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The Path to Pupillage A Guide for the...
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This new and exciting title is the first definitive guide to getting a pupillage at the Bar of England and Wales. The book describes the process of becoming a barrister by walking the reader through each step of the route to pupillage.
It will also offer practical advice for each stage from the authors' own personal experiences and from the wisdom of senior members of the Bar. The work seeks to weave together these complementary functions to create a product, which will guide, inform and advise all applicants of the successful route to pupillage.
Coverage includes: an overview of the process; a discussion of the academic stage of the training; a focus upon the practical training; and a detailed section dedicated to the pupillage applications themselves.
ISBN:9781847034014
Author:Alexander Robson and Georgina Wolfe
American Heiress The Wild Saga of the...
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst.
From New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin, the definitive account of the kidnapping and trial that defined an insane era in American history
On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a senior in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre "Tania."
The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing -- the Hearst family trying to secure Patty's release by feeding all the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free; the photographs capturing "Tania" wielding a machine gun during a bank robbery; a cast of characters including everyone from Bill Walton to the Black Panthers to Ronald Reagan to F. Lee Bailey; the largest police shoot-out in American history; the first breaking news event to be broadcast live on television stations across the country; Patty's year on the lam, running from authorities; and her circuslike trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the phrase "Stockholm syndrome" entered the lexicon.
The saga of Patty Hearst highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown. Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, American Heiress thrillingly recounts the craziness of the times (there were an average of 1500 terrorist bombings a year in the early 1970s).
Toobin portrays the lunacy of the half-baked radicals of the SLA and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst; and recreates her melodramatic trial. American Heiress examines the life of a young woman who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade.
Or did she?
ISBN:9780385536714
Author:Jeffrey Toobin
Abyssinian Nomad by Maskarm Haile
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Abyssinian Nomad: An African woman's journey of love, loss, and adventure from Cape to Cairo
What does it take to know oneself? To fully realize one's life dream? For some it may take a lifetime, and for others, the chance may never come. There are those who dream and have the courage to take the first steps past the threshold of familiarity.
Their stories, like mine, are etched on the avenues we dare to traverse. The Cape to Cairo road is where I, a black female soul-searcher, faced my greatest trial in confronting my fear of losing my mother to cancer, trying to keep old love alive, and make my childhood dream come true.
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ISBN:9781775175704
Author:Maskarm Haile
Next Level Thinking by Joel Osteen
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Next Level Thinking: 10 Powerful Thoughts for a Successful and Abundant Life
Many of us have let our minds become conditioned to thinking we've reached our limits, we've made too many mistakes, we'll never do anything great. What's happened? Instead of moving forward, we've adapted to our environment. Instead of pushing beyond our bounds, we've allowed a bad break, how we were raised, living with insecurity, or what someone did or didn't do to hold us back.
The good news is that people don't determine our destiny-God does. And He has already taken into account every detail of our lives and factored them all into his plan. In his new book, Next Level Thinking, Joel Osteen writes that we weren't created to go through life weighed down by the past. God has destined us to rise higher-to the next level. When we leave behind the negative mind-sets, the scarcity mentality, and the limits others have put on us, we'll experience the life of victory, favor, and abundance that was meant for us all along.
ISBN:9781549147197
Author:Joel Osteen
The Economics of Inequality by Thomas...
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Thomas Piketty?whose Capital in the Twenty-First Century pushed inequality to the forefront of public debate?wrote The Economics of Inequality as an introduction to the conceptual and factual background necessary for interpreting changes in economic inequality over time. This concise text has established itself as an indispensable guide for students and general readers in France, where it has been regularly updated and revised. Translated by Arthur Goldhammer, The Economics of Inequality now appears in English for the first time.
