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- Derek Jacobi
Unabridged
5 hours 23 min
2009
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To escape a catastrophic volcanic eruption the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of space and time - and into a void he can only describe as ‘nowhere’. But the crisis is far from over, and when the time-machine’s circuits overload, the TARDIS explodes. The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe come to in a dark unearthly forest. There they encounter a host of characters who seem somehow familiar: a beautiful princess with long flaxen hair, a sea traveller dressed in eighteenth-century clothes, and a white rabbi...
The Challenges and Possibilities of Teacher Leadership
International Perspectives
2026
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The concept of teacher leadership has gained attention from educational scholars and practitioners across the globe due to its success in improving outcomes for teachers and students. The Challenges and Possibilities of Teacher Leadership explores the theory and practice of teacher leadership through a variety of international scholarly and practitioner perspectives, surveying the field of teacher leadership conceptually and practically.Each chapter in this edited collecti...
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- Routledge Historical Biographies
2015
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Peter Ling’s acclaimed biography of Martin Luther King Jr provides a thorough re-examination of both the man and the Civil Rights Movement, showing how King grew into his leadership role and kept his faith as the challenges facing the movement strengthened after 1965. Ling combines a detailed narrative of Martin Luther King’s life with the key historiographical debates surrounding him and places both within the historical context of the Civil Rights Movement.This fully revised and ...
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- Routledge Historical Biographies
2013
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A lively, concise and cutting-edge biography of one of the towering figures of 20th-century history. Of all the US presidents of the post-Second World War period, John F. Kennedy is the most clearly idolized. There is a well-documented gulf between the public’s largely positive appraisal of this glamorous historical figure and professional historians’ skeptical and mixed evaluation of a president who had only a foreshortened single term in which to make his mark.What made JFK the m...
Martin Luther King Jr.
A Reference Guide to His Life and Works
2023
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Martin Luther King Jr.: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works allows the reader to explore not just the facets of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s career but the network of associates across the Civil Rights Movement that enabled him to move forward with his campaigns for racial justice. Drawing on wide-ranging scholarship, the volume allows the reader to understand King in the context of his times. It features a chronology, an introduction that briefly covers his life, a comprehensive...
After Watergate
Political Scandals from Nixon to Trump
2024
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Scandals and high political office regularly coincide. Over the last five decades, with the world watching the American president as its preeminent international figure, scandals affecting the president have had both international origins and international consequences. Every president from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump has faced scandal but only a handful have faced a scandal so large that it threatened impeachment or even the political system itself. Hence, this is a study of five scanda...
North Meets South
Theoretical Aspects on the Northern and Southern Rock Art Traditions in Scandinavia
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- Swedish Rock Art Research Series
2017
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This latest volume in the Swedish Rock Art series bridges the gap between analysis and interpretation of rock art imagery, location and chronology in the northern and southern regions of Scandinavia. Long viewed as belonging to distinctive regional traditions, there are many underlying similarities, themes and formats in common, overlain by regional complexities and variations. The authors explore new approaches and methods of analysis. There has been a tendency in rock art research to foc...
Doctor Who: The Alt Reality Collection
1st, 2nd, 4th & 12th Doctor Novelisations
Unabridged
16 hours 40 min
2023
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The Doctor ventures into alternative dimensions in these four exciting novelisations of TV stories.In The Mind Robber, by Peter Ling, the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe land in a world populated by storybook characters - but who, or what, lurks behind the fiction?In The Invisible Enemy, by Terrance Dicks, the Fourth Doctor and Leela make a terrifying journey into the Time Lord's own brain in order to confront the Nucleus of the Swarm.
Death Speaks Another Language
A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Thriller
Unabridged
2 hours 41 min
2024
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David Valla stars in a gripping story of drugs, deception and betrayal set in 1960s LondonTransport yourself to London’s swinging sixties and the dark underbelly of the capital city in this immersive thriller that will have you hooked from the start. Find yourself trapped in the brutal world of drug dealers, vice and deception. This is an evocative and gripping listen with a full cast and stunning score.It’s the late 1960s and Nico Gachet is a young French s...
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- Swedish Rock Art Research Series
2015
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Pictures from the Bronze Age are numerous, vivid and complex. There is no other prehistoric period that has produced such a wide range of images spanning from rock art to figurines to decoration on bronzes and gold. Fourteen papers, with a geographical coverage from Scandinavia to the Iberian Peninsula, examine a wide range of topics reflecting the many forms and expressions of Bronze Age imagery encompassing important themes including religion, materiality, mobility, interaction, power an...
Delivering Digitally
Managing the Transition to the New Knowledge Media
2003
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This text investigates courseware delivery where resources are based on the World Wibe Web and are computer-managed. It follows a structured approach and provides practical support on general principles, best practice, skills needed and decisions to be made.
2014
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In a new anthology of essays, an international group of scholars examines the powerful interaction between gender and race within the Civil Rights Movement and its legacy.











