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Pearson Revise is the revision series from Pearson, the assessment
experts. From the very start of your GCSE, Pearson Revise is the
best way to keep learning up to date, practise skills and prepare
for assessments and exams. one-topic-per-page format helps you
revise more quickly, without the hassle exam-style worked examples
match the new specification and demonstrate good exam technique
'Now try this' exam-style practice questions let you test
understanding of a topic problem solving support throughout
including tricky questions on easy topics and strategies and
techniques for answering harder questions. complete coverage of the
new specification including brand-new topics. visual explanations
of key concepts help you revise quickly and recall key skills in
exams. Part of a comprehensive range of learning and revision
support available for Pearson Edexcel and AQA GCSEs from Pearson
Revise including: Revision Guides, Revision Workbooks, Revision
Cards, Practice Papers Plus all linked to a free online learning
portal.
Behind many of the challenges facing us today is a failure of
leadership. This is not a new problem. Yearning for wise guidance
and effective authority is a perennial human longing. We need
leaders who are credible, competent and committed. But many leaders
seem to be caught up, even consumed, with their own power and
agendas. Some see the leadership crisis as an intellectual problem,
believing we lack a clear theory of leadership. Others view the
breakdown of leadership as a result of increasing deficiency in
moral character. Most leadership books today revolve around the
concepts of motivation, inspiration, empowerment, and teamwork.
Helpful as these themes might be, they miss something more
fundamental. Leadership needs a theological foundation, that will
be useful for shaping the undergirding principles, and evaluating
current leadership theories and practices. We need to view
leadership from the vantage point of God. In Rooted Leadership,
John E. Johnson explores how Christian theology provides an
overarching leadership framework and applies that theory to
leadership practices. Spiritual reflection, guided by scripture,
points us to the very center of leadership--God--and the purpose of
leadership--that we might display his glory. All the best forms of
leading take their cues from who God is, his purposes, and his ways
of working with people that he has progressively revealed. Building
on three decades of research, study, and experience as a global
leader, Johnson surveys the landscape of contemporary leadership
theory, unpacks the assumptions and beliefs that underly current
trends, and responds by offering a robust approach to leadership,
founded on the character, work, and words of God.
A three-volume set of documentaries examining different aspects of
the drug trade. 'Ecstasy Bandits' (2010), profiles the scientists
responsible for the development of so-called 'designer drugs',
including Ecstasy, in recent times. 'Cocaine Bandits' (2008),
examines the way drug barons in the border region between the US
and Mexico are increasingly using paramiltary forces to achieve
their aims. Finally, 'Weed Bandits' (2003), examines both sides'
views in the campaign to allow the planting of industrial hemp in
the United States. In the pro camp, celebrity activists including
Woody Harrelson, Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard and Ralph Nader put
forward the argument that American farmers, already finding it hard
to survive in today's economic climate, are being criminalised for
going into competition with their rival synthetic manufacturers.
"A fitting biography of one of the most brilliant, acerbic, and
under-appreciated astrophysicists of the twentieth century. John
Johnson has delved deeply into a rich and eventful life, and
produced a rollicking account of how Fritz Zwicky split his time
between picking fights with his colleagues and discovering amazing
things about our universe."-Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture
Fritz Zwicky was one of the most inventive and iconoclastic
scientists of his time. He predicted the existence of neutron
stars, and his research pointed the way toward the discovery of
pulsars and black holes. He was the first to conceive of the
existence of dark matter, the first to make a detailed catalog of
thousands of galaxies, and the first to correctly suggest that
cosmic rays originate from supernovas. Not content to confine his
discoveries to the heavens, Zwicky contributed to the United States
war against Japan with inventions in jet propulsion that enabled
aircraft to launch from carriers in the Pacific. After the war, he
was the first Western scientist to interview Wernher von Braun, the
Nazi engineer who developed the V-2 rocket. Later he became an
outspoken advocate for space exploration, but also tangled with
almost every leading scientist of the time, from Edwin Hubble and
Richard Feynman to J. Robert Oppenheimer and Subrahmanyan
Chandrasekhar. In Zwicky, John Johnson, Jr., brings this
tempestuous maverick to life. Zwicky not only made groundbreaking
contributions to science and engineering; he rose to fame as one of
the most imaginative science popularizers of his day. Yet he became
a pariah in the scientific community, denouncing his enemies, real
and imagined, as "spherical bastards" and "horses' asses." Largely
forgotten today, Zwicky deserves rediscovery for introducing some
of the most destructive forces in the universe, and as a reminder
that genius obeys no rules and has no friends.
