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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The complete sixth series of the light-hearted BBC panel show
hosted by Rob Brydon. Joined by team captains Lee Mack and David
Mitchell, Brydon presides as a range of celebrity guests attempt to
detect truth amidst a mire of lies. Among the challenges on the
show, each guest must read aloud a series of statements about
themselves and attempt to bluff and double-bluff the opposition as
they try to guess which of the statements are correct. Among the
celebrities to appear in this series are Chris Tarrant, Clare
Balding, Des O'Connor, Rhod Gilbert, Sarah Millican and Armando
Iannucci.
'Life's A Ball' charts the ups and downs of a football experience
that has rarely been dull Ian Liversedge's story comes from the
very heart of the game - the manager's office, the dug-out, the
boot room and the treatment table. Ian describes his relationships
with managers and players at every level from non-league to
international as well as the changing role of a physiotherapist in
a sport that has become ever-more intense. There are many anecdotes
about a lifestyle away from the football pitch that Ian found both
attractive and magnetic. He has blazed a trail and the book deals
honestly with his shortcomings, including encounters with the
police and the adverse effect on his family life.
'A stand-out triumph' - The Sunday Times The Number One bestselling
novel by the author of CLOUD ATLAS, 'one of the most brilliantly
inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent). Utopia
Avenue might be the most curious British band you've never heard
of. Emerging from London's psychedelic scene in 1967, folksinger
Elf Holloway, blues bassist Dean Moss, guitar virtuoso Jasper de
Zoet and jazz drummer Griff Griffin together created a unique
sound, with lyrics that captured their turbulent times. The band
produced only two albums in two years, yet their musical legacy
lives on. This is the story of Utopia Avenue's brief, blazing
journey from Soho clubs and draughty ballrooms to the promised land
of America, just when the Summer of Love was receding into
something much darker - a multi-faceted tale of dreams, drugs,
love, sexuality, madness and grief; of stardom's wobbly ladder and
fame's Faustian pact; and of the collision between youthful
idealism and jaded reality as the Sixties drew to a close. Above
all, this bewitching novel celebrates the power of music to connect
across divides, define an era and thrill the soul. 'The great rock
and roll novel - an epic love letter to the greatest music ever
made and the book the music has always deserved' Tony Parsons
With an introduction by David Mitchell Isserley spends most of her
time driving. But why is she so interested in picking up
hitchhikers? And why are they always male, well-built and alone? An
utterly unpredictable and macabre mystery, Under the Skin is a
genre-defying masterpiece.
This book offers a distinctive perspective on peace processes by
comparatively analysing two cases which have rarely been studied in
tandem, Ireland and Korea. The volume examines and compares Ireland
and Korea as two peace/conflict areas. Despite their differences,
both places are marked by a number of overlaid states of division:
a political border in a geographical unit (an island and a
peninsula); an antagonistic relationship within the population of
those territories; an international relationship recovering from
past asymmetry and colonialism; and divisions within the main
groupings over how to address these relationships. Written by
academics and practitioners from Europe and East Asia, and guided
by the concepts of peacebuilding and reconciliation, the chapters
assess peace efforts at all levels, from the elite to grassroot
organisations. Topics discussed include: historical parallels;
modern debates over the legacy of the past; contemporary
constitutional and security issues; civil society peacebuilding in
relation to faith, sport, and women’s activism; and the role of
economic assistance. The book brings Ireland and Korea into a rich
dialogue which highlights the successes and shortcomings of both
peace processes This book will be of interest to students of Peace
and Conflict Studies, Irish Politics, Korean Politics, and
International Relations.
The field of special educational needs and inclusive education is
not only of enormous importance to the study of education as a
whole, it also constitutes a site of major debate. Conflicting
arguments include: * changes in the conceptualisation of special
needs * the role of assessment * the extent to which students with
special needs should and can be educated in regular school settings
* the relative weight given to central versus local control of
education * pedagogical issues. In all of these paradigm clashes,
countries are at different stages in reaching settlements. These
difficulties reflect a range of factors, including intellectual
traditions, cultural values, economic circumstances, and
demography. The articles assembled in this collection provide a
global perspective on these debates. The collection as a whole
demonstrates how the fields of special education and inclusive
education have evolved philosophically and technically over the
past thirty years, as well as showing the contemporary state of
approaches to educating students with special education needs.
