|
Showing 1 - 25 of
59 matches in All Departments
After listening to his mother-in-law talking about her experiences
in the Second World War, David Bolton set out to record the wartime
memories of British women before it was too late. Many of those he
interviewed were child evacuees, some were single mothers, two were
ambulance drivers and another was the girlfriend of an American GI
killed on D-Day. Other women remembered their experiences working
as a young doctor in a POW camp, in a munitions factory filling
shells or as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. War Stories archives
the memories of over fifty women in their own words, supplemented
by memoirs and diary entries. All tell their very personal war
stories with honesty, humour, an amazing memory for detail and a
boldness sometimes bordering on the confessional - perhaps because
this was their last chance to describe what it was really like to
be female in those extraordinary times.
Distance learning has existed in some form for centuries, but
modern technologies have allowed students and teachers to connect
directly, no matter what their location, using the internet and
mobile devices. Mobile Pedagogy and Perspectives on Teaching and
Learning explores the tools and techniques that enable educators to
leverage wireless applications and social networks to improve
learning outcomes and provide creative ways to increase access to
educational resources. This publication is designed to help
educators and students at every level optimise the use of mobile
learning resources to enhance educational experience and improve
the effectiveness of the learning process regardless of physical
location.
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the
appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer
to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of
work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on
the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing, the book describes
how needs were assessed and understood, how evidence-based services
were put in place, and the training and education programmes that
were developed to assist first those communities affected by the
bombing and later the wider population affected by the years of
conflict. The author places the mental-health needs of affected
communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that
follow. This is a practical book and will be of particular interest
to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters,
policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians,
civil servants and peace makers. -- .
What are the human consequences of conflict and what are the
appropriate service responses? This book seeks to provide an answer
to these important questions, drawing on over twenty-five years of
work by the author in Northern Ireland and elsewhere. Focusing on
the work undertaken following the Omagh bombing, the book describes
how needs were assessed and understood, how evidence-based services
were put in place, and the training and education programmes that
were developed to assist first those communities affected by the
bombing and later the wider population affected by the years of
conflict. The author places the mental-health needs of affected
communities at the heart of the political and peace processes that
follow. This is a practical book and will be of particular interest
to those planning for and responding to conflict-related disasters,
policy makers, service commissioners and providers, politicians,
civil servants and peace makers. -- .
An attractive and innovative four-level course for lower-secondary
students. In addition to extra practice of the language covered in
the Student's Book, there are extension exercises for fast
finishers in the Workbook. A 'Learning diary' helps students assess
their progress and take ownership of their own learning. The
accompanying Audio CD/CD-ROM includes the workbook audio recordings
and a wealth of fun interactive CD-ROM exercises so students can
practise what they've learnt at their own pace.
This book shows how analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names
in their landscape contexts can provide crucial new evidence of
differing processes of Viking migration and settlement in East
Anglia between the late ninth and eleventh centuries. The
place-names of East Anglia have until now received little attention
in the academic study of Viking settlement. Similarly, the question
of a possible migration of settlers from Scandinavia during the
Viking period was for many years dismissed by historians and
archaeologists – until the recent discovery by metal-detectorists
of abundant Scandinavian metalwork and jewellery in many parts of
East Anglia. David Boulton has synthesised these two previously
neglected elements to offer new insights into the processes of
Viking settlement. This book provides the first comprehensive
analysis of Scandinavian-influenced place-names in East Anglia. It
examines their different categories linguistically and explores the
landscape and archaeological contexts of the settlements associated
with them, with the aid of GIS-generated maps. Dr Boulton shows how
the process of Viking settlement was influenced by changes in rural
society and agriculture which were then already occurring in East
Anglia, such as the late Anglo-Saxon expansion of arable farming
and the associated recolonisation of the inland clay plateau. These
developments resulted in patterns of place-name formation which
differ significantly from some of the previously accepted, orthodox
interpretations of how Scandinavian-influenced place-names
(especially those containing the bý and thorp elements, and the
‘Grimston-hybrids’) came into being in the Danelaw. In view of
these discrepancies, David Boulton proposes an innovative,
hypothetical model for the formation of the Scandinavian-influenced
place-names in East Anglia, which explores differing patterns and
phases of Viking settlement in the region and the possible pathways
of migration that preceded them.
