The saga of the precipitous rise and ultimate fall of the Jonathan Lucas family's rice-mill dynastyIn the 1780s Jonathan Lucas, on a journey from his native England, shipwrecked near the Santee Delta of South Carolina, about forty miles north of Charleston. Lucas, the son of English mill owners and builders, found himself, fortuitously, near vast acres of swamp and marshland devoted to rice cultivation. When the labor-intensive milling process could not keep pace w...

A fierce and excoriating portrait of British racism, Roy William's Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads premiered in 2002 at the National Theatre.Set in a south-west London pub during the 2000 England vs. Germany match, tempers are running high. As England lose again, their supporters in The King George lose it too – at full time, patriotism has become unapologetic racism.This Methuen Drama Student Edition of the play includes commentary and notes by Gemma Edwards, Univ...

Second collection of plays by the award-winning young British playwrightSing Yer Heart Out for the Lads: Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose against Germany at footballClubland: Ben is married to Denise but on the pull, Kenny's looking for someone who's "right", Ade's with Sandra but playing the field and Nate's a proud father, in this urban drama of race and sexual politics in West London.The Gift: Since her childhood, when she left Jamaica for Eng...

Written in response to Much Ado About Nothing and performed by Dominic Cooke's Pericles and The Winter's Tale Company, Roy Williams' Days of Significance is set in market-town England and the deserts of Iraq. Two young soldiers join their friends to binge drink the night before they leave for active service. Their complex love lives and mortal fears directly impact on their tour of duty.Roy Williams looks at how the naive and malformed moral code...

The first collection of plays by the multi-award winning playwright and winner of the 2001 "Most Promising Playwright" Evening Standard Theatre AwardTHE NO BOYS CRICKET CLUB (1996): Living alone on a drab London council estate, Abi has long since lost sight of the good things in life, until an old friend takes her back to her glorious past in Jamaica as the greatest all-rounder of the No Boys Cricket Club.STARSTRUCK (1997): is a hilarious and moving snapshot of the hopes an...

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Boasting six national championships and scores of Hall of Fame coaches and players, Carolina Basketball has come a long way from the first season — when the campus newspaper published a notice asking an unknown culprit to return the team’s basketball. These pages are packed with little-known stories from the program’s earliest days and new insights into its best-loved moments. All the greats are here, from Jack Cobb and the “Blind Bomber” George Glamack to Lennie Rosenbluth, Phil Ford, Jam...

Danny and his friends Petou and Anita live for hockey. So when they are asked to join the Wolves late in the season, they are determined to do their best for the town team. Some of the players, however, start to grumble about the latecomers. Travis, the Wolves' best forward, calls them "the wimps" and makes sure they are ignored on the ice. With the final game of the season looming, Travis is hogging the puck and the Wolves are no longer playing as a team. Danny's older brother is a star w...

Ever since Adolph Berle and Gardiner Means wrote their classic 1932 analysis of the American corporation, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, social scientists have been intrigued and challenged by the evolution of this crucial part of American social and economic life. Here William Roy conducts a historical inquiry into the rise of the large publicly traded American corporation. Departing from the received wisdom, which sees the big, vertically integrated corporation as ...

Step into the world of smart factories and modern manufacturing, where machines, data, and software work together to produce faster, safer, and more efficient industrial systems.Industrial Automation is a practical and beginner-friendly guide to understanding how modern industries use control systems, robotics, sensors, and digital technologies to automate production and optimize operations. Designed for students, engineers, technicians, and technology enthusiasts,...

Transform the way organizations operate by redesigning processes for greater efficiency, innovation, and competitive advantage.Business Process Reengineering is a practical guide to fundamentally rethinking and redesigning business processes to achieve dramatic improvements in performance, productivity, quality, and customer satisfaction. Rather than making small incremental changes, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) focuses on challenging traditional workflows ...