Best Selling Books by David GARDNER

Horizons fully integrates the strategies of the Foundation Subjects strand of the Key Stage 3 National Strategy and provides accessible material for exciting and motivating lessons as well as customisable planning support.

A progressive Aural workbook for Rhythmic Dictation, Melodic Dictation & Chord Progression questions to develop skills required in the VCE study design Contemporary & Repertoire Units 3 & 4. This is the teacher book with the answers.

Another marvellous story from best selling travel writer, David Gardner. Join David and his wife Wendy as they take on the wonders of Portugal in all its glory. Its history, culture, natural beauty, and myriad idiosyncrasies are brought to life with feeling and humour as this couple travels through the heart of an inspiring country. Explore the beauty of Porto, the evocative Douro Valley, the frenetic energy and charm of Lisbon, and the history of Tomar and its Knights Templar. Then journey on to the grand city of Coimbra, the Medieval town of Obidos and the regal splendour of Sintra. It is a book that will captivate and inspire any who have ever thought of travelling to this Iberian wonderland.

Paranoia or truth? Twenty-one talented authors write short stories about conspiracies. But are they real or imagined? This collection features the following: The Tree by Se n David Gardner, Surprise Larceny by S. Furlong-Bolliger, Swimming with the Fishes by Wanda Morrow-Clevenger, Walking Barefoot on the Moon by John H. Dromey, Northern Passages by Ken Sieben, What You Wanted to Hear by Patricia Puckett, 302 by Peter Giglio, Conspiracy Theory by Steven Gepp, In the Trenches by J. Roff Michau, Dangerous Paranoia, the Choice of a New Generation by Robert Bagnall, Gordon McDuff is Just a Man by Patrick Shand, And the World Stopped by Matt Adams, Downbound Train by D.S. Jones, The Fine Art of Dying by Kirk Jones, The Onion Barrel by Paul Starkey, Out of the Mist by Ken Staley, Synesthesia by A.J. French, Tesla by Tim Reed, Autonomous Invasive Defense Strategy by Marc Sorondo, Human Cattle by Kevin McClintock & Deus Ex Funland by Adam Knight.

Sitting on an ice-bound plane in Munich with his Manchester United teammates on February 6, 1958 Duncan Edwards had the world at his feet. At the age of 21, he''d already played 151 matches for his club and had 18 caps for his country. Tragically, the player Sir Bobby Charlton called the best he''d ever seen never made it home from that trip, dying as one of the fabled Busby Babes.Fast forward to modern day and a middle-aged British expat living in America who has lost his way in life but still gets a kick out of playing football with his friends. Back home in Dudley in the West Midlands for the funeral of his father, Jimmy Keen finds an ancient pair of boots in the attic that he is told once belonged to Duncan, the pride of Dudley and an old school teammate of his dad.The find allows Jimmy a glimpse into the human side of his cold, distant father through his special relationship with the legendary footballer. Much later, back at home in California, Jimmy tries on the crumbling boots and wears them for his weekly pick-up game. Suddenly he turns into a player capable of unbelievable skills. His extraordinary abilities propell the protagonist all the way to the Major League Soccer Cup Final in the US at the age of 47, but is his late blooming success down to finally fulfilling his potential...or is it just the boots?The novel is about the enduring wonder of playing football, but it also examines the issues we all face dealing with the demons in our past and remaining relevant as we grow older.Duncan Edwards'' ghost runs through the story, giving the reader a real insight into the kind of player he was and the man he would have become.

A Travel Tale from Italy: A couple escape their grown children to spend time together in Italy. This is their tale of adventure, romance, beauty and wonder. It is a travel book about how they fell in love with the country, its people, its passion, and its culture. From Rome and Florence to Tuscany and Sicily, this journey of exploration, often on roads less traveled, is full of humour, unexpected events, mishaps and surprises. It is a story that takes the reader into ancient piazzas, local markets, tiny hilltop villages, and along beautiful coastlines, always with some vino at hand and an appreciation of the extraordinary. This is travel writing at its best, providing the reader with an evocative portrait of a truly unique country. A compelling read for any who want to experience the real Italy, to understand its magic and its seduction.

ICT resources for teaching geography in secondary schools.

