New Releases by Megan Lloyd

When James VI of Scotland and I of England proclaimed himself King of Great Britain he proposed a merger of parliaments as he had joined two crowns in his own person ascending the throne of England in 1603. For James, the Cambro-Celtic past led to an Anglo-Scottish present, and Wales stood as the ideal. Although the parliamentary union of Great Britain was not initiated for another 100 years, Parliament’s denial failed to deter James from wanting a Great Britain, and R. A.’s play The Valiant Welshman became part of the public spectacle of unity required to nurture James’s dream. The Valiant Welshman, the Scottish James, and the Formation of Great Britain considers national, regional and linguistic identity and explores how R.A.’s play promotes Wales, serves King James and reveals what it means to be Welsh and Scots in a newly forming "Great Britain."

Work Like a Woman is a bold manifesto about why the way we work now is in desperate need of change, how you can campaign to help make this happen and why we will all - men and women - profit from this. Women today are working in a man''s culture - and it''s holding us back. In Work Like a Woman, Mary Portas examines the world of employment, how it works against women and what needs to change, as she tells the story of her career - and learning to rewrite the rules. Taking us through her working life, Mary looks at a range of topics from workplace bullying and accessing promotion, to combining a career with children and the affect that getting divorced and becoming a single parent had on her professional life. Speaking candidly about the traps she fell into - from aping the behaviour seen in aggressive corporate environments to recreating a male working culture within her own business - Mary will explode the myth of women ''having it all''. She will also track her evolution as a business leader and the decision to rebuild her company from the ground up on a model that today embraces female values. Examining practical issues, including flexible working and equal pay, and also cultural ones - such as gender bias - Mary will argue for a revolution in the way we work. Work Like a Woman is a manifesto for all- from young women entering the workforce and older women trying to integrate professional and family ambitions, to executives running businesses and creating best practice and the businesses that employ them. Honest, accessible and entertaining, it is a bold and inspiring vision of the future world of work.

Du plus loin qu''elle s''en souvienne, Alice a grandi dans la peur. La peur de son père, homme dur et violent qui n''hésite pas à la battre et à la maltraiter, elle et ses cinq frères et soeurs. Les coups et les insultes sont incessants et conduisent même la petite fille à l''hôpital. Le calvaire quotidien devient un véritable enfer quand, à onze ans, il viole sa fille pour la première fois. A partir de là, plus rien ne sera comme avant. L''homme utilise Alice comme un jouet. Pire, au fil des années, il la met enceinte six fois pour percevoir des allocations familiales. Le long martyre d''Alice se déroule sous les yeux de sa mère terrifiée, de ses frères et soeurs et des services sociaux. Tout le monde feint de ne rien voir. Jusqu''à ce qu''à 18 ans, la jeune fille trouve le courage et la force de dénoncer son bourreau. Enfin.

A Christian''s Journey is divided into four sections - Discipleship - Basic Doctrines - The Care of the Soul and Insights into God''s Word. The basic need in the Church today is teaching "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge" (NKJV) as well as to have a deeper relationship with God.

”Oletko nähnyt elokuvia, joissa joku herää aaveena, mutta ei itse tiedä olevansa kuollut? Sellaiselta minusta tuntui, kun huomasin ihmisten katsovan suoraan lävitseni. Yritinpä miten kovasti tahansa anoa ja huutaa, en saanut heitä huomaamaan minua.” Vuonna 1988 kaksitoistavuotias Martin Pistorius palasi koulusta valittaen kipeää kurkkuaan. Hän ei koskaan palannut takaisin kouluun. Mystiset oireet valtasivat Martinin kehon. Kahdeksantoista kuukauden kuluessa sairaus vei häneltä sekä puhe- että liikuntakyvyn täysin. Lääkärit olivat neuvottomia ja kertoivat Martinin vanhemmille, että tunnistamaton rappeumasairaus oli saanut pojan taantumaan vastasyntyneen tasolle. Lopulta Martin vajosi kooman kaltaiseen tilaan eikä enää reagoinut ulkoisiin ärsykkeisiin. Hänen ei ennustettu elävän kauan. Kukaan ei tiennyt, että vaikka Martinin keho pysyi täysin halvaantuneena, hänen mielensä palasi viiden vuoden kuluttua eloon. Vain tajutakseen elävänsä pahimmassa mahdollisessa painajaisessa. Martin ei kyennyt kertomaan kenellekään, että sairaalasängyssä makaavan, mihinkään reagoimattoman kehon sisällä eli vankina ajatteleva ja tunteva ihminen, joka oli tietoinen kaikesta ympärillään tapahtuvasta. Martin Pistoriuksen matka takaisin elämään oli hidas ja raskas. Maailmanmenestykseksi nousseessa kirjassaan hän kertoo itse noista kahdestatoista pitkästä vuodesta, väärän diagnoosin vahingollisuudesta, julmien hoitajien väkivallasta ja kommunikointikyvyn puutteen aiheuttamasta tuskasta. Mutta kirja on myös ainutlaatuinen kertomus toipumisesta, sitkeydestä, uuden yhteyden löytymisestä, rakkaudesta ja elämän voitosta.

