A Short History of Sunningdale

History

HODDER, F. C.

Europe

Takahe Publishing Ltd.

This book introduces you to remote sensing and control projects using the Arduino Uno and the 433 MHz transmitter/receiver (Tx / Rx) modules. We have been quite specific in our coverage in an attempt to thoroughly explore the subject with particular reference to a pair of readily available and inexpensive remote control modules. These modules have a good transmission range and are simple to use – particularly with the library that we have created to simplify the sending and receiving of data.Assumed Level of Previous Knowledge  While this book is intended to be an informative source for a broad range of experimenters, it has been written with a narrow focus on a particular topic (remote sensing and control) using a particular resource (the 433 MHz modules). We expect that the reader will have conducted at least a few basic Arduino experiments and will have gained some familiarity with the programming language. We provide program notes for most experiments where we attempt to outline the purpose and working of the code. While we don’t explain the program code in every detail, the programs are internally documented to indicate the purpose of relevant lines of code.Why We Have Created this Book and How it Teaches You There were two main thoughts behind this book: to investigate various remote control projects, and to do this with reference to a specific component through a series of related projects each involving a short set of experiments in which the user could gradually build up their knowledge and that additional programming code could be introduced in a readily understandable way. We wanted the reader to feel that having completed the book, they would be confident in setting up any project using these modules.

ARDUINO REMOTE SENSING & CONTROL USING 433 MHz MODULES: A Tutorial Collection of Staged Projects

Computers & Technology

Hodder, Steven Mortimer

Rubidge, John

Hardware & DIY

TEN stories that with tongue firmly in cheek romp along the border of fact and fantasy dipping into crime, romance, wistful adventure, celebrity spookery and hospital spoofery. Each tale is self contained but inhabits the same half-woken dreamscape. Where a Tudor Queen with a fatal attraction brings slaughter to a country wedding; Oscar Wilde and Jim Morrison raise spirits in a Paris cemetery with a storming duet; Keef's pet puppy brings chaos to a Stones' concert during an escapade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' stroll; and a pill designed to perk up giant pandas is doing wonders for the love lives of folk festival fans. The trail continues with a stop off in London for a tour of Shakespeare's old haunts. Alas poor guide, they have been hijacked by musical hall turns. Then it's off to France to join in Reynard's retirement dream of busking, armed with a squeezebox and just one tune. An a la carte menu with a generous portion of humour and a sprinkling of parody. Those with a distaste for vain politicians, town planners, and profiteering hospital are also catered for. Ardent royalists, poetry purists, folkies with a finger in their ear, and local politicians who own white dinner jackets may find it unpalatable. Written by journalist Steve Chilton, the stories feature several locations in his native Midlands, including Coventry Cathedral and Kenilworth Castle.

Walking Keef's Dog & Other Short Stories

Literature & Fiction

CHILTON, STEVE

Short Stories & Anthologies

Thanks Shanks: How Bill Shankly bought me an Education ... and Denis Law kicked me in the shins

Biographies & Memoirs

Kershaw, Professor of Law David

Professionals & Academics

Telegraph People celebrates the characters who produced a multi-edition evening newspaper in the large industrial Midlands city of Coventry across two decades. It reveals what went on behind the fa&#65533;ade of the Coventry Evening Telegraph offices in Corporation Street. Read about the journalists who put this newspaper together - the dramas, the crises and the fun. This was before the digital revolution and... - Stories had to be by filed by phone - Reporters hammered out their words on typewriters - Breaking news from around the globe clattered into the office on tele-printers - The news was set in hot metal - Pages were torn up hourly to accommodate breaking news and great pictures - Copies were printed in their tens of thousands on giant, thundering presses - Vans roared all over the city and neighbouring towns, dropping off copies, including the Saturday night PINK sports edition - Tens of thousands of newspapers were delivered direct to homes These people arguably had the best job ever - journalism. Among them was a young man who embarked on an unlikely career in newspapers. This exclusive and true story is seen through the eyes of journalist JOHN LAMB, who gained an intimate insight into the Telegraph on three separate occasions - as office boy, deputy sports editor and assistant editor. He worked on the smallest and the largest newspapers in the UK, including the Kenilworth Weekly News, the Coventry Evening Telegraph (plus its PINK Saturday night sports edition), the Birmingham Evening Mail, the London Evening News, the News of the World, the Sun, the London Evening Standard and the Birmingham Post.

Telegraph People: Behind the scenes in the heyday of a city's multi-edition evening newspaper

Lamb, John

First came the World Cup, then a dramatic Ashes series. The summer of 2019 was a memorable one for lovers of cricket in England. While the major stadia were full of cheering and chanting crowds, county cricket festivals made an unexpected comeback. This is a book full of humorous observation and conversation in outgrounds full of character and characters. It's also about the journeys between, the towns around and the pubs nearby. The author of Britain's Lost Cricket Grounds and Britain's Lost Cricket Festivals finds much to celebrate about England and the game that it gave to the world.

