Bess of Hardwick

Wyn Derbyshire

The life of Bess of Hardwick - one of the most remarkable people who lived in England in the late Tudor period. Her social ascendance from a relatively humble Midlands family to becoming the Countess of Shrewsbury. Wyn Derbyshire describes how Bess navigated the political and legal challenges for her to retain her wealth and independence in the Tudor period.  Illustrated with colour pictures, the book also includes a timeline and family trees.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781910151051
  • Publication Date: Aug 2022
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Growing Up Human

Sybella Ng

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  • ISBN: 9789675492228
  • Publication Date: Jul 2022
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Building a Research University

Peter J. Heard

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  • ISBN: 9789675492594
  • Publication Date: Jul 2022
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Diabetes

Y.C. Chia

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  • ISBN: 9789675492198
  • Publication Date: Jul 2022
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An Introduction to the History of Architecture, Art & Design

George T. Gray

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  • ISBN: 9789675492242
  • Publication Date: Jul 2022
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Sloth Bear

Shyamala Ratnayeke

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  • ISBN: 9789675492259
  • Publication Date: Jul 2022
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Voices in Texts and Contexts

Toshiko Yamaguchi

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9789675492556
  • Publication Date: Jul 2022
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Financial Intermediation in Small Island Developing Economies

Maxwell J. Fry

This study examines the problems and policies for financial intermediation in small economies, including financial institutions, measures their efficiency and policy frame, and analyses the financial structure in the Bahamas, Barbados, Fiji, Hong Kong, Maldives, Papua New Guinea, St Lucia, Seychelles, Singapore, Solomon Islands and Western Samoa.

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  • ISBN: 9780850922080
  • Publication Date: Sep 1981
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The Commonwealth at the Summit, Volume 1

This volume contains the full text of declarations, statements and communiqués issued by Commonwealth Heads of Government between 1944 and 1986. As these communiqués testify, the small association of old Commonwealth countries of 1944 has grown into a worldwide multiracial partnership.

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  • ISBN: 9780850923179
  • Publication Date: Jan 1987
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Rooting Cuttings of Tropical Trees

K.A. Longman

This book offers information on how to select, grow, plant and care for tropical trees. It is suitable for a small-holder and an experienced forester who are interested in growing trees in both humid and drier areas.

  • Format: Spiral bound
  • ISBN: 9780850923940
  • Publication Date: Jan 2002
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Compendium of Election Laws, Practices and Cases of Selected Commonwealth Countries, Volume 1, Part 1

Carl W. Dundas

This compendium presents the constitutional provisions and election laws of a number of selected Commonwealth countries in a user-friendly way.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9780850924633
  • Publication Date: Jan 1996
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Personnel Records

Piers Cain

In providing some firm ground on which those public servants, who are faced with the challenge of public service reform, can stand while assessing the options available, the Public Service Thematic Series marks a milestone in the debate concerning specific areas of management of the public service.

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  • ISBN: 9780850925524
  • Publication Date: Jan 1998
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Promoting Industrial Competitiveness in Developing Countries

Sanjaya Lall

As developing countries have started to open up their economies, concern about competitiveness has spread to their policy makers. Their relative competitiveness as production and investment sites has become a prime focus of development policy.

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  • ISBN: 9780850926231
  • Publication Date: Oct 1999
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Beekeeping as a Business

Richard Jones

Beekeeping requires little, if any, financial aid and bee products have a good export market. They also provide nutrition for the hive owner. This book is easy to understand, and the text is well supported with clearly- labelled black-and-white drawings and diagrams. There are also numerous colour and black-and-white photographs.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850926316
  • Publication Date: Jan 1999
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Small States in the Global Economy

David Peretz

A collection of the papers presented to the Commonwealth Secretariat/World Bank Joint Task Force conferences in 1999 and 2000. The joint report set out an agenda for future national, regional and international actions to address economic vulnerabilities of small states.

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  • ISBN: 9780850926781
  • Publication Date: Jan 2001
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Resource Materials for Multi-Grade Teaching

Dawn Quist

One hundred and three million children globally are deprived of their right to an education. These seven modules on multi-grade teaching were designed as part of a partnership effort to assist countries to achieve quality universal primary education. The modules were developed by Commonwealth educators and tested in Tanzania.

  • Format: Spiral bound
  • ISBN: 9780850928266
  • Publication Date: Sep 2005
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Combating Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing

The Commonwealth has been in the forefront of international efforts to combat money laundering and terrorist financing, particularly through supporting its developing member countries to implement comprehensive Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT) systems that comply with global standards.

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  • ISBN: 9780850928426
  • Publication Date: Aug 2006
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The Commonwealth at the Summit, Volume 3

Contains the full text of declarations, statements and communiqués issued by Commonwealth Heads of Government between 1997 and 2005. This volume covers the meetings held in Edinburgh (1997), Durban (1999), Coolum (2002), Abuja (2003) and Malta (2005). It carries a foreword by Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780850928570
  • Publication Date: Nov 2007
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Fairer Fishing?

Martin Tsamenyi

Considers the likely effects on African, Caribbean and Pacific countries of the European Union's Directive on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, planned to be implemented from 2010.

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  • ISBN: 9780850928990
  • Publication Date: Feb 2009
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Blended Learning & Flipped Classrooms

Patricia Adams

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9780940017146
  • Publication Date: Dec 2017
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