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FROM THE CREATORS OF THE HAUNTING SEASON COMES A DAZZLING
COLLECTION OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN GHOSTLY TALES. 'Terrific - every
bit as good as an MR James collection' ROSIE ANDREWS, author of THE
LEVIATHAN Featuring new and original stories from: Bridget Collins,
author of The Binding Imogen Hermes Gowar, author of The Mermaid
and Mrs Hancock Kiran Millwood Hargrave, author of The Mercies
Andrew Michael Hurley, author of The Loney Jess Kidd, author of
Things in Jars Natasha Pulley, author of The Watchmaker of Filigree
Street Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory Laura Purcell,
author of The Silent Companions Susan Stokes Chapman, author of
Pandora Laura Shepherd-Robinson, author of The Square of Sevens
Stuart Turton, author of The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Catriona Ward, author of The Last House on Needless Street The
tradition of a haunted tale at Christmas has flourished across the
centuries. These twelve stories - authored by some of today's most
loved and lauded writers of historical and gothic fiction - are all
centred around Christmas or Advent, boldly and playfully
re-imagining a beloved tradition for a modern audience. Taking you
from a haunted Tuscan villa to a remote Scottish island with a dark
secret,, these vibrant haunted stories are your ultimate companion
for frosty nights. So curl up, light a candle, and fall under the
spell of winters past . . . 'I absolutely devoured The Winter
Spirits. Every story is a gem' LAURA SHEPPERSON 'Another dazzling
collection. Chilling, moving and incredibly satisfying' AMANDA
MASON 'Eerily macabre, hauntingly propulsive' JOANNE BURN
Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience
Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media
examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and
outline how they can be employed. This handy guide is divided into
three parts: The first part, ‘Watching Post-Television’, offers
‘television’ as a shortcut to understanding today’s platform
media and gives an introduction to key theoretical terms such as
representation, identity and community. The second part, ‘Methods
with Method’, introduces different methodological tools to study
cross media texts and practices from an audience-led perspective.
With individual chapters covering ethnography, textual analysis and
visual methodologies, this part also functions as a toolset and
starting point for small research projects. The third part,
‘Methods in Action’ offers a variety of recent case studies to
show how these methodological principles work in practice. Drawing
on different genres from drama to sports, The Pocketbook of
Audience Research gives a sense of what audience-led cross-media
research can achieve. This concise, accessible book gives students,
early-career researchers and creative professionals the tools to do
useful and inspiring audience research, whether for a paper, a
proposal or a market survey.
Focusing on qualitative methods, The Pocketbook of Audience
Research uses contemporary, global television and cross-media
examples to explain essential approaches to audience research and
outline how they can be employed. This handy guide is divided into
three parts: The first part, ‘Watching Post-Television’, offers
‘television’ as a shortcut to understanding today’s platform
media and gives an introduction to key theoretical terms such as
representation, identity and community. The second part, ‘Methods
with Method’, introduces different methodological tools to study
cross media texts and practices from an audience-led perspective.
With individual chapters covering ethnography, textual analysis and
visual methodologies, this part also functions as a toolset and
starting point for small research projects. The third part,
‘Methods in Action’ offers a variety of recent case studies to
show how these methodological principles work in practice. Drawing
on different genres from drama to sports, The Pocketbook of
Audience Research gives a sense of what audience-led cross-media
research can achieve. This concise, accessible book gives students,
early-career researchers and creative professionals the tools to do
useful and inspiring audience research, whether for a paper, a
proposal or a market survey.
Written in an accessible and engaging style, this book uses a
series of case studies to show how popular media are important to
us, as a source of pleasure and entertainment, but also in
communicating about the world with others. Social media platforms
have changed how we talk about what we like and dislike in our
popular media use. 'Cultural citizenship' shows how these
discussions speak to 'belonging', to what we feel our rights and
responsibilities are in today's polarized world. Cultural
Citizenship and Popular Culture is based on audience-led research
and does not privilege textual analysis as a starting point for
taking popular media use's measure. Instead, it offers research
tools to listen to others. This book offers scholars and students
of media and creative industries a means to understand their
professional position as one in which they engage with rather than
assume to know what users of popular cultural texts and products
think and feel.
Emma concocts a hilarious plan to keep her favorite horse from
being sold
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'You won't find a more
thrilling winter read this year, or a better line up of writers who
have mastered the gothic and ghostly.' SARA COLLINS, Costa
Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton
Featuring new and original tales from: Bridget Collins Sunday Times
bestselling author of The Binding | Imogen Hermes Gowar Sunday
Times bestselling author of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock | Kiran
Millwood Hargrave Sunday Times bestselling author of The Mercies |
Andrew Michael Hurley Sunday Times bestselling author of The Loney
| Jess Kidd International award-winning author of Things in Jars |
Elizabeth Macneal Sunday Times bestselling author of The Doll
Factory | Natasha Pulley Sunday Times bestselling author of The
Watchmaker of Filigree Street | Laura Purcell Award-winning author
of The Silent Companions ______________ Long before Charles Dickens
and Henry James popularized the tradition, the shadowy nights of
winter have been a time for people to gather together by the
flicker of candlelight and experience the intoxicating thrill of a
ghost story. Now eight bestselling, award-winning authors - all of
them master storytellers of the sinister and the macabre - bring
the tradition to vivid life in a spellbinding new collection of
original spine-tingling tales. Taking you from the frosty Fens to
the wild Yorkshire moors, to the snow-covered grounds of a haunted
estate, to a bustling London Christmas market, these mesmerizing
stories will capture your imagination and serve as your
indispensable companion to the cold, dark nights. So curl up, light
a candle, and fall under the spell of winters past . . .
