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Enough (Hardcover)
Cassidy Hutchinson
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Cassidy Hutchinson’s desk was mere steps from the most controversial president in recent American history. Now, she provides a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences as an idealistic young woman thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where she risked everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful people in Washington.
Ever since a childhood visit to Washington, DC, Cassidy Hutchinson aspired to serve her country in government. Raised in a working-class family with a military background, she was the first in her immediate family to graduate from college. Despite having no ties to Washington, Hutchinson landed a vital position at the center of the Trump White House.
Her life took a dramatic turn on January 6th, 2021, when, at twenty-four, she found herself in one of the most extraordinary and unprecedented calamities in modern political history.
Hutchinson was faced with a choice between loyalty to the Trump administration or loyalty to the country by revealing what she saw and heard in the attempt to overthrow a democratic election. She bravely came forward to become the pivotal witness in the House January 6 investigations, as her testimony transfixed and stunned the nation. In her memoir, Hutchinson reveals the struggle between the pressures she confronted to toe the party line and the demands of the oath she swore to defend American democracy.
Enough reaches far beyond the typical insider political account. It’s the saga of a woman whose fierce determination helped her overcome childhood challenges to get her dream job, only to face a crisis of conscience—one that more senior White House aides tried to evade—and, in the process, find her voice and herself. This is a portrait of how the courage of one person can change the course of history.
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More Than You Imagine
Thelia Hutchinson; Illustrated by Adriana Predoi
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The AQA GCSE Media Studies Revision Guide has been revised and
updated to reflect the latest amendments to the specification. This
accessible and engaging resource will support students throughout
their revision for the GCSE Media Studies assessments. What's new
in the Revised Edition? - Coverage of the new close study products
for assessment from 2023 onwards, including: Black Widow (film -
media industries) How You Like That by Blackpink (music video -
media industries and media audiences) KISS Breakfast (radio - media
industries and audiences) His Dark Materials: The City of Magpies
(television programme - all four areas of the theoretical
framework) The social media and online output of Marcus Rashford
(online, social and participatory media - all four areas of the
theoretical framework) The new magazine and newspaper editions for
assessment in 2023 - Updated information on media contexts to
reflect recent developments in culture and society. - Up-to-date
statistics and information about media industries and audiences.
What have we retained? - Highly visual and engaging design. -
Detailed coverage of all areas of the specification, supported by
highly illustrated examples. - Exploration of each area of the
theoretical framework of Media Studies, applied to a range of media
forms and products. - A dedicated chapter on analysis covering the
skills required to analyse both previously unseen products and the
close study products. - Exam guidance chapter to support students
with their preparation and techniques for each of the two question
papers. - A variety of knowledge check tasks and short questions to
help students' retrieval practice.
Approved by AQA. The AQA GCSE Media Studies Student Book has been
revised and updated to reflect the latest amendments to the
specification. This accessible and engaging resource will support
students through their GCSE Media Studies course. What's new in the
Revised Edition? - Coverage of the new close study products for
assessment from 2023 onwards, including: Black Widow (film - media
industries) How You Like That by Blackpink (music video - media
industries and media audiences) KISS Breakfast (radio - media
industries and audiences) His Dark Materials: The City of Magpies
(television programme - all four areas of the theoretical
framework) The social media and online output of Marcus Rashford
(online, social and participatory media - all four areas of the
theoretical framework) - New examples of contemporary media
products across a range of forms. - Updated sections on media
contexts to reflect recent developments in culture and society. -
Up-to-date statistics and information about media industries and
audiences - New activities to reinforce students' knowledge and
understanding. What have we retained? - Highly visual and engaging
design. - Detailed coverage of all areas of the specification,
supported by highly illustrated examples. - Exploration of the
theoretical framework of Media Studies, applied to a range of media
forms and products. - Dedicated chapter on the Non-Exam Assessment
element of the specification provides clear guidance on how
students will be assessed. - Additional online exam guidance
chapter introduces students to practice questions and the
assessment objectives. - A variety of activities and extension
tasks to help students broaden their knowledge and understanding
and encourage independent learning.
