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The story of Bloody Mary, the most brutal of brutal Tudors.

Concise account of a forgotten Cold War conflict and its terrible outcome.

Based upon primary research-diaries, first-hand accounts of the times, letters etc. this book offers an amalgamation of many different facts, garnered from a multitude of resources, all in one book.

Highly illustrated history of the most successful British cruiser tank of the Second World War.

The Wiking SS Division was one of the most ruthless fighting formations of WW2. This is the fifth in the author's Waffen SS Division Images of War series.

Charts the decline of Spartan power from the Peloponnesian War (arguing that victory in this war actually contained the seeds of their downfall) down to the Roman conquest of Greece and Sparta's absorption into the Achaean League in 146 BC.

The heart of the book lies in the exploration of the inner lives of these young people, whether or not they find their way to clinical services. It sets out to illuminate the sorts of things that go wrong, and how we can help to address them - the crises of identity, gender, loss, self-harm, bullying, depression, anger, suicidal impulses, anxiety.

This book discusses how Europe’s Roma minorities have often been perceived as a threat to majority cultures and societies. Frequently, the Roma have become the target of nationalism, extremism, and racism. At the same time, they have been approached in terms of human rights and become the focus of programs dedicated to inclusion, anti-discrimination, and combatting poverty. This book reflects on this situation from the viewpoint of how the Rom...

“Generation” has become a central concept of cultural, historical and social studies. This book analyses how this concept is currently used and how it relates to memory and constructions of historical meaning from educational, historical, legal and political perspectives. Attempts to compare different national generations or to elaborate boundary-crossing, transnational generations still constitute an exception. In trying to fill this gap, thi...

This book describes how, after the Second World War, the Labour Party assumed leadership of the International Socialist Movement, thanks to the achievements of the Attlee Government. International Secretary Denis Healey guided the reconstruction of the Socialist International through the early Cold War, making the British vision for socialist internationalism prevail over the French and Belgian. At first, the provisional Socialist Internationa...

Settings, in denen der Klient durch gezielte Fragen und Interventionen eines Coachs lernen soll, Probleme oder Konflikte selbständig zu lösen, um leistungsfähiger zu werden oder eigene Ziele besser erkennen und umsetzen zu können, erleben einen beispiellosen Boom. Dabei nehmen Coachings längst nicht mehr nur die berufliche Situation in den Blick, sondern bieten sich als Hilfe in nahezu jeder Lebenslage an. Die Methoden und deren Risiken sind i...

This textbook describes in detail the fundamental information about the 8051 microcontroller and it carefully teaches readers how to use the microcontroller to make both electronics hardware and software.  In addition to discussion of the 8051 internals, this text includes numerous, solved examples, end-of-chapter exercises, laboratory and practical projects. Explains internals of 8051 hardware and relates to general principles of computer arc...

In recent years, the attention of the scientific and social community has not solely been on producing new findings, but increasingly also on the related issues of the reliability, safety, and efficacy of the discoveries made, as well as the efficient and effective use of resources. The adoption of management models and tools can help scientists to improve their research, ensuring valuable, robust and dependable outcomes. Quality disciplines h...

An original, radical and vital new voice in Irish writing ... [The Cruelty Men] should propel an already proven and prodigious talent to the forefront of contemporary Irish letters.' THE IRISH TIMES

Based on the actual event of a Highland neighbourhood being cleared to allow for secret preparations for D-Day, this novel evokes the reserves of hope everyday people drew on in the darkest days of the Second World War.

Bringing together leading academics worldwide, this collection compares and critically examines the ways in which different countries are regulating healthcare in general, and health professions in particular, in the interest of users and the wider public.

Where Is All My Relation? presents the first sustained academic discussion of the poetry, pottery, and culture of David Drake, an antebellum slave who distinguished himself by composing verse on the ceramics he produced in the years leading up to the Civil War.

The basic attributes of industrial machines and systems are the productivity rates and quality of products. This book presents the mathematical models for optimization of machining regimes and optimization of the numbers of working stations for production lines of different structures by the criterion of maximal productivity rates.

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Melbourne, Melbourne Law School, 2015) issued under title: The figure of the victim in international criminal justice.

This book traces the development of the ideal of sincerity from its origins in Anglo-Saxon monasteries to its eventual currency in fifteenth-century familiar letters. Beginning by positioning sincerity as an ideology at the intersection of historical pragmatics and the history of emotions, the author demonstrates how changes in the relationship between outward expression and inward emotions changed English language and literature. While the ea...