Piketty begins by explaining how inequality evolves and how economists measure it. In subsequent chapters, he explores variances in income and ownership of capital and the variety of policies used to reduce these gaps. Along the way, with characteristic clarity and precision, he introduces key ideas about the relationship between labor and capital, the effects of different systems of taxation, the distinction between "historical” and "political” time, the impact of education and technological change, the nature of capital markets, the role of unions, and apparent tensions between the pursuit of efficiency and the pursuit of fairness.
Succinct, accessible, and authoritative, this is the ideal place to start for those who want to understand the fundamental issues at the heart of one of the most pressing concerns in contemporary economics and politics.
ISBN:9780674504806
Author:Thomas Piketty
The Shepherd by Frederick Forsyth
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It is Christmas Eve, 1957. Flying home, on leave from Germany, he is alone in the cockpit of the Vampire. Sixty-six minutes of flying time, with the descent and landing - destination Lakenheath. No problem, all routine procedures.
Then, out over the North sea, the fog begins to close in. Radio contact ceases and the compass goes haywire. Suddenly, out of the mist appears a World War II bomber. It is flying just below the Vampire, as of trying to make contact...
This collection also brings together several other compulsive tales from the international master of intrigue
ISBN:9780099642510
Author:Frederick Forsyth
Why We Work by Barry Schwartz
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An eye-opening, groundbreaking tour of the purpose of work in our lives, showing how work operates in our culture and how you can find your own path to happiness in the workplace.
Why do we work? The question seems so simple. But Professor Barry Schwartz proves that the answer is surprising, complex, and urgent.
We’ve long been taught that the reason we work is primarily for a paycheck. In fact, we’ve shaped much of the infrastructure of our society to accommodate this belief. Then why are so many people dissatisfied with their work, despite healthy compensation? And why do so many people find immense fulfillment and satisfaction through "menial” jobs? Schwartz explores why so many believe that the goal for working should be to earn money, how we arrived to believe that paying workers more leads to better work, and why this has made our society confused, unhappy, and has established a dangerously misguided system.
Through fascinating studies and compelling anecdotes, this book dispels this myth. Schwartz takes us through hospitals and hair salons, auto plants and boardrooms, showing workers in all walks of life, showcasing the trends and patterns that lead to happiness in the workplace. Ultimately, Schwartz proves that the root of what drives us to do good work can rarely be incentivized, and that the cause of bad work is often an attempt to do just that.
How did we get to this tangled place? How do we change the way we work? With great insight and wisdom, Schwartz shows us how to take our first steps toward understanding, and empowering us all to find great work.
ISBN:9781476784861
Author:Barry Schwartz
Scribble Yourself Feminist by Chidera...
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This is the dream journal for every feminist babe out there!
This book is dedicated to the woman who wants a better world.
The woman who's a lover, a learner but most importantly, a leader.
Finally, here's your chance to scribble yourself feminist with this AMAZING journal, designed to empower, inspire and entertain.
From Chidera Eggerue, the woman behind The Slumflower and #saggyboobsmatter, and illustrated by Manjit Thapp, it's BEAUTIFUL, FUNNY, and FEMINIST.
What's included in this BRILLIANT journal??
ALL THIS:
• Colouring pages featuring Manjit's beautiful illustrations of inspirational quotes and feminist heroines from around the world.
• Witty comebacks for everyday sexism- 'cos the world needs to hear your sass!
• Design your feminist wardrobe- design your outfit for the next march; t shirts, badges, sashes and power panties you can make as fabulous as you are.
• Make your own 'Galentine's Day' card for the ladies you love
• Rewrite your favourite FEMI-CLASSICS- why can't the girl save the day for once??
• Create your own FEMINIST HALL OF FAME: draw your feminist heroes- imagine if every gallery had a feminist babes wing!
ISBN:9780241347737
Author:Chidera Eggerue
My Life with the Chimpanzees by Jane ...
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From the time she was a girl, Jane Goodall dreamed of a life spent working with animals. Finally she had her wish. When she was twenty-six years old, she ventured into the forests of Africa to observe chimpanzees in the wild.
