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A 2nd Edition of this incredibly popular revision guide, this
portable-sized book is ideal for consolidating knowledge both at
home for revision, and at school as a lesson-by-lesson summary as
the course progresses. // AO1 Description on the left-hand page:
content divided into six points for six AO1 marks in extended
writing questions. // AO3 Evaluation is on the right-hand page:
three AO3 points plus counterpoint and extra evaluation
(discussion) point. // Exam practice questions, including AO2
application questions, are on every spread providing lots of
practice. // Research studies have been simplified to help revise
and recall the information. // Detailed exam advice section is
included, with hints and tips offered throughout the book. // Lots
of illustrations and the odd corny joke help make it very
user-friendly! // It combines brilliantly with the 'Pink-hair Girl'
2nd Edition Flashbook as well as the original (and still completely
relevant) Revision App.
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The Birds of Wales (Hardcover)
Rhion Pritchard, Julian Hughes, Ian M. Spence, Bob Haycock, Anne Brenchley
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R2,331
Discovery Miles 23 310
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From its long coastline, with cliffs and islands that bustle with
breeding seabirds in the summer, to its open moorland that hold
some of the most southerly Curlews and Black Grouse, Wales packs a
lot of birds into a small area. It is significant for its
populations of Chough, Hawfinch and Pied Flycatcher, and its Manx
Shearwaters are of global importance. And it has played an
important role in the study of migration, as Skokholm was the first
bird observatory in Britain. It is almost 30 years since the first
avifauna was published for all of Wales and much has changed.
Knowledge of the status of many species has increased thanks to
improved monitoring and a greater number of birdwatchers, and we
have a better understanding of how humans have affected Wales'
birds, particularly the twin challenges of land-use and climate
change. The Birds of Wales synthesises the new information and sets
it in context of each species' history in Wales. It tells the
stories of all the birds that have been recorded here, whether
common or rare, and looks forward, anticipating what may occur in
the coming decades. It will have an essential place on the
bookshelf of everyone with an interest in birds in Wales and should
be on the desk or in the rucksack of everyone who influences what
happens to the nation's land and seas. It is a once-in-a-generation
state of Wales' birds.
Over the course of a long and very successful career spanning the
first half of the 20th century, Lucy Kemp-Welch established herself
as one of the leading equestrian painters at work in the UK and one
of the country’s best-known women artists. David Boyd Haycock’s
new, extensively illustrated biography of Kemp-Welch brings this
remarkable artist and her work back into sharp focus. Â
Born in 1869, Kemp-Welch first came to the art establishment’s
attention in 1897 when her immense painting, Colt Hunting in the
New Forest, caused a sensation at the Royal Academy’s Summer
Exhibition; the work was bought for the Nation by the Chantry
Bequest in the year of exhibition. In 1915, she illustrated Anna
Sewell’s Black Beauty, and was commissioned to paint images for
the Government during the First World War. Later, the mural
Women’s Work in the Great War, was placed in the Royal Exchange
in London, where it remains to this day. Respected art writer and
curator Boyd-Haycock shines new light on Kemp-Welch’s life,
writing from a 21st-century perspective and reflecting on her as a
female painter in a male-dominated environment. Alongside
Kemp-Welch’s paintings, the book will feature exclusive period
photographs of the artist herself, shown at work and in her studio.
This book is based on the Fifth Annual Military History Symposium
held at the Royal Military College of Canada on 30 and 31 March
1978. It explores the effects of factors such as politics, culture,
and economics as well as military considerations for regular armies
when dealing with insurgency.
Conflicts between regular armies and various groups of insurgents,
fighting for a range of causes, are some of the most protracted and
extensive military crises to have emerged in recent years. The
introduction provides a point on which the five major historical
examples that follow may be compared and contrasted. Similarities
and differences between some of the more important episodes from
this century are highlighted; similarities such as the role of
intelligence, the value of police work and the necesity of expert
political assessment and differences such as the factors of time or
geography, or more strategically, success or failure.
Originally published in 1955, on behalf of the Institute of
Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, this book forms the first
of two volumes on actuarial practice in relation to mortality and
other investigations. Taken together, both volumes were written to
meet the requirements of the Examination Syllabus of the Institute
of Actuaries. Volume one provides 'elementary accounts of the
derivation of mortality and other rates according to age, of the
smoothing of such rates and of the construction of Mortality and
Sickness Tables'. This book will be of value to anyone with an
interest in the development of actuarial practice.
This thought-provoking book for college students and those who
minister with them deals with issues of faith, identity, sex,
success, failure, and more, through the concept of belovedness.
Every college student's story is different, but they all have the
same questions in common. Who am I? How do I make good choices?
What does it mean to be successful? How do I navigate changing
relationships with my family, my peers, my significant other? And
how do I do all of this faithfully? This book approaches these
topics through a fundamental inquiry: "What if I really, truly
believed that I was beloved beyond all measure, and how would that
influence what I do?" Along with the editors, eight campus
ministers from across several denominations contributed to this
volume to help students navigate questions of life and faith in the
world of high-pressure college campuses. Telling it like it is with
wit and wisdom drawn from scripture, tradition, and life
experience, this book offers profound and practical reminders of
what it is to be beloved.
