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In February 1942, a reconnaissance party of United States Army Air
Forces officers arrived in England. Firmly wedded to the doctrine
of daylight precision bombing, they believed they could help turn
the tide of the war in Europe. In the months that followed, they
formed the Eighth Air Force - an organization that grew at an
astonishing rate. To accommodate it, almost seventy airfields were
hastily built across the eastern counties of England. At the heart
of the Eighth Air Force were its bombardment groups, each equipped
with scores of heavily armed, four-engine bombers. These Boeing
B-17 Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24 Liberators were soon
punching through the enemy's defences to bomb targets vital to its
war effort. They were crewed by thousands of young American airmen,
most of whom were volunteers. This book tells the story of just one
"Bomb Group" - the 381st, which crossed the Atlantic in May 1943.
Arriving at RAF Ridgewell on the Essex-Suffolk border, its airmen
quickly found themselves thrown into the hazardous and attritional
air battle raging in the skies over Europe. Bomb Group follows
the 381st's path from its formation in the Texan desert, to its
297th and final bombing mission deep into the heart of Hitler's
Third Reich. It is the remarkable story of one group and the part
it played in the strategic bombing campaign of "The Mighty Eighth."
Small businesses make up some 90-95 percent of all global firms.
Many undervalue the importance of information and communication
technology (ICT). Within the small business segment there can be
significant differences amongst the avid early adopters of ICT and
the laggards. Research on early adopters tends be more prevalent as
they are perceived to have a more interesting and positive story.
However, late adopters and 'laggards' also have their own
interesting stories that are under-reported. Small Business and
Effective ICT draws on research undertaken over several years and
documents the adoption/use of ICT across 'better' users of ICT
(Leaders), typical ICT users (Operationals) and late adopters
(Laggards). The findings are presented using a re-formulation of
the LIASE framework which addresses a number of areas that include
ICT literacy (L), information content/communication (I), Access
(A), Infrastructure (I), Support (S) and Evaluation (E). Some 60
businesses were investigated in Australia and the UK, with each
business presented as a concise vignette. The vignettes serve to
show that small businesses are not as conservative in their use of
ICT as the literature suggests, with examples of innovative uses of
ICT in small businesses provided. Lessons for the effective use of
ICT by small businesses are presented. The research design, methods
adopted, presentation of findings through the vignettes, and 'take
away' lessons have been written in manner to appeal to a broad
range of readers including academics, researchers, students and
policy makers in the discipline.
Written in consultation with a range of experts, clinicians and
practitioners as well as adoptive children, families and birth
relatives, this book gives helpful guidance on making
evidence-based assessments and planning successful adoption
support. Key features include: a discussion of the main themes of
adoption and pointers for practice in relation to the Assessment
Framework a guide to the use of evidence-based approaches to
assessment, including the tools commissioned by the Department of
Health and the Department for Education a model for analysis and
planning, and planning support and interventions an investigation
of the source, range and value of support services and
interventions that can promote the wellbeing of adopted children,
their adoptive families and birth relatives. Packed with practical
advice, case examples and models of good practice, this book is
invaluable for social workers and managers involved with the
adoption process and the well-being of children and families. It is
also essential reading for social work students learning about
working with children and families.
Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Disasters are an
increasingly common and complex combination of environmental,
social and cultural factors. Yet existing response frameworks and
emergency plans tend to homogenise affected populations as
'victims', overlooking the distinctive experience, capacities and
skills of children and young people. Drawing on participatory
research with more than 550 children internationally, this book
argues for a radical transformation in children's roles and voices
in disasters. It shows practitioners, policy-makers and researchers
how more child-centred disaster management, that recognises
children's capacity to enhance disaster resilience, actually
benefits at-risk communities as a whole.
Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was
publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a
freak and a psychopath. Some of these epithets were true. Yet, even
when compared to the most significant figures of the 20th century,
his legacy remains a brilliantly vital force. This is his story -
the story of a troubled kid who went on to become an international
icon, a story that plumbs the darkest depths of American society
and charts the now-legendary adventures that birthed Gonzo
journalism.
Small businesses make up some 90-95 percent of all global firms.
Many undervalue the importance of information and communication
technology (ICT). Within the small business segment there can be
significant differences amongst the avid early adopters of ICT and
the laggards. Research on early adopters tends be more prevalent as
they are perceived to have a more interesting and positive story.
However, late adopters and 'laggards' also have their own
interesting stories that are under-reported. Small Business and
Effective ICT draws on research undertaken over several years and
documents the adoption/use of ICT across 'better' users of ICT
(Leaders), typical ICT users (Operationals) and late adopters
(Laggards). The findings are presented using a re-formulation of
the LIASE framework which addresses a number of areas that include
ICT literacy (L), information content/communication (I), Access
(A), Infrastructure (I), Support (S) and Evaluation (E). Some 60
businesses were investigated in Australia and the UK, with each
business presented as a concise vignette. The vignettes serve to
show that small businesses are not as conservative in their use of
ICT as the literature suggests, with examples of innovative uses of
ICT in small businesses provided. Lessons for the effective use of
ICT by small businesses are presented. The research design, methods
adopted, presentation of findings through the vignettes, and 'take
away' lessons have been written in manner to appeal to a broad
range of readers including academics, researchers, students and
policy makers in the discipline.
