Chris Pearce

Fritz Mamier

Ulrich Weyl

The Forgotten Minefields

Through the Eyes of Thomas Pamphlett: Convict and Castaway is a non-fiction book in the popular history genre that follows the extraordinary life and times of Australian convict Thomas Pamphlett. He became a brickmaker in early industrial Manchester, UK, before being sentenced to 14 years' transportation to New South Wales in 1810 for stealing a horse. In Sydney, Pamphlett committed a further crime of stealing the windows from Birch Grove House, Balmain, and was given 100 lashes and six months in a gaol gang. He escaped twice before being sent to Newcastle penal colony for several years. Back in Sydney, "temporary insanity" exonerated him from a charge of robbing a house at the Hawkesbury River area. He is best known for his time as a castaway with two others in the Moreton Bay area for seven months in 1823, the year before Brisbane was founded. Four of them had set off in a small open boat to fetch cedar from the Illawarra district before a storm blew them out to sea. They suffered incredible hardships for 25 days somewhere in the ocean, with one succumbing to the elements before they became shipwrecked on Moreton Island. Naked, they thought they were south of Sydney and headed north along the beach. They were actually more than 500 miles north of Sydney already and going further away. The trio lived with various Aboriginal groups before Pamphlett spotted a cutter in the bay off Bribie Island. On board was explorer John Oxley looking for a place for a new penal colony. They showed Oxley the Brisbane River. He put in a favourable report to the Governor and the new Moreton Bay convict settlement was set up the following year. Ironically, for a further crime of stealing, Pamphlett was sentenced to seven years’ transportation to the new Moreton Bay colony, which may never have been founded had he not been rescued by Oxley. The convict colony became Brisbane, capital city of the state of Queensland, Australia. Includes 106 illustrations: maps, old photos, paintings, sketches, etc.

Convict and Castaway

Through the Eyes of Thomas Pamphlett

Greg Byrd

Lynn Byrd

Written by well-respected authors, the Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics suite provides a comprehensive structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 Mathematics framework in three stages. This Practice Book for Stage 7 provides coverage of the Problem Solving framework, with questions relating to the framework statements highlighted in both the Practice Book and the Coursebook. It also contains further exercise questions for practice in the classroom or at home.

Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics Practice

Ensure top marks and complete coverage with Collins' brand new IGCSE Maths course for the Cambridge International Examinations syllabus 0580. Provide rigour with thousands of tried and tested questions using international content and levels clearly labelled to aid transition from the Core to Extended curriculum. Endorsed by University of Cambridge International Examinations Ensure students are fully prepared for their exams with extensive differentiated practice exercises, detailed worked examples and IGCSE past paper questions. Stretch and challenge students with supplementary content for extended level examinations and extension level questions highlighted on the page. Emphasise the relevance of maths with features such as 'Why this chapter matters' which show its role in everyday life or historical development. Develop problem solving with questions that require students to apply their skills, often in real life, international contexts. Enable students to see what level they are working at and what they need to do to progress with Core and Extended levels signalled clearly throughout. Encourage students to check their work with answers to all exercise questions at the back (answers to examination sections are available in the accompanying Teacher s Pack)."

Cambridge IGCSE Maths

Written by well-respected authors, the Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics suite provides a comprehensive structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 Mathematics framework in three stages. This brightly illustrated Coursebook for Stage 8 offers a comprehensive introduction to all topics covered in the syllabus. Worked examples show students how to tackle different problems, and plenty of exercise questions prepare students for the different types of questions they will face in their Progression test. Coverage of the Problem Solving framework is integrated throughout the course, with questions relating to the Problem Solving framework statements highlighted in the Coursebook. There is an accompanying Practice Book and Teacher's Resource CD-ROM available separately.

Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics Coursebook 8

Daylight saving time has been described as one of the most controversial issues in modern history. This encyclopedia of daylight saving time commemorates 100 years of the scheme since it was first introduced nationally in 1916 by European countries on both sides of World War I to save fuel. The book examines the origins of daylight saving, including the historical development of calendars, clocks, standard time, and the idea of changing the clock to give more daylight late in the day. It looks at the history of daylight saving in every country that has ever used the measure. It also analyses daylight saving in each state of the US, Australia and Brazil, and each Canadian province. It features many intriguing and often prolonged battles between advocates and critics of daylight saving in countries around the world, as well as lighter moments. It highlights the determination of daylight saving time champions such as the UK’s William Willett, the US’s Robert Garland and Harley Staggers, New Zealand’s Thomas Sidey and Tasmania’s John Steer. It delves into the chaotic daylight saving situations that emerged, notably in the US and Canada, but also elsewhere. Every country and sometimes each state has a different and usually controversial story to tell.

The Great Daylight Saving Time Controversy

Tom Andrews

Helen Ball

Jonny Griffiths

This book provides in-depth coverage of Further Pure Mathematics 2 for Cambridge International A Level Further Mathematics 9231, for examination from 2020 onwards. With a clear focus on mathematics in life and work, this text builds the key mathematical skills and knowledge that will open up a wide range of careers and further study.

Collins Cambridge International AS & A Level – Cambridge International AS & A Level Further Mathematics Further Pure Mathematics 2 Student’s Book

Written by well-respected authors, the Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics suite provides a comprehensive structured resource which covers the full Cambridge Secondary 1 Mathematics framework in three stages. This brightly illustrated Coursebook for Stage 9 offers a comprehensive introduction to all topics covered in the syllabus. Worked examples show students how to tackle different problems, and plenty of exercise questions prepare students for the different types of questions they will face in their Checkpoint exam. Coverage of the Problem Solving framework is integrated throughout the course, with questions relating to the Problem Solving framework statements highlighted in the Coursebook. There is an accompanying Practice Book and Teacher's Resource CD-ROM available separately.

Cambridge Checkpoint Mathematics Coursebook 9

Handloom weaver Henry Wakefield and his family live in abject poverty in the Manchester, UK area in the early 19th century. He hates the new factories and clashes with everyone from his wife Sarah to a factory agent, a local priest, and reformers. After many setbacks, the family becomes wealthy but this leads to a whole new set of problems and devastating events for this family. Find out what life was really like in Industrial Revolution times: family life, living and working conditions, poverty and wealth, social change and upheaval, the challenge to the Establishment, the early labour movement, the factory system, opportunities, illness including mental illness, physical disability, child birth, death, romance, orphans, religion, crime, punishment, gambling, prostitution, transport and more. The family gets caught up in the Peterloo melee (see front cover). This historical novel / family saga includes escapes, rescues, bribery, trickery, society parties, a fire, moving house, flooding, runaways, a road accident, floggings, torture, eviction, daring thefts and robberies, kidnapping, births, a court case, a wedding, rowdy labour meetings, asylum and jail life, a near-death experience, missing children, a cricket match, and plenty of tension between the various characters (about 150 of them plus crowd scenes).

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