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'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE
HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON
'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEY A brilliant narrative investigation
into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie, Dorothy Sayers
and Margery Allingham. On a bleak Tuesday morning in February 1921,
48-year-old Katharine Armstrong died in her bedroom on the first
floor of an imposing Edwardian villa overlooking the rolling hills
of the isolated borderlands between Wales and England. Within
fifteen months of such a sad domestic tragedy, her husband, Herbert
Rowse Armstrong, would be arrested, tried and hanged for poisoning
her with arsenic, the only solicitor ever to be executed in
England. Armstrong's story was retold again and again, decade after
decade, in a thousand newspaper articles across the world, and may
have also inspired the new breed of popular detective writers
seeking to create a cunning criminal at the centre of their
thrillers. With all the ingredients of a classic murder mystery,
the case is a near-perfect whodunnit. But who, in fact, did it? Was
Armstrong really a murderer? One hundred years after the execution,
Agatha-Award shortlisted Stephen Bates examines and retells the
story of the case, evoking the period and atmosphere of the early
1920s, and questioning the fatal judgement. 'CAREFUL AND
COMPELLING' KATE MORGAN 'YOU WILL READ IT IN ONE SITTING' MARC
MULHOLLAND 'A REAL-LIFE GOLDEN-AGE CRIME NOVEL' SEAN O'CONNOR
'METICULOUSLY RESEARCHED ... A GLORIOUSLY ENGAGING ROMP' JANICE
HALLETT, THE SUNDAY TIMES 'IMMERSIVE AND COMPELLING' DAVID KYNASTON
'A PAGE-TURNER' ROBERT LACEY 'CAREFUL AND COMPELLING' KATE MORGAN
'YOU WILL READ IT IN ONE SITTING' MARC MULHOLLAND 'A REAL-LIFE
GOLDEN-AGE CRIME NOVEL' SEAN O'CONNOR A brilliant narrative
investigation into the 1920s case that inspired Agatha Christie,
Dorothy Sayers and Margery Allingham. On a bleak Tuesday morning in
February 1921, 48-year-old Katharine Armstrong died in her bedroom
on the first floor of an imposing Edwardian villa overlooking the
rolling hills of the isolated borderlands between Wales and
England. Within fifteen months of such a sad domestic tragedy, her
husband, Herbert Rowse Armstrong, would be arrested, tried and
hanged for poisoning her with arsenic, the only solicitor ever to
be executed in England. Armstrong's story was retold again and
again, decade after decade, in a thousand newspaper articles across
the world, and may have also inspired the new breed of popular
detective writers seeking to create a cunning criminal at the
centre of their thrillers. With all the ingredients of a classic
murder mystery, the case is a near-perfect whodunnit. But who, in
fact, did it? Was Armstrong really a murderer? One hundred years
after the execution, Agatha-Award shortlisted Stephen Bates
examines and retells the story of the case, evoking the period and
atmosphere of the early 1920s, and questioning the fatal judgement.
Resolving Business Disputes will give company directors, business
executives and other commercial decision-makers a unique and
essential insight into how to resolve business disputes and to
reach the best outcomes by making effective decisions. The book is
also aimed at dispute resolution lawyers, litigation funders and
insurers. It is a guide, explaining the unique choices created by
commercial conflict, basic workings of the law about disputes, the
main avenues of dispute resolution, the forecasting of litigation
outcomes for cases going to court, the funding of legal cases, the
management of the risk involved, the creation of a dispute
strategy, how to make the best use of legal advice and how to
negotiate effectively. Finally, by using objective criteria the
guide explains how to decide whether to end a dispute by negotiated
settlement or by taking a case all the way to a court judgment or
other conclusion. In view of the profound implications of Covid-19
for trade and commerce, the book also contains an introduction to
key issues raised by the pandemic for the resolution of contract
disputes.
Herbert Asquith was a Liberal politician and prime minister
from1908-1916. Asquith's administration laid the foundation of
Britain's welfare state, but he was plunged into a major power
struggle with the House of Lords. The hereditary upper chamber
vetoed the budget of 1909, and in 1910 Asquith called and won two
elections on this constitutional issue, and the Lords eventually
passed the 1911 Parliament Act, ending their veto of financial
legislation. Asquith was Prime Minister on the outbreak of World
War I, but his government fell in 1916 as a result of the 'Shells
Scandal'.
Black-box machine learning models are now routinely used in
high-risk settings, like medical diagnostics, which demand
uncertainty quantification to avoid consequential model failures.
Conformal prediction is a user-friendly paradigm for creating
statistically rigorous uncertainty sets/intervals for the
predictions of such models. One can use conformal prediction with
any pre-trained model, such as a neural network, to produce sets
that are guaranteed to contain the ground truth with a
user-specified probability, such as 90%. It is easy-to-understand,
easy-to-use, and in general, applies naturally to problems arising
in the fields of computer vision, natural language processing, deep
reinforcement learning, amongst others. In this hands-on
introduction the authors provide the reader with a working
understanding of conformal prediction and related distribution-free
uncertainty quantification techniques. They lead the reader through
practical theory and examples of conformal prediction and describe
its extensions to complex machine learning tasks involving
structured outputs, distribution shift, time-series, outliers,
models that abstain, and more. Throughout, there are many
explanatory illustrations, examples, and code samples in Python.
