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In the mid-nineteenth century, James Wickham was a wealthy farmer
with a large estate in Cutchogue, Long Island. His extensive
property included a mansion and eighty acres of farmland that were
maintained by a staff of servants. In 1854, Wickham got into an
argument with one of his workers, Nicholas Behan, after Behan
harassed another employee who refused to marry him. Several days
after Behan's dismissal, he crept back into the house in the dead
of night. With an axe, he butchered Wickham and his wife, Frances,
and fled to a nearby swamp. Behan was captured, tried, convicted
and, on December 15, became one of the last people to be hanged in
Suffolk County. Local historians Geoffrey Fleming and Amy Folk
uncover this gruesome story of revenge and murder.
Straighten your cape and ready your fangs . . . the ghosts are
biting back. The spookiest story you'll read this year is the
ghoulish follow-up to Alex Foulkes's highly acclaimed Rules for
Vampires. A vampire and a ghost being friends is unheard of. It
makes no sense. The two factions have despised one another for all
eternity. But . . . Leo the vampire and Minna the ghost have
battled together side-by-side, they're sisters-in-arms, they're
best friends, and they'll have to work together to vanquish a new,
deadly threat. Summoned to the Ghostly Realm for the murder of the
Orphanmaster, Leo must complete three tasks to prove herself worthy
of her unlife, each more treacherous than the last. Can Leo
convince the Ghostly Realm of her innocence and earn her freedom,
or will she be trapped there forever? A monstrously funny and
devilishly dark new adventure in Alex Foulkes's Rules for Vampires
series, illustrated throughout by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie,
Ghosts Bite Back is perfect for fans of Lemony Snicket and
Skulduggery Pleasant to sink their claws into. Praise for Rules for
Vampires: 'A wickedly fun debut, with a wonderfully strong girl
hero.' Cressida Cowell, Children's Laureate 'Fans of fast-paced,
well-written gothic romps will devour Rules for Vampires.' Phil
Earle, bestselling author of When the Sky Falls 'Deliciously dark,
fangtastically feisty and gloriously gothic!' Laura Ellen Anderson,
author of Amelia Fang 'Brilliant! It's a deadly funny, twisty,
gothic romp with the loveliest vampire. Sara Ogilvie's
illustrations are the perfect match.' Jenny McLachlan, bestselling
author of Land of Roar 'Wonderfully atmospheric, humorous and
touching.' Radiya Hafiza, author of Rumaysa
Chanel's J12 watch revolutionized the standards of watches for
women, combining technical sophistication with the allure of modern
design. The J12 has evolved into a classic watchmaking icon of the
twenty-first century. Since its arrival just over twenty years ago,
the J12 has drawn its inspiration from Chanel's drive to shake up
the codes by combining a daring artistic approach with superlative
technical finesse. The J12 watch transformed ceramic into a
precious material, and rewrote two hundred years of watchmaking
with the innovative brilliance of its design. A text by noted watch
connoisseur Nicholas Foulkes explores the extraordinary conception,
execution and history of the Chanel J12. Enhanced by a strikingly
original selection of fine photographs, this volume celebrates
twenty years of the most beautiful and technically refined watches
ever worn on the wrist. With 108 illustrations in colour
Should there be firmer restrictions on trade, with more policies
aimed at protecting its environmental impacts, or would the
environment benefit most from unrestricted free trade? Do importing
countries have a responsibility only to their local ecosystems, or
are they also responsible for environmental degradation caused by
the production of traded goods in exporting countries? Trading the
Environment examines both the dependence and the effects of
international trade on the earth's life support systems and looks
at ways in which trading regulations could be adapted to promote
ecologically sustainable economic development. It addresses the
issues from a fully integrated approach, focusing on the
interrelations between ecosystems, economic development and trade.
