The gritty story of working-class lads in Bradford, at the heart of Northern Monkeys is The Ointment — a football firm built on pride and reputation. But behind the matchday clashes are deeper struggles: addiction, poverty, broken homes, love, revenge, and the fight to stay above water. As the firm rises, the police close in, determined to bring them down.Some lads are just trying to escape their mundane lives. Others are chasing power and a reputation. And some just want ...

Most IELTS candidates fail Writing Task 2 not because their English is weak, but because their argument is uncontrolled, unfocused, or poorly structured.IELTS Writing Task 2 – Essay Mastery and Commented Exercises Workbook is designed to develop what examiners actually reward: strategic argumentation, clarity of position, and controlled development of ideas.This book goes beyond generic writing advice and focuses on how IELTS essays are eva...

The novel is structured as the personal memoirs of an unnamed protagonist, a writer who has spent his life chasing literary success but has failed to achieve the recognition and fulfillment he desires. The protagonist shares his experiences with raw honesty, recounting the highs and lows of his life, particularly focusing on his deep passion for writing and the countless obstacles he faces along the way.The narrative is interspersed with philosophical reflections on the nature of success a...

In "The Memoirs of a Failure: with an Account of the Man and His Manuscript," Daniel Wright Kittredge presents a profound and introspective narrative that explores the complexities of human aspiration and the painful acceptance of failure. Through a unique blend of memoiristic prose and reflective commentary, Kittredge delves into the psychological and emotional landscapes that accompany personal and professional setbacks. His crisp, unadorned literary style captures both the poignancy of ...

The Happy Snappy Spring Surprise will leave you feeling encouraged, uplifted, and ready for a fresh spring beginning.On Easter Sunday, Daniel wakes up bursting with enthusiasm. It's one of his favorite holidays, and his actual birthday! Non-verbal and only just learning to write, Daniel shares his uplifting and honest perspective while preparing for the day: helping to fill goody baskets, dancing goofily alongside Mom, even reuniting with a timeless Easter friend. His stor...

Not every war is waged in the open. Some are silent, unseen, and soul-deep -- this book is built for those battles.You may not wear a uniform -- but make no mistake: You're in a war.Words for Warriors is a spiritual fed manual for those searching for direction while fighting anxiety, doubt, exhaustion, and the weight of the past. Written by a former Pararescueman who's walked through fire, this book offers:•Ten battle-tested lessons for life•Raw, tr...

For anyone suffering with the symptoms of benzodiazepine withdrawal, this is a collection of tips and tricks picked up by someone who went through it all. From covering the things you must avoid, to things you should try and do to alleviate your symptoms, or the symptoms of someone you care about, this has everything you need to know how to make it easier. Benzo hell can be defeated.

What grounds the fictional world of a novel? Or is such a world peculiarly groundless? In a powerful engagement with the latest debates in novel theory, Daniel Wright investigates how novelists reckon with the ontological status of their works. Philosophers who debate whether fictional worlds exist take the novel as an ontological problem to be solved; instead, Wright reveals the novel as a genre of immanent ontological critique.Wright argues that the novel imagines its own metaphy...

Why are some countries rich while others are poor? Why are some well governed while others experience frequent conflict? And how do you measure a country's true success anyways? Social scientists have attempted to answer these types of questions for decades, and have increasingly turned to data for this task. Researching Developing Countries: A Data Resource Guide for Social Scientists serves as a reference guide for social scientists and students interested in answering these complex ques...

How did the Victorians think about love and desire?“Reader, I married him,” Jane Eyre famously says of her beloved Mr. Rochester near the end of Charlotte Brontë’s novel. But why does she do it, we might logically ask, after all he’s put her through? The Victorian realist novel privileges the marriage plot, in which love and desire are represented as formative social experiences. Yet how novelists depict their characters reasoning about that erotic desire—making so...

Teaching Character and Virtue in Schools addresses the contemporary issues of quantification and measurement in educational settings. The authors draw on the research of the Jubilee Centre at the University of Birmingham in order to investigate the concern that the conventional wisdom, sound judgement and professional discretion of teachers is being diminished and control mistakenly given over to administrators, policymakers and inspectors which in turn is negatively effecting pup...

This text supports student teachers, NQTs and practitioners in implementing the Citizenship Order in secondary schools - to be introduced in September 2002. With a practical, clear focus, the authors provide an intellectual challenge; argument and evidence to help the reader come to an informed view on the complex and controversial issues in each chapter; well-focused examples; and strategies for use in the classroom.