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Mastering Operational Risk

A practical guide to understanding operational risk and how to manage it

By: Tony Blunden,John Thirlwell

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Mastering Operational Risk

A practical guide to understanding operational risk and how to manage it

By: Tony Blunden,John Thirlwell

Operational risk is a constant concern for all businesses. It goes far beyond operations and process to encompass all aspects of business risk, including strategic and reputational risks. Within financial services, it became codified by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in the 1990s. It is something that needs to be taken seriously by all those involved in running, managing and leading companies. Mastering Operational Risk is a comprehensive guide which takes you from the basic elements of operational risk, through to its advanced applications. Focusing on practical aspects, the book gives you everything you need to help you understand what operational risk is, how it affects you and your business and provides a framework for managing it. Mastering Operational Risk: Shows you how to make the business case for operational risk, and how to develop effective company-wide policies Covers the essential basic concepts through to advanced managements practices Uses examples and case studies which cover the pitfalls and explains how to avoid them Provides scenario analysis and modelling techniques for you to apply to your business Operational risk arises in all businesses. It is a broad term and can relate to internal processes, people, and systems, as well as external events. All listed companies, charities and the public sector must make risk judgements and assessments and company managers have an increasing responsibility to ensure that these assessments are robust and that risk management is at the heart of their organisations. In this practical guide, Tony Blunden and John Thirlwell, recognised experts in risk management, show you how to manage operational risk and show why operational risk management really will add benefits to your business. Mastering Operational Risk includes: The business case for operational risk Risk and control assessment How to use operational risk indicators Reporting operational risk Modelling and stress-testing operational risk Business continuity and insurance Managing people risk Containing reputational damage

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0273748823

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Mastering Risk Management

By: Tony Blunden,John Thirlwell

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Mastering Risk Management

By: Tony Blunden,John Thirlwell

A practical guide, from the basic techniques, through to advanced applications, showing you what risk management is, and how you can develop a successful strategy for your company.

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Pearson UK

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1292331305

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9781292331300

The Multimedia Handbook

By: Tony Cawkell

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The Multimedia Handbook

By: Tony Cawkell

The Multimedia Handbook provides a comprehensive guide to the wide range of uses of multimedia. The first part of the book introduces the technology for the non-specialist. Part Two covers multimedia applications and markets. Tony Cawkell details the huge array of authoring software which is now available, as well as the distribution of multimedia data by telephone, cable, satellite or radio communications. There is an extensive bibliography, a glossary of technical terms and acronyms and a full index.

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Routledge

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1134777116

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9781134777112

The Empire Has An Answer

The Empire Air Training Scheme as reported in the Australian Press 1939-1945

By: Tony James Brady

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The Empire Has An Answer

The Empire Air Training Scheme as reported in the Australian Press 1939-1945

By: Tony James Brady

‘If we do not win the battle of training, we shall win no other battle in the air.’ In 1943 the Royal Air Force recognised that training a vast amount of aircrew for a high attrition war was essential to an Allied victory, and that the key to winning the ‘battle of training’ was the Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS). 37,576 Australian aircrew graduated from the EATS. Over 300 were killed whilst training for war and 9874 aircrew were killed or listed as missing while on active duty. Those who fought under this scheme during World War II amounted to just 6.7 per cent of Australian service personnel serving overseas yet the aircrew losses amounted to almost 25 per cent of all the Australian fatalities during the war. This made serving in EATS among the most hazardous duties of the war. The Empire has an Answer was researched using more than 35 000 articles, from 150 metropolitan, regional, and district newspapers, and what materialised was a story of one of, if not, the greatest training programs the world has seen. Follow the journey from the conception and implementation of the scheme, through recruitment and basic training, flight training, and then into combat. The individual accounts woven into the narrative provide a first-hand experience of the triumphs and trials of typical airmen and airwomen who performed extraordinary feats in a time of great need. The significant achievements and success of the Empire Air Training Scheme has for the most part been overlooked in our history, until now.

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Simon and Schuster

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1922265373

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9781922265371

Supporting Positive Behaviour in Intellectual Disabilities and Autism

Practical Strategies for Addressing Challenging Behaviour

By: Tony Osgood

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Supporting Positive Behaviour in Intellectual Disabilities and Autism

Practical Strategies for Addressing Challenging Behaviour

By: Tony Osgood

This highly practical book is an accessible and grounded handbook for addressing challenging behaviour in children and adults with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD), including autism. It recognises that challenging behaviour does not appear out of nowhere and is meaningful for the person exhibiting it. Behaviour can be communicative and an important signifier of underlying sensory or environmental issues. Focusing on a person-centred approach throughout, the book has advice and strategies for working with the client's families, support staff and professionals. It also presents best practice for analysing and addressing challenging behaviour in various settings such as schools, hospitals and the home, all while stressing the need to keep the human story at the heart of any assessment and intervention. Each chapter features questions for discussion or reflection and exercises for the reader to complete. Informal, frank and free of jargon, this is indispensable for professionals, parents, and anyone working with people with intellectual disability or autism.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1787751333

