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Mo Farah: No Easy Mile (DVD)
Mo Farah, Usain Bolt, Sebastian Coe, Brendan Foster, Thierry Henry, …
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Joe Pearlman directs this documentary which follows British athlete
Mo Farah as he prepares for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de
Janeiro. Alongside contributions from his family and top sports
stars such as Usain Bolt, Thierry Henry and Haile Gebrselassie, the
film looks back at the iconic distance runner's stellar career and
gives unprecedented access to his training regime as he gears up to
take on the world's best and cement his legacy as one of the
greatest British Olympians of all time.
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes
a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait
of Britain told through four generations of one family In
Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate
factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the
centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of
chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours
have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the
Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and royal
funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. She'll have children and
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Parts of the chocolate
factory will be transformed into a theme park, as modern life and
the city crowd in on their peaceful enclave. As we travel through
seventy-five years of social change, from James Bond to Princess
Diana, and from wartime nostalgia to the World Wide Web, one
pressing question starts to emerge: will these changing times bring
Mary's family - and their country - closer together, or leave them
more adrift and divided than ever before? Bournville is a rich and
poignant new novel from the bestselling, Costa award-winning author
of Middle England. It is the story of a woman, of a nation's love
affair with chocolate, of Britain itself. 'A wickedly funny,
clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and
Britishness and what we have become' Rachel Joyce 'It is miraculous
how, in his new novel, Coe has created a social history of postwar
Britain as we are still living it. Bournville is a beautiful, and
often very funny, tribute to an underexamined place and also a
truly moving story of how a country discovered tolerance' Sathnam
Sanghera, bestselling author of Empireland
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF
THE YEAR "In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book....Coe
examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor... [You
Never Forget Your First] is an accessible look at a president who
always finishes in the first ranks of our leaders." -Boston Globe
Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he is not
quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a
struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, caused an
international incident, and never backed down--even when his
dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle.
But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became
the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave
home. He took up arms against the British only when there was no
other way, though he lost more battles than he won. After an
unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War cast him as the nation's
hero, he was desperate to retire, but the founders pressured him
into the presidency--twice. When he retired years later, no one
talked him out of it. He left the highest office heartbroken over
the partisan nightmare his backstabbing cabinet had created. Back
on his plantation, the man who fought for liberty must confront his
greatest hypocrisy--what to do with the men, women, and children he
owns--before he succumbs to death. With irresistible style and warm
humor, You Never Forget Your First combines rigorous research and
lively storytelling that will have readers--including those who
thought presidential biographies were just for dads--inhaling every
page.
A gothic adventure story, a classic tale with a feminist twist, a
story of ambition and obsession, forbidden love and sabotage... 'It
is not the monster you must fear, but the monster it makes of
men...' Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows
her great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the
Arctic but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s is a time of
discovery and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories
and debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of
dinosaur sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary, with a sharp
mind and a sharper tongue, is keen to make her name in this world
of science, alongside her geologist husband Henry, but without
wealth and connections, their options are limited. But when Mary
discovers some old family papers that allude to the shocking truth
behind her great-uncle's past, she thinks she may have found the
key to securing their future... Their quest takes them to the wilds
of Scotland, to Henry's intriguing but reclusive sister Maisie, and
to a deadly chase with a rival who is out to steal their secret.
Our Hideous Progeny is a sumptuous tale of ambition and obsession,
of forbidden love and sabotage; an adventure story that blends
classic, immersive storytelling with contemporary themes.
This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of current
developments, issues and good practices regarding assessment in
social science research. It pays particular attention to the
challenges in evaluation policies in the social sciences, as well
as to the specificities of publishing in the area. The Handbook
discusses the current societal challenges facing researchers, from
digital societies, to climate change and sustainability, to trust
in democratic societies. Chapters provide ways to strengthen
research assessment in the social sciences for the better, by
offering a diverse range of experiences and views of experts from
all continents. The Handbook also outlines major data sources that
can be used to assess social sciences research, as well as looking
at key dimensions of research quality in the social sciences
including journal peer review, the issue of identifying research
quality, and gender disparities in social science research. This
book will be an essential read for scholars interested in research
assessment in the social sciences. It will also be useful to policy
makers looking to understand the key position of the social
sciences in science and society and provide appropriate frameworks
for key societal challenges.
This new addition to Hart's acclaimed Landmark Cases series is a
diverse and engaging edited collection bringing together eminent
commentators from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia,
Canada, and New Zealand, to analyse cases of enduring significance
to privacy law. The book tackles the conceptual nature of privacy
in its various guises, from data protection, to misuse of private
information, and intrusion into seclusion. It explores the
practical issues arising from questions about the threshold of
actionability, the function of remedies, and the nature of damages.
The cases selected are predominantly English but include cases from
the United States (because of the formative influence of United
States' privacy jurisprudence on the development of privacy law),
Australia, Canada, the Court of Justice of the European Union, and
the European Court of Human Rights. Each chapter considers the
reception and application (and, in some instances, rejection)
outside of the jurisdiction where the case was decided.
'Compelling and utterly absorbing ... an artfully crafted debut
that echoes the dark essence of Mary Shelley's FRANKENSTEIN while
maintaining a fascinating originality all of its own' Susan
Stokes-Chapman, author of PANDORA 'A gripping Gothic tale of grief
and ambition, passion and intrigue' Jess Kidd, author of THE NIGHT
SHIP Mary is the great-niece of Victor Frankenstein. She knows her
great uncle disappeared in mysterious circumstances in the Arctic
but she doesn't know why or how... The 1850s is a time of discovery
and London is ablaze with the latest scientific theories and
debates, especially when a spectacular new exhibition of dinosaur
sculptures opens at the Crystal Palace. Mary, with a sharp mind and
a sharper tongue, is keen to make her name in this world of
science, alongside her geologist husband Henry, but without wealth
and connections, their options are limited. But when Mary discovers
some old family papers that allude to the shocking truth behind her
great-uncle's past, she thinks she may have found the key to
securing their future... Their quest takes them to the wilds of
Scotland, to Henry's intriguing but reclusive sister Maisie, and to
a deadly chase with a rival who is out to steal their secret...
_______ 'A wonderful book; dark, passionate, multi-layered' Joanne
Harris, author of CHOCOLAT & THE STRAWBERRY THIEF 'Exquisitely
written... a story worthy of Mary Shelley' Sean Lusk, author of THE
SECOND SIGHT OF ZACHARY CLOUDESLEY 'Sumptuously gothic, this
atmospheric debut left me reeling' C.J. COOKE, author of THE
LIGHTHOUSE WITCHES '
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available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
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available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
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quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
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