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An Ordinary Baby Tales of Childhood Resistance All-powerful adults organise the lives of children but rarely take into account the fact that children have minds of their own, disabled children even less so. This account is a remembered story of one such child, born in 1950 with an impairment called Osteogenesis Imperfecta, or ‘Brittle Bones’. Micheline invites you to experience the world from her point of view and, in particular, how she developed and executed an escape plan from the segregated and shrunken world that most people expected her to inhabit for the rest of her life. Her story highlights some horrific memories of children’s wards back then but also the good times: the fun and support given to her by her unusual working-class family. Her own illustrations add images to the words, giving the reader a sense of how her identity as an artist/activist began to develop and eventually led her onto the world stage. Micheline Mason is a life-long Artist/Activist and Writer. She was born in the 1950s to a working-class family, a fireman’s daughter. At four days old she was diagnosed with Osteogenesis Imperfecta, or Brittle Bones, seen then as a severe ‘handicap’ which would define her life. Her struggle against any such false limitations led her to help disabled people to develop the concept of disability as a social oppression, kept in place by segregation and loss of human rights, which needs to be constantly challenged. Since becoming a mother she campaigned for a fully inclusive education system to become a right for all children. She is now 71, ‘retired’ and living in London, with more time than ever to stir things up. |
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Books by Micheline Mason... An Ordinary Baby Healing The Hurts of Capitalism The Phenomenon of the Human Distress Pattern |
The Greatest – The Times and Life of Beryl Burton
William Fotheringham
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Beryl Burton overtakes Mike McNamara to clinch victory in the 12-hour race at Otley, Yorkshire. When she finishes the marathon event after 277 miles, Burton has beaten Britain’s leading male time triallist and achieved something unheard of: she has taken a men’s endurance record outright. The moment enters cycling folklore because of Burton's gesture as she overhauls ‘Mac’: unsure what to do or say, she offers him a liquorice allsort from her pocket.
Burton was a seven-times world champion and multiple national champion, and this was the greatest feat in her 30-year career. The Otley ‘12’ should have been a groundbreaking moment in women’s sport, but along with the rest of Burton’s achievements, it has slipped into relative obscurity. This new biography from best-selling writer William Fotheringham tells Burton’s story in full for the first time, from the brutal illness that left her bedridden as a teenager to her quarter century at the top of women’s cycling in the UK, and her premature death in 1996. |
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William Fotheringham is the No.1 best-selling author of Merckx: Half-Man, Half-Bike. He writes for the Guardian on cycling and is the critically acclaimed author of Sunday in Hell, Fallen Angel, Roule Britannia and Put Me Back on My Bike, hailed by Vélo magazine as ‘the best cycling biography ever’.
A racing cyclist and launch editor of Procycling magazine, he has reported on almost 30 Tours de France, four Olympic Games and the Rugby World Cup. |
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Illustrated Multiple Choice Questions in Anatomy for Medical Students
Liz Saunders
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For Medical Students This book provides the student with the ability to test their visual knowledge, as well as their functional knowledge of anatomical structures. Furthermore explanations are given as to why answers are incorrect in order to help the students’ understanding of anatomical relations, neurovascular supplies and clinical presentations. There are one hundred and thirty figures, most with five structures highlighted. The multiple-choice question for each structure has five possible answers, one being that sought after single best answer. Eight of the illustrations have up to fifteen structures labelled (A to N), this time the student must identify the structure from a given description. Medical students will welcome the ability to identify structures they have seen in the anatomy suite and to test their knowledge to prepare them for their exams and for clinical practice. Embryology The Respiratory And Cardiac Systems The Upper Limb And Lower Limb The Neck And Back The Digestive System The Urogenital System The Head, Brain And Spinal Cord |
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Liz Saunders was Assistant Professor of Anatomy on the Graduate Entry Medical course run by the University of Nottingham in Derby. Anatomy is all about structures and relations, movement and protection, circulation and nerve supply. It is important that students understand the physicality of anatomy; to visualize what lies deep to the surface and to connect that knowledge with their patient’s symptoms and history of events. I have used illustrations throughout the book, with questions designed to include clinical relevance such that students can test their anatomical knowledge in preparation for clinical practice. | ||||||||||||
What is next for us
Nubia Assata
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What is next for us Nubia Assata What Is Next For Us? Is in itself a question. Opening up a discourse on the future of black political activity, modern Pan-African pursuits and the relationship between the African continent and the global black diaspora. Nubia answers a multitude of questions covering the urgency of psychological liberation, the erroneous attachment to Black Messianism and the importance of radical collectivism. Following her debut book Silent Screams, Nubia stays true to her commitment to use her writings to mitigate the legacies of colonialism and slavery, but this time she focuses on the economic and socio-political legacies that ravage the global black community. Ultimately bringing the reader to ask themselves the culminating question, what is next for us? Nubia Assata is a young ,eighteen-year-old, up-and-coming author who integrates her intersecting activism for black consciousness and mental health through her work. She has used her experiences with mental health and racism, whilst being a young black woman in Britain as a springboard to open the conversation of what ‘Blackness’ means in 21st Century Britain and the world. |
