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OCR Psychology for A Level & AS Revision Guide (Paperback): Cara Flanagan, Jock McGinty OCR Psychology for A Level & AS Revision Guide (Paperback)
Cara Flanagan, Jock McGinty
R688 Discovery Miles 6 880 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Covering the A Level and AS, this portable-sized guide is ideal for consolidating knowledge both at home for revision, and at school as a lesson-by-lesson summary as the course progresses. // Every AS and A Level core/key study covered on one concise spread. // Evaluation points provided for the methodical issues on each study. // Links are made to areas, debates, perspectives and applications. // Covers research methods and mathematical skills. // Exam skills and techniques are reinforced with a dedicated section of advice and guidance. // Invaluable exam tips are provided throughout. // Exam-style questions provide plenty of exam practice.

Man at the Top (DVD): Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman, Harry Andrews, John Quentin, Mary Maude, Angela Bruce, John Collin, Anne... Man at the Top (DVD)
Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman, Harry Andrews, John Quentin, Mary Maude, …
R96 Discovery Miles 960 Ships in 10 - 20 working days

Mike Vardy directs this big screen adaptation of the adventures of working class hero Joe Lampton (Kenneth Haigh). When Joe gets to know pharmaceutical tycoon Lord Ackerman (Harry Andrews) and his wife Alex (Nanette Newman), it results in an unexpected job offer. However, things aren't all plain sailing. While managing one of Ackerman's companies, Joe discovers that a former member of staff committed suicide for his part in producing a drug that proved harmful to women. How will Ackerman react when Joe tells him the news?

Pearson BTEC National Applied Psychology: Book 2 Revised Edition (Paperback): Cara Flanagan, Dave Berry, Jock McGinty, Mark... Pearson BTEC National Applied Psychology: Book 2 Revised Edition (Paperback)
Cara Flanagan, Dave Berry, Jock McGinty, Mark Walsh, Rob Liddle
R997 Discovery Miles 9 970 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Publishing Spring 2022. / Both BTEC Applied Psychology Books 1 and 2 are being revised to match the revised Unit 1 and Unit 3 specifications for first teaching from September 2021. / Unit 3 - Health psychology completely revised and updated. / Endorsed for BTEC. / Each book provides knowledge and evaluation of theories and studies combined with many engaging activities which deliver the vocational element. / Activities aim to prepare students for internal and external assessments. / The brilliant visual style and tone will encourage students through every step of the course.

OCR Psychology for A Level: Book 2 (Paperback): Cara Flanagan, Anna Horwitz, Rob Liddle, Jock McGinty OCR Psychology for A Level: Book 2 (Paperback)
Cara Flanagan, Anna Horwitz, Rob Liddle, Jock McGinty
R1,116 Discovery Miles 11 160 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Endorsed by OCR and written by Cara Flanagan and a team of highly experienced authors, teachers and examiners, OCR Psychology for A Level: Book 2 offers high-quality support you can trust. // Covers issues in mental health and all four of the applied psychology options. // Each topic is divided into four spreads: 'Background', 'Key research', 'Linking it together' and 'Application'. // Each spread contains self-assessment questions to allow students to check their understanding as they progress through the course and the content of each spread is specifically tailored to exam requirements. // Designed to motivate students of all abilities with a stunning visual style that students will love. // Plenty of practical ideas and activities are included for class and homework exercises. // Exam preparation is supported across the book with advice and practice for practical application and core studies questions with example questions, student answers with teacher comments.

Zhao Gang (Hardcover): Heinz-Norbert Jocks Zhao Gang (Hardcover)
Heinz-Norbert Jocks; Text written by Zhao Gang, Pi Li; Designed by runningwater.eu
R926 Discovery Miles 9 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

At the age of just 18, Zhao Gang, the son of Manchurian intellectuals, was the youngest member of the legendary Star Group, alongside Ai Weiwei as well as Huang Rui. In 1979, the way the up-and-coming avant-garde group in China protested against the party’s control of art was as influential as it was unsuccessful. Later, he studied in Europe and in the United States, acquired American citizenship, and is regarded as one of the outstanding “representatives of his generation, who truly understands East as well as West and speaks Chinese and English as a native language” (Phil Tinara) and who, as a passionate painter, consequently, also blends the visual language of East and West into a hybrid in a subtle, rebellious, sensitive, frenetic, mischievous, and absurd manner. In 2018 he took part in the survey exhibition “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World” at the Guggenheim Museum, which showed the crème de la crème of contemporary art. The publication provides an overview of six central exhibitions from recent years, and takes a retrospective look at his work and life.

