Shortlisted for the BBC Audio Drama Award 2015 for Best Scripted Comedy (Studio Audience)In the complete Series 1-4 of the multi-award-winning hit show from the people who brought you Cabin Pressure and Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, stand-up comedian Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing!In each episode, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of a big old thing - a hospital, a prison, the banking system, the grea...

Gathering in one place a cohesive selection of articles that deepen our sense of the vitality and controversy within the Catholic renewal of the mid-twentieth century, God’s Mirror offers historical analysis of French Catholic intellectuals. This volume highlights the work of writers, thinkers and creative artists who have not always drawn the attention given to such luminaries as Maritain, Mounier, and Marcel.Organized around the typologies of renewal and engagement, editors Kathe...

Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s work, and a moving and intimate memoir.In 2012, facing the death of his father and impending fatherhood, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down and look at—in situ—every painting still in existence by Pieter Bruegel...

Sure to be hailed alongside H is for Hawk and The Hare with Amber Eyes, an exceptional work that is at once an astonishing journey across countries and continents, an immersive examination of a great artist’s work, and a moving and intimate memoir.At the age of 42, his father not long dead and his young sons growing fast, Toby Ferris set off on a seemingly quixotic mission to track down each of the 42 surviving paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elde...

Does a computer have a conscience?Should prisoners have the right to vote?Can you learn real history from films and TV?These are examples of Real Questions from recent Oxbridge law interviews. Stumped? You don’t need to be!Published by the World’s first Oxbridge Preparation School, The Ultimate Oxbridge Interview Guide: Law contains over

Many Black, Latinx, multiracial and ethnically diverse, first-generation college students turned PhDs—tie their academic success, achievements, and ability to navigate the difficult terrain of higher education back to the critical experiences and lessons learned in their home lives and through their cultural backgrounds. For them, culture matters. This book offers an opportunity for an anti-deficit and positive examination of (Black, Latinx, and multiracial) culture and its role in creatin...

Aphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world. This revision and update of the well-received first edition published ten years ago reflects the expansion of research in genomics, endosymbionts and semiochemicals, as well as the shift from control of aphids with insecticides to a more integrated approach imposed by increasing resistance in the aphids and government restrictions on pesticides. The bo...

Many law firms today are far too focused on increasing market share; they should be paying attention to what makes them a more profitable business. Market share doesn't matter much if you're not profitable, and firms cannot simply grow their way to prosperity by undercutting the competition. Instead, firms must focus on value creation and increasing clients' willingness to pay for their services. The question should be: "What can your firm do better, or more efficiently, and more profitabl...

十岁的基莉·罗莎莉·塔克是一个现代骑士，却没有铠甲。经常受到邻居男孩的欺凌，基莉努力寻找自己在这个世界中的位置，唯一能安慰她的是祖母讲述的有关魔法、遥远地方的故事，那里的独角兽、仙女和天使保护儿童免受生活中的日常痛苦和危险。现在，基莉只需弄清如何召唤它们来帮助她。一切都在她深爱的祖母突然去世并将她的老马玛丽亚赠送给她后发生了改变，开启了一段冒险。基莉发现玛丽亚会说话，她很快找到了通往一个隐藏的山谷，跨越月亮和彩虹，那里怪物和龙扰乱和侵入心灵的平静。现在，她必须学会相信自己，发展她的秘密力量，以在为时已晚之前传递奇迹。在这个迷人而富有魅力的幻想故事中，一个小女孩学会召唤勇气，依靠她的想象力，她敞开心扉和思维，聆听可能的声音，最后一搏地拯救一个朋友。"就像哈利·波特系列一样...各个年龄段都可以享受基莉的冒险，这本小说非常适合年轻的奇幻小说迷。""基莉的世界在认知上是真实的，有时显得严峻，但她前往的幻想世界也不是乌托邦...让人想起'最后的独角兽'或'无尽的故事'..."-

A further BBC Radio episode of the classic science fiction series created by Charles Chilton.In this exciting adventure, Jet Morgan and his crew receive a distress call from an abandoned space freighter. But when they board the ship, Jet and Doc discover a digitised personality locked inside the ship's computer - one with a deadly intent. The crew must find a way to defeat the vastly superior Host: for if they fail, they will not only all perish, but mankind will b...

Time - as they say - is money. It is not an uncommon fact that lawyers today spend unnecessary amounts of time seeking out information, and therefore unnecessary amounts of money. In well-established fields, change is often slow; perhaps none more so than in the legal world. Though progress is being made, uptake has been rather slow, much to the dismay of those in the information management business. Conversely to its cousin, case management, matter management should be thought of more in ...

This book looks deeply at women researchers’ personal stories, struggles, and successes within the context of conducting research in the male-dominated sphere of prison studies. Their insights provide an analytical resource from which readers can better understand the context of doing prison research and the theoretical and methodological challenges that come with it. Their autoethnographic stories shed light on the unique issues faced by women prison researchers and provide a roadmap for ...