Carti 2000

Edwards Bernard

Return of the Coffin Ships The Derbyshire Enigma

Editura: Brick Tower Press

Anul aparitiei: 1998

"...this book deserves a very wide readership among those interested in safety at sea." -Cdr. Brian Wainwright FNI, Seaways, September 2000"Wonderful! Really terrific. A first-rate piece of research." -Stan Bernard, NBC News"Shameful tale of bulker tragedies." -Telegraph, July 1999In September 1980, the British ship Derbyshire sailed into the eye of Typhoon Orchid and on into oblivion, taking all on board with her. The destructive power of a typhoon is awesome, but the Derbyshire was no small and ageing tramp, running red rust with a crew of deadbeats culled from the backwaters of the world. She was just four years old, manned entirely by competent British seamen and maintained to the highest standards. She matched the best afloat in her day. How then could this great ship have disappeared so quickly and completely, with not even a faint cry for help, and leaving only a thin film of oil on the sea to mark her passing? The only good thing to come out of whatever appalling calamity over-whelmed the Derbyshire was that it turned the spotlight on a hitherto unrecognised phenomenon -- the disappearing bulk carriers. In this powerful book, Bernard Edwards, master mariner turned writer, ...

Anderman Steven D. (Birkett Long Professor of Law University of Essex)

Labour Law Management Decisions and Workers' Rights

Editura: Oxford University Press

Anul aparitiei: 2000

The new edition of this publication has been updated in the light of developments in the law since the third edition was published in 1998. There have been a considerable number of substantial legislative changes particularly those stemming from the Employment Relations Act 1999, these include new rights on maternity leave, time to care for dependents and parental leave.

White Eagle

Spiritual Unfoldment

Editura: White Eagle Publishing Trust

Anul aparitiei: 2000

The subjects in this book include training in clairvoyance (clear seeing of the true spirit of the person), meditation, right living, healing, and learning about the great laws of life (e.g. reincarnation and karma).

Crime, Risk and Justice

Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This title is concerned with issues arising from developments in crime control. Criminologists explore the links between crime and risks through a range of themes, from the deptiction of crime in the media to the dilemmas of policing, to the punitvences of criminal justice systems. Page dim. 232 x 157 x 14 Weight: 372 grams

Watkins S.

Twentieth-Century Women Novelists Feminist Theory into Practice

Editura: Palgrave Macmillan

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This provocative, lively book discusses two of the most significant influences on writing and thinking in the twentieth century: women novelists and feminist theory. It demonstrates, in an accessible but imaginative manner, ways of reading women's novels alongside work by feminist theorists. Each chapter situates a small number of theoretical texts in their intellectual context and then links them with a widely taught novel to produce fresh interpretations. The novels and theorists represent examples of extremely significant, but also pedagogically useful feminist writing this century.

The Sharp Edge of Educational Change Teaching, Leading and the Realities of Reform

Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This book brings together the evidence of recent educational research to convey the realities of reform as they affect educators practice.

Madeley John

Hungry for Trade How the Poor Pay for Free Trade

Editura: Zed Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2000

As the fallout from the Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues, John Madeley explores some key questions about the free trade that it advocates: Will free trade in food help or hinder the abolition of world hunger? Who benefits first? The poor? Or the transnational corporations? Will free trade help Third World farmers find new international markets? How can countries - North and South, rich and poor - protect their farmers? How can self-sufficiency in food production be achieved? His book exposes the contradiction between Western governments' rhetoric about reducing world poverty and the drive to yet more trade liberalization.

Schauberger Viktor

The Energy Evolution Harnessing Free Energy From Nature

Editura: Gill

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This final volume in the Eco-technology series deals with generation of energy using Nature's enormous potential. Page dim. 235 x 166 x 17 Weight: 494 grams

Purkis John

A Preface to Wordsworth Revised Edition

Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Probably the most famous of the Romantic poets, William Wordsworth worked with and influenced many of the leading poets of the age. This excellent introduction to his life and works sets his writing firmly in the context of his times. John Purkis provides an outline of Wordsworth's life and cultural background and their effect on his work, and examines his verse, from the earliest school poems to the final years.

Churchill Colin

History of the British Army Infantry Collar Badge

Editura: Naval & Military Press Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Page dim. 296 x 208 x 26 Weight: 1026 grams

Informers Policing, policy, practice

Editura: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2000

The police rely heavily on paid and unpaid informers: without them clear-up rates would plummet, and many crimes would remain undetected. Yet little is known about the informer system and how it works, for example: who are these informers? how are they recruited? how are they handled? who handles them? what sort of information do they provide? Recent high profile cases have drawn attention to the use of informers, there has been a growing debate about the subject, and many feel that stricter controls are needed - but how is this to be achieved without undermining the effectiveness of the system? This is the first book of its kind on informers in Britain, providing an invaluable source of information and analysis from key authorities in the field.