South Africa's gold mines - and the politics of silicosis (Paperback): Jock McCulloch South Africa's gold mines - and the politics of silicosis (Paperback)
Jock McCulloch
R250 R195 Discovery Miles 1 950 Save R55 (22%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Why did South African mines become renowned for mine safety, while the mounting rate of silicosis in black migrant workers lay hidden for over a century? How complicit were regulating officers in the operation of the gold mines' apartheid health and safety policies? Why and how was tuberculosis among black migrant miners not disclosed, perpetuating a cycle of disease (and death) and allowing the infection to spread to neighbouring states? This book reveals how the South African mining industry, abetted by a minority state, hid a pandemic of silicosis for almost a century, and allowed workers infected with tuberculosis to spread the potentially fatal disease to rural communities in South Africa and labour-sending states. The first crisis of 1896-1912 focused on the minority white workers and resulted in industry investing heavily on reducing dust levels. The second began in 2000 with mounting scientific evidence that the disease rate among black migrant miners is more than a hundred times higher than officially acknowledged. This has resulted in class actions against operating companies.

Life in the Raws - Memories of a Shale Oil Village (Paperback): Jock Findlay Life in the Raws - Memories of a Shale Oil Village (Paperback)
Jock Findlay; As told to Neil Findlay; Foreword by Sybil Cavanagh
R221 Discovery Miles 2 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

While canvassing for the Scottish independence referendum in 2014 Neil Findlay made a discovery. Visiting the home that used to be his grandparents', he was shown a plywood panel where John 'Jock' Findlay, his grandfather, had written his life's tale. This is Jock's story. Jock grew up and grew old in the West Lothian village of Pumpherston - a village dominated by one industry, shale oil mining. In his own words he describes the good times, and the hard times, of living and working in Pumpherston. This is a story about a Scottish industry, a village and, most of all, a community.

The Batman Who Laughs Deluxe Edition (Hardcover): Scott Snyder, Jock The Batman Who Laughs Deluxe Edition (Hardcover)
Scott Snyder, Jock
R905 R798 Discovery Miles 7 980 Save R107 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A New York Times bestselling Graphic Novel! A Batman who laughs is a Batman who always wins. He unleashed the Dark Multiverse in the epic series Dark Nights: Metal. Now superstar writer Scott Snyder reunites with acclaimed artist Jock (Batman: Black Mirror) to set that evil alternate reality's deadliest denizen loose in Gotham City--and the original Dark Knight will never be the same! Half Batman. Half Joker. Combining everything that makes the Caped Crusader a hero and the Clown Prince a killer, the Batman Who Laughs is the Dark Multiverse's deadliest criminal mastermind. Now he's come to Gotham to turn Bruce Wayne's home into an incubator for evil. And he hasn't come alone. Emerging from another of the Dark Multiverse's myriad realities comes the Grim Knight. This vicious vigilante will use any weapon at his disposal to ensure those he has marked for death stay down. A war like no other--a war of the Batmen--has begun. As Batman's closest friends, deadliest enemies, and doppelgangers from across the Multiverse get caught in the crossfire, only one question remains: Who will have the last laugh? Discover the answer in The Batman Who Laughs--a terrifying reimagining of one of comics' greatest heroes--and villains--from the premier Batman writer of our time! Collects the full seven-issue miniseries and the one-shot special issue The Batman Who Laughs: The Grim Knight.