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Macarons (Hardcover)
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Pierre Herme is universally acknowledged as the king of French
pastry with shops in Tokyo, Paris and London. He is the best, and
has even been described as a couturier of pastry. This is a man at
the top of his art and there is no question his macarons are in a
league of its own. Macarons are the aristocrats of pastry; these
brightly coloured, mini meringues, daintily sandwiched together
with gooey fillings, have become a holy grail for cookery fanatics
and there are even food blogs dedicated to them. Like Pierre
Herme's famous macarons, it would be difficult for any macaron book
to surpass this one and indeed the hardback edition has been a
universal bestseller (still in print 978-1-908117-23-6). There are
208 pages of recipes and beautiful food photography, and because
making macarons is mostly about technique, rather than just a
standard recipe, readers will appreciate the 32-step-by-step
photo-illustrated instructions for making shells and fillings. All
the classics are here like dark chocolate, praline, coffee, and
pistachio, but others feature the more unusual macarons that Herme
is justly famous for: Isfahan is one, with lychee, rose and
raspberry, Arabesque with apricot and pistachio, Satine with
passion fruit, orange and cream cheese, Mandarin and pink pepper,
black truffles, balsamic vinegar as well as a bright-green macaron
filled with fresh mint. Anyone interested in making macarons will
find MACARONS the best book in print.
- Includes a number of interviews with diverse practitioners,
offering extensive case studies - Supplemented by a website to be
hosted and developed by the author, including videos, practice
files and additional interviews - Acts as a supplementary text to
the bestselling 'Dance Music Manual', which does not include a
section on performance/performance tech
The German immigrants to Southeastern Pennsylvania developed a rich
and very colorful quilting heritage after they arrived in America.
This book focuses on a rare subset of that tradition--the patchwork
pillowcase. If antique Pennsylvania quilts number in the thousands,
patchwork pillowcases number in the hundreds. Gathered from private
collectors and museums, the pillowcases presented here were made
from about 1820 to 1920. Over 250 color photos showcase a huge
assortment of nineteenth century printed fabrics used in both
pieced and appliquA (c) pillowcases. Quilt designs range from a
simple four-patch to a complex carpenter's wheel, while color
schemes range from reserved red and white to bold pink and cheddar.
This book will delight the quilt historian and inspire the
quilt-maker.
'Engaging, modern fables with a feminist tang' Sunday Times DARK,
POTENT AND UNCANNY, HAG BURSTS WITH THE UNTOLD STORIES OF OUR
ISLES, CAPTURED IN VOICES AS VARIED AS THEY ARE VIVID. Here are
sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant
archaeologist unearthing impossible bones and lost children
following you home. A panther runs through the forests of England
and pixies prey upon violent men. From the islands of Scotland to
the coast of Cornwall, the mountains of Galway to the depths of the
Fens, these forgotten folktales howl, cackle and sing their way
into the 21st century, wildly reimagined by some of the most
exciting women writing in Britain and Ireland today. 'A thoroughly
original package that has a hint of Angela Carter' The Times 'Sharp
writing and cleverly done' Spectator
In 1998 the World Bank published a report entitled "Assessing Aid:
What Works, What Doesn't and Why". This report presents the results
of an extensive investigation into the effectiveness of development
aid. The main message of the text of the report is that development
aid helps, but only when there is a good policy environment in the
recipient countries, that is when there is sound macroeconomic
management and when robust government institutions exist. It
stresses that it is a myth to think that good policies can be
bought by giving development aid: giving aid conditional on policy
reforms does not lead to improved economic policies. The conclusion
of the World Bank report is that aid flows should be directed only
to countries with sound policies and that it should be focused more
on supporting governments in reforming entire sectors, rather than
on specific development projects. The "Assessing Aid" report has
led to heated debates, both among academics and policy-makers,
about development aid and aid policies. Many have questioned the
methodology used, the results and the policy conclusions of the
report. This book aims to contribute to the ongoing discussion
about the future of development aid. In particular, it re-examines
a number of issues that are crucial to the analysis and to the
conclusions of the World Bank report. In this study the authors aim
to put the discussion on the future of development aid into
perspective and summarise the main findings of the other studies in
this collection. They focus on two issues: the aid effectiveness
debate before and after the Assessing Aid report, and the
discussion on policy conditionality and good governance. Section II
provides a brief survey of past research on aid effectiveness, that
is, before publication of the Assessing Aid report and summarises
the main findings of the World Bank report on aid effectiveness. In
this study the authors aim to put the discussion on the future of
development aid into perspective and summarise the main findings of
the other studies in this collection. They focus on two issues: the
aid effectiveness debate before and after the Assessing Aid report,
and the discussion on policy conditionality and good governance.