The authors provide a carefully constructed ecological and economic
analysis of trade and the environment, examine the existing legal
and institutional frameworks and set out 16 recommendations to
achieve environment beneficial trade at both national and
international levels. Trading with the environment was originally
commissioned by the Swedish government and is already regarded
thereon essential reference. It makes an excellent introduction as
well as constructive analysis, both for students and for
policy-makers and professional economics and other scientists
working on the issues. Published in 1995
First Published in 2002. It is easy to see that we are living in a
time of rapid and radical social change. It is much less easy to
grasp the fact that such change will inevitably affect the nature
of those disciplines that both reflect our society and help to
shape it. Yet this is nowhere more apparent than in the central
field of what may, in general terms, be called literary studies.
'New Accents' is intended as a positive response to the initiative
offered by such a situation. Each volume in the series will seek to
encourage rather than resist the process of change. To stretch
rather than reinforce the boundaries that currently define
literature and its academic study.
Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between
the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the
1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social
sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of
those important works which have since gone out of print, or are
difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total
are being brought together under the name The International
Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the
Tavistock Press. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was
originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The
collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of
between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Straighten your cape and sharpen your claws . . . being a vampire
is harder than it looks! The spookiest story you'll read this year
from Alex Foulkes, illustrated by Sara Ogilvie. 'A wickedly fun
debut, with a wonderfully strong girl hero' Cressida Cowell,
Children's Laureate There are highs and lows to being a vampire. On
one claw, you get cool powers like beastly strength and hypnotism
and the ability to GRIMWALK. On the other claw, however, vampires
are bound by the Vampiric Laws: rules to protect the balance
between the worlds of the Living and the Undead. And unfortunately,
11-year-old Leo has just forgotten rule number one . . . The Rules
for Vampires don't tell you what to do when you make a ghostly
enemy, or accidentally restart an ancient war. But Leo and her very
unusual family are more than up to the job. A monstrously funny and
devilishly dark new adventure from debut talent Alex Foulkes,
illustrated throughout by the award-winning Sara Ogilvie, Rules for
Vampires is the series that fans of Lemony Snickett and Skulduggery
Pleasant will devour for breakfast. *A spooky sequel to Rules for
Vampires will BITE BACK soon - coming this Autumn* Praise for Rules
for Vampires: 'Fans of fast-paced, well-written gothic romps will
devour Rules for Vampires' Phil Earle, bestselling author of When
the Sky Falls 'Deliciously dark, fangtastically feisty and
gloriously gothic!' Laura Ellen Anderson, author of Amelia Fang
'Brilliant! It's a deadly funny, twisty, gothic romp with the
loveliest vampire. Sara Ogilvie's illustrations are the perfect
match' Jenny McLachlan, bestselling author of Land of Roar
'Wonderfully atmospheric, humorous and touching' Radiya Hafiza,
author of Rumaysa
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Gritty Australian crime drama set in mid-1980s Melbourne.
17-year-old Josh, or 'J' (James Frecheville), goes to live with his
estranged grandmother Cody (Jacki Weaver) and uncles Pope (Ben
Mendelsohn), Craig (Sullivan Stapleton) and Darren (Luke Ford)
after his mother dies from a heroin overdose. It turns out that
Cody is a fearsome crime matriarch presiding over a family of armed
robbers, drug dealers, murderers, gangsters and sociopaths. Josh
must now navigate his way through this explosive 'animal kingdom'
of violent crime, helped and hindered in equal measures by police
detective Leckie (Guy Pearce).
Originally published in 1994, Paradise Lost? is the outcome of a
unique collaboration between economists and ecologists initiated by
the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. The
book examines how the loss of biodiversity is one of the most
serious problems the world faces, and suggests that new,
interdisciplinary thinking is required to safeguard both us and the
biosphere from the effects of species extinction. The book examines
how an integrated, interdisciplinary approach to the conservation
of biodiversity can understand and tackle the issue. It provides an
overview of the causes of the problem, and examines previous
approaches to dealing with it. The book also addresses how the loss
of biodiversity affects natural systems and provides an examination
of environmental policy, while discussing how this has been
affected by the ecological limits to economic activity. This book
will be of interest to both academics and students of environmental
sciences, economics and politics.
