New Releases by Andrew Taylor

For most people, a fear of redundancy hangs over them like a darkcloud. In Andrew Taylor''s case, it was a sudden, brutal pushin the back. Building on his contribution to the Aftershockseries on dealing with redundancy in The Sunday Times andhis own personal experiences, Burning the Suit shows how itcan be used as an opportunity to take control of your life. This isfor anyone who is looking for more in life than a 9-5 job,featuring: Disaster or Opportunity? What am I going to do? Taking stock, taking control, and taking a newopportunity Outplacement agencies, counsellors, and career coaches Selling yourself Being your own boss Networking Making it happen

The stories of 25 empires that left an indelible imprint on world history

Bonar Law was a prominent opponent of Home Rule for Ireland; he also served the shortest term of any of Britain’s 20th century Prime Ministers. In 1922 he was responsible for ending the coalition.

This publication is an excellent introduction to the diagnostic and therapeutic uses of nuclear medicine procedures and a must have for clinicians, residents, interns, medical students and referring physicians. It reviews nuclear medicine procedures, available alternatives, advantages and limitations of each, and provides patient information to aid in preparing patients

England 1819. Two enigmatic Americans arrive in London and soon after a bank collapses. A man is found dead on a building site; another goes missing in the teeming stews of the city''s notorious Seven Dials district. A deathbed vigil ends in an act of theft, and a beautiful heiress flirts with her inferiors. A strange destiny connects each of these events to an American boy, Edgar Allan Poe, who was brought to England by his foster father and sent to the leafy village of Stoke Newington to be educated. An Unpardonable Crime is a twenty-first-century novel with a nineteenth-century voice. It is both a multilayered literary murder mystery and a love story, its setting ranging from the coal-scented fogs of late-Regency London to the stark winter landscapes of Gloucestershire. And at its center is the boy who does not really belong anywhere, an actor who never learns the significance of his part.

Gerard Mercator created the most-used map of all time. Mercator''s Projection is still the standard view of the world. This text examines the evolution of mapmaking from art to science that forms the backdrop to the story of Mercator.

This book collects all the poems published by Andrew Taylor since his first book appeared in 1971, together with a substantial section of new work, and confirms him as one of Australia''s most original and individual poets. The poems range through explorations of personal and family relationships, encounters with a wide variety of landscapes and cultures, and social and political issues. A strong sense of mortality is balanced by a delight in the details of the physical world, a fascination with everyday objects, and a belief in the regenerative power of love. Poems for children and aging or dying parents explore the hopes and possibilities of the future for the young, and the significance of a lived life for the old and those who survive them. This poetry is firmly located in the physical world, often in specific landscapes and places, ranging from the coastlines of southern and western Australia to numerous places in Europe and the USA where the poet has lived. Although many of the poems are short and meditative-lyrical, there are also several extended sequences, including one of book length written during the absence abroad of the poet''s wife. Other sequences explore this relationship within a variety of geographical and historical contexts, and the importance of the beach, the coast and significance of living on an island-continent for the poet''s youth and middle age. Both the physicality and the ephemerality of the physical world are given meaning and illumination by the lives lived within it, in a language that is lively and confident, yet also aware of how the richness of the world inevitably evades its grasp.

Andrew Taylor probes the secret history of murder, delving deep into the past to find the origins of a serial killer in his second novel of the Roth Trilogy. The Judgement of Strangers is the story of David Byfield, a widowed parish priest with a dark past and a darker future. The suburban town of Roth is haunted by its past, and struggling to break free. But by initiating a series of gruesome murders and mutilations, echoing crimes committed years before, someone in the village is trying to assure history''s tight grip over the present. The community has no shortage of suspects, from the village vicar in the throes of a midlife crisis to the unusual brother and sister newly relocated to the town of Roth. Audrey Oliphant, churchwarden, spinster and secret admirer of the vicar, fancies herself as Miss Marple, and when the corpse of her cat, Lord Peter, is found nailed to the church door, she decides to investigate. By the end of her investigation, two people are dead, one is in jail, and a fourth is insane.

However, the divisions and splits that finally ended the strike of 1984 - 85 was in many ways much more typical of the NUM''s experience throughout the twentieth century.

The intellectual relationship between Henry James and his father, who was a philosopher and theologian, proved to be an influential resource for the novelist. Andrew Taylor explores how James''s writing responds to James Senior''s epistemological, thematic and narrative concerns, and relocates these concerns in a more secularised and cosmopolitan cultural milieu. Taylor examines the nature of both men''s engagement with autobiographical strategies, issues of gender reform, and the language of religion. He argues for a reading of Henry James that is informed by an awareness of paternal inheritance. Taylor''s study reveals the complex and at times antagonistic dialogue between the elder James and his peers, particularly Emerson and Whitman, in the vanguard of mid nineteenth-century American Romanticism. Through close readings of a wide range of novels and texts, he demonstrates how this dialogue anticipates James''s own theories of fiction and selfhood.

Describes Juneteenth''s origins and meaning as well as the ways it has been celebrated throughout its history, and presents related documents including the Emancipation Proclamation and the lyrics to "Lift Every Voice and Sing," known as the African-American national anthem.

The Reverend Sally Applegate, a newly ordained deacon in a London parish, and her husband, Michael, a policeman, have already been experiencing hard times in their marriage for some time as The Four Last Things opens. When their daughter, Lucy, is kidnapped they grow even farther apart. Each turns initially away from the other and towards the source of their faith: for Lucy, it is the church, and for Michael, the police. Meanwhile the kidnappers, a pedophile named Eddie and a female serial killer named Angel, find themselves unexpectedly touched by the little girl they''ve abducted--a situation that makes this already unstable couple even more volatile and unpredictable. As a series of grisly discoveries of body parts seems to indicate that Lucy is in imminent danger of becoming the next victim, Sally and Michael''s faith in themselves, each other, and the institutions that have nurtured them is tested to the breaking point.

This teaching atlas provides a comprehensive, yet concise view, of orthopaedic radiology. Superbly illustrated, it supplies readers with examples of the classical appearances of orthopaedic and rheumatologic conditions. Further imaging examples are highlighted when necessary. Each image is accompanied by key points about the condition, including incidence, characteristic, and age, with emphasis on salient features of the imaging used. Plus, conditions are grouped into chapters by their possible causes, such as congenital and joint pathology.

Jack Watson and his new neighbor Saturday Holmes investigate a case of a missing teddy bear and two other mysteries.

Drawing on a comparison of the political role of Labour in the United States, Britain, Germany, Sweden and Japan, Andrew Taylor provides an introduction to, and a contribution to our understanding of, the politics of trade unions.

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Concise history of discovery, exploration and mapping of the Queen Elizabeth Island (Canadian High Arctic archipelago) includes summaries of all known expeditions, the search for the Northwest Passage including the Franklin expeditions, attempts to reach the North Pole, and Arctic patrols of the R.C.M.P. as well as the voyages of the St. Roch. Extensive bibliography referenced to Arctic Bibliography.