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What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His Life
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What I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His LifeWhat I Learned When I Almost Died: How a Maniac TV Producer Put Down His BlackBerry and Started to Live His LifeWhat do you learn when your brain goes pop? Chris Licht had always been ambitious. By the time he was thirty-five, he had become a real-life Jerry Maguire: hard-charging, obsessively competitive, and willing to sacrifice anything to get it done. He felt invincible. Then one day Chris heard a pop in his head, followed by a whoosh of blood and crippling pain. Doctors at the ER said he had suffered a near-deadly brain hemorrhage. Chris’s life had almost been cut short, and he had eight long days in a hospital bed to think about it.

This is the story of what happened next.

 
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Evolution Plus 1 TESTS
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Evolution Plus 1 TESTSEvolution Plus 1 TESTS

Progress tests

Short tests

Final tests



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Beauty: A Very Short Introduction
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Beauty: A Very Short IntroductionBeauty can be consoling, disturbing, sacred, profane; it can be exhilarating, appealing, inspiring, chilling. It can affect us in an unlimited variety of ways. Yet it is never viewed with indifference. In this Very Short Introduction, the renowned philosopher Roger Scruton explores the concept of beauty, asking what makes an object--either in art, in nature, or the human form--beautiful, and examining how we can compare differing judgments of beauty when it is evident all around us that our tastes vary so widely. Is there a right judgment to be made about beauty?
 
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Splinters
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SPLINTERSSPLINTERS

A Collection of Short Short Stories An anthology that offers students the opportunity to enjoy, investigate, respond to and write short stories by meeting them in their shortest forms. Each story is accompanied by activities: Fragments – to inspire talk about the pieces

Chips – for consideration of the technical devices that drive the story.Scraps – a workshop for imaginative writing and creative thinking

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Artemis by Julian Stockwin
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Artemis by Julian StockwinArtemis by Julian Stockwin

In the great age of fighting sail, life ranging the seas for prey and prize money in the crack frigate HMS Artemis is fast and exciting.
Now a true Jack Tar, Kydd sails into Portsmouth Harbour and a hero's welcome after a ferocious battle against the French. However his jubilation is cut short when a family matter threatens to take him from the life he has grown to love; he must return to Guildford. 

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