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The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and
practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers.
Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get
overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and
realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of
trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket
guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature.
Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules
of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told
by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development
units, or supervisors -- and will address a practical topic that is
key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral
students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone
looking to launch or maintain their career in academia. This
engaging, researcher-centred guide offers early career researchers
foundational grants literacy that will serve them throughout their
careers. It provides an insight into the culture of grantseeking,
as well as tactics for grant-writing. Getting Research Funded
provides clear strategies on how to stage your research and
understand project development, find aligned funding bodies and
schemes, build strong research teams and partnerships, get the
project right, and effectively plan your grantseeking. Based in
Australia and the UK, the authors use their knowledge and extensive
engagement with global researcher cohorts to offer a well-honed
understanding of the funding landscape, the pressures and
priorities affecting ECRs, and the best way to support them in
effective grantseeking. This book is ideal reading for anyone
looking for a succinct and supportive guide to ensure they have all
the tools to get their research funded.
The 'Insider Guides to Success in Academia' offers support and
practical advice to doctoral students and early-career researchers.
Covering the topics that really matter, but which often get
overlooked, this indispensable series provides practical and
realistic guidance to address many of the needs and challenges of
trying to operate, and remain, in academia. These neat pocket
guides fill specific and significant gaps in current literature.
Each book offers insider perspectives on the often implicit rules
of the game -- the things you need to know but usually aren't told
by institutional postgraduate support, researcher development
units, or supervisors -- and will address a practical topic that is
key to career progression. They are essential reading for doctoral
students, early-career researchers, supervisors, mentors, or anyone
looking to launch or maintain their career in academia. This
engaging, researcher-centred guide offers early career researchers
foundational grants literacy that will serve them throughout their
careers. It provides an insight into the culture of grantseeking,
as well as tactics for grant-writing. Getting Research Funded
provides clear strategies on how to stage your research and
understand project development, find aligned funding bodies and
schemes, build strong research teams and partnerships, get the
project right, and effectively plan your grantseeking. Based in
Australia and the UK, the authors use their knowledge and extensive
engagement with global researcher cohorts to offer a well-honed
understanding of the funding landscape, the pressures and
priorities affecting ECRs, and the best way to support them in
effective grantseeking. This book is ideal reading for anyone
looking for a succinct and supportive guide to ensure they have all
the tools to get their research funded.
Great Small Fiats is a tribute to some of the best small Fiats ever
produced. In deciding which models to include in this book, Phil
Ward concentrated on three criteria - greatness, size and emotion.
Where size is an easy parameter to qualify, greatness is more
complicated because it is a combination of of both the
manufacturer's and the public's opinion. A car that is highly
regarded by the public may not have been a commercial success and
vice versa. A truly great car is one that works well for both
parties. Emotion may be considered to be an element of greatness in
that the public's 'love' for a car is a fantastic benefit for a
manufacturer and must be treasured. Fiat have made the mistake of
'improving' an icon on several occasions only to find that public
opinion went against them. Fortunately Fiat has been magnanimous
enough to respond by giving the car-buying public more of what it
wants. As long as they continue to do so then Fiat's reputation as
the world's greatest small car manufacturer is set to continue. The
author chose the Topolino as the starting point, as it fulfils all
the criteria, and was the first Fiat built in the late 1930s to
satisfy the Italian public's new-found desire for mobilisation. The
old conventions of car production were turned upside down with the
arrival of the 600 which revolutionised car production techniques
and maximised on passenger space and performance at minimal cost.
These principles continued via a succession of models which include
the 500, 850, 126, 127 through to more recent models like the
Cinquecento and Seicento. Running in parallel with these cheeky
Fiats, this book covers a range of slightly larger cars that were
built in huge numbers. Though rather staid in appearance, the 1950s
Millecento was family transport for millions of Italians covering
three decades, four when the Indian-built cars are included.
Similarly the 128, Panda and Uno were 'the' Italian small cars of
the '70s, '80s and '90s. Nuova Panda carries the banner through to
recent models.
The Royal Hospital Haslar was the first of three hospitals built in
the 18th century for sick and wounded sailors and marines and was
the last to remain in service. Following submissions to King George
II by the Earl of Sandwich, First Lord of the Admiralty, sites were
identified at Portsmouth, Plymouth, and Chatham, and building
commenced at Haslar farm in 1745. Designed by Theodore Jacobsen FRS
in the manner of his Foundling Hospital in London, the hospital,
reputed at one time to be the largest red brick building in Europe,
was completed in 1762. Haslar was grand in concept, elegant in
design and robust of build, and provided medical attention and
nursing care to the sick and wounded of both Fleet and Army. This
may not have been of the highest order in the early years, but the
standards achieved during the Peninsular and Crimean Wars earned
the hospital a reputation among military authorities that was
unequalled. Sir John Richardson, eminent Arctic explorer and
physician at Haslar, even corresponded with Florence Nightingale
when the nursing reformer was campaigning for changes in the way
casualties of war were treated. Described as the noblest of
institutions by Queen Victoria, the Royal Hospital Haslar has
provided medical care to the Royal Navy for over 250 years and Sick
Berth staff for service in all areas of global conflict. In more
recent times it treated patients from all three services and since
the 1950s has made the professional and technological expertise
contained within its walls accessible to civilian patients. The
photographs in this fascinating illustrated history will stir the
memory of all those who have entered Haslar, as either staff or
patients, and provide a unique record of a singular and celebrated
institution.
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The Transition (Paperback)
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Maj. John Randal is back in Book VI in the Raiding Forces Series.
He travels to the RAF Base located at Habbaniya sixty miles south
of Bagdad to see Lt. Pamala Plum-Martin be awarded her pilots wings
from the flying school located there. RAF Habbaniya is a base that
the war has passed by, senior officers at the end of their career
are assigned as well as pilots who are not considered good enough
for combat flying or pilots who have become combat fatigued from
flying combat tours and need a rest. Maj. Randal, the MI-6 senior
officer Jim 'Baldie' Taylor and Lt. Penelope Honeycutt-Parker fly
into the RAF Base the same day the Iraqi rebels of the Golden
Square lay the place to siege by occupying the heights just outside
the perimeter wire. They find themselves in a situation that is
described to Maj. Randal "in terms an American can
understand...this is 1836 and you just checked in to the Hotel
Alamo." What happens next is an action packed story of a battle
that has been lost to history.
In this sequel to Dead Eagles, U.S. Major John Randal, commander of
Strategic Raiding Forces, returns in Blood Wings, the first book in
a trilogy within the Raiding Forces Series about the Abyssinian
Campaign. Major Randal parachutes into the middle of Italian East
Africa with orders to raise a guerrilla army. Everything that can
go wrong does. Blood Wings is a story of unconventional warfare and
the ability to improvise, adapt and press on against overwhelming
odds. As in the first two Raiding Forces military adventures, Major
Randal takes on a long-range independent mission against incredible
odds. He proves once again that he is the best unconventional
commander that Special Operations Executive can call on in a time
of desperate need.
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Blood Wings (Paperback)
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