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In The Sugar Girls of Love Lane, Duncan Barrett and Nuala
Calvi, the authors of the Sunday Times bestseller The Sugar
Girls, tell the remarkable stories of those who worked at the
famous Tate & Lyle factory in Liverpool. Â For over a
hundred years until it closed in 1981, Henry Tate’s flagship
sugar refinery at Love Lane dominated the Liverpool skyline – and
was the beating heart of the local community. More than 10,000
workers passed through the doors of the factory during its
lifetime, with some families counting four or even five generations
of service. Young women leaving school in the post-war years
were drawn by the good wages and the unrivalled social life that
Tate & Lyle offered. When they arrived, they started at the
very bottom, sweeping sugar off the floors, before graduating to
packing and weighing by hand. The work was tough, with girls
expected to stack heavy bags of sugar onto pallets five feet high,
and by the end of the day their arms were aching and their
stockings full of sugar dust. But, despite the hot, heavy
work, they found their own ways of having fun, and the friendships
they formed would last a lifetime. As well as the female
friendships, many women met their future husbands at the factory,
and expected their own children to follow in their footsteps.
Barrett and Calvi's social history of the post-war era casts a warm
and nostalgic look back at one of the most iconic factories in the
north, bringing back a vanished era of hard work, community spirit
and simple pleasures.  Â
This volume introduces 'civic Shakespeare' as a new and complex
category entailing the dynamic relation between the individual and
the community on issues of authority, liberty, and cultural
production. It investigates civic Shakespeare through Romeo and
Juliet as a case study for an interrogation of the limits and
possibilities of theatre and the idea of the civic. The play's
focus on civil strife, political challenge, and the rise of a new
conception of the individual within society makes it an ideal site
to examine how early modern civic topics were received and
reconfigured on stage, and how the play has triggered ever new
interpretations and civic performances over time. The essays focus
on the way the play reflects civic life through the dramatization
of issues of crisis and reconciliation when private and public
spaces are brought to conflict, but also concentrate on the way the
play has subsequently entered the public space of civic life. Set
within the fertile context of performance studies and inspired by
philosophical and sociological approaches, this book helps clarify
the role of theatre within civic space while questioning the
relation between citizens as spectators and the community. The
wide-ranging chapters cover problems of civil interaction and their
onstage representation, dealing with urban and household spaces;
the boundaries of social relations and legal, economic, political,
and religious regulation; and the public dimension of memory and
celebration. This volume articulates civic Romeo and Juliet from
the sources of genre to contemporary multicultural performances in
political contact-zones and civic 'Shakespaces,' exploring the Bard
and this play within the context of communal practices and their
relations with institutions and civic interests.
A detailed view on the effects of seismic activity on tank
structures As the use of aboveground and underground storage tanks
(ASTs and USTs) continues to grow--with approximately 545 thousand
in the US alone--the greatest threat to from AST and USTs is the
contamination of groundwater, a vital source of drinking water
throughout the world and one that close to half of Americans rely
upon. These tanks suffer a great deal of strain during an
earthquake, as a complicated pattern of stress affects them such
that poorly designed tanks have leaked, buckled, or even collapsed
during seismic events. Furthermore in oil and gas industrial
plants, the risk of damage is even more critical due to the effect
of explosion, collapse, and air or soil contamination by chemical
fluid spillages. Seismic Design and Analysis of Tanks provides the
first in-depth discussion of the principles and applications of
shell structure design and earthquake engineering analyses focused
on tank structures, and how these methodologies can help prevent
the destruction of AST and USTs during earthquakes. Providing a
thorough examination into the design, analysis, and performance of
steel, reinforced concrete, and precast tanks, this book takes a
look at tanks that are aboveground, underground, or elevated,
anchored and unanchored, rigid or flexible, and evaluates the
efficacy of each method during times of turbulence--and it does so
without getting bogged down with impenetrable math and theory.
