister Violet, it feels more like the workhouse...read more

Product Description: Rosie and Patsy Bradshaw became sisters when Rosie was adopted as an orphaned evacuee, but as they reach adulthood it is time for them to part - Rosie travels to art college in London, while Patsy is pushed into teaching by her overbearing mother...read more

During the Second World War, Maisie Jackson was evacuated to Yorkshire Dales. It is 1945, and she has been corresponding with Bruce Tremaine, while he has been fighting with the RAF, and Maisie believes herself to be in love with him. But when he returns on VE Day, he is not alone. Maisie is devastated and her life is turned upside down.

Life for Maisie Jackson has been far from happy for a number of years -- ever since her mother re-married after her beloved father’s death, and her new stepfather and stepbrother moved into their small terraced house in Armley, Leeds. Suffering abuse at her cruel stepbrother’s hand, and mercilessly tormented by her stepfather, Maisie dreams of escaping to a new life far away. And it seems her dreams are about to come true --It is 1939 and war is suddenly looming dark on the horizon. For many, with memories of the ‘war to end all wars’ still fresh in their minds, this is a horrific and frightening prospect. But for nine-year-old Maisie, it represents her longed-for chance of freedom - maybe she’ll be evacuated to the countryside, to one of the places her father used to tell her about? As the the small market town of Middlebeck in the Yorkshire dales prepares for the arrival of the evacuees, many of the villagers ponder on how they will cope with this sudden influx of visitors. But they are all determined to pull together and welcome the strangers with open arms, eager to ‘do their bit’ for the war effort. In this time of trouble, when life suddenly seems so precious and vulnerable, true and lasting friendships are formed and love blossoms as the dark cloud of war eventually clears to the bright blue sky of a hopeful future.

Product Description: It is August 1900 and ten-year-old Maddy Moon is relishing the prospect of a long summer in Scarborough. Watching the Pierrot shows on the beach she meets Jessie, who is staying in Scarborough with her family for the school holidays...read more

Product Description: As Maddy journeys around the north of England with Morgan's Melody Makers, she makes new friends everywhere she goes. Now 17, she is eager to take her first steps along the road to love. But, as she is to discover, the course of true love never did run smoothly.

Product Description: This AQA GCSE maths series is exclusively endorsed and approved by AQA. The book blends print and electronic resources to provide you with complete reassurance that you have everything you need to deliver the 2010 GCSE mathematics specification.

Product Description: It is the summer of 1914 and Tilly Moon, an accomplished pianist, longs for the day she can take her music studies further. If there is one thing she loves more than music it is her brother Tommy's best friend Dominic, and they embark on a tentative first romance, but their plans are interrupted when Britain declares war on Germany...read more

Product Description: With a concise, exam-focused treatment of the syllabus and practice exam-style papers written by an experienced examiner, the Extended Level Revision Guide for Cambridge IGCSE Mathematics is an invaluable resource to assist students in achieving their best.

Product Description: Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law is the first full-length critical study examining the impact of the dramatic reforms that have swept through universities over the last two decades. Drawing on extensive research and interviews in Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Canada, Margaret Thornton considers the impact of the market on students, academics and law schools, documenting how both the curriculum and pedagogical methods have changed...read more

Product Description: Happily married to the Reverend Simon Norwood, with a small daughter and another baby on the way, Fiona Norwood’s happiness should be complete. But Fiona has a secret in her past, and a part of her can never forget the baby girl she gave birth to when she was seventeen years old, the child she held for only a few moments before being forced to give her up for adoption...read more

Product Description: Kathy Leigh never knew her mother, who died many years ago in a freak accident. Raised by her father, Albert, and her Aunty Win in 1950s' Blackpool. Albert Leigh loves his daughter, but has never fully recovered from the shock of losing his wife...read more

Product Description: Kathy Leigh never knew her mother, who died many years ago in a freak accident. Raised by her father, Albert, and her Aunty Win in 1950s' Blackpool. Albert Leigh loves his daughter, but has never fully recovered from the shock of losing his wife...read more

Product Description: With her glossy blonde hair, natural good looks and fashionable clothes, Fiona Norwood, the rector's new wife, has caused quite a stir amongst the close-knit parish of Aberthwaite. For this is rural Yorkshire and Fiona's new-fangled ideas of singing more modern hymns and setting up a Young Wives' Club do not go down well...read more

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