This insightful bestseller, Keith Ferrazzi makes the point that relationships are one of the most important keys to success. Of course, we all know relationships are highly significant in our lives – but Ferrazzi really takes the concept to the next level, organizing his entire career and lifestyle around relationships
California Studies uses a two-part Core/Extend lesson organization. Flexible and comprehensive, each Core lesson delivers standards-based content, while the Extend lessons provide the opportunity to dig deeper for greater understanding. Powerful, built-in reading and vocabulary instruction helps teach content area reading.
Mrs Lucas is Lucia, Queen of the tiny (but culturally important) village of Riseholme. From her villa she dispenses wisdom, dominates the cultural life and makes pronouncements all all things. She has able lieutenants in her almost invisible husband and Georgie. She is truly a Queen and she acts regally, pompously and somewhat ignorantly which is all good fun for us readers.
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A Treasury of Royal Scandals
From the debauchery of Tiberius to the sloth of George IV, Michael Farquhar takes us on a roller-coaster journey through the history of monarchs and despots and illustrates the maxim that 'absolute power corrupts absolutely'. Whether throwing their enemies from cliff tops or merely seducing everyone in sight, kings, queens and popes throughout the ages seem to have let their privileged positions go to their heads. This anecdotal account is both amusing and illuminating.
Sarah France is the 42-year-old widow of a GP, Henry. She lives in an often volatile family situation with her mother, Eleanor Prescott, and her daughter, eighteen-year-old Clare France. After Henry's death, the three generations of women have to cope with one another as best they can, under their shared roof.
