This book presents a socio-legal examination of national and devolved-level developments in social protection in the UK, through the eyes of politicians and officials at the heart of this process.Since its inception in 1998, devolution has altered the character of the UK welfare state, with dramatic change in the 10 years since 2010. A decade of austerity at national level has exposed diverging view in how governments in London, Edinburgh and Belfast view the social rights of citiz...

This book reconceptualizes the relationship between Portuguese society and Salazar's political police. By studying the PIDE from below, Salazar's PIDE and Portuguese Society challenges the prevailing historiographic emphasis on processes of top-down repression whose effect has been to relegate the bulk of the population to the status of passive victims. The analysis concentrates on various forms of spontaneous interactions between individual citizens and the PIDE. Duncan Simpson f...

Christopher Ben Simpson tells the story of modern Christian theology against the backdrop of the history of modernity itself. The book examines the many ways that theology became modern while seeing how modernity arose in no small part from theology. These intertwined stories progress through four parts.In Part I, Emerging Modernity, Simpson discusses the period from the beginnings of modernity in the late Middle Ages through the Protestant Reformation and Renaissance Humanism to th...

Someone is killing. It has happened for centuries. Beautiful women with their hearts ripped out. Men with their throats removed. Enemies just out of reach . . . only for another city to be terrorized.Jahir Amid is committed to avenging the death of his fiancée. Nicholai Bultizar is just as committed to achieving his goals, as well, as nefarious as they are. Across centuries and across continents rages an epic battle built for the Bronx.Straight from the Dark Ages, who will ...

The philosophical contributions of French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, carry great untapped potential for theologians thinking through some of the central affirmations of the Christian faith. This exploration is structured against the background of the fundamental interrelation between three "bodies" in Merleau-Ponty's thought and in Christian theology: the material as such or "nature" (the corporeal), the human body as a living body (the corporal), and the social body (the corp...

Advanced Rowing brings together a selection of leading experts in the sport of rowing, including international head coaches from New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland and Denmark, who have all coached crews to World and Olympic medals.Distinguished club and university coaches contribute from the United States, Great Britain and Australia. Between them these coaches work with the top national level athletes in their countries and specialise in p...

This book is about how local public transport can be made a less unacceptable alternative to the private car than it is now. It is intended for officials, politicians and others interested in the land use/local transport conundrum. It is also valuable to town planners, those working for passenger transport authorities and anyone concerned with policy making and project appraisal for local public transport.

LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY: A Journey Into the Heart of Intimacy with GodThere is a place where anxiety fades, peace floods the soul, and love draws you closer to God-the place of prayer.In this devotional guide, Dr. Lee A. Simpson invites you to rediscover prayer not as a ritual to perform but as a relationship to enjoy. LORD, TEACH US TO PRAY takes you on a spiritual journey into the heart of intimac...

From beyond the unknowns of the Mighty Brim Mountains of the west they camehordes of nomadic giants called Troguares led by a merciless warlord, Obizar, their king. With the use of dark sorcery and having an insatiable appetite to conquer an entire world, he and his armies slowly swept across the land for nearly thousand years, bringing kingdom after kingdom of men to their knees, leaving death and destruction in their wake. While both enslaving and supplementing them as food, he held all ...

In Unstuck: The Ultimate Guide to Getting and Staying Motivated, Dr. Shannon Simpson Shand shares useful tips about going from being stuck to being unstuck. The reader will learn how to activate their intrinsic motivation, combat mental fatigue, and learn the skill of self-motivation. This book offers affirmations, reflections, and inspirational journaling. You will be inspired to take action when you are finished reading this book!

This book examines strategic language use in professional engineering written reports, illustrating how writers create a persuasive stance within an objective style. It describes engineering writing through a close analysis of interpersonal language, using Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), complemented with quantitative corpus linguistics methods and interpreted through concepts drawn from Legitimation Code Theory (LCT). This description demonstrates how engineering w...

Indoor rowing machines (or ergometers) were once used only by outdoor rowers during their winter training. Over the last twenty years however the benefits of indoor rowing have attracted more and more users, and now every gym comes with one as standard. It's also a sport in its own right, with competitions ranging from school leagues to the European and World Championships.The Complete Guide to Indoor Rowing is the first comprehensive book to focus on this unique ...