EPDF and EPUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. Whilst the COVID-19 pandemic affected all parts of the country, it did not do so equally. Northern England was hit the hardest, exposing more than ever the extent of regional inequalities in health and wealth. Using original data analysis from a wide range of sources, this book demonstrates how COVID-19 has impacted the country unequally

My Shadow and I is inspired by true events about the relationship between a young boy and his dog. When Shadow the dog is brought into the home they greet each other with hugs and licks. As the weeks pass they become inseparable and their bond becomes stronger. The boy learns to love, respect, and care for an animal and they both learn about discipline through the guidance of the parents. These lessons

Now updated -- A comprehensive, 500-year history of technology in society.Historian Thomas J. Misa\'s sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological innovations have shaped--and have been shaped by--the cultures in which they arose. Spanning the preindustrial past, the age of scientific, political, and industrial revolutions, as

In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training.Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete, and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japanese in the Burma retreat. Even for these, such training was trial by ordeal. Many more of the Jocks were new, just shipped

A gripping and heart-wrenching novel set in London in World War Two, following the two women who run a secret underground

Part of the bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, this board book version of Marie Curie tells the inspiring story of this Nobel Prize-winning

This book provides a detailed discussion of four class-action discrimination cases that have recently been settled within the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and have led to a change in the way in which the USDA supports farmers from diverse backgrounds. These settlements shed light on why access to successful farming has been so often limited to white men and/or families, and significantly

Jake Alexander, a wealthy trial attorney, lay dead alongside his young lover on the floor of his Florida penthouse. The housekeeper said Jake\'s exiled son, Dave, ran from the crime scene. Dave asked his law school roommate, Charlie Carne, to represent him. But Charlie had never tried a capital case. The judge said the defense needed an attorney with death-row experience, so Dunstan Dundee joined the

The western is America\'s definitive contribution to cinema, a bullet-spattered blueprint for the nation\'s image of itself and its place in the world. To watch a western is to witness the birth of a nation, overseen by square-jawed sheriffs and steel-nerved gunfighters, armed with six-guns and a clear moral vision. Their victories against outlaws and Indians were proof that might was right -- so long

\"You may certainly count Doug Johnstone as one of Scotland\'s major writers of suspense thrillers.\" -- Pop Culture Society of America\'s Mystery & Detctive Fiction Reading list Sitting in the departure lounge of Kirkwall Airport, Finn Sullivan just wants to get off the remote Scottish island of Orkney. But then he meets the mysterious and dangerous Maddie Pierce, stepping in to save her from some

The old kingdom of Gwynedd - the mountains of Eryri (Snowdonia), Ynys (Anglesey) and the Llyn Peninsula - may be the most mythic landscape in

Person-Centred Counselling in a Nutshell is a short, accessible guide to one of the most popular approaches to counseling. Using examples drawn from practice, Roger Casemore outlines, in a clear, jargon-free style, the main philosophical and theoretical principles of the person-centred approach, using the six core therapeutic conditions which need to be developed as a way of being in the counselor.This

In the tradition of Stephen Greenblatt\'s The Swerve and Dava Sobel\'s Galileo\'s Daughter, a vividly rendered account of the forgotten quest by Christopher Columbus\'s son to create the greatest library in the world--\"a perfectly pitched poetic drama\" (Financial Times) and an amazing tour through 16th century Europe. The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books tells the story of the first and greatest visionary

The first book in the New York Times bestselling Rainbow Fish series. The rainbow fish with its iridescent scales is the most beautiful fish in the whole ocean. But since he is also vain and proud, he becomes more and more lonely over time. Then he realizes that you can\'t win friends through beauty. He overcomes his pride and begins to distribute his glitter scales to the other fish. Eye-catching

Society today faces a difficult contradiction: we know exactly how the physical limits of our planet are being reached and exactly why we cannot go on as we have before - and yet, collectively, we seem unable to reach crucial decisions for our future in a timely way. This book argues that our definition of prosperity, which we have long assimilated with the idea of material wealth, may be preventing

Another delicious installment in the Bakeshop Series set in Ashland, OR! The mountains are calling in Ashland, Oregon, where pastry chef turned amateur sleuth, Jules Capshaw, is baking up a bevy of spiced curry buns and chai cookies for a moonlit snowshoe tour. Ramiro\'s family is visiting from Spain and Jules can\'t wait to take them up to her beloved Mount A with its charming and rustic lodge, backcountry

Nominated for the National Book Award--The eighth book by one of our greatest poets Always, These gigantic inconceivables.Always, What will have been done to me?And so we don our mental armor, flex, thrill, pay the strict attention we always knew we should.A violent alertness, the muscularity of risk, though still the secret inward cry: What else, what more?--from Risk Repair is body work in C. K.

This book is both an advanced text for therapists and a primer for new students of couple psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Its twenty-eight chapters cover the major ideas underlying the application of psychoanalysis to couple therapy, many clinical illustrations of cases and problems in various dimensions of the

Tired of the dating vortex?On your own spiritual journey, but open to intimacy? Meet Rosalind Moody, one time editor of a leading spirituality magazine anda woman on a mission to find a soul mate. Despite all her meditating andmultiple tarot card readings she keeps manifesting the same guy in differentbodies until she finally learns the lessons she needs, her spirit guidesrejoice and she is able to

In the room beneath a stage\'s trapdoor, Shakespeares dead teenage girls - Juliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, and others - compare their experiences and retell the stories of their lives in their own