This report examines the top 25 providers of temperature-controlled logistics services in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Temperature controlled logistics is a highly specialised sector that includes transport, distribution and storage of fresh and manufactured food, pharmaceutical products and other temperature-sensitive other goods. The report ranks the top 25 logistics providers and also includes assessments by the chief executives of the major players of the challenges they expect the industry to face in 2014. The tables show financial performance by turnover for the past three years, the fleet size by vehicle number and type, as well as the storage capacity of each company. The data, collated by Global Cold Chain News, has been gathered by telephone, e-mail communications, and from published official sources. The report is prepared by Global Cold Chain News website and its print edition, Cold Chain News, the UK's leading business-to-business magazine read by owners, directors and senior managers working for companies operating commercial vehicle fleets used for temperature-controlled transport.

'How to write with power and precision' is a practical 'how to' guide to improve your writing. The book provides no-nonsense advice and guidance from two experienced journalists and teaches the craft of good writing. This book sets out basic techniques, all which are easy to apply, that will transform your writing - whether it is for business, school, university or pleasure - enabling you to communicate your ideas and thoughts with power and precision. It is packed with hints and tips that will help you overcome problems of grammar and style. Good writing is not an art, but a skill that anyone can perfect with a little time and practice, regardless of the extent of their formal education. Practising the techniques of good writing that this book explains will give you the confidence to write letters, business reports, and any other form of written communication, knowing that your words will mean what you say.

A practical, no-nonsense guide on improving the quality of your academic writing of essays and dissertations at university and college level. As well as advice on planning and structuring essays and dissertations, this book provides hints and tips on spelling, grammar, and how to present university level essays and dissertations. There are also tips on how to check your work, and how to eliminate the obvious mistakes.

This essay examines how civil defence films released in the 1950s by the United States federal government were used, as part of its overall civil defence effort, to inflate the threat of atomic war and establish a programme of domestic social control that enabled the government to maintain a foreign policy that was publicly contingent on the use of the atomic arsenal. In the United States, post-war thinking was dominated by two popularly held concerns: the assumption that war with the Soviet Union was not a remote possibility and that any war would entail the use of nuclear weapons. Strategic planners within government agencies has to sell to the public a concept of deterrence based on nuclear weapons which meant that the 'front line' in the next war would not be 'over there' but at home, within the United States. The concern was that fear of nuclear weapons would undermine any dependence of a nuclear strategy. To overcome this, the federal government embarked on an ambitious, planned campaign to sell nuclear war as survivable and a viable option for self defence. Film's potential to influence public opinion made it especially attractive to public relations practitioners retained by the government to develop the campaign.

This work uses a representative sample of contemporary English newspapers to examine press reporting of the Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland in 1916. It shows the extent to which the British government reacted to public opinion and attempted its influence by manipulating the flow of information to newspapers. Government efforts to play down the rising as unrepresentative of Irish constitutional nationalism were initially successful with its portrayal in newspapers as a German-orchestrated plot aided by a handful of radical extremists. However, government failure to manage the media impact in England of the subsequent military executions prompted powerful newspaper campaigns against the process that reignited interest and coverage of the rising. The opportunity for government to minimise the political repercussions of the rising in England and in Ireland was forfeit.