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Help your students be better biologists with the only book that provides dedicated additional practice for the central focus of Higher Human Biology for CfE.

Complete coverage of the latest arrangements for Revised and CfE Higher from Jim Torrance and his renowned author team.

Help your students be better biologists with the only book that provides dedicated additional practice for the central focus of Higher Biology for CfE.

Jo Docherty and Hattie Contaldo have a vision - a holiday retreat in the heart of the Lake District exclusively for guests of `a certain age' wishing to stimulate both mind and body with new creative experiences. One hotel refurbishment later and the Best Boomerville Hotel is open for business!

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Lord Amherst's diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects of success, but the intense diplomatic encounter that greeted his arrival ended badly. Amherst never appeared before the Jiaqing emperor and his embassy was expelled from Peking on the day it arrived. Historians have blamed Amherst for this outcome, citing his over-reliance on the advice of his Second Commissioner, Sir George Thomas Staunton, not to kotow before the emperor. Detailed analysis of British sources reveal that Amherst was well informed on the kotow issue and made his own decision for which he took full responsibility. Success was always unlikely because of irreconcilable differences in approach. China's conduct of foreign relations based on the tributary system required submission to the emperor, thus relegating all foreign emissaries and the rulers they represented to vassal status, whereas British diplomatic practice was centred on negotiation and Westphalian principles of equality between nations. The Amherst embassy's failure revised British assessments of China and led some observers to believe that force, rather than diplomacy, might be required in future to achieve British goals. The Opium War of 1840 that followed set a precedent for foreign interference in China, resulting in a century of 'humiliation'. This resonates today in President Xi Jinping's call for 'National Rejuvenation' to restore China's historic place at the centre of a new Sino-centric global order

Complete coverage of the latest SQA syllabus from Scotland's number one Biology authors. This textbook has been tailored specifically to the extended requirements, teaching approaches and syllabus outlines.

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Learn how to hook up and navigate around Amazon Fire TV. Get connected to your WiFi, sign up with Amazon Prime or Netflix and start enjoying your content with this fully illustrated guide. Find your favourite music, play games and run apps right from your TV. James takes you through the basics of operation with plenty of photographs, screenshots and illustrations to help you understand what you’re doing. If you want to get up and running quickly and easily, this is the guide you need.