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Chain and anchor making in the Black Country

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Offers a different look at European Network Enabled Capabilities (NEC) and their implications for transatlantic co-operation in future operations. This book shows how, with the removal of the risks of Soviet invasion, European defence planners must now modify their strategies and capabilities to address new threats, both at home and overseas.

Alexander-Roberts offers insight into the causes of children's behavior and teaches adults the necessary skills to be loving and effective parents.

This introduction to modern Arabic literature, from the beginning of the 19th century to the beginning of the 21st, develops themes such as the interaction of the classical Arabic literary tradition (and, to a lesser extent, the parallel oral tradition) with literary forms derived from the West.

It will give 'students' a complete introduction to the subject, and therefore a valuable foundation, as well as provide crucial background reading and an invaluable knowledge of the fundamental principles of the law of equity and trusts.'    Christine Ocran, LLB, LLM, Barrister at Law (non-practising), Associate Lecturer - University of East London 'A mistake that many law textbooks make...is that they are written in too literary a style.  Sen...

Offers a practical and helpful guidebook both for students and supervisors. It is recommended for research students at the early stages of their research studies, because it provides a thought-provoking account of the different aspects of post-graduate research. Additionally, it can be a useful tool and resource pack for advanced research students who want to think about viva and career options after the completion of the PhD...a useful additi...

Contains practical advice on managing mental health crises. This book looks at what constitutes a crisis, be it an individual crisis presentation or a situational crisis for services. It covers topics such as assessing the client, risk assessment and management, and more. It is useful for mental health nurses, social workers and psychiatrists.

Iwo Jima was the United States Marine Corps' toughest ever battle and a turning point in the Pacific War. In February 1945, three Marine Divisions stormed the island's shores in what was supposed to be a ten-day battle, but they had reckoned without General Tadamichi Kuribayashi, the enemy commander.

Tim Kendall's study offers the fullest account to date of a tradition of modern English war poetry. Stretching from the Boer War to the present day, it focuses on many of the twentieth-century's finest poets--combatants and non-combatants alike--and considers how they address the ethicalchallenges of making art out of violence. Poetry, we are often told, makes nothing happen. But war makes poetry happen: the war poet cannot regret, and must ex...

Anglo-American modernist writing and modern mass democratic states emerged at the same time, during the period of 1900-1930. Yet writers such as T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Ford Madox Ford were notoriously hostile to modern democracies. They often defended, incontrast, anti-democratic forms of cultural authority. Since the late 1970s, however, our understanding of modernist culture has altered as previously margina...

Comparing the USA, eight European countries, and Japan, this book demonstrates significant cross-national differences in early retirement across countries and over time. The study evaluates the impact of major variations in welfare regimes, production systems, and labor relations and provides comprehensive empirical analysis and a balanced approach to studying both the pull and the push factors affecting early exit from work needed to understa...

Consider the sentence 'This sentence is not true'. It seems that the sentence can be neither true nor not true, on pain of contradiction. Tim Maudlin sets out a novel account of logic and semantics which allows him to deal with certain notorious paradoxes which have bedevilled philosophical theories of truth. All philosophers interested in logic and language will find Truth and Paradox a stimulating read.

A stellar selection of the world's most eminent philosophers give a picture of the current state of their subject, where it is going, and where it ought to be steered. Each offers a penetrating analysis of his or her particular specialism, building a volume that offers a vision of the future of all major branches of the discipline. It will make provocative reading not just for philosophers themselves, but for anyone intrigued by the question o...

This original study depicts the Scottish soldier as an "empire builder". Drawing from a wide range of sources, including soldiers' writings in the provincial press, it examines how military achievements contributed to a growing sense of national identity and a deepening imperial commitment from the Crimean War to the end of the nineteenth century.

This book addresses some of the major contemporary issues in comparative business and employment relations. At its core are the findings of a four-year exploration of the management of employment relations in American multinational companies in the UK, Germany, Ireland, and Spain. Specifically, it looks at what is distinctively "American" about US multinationals and their management of human resources across national borders.

Roger Zetter and Georgia Butina Watson have produced a fascinating book that explores the concept of urban sustainability within the context of urban design in the developing world. Using a wealth of examples from Mexico, Brazil, Indonesia, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India and Myanmar, they demonstrate how rapid physical and social change has swept away historic urban quarters and the cultural heritage they represent.

The book discusses the musical considerations, vocal production, and kinesthetic feedback inherent to performing persuasively in a variety of styles and idioms, with observations of professional vocalists, instrumentalists, and voice teachers who have successfully crossed over into contrasting idioms.

for SATB unaccompanied or with keyboardDazzling arrangements of the top Christmas classics by some of America's best arrangers. Includes practical performance notes with advice on how to make the music come to life.Orchestral material is available on hire for five of the numbers.