James A. Garfield rose from a poor log cabin to the White House, guided by the belief that “things don’t turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.” But his greatest battle began after the gunfire stopped. Shot by a delusional stranger who claimed God sent him, Garfield faced not one killer but many—the bullet, the politics, and the doctors who ignored every chance to save him. As he whispered near the end, “Tell the country I did my duty.”This is the untold story of ambit...

Written by practising lawyer and academic, Michael Pugh, this book helps candidates preparing for the SQE1 assessment to revise the relevant core principles and rules of contract law. It shows readers how to apply the fundamental legal principles and rules at the level required by the SQE and for a competent newly qualified solicitor in practice. Readers will be able to test their subject knowledge and familiarity with legal principles and rules, using scenarios drawn from the author’s pro...

Written by practising lawyer and academic, Michael Pugh, this book helps candidates preparing for the SQE1 assessment to revise the relevant core principles and rules of contract law. Up to date for the 2023 SQE1 specification, it shows readers how to apply the fundamental legal principles and rules at the level required by the SQE and for a competent newly qualified solicitor in practice. Readers will be able to test their subject knowledge and familiarity with legal prin...

Written by practising lawyer and academic, Michael Pugh, this book helps candidates preparing for the SQE1 assessment to revise the relevant core principles and rules of contract law. It shows readers how to apply the fundamental legal principles and rules at the level required by the SQE and for a competent newly qualified solicitor in practice. Readers will be able to test their subject knowledge and familiarity with legal principles and rules, using scenarios drawn from the author’s pro...

For nearly twenty years, Glasgow has been coined Europe’s murder capital, and identified as having the continent’s highest drug harms. The Contemporary History of Drug-Based Organised Crime in Scotland examines converging multiple complexities that contributed to Scotland’s criminal modus operandi concentrating on drug-based organised crime.Glasgow is the most populous city in Scotland. The region is likewise responsible for a disproportionate number of the country’s crime...

This book unpacks the Michael Chekhov acting technique as interpreted and taught by 2 of the great American teachers - Ted Pugh and Fern Sloan - who have collectively taught the Michael Chekhov Technique for over 80 years across the world and who jointly founded the Michael Chekhov School in 2014.The author brings Pugh's and Sloan's own interpretations of, and first-hand access to, Michael Chekhov to the reader and, through doing so, makes the Technique fluid, simp...

In 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a theologian and pastor—was executed by the Nazis for his resistance to their unspeakable crimes against humanity. He was only 39 years old when he died, but Bonhoeffer left behind volumes of work exploring theological and ethical themes that have now inspired multiple generations of scholars, students, pastors, and activists. This book highlights the ways Dietrich Bonhoeffer's work informs political theology and examines Bonhoeffer's contributions in three way...

The postwar years in the UK saw the development of numerous artificial playgrounds intended to compensate children for increasing urbanization and a lack of wild places to play. Many of these sites employed playleaders, whose job was to use play to instill social behavioral norms on children, using games with rules and organized activities. From the early 1970s, that approach began to be replaced by playwork, a nondirective way of working. Playwork marked a rejection of the adult-focused p...

Can the Bible be proven by a preponderance of the evidence or beyond a reasonable doubt through ancient writings, modern archaeology, and science to be historically and scientifically accurate?An AV preeminent rated attorney, the highest rating by his peers, and, by one registry, an attorney in the top one percent of attorneys, with almost fifty years of broad private, government, and teaching legal experience, tells you why, from a lawyer's perspective, he is convinced th...

Brought to you by Penguin.'One of the greatest books of a very great thinker' Michael TannerThis Penguin Classic is performed by Leighton Pugh, known for his various roles at the National Theatre. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Michael Tanner.Beyond Good and Evil confirmed Nietzsche's position as the towering European philosopher of his age. The work dramatically rejects traditional W...

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales was the subject of the first volume in the Approaches to Teaching series, published in 1980. But in the past thirty years, Chaucer scholarship has evolved dramatically, teaching styles have changed, and new technologies have created extraordinary opportunities for studying Chaucer. This second edition of Approaches to Teaching Chaucer's Canterbury Tales reflects the wide variety of contexts in which students encounter the poem and the diversity ...

The Winter 2020-21 Issue. Ploughshares is an award-winning journal of new writing. Since 1971, Ploughshares has discovered and cultivated the freshest voices in contemporary American literature, and now provides readers with thoughtful and entertaining literature in a variety of formats. Find out why the New York Times named Ploughshares “the Triton among minnows.”The Winter 2020-21 Issue, edited by Editor-in-chief Ladette Randolph and Poetry Editor John Skoyles, features poetry an...