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The essential map for all Moon watchers. The awesome beauty of the
Moon is brought to life in this practical map for Moon watchers
which locates, describes and indexes more than 500 physical
features on the visible side of the moon. Who hasn't marvelled at
the lunar landscape whether glancing up from Earth or being gripped
by NASA imagery? Ever since the 1960s, when Neil Armstrong walked
those first steps on the lunar surface, we have had a particular
fascination with the Moon, but that grip goes back to the dawn of
humanity. Our nearest neighbour in space, the Moon is hugely
important due to its impact on tides and many other natural cycles
that surround us, so to be able to look and read its landscape is
especially revealing and valuable. With practical information on
the best Moon watching techniques and tips, we capture both the
magical and the practical aspects of lunar locations. * Superbly
detailed map of the Moon's visible surface * 500 Moon features
located on the map, with a clear index * Craters, seas, mountains,
peaks and valleys * Landing sites of manned and unmanned spacecraft
located * Helpful text aids the best effective moon watching * Plus
map of the far side of the Moon as revealed by satellites * Maps
drawn by lunar expert Dr. John Murray
‘Espionage, betrayal, terrorism, corruption and murder. All the
ingredients of a Le Carré novel, only it’s real’ Matthew Hall
 On 17 April 1984, as police and anti-Gaddafi demonstrators
gathered in the street outside the Libyan People’s Bureau in
London, they had no way of knowing they were about to become part
of one of the greatest tragedies in British policing history. At
10.17a.m. automatic gunfire rained down on them. WPC Yvonne
Fletcher was hit in the back and later died from her injuries.
Twelve demonstrators were wounded. The gunmen were Libyans, both
concealed behind a first-floor window of the Bureau. Â Two
weeks later, all those present inside the Bureau, including
everyone suspected of involvement in the attack, were deported from
the UK. Men guilty of terrorism and murder were neither arrested
nor prosecuted. Â As Yvonne Fletcher lay dying, her colleague
and close friend PC John Murray cradled her in his arms. Before she
lost consciousness, he promised her he would not rest until those
responsible for her murder had been brought to justice. Â
Thirty-seven years would pass before John was able to fulfil that
promise. Whilst writing John Murray’s story, Matt Johnson
identified UK government duplicity, secret service deals and how a
plan to finally defeat the all-powerful National Union of
Mineworkers would place the government in an invidious position
when pro- and anti-Gaddafi elements brought their fight to the
streets of the UK. He was able to discover why, in 1984, her
killers had been allowed to go free. His extensive research also
revealed how events on 17 April resulted in a 30-year government
campaign to bring the police services of the UK under political
control, a campaign that has driven our police service into the
state of disarray we see today. Â The story behind what
happened outside the Libyan People’s Bureau is complex, shocking
and revealing. Matt Johnson’s compelling account pulls together a
series of seemingly unconnected threads into a coherent whole,
incorporating all the inter-related elements of politics, business,
secret service missions and chance. Â For some, this will be
a very uncomfortable read. For many, it may confirm what they
already suspect, that we, the public, know very little of the
decisions being made by our elected representatives and the actions
taken by official bodies, supposedly in our best interests.
Intermediate Russian provides a reference grammar and related
exercises in one volume. Varied texts from Russian sources give an
insight into contemporary Russian society and culture. Features
include:
* texts and exercises reflecting contemporary Russian
* concise grammar explanations
* full exercise key
* detailed index.
Intermediate Russian, and its sister volume, Basic Russian, are
ideal both for independent study and use in class. Together the
books provide a compendium of the essentials of Russian grammar.
Published in 1991 The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda is a late
Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish
Tragedy. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish
emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved Erastus
against the fictionalised backdrop of the Turkish invasion of
Rhodes in the early sixteenth century. This volume contains the
original text along with textual and critical notes.
