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Wish You Were Here

An Essential Guide to Your Favorite Music Scenes—from Punk to Indie and Everything in Between

by Leslie Simon ...

"The selection of indie music–centric cities is spot-on . . . knowledgeable . . . the book serves as a helpful jumping-off point for readers looking to learn more." — Publishers WeeklyThe American underground music scene is exploding everywhere—not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too!):In Washington, D.C. . . . Ian MacKaye and Fugazi inspired the ... Read more

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"The selection of indie music–centric cities is spot-on . . . knowledgeable . . . the book serves as a helpful jumping-off point for readers looking to learn more." — Publishers WeeklyThe American underground music scene is exploding everywhere—not just in New York City and L.A. (although we've got those cities covered too!):In Washington, D.C. . . . Ian MacKaye and Fugazi inspired the
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Geek Girls Unite

Why Fangirls, Bookworms, Indie Chicks, and Other Misfits Will Inherit the Earth

by Leslie Simon ...

$6.99 USD
Everybody Hurts

An Essential Guide to Emo Culture

by Trevor Kelley, Leslie Simon ...

What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining counterculture movement of the '00s. EVERYBODY HURTS is a reference book for emo, tracing its angsty roots all the way from Shakespeare to Holden Caufield to today's most popular bands.There's nothing new about that perfect chocolate and peanut butter ... Read more

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What is emo? For starters it's a form of melodic, confessional, or EMOtional punk rock. But emo is more than a genre of music–it's the defining counterculture movement of the '00s. EVERYBODY HURTS is a reference book for emo, tracing its angsty roots all the way from Shakespeare to Holden Caufield to today's most popular bands.There's nothing new about that perfect chocolate and peanut butter
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Pieces of My Heart

by Leslie Simon ...

Pieces of My Heart is a unique mingling of passions – poems and quilts. Poems that express the author’s laments and joys, sorrows and successes, worries and victories, these poems stand alone to welcome the reader in, share a landscape of emotions that do not wallow but search for a glimmer of hope through the darkest of tunnels. These poems invite handmade quilts to join them, add vibrant ... Read more

$12.39 USD

Pieces of My Heart is a unique mingling of passions – poems and quilts. Poems that express the author’s laments and joys, sorrows and successes, worries and victories, these poems stand alone to welcome the reader in, share a landscape of emotions that do not wallow but search for a glimmer of hope through the darkest of tunnels. These poems invite handmade quilts to join them, add vibrant
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Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults

Best Practice and Evidential Requirements

by Jacki Pritchard, Simon Leslie ...

Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults is the comprehensive guide to keeping accurate, effective and complete records in safeguarding adults work.This book explains why good record-keeping is essential: it covers crucial skills in recording, including how to write effectively; evidential requirements when writing statements and reports for court; and minute-taking. The book includes best practice ... Read more

$32.79 USD

Recording Skills in Safeguarding Adults is the comprehensive guide to keeping accurate, effective and complete records in safeguarding adults work.This book explains why good record-keeping is essential: it covers crucial skills in recording, including how to write effectively; evidential requirements when writing statements and reports for court; and minute-taking. The book includes best practice
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Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults

Criminal Justice and Adult Protection

by Alan Noel Carter, Mark Pathak, Marilyn Mornington, Geraldine Monaghan, Steve Kirkpatrick, Glyn Hughes, Penny Letts, Simon Leslie, Kathryn Mackay, Rob Harris, Adrian Hughes, David Hewitt, Teresa Gorczynska, Peter Sadler, Kathryn Stone ...

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Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults provides an up-to-date summary of developments in the legislative framework and best practice relevant to the area of adult protection work.It explains legislation that can be used in adult protection work, covering criminal and civil law, and crucial national guidance such as Achieving Best Evidence. Issues covered include confidentiality and ... Read more

$40.99 USD

Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults provides an up-to-date summary of developments in the legislative framework and best practice relevant to the area of adult protection work.It explains legislation that can be used in adult protection work, covering criminal and civil law, and crucial national guidance such as Achieving Best Evidence. Issues covered include confidentiality and
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Devil in the Fog & The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Dramatisations

by Leon Garfield, Charles Dickens ...

Narrated by Joe Dempsie, Ian Holm, Tim McMullen, Mark Payton, Full Cast, Moir Leslie, Simon Treves ...