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9781787751330

Rendezvous with Death

Artists & Writers in the Thick of It, 1914–1918

By: Tony Geraghty

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Rendezvous with Death

Artists & Writers in the Thick of It, 1914–1918

By: Tony Geraghty

This book sheds new light on the colorful personalities including Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Alan Seeger, Ivor Gurney, Edward Thomas, Isaac Rosenberg, Ralph Vaughan Williams and George Butterworth, all major figures among England's creative artists during the First World War.Thanks to the authors research and knowledge, the book is a very English story about the tragically short spring of English artistic creativity between 1910 and 1920; the greatest such renaissance since Shakespeare and Purcell in the 17th century. It focuses on these exceptional poets, composers and artists' experiences in the front line and what resulted from these.A short personal Preface records that the authors father, Sergeant Major Anthony Geraghty (later anglicized as Garrity) survived one year and 271 days on the front line with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders including the Somme, in which he served alongside the composer Butterworth in 13th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry.

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Pen and Sword

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147389655X

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9781473896550

Henry James

By: Tony Tanner

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Henry James

By: Tony Tanner

In view of the length of Henry James's career and the exceptional range and diversity of his writings, this study, which succeeds the late Michael Swan's has been expanded into three essays. The first introduces the theme which was to dominate the whole of James's creative life, 'the complex fate' of the American living in Europe, and surveys his achievement up to the age of thirty-eight, culminating in The Portrait of a Lady. The second covers the period of James's continuous residence in London (1881-1897). It contains an appreciation of his three major 'social' novels in the naturalistic mode, The Bostonians, The Princess Casamassima, and The Tragic Muse. It also touches on his criticism of fiction and his travel writings and examines the short novels and stories in which this period is especially rich: these include The Aspern Papers, The Spoils of Poynton, What Maisie Knew, and The Turn of the Screw. The third deals with James's last years at Rye, and devotes most of its space to the three masterpieces of that period, The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl. It also considers James's final impression of his native land, recorded in The American Scene, and discusses one of the central paradoxes in James's artistic career, the desire to have experience without involvement. Dr Tanner (1935-1998) was a Fellow of King's College Cambridge and a University Lecturer in English. He has published books on American and English writers, including Conrad's Lord Jim, The Reign of Wonder, Saul Bellow, and City of Words, and Adultery in the Novel: Contract and Transgression. In addition, he was the author of numerous articles on 19th and 20th century English, American, and European writers and edited a number of works including three of Jane Austen's novels and a collection of critical articles on James. He was a visiting professor at many American universities, and lectured for the British Council in France, Italy, Holland, Poland, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary.

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Liverpool University Press

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085383508X

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Practice Leadership in Challenging Behaviour Services for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities

Practical Strategies for Supporting People

By: Tony Osgood

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Practice Leadership in Challenging Behaviour Services for Autism and Intellectual Disabilities

Practical Strategies for Supporting People

By: Tony Osgood

Practice Leadership refers to individuals who have direct front-line responsibility for leading the practice of staff on a day-to-day basis, such as operational leaders and managers in services for people with autism and intellectual disabilities. A good practice leader creates cultures and puts values into action. They deliver great support. A practice leader implements our best endeavours. A good leader makes all the difference. This book lays out the steps to achieving great practice leadership in services for people with autism and intellectual disabilities, such as care homes or supported living. It explains how practice leadership delivers support and care using the principles of Positive Behaviour Support (PBS). The book outlines what practice leadership should look like in context, how to do it and why it matters. It draws from real-life case studies throughout and each section encourages discussion and reflection. Refreshingly warm, humorous and jargon free, this is an indispensable guide for professionals in services working with people with intellectual disability or autism at any level.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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1839971010

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9781839971013

Salient Points One

By: Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith

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Salient Points One

By: Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith

A collection of stories of men, their units and the actions they took part in during the conflict of 1914-1918, together with stories other points of interest along the old Western Front. Each story is supported with photographs and maps showing the area of the action as it was then, and is today. The content feature-titles are: Larch Wood (Railway Cuttings) Cemetery; Second Lieutenant Keith Rae; Bellewaarde Farm; Major William Redmond; H. H. Prince Maurice of Battenberg; Major Cropper?s Craters; Sergeant Harry Combes D.C.M., R.G.A.; A Cemetery Lost; A Scottish Soldier; Along the Messines Ridge; Halloween Night 1914; A Bloodless Victory; Old Bill is Born; The Yanks are Coming; The Lost Mines of Messines; Hospitalization South of Poperinghe and Canada at Ypres.

