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Shortlisted for the 2022 Financial Times Business Book of the Year
Award. ***A Waterstones Best Books of 2022 pick*** A Financial
Times, The Times and The Economist Book of the Year 'Gripping... A
startling tale of fraud and impunity. ' The Economist 'I read it in
one sitting, and I know it'll stay with me for a long time.' Oliver
Bullough, Sunday Times bestselling author of Moneyland Inside the
corrupt and secret business of global shipping, the explosive true
story of a notorious international fraud and murder In July 2011,
the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the
treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set
her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a
maritime surveyor working for Lloyd's of London, inspected the
damaged vessel, he was left with more questions than answers. Soon
after his inspection, he was murdered. Dead in the Water is a
shocking expose of the criminal inner-workings of international
shipping, an old-world industry at the backbone of our global
economy. Through first-hand accounts of those who lived the
hijacking - from members of the ship's crew and witnesses to the
attacks, to the ex-London detectives turned private investigators
seeking to solve Mockett's murder - award-winning reporters Matthew
Campbell and Kit Chellel piece together the astounding truth behind
one of the most brazen financial frauds in history.
This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English
between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early
years of the Irish Free State. Through careful poetic and
historical analysis, Matthew Campbell offers ways to read that
poetry as ruptured, musical, translated and new. The book starts
with the Romantic songs and parodies of nationalist and unionist
writers - Moore, Mahony, Ferguson and Mangan - in times of defeat,
resurgence and famine. It continues through a discussion of English
Victorian poets such as Tennyson, Arnold and Hopkins, who wrote
Irish poems as the British Empire unraveled. Campbell's treatment
ends with Yeats, seeking a new poetry emerging from under union in
times of violence and civil war. The book offers both a literary
history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry and a way of reading it
for scholars of Irish studies as well as Romantic and Victorian
literature.
'The Voice of the People' presents a series of essays on literary
aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late 18th century
to the beginning of the 20th.
'The Voice of the People' presents a series of essays on literary
aspects of the pan-European folk revival from the late eighteenth
century to the beginning of the twentieth. The essays discuss the
purposes of the folk revival, as well as its various forms and
genres. Several prominent European literary figures are studied,
but most of the focus is placed on the anonymous authors of the
European folk tradition.
Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets--Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy--in the context of their concern with questions of human agency and will. Through close study of meter, rhyme and rhythm, Campbell reveals how closely, for these poets, questions of poetics are related to issues of psychology, ethics and social change. He goes on to discuss more general questions of poetics, from Milton through Romanticism and into contemporary critical debate, making a major contribution to the current renewal of interest in formalist readings of poetry.
Contents: Introduction Matthew Campbell, Jaqueline M. Labbe and Sally Shuttleworth Part One. Memory: Cultural Constructions in Literature, Science and History 1. Romanticism and the re-engendering of historical memory Greg Kucich 2. Scott's The Heart of Midlothian and the disordered memory Catherine A. Jones 3. 'The malady of thought': embodied memory in Victorian psychology and the novel Sally Shuttleworth 4. The unquiet limit: old age and memory in Victorian narrative Helen Small 5. Memory through the looking glass: Ruskin versus Hardy Philip Davis 6. Twisting: memory from Eliot to Eliot Rick Rylance Part Two: Writing and Remembering: Elegy, Memorial, Rhyme 7. Gender and memory in post-revolutionary women's writing Gary Kelly 8. Re-membering: memory, posterity, and the memorial poem Jacqueline M. Labbe 9. 'All that it had to say': Henry Adams and the Rock Creek memorial Duco van Oostrum 10. Memory enstructured - the case of memorial hall Clyde Binfield 11. Memorials of the Tennysons Matthew Campbell 12. Rhyming as resurrection Gillian Beer
Ranging historically from the French Revolution to the beginnings
of Modernism, this book examines the significance of memory in an
era of furious social change. Through an examination of literature,
history and science the authors explore the theme of memory as a
tool of social progression. This book offers a fresh theoretical
understanding of the period and a wealth of empirical material of
use to the historian, literature student or social psychologist.
This book retells the story of Irish poetry written in English
between the union of Britain and Ireland in 1801 and the early
years of the Irish Free State. Through careful poetic and
historical analysis, Matthew Campbell offers ways to read that
poetry as ruptured, musical, translated and new. The book starts
with the Romantic songs and parodies of nationalist and unionist
writers - Moore, Mahony, Ferguson and Mangan - in times of defeat,
resurgence and famine. It continues through a discussion of English
Victorian poets such as Tennyson, Arnold and Hopkins, who wrote
Irish poems as the British Empire unraveled. Campbell's treatment
ends with Yeats, seeking a new poetry emerging from under union in
times of violence and civil war. The book offers both a literary
history of nineteenth-century Irish poetry and a way of reading it
for scholars of Irish studies as well as Romantic and Victorian
literature.
