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Former Whitehall insider Gill Bennett unravels the story of six crucial British foreign policy challenges since the Second World War, from the Korean War to the Falklands conflict, offering an inside

This is a brilliantly revealing, often laugh-out-loud guide for every dreamer, college-leaver and second career-er who has ever thought about starting their own business but fallen asleep in the first

The Race for the White House from Reagan to Clinton provides an overview of the process for selecting presidential candidates and electing the president. Terminology will be explained and the path fro

Can she be a supermodel and a super-sister? She finds her answer in just one look.Two sisters, both beautiful in different ways: Fifteen-year-old Ted has got "The Look." That's what the scout for the

This book, written by one of the leaders in the field of the neurosciences, will give an explanation of the symptoms and eventual untimely suicide of one of literatures greatest authors; Virginia Wool

British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers in detail, uncovering the uneasy relationship between notions of minimum force and the colonial tradition of exemplary force where harsh repression was frequently employed as a valid means of quickly crushing rebellion. Although a range of restrained policies such as special forces methods, restrictive rules of engagement and surrender schemes prevented the campaign from degenerating into genocide, the army simultaneously coerced the population to drop their support for the rebels, imposing collective fines, mass detentions and frequent interrogations, often tolerating rape, indiscriminate ki

This stimulating book considers the ways performance is deployed within museum settings. Engaging with key debates in performance studies, it shows how theatre and museums both resist and complement o

British Army counterinsurgency campaigns were supposedly waged within the bounds of international law, overcoming insurgents with the minimum force necessary. This revealing study questions what this meant for the civilian population during the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya in the 1950s, one of Britain's most violent decolonisation wars. For the first time Huw Bennett examines the conduct of soldiers in detail, uncovering the uneasy relationship between notions of minimum force and the colonial tradition of exemplary force where harsh repression was frequently employed as a valid means of quickly crushing rebellion. Although a range of restrained policies such as special forces methods, restrictive rules of engagement and surrender schemes prevented the campaign from degenerating into genocide, the army simultaneously coerced the population to drop their support for the rebels, imposing collective fines, mass detentions and frequent interrogations, often tolerating rape, indiscriminate ki

The concept of secular millennialism summarizes a crucial point made by Hannah Arendt in The Origins of Totalitarianism: that twentieth-century totalitarian movements, in Nazi Germany and in the Sovie

How To Litter-Train Your Hoarding Pack-Rats In order to maintain your sanity while living under the same roof with a hoarding pack-rat, you must come to terms with your priorities. What is most import

He’s been divinized, demonized, demythologized, and decoded. He’s been spoken for and spoken against, the best loved, least understood, most controversial figure in human history. All of which make

Watch a Baby Jayhawks fan grow up before your eyes. A book for University of Kansas fans of all ages.

George Fenton appeared in my play Forty Years On and has written music for many of my plays since, and he asked me to collaborate on the commission.

The entertainment icon and award-winning singer presents a vast array of stories that capture hilarious, heartwarming and inspirational moments from his extraordinary 60-year career, and shares the wi

One of the most well-known and beloved vocalists of our time, Tony Bennett is an American icon. Now, in this rich and beautiful memoir, the legendary Grammy and Emmy Award–winning singer takes us behi

A sale? Why not? Release all your wonderful treasures onto the open market and they are there for everyone to enjoy. This title opens in the Lyttelton Theatre in a production directed by the National'

To save her family from debtor's prison, Miss Clementina Smythe must secure a wealthy groom and turns to notorious rake Richard Eversham, an expert at seduction, to teach her how to be everything any

A lively new collection of ghost stories from the seventeenth century to the present

"2107 AD: A generation ago, Earth and the cislunar colonies banned genetic and cybernetic modifications. But out in the Asteroid Belt, anything goes. Dozens of flourishing space habitats are spawning

Max the Dog and a young girl named Tori take the first trip to the Moon since the Apollo era, and their trip proves so inspiring to people back on Earth that all the nations of the world come together

Scheherazade, the fictional storyteller of The Arabian Nights, spins her tales to the Sultan in an effort to delay and eventually end his rampage of wife-killing and thus to change her world for the b

One boy must stop the world's greatest financial conspiracy . . . . Sixteen-year-old Jonah Lightbody is shocked when the world erupts in the greatest financial crisis it has ever seen . . . and the ba

If the latest wave of popular erotic romance has gotten your mo-tor running, this book will shift you into high gear! Author Marisa Bennett steps up again to give you the dirty details on doing the ho

Afterlife and Narrative explores why life after death is such a potent cultural concept today, and why it is such an attractive prospect for modern fiction. The book mines a rich vein of imagined afte

With a murder charge hanging over her head, zombie at law Mallory Caine, who has been suppressing her undead desires in a 12-step zombie recovery group, must help her latest client, a werewolf whose c

Most teacher manuals talk about what teachers need to do. That's useful enough, especially for new teachers. But no list, however long, can anticipate every circumstance, and in teaching unusual circu

A young knight must ward off temptation, if he is to marry his true love . . . 1355. When seventeen-year-old Wulfstan Wynstede is chosen to join the army of his greatest hero, Prince Edward, later kno

Here's your perfect holiday read! When Tricia left the children's home aged 17, the exceedingly dark and onerous cloud continued to follow her! She was still very much in survival mode when at 21, she