Tina Turner was listed amongst the best vocalist of all time by Rolling Stoneq magazine since she had sold more than 100 millions copies of her album globally. Turner affirmed and amplified Black women formative stake in Rock n Roll defining the era of music to the extent that Mick Hanger admitted to taking inspiration from her high kicking, energ9 live performance for his stage persona.qShe has suffered I'll health in recent years and she answered the ultimate call on the 24th May...

Find wisdom, answers and healing, right where you stand.Are you stuck in your head, always worrying and looking out there for answers? Do you sense your body is trying to tell you something, but don’t know how to listen? Are you looking for a new way of living in the world, that brings fresh answers, deeper empathy and radical self acceptance? In this guide, you will:learn a step by step journey to access our inner wisdom or intuitionlearn how to mee...

Identifying “lessons learned” is not new—the military has been doing it for decades. However, members of the worldwide intelligence community have been slow to extract wider lessons gathered from the past and apply them to contemporary challenges. Learning from the Secret Past is a collection of ten carefully selected cases from post-World War II British intelligence history. Some of the cases include the Malayan Emergency, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Northern Ireland, and the lead ...

"This book provides a vivid, real-time account of New York City during the COVID-19 pandemic, blending personal experiences with historical context to capture the community's resilience."-Kishor Panthi, Editor-in-Chief, Khasokhas/NepYork"A powerful and heartfelt memoir, Behind the Mask: A Pandemic Memoir captures life in the pandemic through the eyes of someone who consistently showed up for others. Written with honesty and warmth, it illuminates both the hardship and the h...

'An indispensible inquiry into our moral health and humanity.'LSE Review of BooksThe war on terror has politicised foreign aid as never before. Aid workers are being killed at an alarming rate and civilians in war-torn countries abandoned to their fate.From the ravaged streets of Mogadishu to the unending struggle in Helmand, Peter Gill travels to some of the most conflict-stricken places on earth to reveal the true relationship between the aid business and ...

Spying, the “world’s second oldest profession,” is hardly limited to the traditional great power countries. Intelligence Elsewhere, nevertheless, is the first scholarly volume to deal exclusively with the comparative study of national intelligence outside of the anglosphere and European mainstream. Past studies of intelligence and counterintelligence have tended to focus on countries such as the United States, Great Britain, and Russia, as well as, to a lesser extent, Canada, Aust...

You took relationships as if they were the next train.Alex and Colin's stories flow like mist down the Thames, roll under Hammersmith Bridge, and slip past the windows of forgotten Soho restaurants. As the old men's youth comes to life, two young men watch on - and nobody knows they are falling in love.The world premiere of this captivating and romantic portrait of London was co-directed by the author at the Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in October 2022.

This first collection of Peter Gill's plays spans his work from 1965 to 1987. The plays are studies of love and time, loss and the fear of loss. The collection includes the plays The Sleepers Den, Over Gardens Out, Small Change, Kick for Touch, In The Blue and Mean Tears, and is introduced by John Burgess.

Cardiff East'As scene melts into scene, one's appetite for knowing more and more about these people is constantly whetted, even for the ones one would avoid in real life. Each and every [character] rings true and resonates further... A play which is never less than gripping.'Mail on SundayCertain Young Men'The play is marked by a fast turnover of scenes, lots of brusque, vivid, wryly funny dialogue... articulate, arres...

Developing Intelligence Theory analyses the current state of intelligence theorisation, provides a guide to a range of approaches and perspectives, and points towards future research agendas in this field. Key questions discussed include the role of intelligence theory in organising the study of intelligence, how (and how far) explanations of intelligence have progressed in the last decade, and how intelligence theory should develop from here.Significant changes have occurred in th...

This comparative analysis of the sometimes fraught process of achieving democratic governance of security intelligence agencies presents material from countries other than those normally featured in the Intelligence Studies literature of North America and Europe. Some of the countries examined are former Communist countries and several in Latin America are former military regimes. Others have been democratic for a long time but still experience widespread political violence. Through a mix ...

Apprenticeship is Peter Gill's potent recollection of the changing theatrical landscape of the 1960s. Part history, part memoir, part polemic, it puts into context his recently discovered diary of 1962 in which he vividly recalls his experiences as a young actor in Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle as part of their first London season. This intensely personal account, by turns witty and evocative, includes a penetrating analysis of the figures and themes of twentieth century drama and ma...