Section II provides a brief survey of past research on aid
effectiveness, that is, before publication of the Assessing Aid
report and summarises the main findings of the World Bank report on
aid effectiveness.
- Includes a number of interviews with diverse practitioners,
offering extensive case studies - Supplemented by a website to be
hosted and developed by the author, including videos, practice
files and additional interviews - Acts as a supplementary text to
the bestselling 'Dance Music Manual', which does not include a
section on performance/performance tech
Lean Six Sigma (LSS), Design for Six Sigma (DFSS), and Value
Engineering (VE) have a proven track record of success for solving
problems and improving efficiency. Depending on the situation,
integrating these approaches can provide results that exceed the
benefits of each individual approach. Value Engineering Synergies
with Lean Six Sigma: Combining Methodologies for Enhanced Results
describes how to integrate these dynamic tools to achieve
unprecedented improvements and break down the organizational
stovepipes that can occur when different offices are assigned
responsibility for different problem-solving methods. The book
identifies opportunities where readers can integrate these
approaches to go beyond what is currently possible with the
individual approaches. Explaining the VE methodology, it supplies a
high-level discussion of LSS and DFSS. Next, it compares VE with
LSS and identifies the different opportunities for synergies that
can provide your organization with a competitive edge. Includes
detailed LSS-VE cross-reference charts Contains product- and
process-oriented VE material designed for LSS black belt training
Provides a list of the most commonly used LSS, DFSS, and VE tools
The authors describe VE and LSS in a way that is different from,
but consistent with, the current literature. To facilitate
comparison, the book graphically depicts VE and LSS and maps the
two tools into one another to provide you with a clear
understanding of the circumstances and types of problems where
integrating these techniques will be most effective. The ideas and
synergies presented in this book can help industry professionals
and those in government accelerate the adoption of efficiencies in
their operations.
This collection brings together a collection of theoretical and
empirical findings on aspects of financial development and economic
growth in developing countries. The book is divided into two parts:
the first identifies and analyses the major theoretical issues
using examples from developing countries to illustrate how these
work in practice; the second part looks at the implications for
financial policy in developing countries.
Since his death ten years ago, Lou Reed's stature and living
presence have only grown. The great rock-poet presided over the
marriage of Brill Building pop and the European avant-garde, and
left American culture transfigured. In Lou: A New York Life, the
critic Will Hermes offers the definitive narrative of Reed's life
and legacy, dramatizing his long, brilliant, and contentious
dialogue with fellow artists from David Bowie to Andy Warhol. Will
explore his craft as a singer and songwriter with the Velvet
Underground as well as the gift for self-sabotage he took from his
mentor Delmore Schwartz. This is a portrait of a committed artist
who pursued beauty and noise with equal fervour and a man who left
a lasting emotional imprint the world over.
This book compiles empirical evidence on both the challenges raised
by neo-liberal policies and the internet to trade unions, and the
development of more flexible forms of worker organisation and
collective representation. The relationship with digital devices
seems inevitably to contribute to differentiating trends,
simultaneously acting as an internal and external constraint on
organisation. Gathering academics and experts from European and
Brazilian universities, this book is recommended for researchers
and students in the fields of sociology of work, labour studies and
collective action, as well as practitioners and others interested
in worker interest organisations and collective representation in
the early 21st Century.
The Spirit Says offers a stunning collection of articles by an
influential assemblage of scholars, all of whom lend considerable
insight to the relationship between inspiration and interpretation.
They address this otherwise intractable question with deft and
occasionally daring readings of a variety of texts from the ancient
world, including-but not limited to-the scriptures of early Judaism
and Christianity. The thrust of this book can be summed up not so
much in one question as in four: o What is the role of revelation
in the interpretation of Scripture? o What might it look like for
an author to be inspired? o What motivates a claim to the inspired
interpretation of Scripture? o Who is inspired to interpret
Scripture? More often than not, these questions are submerged in
this volume under the tame rubrics of exegesis and hermeneutics,
but they rise in swells and surges too to the surface, not just
occasionally but often. Combining an assortment of prominent
voices, this book does not merely offer signposts along the way. It
charts a pioneering path toward a model of interpretation that is
at once intellectually robust and unmistakably inspired.
Including more than 60 elegantly illustrated recipes, Pierre Herme
Macarons is the definitive guide to macarons. The uncontested
leader of French pastry chefs, Pierre Herme has made the macaron
famous, one of the most coveted, sought-after desserts from Tokyo
to Paris to New York. In this comprehensive look at the beloved
pastry, the classics such as vanilla and chocolate are explored
alongside Herme's masterful inventions. His entirely original and
inspired flavour combinations-such as cucumber and tangerine,
wasabi cream and strawberry, and hazelnut and asparagus-make it
clear why Herme's macarons are famous the world over. The genius
patissier's best macarons, including many of his newest recipes,
are revealed for the first time in a gorgeous volume that almost
rivals the beauty of the exquisite creations featured within.
Hardcover includes a removable step-by-step guide to techniques
used throughout the book.
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