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An incredible true coming-of-age story In 1938, eighteen-year-old Phyllis Ellsworth packs her bags, says goodbye to her anxious parents and sets off from her quiet seaside home for the Hackney Hospital in London''s bustling East End, where she is to fulfill her dream to train as a nurse. At first, it is a whirlwind of long days, hard work, new friends and plenty of mischief, but just ten months later Britain declares war on Germany and life at the hospital is transformed. Phyll''s days become an endless cycle of air-raid sirens, injured servicemen and anxiously waiting for news of loved ones. And when she falls in love with a handsome young solider, Alistair, Phyll''s work provides the only distraction from worrying about his safety. Bandaging the Blitz is a true story of coming-of-age in terrible times, of the blossoming of first romance into a life-long love affair, and of a young woman whose eagerness to do good in the world brought her suddenly face-to-face with death and drama in all its many guises.

La guerra en el fin del mundo, la primera entrega de una nueva serie épica situada en el último periodo del imperio romano, en tiempos del emperador Constantino, sigue las aventuras de Aurelio Casto, centurión recién ascendido, en una tumultuosa batalla de la que depende el futuro de Roma. Antiguo soldado de una legión de élite del Danubio, destinado a un tranquilo fuerte de la remota provincia de Britania, Casto cree que sus días de gloria han tocado a su fin. No sabe que el destino está a punto de intervenir. Cuando fallece en misteriosas circunstancias el rey de los pictos, el pueblo salvaje que habita más allá de la Muralla de Adriano, Casto es el elegido para comandar la escolta del emisario romano que partirá para negociar con los bárbaros. Pero la misión diplomática acaba en una sangrienta tragedia. Casto y sus hombres se ven obligados a luchar por su vida y el centurión descubre que nada de esa misión condenada al fracaso era lo que parecía

AN EMPIRE IN DECLINE. Centurion Aurelius Castus – once a soldier in the elite legions of the Danube – believes his glory days are over, as he finds himself in the cold, grey wastes of northern Britain, battling to protect an empire in decline. Here he must face the barbarians beyond Hadrian''s Wall, in a mission riven with bloodshed and treachery. Can Castus keep his promise to a woman he has sworn to help? And is anything about this doomed enterprise what it seems? War at the Edge of the World is the epic first instalment in a sequence of novels set at the end of the Roman Empire, during the reign of the Emperor Constantine.

Ferocity, heroism, and savage bloodshed: the next gripping instalment in the Twilight of Empire series. For fans of Ben Kane and Conn Iggulden. When the simmering conflict between Rome and Persia threatens to reignite into open war, there is only one man the Emperor Constantine can trust to hold the eastern frontier. Aurelius Castus, retired general of the empire, has fought long and hard for Rome. When the summons comes to command an army once more, he obeys with a heavy heart. But is he still the fearsome fighting machine of old? As tragedy strikes the imperial household, Castus must race to defend the last bulwark standing against the might of Persia. Castus knows that the fight ahead will be the fiercest he has ever known, and will very probably be his last. ''I was immersed from the very first page. Wonderful writing. Rich and evocative, astute and assured. Great stuff!'' Giles Kristian, bestselling author of Lancelot.

Debut chap book from Elliot Ian Ross featuring poems about God and dead dogs and missing children.

THE ROMAN EMPIRE HAS NO MERCY IN ITS QUEST FOR POWER. Aurelius Castus is one of the leading military commanders of an empire riven by civil war. As the Emperor Constantine grows ever more ruthless in his pursuit of power, Castus fears that the world he knows is slipping away. On the eve of the war''s final campaign, Castus discovers that the emperor''s son Crispus aims to depose his father and restore the old ways of Rome. Castus must choose between honour and survival, and face a final confrontation with the most powerful man in the Roman world, the ruler he has sworn loyally to serve: the Emperor Constantine himself.

No stone is left unturned as this archaeologist and ancient historian walks us through various versions of the Bible, Sumerian tablets, and early Egyptian papyrus records in a vigilant search for truth. Read about the deception, the tampering with the scriptures and the conspiracy withing the Roman Church. The writing style is free and easy with snippets of humour and impressive references to support all conclusions. You will look at your Bible differently after this entertaining read. The conclusions of Ian Ross Vayro expose the lies, fraud and so called infallible truths of organised religion.

