Peter Privett's Books

A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse

By: Peter Higginbotham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse

By: Peter Higginbotham

For two centuries, the shadow of the workhouse hung over Britain. The recourse of only the most desperate, dark and terrible tales of malnutrition, misery, mistreatment and murder ran like wildfire through the poorer classes, who lived in terror of being forced inside the institution's towering walls. This book contains 365 incredible tales of fires, drownings, explosions and disasters, infamous scandals such as the Andover affair – where inmates were forced to eat the bones they were supposed to be crushing to ward off starvation – and sickening tales of abuse, assault, bodysnatching, poisonings, post mortems and murder. Accompanied by 70 rare and wonderful illustrations, this book will thrill, fascinate, sadden and unnerve in equal measure. DID YOU KNOW? In the early hours of 31 August 1888, the mutilated body of Mary Ann Nichols – the first generally accepted victim of Jack the Ripper – was discovered in Buck's Row, Whitechapel, just a little way from the Whitechapel workhouse infirmary. Nichols, aged forty-two at her death, had been a regular habituée of London's workhouses. On 30 May 1896, at the age of seven, future Hollywood star Charlie Chaplin entered the Newington workhouse in south London, together with his mother, Hannah, and his older half-brother Sydney. On 19 March 1834 a revolt took place amongst the juvenile female paupers of St Margaret's workhouse, Westminster. A young man named Speed, appointed as their superintendent, provoked their wrath by his alleged tyrannical behaviour. He was unmercifully thrashed by the girls who tore his clothes nearly off his back and beat him until his cries raised the alarm and the police were sent for to quell the disturbance.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

330

Publisher

The History Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0752492306

ISBN 13

9780752492308

The Moon and How to Observe It

By: Peter Grego

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Moon and How to Observe It

By: Peter Grego

This revolutionary new book is written for practical amateur astronomers who not only want to observe, but want to know the details of exactly what they are looking at. The Moon is the most commonly observed of all astronomical objects. This is the first book to deal equally with the Moon itself - its formation, geology, and history - as well as the practical aspects of observation. The concept of the book - and of the series - is to present an up-to-date detailed description of the Moon, including its origins, history, and geology (part one); and then (part two) to consider how best to observe and record it successfully using commercially-available equipment. The Moon and How to Observe It is a mine of information for all levels of amateur observers, from the beginner to the experienced

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

280

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1846282438

ISBN 13

9781846282430

Greatham Memories

By: Peter Gripton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Greatham Memories

By: Peter Gripton

This is a sequel to Peter Griptons original 'A History of Greatham' published in late 2003. Since then many people far and wide have sent Peter further contributions, ones that they said they were quite happy to share with local inhabitants. The articles and stories in' Greatham Memories cannot in any way be described as 'A History of Greatham Part 2', but the author hopes that readers will enjoy them just the same.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

110

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0955675340

ISBN 13

9780955675348

Introduction to Old English

By: Peter S. Baker

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Introduction to Old English

By: Peter S. Baker

Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of Introduction to Old English confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time. A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a “minitext” feature to aid students in practicing reading Old English Features updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred’s Preface to Gregory’s Pastoral Care

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

421

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

047065984X

ISBN 13

9780470659847

Observing the Moon

By: Peter T. Wlasuk

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Observing the Moon

By: Peter T. Wlasuk

Why write another guide to observing the Moon? That was the question I was pondering as I began this project, having a fine collection of "classic" lunar guidebooks dating back to 1791 in my own library. As a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS), member of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (AAS DPS), and member of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), I am fortunate to know many pro fessionallunar scientists who keep me up to date with developments in lunar scienc- contrary to public perception, lunar science has definitely not stagnated since the last Apollo, No. 17, left the surface of the Moon in December, 1972. I am also lucky to know many amateur lunar observers, who, like me, enjoy actually looking at the Moon with tele scopes and imaging it with a wide variety of devices ranging from regular 35 mm cameras to video recorders and CCD cameras. My friends who study the Moon, whether in their professions or just for fun, gave me several reasons for doing "another" lunar guidebook. First, the last lunar observer's guide of any length was published over ten years ago, and many reviewers noted that it was badly out of date even then.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

