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By the Costa Award-winning author of PURE, a profound and tender
tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work
of loving. 'The writing is near perfect. But the novel's excellence
goes far beyond this . . . You read [it] . . . with your pulse
racing, all your senses awake' Guardian 'A beautiful, lambent,
timely novel' Sarah Hall An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic
living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a
bond with Maggie, the daughter he barely knows, when he receives a
summons - to an inquiry in Belfast about an incident during the
Troubles, which he hoped he had long outdistanced. Now, to testify
about it could wreck his fragile relationship with Maggie. And if
he loses her, he loses everything. He decides instead to write her
an account of his life - a confession, a defence, a love letter.
Also a means of buying time. But as time runs out, the day comes
when he must face again what happened in that distant summer of
1982.
The book investigates a riveting, richly documented conflict from
thirteenth-century England over church property and ecclesiastical
patronage. Oliver Sutton, the bishop of Lincoln, and John St John,
a royal household knight, both used coveted papal provisions to
bestow the valuable church of Thame to a familial clerical
candidate (a nephew and son, respectively). Between 1292 and 1294
three people died over the right to possess this church benefice
and countless others were attacked or publicly scorned during the
conflict. More broadly, religious services were paralyzed, prized
animals were mutilated, and property was destroyed. Ultimately, the
king personally brokered a settlement because he needed his knight
for combat. Employing a microhistorical approach, this book uses
abundant episcopal, royal, and judicial records to reconstruct this
complex story that exposes in vivid detail the nature and limits of
episcopal and royal power and the significance and practical
business of ecclesiastical benefaction. This volume will appeal to
undergraduate and graduate students alike, particularly students in
historical methods courses, medieval surveys, upper-division
undergraduate courses, and graduate seminars. It would also appeal
to admirers of microhistories and people interested in issues
pertaining to gender, masculinity, and identity in the Middle Ages.
By the Costa Award-winning author of Pure, a profound and tender
tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work
of loving. 'The writing is near perfect. But the novel's excellence
goes far beyond this . . . You read [it] . . . with your pulse
racing, all your senses awake' Guardian 'A beautiful, lambent,
timely novel' Sarah Hall An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic
living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a
bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons -
to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern
Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had
outdistanced. Above all, to testify would jeopardise the fragile
relationship with his daughter. And if he loses her, he loses
everything. Instead, he decides to write her an account of his
life; a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of
buying time. But time is running out, and the day comes when he
must face again what happened in that faraway summer of 1982.
This book is a selection of graded Japanese readings written in
modern Japanese. An excellent way to learn Japanese, A Japanese
Reader is designed for the foreign student of Japanese who is
interested in attaining and developing proficiency in reading
Japanese, the style of which is in current use in books, magazines,
and newspapers in Japan. It also includes authentic excerpts from
works by 20th-century Japanese masters Mishima, Akutagawa,
Kawabata, and others. Although A Japanese Reader supposes some
acquaintance with the spoken Japanese language, it does not assume
any knowledge of written Japanese and starts from and very
beginning, advancing in graded readings up through quite difficult
materials. Learning the modern Japanese written language is by no
means a difficult task for the student of the Japanese language as
it is often made to appear. The most important thing in such a
study is to get yourself started in the correct direction--after
that, the progress you make and the eventual proficiency you will
gain in reading (and writing) the language are limited only by the
amount of time and effort you are able or willing to devote to the
task. Attention has been given throughout the volume to grading
materials in the order of progressive difficulty, though in many
cases familiarity on the part of a student with the subject matter
involved may well make a particular selection somewhat easier for
him than others further on in the book. Partly to assist in the
understanding of the reading selections and partly because it is
felt that few students will wish to become proficient in reading
Japanese and still remain uninterested in Japanese culture and
cultural history, an attempt has also been made to indicate where
possible significant collateral readings available in English,
especially for some of the sections which deal with distinctive
aspects of Japanese life and culture. Lessons 1 through 17 deal
with the essentials of the Japanese writing system, as it is used
in Japan today. Lessons 18 through 30 deal with building a working
knowledge of Japanese grammar and introducing the Japanese system
of writing. Lessons 31 through 38 are selections of intermediate
difficulty and largely deal with Japanese life and customs.
