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Mark Davis, Steven Stanworth

Patrick Brontë was to say later in his life ‘Thornton, my happiest years.’Who would have thought that this humble little terraced property on the outskirts of Bradford in the village of Thornton was to be the birthplace of incredible literary genius? For in this house three girls were born early in the nineteenth century whose collective ability to weave magic with words created novels that are loved, discussed and read worldwide over 175 years after publication. The Brontë sisters...

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Mark A. Davis

Private Investigator Mitch Morgan's first assignment at Callahan Investigation Agency may very well be his last. His investigation of a minor injury claim uncovers a network of criminal activity, while a second case assignment places his past and present lives on a collision course that culminates in his arrest on numerous felony charges. He sits in court awaiting his sentencing and recalls the cases to a journalist while playing a cat-and-mouse game with an overzealous prosecutor that may...

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Mark Davis, Tom "Big Al" Schreiter

Instant rapport with the audience. They are smiling, leaning forward, ready to listen.Fear stops people from public speaking. Everyone wants to be liked, but the pressure gets in the way. So we avoid it.In a speech, presentation, webinar or even a casual conversation, we have just a few seconds to prove we are interesting and valuable. How can we capture our audience’s attention immediately? By mastering our first 20 seconds.We can ...

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Mark Davies, Kathy Hayward Davies

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Routledge Frequency Dictionaries

A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish has been fully revised and updated, including over 500 new entries, making it an invaluable resource for students of Spanish.Based on a new web-based corpus containing more than 2 billion words collected from 21 Spanish-speaking countries, the second edition of A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish provides the most expansive and up-to-date guidelines on Spanish vocabulary. Each entry is accompanied with an illustrative example and fu...

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Mark H Davis

This book provides the readers with much of the understanding of empathy, examining empathy from the standpoint of contemporary social/personality psychology and emphasizing these disciplines' traditional subject matter and its research techniques.

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Mark Davies

A Love Letter to Football is the story of how the beautiful game, from the litter-strewn pitches of the grassroots to packed stadiums at the top of the sport, can help carry us through our darkest days.In 2016, Mark Davies was diagnosed with a rare and incurable blood cancer. A lifelong supporter of Middlesbrough Football Club, his devotion to the club and passion for a game so cherished by billions of people has been essential in helping him navigate the ...

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Mark Davis

If you have ever whispered a promise to yourself in the mirror and then forgotten it by lunchtime, you already know the problem this book is built to solve. The words we speak into our own ears shape the way we move through the day, and for many women the voice that runs the loudest is the voice that says we are not enough. That voice is not the voice of God, and yet it has been given a microphone, because it is the only one we have practiced. This book is a different kind of practice, bui...

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Mark Davis, Richard C. Cobb

Although the story of Jack the Ripper has been told many times, the crime scene locations and the killing ground which he and his unfortunate victims would have been familiar with has been largely left unknown. This book is the literary equivalent of a walking tour around the sites that would have been frequented by those who lived in Whitechapel in 1888. Using the original police reports, new images, maps and diagrams the book takes the reader deep inside Jack the Ripper’s London and pres...

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Mark Davies, Don Cameron

The daring flights of the early balloonists that were the first steps on mankind’s upward journey to the Moon and beyond have been strangely neglected, and their names have been largely forgotten. This book helps to redress that situation. James Sadler was an extraordinary English pioneer who overcame many obstacles to achieve his dream of flying. Born the son of an Oxford pastry cook in 1753, he defied his lowly upbringing to become the first Englishman to build an air balloon. When not f...

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Mark Davis

Most homeschool advice was written for a child who does not exist in your house, and the color coded block schedules, the cheerful encouragement to start at 8 in the morning, and the tidy hourly timetables all assume a child who transitions without pain and sustains attention for 45 minutes. If you are raising a neurodivergent child, you already know how badly that picture misses your reality. This book is for the parent who has tried those schedules and watched them collapse by 9:30 in th...

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Mark Davis

Dying is not a right. Government has seized the opportunity to intervene in peoples’ lives when end of life issues arise. Without a clearly written statement of medical directives the health system is forced to turn to blind courts and aggressive prosecutors to guide them. In this book are a series of cases confronting those in the last days of their lives. Many of these patients made national headlines in their fight to die with dignity. In one specific case a State forced a hospital to k...

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Mark Davies

Born in Cardiff, Wales, Mark Davies graduated from Cambridge University, England, with a degree in social anthropology. Since then he has worked in theater, television, children’s publishing, and magazine publishing. Malcolm X: The Struggle for Human Rights is his fourth book for a juvenile audience. The author is indebted to Alex Haley and his book The Autobiography of Malcolm X for information regarding Malcolm X’s early years. He would also like to express his gratitude to Dr. Betty Sha...