Seismic Design and Analysis of Tanks readers will also find: Global
approach for the best analytical and practical solutions available
in each region: Discussion of the latest US codes and standards
from the American Society of Civil Engineers (ACSE 7), American
Concrete Institute (ACI 350,3, 371.R), American Water Works
Association (AWWA D100, D110, D115), and the American Petroleum
Institute (API 650) An overview of European codes and standards
including Eurocode 8-4 and CEN-EN 14015 Hundreds of step-by-step
equations accompanied by illustrations Photographs that feature
real-world damage to tanks caused by seismic events Perfect for
practicing structural engineers, geotechnical engineers, civil
engineers, and engineers of all kinds who are responsible for the
design, analysis, and performance of tanks and foundations--as well
as students studying engineering--Seismic Design and Analysis of
Tanks is a landmark text, the first work of its kind to deal with
seismic engineering performance of storage tanks.
This volume introduces 'civic Shakespeare' as a new and complex
category entailing the dynamic relation between the individual and
the community on issues of authority, liberty, and cultural
production. It investigates civic Shakespeare through Romeo and
Juliet as a case study for an interrogation of the limits and
possibilities of theatre and the idea of the civic. The play's
focus on civil strife, political challenge, and the rise of a new
conception of the individual within society makes it an ideal site
to examine how early modern civic topics were received and
reconfigured on stage, and how the play has triggered ever new
interpretations and civic performances over time. The essays focus
on the way the play reflects civic life through the dramatization
of issues of crisis and reconciliation when private and public
spaces are brought to conflict, but also concentrate on the way the
play has subsequently entered the public space of civic life. Set
within the fertile context of performance studies and inspired by
philosophical and sociological approaches, this book helps clarify
the role of theatre within civic space while questioning the
relation between citizens as spectators and the community. The
wide-ranging chapters cover problems of civil interaction and their
onstage representation, dealing with urban and household spaces;
the boundaries of social relations and legal, economic, political,
and religious regulation; and the public dimension of memory and
celebration. This volume articulates civic Romeo and Juliet from
the sources of genre to contemporary multicultural performances in
political contact-zones and civic 'Shakespaces,' exploring the Bard
and this play within the context of communal practices and their
relations with institutions and civic interests.
American Law and Legal Systems examines the philosophy of law
within a political, social, and economic framework with great
clarity and insight. Readers are introduced to operative legal
concepts, everyday law practices, substantive procedures, and the
intricacies of the American legal system. Eliminating confusing
legalese, the authors skillfully explain the basics, from how a
lawsuit is filed through the final appeal. This new edition
provides essential updates to forensic and scientific evidence,
contract law, and family law, and includes new text boxes and
tables to help students understand, remember, and apply central
concepts. New to the 8th Edition Updates the coverage of
environmental law, especially in relation to climate change.
Updates the coverage of family law, especially in relation to gay
marriage. Includes new coverage of challenges to the Voting Rights
Act, campaign finance, and cybersecurity. Covers the effects of
social media on judicial proceedings. Includes 16 new cases,
including Obergefell v. Hodges. Adds new text boxes on intriguing
subjects throughout. Accompanied by an author-written Instructor's
Manual that includes Learning Objectives, Chapter Summaries,
Chapter Outlines, Key Terms and Concepts, as well as Test Questions
for each chapter.
American Law and Legal Systems examines the philosophy of law
within a political, social, and economic framework with great
clarity and insight. Readers are introduced to operative legal
concepts, everyday law practices, substantive procedures, and the
intricacies of the American legal system. Eliminating confusing
legalese, the authors skillfully explain the basics, from how a
lawsuit is filed through the final appeal. This new edition
provides essential updates to forensic and scientific evidence,
contract law, and family law, and includes new text boxes and
tables to help students understand, remember, and apply central
concepts. New to the 8th Edition Updates the coverage of
environmental law, especially in relation to climate change.
Updates the coverage of family law, especially in relation to gay
marriage. Includes new coverage of challenges to the Voting Rights
Act, campaign finance, and cybersecurity. Covers the effects of
social media on judicial proceedings. Includes 16 new cases,
including Obergefell v. Hodges. Adds new text boxes on intriguing
subjects throughout. Accompanied by an author-written Instructor's
Manual that includes Learning Objectives, Chapter Summaries,
Chapter Outlines, Key Terms and Concepts, as well as Test Questions
for each chapter.
