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Medicine in Britain c1250-present with The British section of the
Western Front 1914-18 Student Book is part of Oxford's brand new
Edexcel GCSE History series. This textbook series provides the most
up-to-date Edexcel exam practice and a tried-and-trusted accessible
approach to help students get the best grades they are capable of,
and enjoy their history lessons. This textbook is written as part
of our commitment to the inclusive presentation of diverse
histories, and developed by a team of practising teachers with
Edexcel examining experience and led by Aaron Wilkes, head of
history, PGCE History lead and trusted author. This thematic study
tells the story of how medicine in Britain has developed over a
long period of time, from the medieval period to the present day.
It also features case studies, including the historic environment
of the British sector of the Western Front. Exam-style Questions,
Nail it! features and carefully Sources and Interpretations help
students prepare for their Edexcel exam. Meanwhile, Later On and
Earlier On features help students make connections across time
periods. How to...Exam Practice pages provide step-by-step,
accessible ways to practise essential history skills. Perfect for
use alongside Kerboodle, which is packed full of auto-marked
quizzes, exam practice, film clips of interviews with historians,
and continuing exam support. We are working towards endorsement of
this textbook from Edexcel.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist James Ball takes us
into the depths of the internet to trace the origins and rapid
ascent of QAnon, the movement that mutated from a niche online
conspiracy theory into the world’s first digital pandemic. *A
Financial Times Book to Read in 2023* Imagine a deadly pathogen
that, once created, could infect any person in any part of the
globe within seconds. No need to wait for travellers, trains, or
air traffic to spread it, all you need is an internet connection.
In this gripping investigation, Pulitzer Prize winner James Ball
decodes the cryptic language of the online right and with a
surgeon’s precision tracks the spread of QAnon, the world’s
first digital pandemic. QAnon began as an internet community
dedicated to supporting President Trump and intent on outing a
global cabal of human traffickers. A short, cryptic message posted
by an anonymous user to a niche internet forum in 2017 was the
spark that ignited a global movement. What started as a macabre
game of virtual make-believe quickly spiralled into the spread of
virulently hateful, dangerous messaging – which turned into
tragic, violent actions. Incoherent, chaotic, free from agendas:
QAnon is a one-size-fits all cult conspiracy. From a standoff at
the Hoover Dam, to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on 6 January
2021, to protesting COVID-19 lockdowns, this digital pandemic has
spread globally and shows no signs of stopping. In The Other
Pandemic Ball takes us into the niche pathways through which these
digital pathogens spread, mutate and infect people all across the
globe – but he also argues that the prognosis doesn’t have to
be dire. He shows us that it is possible to treat and cure this
virus in order to build up our digital immune systems, and be
better prepared to survive the next wave.
This important book explores many different aspects of the wealth
creation process. It includes new essays by senior members of the
economics profession focusing on aspects of competitive advantage,
the environment, the integration of trade, manufacturing and
services, the policies of wealth creation and economic policy. The
creation of wealth lies at the heart of the economic process and is
fundamental to the efficient working of the modern economy.
We have arrived to a new normal - life after COVID-19. How do we
help those with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities and
those on the autism spectrum return to school or adult services? It
has been a long haul at home! Both the children and the adults are
used to the home environment and routines. Some students have been
out of their school/adult program since March. It is now time to go
back to the normal school/work routine, but what does that "normal"
mean? Schedules are different, structure is not the same and
learning has been interrupted, yet hopefully maintained. How do
parents prepare their child to transition back to school? How do we
get started? This workbook will give you strategies that you should
be putting in place prior to your child going back to school or to
their adult services placement. Each strategy will be explored in
depth with examples to follow so that you and your child will be
prepared for a successful first day when returning to school or
adult program.
Documentary maker Alex Gibney examines the WikiLeaks phenomenon and
the question of how information is accessed globally. With a goal
'to bring important news and information to the public', the
fledgling website, founded in 2006 by Australian Julian Assange,
gained worldwide notoriety in 2010 with its leaking of highly
sensitive US classified material, including the infamous
'Collateral Murder' footage of US air strikes on civilian targets
in Iraq, along with over 250,000 diplomatic cables. In addition to
detailing how the website came to be, the film explores the issues
surrounding the freedom of information and moral responsibility,
whilst comparing and contrasting the impact that the furore has had
on founder Assange, and Pfc. Bradley Manning, the US soldier
charged with supplying the leaked material.
'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely,
often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author
of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a
murkier world where we discover how everything online works and who
benefits from it. Fascinating, engaging and important' Observer
'Could not be more timely' Spectator The internet is a network of
physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the
world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to
us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by
someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By
doing so, we obscure where the real power lies. In this powerful
and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into
the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to
the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the
intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life
figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our
society. Ball brilliantly shows how an invention once hailed as a
democratising force has concentrated power in places it already
existed - that the system, in other words, remains the same as it
did before.
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Bluffocracy (Hardcover)
James Ball, Andrew Greenway
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Britain is run by people who are bluffing. At the top of our
government, our media, the civil service and business sit men -
it's usually men - whose core skill is talking fast, writing well,
and endeavouring to imbue the purest wind with substance. They know
a little bit about everything, and an awful lot about nothing. We
know because we've seen them - and we've been those men. We live in
a country where George Osborne can become a newspaper editor
despite never working in news, squeezing it in alongside five other
jobs; where a columnist can go from calling a foreign head of state
a wanker to being Foreign Secretary in six months; where the
minister who holds on to his job for eighteen months has more
experience on the job than the supposedly permanent senior civil
servants. The UK establishment has signed up to the cult of winging
it, of pretending to hold all the aces when you actually hold a
pair of twos. It prizes `transferable skills', rewarding the
general over the specific - and yet across the country we struggle
to hire doctors, engineers, coders and more. This book chronicles
how the UK became hooked on bluffing, how it became what we teach,
what we promote, and the rules of a game that we all feel the
consequences of - and why we have to stop it.
'A fascinating expose of the world behind your screen. Timely,
often disturbing, and so important' Caroline Criado Perez, author
of Invisible Women 'Takes us beyond Zuckerberg, Bezos et al to a
murkier world where we discover how everything online works and who
benefits from it. Fascinating, engaging and important' Observer
'Could not be more timely' Spectator The internet is a network of
physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the
world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to
us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by
someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By
doing so, we obscure where the real power lies. In this powerful
and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into
the inner workings of the system. From the computer scientists to
the cable guys, the billionaire investors to the ad men, the
intelligence agencies to the regulators, these are the real-life
figures powering the internet and pulling the strings of our
society. Ball brilliantly shows how an invention once hailed as a
democratising force has concentrated power in places it already
existed - that the system, in other words, remains the same as it
did before.
2016 marked the birth of the post-truth era. Sophistry and spin
have coloured politics since the dawn of time, but two shock events
- the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's elevation to US President -
heralded a departure into murkier territory.From Trump denying
video evidence of his own words, to the infamous Leave claims of
GBP350 million for the NHS, politics has rarely seen so many
stretching the truth with such impunity.Bullshit gets you noticed.
Bullshit makes you rich. Bullshit can even pave your way to the
Oval Office.This is bigger than fake news and bigger than social
media. It's about the slow rise of a political, media and online
infrastructure that has devalued truth.This is the story of
bullshit: what's being spread, who's spreading it, why it works -
and what we can do to tackle it.
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