The legal position of parents and families in this country has changed dramatically in the last twenty years. This book aims to assist ministers and congregations who in the next few years, will need to explore their pastoral care of families and consider their approaches to some of the modern structures of family life. The book contains a clear and accessible account of the modern legal structures of family life, together with the history of marriage and families, showing that these do not conform to a tidy stereotype, and that the attitude of the Church has changed over time. It examines Bible teaching on family life and structures, and consider how theological writers have subsequently interpreted these teachings. The authors then look at liturgies used for the significant moments of family life, and how far these meet the spiritual and pastoral needs of today's families to strengthen and support loving, stable relationships. The authors are a distinguished biblical scholar and an experienced family lawyer, who is also an Anglican Reader. They have combined their knowledge of law and biblical study in an informative and thought-provoking book, for both clergy and laity.
Couples contemplating divorce or in the process of going their separate ways need all the support they can get. This book takes them through the legal, practical and financial issues that need to be addressed, before and during divorce.
The book that tells cohabiting couples both heterosexual and same-sex what their rights are and how to protect them. The number of couples living together in preference to marrying is increasing rapidly. Even if their relationship is long term and similar in many respects to marriage, unmarried couples should be aware that the law treats them differently from those who are married. Living Together shows couples how to protect their financial and legal rights while in a relationship -- including how to draw up a cohabitation agreement -- and tells them where they stand if they split up or if their partner dies. For couples in the process of breaking up, the sections on mediation and how to resolve disputes over children and property will be invaluable. Updated to include details of the Civil Partnership Bill, and packed with case histories, tips, sample agreements and useful forms, this new guide explains how the law affects heterosexual and same-sex couples with respect to children, property, inheritance, pensions, company privileges and state benefits. Separate chapters deal with the differences in law in Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Here are twelve plays written for performance in church as part of a Christmas or pre-Christmas service. The author wrote them for her own church to perform at its Christmas Eve Christingle service. They explore the Christmas story in a variety of ways, and themes, from the story told from the view point of the animals in the stable, the guards at Bethlehem's gate, the frazzled vicar preparing for the Christmas service, the angels in Heaven's command post, and many other insightful and humorous ways. They were written for performance by both children and adults. They include suggestions for costume, staging and accompanying carols and readings.
This book tackles the nuts and bolts of family law practice, providing you with the craft and know-how to survive as a family adviser in an era of increased billing targets, more demanding clients and public funding upheaval.The author, Imogen Clout, distils her considerable experience at the sharp-end of family law into a highly readable practice guide, paying particular attention to how recent developments impact on daily practice including:• the need to handle publicly funded cases profitably • transaction criteria • costs • ancillary reliefThe book is packed with sensible, workable advice on handling everything from the first interview to marketing the practice, making The Matrimonial Lawyer: A Survival Guide an essential companion, providing reassurance for the experienced family lawyer and a source of inspiration for the novice.
Get exclusive insight into the internal communications strategies behind leading businesses like WPP, Heathrow Airport, Pizza Express, BG Groups and more, and learn what 'good' looks like in internal communications, to ensure yours demonstrates a clear impact on ROI and business performance. In many companies, internal communications (IC) is too often not seen as a credible contributor to overall business performance. This book will enable you to prove the value of IC to senior company members by demonstrating its impact on ROI, enhanced employee engagement and improved business functions. Featuring case studies and lessons from leading companies, The People Business offers readers a unique, inside perspective on what works (and what doesn't) in the world of corporate internal communication and strategy, offering tips for success from senior IC leaders, including what they have learned along the way and what remains challenging. Built around interviews with senior practitioners from a diverse range of leading firms, this book offers a refreshingly honest perspective on the practices and challenges facing IC today.
The Twitter Diaries tells the story of pen pals for the 21st century. Two parallel lives separated by an ocean but united over a social network. Tuesday (@Tuesday Fields), a sports reporter and Stella (@StellaCavill), a men's shoe designer, are Brit 30-somethings who are introduced in NYC on NYE by a mutual friend, a notorious transatlantic TV presenter. They strike up an instant bond. Over the next 365 days, @TuesdayFields and @StellaCavill put the world to rights, one tweet at a time. From Melbourne to Monaco to Magaluf, the girls flirt and fall out with sportsmen, movie stars... and TV presenters. And then there's their mothers... December 31st of the same year and @TuesdayFields and @StellaCavill meet again, for the first time since the last time. A lot can happen in a year. It turns out just 140 characters can change everything. The Twitter Diaries is an instantly recognisable yet fictitious tale all generations can relate to, whether they are one of the world's 140 million and counting transfixed Twitter users or not. Accessible, funny and heart-warming, it's this summer's must read.
The sculptural history of the long 1980s has been dominated by New British Sculpture and Young British Artists. Arguing for a more expansive history of British sculpture and its supporting infrastructures, these twenty-three vivid and enthralling interviews with artists, curators, dealers and facilitators working then demonstrate the interconnected networks, diversity of ideas and practices, energy, imagination and determination that transformed British art from being marginal to internationally celebrated. With a substantial introduction, this timely volume provides valuable new insights into the education, work, careers, studios, infrastructures and exhibitions of the artists and facilitators, substantially enlarging our understanding of the era.
The third edition of International Law: Cases and Materials with Australian Perspectives examines how international law is developed, implemented and interpreted.
The American poet and essayist Louise Imogen Guiney was a prominent figure of the Boston literary circle of her day. She is chiefly known for her lyrical, Old English-style poems, recalling the conventions of seventeenth-century poetry. Informed by her religious faith, Guiney's works exhibit a concern for the Catholic tradition, while emphasising moral rectitude and heroic gallantry. By the end of the nineteenth century, Guiney was regarded as a major contributor to American literature. In later years, she turned to scholarship, concentrating on neglected poets. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Guiney’s complete works, with numerous illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Guiney’s life and works * Concise introduction to Guiney’s life and poetry * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Guiney’s complete prose works * Features a bonus biography by the poet’s close friend Alice Brown — discover Guiney’s literary life * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of Louise Imogen Guiney Brief Introduction: Louise Imogen Guiney Songs at the Start (1884) The White Sail and Other Poems (1887) A Roadside Harp (1893) Nine Sonnets Written at Oxford (1895) Poems from ‘Robert Louis Stevenson: A Study’ (1895) England and Yesterday (1898) The Martyrs’ Idyl and Shorter Poems (1899) Happy Ending (1909) The Poems List of Poems in Chronological Order List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Fiction Brownies and Bogles (1888) Lovers’ Saint Ruth’s and Three Other Tales (1895) The Non-Fiction Goose-Quill Papers (1885) Monsieur Henri (1892) Martha Hilton (1894) A Little English Gallery (1895) Patrins (1897) James Clarence Mangan (1897) Hurrell Froude (1904) Robert Emmet (1904) Thomas Stanley (1907) Blessed Edmund Campion (1908) Contributions to ‘Catholic Encyclopedia’ (1913) The Biography Louise Imogen Guiney (1921) by Alice Brown Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set
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