Hong Kong, 1980.A British police officer minutes away from being arrested by colleagues for sex crimes is found dead in his locked bedroom. There are multiple wounds to his chest; his used service revolver by his side. There's only one possible conclusion: suicide.Yet a painstaking reinvestigation of this alleged suicide uncovers a different story: one involving a secret paedophile ring servicing the city's most powerful men, high-level cover-ups, international geopolitics ...

This book will enable and assist teachers responsible for organizing and delivering Sex and Relationships Education. It draws together the best available practice to support teachers in developing policy and classroom practice. It begins by looking at general principles and then focuses on primary, secondary and special schools as well as pupil referral units. These chapters will provide a toolkit of ideas and approaches that teachers can use in the classroom.Included are practical...

Finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, winner of the Canadian Book Club Award, and recipient of the Word Guild Award for Best Fiction, Monday Rent Boy is an unforgettable literary novel about friendship, mentorship, the consequences of being a bystander, and the courage it takes to finally tell the truth.You never forget the friend who taught you who you were—or the day you failed him.Arthur Barnes and Ernie ...

Philosophical-Occult periodical featuring the following essays1 Land: Neurosys2 Blake: Elves of Disintegration3 O'Sullivan: Mythopoesis, Scenes and Performance Fictions:4 Schlep: Spider-Spit: Notes of the formation of an Alchemical-Textual Machine.5 Johns: Creating emergence : A Brief Study of Conceptual, Phenomenological and Material Autopoietic Emergence.6 Ardoline: Neuroticism and the Impossibility of Meta-Philosophy7 Hall: Neu...

This book examines the key developments in the UK magazine industry since 2014 and explains in detail how the business has innovated to survive.Innovations in Magazine Publishing explores the key issues that publishers and editors have had to grapple with in recent years and demonstrates how they have changed their business models and encouraged innovation and creativity. Written in an engaging and accessible style, the authors and contributors have drawn on years of indus...

The rush of entrepreneurial activity in China has been watched with interest by the financial world. This book, the result of an international symposium on Chinese accounting and financial management, assesses the little-known accounting scene in China which up until 1978 remained behind closed doors.Divided into four sections, the volume covers:Chinese perspectives on accountingthe business and financial structure of China, including the...

The social and emotional needs of children have become increasingly important to educators in recent years, as the impact they have on improving behaviour and promoting inclusion has become evident.Written in an accessible style for busy practitioners, this book gives advice on creating an emotionally and socially ′healthy′ school.The book:- shows why schools should promote emotional and social development- includes practical ideas & activities for those wor...

Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a variety of diverse philosophical approaches to his films and to the thinking behind their creation. The Philosophy of Werner Herzog, edited by M. Blake Wilson and Christopher Turner,collects fourteen essays by professional philosophers and film theorists from around the globe, who explore the famed...

Friends make everything better even poetry! This book celebrates friendships of all kinds. And, like a good friend, it shares the tools you'll need to write your own poems. So open up, and discover the poet in you!

What’s a persnickle? And why is it floofing? Shouldn't it be flurfing, blurfing, or slurfing? This book celebrates all sorts of silly, nonsensical stuff. And it gives you the keys you’ll need to unlock your own poems. So open up, and discover the poet in you!

Arising from the 2019 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents essays from seven prominent public intellectuals on the theme of vision. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, making for a lively interdisciplinary volume including chapters on neuroscience, colour perception, biological evolution, astronomy, the future of technology, computer vision, and the visionary core of science. Featuring contributions by professors of neuroscienc...

Traces the maritime routes and the historical networks that link port cities around the Atlantic worldPort Cities of the Atlantic World brings together a collection of essays that examine the centuries-long transatlantic transportation of people, goods, and ideas with a focus on the impact of that trade on what would become the American South. Employing a wide temporal range and broad geographic scope, the scholars contributing to this volume call for a se...