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Face It! (Paperback)
Anne Baker, Lindsay McCay, Mark Potterton
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R57
Discovery Miles 570
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Every school needs to know how to deal with conflict and how to
solve problems. This booklet will assist your school in dealing
with conflict. By dealing with conflict your school will be better
placed to fufill its task of educating young people. The booklet
will encourage your school to create a positive environment where
everyone works together in peace.
When all seems lost, will her mother's legacy keep her safe? Praise
for Anne Baker's Merseyside sagas: 'A stirring tale of romance and
passion, poverty and ambition' Liverpool Echo Aimee Kendrick is no
stranger to heartache. Having lost her father during the Great War
and her mother, a famous French impressionist painter, in a tragic
accident, Aimee is brought up by her troubled grandparents on the
banks of the river Mersey. She works hard at her art lessons and is
encouraged to believe she has inherited her mother's gift, but it
is her childhood friend and fellow student Frankie Hopkins who
shows greater talent. When Frankie joins the Kendrick's textile
mill to work on new fabric designs, Aimee begs her grandfather to
teach her how to run the business. Working together, Aimee and
Frankie become much more than friends but then they find themselves
involved in family problems and it is impossible to know what the
future holds.
This book is a compilation of the papers presented at the
conference in Winnipeg on the subject of finite geometry in 1984.
It covers different fields in finite geometry: classical finite
geometry, the geometry of finite planes, geometric structures and
the theory of translation planes.
Adults accept that problems will occur at home and at work, and
that they need the disposition, skills and strategies to deal with
them. As a learning experience, children need to be given
opportunities to identify exactly what a problem is, and to be
taught strategies to help them find a solution and to persist in
challenging situations. The activities in this series present a
wide range of problematic situations for which there is more than
one solution or more than one approach to the solution. They are
designed to lay the foundational skills, strategies and attitudes
for pupils to become life-long problem solvers. The series includes
activities in the areas of maths, literacy, speaking and listening,
PSHE, music and dance. The activity sheets can be used in
isolation, as part of a sequence, or dipped into as teachers
require.
Childhood sweethearts Mary and Jonty have battled against the odds
to be together. Forced to run away from home because Mary's father
disapproved of their relationship, they've built a happy new life
for themselves. Now they long to be blessed with a child, but it
seems that's not to be. Until one stormy night when a yacht is
dashed upon the rocks near their home. Mary and Jonty rush to the
crew's rescue. Amid terrible carnage, they manage to save a baby,
who they name Charlotte and keep her as their own. Charlotte grows
up to be devoted to her parents, but fate intervenes when she
decides to train as a nurse in Liverpool. For Liverpool is where
her 'real' family lives: and it seems that past secrets are to be
uncovered - with shocking consequences.
This book focuses on leadership and management strategies including
project management, budget planning and management, governance,
building a team, and developing a strategy for successful
recruitment. Many creative arts therapy researchers lack training
and experience in designing and implementing large scale high
impact clinical trials. This book is the first in the creative arts
therapies that provides guidance on clinical trial implementation.
Data management, monitoring, and intervention fidelity and
development of a statistical analysis plan are outlined. Finally,
the text explores development of a dissemination plan as well as
how to commercialise research.
This new edition of a highly successful pronunciation text covers
all of the speech sounds of North American English, as well as
spelling, intonation, and stress. Pronunciation Pairs offers a
variety of exercises and activities, from very controlled minimal
pair and listening discrimination tasks to dialogs, games, puzzles,
and guided conversations. The Pronunciation Pairs, Second Edition,
Student's Book has updated dialogs, which include current and
useful vocabulary. Hundreds of simple, clear illustrations help
students understand the dialogs and vocabulary. An audio CD with
selections from the complete class audio program is included in the
back of the Student's Book.
Its 1980s Merseyside and teenage cousins Sophie and Charlie are at
a turning point in each of their lives. Sophie, seventeen years old
and stunning, falls in love with Darrell, the school caretaker, who
has plans to make it big with his rock band. But when Sophie
discovers that shes pregnant, her relationship with Darrell comes
to an end. Though happiness is on the horizon for Sophie, it will
take her time to realise who she is destined to be with. Charlie,
eighteen and having struggled at school, is unhappy in his job as a
chef. With Sophies help, Charlie joins the family business with
surprising results
Raising her daughters alone, widowed Flora Wilcox often feels out
of her depth. There's no problem with mousy Hilary, but Isobel is a
wayward beauty who can never forgive her plainer sister for
stealing her boyfriend, and will be pregnant before she marries.
