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Policemen Harpur and Iles get mixed up in the criminal world of fine art dealing Detective Chief Superintendent Colin Harpur feels a sort of warmth towards Jack Lamb, a brilliantly prosperous but profoundly dodgy fine arts dealer. Lamb is the …
Severn House Publishers
Foul plays afoot at Bruton Rovers Football Club. - Bruton Rovers FC has been promoted to the Premiership, but Jim Capsticks days as Chairman have made him some enemies in the Lancashire mill town. With the team fighting relegation, the …
Severn House Publishers
A Lina Townend mystery Lina Townend is making a name for herself as an antiques dealer, in partnership with her old friend, Griff Tripp. When she is accused of stealing an item she is selling for her father, the disreputable …
Severn House Publishers
Sophie Rivers, inner-city college lecturer and amateur singer, has a satisfying life in Birmingham: a job she enjoys, a close circle of friends. Then, suddenly, things go badly wrong. One of her students is murdered on college premises; worse still, …
Severn House Publishers
Brock and Poole investigate a double murder and find themselves caught up in a crime with international implications . . . Detective Chief Inspector Brock is called out to a burnt-out camper van in Richmond, Surrey. The van contained two …
Government Institutes
In the last decade, more than 300 violent deaths have occurred in or near school campuses. The killers, their motivations and backgrounds, and levels of damage inflicted vary, but our response and our goal remains singular: to protect our schools …
View book details for Get Real
Reality and Mystery
UPA
From the Preface:"Get real" was a slang term that became popular in the 1960's when Michael Hickey was growing up in East Boston. It implied that someone wasn't in touch with reality and had to change their way of thinking …
View book details for Powerful Teacher Learning
What the Theatre Arts Teach about Collaboration
R&L Education
This book offers an innovative approach to understanding and supporting teacher inquiry groups, Critical Friends Groups, PLCs, and other vehicles for the school-wide professional learning community. It takes the reader outside traditional sites of professional development for teachers and into …
View book details for The Late Victorian Folksong Revival
The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903
Scarecrow Press
In The Late Victorian Folksong Revival: The Persistence of English Melody, 1878-1903, E. David Gregory provides a reliable and comprehensive history of the birth and early development of the first English folksong revival. Continuing where Victorian Songhunters, his first book, …
Scarecrow Press
The WHOs history spans a period of over six decades, with particular emphasis on the past twenty years. This has been a particularly busy period in WHOs development, given the transition from international to global health cooperation, and thus the …
R&L Education
The first few years of teaching represent an intense period of experimentation and learning, leading to the adoption of learner-centered practices to help students achieve. A critical incident or nagging problem triggers critical reflection on practice, experimentation, the adoption of …
Scarecrow Press
Known as the Great War, the worlds first truly global conflict is remarkable in what might now be termed modern espionage. World War I was witness to plenty of firsts. Apart from the contribution made by aerial reconnaissance and the …
Scarecrow Press
When it was founded back in 1944 no one could possibly have foreseen how the World Bank known more formally as the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) would flourish. Today, with 188 members, it is by far the …
Scarecrow Press
First appearing in 1976, American Classic Screen was the publishing arm of The National Film Society. Intended for scholars and general readers interested in films from the golden age of cinema and beyond, the magazine ran for a decade and …
View book details for Giovanni Battista Rubini and the Bel Canto Tenors
History and Technique
Scarecrow Press
Giovanni Battista Rubini (1794-1854) was a legendary tenor and the first 19th-century non-castrati male singer to become an international star of opera. The previous two centuries had been the era of the castrati, with tenors and basses relegated to character …
R&L Education
Whether employers are self-administering their 403(b) plans, or are using a Third Party Administrator (TPA), the in depth information in this book will provide a guide to the regulations, and the tools needed to correctly operate the plan. Busy School …
View book details for Drum Kit Secrets
52 Performance Strategies for the Advanced Drummer
Scarecrow Press
Modeled on the brilliant approach first formulated by distinguished professor of music and master clarinetist Michele Gingras in Clarinet Secrets and More Clarinet Secrets (both available from Scarecrow Press), the Music Secrets for the Advanced Musician series is designed for …
Scarecrow Press
The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus. This is also true about those who have had, or do have, what could be …
View book details for A Cosmos in Stone
Interpreting Religion and Society Through Rock Art
AltaMira Press
J. David Lewis-Williams is world renowned for his work on the rock art of Southern Africa. In this volume, Lewis-Williams describes the key steps in his evolving journey to understand these images painted on stone. He describes the development of …
View book details for The Rise of the Crooners
Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee
Scarecrow Press
Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, and Rudy Valleethese cultural icons whose fame spanned all the important mass media, also played a vital role in the origin and development of the crooning tradition.Crooning represented one of the most important musical …
Scarecrow Press
Wife of the Life of the Party is the memoir of the late Lita Grey Chaplin (1908-1995), the only one of Chaplin's wives to have written an account of life with Chaplin. Her memoir is an extraordinary Hollywood story of …
View book details for Congregational Fitness
Healthy Practices for Layfolk
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
When serious conflict surfaces in a congregation, lay people are usually stunned. They feel frightened, angry, and helpless. Congregational Fitness explores why congregations are prone to conflict and describes healthy behaviors lay people can practice to manage conflict constructively. Goodman …
R&L Education
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U.S. First Lady (1853-1857): Her Family, Life and Times
Hamilton Books
When introverted Jane Appleton and charismatic Franklin Pierce first met, they fell in love immediately, despite being complete opposites. Janes pious family vetoed any relationship between them, and it was eight years before they finally married. Their life together was …
Scarecrow Press
The first European Championship in ice hockey took place more than 100 years ago. Since that first competition in 1910, a total of 66 championships have been contested, although many were part of the World Championships or the Olympics; the …
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