The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances & her slave Mehuru. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Bristol in 1787 is booming from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole a small dockside trader is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash & a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiahs protection Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants & finds her life & fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar rum & slaves. Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history & inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful haunting intensely disturbing this is a novel of desire & shame of individuals of a society & of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others. ...

The second edition of Respiratory Physiotherapy" (formerly " Emergency Physiotherapy") continues to be a highly accessible & convenient guide which brings the insight of clinical experts in the field to the fingertips of the busy physiotherapist who are often exposed to challenging & stressful situations. Beverley Harden is now joined by a team of 5 additional Editors & the new edition has been completely revamped. It looks at assessment management of & calls to specific areas while presenting key information in tables bullets & summaries for quick reference on the ward. " Respiratory Physiotherapy" is the essential pocketbook for physiotherapy students on clinical placement newly qualified physiotherapists as well as for physiotherapists working in emergency settings who need a refresher." ...

Forget fixed-width Photoshop comps bloated client requirements & overproduced wireframes. Yesterdays web design deliverables fail to take into account the demands of responsive solutions. Design workflow hasnt really changed but best practices have. This book shows you how to adapt to the new paradigm & create sites for todays web. Some of the strategies youll learn include: * how to better manage client expectations & development requirements* a practical approach for designing in the browser* documentation methods that outperform static Photoshop comps* a method for visualizing the points where responsive designs change After absorbing the lessons in this book youll leave behind old-school workflows & start working in ways that are uniquely suited to todays multi-platform web. ...

The inspiration behind the South Bank Centre's year-long festival of 20th century music Alex Ross's masterpiece is a sweeping musical history from pre-war Vienna to the Velvet Underground. The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands each influenced by its own composers performers & musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour Alex Ross music critic for the ' New Yorker' explores the people & places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig Brahms to Bjork pre-First World War Vienna to ' Nixon in China'. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art politics & cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom & a source of immense social change. ...

The inspiration behind the South Bank Centres year-long festival of 20th century music Alex Rosss masterpiece is a sweeping musical history from pre-war Vienna to the Velvet Underground. The landscape of twentieth-century classical music is a wild one: this was a period in which music fragmented into apparently divergent strands each influenced by its own composers performers & musical innovations. In this comprehensive tour Alex Ross music critic for the New Yorker explores the people & places that shaped musical development: Adams to Zweig Brahms to Bjork pre-First World War Vienna to Nixon in China. Winner of the Guardian First Book Award this unique portrait of an exceptional era weaves together art politics & cultural history to show how twentieth-century classical music was both a symptom & a source of immense social change. ...

With a wide selection of restaurants including AA Rosette winners this is the perfect gift for all food lovers. You will enjoy a delicious menu of dishes specially selected to give you an all round experience of a cuisine or cooking style. You can choose to try something completely new sample a modern twist on an old favourite or just enjoy a delicious meal out together. You will either be served signature dishes that represent the character of the restaurant or a tantalising set tasting menu of around five to six courses per person depending on which venue is chosen. Each taster menu serving will usually be a smaller size portion to enable you to enjoy more courses. The dishes will be served in succession so you are able to take your time appreciating the different flavours. ...

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer a mysterious Englishman & under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy to mask her emotions & trust no one including those she loves most. Since the war Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife & mother. But once a spy always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment & this time Eva can't do it alone: she needs her daughter's help. ...

It is 1939. Eva Delectorskaya is a beautiful 28-year-old Russian emigree living in Paris. As war breaks out she is recruited for the British Secret Service by Lucas Romer a mysterious Englishman & under his tutelage she learns to become the perfect spy to mask her emotions & trust no one including those she loves most. Since the war Eva has carefully rebuilt her life as a typically English wife & mother. But once a spy always a spy. Now she must complete one final assignment & this time Eva cant do it alone: she needs her daughters help. ...

The metropolis is a site of endless making & unmaking. From the attempt to imagine a city-symphony to the cinematic tradition that runs from Walter Ruttmann to Terence Davies Restless Cities" traces the idiosyncratic character of the metropolitan city from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first-century megalopolis. With explorations of phenomena including nightwalking urbicide property commuting & recycling this wide-ranging new book identifies & traces the patterns that have defined everyday life in the modern city & its effect on us as individuals. Bringing together some of the most significant cultural writers of our time from Iain Sinclair Chris Petit & Geoff Dyer to Esther Leslie Marshall Berman & Patrick Keiller " Restless Cities" is an illuminating revelatory journey to the heart of our metropolitan world. Contributors include: Matthew Beaumont Marshall Berman Kaisa Boddy Iain Borden Rachel Bowlby Gregory Dart Geoff Dyer Patrick Keiller Esther Leslie Michael Newton Chris Petit Michael Sayeau Michael Sheringham Iain Sinclair David Trotter & Mark W. Turner." ...

Over the past 250 years of momentous change & dramatic upheaval China has proved itself to be a Restless Empire". Tracing Chinas course from the eighteenth-century Qing Dynasty to todays Peoples Republic " Restless Empire" shows how the countrys worldview has evolved. It explains how Chinese attitudes have been determined by both receptiveness & resistance to outside influence & presents the preoccupations that have set its foreign-relations agenda. Within two decades China is likely to depose the United States as the worlds largest economy. By then the country expects to have eradicated poverty among its population of more than one & a half billion & established itself as the worlds technological powerhouse. Meanwhile some
- especially its neighbours
- are afraid that China will strengthen its military might in order to bend others to its will. A new form of Chinese nationalism is rising. Many Chinese are angry about perceived past injustices & fear a loss of identity to commercial forces & foreign influences. So will Chinas attraction to world society dwindle or will China continue to engage? Will it attempt to recreate a Sino-centric international order in Eastern Asia or pursue a more harmonious diplomatic route? & can it overcome its lack of democracy & transparency or are these characteristics hard-wired into the Chinese system? Whatever the case we ignore Chinas international history at our peril. " Restless Empire" is a magisterial & indispensible history of the most important state in world affairs today."

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