This book is a work of press history that considers how the music press represented permissive social change for their youthful readership. Read by millions every week, the music press provided young people across the country with a guide to the sounds, personalities and controversies that shaped British popular music and, more broadly, British culture and society.By analysing music papers and oral history interviews with journalists and editors, Patrick Glen examines how papers re...

The Age of Revolution is the first of four works by Eric Hobsbawm that collectively synthesize the ideas he developed over a lifetime spent studying the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Hobsbawm's vision is important – he was a lifelong Marxist whose view of history was shaped by a fascination with social and economic history, yet who privileged evidence over political theory – but the real power of these works, and especially The Age of Revolution, emanates fro...

Westad’s seminal 2005 work shifts the focus of Cold War studies from Europe to the post-World War II interventions by both the Soviet Union and the United States in the affairs of developing nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Using new archival sources that became available after the fall of communism, Westad explains how these interventions destabilized the Third World, laying the foundations for contemporary problems and conflicts in the Global South.¶The Global Cold War is the ...

Every semester or term, many students panic during exam time. Are you one of them?? Do you like to find a better way of doing things?? If you have answered yes to any of those questions, then this book is definitely for you.With many years spent at University and various institutions of learning, I know how it feels to wake up and go to the exam room whilst knowing or feeling not ready. I have been there. I wrote this book for anyone who is in school, no matter your age. You could ...

This is a basic bodyguarding course. It's written in a manner to teach basic skills to those who are starting out in the profession, those who want to increase their knowledge and also gives an in-depth look as to what bodyguards are expected to do, the people they work for and the intruders that they protect them from with hundreds of questions to check understanding.

Are you looking for an edge? An advantage in life?People who understand and know how to use their memory the right way have a tremendous advantage in life.What's the correct way to use your memory? Do you know? Would you like to know?Do you forget people's names?Do you forget birthdays and anniversaries?Do you forget things when you do your grocery shopping?Are you one of those people who thinks that you have a bad memory?You're wrong...

Turn your hard work into the top A-Level results with the Cheeky Shortcut Guide to the most common topics for Biology A-Level revision.This A-level biology workbook features key exam topics for biology with precise and clear points to help you achieve top marks.Covers:Biological Molecules and EnzymesCells and OrganellesClassificationGas ExchangePhotosynthesisNutrition and DigestionTransportNutrition and Digestion...

Turn your hard work into top A-Level results with the Cheeky Shortcut Guide to the most common topics for A level maths revision. This workbook features key exam topics for maths with precise and clear points to help you achieve top marks.This guide covers:Coordinate GeometryTrigonometryBasic AlgebraAdvanced AlgebraSequences and SeriesFunctionsDifferentiationIntegrationNumerical MethodsVectors, Lines and Planes

This book focuses specifically on how you, as a doctoral candidate, can raise your level of thinking about your chosen topic. Doing so will improve the quality of your research and ultimately contribute to knowledge.

Learn academic listening and note-taking skills.The audio contained within this eBook is suitable for tablets and mobile phones but may not work on some older devices and eInk readers. We recommend that you download a sample to your device before purchasing.*The Collins Academic Skills Series – winner of the ELTon 2014 Innovation in Learner Resources Award.*Collins Academic Skills Series: Lectures will give you the skills you need to get more out of the lectures you...

Practice, practice, practice!  The best way to prepare for a test is to take practice exams!  Each of our practice exams it designed to be slightly more difficult than the actual exam, to build confidence on the day of the test. Test Form C is the third of three books, each containing a complete PAT exam of equal difficulty.  One full length perceptual ability test of 90 questions, valid for both the Canadian Dental Aptitude Test and the American Dental Admissi...

This is the first research methods book to focus entirely on physical education and youth sport. It guides the reader through the whole research process; from the first steps to completion of a dissertation or practice-based project, and introduces key topics such as:formulating a research questionqualitative approachesquantitative approachesmixed method researchliterature reviewcase studiessurvey, intervie...