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One anonymous woman... with a dream. Four unrelated men... all in receipt of an identical solicitor’s letter urging them to travel to the town of Keswick in the heart of England’s Lake District. A washed-up alcoholic City banker, a time-share crook living on the Spanish Costas, the neurotic gay owner of a B&B and a destitute hippy living on his wreck of a boat are all inexplicably summoned. There is the promise of ‘something to their advantage’ but even without this enticement all have good reason to want to escape their current everyday situations. The four men’s converging journeys, by air, road, sea, and mountain paths produce four very different stories. Each has its own cast of eccentrics and grotesques, and a few saints and saviours, laughable disasters and chaotic episodes of high farce. There are also unexpected moments of sensitivity and pathos and as the characters reach their journeys’ ends it’s clear none of their lives will ever be quite the same. And one mountain...bleak and brutal, it holds the key to the mystery and provides the rainswept setting for the dramatic and tragic climax.
This book has been written to enable you to become an Energy Expert. Whether you're responsible for building management, look after utilities, are in control of finances, operate a business, or just want to get up to speed on energy management and efficiency, the book can help you to do just that. Prepared by Paul Webb, a MEI Chartered Energy Manager with a wealth of experience and expertise, it is packed full of information and insight to help you save energy, thus both looking after the environment and saving money. Covering everything from the history of energy purchasing through to profiling, how to do an assessment through to legislation, and more, it is a comprehensive tool to enable you to get the most out of your energy.Topics include what energy management is, building energy profiles, energy purchasing, assessments, data, best practice, codes, standards and legislation, technologies, and maintenance. Each chapter includes questions to help you check your understanding. After you have read the book you will have a good understanding of energy consumption and maintenance, with tangible and specific actions to undertake
RULES FOR BEING A MAN Don't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls and boys) to discovering the power of making people laugh (in the Cambridge Footlights with David Mitchell), and from losing his beloved mother to becoming a husband and father, Robert Webb considers the absurd expectations boys and men have thrust upon them at every stage of life. Hilarious and heartbreaking, How Not To Be a Boy explores the relationships that made Robert who he is as a man, the lessons we learn as sons and daughters, and the understanding that sometimes you aren't the Luke Skywalker of your life - you're actually Darth Vader.
This book has the potential to change the way you sell and make you more successful than you ever imagined. It combines research with practical strategies that really work.The techniques given in this book, apply to anyone who sells. You'll learn how to open a relationship and turn a first-time customer into a customer for life.As a sales professional, if my goal is to make you a customer for life, my actions will reflect that. Instead of using slick gimmicks or sales formulas, you'll learn to treat the customer with integrity. The book combines research with practical strategies that really work.
This guide to vocabulary acquisition is essential reading for teachers of English as a second or foreign language. It presents the major ideas and principles that relate to the teaching and learning of vocabulary and evaluates a wide range of practical activities designed to help boost students’ vocabulary acquisition. Key questions which are answered include: • How many words should students learn at a time, and how often? • How much classroom time should be spent teaching vocabulary? • What is the best way to group vocabulary for learning? • Is it useful to provide students with the L1 translations of unknown words? • Why do some students make greater progress than others? stua...
From renowned strength coach Paul Webb comes over 20 years of knowledge in a book designed to train goalkeepers to become stronger, faster, more explosive, and more resistant to injury.
In 'Strength Training for Footballers' ex-professional footballer and renowned strength coach Paul Webb distils over 20 years of knowledge into a book designed to train footballers to become stronger, faster, more explosive, and more resistant to injury. The method Paul uses is simple, and focused, yet extremely effective and unlike the vast majority of training programmes available has - at its core - the health of the athlete front and centre! Discover how to put all the pieces in place to become the strongest, most powerful, mentally strong, and hostile athlete you can possibly be! What you will learn: > Understand what you need to do to become the Strongest and Best Conditioned Athlete y...
Paul Corcoran looks like a real discovery.--Daily Telegraph
An illustrated biography of a 1920s matinee idol