Unabridged

6 hours 14 min

A full-cast historical mystery by award-winning author Leon Garfield, plus his captivating conclusion to The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles DickensLeon Garfield was the renowned author of more than 30 novels for children and adults. He won numerous awards for his work, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Inspired by Charles ... Read more

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A full-cast historical mystery by award-winning author Leon Garfield, plus his captivating conclusion to The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles DickensLeon Garfield was the renowned author of more than 30 novels for children and adults. He won numerous awards for his work, including the Carnegie Medal, the Whitbread Award and the inaugural Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize. Inspired by Charles
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Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults

Working Effectively in Adult Protection

by Alison Bowes, Seena Fazel, Gary Fitzgerald, Ghizala Avan, Sherry Bien Macintosh, Jacki Pritchard, Jackie Parker, Arwel Owen, Jamieson Mornington, Marilyn Mornington0, Lucy Naven1, Deborah Kitson2, Simon Leslie3, Adrian Hayes4, Adrian Hughes5, Peter Sadler6 ...

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Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection.The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative models of practice such as criminal justice and welfare, and covers groups who may be overlooked, such as people with brain injuries, older prisoners ... Read more

$28.69 USD

Good Practice in Safeguarding Adults provides an up to date and topical overview of developments in policy, guidance, legislation and practice in the area of adult protection.The book aims to broaden thinking about adult abuse, assesses alternative models of practice such as criminal justice and welfare, and covers groups who may be overlooked, such as people with brain injuries, older prisoners
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Walking in Cities

Navigating Post-Pandemic Urban Environments

Edited by Jaspar Joseph-Lester, Ahuvia Kahane, Simon King, Esther Leslie ...

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing. In their reflections on walking cities in lockdown, the artists and writers contributing to this book share a number of complementary ... Read more

$58.99 USD

This book brings together an international group of artists and writers to respond to the question of how our new world orders force us to reconsider urban walking and urban spaces in ways which extend into the digital sphere of online dialogue and screen sharing. In their reflections on walking cities in lockdown, the artists and writers contributing to this book share a number of complementary
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Goebbels

A Biography

by Peter Longerich ...

Narrated by Simon Prebble ...

Unabridged

28 hours 46 min

As a young man, Joseph Goebbels was a budding narcissist with a constant need of approval. Through political involvement, he found personal affirmation within the German National Socialist Party. In this comprehensive volume, Peter Longerich documents Goebbels’ descent into anti-Semitism and ideology and ascent through the ranks of the Nazi party, where he became an integral member Hitler’s inner ... Read more

$35.99 USD

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As a young man, Joseph Goebbels was a budding narcissist with a constant need of approval. Through political involvement, he found personal affirmation within the German National Socialist Party. In this comprehensive volume, Peter Longerich documents Goebbels’ descent into anti-Semitism and ideology and ascent through the ranks of the Nazi party, where he became an integral member Hitler’s inner
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American Phoenix

John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence

by Jane Hampton Cook ...

Narrated by Kate Wisniewski ...

Unabridged

16 hours 48 min

John Quincy and Louisa Adams’s unexpected journey that changed everything.American Phoenix is the sweeping, riveting tale of a grand historic adventure across forbidding oceans and frozen tundra—from the bustling ports and towering birches of Boston to the remote reaches of pre-Soviet Russia, from an exile in arctic St. Petersburg to resurrection and reunion among the gardens of Paris. Upon these ... Read more

$40.99 USD

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John Quincy and Louisa Adams’s unexpected journey that changed everything.American Phoenix is the sweeping, riveting tale of a grand historic adventure across forbidding oceans and frozen tundra—from the bustling ports and towering birches of Boston to the remote reaches of pre-Soviet Russia, from an exile in arctic St. Petersburg to resurrection and reunion among the gardens of Paris. Upon these
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Dragonfish

A Novel

by Vu Tran ...

Narrated by Tom Taylorson, Nancy Wu ...

Unabridged

9 hours 7 min

Robert, an Oakland cop, still can’t let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she’s disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who’s blackmailing Robert into finding her for him. As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny’s sadistic son, “Junior,” and assisted by unexpected ... Read more

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Robert, an Oakland cop, still can’t let go of Suzy, the enigmatic Vietnamese wife who left him two years ago. Now she’s disappeared from her new husband, Sonny, a violent Vietnamese smuggler and gambler who’s blackmailing Robert into finding her for him. As he pursues her through the sleek and seamy gambling dens of Las Vegas, shadowed by Sonny’s sadistic son, “Junior,” and assisted by unexpected
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