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This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated
essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in
Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays
breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new
discourse.
When HMS Laurentic sank in 1917, few knew what cargo she was
carrying, and the Admiralty wanted to keep it that way. After all,
broadcasting that there were 44 tons of gold off the coast of
Ireland in the middle of a vicious and bloody war was not the best
strategic move. But Britain desperately needed that gold.
Lieutenant Commander Guybon Damant was an expert diver and helped
discover how to prevent decompression sickness ('the bends'). With
a then world record dive of 210ft under his belt and a proven
history of military determination, Damant was the perfect man for a
job that required the utmost secrecy and skill. What followed next
was a tale of incredible feats, set against a backdrop of war and
treacherous storms. Based on thousands of Admiralty pages,
interviews with Damant's family and the unpublished memoirs of the
man himself, The Sunken Gold is a story of war, treasure - and one
man's obsession to find it.
Targeting Chronic Inflammatory Lung Diseases Using Advanced Drug
Delivery Systems explores the development of novel therapeutics and
diagnostics to improve pulmonary disease management, looking down
to the nanoscale level for an efficient system of targeting and
managing respiratory disease. The book examines numerous
nanoparticle-based drug systems such as nanocrystals, dendrimers,
polymeric micelles, protein-based, carbon nanotube, and liposomes
that can offer advantages over traditional drug delivery systems.
Starting with a brief introduction on different types of
nanoparticles in respiratory disease conditions, the book then
focuses on current trends in disease pathology that use different
in vitro and in vivo models. The comprehensive resource is designed
for those new to the field and to specialized scientists and
researchers involved in pulmonary research and drug development.
This book, first published in 1980, describes and analyses the
revolutionary years that saw the birth of the first modern Welsh
nation and the American Republic. In the last days of the
eighteenth century, as the Atlantic world responded to the
challenge of the American and French revolutions, the novel
industrial capitalism of England planted itself in the Welsh south
and east, and disrupted traditional rural community to west and
north. Wales, a marginal and poverty-stricken country, was
propelled into modernisation, cultural revival, a breach with the
Establishment, a millenarian mitigation and its first politics.
This unique study is based on the careful interpretation of
evidence in the commercial and administrative records of the City
and in the royal records, of the process by which London developed
from a commune of a feudal kingdom into the capital city of the
English nation. The period covered is the century and a half
between 1191 and the beginnings of the Hundred Years' War. Leading
themes are the emergence of its administrative elite, the changing
pattern of its mercantile interests, and the rise of its craft
organizations; and a detailed account is given of the social and
constitutional conflicts that marked London's history between the
popular revolt of 1263 and the succession of Edward III. A notable
feature of this volume is the reconstruction from teh records of a
large number of outline biographies of Londoners of all classes.
This book was first published in 1963.
Stay ahead of your customers as their service expectations change
In Current Issues and Development in Hospitality and Tourism
Satisfaction, experts from the field explore customer satisfaction
strategies, examining both the long-term and short-term results.
This vital tool shows you new and effective approaches for
understanding customer satisfaction and providing quality service
at all levels of the hospitality and tourism industry. Hospitality
and tourism faculty and students as well as professionals will find
this book useful for improving and providing quality service
management. This book illustrates the complex relationship between
customer and service provider, offering practical advice and
techniques for maximizing consumer contentment. Current Issues and
Development in Hospitality and Tourism Satisfaction contains models
for meeting-and even surpassing-consumer expectations to increase
the value of the customer's experience. This essential resource
includes various methods for managers to anticipate consumer needs
and perceptions, reducing dissatisfaction. This book helps you:
incorporate existing and alternative measurements of satisfaction
measure and improve service quality create and maintain social
interaction linkages between staff and customer identify the
destination performance of your hotel and other destinations or
attractions evaluate consumer satisfaction with lodging services
increase cross-cultural service satisfaction and much more Tables
and figures throughout the text help demonstrate the strategies,
and bibliographies at the end of each chapter offer further
reading. While there are other books that focus on customer
satisfaction, Current Issues and Development in Hospitality and
Tourism Satisfaction is rare in that it covers satisfaction issues
as they apply to both hospitality and tourism.
Stay ahead of your customers as their service expectations change!
In Current Issues and Development in Hospitality and Tourism
Satisfaction, experts from the field explore customer satisfaction
strategies, examining both the long-term and short-term results.
This vital tool shows you new and effective approaches for
understanding customer satisfaction and providing quality service
at all levels of the hospitality and tourism industry. Hospitality
and tourism faculty and students as well as professionals will find
this book useful for improving and providing quality service
management.
