The Companion to Development Studies is an essential one-stop reference for anyone with an interest in development studies. Over 100 international experts have been brought together to present a comprehensive overview of the key theoretical & practical issues dominating contemporary development studies. Building on the success of the first edition the second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised & updated &

Includes:: new chapters on a range of topics including ageing culture & development corruption & development & global terrorism. Each chapter summarises current debates & provides guidance for further reading & research. The Companion to Development Studies is indispensable for students of development studies at all levels from undergraduate to postgraduate & beyond in departments of development studies geography politics international relations sociology social anthropology & economics.

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This authoritative Companion introduces readers to the developments that lead to Britain becoming a great world power the leading European imperial state & at the same time the most economically & socially advanced politically liberal & religiously tolerant nation in Europe. * Covers political social cultural economic & religious history. Written by an international team of experts. * Examines Britains position from the perspective of other European nations. ...

The Anglo-Zulu War was a defining episode in British imperial history & it is still a subject of intense interest. The Zulu victory at Isandlwana the heroic British defence of Rorkes Drift & the eventual British triumph are among the most closely researched events of the colonial era. In this historical companion Ian Knight one of the foremost authorities on the war & the Zulu kingdom provides an essential reference guide to a short bloody campaign that had an enduring impact on the history of Britain & southern Africa. He gives succinct summaries of the issues events armies & individuals involved. His work is an invaluable resource for anyone who is interested in the history of the period in the operations of the British army in southern Africa & in the Zulu kingdom. ...

Originating in Hitlers personal bodyguard the Waffen-SS was expanded as a fourth branch of the Wermacht & became regarded as the tough elite of the German Armed Forces. Known as Hitlers Asphalt Soldiers they fought on all main battle-fronts but most notably in the East against the Soviet Union. Gordon Williamson describes the organisation equipment tactics & personalities of the Waffen-SS in the Second World War. The author has travelled to Germany to interview numerous surviving Waffen-SS soldiers & corresponded with many others obtaining first-hand accounts of their wartime experiences. ...

In 2008 Major Russell Lewis commanded a company of two hundred soldiers from the British Army's legendary Parachute Regiment on a six-month tour in the most dangerous part of Afghanistan. Company Commander is his story a riveting first-person account of incredible bravery telling what it is like to have 200 Paras depending on you constantly to make decisions which can & do cost lives to see men under your command killed & injured & being under the most intense pressure imaginable every minute of every day for six long months. Company Commander is a true leader's story
- a unique & vivid mix of front-line battles & strategic decision making & an intensely personal & inspiring account of a tour in the most perilous theatre of war on the planet.
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The third edition of Company Law brings clarity & sophisticated analysis to a company law landscape much altered by the groundbreaking Companies Act 2006. Hannigan captures the dynamism of company law places the material in context & guides students through all the major topics studied at undergraduate level. The book is divided into five distinct sections covering corporate structure (including legal personality & constitutional issues) corporate governance (including directors duties & liabilities) shareholders rights & remedies (including powers of decision-making & shareholder engagement) corporate finance (including share & loan capital) & corporate rescue & restructuring (including liabilities arising on insolvency). The authors accessible writing style & comprehensive approach to the subject makes this an idea textbook for students of company law. ...

The old county of Dyfed now Carmarthenshire Pembrokeshire & Cardiganshire abounds with reminders of the turbulent medieval past
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The year is 1348 & the first plague victim has reached English shores. Panic erupts around the country & a small band of travellers comes together to outrun the deadly disease unaware that something far more deadly is
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- travelling with them. The ill-assorted company
- a scarred trader in holy relics a conjurer two musicians a healer & a deformed storyteller
- are all concealing secrets & lies. & at their heart is the strange cold child
- Narigorm
- who reads the runes. But as law & order breaks down across the country & the battle for survival becomes ever more fierce Narigorm mercilessly compels each of her fellow travellers to reveal the truth & each in turn is driven to a cruel & unnatural death.





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Flicking through her friends holiday snaps Kate Benson receives a sudden shock. For there in the background is her husband Charlie. Dark hair blue eyes familiar smile: theres no mistaking him. But thats impossible. Because Charlie died exactly a year ago. Determined to track down the man in The brilliant photograph Kate follows the trail from Miami to Sicily where her husband drowned in mysterious circumstances. But when she discovers serious discrepancies in the original investigation Kate starts to question whether she ever really knew the man she loved so much. Was Charlie murdered? Was their marriage as perfect as Kate remembers? Who are the people following her? Who can she trust? & is Kate herself to be trusted? Because there are secrets in her past too.. . ...

It is 1827 & Matthew Hervey is on the look out for a new posting. He soon finds one in the Cape Colonies where there is need of a man to re-organise the local forces & in particular to form a new company of horse. Accompanied by a mixed-race captain from the disbanded Royal African Corps Hervey heads out into the great South African plains & towards the territory of the Zulu & their legendary leader King Shaka. But it is not till he nears the Umtata River that his fiercest battle really begins. For the Zulus fight like no army he has encountered before. As Hervey & his greenhorn troops are plunged into battle death is only a heartbeat away... Matthew Hervey has now joined Sharpe & Jack Aubrey as a creation of superlative skills & character."
- " Birmingham Post"."
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