Swift Quick Syntax Reference is a condensed code and syntax
reference to the new Apple Swift programming language, which is the
alternative new programming language alongside Objective-C behind
the APIs found in the Apple iOS SDK 8 and OS X Yosemite SDK. It
presents the essential Swift syntax in a well-organized format that
can be used as a handy reference. You won't find any technical
jargon, bloated samples, drawn out history lessons, or witty
stories in this book. What you will find is a language reference
that is concise, to the point, and highly accessible. The book is
packed with useful information and is a must-have for any Swift
programmer. In the Swift Quick Syntax Reference, you will find a
concise reference to the Swift language syntax using the new
Playgrounds. Playgrounds lets you type a line of code and the
result appears immediately.
The Objective-C Quick Syntax Reference is a condensed code and
syntax reference to the popular Objective-C programming language,
which is the core language behind the APIs found in the Apple iOS
and Mac OS SDKs. It presents the essential Objective-C syntax in a
well-organized format that can be used as a handy reference. You
won't find any technical jargon, bloated samples, drawn out history
lessons, or witty stories in this book. What you will find is a
language reference that is concise, to the point and highly
accessible. The book is packed with useful information and is a
must-have for any Objective-C programmer. In the Objective-C Quick
Syntax Reference, you will find: * A concise reference to the
Objective-C language syntax. * Short, simple, and focused code
examples. * A well laid out table of contents and a comprehensive
index allowing easy review.What you'll learn * How to create a
Objective-C HelloWorld * How to Compile and Run * What are the
Objective-C code class definitions * How to use objects in
Objective-C * How to effectively use categories to extend the
various classes * What is key-value observation * How to archive an
object graph * How to implement the delegation design pattern with
protocols * How to master code blocks and much more Who this book
is for This book is a quick, handy pocket syntax reference for
experienced Objective-C, Mac, and iOS programmers, and a concise,
easily-digested introduction for other programmers new to
Objective-C.
The hereditary retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa (RP), which
affects 1 in 3,500 people worldwide, is the most common cause of
registered visual handicap among those of the working age in
developed countries. RP is a highly variable disorder where
patients may develop symptomatic visual loss in early childhood,
while others may remain asymptomatic until mid-adulthood. Most
cases of RP segregate in autosomal dominant, recessive or X-linked
recessive modes, with approximately 41 genes being implicated in
disease pathology to date (RetNet). The extensive genetic
heterogeneity associated with autosomal dominant RP (adRP) is an
undisputed hindrance to the development of genetically based
therapeutics.
In Rhythm and Will in Victorian Poetry, first published in 1999,
Matthew Campbell explores the work of four Victorian poets -
Tennyson, Browning, Hopkins and Hardy - as they show a consistent
and innovative concern with questions of human agency and will. The
Victorians saw the virtues attendant upon a strong will as central
to themselves and to their culture, and Victorian poetry strove to
find an aesthetic form to represent this sense of the human will.
Through close study of the metre, rhyme and rhythm of a wide range
of poems - including monologue, lyric and elegy - Campbell reveals
how closely technical questions of poetics are related, in the work
of these poets, to issues of psychology, ethics and social change.
He goes on to discuss more general questions of poetics, and the
implications of the achievement of the Victorian poets in a wider
context, from Milton through Romanticism and into contemporary
critical debate.
Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature over the last fifty years. In addition to providing a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, this Companion introduces the reader to significant precursors such as Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, as well as vital contemporaries and successors (including among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.) The volume includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers.
Irish poets have produced some of the most exciting poetry in contemporary literature over the last fifty years. In addition to providing a unique introduction to major figures such as Seamus Heaney, this Companion introduces the reader to significant precursors such as Louis MacNeice or Patrick Kavanagh, as well as vital contemporaries and successors (including among others, Thomas Kinsella, Paul Muldoon and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill.) The volume includes a chronology and guide to further reading and will prove invaluable to students and teachers.
This book contains selected papers from the international
conference Groups--St Andrews 1985. It provides a comprehensive
picture of current progress and research in group theory. Five
leading group theorists, Bachmuth, Baumslag, Neumann, Roseblade and
Tits have presented survey articles based on short lecture courses
given at the conference and the rest of the book comprises both
survey and research articles contributed by other conference
speakers.
