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This accessible Handbook provides an essential entry point for
those with an interest in the increasingly complex subject of
financial decision-making. It sheds light on new paradigms in
society and the ways that new tools from private actors have
affected financial decision-making. Covering a broad range of key
topics in the area, leading researchers summarise the state of the
art in their respective areas of expertise, delineating their
projections for the future. Chapters cover both more traditional
fields, such as regulation and the role of analysts, and emerging
fields, such as artificial intelligence, neurofinance and
robo-advising. Organised into three sections, the Handbook first
deals with the natural and environmental factors that impact
financial decision-making, before moving on to examine the
institutions, frameworks, and tools created for the purpose of
aiding the decision-making process. It concludes by looking at
financial advisors, household finance and enabling financial
decision-making. This Handbook will be of great value to scholars
and researchers invested in the fields of finance, economic
psychology, business management and development. Its comprehensive
introduction to current research in accounting and finance
alongside multiple topics on technology and decision-making will be
invaluable for practitioners, policy makers and regulators too.
Exam Board: SQA Level: National 5 Subject: Physics First Teaching:
2017, First Exam: 2018 The National 5 Physics Student Book helps
map your route through the CfE programme and provides comprehensive
and authoritative guidance for the whole course. Full coverage of
National 5 course specifications with list of learning intentions
Attractive layout with clear text features Key questions highlight
crucial concepts and techniques that need to be grasped by students
in order to progress to the next learning intention What the
examiner/assessor is looking for to help teachers & students
feel secure Exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners
commentary, self-assessment Keep your learning on track/Stretch
yourself to encourage self evaluation and provide challenge for
higher ability students Student Books give a practical, supportive
approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer an
appropriate blend of sound teaching and learning with exam and
assessment guidance. • Active learning ideas: ‘You Should
Already Know’, lists for student to check they are confident with
before proceeding AND ‘Make the link’ highlights links between
the topic and other areas of the course and/or across different
subjects • Assessment questions, exemplar work, model answers,
suggested topic work • Teacher Notes Answers online. PDF format.
Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Physics First Teaching:
2018, First Exam: 2019 The Higher Physics Student Book helps
teachers and students map their route through the CfE programme,
providing comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course.
Full coverage of the new Higher course specifications with list of
learning intentions Attractive layout with clear text features Key
questions highlight crucial concepts and techniques that need to be
grasped by students in order to progress to the next learning
intention What the examiner/assessor is looking for to help
teachers & students feel secure End of unit material - unit
assessment, exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners
commentary, self-assessment Student Books give a practical,
supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer a
blend of sound teaching and learning with assessment guidance.
A survey of a wide range of new research on many aspects of life at
sea in the early modern period. Maritime social history is a
relatively young and fertile field, with many new research findings
being discovered on a wide range of aspects of the subject. This
book, together with its companion volume The Social History of
English Seamen, 1485-1649 (The Boydell Press, 2011), pulls together
and makes accessible this large body of research work. Subjects
covered include life at sea in different parts of the period for
both officers and seamen, in both the navy and in merchant ships;
piracy and privateering; health, health care and disability;
seamen's food; homosexuality afloat; and the role of women at sea
and on land. Written by leading experts in their field, the
volumesoffer a nuanced portrait of seafarers' existence as well as
an overview of the current state of the historiography. CHERYL A.
FURY is Professor of History at the University of New Brunswick
(Saint John campus) and a Fellow of the Gregg Centre for War and
Society. Contributors: J.D. ALSOP, JOHN APPLEBY, JEREMY BLACK, B.
R. BURG, BERNARD CAPP, PETER EARLE, CHERYL A. FURY, MARGARETTE
LINCOLN, DAVID MCLEAN, N. A. M. RODGER, DAVID STARKEY
Cholera was the scourge of nineteenth century Britain, with four
devastating epidemics sweeping the country from the 1830s to the
1860s. David McLean provides a detailed study of the efforts of
local and national government efforts to combat the disease. Based
on a unique cache of documents, McLean's account exposes the
struggles between local and national government as they grappled
with the enormity of the problem and the conflict between policies
of laissez-faire and state intervention. Describing the efforts of
public health reformer Edwin Chadwick in conjunction with among
others, Prime Minister Lord Russell, Admiral Lord Cochrane and
local Plymouth leader Joseph Beer, McLean brings to life a vital
period in British social and political history with policy
consequences that reverberate today.
Based on the records of the Admiralty Schools at Greenwich, this
study explores both the achievements and difficulties of
mid-nineteenth century English schools. With industrialization and
rapid urban growth in the nineteenth century, education was forced
on to the political agenda and new ideas about teaching methods,
curriculum and the physical and moral care of children emerged.
A beautiful hand grenade of a book that would probably serve as
effective population control for the hysterically reactive and weak
of heart. Throw it into a crowd of SJWs and watch them die. A.D.
Hitchin, author of CONSENSUAL
this is about the positivity & pleasure that hides at the heart
of all the pain & hatred like a red rose in the murderer's
heart, according to Genet. it is about the shit at the heart of all
literature, everything here from Myra Hindley to Bodidharma, fuck
you very much
a collection of poems written after rereading "Mille plateaux" by
Deleuze & Guattari.
Exam Board: SQA Level: Higher Subject: Physics First Teaching:
2014, First Exam: 2015 The Higher Physics Student Book helps
teachers and students map their route through the CfE programme,
providing comprehensive and authoritative guidance for the course.