Anastasia Chernyavsky (Paperback): Jock Sturges Anastasia Chernyavsky (Paperback)
Jock Sturges
R425 R375 Discovery Miles 3 750 Save R50 (12%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Critical Criminology (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, Jock Young Critical Criminology (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, Jock Young
R4,438 Discovery Miles 44 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1975, this collection of essays expands upon the themes and ideas developed in the editors' previous work, the visionary and groundbreaking text: The New Criminology. Directed at orthodox criminology, this is a partisan work written by a group of criminologists committed to a social transformation: a transformation to a society that does not criminalize deviance. Included are American contributions, particularly from the School of Criminology at Berkeley, represented by Hermann and Julia Schwendinger and Tony Platt, together with essays by Richard Quinney and William Chambliss. From Britain, Geoff Pearson considers deviancy theory as 'misfit sociology' and Paul Hirst attacks deviancy theory from an Althusserian Marxist position. The editors contribute a detailed introductory essay extending the position developed in The New Criminology, and two other pieces which attempt to continue the task of translating criminology from its traditional correctionalist stance to a commitment to socialist diversity and a crime-free set of social arrangements.

Learning to Teach Psychology in the Secondary School - A Companion to School Experience (Paperback): Deborah Gajic, Jock McGinty Learning to Teach Psychology in the Secondary School - A Companion to School Experience (Paperback)
Deborah Gajic, Jock McGinty
R1,030 Discovery Miles 10 300 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Learning to Teach Psychology in the Secondary School offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the teaching and learning of psychology. Written for trainee teachers and those new to teaching psychology, it will help you to develop your subject knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of the purpose and potential of psychology within the secondary curriculum as well as support the practical skills needed to plan, teach, and evaluate stimulating and creative lessons. Drawing on theory and the latest research, the text demonstrates how key pedagogical issues link to classroom practice and encourages you to reflect on your own learning and practice to maximise student learning. Written by experts in the field and featuring useful resources, summaries of key points and a range of tasks enabling you to put learning into practice in the classroom, the chapters cover: Using psychology to teach psychology Teaching specific areas of psychology Ethics in psychology teaching Teaching research methods Teaching the skills of evaluation, analysis and application in psychology Assessment and feedback Inclusion Using technology Career progression and professional development This exciting new addition to the market leading Learning to Teach in the Secondary School series is essential reading for all those who aspire to become an inspirational and engaging psychology teacher.

Batman: One Dark Knight: Jock Batman: One Dark Knight
Jock
R392 Discovery Miles 3 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Iconic Batman artist Jock delivers a bare-knuckle brawl through the blacked-out streets of Gotham! All they had to do was get him across town. It was the sort of mission Batman had run a thousand times. From high above the sweltering summer streets of Gotham, Batman would escort the GCPD as the dangerous metahuman super-villain known as E.M.P. was transferred from a temporary holding cell to his permanent home at Blackgate Prison in Gotham Harbor. E.M.P. s electrical powers posed a dangerous threat, but the situation was well in hand. Until it wasn t. Now every light in Gotham is out, the police have been knocked into disarray, and a broken, bleeding Batman must fight his way to Blackgate, block by block, dragging E.M.P. behind him. But it s not just the gangs who want to make life difficult for him. The dark corners of Gotham contain many surprises and E.M.P. has many more shocks to deliver before the night is through! One of the most iconic Batman artists of the 21st century, the incomparable Jock (THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS, BATMAN: THE BLACK MIRROR), has focused all his storytelling powers on the tale of one very, very dark night in Gotham City. It s always darkest before the dawn if it ever comes Collects Batman: One Dark Knight #1-3.

Learning to Teach Psychology in the Secondary School - A Companion to School Experience (Hardcover): Deborah Gajic, Jock McGinty Learning to Teach Psychology in the Secondary School - A Companion to School Experience (Hardcover)
Deborah Gajic, Jock McGinty
R4,142 Discovery Miles 41 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Learning to Teach Psychology in the Secondary School offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the teaching and learning of psychology. Written for trainee teachers and those new to teaching psychology, it will help you to develop your subject knowledge and gain a deeper understanding of the purpose and potential of psychology within the secondary curriculum as well as support the practical skills needed to plan, teach, and evaluate stimulating and creative lessons. Drawing on theory and the latest research, the text demonstrates how key pedagogical issues link to classroom practice and encourages you to reflect on your own learning and practice to maximise student learning. Written by experts in the field and featuring useful resources, summaries of key points and a range of tasks enabling you to put learning into practice in the classroom, the chapters cover: Using psychology to teach psychology Teaching specific areas of psychology Ethics in psychology teaching Teaching research methods Teaching the skills of evaluation, analysis and application in psychology Assessment and feedback Inclusion Using technology Career progression and professional development This exciting new addition to the market leading Learning to Teach in the Secondary School series is essential reading for all those who aspire to become an inspirational and engaging psychology teacher.

