Davies: 1593 books
Unfinished Business
Journal of an Embattled European
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
For many in Britain the issue of the country’s membership of the European Union is the biggest political decision of their lifetime. It affects their livelihoods, their communities, the life chances of their children and their grandchildren and, above all, their sense of themselves. The existential...
Going it Alone?
Lone Motherhood in Late Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Are lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She draws on interviews with 70 unmarried lone mothers living on state benefits in inner city areas to examine the complexity and...
Mors Britannica
Lifestyle & Death-Style in Britain Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
A people's lifestyle is one thing, their death-style another. The proximity or distance between such styles says much about a society, not least in Britain today. Mors Britannica takes up this style-issue in a society where cultural changes involve distinctions between traditional religion, secularisation,...
by Derek Brazell, Jo Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Get ready to enter the working world of illustration with this freshly updated second edition of Brazell and Davies's Becoming a Successful Illustrator.
This edition features even more 'Spotlight on…' sections, with advice from practicing illustrators as well as the people that commission...
Liberalism in Neoliberal Times
Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
An exploration of the theories, histories, practices, and contradictions of liberalism today.
What does it mean to be a liberal in neoliberal times? This collection of short essays attempts to show how liberals and the wider concept of liberalism remain relevant in what many perceive to be...
by Brian Davies
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
This crucial period in Russia's history has, up until now, been neglected by historians, but here Brian L. Davies' study provides an essential insight into the emergence of Russia as a great power.
For nearly three centuries, Russia vied with the Crimean Khanate, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth...
A Supernatural War
Magic, Divination, and Faith during the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstitious' beliefs and practices. Churches expressed concerns about the wearing of talismans and amulets, the international press paid considerable interest to the pronouncements of astrologers...
'A Student in Arms'
Donald Hankey and Edwardian Society at War
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Donald Hankey was a writer who saw himself as a ’student of human nature’ and peacetime Edwardian Britain as a society at war with itself. Wounded in a murderous daylight infantry charge near Ypres, Hankey began sending despatches to The Spectator from hospital in 1915. Trench life, wrote Hankey,...
by Ms Molly Davies
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
When he was small and his parents told him if he was good he would get a sweet, the boy knew it was not true. Getting the sweet had nothing to do with being good.
'Badger Do Best' has landed, bringing with it a new world of rules and regulations. But the kids in the classroom are fighting back....
History of Linguistics, Volume IV
Nineteenth-Century Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
The History of Linguistics, to be published in five volumes, aims to provide the reader with an authoritative and comprehensive account of the attitudes to language prevailing in different civilizations and in different periods by examining the very varied development of linguistic thought in the...
Infinite Value
Accelerating Profitable Growth Through Value-based Selling
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
During the recessionary period of 2008-9, many organizations followed a business model that was ill-suited to long-term prosperity and strong profits, instead focusing on cost-cutting initiatives in order to survive. Post-recession, there is more optimism around investment, but changing from an entrenched...
by Brent Davies, Dr Barbara J Davies
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011
Talent management is a critical factor in developing successful organizations. There is a need for organisations to develop 'talent pools' of great staff for the future direction and leadership of our schools.
This book explains the key concepts and provides frameworks for leaders to apply...
by Peter Davies, Rhys Davies
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Enlivening Secondary History is the ideal handbook for busy history teachers who want to do something different in their classrooms, but have little time to plan and organise their lessons. Featuring tried-and-tested practical ideas complete with relevant exemplars and step-by-step advice, this best-selling...
by Neil Davies
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
There is a serial killer on the loose, torturing and butchering his way across the North of England. In the quiet Cheshire village of Taupington, Victoria Wheatcroft has found the house of her dreams. But the house holds more than simply memories, and the serial killer, and her own past, are closing...