The Festive Soul of English Cricket: From Tunbridge Wells to Scarborough

Sports & Outdoors

Arnot, Chris

Other Team Sports

Slouching Towards Big Pink is a stylish blend of memoir, travelogue, and scholarship. From the West Midlands to West Saugerties, the Isle of Wight to the New York island, these essays see Adrian Smith fly the flag for folk in 'sixties Coventry, criss-cross America in the footsteps of Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, ride a fifty-year rollercoaster of Dylan performances, trace the sad story of Bob Dylan and Rick Nelson, and look to The Band for a soundscape of his son's final illness. The book then focuses on Bob Dylan and The Band's performances at the Woody Guthrie tribute concerts staged in Carnegie Hall on 20th January 1968, and on a deeply controversial song Dylan has never reprised: Guthrie's last complete composition, 'Dear Mrs Roosevelt'. Why Woody Guthrie wrote 'Dear Mrs Roosevelt', and how Bob Dylan rescued it from obscurity twenty years later, reflects the close relationship between 'people's music' and progressive politics in America from the 1930s to the 1960s. No president has been celebrated in song as much as Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and no First Lady has loved folk music like Eleanor Roosevelt - this is as much their story as that of Guthrie, Dylan, and his sidemen.

Slouching Towards Big Pink: Essays on Bob Dylan and The Band, Woody Guthrie, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Arts & Photography

Smith, Adrian

Music

The authors are two individuals of different ages and from very different educational backgrounds. One suffers from mental health issues including Asperger's Syndrome and Complex Personality Disorder. The other is an alcoholic in sustained recovery. Meeting through a mix of family and social connections they discovered a mutual value in the use of poetry in dealing with their respective problems. This collection of poems aims to promote awareness and support to those affected and their families. They have no base in theoretical models of mental health and addiction but reflect the harsh reality of lived experience of themselves and others. The fact that they are based on personal experiences will hopefully provide information and understanding in a non-didactic manner. Some may appear direct and brutal, whilst others may show an element of wry humour. This mix is intentional since they are dealing with serious and sometimes deadly conditions. Both authors recognise the crucial value of openly discussing such personal issues in peer support and this is something that is actively encouraged. It is hoped that readers will derive as much from their efforts as they did in writing them. They have delivered poetry to audiences as part of the annual Positive Images Festival in Coventry, with subsequent publication in the festival's own booklet and Chatterbox magazine. They have also delivered poetry sessions to the Coventry and Warwickshire Mind writing group.

Poetic Symbiosis: Surviving Addiction and Mental Illness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Loat, Matt

Docrobin

Mental Health

Lordswood Boys' School had been failing so badly for so long that the Department for Education became concerned enough to call for a major shake-up. It was duly delivered through a transformative trio who had somehow become headteachers against the odds. One had left his own school in Bradford, aged fourteen, with no qualifications whatsoever. Another had turned down the chance to train as a teacher at the prestigious Goldsmith's College in London so that he could go to a polytechnic close to the home of his beloved Manchester City. The third had once been the lead vocalist in a Brummie heavy-metal band. Three years after they took over, LBS has become one of the highest achieving non-grammar schools in Birmingham. GCSE results are well above the national average. Yet the vast majority of pupils live in poor parts of the city. Some arrived in the UK comparatively recently. Most are Asian or black. One boy, half Chinese and half Indian, won a scholarship from Lordswood to Eton. Another, of Pakistani heritage, had somewhat surpassed predictions by gaining grade eights, the equivalent of A*s, in English language and literature. There are more heartening stories. Many more. One or two sad stories too as students and staff talk to author and former national journalist Chris Arnot against the background of a rampaging pandemic.

Decline and Fall to Rise and Shine - Nine months in the rebirth of a dying school in a viral year

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Coventry's coat of arms shows an eagle and a phoenix on either side of the famous "elephant and castle" - why? The eagle was the emblem of Lady Godiva's husband, Leofric, Earl of Mercia. The earl and his countess are forever remembered in Coventry's distant past. The phoenix, a mythical bird which is born again from fire, has become the symbol of the new Coventry, rising from the ashes after so much of the city was destroyed by war. In The Eagle and the Phoenix you can witness some of the dramatic moments in the history of Coventry, through nine stories told by children who saw them: Marcus the young Roman, training horses at the Lunt Fort; Thomas and Anne, plotting with the imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots; Daniel and William, viewing a terrible hanging at Gibbet Hill; Tilly the weaver and Amit the Sky Blues fan. Take a journey into Coventry's past - and imagine yourself there.

The Eagle and the Phoenix - Coventry Stories for Young People

Woolf, Sheila

Children's Books

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