With the industrial age set to change the face of England forever, the fate of his empire is under threat.įorensically assembled from historical accounts and legal documents, The Gallows Pole is a true story of resistance that combines poetry, landscape, crime and historical fiction, whose themes continue to resonate. When excise officer William Deighton vows to bring down the Coiners and one of their own becomes turncoat, Hartley’s empire begins to crumble. He is also prone to self-delusion and strange visions of mythical creatures. They are the Cragg Vale Coiners and their business is ‘clipping’ – the forging of coins, a treasonous offence punishable by death.Ī charismatic leader, Hartley cares for the poor and uses violence and intimidation against his opponents. From his remote moorland home, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers to embark upon a criminal enterprise that will capsize the economy and become the biggest fraud in British history. Stag-headed men dancing at on the moor at midnight, nostrils flared and steam rising.”Īn England divided.
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With keen analysis and practical steps for applying it at your own company-no matter the size-the authors illuminate how Amazon’s fourteen leadership principles inform decision-making at all levels and reveal how the company’s culture has been defined by four characteristics: customer obsession, long-term thinking, eagerness to invent, and operational excellence. With twenty-seven years of Amazon experience between them, much of it in the early aughts-a period of unmatched innovation that brought products and services including Kindle, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, and Amazon Web Services to life-Bryar and Carr offer unprecedented access to the Amazon way as it was refined, articulated, and proven to be repeatable, scalable, and adaptable. In Working Backwards, these two long-serving Amazon executives reveal and codify the principles and practices that drive the success of one of the most extraordinary companies the world has ever known. Working Backwards is an insider's breakdown of Amazon's approach to culture, leadership, and best practices from two long-time, top-level Amazon executives.Ĭolin started at Amazon in 1998 Bill joined in 1999. This program includes a preface read by the authors. The book is more than death, struggle and monsters. “Hell Followed With Us” raises a lot of questions about what YA literature can be and how much is too much for the category, even in a horror genre. In the novel’s pivotal moment, they accept each other for exactly what they are without demanding they change or be a certain way to be valid. They bond over their experiences of survival and resistance. There are moments of joy and calm as characters find love and form friendships. The book, while full of heavy moments and terrifying religious extremities, allows queer teens to be queer teens even at the end of the world. White’s debut novel has been turning heads on TikTok and Instagram for its queer and autistic representation and cast of diverse, queer teens who are dealing with a lot of problems in the wake of a virus being unleashed by a religious cult. He meets a group of queer teens at a local LGBTQ+ Resource Center and the narrative turns into something scary, unflinchingly queer and packed with tension. Benji himself has become a living host to this plague. The novel centers around a trans boy named Benji who is trying to escape from a religious cult that brought about the end of the world with a plague. Andrew Joseph White‘s queer, trans, monstrous Young Adult debut “ Hell Followed With Us ” isn’t afraid to push the limits of how dark, frighteningly real and openly queer Young Adult books can be. And one day, after years of searching, he miraculously found what he was looking for. Despite being happy, Saroo always wondered about where he was from. He survived for weeks on the streets, before being taken into an orphanage and adopted by his Australian family. d not finding your way home again? Saroo Brierley became lost on a train in India when he was only five. Now a stunning picture book illustrated by award-winning illustrator Bruce Whatley. The extraordinary true story of survival that became an international bestseller and was made into the award-winning film, Lion, starring Nicole Kidman and Dev Patel. PRAISE FOR DIPPY'S BIG DAY OUT'Dippy's Big Day Out is deceptively simple but fosters adventure, curiosity, self-sufficiency and getting enough rest after play.' - Books+Publishing Read more ISBNīy Brierley, Saroo Illustrated by Whatley, Bruce want to play?Based on a concept by Ben Smith Whatley and brought to life by the creators of the internationally bestselling Diary of a Wombat, this is an hilarious story of prehistoric daring and chaos set in the fascinating world of ancient Australian megafauna. But do these giant creatures really just. A BIG hole, which leads him to a strange new world - and even stranger new friends. By French, Jackie Whatley, Bruce With Whatley, BenĪn 'Ice Age' meets Diary of a Wombat story Dippy the diprotodon is the BIGGEST and friendliest wombat who lived 100,000 years ago.Dippy has dug a new hole. We experience Marlowe trying to crack this case from his own perspective! To make this Marlowe mystery extra unique the whole film is shot from Marlowe’s own viewpoint. Marlowe begins investigating her disappearance and is soon trading barbs with broads holding guns, dealing with no-nonsense hardboiled cops, having tough guys take swings at him and quickly having his own life is in jeopardy. It appears the wife has