This uplifting picture book showcases the amazing work our frontline staff do, the incredible skills they have and the important equipment they need to save a life, in a unique graphic novel-inspired non-fiction format. With a foreword by British celebrity Dr Zoe Williams.

This insightful book provides readers with an in-depth discussion of the use of benchmarking in regulation in the European transport sector. It argues that benchmarking is invaluable to regulators, particularly in the transport sector where the pressures of competition in - or for - the market are often absent. Written by a range of expert contributors, chapters offer an analysis of methodology and data requirements, as well as practical examples of the use of benchmarking in the main transport modes (such as road, rail, seaports, airports and local public transport). Utilising illuminating case studies, the book also reviews the importance of benchmarking in the application of European competition law and considers the issue of obtaining appropriate and reliable data to achieve this. Benchmarking and Regulation in Transport will be an essential read for researchers, scholars and students in the fields of economic regulation, governance, transport economics and transport law. It will also be useful for policymakers and regulators who wish to further their understanding of the benefits of benchmarking in an efficiency-enhancing public policy strategy, especially within transport infrastructure.

Beginning with a story of an ex sex-worker drifting through a rural town in South America, and ending with a young woman's sinister wedding night, Nash writes across the complications of working class women, rendering their desires with visceral prose and psychologically dissecting the fundamental root that threads her work: craving and the conflicts within.

During the course of the nineteenth century, the British publishing industry was transformed as the commercial, technological and legal structures underpinning the production and distribution of books and periodicals changed rapidly. The period has long been viewed as having witnessed the birth of a mass reading public as educational reforms, revolutions in transport and communications, as well as the introduction of mechanised processes of production, increased the supply of printed matter and the demand for reading material. Books and periodicals became cheaper and the market for them increasingly international. New retail outlets emerged, and library provision of various kinds expanded. At the same time, changes in copyright legislation and the emerging professionalisation of authorship changed the way the publishing industry worked with the authors and other players in the book trade. This four-volume collection brings together contemporary source material that charts the nature, timing and impact of these changes, and explores some of the key contexts and debates of the period. Each volume will present a documentary account of changes in the publishing industry from four distinct perspectives: production, commercial and business structures, legal structures, and readers and markets. This title will be of great interest to students and scholars of history and literature.

Explore Combat Special Effects in your Mythras games in new exciting ways. Mythras Combat Cards offers a new way for handling Combat Special Effects in your Mythras games. Each card describes a specific effect, along with an evocative illustration to help visualise the action. Players and Games Masters can hold either a full deck, or simply choose a hand reflecting favoured or appropriate effects as needed. Each card is colour coded to show if it is offensive, defensive, or both, and easy to understand icons show appropriate weapons and other modifiers, such as if an effect is Critical only. Also provided are cards representing Luck and Action Points, plus markers for different combat conditions.Each deck of cards comes with a free PDF instruction guide which can be downloaded instantly. Please note if you buy the cards elsewhere (from another vendor) you will need to create an account on the Aeon Games website and then contact us directly by email (via the "contact us" link at the bottom of this page) in order to receive the downloadable PDF.

Welcome to the cider revolution — explore the fine cider movement, and the people and producers behind it. Think you know about cider? Well, think again. It’s not about the swill you guzzled as a student, or the so-called ‘flavoured ciders’ that don’t actually contain any apples. The contemporary cider scene is an exciting place to spend some time, as passionate makers celebrate tradition and terroir while also embracing seasonality, innovation, and experimentation to produce characterful drinks that are quite remarkable. Cider is now a key player in the drinks industry, with a new breed of drink shops that take it just as seriously as wine. Cider looks at this modern cider movement, charting its beginnings and introducing some of the key players in fine-cider making, as well as guiding you through the characteristics of different apple varieties, the cider-producing regions around the world, the processes and techniques of cider production, how cider is an exceptional partner with food and, of course, recommending ciders you need to try.

From the moment you wake up the excitement begins! Step into the pages of A Family Christmas, as the most magical day of the year unfolds. Full of fun, festivities, and all the wonderful traditions that go into making the perfect Christmas day. A story celebrating the very heart of what Christmas means to us all - family!

• Combines theory, research, and practice to solidify nature-based play therapy • Provides understandable and useful approach clinicians will reference again and again to guide clinical thinking in nature-based play • Immediately applicable background and model to guide treatment planning for clinicians at all levels of experience and training