Worse, the father of Isobel's baby isn't her new husband - and when
the truth comes out, her marriage is likely to hit the rocks.
Hilary's life seems to be moving along more calmly, until her
husband is badly injured in an accident. And as she takes charge of
his business Hilary also faces the discovery that her adored
children are struggling at school. There's hope if the sisters can
pull together at last - but can they ever put the past behind them?
It's 1931 and eighteen-year-old Greta is working in a laundry in
Liverpool, where she lives with her widowed mother and
thirteen-year-old brother Kenny. When a scruffy black and white
collie follows Greta home one day, Kenny wants to keep the animal,
but they can't afford to feed him. And so Greta tracks down the
owner: Mungo Masters, a wealthy man who runs funfairs in three
towns. Mungo falls for Greta, though he's her mother's age, and
doesn't bother to tell her that he's married already. When Mungo
gives Greta and Kenny jobs at one of his fairs, it seems life is
looking up. But Mungo is not good news...
A heartwarming romance set in Merseyside during and after World War
I. Lovely young Cathy is left pregnant with her first child when
her husband is killed in the war. For a while she lives with her
in-laws, but she leaps at the chance to return as a maid to the
household where she worked before her marriage. With the birth of
her daughter she is compelled to return to her parents-in-law, a
less than ideal situation, particularly when in due course Cathy is
being courted by dear old friend. When Cathy marries again and sets
up in the antiques business with her husband, it looks like at last
she will find the happiness she deserves, but she has made an enemy
who can't bear to see Cathy enjoying her life...
When Suzy Lunt's widowed mother Josie marries Luke Palmer, it's
mainly to keep a roof over their heads. But soon Josie realises
she's made a mistake, and she and Suzy flee Liverpool and a man
they now fear. But will they be safe from the past in Birkenhead?
Daisy Corkill has never known who her parents were - or why they
left her to be brought up by the couple she calls 'Uncle' Ern and
'Aunt' Gladys. Daisy yearns for the love and security that a family
of her own would give her, but she finds comfort in her
relationship with Brenda, her older 'sister'. One day in 1919
Brenda arrives home flushed with excitement. She has agreed to
marry businessman Gil Fox. Daisy is horrified, for she doesn't
trust the handsome Gil. And soon after their wedding, Brenda
realises that Gil isn't the man she thought he was. But Daisy's
dreams are about to come true; a family of her own is finally
within her reach. But will it be enough to get her through some
stormy times?
It is 1941 and Connie and Lottie Brinsley are training to be nurses
at Liverpool's Walton Hospital. When heavy bombing is followed by
the news that their home has taken a direct hit and their parents
and little brother are dead, the two sisters are utterly
devastated. Later, they are shocked to discover that their uncle,
Steve, is not who they thought he was, and the Brinsleys have been
living a lie for years. And Steve's not the only one who's hiding
the truth, for when Lottie meets and marries Waldo Padley, no one
tells her that he's a liar and a cheat. But, no matter what life
throws at them, the sisters find the strength to face the troubles
ahead...
When Dorothy Mortimer finds herself pregnant, she is sent away to
family friends the Benders to have the child. Dorothy wants nothing
to do with her daughter Lizzie, so the Benders arrange for the
child to be brought up by the O'Malley's, a feckless family living
on the estate. Lizzie is unaware of her parentage but her brother
Joey is suspicious of the attention she receives from the
Benders... Eventually he takes Lizzie to Merseyside to claim what
is rightfully hers. But Joey's obsession to provide Lizzie with the
riches she deserves leads to the destruction of their love, and
Lizzie finds herself drawn to the family she has never known...
Bestselling author Anne Baker's compelling saga of family secrets,
heartache and happy endings. When jeweller Edwin Jardine gives a
job to Hilda Thorpe, his daughter Jane suspects that he's been
blinded to the attractive widow's flaws by her looks and her hard
luck story (she's alone with a teenage daughter, Kitty). Jane's
dismayed when Edwin and Hilda become romantically involved; she
knows that her father deserves happiness again after the death of
her mother, but must it be with Hilda? With the help of her new
fiance, Nick, Jane begins to unravel the shocking truth about
Hilda's past - and soon she fears that Edwin may be about to take a
step he will live to regret bitterly.
