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Leonard McComb (Hardcover)
Richard Davey; Contributions by Anne Lee-Draycott; Interview by Jonathan Casciani; Interview of Anne Lee-Draycott; Photographs by James Gardiner; Designed by …
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On 20 August 1612, ten people from Pendle were executed before a
vast crowd at Lancaster's Gallows Hill. The condemned and their
associates had endured six months of accusations, imprisonment and
torture; their treatment was such that one of the group died in
Lancaster Castle's dungeons, while awaiting trial. Today, a
thriving tourism industry exists in and around Pendle, the former
home of the so-called witches, yet virtually everything we know
about the case originates from a single source: Thomas Potts'
Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches, hurriedly published in 1613 and
distinctly skewed in favour of the prosecution. Until now... Sunday
Times bestselling author Carol Ann Lee brings an entirely fresh
perspective to the story by approaching it as true crime. Having
worked in the genre for more than a decade, her research leads to
revelatory discoveries, transforming our knowledge of those shadowy
figures behind ill-famed names, and the terrible events that befell
them. After four centuries of superstition and surmise, the two
central, warring families - each headed by a fiercely independent
widow working as 'cunning women' - emerge fully formed, as the book
uncovers the reality of their lives and their alleged crimes before
exploring the trial and executions. Along the way, we uncover the
truth behind some of the story's most enduring mysteries: the
legend of Malkin Tower and the final resting place of the Pendle
witches. This is a ground-breaking book that will take the reader
on a spellbinding journey into the dark heart of England's largest
and most notorious witch trial.
In this definitive new biography, Carol Ann Lee provides the answer to one of the most heartbreaking questions of modern times: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family to the Nazis? Probing this startling act of treachery, Lee brings to light never before documented information about Otto Frank and the individual who would claim responsibility -- revealing a terrifying relationship that lasted until the day Frank died. Based upon impeccable research into rare archives and filled with excerpts from the secret journal that Frank kept from the day of his liberation until his return to the Secret Annex in 1945, this landmark biography at last brings into focus the life of a little-understood man -- whose story illuminates some of the most harrowing and memorable events of the last century.
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Drafts/Draughts (Paperback)
Julie Westerman, Jo-Anne Lee; Series edited by Ben Hillwood - Harris, Sharon Kivland
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Silent Sisters (Paperback)
Jo-Anne Lee; As told to Ann Cusack, Joe Cusack
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A deadly secret. A horrifying discovery. A daughter tells the
devastating true story her mother tried to hide... Growing up in a
chaotic home on Merseyside, young Joanne raised herself and her
brother and sister, while her mother lapsed into a downward spiral
of drinking and casual sex. But the consequences of her mother's
messy lifestyle turned out to be far worse than Joanne could ever
have imagined. In Silent Sisters, the daughter who was falsely
accused of murdering her own baby sister tells the full story for
the first time since exposing her mother's crimes.
Adverse reactions to medicines continue to present a considerable
burden on healthcare, causing considerable morbidity and mortality.
As well as knowing about the benefits of medicines, healthcare
professionals need to understand the problem of adverse drug
reactions and be aware of how they can be prevented and managed.
From beehive to hotplate to the artist's hand, encaustic has
evolved as a versatile medium applied to almost every artistic
style. A long-overdue look at a newly popular art form, this book
explores 79 North American artists' feelings about their work in
encaustic and how they use it to express their inner worlds and the
world around them. Eight chapters organize the artists by
geographical region and focus on how the heated beeswax and resin
material is used to create seductive, skin-like surfaces and rich,
layered membranes. More than 2,000 years old, this
cross-disciplinary medium ranges from painting to sculpture,
assemblage, collage, and printmaking and encourages risk-taking in
a way that other materials do not. Its inherent contradictions--it
can be hot or cold, malleable or solid, opaque or translucent,
layered or thin, permanent or fragile--make it all the more
fascinating.
