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Millstone Grit (Paperback)
Glyn Hughes; Introduction by Benjamin Myers
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Millstone Grit takes the form of a fifty mile walk through the West
Riding and East Lancashire, exploring the industrial towns and
moors. Glyn Hughes had grown up in the Cheshire countryside but on
moving to the Pennines was deeply shocked by the impact of industry
on the natural world; but over time he found beauty in its special
landscapes and came to love the people who lived in them. In
Millstone Grit the author investigates the specific culture of
place - with chapters on Methodism and the Luddites, interviewing a
millworker, examining the awakening of an urban working-class
consciousness. Hughes is always observant, careful, poetic and
no-nonsense, this new edition will find readers keen to rediscover
his vision of the north.
Europe eh? Curved bananas made illegal! 11 inch pizzas banned!
Acres outlawed! Ambulances turn yellow for Europe! Army's gun
salute banned as too noisy! Bagpipes to be made illegal! Brandy
Butter Banned! British lav to be replaced with Euro-loo! British
rhubarb to be straight! Brussels threatens walnuts! Carved horns to
be banned! Chocolate to be 'vegelate'! ... these important
observations on Euro-interference all appeared in British
newspapers as 'news'. Find out how true they, and hundreds more,
really are...
45 Classics of Philosophy, in their own words, abridged into
readable little epitomes. Including: The Ancient Greeks, Confucius,
Plato, Aristotle, Aristotle, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Marcus
Aurelius, St Augustine, Severinus Boethius, Thomas More, Niccolo
Machiavelli, Nicolaus Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Rene Descartes,
Thomas Hobbes, Baruch Spinoza, Isaac Newton, John Locke, Gottfried
Leibniz, George Berkeley, David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
Immanuel Kant, Jeremy Bentham, Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraf,
Auguste Comte, G.W.F Hegel, Marx And Engels, Arthur Schopenhauer,
Henry D Thoreau, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, Friedrich
Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Ludwig Wittgenstein,
A.J. Ayer, Jean-Paul Sartre.
There's a set of books which you're just supposed to know about, at
least if you live in The West and fancy the idea of being thought
'educated'. There's the Bible, Shakespeare, James Joyce, Walter
Scott and Machiavelli. Dr Jekyll, Tiny Tim, Starbuck, Socrates, Mr.
Scrooge, Raskolnikov, Einstein and Enkidu. The Brontes and Boswell,
Wordsworth, Newton Confucius and Don Quixote. Here they all are.
100 of the most quoted, most known, works of all time, in the
original author's own words, but squashed up into nice little
abridgements you can read in an hour or so. Little versions which
smell and sound just like the originals. And ... with The Hundred
Books it becomes possible to read the whole thing as a single
narrative, to discover a Pisgah View of the written history of the
great grand thing of how We got where We are now, in way that's
just impossible for ordinary mortals. Read the lot, you'll love it,
and you'll never, ever, be bored in an airport again.
Food historian Glyn Hughes rediscovers the Old English Christmas,
and the Older English Yule. Here are Kings and Puritans, Yule
Babies, Christmas Pottage, Queen Victoria's mincemeat recipe,
Christmas Cheese and Salmagundi. Here is Durham Fluffin, Pepper
Cake, the shape for mince pies and nearly one hundred actual,
original, dishes gleaned from from half-a-thousand years of English
cookery books. Here you can rediscover the Spirit of Christmas Past
and, I hope, make it part of Christmas yet to come. (You're excused
putting tripe in the mincemeat, but if you really want to, you'll
find the 1764 recipe here) Part of the Foods of England project.
Receipts from the Master Cooks of King Richard II, rendered into
Modern English by Glyn Hughes. Not only lasagna, macaroni, bacon
and beans, rice pudding and scrambled eggs on toast, but also
porpoise, fake hedgehogs, deer broth and novelty edible
flower-pots. In this, the first new edition since 1780, food
historian Glyn Hughes has made this 'first English cookbook'
sufficiently lively and readable that you might even want to try
Leeks with Offal for yourself. Produced in conjunction with the
Foods of England Project at www.foodsofengland.co.uk and the
University of Manchester John Rylands Library
Good Practice in the Law and Safeguarding Adults provides an up to
date and topical overview of developments in the legislative
framework relevant to the area of adult protection work. The book
aims to broaden knowledge about legislation surrounding adult
abuse, such as The Mental Capacity Act 2007, assess alternative
models of practice such as criminal justice and welfare, and
provide guidance on the responsibility of various roles, from the
IMCA to the social care regulator. Issues covered include
confidentiality and information-sharing in adult protection work,
police systems and policy, capacity and financial abuse, advocacy
and the role of prosecutor. The book is illustrated throughout with
case studies and good practice points, and includes helpful
training materials for organizations to use on training courses, or
by managers in supervision sessions or team meetings.
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