In the Twilight of Revolution - The Political Theory of Amilcar Cabral (Paperback): Jock McCulloch In the Twilight of Revolution - The Political Theory of Amilcar Cabral (Paperback)
Jock McCulloch
R982 Discovery Miles 9 820 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

First published in 1983. Amilcar Cabral was one of Africa's leading revolutionary figures. Universally recognised as the founding father at the independent state of Guine-Bissau, he was also the first truly important political thinker to have emerged from Africa's two decades of revolution. This book was the first publication to present a critical analysis of his standing as a political theorist. Born in 1925 in the then Portuguese colony of Guine, Cabral devoted his life to the liberation of his people from colonialism and was instrumental in founding the PAIGC, the African Party for the Independence of Guine and Cape Verde. He was assassinated early in 1973, but the PAIGC continued his task and Guine-Bissau gained independence in September 1973. Guine's revolution came late, but it was a genuine revolution and, like all revolutions, was accompanied by a theory of its own. That theory is found in the writings of Cabral. In this study Jack McCulloch explains that, because of the conjunction of a number of historical factors, the revolution in Guine assumed an importance for out of proportion to the size or economic significance of the country, and shows that consequently Cabral's theory has come to have an historical significance of its own. This account of Cabral's political theory demonstrates clearly that the effect of Cabral's career was to help bring down the last of the great colonial empires in Africa and, in the realm of theory, to dismantle the central shibboleths of African socialism.

Natural Mineral Nanotubes - Properties and Applications (Paperback): Pooria Pasbakhsh, G. Jock Churchman Natural Mineral Nanotubes - Properties and Applications (Paperback)
Pooria Pasbakhsh, G. Jock Churchman
R2,620 Discovery Miles 26 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book provides a wide introduction on history, minerology, geology, and the characteristics and application of different natural nanotubes. It is the first comprehensive book to discuss natural nanotubes, particularly halloysite nanotubes. The book will be useful mainly for postgraduate students and researchers working on the application of natural nanotubes. It will also be useful for those companies or researchers that focus on the design of materials and composites for sustainability. This book: * Provides updates on the diverse and expanding applications of natural mineral nanotubes (including halloysite, sepiolite, and palygorskite) in various industries, and polymer nanocomposites for medical, health, and environmental applications * Provides a comprehensive review of the modification and intercalation of different natural mineral nanotubes * Reviews recent studies of the mechanical properties of halloysite nanotubes * Provides an up-to-date background on the structure, identification, and nomenclature of various natural mineral nanotubes, including halloysite, palygorskite, sepiolite, chrysotile, and erionite * Gives comprehensive global information on the mineralogy, geology, and occurrence of natural mineral nanotubes * Discusses the current understanding of the health risks of natural mineral nanotubes

The Batman Who Laughs (Paperback): Scott Snyder, Jock Jock The Batman Who Laughs (Paperback)
Scott Snyder, Jock Jock 2
R530 R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Save R153 (29%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