For courses in Differential Equations and Linear Algebra. The right
balance between concepts, visualisation, applications, and skills
Differential Equations and Linear Algebra provides the conceptual
development and geometric visualisation of a modern differential
equations and linear algebra course that is essential to science
and engineering students. It balances traditional manual methods
with the new, computer-based methods that illuminate qualitative
phenomena - a comprehensive approach that makes accessible a wider
range of more realistic applications. The book combines core topics
in elementary differential equations with concepts and methods of
elementary linear algebra. It starts and ends with discussions of
mathematical modeling of real-world phenomena, evident in figures,
examples, problems, and applications throughout.
This edited volume brings together findings and case studies on
fundamental and applied aspects of structural engineering, applied
to buildings, bridges and infrastructures in general. It focuses on
the application of advanced experimental and numerical techniques
and new technologies to the built environment. This volume is part
of the proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and
Exhibition on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures, Egypt 2017.
In critical history, Shakespeare's The Tempest has been interpreted
as a reticent play, a fascinating and yet mysterious blend of magic
and verisimilitude, narrative and drama, spectacle and meditation
on death. The Tempest seems to raise fundamental issues without
ever exhausting them, it captures and appropriates existing motifs
and modes, and allows for later appropriations and re-mediations.
Is its signifying potential still alive in the third millennium?
Does it still speak to us? Revisiting The Tempest aims to explore
that potential and examine the play's more 'intractable material'
as a fertile source of significance.The essays that make up this
collection range from investigations of the play's position within
the European early modern dramatic heritage to its 'domestic'
re-writings and/or adaptations in diverse theatrical contexts and
media, while also interrogating the play's own resistance to
interpretation. Rather than providing new meanings, Revisiting The
Tempest explores how this drama makes meaning and reanimates it
through time.
Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The
Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It
includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical
criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its
signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation.
The personal accounts of three young women who joined up in 1940.
In the summer of 1940, Britain stood alone against Germany. The
British Army stood at just over one and a half million men, while
the Germans had three times that many, and a population almost
twice the size of ours from which to draw new waves of soldiers.
Clearly, in the fight against Hitler, manpower alone wasn't going
to be enough. Eighteen-year-old Jessie Ward defied her mother to
join the ATS, Margery Pott signed up for the Women's Auxiliary Air
Force, and nanny Kathleen Skin the WRNS. They left quiet homes for
the rigours of training, the camaraderie of the young women who
worked together so closely and to face a war that would change
their lives for ever. Overall, more than half a million women
served in the armed forces during the Second World War. This book
tells the story of just three of them - one from the Army, one from
the Navy and one from the Air Force. But in their stories are
reflected the lives of hundreds of thousands of others like them -
ordinary girls who went to war, wearing their uniforms with pride.
The Sunday Times bestseller From the bestselling authors of The
Sugar Girls, G.I. Brides weaves together the real-life stories of
four women who crossed the ocean for love, providing a moving true
tale of romance and resilience. The 'friendly invasion' of Britain
by over a million American G.I.s caused a sensation amongst a
generation of young women deprived of male company during the
Second World War. With their exotic accents, smart uniforms and
aura of Hollywood glamour, the G.I.s soon had the local girls
queuing up for a date, and the British boys off fighting abroad
turning green with envy. But American soldiers offered something
even more tantalising than a ready supply of chocolate, chewing gum
and nylon stockings. Becoming a G.I. bride provided an escape route
from Blitz-ravaged Britain, an opportunity for a whole new life in
America - a country that was more affluent, more modern and less
class-ridden than home. Some 70,000 G.I. brides crossed the
Atlantic at the end of the war to join the men who had captured
their hearts - but the long voyage was just the beginning of a much
bigger journey. Once there, the women would have to adapt to a
foreign culture and a new way of life thousands of miles away from
family and friends, with a man they hardly knew out of uniform.
