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A book that requires no introduction, Caney’s The Law of Suretyship has, for over 70 years, been an authoritative reference work for the law of suretyship in South Africa. The 6th edition incorporates significant developments since the last edition in 2002, a period in which South African courts have been very busy in this area of the law.
This latest edition once again ensures that the treatment of its subject matter is most comprehensive, whilst remaining accessible to non-specialists.
The Law of Suretyship contains three parts, each dealing with different stages in the life of a contract of surety, namely: the nature, formation and operation of the contract; the rights of the surety; and the release of the surety. Each part contains a detailed discussion of their respective topic.
The authors’ treatment of each topic is well researched and supported by a host of authority, and the main text is enhanced by additional information and further discussions in the footnotes.
The second book in the thrilling middle grade mystery series,
perfect for fans of Robin Steven's Murder Most Unladylike. Set in
eighteenth-century London, with all the fun and zest of Hamilton
and inspired by real Black British historical figures. Agents of
history. Partners in Mystery. Sisters in solving crime.
Twelve-year-olds Lizzie Sancho and Dido Belle are from different
worlds - Lizzie lives in Westminster in her dad's tea shop, while
Belle is an heiress being brought up by her aunt and uncle at grand
Kenwood House - but they both share a love of solving mysteries.
And after saving Lizzie's father from attempted murder surely there
is no threat too dangerous for the detective duo? It's the summer
of 1777, the night of the grand unveiling of the Sancho-Mansfields
family portrait - a groundbreaking step towards representing
friendship, family, and freedom. But soon enough things take a
chaotic turn - the painting has been stolen! This theft is only the
start, revealing a much bigger, more terrifying secret that haunts
the cobbled streets of London. A conspiracy is underway, one that
has links to the kidnapping of Lizzie's friend Mercury, and leads
all the way to a series of attempted poisonings, all at the hands
of an ominous organisation pulling the strings from the shadows.
These villains lurk everywhere, even in the very homes they call
safe. And their desire for power is only growing. When anyone could
be involved in this Brotherhood of Masters, who can Lizzie and
Belle trust? Once again it is up to the two girls to unveil the
truth and put an end to the corruption that plagues the city.
A thrilling middle grade mystery series, perfect for fans of Robin
Steven's Murder Most Unladylike. Set in eighteenth-century London,
with all the fun and zest of Hamilton and inspired by real Black
British historical figures. Twelve-year-olds Lizzie Sancho and Dido
Belle are from different worlds - Lizzie lives in Westminster in
her dad's tea shop, while Belle is an heiress being brought up by
her aunt and uncle at grand Kenwood House - but they both share a
love of solving mysteries. And when their eyes meet in the audience
of the Drury Lane theatre one night, both girls are sure they've
seen something suspicious on stage. Lizzie and Belle soon find
themselves on the trail of a mystery - and becoming best friends.
But can they work out what's going on in time to prevent a murder?
From prehistoric metal extraction to medieval alchemy to modern
industry, chemistry has been central to our understanding and use
of the physical world as well as to trade, warfare and medicine. In
its turn, chemistry has been shaped by changing technologies,
institutions and cultural beliefs. A Cultural History of Chemistry
presents the first detailed and authoritative survey from antiquity
to today, focusing on the West but integrating key developments in
Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the Arabic-Islamic and Byzantine empires.
Chapter titles are identical across each of the volumes. This gives
the choice of reading about a specific period in one of the
volumes, or following a theme across history by reading the
relevant chapter in each of the six. The themes (and chapter
titles) are: Theory and Concepts; Practice and Experiment; Sites
and Technology; Culture and Knowledge; Society and Environment;
Trade and Industry; Learning and Institutions; Art and
Representation. The six volumes cover: 1 - Antiquity (3,000 BCE to
600 CE); 2 - Medieval Age (600 to 1500); 3 - Early Modern (1500 to
1700); 4 - Eighteenth Century (1700 to 1815); 5 - Nineteenth
Century (1815 to 1914); 6 - Modern Age (1914 to the Present).
Volume 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives v4.0 International (CC
BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. Open access is funded by the European
Research Council. The page extent for the pack is 1728pp. Each
volume opens with an Introduction and concludes with Notes,
Bibliography, and an Index. The Cultural Histories Series A
Cultural History of Chemistry is part of The Cultural Histories
Series. Titles are available both as printed hardcover sets for
libraries needing just one subject or preferring a one-off purchase
and tangible reference for their shelves, or as part of a
fully-searchable digital library available to institutions by
annual subscription or on perpetual access (see
www.bloomsburyculturalhistory.com).
This title is intended to make it easier for undergraduate law and
commerce students to gain a proper appreciation of the principles
of business entities as laid down in the cases. The title will
provide students who do not have ready access to the law reports
with a selection of extracts from the leading English and South
African cases on mainly company and partnership law. It is written
for use in conjunction with standard text books on the subject.
***BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS - FINALIST 2021*** This timely book is a
sequel to John Grant's Green Marketing Manifesto (2007) the
award-winning and bestselling definitive guide to green marketing
(and not greenwashing). Fast forward to mid-2020. Climate Change is
back at the top of the public and political agenda. Even after
covid-19, hundreds of big-name CEOs are committing to a
#greenrecovery. And surveys show widespread global public support
for this and recent shifts in sustainable behaviours and attitudes
in markets ranging from organic food to flying. Sustainable brands
are significantly outperforming conventional ones. As are
sustainability related stock prices. Companies like Unilever
continue to set ambitious targets related not just to climate, but
biodiversity and deforestation, plastics, social justice,
regenerative farming. Sustainability related trends such as
plant-based foods and electric vehicles are showing steep growth
and creating tomorrow's superbrands (Impossible, TESLA...). This
book is packed with up to date learnings, case examples and trends,
covering everything from eco labelling, transparency and the
circular economy; to rebound effects, sustainable finance,
blockchain and regenerative farming. A core message being that to
drive sustainability, marketers firstly do really need to properly
understand sustainability, its many applications and implications.
Secondly to be effective, marketers need to understand what it
means to their consumers and other significant audiences. Hence the
book takes a long hard look at what was driving all the protests,
boycotts and petitions in 2019 and what ideas, causes and platforms
caught the public imagination. The ultimate goal is to go beyond
marketing that simply looks good, to marketing that does good. This
book helps in achieving that goal by showing the reader how to:
Uncover strategies for sustainable marketing that actually deliver
on green and social objectives, not just greenwashing
Reconceptualise marketing and business models, and learn to
recognise the commercial strategies and approaches that are no
longer fit for purpose Learn how hot topics like the climate
crisis, biodiversity, social justice, single use plastics and
supply chain transparency influence green and social marketing Read
about numerous examples and case studies from both brand leaders
and challengers that have developed innovations and fresh creative
approaches to green and social marketing Get practical tools,
models, facts, strategies, workshop and project processes and
business case rationales - so that you can build your own plans and
proposals This book is intended to assist marketers, by means of
clear and practical guidance, through a complex transition towards
meaningful marketing that makes a positive creative impact on the
climate crisis and on improving human life in troubled times. Aimed
both at big companies that are trying to be good, and good
companies that are trying to be big.
A collection of wintery crime and mystery stories by thirteen of
the most exciting and diverse authors in children’s books today!
Co-edited by Serena Patel, the award-winning author of
the Anisha: Accidental Detective series and by Robin
Stevens, author of the bestselling Murder Most
Unladylike series. Sleuthing through the snow, on a merry
mysterious day, in disguise we go, investigating all the way . . .
This gorgeous wintery collection brings together thirteen
bestselling, award-winning and exciting debut authors: Abiola
Bello, Annabelle Sami, Benjamin Dean, E.L. Norry, Elle McNicoll,
Dominique Valente, Joanna Williams, Maisie Chan, Nizrana Farook,
Patrice Lawrence, Roopa Farooki, Serena Patel and Sharna Jackson.
With stunning illustrations by Harry Woodgate. Join them as part of
the Very Merry Murder Club as they lead you on a snow-covered
wintery journey of festive foul play and murderously magnificent
mysteries! Serena Patel was shortlisted for the Asian Writer Short
Story Prize and was a finalist in the Undiscovered Voices Anthology
2018. Her debut children’s series Anisha Accidental Detective won
the fiction category of the Sainsbury’s Children’s Book Awards,
being shortlisted for a British Book Award and the Blue Peter Prize
2021 and selected for The Reading Agency’s Summer Reading
Challenge. Serena lives in Walsall with her family. ROBIN STEVENS
is the award winning and bestselling author of the Murder Most
Unladylike mystery series. She was born in California and has been
making up stories all her life. When she was twelve, her father
handed her a copy of The Murder of Roger Ackroyd and she realised
that she wanted to be either Hercule Poirot or Agatha Christie when
she grew up. She spent her teenage years reading a lot of murder
mysteries and hoping that she'd get the chance to do some detecting
herself (she didn't). Robin lives in Oxford.
This richly illustrated collection presents the extraordinary life
stories of fourteen bright stars from Black British history –
from Tudor England to modern Britain – and charts their ongoing
influence. This important and timely book delves into the life
stories of important figures – including Tudor trumpeter John
Blanke, storytelling freedom fighter Mary Prince, and Notting Hill
Carnival founder Claudia Jones – many of whom are only just
beginning to get the recognition that they deserve. Brought to life
through hand-painted illustrations by award-winning illustrator
Angela Vives, Bright Stars of Black British History shines a light
on the courage, resilience and talent of remarkable individuals who
have left a lasting mark on our collective history.