* Full coverage of the new Higher course specifications with list
of learning intentions * Attractive layout with clear text features
* Key questions highlight crucial concepts and techniques that need
to be grasped by students in order to progress to the next learning
intention * What the examiner/assessor is looking for to help
teachers & students feel secure * End of unit material - unit
assessment, exam-style questions with worked answers and examiners
commentary, self-assessment Student Books give a practical,
supportive approach to help deliver the new curriculum and offer a
blend of sound teaching and learning with assessment guidance.
Even more fucked up than McLean's first novel (Henrietta
Remembers), which makes it well better, it abandons all pretense of
plot & degenerates nicely into an inchoate prose poem.
A novel without plot about a murder rising from the emptiness that
is words. David McLean's first novel demonstrates that the form is
neither dead nor the exclusive province of literary establishment
windbags. "A very nasty book. The repetition, rather than
diminishing the effect, served rather to hammer home the innate
nastiness and bleakness until it rang like a heavenly bell." (David
Mitchell - author)
David McLean's latest and (arguably) nastiest collection so far.
Here are words to somewhat deconstruct your daily lives. McLean
delivers sermons of a beautiful nothing(s) enriched by perceptions
that pervasively cover the very lives you follow inanely day in,
day out. He dissects the mundane and the superfluity of existence
(if any) with a hacksaw and without much anaesthetic. His language
is cutting, divisive, insightful, deploring, archaic but strong
with a fleshy boldness that should and will be revered. David
McLean seeks out the plastic and then tends to look underneath the
plasticity of what man has made; the absurdity of god, the hilarity
of societal values and the hypocritical agenda of righteous folk.
The lesion of what McLean explores in this collection is indeed the
nonsense that dominates us all whether aware or unaware however,
after you read this blistering book, you'll be sure to be angry at
something in this dying world. Craig Podmore (Author of The Origin
of Manias, Oneiros Books)
Love hate murder sex - the boiling down of western culture to its
primitive urges, horror movies as the sublimation of our
self-loathing, married to a critique of the 'society of the
spectacle'. Powerful stuff.
The eviscerating negation of a pristine surgeon, this book
culminates in a collection of what represents McLean's finest work
to date. These are no bullshit poems, etched with a masterful
control of both succinct language and piercing imagery, born of a
restless intellect, at once at war with the within and the without.
This book has the capacity to make you feel empowered in the face
of the Nothing that is, and you will thank him for it...
"The Truth And Nothing But The Truth" contains material that
today's young generation can identify with. It deals with the love
of GOD, struggle, being confident, poverty, love and relationships,
depression, and happiness. It's life defined in a Poetic form. It
shows how many different emotions one man can show through the art
of Poetry. It's a picture painted through words of a young man that
has experienced life's lows and highs.
It became an established practice in the 19th century for the
European colonial powers - in particular, Britain and France - to
exercise hegemony over large areas of the world by attempting to
secure the election of governments that would favour their
interests. Latin America was one such region which the colonial
powers treated as their "informal empire". There has been much
debate about the effectiveness of informal empire and it has
generally been argued that the colonial powers found it more
profitable to exercise control in this indirect manner than to
administer territories directly. David McLean challenges this view,
arguing that in practice there were great drawbacks to attempts to
use diplomatic means to influence the domestic politics of the
nations of Latin America. Attempts to secure peace and favourable
trading arrangements in the Argentine and Uruguay proved extremely
problematic; long-distance communications between the European
governments and their diplomats in Latin America were slow and
unreliable; conflicts between the European commercial classes and
their governments were unavoidable; and the legitimacy of the
merging nationalist movements in Latin America proved hard for the
European powers to contest. This is a new study of a major aspect
of colonial history and should be of interest to historians and to
those with an interest in international relations.
During her imperial heyday, Britain's greatest fighting force - the
Royal Navy - was only ever as good as its surgeons. "Surgeons of
the Fleet" explores the dramatic story of medical practice on the
high seas, offering the first full portrait of the men who
dedicated their lives to the Navy, and their contribution to its
efficacy as a military machine. With vivid and occasionally
eye-watering description, David McLean traces the development of
naval medicine from the gory days of Cook and Nelson - when as many
as 65 per cent of maritime casualties were due to illness - through
to the outbreak of World War I, recounting the advances in surgery,
diet and hygiene which allowed Britannia to rule the waves.
"Surgeons of the Fleet" also offers a unique window into the
development of public health programmes on land, many of which grew
out of maritime initiatives. Brimming with original research and
colourful storytelling, "Surgeons of the Fleet" makes an invaluable
contribution to the fields of military and imperial history.
"Education, education, education" is a slogan of current
government, but in the mid-nineteenth century it also was at the
heart of the debate about Britain's position in the world. The
social problems accompanying industrialization and rapid urban
growth provoked a widespread debate which forced education onto the
political agenda, and the new ideas about teaching methods,
curricula and the physical and moral care of children developed
rapidly. This study, based on a unique cache of records of the
Admiralty Schools at Greenwich, provides an extraordinary and
striking insight into the problems and the achievements of
mid-nineteenth schools. The story is enhanced by the connection
with the Royal Navy--a major arm of empire--and provides
unprecedented insight into the forces at the root of the sweeping
changes of the period.
Automotive Detailing in Detail takes the combined experience and
expertise of three leading detailing commentators to provide a
thorough and expansive overview of automotive detailing techniques.
From the pre-wash, wash and preparation stages, through machine
polishing to paint protection and maintenance, every detailing
stage is covered: surface types, contaminants and products are
analysed, before the actual processes are laid bare. In the age of
the internet and social media, a plethora of detailing knowledge is
available online, yet it is strangely difficult to discover
completely, or harness usefully. This book redresses the balance.
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