With each code sample comes a Jupyter notebook implementing the
method on a real-data example. This hands-on tutorial, full of
practical and accessible examples, is essential reading for all
students, practitioners and researchers working on all types of
systems deploying machine learning techniques.
The Anglican Communion is in turmoil. One of the great historic
pillars of Christianity, embraced by 70 million people in 164
countries, faces the real and immediate possibility of dismberment,
as the spectre of schism looms ever closer. Yet why is gay
sexuality the tinderbox that could rip the Anglican Communion
apart, and put an end to a century-old and hugely-prized
international unity, when such contentious issues as the ordination
of women, or unity discussions with other churches, failed to cause
a split? In answering this question, Stephen Bates will show that
unity has been coveted by some above integrity, and has been the
cause of vicious infighting and internal politics. In the run-up to
publication of A Church At War the author will be in the front
line, as he files regular reports on the twists and turns of
battle. His eagerly awaited book will be the only one to assess the
current state and historical context of the row, the strengths and
weaknesses of the protagonists' positions, and the tactics that
they are employing to win the day. A Church At War promises
compelling insights into a power struggle between factions
seemingly united only by their mutual antipathy, and conducted,
paradoxically, in the name of true communion.'
Following Papers and Papers 2, the third volume in the series
contains papers written by Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates
between 2008 and 2014. Illustrated with photographs and drawings,
the papers focus on some of the themes that are at the heart of the
work of Sergison Bates architects and their approach to
architectural practice, such as domesticity, typology and density.
The story behind the 1940s Commission on Freedom of the
Press-groundbreaking then, timelier than ever now "Bates skillfully
blends biography and intellectual history to provide a sense of how
the clash of ideas and the clash of personalities
intersected."-Scott Stossel, American Scholar "A well-constructed,
timely study, clearly relevant to current debates."-Kirkus, starred
review In 1943, Time Inc. editor-in-chief Henry R. Luce sponsored
the greatest collaboration of intellectuals in the twentieth
century. He and University of Chicago president Robert Maynard
Hutchins summoned the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the
Pulitzer-winning poet Archibald MacLeish, and ten other preeminent
thinkers to join the Commission on Freedom of the Press. They spent
three years wrestling with subjects that are as pertinent as ever:
partisan media and distorted news, activists who silence rather
than rebut their opponents, conspiracy theories spread by shadowy
groups, and the survivability of American democracy in a post-truth
age. The report that emerged, A Free and Responsible Press, is a
classic, but many of the commission's sharpest insights never made
it into print. Journalist and First Amendment scholar Stephen Bates
reveals how these towering intellects debated some of the most
vital questions of their time-and reached conclusions urgently
relevant today.
Up to date and informative, the Yearbook of Copyright and Media Law is now well established as a key source of information and analysis for all copyright, media and entertainment law professionals. It is is designed to respond to practical developments and problem areas such as the Internet and Multimedia while also making a serious contribution to copyright and media law as a legal discipline. The central feature of the Yearbook is the range of annual surveys prepared by expert practising lawyers. Covering all issues from copyright, trademarks, licensing societies and new technology to libel, contempt of court and music contracts, the surveys contain considered and thorough analysis of the most recent developments in the UK, the EC, and beyond. The special survey in this yearbook focuses on definitions of film and there are in-depth articles on topical subjects such as the Microsoft judgment and the impact of The Human Rights Act and the Data Protection Act.
Media and Entertainment Law is a fast growing sector of practice in the EC, and in the UK in particular. The emergence of multi-media law has raised a large number of novel conceptual and practical difficulties for lawyers specialising in the area. The Yearbook is designed to respond to these practical difficulties while also making a serious contribution to media law as an area of serious academic study. It contains high quality analyses of topical issues, as well as thorough surveys of key areas of practice. Up to date and informative, the Yearbook is now well-established as a key source of information and analysis for all media and entertainment law professionals.
A set of antique photographic plates is the key to uncovering
hidden truths of the Civil War, Great Depression, and 9/11 eras in
this “unflinching†novel (Publishers Weekly). A teenage boy and
his grandfather travel across America to attend that last great
reunion of Civil War veterans at Gettysburg in 1938, where secrets
and lies are revealed about the old man’s past. Perhaps he was
not the hero his grandson thought, but he still has a valuable
treasure to reveal, which will shed intriguing light on the war and
his part in it. Interweaving three periods of crisis in American
history—the Civil War, the Depression, and 9/11—The
Photographer’s Boy explores the power of photography and
journalism to inform or mislead; raises questions about love; and
offers “an unflinching but sympathetic, often touching, look at
the comforting fictions people wrap themselves in to protect
themselves from the cold of reality†(Publishers Weekly).
Media and entertainment law is one of the fastest growing sectors of practice in the UK and European Community. Practising lawyers are hungry for information and informed analysis of the latest developments in this fast-moving field. This Yearbook spans the traditional concerns of media lawyers such as free speech and freedom of the press generally, including libel law and contempt of court as well as the core areas of entertainment law practice such as copyright, contracts, licensing and competition. In addition it covers the emerging fields of new technologies, the impact of the much heralded `information highway' upon media law, the effects of European Community initiatives in this area and the ever changing subject of broadcasting regulation. The Yearbook consists of high-quality analytical articles, important annual surveys of developments in all these fields and reviews of recent publications, all of which will be of interest to the practising and academic lawyer.
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