An epic BBC historical drama based on Iceland's famous saga of tragedy, heroism and fateWritten by an anonymous storyteller in the 13th Century, and describing events between 960 and 1020, Njáls saga is one of the great works of medieval literature. The longest and most celebrated of the Icelandic sagas, it deals with family honour, vengeance, and a vicious blood feud spanning almost 50 years.Based on the classic translation by Magnus Magnusson and...

If you've always suspected the universe was out to get you… you were right!Yes, the universe we live in is cosmically beautiful and mysterious and all that crap. But it's also a bit of an asshole. After all, remember that you are just a group of atoms structured in a specific way for barely long enough to try to understand this thing we call existence. Those atoms could just have easily been used to make the dog shit you're cleaning off your shoe or the mold that g...

At the height of the blues revival, Marina Bokelman and David Evans, young graduate students from California, made two trips to Louisiana and Mississippi and short trips in their home state to do fieldwork for their studies at UCLA. While there, they made recordings and interviews and took extensive field notes and photographs of blues musicians and their families. Going Up the Country: Adventures in Blues Fieldwork in the 1960s presents their experiences in vivid detail through t...

"If one aspires to live a noble and meaningful life, you'll find an exemplar here. Of the many marvelous American traits, Ish's notion of 'Intoku' or "good done in secret" is the answer to so many of our current challenges as families, communities and Nation. Read on!" —General Norton A. Schwartz, USAF (retired)A Japanese American boy born just before Pearl Harbor joins the Army and is thrust into the maelstrom of Vietnam. Drawn to intelligence work, his watchword ...

Sugden and Wade, leading authors in this area, comprehensively cover motor development and motor impairment, drawing on sources in medicine and health-related studies, motor learning and developmental psychology. A theme that runs through the book is that movement outcomes are a complex transaction of child resources, the context in which movement takes place, and the manner in which tasks are presented. The core themes of the book involve descriptions of motor development from conception ...

The transition from care into adulthood is a difficult step for any young person, but young people leaving care have a high risk of social exclusion, both in terms of material disadvantage and marginalisation.In Young People's Transitions from Care to Adulthood leading academics gather together the latest international research relating to the transition of young people leaving care, outlining and comparing the range of legal and policy frameworks, welfare regimes and innovative pr...

Vanilla Breaks is the autobiographical story of one man's journey into the BDSM lifestyle, written as a means to cope with the stress of having been thrust into BDSM at the deep end. In addition, it is intended to help other people who may find themselves or their partners in a similar situation, and to let them know that they are not alone. While this work details the author's emotional turmoil as a teenager, which later reignited when he discovered his wife was exploring kink with anothe...

This Revised Edition of A Straightforward Guide to The Law and Practice of Mental Health in the United Kingdom is a comprehensive introductory text to the complex are of mental health and how it is dealt with in the UK. There are many differing diagnoses of mental health, ranging from the severe to mild disorders. The law that deals with this area and the organisations that cope with it are outlined sympathetically and clearly in this concise book updated to 2020.

This Revised Edition of A Straightforward Guide to The Law and Practice of Mental Health in the United Kingdom is a comprehensive introductory text to the complex area of mental health and how it is dealt with in the UK. There are many differing diagnoses of mental health, ranging from the severe to mild disorders. The law that deals with this area and the organisations that cope with it are outlined sympathetically and clearly in this concise book updated to 2022. The Coronavirus Act 2020...

The Law and Practice of Mental Health in the United Kingdom is a comprehensive introductory text to the complex area of mental health and how it is dealt with in the UK. There are many differing diagnoses of mental health, ranging from the severe to mild disorders. The law that deals with this area and the organisations that cope with it are outlined sympathetically and clearly in this concise volume.

A thrilling six-part serial on the life of Alexander the GreatAlexander of Macedon was one of history's greatest ever military commanders. By the time of his death, aged just 32, he had conquered the entire Persian Empire, and was ruler of a vast territory stretching from Greece to the borders of India. These six episodes tell his extraordinary life story, as reimagined by acclaimed dramatist David Wade.The King's Son - 356 BC**.**...

“Demon by Knight”, by David W. Gray is one of those books that will surprise you, time and time again. Even after reading the introduction and skimming a few chapters before really settling into the meat and bones of the story, I was pleasantly surprised at the way the book flowed from one unexpected turn to another. From the opening scene where you meet David Asher, the no-account miscreant who assaults an elderly woman for the change in her purse to score a good high, to the climactic ba...