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Hong Kong Invaded! A 'Ninety-Seven Nightmare

By: Gillian Bickley

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Hong Kong Invaded! A 'Ninety-Seven Nightmare

By: Gillian Bickley

No. It is not what you think. The year is 1897, not 1997. This is a fictional account of Hong Kong being invaded by the combined forces of France and Russia. This visionary novel by an anonymous author has been forgotten for a hundred years. Yet when published as The Back Door during the negotiations between Imperial China and Great Britain over the lease of the New Territories, the story aroused serious British fears about the possibility of defending Hong Kong against attack. Copies were then to be found on the desks of British officials in London. Matthew Nathan, who became Governor in 1904, was advised to read the book. But it was not only in 1897 that the book was accurate in its observations on military tactics. There are many intriguing parallels with the Christmas 1941 invasion by the Japanese and the role of the Hong Kong Volunteers at that time. Three strategically vulnerable locations identified in The Back Door were considered for attack in 1941. Had the Japanese read this fictional battle when plotting their manoeuvres? If so, The Back Door not only taught one way to defend Hong Kong, but also another to attack it.

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Hong Kong University Press

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9622095267

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Clinical Skills in Child Health Practice E-Book

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By: Janet Kelsey,Gillian McEwing

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Clinical Skills in Child Health Practice E-Book

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By: Janet Kelsey,Gillian McEwing

This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. It is a textbook of clinical skills that offers an excellent resource for all professionals providing care for children and young people. It presents a detailed step-by-step approach to clinical skills that may be used in both hospital and community settings. Each skill is presented with the evidence base required to ensure up-to-date safe practice. Chapters provide rationale for each step of the skill and are enhanced by diagrams and photographs to give the practitioner clear guidance and the confidence to perform unfamiliar skills. The accompanying PowerPoint presentations are a resource for both lecturers teaching clinical skills and individual students who are either encountering a skill for the first time or want to update their knowledge.• A step-by-step guide to the fundamental skills required for child health care which gives clear guidance to help master the skills • Incorporates the latest clinical guidelines to ensure the most up-to-date information is used enabling safe effective practice • Problem-based scenarios provide the opportunity to confirm knowledge and understanding of the skill. • Extensive PowerPoint presentations can be used for teaching or personal guided study in the classroom or skills laboratory. • Colour photos and video clips on the Evolve website present clear guidance on how to perform the skill

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0702033391

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9780702033391

Rules for a Flat World

Why Humans Invented Law and how to Reinvent it for a Complex Global Economy

By: Gillian Kereldena Hadfield

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Rules for a Flat World

Why Humans Invented Law and how to Reinvent it for a Complex Global Economy

By: Gillian Kereldena Hadfield

How can we promote economic progress in a staggeringly complex global system? In the bestselling book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman argued that technology and globalization have leveled the playing field among workers and innovators worldwide. But why, ten years after he proposed thisthesis, are billions of people around the world still locked out of global prosperity and security?In Rules for a Flat World, law and economics professor Gillian Hadfield points to an outdated legal infrastructure as the cause of stagnating progress in the global economy. The world's biggest corporations are struggling to manage workers, and advance a consistent strategy, in dozens of countriesat once. Small businesses are being crushed by disruption a hemisphere away. Billions of people who constitute the bottom of the economic pyramid are still shut out of the technological, legal, and medical advancements that the other half of the world enjoys. Put simply, the law and legal methods onwhich we currently rely have failed to evolve along with technology. Hadfield argues not only that these systems are too slow, costly, and localized to support an increasingly complex global economy, but also that they fail to address looming challenges such as global warming, poverty, andoppression in developing countries.Instead of growing more agile and less expensive, our legal infrastructure is drowning in costs and complexity, all the while growing less capable of responding to the needs of businesses, governments, and ordinary people. Through a sweeping review of the emergence and evolution of law overthousands of years, Hadfield makes the case that our existing methods of producing law-via legislatures, courts, and bureaucracies-need supplementing. Markets, she argues, have the capacity to spur investment in regulation so that we can better manage smarter, faster, and more complicated economicsystems. Combining an impressive grasp of the empirical details of economic globalization with an ambitious re-envisioning of our global legal system, Rules for a Flat World is a crucial and influential intervention into the debates surrounding how best to manage the evolving global economy.

