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When Nicholas Winton cancelled his skiing holiday in favour of
going to Prague to visit a friend, little did he know this decision
would change the course of thousands of lives, including his own.
As millions of Jewish families attempted to flee the growing
clutches of the brutal Nazi war of terror, this
twenty-nine-year-old stockbroker decided to act, pulling off one of
the most remarkable rescue missions of the century. The British
Oskar Schindler tells the story of this remarkable man's life and
those around him who helped him to achieve all he did.
On the night of 4 April 1793, two lovers were preparing to compel a
cleric to perform a secret ceremony. The wedding of the sixth son
of King George III to the daughter of the Earl of Dunmore would not
only be concealed - it would also be illegal. Lady Augusta Murray
had known Prince Augustus Frederick for only three months but they
had already fallen deeply in love and were desperate to be married.
However, the Royal Marriages Act forbade such a union without the
King's permission and going ahead with the ceremony would change
Augusta's life forever. From a beautiful socialite she became a
social pariah; her children were declared illegitimate and her
family was scorned. In Forbidden Wife Julia Abel Smith uses
material from the Royal Archives and the Dunmore family papers to
create a dramatic biography set in the reigns of Kings George III
and IV against the background of the American and French
Revolutions.
This book concerns itself with the key question: how to improve
health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. What
makes people healthy? Why are the poor less healthy than the rich?
Why do some countries have a better health record than others? An
Introduction to Health is divided into four parts comprising the
determinants of health, health service planning, health service
financing, and controlling costs and securing user-friendly
services.
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book concerns itself with the key question: how to improve
health in a cost effective and politically acceptable way. What
makes people healthy? Why are the poor less healthy than the rich?
Why do some countries have a better health record than others? An
Introduction to Health is divided into four parts comprising the
determinants of health, health service planning, health service
financing, and controlling costs and securing user-friendly
services.
First Published in 1968. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Originally published in 1956, as number 17 in the Occasional Papers
of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research series,
this book presents an investigation into the cost of the National
Health Service. Using the technique of 'social accounting', the
text was written 'to trace for the National Health Service as a
whole in England and Wales, and for each of its main branches, the
changes in factor cost and in the amount of resources absorbed
since the Service was established'. Appendices are included and
numerous tables are incorporated throughout. This book will be of
value to anyone with an interest in socio-economic history and the
development of the National Health Service.
James Bond is possibly the most well known fictional characters in
history. What most people don't know is that almost all of the
characters, plots and gadgets come from the real life experiences
of Bond's creator - Commander Ian Fleming. In this book, we go
through the plots of Fleming's novels explaining the real life
experiences that inspired them. The reader is taken on a journey
through Fleming's direct involvement in World War II intelligence
and how this translated through his typewriter into James Bond's
world, as well as the many other factors of Fleming's life which
were also taken as inspiration. Most notably, the friends who
Fleming kept, among whom were Noel Coward and Randolph Churchill
and the influential people he would mingle with, British Prime
Ministers and American Presidents.Bond is known for his exotic
travel, most notably to the island of Jamaica, where Fleming spent
much of his life. The desk in his Caribbean house, Goldeneye, was
also where his life experiences would be put onto paper in the
guise of James Bond. As the island was highly influential for
Fleming, it features heavily in this book, offering an element of
escapism to the reader, with tales of a clear blue sea, Caribbean
climate and island socialising. Ian Fleming might have died
prematurely aged 53, but so much of him lives on to this day
through the most famous spy in the world, James Bond.
In view of the continuing preoccupation of all industrialized
countries with the rising share of national resources devoted to
health care, it is valuable to compare the fmanc ing and breakdown
of health care expenditure on an international basis. How far
should public spending on health care be regarded as a capital
investment in the improvement of the health of the population and
how far as subsidies to individual consumption? This question is of
major importance to policy makers, including the me dical
profession, politicians, employers, social security officials as
well as to the public at large. In order to obtain some insight
into the incentive structures enhancing competition among suppliers
which have been built into the health care delivery systems in the
various countries, the Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Public
Health at St. Gall, in close co operation with the Institute of
Insurance Economics and the Institute of Public Finance and Fiscal
Law, both afftliated with the Saint Gall Graduate School of
Economics, Business and Public Administration, initiated an
international seminar held at Wolfsberg, Switzerland, 20-23 March
1979. The purposes of the Seminar were: 1. to review present
experience on the development of health care costs and their
financing - particularly the role of health insurance and the
institutional relationships between public illd private health
insurance policies; 2."
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Sam Herman (1936-2020) stands at the very centre of the development
of the international Studio Glass Movement. He was not only present
for the birth of the Movement in the United States, but was its
founding father in Great Britain and Australia. This book is the
first to deal directly with the genesis of the Movement and the
pioneering work of Herman within it, while also shedding light on
his wider practice in sculpture and painting. The son of Polish
immigrants, Mexican by birth, and brought up in the tougher New
York boroughs, Herman travelled to London in the mid-1960s and went
on to head up the Glass Department at the Royal College of Art.
From there he inspired a generation of artists, created
revolutionary techniques and was instrumental in the development of
colour and texture in blown glass. For art historians, collectors
and aficionados of glass, this book provides a welcome and
comprehensive evaluation of Herman's position within the Studio
Glass Movement, the history of glass art, as well as the wider
context of modern British art. While discussion of his sculpture
and painting reveal further dimensions to Herman's ongoing, and
indefatigable, explorations in form, composition and colour.
A visitor's handbook to the valley of the Greater Tarnava river in
the heart of Transylvania. This is a land of ancient fortified
churches and rolling wildflower meadows, towering steep-roofed
citadels and stately noble castles, suspended in time, with an
intricate history and a complex diversity of peoples. Discover,
enjoy and help to protect the wealth of this fragile cultural
inheritance.
On the night of 4 April 1793, two lovers were preparing to compel a
cleric to perform a secret ceremony. The wedding of the sixth son
of King George III to the daughter of the Earl of Dunmore would not
only be concealed - it would also be illegal. Lady Augusta Murray
had known Prince Augustus Frederick for only three months but they
had already fallen deeply in love and were desperate to be married.
However, the Royal Marriages Act forbade such a union without the
King's permission and going ahead with the ceremony would change
Augusta's life forever. From a beautiful socialite she became a
social pariah; her children were declared illegitimate and her
family was scorned. In Forbidden Wife Julia Abel Smith uses
material from the Royal Archives and the Dunmore family papers to
create a dramatic biography set in the reigns of Kings George III
and IV against the background of the American and French
Revolutions.
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