This book illustrates the complex relationship between customer
and service provider, offering practical advice and techniques for
maximizing consumer contentment. Current Issues and Development in
Hospitality and Tourism Satisfaction contains models for
meeting--and even surpassing--consumer expectations to increase the
value of the customer's experience. This essentialresource includes
various methods for managers to anticipate consumer needs and
perceptions, reducing dissatisfaction.
This book helps you: incorporate existing and alternative
measurements of satisfaction measure and improve service quality
create and maintain social interaction linkages between staff and
customer identify the destination performance of your hotel and
other destinations or attractions evaluate consumer satisfaction
with lodging services increase cross-cultural service satisfaction
and much more! Tables and figures throughout the text help
demonstrate the strategies, and bibliographies at the end of each
chapter offer further reading. While there are other books that
focus on customer satisfaction, CurrentIssues and Development in
Hospitality and Tourism Satisfaction is rare in that it covers
satisfaction issues as they apply to both hospitality and tourism.
This book, first published in 1978, examines the independent
political action by the thousands of working people in the town of
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. After a mass rally on the hills above the
town, thousands of workers under a reg flag broke into insurrection
- a detachment of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders marched into
the town to restore order. The rebels repulsed the soldiers and
held the town, with at least two dozen workers killed. Within weeks
of the Rising, trade unions began to appear in South Wales, and
this book argues that these events were central to the emergence of
a Welsh working class.
The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and
often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of the
twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the
complex histories and diverse geographies of populist activity,
examining its manifestations on both the political left and the
right while tracing its dangerous association with nativism, racism
and xenophobia. Established socio-political theories are questioned
and challenged, giving way to fresh philosophical or cultural
perspectives. At the heart of this collection lies a concern with
the capacity of the humanities - and especially literary studies -
to interpret, evaluate and intervene in this populist moment.
Literary discussion ranges from Henry James and William Faulkner to
Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Ali Smith and Ta-Nehisi
Coates. These essays demonstrate the pertinence and value of
enquiries from multiple perspectives if we are to come to terms
with the impact of populist rhetoric on meaning and truth, as
proliferating misinformation unmoors conceptual and ethical
coherence. The chapters in this book were originally published in
Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies and
English Studies in Africa.
A Different Paradigm in Music Education is a "let's consider some
possibilities" book. Instead of a music methods book, it is a look
at where the music education profession is and how music teachers
might improve what it is we do. It is about change. It is about
questioning the current music education paradigm, especially
regarding its exclusive role as the only model. The intent is to
help pre-service and in-service music educators consider new modes
of pedagogical thought that will allow us to broaden our reach in
schools and better help students develop as creative musicians
across their lifespan. The book includes an overview of several
opportunities and course examples that would make music education
more relevant and meaningful, especially for students that are not
interested in our traditional performance offerings. The author
wishes to stimulate discussions, with the goal for the music
education profession to grow and mature.
Christianity is often assumed to be pro-capitalist and socially
conservative - in short, necessarily aligned with the political
Right. But can this be straightforwardly true of a religion founded
by a figure who drew his early followers from among the poor and
downtrodden and spoke against the accumulation of earthly riches?
In this book, Anthony A.J. Williams shows that this assumption is
far from correct by giving an introductory overview of a tradition
of socialist and radical Christianity that can be traced back to
the communal ownership described in the Acts of the Apostles.
Focusing on modern Christian Left movements, from Christian
Socialism and the social gospel to liberation theology and
red-letter Christianity, Williams examines the major challenges
faced by the Christian Left today, both from within Christianity
itself and from the secular Left. Does the Bible and Christian
theology really support collectivism and universal equality? Can
Christian radicalism remain viable in an age of identity politics?
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in the
relationship between religion and politics.
This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality
across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an
urgent challenge for our conflicted present, but also as
foundational for ethics and resonant within the play of language.
The plural form of the title highlights the inter-implication of
hospitality with its exclusive others, holding suspicious rejection
in tension with the receptiveness that transforms socio-cultural
relations. Geographically, the collection traverses the globe from
Australia and Africa to Britain, Europe and the United States,
weaving exchanges from south to north, as well as south to south,
and thoughtfully remapping our world. Temporally, the chapters
range from the primordial hospitality offered by the earth, through
the Middle Ages, to contemporary detention centres and the crisis
of homelessness. Thematically, hospitality embraces sites of
dwelling and the land, humans and animals in their complex
embodiment, spectres and the dead, dolls and art objects.This text
openly welcomes the reader to participate in shaping fresh critical
discourses of the hospitable, whether in literary and linguistic
studies, art and architecture, philosophy or politics.