A Batman who laughs is a Batman who always wins. He unleashed the Dark Multiverse in the epic series Dark Nights: Metal. Now superstar writer Scott Snyder reunites with acclaimed artist Jock (Batman: Black Mirror) to set that evil alternate reality s deadliest denizen loose in Gotham City and the original Dark Knight will never be the same! Half Batman. Half Joker. Combining everything that makes the Caped Crusader a hero and the Clown Prince a killer, the Batman Who Laughs is the Dark Multiverse s deadliest criminal mastermind. Now he s come to Gotham to turn Bruce Wayne s home into an incubator for evil. And he hasn t come alone. Emerging from another of the Dark Multiverse s myriad realities comes the Grim Knight. This vicious vigilante will use any weapon at his disposal to ensure those he has marked for death stay down. A war like no other a war of the Batmen has begun. As Batman s closest friends, deadliest enemies, and doppelgangers from across the Multiverse get caught in the crossfire, only one question remains: Who will have the last laugh? Discover the answer in The Batman Who Laughs a terrifying reimagining of one of comics greatest heroes and villains from the premier Batman writer of our time! Collects the full seven-issue miniseries and the one-shot special issue The Batman Who Laughs: The Grim Knight.

Risky Agricultural Markets - Price Forecasting And The Need For Intervention Policies (Paperback): Jock Anderson, Pasquale L.... Risky Agricultural Markets - Price Forecasting And The Need For Intervention Policies (Paperback)
Jock Anderson, Pasquale L. Scandizzo, Peter B. R. Hazell
R1,275 Discovery Miles 12 750 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book shows how decisions made by individual farmers influence the efficiency of agricultural markets. Unless farmers properly take account of the correlation between prices and yields in forming their price forecasts, competitive markets will often be socially inefficient, leading to misallocation of resources. The authors demonstrate that a simple and practical price forecasting rule, based on expected per unit revenue, is generally adequate to ensure efficient market behavior.Time-series data from various countries are used to test the hypothesis that market supply is influenced by the correlation of price and yield as well as by lagged market prices . The importance of market inefficiencies in risky situations is shown to, depend on the variability of yields, the nature of farmers'price forecasting behavior, the degree of private risk aversion,and the elasticity of demand. The authors suggest and evaluate three basic policy approaches governments may take when confronted with very inefficient markets--establishing production quotas, improving market information services, and implementing price stabilization schemes. They conclude by discussing implications of the study for the specification of agricultural supply models and for the economic appraisal of risky investment projects.

Batman: One Dark Knight (Hardcover): Jock Jock Batman: One Dark Knight (Hardcover)
Jock Jock
R592 Discovery Miles 5 920 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

All they had to do was get him across town. It was the sort of mission Batman had run a thousand times. From high above the sweltering summer streets of Gotham, Batman would escort the GCPD as the dangerous metahuman super-villain known as E.M.P. was transferred from a temporary holding cell to his permanent home at Blackgate Prison in Gotham Harbor. E.M.P. s electrical powers posed a dangerous threat, but the situation was well in hand. Until it wasn t. Now every light in Gotham is out, the police have been knocked into disarray, and a broken, bleeding Batman must fight his way to Blackgate, block by block, dragging E.M.P. behind him. But it s not just the gangs who want to make life difficult for him. The dark corners of Gotham contain many surprises and E.M.P. has many more shocks to deliver before the night is through! One of the most iconic Batman artists of the 21st century, the incomparable Jock (THE BATMAN WHO LAUGHS, BATMAN: THE BLACK MIRROR), has focused all his storytelling powers on the tale of one very, very dark night in Gotham City. It s always darkest before the dawn if it ever comes Collects Batman: One Dark Knight #1-3.

Natural Mineral Nanotubes - Properties and Applications (Hardcover): Pooria Pasbakhsh, G. Jock Churchman Natural Mineral Nanotubes - Properties and Applications (Hardcover)
Pooria Pasbakhsh, G. Jock Churchman
R4,487 Discovery Miles 44 870 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book provides a wide introduction on history, minerology, geology, and the characteristics and application of different natural nanotubes. It is the first comprehensive book to discuss natural nanotubes, particularly halloysite nanotubes. The book will be useful mainly for postgraduate students and researchers working on the application of natural nanotubes. It will also be useful for those companies or researchers that focus on the design of materials and composites for sustainability. This book: * Provides updates on the diverse and expanding applications of natural mineral nanotubes (including halloysite, sepiolite, and palygorskite) in various industries, and polymer nanocomposites for medical, health, and environmental applications * Provides a comprehensive review of the modification and intercalation of different natural mineral nanotubes * Reviews recent studies of the mechanical properties of halloysite nanotubes * Provides an up-to-date background on the structure, identification, and nomenclature of various natural mineral nanotubes, including halloysite, palygorskite, sepiolite, chrysotile, and erionite * Gives comprehensive global information on the mineralogy, geology, and occurrence of natural mineral nanotubes * Discusses the current understanding of the health risks of natural mineral nanotubes