This book explores the future of doctoral research and what it
means to be involved in all stages of the process, providing
international insights into what's changing, why it's changing and
how to work best with these changes. It looks at the key issues
that have been thrown into sharp relief by crises such as world
pandemics. Drawing on work from outstanding authors, this book
shows the ways in which the doctoral process has altered the
supervisor/supervisee model and the challenges that now need to be
managed, and demonstrates the importance of aligning all the
stakeholders, systems and processes to ensure a successful future
for doctoral education. Bringing together a range of perspectives,
innovative practices and rigorous research, this book tackles
topics such as: how doctoral research changes in keeping with the
global expansion and transformation of doctoral education
programmes the significant influence funding bodies - be they
charities, governments, businesses or non-governmental agencies -
can have on doctoral research the extent to which doctoral research
penetrates daily life and vice versa how to encourage and embed an
ethical approach to research, as well as university responses to
external challenges. Uniquely international and bringing together
the many stakeholders in the research business, this book is
essential reading for all doctoral supervisors, candidates and
anyone involved in designing or organising research programmes for
early career researchers and doctoral students.
Wearable fiber art, whether in garment or jewelry form, is unique
in that the human body breathes life, shape, and movement into the
pieces. Be it a felted brooch or a dress made of book pages,
wearable fiber art can provide personal expression unavailable from
the world of mass production. In this volume of the acclaimed
three-book series, comments from the makers, who discuss creating
pieces that the wearer influences, are accompanied by more than 300
photos. Susan Taber Avila offers insights to what wearable art
means and how fibers play into that combination. Margery Goldberg
discusses the term in relation to jewelry. The hundreds of
creations here, bridging art, design, craft, and fashion, show how
fiber art that relates to the human body is in a class of its own.
The Historical Dictionary of Contemporary Art illuminates important
artists, styles, and movements of the past 70 years. Beginning with
the immediate post-World War II period, it encompasses earlier 20th
century masters, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Henry
Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro, Jean Dubuffet, Stuart Davis,
Georgia O'Keeffe, and other well-known figures, who remained
creatively productive, while also inspiring younger generations.
The book covers subsequent developments, including abstract
expressionism, happenings, pop art, minimalism, conceptual art,
arte povera, feminist art, photorealism, neo-expressionism, and
postmodernism, as well as the contributions of such artists as
Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Helen
Frankenthaler, Joan Mitchell, Robert Rauschenberg, David Hockney,
Ellsworth Kelly, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Lucio Fontana,
Andy Warhol, Richard Serra, Donald Judd, Joseph Beuys, Christo,
Anselm Kiefer, Judy Chicago, Ai Weiwei, and Jeff Koons. Historical
Dictionary of Contemporary Art contains a chronology, an
introduction, and an extensive bibliography, including more than
900 cross-referenced entries on important artists, styles, terms,
and movements.This book is an excellent resource for students,
researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about contemporary
art.
This book offers the first cultural history of Universalism and the Universalist idea - the idea that an all-good and all-powerful God saves all souls. Ann Bressler argues that Universalism begins as a radical, eschatological, and communally-oriented faith and only later became a 'comfortably established' progressive and individualistic one. Although Universalists are usually classed with Unitarians as pioneering Protestant liberals, says Bressler, they were in fact quite different from both contemporary and later liberalism in their ideas and goals. Unitarians began by rejecting the Calvinist idea of sin as corporate, universal, and absolute, replacing it with their moral self-cultivation. Universalists, on the other hand, accepted the Calvinist view of absolute corporeal sinfulness but insisted on absolute corporeal salvation. Bressler's surprising claim is that Universalists, in their defiance of individualistic moralism, were for much of the 19th century the only consistent Calvinists in America. Bressler traces the emergence of the Universalists' 'improved' Calvinism and its gradual erosion over the course of the 19th century.
