WINNER OF THE 2012 IMPAC DUBLIN AWARD On a cold quiet day between Christmas & the New Year a mans body is found in an abandoned apartment. His friends look on but theyre dead too. Their bodies found in squats & sheds & alleyways across the city. Victims of a bad batch of heroin theyre in the shadows a chorus keeping vigil as the hours pass paying their own particular homage as their friends body is taken away examined investigated & cremated. All of their stories are laid out piece by broken piece through a series of fractured narratives. We meet Robert the deceased the only alcoholic in a sprawling group of junkies; Danny just back from uncomfortable holidays with family who discovers the body & futiley searches for his other friends to share the news of Roberts death; Laura Roberts daughter who stumbles into the junkys life when she moves in with her father after years apart; Heather who has her own place for the first time since she was a teenager; Mike the Falklands War vet; & all the others. Theirs are stories of lives fallen through the cracks hopes flaring & dying love overwhelmed by a stronger need & the havoc wrought by drugs distress & the disregard of the wider world. These invisible people live in a parallel reality out of reach of basic creature comforts like food & shelter. In their sudden deaths it becomes clear they are treated with more respect than they ever were in their short lives. Intense exhilarating & shot through with hope & fury Even the Dogs is an intimate exploration of life at the edges of society--littered with love loss despair & a half-glimpse of redemption. ...

All is quiet at Alfies house
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The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city. But this class has its own special quality
- as the focus for the varied hopes & dreams of teacher & pupils alike. Aidan Dunne needs his new evening class project to succeed almost as much as his pupils do. They too are looking for something more: Bill to find a way to keep spendthrift Lizzie at his side & Fran to make sure that young Kathy finds her way out from behind the kitchen sink. The key to their success lies with the Signora. Her passion has drawn her from Ireland to Italy & back home again with a burning desire to share her love of all things Italian
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This elegant & stylish magazine file from the Evening Meadow storage collection is a perfect way of storing magazines or brochures & complimenting any room or office. Features include black inner lining paper & metal label holder with reversible card that can be written on to help identify contents. ...

The tour was a sell-out & a recording of one of the shows became a number one bestseller & was awarded a Gold Disc. When Brian died in 1994 he was described by the Daily Telegraph as the greatest natural broadcaster of them all. This book was first published in 1996 & contains all the material from the original recording as well as additional stories from his second & final tour. Brians skill & warmth as a master raconteur shine through on every page as he recalls his early years at Eton & Oxford his war service with the Grenadier Guards & his remarkable broadcasting career at the BBC. There are hundreds of hilarious memories stories & anecdotes all told in his inimitable friendly style & he describes the famous leg-over incident. This centenary edition has been updated by the editor Brians eldest son Barry Johnston &

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As the event management field expands there has been an emergence of a distinctive events policy field of study & a need for more advanced texts that look at this subject with a multidisciplinary research & theoretical orientation. Events Policy: From Theory to Strategy is the first text to embrace this new direction in the field of events management. Its main aim is to locate the phenomena of events (and festivity) within a theoretical & strategic framework & in doing so demonstrate the links between the development of events in policy-making & the theoretical exploration of the role of events as policy. Building on a strong coherent framework the book explores the conceptual terrain in which events & festivities are located evaluates the range of theoretical perspectives pertinent to the study of events policy appraises the socio-economic & socio-cultural implications of event-led policies internationally & draws together the main theoretical & event policy issues for the future. It utilizes a good range of international cases from Dubai Singapore New Orleans & Glasgow to help demonstrate the relationships between theory & strategy &

Includes:: useful features to help students understand the subject & deepen their knowledge of the events policy terrain. This groundbreaking volume will be essential reading for students researchers & academics of events & other related disciplines.

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Event Studies is the only book devoted to developing knowledge & theory about planned events. This book focuses on event planning & management outcomes the experience of events & the meanings attached to them the dynamic processes shaping events & why people attend them. Event Studies draws from a large number of foundation disciplines & closely related professional fields to foster interdisciplinary theory focused on planned events. It brings together important discourses on events including event management event tourism & the study of events within various disciplines that are able to shed light on the roles importance & impacts of events in society & culture. Since the first edition of this book there have been many important developments in this field & this second edition

Features: New sections have been added on: trends & issues in the world of planned events; examination of three discourses; event-related careers & professionalism; new theory on the event travel career trajectory; implications of social worlds & social media & new theory on convergence in the forms & functions of events. Expert contributions & personal viewpoints from a number of respected events academics Updated Research Notes to connect readers to the vast & diverse current literature methods & techniques pertaining to events. Instructors Guide including Power Point Slides for each chapter at http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780080969534/

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The study of event-related potentials (ERPs) -- signal-averaged EEG recordings that are time-locked to perceptual cognitive & motor events -- has increased dramatically in recent years but until now there has been no comprehensive guide to ERP methodology comparable to those available for f MRI techniques. Event-Related Potentials meets the need for a practical & concise handbook of ERP methods that is suitable for both the novice user of an ERP system & a researcher more experienced in cognitive electrophysiology. The chapters in the first section discuss the design of ERP experiments providing a practical foundation for understanding the design of ERP experiments & interpreting ERP data. Topics covered include quantification of ERP data & theoretical & practical aspects of ANOVAs as applied to ERP datasets. The second section presents a variety of approaches to ERP data analysis &

Includes:: chapters on digital filtering artifact removal source localization & wavelet analysis. The chapters in the final section of the book cover the use of ERPs in relation to such specific participant populations as children & neuropsychological patients & the ways in which ERPs can be combined with related methodologies including intracranial ERPs & hemodynamic imaging.

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This title brings twentieth-century British politics vividly to life & reveals perspective on the tumultuous events it sought to control the changes it resisted & the reforms it brought into being. Ruth Winstone retells Britains history through the great diarists of the last century drawing back the curtain on the lives of political classes their doubts ambitions & emotions. She moves deftly among those in the thick of it showing the elation anger doubts jealousy joys & fears of those such as Nicolson Cooper Channor Macmillan Castle Clark Benn Campbell Mullin & Ashdown as they record their own & the nations triumphs & disasters. To this potent mix she adds the mordant perceptions of observers like Virginia Woolf Cecil Beaton Peter Hall & Roy Strong & the vivid records of everyday life found in the diaries of otherwise ordinary men & women. Events Dear Boy Events" reveals Britains recent past in the words of the actors who were shaping events of the day as they were happening. This is living real-time history." ...

Events Management is the must-have introductory text providing a complete A-Z of the principles & practices of planning managing & staging events. The book: introduces the concepts of event planning & management presents the study of events management within an academic environment discusses the key components for staging an event covering the whole process from creation to evaluation examines the events industry within its broader business context covering impacts & event tourism provides an effective guide for producers of events contains learning objectives & review questions to consolidate learning. Each chapter features a real-life case study to illustrate key concepts & place theory in a practical context as well as preparing students to tackle any challenges they may face in managing events. Examples include the Beijing Olympic Games Google Zeitgeist Conference International Confex Edinburgh International Festival Ideal Home Show & Glastonbury Festival. Carefully constructed to maximise learning the text provides the reader with: a systematic guide to organizing successful events examining areas such as staging logistics marketing human resource management control & budgeting risk management impacts evaluation & reporting fully revised & updated content including new chapters on sustainable development & events perspectives on events & expanded content on marketing legal issues risk & health & safety management a companion website for lecturers & students which

Includes:: Power Point slides extra case studies & multiple choice questions to aid both teaching & learning.

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