Placing emphasis on the three major stages of interviewing: exploration, clarification and action, this title offers students a programmed-learning model of interviewing that has successfully trained countless members of the helping professions over the years.[...]

Japan, 1857. For centuries Japan has been on its own; isolated by choice from the rest of the world. But the Western powers are now at its shores demanding to be let in, the government is crumbling and revolution is building. The age of the samurai is ending and in its place a new Japan will be born[...]

Featuring over 150 iconic, rare and previously unpublished images of Pink Floyd, this book captures the legendary rock group at every stage of their epic career. From some of their first photo sessions in 1967 to their triumphant reunion at Live 8, this book is a unique chronicle of five enigmatic m[...]

An introduction to the study of nationalism, this book presents the work of key authors in relation to of a set of key themes - primordialism, modernism, power and culture. It points out the limitations in both modernist and primordialist approaches, and shows how a clearer conceptualisation of powe[...]

The Penguin Active Reading range is carefully graded into 5 levels from starter to intermediate. The text is simplified and exercises develop the four language skills - reading, writing, listening and speaking. The accompanying multi-rom contains a recording of the full simplified text and a range o[...]

Ivy, the youngest in a family of thieves, con artists, and roustabouts, seems destined for an unhappy fate--until she and her brother are plucked from their surroundings by a charitable benefactor and sent to school. From the scams of the slums, where Ivy develops an unfortunate taste for laudanum, [...]

A young girl, a winged horse, and an Olympian war make for an adventurous start to an exciting trilogy.When Pegasus crashes onto a Manhattan roof during a terrible storm, thirteen-year-old Emily's life changes forever. Suddenly allied with a winged horse she'd always thought was mythical, Emily is t[...]

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Freya is dreading turning fourteen - that marks the official end of her childhood and when she takes up full duties of a Valkyrie - a collector of souls from humanity's battlefields. But Freya is unlike any other Valkyrie. She doesn't want to follow in the footsteps of the legends before her. As she[...]

In the world of Asgard, living among Odin, Thor and Loki are the Valkyries of legend. Norse goddesses, reapers of souls from human battlefields - they have the power to cause death with just one touch. Fourteen-year-old Freya is a Valkyrie - but she has not followed in the footsteps of the legends b[...]