with foreword by Michael X. Delli Carpini, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA This book critiques U.S. public policy about communication and offers guidelines to improve public safety and create strong democratic communities. The lack of effective emergency communication, basic information about health care, education, jobs and the economy, and civic life is at a crisis state, creating problems for the whole community, not just a vulnerable few. The Communications Crisis in America is not because of changing markets or new technology, it is the failure of public policy. The authors include economists, sociologists, journalists, lawyers and a diverse group of media and communication scholars, all offering an urgent call to action and difficult, but achievable steps forward.

A three-level series of grammar reference and practice books for teenage and young adult learners. Active Grammar Level 3 covers all the grammar taught at C1-C2 (CEF) level. The book presents grammar points in meaningful context through engaging and informative texts, followed by clear explanations. Useful tips highlight common mistakes that advanced level students usually make. Carefully graded exercises provide plenty of challenging practice and encourage students to apply their own ideas creatively to grammar learning. A large number of contrastive revision exercises in the book and on the CD-ROM allow students to assess and monitor their progress. The answer key at the back of the book makes this version ideal for self-study.

A three-level series of grammar reference and practice books for teenage and young adult learners. Active Grammar Level 3 covers all the grammar taught at C1-C2 (CEF) level. The book presents grammar points in meaningful contexts through engaging and informative texts, followed by clear explanations. Useful tips highlight common mistakes that advanced level students can make. Carefully graded exercises provide plenty of challenging practice and encourage students to apply their own ideas creatively to grammar learning. A large number of contrastive revision exercises in the book and on the CD-ROM allow students to assess and monitor their progress. This version without answers is suitable for classroom use only.

I love quizzes. Don't win very many but I love them nevertheless. There is something very rewarding in the act of trawling through the inner recesses of one's mind to find that obscure fact or dipping into the dusty mental library that houses ancient school lessons. It is probably genetic. My grandfather, Victor Lloyd, loved quizzes and crossword puzzles and published many fine quiz books in the original Pillar Publishing Dublin in the 1930s and 40s. Now that I have created Pillar International Publishing, I have sought to pay tribute to Granda Lloyd's enterprise with this small series of books. In this particular book I have brought together my series of Ready-Made Quizzes, Volumes 1 to 10. The format of the book is 10 quizzes of 10 rounds of 10 questions, so that the reader can pick and choose rounds to form the basis of a quiz organised for your club, school, charity or company. The questions vary in difficulty from easy to not so easy, but I have stayed away from questions that are overly obscure to allow for a greater overall feeling of inclusion, competition and entertainment. The questions have been set, I hope, without any bias towards one country's culture. They can, therefore, be enjoyed anywhere in the quiz world. I hope you enjoy the questions.

I love quizzes. Don't win very many but I love them nevertheless. There is something very rewarding in the act of trawling through the inner recesses of one's mind to find that obscure fact or dipping into the dusty mental library that houses ancient school lessons. It is probably genetic. My grandfather, Victor Lloyd, loved quizzes and crossword puzzles and published many fine quiz books in the original Pillar Publishing Dublin in the 1930s and 40s. Now that I have created Pillar International Publishing, I have sought to pay tribute to Granda Lloyd's enterprise with this small series of books. In this particular book I have brought together some of questions to challenge the cleverest of kids. The format of the book is 5 quizzes of 10 rounds of 10 questions, so that the reader can pick and choose rounds to form the basis of a quiz organised for your club, school, or charity. I have also included 50 bonus tie-breaker questions. The questions vary in difficulty from easy to not so easy, but I have stayed away from questions that are overly difficult to allow for a greater overall feeling of inclusion, competition and entertainment. The questions have been set, I hope, without any bias towards one country's culture. They can, therefore, be enjoyed anywhere in the quiz world. Enjoy Mark.

The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the world's most celebrated research universities, Penn exemplified the role of urban renewal in the postwar redevelopment and expansion of urban universities, and the indispensable part these institutions played in the remaking of American cities. Yet urban renewal is only one aspect of this history. Drawing from Philadelphia's extensive archives as well as the University's own historical records and publications, John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd examine Penn's rise to eminence amid the social, moral, and economic forces that transformed major public and private institutions across the nation. Becoming Penn recounts the shared history of university politics and urban policy as the campus grappled with twentieth-century racial tensions, gender inequality, labor conflicts, and economic retrenchment. Examining key policies and initiatives of the administrations led by presidents Gaylord Harnwell, Martin Meyerson, Sheldon Hackney, and Judith Rodin, Puckett and Lloyd revisit the actors, organizations, and controversies that shaped campus life in this turbulent era. Illustrated with archival photographs of the campus and West Philadelphia neighborhood throughout the late twentieth century, Becoming Penn provides a sweeping portrait of one university's growth and impact within the broader social history of American higher education.

Packed with case histories and profiles of history's most infamous secret agents, plus a comprehensive glossary, "The Guinness Book of Espionage" will appeal to armchair spies everywhere. "The Guinness Book of Espionage" looks at the real world of spies and spying--military, political, and commercial--and charts the story of subterfuge throughout history. It contains fascinating details on: The People: famous spies such as Christopher Marlowe, Mata Hari, John Walker, and Kim Philby Their Methods: recruiting and running an agent, and the development of codes and ciphers The Equipment and Technology: from the early use of radios for communication through to today's hi-tech electronic surveillance and photographic techniques, as employed by advanced spy planes and satellites The Famous Incidents: such as the Zimmermann Telegram, the Venlo incident--one of the greatest mistakes in British intelligence history, which wiped out virtually all British agents on the Continent at the start of the last war; the shooting down of Francis Gary Pawers's U-2 spyplane in 1960, and the destruction of the Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 over Kamtchatka with the loss of 269 innocent lives in the '80s In England Defeat Shakes the Foundations of Monarchy Services and Operations: including the KGB, CIA, MI5, Mossad and Britain's wartime Special Operations Executive Secrets in the Office: telephone tapping and the ins and outs of computer hacking