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The Flying Adventures of Charles Green

The Flying Adventures of Charles Green

Alastair Goodrum

PEN SWORD BOOKS LTD
2025
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The action-packed flying career of aeronaut Charles Green (1785-1870), a working-class Londoner in the infancy of aviation, who defied death in a career of 35 years and over 500 balloon flights to make a unique contribution to world aeronautical history. His decision, in 1821, to use domestic coal-gas to inflate balloons ran completely contrary to perceived wisdom, but his success in doing so revolutionised flying for the remainder of the Georgian and Victorian eras. His innovation set the direction of aeronautics for the next 80 years - until the Wright brothers changed its course again. Inventor, innovative balloon constructor, shrewd businessman, flamboyant showman and a skilled and courageous pilot, he was the first to put into practice the concept of public air travel. Charles liked a ‘tipple’ in the air - but never compromised safety - and made sure his passengers enjoyed his in-flight champagne hospitality. This earned him not only the status of a national treasure – whose very name was a by-word for all things aeronautic - but also ensured he became an international legend in his own lifetime.
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No one hears you scream......but silence will be heard

No one hears you scream......but silence will be heard

Alastair Mciver

Pidyon Press
2025
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A thrilling political crime novel based in Kyrgystan, Central Asia where women may suffer bride kidnapping and domestic abuse of the worst kind. Roza Beshimov's newspaper campaign to expose the illegal malpractice of bride-kidnapping in south Kyrgyzstan's remote mountainous region soon leads her into something far more sinister. And dangerous. When her evidence begins to point towards a femicide cartel, run by some of the country's leading political figures, the government's very survival is at risk. As her campaign edges ever closer to the truth, and the net closes in on the perpetrators, more lives are at risk, including her own...
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Hazardous Money

Hazardous Money

Alastair Gibbons

Independently Published
2019
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Wanting something so badly demands a hefty price.Star investment banker James Tait has gone rogue. Following a personal crisis, he ditches the City to set up a kids' charity, LifeChance. Using his reputed deal-making skills, he'll do all it takes to succeed. When an illicit multi-million-pound deal blows up, the charity is threatened with insolvency. Desperate, he is forced to source funds with vengeful strings attached - hazardous money - from hedge-fund owner, Caro. He hopes it will give him enough time to execute an audacious financial scam, fooling the City, to transform LifeChance's fortunes. But the authorities are on to him, his own lawyer suspects him, and worst of all, he falls for the woman trying to put him behind bars. James Tait has dug himself a deep dark hole of shady secrets. Will he escape?London, a dead body, fraud, lies, lust, love, loyalty, greed, ambition, retribution and justice.
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Colours: A thrilling new urban fantasy

Colours: A thrilling new urban fantasy

Alastair Crombie

Independently Published
2019
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A unique modern fantasy with characters to remember and a story that'll make you think. "A unique and brilliant debut... love it""Not your usual coming of age story""Not your usual debut novel" Charlie's first day could've gone better. His timetable didn't say anything about hospital for his last lesson. When he starts seeing clouds of coloured light surround strangers it completes a week to remember for all the wrong reasons. School is a lonely place for a teenage pariah who's worried he's hallucinating. When he's told the colours he sees are real he jumps at a chance for the truth. Thrown into a strange new world, Charlie is supposed to be able to manipulate the fabric of humanity. But there are those who are willing to kill to stop him. Will Charlie discover the power he needs to change the world. And what will it cost him if he does?
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The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer

The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer

Alastair Minnis

Cambridge University Press
2014
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Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the ideological differences between the pagan past and the Christian present, and a man of science, knowledgeable in astronomy, astrology and alchemy. This concise book is an ideal starting point for study of all his major poems, particularly The Canterbury Tales, to which two chapters are devoted. It offers close readings of individual texts, presenting various possibilities for interpretation, and includes discussion of Chaucer's life, career, historical context and literary influences. An account of the various ways in which he has been understood over the centuries leads into an up-to-date, annotated guide to further reading.
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Quantum Physics

Quantum Physics

Alastair Rae

Cambridge University Press
2012
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Quantum physics is believed to be the fundamental theory underlying our understanding of the physical universe. However, it is based on concepts and principles that have always been difficult to understand and controversial in their interpretation. This book aims to explain these issues using a minimum of technical language and mathematics. After a brief introduction to the ideas of quantum physics, the problems of interpretation are identified and explained. The rest of the book surveys, describes and criticises a range of suggestions that have been made with the aim of resolving these problems; these include the traditional, or 'Copenhagen' interpretation, the possible role of the conscious mind in measurement and the postulate of parallel universes. This new edition has been revised throughout to take into account developments in this field over the past fifteen years, including the idea of 'consistent histories' to which a completely new chapter is devoted.
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Modern Oncology

