'A gripping tale, buzzing with dark comedy and set in a dangerous Jacobean world of assassins, spies, witch-hunters and temperamental actors' Andy Hamilton'A delicious and intelligent tour de force. I loved it. Truly engaging characters with whom to travel into the dark alleys, playhouses and rogue inhabited streets of the edgy London of James I. Unputdownable' Carol McGrath'Riotous, subversive and completely bloody brilliant'

Songs and sketches from the groundbreaking BBC comedy series show starring Rowan Atkinson, Griff Rhys Jones, Mel Smith and Pamela Stephenson. 'Not the Nine O’Clock News' is regarded as one of the great classics of British television humour. Written by some of Britain’s finest comedy writers, including Richard Curtis, Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin, the show was innovative, shocking and rude – and extremely funny. Published on CD for the first time, this hilarious compilation includes some of...

Over the past decade, Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) has been one of the popular human factors approaches for complex systems evaluation and design applications. This is reflected by a diverse range of applications across safety critical domains. The book brings together a series of CWA applications and discussions from world-leading human factors researchers and practitioners. It begins with an overview of the CWA framework, including its theoretical underpinnings, the methodological appro...

The debut novel by BAFTA and Emmy award-winning co-writer of BBC One's Outnumbered Guy Jenkin.'One of the best historical fiction books of 2025' THE TIMES'A delightful cross between Wolf Hall and Blackadder' THE EXPRESSShortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction 2025'Clever, funny, ingenious and endearing' Lissa Evans

Martin Jarvis stars in this BBC radio satire set in the competitive world of advertisingHappiness... is a career in advertising. Or is it? Activist turned ad writer Ken Handley isn't so sure. Back in the day, he used to hitch-hike and attend peace protests. Now, he finds himself writing copy for the Conservative Party and extolling the virtues of products he hates - while also coping with a drunken boss, strait-laced colleagues and an overactive mind.Over t...

Murder Most Foul is a dark, witty and fast-paced novel, from one of Britain’s best-loved screenwriters.It’s 1593, Elizabeth I is Queen and everyone is terrified of the worst outbreak of plague in a generation. Shakespeare has only written six plays and is lagging behind his friend Christopher Marlowe, London’s leading playwright.When Marlowe is stabbed to death in mysterious circumstances, rumours abound – but the one that won’t go away is that Shakespeare did it to remove h...

An invaluable resource, this book discusses the human factors that affect control operations and their implications for staff. It covers competencies for control room work, training and training needs analysis, development and maintenance of procedures, communication processes within and outside the control room, manning of the control room, automation and allocation of function, supervision of staff, and shift patterns. The author also examines control room layout. SCADA assessment, alarm...

'Complex sociotechnical systems' are systems made up of numerous interacting parts, both human and non-human, operating in dynamic, ambiguous and safety critical domains. Cognitive Work Analysis (CWA) is a structured framework specifically developed for considering the development and analysis of these complex socio-technical systems. Unlike many human factors approaches, CWA does not focus on how human-system interaction should proceed (normative modelling) or how human-system interaction...

This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements to those that featured in the original. The book has been carefully designed to act as an ergonomics methods manual, aiding both students and practitioners. The eleven sections represent the different categories of ergonomics methods and techniques that can be used in the evaluation and design process. Offering a 'how-to' ...

This book presents a human factors and ergonomics evaluation of a digital Mission Planning and Battle-space Management (MP/BM) system. An emphasis was placed on the activities at the Brigade (Bde) and the Battle Group (BG) headquarters (HQ) levels. The analysts distributed their time evenly between these two locations. The human factors team from Brunel University, as part of the HFI DTC, undertook a multi-faceted approach to the investigation, including: - observation of people using the ...

The sequel to the Wodehouse Prize nominated Murder Most Foul.The second novel by the multi BAFTA, RTS and Emmy awardwinning writer, director and producer of iconic TV shows like Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey.The murder-solving duo are back, famed playwright Will and the sister of Christopher Marlowe. This time, it’s to discover the truth behind the murder of Ann’s mother. The cause of death is absurd: suicide by butter knife. Ann knows that can’t be true and must disc...

During the course of any sporting event, critical cognitive and physical tasks are performed within a dynamic, complex, collaborative system comprising multiple humans and artifacts, under pressurized, complex, and rapidly changing conditions. Highly skilled, well-trained individuals walk a fine line between task success and failure, with only slig