Titles also available in this series include: Literacy (June 2004,
4 Volumes, GBP495), Educational Management (October 2004, 4
Volumes, GBP495) and the forthcoming Early Years Education (2005,
c.4 Volumes, c. GBP475).
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Slade House (Hardcover)
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This special edition of SLADE HOUSE, limited to 1,500 copies, is
signed and numbered by the author. It has a uniquely designed
cover, endpapers and slipcase, is bound with head and tail bands,
and comes with a ribbon. Born out of the short story David Mitchell
published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as
his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect
book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night. Turn down Slade
Alley - narrow, dank and easy to miss, even when you're looking for
it. Find the small black iron door set into the right-hand wall. No
handle, no keyhole, but at your touch it swings open. Enter the
sunlit garden of an old house that doesn't quite make sense; too
grand for the shabby neighbourhood, too large for the space it
occupies. A stranger greets you by name and invites you inside. At
first, you won't want to leave. Later, you'll find that you can't.
This unnerving, taut and intricately woven tale by one of our most
original and bewitching writers begins in 1979 and reaches its
turbulent conclusion around Hallowe'en, 2015. Because every nine
years, on the last Saturday of October, a 'guest' is summoned to
Slade House. But why has that person been chosen, by whom and for
what purpose? The answers lie waiting in the long attic, at the top
of the stairs...
This book contains original research on conflict, peacebuilding and
the current state of identities and relationships in relation to
the Northern Ireland conflict. It accesses the state of national
identity politics in Northern Ireland a generation after the 1998
Agreement, as well as the impact and meaning of Brexit. It
considers feminist and faith-based peace activism during ‘the
Troubles’, and expressions of Irish national identity. It also
includes revealing comparative case studies: Protestant-Catholic
conflict elsewhere in Europe and nationalism in the Balkans. The
Politics of Conflict and Transformation: The Island of Ireland in
Comparative Perspective arises from a conference celebrating the
work of Jennifer Todd, Professor in the School of Politics and
International Relations at University College Dublin, who has been
one of the most influential scholars of her generation. Her
research has examined conflict and transformation in Ireland from
the level of grassroots identities to geopolitical forces. She has
placed contemporary crises in the peace process in the context of
patterns of conflict and change over centuries. She has both
expounded the rich detail of the Northern Ireland and Irish-British
conflicts and placed them in their regional and global contexts.
Written by some of the leading scholars on peace and conflict in
Ireland, the chapters in this edited volume build on Todd’s work
and are a testament to the thematic and methodological breadth and
depth of her output. This book will be of interest to students and
scholars of Irish and British history and politics, Peace and
Conflict Studies, and the sociology of identity, conflict, and
peacebuilding. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of Irish Political Studies.
This book contains original research on conflict, peacebuilding and
the current state of identities and relationships in relation to
the Northern Ireland conflict. It accesses the state of national
identity politics in Northern Ireland a generation after the 1998
Agreement, as well as the impact and meaning of Brexit. It
considers feminist and faith-based peace activism during 'the
Troubles', and expressions of Irish national identity. It also
includes revealing comparative case studies: Protestant-Catholic
conflict elsewhere in Europe and nationalism in the Balkans. The
Politics of Conflict and Transformation: The Island of Ireland in
Comparative Perspective arises from a conference celebrating the
work of Jennifer Todd, Professor in the School of Politics and
International Relations at University College Dublin, who has been
one of the most influential scholars of her generation. Her
research has examined conflict and transformation in Ireland from
the level of grassroots identities to geopolitical forces. She has
placed contemporary crises in the peace process in the context of
patterns of conflict and change over centuries. She has both
expounded the rich detail of the Northern Ireland and Irish-British
conflicts and placed them in their regional and global contexts.
Written by some of the leading scholars on peace and conflict in
Ireland, the chapters in this edited volume build on Todd's work
and are a testament to the thematic and methodological breadth and
depth of her output. This book will be of interest to students and
scholars of Irish and British history and politics, Peace and
Conflict Studies, and the sociology of identity, conflict, and
peacebuilding. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of Irish Political Studies.
