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'Vivid, atmospheric, packed with brilliant story-telling' -
Humphrey Hawksley, former BBC Beijing, Hong Kong and Asia
Correspondent '[An] entertaining guide, rich in anecdote and
understanding for an early globalised world that has gone' -
Michael Sheridan, Sunday Times 'Illuminating' - Thomas Dyja, New
York Times Book Review A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new
history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse
peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis-and whose
freedoms are endangered today. Hong Kong has always been many
cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place
where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost. A British Crown
Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese
Communist Party who continues to threaten its democracy and put its
rich legacy at risk. Here, renowned journalist Vaudine England
delves into Hong Kong's complex history and its people-diverse,
multi-cultural, cosmopolitan-who have made this one-time fishing
village into the world port city it is today. Rather than a
traditional history describing a town led by British Governors or a
mere offshoot of a collapsing Chinese empire, Fortune's Bazaar is
the first thorough examination of the varied peoples who made Hong
Kong. Many of Hong Kong's most influential figures during its first
century as a city were neither British nor Chinese - they were
Malay or Indian, Jewish or Armenian, Parsi or Portuguese, Eurasian
or Chindian - or simply, Hong Kongers. England describes those
overlooked in history including the opium-traders who built
synagogues or churches, ship-owners carrying gold-rush migrants,
property tycoons, and more. A story of empire, race, and sex,
Fortune's Bazaar combines deep archival research and oral history
to present a vivid history of a special place-a unique city made by
diverse people of the world, whose part in its creation has never
been properly told until now.
THE FUN FACTORY is set in the golden decade before the Great War, when the music halls were the people's entertainment, before radio, television or cinema, and bigger than all of them.
Arthur Dandoe is a gifted young comedian trying to make his way within the prestigious Fred Karno theatre company. Determined to thwart him at any cost is another ruthlessly ambitious performer - one Charlie Chaplin. Things turn even nastier when Arthur and Charlie both fall for the same girl, the irresistibly alluring Tilly Beckett.
One of the two rivals is destined to become the most celebrated man on the planet, with more girls than he can shake his famous stick at. The other. . . well, you'll just have to read this book - his book.
It could have been so different.
The fourth title in the extremely popular series of good practice,
these DVDs are written by the experts. Filmed in the Lake District
and the Scottish Highlands, this DVD outlines the essential skills
and techniques for summer hill walking in the UK. In 2007, the
Mountain Rescue teams of England and Wales dealt with 778
incidents, a 23% increase since 2003. As with previous DVDs in the
series, this DVD has been produced to educate mountain users,
making them aware of the often hostile environment of our uplands.
It will also inspire, with the dramatic beauty of two of the UK's
most popular walking areas shown to full effect. The film follows
two walkers, Frederlina and Ben, as they plan their days and follow
their walks. We see the challenges they face and the decisions they
make. In addition to the film, the technical chapters include:
Navigation, Scrambling, Weather, River Crossings, Mountain Rescue,
Ticks and Hazards.
The Architecture of Computer Hardware, System Software, and
Networking: An Information Technology Approach, 5th Edition
provides the right amount of technical detail needed to succeed in
the field. This accessible introduction provides the basic
principles of computer system architecture and organization in the
context of the current technological landscape. The author provides
chapters on the fundamentals of networking as it relates to
computer systems as well as all kinds of business systems, from
entrepreneurial to small business, networked, distributed, and
more. This valuable book provides IT professionals with several
real-world case studies that clearly show how the concepts are
applied in the field.
This guidance describes a method of recording historic buildings
for the purpose of historical understanding using analytical site
drawing and measuring by hand. The techniques described here have a
long tradition of being used to aid understanding by observation
and close contact with building fabric. They can be used by all
involved in making records of buildings of all types and ages, but
are particularly useful for vernacular buildings and architectural
details which are crucial to the history of a building or site. .
Record drawings are best used alongside other recording techniques
such as written reports and photography or to supplement digital
survey data. They can also be used as a basis for illustrations
that disseminate understanding to wider audiences.
