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A Race to the Top shows that apprenticeships are the way to win the global skills race. David Way, a former CEO of the National Apprenticeship Service, has thirty-nine CEOs, industrialists, academics, and trade unionists show the UK how to win the manufacturing race.

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Punching Above Their Weight traces the development of the British Veterinary Association from its origins in late Victorian times into the twenty-first century. It documents the struggle of veterinarians to raise their practice from disorganised pragmatic beginnings to a science-based, politically influential body. Its author, Edward Boden, is a former editor of the Veterinary Record, executive editor of In Practice and Research in Veterinary ...

Punching Above Their Weight traces the development of the British Veterinary Association from its origins in late Victorian times into the twenty-first century. It documents the struggle of veterinarians to raise their practice from disorganised pragmatic beginnings to a science-based, politically influential body. Its author, Edward Boden, is a former editor of the Veterinary Record, executive editor of In Practice and Research in Veterinary ...

Mercurial, pluralistic and singular. Ihe publication of the first two books of Silence in a single volume represents the genesis of a radical new form of epic poetry. Embracing the seemingly diverse spheres of apophatic theology and Big Bang cosmology, and drawing inspiration from the works of Ovid, Joseph Beuys and Ezra Pound, the epic seeks to counter-signify the divine darkness of a singularity through the juxtaposition of intuitive and rat...

Charles Ball published An Historical Account of Winchester, with Descriptive Walks in 1818. In the twenty-first century, if we allow Ball to guide us, we move through time as well as space. His Winchester speaks richly of history, religion, and monument, and it is the firm belief in the city that John Keats had his own copy of Winchester, With Descriptive Walks. His favourite walk was south along the River Itchen. In September 1819, the walk a...

Alumni Voices explores new ways of writing histories of higher education, ways that focus on the day-to-day experience and reflection of those who lived and worked in an institution. For a long time, King Alfred's College, Winchester, for a brief time University College Winchester, today, it is the University of Winchester. Alumni Voices provides a way of exploring educational change and community evolution by way of lived experience.

A chance viewing by Mark Byford of a picture in London's National Gallery has inspired The Annunciation: A Pilgrim's Quest. The early-eighteenth-century painting by French artist, Francis Lemoyne, shows the encounter between the angel Gabriel and the Virgin Mary. That meeting may be a pivotal point in Christianity, but has the status and significance of the Annunciation been lost in today's world? Mark Byford searches for the spiritual meaning...

A History of Uncertainty claims that among the diseases spread from animals to humans one of the greatest killers has been bovine tuberculosis, spread mainly through food and drink. It estimates at least 600, 000 deaths from this cause between 1848 and 1960 in Great Britain, mainly due to infected milk and meat. It took that whole period to bring the disease under control in humans but the problem lingers in cattle. The uncertainties surroundi...