Adults accept that problems will occur at home and at work, and
that they need the disposition, skills and strategies to deal with
them. As a learning experience, children need to be given
opportunities to identify exactly what a problem is, and to be
taught strategies to help them find a solution and to persist in
challenging situations. The activities in this series present a
wide range of problematic situations for which there is more than
one solution or more than one approach to the solution. They are
designed to lay the foundational skills, strategies and attitudes
for pupils to become life-long problem solvers. The series includes
activities in the areas of maths, literacy, speaking and listening,
PSHE, music and dance. The activity sheets can be used in
isolation, as part of a sequence, or dipped into as teachers
require.
The books in the Open-ended Maths Investigations series provide
teachers with open-ended investigations matched to the following
strands of mathematics: Number; money; measurement; space; chance
and data; patterns and algebra. The investigations encourage pupils
to apply higher order mathematical strategies creativel;y and
effectively as they develop proficiency in a wide range of
problem-solving strategies. Open-ended Maths Investigations can be
used in isolation, in sequence or dipped into as teachers require,
providing a great supplement to every maths scheme of work.
Living above her stepfather's fish and chip shop on Merseyside's
Paradise Parade, Emily Barr is glad to escape to the relative peace
of her job in Wythenshaw's jewellery factory. And when she is
promoted to work for young Mr Giles, the son of the owner, she is
the envy of all her workmates. What a catch he would be! Much to
her surprise, Emily finds the eligible Giles is trying to woo her,
and when he proposes she willingly accepts. But Giles is not the
suitable suitor he appears to be and Emily soon discovers that the
marriage isn't quite what she'd hoped for...
Beth Hubble has grown up in extreme poverty in Dock Cottages and
although she loves training to become a nurse, problems at home are
never far from her mind. Doctors have told her mother that, after
fourteen pregnancies, she is too frail to survive another, but they
will do nothing more. Beth is determined to help, but, in 1920,
birth control is a taboo subject, and her quest for knowledge is
thwarted at every turn. Meanwhile Beth has fallen for Andrew
Langford, a hospital lab technician, who she hopes will take her
away from the tenements for good. But will Beth ever find the love
and happiness that she deserves?
Jill Ridley's childhood was one of loneliness and fear, and
returning to her family home in Merseyside to join her stepmother's
medical practice she decides to uncover the truth behind such
painful memories. The discovery of a photograph of her stepmother
holding an unknown baby prompts Jill to ask questions. But no one
seems willing to answer her. It is only when Jill's stoical
stepgrandmother, Victoria, tells the harrowing tale of her tragic
past that the pieces of the puzzle start to fall into place. Coming
to terms with shocking revelations, Jill must also face the future.
The surgery's prospects are bleak; Jill's father is buckling under
work pressures; and Felix Kingsley, a young journalist, has started
paying attention to Jill - but are his intentions honourable, or is
he using Jill to probe for secrets that affect his own family...?
A VIEW ACROSS THE MERSEY by Anne Baker is a dramatic Liverpool
family saga sure to appeal to fans of Katie Flynn, Annie Groves and
Lyn Andrews. The youngest of five siblings, Lottie Mortimer has
never felt like she belonged. Her mother died shortly after she was
born, leaving her father and grandmother to raise the family and,
despite their love and support, Lottie can't help wondering if
there is something they are not telling her... With the First World
War over, the Mortimers' ship-owning business is struggling to
survive and Lottie, who works with her father, worries what the
future will hold. Meanwhile, her elder sister Eunice is trapped in
an unhappy marriage that causes concern for them all. Then Lottie
discovers the shocking truth about her birth that turns her world
upside down and the dramatic events that unfold affect them all...
Set in Liverpool at the end of the Second World War, Anne Baker's
saga will move you to tears of sadness and joy. On a spring day in
1947, Millie and Pete Maynard take their daughter Sylvie on a boat
trip that is to end in tragedy. Poor Sylvie blames herself for the
accident and Millie needs all her strength to comfort her children
and overcome her grief. Then Pete's will is read and further
heartache lies in store... Meanwhile, Pete's younger brother and
his good-for-nothing sons try to take control of the family
business, but they've underestimated Millie's indomitable spirit.
She's worked in Maynard's perfume laboratory for eighteen years and
is determined to protect her husband's legacy no matter what
obstacles are thrown in her way...
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