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Cool Cars and Crazy Stunts
Cordelia Nash; Illustrated by Benjamin Richards
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R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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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.
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Courtesy of Cupid
Nashae Jones
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R503
R422
Discovery Miles 4 220
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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.
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Nudes (Paperback)
Elle Nash
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R309
R251
Discovery Miles 2 510
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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
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Bunny and Clyde
Megan McDonald; Illustrated by Scott Nash
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R521
R418
Discovery Miles 4 180
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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.
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