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Reviews... Khushi Dhutty Nubia's words are empowering, raw, authentic – she leaves the readership with that one eponymous question – what is next for us? And poses the final balance on the weighing scales of the future – will we remain in comfortability, or will the Black Diaspora leave the slumber and launch a rekindling of that innate determination to debilitate the lies of white supremacy? Dr Martin Glynn (April 2022) Despite being young, Nubia displays a maturity of purpose in her writing, combined with an important ‘call to arms’ to anyone who believes in addressing important issues concerning blackness, politics and identity. |
Nature of Wollaton Hall
Oliver Smith
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Once you have visited the museum and viewed the diverse collections of preserved specimens, you can test your newly-acquired knowledge while walking around the park. Exploring the park you should see the deer and other wildlife active by day, although the museum is probably the best place to view examples of some of the park’s more shy, nocturnal or otherwise elusive wildlife, such as stoats, foxes and moles. After a visit to the museum, you might be surprised at what wildlife you can identify in the future. |
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| I have always been passionate about wildlife, having spent my early years as a child growing up within a game reserve in Kenya where my father worked, surrounded by lions, elephants, black rhinos and many more of Africa’s iconic species. Returning to live in Cambridgeshire with my family, I Studied Animal Management at college and Marine Biology at Hull University, with the aim of embarking on a career involved in wildlife photography. This lead me to undertake a Master’s Degree in Biological Photography and Imaging at Nottingham University. | ||||||||||||
Ghost
James S M Parker
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Ghost by James S M Parker After losing everything, it was in absolute nothingness where he found himself. At the end of all he held close, at the end of all he held dear, at the end of all he held tight; that end now holds him. And he became death. And he became vengeance. And he became ghost. A twisted tale of revenge spanning decades, spanning genres and even spanning writing styles, James Parker’s 15th book is finally released after 3 years in its creation |
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The Safari Games
Julie Churchley
The Safari Games
by Julie Churchley
The animals are raring to go and ready to compete in their very own sporting contest.
Who will be racing on the track?
Who will be jumping from the diving board?
Who might make it onto the podium?
Join the spectacle that is The Safari Games. Have fun.
Meet the competitors, some with four legs, some with horns, some on wheels or a blade, some with wings.
At the end of the day, they all come away with so much more than a medal.
by Julie Churchley
The animals are raring to go and ready to compete in their very own sporting contest.
Who will be racing on the track?
Who will be jumping from the diving board?
Who might make it onto the podium?
Join the spectacle that is The Safari Games. Have fun.
Meet the competitors, some with four legs, some with horns, some on wheels or a blade, some with wings.
At the end of the day, they all come away with so much more than a medal.
Julie started putting pen to paper following a career in nursing.
In addition to personally experiencing the joy of books, having worked within child development, she appreciates the many benefits they bring, including speech and language, imagination and also bonding between the child with their parent/carer when sharing storytime. Julie has a real-life love of animals and currently 'lodges' with a cat and a rabbit.
(The frogs remain outside in the pond.)
She loves to travel, is a keen crafter and loves a night out at the theatre.
She hopes there will be more adventures for Zeus and his friends to follow.
In addition to personally experiencing the joy of books, having worked within child development, she appreciates the many benefits they bring, including speech and language, imagination and also bonding between the child with their parent/carer when sharing storytime. Julie has a real-life love of animals and currently 'lodges' with a cat and a rabbit.
(The frogs remain outside in the pond.)
She loves to travel, is a keen crafter and loves a night out at the theatre.
She hopes there will be more adventures for Zeus and his friends to follow.
Miss Jane
Joanne McShane
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Miss Jane The Life and Times of Jane Rashleigh Jane Rashleigh lives a privileged existence as the daughter of the wealthy Jonathan Rashleigh. Wanting for nothing, she becomes the inseparable companion of her older brother Philip. They spend their days singing and dancing and entertaining their mother in her rooms. Jane expects nothing more from life than that one day she will marry and leave Menabilly for a new home with her husband. When handsome, charming Ralph Willington appears in her life she falls hopelessly in love and cherishes the dream that he is the one who will carry her off to a life of wedded bliss. Her hopes are dashed in a way she does not at first understand but eventually accepts, opting instead to enjoy a life of cultural pleasures. Jane’s story is divided between her home in rural Cornwall and the opera houses and salons of London during a period of musical and literary opulence. When tragedy strikes and her world crumbles around her, she must find an inner strength to cope with what lies ahead |
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Joanne spent her childhood on a sheep and cattle farm in Tasmania, Australia. After marrying and raising a family in Tasmania she moved to Wales in 2003 and still lives there, close to the Herefordshire border.
Always a keen historian, she became fascinated by her own family history and by the lives of her ancestors - some of whom she discovered to be very colourful indeed. This led her to begin writing. Honora and Arthur - The Last Plantagenets is her first published book. In her own words 'I am the end product of a melting pot ranging from convicts to Royalty. There are so many stories waiting to be told. I just hope I live long enough to do it.' Books by Joanne McShane... Honora and Arthur - the Last Plantagenets Mistress Whiddon Lillias Adela Basset Miss Jane |
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