Collection of all seven films from the highly successful comedy
series. In 'Police Academy' (1984), a new mayor offers a motley
crew of misfits the chance to oil the wheels of justice when he
lifts the restrictions that normally apply for recruiting new
members to the police force. The academy has the onerous task of
knocking them into law-enforcing shape. 'Police Academy 2 - Their
First Assignment' (1985) sees six of the inept recruits being
transferred to another precinct, where the lieutenant's promotion
depends on them flunking their training course. They also face
trouble on the streets in the form of a gang of sociopaths, led by
a psychobabbling lunatic. In 'Police Academy 3 - Back in Training'
(1986), the police budget is being cut, so one of the two training
academies faces the chop. It's up to the former graduates of
Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes)'s academy to save their old
training ground. In 'Police Academy 4 - Citizens On Patrol' (1987),
our rookie cops try to involve the local community in order to
prevent crime. However, their efforts are thwarted by Captain
Harris (G. W. Bailey) who is determined to scupper the plans of the
group which has caused him so much trouble in the past. 'Police
Academy 5 - Assignment Miami Beach' (1988) sees Commandant Lassard
finally reach retirement age. The whole gang fly down to Miami to
watch him receive an award. The only problem is that he's picked up
the wrong bag at the airport and is now in possession of some
stolen diamonds belonging to a bunch of crooks. In 'Police Academy
6 - City Under Siege' (1989), a criminal holds the city to ransom
by masterminding a spate of burglaries and fraud. To make matters
worse, the rookie cops have a plan to stop him. 'Police Academy 7 -
Mission to Moscow' (1994) sees the fabled police team helping out
in post-Soviet Union Russia. The Russians have a problem on their
hands when Mafia godfather Konali (Ron Perlman) hatches a plan to
control the entire world via an addictive computer game. The fate
of the planet lies in the police academy's hands, much to the
planet's concern...
Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated
the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century.
As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic
pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant
psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of
spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving
anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen
Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences
included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every
aspect of the performance. This collection of essays by leading
theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting,
his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the
stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner,
Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage, that
is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to
create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges
not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson,
Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence
on the twentieth-century theatre.
In this book, Folke Tersman explores what we can learn about the
nature of moral thinking from moral disagreement. He explains how
diversity of opinion on moral issues undermines the idea that moral
convictions can be objectively valued. Arguments on moral thinking
are often criticized for not being able to explain why there is a
contrast between ethics and other areas in which there is
disagreement, but where one does not give up the idea of an
objective truth, as in the natural sciences. Tersman shows that the
contrast has to do with facts about when, and on what basis, moral
convictions can be correctly attributed to an agent or speaker.
'A must-read... Fascinating' JO BRAND We need to rethink the
conversation around mental health - psychologist Lucy Foulkes
explores how and why. How do mental health problems arise? How do
we distinguish between the 'normal' challenges of modern life and
actual illness? Is society really experiencing a new mental health
crisis? In this urgently needed book, psychologist Lucy Foulkes
investigates what we know about mental illness - and shines a light
on what we don't. It offers a profound new approach to how we
think, talk and help when it comes to mental health. (Previously
published in 2021 in hardback under the title Losing Our Minds.)
'Captivating...engaging and lucid' Sarah-Jayne Blakemore
'Clear-headed, compassionate and, ultimately, optimistic' Mark
Haddon 'Thorough, wise...much needed' Mark Rice-Oxley
Curatorial Challenges investigates the challenges faced by curators
in contemporary society and explores which practices, ways of
thinking, and types of knowledge production curating exhibitions
could challenge. Bringing together international curators and
researchers from the fields of art and cultural history, the book
provides new research and perspectives on the curatorial process
and aims to bridge the traditional gap between theoretical and
academic museum studies and museum practices. The book focuses on
exhibitions as a primary site of cultural exchange and argues that,
as highly visible showcases, producers of knowledge, and
historically embedded events, exhibitions establish and organize
meanings of art and cultural heritage. Temporary exhibitions
continue to increase in cultural significance and yet the
traditional role of the museum as a Bildung institution has
changed. As exhibitions gain in significance, so too do curatorial
strategies. Arguing that new research is needed to help understand
these changes, the book presents original research that explores
how curatorial strategies inform both art and cultural history
museums in contemporary society. The book also investigates what
sort of critical, transformative, and perhaps even conservative,
potential can be traced in exhibition cultures. Curatorial
Challenges fosters innovative interdisciplinary exchange and brings
new insights to the field of curatorial studies. As such, it should
be of great interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate
students engaged in the study of curatorial practice, museum
studies, the making of exhibitions, museum communication, and art
history.