"The coverage is unparalleled in both depth and breadth. No other
text that I have seen offers a better complete overview of modern
robotic manipulation and robot control."
-- Bradley Bishop, United States Naval Academy
Based on the highly successful classic, Robot Dynamics and Control,
by Spong and Vidyasagar (Wiley, 1989), Robot Modeling and Control
offers a thoroughly up-to-date, self-contained introduction to the
field. The text presents basic and advanced material in a style
that is at once readable and mathematically rigorous.
Key Features
* A step-by-step computational approach helps you derive and
compute the forward kinematics, inverse kinematics, and Jacobians
for the most common robot designs.
* Detailed coverage of vision and visual servo control enables you
to program robots to manipulate objects sensed by cameras.
* An entire chapter on dynamics prepares you to compute the
dynamics of the most common manipulator designs.
* The most common motion planning and trajectory generation
algorithms are presented in an elementary style.
* The comprehensive treatment of motion and force control includes
both basic and advanced methods.
* The text's treatment of geometric nonlinear control is more
readable than in more advanced texts.
* Many worked examples and an extensive list of problems illustrate
all aspects of the theory.
About the authors
Mark W. Spong is Donald Biggar Willett Professor of Engineering at
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Spong is the
2005 President of the IEEE Control Systems Society and past
Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control Systems
Technology.
Seth Hutchinson is currently a Professor at the University of
Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and a senior editor of the IEEE
Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He has published
extensively on the topics of robotics and computer vision.
Mathukumalli Vidyasagar is currently Executive Vice President in
charge of Advanced Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS),
India's largest IT firm. Dr. Vidyasagar was formerly the director
of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR),
under Government of India's Ministry of Defense.
Written by elite fitness trainer and TikTok star Sarah Hutchinson
and nutritionist Charlotte Taundry, The Weight Loss Kitchen offers
readers a 28-day meal plan that nourishes both body and soul
through calorie-controlled recipes and snacks. Focused on educating
readers about changing their lifestyle rather than relying on fad
diets, the book includes a calorie calculator for safe and
effective weight loss alongside plenty of handy hints and FAQs. The
meal plan was designed in collaboration with nutritionist Charlotte
Taundry to create a high-protein, high-fibre diet that is also
packed with delicious dishes to satisfy cravings and feed the soul,
from a Creamy Coconut Chicken Curry to the Hearty All Day
Breakfast. Giving you the power to take control of your health, The
Weight Loss Kitchen is the last diet book you’ll ever need.
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Colour in Spanish (Paperback)
Sam Hutchinson; Edited by Lola Esquina; Illustrated by Kim Hankinson
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R200
R151
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Revisit the busy, vibrant scenes from Hello Spanish - A Beginner's
Guide to Spanish with these colouring pages that encourage Spanish
language learners to focus on vocabulary. Build confidence and give
children the basic Spanish skills they will need as they grow.
Spark a lifelong passion for Spanish!
'This book is AMAZING!' - MALCOLM GLADWELL 'If you want to gain
insight into the mind of great athletes, adventurers, and peak
performers then prepare to be enthralled by Alex Hutchinson's
Endure.' - BEAR GRYLLS How high or far or fast can humans go? And
what about individual potential: what defines a person's limits?
From running a two-hour marathon to summiting Mount Everest, we're
fascinated by the extremes of human endurance, constantly testing
both our physical and psychological limits. In Endure Alex
Hutchinson, Ph.D., reveals why our individual limits may be
determined as much by our head and heart, as by our muscles. He
presents an overview of science's search for understanding human
fatigue, from crude experiments with electricity and frogs' legs to
sophisticated brain imaging technology. Going beyond the
traditional mechanical view of human limits, he instead argues that
a key element in endurance is how the brain responds to distress
signals-whether heat, or cold, or muscles screaming with lactic
acid-and reveals that we can train to improve brain response. An
elite distance runner himself, Hutchinson takes us to the forefront
of the new sports psychology - brain electrode jolts,
computer-based training, subliminal messaging - and presents
startling new discoveries enhancing the performance of athletes
today, showing us how anyone can utilize these tactics to bolster
their own performance - and get the most out of their bodies.