Combustion Theory delves deeper into the science of combustion than
most other texts and gives insight into combustions from a
molecular and a continuum point of view. The book presents
derivations of the basic equations of combustion theory and
contains appendices on the background of subjects of
thermodynamics, chemical kinetics, fluid dynamics, and transport
processes. Diffusion flames, reactions in flows with negligible
transport and the theory of pre-mixed flames are treated, as are
detonation phenomena, the combustion of solid propellents, and
ignition, extinction, and flamibility pehnomena.
This title was first published in 2001: Welfare law is a legal
field integral to most jurisprudential formulations, whether
artificially designated as doctrinal, theoretical or practical. At
its core, legal discourse regarding welfare challenges the
formulations traditionally viewed as 'pre-legal', the 'background
rules' of property, tort and contract law. In addition, it affects
a large percentage of the world's population, highlights the social
construction of identities and perhaps more than any other area of
law, graphically epitomizes the intersection of class, race and
gender distinctions. However, within both the legal academy and
practice, welfare law has been marginalized and viewed as a field
that does not connect to any but a small sector of lawyers and
legal clients. Isolated as an arcane domain of either statutory and
regulatory legal minutiae or jurisprudential insignificance,
welfare law has never realized its potential as a major hub for
legal theoretical discourse. The articles in this volume seek to
expose the roots of the essentialized view of welfare law as
nonessential and re-establish its value and importance.
This book, first published in 1982, is a sequence of interrelated
essays and aims to redirect attention to some critical moments in
Welsh history from Roman times to the present. Each of the essays
breaks new ground, argues for a new approach or opens a new
discourse.
This book, first published in 1980, describes and analyses the
revolutionary years that saw the birth of the first modern Welsh
nation and the American Republic. In the last days of the
eighteenth century, as the Atlantic world responded to the
challenge of the American and French revolutions, the novel
industrial capitalism of England planted itself in the Welsh south
and east, and disrupted traditional rural community to west and
north. Wales, a marginal and poverty-stricken country, was
propelled into modernisation, cultural revival, a breach with the
Establishment, a millenarian mitigation and its first politics.
This book, first published in 1978, examines the independent
political action by the thousands of working people in the town of
Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. After a mass rally on the hills above the
town, thousands of workers under a reg flag broke into insurrection
- a detachment of Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders marched into
the town to restore order. The rebels repulsed the soldiers and
held the town, with at least two dozen workers killed. Within weeks
of the Rising, trade unions began to appear in South Wales, and
this book argues that these events were central to the emergence of
a Welsh working class.
In 1829 in Kentucky, a pregnant black woman helped lead an
uprising of a group of slaves headed to the market for sale. She
was sentenced to death, but her hanging was delayed until after the
birth of her baby. In North Carolina in 1830, a white woman living
on an isolated farm was reported to have given sanctuary to runaway
slaves. In this classic novel of courage and redemption, acclaimed
author Sherley Anne Williams asks the question: "What if these two
women had met?"
These two strong women, one black, one white, form a forbidden
and ambivalent alliance as a bold scheme is hatched to win freedom.
Trust is slowly extended and cautiously accepted as the women unite
and discover greater strength together than alone. Bound by fate
but divided by prejudice, they explore and defy racial barriers in
a moving story of courage, freedom, friendship, and love.
First published in 1925, this forward-thinking volume examined
states of anxiety, their causes and their possible cures. Based on
physicians' reports of their patients, the author aimed to expand
beyond purely obsessive dreads to understanding fear in both its
determinants and its mechanisms, with the view that pathological
timidity is only brought on through learned fear and environmental
influences rather than from birth.
What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard
cases and more on the practices of everyday life? In Everyday
Ethics, Michael Lamb and Brian Williams gather some of the
world’s leading scholars and practitioners of moral theology
(including some GUP authors) to explore that question in dialogue
with anthropology and the social sciences. Inspired by the work of
Michael Banner, these scholars cross disciplinary boundaries to
analyze the ethics of ordinary practices—from eating, learning,
and loving thy neighbor to borrowing and spending, using
technology, and working in a flexible economy. Along the way, they
consider the moral and methodological questions that emerge from
this interdisciplinary dialogue and assess the implications for the
future of moral theology.
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