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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Strathclyde (3 pts.)
Author: Scotland (3 pts.)
Author: Strathclyde and the Anglo-Saxons in the Viking Age
Author: Tim ClarksonPublisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 1907909257
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
This book traces the history of relations between the kingdom of Strathclyde and Anglo-Saxon England in the Viking period of the ninth to eleventh centuries AD. It puts the spotlight on the North Britons or 'Cumbrians', an ancient people whose kings ruled from a power-base at Govan on the western side of present-day Glasgow. In the tenth century, these kings extended their rule southward from Clydesdale to the southern shore of the Solway Firth, bringing their language and culture to a region that had been in English hands for more than two hundred years. They played a key role in many of the great political events of the time, whether leading their armies in battle or forging treaties to preserve a fragile peace. Their extensive realm, which was also known as 'Cumbria', was eventually conquered by the Scots, but is still remembered today in the name of an English county. How this county acquired the name of a long-vanished kingdom centred on the River Clyde is one of the topics covered in this book.It is part of a wider history that forms an important chapter in the story of how England and Scotland emerged from the early medieval period or 'Dark Ages' as the countries we know today.
British Qualifications
Author: Kogan PagePublisher: Kogan Page Publishers
ISBN: 9780749444839
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
The field of professional, academic and vocational qualifications is ever-changing. The new edition of this highly successful and practical guide provides thorough information on all developments. Fully indexed, it includes details on all university awards and over 200 career fields, their professional and accrediting bodies, levels of membership and qualifications. It acts as an one-stop guide for careers advisors, students and parents, and will also enable human resource managers to verify the qualifications of potential employees.
The Weekly Reporter
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1138
Book Description
The Law Times Reports
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 990
Book Description
Genetics and Genetic Engineering
Author: Barbara WexlerPublisher: Information Plus
ISBN: 9781573026437
Category : Genetic engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume focuses on the social and moral issues surrounding genetics and genetic engineering.
The Law Times Reports of Cases Decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, the Court of Appeal ... [new Series].
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Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 988
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Scottish Bird Report
Author: Perspectives on Peter Maxwell Davies
Author: Richard McGregorPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351554352
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
"As a composer one forgets, in time, the fine detail of composition processes which produced past work... it must be left to scholars to recreate, slowly and painstakingly, earlier creative processes." Peter Maxwell Davies. In the eight essays presented here, leading scholars of the music of Peter Maxwell Davies explore some of the composer's creative processes. David Roberts, Peter Owens and Richard McGregor examine Davies's employment of pitch-class sets and other models evident in his sketch material, while Joel Lester looks at the serial elements that produce structure and effect in the work Ave Maris Stella. The political, literary and musical influences evident in the 1987 opera Resurrection and in subsequent orchestral works come under scrutiny from John Warnaby. Davies's use of older dramatic forms and ritual is the focus of Michael Burden's examination of his music theatre. The composer's own descriptions of his compositional process contain distinctly modernist overtones as Arnold Whittall suggests in the concluding essay in the volume. The sustained textural multiplicity evident in much of Davies's music points to this modernism. It is a multiplicity mirrored in the variety of approaches taken by the commentators in this volume. The differing points of view on offer complement and contrast each other, allowing the reader to appreciate the different levels on which Davies's music works.