Haslam Dave

Manchester, England

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2000

The definitive account of the pop cult capital of the UK by Dave Haslam, one of Manchester's top DJs and journalists. Manchester, a predominantly working-class city, away from the nation's capital, has been at the margins of English culture for centuries. The explosion of music and creativity in Manchester can be traced back from Victorian music hall and the jazz age, to Northern Soul and rock and roll, through to acid house and Oasis. But its roots are in Manchester's history as a melting pot of popular idealism and dissent, from the industrial revolution on, via film, theatre, comedy and TV. And for Manchester, read England and the world. Dave Haslam is uniquely placed to tell this story - Manchester, England is as witty, erudite and passionate as you would expect from a man who can say, again and again, "I was there". Like Jon Savage's England's Dreaming, this is the last word on the abiding centre of 40 years of UK pop culture.

Running Guns The Global Black Market in Small Arms

Editura: Zed Books Ltd

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Whether the war zone be in Africa, Sri Lanka, Chechnya or Afghanistan, most people are not killed by hi-tech or heavy weaponry, but by the small arms, cheap and accessible, that have flooded into so many countries in recent years. Crime rates involving guns have also soared, as South Africa and Kenya have experienced. Yet much of this cross-border arms trade is illegal. Several governments, including the United States, Canada and Mexico, are now pressing for a new global treaty on illegal trafficking in small arms. This book is a fascinating, highly informative and policy-relevant investigation into an issue about which far too little is known, and which raises crucial questions about the black market.

Lichtenstein Rachel, Sinclair Iain

Rodinsky's Room

Editura: Granta Books

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Combining the history of East End London with a personal quest, this book weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky - which took her to Poland, Israel and around Jewish London - with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past. Page dim. 197 x 127 x 15 Weight: 316 grams

Holt Tom

Only Human

Editura: Little, Brown Book Group

Anul aparitiei: 2000

A dazzling comic fantasy novel from one of Britain's sharpest, funniest writers. Something is about to go wrong. Very wrong. What do you expect if the Supreme Being decides to get away from it all for a few days, leaving his naturally inquisitive son to look after the cosmic balance of things? A minor hiccup with a human soul and a welding machine soon leads to a violent belch, and before you know it the human condition - not to mention the lemming condition - is tumbling down the slippery slope to chaos.

Preston Paul

Comrades

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2000

A brilliant new portrait of the Spanish Civil War from our greatest historian of Spain. 'Anyone interested in Spain will want this book.' Alan Massie, Daily Telegraph Page dim. 197 x 130 x 25 Weight: 298 grams

Jack Ian

Granta 70 Australia

Editura: Granta Books

Anul aparitiei: 2000

This issue of "Granta" celebrates Australian writing and examines a country which is forging a strong new identity. The contributors include Peter Carey, Thomas Keneally, Les Murray and Tim Winton. There are picture essays by Polly Borland and David Moore, and a novella by Ben Rice. Page dim. 210 x 155 x 19 Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing Weight: 424 grams

Jones Steve

The Language of the Genes

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Steve Jones's highly acclaimed, double prize-winning, bestselling first book is now fully revised to cover all the new genetic breakthroughs from GM food to Dolly the sheep.'An essential sightseer's guide to our own genetic terrain.' Peter Tallack, Sunday Telegraph 'Superb and stimulating...an exhilarating trip around the double spiral of DNA, a rush of gravity-defying concepts and wild swerves of the scientific imagination.' J.G. Ballard, Daily Telegraph 'Not so much divination as demystification... An attempt to bring genetics and evolution more into the public domain. If, for instance, you ever wondered just what genetic engineering is about, here is as good a place as any to discover. Few have Jones's ability to communicate a difficult idea with such humour, clarity, precision and ease.' Laurence Hurst, Times Higher; 'Sensitive to the social issues raised by genetics... yet Jones's interest reaches beyond contemporary social issues to the human past, to what genetics can and cannot tell us about our evolution and patterns of social development. He interleaves a broad knowledge of biology with considerations of cultural, demographic and - as his title indicates - linguistic ...

Bradgate Robert (Reader in Commercial Law University of Sheffield)

Commercial Law

Editura: Oxford University Press

Anul aparitiei: 2000

Offers the student coverage of the general principles and key topics of commercial law. This book also covers the law of agency, sale of goods, commercial and consumer credit and security, banking, international trade, insurance and commercial dispute resolution. It also discusses how contracts are used in a business environment, and other issues. Page dim. 234 x 157 x 46 Weight: 1504 grams

O'Connor Christy Jr.

GAA Quiz Book 2 Another 2,000 Gaelic Football and Hurling Questions

Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

Anul aparitiei: 2008

Another 2,000 Gaelic football and hurling questions to test your knowledge of Ireland's best-loved sports. Think you know everything there is to know about Gaelic football and hurling? Think again! The GAA Quiz Book 2 is packed with a further 2000 of the most brain-teasing Gaelic football and hurling questions ever. With 200 ready-to-ask quizzes ranging from the very easy to the very hard, there's something to challenge every Irish sports fan. All aspects of both games will be covered including who won and lost, what records have been set, historic moments, players, teams, awards, significant rulings, competition changes and much more. Prepare for pub quiz success or impress your friends time and time again with your in-depth sports knowledge with the most up-to-date, comprehensive, fascinating on Gaelic sports quiz book around.