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The manuscript of the register of the gild of St Katherine, Stamford (Gonville and Caius MSS 266/670), has been known for some time and consulted by a small number of scholars, but it has not been more generally available. This edition is intended to make it more widely accessible for study. The gild met in the room over the porch of the parish church of St Paul in Stamford, a church which for more than a century housed an anchoress on the nor...

Dr Thornhill's book is a new resource for all Health and Safety professionals, and particularly for those who have responsibility for or who are likely to be involved in accident investigation. Starting with some valuable historical background, the book then provides some psychological tools to answer the question why people behave in ways which they know to be unsafe. There is a full discussion of the advantages of good accident investigation...

The Phone Hacking Scandal: Journalism on Trial Hackgate is the biggest scandal to engulf the mainstream press in decades. What started as a small bush fire News of the World royal editor Clive Goodman and his private detective friend Glenn 'Trigger' Mulcaire being detained at Her Majesty's pleasure in 2007 for hacking illegally into the phones of the royal family and others - has become a forest fire destroying countless reputations (and the N...

This book lets readers understand differential geometry with differential forms. It is unique in providing detailed treatments of topics not normally found elsewhere, like the programs of B. Riemann and F. Klein in the second half of the 19th century, and their being superseded by E. Cartan in the twentieth. Several conservation laws are presented in a unified way. The Einstein 3-form rather than the Einstein tensor is emphasized, their relati...

Such a book is long overdue.There are about eleven hundred local newspapers in the United Kingdom but, with a few excellent exceptions, little has been written about them and little attention has been paid to them - until now! SIR RAY TINDLE Like the autumn leaves, local papers are falling off the media trees in the USA and now in the UK. Circulations are plummeting, along with revenues and staff numbers. But is all doom and gloom? Will the In...

Leeds Studies in English is an international, refereed journal based in the School of English, University of Leeds. Leeds Studies in English publishes articles on Old and Middle English literature, Old Icelandic language and literature, and the historical study of the English language.

George Orwell, author of Animal Farm and Nineteen Eight-Four, remains today, more than 60 years since his death, a cultural icon. He is reviled and admired by the Left and Right - and all persuasions in between. To academics too, he is a constant source of fascination - being one of the most researched writers of all times. Orwell Today, edited by Richard Lance Keeble, Professor of Journalism at the University of Lincoln, brings together the w...

The Ideal and the Real should prove valuable to two particular sets of readers: (i) those with an interest in Kant and little or no background in the philosophy of mathematics, or (ii) those with an interest in the philosophy of mathematics and little or no background in Kant...The book contains much that is suggestive which should promote further discussion...(and) offers more than a simple examination of Kant's philosophy of mathematics. Of ...

Leeds Studies in English is an international, refereed journal based in the School of English, University of Leeds. Leeds Studies in English publishes articles on Old and Middle English literature, Old Icelandic language and literature, and the historical study of the English language.

Leeds Studies in English is an international, refereed journal based in the School of English, University of Leeds. Leeds Studies in English publishes articles on Old and Middle English literature, Old Icelandic language and literature, and the historical study of the English language.

PAPERS The ethical turn in considering hidden children's Holocaust testimony as historical reconstruction - Julie Wheelwright Moral realism and ethical naturalism in media ethics theorising - Patrick Lee Plaisance and Elizabeth Tropman Communication and globalisation: A justification for critical pedagogy - Andrea Patterson-Masuka and Omar Swartz A sovereign editor: Arthur Mann's Yorkshire Post and its crusade against appeasement, 1938-1939 - ...

The idea of the journo-coder, programmer-journalist, hacker-journalist, journo-programmer (the terminology is undecided) is gaining ground as data journalism develops both in Britain and internationally. Programmers are coming into newsrooms, journalists are venturing further into programming and there is some blurring where the two meet. Data journalism (DJ) is certainly becoming the Big Buzz Story in the media but so far little has been writ...

. The 'morally defensible' journalist: Shedding 'performance' and managing an ethic of empathy within personal trauma narrative - by Sue Joseph . A Gandhian conundrum: The ethical dilemma in the Indian sustainability discourse - by Prithi Nambiar . Achieving the goal of a global computing code of ethics through an international-localisation hybrid - by Oliver K. Burmeister . Fit to post but not fit to print: Channel consistency and virtue ethi...

A new approach to stress is found in STRESS GREMLINS the latest book by Ann McCracken, life management consultant and stress expert. In this book Ann demystifies the word 'stress' and takes a down to earth approach to dealing with life's everyday hassles. There are lots of questions and quizzes to assist the reader in their own personal exploration. The Stress Gremlins bring a new insight to managing stress and offer a dynamic approach to tack...

Most of the public and academic debate over the media in Britain focuses on the national state-of-play - as a result, the local media are marginalised or ignored all-together. The second edition of What Do We mean By Local? (edited by John Mair and Richard Lance Keeble with Neil Fowler) tackles that problem head-on: both analysing and celebrating the local media - in its historical, national and international contexts - with all its extraordin...

Recent years have been pretty dire for the BBC. The Jimmy Savile revelations, the Newsnight/Lord McAlpine debacle, the ignominious fall from grace of Director-General George Entwistle after just 54 days in the hot seat and the scandal of the top executives' pay-offs have all seriously damaged public trust in the Corporation. But as the BBC heads for negotiations on the new licence fee and charter renewal (both due in 2017) and the country prep...

Principles of Business and Management' is a refreshing introductory book to business studies. IT FEATURES: Examples which are easy to understand as they are drawn from everyday experiences. A wide range of questions which help the reader to appreciate the pervasive nature of business in their environment today. Case studies with sample answers that act as a guide to tackling examination questions while appreciating the challenges of business. ...

This exceptional account book includes some journal entries of successive wardens of Browne's Hospital, Stamford, 1495-1518, revealing their frustrations as they sought to manage far-flung rural estates in Lincolnshire, Rutland and Northants, as well as in the town of Stamford. They faced declining income which led them to leave some places in the Hospital empty (the entries and departures of the bedesmen and women are recorded, thus providing...

FOR ANYONE WITH AN INTEREST IN HYDRAULICS HYDRAULICS ARE USED BY MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD IN THEIR EVERYDAY LIVES, THIS BOOK EXPLAINS HOW COMPONENTS AND SYSTEMS WORK AND PROVIDES GUIDANCE ON THE BEST WAYS TO MAINTAIN THE EQUIPMENT AND OBTAIN A LONG LIFE. Of equal interest to users of hydraulic equipment and those directly employed in the Fluid Power Industry, the book incorporates Don Seddon's practical knowledge of product design, sys...

The Profiling Handbook examines the history, theory and journalistic practice of profile writing across a range of countries, including Australia, Brazil, South Africa, the UK and US. Profiles and the practice of writing them are of increasing interest to scholars of journalism because conflicts between the interviewer and the subject exemplify the changing nature of journalism itself. This interesting and multi-layered interaction, however, h...