Essays dealing with the question of how "sense of place" is
constructed, in a variety of locations and media. The term "sense
of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to
understand the complex processes through which individuals and
groups define themselves and their relationship to their natural
and cultural environments, and which over the last twenty years or
so has been increasingly defined, theorized and used across diverse
disciplines in different ways. Sense of place mediates our
relationship with the world and with each other; it providesa
profoundly important foundation for individual and community
identity. It can be an intimate, deeply personal experience yet
also something which we share with others. It is at once
recognizable but never constant; rather it isembodied in the flux
between familiarity and difference. Research in this area requires
culturally and geographically nuanced analyses, approaches that are
sensitive to difference and specificity, event and locale. The
essayscollected here, drawn from a variety of disciplines
(including but not limited to sociology, history, geography,
outdoor education, museum and heritage studies, health, and English
literature), offer an international perspectiveon the relationship
between people and place, via five interlinked sections (Histories,
Landscapes and Identities; Rural Sense of Place; Urban Sense of
Place; Cultural Landscapes; Conservation, Biodiversity and
Tourism). Ian Convery is Reader in Conservation and Forestry,
National School of Forestry, University of Cumbria; Gerard Corsane
is Senior Lecturer in Heritage, Museum and Galley Studies,
International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle
University; Peter Davis is Professor of Museology, International
Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University.
Contributors: Doreen Massey, Ian Convery, Gerard Corsane, Peter
Davis, David Storey, Mark Haywood, Penny Bradshaw, Vincent O'Brien,
Michael Woods, Jesse Heley, Carol Richards, Suzie Watkin, Lois
Mansfield, Kenesh Djusipov, Tamara Kudaibergonova, Jennifer Rogers,
Eunice Simmons, Andrew Weatherall, Amanda Bingley, Michael Clark,
Rhiannon Mason, Chris Whitehead, Helen Graham, Christopher
Hartworth, Joanne Hartworth, Ian Thompson, Paul Cammack, Philippe
Dube, Josie Baxter, Maggie Roe, Lyn Leader-Elliott, John Studley,
Stephanie K.Hawke, D. Jared Bowers, Mark Toogood, Owen T. Nevin,
Peter Swain, Rachel M. Dunk, Mary-Ann Smyth, Lisa J. Gibson,
Stefaan Dondeyne, Randi Kaarhus, Gaia Allison, Ellie Lindsay,
Andrew Ramsay
When Winston Churchill delivered his famous 'Iron Curtain' speech
in 1946, he mentioned two words now engrained in Anglo-American
terminology - 'special relationship'. Nowhere is the 'special
relationship' more evident than in the scores of airfields used by
the United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War.
Today, just a handful remain in active service. Yet they continue
to bind the United Kingdom and United States together. US Air Force
Bases in the UK examines the history and continuing use of
modern-day British airfields by the US Air Force. It also
chronicles the many others that survived the Second World War, but
not the passage of time. While most have been reclaimed by
agriculture, one thing that still endures is the 'special
relationship'. This book retraces its concrete paths.
A lyrical, evocative and wonderfully original wartime memoir about
life on a farm in the Cotswolds, seen through the eyes of a child.
'Bertie, May and Mrs Fish' is Xandra Bingley's account of her
childhood on a Cotswold farm, set against the backdrop of World War
II and its aftermath. Bingley's mother is left to farm the land,
isolated in the landscape, whilst her husband is away at war. With
its eccentric cast of characters, this book captures both the
essence of a country childhood and the remarkable courage and
resilience displayed by ordinary people during the war. The beauty
and sensitivity of Bingley's observation is artfully balanced by
the harshness and grit of her reality. 'In the cowshed my mother
ties her hair in a topknot scarf that lies on the feedbin lid. At
five-thirty each morning and four o'clock in the afternoons she
chases rats off the mangers. She measures cowcake and rolled oats
and opens the bottom cowshed door. Thirty-one brown and white
Ayrshires and one brindle Jersey tramp into their stalls...' 'Two
thousand acres. A mile of valley. Horses cattle sheep pigs poultry.
Snow above the lintels of the downstairs windows. Her fingers
swelling. Chilblains. Her long white kid gloves wrapped around a
leaky pipe in her bedroom. Knotted at the fingers. She has a lot to
learn and no one to teach her. Accidents happen.' Bingley tells her
tale in a startling voice which captures the universe of a child,
the unforgiving landscape and the complicated adult world
surrounding her. Her acute observation, and her gift for place,
people, sound and touch make this a brilliantly authentic and
evocative portrait.
Research about people always makes assumptions about the nature of
humans as subjects. This collaboration by a group of feminist
researchers looks at subjectivity in relation to researchers, the
researched, and audiences, as well as at the connections between
subjectivity and knowledge. The authors argue that subjectivity is
spatialized in embodied, multiple, and fractured ways, challenging
the dominant notions of the rational, 'bounded' subject. A highly
original contribution to feminist geography, this book is equally
relevant to social science debates about using qualitative
methodologies and to ongoing discussions on the ethics of social
research.
Essex is not known for being the cradle of British aviation, but
perhaps it should be. From the establishment of Britain's earliest
aerodrome to its dogged defence of London during two world wars,
Essex can rightly stake its claim to a place in British aviation
history. Yet it has largely flown under the radar. Essex's aviation
heritage is commemorated by the UK's largest known surviving group
of Royal Flying Corps buildings; meanwhile, its future is led by
the UK's fourth busiest airport - a place once built by foreign
hands. In between, its soil has been crossed by now-invisible
runways and dotted with little-known memorials. For more than a
century, England's eleventh largest county has played host to some
of the country's most ground-breaking aerial moments. Essex: A
Hidden Aviation History uncovers the concealed landmarks that tell
the remarkable story of one county's special contribution to
British aviation.
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