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Tis the winter of incontinent and Invisus is out of control and heading towards the icy shores of Antarctica. Jessica and Sam, estranged for a silly argument about looks vs. intelligence, are not talking, and Sam is struggling to contain the Malcontender power that grows within him.A darker figure looms in the shadows, lost in time, left on the cusp of life and death seeks release from his jailer. With bounty hunting Fire Fairys on their trail and bloody thirsty Trows on the prowl one of the Pharos Lighthouses residents will be taken, leaving the others to launch a daring rescue within the realms of the Dream Dimension.With a bumper cast of new and old, the gang is back together battling, dancing and stumbling through icy lands and strange dimensions. Nothing is what you would expect and no one is safe from Deaths sharp scythe. ... Read more

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What Is The Deal
What Is...She's a 1-hit-wonder from 2001 for "Irresistible" and is literally doing nothing in 2005...so why did she put out an ugly calendar?:scratches: ... Read more

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Jessica!
Jessica Simpson is a wonderful person with a rich spirit and a full understanding of life. She is beautiful, inside and out. I enjoyed her story and love her music

Lookin good
Anybody would like this, fan or non-fan.She seems like a nice person and for all that I've heard, she is.

Jessica Simpson
this book was pretty good. if you're a jessica simpson fan you should definitly get it. even if you think you know everything about her there are things in here thatwill surprise you. ... Read more

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This book draws on recent research to address key issues in residential child care policy and practice, offering guidance for developing best practice and improved outcomes for children and young people. Contributors examine important areas of concern in a sector that has experienced high profile scandals of abuse, poor outcomes for young people leaving residential care, and numerous government enquiries arguing for the continuing role of residential child care as a positive choice in a continuum of care services. Sections include promoting well-being and development for young people; issues of potential discrimination in residential policy and practice; responses to areas of discord in residential child care; and underpinning themes relating to residential child care, such as staff development and support. This book will provide an essential addition to the literature on residential child care for policy makers, managers and practitioners in the social services and students in the field. ... Read more

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Comparing European welfare regimes at local, national and international levels, "Welfare and Culture in Europe" stresses the need for a concept of culture to be incorporated into welfare studies. The book analyzes the theoretical issues behind the emergence of the concept of culture in welfare during a time of crisis and change in Europe. Part 2 concerns administrative arrangements for welfare provision and how practitioners and users respond to them. Chapters highlight how different key social concepts - such as the nature of citizenship, the role of the family and the public/private dichotomy - shape the provision and use of welfare services. The final part develops possible directions for future policy research and presents alternative methodological bases for empirical work. It includes a major quantitative study of the ways in which welfare states reflect and reproduce patterns of social values, and a description of a new technique of biographical analysis of welfare users."Welfare and Culture in Europe" proposes a redirection of social policy in welfare, moving away from the limitaions of the traditional, universal, bureaucratic politics of distribution to a "post-modern" participatory and innovative politics of recognition. ... Read more

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The author describes how, in practice, music therapists work at child day care centres, adult day care centres and in other institutions. The first chapters cover the history and theory of working with music with people with developmental disabilities. The main body of the book covers discussion of the various methods, including individual and group work. Each method is described in terms of the clinical indications, the objectives set and the choice of techniques and musical instruments, and is illustrated through the use of case study. The final chapter draws conclusions for both theory and practice. ... Read more

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With ever-increasing new policies on 'anti-social behaviour' and ongoing public concern over the care of children, juvenile crime and law breaking, this new book is a timely examination of recent developments in the areas of youth justice and child protection. The central focus of the book is on whether society and young people in state care, both in young offenders' institutes or foster/care homes, are better served by the dispensation of justice or appropriate family support. A broad range of international contributors discuss different approaches to this issue and the varying extent to which it is dealt with as part of the same system ranging from the English, Welsh, Western European, US and Canadian arrangements, where judicial and service responses are largely segregated to the Scottish system where both are dealt with in the same children's hearing system. The contributors also consider the implications of these arrangements for the rights of society on the one hand, children and parents on the other, and provide information on the rationale for current policy, new proposals, and the efficacy of the different systems."Youth Justice and Child Protection" will be an important reference for policy-makers, social workers, carers, academics, students, lawyers, magistrates, sheriffs, heath professionals and all those working in youth justice and child protection. ... Read more