'Downright fascinating...indispensable reading' Daily Telegraph
'Nicholas Foulkes' excellent...book is beautifully illustrated.
Captivating' Daily Mail For more than 25,000 years, humanity has
sought to understand and measure the passing of time, in the
process creating some of the most remarkable and beautiful
timepieces. Now, in Nicholas Foulkes' lavishly illustrated book,
the battle to tame time is brought vividly to life. From the baboon
bone dating back to the palaeolithic era that marked the lunar
cycle and on to the 3500-year-old water clock at Karnak, from our
earliest days mankind has sought to track the passing of time. More
recently, the struggles to measure longitude and to create a
workable train timetable across the vast, open expanse of the
United States have inspired new developments. In Time Tamed,
Nicholas Foulkes reveals how we have done this by focusing on some
of the most significant developments in timekeeping across the
ages. He also highlights the most stunning and lavish clocks and
watches in history - from Big Ben to Rolex - for telling the time
has never been purely about function, but also about design. The
book is filled with remarkable tales, from the 14th century monk in
St Albans who created one of the first mechanical clocks to the
Holy Roman Emperor who built a clock into an automated ship that
fired a cannon to summon guests to dinner. More recently, there was
the Surrey woman who used a Napoleonic era watch to 'deliver' the
accurate time to London shopkeepers in the wartime era of
Churchill, or the Swiss denture maker who solved a tricky problem
for the Indian Raj's polo players. Time Tamed is a book you'll want
to spend many hours enjoying.
This practical guide, an updated edition of Growing Your Own
Vegetables, draws on the experience and knowledge of the RBGE's
Edible Gardening team to provide simple and concise instructions
that will have you eating your own crops all year round.
The notion that certain mental or physical events can capture
attention has been one of the most enduring topics in the study of
attention owing to the importance of understanding how
goal-directed and stimulus-driven processes interact in perception
and cognition. Despite the clear theoretical and applied importance
of attentional capture, a broad survey of this field suggests that
the term "capture" means different things to different people. In
some cases, it refers to covert shifts of spatial attention, in
others involuntary saccades, and in still others general disruption
of processing by irrelevant stimuli. The properties that elicit
"capture" can also range from abruptly onset or moving lights, to
discontinuities in textures, to unexpected tones, to emotionally
valenced words or pictures, to directional signs and symbols.
Attentional capture has been explored in both the spatial and
temporal domains as well as the visual and auditory modalities.
There are also a number of different theoretical perspectives on
the mechanisms underlying "capture" (both functional and
neurophysiological) and the level of cognitive control over
capture. This special issue provides a sampling of the diversity of
approaches, domains, and theoretical perspectives that currently
exist in the study of attentional capture. Together, these
contributions should help evaluate the degree to which attentional
capture represents a unitary construct that reflects fundamental
theoretical principles and mechanisms of the mind.