Through seven editions, Protocols for High-Risk Pregnancies has
helped busy obstetricians keep pace with a constantly evolving
field. Providing just-in-time content, its focus on protocols and
guidelines helps organize medical thinking, avoid heuristic errors
of omission and commission, and optimize maternal and fetal
outcomes. As with the prior six editions, the editors have once
again assembled some of the world's top obstetrical and medical
experts. This seventh edition has also been expanded to include a
number of new topics, including: Protocols on opioid use, misuse
and addition in pregnancy and postpartum Noninvasive prenatal
diagnosis of aneuploidy Periconceptual genetic screening Expanded
protocols on maternal valvular heart disease and cardiomyopathies
Protocols on arboviruses, including Zika and malaria Protocols for
High-Risk Pregnancies: An Evidence-Based Approach will be an
essential reference for obstetricians, medical students, general
practitioners and all medical professionals who are seeking the
most up-to-date information and guidance on high-risk pregnancies.
Master the fundamentals of SPSS with this newly updated and
instructive resource The newly and thoroughly revised Second
Edition of SPSS Essentials delivers a comprehensive guide for
students in the social sciences who wish to learn how to use the
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) for the
effective collection, management, and analysis of data. The
accomplished researchers and authors provide readers with the
practical nuts and bolts of SPSS usage and data entry, with a
particular emphasis on managing and manipulating data. The book
offers an introduction to SPSS, how to navigate it, and a
discussion of how to understand the data the reader is working
with. It also covers inferential statistics, including topics like
hypothesis testing, one-sample Z-testing, T-testing, ANOVAs,
correlations, and regression. Five unique appendices round out the
text, providing readers with discussions of dealing with real-world
data, troubleshooting, advanced data manipulations, and new
workbook activities. SPSS Essentials offers a wide variety of
features, including: A revised chapter order, designed to match the
pacing and content of typical undergraduate statistics classes An
explanation of when particular inferential statistics are
appropriate for use, given the nature of the data being worked with
Additional material on understanding your data sample, including
discussions of SPSS output and how to find the most relevant
information A companion website offering additional problem sets,
complete with answers Perfect for undergraduate students of the
social sciences who are just getting started with SPSS, SPSS
Essentials also belongs on the bookshelves of advanced placement
high school students and practitioners in social science who want
to brush up on the fundamentals of this powerful and flexible
software package.
Water supply is high on the international political agenda. This
study, using the Scottish experience as an examplar, shows that
institutional innovation is as important if not more so than
improved technology in providing water for a growing world
population.
Almost every country has formulated its Nationally Determined
Contribution to the global response to climate change. These
national climate action plans were key to the landmark adoption of
the 2015 Paris Agreement. They will also be central to its
implementation – even if, taken together, current plans are
insufficient to meet the aims of the Paris Agreement. Every five
years, countries update their NDCs to demonstrate increased
ambition. But while essential, ambition alone is not enough. This
book shows that to be able to realize their climate ambition,
countries also need to enhance the effectiveness of their plans and
policies. Enhancing effectiveness involves improving the
transparency, coherence and implementability of their NDCs. To ramp
up ambition and effectiveness, future NDCs must build on and learn
from experience. Based on a detailed analysis of the first round of
NDCs by some of the world’s most knowledgeable climate policy
experts, this book offers critical insights relevant to mitigation,
adaptation and means of implementation. The book also discusses key
elements of the Paris Agreement and broader climate policy,
including the Enhanced Transparency Framework and the Paris
Committee on Capacity Building, as well as considerations of equity
and development. It is a must-read for researchers, policymakers,
practitioners, and civil-society experts working on climate policy.
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special
issue of the Climate Policy.
Assessing the vulnerability of human populations to global
environmental change, particularly climate change, is now the main
imperative of research and international action. However, much of
the research into vulnerability is not designed to feed directly
into decision making and policy, creating a gap between the
knowledge created by researchers and what is required by decision
makers. This book seeks to rectify this problem and bridge the gap.
It discusses vulnerability as the central theme and brings together
many different applications from disaster studies, climate change
impact studies and several other fields and provides the most
comprehensive synthesis of definitions, theories, formalization and
applications to date, illustrated with examples from different
disciplines, regions and periods, and from local through to
regional, national and international levels. Case study topics
cover sea level rise, vulnerability to changes in ecosystem
services, assessing the vulnerability of human health and 'double
exposure' to climate change and trade liberalization amongst other
issues. Research outcomes stress that science-policy dialogues must
be transparent to be effective and concentrate on a mutual
understanding of the concepts used. A key research finding is that
the most useful information for decision makers is that which shows
the separate causes and drivers of vulnerability, rather than
presenting vulnerability in an aggregated form. The book concludes
with a unifying framework for analysing integrated methodologies of
vulnerability assessment and guiding how research and policy can be
linked to reduce vulnerability.