189

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

1447104838

ISBN 13

9781447104834

Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels

Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell

By: Peter Childs,James Green

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels

Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell

By: Peter Childs,James Green

A fresh set of concerns face the twenty-first century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored. Close readings of the writers are informed by a range of contemporary theorists, critics and commentators to reveal the emphases of twenty-first century fiction. Terror, fear, consumerism, multinationalism, and corporatism: the terms circulating in culture and social networks are evident in Smith's faith in ethical living, Aslam's consideration of multiculturalism, the novels Kunzru builds around the politics of identity and in the importance Mitchell places on the interconnectedness of human life. By putting the emergence of a new British literary dynamic in the context of ethical as well as global contexts, this study analyzes the transformed fictional perceptions of a world no longer defined by the stand off of super powers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

162

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1623564697

ISBN 13

9781623564698

Liberty Street

Encounters at Ground Zero

By: Peter Josyph

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Liberty Street

Encounters at Ground Zero

By: Peter Josyph

When writer and feature filmmaker Peter Josyph spent a year and a half combing the historic streets and debris-blasted buildings of Ground Zero in Lower Manhattan, talking with workers and residents, capturing its struggles and transformations, he became what he calls a "citizen-artist," personally shooting over two hundred hours of footage for his film Liberty Street: Alive at Ground Zero, and writing this haunting, eyewitness account of the extraordinary world that was created on September 11 and has vanished now forever. When the Ground Zero neighborhood was misinformed and marginalized by city and federal agencies, it was left to its own devices in coping with round-the-clock deconstruction, toxic infestation, corrupt landlords, reluctant insurers, and simple access to the place they were proud—and cursed—to call their home. But loyal Downtowners who ran for their lives from the collapse of the Twin Towers returned with a resolve to restore their world to order. Exploring this "dust-driven world of collateral damage," Josyph documented their struggle at a time when there were few there to witness it, and bans against photography made him "a spy in the house of destruction." In what the New York Times called "a personal, impressionistic, almost poetic account," Josyph finds in each detail a new way to envision that terrible morning, and he challenges the more simplistic, mainstream views of Ground Zero with vivid portraits of brave, exceptional—and complex—New Yorkers who made a place for themselves in that tragic and transitory neighborhood. This expanded edition includes a new chapter and additional photographs.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

346

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1438444214

ISBN 13

9781438444215

The Crimean War at Sea

The Naval Campaigns Against Russia 1854-56

By: Peter Duckers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Crimean War at Sea

The Naval Campaigns Against Russia 1854-56

By: Peter Duckers

Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear, and as a result campaigns were waged in the Baltic, the Black Sea, the White Sea, on the Russian Pacific coast and in the Sea of Azoff. Yet it is the land campaign in the Crimea that shapes our understanding of events. In this graphic and original study, Peter Duckers seeks to set the record straight. He shows how these neglected naval campaigns were remarkably successful, in contrast to the wretched failures that beset the British army on land. Allied warships ranged across Russian waters sinking shipping, disrupting trade, raiding ports, bombarding fortresses, destroying vast quantities of stores and shelling coastal towns. The scale and intensity of the naval operations embarked upon during the war are astonishing, and little appreciated, and this new book offers the first overall survey of them.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

216

Publisher

Casemate Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1844687120

ISBN 13

9781844687121

Making Sculpture from Scrap Metal

By: Peter Parkinson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Making Sculpture from Scrap Metal

By: Peter Parkinson

Transforming unlikely pieces of scrap metal into significant works of art - giving new life to things we throw away - is an accessible, creative and fulfilling activity. This book describes and illustrates the concerns and techniques involved in making this kind of sculpture, looking behind the work at the richness and diversity of an area of sculpture that deserves to be far better known. Topics covered include the role and purpose of sculpture, the particular qualities of sculpture made from scrap metal and the practical processes involved in its making. It also covers sources of scrap metal, identifying metals, reviewing metalworking techniques, creative approaches, different types of sculpture, and the making, finishing and installation of pieces of sculpture. This book will be of great interest to blacksmiths, sculptors and metalworkers and is beautifully illustrated with 108 colour photographs from work by professional sculptors and students, showcasing a range of different approaches.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

170

Publisher

Crowood

Published Date

ISBN 10

1785000225

ISBN 13

9781785000225

Objective Proficiency Workbook with Answers with Audio CD

By: Peter Sunderland,Erica Whettem

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Objective Proficiency Workbook with Answers with Audio CD

By: Peter Sunderland,Erica Whettem

Objective Proficiency Second edition provides Official Exam Preparation for Cambridge C2 Proficiency. Everything you need to be confident for exam day. A variety of challenging, lively topics provide thorough training in exam skills and high-level language development. Each unit contains three double-page lessons ensuring flexibility, even pacing and progress. This motivating material is also suitable for high-level students keen to improve their general English. The Workbook with answers provides opportunities for further practice of new language and exam skills either at home or in the classroom. The CD contains the audio material for the Workbook listening tasks.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