On her expeditions she braved the dangers with leopards and lions in the African bush. And she got to know an amazing group of wild chimpanzees -- intelligent animals whose lives, in work and play and family relationships, bear a surprising resemblance to our own.
ISBN:9780671562717
Author:Jane Goodall
Amedeo The True Story of an Italians ...
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War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost.
This is the story of Amedeo Guillet – an Italian calvary officer who was sent out to Abyssinia as part of Mussolini’s army to establish and command a troupe of 2,000 Spahis – or Arabic calvary. He met and fell in love with Khadija – a beautiful Ethiopian Muslim. Together they held up the British lorries heaving up the mountain road to Asmara and blew up the important Ponte Aosta. Eventually captured, Amedeo went on the run disguised as an Arab, eventually making it to Yemen, only to be thrown in jail.
This is a rare view of the Second World War from an Italian perpective; particularly valuable are the chapters that tell the story of Italian resistance to the Nazis, and their subsequent withdrawal from Italy in 1943.
There are few stories more cinemagraphic than this – Fascist Italy, his early years in Ethiopia commanding the Cossack-like Spahis, the brutal Abyssinian war waged by the Duce, Italian and British colonial rivalry; Amedeo led the last ever cavalry charge the British army faced (Eritrea 1941 – they were massacred by tanks and sub-machine guns), defeat and guerrilla warfare against the British; then flight, disguised as an Arab, imprisonment in the Yemen and a great love lost as he leaves his beloved Khadija behind to face her future alone and returns to Italy, to his fiancée and a career as a distinguished Italian diplomat and Arabist.
Amedeo is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Sebastian O’Kelly is a journalist for the Mail and Telegraph and has Amedeo’s full co-operation in writing this book.
This is a very valuable and absolutely stunning story, beautifully told by O’Kelly.
ISBN:9780006552475
Author:Sebastian OKelly
Travels in the White Mans Grave by Do...
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At the beginning of the 1950s, the interior of West and Central Africa was still known to most of the outside world as the 'White Man's Grave' and consisted of vast expanses of mysterious and threatening primeval forest. When Donald MacIntosh, 23-year-old Gaelic-speaking Scottish forester, was offered a position in Nigeria in 1954, it was a dream come true and he found himself posted to the hot, cloying humidity of those fabled lands.
During the next 30 years he was to wander through some of the most remote areas of West Africa where he operated as a forest botanist. There he listened to the tales of ancient Africa from the lips of hunters, fishermen, chiefs and witch doctors from a vast diversity of tribes in myriad encampments. He drank palm wine with them and attended their village dances and ceremonies under the tropic moon.
He had many adventures with the creatures of the forest, from the magnificent leopard to the instantly fatal spitting cobra. The sinister arcanum of primitive Africa is never too far away from the surface in this book, encountering a host of characters along the way - with exotic names like 'Magic T. Sperm' and 'Famous Sixpence' - whose stories are all told here.
ISBN:9781897784839
Author:Donald Macintosh
A pastoral democracy by Ioan Lewis
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A Pastoral Democracy: A study of pastoralism and politics among the Northern Somali of the Horn of Africa (1961, reprinted with a new introduction in 1982)
First published in 1961, shortly after establishment of the independent Somali Republic, the first step towards the formation of a 'Greater Somalia', brought this North-East African Muslim nation a prominence which it had not enjoyed since the British campaigns against the 'Mad Mullah' in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Somali nationalism, however, cannot be properly understood without a knowledge of the indigenous social organization.
This study by a social anthropologist describes the political system of the Northern Somali nomads in their arid ecological setting, where competition for access to water and pasture, especially in the dry season, is acute and leads to frequent and often long-drawn-out feuds. In this warlike society political status depends very largely on numerical strength.