From the publisher of the Jordanville Prayer Book and A Psalter for
Prayer comes the perfect devotional companion for travel and
everyday life. This truly pocket edition brings together prayers
for use throughout the day with all one hundred fifty Psalms of
David adapted from the classic Miles Coverdale translation.
Designed with convenience and affordability in mind to encourage
all Christians to “pray without ceasing.”
Much scholarship on the British transatlantic slave trade has
focused on its peak period in the late eighteenth century and its
abolition in the early nineteenth; or on the Royal African Company
(RAC), which in 1698 lost the monopoly it had previously enjoyed
over the trade. During the early eighteenth-century transition
between these two better-studied periods, Humphry Morice was by far
the most prolific of the British slave traders. He bears the guilt
for trafficking over 25,000 enslaved Africans, and his voluminous
surviving papers offer intriguing insights into how he did it.
Morice's strategy was well adapted for managing the special risks
of the trade, and for duplicating, at lower cost, the RAC's
capabilities for gathering information on what African
slave-sellers wanted in exchange. Still, Morice's transatlantic
operations were expensive enough to drive him to a series of
increasingly dubious financial manoeuvres throughout the 1720s, and
eventually to large-scale fraud in 1731 from the Bank of England,
of which he was a longtime director. He died later that year,
probably by suicide, and with his estate hopelessly indebted to the
Bank, his family, and his ship captains. Nonetheless, his
astonishing rise and fall marked a turning point in the development
of the brutal transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans.
Originally published in 1967. The common aim of all logical enquiry
is to discover and analyse correctly the forms of valid argument.
In this book concise expositions of traditional, Aristotelian logic
and of modern systems of propositional and predicative logic show
how far that aim has been achieved.
THE SUNDAY TIMES-BESTSELLING BOOK BY ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED
COMIC WRITERS **Pre-order now: David Mitchell's new book Dishonesty
is the Second-best Policy** There are many aspects of modern life
that trouble award-winning comedian David Mitchell, such as: Why is
every film or TV programme a sequel or a remake? Why are people so
f***ing hung up about swearing? Why do the asterisks in that
sentence make it ok? Why do so many people want to stop other
people doing things, and how can they be stopped from stopping
them? Join Mitchell on a tour of the absurdities of our times -
from Ryanair to Richard III, Downton Abbey to phone etiquette, UKIP
to hotdogs made of cats. Funny, provocative and shot through with
refreshing amounts of common sense, Thinking About It Only Makes It
Worse celebrates and commiserates on the state of things in our not
entirely glorious modern world. 'Mitchell is an exceptionally
clever, eloquent and spot-on commentator. We should be grateful for
him.' Daily Mail, Books of the Year
Originally published in 1967. The common aim of all logical enquiry
is to discover and analyse correctly the forms of valid argument.
In this book concise expositions of traditional, Aristotelian logic
and of modern systems of propositional and predicative logic show
how far that aim has been achieved.
Originally published in 2005. David Mitchell provides a better
understanding of the role presidents play in the decision-making
process in terms of their influence on two key steps in the
process: deliberation and outcome of policy making. The events that
have taken place in relation to the Bush administration's decisions
to fight the war on terrorism and invade Iraq highlight how
important it is to understand the president's role in formulating
policy. This influential study presents an advisory system theory
of decision-making to examine cases of presidential policy
formulation drawn from the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush
administrations. Easily accessible to scholars, graduates and
advanced undergraduates interested in US foreign policy or foreign
policy analysis, presidential studies, and bureaucracy and public
administrations scholars, and to practitioners and those with a
general interest in International Relations.
To the unsuspecting, wearing a stethoscope could not be more easy.
You pick it up, place it around your neck and...hey presto...you
look like you know what you are doing and people think you are a
doctor...This is the no-nonsense guide to the reality of medical
student life. Everything you need to know is here. What are my
chances of delivering a baby? How many questions should I ask? How
do I insert a nasogastric tube without the patient knowing it's my
first time? Where will I live when I'm on clinical rounds? Why
can't I wear trainers? Will patients like me? What is a patient's
'pack year' history? How do I break bad news? How can I get more
sleep? And much, much more.
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