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The conflict between England and France in the 14th and 15th
centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimulating edited
collection, inspired by the Problems in Focus volume originally
published in 1971, provides a fresh and accessible insight into the
key aspects of The Hundred Years War. With chapters written by
leading experts in the field, based on new methodologies and recent
advances in scholarship, this book places the Anglo-French wars
into a range of wider contexts, such as politics, the home front,
the church, and chivalry. Adopting a sustained comparative
approach, with attention paid to both England and France, The
Hundred Years War Revisited provides a clear and comprehensive
synthesis of the major trends in research on the Hundred Years War.
Concise and thought-provoking, this is essential reading for
undergraduate and postgraduate students of medieval history.
Drawing on dozens of original interviews and close analysis of
Australian examples sampled from across 40 years of “indie”
music, comedy, film, computer games, and graphic design, Fringe to
Famous explores how some of Australia’s leading cultural
practitioners negotiate their position between the margins and the
mainstream in the contemporary period. Fringe to Famous critically
re-examines the relations between “independent” and
“mainstream” cultural production at a time when the very
meaning and relevance of those terms is being widely debated. In
recent decades, critically-aware artists and their entrepreneurial
business partners have engaged in a playful negotiation of marginal
and mainstream tastes, harnessing the values associated with the
creative underground—transgression, independence,
authenticity—for both aesthetic and commercial ends. At the same
time, crises in the business models of commercial media industries
and the proliferation of online distribution have made
“mainstream” increasingly difficult to define.
The world we knew is gone.
The world of commerce and frivolous necessity has been replaced by a world of survival and responsibility. An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months society has crumbled: no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV.
In a world ruled by the dead, the survivors are forced to finally start living.
The Civil Contingencies Act 2004 modernised the UK 's approach to
disaster and emergency management, taking into account the kinds of
threats the country faces in the 21st century, including terrorist
threats and threats to the environment. This third edition of the
Tolley 's Handbook of Disaster and Emergency Management has been
fully updated to cover the topics and themes reflected in the Act,
and collates all the key components of disaster and emergency
planning for both the public and the private sector, covering both
man-made and natural disasters. Written from a UK practitioner 's
point of view, using case studies and examples, it helps readers to
understand and formulate disaster and emergency policies and
systems for their workplace. Its practical approach will help
organizations to ensure business continuity and safeguard the
health and safety of their staff in the event of a disaster. The
new edition has been updated in line with the latest legislation: *
Civil Contingencies Act 2004* Amendment to the Control of Major
Accident Hazards (COMAH) Regulations* Corporate Manslaughter Bill
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The Walking Dead Book 1 (Hardcover)
Robert Kirkman; Artworks by Tony Moore, Charlie Adlard, Cliff Rathburn
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This hardcover features the first 12 issues of the hit series along
with the covers for the issues in one oversized hardcover volume.
Perfect for long time fans, new readers and anyone needing a
slightly heavy object with which to fend off the walking dead.
After becoming detached from Serial 502 Keith Blakelock was kicked
and hacked to death by a mob using clubs, iron bars and
machete-like weapons. His killers have never been brought to
justice.'A rounded, mature assessment of the murder of Keith
Blakelock, the events that led to the deployment of his serial
during the disorder and the messy, and in many respects still
unresolved aftermath'Professor Clive Emsley (from the Foreword).
Published to mark the 30th anniversary of one of the most
disturbing events in British policing, this masterly account by
ex-Metropolitan Police commander Tony Moore is based on unrivalled
research and sources. It describes rioting on the Broadwater Farm
Estate, Tottenham in 1985 against a backdrop of unrest in major UK
cities and a nadir in relations between police and black
communities. Based on new materials, private communications and
matchless sources. A closely observed account by someone working at
senior level in the Met at the time. Deals with the biggest
breakdown in community relations and law and order in modern
English social and policing history.Looks at both sides of the
story of unrest at this symbolic location, its history, background,
influences, causes, legacy and who was most to blame.
Notting Hill is one of the most sought after locations in London.
But its progress from 'ghetto' to gentrification spans
half-a-century within which it was one of the most turbulent places
in Britain - plagued by decline, disadvantage, unsolved killings,
riots, illegal drugs, underground bars (or 'shebeens'),
prostitution, 'no-go areas' and racial tension. It was also
populated by characters such as self-styled community organizer
Frank Crichlow, slum landlord Peter Rachman, Christine Keeler, the
Angry Brigade, 'hustlers' such as 'Lucky' Gordon and Johnny
Edgecombe, the activist Michael X (later executed in Trinidad) and
the occasional radical lawyer. It was the location of the racist
murder of Kelso Cochrane, the litigation-minded Mangrove
Restaurant, the brief surge of Black Power in the UK and most
notably the iconic Notting Hill Carnival with its heady mix of
festivity, excitement, street crimes, potential for disorder and
confrontations with the police. So what was it like operating in
this 'Symbolic Location'? In this book, Tony Moore, one of those in
charge of policing Notting Hill, shows how the area continually
adapted to challenges that first began after the Empire Windrush
arrived in England carrying immigrants who were initially met by
signs saying 'No Coloured', but for whom Notting Hill became an
area of choice. It is a wide-ranging account of the factors in play
at a time of unprecedented social change, told from the perspective
of an 'insider', based on prodigious research including in relation
to hitherto unpublished materials and personal communications.
Based on Barry Humphries' comic-strip character, which appeared in
the British satirical magazine Private Eye in the 1960s, the
screenplay for 'The Adventures of Barry McKenzie' was written by
Humphries and Beresford, the story line deriving from the culture
clash between the Australian innocent 'Bazza' McKenzie and the
English - from a taxi driver who takes Barry from Heathrow to Earls
Court by way of Stonehenge, to the decadent upper classes with
their public school fetishes, the swinging scene of pop music
promoters and Jesus freaks, and eventually the hallowed halls of
BBC television.
The critically acclaimed hit series FEAR AGENT returns to Image
Comics! The homecoming begins with a new series of master edition
trades, each collecting 10 issues of RICK REMENDER, TONY MOORE, and
JEROME OPENA's seminal pulp sci-fi classic! Veteran fans and new
recruits alike can experience the whiskey-soaked, laser-scorched
life of Heath Huston, the galaxy's last Fear Agent, like never
before. Loaded with never-before-seen scripts, variant covers,
designs, and concept art. When down-and-out alien exterminator
Heath Huston stumbles upon an extraterrestrial plot to commit
genocide against the human species, he must put down the bottle and
resume his role as a peacekeeper...the last Fear Agent! Collects
FEAR AGENT #1-10
The conflict between England and France in the 14th and 15th
centuries never ceases to fascinate. This stimulating edited
collection, inspired by the Problems in Focus volume originally
published in 1971, provides a fresh and accessible insight into the
key aspects of The Hundred Years War. With chapters written by
leading experts in the field, based on new methodologies and recent
advances in scholarship, this book places the Anglo-French wars
into a range of wider contexts, such as politics, the home front,
the church, and chivalry. Adopting a sustained comparative
approach, with attention paid to both England and France, The
Hundred Years War Revisited provides a clear and comprehensive
synthesis of the major trends in research on the Hundred Years War.
Concise and thought-provoking, this is essential reading for
undergraduate and postgraduate students of medieval history.
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