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Who Dares Wins
This all-action, high-octane thriller from Sunday Times bestselling author Chris Ryan is perfect for fans of Andy McNab, Lee Child, Clive Cussler and Stephen Leather. Guaranteed to keep you hooked and get your pulse-racing... 'Former SAS man Ryan knows every inch of his former regiment and uses the knowledge to excellent effect - you're left feeling you know what it's like to wear the famous winged dagger cap badge' -- Daily Mail 'Ryan puts his technical know-how to good use in this electrifying story' -- Daily Express 'Kept me entertained all the way from beginning to the end of the book' -- ***** Reader review 'Chris Ryan at his best' -- ***** Reader review 'Just could not put it down' -- ...
Literacy and Gender
Literacy and Gender provides a major contribution to general debates about literacy and gender in schools. It advances the theory in literacy as a social practice as well as providing practical support to those researching literacy. A timely project, it is essential reading for anyone with an interest in applied linguistics, education or gender studies.
Throw in Loner
Throw-In Loner follows the adventures of Sam Richardson, a private soldier in the Thirteenth Alabama Infantry, as he fights his way through the three days of bloody Battle at Gettysburg. Along the way, Sam encounters Kevin Mulroney, a private in the Twenty-Fourth Michigan and a member of the famous Iron Brigade. He meets Elizabeth Schmidt, a local resident who lives on a small farm near the battlefield. Her husband, Jacob, is a member of the 114th Pennsylvania of the Union Third Corps. The story also chronicles the exploits of Johnny Robinson, Billy O’Neal, Jimmy Corchoran, and Dicky McMahon, all privates in the Sixty-Ninth Pennsylvania, as they defend the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge. Relive the drama and the glory of the greatest battle in American history. Experience the terror and the horror of the firing line as the private soldiers of the North and South did. Who will survive the three days of Battle at Gettysburg?
Genealogy of Descendants of Thomas Hale
Thomas Hale (ca.1604-ca.1680), son of Thomas Hale (d.1630), immigrated in 1635 with his wife, Thomasine, from England to Newbury, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Includes some family history and genealogical data in England.
Re-Imagining the Avant-Garde
The 1960s and 1970s avant-garde has been likened to an ‘architectural Big Bang’, such was the intensity of energy and ambition in which it exploded into the postwar world. Marked out by architectural projects that redefined the discipline, it remains just as influential today. References to the likes of Archizoom, Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk and Superstudio abound. Highly diverse, the avant-garde cannot be defined as a single strand or tendency. It was divergent geographically – reaching from Europe to North America and Japan – and in its political, formal and cultural preoccupations. It was unified, though, as a critical and experimental force, critiquing contemporary society agains...
Full Spectrum
Colour is architecture’s sharpest tool in the box. It has indexed everything from the feminine, cosmetic and vulgar to the pure, intrinsic and embodied. Colour has played a central role in the history of architecture. From the polychromy of the ancients to the great white interiors of high modernism. The figurative flourishes of postmodernism to the embedded sublime of contemporary building systems and facades. In contemporary architecture, colour has emerged as something powerful, both a mode of working and a political proposition. The second digital age has brought a fundamental shift in how architects engage colour. Employing the full range of colour puts forth a projective mode of acti...