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Pen and Sword

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0850523192

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9780850523195

The Whale Chaser

A Novel

By: Tony Ardizzone

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The Whale Chaser

A Novel

By: Tony Ardizzone

The Whale Chaser is the story of Vince Sansone, the eldest child and only son in a large Italian American family, who comes of age in 1960s Chicago. A constant disappointment to his embittered father - a fishmonger who shows his displeasure with his fists - Vince finds solace by falling in love. Classmate Marie Santangelo, the butcher's winsome daughter, entices him with passionate kisses and the prospect of entering her family's business. Yet he pursues Lucy Sheehan, an older girl with a "reputation." When Vince abruptly flees Chicago, he ends up in Tofino, a picturesque fishing town on the rugged west coast of Vancouver Island in British Columbia. He finds a job gutting fish, then is hired by Tofino's most colorful dealer, Mr. Zig-Zag, and joins the thriving marijuana trade. Ultimately, through his friendship with an Ahousaht native named Ignatius George, he finds his calling as a whale guide. Set in the turbulent decades of the Vietnam War and the drug and hippie counterculture, The Whale Chaser is a powerful story about the possibility of redemption.

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Chicago Review Press

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0897336100

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9780897336109

Learning Disabilities

Practice Issues in Health Settings

By: Margaret Todd,Tony Gilbert

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Learning Disabilities

Practice Issues in Health Settings

By: Margaret Todd,Tony Gilbert

Raises issues of crucial importance to all health care professionals and students, and aims to bridge the theory-practice gap.

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Routledge

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1134856148

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9781134856145

Nimrod Boys

True Tales from the Operators of the RAF's Cold War Trailblazer

By: Tony Blackman,Joe Kennedy

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Nimrod Boys

True Tales from the Operators of the RAF's Cold War Trailblazer

By: Tony Blackman,Joe Kennedy

The test pilot and author of Nimrod Rise and Fall shares a collection of over twenty tales from the cockpit of Nimrod aircraft during the Cold War. As the first jet-powered maritime aircraft, the Hawker Siddeley Nimrod could reach critical points for rescues or for operational requirements in rapid time. Its outstanding navigation and electronics systems also allowed the Nimrod to be a first-class machine in antisubmarine warfare. In Nimrod Boys, author and pilot Tony Blackman offers vivid, firsthand accounts of the Nimrod’s UK-based and worldwide operations. The stories in this volume range from the Nimrod’s role during the Falklands Campaign and the First Gulf War to more recent anti-drug smuggling operations in the Caribbean. There are also descriptions of the Nimrod’s achievements in the International Fincastle Competition—where Royal Air Force squadrons competed against counterparts from Australia, Canada and New Zealand. With a variety of perspectives on Nimrod crew life, including from a female air electronic operator, readers will find dramatic, engaging and occasionally humorous stories. One flight test observer also reflects on the canceled Nimrod MR4 project.

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Casemate Publishers

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1911621793

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9781911621799

Sustainability

A Systems Approach

By: Tony Clayton,Nicholas Radcliffe

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Sustainability

A Systems Approach

By: Tony Clayton,Nicholas Radcliffe

The question of sustainability affects most areas of human activity. It is intrinsically complex and multi-disciplinary. Sustainable policies have to adapt to new knowledge and changing circumstances. Understanding sustainability and ways of achieving it have to involve an understanding of complex adaptive systems and general systems theory - a rapidly developing new branch of social studies.;This book provides an introduction and thorough explanation of this field, and shows its application in the social and economic management of sustainability. It is written for readers at an undergraduate level and should be useful for a wide range of undergraduate courses.

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Routledge

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113417201X

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9781134172016

My Brother's Keeper

By: Tony Bradman,Tom Bradman

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My Brother's Keeper

By: Tony Bradman,Tom Bradman

A novel of the First World War. Alfie signs up for the army aged just 15, carried away by patriotic fervour at the start of the Great War. But life in the trenches is very far from his dreams of glory. It's hard, and cold, and it's boring. Alfie is desperate to see some action. But when he volunteers for a raid on the German trenches, against the advice of his comrades, Alfie begins to understand what war means, and to see the value of the lives that are being thrown away on the Western Front every day...

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A&C Black

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1408196816

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9781408196816

States, Markets and Regimes in Global Finance

By: Tony Porter

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States, Markets and Regimes in Global Finance

By: Tony Porter

Building upon a wide range of literatures this book argues that international regulatory institutions become stronger when oligopolistic institutional arrangements decay and competitive pressures intensify. This is shown to be the case for global finance by careful studies of two inter-state institutions, the Basle Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions, and of the international banking and securities industries which they seek to regulate.