The many articles with their wealth of references demonstrate
the richness and vitality of modern group theory and its many
connections with other areas of mathematics. The book will prove
invaluable to both experienced researchers and new postgraduates
whose interests involve group theory.
The forty-two chapters in this book consider Yeats's early toil,
his practical and esoteric concerns as his career developed, his
friends and enemies, and how he was and is understood. This
Handbook brings together critics and writers who have considered
what Yeats wrote and how he wrote, moving between texts and their
contexts in ways that will lead the reader through Yeats's multiple
selves as poet, playwright, public figure, and mystic. It assembles
a variety of views and adds to a sense of dialogue, the antinomian
or deliberately-divided way of thinking that Yeats relished and
encouraged. This volume puts that sense of a living dialogue in
tune both with the history of criticism on Yeats and also with
contemporary critical and ethical debates, not shirking the
complexities of Yeats's more uncomfortable political positions or
personal life. It provides one basis from which future Yeats
scholarship can continue to participate in the fascination of all
the contributors here in the satisfying difficulty of this great
writer.
Objective-C Recipes provides a problem solution approach for
dealing with key aspects of Objective-C programming, ensuring you
have the indispensable reference you need to successfully execute
common programming tasks. You will see how to use the unique
features of the Objective-C programming language, the helpful
features of the Foundation framework, and the benefits of using
Objective-J as an alternative. Solutions are available for a range
of problems, including: * Application development with Xcode *
Working with strings, numbers and object collections * Using
foundation classes like NSArray, NSString, NSData and more *
Dealing with threads, multi-core processing and asynchronous
processing * Building applications that take advantage of dates and
timers and memory management * How to use Objective-C on other
platforms Objective-C Recipes is an essential reference for every
Objective-C programmer, and offers solutions in a concise and
easy-to-follow manner.Matthew Campbell has trained over 800 new iOS
developers at the Mobile App Mastery Institute and iOS Code Camp,
and here brings his expertise to offer you the ability to use and
exploit Objective-C to get the most out of all of your projects.
What you'll learn * What strings and arrays are, and how to use
them * How to manage your data effectively * How to build and work
with dictionaries, dates and times, timers and localization * How
to deal with threads, multi-core processing and asynchronous
processing * How to utilize Cocoa and core frameworks for user
interfaces and experience design and development * How to access
and work with iOS SDK for iPhone and iPad apps design and
development Who this book is for This book is for iOS, OS X as well
as general Objective-C language programmers and users who want
straightforward methods to do essential programming tasks in
Objective-C.
Discover how to use the popular RStudio IDE as a professional tool
that includes code refactoring support, debugging, and Git version
control integration. This book gives you a tour of RStudio and
shows you how it helps you do exploratory data analysis; build data
visualizations with ggplot; and create custom R packages and
web-based interactive visualizations with Shiny. In addition, you
will cover common data analysis tasks including importing data from
diverse sources such as SAS files, CSV files, and JSON. You will
map out the features in RStudio so that you will be able to
customize RStudio to fit your own style of coding. Finally, you
will see how to save a ton of time by adopting best practices and
using packages to extend RStudio. Learn RStudio IDE is a quick,
no-nonsense tutorial of RStudio that will give you a head start to
develop the insights you need in your data science projects. What
You Will Learn Quickly, effectively, and productively use RStudio
IDE for building data science applications Install RStudio and
program your first Hello World application Adopt the RStudio
workflow Make your code reusable using RStudio Use RStudio and
Shiny for data visualization projects Debug your code with RStudio
Import CSV, SPSS, SAS, JSON, and other data Who This Book Is For
Programmers who want to start doing data science, but don't know
what tools to focus on to get up to speed quickly.
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A River Once More (Paperback)
Matthew Campbell Roberts; Selected by Lana Hechtman Ayers
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Ireland's experience in the nineteenth century was quite different
from that of Victorian Britain. Its fictions were written in
differing forms - like the gothic or historical novel - and its
poetry and drama were populated with ballad and song. Its writers
were by turns nationalist or unionist, anglophile or
de-anglicising. If the effects of famine and emigration were
catastrophic for mid-nineteenth-century Irish culture, they
initiated a literary story that spread across the diaspora. Despite
the decline of spoken Irish, literature continued to be published,
while scholarly endeavours such as translation or the Ordnance
Survey preserved much from the Gaelic past. This rich volume
examines the many forms of new writing that thrived throughout this
period. Utilizing a thematic and historical approach, it addresses
a broad anglophone readership in Victorian literature. Essays
consider the Irish authors in America and India, women's writing,
and the resilience of Irish literature before the revival.
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