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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The complete sixth series of the light-hearted BBC panel show
hosted by Rob Brydon. Joined by team captains Lee Mack and David
Mitchell, Brydon presides as a range of celebrity guests attempt to
detect truth amidst a mire of lies. Among the challenges on the
show, each guest must read aloud a series of statements about
themselves and attempt to bluff and double-bluff the opposition as
they try to guess which of the statements are correct. Among the
celebrities to appear in this series are Chris Tarrant, Clare
Balding, Des O'Connor, Rhod Gilbert, Sarah Millican and Armando
Iannucci.
'Life's A Ball' charts the ups and downs of a football experience
that has rarely been dull Ian Liversedge's story comes from the
very heart of the game - the manager's office, the dug-out, the
boot room and the treatment table. Ian describes his relationships
with managers and players at every level from non-league to
international as well as the changing role of a physiotherapist in
a sport that has become ever-more intense. There are many anecdotes
about a lifestyle away from the football pitch that Ian found both
attractive and magnetic. He has blazed a trail and the book deals
honestly with his shortcomings, including encounters with the
police and the adverse effect on his family life.
Much scholarship on the British transatlantic slave trade has
focused on its peak period in the late eighteenth century and its
abolition in the early nineteenth; or on the Royal African Company
(RAC), which in 1698 lost the monopoly it had previously enjoyed
over the trade. During the early eighteenth-century transition
between these two better-studied periods, Humphry Morice was by far
the most prolific of the British slave traders. He bears the guilt
for trafficking over 25,000 enslaved Africans, and his voluminous
surviving papers offer intriguing insights into how he did it.
Morice's strategy was well adapted for managing the special risks
of the trade, and for duplicating, at lower cost, the RAC's
capabilities for gathering information on what African
slave-sellers wanted in exchange. Still, Morice's transatlantic
operations were expensive enough to drive him to a series of
increasingly dubious financial manoeuvres throughout the 1720s, and
eventually to large-scale fraud in 1731 from the Bank of England,
of which he was a longtime director. He died later that year,
probably by suicide, and with his estate hopelessly indebted to the
Bank, his family, and his ship captains. Nonetheless, his
astonishing rise and fall marked a turning point in the development
of the brutal transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.
This book offers a distinctive perspective on peace processes by
comparatively analysing two cases which have rarely been studied in
tandem, Ireland and Korea. The volume examines and compares Ireland
and Korea as two peace/conflict areas. Despite their differences,
both places are marked by a number of overlaid states of division:
a political border in a geographical unit (an island and a
peninsula); an antagonistic relationship within the population of
those territories; an international relationship recovering from
past asymmetry and colonialism; and divisions within the main
groupings over how to address these relationships. Written by
academics and practitioners from Europe and East Asia, and guided
by the concepts of peacebuilding and reconciliation, the chapters
assess peace efforts at all levels, from the elite to grassroot
organisations. Topics discussed include: historical parallels;
modern debates over the legacy of the past; contemporary
constitutional and security issues; civil society peacebuilding in
relation to faith, sport, and womenâs activism; and the role of
economic assistance. The book brings Ireland and Korea into a rich
dialogue which highlights the successes and shortcomings of both
peace processes This book will be of interest to students of Peace
and Conflict Studies, Irish Politics, Korean Politics, and
International Relations.
This book contains original research on conflict, peacebuilding and
the current state of identities and relationships in relation to
the Northern Ireland conflict. It accesses the state of national
identity politics in Northern Ireland a generation after the 1998
Agreement, as well as the impact and meaning of Brexit. It
considers feminist and faith-based peace activism during âthe
Troublesâ, and expressions of Irish national identity. It also
includes revealing comparative case studies: Protestant-Catholic
conflict elsewhere in Europe and nationalism in the Balkans. The
Politics of Conflict and Transformation: The Island of Ireland in
Comparative Perspective arises from a conference celebrating the
work of Jennifer Todd, Professor in the School of Politics and
International Relations at University College Dublin, who has been
one of the most influential scholars of her generation. Her
research has examined conflict and transformation in Ireland from
the level of grassroots identities to geopolitical forces. She has
placed contemporary crises in the peace process in the context of
patterns of conflict and change over centuries. She has both
expounded the rich detail of the Northern Ireland and Irish-British
conflicts and placed them in their regional and global contexts.
Written by some of the leading scholars on peace and conflict in
Ireland, the chapters in this edited volume build on Toddâs work
and are a testament to the thematic and methodological breadth and
depth of her output. This book will be of interest to students and
scholars of Irish and British history and politics, Peace and
Conflict Studies, and the sociology of identity, conflict, and
peacebuilding. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of Irish Political Studies.
The field of special educational needs and inclusive education is
not only of enormous importance to the study of education as a
whole, it also constitutes a site of major debate. Conflicting
arguments include: * changes in the conceptualisation of special
needs * the role of assessment * the extent to which students with
special needs should and can be educated in regular school settings
* the relative weight given to central versus local control of
education * pedagogical issues. In all of these paradigm clashes,
countries are at different stages in reaching settlements. These
difficulties reflect a range of factors, including intellectual
traditions, cultural values, economic circumstances, and
demography. The articles assembled in this collection provide a
global perspective on these debates. The collection as a whole
demonstrates how the fields of special education and inclusive
education have evolved philosophically and technically over the
past thirty years, as well as showing the contemporary state of
approaches to educating students with special education needs.
Titles also available in this series include: Literacy (June 2004,
4 Volumes, GBP495), Educational Management (October 2004, 4
Volumes, GBP495) and the forthcoming Early Years Education (2005,
c.4 Volumes, c. GBP475).