Modern hydrology is more interdisciplinary than ever. Staggering
amounts and varieties of information pour in from GIS and remote
sensing systems every day, and this information must be collected,
interpreted, and shared efficiently. Hydroinformatics: Data
Integrative Approaches in Computation, Analysis, and Modeling
introduces the tools, approaches, and system considerations
necessary to take full advantage of the abundant hydrological data
available today. Linking hydrological science with computer
engineering, networking, and database science, this book lays a
pedagogical foundation in the concepts underlying developments in
hydroinformatics. It begins with an introduction to data
representation through Unified Modeling Language (UML), followed by
digital libraries, metadata, the basics of data models, and
Modelshed, a new hydrological data model. Building on this
platform, the book discusses integrating and managing diverse data
in large datasets, data communication issues such as XML and Grid
computing, the basic principles of data processing and analysis
including feature extraction and spatial registration, and modern
methods of soft computing such as neural networks and genetic
algorithms. Today, hydrological data are increasingly rich,
complex, and multidimensional. Providing a thorough compendium of
techniques and methodologies, Hydroinformatics: Data Integrative
Approaches in Computation, Analysis, and Modeling is the first
reference to supply the tools necessary to confront these
challenges successfully.
This handsome boxed set of notecards features art based on the wild
and edible seaweeds of Ireland. The set contains six stunning
designs, two of each. Rich colors and bold graphic shapes give a
modern edge to a classic subject with timeless naturalist appeal.
The box top is textured to evoke the printmaking paper of the
original art.
In the early 1920's, immaculate gentleman, Jacques Doucet descends
into the world of anarchist art, the occult and the dark turmoil of
his past - involving the death of his beloved Madame R. A
disastrous journey leads the couturier and patron of the arts to
confront the celebrated bohemians of the city, including Max Jacob,
Andre Breton and Picasso. When troubled Doucet acquires the world's
most dangerous painting, it causes him to hack at the root of
Picasso's darkest secrets, unveiling modern art's incredible
genesis.
Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated
the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century.
As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic
pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant
psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. He was also the
director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments
and as the manager of the Lyceum theatre, he controlled every
aspect of the performance. First published in 2008, this collection
of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of
Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he
commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for
incidental music. This book will be of interest to those studying
the history of theatre.
Accents and dialects are constantly undergoing small variations
over time, but evidence shows that change may have become
increasingly rapid in the past few decades. 'Urban Voices' presents
one of the few recent surveys of this phonological variation and
change in urban accents across Great Britain and Ireland. Each of
the specially commissioned chapters is divided into two parts. The
first provides a detailed description of accent features within one
or more urban centres, including information on social and
stylistic variation and ongoing change. The second discusses a
range of current theoretical and methodological issues. Some
chapters present wholly new data based on fieldwork carried out
specifically for inclusion in 'Urban Voices', while others
summarise data from well-known research, up-dated and reanalysed in
accordance with new findings. Containing copious illustrative and
pedagogic material, this textbook presents a clear pathway to
state-of-the-art research for students of sociolinguistics,
dialectology, phonetics, and phonology at advanced undergraduate
and graduate level. In addition, the detailed descriptive data and
the accompanying cassette constitute a valuable resource for
students and teachers of English, clinicians and speech therapists,
forensic phoneticians, researchers in speech recognition and speech
synthesis, and actors. Contributors: Deborah Chirrey, Edge Hill
University College / Beverley Collins, Rijks Universiteit Leiden,
Netherlands / Gerard J Docherty, University of Newcastle, UK / Paul
Foulkes, University of Leeds, UK / Nigel Hewlett, Queen Margaret
College / Raymond Hickey, University of Essen, Germany / Paul
Kerswill, University of Reading, UK / Anne Grethe Mathisen,
University of Oslo, Norway / Kevin McCafferty, Universitetet i
Tromso, Norway / Inger Mees, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark /
Lesley Milroy , University of Michigan, USA / Mark Newbrook, Monash
University, Australia / James M Scobbie, Queen Margaret College, UK
/ Jana Stoddart, Olomouc, Czech Republic / Jane Stuart-Smith,
University of Glasgow, UK / Laura Tollfree, Monash University,
Australia / Peter Trudgill, University of Fribourg, Switzerland /
Alice Turk, University of Edinburgh, UK / Clive Upton, University
of Leeds, UK / Dominic Watt, University of Leeds, UK / J D A
Widdowson, University of Sheffield, UK / Ann Williams, University
of Reading, UK.
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