Zinaida Bondarenko is returning to Odessa, Ukraine from Detroit, USA, with one companion, Valentine Pechenko, a Ukrainian-American who is in love with her. Zina came to Detroit in search of her mother, met Valinka (Valentine), and forged a strange relationship with him. Now Zina-as Valinka ends up calling her-has been deported. Upon their return to Odessa, they are greeted by her father and a country at the brink of war with Russia. It''s 2014, and the Euromaidan Movement is underway in Kiev. Odessa appears to be taking her usual unique path.On May 2nd, 2014, the worst violent event in Odessa since the Great Patriotic War (World War II) took place in the fire in the Building of Trade Unions along Kulikovo Field. This event will bring Zina''s and Valinka''s journeys to an end. It will both unite and divide Odessa. It will show how even Odessa, long thought to be "not Ukraine" because of the language (most Odessans still speak Russian), must decide on her identity.

Ross presents us with a vision of late Rome that is tense, exhilarating, complex and exotic... When a treacherous act of murder throws the western provinces into turmoil, Aurelius Castus is ordered to take command of the military forces on the Rhine. But he soon discovers that the frontier is a place where the boundaries between civilisation and barbarism, freedom and slavery, honour and treason have little meaning. At the very heart of the conflict are two vulnerable boys. One is Emperor Constantine''s young heir, Crispus. The other is Castus''s own beloved son, Sabinus. Only Castus stands between them and men who would kill them. With all that he loves in danger, Castus and a handful of loyal men must fight to defend the Roman Empire. But in the heat of battle, can he distinguish friend from enemy?

Rome is in peril. The old order is changing. Centurion Aurelius Castus has been summoned back from Britain to find himself caught up in a treasonous conspiracy threatening to bring down the Emperor Constantine. Rewarded for saving the emperor''s life, Castus is promoted to the elite imperial bodyguard: the swords around the throne. But he soon discovers the court to be as dangerous as the battlefield. Behind the gilded facade of empire lurks a nest of traitors and one relentless enemy.

The Roman Empire is on the brink of civil war. Only Maxentius, tyrant of Rome, stands between the emperor Constantine and supreme power in the west. Aurelius Castus, promoted from the ranks for valour and loyalty, is now a tribune in Constantine''s army. But great honour brings new challenges: Castus is tormented by suspicions that his aristocratic wife, the mother of his child, has been unfaithful. And as Constantine becomes increasingly devoted to Christianity, Castus is forced to ask himself whether he is backing the wrong man. All know that the coming war will decide the fate of empire. But Castus''s own battle will carry him much further - into the shadowy realms of treachery at the heart of Rome itself. The third book in the brilliant Twilight of Empire.

FROM 1207 TO 1493, THE EARLY CLAN DONALD AND ITS CHIEFS, THE LORDS OF THE ISLES, WERE ENTIRELY CENTRAL TO IONA ABBEY’S WHOLE MEDIEVAL EXISTENCE, DEVELOPMENT AND POLITICS. IN ALL BUT NAME, ST MARY''S WAS CLAN DONALD’S CATHEDRAL OF THE ISLES, c.1480. · THIS ENDURING MACDONALD PHASE EQUALS THE 300 YEAR PERIOD OF PRIMARY COLUMBAN MONASTICISM. · IT IS PARAMOUNT IN PROVIDING THE SOLE WITNESS TO IONA’S EXTANT ARCHITECTURE AND IS A PRINCIPAL WITNESS TO THE SURVIVING MONUMENTS. · THE CULT OF SAINTS, BODY PART RELICS, THE DOCTRINES OF PURGATORY AND INTERCESSORY PRAYER (AND EVISCERATION, “HEART BURIAL”) WERE TO PROFOUNDLY SHAPE THE BURIAL RITES OF THE CLAN DONALD LORDS OF THE ISLES – OF THE ‘BODY POLITIC.’

Papers presented at the Constitutionalism in the Charter era conference, held at University of Western Ontario, on Sept. 12, 2003.

