Over the last five years often when David Mitchell has been on holiday the comedian Stewart Lee has been attempting to understand modern Britain & his own place in it in a series of irregular newspaper columns Will Scotland become the Promised Land of the Left? Is it possible to live a life without crisps? Who was Grant Shapps? What does your Spotify playlist data say about you? Are Jeremy Corbyn & Stewart Lee really the new Christs? & so on Selected introduced & where necessary explained by the author & corrected by readers Content Provider is funny grumpy provocative confusing & brilliant ...

Content is king & the new kingmaker & your message needs to align with your model & metrics & other mumbo jumbo right? Whether you're slogging through theory or buzzwords there's no denying content strategy is coming of age But what's in it for you? & if you're not a content strategist why should you care? Because even if content strategy isn't your job content's probably your problem-and probably more than you think You or your business has a message you want to deliver right? You can deliver that message through various channels & content types from Tweets to testimonials & photo galleries galore & your audience has just as many ways of engaging with it So many ways so much content so where's the problem? That is the problem & you can measure it in time creativity money lost opportunity & the sobs you hear equally from creative directors project managers & search engine marketing specialists The solution is content strategy & this book offers real-world examples & approaches you can adopt no matter your role on the team Put content strategy to work for you by gathering this book into your little hands & gobbling up never-before seen case studies from teams at Johns Hopkins Medicine MINI Icebreaker & more Content Strategy at Work is a book for designers information architects copywriters project managers & anyone who works with visual or verbal content It discusses how you can communicate & forge a plan that will enable you your company or your client get that message across & foster better user experiences ...

Dementia is a little understood & currently incurable illness but much can be done to maximise the quality of life for people with the condition Contented Dementia
- by clinical psychologist & bestselling author Oliver James
- outlines a groundbreaking & practical method for managing dementia that will allow both sufferer & carer to maintain the highest possible quality of life throughout every stage of the illness A person with dementia will experience random & increasingly frequent memory blanks relating to recent events Feelings however remain intact as do memories of past events & both can be used in a special way to substitute for more recent information that has been lost The SPECAL method (Specialized Early Care for Alzheimer's) outlined in this book works by creating links between past memories & the routine activities of daily life in the present Drawing on real-life examples & user-friendly tried-&-tested methods Contented Dementia provides essential information & guidance for carers relatives & professionals

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In the sixth edition of Contested Knowledge social theorist Steven Seidman presents the latest topics in social theory & addresses the current shift of 'universalist theorists' to networks of clustered debates Responds to current issues debates & new social movements Reviews sociological theory from a contemporary perspective Reveals how the universal theorist & the era of rival schools has been replaced by networks of clustered debates that are relatively 'autonomous' & interdisciplinary Features updates & in-depth discussions of the newest clustered debates in social theory intimacy postcolonial nationalism & the concept of 'the other' Challenges social scientists to renew their commitment to the important moral & political role social knowledge plays in public life ...

This book is the first major account of political thought in twentieth-century Europe both West & East to appear since the end of the Cold War Skillfully blending intellectual political & cultural history Jan-Werner Muller elucidates the ideas that shaped the period of ideological extremes before 1945 & the liberalization of West European politics after the Second World War He also offers vivid portraits of famous as well as unjustly forgotten political thinkers & the movements & institutions they inspired Muller pays particular attention to ideas advanced to justify fascism & how they relate to the special kind of liberal democracy that was created in postwar Western Europe He also explains the impact of the 1960s & neoliberalism ending with a critical assessment of today's self-consciously post-ideological age ...

A man is forbidden to uncover the secret of the tower in a fairy-tale castle by the Rhine A headless corpse is found in a secret garden in Paris
- belonging to the city's chief of police & a drowned man is fished from the sea off the Italian Riviera leaving the carabinieri to wonder why his socialite friends at the Villa Almirante are so unconcerned by his death These are three of the scenarios in this new collection of vintage crime stories compiled by Martin Edwards Detective stories from the golden age & beyond have used European settings
- cosmopolitan cities rural idylls & crumbling chateaux
- to explore timeless themes of revenge deception & haunting Including lesser-known stories by Arthur Conan Doyle GK Chesterton & J Jefferson Farjeon
- & over a dozen other classic writers
- this collection reveals many hidden gems of British crime




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A multi-hour no-randomness economic game somewhat in the mold of Baltimore & Ohio set in the continental USA west of the Appalachians Players found companies determine share distributions & capitalisations invest in companies they & others have founded expand the companies across the country & compete for the most victory points (not net worth) at the end of the game Players 3-6 Playing time 120 minutes Ages 12 ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War Churchill sought to lead Europe into an integrated union but just over seventy years later Britain is poised to vote on leaving the EU Benjamin Grob-Fitzgibbon here recounts the fascinating history of Britain's uneasy relationship with the European continent since the end of the war He shows how British views of the United Kingdom's place within Europe cannot be understood outside of the context of decolonization the Cold War & the Anglo-American relationship At the end of the Second World War Britons viewed themselves both as the leaders of a great empire & as the natural centre of Europe With the decline of the British Empire & the formation of the European Economic Community however Britons developed a Euroscepticism that was inseparable from a post-imperial nostalgia Britain had evolved from an island of imperial Europeans to one of post-imperial Eurosceptics ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Available for the first time on Blu-ray all 10 episodes from Season 1 of Continuum Set in the year 2077 a group of convicted terrorists have escaped execution by travelling back in time to 2012 Kiera Cameron a young law official patrolling the convict’s execution is inadvertently brought back in time with the terrorists Finding herself alone in an unfamiliar place Kiera realises she is the only person that stands in the way of these self-proclaimed “freedom fighters” & a potential war in the present… that will destroy her future ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Available for the first time on Blu-ray all 13 Episodes from Season 2 of Continuum Kiera Cameron (Rachel Nichols) a cop from the year 2077 finds herself trapped in present day Vancouver searching for convicted terrorists from the future known as Liber 8 With unexpected assistance from teen tech genius Alec Sadler (Erik Knudsen) Kiera desperately tries to bring down the terrorists before they change the course of history forever In Season 2 Kiera continues her uneasy alliance with her partner Vancouver Police detective Carlos Fonnegra (Victor Webster) & grapples with the big question that closed the first season – why was she sent here? Meanwhile Alec struggles to understand the implications of a mysterious message sent from his future self & Liber 8 become more strategic & even more lethal ...