Raising the school-leaving age has had momentous implications, not only for education but also in terms of broader social, economic and political transformations. Investigating in-depth the progressive raising of the school-leaving age in Britain, particularly since 1944, and placing issues and debates in an international context, the authors reveal the impacts of these contested policies on the development of secondary education on changing conceptions of childhood and youth and on social and educational inequality. They also draw out important connections to the contemporary extension of compulsory participation in education.

For readers of Plague of Corruption, Thomas S. Cowan, MD, and Sally Fallon Morell ask the question: are there really such things as "viruses"? Or are electro smog, toxic living conditions, and 5G actually to blame for COVID-19? The official explanation for today's COVID-19 pandemic is a "dangerous, infectious virus." This is the rationale for isolating a large portion of the world's population in their homes so as to curb its spread. From face masks to social distancing, from antivirals to vaccines, these measures are predicated on the assumption that tiny viruses can cause serious illness and that such illness is transmissible person-to-person. It was Louis Pasteur who convinced a skeptical medical community that contagious germs cause disease; his "germ theory" now serves as the official explanation for most illness. However, in his private diaries he states unequivocally that in his entire career he was not once able to transfer disease with a pure culture of bacteria (he obviously wasn't able to purify viruses at that time). He admitted that the whole effort to prove contagion was a failure, leading to his famous death bed confession that "the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything." While the incidence and death statistics for COVID-19 may not be reliable, there is no question that many people have taken sick with a strange new disease-with odd symptoms like gasping for air and "fizzing" feelings-and hundreds of thousands have died. Many suspect that the cause is not viral but a kind of pollution unique to the modern age-electromagnetic pollution. Today we are surrounded by a jangle of overlapping and jarring frequencies-from power lines to the fridge to the cell phone. It started with the telegraph and progressed to worldwide electricity, then radar, then satellites that disrupt the ionosphere, then ubiquitous Wi-Fi. The most recent addition to this disturbing racket is fifth generation wireless-5G. In The Contagion Myth: Why Viruses (including Coronavirus) are Not the Cause of Disease, bestselling authors Thomas S. Cowan, MD, and Sally Fallon Morell tackle the true causes of COVID-19. On September 26, 2019, 5G wireless was turned on in Wuhan, China (and officially launched November 1) with a grid of about ten thousand antennas-more antennas than exist in the whole United States, all concentrated in one city. A spike in cases occurred on February 13, the same week that Wuhan turned on its 5G network for monitoring traffic. Illness has subsequently followed 5G installation in all the major cities in America. Since the dawn of the human race, medicine men and physicians have wondered about the cause of disease, especially what we call "contagions," numerous people ill with similar symptoms, all at the same time. Does humankind suffer these outbreaks at the hands of an angry god or evil spirit? A disturbance in the atmosphere, a miasma? Do we catch the illness from others or from some outside influence? As the restriction of our freedoms continues, more and more people are wondering whether this is true. Could a packet of RNA fragments, which cannot even be defined as a living organism, cause such havoc? Perhaps something else is involved-something that has upset the balance of nature and made us more susceptible to disease? Perhaps there is no "coronavirus" at all; perhaps, as Pasteur said, "the germ is nothing, the terrain is everything."

The progressive raising of the school-leaving age has had momentous repercussions for our understanding of childhood and youth, for secondary education, and for social and educational inequality. This book assesses secondary education and the raising of the school-leaving age in the UK and places issues and debates in an international context.

"I had not encountered Dr. Thomas Cowan before reviewing this book--boy, have I been missing something!... This book is probably the best self-help guide for the healing arts that has ever been written" --Nancy Parsons, waldorfbooks.com "Readers will be pleased to know that its author, Dr. Thomas Cowan, combines the best of Eastern and Western esoteric wisdom in the healing arts with the best of modern findings in Western medicine.... This collaboration pulls together a mix of expertise that offers health seekers some truly holistic solutions." --Duncan M. Roads, editor, Nexus magazine What is the Fourfold Path to Healing? It is a unique, comprehensive view of medicine, a holistic approach to healing that integrates the four aspects of our bodies: the Physical, the Life Force, the Emotional, and the Mental. Its principles are simple: right diet for healing the physical body; beneficial medicines or therapies for the life-force body, healing movement and exercise for the emotional body, and effective thinking activity for the mental body. Dr. Cowan merges the wisdom of traditional societies, the most modern findings of western medicine and the esoteric teachings of the ancients as he works to answer this most important question: How do we obtain true health? The Fourfold Path presents a unique, comprehensive view of medicine that will challenge your deepest beliefs, while revealing a practical approach to healing. The "fourfold approach" includes: Nutrition, using nutrient-dense traditional foods; Therapeutics through a wide range of nontoxic remedies; Movement to heal and strengthen the emotions; Meditation to develop one's powers of objective thought. CONTENTS: PART 1: THE FOURFOLD APPROACH Nutrition: Healing the Physical Body Therapeutics: Healing the Life-Force Body Movement: Healing the Emotional Body Meditation: Healing the Mental Body PART 2: THE ART OF MEDICINE Infectious Disease Cancer Heart Disease Hypertension Diabetes Diseases of Adrenal Insufficiency Digestive Disorders Chronic Fatigue Women's Diseases Men's Diseases Weight Loss Depression Back Pain Arthritis Neurological Diseases How to Be a Patient APPENDICES Cooking Instructions Therapy Instructions Movement Instructions Sources This book is a great companion to Sally Fallon's Nourishing Traditions, (New Trends Publishing, 1999).

