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This guidebook presents a selection of 23 walking routes on the
wild and beautiful southern islands of Scotland's Inner Hebrides,
with nine walks on Jura, one on neighbouring Scarba, seven on Islay
and five on Colonsay, plus a spectacular 5-day trek along Jura's
dramatic west coast. The wildest of the southern Hebrides, the
walking on Jura is frequently rugged, with many routes crossing
remote and often pathless terrain that calls for fitness,
self-reliance and navigational competence. The routes on the other
islands are somewhat easier, but should still not be
underestimated. In addition to clear route description illustrated
with 1:50,000 OS mapping, the guide offers practical advice on the
various options for getting to the islands, accommodation and
amenities. There are suggestions for linking walks and notes on the
islands' bothies and wild-camping recommendations, making it easy
to devise longer day walks or multi-day itineraries. Also included
are fascinating overviews of the islands' rich history, geology,
plants and wildlife. Beautiful colour photography completes the
package. The routes showcase the islands' magnificent scenery,
which is as diverse as it is beautiful, ranging from wild moorland
to flower-strewn machair and small pockets of native woodland. The
coastline is arguably the jewel in the crown, with geological
wonders aplenty: sea-cliffs, caves, stacks and arches, sand and
shingle bays and the characteristic Hebridean raised beaches.
Abundant wildlife and birdlife is a further highlight. These
carefully chosen walks will inspire you to get out and discover the
magic of these captivating islands.
Stunning backpacking routes in the Scottish Highlands and Islands
are covered in this inspiring, large-format guidebook. 30 routes
are described, ranging from 1-4 days, with most suitable for a long
weekend. The routes are divided between the Western Highlands and
Inner Hebrides, the Central and Eastern Highlands, the Northwest
Highlands, the Far North and the Outer Hebrides. They are suitable
for those with the experience and self-reliance to navigate
proficiently and stay safe in an environment which can easily
become inhospitable. Although some routes visit bothies, most call
for at least one night's wild camping. Each walk includes overview
data, route description and 1:100,000 mapping and they are
illustrated with stunning photos. An introduction offers background
information about the Highlands' rich geology, plants and wildlife
and the historical and cultural context of Scotland's 'wilderness'.
There is also practical information on preparing for an incursion
and advice for those looking to expand their experience of
wild-country backpacking. The Highlands and Islands of Scotland are
home to the most ruggedly beautiful, expansive and challenging
backpacking country in the British Isles. This is a land for those
who love open spaces, vast horizons, and the domination of nature.
This guidebook describes 21 mountain biking routes in central and
southern Scotland. It includes the 7stanes trail centre in Dumfries
and Galloway, as well as cross-country routes in the Campsie Fells,
Pentland Hills and Lammermuirs, the Galloway Forest, Tweed Valley,
Cheviots and Lowther Hills. The routes range from 17 to 66km and
are graded from moderate to very hard. Taking between 2 and 7 hours
to complete, they are intended for reasonably fit mountain bikers
with at least some experience. Detailed route descriptions are
accompanied by 1:50,000 OS mapping, and the selected routes set out
from various points across the area, including Greenock, Glentrool,
Peebles and Milngavie, with good access from both Glasgow and
Edinburgh. The guidebook also gives an overview of what the
region's MTB trail centres have to offer, including the famous
7stanes trail centre, along with advice on equipment, maintenance
and safety. Southern and Central Scotland is renowned for its
superlative MTB trail centres, but the region's rolling hill
country is also traversed by an extensive network of tracks, paths,
forest roads and other trails providing endless possibilities for
'free range' mountain biking.
This guidebook covers 20 mountain biking routes set throughout the
length and breadth of the North Downs, from Farnham in the west to
Dover in the east, as well as a route along the Downs Link, which
joins the North Downs Way with the South Downs Way. They range from
18.5km to 59km in length and up to 90% off road. The routes,
illustrated with OS map extracts and height profiles, are graded
for difficulty (blue, red and black) and are suitable for mountain
bikers with at least some experience and a reasonable degree of
fitness. The guide gives practical information on recommended gear,
preparation and safety, as well as details of accommodation and
local bike shops.