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Oxford University Press

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0199916527

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9780199916528

British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman’s Magazine', 1731 to 1815

By: Gillian Williamson

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British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman’s Magazine', 1731 to 1815

By: Gillian Williamson

The Gentleman's Magazine was the leading eighteenth-century periodical. By integrating the magazine's history, readers and contents this study shows how 'gentlemanliness' was reshaped to accommodate their social and political ambitions.

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Springer

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1137542330

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9781137542335

Hong Kong Invaded! A 'Ninety-Seven Nightmare

By: Gillian Bickley

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Mingled Voices 6

International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2021

By: Joanna Radwanska-Williams

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Mingled Voices 6

International Proverse Poetry Prize Anthology 2021

By: Joanna Radwanska-Williams

MINGLED VOICES 6 contains the work of sixty-seven poets. The one hundred and thirty-three or so poems were selected from those entered for the International Proverse Poetry Prize in 2021, the sixth such annual international competition administered from Hong Kong. The International Proverse Poetry Prize was jointly founded in 2016 by Dr Gillian Bickley and Dr Verner Bickley, MBE, in association with the annual international Proverse Prize for unpublished book-length fiction, non-fiction or poetry, submitted in English, which they also founded, in 2008. Poems could be submitted on any subject or topic, chosen by each poet, or on the subject chosen for 2021 by the Administrators, "Shielding" (interpreted in any way each writer chose). There was a free choice of interpretation, form and style. Included in the anthology are the poems that won the first, second, and third prizes. Selection to appear in the anthology was also awarded as a prize by the judges. This year, special mention is additionally made of five of these poets. Poems were submitted from around the world by writers with a variety of previous writing experience. Brief biographies of all of those whose work is represented in Mingled Voices 6 are included in the anthology as well as authors' background notes on their work. ADVANCE COMMENTS "I genuinely feel that one of the greatest gifts poetry offers us is to realise that we are not alone in the world - that our own lives, thoughts and experiences matter and are reflected in others. I also firmly believe that poetry finds its most important place in times of greatest need. The challenges we face currently...seem to weigh so very heavily. For me, as a poet and as a reader, it is in these times that I turn to poetry to help me to reflect not only on the joy and beauty we can experience in the world around us, but also to remind me of our extraordinary ability, throughout the eons, as human beings, to always try to lean into the light. I commend the editors, and all of the poets in these pages, for raising a lantern in the darkness so that people...can continue to find human connection, solace and hope through the gift of poetry in our world." -Anne Casey, First-prize winner, International Proverse Poetry Prize 2020 "An intriguing despatch from the front lines. - If, in Shelley's famous phrase, poets are (or were) the 'unacknowledged legislators of the world', then perhaps these days or at least in this volume they are the non-credentialed journalists of the inner experience of the pandemic." -Jeff Streeter, Director of the British Council in Hong Kong

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Proverse Hong Kong

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9888492489

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9789888492480

The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882

By: Verner Courtenay Bickley,Ian Grant,Kemal Bokhary Jp

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The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882

By: Verner Courtenay Bickley,Ian Grant,Kemal Bokhary Jp

-Useful for historians and students of colonial law and colonial administration, Hong Kong (China) legal and social history.-Carefully edited and annotated transcription of newspaper reports of magistrate's court cases at a particularly lively period in Hong Kong history, with analyses and background documentation of specific offences, detailed references to historical Ordinances, and a careful index.-Illuminates the interface and parallels between the establishment of a colonial education system and the introduction of colonial law. -Extends our knowledge and understanding of nineteenth century Hong Kong family and social life, law, policing, and court practice. Provides information about hundreds of individuals.-Throws additional light on the Irish Roman Catholic Governor of the time, John Pope Hennessy and the Founder of Hong Kong Government Education, Frederick Stewart.

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Proverse Hong Kong

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9888228773

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9789888228775

Book's by Gillian Bickley

Hong Kong Invaded! A 'Ninety-Seven Nightmare

Hong Kong Invaded! A 'Ninety-Seven Nightmare

Clinical Skills in Child Health Practice E-Book

Clinical Skills in Child Health Practice E-Book

Rules for a Flat World

Rules for a Flat World

British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman’s Magazine', 1731 to 1815

British Masculinity in the 'Gentleman’s Magazine', 1731 to 1815

Hong Kong Invaded! A 'Ninety-Seven Nightmare

Hong Kong Invaded! A 'Ninety-Seven Nightmare

Mingled Voices 6

Mingled Voices 6

The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882

The Complete Court Cases of Magistrate Frederick Stewart: as Reported in "The China Mail", July 1881 to March 1882

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