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After an impressive audition for Tommy Mottola, Chairman and CEO of Sony Music Entertainment, Jessica Simpson was on the road to stardom.Mottola predicted that she would "change the world with the power of her heart and her music."Jessica is on the road to proving him right.It's the desire to make her music more than just cute radio fodder that drives Jessica, who has viewed singing and performing as her life's work since she was a young child growing up in Texas.Her first album, Sweet Kisses (Columbia), has been certified platinum, with worldwide album sales over two million.Filled with undeniable spirit and bolstered by a soaring sumptuous voice that defies comparisons, Jessica Simpson is a young woman who cannot be denied.This pop princess is quickly achieving diva status. ... Read more

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The average human spends one third of their life asleep, yet most people know relatively little about what goes on when their head touches the pillow and their eyes close for the next eight hours. This book brings together an unprecedented number and range of contributions from different disciplines relating to sleep in one comprehensive volume. This important multidisciplinary volume opens with a look at the history of sleep, both in literature and in life, and goes on to consider sociological aspects. Sleep problems, sleep quality and the effects of drugs such as caffeine, nicotine and alcohol are all discussed, together with the importance of sleep for daytime performance and the science of the human body clock. Medication and polysomnography (measuring sleep) are also explored, alongside forensic aspects of sleep, and how it can be affected by medical and psychiatric conditions. This groundbreaking and insightful book will be of great interest to students, academics and professionals in a wide range of disciplines, and anyone else who wishes to discover more about this fascinating topic. ... Read more

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Audrey had just closed the safe in her father's study when she was startled by a slight noise. She turned like a defensive animal to face danger. It had indeed occurred to her that she was rather like an animal in captivity, and she found a bitter pleasure in the idea, though it was not at all original.

"And Flank Hall is my Zoo!" she had said. (Not that she had ever seen the Zoological Gardens or visited London.)

She was lithe; she moved with charm. Her short, plain blue serge walking-frock disclosed the form of her limbs and left them free, and it made her look younger even than she was. Its simplicity suited her gestures and took grace from them. But she wore the old thing without the least interest in it--almost unconsciously. She had none of the preoccupations caused by the paraphernalia of existence. She scarcely knew what it was to own. She was aware only of her body and her soul. Beyond these her possessions were so few, so mean, so unimportant, that she might have carried them to the grave and into heaven without protest from the authorities earthly or celestial.
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This is about an heiress who goes to Paris and gets into an upper class social circle, returns to England to help with the suffrage movement and then goes back to Paris. I gave it a mediocre 3 stars because it's a mediocre book- the writing is OK, the lead character isn't all that interesting, and I doubt that I'll ever read it again. ... Read more

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She was walking, with her customary air of haughty and rapt leisure, across the market-place of Bursley, when she observed in front of her, at the top of Oldcastle Street, two men conversing and gesticulating vehemently, each seated alone in a dog-cart. These persons, who had met from opposite directions, were her husband, John Stanway, the earthenware manufacturer, and David Dain, the solicitor who practised at Hanbridge. Stanway's cob, always quicker to start than to stop, had been pulled up with difficulty, drawing his cart just clear of the other one, so that the two portly and middle-aged talkers were most uncomfortably obliged to twist their necks in order to see one another; the attitude did nothing to ease the obvious asperity of the discussion. She thought the spectacle undignified and silly; and she marvelled, as all women marvel, that men who conduct themselves so magisterially should sometimes appear so infantile. She felt glad that it was Thursday afternoon, and the shops closed and the streets empty. ... Read more