This guidebook describes 16 routes across Rum, Eigg, Muck, Canna,
Coll and Tiree, suitable for a wide range of abilities, and
exploring coast, mountains and wilderness. The 15 day walks include
a challenging round of the Rum Cuillin, and the one 3-day 55km
backpacking route heads around the Rum coastline, sometimes over
pathless and tough terrain. Each route provides OS 1:50,000
mapping, information on distance, ascent, time and terrain, as well
as details of any variants or shortcuts. The Small Isles are often
called the hidden gems of the Western Isles, providing a walking
paradise for those seeking wilderness and solitude, alongside the
better-known Rum. Highlights include, on Rum, the towering volcanic
peaks of the Rum Cuillin, Kinloch Castle, Kilmory bay; An Sgurr and
Cleadale on Eigg; Canna's towering cliffs and rock stacks; the
verdant landscape and sparkling shores of Muck; and the white sand
bays and flower-carpeted machair of Coll and Tiree. Each island is
different and has its own introduction here, with detailed
information on geology, history and wildlife, as well as local
amenities.
New Way is a series of carefully graded phonic readers, providing a
wide reading experience at similar levels of language. Learners are
encouraged to take pleasure in becoming readers in their own right.
Phonic copymasters help to develop and assess learnersA language
skills. Features and Benefits Pre-reading, reading and post-reading
graded material Multi-cultural and lifeskills oriented Suitable for
classes of mixed ability, allowing learners to progress at their
own pace Lays a firm foundation for literacy and promotes learning
in an OBE curriculum
This inspirational guidebook describes 50 varied walking and
backpacking routes on the Scottish Hebrides islands, set out in a
larger format, and illustrated with a range of stunning
photographs. The 50 walks are spread across both well-known and
remote islands; from Skye, Mull, Rum, the Uists and Barra, Ulva,
Iona, Eigg and Muck and more besides. Most of the walks provide a
full day for experienced walkers, with a few multi-day backpacking
adventures as well as some shorter routes. The walks also include
Hebrides classics, like the Trotternish Ridge, Ben More, Skye and
Rum Cuillins, the Paps of Jura and full circuits of smaller
islands. Each walk combines clear route description with mapping
and spectacular photography, while also advising on the route's
facilities, public transport access, length and terrain. The result
is a collection of the very best walks with which to uncover the
wild and rugged beauty of the Hebrides.
Neighbourhood planning, introduced by the Localism Act 2011, is now
well established as the new 'first tier' of our planning system.
The key to this brave new world of localism is the Neighbourhood
Development Plan, which enables local communities to make planning
policies for their area that have statutory effect and which must
be taken into account by decision makers. But how does a
neighbourhood plan get off the ground? How do communities make sure
that it comes into force? And, more importantly, what are the
essential features of an effective plan; one that can withstand the
often intense pressures for new development? This unique book
answers these and many other questions faced by neighbourhood
planners with a clear, pragmatic focus and in sufficient depth to
arm both lay readers and planning professionals with the knowledge
they need to operate effectively within this novel planning regime.
Along the way, some of the less well-known planning rules and
procedures that can be invoked by neighbourhood planning groups and
others at a local level are also explained. The author, a planning
lawyer and consultant who has helped many parishes and communities
since the advent of neighbourhood planning, also helpfully explores
the place of neighbourhood planning within the wider planning
system and offers a fascinating assessment of the potential of
neighbourhood planning to address a whole range of important
environmental issues. This insight and expertise makes The Power of
Neighbourhood Planning an essential resource for everyone involved
- whether as an interested member of the public, local councillor
or parish clerk - or as a planning professional looking for an
incisive introduction to this often controversial topic.
The South Downs is a mountain biker's paradise. Thousands of
kilometres of well-maintained byways and bridleways can be combined
to create seemingly inexhaustible route combinations. The 26 routes
in this book are graded (blue, red and black) for a range of
abilities, and grouped into 6 sections: The South Downs Way
National Trail (the whole route described in 3 stages) and routes
around Winchester, Chichester and Petersfield, Arundel and
Worthing, Brighton and Lewes and Eastbourne. They range from 14km
to 57km in length and up to 95% off road, providing plenty of
challenge for any mountain biker. Many tracks traverse well-drained
chalk downland, providing superlative off-road conditions for much
of the year. All routes are clearly illustrated on OS maps with
numbered stages linking the route descriptions to maps. Extensive
information is also included on facilities and services, including
bike shops and mechanics, cafes, pubs and food shops, accommodation
and transport links and tips on bike gear and preparation.