Evolving from the concept of coach education, which is generally accepted to be the more formal, didactic mode of transmitting information to coaches and prospective coaches, Coach development is a relatively new field of research and practice. Developing Sport Coaches is a new text that supports the holistic long-term development of sport coaches as well as help aid existing sport coaches to understand their development. Research in coach learning and coach education has raised important questions about the effectiveness, relevance and value placed on traditional coach education by sport coaches in relation to their practice. The dissatisfaction expressed by many coaches, at all stages of coaching practice, has led to the inception of coach development. This text enables coach development to be studied in Higher Education Institutions as well as enabling organisations to embed coach developers within their organisations Written for the sport coaching and expanding coach development market this book will be used by HE institutions students, as both a core and additional text to advance research and knowledge in this area and at the same time, it is also useful reading for practising sport coaches, coach developers and organisations who are currently examining their structures and processes to move their coaching provision from a formal coach education delivery to a more bespoke offering.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, entire communities, particularly in central Europe were gripped by a fear of witches and witchcraft, and pursued witches in order to bring them to justice. Professor David Nash unlocks the sometimes opaque history of the phenomenon of witchcraft in Britain, Europe and America. The book explores the development of witchcraft and belief in witches, the obsession with witches and witchcraft that spawned witch-hunting, the hey-day and decline of witch-hunting, and the fascinating 'afterlife' of witchcraft: covering not only the survival of some beliefs into the nineteenth century but the academic interest in witchcraft in the early twentieth century, which culminated in the interest shown in the phenomenon by experts serving the interests and ideology of Nazi Germany. Among the themes that the author will examine are the geographical spread and regional differences in witchcraft and witch-hunting across Britain, Europe and America; the theories on the rise of witch-hunting; and gender differences: why so many more women were accused and convicted of witch-hunting than men.

In the closing months of World War II, with Budapest’s fall on 12 February 1945 and the breakout attempt by the IX SS-Gebirgskorps having failed, the only thing the IV. SS-Panzerkorps could do was fall back to a more defensible line and fortify the key city of Stuhlweissenburg. Exhausted after three relief attempts in January 1945 and outnumbered by the ever-increasing power of Marshal Tolbukhin’s Third Ukrainian Front, SS-Obergruppenführer Gille’s veterans dug in for a lengthy period of defensive warfare. However, Adolf Hitler had not forgotten about the Hungarian theatre of operations nor the country’s rich oilfields and was sending help. To the detriment of the defence of Berlin, SS-Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich’s legendary 6. Panzerarmee was on its way, not to retake Budapest, but to encircle and destroy Tolbukhin’s forces and completely reverse the situation in south-eastern Europe in Hitler’s favour. This overly ambitious offensive, known as Frühlingserwachen (Spring Awakening), was soon bogged down in the face of resolute Soviet defences aided by the springtime thaw. Heralded as Nazi Germany’s last great offensive of World War II, it resulted in great losses to Hitler’s last armoured reserve in exchange for only minor gains. Though it played a supporting role during the battle, the IV. SS-Panzerkorps was soon caught up in its aftermath, after the Red Army launched its Vienna Operation that nearly swept the armies of Heeresgruppe Süd from the battlefield. Withdrawing into Austria, Gille’s battered corps attempted to bar the route into Germany, while the Red Army bore down on Vienna. Forced to endure relentless Soviet attacks as well as the caustic leadership of the 6. Armee commander, General Hermann Balck, the men of the IV. SS-Panzerkorps fought their way through Austria to reach the safety of the demarcation line where it finally surrendered to U.S. forces on 9 May 1945 after nearly a year of relentless campaigning.

A set of all three volumes in the Bailie's Party series.

- The Old World: 1757-1819
- The New Land: 1820-1834
- The Frontiers: 1834-1852

On Christmas Eve 1944, the men of the IV SS-Panzerkorps were preparing to celebrate the occasion as best they could. Taking advantage of the pause in the fighting around Warsaw, they looked forward to partaking in that most German of holidays, including the finest Christmas dinner their field kitchens could still prepare in this fifth year of the war. They had earned it too; after five months of unrelenting combat and the loss of many of their friends, troops from the corps headquarters, headquarters troops, and its two divisions - the 3rd SS Panzer Division “Totenkopf� and the 5th SS Panzer Division “Wiking� - were eagerly anticipating what the holiday would bring, including presents from home and perhaps sharing a bottle of schnapps or wine with their comrades. This was not to be, for that very evening, the corps commander, SS-Obergruppenführer Herbert Otto Gille, received a telephone call notifying him that the 35,000 men of his corps would begin boarding express trains the following day that would take them from the relative quiet of the Vistula Front to the front lines in Hungary, hundreds of kilometers away. Their mission: Relieve Budapest! Thus would begin the final round in the saga of the IV SS-Panzerkorps. In Hungary, it would play a key role in the three attempts to raise the siege of that fateful city. Threatened as much by their high command as by the forces of the Soviet Union, Gille and his troops overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles in their attempts to rescue the city’s garrison, only to have their final attack called off at the last minute. At that moment, they were only a few kilometers away from the objective towards which they had striven for nearly a month. After the relief attempt’s failure sealed the fate of hundreds of thousands of Hungarians and Germans, the only course of action remaining was to dig in and protect the Hungarian oilfields as long as possible. face=Calibri>

• Sources that have not previously been published or brought together, and which are difficult to access outside of special collections or copyright libraries, has been included alongside other core material.

