In a book that augments the BBC television series myths and misconceptions about the animals most feared by man are discussed, dispelled, or validated, including those about lions, tigers, bears, sharks, snakes, toads, dragons, and spiders

Nightmares of Nature

Science & Math

Matthews, Richard

Biological Sciences

Harpercollins

This Blackstone's Guide provides the complete text of the UK Corporate Manslaughter Act together with an informed commentary on its probable interpretation and impact. The existing laws on corporate manslaughter have been widely criticized. They are regarded as failing to provide clear, effective offences which enable companies and other organizations to be held accountable for gross failings which have fatal consequences. The Corporate Manslaughter Act aims to reform and clarify this area, most notably by creating a new, specific offence of 'corporate manslaughter' - an organization, government department, or other Crown body will be prosecuted for this if a gross failing by its senior managers to take reasonable care for the safety of their workers or members of the public were to cause a person's death. This new offence combines a number of previously-established concepts such as liability arising through the breach of duty of care owed by operation of the law of negligence, with novel elements such as the requirement for the jury in any trial to consider whether the defendant 'failed to comply with any relevant health and safety legislation or guidance', and the partial removal of Crown immunity. This Guide analyses and comments upon the interpretation of the established concepts, and offers a reasoned account of the likely interpretation of the novel elements, relating both to criminal and health and safety law as a whole.

Blackstone's Guide to the Corporate Manslaughter Act, 2007

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Blackstone Press

The first edition of Health and Safety Enforcement Law and Practice became the standard text for practitioners in this growing area of the law, providing a portable and authoritative guide to the key issues in health and safety enforcement in a practical and comprehensive manner. The new edition builds on the strengths of the first. It deals comprehensively with health and safety inspectors' enforcement powers; the service and appeal of improvement and prohibition notices; the law relating to health and safety offences; work-related death investigation; the Coroner's procedure; and criminal procedure and sentencing in respect of health and safety offences. The second part of the book reproduces the relevant extracts from the key statutes, the Enforcement Policy Statement, and the most important Health and Safety Regulations.   The new edition has been comprehensively updated and the authors have substantially expanded their coverage of judicial review and abuse of process; "reasonable practicability"; disclosure; case management; funding; and the forthcoming Corporate Manslaughter Act. They have also written a new chapter on defending enforcement actions. The text has been scrupulously updated in respect of recent case law, with informed discussion of the implications of decisions made.

Health and Safety Enforcement: Law and Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Ageros, James

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

In his first collection of poems, The Mill Is Burning, 2001 Pen/Joyce Osterweil Award winner Richard Matthews brings to bear an astonishing range of poetic modes and voices to explore landscape internal and external, light and dark, real and fanciful, near and remote. These are poems distinctive in both their lyrical and emotional urgency and their intelligence and craft. Matthews does not flinch from difficult subjects. In "Cavafy Suite," he re-imagines and relocates poems by the celebrated Greek poet to create a harrowing tour of the labyrinths of depression. The sequences "Ad Astra" and "Tenebrae" are beautiful but painful portraits of D. H. Lawrence and the poet's mother, respectively, approaching their deaths. Yet he also gives us poems of celebration -- of redemption through music in "Of Mere Virtuosity," of a distant lover intimately conjured near in "Cloister" -- and poems of wonder, as a dragon drops from the sky in medieval France, moths blanket Penelope's Ithaca, and a Rothko painting morphs into a lush Korean landscape. Challenging and moving, Matthews's poems enlarge our intellectual and sensory engagement with the world. This is a rich and original debut. "[Matthews's] delightful poems rove the world and its history and move us...into a distinctive sensibility." -- Billy Collins "...the general effect is one of passionate mastery...gratitude and enjoyment are the sole residue." --Richard Howard

The Mill Is Burning (Grove Press Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

GROVE PRESS

Good Soldiers: The History of the 353rd Infantry Regiment, 89th Infantry Division, 1942-1945

History

Military

353rd Reg.

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Enneagram Self-Discovery: Understand Personality Types to Enhance Your Spiritual Growth & Build Healthy Relationships

Self-Help

Hudson, Elliot

Personal Transformation

Independently published

‘No I Will’ is a father’s own story of his experiences raising a special child. It is a searingly honest account of his struggles and the challenges he faced. It is heartfelt and uplifting, incredibly moving and full of laugh out loud humour.
“I don’t believe any parent, if they had the choice, would choose a physical or mental handicap for their child. No parent want’s their child to suffer. But despite my son’s limitations, he inspires me every day. He is innocence personified and sees the world as the truly wonderful and magical place that it is. He reminds me how to have fun, to find humour in everything and show kindness to everyone.”

No I Will

Biographies & Memoirs

ShieldCrest Publishing Ltd

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