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In all countries, people face multiple challenges to welfare, safety and freedom: human security studies provide a deeper understanding of such threats, and contribute to effective responses. Human Security Challenges aims to inform readers concerned with global poverty and exclusion, especially...

In the 1950's Brian decided to make a daring career move based on almost total ignorance of the facts. This was to work underground in one of the deepest coal-mines in Lancashire. Like a number of things in life, it seemed to be a good idea at the time. Sadly, he had failed to consider the implications...

A couple in their eighties, Dennis and Maria Cramp were quite contentedly and quietly living out their twilight years in the town of Accrington, Lancashire. However, in 2006 this was to change. Not through choice they were parted, and their plight became known world wide.This is the remarkable true story...

Al Horowitz, ageing cartoonist and self-styled ninja, is catapulted from peaceful dotage to national notoriety when a dissident's assassin disguises himself as a benign Horowitz vegetable character, the opening gambit of a plot to cretinise the populace through customised junk food additives and media...

If you can't read music you're not alone. Yet you can press the right keys on a computer. You can press the right buttons in an elevator. So why can't you, with a musical score in front of you, press the right keys on a piano?The reason is because conventional written music is a graphic nightmare. It's...

Dear God, My book is out and I'm in the dog box. Tom says I've ruined his authority at St Jude's with the bit about his Tom and Jerry underpants and his penchant for Sugar Puffs.The boys say their girlfriends have dropped them like hot cakes and that they'll never leave home with a mother like me who...

The book highlights through various analogies, how the extremist views of Republican ideology are destroying the Capitalist system. Elections are coming up and the President is struggling to make a second term.Emma Flood's personal tragedy, caused by Hightower Bank's dubious investments, motivates her...

The Epic Third Century BC Struggle for Supremacy in the West.The Mamertines' machinations having plunged the western Mediterranean into war, led by Appius Claudius Caudex - confidently crosses into Sicily. Deserted by its Syracusan ally, King Hieron, the awesome Carthaginian Empire resolves to oppose...

The Epic Third Century BC Struggle for Supremacy in the West.Pyrrhus, King of Epirus, King of Macedonia! Now he must eliminate all remaining contenders for his new throne.Embittered by his loveless marriage Cleonymus, the Spartan, joins Pyrrhus in the hope that Epirot spears will secure him absolute...

Author's PrefaceMy mother-in-law, the 'Elsie' in the story, many years ago told me some of the facts about her holiday in Germany with her elder sister in the summer of 1914. But many vital details were missing. Where did they stay? When did they arrive in Germany and when did they leave? How did they...

The Epic Third Century BC Struggle for Supremacy in the West.Having harnessed the silver and the fierce tribes of Spain to his cause and with the support of Carthage, Hannibal launches his assault on the Spanish city of Saguntum, thereby provoking the second Roman War. Beset by unrest in Gaul, Illyria,...

Here is a series of absolutely indispensable tips for any businessperson about stuff that lots of people are... well, complete pants at (not you, of course). Learn how NOT to deliver presentations, run meetings, conduct a negotiation, or schmooze at a networking event. This book really allows you to...

In September 1066 William Duke of Normandy brought his army to Pevensey in East Sussex, and went on to defeat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings, thus changing the course of English history forever. You can follow in the footsteps of William the Conqueror taking in such historical gems as Pevensey...

This is a record of 'Times Past' though never intended to become a book. It just progressively developed, then forgotten about for over fifty years when it was suggested my hand written diary was an insight into scenes and situations, and people and places that are all completely changed or long gone....