Soil Clays - Linking Geology, Biology, Agriculture, and the Environment (Paperback): G. Jock Churchman, Bruce Velde Soil Clays - Linking Geology, Biology, Agriculture, and the Environment (Paperback)
G. Jock Churchman, Bruce Velde
R1,476 Discovery Miles 14 760 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

As the human population grows from seven billion toward an inevitable nine or 10 billion, the demands on the limited supply of soils will grow and intensify. Soils are essential for the sustenance of almost all plants and animals, including humans, but soils are virtually infinitely variable. Clays are the most reactive and interactive inorganic compounds in soils. Clays in soils often differ from pure clay minerals of geological origin. They provide a template for most of the reactive organic matter in soils. They directly affect plant nutrients, soil temperature and pH, aggregate sizes and strength, porosity and water-holding capacities. This book aims to help improve predictions of important properties of soils through a modern understanding of their highly reactive clay minerals as they are formed and occur in soils worldwide. It examines how clays occur in soils and the role of soil clays in disparate applications including plant nutrition, soil structure, and water-holding capacity, soil quality, soil shrinkage and swelling, carbon sequestration, pollution control and remediation, medicine, forensic investigation, and deciphering human and environmental histories. Features: Provides information on the conditions that lead to the formation of clay minerals in soils Distinguishes soil clays and types of clay minerals Describes clay mineral structures and their origins Describes occurrences and associations of clays in soil Details roles of clays in applications of soils Heavily illustrated with photos, diagrams, and electron micrographs Includes user-friendly description of a new method of identification To know soil clays is to enable their use toward achieving improvements in the management of soils for enhancing their performance in one or more of their three main functions of enabling plant growth, regulating water flow to plants, and buffering environmental changes. This book provides an easily-read and extensively-illustrated description of the nature, formation, identification, occurrence and associations, measurement, reactivities, and applications of clays in soils.

The New Criminology - For a Social Theory of Deviance (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, Jock Young The New Criminology - For a Social Theory of Deviance (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Ian Taylor, Paul Walton, Jock Young
R4,144 Discovery Miles 41 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"The New Criminology was written at a particular time and place; it was a product of 1968 and its aftermath: a world turned upside down .It was a time of great changes in personal politics and a surge of politics on the left: Marxism, Anarchism, Situationism as well as radical social democratic ideas became centre stage." Jock Young, from the new introduction. Taylor, Walton and Young's The New Criminology is one of the seminal texts in Criminology. First published in 1973, it marked a watershed moment in the development of critical criminological theory and is as relevant today as it was forty years ago. It was one of the first texts to bridge the gap between criminological and sociological theory and demonstrated the weaknesses of classical and positivist criminology. Critics at the time saw it as the first truly comprehensive critique of Anglo-American studies of crime and deviance. Reproduced unabridged, the fortieth anniversary edition includes a brand new introductory essay from Jock Young placing the book in its intellectual context and sequence and looking at the theories which built up to it and the theories that have been built upon since. It is essential reading for all serious students engaged in criminological theory and is destined to inspire future generations.

America's Pie - Trade and Culture Since 9/11 (Paperback): Jock Given America's Pie - Trade and Culture Since 9/11 (Paperback)
Jock Given
R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In this timely book, Jock Given looks at how the events of 11 September 2001 have altered the debate over how countries like Australia can preserve and strengthen their film and television industries. Steering a course between those people who see free trade as a universal panacea and those who fear its homogenising impact, this book offers a vivid account of how culture and trade are interacting in the real world of the early twenty first century.

