Bøger af David Evans

Theodore de Banville (1823-1891) was a prolific poet, dramatist, critic and prose fiction writer whose significant contribution to poetic and aesthetic debates in nineteenth-century France has long been overlooked.

Farmer John Stubblefield is always doing something wacky or wrong...He loses his boots and calls in the police to look for them. He gets into trouble when Myrtle his muck-spreader misbehaves and covers everybody with dung. He wears his wellingtons to Buckingham Palace to collect a knighthood but worst of all asks the Queen to muck out his calves when she comes to visit!Farmer John could not survive without Wendy his wife. Wendy suffers Farmer John's mad ideas and odd behaviour with good humour, but sometimes she loses her temper with him. But it never lasts for long. Wendy realises that she can't change Farmer John and she doesn't really want to. She knows that life on Thistledown Farm would be very dull if she did!This is the first in the Farmer John series written by David Charles - seventeen humorous farm stories for five to eight year olds plus, delightfully illustrated by Jake Tebbit.

This volume charts the conservation movement from its beginnings in Victorian coffee houses to its current societies which boast memberships in the millions. A history of the British movement, the oldest in the world, this text offers an insight into the campaign for countryside protection.

Provides an introduction to multi-party computation for practitioners interested in building privacy-preserving applications and researchers who want to work in the area. The goal is to enable readers to understand what is possible today, and what may be possible in the future.

This reader is accompanied with a CD that contains the full audio of the text in MP3 format. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea of women in business seemed strange. Today more and more women are reaching the top of business life. This book tells the business success stories of five very different women: Coco Chanel, Hanae Mori, Anita Roddick, Oprah Winfrey and Madonna.

In the past fifteen years, Brazil has made great strides in increasing its population's access to early child education, with both preschool and creche enrolment increasing by over fifty per cent. Education programs for young children have consistently been shown to have long-term positive effects on life outcomes of participants.

Lacking the troops and the desire to mount a long siege of Atlanta, in July 1864 William Tecumseh Sherman decided to try for a quick, decisive victory. This work presents the image of the day-to-day life of the Yankee horse soldier. It provides an account of this hitherto neglected aspect of the American Civil War.

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Low temperature-oriented research groups, such as the National Bureau of Standards and the Institute for Technical Physics - Karlsruhe, must contribute by assisting with fundamentals, interpreting proj ect data, and contributing to project programs through their materials research.

Grounded in decades of experience with research training and supervision, this fully updated and revised edition takes an integrated, down-to-earth approach drawing on case studies and examples to guide you step-by-step towards productive success.Early chapters frame the tasks ahead and show you how to get started.

From proposal to examination, producing a dissertation or thesis is a challenge. Grounded in decades of experience with research training and supervision, this fully updated and revised edition draws on case studies and examples to guide you step-by-step towards productive success.

An exceptionally diverse look at blues history, styles, and performances

Original / British English At the beginning of the twentieth century, the idea of women in business seemed strange. Today more and more women are reaching the top of business life. This book tells the business success stories of five very different women: Coco Chanel, Hanae Mori, Anita Roddick, Oprah Winfrey and Madonna.

Exceptional value paperback edition of this comprehensive reference text on glacial landsystems.

An analysis of the process of composition, learning and performance of the Southern folk blues of black America. This musical form has not previously been examined in such a scrupulous fashion. This book was the winner of the University of Chicago Folklore Prize.

Argues that analyses of social construction of sexualities have ignored the material contexts in which gender construction occurs. Evans maintains that the progressive sexualization of modern capitalist societies is shaped by the complex inter-related material interests of market and state.