mysteriously gone missing. But Lavery claims he hasn’t seen this woman in over two months. A telegram says the wife decided to leave Kingsby, go to Mexico and marry a man by the name of Chris Lavery (Dick Simmons). It’s Christmas time and Raymond Chandler’s hard boiled detective Philip Marlowe gets hired by pulp book publisher Adrienne Fromsett (Audrey Totter) to find the wife of her boss Derace Kingsby (Leon Ames). Though Rilla’s coming-of-age in a climate of fear and adversity is nothing like her mother’s childhood adventures in the Canadian countryside, this is an Anne book to the core. It is told through the eyes of Rilla Blythe, the youngest child of the series’ titular heroine, Anne Shirley. Published in 1921, Rilla of Ingleside is the eighth book of the Anne of Green Gables series by L. Within days, Rilla’s brothers and childhood friends are off to war, leaving the women of their families behind to endure four long years of global upheaval and personal tragedy. Inside, 15-year-old Rilla Blythe eagerly awaits the next day, when she will attend her first party-a party doomed to be interrupted by the news of England’s declaration of war against Germany. So speaks Miss Cornelia in the first chapter of Rilla of Ingleside, as she trades gossip on one of many front porches on the idyllic coastline of Prince Edward Island, Canada (a British dominion at the time). “‘Who is this Archduke man who has been murdered?’ A teaching toolkit with fun ideas and activities to explore story settings and prepare students for the challenge. Children will investigate what makes a good story location, and will apply their imagination and creativity to writing (and drawing!) with real purpose. Our Story Explorers resource challenges pupils to write a visitor’s guide or create a map based on their favourite story setting in children’s literature. Have you ever wanted to explore a story? Perhaps you would like to visit the Chocolate Factory with Charlie, ride a polar bear in the frozen North with Lyra or travel to Middle-earth’s Lonely Mountain with Bilbo Baggins? Learn moreĬontact us for media interviews, case studies and information. 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The above paper regards the Devlin Report of 1976 as being a crucial stage in the development of our understanding of the fallibility of eye-witness evidence although November 2008 - Eyewitness Identification and the English Courts:A Century of Trial and Error - Psychology and Law (3):435-449 The Blindness of the Eye Witness, Ian Coyle, David Field, Glenn Miller (2008) Australian Law JournalĢ008 - NSW Law Reform Commission - unreliable evidence How eye-witness mis-identification can send innocent people to prisonĢ008 - Linday et al - Journal of Law and Human Behaviour - How Variations in Distance Affect Eye-Witness Reports International Association of Chiefs of Police - National Summit on Wrongful Convictions - A Systemic Approach to Prevention Cullen, Lisanne Adam, Celine van GoldeĢ6 July 2017 - Ars Technica - The Science of Why Eye-Witness Testimony is Often WrongĢ014 - National Academy of Sciences Report USA - Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eye-Witness Identification Eye-Witness and Identification Evidence HomepageĪuthors of this page: Dr Robert N Moles and Bibi Sanghaģ0 April 2021 - Evidence-based policing in Australia: an examination of the appropriateness and transparency of lineup identification and investigative interviewing practices And if you do read the book you'll meet E. If you want to know exactly what happens and how, for instance, they manage to fight off an attack by Red Indians who are after their scalps, you'll have to read the book. And although he does obligingly grant the children's wishes, things do always seem to go a bit wrong, until the children begin to suspect that the Psammead himself is deliberately being awkward. Obviously, he isn't very beautiful and nor is he very good-tempered. Its eyes were on long horns like a snail's eyes, and it could move them in and out like telescopes it had ears like a bat's ears, and its tubby body was shaped like a spider's and covered with thick soft fur its legs and arms were furry too, and it had hands and feet like a monkey's. His proper name is a Psammead (pronounced Sammyadd) and he really is quite a find: The children stood round the hole in a ring, looking at the creature they had found. Well, this is quite an old story about old-fashioned children who go out to play one day in the old gravel pits and come across a sand fairy. Do you ever imagine what you would do if you were suddenly granted three magic wishes? How would you go about it? Would you plan your requests carefully or would your wishes just come tumbling out? Would you tell the grown-ups? Do you think you would be able to cope if something went unexpectedly wrong? His family moved in 1979 to Florence, Mississippi to serve the Congregational Methodist Church, then on to Coolidge, Texas in 1984 where he taught algebra at Coolidge High School. He began that career in Dunlap, Tennessee teaching algebra and geometry at Sequatchie County High School from 1973 until 1979. Glenn’s primary vocation was teaching in public school. He graduated Coolidge High School, Westminster College, Tennessee Tech University. Glenn was born on July 17, 1947, in Houston, Texas to parents Elmo and Joyce (Bowen) McGuire. at First Presbyterian Church in Mexia with Reverend Jerry Jones & Reverend John McGuire officiating. A memorial service will be held on Tuesday, November 22, 2022, at 11:00 a.m. David Glenn McGuire, 75 of Mexia, passed away on November 6, 2022, at Parkview Regional Hospital in Mexia. |