The Third Colour features two ancient spirits who have been reborn repeatedly. With each rebirth, the two must relearn everything, from their own names to basic vocabulary. They must also relearn, and relate to each other through allegorical tales, the history of the land where they find themselves. And this time, the spirits are reborn as two Indigenous women, Agatu and Head Full of Lice, who are forced to revisit the history of Indigenous-settler relations in Canada. Ian Ross employs humour, anger, and a finely-honed sense of the absurd to tackle the colonialism, trauma, and the disconnect between settlers and Indigenous peoples. How do we bridge the two worlds? Or should we? Is it better, Head Full of Lice asks, to burn it all down and start fresh? Or can we, as Agatu hopes, reconcile?

Since September 11, 2001, the United States has significantly revamped the ways and means used to provide and insure national security against terrorist attacks. Key legislation included the PATRIOT Act (signed October 2001) and its revision, the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 (passed March 2006), which created new rules on domestic surveillance and detention; the Homeland Security Act (signed November 2002), which established the Department of Homeland Security (DHS); and the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (passed November 2001), which created the Transportation Security Administration (TSA).In order to contextualize the growth and development of the controversial security-related TSA policies and practices over the past six years, this chapter follows a relatively simple chronology, tracing the events that passengers might experience from getting to an airport to deplaning. It then briefly reviews the different kinds of theories of bureaucratic decision making that are applied to policy making, and concludes that to all intents and purposes, the TSA has been operating on an incremental decision-making basis.

The correctional system in the United States and elsewhere suffers from numerous problems (Welch, 1996, Austin and Irwin, 2001). One of the most important issues is that it is hard to obtain accurate information about corrections, incarceration, and prisoners. Consequently, many falsehoods, myths, misconceptions, misrepresentations, and stereotypes about this field have been developed by individuals, organizations, and institutions.To address this problem, I identify the common myths of corrections, review the most important cultural industries that are responsible for developing the misconceptions, and provide appropriate examples from the respective industries that demonstrate how the myths are used. To do this, it is necessary to situate this endeavor in an appropriate epistemology. I use the radical/critical perspective, which I believe best informs this topic.In this chapter, I explore the importance of mythmaking about crime, criminal justice, and corrections; look at why myths are successful; examine the important role of cultural industries, such as fashion, advertising, documentaries, fictional treatments, motion pictures, and the mass media/news media; and offer some concluding thoughts about remedying this problem.

Compare the fuel efficiency of hybrid automobiles to conventional automobiles for an urban and a highway driving scenario. Overall, there are two main purposes for this study. One is to test whether the hybrid automobile, both in the virtual and real experiments, achieves a greater efficiency compared to a conventional automobile. The second is to determine if the control strategy behind a hybrid system significantly affects the fuel efficiency of the system.

The Parahio Valley hosts the type section of the Parahio Formation, a unit that occurs widely in the Tethyan Himalaya. Recent revision and recollection of trilobites from multiple horizons within this unit show that it spans the latest part of State 4 and much of Stage 5 of the Cambrian Period. Broadly coeval Parahio Formation deposits occur in the Zanskar Valley some 150 km to the northwest. A variety of small shelly fossils have been recovered by acid dissolution of carbonate beds within the Parahio Formation from both these sections, and these are described herein. They include tetract and pentact sponge spicules belonging to hexactinellid sponges, chancelloriid spicules belonging to Chancelloria sp. and new species of Archiasterella , A. n. sp., shells of a helcionelloid comparable to Igorella maidipingensis , the hyolithid-like Cuptittheca , sp., a poorly preserved hyolithid, a meraspid trilobite that may belong to ptychopariid, and an assortment of spinose microfossils of uncertain affinity. No conodont or paraconodont specimens were recovered, in contrast to an earlier report of microfossils from one horizon at this locality, and inspection of those earlier reported micofossils suggest that they may have been detached chancelloriid spicules. These newly recovered microfossils are consistent with the trilobite-based middle Cambrian age determination for these formations and are inconsistent with the late Cambrian age for the top of the Parahio Formation in its type section by some earlier workers. Individual small shelly fossils taxa show variable ranges within the section, and lie within known stratigraphic ranges for comparable forms known from sections elsewhere in the world. The newly described species A. n. sp. provides the first biostratigraphic link for the Parahio Formation between the Parahio and Zanskar Valleys.