A new translation of Cyclops, a Satyr play by Euripides. Cyclops is
the only Satyr play to have survived in full. The Satyr plays took
as their theme a well-known mythological story: here, the story is
of Odysseus' encounter with the Cyclops, Polyphemus. Satyrs and
their elderly leader, Silenus (whose sole desire is to spend an
easy life honouring Bacchus with wine and pursuing nymphs) are
introduced into the story, the Satyrs forming the chorus. In
Cyclops, Silenus and his satyrs have already come into contact with
Polyphemus and been enslaved by him. The Satyrs were not heroic,
but are always ready to join in witty repartee - from a safe
distance. Silenus provides much of the humour, derived in large
measure from his insatiable desire for alcohol. The play follows
the traditional storyline and reaches the traditional conclusion -
with the escape of Odysseus and the remnants of his crew,
accompanied in this case by the joyful Silenus and his Satyrs.
A new translation by David Bolton of Euripides' tragedy Iphigenia
at Aulis. The prose and verse of the translation aim to provide an
authentic rendering of the original Greek text and to maintain its
spirit. The translation is accompanied by background notes, a
discussion of the central characters and the part played by
rhetoric in the play. There is also a translation of the text of
The Origins and Life of Euripides that has been transmitted with
the texts of Euripides' plays.
A new translation of Casina by Plautus. The play was first produced
at the end of the third century or early second century BC. An old
man and his son are each in love with Casina, a slave girl. The old
man is already married and his son is expected to marry into his
own social class. This will not stop their pursuit of Casina....
A new translation of Sophocles' Electra by David Bolton. The
translation combines prose and verse and aims to be an authentic
rendering of the original Greek text and to maintain its spirit.
The translation is accompanied by background notes concerning the
feud in the Pelopid dynasty, Homer's account, the Delphic Oracle
and the role of Orestes.
A new translation of the Roman comedy The Pot of Gold (Aulularia)
by Plautus. The final act, largely missing in the extant sources,
has been completed by the translator, David Bolton, as part of this
edition.
The Eunuch by Terence was apparently the most popular of Terence'
six comedies: Suetonius tells us it commanded a record-breaking
fee. Here is a new translation by David Bolton together with
introductory notes.
A new translation of The Captives by Plautus, probably first
produced at the end of the third century or early second century
BC. It is unusual amongst Roman comedies in that it deals with a
serious subject - the treatment of prisoners of war.
A new translation of Euclid's 'Elements' together with a
comprehensive introduction to each of the 'Elements'' books, all
contained in a single volume. Euclid's 'Elements', produced c300
BC, superseded all previous attempts to identify the 'elements' of
geometry and became the authoritative work on plane and solid
geometry, number theory, proportion, and the irrationals to be
relied upon and quoted by later Greek mathematicians. This edition
contains a translation of Euclid's 'Elements' and discusses
Euclid's methods - the development of axioms (postulates and common
notions), the establishment of proofs derived from definitions,
axioms and previously made proofs and the use of proof by
contradiction. Each of the 'Elements' thirteen books is summarised
and discussed in an introductory chapter. There is a fresh look at
Euclid's treatment of rationality and commensurability, based as it
was on comparisons of straight lines rather than numbers.
|
You may like...
Ab Wheel
R209
R149
Discovery Miles 1 490
Gran Turismo
David Harbour, Orlando Bloom, …
DVD
(1)
R93
Discovery Miles 930
The Northman
Alexander Skarsgard, Nicole Kidman, …
Blu-ray disc
(1)
R210
Discovery Miles 2 100
|