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Springer

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1349278904

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9781349278909

A People for His Name

A History of Jehovah's Witnesses and an Evaluation

By: Tony Wills

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A People for His Name

A History of Jehovah's Witnesses and an Evaluation

By: Tony Wills

A history of The Watchtower Bible & Tract Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) from their origins in the 1870s up to the mid-1960s. Long out-of-print, now in a second edition. This title was originally published using the pen name "Timothy White.

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Lulu.com

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1430301007

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9781430301004

Salient Points Four

Ypres & Picardy, 1914–18

By: Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith

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Salient Points Four

Ypres & Picardy, 1914–18

By: Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith

Concentrating on the Ploegsteert and Neuve Eglise sectors in Belgium, this book features stories on such well known figures as sculptor Charles Sargent Jagger, ARA ; R Poulton Palmer and 'Tanky' Turner, great friends and rugby football captains of England and Scotland respectively; as well the discovery and eventual burial of a Lancashire Fuslier who was killed in action in 1914; the research leading to the erection in 2002 of a 'Believed to be buried' headstone in the Strand cemetery of an Australian killed in action at Messines in 1917; the action in 1914 that initiated the birth of the infamous 'Birdcage' on the western edge of Ploegsteert Wood and other stories of interest to enthusiasts of the Great War.Another in the Cameos of the Western Front series on men, minor actions and battlefield sites, this book, like its predecessors is an ideal 'companion' for the battlefield visitor.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783409592

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9781783409594

The Anatomy of a Raid

By: Ted Smith,Tony Spagnoly

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The Anatomy of a Raid

By: Ted Smith,Tony Spagnoly

A seemingly unnecessary raid made by men of the 10th Battalion A.I.F. on Celtic Wood, Broodseinde on the 9th October 1917 resulted in the unrecorded deaths of 37 of the raiding party. The mystery of how they died has never been solved. The conclusion reached in this book prompts thoughts as to why the military authorities never conducted an investigation at the time, and why the raid was planned in the first place.

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Pen and Sword

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0850526493

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9780850526493

The Fantastic Sixties Trivia Book

Everything you should have remembered or need to know about the 1960s

By: Richard Hipgrave,Tony Hipgrave

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The Fantastic Sixties Trivia Book

Everything you should have remembered or need to know about the 1960s

By: Richard Hipgrave,Tony Hipgrave

This is a wide-ranging, slightly off-the-wall trivia quiz book with questions covering the social history of the 1960s, pop, rock, jazz, psychedelia, protests, alternative culture, fashion, magazines, books, film, pop art, sport, etc. - in fact everything that shaped the most mind-blowing decade of them all! This ebook is based on an enduring cult classic print book which the authors have revised and extended. It's also got some new cool pictures .

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Richard Hipgrave

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1301079316

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9781301079315

Credit Risk Management

Basic Concepts: Financial Risk Components, Rating Analysis, Models, Economic and Regulatory Capital

By: Tony Van Gestel,Bart Baesens

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Credit Risk Management

Basic Concepts: Financial Risk Components, Rating Analysis, Models, Economic and Regulatory Capital

By: Tony Van Gestel,Bart Baesens

This first of three volumes on credit risk management, providing a thorough introduction to financial risk management and modelling.

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Oxford University Press

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0199545111

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9780199545117

Stories of World War One

By: Tony Bradman

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Stories of World War One

By: Tony Bradman

Tales to remember yesterday's fallen - from today's bestselling authors. Compiled by Tony Bradman, this collection of short stories chronicles the events of World War One - imagining the conflicts and emotions of those people caught up in the war and its aftermath. With stories from Malorie Blackman, Geraldine McCaughrean and Oisin McGann, among others, this anthology will be treasured for generations.

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Orchard Books

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1408330369

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9781408330364

The Anatomy of a Raid

Ypres Sector, 1914–1915

By: Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith

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The Anatomy of a Raid

Ypres Sector, 1914–1915

By: Tony Spagnoly,Ted Smith

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Pen and Sword

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1473811856

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9781473811850

Ancient Chinas Myths and Beliefs

By: Tony Allan,Charles Phillips

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Ancient Chinas Myths and Beliefs

By: Tony Allan,Charles Phillips

This captivating volume mixes the myths of Ancient China with the beautiful art and history of the culture. The lavish color photographs bring the earliest achievements of the Chinese people into focus through the beliefs and mythology of one of the world's oldest civilizations. The strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests, and magic symbols at the heart of Ancient China are crucial to understanding how the Chinese people have explained birth, death, creation, love, and other mysteries of life. Written in accessible language, even the most reluctant readers will submerge themselves in the history and mythology that this rich volume provides.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1448860458

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