Modern Oncology

Alastair Munro

Cambridge University Press
2012
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Modern Oncology, first published in 2001, offers a concise and accessible guide to the key terms in oncology, defining essential terminology and important concepts in a didactic and highly readable style for a wide audience. Extensive use is made throughout of cross-referencing, to aid rapid access to topics of interest and the broad coverage includes such subjects as physics, radiation biology, clinical pharmacology, statistics and clinical epidemiology, tumour biology and molecular biology. Wherever possible, clinically relevant examples and real-world data are included to help the trainee or busy clinician to quickly place their findings in a broad clinical context. The book will be an essential tool to any healthcare professional with a need to understand oncology when seeing patients, reading medical reports or interpreting scientific papers.
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The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer

The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer

Alastair Minnis

Cambridge University Press
2014
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Geoffrey Chaucer is the best-known and most widely read of all medieval British writers, famous for his scurrilous humour and biting satire against the vices and absurdities of his age. Yet he was also a poet of passionate love, sensitive to issues of gender and sexual difference, fascinated by the ideological differences between the pagan past and the Christian present, and a man of science, knowledgeable in astronomy, astrology and alchemy. This concise book is an ideal starting point for study of all his major poems, particularly The Canterbury Tales, to which two chapters are devoted. It offers close readings of individual texts, presenting various possibilities for interpretation, and includes discussion of Chaucer's life, career, historical context and literary influences. An account of the various ways in which he has been understood over the centuries leads into an up-to-date, annotated guide to further reading.
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Phantom Pains and Prosthetic Narratives

Phantom Pains and Prosthetic Narratives

Alastair Minnis

Cambridge University Press
2021
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'Phantom limb pain' designates the sensations which seem to emanate from limbs that in reality are missing. The phrase was coined by the American Civil War surgeon, Weir Mitchell, in reference to his fictional amputee, George Dedlow. Contemporary neuroscience holds that the brain encloses a schema which covers the whole body, and asserts its unity even if certain parts are missing. Reading backwards from Dedlow's sufferings, Alastair Minnis traces the medieval precedents and parallels, focusing on Augustine and Dante, who subscribed to the notion of a 'body in the soul'. Dante's souls in purgatory self-prosthesize with aerial phantoms as they long for the full embodiment which only the resurrection can bring. Is a complete body necessary for personhood? And how can the gamut of human feelings be run if parts or the entirety of one's body does not exist? Combining medieval studies and contemporary neuroscience, this absorbing study explores the fascinating and surprising history of phantom pain.
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Sex

Sex

Alastair J. L. Blanshard

Wiley-Blackwell
2015
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Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity examines the impact that sexual fantasies about the classical world have had on modern Western culture. Offers a wealth of information on sex in the Greek and Roman worldCorrelates the study of classical sexuality with modern Western culturesIdentifies key influential themes in the evolution of erotic discourse from antiquity to modernityPresents a serious and thought-provoking topic with great accessibility
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Great Debates in Equity and Trusts

Great Debates in Equity and Trusts

Alastair Hudson

Red Globe Press
2014
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This textbook is an ambitious and engaging introduction to the more advanced writings on equity and trusts, primarily designed to allow students to ‘get under the skin’ of the topic and begin to build their critical thinking and analysis skills. Each chapter is structured around key questions and debates that provoke deeper thought and, ultimately, a clearer understanding. The aim of the book is therefore not to present a complete overview of theoretical issues in equity and trusts, but rather to illustrate the current debates which are currently going on among those working in shaping the area. The text features summaries of the views of notable experts on key topics and each chapter ends with a list of guided further reading.
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Values and Ethics in Mental Health

Values and Ethics in Mental Health

Alastair Morgan; Anne Felton; Bill Fulford

Red Globe Press
2015
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Mental health is the one area of health care where people are often treated against their will, with the justification that it is in their own interest. This raises significant ethical questions and value dilemmas; questions of autonomy, human rights, power and treatment. An understanding of how values matter is of vital importance across all disciplines working within the mental health field. This book provides a comprehensive and exploratory text for practitioners, students and all those interested in developing a knowledge of both ethics and the wider framework of values-based practice. It is unique in being fully co-written by authors representing both service user and service provider perspectives. This exciting new text will enable the mental health practitioner to work more co-productively with service users within a humane and just approach to care. With an emphasis on rights-based compassionate care throughout, this book: - Tackles the issues of how mental health is understood through key theoretical debates about mental distress, values and labelling;- Encourages readers to think critically about their understanding of key issues such as recovery, autonomy, power, knowledge, diagnoses and empathy;- Draws on a wide range of case examples and exercises to help readers deepen their knowledge of values-based practice and ethics in mental health.
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