'Original, intelligent and thought-provoking, Carol Ann Lee's book
sheds new light on to the human stories behind the headlines. A
touching and timely insight into all of Sutcliffe's victims.' -
Roberta Kray ___________________ Much has been written about the
brutal crimes of Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. During the
four decades of his imprisonment for the murder of thirteen women -
before his death in November 2020 - scarcely a week went by without
some mention of him in the British media. In any story featuring
Sutcliffe, however, his victims are incidental, often reduced to a
tableau of nameless faces. But each woman was much more than the
manner of her death. Based on previously unpublished material and
fresh, first-hand interviews the book examines the Yorkshire Ripper
story from a new perspective: focusing on the women and putting the
reader in a similar position to those who lived through that time.
By talking to survivors and their families, and to the relatives of
the murdered women, Carol Ann Lee gets to the core truths of their
lives and experiences, not only at the hands of Sutcliffe but also
with the Yorkshire Police and their crass and appalling handling of
the case, where the women were put into two categories: prostitutes
and non-prostitutes. In this book they are, simply, women, and all
have moving backstories. Recent news stories have shown that women
and girls who come forward to report serious crimes of a sexual
nature are often judged as harshly - and often more so - than the
men who have wronged them. The Rochdale sex abuse scandal, the
allegations against Harvey Weinstein, and the US President's
deplorable comments about women are vivid reminders that those in
positions of power regard women as second class citizens.
Hard-hitting and wholly unique in approach, this timely book sheds
new light on a case that still grips the nation.
The incredible crimes of Britain's most notorious schoolboy serial
killer, Graham Young, as told by the bestselling and much-respected
true crime author of The Murders at White House Farm. There are few
criminal cases more astonishing yet less well known than that of
Graham Young. A quintessentially British crime story set in the
post-war London suburbs, it involves two sensational trials,
murders both certain and probable, a clutch of forgiving relatives,
and scores of surviving victims. Fourteen in the summer of 1962,
Graham stood in the Old Bailey dock charged with poisoning a
schoolfriend and family members by adding antimony to their packed
lunches, Sunday roast and morning cups of tea. Diagnosed with
multiple personality disorders, Graham's trial resulted in his
detainment at Broadmoor, where he was the youngest patient. But it
was on his release from Broadmoor that Graham caused the greatest
harm. Finding employment in Hadlands, a photographic supplies firm,
his role as junior storeman meant he was expected to make tea and
coffee for his colleagues. And very soon, numerous members of staff
began experiencing crippling stomach pains... A psychologically
astute insight into the mind of a complex and intriguing
individual, A Passion for Poison is true crime at its best. Praise
for Carol Ann Lee Somebody's Mother, Somebody's Daughter: Victims
and Survivors of the Yorkshire Ripper 'My book of the year... the
first time the stories of the women who came into the sights of
notorious serial killer Peter Sutcliffe have been told, and it
gives voice to their families... deeply poignant' - Lynda La Plante
One of Your Own: The Life & Death of Myra Hindley 'Scrupulously
unsensational and as good a biography of Hindley as we'll get' -
Sunday Times
This book recovers the curious history of the "insensible" in the
Age of Sensibility. Tracking this figure through the English
novel's uneven and messy past, Wendy Anne Lee draws on
Enlightenment theories of the passions to place philosophy back
into conversation with narrative. Contemporary critical theory
often simplifies or disregards earlier accounts of emotions, while
eighteenth-century studies has focused on cultural histories of
sympathy. In launching a more philosophical inquiry about what
emotions are, Failures of Feeling corrects for both of these
oversights. Proposing a fresh take on emotions in the history of
the novel, its chapters open up literary history's most provocative
cases of unfeeling, from the iconic scrivener who would prefer not
to and the reviled stock figure of the prude, to the heroic rape
survivor, the burnt-out man-of-feeling, and the hard-hearted Jane
Austen herself. These pivotal cases of insensibility illustrate a
new theory of mind and of the novel predicated on an essential
paradox: the very phenomenon that would appear to halt feeling and
plot actually compels them. Contrary to the assumption that
fictional investment relies on a richness of interior life, Lee
shows instead that nothing incites the passions like dispassion.