Political loyalties based on kinship are organized through a form of Social Contract which distinguishes the pastoral Somali political system from otherwise similar political structures. Today this traditional organization is being challenged in areas where cultivation has recently been adopted, and in towns which are the foci of modern developments.
Somali nationalism, drawing much of its strength from the unifying force of Islam, is an important factor. With the continued dedication of the majority of the population to pastoral nomadism, however, traditional clan and contractual loyalties inevitably play an important part in party politics. This analysis has proved to be of interest not only to anthropologists and Africanists, but also to students of Islamic society and of comparative political institutions.
ISBN:9783825830847
Author:Ioan Lewis
Making and Breaking States in Africa ...
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This book analyzes crucial episodes in the recent political history of the Somali people. In their complicated dialogue with "modernity", the Somalis illustrate the extremes of modern African statehood. In contemporary "Somalia" which, for twenty years has not been a functional political reality, they have produced a failed state par excellence.
In the neighboring and smaller Somaliland Republic, however, they have achieved what is widely regarded as one of the more effective states in the continent.
Ironically while dysfunctional Somalia, despite its collapse, is still internationally recognized, functional Somaliland has yet to receive formal recognition
ISBN:9781569022900
Author:Ioan Lewis
Saints and Somalis Popular Islam in a...
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Popular Islam in a Clan Based Society. This collection of essays based on first-hand anthropological field research spanning many years, brings together in a single volume the authors collected material on characteristics of popular Islam amongst the Somali of the Horn of Africa.
Rigorous, outspoken, and backing his arguments with reflections based on a lifetime of research and scholarship, Lewis makes a major contribution to understanding the place and role of religion in Somali society.
ISBN:9781569021033
Author:Ioan M Lewis
IOU The Debt Threat and Why We Must D...
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We are bombarded with images of poverty, terrorism, war and collapsing states. Do we ever question what the root cause of these problems might be? Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalization, tackles Third World Debt as a situation that must be resolved if we are ever to see global stability.
For every $1 the West gives to developing countries in aid, developing countries pay the West $9 in debt service. At the beginning of the new millennium we are witnessing a global debt crisis of unprecedented size. Sub-Saharan Africa owes $200 billion, Brazil $223.8 billion, Argentina $155 billion.
Why does this matter? In this shocking, ground-breaking book, Noreena Hertz shows that these numbers matter because they account for millions of people dying of AIDS; for the rainforests being cut down; for poverty, illiteracy, terrorism and war. These numbers matter because they will affect all of our lives if the balance is not redressed. 'IOU' is a story of avarice but also of vulnerability; of power asymmetries and misuse of influence; of corrupt dictators and careless lenders; of Cold War interests and Wall Street pressure; of third world governments who get given it, and third world people who have no access to it.
Noreena Hertz, one of the world's leading experts on economic globalisation, argues that this is not an issue of left or right: it is an issue of right versus wrong, of peace versus war. It must be addressed now.
ISBN:9780007178995
Author:Noreena Hertz
Piano Exam Pieces Grade 4 2019 and 2020
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This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 4 Piano Syllabus for 2019 & 2020, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information.
This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 4 Piano Syllabus for 2019 & 2020, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing for exams, useful syllabus information.
SHEET MUSIC
Content:
• Bagatelle in C WoO 54 [Ludwig van Beethoven]
• Sonatina in A minor [Georg Benda]
• Petit jeu (from Fugues legeres et petits jeux) [Georg Philipp Telemann]
• The Reef: No. 5 from In Southern Seas [Walter Carroll]
• Arietta (No.1 from Lyriske smastykker), Op.12 [Edvard Grieg]
• Chanson de matin, Op 15 No 2 [Edward Elgar]
• Holiday in Paris (from "20th Century American Composers - Intermediate Level") [William Gillock]
• A Kwela for Caitlin [Richard Michael]
• Rhythmical (No. 6 from 'Moments at the Piano') [Lubos Sluka]
ISBN:9781848496446
Author:ABRSM