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Growing up in rural Japan in 1861, Sachi has always felt different, her pale skin setting her apart. When she is 11, a princess passes through her village, sweeping her off to the women's palace in Edo, home to 3000 women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi is chosen as his concubine. But Japan is changing.

In Purity and Danger, Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose, she explains its relevance for every listeners by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. 

Here Jonathan and Angela Scott tell the story of their modern day exploration of this extreme continent, a journey through the magnificent icy landscape, to explore the wildlife of this rare sanctuary, and reflect on the experiences of early explorers like Shackelton, Amundsen, Scott and Mawson, and on the relationship between man and wildlife in this remote and spectacular environment.

Group and Team Coaching offers a new perspective on the "secret life of groups", the subconscious and non-verbal processes through which people learn and communicate in groups and teams. Updated with new research and including a wealth of vignettes and case studies, it will be essential listening for coaches who work with groups and teams as well as leaders commissioning coaching; the second edition features new guidance for leaders and managers, an updated introduction and new expanded practical sections on working with teams, working on the phone.

Mabel and Ethel are not happy witches. Someone has stolen their precious broomsticks, now they can't run Broomstick Services, their take-away delivery business. This calls for drastic action. So Mabel and Ethel ask Maud, their sister, for help. But Maud's a respectable, married witch now, she doesn't do magic these days. Or does she? Hang on a minute, she's digging out the old spell book. Uh-oh! Those broomstick theives had better watch out!

Joe, Lucy and Jackie find two witches asleep in a shed... Aargh! But, they are friendly and they're fed up with being bad witches - they want to be ordinary. So, together they set up Broomstick Services - flying services to the estate. The only problem is, there's another bad witch about.

A couple of books bought from a jumble sale with the name Johnnie Bearsden in the front is all it takes for rumours to begin swirling again: Rumours about little Izzy Haddon, whose mother has kept the identity of her daughter's father a secret.

Whoever heard of witches taking a holiday? Well, Ethel and Mabel need one. Not even their grumpy sister Maud can stop them. So they escape to the seaside - but tourists keep falling into danger, and the emergency services just can't cope. So it's the witches to the rescue!

There are lots of animals for Oscar the foal to meet at his new home - but will they all be friends? Later, there's an emergency on the farm - and Smudge the little Labrador puppy is just the pup for the job.