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The story of a life. The story of the summer. 'Lessons shows
[McEwan] at the very peak of his powers. He has written his
masterpiece' Daily Telegraph When the world is still counting the
cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has descended,
young Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. Stranded at
boarding school, his vulnerability attracts his piano teacher,
Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will
never fade. Twenty-five years later Roland's wife mysteriously
vanishes, and he is left alone with their baby son. Her
disappearance sparks of journey of discovery that will continue for
decades, as Roland confronts the reality of his rootless existence
and attempts to embrace the uncertainty - and freedom - of his
future. 'Ian McEwan is a masterful storyteller' Elif Shafak 'A
beautiful book about love, loss and regret' Observer 'Luminous,
beautifully written... about lives imperfectly lived' Vogue 'A
whole, unruly life between the covers of a single book: a literary
feat' Spectator 'A tour de force... A single life is silhouetted
against global happenings' Sunday Times * A Book of the Year for
The Times, Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, New Statesman,
Washington Post, Vogue and New Yorker *
There are two kinds of people in this world. Those who insist
that football is just a game, and those who know better. Take
the April 1967 clash between England and Scotland. Â Wounded
by their biggest rivals winning the World Cup just nine months
earlier, Bobby Brown's Scots travelled to Wembley on the mother of
all missions. Win and they would take a huge step
towards qualifying for the 1968 European Championship, end
Englandâs formidable 19-game unbeaten streak, and, best of all,
put Sir Alf Ramseyâs men firmly back in their box. Â Lose?
Well, that was just unthinkable. Â Meanwhile, off the pitch,
the winds of change were billowing through Scotland. Nationalism,
long confined to the margins of British politics, was starting to
penetrate the mainstream, gaining both traction and influence. Was
Englandâs World Cup victory a defining moment in the Scottish
independence movement? Or did it consign Scotland to successive
generations of myopic underachievement? Michael McEwan,
author of The Ghosts of Cathkin Park, returns to 1967 to explore a
crucial ninety minutes in the rebirth of a nation.Â
Britain has lost the Falklands war, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony
Benn for power and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in
artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two
lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Machines Like Me
occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Charlie, drifting through
life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a
bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie comes
into money, he buys Adam, one of the first batch of synthetic
humans. With Miranda's assistance, he co-designs Adam's
personality. This near-perfect human is beautiful, strong and
clever - a love triangle soon forms. These three beings will
confront a profound moral dilemma. Ian McEwan's subversive and
entertaining new novel poses fundamental questions: what makes us
human? Our outward deeds or our inner lives? Could a machine
understand the human heart? This provocative and thrilling tale
warns of the power to invent things beyond our control.
A tree and its impact on the inhabitants of a nearby cottage and
manor house over the last century or so is the theme of this
compelling tale. We enter a world where humans and spirits mingle
with sometimes surprising results. The setting is the remote but
beautiful wilds of the Yorkshire moors. You will come to understand
the harshness of the winters and the tragedy the cottage and manor
house has seen through the years; the pain and anguish of the
residents is firmly lodged in the walls of thee buildings. What
sights they have seen, what memories they hold, what a fertile
breeding ground for the host of spirits and souls that burst from
the pages of this surprising and original story. We discover a host
of beings, and have the opportunity to enter the lives of a
multitude of compelling characters as we journey from a time when
living was usually simple and unsophisticated into the end of the
last century where the focus of all our lives changed dramatically.
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York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students.
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This updated edition features a new introduction, and an exclusive
interview with long-distance runner Paula Radcliffe. It is the
world's most iconic road race. It is twenty-six-point-two miles of
iconic landmarks, cheers, tears, sweat, pain, courage,
determination and inspiration. It is triumph over adversity on a
colossal scale. It is the London Marathon - and it's an event
unlike any other. Running The Smoke tells the story of what it's
like to take part in this race in the most enlightening and
enriching way possible: from the perspectives of twenty-six
different people who have participated in it since its inception in
1981. Candid and inspiring if you are preparing for your first
marathon or your 100th, Running The Smoke will give you the
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Nothing stays buried foreverLifeboat volunteer DI Shona Oliver
receives a Mayday call coming from Kilcatrin Island. Upon the beach
is the badly burned body of a man, and a boy lies gravely injured
nearby. Strewn around them are scores of Second World War
incendiary bombs, presumably washed up by the tide from Beaufort's
Dyke, an offshore arms dump deep in the Irish Sea. The dead man is
a local fisherman - his son the other victim - and it rocks the
tight-knit community on the shores of the Solway Firth. As lead
detective, Shona has to maintain a professional distance. But she
can't ignore the hardship that her neighbours who make a living at
sea are experiencing. Anger is directed at the Ministry of Defence
when the fallout threatens tourism, and livelihoods including
Shona's own family B&B business are at risk. Suspicious
behaviour seems to be found at every turn. It's impossible for
Shona to get to the truth unless she can gain the trust of those
who know more than they've been willing to reveal. But blind
loyalty may mean she's too late to save those still in danger -
including herself. The second instalment in an exciting new
Scottish crime series featuring a detective with nerves of steel.
