big fix
Everyone has wonderful memories of the 2010 Fifa World Cup...In June 2010, the richest World Cup ever kicked off as delirious South African fans gathered in a rare act of national unity to make the worlds biggest sporting event a success. The magn...
Ragged glory
On a cold Highveld morning in May 1994, Nelson Mandela took the oath of office to become South Africas first democratically elected president. A new era had begun. The promise of those heady days of political transition soon gave way to a more sob...
Cyril Ramaphosa
For a long time, Cyril Ramaphosa was the nearly-man of South African politics. He was Nelson Mandela's preferred successor, but the ANC opted for his rival, Thabo Mbeki, as the second post-apartheid president. Ramaphosa had led South Africa's huge...
Somatic Psychology
This book brings attention to the interface of psychotherapy and psychological theory with the somatic practices of bodywork and movement therapy. To offer a client only psychotherapy, or only bodywork may subtly or directly reinforce the body-min...
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume Bri...
Choice-of-court Agreements under the European and International Instruments
This is the first text to address all the instruments that will govern choice-of-court agreements in Europe and to engage in a practical discussion of their mutual relationship. The existing common law, which has dominated discussion of this subje...
Welfare Rights and Social Policy
This title presents an introduction to social policy through a discussion of welfare rights, which are explored in historical, comparative and critical context.
Can Government Think?
Climate change, financial crises, and other issues of global scale no longer concern only the developed world. The binding power of globalization has placed these challenges at the doorstep of almost every country, testing the evolutionary capacit...
Creative Industries
Creative Industries is a daring collection of essays that charts the noisy revolution that is transforming the production, consumption, and understanding of culture in the all-wired era. It brings together seminal essays written across traditional...
Sport, Physical Recreation and the Law
It is important for anybody involved in sport and physical recreation to be aware of the legal context in which their activity takes place, to develop an understanding of their legal responsibilities and to know what might happen if something goes...
Trekking in Austria's Zillertal Alps
A guidebook to four hut-to-hut treks in Austria's Zillertal Alps: the 80km Zillertal Rucksack Route (also known as the Berliner Hohenweg), the 54km Peter Habeler Runde, the 45km Olperer Runde and the 61km Zillertal South Tirol Tour. Suitable for e...
Economics of Defence Policy
Since the end of the Cold War, the world has been faced with new regional conflicts, terrorism and threats from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and from rogue states. The world remains uncertain, unstable and insecure with continu...
Popular Reality
This work provides theoretical analysis and historical detail to reconceptualize the significance of modern journalism from the point of view of its greatest creation - popular readerships. It traces the links between journalism, politics and popu...
Communication, Cultural and Media Studies
Now in its fifth edition, this pioneering volume of Routledge's 'Key Guides' series offers clear explanations of key concepts, showing where they came from, what they are used for and why they provoke discussion or disagreement. The new edition is...
Digital Futures for Cultural and Media Studies
An ambitious rendering of the digital future from a pioneer of media and cultural studies, a wise and witty take on a changing field, and our orientation to it Investigates the uses of multimedia by creative and productive citizen-consumers to pro...
Social Policy
How do human societies provide for the wellbeing of their members? How far can we organize the ways in which we care for and about each other? And who should take responsibility for providing the support we need? These are some of the fundamental ...
NATO Arms Co-operation
This book, first published in 1983, examines weapons standardisation as one aspect of NATO's efficiency. It analyses the economic arguments for weapons standardisation, the limitations of the analysis and the available evidence. A political econom...
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some ...
The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens
What was it like to be Charles Dickens? His letters are the nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography: vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This is the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume Bri...
The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read
From the Foreword by Phillip C. 'Dr. Phil' McGraw, PhD 'The Most Dangerous Business Book You'll Ever Read. Now that is a provocative title and I'll bet it made you ask yourself a lot of questions. Dangerous for whom? In what way? Will the results be dangerous? All valid questions that I can respond to with just one answer before you proceed any further. 'If you continue on and read this book, if you learn the principles and adopt the behaviors set forth in these pages you are going to change. You are going to alter the way you exist in this world personally and professionally. You are going to generate different results than you have been creating for yourself and your family up until now.' The book is dangerous because it tells you how to get what you want. It tells you how to acquire and apply powerful human behavior skills to a broad range of situations. Who uses these skills? Good guys and bad guys. Military and civilian intelligence operatives must persuade people, coordinate
Marvel Museum (Mini Edition)
Marvel Museum (Mini Edition)
Our Lady of the Highway
A funny, warm-hearted, and provocative farce about a beautiful but troubled insurance adjuster who believes she has psychic powers she cannot control. She decides to enter a Catholic convent for three months to protect society from her powerful emotions and her devoted math teacher boyfriend hopes this will cure her of these delusions. But the only convent that will accept her is an impoverished cloister run by a gang of outlaw nuns opening a brewery to help finance their radical activist plans.
Trekking in Austria's Stubai Alps
A guidebook to three hut-to-hut treks in Austria’s Stubai Alps: the 79km Stubai Rucksack Route, the 60km Stubai Glacier Tour – plus a South Tirol extension, and the 67km Gschnitztal Runde Tour. Whereas the rucksack route requires only good fitness and mountain walking experience, the glacier tour involves glacier crossings. The Stubai Rucksack Route is presented in 9 stages, the Stubai Glacier Tour in 7 (with the extension bringing it to 11) and the Gschnitzal Runde Tour in 7. Also included are optional ascents of neighbouring peaks, including Habicht, Zuckerhutl and Wilder Freiger, some of which may require specialist equipment and mountaineering skills. * Clear route description illustrated with 1:50,000 mapping * Elevation profiles for each trek * Comprehensive hut directory * Detailed summary of each day’s challenges and any potential hazards * GPX files available for download
Sci-Fi Classics Children's Collection: 10 Book Box Set
The Science Fiction Childrenâ??s Collection features ten of the most exciting stories that helped forge the genre, including early dystopia, time travel, alien invasion, and adventures both undersea and underground. All this and more is brought to life with vivid illustrations, accessible language and FREE audiobooks (QR codes inside).
How We Use Stories and Why That Matters
How We Use Stories and Why That Matters
On the Digital Semiosphere
On the Digital Semiosphere
Sister's Shame
'My heart felt heavy with sadness for these two little girls.' Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to all manner of children arriving on her doorstep, but nothing can prepare her for sisters Billy and Bo when they arrive at her home. It is clear f...
Abyss of Representation
From the Copernican revolution of Immanuel Kant to the cognitive mapping of Fredric Jameson to the postcolonial politics of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, representation has been posed as both indispensable and impossible. In his pathbreaking work, T...
Designing Instructional Text
This is a practical guide for teachers and trainers who are responsible for designing and writing instructional material. Focusing on layout and the visual presentation of text, the author of this work uses "before and after" formats to ...