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While celebrating her 26th birthday, Thea listens on as her thirty-something friends discuss their lives. Their conversation leads her to realise she's been drifting through life and hasn't grown up. In addition, she can't tell where she ends and her mother begins. The realisation gradually takes its toll and several months later, she's diagnosed with depression. Refusing medication, she leaves her soul-constricting job and pursues a more mean...

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The culmination of five years of research, this fascinating book reveals a side of football not explored before and explains why football coaches use astrology to gain a competitive edge. The result of 5 years of research, Football aims for the Stars shows how the constellations can affect planet football, find out why leading continental coaches believe they gain a competitive advantage by using astrology, explore the 12 paths to football suc...

This remarkable novel is based on the diary of the author's great-grandmother Leonie Michel, born at the height of the 1848 revolution in Paris. Deadly illness and danger stalk her early life and her father, a doctor, faces ruin when he is prosecuted for treating patients with a revolutionary new cure before he is qualified. But when the Emperor Napoleon III calls on his brilliant medical skills, Leonie finds herself catapulted into glittering...

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This is a day-by-day chronicle of the Somerset Light Infantry Battalion from August to December 1914, using the official War Diaries together with extracts from personal diaries and correspondence. It covers fighting, movements, trench life and the relaxation of a typical group of regular soldiers who came to be known as 'The Old Contemptibles'.

This book explores the potentiality of new definitions of communication to fundamentally expand our notions of diversity, identity, community, and justice. Its primary thesis is that communication studies is yet to realize its full capacity to make an important and sustain contribution to resolving many of the pressing and perilous problems that the world increasingly faces as our spaces and distances collapse and implode. Through many contemp...

This is a fascinating in-depth view of recent Italian cinema - bringing an interdisciplinary knowledge to the study of a complex cinema industry. This book aims to address a number of questions about Italian cinema of the last twenty years, bringing interdisciplinary knowledge to the study of a cinema that eschews traditional definitions and categories, and challenges critical assumptions about a film industry that is struggling to find a new ...

This book charts the rise of Madeleine Carroll who, from humble beginnings, climbed the staircase of fame to become one of film industry's brightest stars. In 39 Steps to Stardom Derek Chamberlain highlights the steps she took to achieve her professional and personal success. The many photographs, personal annecdotes, correspondence and carefully maintained and compiled scrapbooks from family and friends combine to provide a unique insight int...

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This is a practical guide to how leading utility companies are ensuring they understand the risks their business is taking, and that they know who in their organisation needs more support.

A collection of poetry, written by a survivor of childhood sexual abuse, revealing pain and suffering that lay hidden in suppression for many years. This book will provide hope and inspiration for other survivors.