Focusing on new 3-D "in vitro" methods, this book brings
together examples of leading-edge work being conducted
internationally for improving "in vitro" cell culture methods. It
highlights the use of systems for enabling cell culture under
laminar flow and the use of 3-D scaffolds for providing cells with
a structure which replicates the function of the extracellular
matrix and encouraging interactions more akin to an in vivo
environment. Chapters cover state-of-the-art protocols for
bioreactor systems, in vitro toxicity methods, non-invasive
imaging, 3-D cell cultures, stem cell usage, and the integration
and use of novel scaffolds.
Considered by John Singer Sargent to be the best
British draughtsman since the
Renaissance, Augustus John was the first of the
British ‘Post-Impressionists’. Such was his importance that
Virginia Woolf declared in 1921 that by 1908 ‘The age of Augustus
John was dawning,’ and Wyndham Lewis would dub the ten years
leading up to 1914 ‘the Augustan decade. Handsome, unconventional
and full of brilliant promise and Bohemian
spirit, John was the man almost every young British art
student wanted to emulate. This book reveals why, telling his
extraordinary story from his birth in south Wales in 1878 through
to the end of his youth in the closing stages of the First World
War. Interweaving his biography are the personalities who
surrounded John, and the book looks at their influence on him, and
his upon them. They include his fellow students at the Slade School
of Art – his sister Gwen John and future wife Ida Nettleship, and
his friends William Orpen, Ambrose McEvoy, Spencer Gore and Percy
Wyndham Lewis – all of whom would become prominent artists in
their own right. This book is a long overdue, new interpretation of
this singular figure, who was both at the heart of the British
artistic milieu, and yet set apart from its movements and
manifestos.
An incisive examination into the pairing of psychology and
situation that creates despotic leaders from the author of
Murderous Minds. Not everyone can become a tyrant. It requires a
particular confluence of events to gain absolute control over
entire nations. First, you must be born with the potential to
develop brutal personality traits. Often, these are combined in
"The Dark Triad" of malignant narcissism, Machiavellianism and
psychopathy, as well as elements of paranoia, and an extraordinary
ambition to achieve control over others. Second, your
predisposition to antisocial behavior must be developed and
strengthened during childhood. You might suffer physical and/or
psychological abuse, or grow up in trying times. Finally, you must
come of age when the political system of your country is unstable.
Together, these events establish a basis for a rise to power, one
that Joseph Stalin, Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein, and
Muammar Qaddafi all used to gain life-and-death control over their
countrymen and women. It is how Osama bin Laden and the leaders of
the Islamic State hoped to gain such power. Though these men lived
in different times and places, and came from vastly different
backgrounds, many of them felt respect for each other. They often
seemed to recognize their shared, "dark" personality traits and
viewed them as strengths. Only in rare cases did they show signs of
mental disorders. "Getting inside the heads" of foreign leaders and
terrorists is one way governments try to understand, predict, and
influence their actions. Psychological profiles can help us
understand the urges of tyrants to dominate, subjugate, torture and
slaughter. Tyrannical Minds reveals how recognizing their
psychological traits can provide insight into the motivations and
actions of dangerous leaders, potentially allow to us predict their
behavior?and even how to stop them. As strongmen and authoritarian
leaders around the world increase in number, understanding the most
extreme examples of tyrannical behavior should serve as a warning
to anyone indifferent to the threats posed by political extremism.
'I Am Spain' focuses on the experiences of an interconnected group
of individuals - some famous, others largely unkown - to tell the
story of the Spanish Civil War.
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I Am Spain (Paperback)
David Boyd Haycock
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R325
R268
Discovery Miles 2 680
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'I Am Spain' focuses on the experiences of an interconnected group
of individuals - some famous, others largely unkown - to tell the
story of the Spanish Civil War.
In the first three decades of the 20th century Augustus John
(1878-1961) was widely considered one of the greatest living
British artists, famous almost as much for his extraordinary
Bohemian lifestyle as for his outstanding portraits, etchings and
drawings. John was born in Wales in 1878 and educated at the Slade
School of Art in London in the 1890s, where the onus of teaching
was on the daily life class and a close study of the Old Masters.
He soon emerged as a wonderfully gifted draughtsman - indeed, the
American painter John Singer Sargent would declare that John's
youthful drawings were amongst the fi nest seen since the
Renaissance. Dividing his life between England, Wales and France,
and reaching his prime in the years immediately before the outbreak
of the Great War, by 1910 John would be likened to a British
Gauguin, a Welsh Post-Impressionist using bold colours and a
willfully naive and primitive style to explore the complex
combination of romanticism, escapism and alienation engendered by
20th-century life. The great American collector John Quinn
considered John and his sister Gwen key European artists, and his
work would be included in the infl uential Armory Show in New York
in 1913. After the War he would become Britain's leading society
portraitist, earning a fortune in commissions - though it was his
more personal paintings of friends, lovers, family and fellow
artists and writers such as W.B. Yeats, T.E. Lawrence, Dylan
Thomas, Ottoline Morrell and his muse/ mistress Dorelia McNeill
that best revealed his great talents. Published to coincide with
exhibitions at Poole Museum in Dorset in the summer of 2018 and at
Salisbury Museum in Wiltshire in the summer of 2019, Augustus John:
Drawn from Life re-examines the life and work of this signifi cant
but increasingly overlooked British artist. Focusing on around
sixty works drawn from private and public collections, including
the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery and the National Museum of
Wales, the book will off er new insights into John's life and
development as an artist from the late 1890s to the outbreak of the
Second World War.
Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson, and
Stanley Spencer were five of the most important British artists of
the 20th century. From diverse backgrounds, they all met at The
Slade in London between 1908 and 1910, in what was later described
at the school's 'last crisis of brilliance'.
Not everyone can become a tyrant. It requires a particular
confluence of events to gain absolute control over entire nations.
First, you must be born with the potential to develop brutal
personality traits. Often, these are combined in "The Dark Triad"
of malignant narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathy, as well
as elements of paranoia, and an extraordinary ambition to achieve
control over others. Second, your predisposition to antisocial
behavior must be developed and strengthened during childhood. You
might suffer physical and/or psychological abuse, or grow up in
trying times. Finally, you must come of age when the political
system of your country is unstable. Together, these events
establish a basis for a rise to power, one that Joseph Stalin,
Adolf Hitler, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein, and Muammar Qaddafi all
used to gain life-and-death control over their countrymen and
women. It is how Osama bin Laden and the leaders of the Islamic
State hoped to gain such power. Though these men lived in different
times and places, and came from vastly different backgrounds, many
of them felt respect for each other. They often seemed to recognize
their shared, "dark" personality traits and viewed them as
strengths. Only in rare cases did they show signs of mental
disorders. "Getting inside the heads" of foreign leaders and
terrorists is one way governments try to understand, predict, and
influence their actions. Psychological profiles can help us
understand the urges of tyrants to dominate, subjugate, torture and
slaughter. Tyrannical Minds reveals how recognizing their
psychological traits can provide insight into the motivations and
actions of dangerous leaders, potentially allow to us predict their
behavior?and even how to stop them. As strongmen and authoritarian
leaders around the world increase in number, understanding the most
extreme examples of tyrannical behavior should serve as a warning
to anyone indifferent to the threats posed by political extremism.
Following the sell-out 2014 publication ‘Paul Nash: Watercolours
1910 – 1946' this revised and expanded edition has been published
to coincide with an exhibition of Paul Nash’s work in New York,
May 2019. The fully illustrated catalogue includes major oils as
well as watercolours, prints and photographs and examines one of
Britain’s most acclaimed artists of the twentieth century.
Written by David Boyd Haycock, author of 'Paul Nash' (Tate
Publishing, 2002) and the hugely successful 'A Crisis of
Brilliance' (Old Street Publishing, 2009), the catalogue charts the
whole of Nash's career from his early days before studying at the
Slade School of Art, through to his time at the Western Front
during World War I as a serving officer and then an official War
Artist, and to his mature Surrealist-era works. In this centenary
year that marks the official end to the First World War, the
publication reflects on Nash’s unprecedented impact on British
Art and the lingering contemporary power of his works today. This
selection of works is drawn from major museum and private
collections, and includes several hitherto unseen works, spanning
all the major genres and themes present in Nash’s diverse career.
Translated into seven languages, Cotton and Williams' Practical
Gastrointestinal Endoscopy has for the last 25 years been the basic
primer for endoscopy around the world, providing clear, clinical
and practical guidance on the fundamentals of endoscopy practice,
from patient positioning and safety, how to perform different
endoscopic procedures, and the latest in therapeutic techniques and
advances in technology. It's key strength and reason for its
popularity is its step-by- step, practical approach, especially
with the use of outstanding colour artwork to illustrate the right
and wrong ways to perform endoscopy. Add to this the weight and
expertise of its author team, led by Peter Cotton and Christopher
Williams, and the final result is an essential tool for all
gastroenterologists and endoscopists, particularly trainees looking
to improve their endoscopic technique. Joining Peter Cotton,
Christopher Williams and Brian Saunders in the seventh edition are
two exciting stars in UK and US endoscopy, Adam Haycock and
Jonathan Cohen. New to this edition are: * Approximately 35
high-quality videos illustrating optimum endoscopy practice, all
referenced via "video eyes" in the text * Self-assessment MCQs to
test main learning points * An online clinical photo imagebank to
complement the line illustrations, perfect for downloading into
scientific presentations * Key learning points in every chapter *
Much more information on mucosal resection techniques and small
bowel endoscopy-for capsule and "deep" enteroscopy * The latest
recommendations and guidelines from the ASGE, ASG, UEGW and BSG.
Cotton and Williams' Practical Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, seventh
edition is fully modernised, masterful as ever, and once again, the
number one endoscopy manual for a whole new generation of
gastroenterologists and endoscopists.
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Elijah (Paperback)
Sam Glaister; S A Haycock
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