"Chickie takes us thousands of miles on a hilarious quest laced
with sorrow, but never dull. You will laugh and cry, but you will
not be sorry that you read this rollicking story."-Malachy McCourt
Soon to be a major motion picture written and directed by Peter
Farrelly, who won two Academy Awards for Green Book-a wildly
entertaining, feel-good memoir of an Irish-American New Yorker and
former U.S. marine who embarked on a courageous, hare-brained
scheme to deliver beer to his pals serving Vietnam in the late
1960s. One night in 1967, twenty-six-year-old John Donohue-known as
Chick-was out with friends, drinking in a New York City bar. The
friends gathered there had lost loved ones in Vietnam. Now, they
watched as anti-war protesters turned on the troops themselves. One
neighborhood patriot came up with an inspired-some would call it
insane-idea. Someone should sneak into Vietnam, track down their
buddies there, give them messages of support from back home, and
share a few laughs over a can of beer. It would be the Greatest
Beer Run Ever. But who'd be crazy enough to do it? One man was up
for the challenge-a U. S. Marine Corps veteran turned merchant
mariner who wasn't about to desert his buddies on the front lines
when they needed him. Chick volunteered. A day later, he was on a
cargo ship headed to Vietnam, armed with Irish luck and a backpack
full of alcohol. Landing in Qui Nho'n, Chick set off on an
adventure that would change his life forever-an odyssey that took
him through a series of hilarious escapades and harrowing close
calls, including the Tet Offensive. But none of that mattered if he
could bring some cheer to his pals and show them how much the folks
back home appreciated them. This is the story of that epic beer
run, told in Chick's own words and those of the men he visited in
Vietnam.
The Green City and Social Injustice examines the recent urban
environmental trajectory of 21 cities in Europe and North America
over a 20-year period. It analyses the circumstances under which
greening interventions can create a new set of inequalities for
socially vulnerable residents while also failing to eliminate other
environmental risks and impacts. Based on fieldwork in ten
countries and on the analysis of core planning, policy and activist
documents and data, the book offers a critical view of the growing
green planning orthodoxy in the Global North. It highlights the
entanglements of this tenet with neoliberal municipal policies
including budget cuts for community initiatives, long-term green
spaces and housing for the most fragile residents; and the focus on
large-scale urban redevelopment and high-end real estate
investment. It also discusses hopeful experiences from cities where
urban greening has long been accompanied by social equity policies
or managed by community groups organizing around environmental
justice goals and strategies. The book examines how displacement
and gentrification in the context of greening are not only physical
but also socio-cultural, creating new forms of social erasure and
trauma for vulnerable residents. Its breadth and diversity allow
students, scholars and researchers to debunk the
often-depoliticized branding and selling of green cities and
reinsert core equity and justice issues into green city planning-a
much-needed perspective. Building from this critical view, the book
also shows how cities that prioritize equity in green access, in
secure housing and in bold social policies can achieve both
environmental and social gains for all.
The Three Mile Island and Chernobyl nuclear incidents emphasized
the need for the world-wide nuclear community to cooperate further
and exchange the results of research in this field in the most open
and effective manner. Recognizing the roles of heat and mass
transfer in all aspects of fission-product behavior in sever
reactor accidents, the Executive Committee of the International
Centre for Heat and Mass Transfer organized a Seminar on Fission
Product Transport Processes in Reactor Accidents. This book
contains the eleven of the lectures and all the papers presented at
the seminar along with four invited papers that were not presented
and a summary of the closing session.
Like any other group of philosophers, scholastic thinkers from the
Middle Ages disagreed about even the most fundamental of concepts.
With their characteristic style of rigorous semantic and logical
analysis, they produced a wide variety of diverse theories about a
huge number of topics. The Routledge Companion to Medieval
Philosophy offers readers an outstanding survey of many of these
diverse theories, on a wide array of subjects. Its 35 chapters, all
written exclusively for this Companion by leading international
scholars, are organized into seven parts: I Language and Logic II
Metaphysics III Cosmology and Physics IV Psychology V Cognition VI
Ethics and Moral Philosophy VII Political Philosophy In addition to
shedding new light on the most well-known philosophical debates and
problems of the medieval era, the Companion brings to the fore
topics that may not traditionally be associated with scholastic
philosophy, but were in fact a veritable part of the tradition.
These include chapters covering scholastic theories about
propositions, atomism, consciousness, and democracy and
representation. The Routledge Companion to Medieval Philosophy is a
helpful, comprehensive introduction to the field for undergraduate
students and other newcomers as well as a unique and valuable
resource for researchers in all areas of philosophy.
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