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Bankruptcy: Law and Practice

By: Alaric Watson,Stephen Baister

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Bankruptcy: Law and Practice presents a comprehensive guide to the law of bankruptcy in England and Wales and how it is applied in practice, focusing on this key area of personal insolvency law in order to provide a full understanding of how these laws operate.

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591

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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ISBN 10

1802205918

ISBN 13

9781802205916

Riga

The Bradt City Guide

By: Stephen Baister,Chris Patrick

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Riga

The Bradt City Guide

By: Stephen Baister,Chris Patrick

The essential guide for Riga - suitable for all visitor types.

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272

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Bradt Travel Guides

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ISBN 10

1841622273

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9781841622279

Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape

The Countryside of the East Saxon Kingdom

By: Stephen Rippon

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Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape

The Countryside of the East Saxon Kingdom

By: Stephen Rippon

All communities have a strong sense of identity with the area in which they live, which for England in the early medieval period manifested itself in a series of territorial entities, ranging from large kingdoms down to small districts known as pagi or regiones. This book investigates these small early folk territories, and the way that they evolved into the administrative units recorded in Domesday, across an entire kingdom - that of the East Saxons (broadly speaking, what is now Essex, Middlesex, most of Hertfordshire, and south Suffolk). A wide range of evidence is drawn upon, including archaeology, written documents, place-names and the early cartographic sources. The book looks in particular at the relationship between Saxon immigrants and the native British population, and argues that initially these ethnic groups occupied different parts of the landscape, until a dynasty which assumed an Anglo-Saxon identity achieved political ascendency (its members included the so-called "Prittlewell Prince", buried with spectacular grave-good in Prittlewell, near Southend-on- Sea in southern Essex). Other significant places discussed include London, the seat of the first East Saxon bishopric, the possible royal vills at Wicken Bonhunt near Saffron Walden and Maldon, and St Peter's Chapel at Bradwell-on-Sea, one of the most important surviving churches from the early Christian period.

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407

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Boydell & Brewer

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ISBN 10

1783276800

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9781783276806

Going to Extremes

The Adventurous Life of Harry de Windt

By: Stephen Wade

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Going to Extremes

The Adventurous Life of Harry de Windt

By: Stephen Wade

Harry de Windt (1856–1933) was a man who, by any standards, was a personality, a marked presence in the world of Victorian and Edwardian literature and social life. He was a member of the literary circle around Oscar Wilde and his friend and lover, Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas); he was active in the world of the turf; and he travelled he took on dangerous journeys with relish, crossing vast tracts of the British and Russian empires for the sheer thrill of it. This book traces his life and adventures, at home and abroad, and also gives an account of his early work on military service in Sarawak, Malaysia, his expert knowledge of the Russian prison system, and his later Great War role running a POW camp. Many of his books reflect epic journeys against the odds: From Paris to New York by Land, Savage Europe, Siberia As It Is and others. His autobiographical work, My Restless Life, perhaps sums up his nature.Interesting facts: * Harry de Windt was brother to the Ranee of Sarawak and fought against rebels there in his early career * He visited the penal colony on the Russian island of Sakhalin close to the same time that Anton Chekhov went there * He appeared as a witness in the trial for libel of Lord Alfred Douglas, as he blamed Winston Churchill for the heavy losses in the Battle of Jutland * On his travels he met a host of interesting people from murderers to statesmen

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185

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Pen and Sword

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ISBN 10

1473863562

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9781473863569

Not the Thing I Was

Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School

By: Stephen Eliot

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Not the Thing I Was

Thirteen Years at Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School

By: Stephen Eliot

He was called crazy. As a child, he probably was. Sent at age eight to Bruno Bettelheim's Orthogenic School among autistics and schizophrenics, Eliot found himself in a world without drugs or locks on the doors. Instead, fine china was on the table. The staff believed to help a child, you had to understand how he saw the world and persuade him that there might be more successful ways to interpret it. Bettelheim had been in the concentration camps. He figured if the Nazis could build an environment to destroy personality, he could build one to create it. A fascinating coming of age story that's a cross between One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and The Ciderhouse Rules. L'Express hailed the author for his "lucidity and devastating humor." Marianne writes, "The child who thought of himself as merely a pulsing brain invites us on a voyage back from the frontier of insanity and we return transformed." A must read for parents, teachers, therapists and troubled adolescents themselves--so that all can see there is light at the end of the tunnel.

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304

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St. Martin's Press

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0312307497

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9780312307493

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Bankruptcy: Law and Practice

Bankruptcy: Law and Practice

Riga

Riga

Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape

Territoriality and the Early Medieval Landscape

Going to Extremes

Going to Extremes

Not the Thing I Was

Not the Thing I Was

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