Gyoergy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has
consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the
twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have
received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to
a global audience. Famously dubbed by Ligeti as an
'anti-anti-opera', the piece is a highly ambiguous, apocalyptic
fable about the human condition, fear of death and the final
judgement. As the first book in English solely dedicated to
discussion of this work, Gyoergy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre:
Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque offers new
perspectives on the opera's musico-dramatic identity in the context
of musical postmodernism. Peter Edwards draws on a range of
modernist and postmodernist theories to explore the collision of
past styles and genre models in the opera, its expressive states
and its engagement with the grotesque. This is ably supported by
musical analysis and extensive study of Ligeti's sketch materials
held at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. Edwards's analyses
culminate in a new approach to examining the opera's rich
multiplicities, the composition of the musical material and the
nature of Ligeti's relationship with the musical past. This is a
key reference work in the fields of musical modernism and
postmodernism, opera studies and the music of Ligeti.
Through a study of horses, the book reveals how an important and
growing aristocratic estate was managed, where the aristocrat at
the centre of it - William Cavendish - travelled and how he spent
his time, and how horses were oneof the means by which he asserted
his social status. This book, by a leading authority on early
modern social and cultural history, examines in detail how an
important English aristocrat managed his horses. At the same time,
it discusses how horses and the uses to which they were put were a
very significant social statement and a forceful assertion of
status and the right to political power. Based on detailed original
research in the archives of Chatsworth House, the book explores the
breeding and rearing, the buying and selling, and the care and
maintenance of horses, showing how these activities fitted in to
the overall management of the earl's large estates. It outlines the
uses of horses as the earl and his retinue travelled to and from
family, the county assizes and quarter sessions, social visits and
London for "the season" and to attend Court and Parliament. It also
considers the use of horses in sport: hawking, hunting, racing and
the other ways in which visitors were entertained. Overall, the
book provides a great deal of detail on the management of horses in
the period and also on the yearly cycle of activities of a typical
aristocrat engaged in service, pleasure and power. PETER EDWARDS is
an Emeritus Professor of Early Modern British Social History at the
University of Roehampton. He has published numerous books including
The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England and Horse and Man in
Early Modern England.
This book enhances the reader's understanding of the nature and
presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the
risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and
learn from those risks. While based on the experience of the
construction industry, the book also acts as a broader project
management text, meeting the needs of project managers and students
in many disciplines and professions from architecture and
construction through engineering and commerce to IT, finance and
banking. Essential for anyone studying or involved in
organisational decision-making for projects, this book will help
readers to develop confidence in dealing with risk in a systmatic
manner.
Using practical examples, this book demonstrates how a theoretical
model for shared care operates in practice to deliver improved
health outcomes within limited resources. It shows how
clinically-led initiatives can influence health care commissioning
strategies, and how the implementation of the model meets the needs
of clinicians, purchasers and providers. The model and evaluation
protocols advocated here provide a firm foundation for the
development of shared care in the future.
For GPs and practice managers the challenge of the NHS reforms is
to understand the business context in which general practice
operates. Of the many skills learned from commerce and industry
needed for the development of an effective strategy, business
planning has been demonstrated to bring important benefits to the
practice. However, for many the concept is necessary but
unfamiliar. This book sets out to demystify the subject, explains
the benefits and, by way of numerous examples, shows how they can
be applied to the single-handed GP and group practices, whether or
not they are fundholders. It suggests that good clinical care is
not possible without the necessary planning and management skills
to run a business.
Fishery products are the world's most important source of animal
protein, especially for the poor. Meeting the basic human needs for
protein foods in the future will be a difficult challenge,
especially as demand for fish has doubled since the 1950s.
Realistically we can not expect to catch more food from the sea, so
we must now turn to farming the waters, not just hunting them. The
new challenge for planners is to accelerate aquaculture development
and to plan for new production. As millions of people are moving
from rural, inland areas to coastal cities we need to make urban
areas not only centers of marketing and distribution, but also of
production, particularly using recycled urban wastewater. This book
on urban aquaculture includes papers from authors in the USA,
Europe and Asia that review these emerging issues from the
perspective of both developed and developing countries.
This edited book collects papers with perspectives from scholars
and practitioners in Asia, Australia, and Europe to reveal the pros
and cons, chances and challenges, constraints, and potential risks
that educators and learners are facing as the new paradigm for
communication and learning takes place, with a view to shedding
light on the global education climate in the midst of the pandemic.