Originally published in 1995, Monitoring Active Volcanoes is a
comprehensive text which addresses the importance of volcano
surveillance in the context of forecasting eruptive activity and
mitigating its effects. The traditional core of seismic and ground
deformation monitoring is discussed, along with more innovative
techniques involving the recording of microgravity and
micromagnetic variations, and the changing compositions of volcanic
gases and liquids. The role of satellites is stressed, particularly
with regard to the capabilities for measuring surface deformation,
recognizing thermal anomalies and monitoring gas and ash plumes
from space platforms. This book provides an invaluable insight into
how and why volcanoes are monitored. It will be of interest to
volcanologists, geophysicists and earth scientists.
Intermediate Russian provides a reference grammar and related
exercises in one volume. Varied texts from Russian sources give an
insight into contemporary Russian society and culture. Features
include:
* texts and exercises reflecting contemporary Russian
* concise grammar explanations
* full exercise key
* detailed index.
Intermediate Russian, and its sister volume, Basic Russian, are
ideal both for independent study and use in class. Together the
books provide a compendium of the essentials of Russian grammar.
Designed for students with a basic knowledge of Russian, this book
provides an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a
single volume.
Across more than forty grammar topics it introduces the student to
Russian people and culture through the medium of the language used
today, covering the core material which the student would expect to
encounter in their first year of learning Russian.
Complete with a full key to exercises and glossary, Basic Russian
is a user-friendly reference grammar suitable for both independent
study and class use.
Designed for students with a basic knowledge of Russian, this book
provides an accessible reference grammar and related exercises in a
single volume.
Across more than forty grammar topics it introduces the student to
Russian people and culture through the medium of the language used
today, covering the core material which the student would expect to
encounter in their first year of learning Russian.
Complete with a full key to exercises and glossary, Basic Russian
is a user-friendly reference grammar suitable for both independent
study and class use.
Published in 1991 The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda is a late
Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish
Tragedy. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish
emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved Erastus
against the fictionalised backdrop of the Turkish invasion of
Rhodes in the early sixteenth century. This volume contains the
original text along with textual and critical notes.
In 850 analytical articles, this two-volume set explores the
developments that influenced the profound changes in thought and
sensibility during the second half of the eighteenth century and
the first half of the nineteenth century. The Encyclopedia provides
readers with a clear, detailed, and accurate reference source on
the literature, thought, music, and art of the period,
demonstrating the rich interplay of international influences and
cross-currents at work; and to explore the many issues raised by
the very concepts of Romantic and Romanticism.
Looking back, the eponymous Roe Murphy finds that his life has,
more often than not, bizarrely imitated his favourite television
programmes. Can reality be mimicking the mass media? Or is
television creating reality?
New issue of a theological classic on the atonement. Originally
published in 1955 and reprinted dozens of times over the years,
John Murray's Redemption Accomplished and Applied systematically
explains the two sides of redemption -- its accomplishment through
Christ's atonement and its application to the lives of believers.
Murray explores the biblical passages dealing with the necessity,
nature, perfection, and extent of the atonement in order to
establish its relationship to our justification, sanctification,
and glorification. He goes on to identify the distinct steps in the
Bible's presentation of how the redemption accomplished by Christ
is applied progressively to the life of the redeemed, including the
role of faith and repentance. Concise, precise, and accessible,
Murray's classic doctrinal study will now reach and benefit a new
generation of readers.
THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: Narrative that is direct, candid,
unpretentious. A member of a highly privileged caste in Soviet
society... reduced to a 'mozho' girl mixing with foreigners, with
instructions to report on them... the real story is in the simple,
graphic and almost entirely persuasive account of her observations
- some amusing and others horribly or pitifully gruesome. In the
unforgiving WWII climate of 1940, 21-year old Nora is faced with a
perilous ultimatum: Enlist with Stalin's secret police as a honey
trap, or face the death of her family. Despairingly she agrees.
Nora finds herself struggling to seduce her target, John Murray, a
British Embassy cypher in Moscow. As two disparate lives
intertwine, their desperate escape leads the couple through frozen
Arctic wastelands, clutching forged papers and hopes not just for
survival but for a future together.
