The Rome that Did Not Fall provides a well-illustrated, comprehensive narrative and analysis of the Roman empire in the east, charting its remarkable growth and development which resulted in the distinct and enduring civilization of Byzantium. It considers: * the fourth century background * the inva[...]
Invisible Darkness is the story of one of the more bizarre cases in recent memory--killings so sensational that they prompted the Canadian government, in the interests of justice, to silence its national press and to lock foreign journalists out of the courts.To all appearances, Paul and Karla Berna[...]
Stephen Gilmore and Lisa Glennon provide a timely update to this popular and highly readable account of family law. The book guides the reader carefully through the legislation and case law, explains the principles and policies informing the law, and carefully opens up the topics under discussion.[...]
This accessible textbook offers a critical introduction to employment relations. It provides a thematic approach taking the subject beyond traditional coverage of trade unions and collective bargaining to tackle socio-political issues. The book is packed with up-to-date examples from Ryanair to Roya[...]
Tourism is an intensely geographic phenomenon. It stimulates large-scale movement of people on an increasingly globalized scale and forges distinctive relationships between people - as tourists - and the spaces and places that they visit. This book shows how many different geographies of tourism are[...]
Lung cancer is the most common cancer affecting the industrialized world and affects the lives of thousands of people, including patients' friends and family, every year. The most common cause of lung cancer is long-term exposure to tobacco smoke. The occurrence of lung cancer in non-smokers, who ac[...]
Solution Focused Coaching in Practice is a practical 'how-to' guide that provides an invaluable overview of Solution Focused Coaching skills and techniques. Reflecting upon published research on the solution focused approach, Bill O'Connell, Stephen Palmer and Helen Williams bring their own experie[...]
Leon Battista Alberti was an outstanding polymath of the fifteenth century, alongside Piero della Francesca and before Leonardo da Vinci. While his contributions to architecture and the visual arts are well known and available in good English editions, and much of his literary and social writings ar[...]