This guidance document covers the use of geoarchaeology to assist
in understanding the archaeological record. Geoarchaeological
techniques may range in scale from landscape studies to microscopic
analysis, and are carried out by practitioners with specialist
knowledge about the physical environment in which archaeological
stratigraphy is preserved, and excavations take place. The main aim
is usually to understand site formation processes, but there may
also be issues concerning site preservation, refining field
interpretations of archaeological contexts and identifying changes
in the physical landscape through time.
This guidance document provides an introduction to the ways that
the archaeological evidence for metalworking is studied.
Archaeometallurgical evidence can include whole landscapes,
buildings, features, artefacts and waste materials (eg slag and
crucibles). Archaeometallurgy includes fieldwork investigations
(survey and excavation) and the subsequent study of these data as
well as any artefacts and residues recovered. Scientific approaches
provide insights into the techniques used to produce different
metals and how these were fabricated into artefacts.
In January 1969, one of the most promising young lieutenant colonels the U.S. Army had ever seen touched down in Vietnam for his second tour of duty, which would turn out to be his most daring and legendary. David H. Hackworth had just completed the writing of a tactical handbook for the Pentagon, and now he had been ordered to put his counterguerilla-fighting theories into action. He was given the morale-drained 4/39th -- a battalion of poorly led draftees suffering the Army's highest casualty rate and considered its worst fighting battalion. Hackworth's hard-nosed, inventive and inspired leadership quickly turned the 4/39th into Vietnam's valiant and ferocious Hardcore Recondos. Drawing on interviews with soldiers from the Hardcore Battalion conducted over the past decade by his partner and coauthor, Eilhys England, Hackworth takes readers along on their sniper missions, ambush actions, helicopter strikes and inside the quagmire of command politics. With Steel My Soldiers' Hearts, Hackworth places the brotherhood of the 4/39th into the pantheon of our nation's most heroic warriors.
This document provides practical guidance on how to investigate
sites where pottery production has taken place. It describes how to
anticipate and locate pottery production sites and the types of
evidence that may be found. This document also provides advice on
the available methods and strategies for examining, recording and
sampling features and finds of various types at each stage of the
work. The different techniques for establishing the date of pottery
production, and for characterising the products of a site, are
given particular emphasis. This document was compiled by Harriet
White, Sarah Paynter and Duncan Brown with contributions by Joanne
Best, Chris Cumberpatch, David Dawson, Peter Ellis, Jane Evans,
Laurence Jones, Oliver Kent, Gareth Perry, The Prince's
Regeneration Trust, Ian Roberts, Kerry Tyler and Ann Woodward.
Looking for Learning: Mark Making is a full-colour, practical guide
linked to current policy and the EYFS framework. Laura England,
creator of Little Miss Early Years, uses theory, cases studies,
real-life images and accessible ideas to inspire child-led learning
using mark making. This book will help you spark children’s
natural curiosity in seeing what happens when they make marks with
their fingers, bodies and toys, as well as materials from nature
and from your art supplies. From drawing around shadows and
swirling paint in water, to printing animal footprints, Laura
England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, provides a wealth of
creative ideas for incorporating mark making into all child-led
play, both indoors and outside. Developing mark making and building
language skills are crucial as young children begin to build their
confidence in communicating. This dip-in-and-out book is linked to
the Characteristics of Effective Learning and presents real-life
examples and images as well as practical pointers. With tips from
setting up the environment to the adult's role in this child-led
play, Looking for Learning: Mark Making is ideal for all Early
Years practitioners searching for accessible ideas for using mark
making in their settings. Looking for Learning books are the number
one tool for identifying learning opportunities in child-led play.
All four books are packed full of tried-and-tested ideas for indoor
and outdoor activities, helpful hints and tips and full-colour
photographs. Written by Laura England, known as Little Miss Early
Years, these are a must-have for any nursery or pre-school.