121

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107619203

ISBN 13

9781107619203

Biocatalysis: Biochemical Fundamentals And Applications (Second Edition)

By: Peter Grunwald

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Biocatalysis: Biochemical Fundamentals And Applications (Second Edition)

By: Peter Grunwald

In this Completely Revised and Extended Edition with a significantly enhanced content, all Chapters have been updated considering relevant literature and recent developments until 2016 together with application oriented examples with a focus on Industrial Biocatalysis. Newly treated topics comprise among others systems metabolic engineering approaches, metagenome screening, new tools for pathway engineering, and de-novo computational design as actual research areas in biocatalysis. Information about different aspects of RNA technologies, and completely new Chapters on 'Fluorescent Proteins' and 'Biocatalysis and Nanotechnology' are also included.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1314

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company

Published Date

ISBN 10

1783269103

ISBN 13

9781783269105

Humanitarian Logistics

Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters and Complex Emergencies

By: Graham Heaslip,Peter Tatham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Humanitarian Logistics

Meeting the Challenge of Preparing for and Responding to Disasters and Complex Emergencies

By: Graham Heaslip,Peter Tatham

In rapidly developing emergencies, it is vital for aid agencies to understand how to establish an agile supply chain that resists the chaos of a crisis and can cater to unknown needs. Now in its fourth edition, Humanitarian Logistics presents chapters from a wide range of academics and practitioners and offers cutting edge research into how complex problems such as distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine and provision of relief to victims of natural disasters can be solved. New chapters cover topics such as cash-based humanitarian logistics (HL) systems, sustainability in a HL context and providing logistics services for humanitarian relief. In recent years, a number of global crises have highlighted the critical role that logistics plays in humanitarian response. There is a vital need to understand how to conduct operations in confused and swiftly changing environments. This book is essential reading for anyone who needs to understand how to effectively manage supply networks during a rapidly developing emergency.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

377

Publisher

Kogan Page Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1398607150

ISBN 13

9781398607156

Six Million Paper Clips

The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial

By: Peter W. Schroeder,Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Six Million Paper Clips

The Making of a Children's Holocaust Memorial

By: Peter W. Schroeder,Dagmar Schroeder-Hildebrand

The true story of students who helped quantify the horrors of the Holocaust At a middle school in a small, all white, all Protestant town in Tennessee, a special after-school class was started to teach the kids about the Holocaust, and the importance of tolerance. The students had a hard time imagining what six million was (the number of Jews the Nazis killed), so they decided to collect six million paperclips, a symbol used by the Norwegians to show solidarity with their Jewish neighbors during World War II. German journalists Dagmar and Peter Schroeder, whose involvement brought the project international attention, tell the dramatic story of how the Paper Clip Project grew, culminating in the creation of The Children's Holocaust Memorial.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

121

Publisher

Kar-Ben Publishing ™

Published Date

ISBN 10

1512494666

ISBN 13

9781512494662

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

The Romantics and Their Contemporaries

By: David Damrosch,Peter Manning,Susan Wolfson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

The Romantics and Their Contemporaries

By: David Damrosch,Peter Manning,Susan Wolfson

Volume 2A (The Romantics) of 6-volume splits of parent volumes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1128

Publisher

Longman Publishing Group

Published Date

ISBN 10

0321067657

ISBN 13

9780321067654

Book's by Peter Privett

A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse

A Grim Almanac of the Workhouse

The Moon and How to Observe It

The Moon and How to Observe It

Greatham Memories

Greatham Memories

Introduction to Old English

Introduction to Old English

Observing the Moon

Observing the Moon

Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels

Aesthetics and Ethics in Twenty-First Century British Novels

Liberty Street

Liberty Street

The Crimean War at Sea

The Crimean War at Sea

Making Sculpture from Scrap Metal

Making Sculpture from Scrap Metal

Objective Proficiency Workbook with Answers with Audio CD

Objective Proficiency Workbook with Answers with Audio CD

Biocatalysis: Biochemical Fundamentals And Applications (Second Edition)

Biocatalysis: Biochemical Fundamentals And Applications (Second Edition)

Humanitarian Logistics

Humanitarian Logistics

Six Million Paper Clips

Six Million Paper Clips

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

The Longman Anthology of British Literature

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email