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Southeast Asian Plays (Paperback)
Cheryl Robson, Aubrey Mellor; Jean Tay, Floy Quintos, Tew Bunnag, …
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Eight Plays from Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand, the
Philippines, Indonesia and Cambodia Selected and Edited by Cheryl
Robson and Aubrey Mellor Playwrights: Jean Tay, Floy Quintos, Tew
Bunnag, Ann Lee, Nguyen Dang Chuong, Joned Suryatmoko, Alfian
Sa'at, Chhon Sina
Employers often ascribe values to gender and sexual orientation
that override truly relevant personal characteristics including
ability, intelligence and dedication. Policy makers and business
leaders need to be informed and involved in creating a workplace
climate that openly accepts all people. This volume highlights
concerns such as gender barriers to occupational advancement,
sexual harassment and female vulnerability, and heterosexual men as
targets of sexual harassment.
Diamant and Lee discuss the origins and development of sexual
stereotypes that form the basis for discrimination. Busines leaders
must educate themselves and their employees to understand the wide
range of differences that exist in the workforce. "The Psychology
of Sex, Gender, and Jobs" offers solutions to managing the
workforce of today.
In an increasingly interconnected and global business environment,
it is crucial that businesses recognise how a better understanding
of cultural differences can help to foster greater business
success. This book will help you to develop essential
cross-cultural insights for when business and marketing goes global
through a range of frameworks and learning features. The
authors explore the roles of culture, communication, language,
interactions, decision-making, market entry and business planning
when working across geographical regions. They recognise the rich
diversity in international markets and local consumer knowledge and
marketing practices. Readers are encouraged to engage in cultural
self-reflection to help better design and implement business
strategies in local markets. Throughout, the book links to the
x-culture learning project, which is an experiential multicultural
exercise and form of student assessment where collaborative virtual
teams are formed and together solve real world international
business problems. This is an essential textbook for university and
college students of international and cross-cultural marketing as
well as international and intercultural business. It will also be
of interest to business and marketing practitioners working in
global contexts.
This book explores the future of doctoral research and what it
means to be involved in all stages of the process, providing
international insights into what's changing, why it's changing and
how to work best with these changes. It looks at the key issues
that have been thrown into sharp relief by crises such as world
pandemics. Drawing on work from outstanding authors, this book
shows the ways in which the doctoral process has altered the
supervisor/supervisee model and the challenges that now need to be
managed, and demonstrates the importance of aligning all the
stakeholders, systems and processes to ensure a successful future
for doctoral education. Bringing together a range of perspectives,
innovative practices and rigorous research, this book tackles
topics such as: how doctoral research changes in keeping with the
global expansion and transformation of doctoral education
programmes the significant influence funding bodies - be they
charities, governments, businesses or non-governmental agencies -
can have on doctoral research the extent to which doctoral research
penetrates daily life and vice versa how to encourage and embed an
ethical approach to research, as well as university responses to
external challenges. Uniquely international and bringing together
the many stakeholders in the research business, this book is
essential reading for all doctoral supervisors, candidates and
anyone involved in designing or organising research programmes for
early career researchers and doctoral students.
This book provides busy health professionals with information and
advice which complements that in the British National Formulary and
other sources, helping them to ensure safe and effective drug
treatment of pregnant or breastfeeding women.
Connecting us to the wide variety of contemporary fiber art in
wall-mounted format, this resource combines more than 600 photos
with personal comments from 100 of today's established and emerging
artists. In conjunction with the other two books in this acclaimed
series, it invites readers to re-examine fiber art through a
multifaceted contemporary lens. The creators here are pushing the
boundaries of what wall-mounted fiber art is, using fibers of
paper, metal, fiberglass, milkweed seeds, or high-tech polymers.
