When Jane Elliott was four years old, the nightmare began. She became the helpless victim of a sociopath—bullied, dominated, and sexually abused by a man only fourteen years her senior: her stepfather. For nearly two decades she was held prisoner, both physically and emotionally. But at the age of twenty-one she escaped . . . and then she fought back. The Little Prisoner is the shocking, astonishing, and ultimately uplifting true story of one woman's shattering twenty-year ordeal—and how she triumphed against an evil and violent human monster when honesty and bravery were her only weapons.
Packed with facts, this miniature encyclopaedia is designed to be both fascinating and fun to use and covers a vast scope of information, from the Earth, its plants and animals, to its people and discoveries.
Focusing on narrative methods in social research, this book offers a clear and approachable introduction to the subject. It explores the nature and significance of research methodology, providing insights into its theoretical foundations. Ideal for those seeking to understand the interplay between narrative and research, it emphasizes the importance of storytelling in social inquiry.
The updated edition of this classic text introduces a range of techniques for
exploring quantitative data. Beginning with an emphasis on descriptive
statistics and graphical approaches, it moves on in later chapters to simple
strategies for examining the associations between variables using inferential
statistics such as chi squared.
Sadie Burrows' life is torn apart by the death of her father and the brutal man who replaces him. In the chill of a winter morning in her flat on the rough Sumner Estate, sweet thirteen-year-old Sadie's childhood comes to an abrupt end. Sadie survives her hideous ordeal and becomes a millionaire businesswoman with a high-class sex and lingerie shop and a chain of gentleman's clubs.Then, out of the blue, there is a knock at her door and Sadie's shameful secret comes back to haunt her.Sadie, the first novel by bestselling writer Jane Elliott, is a story of revenge and blackmail and survival.
This is the inspirational true story of a four-year old girl who fell into the power of a man whose evil knew no bounds. She encountered terrifying mental and physical torture from her psychopathic stepfather for a period of 17 years until she managed to break free, her spirit still unbroken
Literature, film, and television have become obsessed with the intersection of
survival and choice. Jane Elliott analyzes this new and distinctive aesthetic
phenomenon, which she calls the microeconomic mode, through close readings
that show how an aesthetics of choice has reshaped contemporary understanding
of what it means to be human.
Svet v kocke, ľudský svet na Zemi i vo vesmíre, svet v obrazoch-to je Obrázková encyklopédia z dielne anglického vydavateľstva Usborne. Cez päť tematických okruhov a s využitím najnovších poznatkov o našej planéte, prírode, dejinách, ľuďoch, vede a technike vecne, názorne i vtipne odpovie mladším aj starším na rozličné všetečné otázky. Je tematicky aj adresne univerzálna deťom už od 5 rokov-priblíži im svet, v ktorom žijú, umožní im "prečítať si obrázky" a cez ne-prvé slová. Stane sa im lákadlom do ríše kníh a raja poznania. Obsah: Naša planéta-Čo je Zem ?, Zem vo vesmíre, Mesiace, Hviezdy, Ako vznikla Zem ?, Čo je pod zemou ? Čas, Prečo sa striedajú ročné obdobia ?, Počasie, Podnebie, Rieky a jazerá, Moria, Bádatelia, Afrika, Severná a Južná Amerika, Ázia, Austrália a Nový Zéland, Antarktída, Európa. Život v prírode-Z dejín našej Zeme, Zeleň a kvety, Stromy a ich obyvatelia, Hmyz, Život v oceánoch, Plazy, Vtáky, Cicavce, Ľudské telo, Starostlivosť o krajinu. Dejiny-Dejiny ľudstva, Život v jaskyniach, Starovekí Egypťania, Starovekí Rimania, Stredovek, Priemyselná revolúcia, Moderné časy. Ľudia-Ľudia z rozličných krajín, Domy a bývanie, Jedlo a varenie, Šport, Písanie a knihy, Umenie, Hudba, Remeslá, Obliekanie, Mýty, Náboženstvá, Divadlo a tanec, Vzdelávanie, Vláda a politika. Veda okolo nás-Vzduch a voda, Svetlo a farby, Elektrina, Zvuk, Doprava, Zdravotníctvo. Dodatok-Čo vieme o pohybe, Stroje a vynálezy, Moderná technika.