This volume assembles documents that illustrate the changing structure of the publishing industry in the period and its intersections with other branches of the book trade. It charts the increasing separation of the functions of printing, publishing and bookselling in the production and distribution of books, and the emergence of new economic models of publishing. For most of the period the book trade operated on a shortage of capital, depending upon fragile networks of credit and debt which could lead, as in the financial crisis of 1826-7, to the collapse of many businesses. The volume documents how the structures of the industry impacted upon the pricing structure of books and periodicals and the slow emergence of a mass-market for print. Trade practices of discounting and underselling were a topic of intense debate throughout the period in both trade and general periodicals. The volume focuses on key moments such as the controversy over free trade in the 1840s and 1850s, the formation of trade associations in the 1890s, and the debates over price protection which led to the formation of the Net Book Agreement in 1900, successfully tested in the ‘Times Book War’ of 1906-8. The volume also illustrates the shifting geographies of the trade: the increasing dominance of London but the continued importance of printing and publishing in Scotland and Ireland (Edinburgh and Dublin in particular) and developments in provincial areas of Britain. Documents include material drawn from contemporary books; articles and correspondence in contemporary newspapers and periodicals such as the Times, the Westminster Review and Fraser’s Magazine; articles published in trade journals such as the Publishers’ Circular and the Bookseller; documents produced by trade organisations; and material from the W.H. Smith archive.

This volume brings together documents that illustrate the changing relations between authors and publishers in the period, and the impact of copyright reform and debates over intellectual property on markets and publishing practices. The enormous expansion in the scale and variety of the marketplace for print after 1815 provided new opportunities for authors and prompted debates over intellectual property and the working relations between authors and publishers. The volume documents the impact of these changes on the publishing industry and its markets, focusing on key moments such as the emergence of the professional literary agent in the late 1870s and the formation of the Incorporated Society of Authors in 1883. It documents in detail key source material related to copyright and intellectual property, which were major battle grounds affecting nineteenth-century textual circulation, author-publisher relations, financial sustainability, competitiveness in international markets and industrial relations. The British publishing industry’s attempts to control piracy and unrestricted circulation of their titles in the US and elsewhere found expression in a number of pressure campaigns, formal government commissions, legal acts, and contributions to public debate through journal articles, pamphlets, speeches and newspaper accounts. The volume illustrates key moments captured in contemporary documents including the Copyright Acts of 1814, 1842, 1844, 1886, 1906 and 1911, Parliamentary Royal Commission sessions from 1878 and 1899; articles and reports from contemporary newspaper and periodical sources; official publications of the Society of Authors; and extracts from contemporary books on authorship, including autobiographies.

This volume documents how the publishing industry responded to and helped to shape changes in readership and reading markets in the period, tracing the impact of broad social and cultural changes in, for example, transport and communication, and education and literacy. Improvements in transport and postal and communication networks dramatically affected the production, distribution and retail of books and periodicals, establishing new modes of acquisition and consumption of texts. The volume documents in particular the impact of railway expansion and the spread of railway bookstalls and increased demand for cheaper books. The expansion of spaces and outlets through which published texts could be circulated also occupied a great deal of commentary. The rise of the circulating library, the development of commercial and free public libraries, and the implementation of the Education Acts of 1870 and 1871, required publishers to direct attention to new markets and demands. Such demands created pressure to adopt new patterns of publishing formats, prices and genre categories: it sparked a revolution in serial and part publication, a growth of cheap series publishing at the end of the period, and shifts in the demand for key subject areas such as religion, educational textbooks, information publishing, and children’s books. New pressures of censorship also arose as educational reforms provoked anxieties over the spread of cheap ‘pernicious’ literature. The volume illustrates key moments in these developments through documentary material drawn from contemporary books, newspapers and periodicals; library and bookseller records; and government publications and reports.

Breaking Apart Intimate Partner Violence and Abuse provides a thorough examination of intimate partner violence and abuse, encompassing the nature, influences, and impact of its presence in interpersonal relationships. By "pulling together" representative studies and other evidence-based analyses by researchers and interventionists, this comprehensive overview surveys the prevalence, patterns, and common risk factors among a number of demographics, including women, men, transpeople, partners in opposite- and same-sex relationships, teen dating partners, later-life partners and abused partners with disabilities. The authors also disentangle – that is, "break apart" – the factors of race, class, gender, sexuality, gender expression and culture by exploring their effects on experiences of intimate partner violence and abuse perpetration and victimization. Although less scrutinized in current literature on the topic, discourse and institutional barriers to abused women’s well-being and safety are also delved into, particularly those exacerbated by rural isolation, non-national status and theologies. The authors supplement their in-depth overview by highlighting protective measures and resources throughout, identifying treatments and public health approaches to violence and abuse intervention and prevention, as well as incorporating discussion exercises and illustrations that extend the book’s concepts into real-life settings. In their exploration of the forms, causes, prevalence, and consequences of intimate partner violence and abuse among different groups, the authors address the problem with both nuance and scope. Combined with their evidence-based recommendations, the book offers valuable insight for students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of domestic and family abuse and intimate partner violence.