[This dissertation] "traces the ways that distinctive features of nineteenth-century theater allowed novelists to examine the distinctive dynamics of mid-century political power. In particular, this project examines a set a novelistic characters in light of certain stage figures from which they are drawn: anonymous stage supernumeraries, star actors, stigmatized actresses, and blackface minstrel performers. My main argument is that novelists such as Melville, Hawthorne, Stowe, Fern, and Bird, borrowed from the popular theater culture of their day in order to interrogate the shifting social and political climate of the 1830s, 40s, and 50s. Beyond showing the extent to which these novelists engaged with the popular culture of their day, I also analyze the ways these novelists used the theatrical to explore the limits and possibilities of cross-cultural identification and empathy in an era of Jacksonian democracy. Drawing on scholarship in literary studies, theater history, and performance studies, [this dissertation] further argues that nineteenth-century theater was uniquely capable of giving novelists a language to re-examine a politics of citizenship by underscoring social sympathy. Throughout my close readings of such figures as Ishmael, Sheppard Lee, Simon Legree, Hester Prynne, Ruth Hall, Black Guinea, and Fleece, I develop three terms to help me interrogate this politics of citizenship based on intersubjectivity: "Theatrical watchfulness" borrows from the Puritan practice of watchful self-reflection; I show that what was in the 17th century a moral practice, appears in the 19th century as a social practice—one that emerges as a means of holding an increasingly diverse population together by encouraging each individual to watch her own behavior as if her life were on display. The "prosopopoetic imagination" builds on the rhetorical figure of prosopopoeia—in which one "confers the mask" and speaks as if he were another person—and helps me navigate the trajectories of identification and empathy, especially in my analysis of blackface minstrelsy. Finally, "theatrical citizenship" is the term I use to describe the cluster of strategies, borrowed from mid-century theater culture, that nineteenth-century fictional characters deploy in order to negotiate the terrain of Jacksonian-era politics."--Page v.

Algal-derived biodiesel is of particular interest because of several factors including: the potential for a near-carbon-neutral life cycle, the prospective ability for algae to capture carbon dioxide generated from coal, and algae''s high per acre yield potential. Our group and others have shown that in nitrogen limitation, and for a single species of Chlorella, a rise in culture medium pH yields triacylglycerol (TAG) accumulation. To solidify and expand on these triggers, the influence and interaction of pH and nitrogen concentration on lipid production was further investigated on Chlorophyceae Scenedesmus sp. and Coelastrella sp. Growth was monitored optically and TAG accumulation was monitored by Nile red fluorescence and confirmed by gas chromatography. Both organisms grew in all treatments and TAG accumulation was observed by two distinct conditions: high pH and nitrogen limitation. The Scenedesmus sp. was shown to grow and produce lipids to a larger degree in alkaliphilic conditions (pH u003e9) and was used to further investigate the interplay between TAG accumulation from high pH and/or nitrate depletion. Results given here indicate that TAG accumulation per cell, monitored by Nile red fluorescence, correlates with pH at the time of nitrate depletion.

Microalgae are capable of synthesizing high levels of triacylglycerol (TAG) which can be used as precursor compounds for fuels and specialty chemicals. Algal TAG accumulation typically occurs when cellular cycling is delayed or arrested due to nutrient limitation, an environmental challenge (e.g., pH, light, temperature stress), or by chemical addition. This work is a continuation of previous studies detailing sodium bicarbonate-induced TAG accumulation in the alkaline chlorophyte Scenedesmus sp. WC-1. It was found that upon sodium bicarbonate amendment, bicarbonate is the ion responsible for TAG accumulation; a culture amendment of approximately 15 mM bicarbonate was sufficient to arrest the cellular cycle and switch the algal metabolism from high growth to a TAG accumulating state. However, the cultures were limited in dissolved inorganic carbon one day after the amendment, suggesting additional carbon supplementation was necessary. Therefore, additional abiotic and biotic experimentation was performed to evaluate in- and out-gassing of CO2. Cultures to which 40?50 mM of sodium bicarbonate were added consumed DIC faster than CO2 could ingas during the light hours and total photosynthetic oxygen production was elevated as compared to cultures that did not receive supplemental inorganic carbon.