Some struggled with the isolation of life in rural America, or
found their heroic soldier was less appealing once he returned to
Civvy Street. But most persevered, determined to turn their wartime
romance into a lifelong love affair, and prove to those back home
that it really was possible to have a Hollywood ending.
www.gibrides.com
A consensus seems to exist on the following. In foreign language
acquisition methodology sound methods and efficient tools have been
developed until now in order to allow the learner to master and put
into practice grammar, basic vocabulary and frequent communicative
rules. Within this area Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL)
has become an indispensable partner, often leading the game. Beyond
these borders, however, methodology as a whole becomes more
blurred. Rules seem to vanish, variation and specialisation
increase. Intuitive and ad hoc approaches seem to take the lead on
formally established methods. The reasons for this are obvious: how
to control the enormous, ever changing and expanding set of data,
links and encyclopedic information that we associate with a richly
developed human language? In front of this overwhelming opponent
the search for method often surrenders. This is the point where
CALL could offer foreign language learning the opportunity to make
another jump forward. Information technology is capable of handling
and streamlining huge and complex amounts of information. But this
is also the point where language crosses the border of the purely
linguistic fact, and where language learning has to come to terms
with what we would call "cultural" issues."
For introductory courses in Differential Equations. This
best-selling text by these well-known authors blends the
traditional algebra problem solving skills with the conceptual
development and geometric visualisation of a modern differential
equations course that is essential to science and engineering
students. It reflects the new qualitative approach that is altering
the learning of elementary differential equations, including the
wide availability of scientific computing environments like Maple,
Mathematica, and MATLAB. Its focus balances the traditional manual
methods with the new computer-based methods that illuminate
qualitative phenomena and make accessible a wider range of more
realistic applications. Seldom-used topics have been trimmed and
new topics added: it starts and ends with discussions of
mathematical modeling of real-world phenomena, evident in figures,
examples, problems, and applications throughout the text.
The diode laser is a versatile and effective solution for oral
tissue care. The advantages are manifold such as: faster healing,
reduced risk of infection, and postoperative complications. In
addition, sessions are not stressful for patients due to their
mini-invasiveness with reduced intraoperative and postoperative
pain perception. Thanks to these benefits, the use of the diode
laser is spreading and opens up new treatment possibilities in
various areas of dentistry: from endodontics to periodontology;
from oral surgery to aesthetic treatments such as teeth whitening.
The book responds to the needs of those clinicians who seek
specific and updated training on the use of the diode laser. An
extensive set of images describes clinical applications in detail,
offering professionals a comprehensive learning tool and a useful
resource in daily practice. It is also possible to access videos on
specific topics covered in the text from a smartphone or tablet via
the QR codes printed inside this book.
Tales of Hardship, Love and Happiness in Tate & Lyle's East End
Factories. The Sugar Girls went straight to No.10 in the Sunday
Times Bestseller List, spending five weeks in the top ten. 'On an
autumn day in 1944, Ethel Alleyne walked the short distance from
her house to Tate & Lyle's refinery on the shining curve of the
Thames. Looking up at the giant gates, Ethel felt like she had been
preparing for this moment all her life. She smoothed down her
frizzy hair, scraped a bit of dirt off the corner of her shoe and
strode through. She was quite unprepared for the sight that met her
eyes ...' In the years leading up to and after the Second World War
thousands of women left school at fourteen to work in the bustling
factories of London's East End. Despite long hours, hard and often
hazardous work, factory life afforded exciting opportunities for
independence, friendship and romance. Of all the factories that
lined the docks, it was at Tate & Lyle's where you could earn
the most generous wages and enjoy the best social life, and it was
here where The Sugar Girls worked. Through the Blitz and on through
the years of rationing The Sugar Girls kept Britain sweet. The work
was back-breakingly hard, but Tate & Lyle was more than just a
factory, it was a community, a calling, a place of love and support
and an uproarious, tribal part of the East End. From young Ethel to
love-worn Lillian, irrepressible Gladys to Miss Smith who tries to
keep a workforce of flirtatious young men and women on the straight
and narrow, this is an evocative, moving story of hunger, hardship
and happiness. Tales of adversity, resilience and youthful high
spirits are woven together to provide a moving insight into a lost
way of life, as well as a timeless testament to the experience of
being young and female. www.thesugargirls.com
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