Ten brief essays on how reading and meaningfully engaging with
literature can help us live better, more purposeful lives From each
of the ten essays emerges a simple, punchy maxim (‘Be the hero of
your own life’; ‘Question authority’; ‘Change your
mind’). Yet from these simple starting points wonderful, wise,
and accessible essays unfold, taking the reader from Austen to
Auden, Baudelaire to Brecht, to answer the question: what does
literature teach us about what it means to be human? Ben Hutchinson
extrapolates the universal truths that echo time and time again in
literature, and offers a toolkit to his reader to reflect on and
learn from the books they read and return to.
‘Give thanks to YHWH, for he is good, for his covenant
faithfulness endures for ever’ (Ps. 136:1; a.t.) There are now
numerous models that seek to explain how the biblical covenants
relate to one another. In an attempt to evaluate these models,
James Hely Hutchinson mines the rich seams of the book of Psalms.
After covering the key data on covenant relationships in Books
1–3 of the psalter, Hutchinson considers the perplexity expressed
in the pivotal Psalm 89: in the face of the exile, the promises to
David appear to be null and void. The building blocks of the
response lie with the first five books of the Bible, and chiefly
with the inviolable character of the promises to Abraham (Book 4 of
the psalter). However, if the Abrahamic covenant is to reach
fulfilment, the problem of sin must be dealt with once and for all,
and a glorious new-covenant regime must be established in which a
host of covenants converge in their fulfilment. Central to this
regime, which lies beyond the exile, is the eternal rule of
David’s superior, righteous seed and son who is also a perpetual
priest and a suffering servant (Book 5). Identifying new-covenant
newness as ‘eschatological satisfaction (fulfilment)’ and
‘transcendent inauguration’, Hutchinson tackles a range of
matters that contribute to our understanding of the contours of
redemptive history. The overall aim is to enhance readers’ grasp
of God’s breath-taking salvation plan, ability to handle
Scripture aright and worship of the Master.
The clock is ticking...
Ollie can't be bothered to care about anything but girls until he
gets his Deathday Letter and learns he's going to die in
twenty-four hours. Bummer.
Ollie does what he does best: nothing. Then his best friend
convinces him to live a little, and go after Ronnie, the girl who
recently trampled his about-to-expire heart. Ollie turns to
carloads of pudding and over-the-top declarations, but even playing
the death card doesn't work. All he wants is to set things right
with the girl of his dreams. It's now or never...
'An incredible testament to one man's determination' - The Sunday
Herald Calum MacLeod had lived on the northern point of Raasay
since his birth in 1911. He tended the Rona lighthouse at the very
tip of his little archipelago, until semi-automation in 1967
reduced his responsibilities. 'So what he decided to do', says his
last neighbour, Donald MacLeod, 'was to build a road out of Arnish
in his months off. With a road he hoped new generations of people
would return to Arnish and all the north end of Raasay'. And so, at
the age of 56, Calum MacLeod, the last man left in northern Raasay,
set about single-handedly constructing the 'impossible' road. It
would become a romantic, quixotic venture, a kind of sculpture; an
obsessive work of art so perfect in every gradient, culvert and
supporting wall that its creation occupied almost twenty years of
his life. In Calum's Road Roger Hutchinson recounts the
extraordinary story of this remarkable man's devotion to his
visionary project.
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Colour in French (Paperback)
Sam Hutchinson; Edited by Marie-Therese Bougard; Illustrated by Kim Hankinson
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R192
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Revisit the busy, vibrant scenes from Hello French - A Beginner's
Guide to French with these colouring pages that encourage French
language learners to focus on vocabulary. Build confidence and give
children the basic French skills they will need as they grow. Spark
a lifelong passion for French!
