LIBROS DEL AUTOR: robert j brennan

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  • Three Girls from Bootle
    Robert J Brennan
    Three sisters. A brutal childhood. A bond that couldn’t be broken.Growing up in an impoverished Catholic family in North Liverpool, sisters Maureen, Michelle, and Josie know only the harsh, unforgiving realities of a world that turns a blind eye. Behind closed doors, their upbringing is marked by severe mental and physical abuse-hidden in an era when authorities readily accept ...
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    10,98 €

  • The Lives We Once Knew
    Robert J Brennan
    Grandparent alienation is a profound unending grief that tears at your very soul. There is no easy acceptance.There is no coming to terms with the loss. Instead you face a constant sharp heartbreak that cuts like a knife. It damages physical health and destroys mental wellbeing. It leaves you with one agonising question Why?This book does not offer medical advice, it does not p...
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    7,01 €

  • A Manx Tale
    Robert J Brennan
    Ailin the Manx kitten foolishly left her home in the warmth and safety of the abandoned croft or tholtan as it is known in Manx Gaelic. Her mother Saoirse had left the tholtan to fetch dinner while Ailin and her two brothers slept. Ailin having awoke she grew impatient of her two brothers still asleep and went to play outside. Ailin listened to the familiar noise of the Caaig a...
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    7,44 €

  • This Green Unpleasant Land
    Robert J Brennan
    This is a story of ordinary families and communities decimated by the monetarist policies of the Thatcher government and its economic and political choices that shifted the blame onto the poorest in society. It is about the destruction of the industrial heartland the bedrock of UK industry. It is about the closure of factories, ship yards and coal pits. It is about the delibera...
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    11,11 €

  • The Spirit of Christmas
    Robert J Brennan
    Amelia the mouse lives in the roof of a terraced house outside the big city and is pursued by Oscar the cat whenever she leaves her home in the roof to search for food. It is the week before Christmas and Amelia has realised she has not posted her Christmas letter to Santa and leaves her home in the roof to travel into the city where Santa has a grotto in one of the big departm...
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    5,20 €

  • The Tale of the Failing Crops
    Robert J Brennan
    Many years have passed since the old man’s forest survived the threat of development as Miss Hootsalot and her class listen to the tale of some of the creatures that once inhabited the forest.Albus the rabbit now entering self- exile unable to return to the warren having caused great sadness to Camomile. Determined to return one day he sets out to make his fortune he is accompa...
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    7,04 €

  • A Time of Peace and War
    Robert J Brennan
    Bootle in Merseyside was the most bombed provincial town outside of London due to its extensive dock system being the gateway to the Atlantic. There were just over 500 separate bombing raids on the town starting on 29 August 1940 with the last raid on 29 December 1942.The deadliest raids took place between 02 and 08 May and remembered as the 'May Blitz' when Bootle and Liverpoo...
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    12,38 €

  • County Lines
    Robert J Brennan
    This book is about vulnerable persons including children and young people who are exploited by county lines gangs and the devastating consequences to those involved. The characters are fictional but the suffering and the reality including cuckooing of vulnerable adults homes are an everyday fact of life. And while parents and professionals working with vulnerable adults young p...
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    7,77 €

  • The Old Man’s Forest
    Robert J Brennan
    The old man’s forest that has stood for centuries having surviving the great storm of 1987 now facing its greatest threat not from nature but from man.With new housing developments planned across the fields and meadows, the creatures that have made the forest their home for generations all gathering around the majestic oak to hear the daily news reports from Dr Brown the wise o...
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    6,27 €

  • A Glittering Malice
    Robert J Brennan
    This is about life on a council estate in the county borough of Bootle in North Liverpool during the 1960s-1970s with the spectre of penury looming heavily over the family home. The love of grandparents and the memories that last a life time of going abroad to the Isle of Man to the struggles of teenage years and family breakdown. Of best friends, of street football games, adve...
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    7,58 €

  • Test Equating, Scaling, and Linking
    Michael J. Kolen / Robert L. Brennan
    This book provides an introduction to test equating, scaling and linking, including those concepts and practical issues that are critical for developers and all other testing professionals. In addition to statistical procedures, successful equating, scaling and linking involves many aspects of testing, including procedures to develop tests, to administer and score tests and to ...
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    169,37 €