Practice in safeguarding adults is changing, with a shift in approach to ensure it is person-centred and outcome-focused. The Care Act 2014 introduced new safeguarding duties for local authorities, and this book describes what up-to-date practice should look like, and how to provide the best quality care and support for adults who may be at risk of abuse or neglect.Chapters cover core areas of practice according to Care Act and adult safeguarding principles, identify the fundamenta...

I've lived a ruthless life full of resentment. There's nothing and no one I loathe more than Chief Ben Witter.I'm the president of the Blood Hounds MC, and Witter has always been a thorn in my side.He can't be bought. And he's on a mission to dismantle my club.But my obsession with hurting him has nothing to do with club business. It's personal.I want to annihilate him for making the man I've always loved, fall for him instead. A dead man wh...

The Great War will always be synonymous with trench warfare and the mass slaughter inflicted by machine guns on the helpless but gallant infantry. There is a good reason for this view as the machine guns took a terrible toll, and the infantry's experiences continue to fascinate and appal people today. But one aspect of the fighting that gets insufficient attention is the artillery. Histories of the major battles often reduce the role of the big guns to a few paragraphs, and this has create...

What was it like to serve as an artillery officer during the Second World War? How did he view the battlefield and experience combat? And how did his work with the guns combine with that of the other arms - the infantry, the tanks? Peter Pettit's diary, covering his entire wartime career in the Royal Artillery, edited and with an extensive introduction by John Philip Jones, offers a rare insight into the day-to-day existence of a gunner at war, and it is a valuable record of the role playe...

Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an intimate way the struggle of innocent youth to adapt to the primitive code of “kill or be killed,” to transform from lads into combat soldiers.Another River, Another Town is the story of John P. Irwin, a teenage tank gunner whose idealistic desire to achieve heroism is shattered by the incredibly different view of life the worl...

Iris Murdoch ist zufällig gerade am Fluss, als das Schreckliche geschieht. Nur deshalb überlebt sie den Überfall der Fremden auf die Farm ihrer Eltern. Als die Banditen abziehen, bleibt Iris als einzige Überlebende zurück. Einen Tag und eine Nacht steht sie reglos da, wie erstarrt. Dann holt John Willard sie ins Leben zurück.Er ist ein Revolvermann auf der Fährte der Outlaws. Deshalb hat ihn sein Weg zur Farm der Murdochs geführt. Er kann die hilflose junge Frau nicht einfach zurück...

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir Series. Memoir by a B-17 top turret gunner of the 600th Bomb Squadron, 398th Bomb Group, Eighth Air Force, who was shot down and became a POW. Contents: (1) “Big Ass Bird”. (2) “Greetings…" (3) England. (4) Hamburg—First Blood. (5) Big “B”, Berlin, June 21, 1944. (6) Milk Run. (7) London Town. (8) The Red Lion. (9) Toulouse. (10) Mayday (M’daidez). (11) Bailout. (12) Dulag Luft, Frankfurt. (13) Kriegie. (14) The Black March. (15) Escape. (16) Back Up, Joe! ...

Cree Legends and Narratives from the West Coast of James Bay is the first major body of annotated texts in James Bay Cree, and a unique documentation of Swampy and Moose Cree (Western James Bay) usage of the 1950s and 1960s.Conversations and interviews with 16 different speakers include: legends, reminiscences, historical narratives, stories and conversations, as well as descriptions of technology. The book includes a detailed pronunciation guide, notes on Cree terms, info...

John Comer kept a journal of the twenty-five missions he flew in 1943 when the casualty rate on his base was close to 80 percent. His book is handwritten history, recorded within hours after the battles occurred.Comer vividly creates his experiences as top-turret gunner/flight engineer in a B-17 Squadron that was thrown against the best pilots the Luftwaffe could offer. In 1943 the Army Air Force had no long-range fighters to protect the B-17s as they flew deep into enemy territory...