Bhakti Ziek's computerized loom work and Sue Benner's
textile-collage quilts are but a few of the examples of how artists
expertly combine different fiber techniques in a single piece, go
beyond the technical processes, and cross-pollinate mediums.
Comprehensive and accessible, Successful Research Projects provides
a practical, research-based framework to help examine practice,
solve problems and plan research effectively. With key practical
tips throughout, it draws on examples from across disciplines and
across the world ensuring best practice for those completing
projects in the fields of science, health care, social sciences,
arts and humanities as well as multi-disciplinary projects. This
book covers the key questions, challenges and solutions, exploring:
Organising time efficiently Working effectively with colleagues
Getting the best out of a supervisor and understanding what help is
available Demonstrating good practice in academic writing
Differences between research projects at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels Staying motivatived and balanced in order to
excel throughout the process Ways to use research to help career
planning Providing the significant theories behind ways of managing
projects, identifying important goals and solving problems,
Successful Research Projects is the perfect companion for the busy
student facing a postgraduate research project. This is the
companion guide to the second edition of Successful Research
Supervision, a research-based practical framework for academics to
examine and develop their effectiveness as supervisors. It helps
supervisors to move their students towards the ultimate goal of
being able to study independently in a thoughtful, coherent and
efficient manner and is a go-to guide for both novice and
experienced supervisors seeking to develop their practice.
Successful Research Supervision offers a research-based practical
framework for academics to examine and develop their effectiveness
as research supervisors. Underpinned by practical and current
research and focusing on the effective techniques needed to thrive
as a supervisor, the second edition is fully updated, providing a
go-to guide for both novice and more experienced supervisors. With
new sections examining ethical procedures, the use of social media
to gather data and promote research, supporting academic writing
and co-supervision, this book guides readers from the initial steps
to managing a project through to successful completion. This book
will help academics to: * expand a repertoire of actions and
responses, giving the flexibility to meet different situations with
ease and confidence * understand the influence of value and
experiences in the choice of approach to research students * be
able to choose the most appropriate combination of approaches for a
particular curriculum or project * employ a neutral language for
developing and assisting others. By identifying the optimum
combination of approaches to best fit individuals, Successful
Research Supervision helps supervisors to move their students
towards the ultimate goal of being able to study independently in a
thoughtful, coherent and efficient manner. This book is crucial
reading for all supervisors looking to improve their practice. This
is the companion guide to Successful Research Projects, a
comprehensive and accessible guide for busy students facing
postgraduate research projects. It covers the key questions,
challenges and solutions and helps identify important goals and
solve problems associated with research projects.
The Sunday Times bestseller and the definitive story behind the ITV
factual drama White House Farm, about the horrific killings that
took place in 1985. On 7 August 1985, Nevill and June Bamber, their
daughter Sheila and her two young sons Nicholas and Daniel were
discovered shot to death at White House Farm in Essex. The murder
weapon was found on Sheila's body, a bible lay at her side. All the
windows and doors of the farmhouse were secure, and the Bambers'
son, 24-year-old Jeremy, had alerted police after apparently
receiving a phone call from his father, who told him Sheila had
'gone berserk' with the gun. It seemed a straightforward case of
murder-suicide, but a dramatic turn of events was to disprove the
police's theory. In October 1986, Jeremy Bamber was convicted of
killing his entire family in order to inherit his parents'
substantial estates. He has always maintained his innocence.
Drawing on interviews and correspondence with many of those closely
connected to the events - including Jeremy Bamber - and a wealth of
previously unpublished documentation, Carol Ann Lee brings
astonishing clarity to a complex and emotive case. She describes
the years of rising tension in the family that culminated in the
murders, and provides clear insight into the background of each
individual and their relationships within the family unit.
Scrupulously fair in its analysis, The Murders at White House Farm
is an absorbing portrait of a family, a time and a place, and a
gripping account of one of Britain's most notorious crimes.
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