Included are readings of Japanese literature, archaeology, ceramic
art, painting, Buddhism, the theater, and political science and
philosophy. Lessons 48 through 59 are of increasing difficulty and
include criticisms, resumes, a short text from Meiji and Taisho
literature, and excerpts from important Japanese novels. Lessons 60
through 75 are of advanced difficulty and provided further readings
with a considerable variety of content including Sinology, Zen
Buddhism, Shinto, Christianity, newspapers, economics and finance,
and Japanese government policies.
Mentoring is used in a wide range of situations in education: to
assist learning; to help weaker students or those with specific
learning needs or difficulties; to develop community or business
links; to aid the inclusion of pupils otherwise at risk of
exclusion; to develop ethnic links; to enable students to benefit
from the support of their peers, to name but a few. The development
and proliferation of mentoring and mentoring schemes in education
over the last few years has been dramatic, and presents teachers,
school managers and leaders, as well as mentors themselves with a
challenge. This book presents all mentors plus anyone working with
young people with an invaluable guide to approaches to mentoring
today. It looks at mentoring as a concept, at what mentoring is,
how it is done well and how it can be made more effective. Written
by a leading expert on mentoring, this practical and relevant
handbook is backed up throughout by inspiring and relevant case
studies and examples from schools and schemes internationally.
Mentoring is used in a wide range of situations in education: to
assist learning; to help weaker students or those with specific
learning needs or difficulties; to develop community or business
links; to aid the inclusion of pupils otherwise at risk of
exclusion; to develop ethnic links; to enable students to benefit
from the support of their peers, to name but a few. The development
and proliferation of mentoring and mentoring schemes in education
over the last few years has been dramatic, and presents teachers,
school managers and leaders, as well as mentors themselves with a
challenge. This book presents all mentors plus anyone working with
young people with an invaluable guide to approaches to mentoring
today. It looks at mentoring as a concept, at what mentoring is,
how it is done well and how it can be made more effective. Written
by a leading expert on mentoring, this practical and relevant
handbook is backed up throughout by inspiring and relevant case
studies and examples from schools and schemes internationally.
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the
Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how
the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent
an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic
adaptation. The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, premiered in 2001, in between
publication of the fourth and fifth books of this global literary
phenomenon. As a result, the production and reception of both novel
and movie series became intertwined with one another, creating a
fan base that accessed the series first through the books, first
through the movies, and in various other combinations. John Alberti
and P. Andrew Miller have gathered scholars to explore and examine
the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of
this pop-culture phenomenon and how it has changed the reception of
both the films and books. While the primary focus of the collection
is an academic audience, it will appeal to a broad range of
listeners. Within the academic community, Transforming Harry will
be of interest to scholars and teachers in a number of disciplines,
including film and media studies and English.
In Modernism, Ireland and the Erotics of Memory Nicholas Miller
re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture. Arguing
that a continuous renegotiation of memory is characteristic of
Irish modernist writing, Miller investigates a series of
case-studies in modern Irish historical imagination. He reassesses
Ireland's self-construction through external or 'foreign'
discourses such as the cinema, and proposes readings of Yeats and
Joyce as 'counter-memorialists'. Combining theoretical and
historical approaches, Miller shows how the modernist handling of
history transforms both memory and the story of the past by
highlighting readers' investments in histories that are produced,
specifically and concretely, through local acts of reading. This
original study will attract scholars of Modernism, Irish studies,
film and literary theory.
* WINNER OF THE HIGHLAND BOOK PRIZE * * SHORTLISTED FOR THE WALTER
SCOTT PRIZE * The rapturously acclaimed new novel by the Costa
Award-winning author of PURE, hailed as 'excellent', 'gripping',
'as suspenseful as any thriller', 'engrossing', 'moving' and
'magnificent'. One rainswept winter's night in 1809, an unconscious
man is carried into a house in Somerset. He is Captain John
Lacroix, home from Britain's disastrous campaign against Napoleon's
forces in Spain. Gradually Lacroix recovers his health, but not his
peace of mind. He will not - cannot - talk about the war or face
the memory of what took place on the retreat to Corunna. After the
command comes to return to his regiment, he lights out instead for
the Hebrides, unaware that he has far worse to fear than being
dragged back to the army: a vicious English corporal and a Spanish
officer with secret orders are on his trail. In luminous prose,
Miller portrays a man shattered by what he has witnessed, on a
journey that leads to unexpected friendships, even to love. But as
the short northern summer reaches its zenith, the shadow of the
enemy is creeping closer. Freedom, for John Lacroix, will come at a
high price. Taut with suspense, this is an enthralling, deeply
involving novel by one of Britain's most acclaimed writers. 'His
writing suspends life until it is read and is a source of wonder
and delight' Hilary Mantel on Casanova in the Sunday Times
Winner of the Dinaane Debut Fiction Award for 2015.
