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Over more than twenty years working as a plumber, Nick has shared
thousands of mugs of tea with hundreds of fascinating people. Here
he gives his plumber’s-eye view of society in a series of
entertaining, amusing and outrageous beneath-the-kitchen-sink
dramas. While fixing pipes, Nick was also looking for characters to
write about. In his toolbox, in addition to spanners, he had a
notebook, which wasn’t just for jotting down measurements. And
‘the secret plumber’ has some great stories to tell, about
people who might just be your friends, family or neighbours.
There’s the frankly terrifying high-court judge, whose wife calls
the shots; the divorcing woman, using him to help her build a
rather bizarre botox business; and all the wonderful people he
meets when his number is posted on Grindr as an LGBTQ+-friendly
plumber. This book is Tales of the Unexpected – in overalls. It
shows London as it really is: one of the most diverse places on the
planet, ranging from downright dangerous to preposterously posh. To
Nick, London is a melting pot, filled with an extraordinary variety
of fascinating people, who have one thing in common – they all
need a plumber!
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for
AS and A-Level Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It
covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study
and the three optional Depth Studies: Period Study: Relations
between Greek states and between Greek and non-Greek states,
492-404 BC by Steve Matthews and James Renshaw Depth Study: The
Politics and Society of Sparta, 478-404 BC by Charlie Cottam Depth
Study: The Politics and Culture of Athens c. 460-399 BC by David L.
S. Hodgkinson and James Renshaw Depth Study: The Rise of Macedon,
359-323 BC by Lucy Nicholas How and why did a small group of city
states defy the might of the Persian Empire? Why did the same city
states subsequently descend into 60 years of conflict among
themselves? Were Sparta and Athens very different? How did
Alexander later redefine the Greek world? These are the sort of
questions that you are required to consider for A-Level Ancient
History. This book investigates how the birth of democracy and the
defeat of Persia allowed a flourish of political and philosophical
thought that subsequently defined western civilisation. It further
explores the contrasts between Spartan and Athenian culture. The
ideal preparation for the final examinations, all content is
presented by experts and experienced teachers in a clear and
accessible narrative. Ancient literary and visual sources are
described and analysed, with supporting images. Helpful student
features include study questions, further reading, and boxes
focusing in on key people, events and terms. Practice questions and
exam guidance prepare students for assessment. A Companion Website
is available at www.bloomsbury.com/ anc-hist-as-a-level.
This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for
GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the
whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the
three optional Depth Studies: Period Study: The Persian Empire,
559-465 BC by James Renshaw Depth Study: From Tyranny to Democracy,
546-483 BC by Sam Baddeley Depth Study: Athens in the Age of
Pericles, 462-429 BC by Paul Fowler and James Renshaw Depth Study:
Alexander the Great, 356-323 BC by Lucy Nicholas Was propaganda
Persia's greatest weapon? How did Athens create democracy? Does
Pericles' Athens deserve to be remembered as civilised or barbaric?
How did Alexander dominate the ancient world by the age of 32? This
book raises these and other key questions. GCSE students and their
teachers will explore key political and social developments of the
Greek and Persian worlds through the eyes of ancient historians and
archaeology. This book invites us to look at ancient societies in a
new light and helps explain the development of the modern world.
The ideal preparation for the final examinations, all content is
presented by experts and experienced teachers in a clear and
accessible narrative. Ancient literary and visual sources are
described and analysed, with supporting images. Helpful student
features include study questions, further reading, and boxes
focusing in on key people, events and terms. Practice questions and
exam guidance prepare students for assessment. A Companion Website
is available at www.bloomsbury.com/anc-hist-gcse.
Primer on Prostate Cancer will provide readers with a thorough
introductory review on prostate cancer, treatment guidelines, and
emerging therapies available for the disease. The book was
originally commissioned due to recent developments in therapies for
prostate cancer. This concise pocket book will review prostate
cancer's epidemiology, clinical features, diagnosis, and medical
management (discussing surgery, radiotherapy, hormone therapy,
chemotherapy, bone-targeting therapy, and more). Busy healthcare
professionals will benefit from this text, which will not only
cover the basics of prostate cancer, but discuss up-to-date
national and international treatment guidelines and upcoming
therapies.