Carefully selected from five collections and over thirty years of
writing, this beautiful new publication celebrates the best of A.
S. Byatt's short stories. Fascinated by fairy tales and fables, art
and creation, these stories of betrayal and loyalty, quests and
longings, loneliness and passion will delight readers. 'A cabinet
of curiosities... Glitteringly beautiful. Byatt is a vivid
colourist' Sunday Times 'A cerebral extravaganza, bristling with
ideas' Spectator 'These little stories by one of Britain's foremost
grandes dames of the writing world are a delightful surprise,
packing a much greater punch than many full-length novels... They
are moving, thought-provoking, witty and shocking all at once'
Sunday Telegraph 'Antonia Byatt's first collection of stories
displays all her talent as a novelist, but spiced with additional
friskiness... a bright, sensual prose that seems to paint rather
than describe' Penelope Lively, Evening Standard
David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on
every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of
permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online
commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on
moustache in That Mitchell and Webb Look, has written a book about
his life. As well as giving a specific account of every single time
he's scored some smack, this disgusting memoir also details: the
singular, pitbull-infested charm of the FRP ('Flat Roofed Pub') the
curious French habit of injecting everyone in the arse rather than
the arm why, by the time he got to Cambridge, he really, really
needed a drink the pain of being denied a childhood birthday party
at McDonalds the satisfaction of writing jokes about suicide how
doing quite a lot of walking around London helps with his sciatica
trying to pretend he isn't a total **** at Robert Webb's wedding
that he has fallen in love at LOT, but rarely done anything about
it why it would be worse to bump into Michael Palin than Hitler on
holiday that he's not David Mitchell the novelist. Despite what
David Miliband might think
With an introduction by David Mitchell Isserley spends most of her
time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up
hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An
utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a
genre-defying masterpiece.
This book contains original research on conflict, peacebuilding and
the current state of identities and relationships in relation to
the Northern Ireland conflict. It accesses the state of national
identity politics in Northern Ireland a generation after the 1998
Agreement, as well as the impact and meaning of Brexit. It
considers feminist and faith-based peace activism during 'the
Troubles', and expressions of Irish national identity. It also
includes revealing comparative case studies: Protestant-Catholic
conflict elsewhere in Europe and nationalism in the Balkans. The
Politics of Conflict and Transformation: The Island of Ireland in
Comparative Perspective arises from a conference celebrating the
work of Jennifer Todd, Professor in the School of Politics and
International Relations at University College Dublin, who has been
one of the most influential scholars of her generation. Her
research has examined conflict and transformation in Ireland from
the level of grassroots identities to geopolitical forces. She has
placed contemporary crises in the peace process in the context of
patterns of conflict and change over centuries. She has both
expounded the rich detail of the Northern Ireland and Irish-British
conflicts and placed them in their regional and global contexts.
Written by some of the leading scholars on peace and conflict in
Ireland, the chapters in this edited volume build on Todd's work
and are a testament to the thematic and methodological breadth and
depth of her output. This book will be of interest to students and
scholars of Irish and British history and politics, Peace and
Conflict Studies, and the sociology of identity, conflict, and
peacebuilding. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of Irish Political Studies.
Originally published in 1967. The common aim of all logical enquiry
is to discover and analyse correctly the forms of valid argument.
In this book concise expositions of traditional, Aristotelian logic
and of modern systems of propositional and predicative logic show
how far that aim has been achieved.
Originally published in 1967. The common aim of all logical enquiry
is to discover and analyse correctly the forms of valid argument.
In this book concise expositions of traditional, Aristotelian logic
and of modern systems of propositional and predicative logic show
how far that aim has been achieved.
THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BOOK BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED
COMIC WRITERS **Pre-order now: David Mitchell's new book Dishonesty
is the Second-best Policy** There are many aspects of modern life
that trouble award-winning comedian David Mitchell, such as: Why is
every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so
f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that
sentence make it ok? Why do so many people want to stop other
people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping
them? Join Mitchell on a tour of the absurdities of our times -
from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP
to hotdogs made of cats. Funny, provocative and shot through with
refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It
Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not
entirely glorious modern world. 'Mitchell is an exceptionally
clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. We should be grateful for
him.' Daily Mail, Books of the Year
Politics and peace in Northern Ireland analyses the complex and
contradictory process of implementing the Good Friday Agreement.
Using the lens of security dilemma theory, it begins with an
original overview of the conflict, the Agreement and post-1998
politics. The book then explores post-Agreement Northern Ireland
through the eyes of each of the four main political parties,
showing how they tried to shape the course of peace implementation,
and how implementation, in turn, shaped the fates and fortunes of
the parties. Drawing on extensive original research, this book
explains the promise and limits of the Agreement. It shows how and
why the two sides' mutual insecurities repeatedly derailed peace
implementation, and reflects on the likely direction of parties and
politics in the future. This clearly written and up-to-date book
will be of interest to scholars and students of recent Northern
Irish history, ethnic conflict and peace-making. -- .
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To the unsuspecting, wearing a stethoscope could not be more easy.
You pick it up, place it around your neck and...hey presto...you
look like you know what you are doing and people think you are a
doctor...This is the no-nonsense guide to the reality of medical
student life. Everything you need to know is here. What are my
chances of delivering a baby? How many questions should I ask? How
do I insert a nasogastric tube without the patient knowing it's my
first time? Where will I live when I'm on clinical rounds? Why
can't I wear trainers? Will patients like me? What is a patient's
'pack year' history? How do I break bad news? How can I get more
sleep? And much, much more.
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