Backcover: Center Point Large Print Edition General Fiction.

Angela Cannings trouwde op haar 19e met haar collega Terry, en de geboorte van hun dochter Gemma was de bekroning van hun geluk. Maar hun wereld stortte in toen Gemma na een paar maanden plotseling stierf. Twee jaar later overleed ook hun zoontje Jason aan de gevolgen van wiegendood. Toen in 1996 hun dochter Jade werd geboren, drie jaar later gevolgd door Matthew, leek hun wereld eindelijk weer op de rails te staan. Tot Angela Matthew vond: dood in zijn wiegje... Angela werd direct na Matthews dood opgepakt. Justitie hanteerde een vaste regel: één geval van wiegendood is een drama, twee gevallen zijn verdacht en drie is moord. Pas na bijna twee jaar gevangenschap werd Angela onvoorwaardelijk vrijgesproken, en kon zij eindelijk proberen het verleden te overwinnen en een normale gezinsband op te bouwen.

"Cercasi Ben disperatamente" è l''incredibile storia vera dell''amicizia tra un bambino e un gatto, e della straordinaria determinazione di una madre a restituire la felicità a suo figlio. Un libro, e una storia, che hanno commosso l''Inghilterra.

In April 2008, the world watched in horror as the news of Josef Fritzl made worldwide headlines. But for one British woman the story was not the stuff of unimaginable nightmares. Alice Lawrence knew all too well the torture suffered at the hands of a father whose depravity knew no bounds. She too was kept prisoner and repeatedly made pregnant - and it was only after the death of one of her babies that she finally found the courage to escape. Born in 1970, Alice grew up in the impoverished backstreets of an industrial Northern town with her parents and seven brothers and sisters. She was first raped by her father when she was 11. From the age of 15, she was made pregnant six times by him in an effort to secure additional state benefits. All bar one of her pregnancies failed, but her daughter never made it through her first year. The death of her baby was the spur to Alice bringing her father and abuser to justice. Finally, Alice can tell her deeply moving story of recovery from abuse.

In the mid-1980s, Emmanuel Jal was a seven year old Sudanese boy, living in a small village with his parents, aunts, uncles, and siblings. But as Sudan''s civil war moved closer—with the Islamic government seizing tribal lands for water, oil, and other resources—Jal''s family moved again and again, seeking peace. Then, on one terrible day, Jal was separated from his mother, and later learned she had been killed; his father Simon rose to become a powerful commander in the Christian Sudanese Liberation Army, fighting for the freedom of Sudan. Soon, Jal was conscripted into that army, one of 10,000 child soldiers, and fought through two separate civil wars over nearly a decade. But, remarkably, Jal survived, and his life began to change when he was adopted by a British aid worker. He began the journey that would lead him to change his name and to music: recording and releasing his own album, which produced the number one hip-hop single in Kenya, and from there went on to perform with Moby, Bono, Peter Gabriel, and other international music stars. Shocking, inspiring, and finally hopeful, War Child is a memoir by a unique young man, who is determined to tell his story and in so doing bring peace to his homeland.

As each month passes, playful hens substitute fake, but very innovative, eggs for the ones they are expected to lay. When Christmas comes the farmer shows the chickens what he has done with the eggs.