Dub Steps has a strange long aftertaste. It is science fiction with ordinary characters trying to understand what it is to be alive.
People have gone, suddenly, inexplicably, and the remaining handful have to find each other and start again. In that new beginning they wrestle with identity, race, sex, art, religion and time, in a remarkably realistic, step-by-step way. Nature comes back, Johannesburg becomes wonderfully overgrown, designer pigs watch from the periphery walls, and the small group of survivors have to find ways of living with their own flaws and the flaws of each other. The aftertaste comes from the surprisingly real meditations in the middle of the end: after all simulated reality has gone, what human reality is left?
There are no clichés in this book, but there is plenty of humour, originality and a gripping, unusual interrogation of the ordinary but really extraordinary fact of being alive.
The world-renowned UEA Creative Writing MA presents its new batch
of young talent, featuring work from all four strands of the
course: fiction, life writing, poetry and scriptwriting.
Nicholas Miller re-examines memory and its role in modern Irish culture. Asserting that a continuous renegotiation of memory is characteristic of Irish modernist writing, he investigates a series of case-studies in modern Irish historical imagination. He reassesses Ireland's self-construction through external or "foreign" discourses such as the cinema, and proposes new readings of Yeats and Joyce as "counter-memorialists." This original study attracts scholars of Modernism, Irish studies, film and literary theory.
By the Costa Award-winning author of Pure, a profound and tender
tale of guilt, a search for atonement and the hard, uncertain work
of loving. 'The writing is near perfect. But the novel's excellence
goes far beyond this . . . You read [it] . . . with your pulse
racing, all your senses awake' Guardian 'A beautiful, lambent,
timely novel' Sarah Hall An ex-soldier and recovering alcoholic
living quietly in Somerset, Stephen Rose has just begun to form a
bond with the daughter he barely knows when he receives a summons -
to an inquiry into an incident during the Troubles in Northern
Ireland. It is the return of what Stephen hoped he had
outdistanced. Above all, to testify would jeopardise the fragile
relationship with his daughter. And if he loses her, he loses
everything. Instead, he decides to write her an account of his
life; a confession, a defence, a love letter. Also a means of
buying time. But time is running out, and the day comes when he
must face again what happened in that faraway summer of 1982.
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD (2011) A year of bones,
of grave-dirt, relentless work. Of mummified corpses and chanting
priests. A year of rape, suicide, sudden death. Of friendship too.
Of desire. Of love... A year unlike any other he has lived. Deep in
the heart of Paris, its oldest cemetery is, by 1785, overflowing,
tainting the very breath of those who live nearby. Into their midst
comes Jean-Baptiste Baratte, a young, provincial engineer charged
by the king with demolishing it. At first Baratte sees this as a
chance to clear the burden of history, a fitting task for a modern
man of reason. But before long, he begins to suspect that the
destruction of the cemetery might be a prelude to his own.
A New York Times bestseller, now updated with an afterword and
exclusive new material From the #1 bestselling author behind
acclaimed oral histories of Saturday Night Live and ESPN comes "the
most hotly anticipated book [in decades]" (Variety): James Andrew
Miller's irresistible insider chronicle of the modern entertainment
industry, told through the epic story of Creative Artists Agency
(CAA)-the ultimate power player that has represented the world's
biggest stars and shaped the landscape of film, television, comedy,
music, and sports. Started in 1975, when five bright and brash
upstarts left creaky William Morris to form their own innovative
talent agency, CAA would come to revolutionize Hollywood,
representing everyone from Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep, Robert De
Niro, and Steven Spielberg to Jennifer Lawrence, J.J. Abrams, Will
Smith, and Brad Pitt. Over the next decades its tentacles would
spread aggressively into sports, advertising, and digital media.
Powerhouse is the fascinating, no-holds-barred saga of that ascent.
Drawing on unprecedented and exclusive access to the men and women
who built and battled with CAA-including co-founders Michael Ovitz
and Ron Meyer and rivals like Ari Emanuel of William Morris
Endeavor-as well as the stars themselves, Miller spins a unique and
unforgettable tale of brilliance, ambition, betrayal, and
outrageous success.
Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies provides a comprehensive
introduction to the revolutionary yet often misunderstood new
technologies of digital currency. Whether you are a student,
software developer, tech entrepreneur, or researcher in computer
science, this authoritative and self-contained book tells you
everything you need to know about the new global money for the
Internet age. How do Bitcoin and its block chain actually work? How
secure are your bitcoins? How anonymous are their users? Can
cryptocurrencies be regulated? These are some of the many questions
this book answers. It begins by tracing the history and development
of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, and then gives the conceptual and
practical foundations you need to engineer secure software that
interacts with the Bitcoin network as well as to integrate ideas
from Bitcoin into your own projects. Topics include
decentralization, mining, the politics of Bitcoin, altcoins and the
cryptocurrency ecosystem, the future of Bitcoin, and more. * An
essential introduction to the new technologies of digital currency*
Covers the history and mechanics of Bitcoin and the block chain,
security, decentralization, anonymity, politics and regulation,
altcoins, and much more* Features an accompanying website that
includes instructional videos for each chapter, homework problems,
programming assignments, and lecture slides* Also suitable for use
with the authors' Coursera online course* Electronic solutions
manual (available only to professors)
The exceptional and powerful novel from the Booker-shortlisted
author of Oxygen In a world where people slaughter the innocent
without mercy or retribution, how can we have faith in humanity, or
the future? Clem Glass, a photojournalist, returns from Africa to
London convinced he knows the answer - mankind is fundamentally
wicked and there is no hope for us. Yet when his sister falls ill
and he takes her back to the West Country of their childhood, he
cannot ignore the decency, joys and small kindnesses of those
around him, or the pulse of goodness in his own heart. Until news
comes that offers Clem the chance to confront the author of his
nightmares.
Transforming Harry: The Adaptation of Harry Potter in the
Transmedia Age is an edited volume of eight essays that look at how
the cinematic versions of the seven Harry Potter novels represent
an unprecedented cultural event in the history of cinematic
adaptation. The movie version of the first Harry Potter book, Harry
Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, premiered in 2001, in between
publication of the fourth and fifth books of this global literary
phenomenon. As a result, the production and reception of both novel
and movie series became intertwined with one another, creating a
fan base that accessed the series first through the books, first
through the movies, and in various other combinations. John Alberti
and P. Andrew Miller have gathered scholars to explore and examine
the cultural, political, aesthetic, and pedagogical dimensions of
this pop-culture phenomenon and how it has changed the reception of
both the films and books. While the primary focus of the collection
is an academic audience, it will appeal to a broad range of
listeners. Within the academic community, Transforming Harry will
be of interest to scholars and teachers in a number of disciplines,
including film and media studies and English.
Based on direct work with over 250 individual children, Andrew
Miller wrote this book in order to provide parents and
professionals with information, tools and guidance to help
introduce children to autism in the absence of specialist support.
This in-depth guide describes the practicalities of disclosure,
including when to tell, who should do it and what they need to know
beforehand with strategies to tailor your approach as every child's
experience will be different. Step-by-step instructions detail how
to deliver the programme and produce with a child a personalised
booklet containing information about their personal attributes and
their autism. These booklets and follow-up material help make
disclosure a positive and constructive experience for everyone.
Accompanying material can be downloaded online including
questionnaires, examples of children's booklets and flexible
templates.
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Financial Cryptography and Data Security - FC 2017 International Workshops, WAHC, BITCOIN, VOTING, WTSC, and TA, Sliema, Malta, April 7, 2017, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)
Michael Brenner, Kurt Rohloff, Joseph Bonneau, Andrew Miller, Peter Y. A. Ryan, …
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 5 workshops held
at the 21st International Conference on Financial Cryptography and
Data Security, FC 2017, in Sliema, Malta, in April 2017.The 39 full
papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 96
submissions. They feature the outcome of the 5th Workshop on
Encrypted Computing and Applied Homomorphic Cryptography, WAHC
2017, the 4th Workshop on Bitcoin and Blockchain Research, BITCOIN
2017, the Second Workshop on Secure Voting Systems, VOTING 2017,
the First Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts, WTSC 2017, and the
First Workshop on Targeted Attacks, TA 2017.The papers are grouped
in topical sections named: encrypted computing and applied
homomorphic cryptography; bitcoin and blockchain research; advances
in secure electronic voting schemes; trusted smart contracts;
targeted attacks.
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