From Dieppe to D-Day - The Memoirs of Vice Admiral �Jock� Hughes-Hallett: John 'Jock' Hughes-Hallett From Dieppe to D-Day - The Memoirs of Vice Admiral �Jock� Hughes-Hallett
John 'Jock' Hughes-Hallett
R621 R505 Discovery Miles 5 050 Save R116 (19%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

When studying the planning behind the Combined Operations cross-Channel raids that harassed the Germans along the coast of Occupied France during the Second World War, one name appears repeatedly - that of Captain John �Jock' Hughes-Hallett. Hughes-Hallett was Deputy Director of the Local Defence Division at the Admiralty in 1940 and 1941, before becoming Naval Adviser at Combined Operations Headquarters. Along with the head of Combined Operations, Lord Louis Mountbatten, Hughes-Hallett orchestrated the Commando raids from Norway to Normandy - attacks which tied down German troops far in excess of the numbers employed on the raids. Hughes-Hallett became Commodore commanding the Channel Assault Force (known as �J' Force) and Naval Chief of Staff (X) from 1942 to 1943\. He is perhaps best known for being the Naval Commander of the Dieppe Raid of August 1942, and attack which, despite its disastrous outcome, led to one of the most important decisions regarding the D-Day landings of June 1944\. At a meeting following the Dieppe raid, Hughes-Hallett declared that if a port could not be captured, then one should be taken across the Channel. Although this was met with derision at the time, the concept of Mulberry Harbours began to take shape when Hughes-Hallett moved to be Naval Chief of Staff to the Operation Overlord planners. It was in the planning for D-Day that the then Commodore Hughes-Hallett's experience came to the fore. The ultimate success of that enormously complex operation owed much to his many years in Combined Operations. Hughes-Hallett retired from the Royal Navy with the rank of Vice Admiral, taking up a new career as Member of Parliament for Croydon East and then Croydon North East. It is remarkable that the Hughes-Hallett memoirs have not been published until now for, without doubt, they constitute one of the most important wartime autobiographies to presented to the world in recent decades.

Risky Agricultural Markets - Price Forecasting And The Need For Intervention Policies (Hardcover): Jock Anderson, Pasquale L.... Risky Agricultural Markets - Price Forecasting And The Need For Intervention Policies (Hardcover)
Jock Anderson, Pasquale L. Scandizzo, Peter B. R. Hazell
R4,133 Discovery Miles 41 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book shows how decisions made by individual farmers influence the efficiency of agricultural markets. Unless farmers properly take account of the correlation between prices and yields in forming their price forecasts, competitive markets will often be socially inefficient, leading to misallocation of resources. The authors demonstrate that a simple and practical price forecasting rule, based on expected per unit revenue, is generally adequate to ensure efficient market behavior.Time-series data from various countries are used to test the hypothesis that market supply is influenced by the correlation of price and yield as well as by lagged market prices . The importance of market inefficiencies in risky situations is shown to, depend on the variability of yields, the nature of farmers'price forecasting behavior, the degree of private risk aversion,and the elasticity of demand. The authors suggest and evaluate three basic policy approaches governments may take when confronted with very inefficient markets--establishing production quotas, improving market information services, and implementing price stabilization schemes. They conclude by discussing implications of the study for the specification of agricultural supply models and for the economic appraisal of risky investment projects.

The New Politics of Crime and Punishment (Paperback): Roger Matthews, Jock Young The New Politics of Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
Roger Matthews, Jock Young
R1,238 Discovery Miles 12 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book provides an overview of recent government initiatives in the field of crime and punishment, reviewing both the policies themselves, the perceived problems and issues they seek to address, and the broader social and political context in which this is taking place. The underlying theme of the book is that a qualitative change has taken place in the politics of crime control in the UK since the early 1990s. Although crime has stabilized, imprisonment rates continue to climb, there is a new mood of punitiveness, and crime has become a central policy issue for the government, no longer just a technical matter of law enforcement. At the same time the politics of crime control have taken on a pronounced gender, race and age preoccupation. There are many parallels with the changing nature of crime control in the USA, and the contributors draw on international comparisons in their respective chapters. The book brings together a team of contributors based at Middlesex University, one o

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