Since the onset of the global pandemic, education has been
revolutionized in almost every aspect. The emergency precautionary
measures which were once supposed to be temporary school
arrangements only have now become the new normal, reshaping our
understanding of learning environments, redefining the pedagogic
standards in terms of teaching practices, learning designs,
teacher-student interaction, feedback, and assessment. Online
teaching, distanced learning, flipped classrooms, and self-paced
e-learning have all played an increasingly vital role in shaping a
new education culture in various education settings, affecting
school management, teachers, students, and parents alike. While ICT
in education, alongside new media, has provided ample benefits and
convenience for educators and students, communication and virtual
lessons conducted in the socially distanced classroom appear to
have brought issues such as the digital divide, e-mental health,
insufficient technical support, inefficient classroom management,
reduced interaction between teachers and students, not to mention
the growing concerns over privacy and security.
Horses played a vital role in the economy of pre-industrial England. They acted as draught animals, pulled ploughs, waggons and coaches, worked machines, and transported goods around the country. As saddle animals they enabled their riders to carry out a wide variety of tasks, and at all levels of society they were regarded as status symbols in a unique relationship with man shared by no other animal. During the Tudor and Stuart period, horses were needed in ever-growing numbers, and for a greater variety of tasks. As demand grew, improvements became necessary in the means of supply and distribution. The agents of change, the specialist dealers, were often condemned as rogues and cheats, whose actions raised prices and caused shortages. Dr Edwards argues that, far from being generally unscrupulous, the dealers were no better or worse than those amongst whom they lived and worked.
Gyoergy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1974-77, revised 1996) has
consolidated its position as one of the major operatic works of the
twentieth century. Few operas composed since the 1970s have
received such numerous productions, bringing the eclectic score to
a global audience. Famously dubbed by Ligeti as an
'anti-anti-opera', the piece is a highly ambiguous, apocalyptic
fable about the human condition, fear of death and the final
judgement. As the first book in English solely dedicated to
discussion of this work, Gyoergy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre:
Postmodernism, Musico-Dramatic Form and the Grotesque offers new
perspectives on the opera's musico-dramatic identity in the context
of musical postmodernism. Peter Edwards draws on a range of
modernist and postmodernist theories to explore the collision of
past styles and genre models in the opera, its expressive states
and its engagement with the grotesque. This is ably supported by
musical analysis and extensive study of Ligeti's sketch materials
held at the Paul Sacher Foundation in Basel. Edwards's analyses
culminate in a new approach to examining the opera's rich
multiplicities, the composition of the musical material and the
nature of Ligeti's relationship with the musical past. This is a
key reference work in the fields of musical modernism and
postmodernism, opera studies and the music of Ligeti.
This book enhances the reader's understanding of the nature and
presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the
risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and
learn from those risks.While based on the experience of the
construction industry, the book also acts as a broader project
management text, meeting the needs of project managers and students
in many disciplines and professions from architecture and
construction through engineering and commerce to IT, finance and
banking. Essential for anyone studying or involved in
organisational decision-making for projects, this book will help
readers to develop confidence in dealing with risk in a systmatic
manner.
Selected by "Choice" magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book
for 2001The highly-acclaimed first edition of this book chronicled
the rise and fall of witchcraft in Europe between the twelfth and
the end of the seventeenth centuries. Now greatly expanded, the
classic anthology of contemporary texts reexamines the phenomenon
of witchcraft, taking into account the remarkable scholarship since
the book's publication almost thirty years ago.Spanning the period
from 400 to 1700, the second edition of "Witchcraft in Europe"
assembles nearly twice as many primary documents as the first, many
newly translated, along with new illustrations that trace the
development of witch-beliefs from late Mediterranean antiquity
through the Enlightenment. Trial records, inquisitors' reports,
eyewitness statements, and witches' confessions, along with
striking contemporary illustrations depicting the career of the
Devil and his works, testify to the hundreds of years of terror
that enslaved an entire continent.Thomas Aquinas, Martin Luther,
Thomas Hobbes, and other thinkers are quoted at length in order to
determine the intellectual, perceptual, and legal processes by
which "folklore" was transformed into systematic demonology and
persecution. Together with explanatory notes, introductory
essays--which have been revised to reflect current research--and a
new bibliography, the documents gathered in "Witchcraft in Europe"
vividly illumine the dark side of the European mind.
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