Looking for Learning: Provocations is a full-colour, practical
guide to inspire child-led learning that's linked to current policy
and the EYFS framework. As each child progresses through their
learning journey, Early Years practitioners are expected to
identify and understand what learning is taking place in every
activity that a child is involved in. Laura England, creator of
Little Miss Early Years, uses her wealth of experience as an Early
Years teacher to explore the learning that takes place when a
child's play has been inspired by a provocation, including mirrors
to investigate symmetry, cardboard boxes to understand shapes, and
sticks and pebbles to construct their own designs. Provocations
invite learning, interest and creativity as they allow children to
explore, think and use their imaginations. This dip-in-and-out book
is linked to the Characteristics of Effective Learning and presents
case studies, real-life images and practical pointers to explore
their use. With tips for setting up the environment to the adult's
role in this child-led play, Looking for Learning: Provocations is
ideal for all Early Years practitioners searching for accessible
ideas for using provocations in their settings. Looking for
Learning books are the number one tool for identifying learning
opportunities in child-led play. All four books are packed full of
tried-and-tested ideas for indoor and outdoor activities, helpful
hints and tips and full-colour photographs. Written by Laura
England, known as Little Miss Early Years, these are a must-have
for any nursery or pre-school.
Exam Board: Edexcel Level: IGCSE Subject: Physics First Teaching:
September 2017 First Exam: Summer 2019 Maximise every student's
performance with exam-style questions, sample answers and examiner
comments, written to support and enhance the content of the Edexcel
International GCSE Physics book. - Enhance learning with extra
practice designed to support the student's book - Test knowledge
with a variety of exam-style questions including multiple choice. -
Saves time with a range of questions perfect for homework or
independent study to ensure students have understood concepts
covered in class
Looking for Learning: Loose Parts won "Highly Commended" in the
Creative Play Awards 2019 for Teaching Resources. Looks for
Learning: Loose Parts is a full-colour, practical guide to inspire
child-led learning that's linked to to current policy and the EYFS
framework. As each child progresses through their learning journey,
Early Years practitioners are expected to identify and understand
what learning is taking place in every activity that a child is
involved in. Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years,
uses her wealth of experience as an Early Years teacher to explore
the learning that takes place when a child is tinkering with loose
parts, including tinker trays filled with nuts and bolts, pompoms
and play dough to combine, construct and investigate with. Loose
parts are natural or synthetic materials and resources that have no
pre-planned use; they can be moved, combined with other resources,
lined up, deconstructed and constructed again. They can capture a
child's imagination, curiosity and creativity as they play with and
manipulate them. This dip-in-and-out book is linked to the
Characteristics of Effective Learning and presents case studies,
real-life images and practical pointers to explore their use. With
tips for setting up the environment to the adult's role in this
child-led play, Looking For Learning: Loose Parts is ideal for all
Early Years practitioners searching for accessible ideas for using
loose parts in their settings. Looking for Learning books are the
number one tool for identifying learning opportunities in child-led
play. All four books are packed full of tried-and-tested ideas for
indoor and outdoor activities, helpful hints and tips and
full-colour photographs. Written by Laura England, known as Little
Miss Early Years, these are a must-have for any nursery or
pre-school.
This book examines how safety failings during the use of any
designed product or system-be it a car, a building, or a chemical
plant-can be mitigated through effective understanding of the
conditions and controls surrounding its use. Drawing on historical
failures and their own real-world experience, Dr Andy Painting and
David England explain how corporate culture, engineering safety,
personnel selection, and proper safety auditing are key ingredients
to maintaining safety in all aspects of an organization's
operations. This effective strategy is also crucial to linking back
to the design of future products in establishing where operational
failures have been identified and can therefore be "designed out"
in future iterations. The book challenges silo thinking among the
various safety-related disciplines and shows how this can be
counter-productive to effective safety management. Effectively
Managing the Case for Safety draws on key features from
engineering, design, and health and safety processes, which, when
used cohesively, promote a better working environment for everyone
and help to reduce wasted time, money, and effort for any
organization. Safety is tracked from the initial design stage
through any product's entire service life and includes evidence of
how safety affects, and is affected by, all those who interact with
a product, system, or project. Following their first book, An
Effective Strategy for Safe Design in Engineering and Construction,
which demonstrated how current construction regulations can be used
as a framework to ensure that safety is embedded into the design of
virtually any product from machinery to buildings, this follow up
book defines what safe is, how it is initially derived, and how the
operational safety of any product, during its in-use phase, can be
managed and assessed. The result is not only to ensure compliance
with relevant regulations but also to actively ensure the ongoing
safety of all those who interact with a product or project.