Linton House Preparatory School has mislaid its French master and James Hoskins is asked back for a second innings. His diaries, and letters to an old friend, show that he has not found the return to teaching to be as fulfilling as he had hoped it would be. Various characters at the school conspire to make his life difficult, principally the Matron and Form IIIB with whom he clashes too frequently for his liking. With the Second World War imminent Hoskins is determined to ensure that his final days at Linton House are as free from mishap as possible.

When Laura Gifford goes up to London to look for a private detective, she unwittingly sets off a train of events which throws everything and everybody into confusion, as the man she thinks she has hired to prevent a crime from taking place does his best to arrange matters along entirely different lines.

When Claude Nodmore arrives in London, having lost his job as a safari guide in East Africa, he meets a number of old friends in the Flotsam Club and is content to observe their behaviour and comment upon their activities. The trouble begins when he starts to act on his own initiative.

When the masters at Linton House preparatory school find themselves in difficulties, Mr. Melluish is not necessarily the first person they would think of to extricate them but all too often they find that he is on hand to show them where they have been going wrong and to illustrate his points with stories about his apparently endless stock of relations, who have, by exercising resource and tact, pulled themselves out of the soup.

Nigel Moore is back with a further volume of his diaries designed to create a few more ripples in the placid lives of his admirers and detractors alike. Although the diaries cover the same period as Estate Life, he has brought a fresh eye to the burning questions of the day with a perspective which is uniquely his own, and which he is convinced his followers would do well to adopt, if they are to face an uncertain future with the same confidence which he has always displayed

Most institutions have their resident bore: the man who is at his happiest when he is given free rein to collar an audience and to keep a tight hold until he has satisfied himself that another life has been enriched by the fruits of his experience and wisdom. Such a man is Mr. Melluish. He occupies a chair by the fireplace in the masters' common room at Linton House preparatory school and he regards it as his mission in life to offer comfort and advice to the masters, mistresses and assistant matrons who inadvertently stray into his path.

Francesca Cargill is saddened by the unhappiness she sees around her and resolves to do what she can to mend sundered hearts and bring people together, not least her sister, Emmeline, and her fiance, Jerry Harrison, a writer of detective stories. Determined to make this as difficult as possible are the local policeman and a drippy female novelist, who meet each other in circumstances which surprise them both. The story takes place in the little village of Linton Musgrove, the setting for the author's previous novel, This Congregation Here Present, as well as some of the short stories in Bishop To Pawn

Ten more stories which feature characters from 'This Congregation Here Present' and 'Bishop To Pawn' as well as some new people introduced by Mr. Melluish, the sage of Linton House preparatory school. All of the stories are concerned in some way or another with the problems which arise when men and women try to assert their dominance over each other. Only one thing is certain: there are no easy winners.

In all the years Nigel Moore practised estate management he tried to prove that an indomitable will and self-belief would see him through the vicissitudes of life. If this was not always possible, it was largely because of the determination of his support staff, and those he considered to be his friends, to undermine him at every opportunity -- or so he believed. If the various constituent members of this group were as incompetent as Moore believed, it is hardly likely that they would be able to be successful in their enterprise without the guidance he was always willing to offer. However, this volume of diaries is proof of the contention that it is difficult, if not impossible, to keep a good man down. Nigel Moore is proud to be a man who is as at home in the mosh-pit as he is in the pavilion at Lord's: truly, a man for all seasons.

In this collection of short stories we meet several new characters from the author's fictional village of Linton Musgrove. Jerry Harrison, a writer of crime fiction, and his girlfriend, Emmeline Cargill, are recent arrivals in Linton Musgrove who appear in five of the stories. Oliver Melluish, the senior master at Linton House School uses his long experience to help younger masters out of their difficulties in a further two. The remaining three stories belong to some of the mildly eccentric clergymen who first appeared in This Congregation Here Present.

Are all curates chumps? Certainly that would seem to be the case here. Add into the mix a loony bishop; an imperious huntswoman; a criminally-inclined prep. school headmaster together with his flatulent staff; a frivolous, partying vamp, her verbally incontinent butler and a bible-quoting vicar's wife, all overseen by the incompetent local policeman and there are the ingredients of an entertaining rural romp set in an age of relative innocence.