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Durban lawyer Teddy Dickerson has run out of ideas. Cynical, single and middle-aged, he’s the very last of his family to still call South Africa home.
When his formidable Aunt Val dies, she leaves him an unusual bequest: her task for Teddy is to post letters to eight of her friends around the world, a job that will take him on a journey into new and unexpected territory. When the replies start flowing in – quirky, unexpected and often hilarious missives from India, Egypt, England, Canada and beyond – Teddy realises there was more to his tough aunt than he’d thought.
Will he take on Aunt Val’s role as confidant and comforter of the lost? Confidant and comforter? Teddy?!
One thing’s for certain: Aunt Val is laughing in her grave.
This study guide for Varsity Maths Preparation has been compiled by
Emeritus Professor John Webb in response to the dire challenges
experienced by first year university students, in Mathematics as
well as in courses in Science, Engineering and Business Science,
all heavily dependent on mathematical thinking. By working through
the problem sets in this self-study book, learners should develop
and test their skills, on their own, in areas such as algebraic
expertise, trigonometry skills, word problems, geometric insight,
numerical facility, logical reasoning and flexible thinking. This
cannot be taught and is best achieved without assistance and
timeously, i.e. prior to students entering university. The
problem-solving techniques which learners could acquire from
dedicated, independent use of this outstanding booklet will
contribute significantly to their success in the National Benchmark
tests (NBTs). Varsity Maths Prep is a gem for learners who are
serious about an academic future.
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Molyvos, a small seaside village once home to fishermen and
shepherds but now a popular summer vacation destination, sits on
the northern shore of the Greek island of Lesvos along a
four-mile-wide stretch of the Aegean Sea, which separates Greece
from Turkey. In the summer of 2015 Molyvos became an epicenter of
the mass migration of some 450,000 refugees, mainly Syrians,
Afghans, and Iraqis, who crossed from Turkey, fleeing war and
brutal dictatorships in their home countries in search of safety in
the European Union. In Molyvos John Webb chronicles the
dramatic and fearless efforts of a small band of people who carried
out a homemade yet full-fledged, around-the-clock rescue operation
until international NGOs began to arrive. Between November 2014 and
September 2015, Melinda McRostie, owner of a restaurant in
Molyvos’s harbor, her family, and a small group of their friends,
as well as Eric and Philippa Kempson, a skeleton coast guard crew,
some local fishermen, and eventually summer tourists provided
relief. During those months, they had no help from the
outside—not from Greece, which was already mired in a serious
fiscal crisis, not from the EU, which was struggling with its own
economic and political issues, and not from any international aid
organizations. Webb provides detailed accounts of refugees crossing
the Mytilene Strait in both quiet and rough, frigid waters in boats
on the verge of sinking. The Kempsons learned to guide the boats
ashore and handled tragic landings in dangerous surf. Ordinary
residents of Molyvos rescued thousands of refugees and offered them
clothes, food, shelter, and counseling about where they could
travel next in their search for safety and asylum. As the tourism
industry suffered, a backlash began against the migrants and locals
who were helping them, leading to discord in the community. Still,
as the ranks of refugees swelled, the volunteer corps in Molyvos
expanded its capacity to help.
Selected treasurers' and chamberlains' accounts detailing the
income and expenditure of a wealthy provincial town and port, and
revealing urban life from travelling players to punishing
criminals. The treasurers' and chamberlains' accounts of
Elizabethan Ipswich are a detailed record of the annual income and
expenditure of the town's ruling body during one of the most
fascinating periods of its history. A major source for any detailed
study of the Suffolk borough at a time when it was among the
country's ten richest provincial towns, the entries selected from
the accounts not only shed light on sixteenth-century urban
administration but also providevivid insights into the social and
economic life of the period: the equipping of soldiers, ducking of
scolds, and performances of town minstrels and itinerant
players.JOHN WEBB was formerly Principal Lecturer in History at
Portsmouth Polytechnic.
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