AS and A level Drama is changing, from September 2016 there will be
a new A level Drama and Theatre qualification covering the revised
criteria. Pearson's brand new published resources are designed to
support teachers in delivering the content in a practical and
engaging way and help students of all abilities prepare for the new
exam. 1) Tailor-made for the new specification New resources
written specifically for the new Edexcel AS and A level Drama
specification, to cover all components of the new qualification. 2)
Focus on exam preparation Specific guidance for students focusing
on exam skills, with sample answers and commentaries and support
around analysing and evaluation for the portfolio. 3) A practical
focus at the heart Our course is designed to support the new
Edexcel specification in its practical focus. Our new resources
provide worksheets, teaching notes and practical workshop ideas to
help students engage with the set texts. 4) Designed to help every
student make progress Clearly structured sections help students of
all abilities develop the skills needed throughout the course, with
support for lower ability students with written work. The Edexcel
AS and A Level Drama and Theatre Student Book focuses on supporting
students throughout the course in developing the skills they need
for the exam component, Theatre Makers in Practice. The Student
Book includes: guidance and activities for studying and exploring
all the set texts introductions to set practitioners and support on
developing knowledge and understanding of their methodologies
support with analysing and evaluating live theatre productions
guidance on responding to unseen extracts in the exam a Preparing
for your Exam section with sample answers and commentaries for both
AS and A level assessments. The Edexcel AS/A Level Drama and
Theatre ActiveBook is an online edition of the Student Book that
can be personalised with annotations and notes, designed for
independent student access anywhere, any time.
This volume covers the full spectrum of modern structural virology.
Its goal is to describe the means for defining moderate to high
resolution structures and the basic principles that have emerged
from these studies. Among the topics covered are Hybrid Vigor,
Structural Folds of Viral Proteins, Virus Particle Dynamics, Viral
Gemone Organization, Enveloped Viruses and Large Viruses.
* Covers viral assembly using heterologous expression systems and
cell extracts
* Discusses molecular mechanisms in bacteriophage T7 procapsid
assembly, maturation and DNA containment
* Includes information on structural studies on antibody/virus
complexes
Foreword by Admiral Lord West of Spithead Few people, even in the
Navy, are even aware of this dreadful incident [the loss of
submarine HMS Truculent in the Thames] and certainly not the
details of human error that led to this huge loss of life. The
account is gripping, and explains the strange title of the book.
... John Johnson-Allen has put Fred Henley's personal accounts in
the context of world-changing events, and in particular provides a
wonderful snapshot of the Royal Navy of that era.
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This compelling story is the result of many hours spent recording
the memories of Fred Henley. His life at sea is at the centre of
his being and his own words are at the heart of the book. At the
age of 14 Fred worked on a Thames sailing barge, then after his
training at HMS Ganges, he joined his first ship which took him
from the icy Arctic Ocean to the heat of West Africa where the
Bismarck and her support ships were hunted. His experiences
included visiting Archangel, sailing on Arctic convoys, capturing
German supply ships, the failed attack on Oran, landings in
Piraeus, Salonika and the French Riviera and operating with special
forces in the Greek Islands. There is inevitably some humour when
Fred recounts his encounters with girls. The book then explores the
tragic loss of his last submarine, HMS Truculent. In the cold
January waters of the Thames Estuary, within sight of Southend,
over 60 men were lost in a major disaster, just five years after
the end of the war. The voices of the survivors are heard telling
how they stood in complete blackness in a sunken submarine, waiting
for the water to come in so that they could escape to the surface,
only for all but a few to drift away and die in the darkness. The
story concludes with happier times with Fred visiting ports in the
Mediterranean during peacetime as a married man.
The aging process, like most (all?) things in the universe, is a
puzzle. It is such a fundamental occurrence, common to all living
things, that it ironically may be the most complicated and
perplexing puzzle to solve. There are, of course, puzzles
sufficient in number to occupy all the scientists and philosophers
who have ever lived a thousand times over. Yet what other
phenomenon affects everyone of us as much as growing old? Curiosity
about the ubiquity of aging as a phenomenon, boosted perhaps by an
only natural fear of that same phenomenon as an undeniable manifes
tation of our own mortality, has led to the compilation of data on
the aging process, which have accumulated as rapidly as the elderly
who might benefit from those data. Most of the scientific data on
the biology of aging are at the biochemical and physiological
levels, while comparatively little information has been avail able
at the anatomical level. Because of this, a two-volume set called
Aging and Cell Structure was conceived, the first volume having
been published in 1981 and the second volume being published
concurrently with the present one on cell function. The emphasis on
training of scientists and other individuals in advanced education
has, during past decades, been one of increased specialization. Not
merely do we specialize in physiology, anatomy, zoology, or
literature, but in glomerular filtration, synaptic junctions, tree
frogs of Brazil, or English poetry of the nineteenth century."
The never-before-told story of The Peppermint Lounge, the famed
Manhattan nightspot and mobster hangout that launched an era
The Peppermint Lounge was intended to be nothing more than a front
for gambling and other rackets but the club became a sensation
after Dick "Cami" Camillucci began to feature a new kind of music,
rock and roll. The mobsters running the place found themselves
juggling rebellious youths alongside celebrities like Greta Garbo
and Shirley MacLaine. When The Beatles visited the club, Cami's
uncle-in-law had to restrain a hitman who was after Ringo because
his girlfriend was so infatuated with the drummer.
Working with Dick Cami himself, Johnson and Selvin unveil this
engrossing story of the go-go sixties and the club that inspired
the classic hits "Twisting the Night Away" and "The Peppermint
Twist."
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