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A Leopard-Skin Hat
Anne Serre; Translated by Mark Hutchinson
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A Leopard-Skin Hat may be the French writer Anne Serre’s most
moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a “masterpiece of
simplicity, emotion and elegance,” it is the story of an intense
friendship between “the Narrator” and his close childhood
friend, Fanny, who suffers from profound psychological disorders. A
series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and
tormented young woman battling many demons, and of the narrator’s
loving and anguished attachment to her. Anne Serre poignantly
depicts the bewildering back and forth between hope and despair
involved in such a relationship, while playfully calling into
question the very form of the novel. Written in the aftermath of
the death of the author’s little sister, A Leopard-Skin Hat is
both the celebration of a tragically foreshortened life and a
valedictory farewell, written in Anne Serre’s signature style.
Focusing on creating learning environments, this book explores what
it means to be an innovative leader of learning and teaching in
higher education. Providing practical tips and guidance to support
those designing or redesigning higher education curricula, this
book highlights approaches and solutions to leading change in
learning and teaching. Covering all areas from an overview of
external pressures, through to developing a vision and strategy for
a programme, to classroom practice and sustainability, leading
thinkers in the field of university learning and teaching share
their experiences of driving and sustaining change in departmental
practice. It also introduces creative approaches into the role to
support the innovation, enhancement, and development of agile
programme teams. With insights and case studies from international
contributors, this book highlights key approaches and solutions to
leading change in learning and teaching that are implementable. It
will be key reading for all those teaching in higher education, but
particularly for academics who are interested in programme
leadership roles.
Achieve IELTS is written by experienced IELTS teachers and
examiners and offers a unique approach to preparing students for
the IELTS examination. It is a two-level, student-centred course
that not only prepares students for the test but also for academic
life after IELTS. This popular IELTS preparation course has been
completely revised. The Student's and Teacher's Books have been
redesigned. The Student's Books have new and updated listening and
reading texts, and almost all of the photographs, charts and graphs
have been replaced.
In language that is sensuous and biblical, School of Instructions
centres on the experience of West Indian volunteer soldiers in
British regiments during the First World War. The poem gathers the
psychic and physical terrors of these Black soldiers in the Middle
East war theatre and refracts their struggle against the colonial
power they served. The narratives of the soldiers overlap with
Godspeed, a young schoolboy living in rural Jamaica of the 1990s.
This visionary collision, written in a form Ishion Hutchinson calls
'contrapuntal versets', unsettles time and event. It reshapes grand
gestures of heroism into a music of supple, vigilant intensity.
Elegiac and odic, epochal and lyrical, the triumph of School of
Instructions is how it confronts the legacy of imperial silencing
and etches shards of remembrances into a form of survival.
Digital Intermediation offers a new framework for understanding
content creation and distribution across automated media platforms
- a new mediatisation process. The book draws on empirical and
theoretical research to carefully identify and describe a number of
unseen digital infrastructures that contribute to a predictive
media production process through technologies, institutions and
automation. Field data is drawn from several international sites,
including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, London, Amsterdam,
Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Sydney and Cartagena. By highlighting an
increasingly automated content production and distribution process,
the book responds to a number of regulatory debates on the societal
impact of social media platforms. It highlights emerging areas of
key importance that shape the production and distribution of social
media content, including micro-platformization and digital first
personalities. The book explains how technologies, institutions and
automation are used within agencies to increase exposure for the
talent they manage, while providing inside access to the processes
and requirements of producers who create content for platform
algorithms. Finally, it outlines user agency as a strategy for
those who seek diversity in the information they access on
automated social media content distribution platforms. The findings
in this book provide key recommendations for policymakers working
within digital media platforms, and will be invaluable reading for
students and academics interested in automated media environments.
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