The Documentary Imagination in Twentieth-Century French Literature identifies a documentary impulse in French literature that emerges at the end of the nineteenth century and culminates in a proliferation of factual writings in the twenty-first. Focusing on the period bookended by these two moments, it highlights the enduring concern with factual reference in texts that engage either with current events or the historical archive. Specifically, it considers a set of ideas and pract...

Breaking up is hard to do - but sweet revenge can make all the difference! With ever-increasing numbers of single people out there dating, hearts get broken every day. But today's woman needs more than a book of soppy affirmations to get her back on her feet and feeling great. I Used to Miss Him... is full of smart tips, sarcastic stories and hilarious ways to heal after a breakup. This book provides the sort of genuine advice you'd get from your best friend, but with a "rip his h...

This practical guide provides essential knowledge and tools for nursing and healthcare students and practitioners to develop their leadership skills, from the very beginning of their practice and throughout their careers.The first section provides an overview of leadership in nursing and healthcare in today’s context, discussing:relevant theory, and values-based approaches such as congruent, compassionate and ethical leadershipthe role of nurses and healthca...

In Jesus the Forgiving Victim, priest-theologian James Alison offers a journey into the Christian Faith suitable for individual readers and group sharing. While much catechetical material is either informative or lays down “what must be believed”, the inductive method (insisted on by Pope Francis and used here) invites readers, or course participants, into the inside of a rich and penetrating mystery: God who does not demand sacrifice but offers a love far greater than any of us k...

AUTHORISED & VETTED BY SAS/SBS, MI5/MI6 AND PM RISHI SUNAK FOR UK GOVERNMENT AND BY UN & ICJ, AT EASE NOW ICC CASE REPORT PUBLISHED HERE. PM RISHI SUNAK: ‘A BIG slot please to praise Alison’s tenacity holding firm as 001 SAS Sammie for sixty years now, THANK YOU! You are a long-range visionary to my girls who think your Treaty in UN banning nuclear weaponry is most striking thing I’ve ever supported, whoops-a daisy, I love you for this marvellous policy I have adopted officially! I support...

BOOK AUTHORISED BY SAS/SBS/SIS, WING COMMAND AND LORD HEYWOOD, VETTING AUTHORITY UN DECLARING SAM-MIE’S ‘PERFECTION ITSELF’G.RAF’S AIR CHIEF MARSHAL writes of this book by Alison James as M. still serving ‘We in British army reveal records of special operations 1970 – 1979 to show what was done in passions of war and peace in Ireland, USSR, America, Africa and globally!Yep. Please bear nobly the truths you learn and enjoy knowing those who made noble efforts to overcome differences...

Figures of Chance II: Chance in Theory and Practice proposes a multidisciplinary analysis of cultural phenomena related to notions of chance and contingency. Alongside its transhistorical companion volume (Figures of Chance I), it considers how the projective and predictive capacity of societies is shaped by representations and cultural models of a reality that is understood, by varying degrees, to be contingent, unpredictable, or chaotic. This volume reevaluates the role...

What if Christianity was far more liberating than the culture wars suggest? Can the conflict concerning Christianity and homosexuality be viewed from a more interpretative lens? James Alison, a Catholic priest who is also a gay man, has been wrestling with the matter for over forty years.This luminous and rigorous book dismantles the fear-based binaries which have dominated conversations in the Church. Striving to address potential concerns about accepting LGBTQ+ individuals within...

The Routledge Handbook of Fiction and Belief offers a fresh reevaluation of the relationship between fiction and belief, surveying key debates and perspectives from a range of disciplines including narrative and cultural studies, science, religion, and politics. This volume draws on global, cutting edge research and theory to investigate the historically variable understandings of fictionality, and allows readers to grasp the role of fictions in our understanding of the world....

CLINICAL LEADERSHIP IN NURSING AND HEALTHCAREClinical Leadership in Nursing and Healthcare offers a range of tools and topics that support and foster clinically focused nurses and other healthcare professionals to develop their leadership skills and strategies. The textbook is helpfully divided into three parts: information on the attributes of clinical leaders, the tools healthcare students and staff can use to develop their leadership potential, and clin...

Rocket Phonics reading books are fully decodable phonics books allowing children to practise their phonic skills in context, developing emerging reading skills.Gina the giant loves to knit but everything she makes is too big for the villagers and they do not appreciate her talents. One cold December morning, deep snow covers the village and her knitting turns out to be much more useful than everybody thought.Reading age: 5-6 years

'I've been waiting for something like this to happen. I'm surprised it's taken so long. The signs have been building up for a while.'An ordinary Tuesday turns really, really weird when the sky over the school playground suddenly rips open. Pupils and teachers are sucked up to a parallel universe, whilst a new set of people start raining down from above. 'Us' and 'Them' must come together to work out what is going on, and how they can get things back to how they were.