This book constitutes a coherent anthology consisting of invited chapter-length papers on intelligent hypertext techniques with special emphasis on how to apply these techniques to the World Wide Web.The book provides an introductory preface by the volume editors and chapters on information comprehension through hypertext, efficient techniques for adaptive hypermedia, annotaded 3D environments on the Web, user models for customized hypertext, conceptual analysis of hypertext, two-level models of hypertext, the TELLTALE dynamic hypertext environment, hypertext for collaborative authoring, information retrieval and information agents.
In "The Descent of Man, " Charles Darwin proposed that an ant's
brain, no larger than a pin's head, must be sophisticated to
accomplish all that it does. Yet today many people still find it
surprising that insects and other arthropods show behaviors that
are much more complex than innate reflexes. They are products of
versatile brains which, in a sense, think.
Fascinating in their own right, arthropods provide fundamental
insights into how brains process and organize sensory information
to produce learning, strategizing, cooperation, and sociality.
Nicholas Strausfeld elucidates the evolution of this knowledge,
beginning with nineteenth-century debates about how similar
arthropod brains were to vertebrate brains. This exchange, he
shows, had a profound and far-reaching impact on attitudes toward
evolution and animal origins. Many renowned scientists, including
Sigmund Freud, cut their professional teeth studying arthropod
nervous systems. The greatest neuroanatomist of them all, Santiago
Ramon y Cajal-founder of the neuron doctrine-was awed by
similarities between insect and mammalian brains.
Writing in a style that will appeal to a broad readership,
Strausfeld weaves anatomical observations with evidence from
molecular biology, neuroethology, cladistics, and the fossil record
to explore the neurobiology of the largest phylum on earth-and one
that is crucial to the well-being of our planet. Highly informative
and richly illustrated, "Arthropod Brains" offers an original
synthesis drawing on many fields, and a comprehensive reference
that will serve biologists for years to come.
Cv/VAR 146 reviews the work of Damien Hirst (b. Bristol 1965)
presented in a retrospective exhibition spanning twenty years at
Tate Modern, April to September 2012. It explores the development
of his art from the controversial animal vitrines and beautiful
butterfly composites to an extensive series of spot paintings,
where the artist engaged in a complex invigilation of coded systems
that govern daily existence. It encounters a rarely exhibited work
One Thousand Years 1991, Pharmacy and For The Love of God, the
celebrated diamond studded skull.
NICHOLAS JAMES ROMITA is the Author of several fascinating novels
that will spark the interest in those who are enthralled with the
paranormal and horror genres. He currently lives in Windsor,
Ontario, Canada with his beautiful tabby cat named Bella.
On 19 August 1812, lookouts of the British frigate HMS Guerriere
spotted the American frigate, USS Constitution. Captain James
Dacres, Guerriere's commander, was eager for a fight and confident
of victory. He had the weight of Britain's naval reputation and
confidence behind him. Yet when the guns fell silent Guerriere was
a shattered hulk and Dacres had struck to Constitution. By the
year's end, three British frigates and two sloops had been defeated
in single ship actions against American opponents, throwing the
British naval sphere into a crisis. These losses could not have
been more shocking to the Royal Navy and the British world. In a
strange reversal, the outnumbered British Army along the Canadian
border had triumphed but the tiny United States Navy had humiliated
the world's largest and most prestigious navy. Further dramatic sea
battles between the two powers followed into early 1815, and the
British tried to reconcile the perceived stain to the Royal Navy's
honour. Many within and outside of the Royal Navy called for
vindication. The single ship actions of the War of 1812 have
frequently been dismissed by historians of the war, or of naval
history in general. The fights of late 1813 and 1814 are often
omitted from works of history altogether, as many (correctly) argue
that they had no strategic impact on the wider course of the war.
Yet to contemporaries, naval and civilian alike, these single ship
actions could not have been more important. This volume explores
the single ship naval actions during the War of 1812: how they were
fought, their strategic context, and their impact on the officers
and men who fought them, and the wider British psyche. Trafalgar
happened only seven years earlier, and the fighting ethos of the
Royal Navy was still hardened by Nelsonic naval culture. Whereas
contemporary civilians and modern historians understood the losses
as the inevitable result of fighting the vastly superior American
'super' frigates, the officers of the navy struggled to accept that
they could not cope with the new American warships. The losses
precipitated changes to Admiralty policy and drove an urge for
vengeance by the officers of the Royal Navy. This volume explores
the drama and impact of the British single ship losses and
victories to examine Britain's naval experience in the moments that
captivated the British and American world in the last
Anglo-American War.
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