Richard Heygate's Books

The Book of English Magic

By: Philip Carr-Gomm,Richard Heygate

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A guide to England’s rich history of magical lore and practice “for readers of works like Harry Potter who have grown up a bit into wanting to know more” (The Hermetic Library). Through experiments to try and places to visit, as well as a historical exploration of magic and interviews with leading magicians, The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies beneath the surface. Magic runs through the veins of English history, part of daily life from the earliest Arthurian legends to Aleister Crowley to the novels of Tolkien and Philip Pullman, and from the Druids to Freemasonry and beyond. Richly illustrated and deeply knowledgeable, this book is an invaluable source for anyone curious about magic and wizardry, or for sophisticated practitioners seeking to expand their knowledge. “Playful and serious, respectful and amused . . . this will remain the standard work for years to come.” —The Sunday Telegraph “A magical mystery tour.” —The Times “Fabulous.” —Daily Express “Lucid and wonderfully easy to read . . . While it is indeed a perfect book for the ‘intelligent novice’ it’s far more than that—it’s a serious, in-depth survey of a massive topic.” —WitchVox “An accessible and immensely readable book . . . A fascinating insight into a hidden world.” —Booksquawk

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

550

Publisher

Abrams

Published Date

ISBN 10

1590207602

ISBN 13

9781590207604

Corporate Realities (Routledge Revivals)

The Dynamics of Large and Small Organisations

By: Robert Goffee,Richard Scase

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Corporate Realities (Routledge Revivals)

The Dynamics of Large and Small Organisations

By: Robert Goffee,Richard Scase

Corporate Realities, first published in 1995, provides a concise but comprehensive review of the management issues relating to different types of organisation. Avoiding academic jargon, it describes the characteristics of administrative, manufacturing, service and professional organisations. It explores the features of both small and large businesses. The authors demonstrate how the transition from small to large scale can be achieved, as well as reviewing recent attempts to recreate entrepreneurial forms of organisation in the context of larger, more complex ones. Most importantly, it identifies future trends and the skills that will be needed to manage corporations at the turn of the century. This book will be of interest to students of business studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

203

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317496639

ISBN 13

9781317496632

Civil Service Commission 1855-1991

A Bureau Biography

By: Richard A. Chapman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Civil Service Commission 1855-1991

A Bureau Biography

By: Richard A. Chapman

The Civil Service Commision was created in 1855 and became the key institution in the development of the British civil service. Its work was primarily the recruitment of civil servants by fair methods, treating all qualified applicants equally, and using open competitions wherever practicable. It was held in high esteem not only in the United Kingdom but also in the many other countries throughout the world which, in many places, modelled their methods of public service recruitment on its pioneering work. It continued until 1991, when most of its work was devolved to over 3,000 government departments and executive agencies. This book describes the gestation, growth, development and eventual demise of the Commision and includes a number of in-depth case studies. Using source material such as official files, many only recently available for research, together with other records and evidence to official committees, the book provides a biography of an institution. It shows how the department was formally organised and there is a particular focus on how it actually worked on a day-to-day basis. With three in-depth chapters on the chronological development of the Commision and seven case studies of themes or issues that reveal methods of work and influences on its activities, this book uses file-based research more extensively than any other history of a British government department. The Civil Service Commision, 1855-1991 reveals insights into civil service recruitment and makes a major original contribution to our understanding of the practice and politics of public administration.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

312

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135773580

ISBN 13

9781135773588

Designing Disorder

Experiments and Disruptions in the City

By: Richard Sennett,Pablo Sendra

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Designing Disorder

Experiments and Disruptions in the City

By: Richard Sennett,Pablo Sendra

Rethinking the open city Planners, privatisation, and police surveillance are laying siege to urban public spaces. The streets are becoming ever more regimented as life and character are sapped from our cities. What is to be done? Is it possible to maintain the public realm as a flexible space that adapts over time? Can disorder be designed? Fifty years ago, Richard Sennett wrote his groundbreaking work The Uses of Disorder, arguing that the ideal of a planned and ordered city was flawed, likely to produce a fragile, restrictive urban environment. The need for the Open City, the alternative, is now more urgent that ever. In this provocative essay, Pablo Sendra and Richard Sennett propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the life of our cities. What the authors call 'infrastructures for disorder' combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide, remain open to change rather than rapidly stagnate. Designing Disorder is a radical and transformative manifesto for the future of twenty-first-century cities.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

161

Publisher

Verso Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

1788737830

ISBN 13

9781788737838

Nymphs of the Pavement

Sin, Scandal and Vice in Victorian Lincolnshire

By: Richard Gurnham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nymphs of the Pavement

Sin, Scandal and Vice in Victorian Lincolnshire

By: Richard Gurnham

In 1842 the mayor of Lincoln reportedly lamented that ‘there is more debauchery in Lincoln than in any other town of its size in the kingdom.’ Lincoln races had long been a magnet for vice: by 1828, one newspaper reported up to 500 ‘thieves, prostitutes and gamblers’ on the course. But as the nineteenth century progressed, small market towns such as Louth and Horncastle and the little ports of Boston and Grimsby began to report growing numbers of ‘fallen women’ arriving from neighbouring villages where there was little work, and where many families faced severe poverty and malnutrition. This fascinating volume explores an extraordinary underworld of ‘unfortunates’, criminals, gamblers and bon vivants, all held in the thrall of the brothel-keepers – most of whom were female. Informative, tragic, compassionate and surprising, it reveals some incredible truths about life in Victorian Lincolnshire.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

159

Publisher

The History Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

075095860X

ISBN 13

9780750958608

Book's by Richard Heygate

The Book of English Magic

The Book of English Magic

Corporate Realities (Routledge Revivals)

Corporate Realities (Routledge Revivals)

Civil Service Commission 1855-1991

Civil Service Commission 1855-1991

Designing Disorder

Designing Disorder

Nymphs of the Pavement

Nymphs of the Pavement

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email