Recognising diverse groups within society is a vital part of policy
research and analysis, yet few texts have drawn together the
breadth of experiences of welfare provision from a diverse group of
citizens. This book fills this gap, by exploring how diverse
citizens’ experience welfare provision. It aims to promote debate
about the importance of social divisions in society and to address
the gaps in research, in relation to race, ethnicity, disability,
gender and LGBTQ. It comes at a crucial time as we emerge out of a
decade of austerity, a global pandemic and Brexit, where issues of
diversity have been at the forefront of debates and renews the call
for analysis within social policy, particularly on issues of
diversity in the 21st century context.
Looking for Learning: Maths through Play is a full-colour,
practical guide linked to current policy and the EYFS framework.
Laura England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, uses theory,
case studies, real-life images and accessible ideas to inspire
child-led mathematical learning using play. This book will
encourage children to think about maths while playing, using a
range of common resources that will spark their curiosity. It is
full of creative suggestions for incorporating mathematical
concepts – counting, comparison, composition, shape, pattern
and number – into child-led play. The book contains ideas for
bringing mathematical learning into children’s favourite
activities: role play and construction; art and nature; sand and
water play and even simple technology-based activities using
projectors or torches. Experienced Early Years teacher Laura
England, creator of Little Miss Early Years, also provides advice
about getting children talking about maths during daily routines in
Early Years settings. This dip-in-and-out book is linked to the
Characteristics of Effective Learning and presents case studies,
real-life images and practical pointers on how to use play for
early mathematical concepts. With tips from setting up the
environment to the adult's role in this child-led play, Looking for
Learning: Maths through Play is ideal for all Early Years
practitioners searching for accessible ideas for incorporating
mathematical learning through play into their settings. Looking for
Learning books are the number one tool for identifying learning
opportunities in child-led play. All four books are packed full of
tried-and-tested ideas for indoor and outdoor activities, helpful
hints and tips and full-colour photographs. Written by Laura
England, known as Little Miss Early Years, these are a must-have
for any nursery or pre-school.
This volume addresses challenges that the field of English language
teacher education has faced in the past several years. The global
pandemic has caused extreme stress and has also served as a
catalyst for new ways of teaching, learning, and leading. Educators
have relied on their creativity and resiliency to identify new and
innovative teaching practices and insights that inform the
profession going forward. Contributors describe how teacher
educators have responded to the specific needs and difficulties of
educating teachers and teaching second language learners in
challenging circumstances around the world and how these
innovations can transform education going forward into the future.
Paving the way to a revitalized profession, this book is essential
reading for the current and future generations of TESOL scholars,
graduate students, and professors.
A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong
that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have
made it a multicultural world metropolis-and whose freedoms are
endangered today. Hong Kong has always been many cities to many
people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes
can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent
oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally
everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years,
Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues
to threaten its democracy and put its rich legacy at risk. Here,
renowned journalist Vaudine England delves into Hong Kong's complex
history and its people-diverse, multi-cultural, cosmopolitan-who
have made this one-time fishing village into the world port city it
is today. Rather than a traditional history describing a town led
by British Governors or a mere offshoot of a collapsing Chinese
empire, Fortune's Bazaar is the first thorough examination of the
varied peoples who made Hong Kong. While British traders and Asian
merchants had long been busy in the Indian and South East Asian
seas, there were many from different cultures and ethnic
backgrounds who arrived in Hong Kong, met and married-despite all
taboos-and created a distinct community. Many of Hong Kong's most
influential figures during its first century as a city were neither
British nor Chinese-they were Malay or Indian, Jewish or Armenian,
Parsi or Portuguese, Eurasian or Chindian-or simply, Hong Kongers.
England describes those overlooked in history including the
opium-traders who built synagogues or churches, ship-owners
carrying gold-rush migrants, property tycoons, and more. Here, too,
is the visionary who plumbed Hong Kong's harbor depths to spur
reclamation, the half-Dutch Chinese gentleman with two wives who
was knighted by Queen Victoria, and the landscape gardeners who
settled Kowloon and became millionaires. A story of empire, race,
and sex, Fortune's Bazaar combines deep archival research and oral
history to present a vivid history of a special place-a unique city
made by diverse people of the world, whose part in its creation has
never been properly told until now.
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