from the back cover: Every town should have a 'card' - someone who gets talked about, someone who does mad and wonderful things, someone who makes you laugh. Bursley in the Five Towns has a 'card': Edward Henry Machin (Denry for short). Denry begins life in a poor little house where the rent is twenty-three pence a week. But before he's thirty, he's made a lot of money, and had more adventu…
Offers advice about things from parent interviews, seeking promotion, to taking assembly and surviving Ofsted. This book covers the various practicalities - from choosing the right course and getting into your first-choice college, through to finding the right teaching post for you and juggling a life with your new career.
from the back cover: Arnold Bennett is famous for his stories about the Five Towns and the people who live there. They look and sound just like other people, and, like all of us, sometimes they do some very strange things. There's Sir Jee, who is a rich businessman. So why is he making a plan with a burglar? Then there is a Toby Hall. Why does he find there? And there are the Hessian brothers …
The second novel in the No. ! Ladies' Detective Agency series, Tears of the Giraffe charts the further adventures of Precious Ramotswe, Botswana's only --and finest-- female detective. quoted from the back of the book.
Pantaskah Maria dihormati ? Banyak kalangan - baik dikalangan Katolik sendiri maupun kalangan lain - menganggap sikap hormat kepada Maria tidak berguna dan sia-sia. Ada yang menganggap Maria hanya manusia biasa. Karena itu, ia tidak perlu menjadi objek doa atau devosi dan tidak pantas menjadi pengantara. Hanya Yesuslah satu-satunya jalan dan pengantara menuju Bapa. Ada pula yang menganggap devo…