In The Russian Press from Brezhnev to Yeltsin, John Murray charts
and examines the main changes in the content and language of the
Russian press over the last decade. This is the most up-to-date
book covering the evolution of the post-Soviet press and makes an
important contribution to scholarship through the inclusion of much
original contemporary source material and a series of extensive
interviews with leading Russian journalists. Following a general
survey of the Russian press since 1917, the book examines in detail
the workings of the press before Perestroika, during Gorbachev's
period in office, and under Boris Yeltsin's presidency. The author
looks in particular at the changing relationship between the press
and politicians, the emergence of Western-style newspapers and the
economic problems facing the post-Soviet newspaper world. The book
also examines separately how the language of the press changed as a
result of the political liberalization of the late 1980s and
continues to change in the 1990s. Included in the book are twelve
interviews with Russian journalists taken between 1987 and 1993
that illustrate the changing self-perception of journalists during
that period. An award-winning journalist in his own right, Dr
Murray has written a book that will be of interest both to academic
researchers and working journalists concerned with analysing the
language of political discourse in Soviet and Russian journalism.
In this wide-ranging guide to twentieth-century French thought,
leading scholars offer an authoritative multi-disciplinary analysis
of one of the most distinctive and influential traditions in modern
thought. Unlike any other existing work, this important work covers
not only philosophy, but also all the other major disciplines,
including literary theory, sociology, linguistics, political
thought, theology, and more.
Following the success of the first edition, this new edition has
been expanded and improved with additional images and enhanced
drawings. The subject matter has been expanded with the chapter on
grammar and pronunciation extended. There are examples of how
Gaelic personal names and the human body are used in place-names
and many etymological sources have been added to place-name tables.
In addition to the generic index, there is now an index of specific
place-names. Finally, there's more to say about hares, bears and
boars! Reading the Gaelic Landscape is essential for anyone who is
interested in the Scottish Highlands and its native language. It
enables people to read and understand place-names in Gaelic,
providing insights into landscape character and history. The book
enriches the experience of walkers, climbers, sailors, bird
watchers and fishers by sketching the named context, where they
practise their pursuits. Outdoor enthusiasts need no longer
struggle with unfamiliar spellings and words, as they can develop a
new perspective of place through an understanding of Gaelic
toponymy. The ways Gaelic poets like Sorley MacLean and Duncan Ban
MacIntyre used the named landscape in their work is explored. Names
are used to speculate about species extinctions and the history of
the Caledonian Forest. Readers learn how place has been defined in
Gaelic and how this has been recorded, through a deeper
understanding of how native speakers applied their language to the
landscape. This new edition will build on the praise for the first:
* ...essential for those interested in the Highlands and its
ancient, living language. It helps readers and outdoor enthusiasts
understand seemingly obscure words on maps, with insights into
landscape history and ecology. The Scots Magazine * ...John
Murray's book is unique ... The result is a triumph. ... Just
occasionally you come across a book whose lasting value is so
obvious that you know people will be referring to it in 50 years'
time or more. Reading the Gaelic Landscape is one of those books.
Undiscovered Scotland * ...the scope of the book is admirably
broad, with primers on the history of the Gaelic language in
Scotland, how the first maps of the country came to be made, and
how the Gaelic speakers of old would have conceptualised things
like colours and sounds, seasons and time. Roger Cox, The Scotsman
* ...this book is a useful resource for those interested in
Scotland's landscapes, environment and history. Wild Land News
Engage: Designed for the needs of Entry 3/Level 1 learners with a
full-colour, spread-based approach, and topics broken into clear,
bite-sized chunks to retain learners' attention. Lively activities,
mini case studies and clear checklists and summaries help learners
engage with - and remember - content. Achieve: Covers 11 units of
the Level 1 specification - enough for a Diploma -and 3 Units of
the Entry Level 3 specification - enough for an Award, giving
learners all the content they need to help them achieve their
qualification. Edexcel's own Assignment tips, written by BTEC
experts, help learners to achieve their potential in assessments.
Activities mapped to the assessment criteria in each unit, provide
support and clear direction for learners, helping them to work
towards the criteria. Progress: Prepares learners for employment
with a focus on employability skills and definitions of key terms.
Helps learners progress to BTEC Level 2 First by building their
confidence with the style of BTEC qualifications.
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