Perfect for fans of Neil Lancaster, G. R. Halliday and Ann Cleeves.
Praise for Dead Man Deep 'A real cracker of a book. Combining
police procedural with the perils of volunteer lifeboat crew and
some dodgy MOD arms dumping thrown in for good measure...' Reader
Review 'I absolutely loved this book. So much so I read it in one
sitting. The twists kept the pages turning and left me shocked at
the end. I definitely recommend this series to all crime fiction
fans!' Reader Review 'Fun page turner, this one will have you
pining for the Scottish coast!' Reader Review 'A very well-written
and likeable character... this had the makings of a cracking
series.' Reader Review 'Shona Oliver is flawed but hard working and
always with good intentions. Lynne McEwan has created a captivating
character and I hope more books follow!' Reader Review 'Excellent
storyline and characters, so what more do you need? The next title
can't come quickly enough.' Reader Review 'A riveting Scottish
police procedural.' Reader Review
Nyla Ali Khan's subject, Akbar Jehan, was a political activist and
the wife of Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah, Kashmiri nationalist and
first Muslim Prime Minister of the disputed state of Jammu and
Kashmir. The author employs oral testimonies and relies on written
resources to add layers of understanding to the events that shaped
the history of Kashmir. In this hybrid of memoir and auto/
biography, the author has also interspersed her memories with
descriptions of historical and political events in which Akbar
Jehan and her husband were principal political players.
This practical collection examines methodologies originating from
the benefits of genome-wide approaches to studying epigenetics,
which has opened the emerging field of epigenomics. Focusing on the
areas of cancer, inflammatory and autoimmune disorders, chapters
discuss three main components of the epigenome and their role in
the regulation of gene expression and present a detailed method
section specific to studying each component, including data
analyses, troubleshooting, and feasibility in different
experimental settings. The main topics are high-throughput and
targeted methods for DNA methylation analysis, nucleosome position
mapping, studying epigenetic effects of gut microbiota, optical
imaging for detection of epigenetic aberrations in living cells,
methods for microRNA, and histone code profiling. Written for the
Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology series, the book includes
the kind of detail and implementation advice to encourage success
in the lab. Authoritative and easily applicable, Epigenetics and
Gene Expression in Cancer, Inflammatory and Immune Diseases aims to
provide pharmacologists, molecular biologists, bioinformaticians,
and toxicologists with a vital background on epigenetics and
state-of-the-art techniques in epigenomics.
For both teachers and the public, school discipline and classroom
management are acute problems in contemporary schools, often taking
precedence over issues of curriculum and pedagogy. Yet,
surprisingly, discipline and management have escaped sustained
critical analysis. This book is a unique, heuristic effort to break
the silence regarding modes of classroom control, explicitly
bringing democratic, moral, and political perspectives to bear on
the issues. It analyzes classroom relationships in terms of ethical
and political considerations, arguing that current behaviorist and
"teacher-tricks" approaches to classroom control fundamentally
contradict expectations of moral development and democratic ends.
Classroom Discipline in American Schools rekindles a debate that
has atrophied in the last several decades. It invites teachers and
scholars in many fields to examine the moral stances and politics
that are enacted daily through the implicit curriculum of
mainstream modes of control, and to create new frameworks more
consonant with the aspirations and ideals of democratic life.
This book offers a detailed examination of the living arrangements
and material circumstances of the poor betweeen 1650 and 1850.
Chapters investigate poor households in urban, rural and
metropolitan contexts, and contribute to wider investigations into
British economic and social conditions in the long Eighteenth
century.
Nuclear Receptors focuses on the structural analysis of nuclear
receptors from the initial work using isolated protein domains to
the more recent exciting developments investigating the
conformational shape of full-length receptor complexes. The book
also reviews the structure of key nuclear receptor co-regulatory
proteins. It brings together, for the first time, a comprehensive
review of nuclear receptor structure and the importance of receptor
conformation underpinning allosteric regulation by different
ligands (hormone, drugs, DNA response elements, protein-protein
interactions) and receptor activity. The nuclear receptor
superfamily, including receptors for steroid hormones and
non-steroid ligands, are pivotal to normal physiology, regulating
processes as diverse as reproduction, metabolism, the immune system
and brain development. The first members of the family were cloned
over 25 years ago, which heralded in the idea of a superfamily of
intracellular receptor proteins that bound small molecule ligands:
classical steroid hormones, vitamins, fatty acids and other
products of metabolism. These signals are then transmitted through
multiprotein receptor-DNA complexes, leading to the regulation of
target genes, often in a cell-selective manner. The cloning of the
receptor cDNAs also ushered in an era of unparalleled analysis of
the mechanisms of action of these ligand-activated transcription
factors.
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