A former British Royal Army Veterinary Corps officer recalls his adventures with the Special Forces in Oman during the 1970s in this military memoir.In 1970 at the height of the Cold War, the young Sandhurst-trained Sultan Qaboes of Oman, with secret British military backing, took on the communist rebels in a fierce but little-known war. Along with regular British Army and 'contract' officers, the SAS played a key role in this bitterly fought but ultimately successf...

A comprehensive account of legal professional privilege as it applies to corporations covering four major common law jurisdictions: the UK, Australia, Canada and the United States. Higgins provides a practical set of principles to advise practitioners in the large number of areas where there is uncertainty in the law of privilege as it applies to corporate communications. This book will act as an invaluable guide to practitioners and judges trying to ascertain the often fine line between w...

On 12th June 2018, Gabrielle Joy Higgins (known to her family as ‘Granny Bunty’), would have reached her 100th birthday.She missed it by five months, but the family celebrated the occasion with a happy weekend in the Yorkshire Dales with many toasts and reminiscences. They took with them two previously unknown boxes of her writings, discovered in her flat in Tunbridge Wells, and started to delve. There were nearly 300 articles, all written for a regular writing class that she atten...

這是一本所有的人，男性和女性，年輕人和老年人，教育和沒有受過教育，信徒和非信徒，富人與窮人，因為它是一本書的啟發，希望和指導。這是史蒂夫·希金斯，一個很普通的人，他的生活被徹底改變了，因為上帝的愛，憐憫，恩典，在我的人生關鍵時刻，我在這本書與你分享生活真實的生活故事，一部編年史。 如果你沒有信心，或者如果你想你的信心恢復了，還是增加了，那麼這是你的書。如果你想知道地球上什麼是世界上發生的所有的煩惱這本書將幫助你理解。如果你需要得到醫治無論是身體上，情感上，經濟上，精神上還是那麼這本書將是在得到你的治療有很大的幫助。 這不是巧合，你之前，你有這本書現在。我相信這是上帝的神聖任命為您的生活和他有他對你的生活的手，現在即使你可能沒有意識到這一點。讀了這本書，然後你就會明白我在說什麼。                 &...

This is the complete essential buyer's guide to finding the best available example of the classic front-engined Porsche 944.Insight from real ownership experience is coupled with unparalleled technical knowledge, resulting in the first dedicated guidebook for potential buyers of the Porsche 944. A comprehensive guide, including an inspection checklist that buyers can use when viewing a car, photos of key areas to check, and known issues for each model, and an overv...

The book you can trust to guide you through your teaching career, as the expert authors share tried and tested techniques in secondary settings. For this new edition Caroline Daly, with Andrew Pollard, has worked with top practitioners from around the UK, to create a text that is both cohesive and that continues to evolve to meet the needs of today's secondary school teachers.Reflective Teaching in Schools uniquely provides two levels of support:- p...

The 1960 California Master Plan for Higher Education remains to this day the largest and most ambitious attempt to provide free, universal college education in the United States. Yet the Master Plan, the product of committed Cold War liberals, unfortunately served to reinforce the very class-based exclusions and de facto racism that plagued K–12 education in the nation’s largest and most diverse state. In doing so, it inspired a wave of student and faculty organizing that not only forced a...

From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor documents the overlooked history and lasting influence of the International Socialists through the words of its members.The Independent Socialist Club, founded at UC Berkeley in 1964 as a radical civil rights group, lit the spark of the Free Speech Movement that same year, and its members and successor organizations would go on to play an outsized role in shaping the course of both the Black freedom strugg...

Andrew Jackson Higgins is perhaps the most forgotten hero of the Allied victory. He designed the LCVP (landing craft vehicle, personnel) that played such a vital role in the invasion of Normandy as well as the first effective tank landing craft. During the war, New Orleans–based Higgins Industries produced over twenty thousand boats, including lightning-fast PT boats and the twenty-seven-foot airborne lifeboat. Higgins dedicated himself to providing Allied soldiers with the finest landing ...

The book you can trust to guide you through your teaching career, as the expert authors share tried and tested techniques in primary settings. Dominic Wyse, with Andrew Pollard, have worked with top practitioners from around the UK, to create a text that is both cohesive and that continues to evolve to meet the needs of today's primary school teachers.This book uniquely provides two levels of support:- practical, evidence-based guidance on key classroom issu...

Corrupt politicians and crooked contractors plan to build a new road through the ancient beech and oak woodlands of Higgins Bottom.Opposed to the project are a mixture of hippies, environmentalists and concerned local citizens who have set up a camp in the woods, in the path of the proposed road, to try and save the threatened trees.Despite their opposition, the project seems destined to go ahead. With only days left, it depends on a final ballot from the local council whic...

Outdoor drama takes many forms: ancient Greek theatre, open-air performances of Shakespeare at summer festivals, and re-enactments of landmark historical events. The essays gathered in "Outdoor Performance," Volume 17 of the annual journal Theatre Symposium, address outdoor theatre's many manifestations, including the historical and non-traditional.Among other subjects, these essays explore the rise of "airdomes" as performance spaces in the American Midwest in the first h...