This historical analysis of the ill-fated Franco-British operation reveals how it nearly spelled defeat for the Triple Entente in WWI.In December of 1916, General Robert Nivelle was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the French armies fighting the Germans on the Western Front. A national hero, he had enjoyed a meteoric rise to high command and public acclaim since the beginning of the Great War. In return, he proclaimed he 'had the formula' that would ensure victory a...

Murder and mystery in the mountains!With the wealthy, Machiavellian, feuding family dynamics of Game of Thrones, the wintry sense of entrapment of Murder on the Orient Express, and the suspenseful implications of technology gone awry of Jurassic Park, The Murders in the Endicott Hotel is a suspenseful thriller that will keep you turning pages.Thanks to a scientific advance, Daniel Larch's company, Pioneer Medical Technolo...

For lovers of Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and Pablo Neruda comes a poetry book about the beauty of nature and people. The Natural World focuses on euphony, imagery, and form. Among those forms are free verse, blank verse, the sestina, sonnet, villanelle, ode, and rondeau. This slim volume is one to luxuriate with by a fire on a winter's night, to read time and again, and to draw you from routine.

This is a work that challenges the modern scientific world-view that nothing of any order producing significance created the ordered sum of everything. Some, however, seem to think that when they discover the means by which something came into existence this is one less thing we need God to explain, until we get to that point when we can conclude that nothing produced the ordered sum of everything. The fact is that for things to be investigated intelligently they first have to be ordered i...

After the credit crisis, supervisors enacted a range of financial reforms. In particular, they radically changed the nature of the OTC derivatives market via a number of measures, notably mandatory central clearing. This book discusses the market before the crisis, explains what central clearing is, and outlines the consequences of the new rules.

Harold Debec was having a lousy year. His wife had left him for a holistic healer, his son graduated college and headed for the pacific northwest to saw lumber and finally the unkindest cut of all, fired from the ad agency he had helped found. Against his better instincts, Harry moves to Hollywood to help promote the snake-bitten sequel to a talking dog movie. Enter a Hungarian junkie film director, a trio of would-be entrepreneurs who steal America's favorite pooch and a movie exec named ...

"As its title suggests, many of the poems in Drowning in the Desert concern themselves with the condition of being helpless beyond circumstance. A secret regret…and a motif of the drowned and the unsaved threads through the book like a nagging guilt. The author's life is presented like a tourist's pilgrimage in poems that are shaded with displacement – the poet is a sojourner in every place he rests. This collection is a journey that asks to be taken." – John W Sexton

'Profound' The Sunday Times'Truly Significant' The Independent'Ambitious' The ConversationWhat does it mean to be white? Beyond just a skin colour, is it also a way of thinking? If so, how did it come about, and why?In this book, drawing on history, personal experience and activist literature, the former footballer and World Champion Lilian Thuram looks at the origins and workings of white thinking, how it divides us and how it has become ubiq...

This practical book focuses on humanistic counselling as an evidence-based psychological intervention and it is an essential read for trainees wishing to work in public health settings. Coverage includes: evidence-based practice and person-centered and experiential therapies the counselling for depression competence framework in-depth case studies illustrating Counselling for Depression in practice training, supervision and research The book also includes research data supporting the appro...

This wide-ranging collection of articles by some of the most renowned names in the subject explores the tumultuous events of the final year of the First World War.In 2018, the world commemorated the centenary of the end of the First World War. In many ways, 1918 was the most dramatic year of the conflict. After the defeat of Russia in 1917, the Germans were able to concentrate their forces on the Western Front for the first time in the war, and the German offensive...

This book introduces Person-Centred Experiential Counselling for Depression (PCE-CfD), an evidence-based and NICE recommended therapy for depression available within the UK National Health Service (NHS). The book provides:- The knowledge base needed to work with this model.- A step-by-step guide to the core competencies and skills applied to the phases of therapy.- In-depth case studies illustrating the model in practice.- The evidence-base supporting this m...

Challenging established views and assumptions about traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, this three-volume set offers readers a researched critique on black film.Volume One of this landmark series on African cinema draws together foundational scholarship on its history and evolution. Beginning with the ideological project of colonial film to legitimize the economic exploitation and cultural hegemony of the African continent during imperia...