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Sustainability and Historic Preservation: Towards a Holistic View broadens the horizons of the mushrooming drive to correlate the objectives of these two spheres. To date, discussions of the relationship between historic preservation and sustainability have generally focused on the energy consumption...

Demi ziet het even niet meer zitten: ze is niet aangenomen voor haar droombaan, en na het bedrog van haar vriend is ze dakloos, met geen andere plek om naartoe te gaan dan het boerderijtje van haar opa in Cornwall. In de slaaptrein daarnaartoe vraagt ze zich vertwijfeld af waarom alles haar tegen...

Als de bejaarde Jaunty, die een teruggetrokken bestaan leidt, te zwak wordt om voor zichzelf te zorgen, trekt haar kleindochter Gabriela bij haar in. Samen wonen ze in Jaunty’s afgelegen huis aan Frenchman’s Creek. Ooit was de oudere vrouw een bekend kunstenares. Nu, aan het einde van haar leven,...

College guides written by students for students. Slippery Rock University Students Tell It Like It Is This insider guide to Slippery Rock University in Slippery Rock, PA, features more than 160 pages of in-depth information, including student reviews, rankings across 20 campus life topics,...

Challenges in Professional Supervision draws on the latest research and theory to explore issues, trends and developments in supervision work. The provision of excellent supervision is strongly linked to improved performance and staff retention. In this book, supervision is examined across...

Healing the Hospital Environment identifies why many healthcare premises do not look or feel welcoming and why even well-intentioned efforts to make improvements are unsuccessful. The authors show that significant improvements can be made within limited resources if hospitals recognise what can be...

This latest edition of AS Law has been fully updated to meet the requirements of the most recent changes to the specifications of both AQA and OCR examination boards. This title is tailored to the NEW four-module specifications for both AQA and OCR (although also suitable for the existing six-module...

The most memorable prayer of the Jewish New Year—what it means, why we sing it, and the secret of its magical appeal. Through a series of lively commentaries, over thirty contributors—men and women, scholars and rabbis, artists and poets, spanning three continents and all major Jewish denominations—examine...

The Midlothian region, once called Edinburghshire, is now administratively separate from the city of Edinburgh. They have always been interdependent, whether to supply the Old Town with crops, paper and coal or for wealthy city dwellers to locate their country estates and villas in the hinterland....

Peeblesshire and its attractive county town are situated in Upper Tweeddale, an area of great beauty and tranquillity. Tucked into the Borders Hills, with the River Tweed at its heart, Peebles has much to offer both tourists and residents, including walking, fishing and cycling or simply strolling...

World Hunger explores the nature and extent of contemporary world hunger, explaining why hunger still persists while agricultural production increases and genetic engineering revolutionises food production and distribution. Numerous case studies, drawn from the North and South, illustrate the diversity...

How many of us have wandered through a country churchyard and been moved by the memorials to young children? In this book the author sets out to discover the truth behind a number of graves dating from just one year in a nineteenth century Devon village. Her compelling investigation reveals the harsh...

Hidden in the nooks and crannies of downtown Ottawa is an army of creatures and people. They have entrusted their stories to this book. Their tiny homes have been revealed, and their struggles are real. These Canadians, young and old, are yours to discover either while out and about (using the location info at the top of each page) or while sitting on the comfort of your living room.

An enormous range of literature on leadership and management theory has been produced over the years, some of it highly academic and much of it contradictory. What Do Leaders Really Do? takes the basis of the best-known management theories to see how they fit with the practical reality of leadership....