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Michael Sheppard

After dubious experiments the first superhuman the Earth has ever encountered is created. He leads a secret life hunting down criminals and bringing them to justice.From humble beginnings on a poverty stricken estate, in the North of England, our hero joins the Army to start a new life.Originally trained as a basic British Army soldier the man is released him into a world full of danger. A world he is not ready for. A world that cannot know he even exists.Full of ps...

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Michael Sheppard

In a small town in the heartland of England the criminals are starting to take over. Every crime you can think of is bursting out and that small town is being swamped by its evil. Drug sellers openly sell on the corners of the streets and no-one stops them. Carrying guns is becoming the norm for these criminals, in what once was a peaceful community.Police fight criminals. Criminals fight each other. In the dark though, hiding in the shadows, are ancient creatures looking on.

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Michael Sheppard

In this book, it is a voyage of motivation to keep striving for what you want.

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Michael Sheppard

The importance of 'evidence based practice' in health and social work has been emphasised by recent policy and legislative initiatives, but how do professionals decide which research findings are valuable and relevant to them? This accessible introduction provides social work students and practitioners with the knowledge they need both to evaluate research and to apply it to their own practice.Exploring the range of research methodologies used in health and social care, from random...

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Michael Sheppard

A presentation of a comparative analysis of the work of mental health social workers and community psychiatric nurses, an issue of importance because of "community care" and also important as much of their work territory overlaps. The findings are more favourable to social workers.

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Michael Sheppard

Social exclusion is a subject of major importance in contemporary social work and has been a core feature of social policy developments in the UK and Europe in the past decade. Michael Sheppard argues that the issue of social exclusion lies at the very heart of social work and he examines the implications of this position for both theory and practice. He goes on to examine a range of key topics in social work including: ¢ Social work values and knowledge ¢ Empowerment ¢ Need ¢ The exercise...

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Josephine McCarthy

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Michael Sheppard

New enhanced edition of The Book of Gates - a Magical Translation second edition,is a rich and deep-searching new translation and magical interpretation of a little-known New Kingdom Ancient Egyptian funerary text that contains a wealth of mystical and magical secrets. Of particular interest to magicians, occultists, Kemeticists and more, The Book of Gates has as much relevance for the living as for the deceased, and its deeply enigmatic ...

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Michael J Sheppard

An adventure in a clockwork world, a world of magic, steam and clockwork. A world that looks like something out of Victorian London with magic . . .In this world are Creators who make fantastical dangerous monsters resembling creatures from myths long gone. Against them stands only one person, if he can be called a person.This is his story.How he came to be, how he hunts and his journey through life, his new...

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Steven Shardlow, Jane Aldgate, Alastair Gibson, Judith Brearley, Brigid Daniel, Daphne Statham, Michael Sheppard, Geraldine Macdonald, Peter Marsh, Steven Walker, Colin Keenan, Rob MacKay, Alan Barr, Robert Buckley, Fiona Feilberg, Jan Fook, Ian Fisk, Terry Maclean, Sheila Slessor, Amy Richert, Janine Bolger, Amy Clark, Mike Shepherd, Hazel Kelmshall, David Humphrey, Pauline Hardiker, Mary Barker, Heather Munro, Rory Lynch, Patricia Kearney, Neil Gibson, Prof Mark Doel

This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment models and interventions, and also offers guidance on the effective implementation of assessment across a range of professional contexts. Contributors from research, policy-making and practice b...

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Pituitary Disease brings together an international panel of experts who summarize the most recent and exciting advances in the diagnosis and treatment of pituitary disease. Coverage includes pathogenesis and pathology of pituitary tumors; clinical scenarios underpinning each type of pituitary tumor as well as their diagnosis and treatment. It is a useful resource for clinicians, students or researchers with an interest in the pituitary and its disorders.

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Anastasiia Marsiz

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Andrew Sheppard, Michael Pursglove

This powerfully-written first novel from Ukrainian author Anastasiia Marsiz is set in and around Cupra Marittima, a small seaside town on Italy's Adriatic coast. So closely is the area described, the reader could find their way around without difficulty. They might easily go there expecting to find the Chalet Martina, a seafront restaurant opening onto the beach. To enter the restaurant is to step into the territory of fiction, but in Marsiz's expert hands the boundary is crossed unconscio...

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John R. Pepper, Michael Rigby, Mary Sheppard

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The main target of clinical and academic cardiology activities is to optimize the patient's management and ultimately their welfare. Professionals manage patients according to their own understanding of disease process; clinicians concentrate on alleviating the symptoms and echocardiographers on identifying the disease. This book helps to 'cross the barrier' and describes the common ground between physiologic disturbances and their management which should ideally form the shared basis for ...