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Iain McGowan seeks to portray a sense of Portsmouth's outstanding heritage with photographs and a degree of historical text that will appeal to residents and visitors alike. Many of the well-known attractions are illustrated, together with other elements still waiting to be discovered.
An exploration of both Scotland's Western Seaboard and the Hebridean Islands, following on from Iain McGowan's highly successful 'Portrait of the Hebrides'.
Within the domains of criminal justice and mental health care, critical debate concerning ‘care’ versus ‘control’ and ‘therapy’ versus ‘security’ is now commonplace. Indeed, the ‘hybridisation’ of these areas is now a familiar theme. This unique and topical text provides an array of expert analyses from key contributors in the field that explore the interface between criminal justice and mental health. Using concise yet robust definitions of key terms and concepts, it consolidates scholarly analysis of theory, policy and practice. Readers are provided with practical debates, in addition to the theoretical and ideological concerns surrounding the risk assessment, treatment, control and risk management in a cross-disciplinary context. Included in this book is recommended further reading and an index of legislation, making it an ideal resource for students at undergraduate and postgraduate level, together with researchers and practitioners in the field.
Following the release of Chichester - A Contemporary View in 1994, Chichester - A Millennium View looks at the following six years of change bringing us to the dawn of the new millennium. Using more than 500 specially commissioned photographs the authors lead the reader through some familiar sites as well as some of the better kept secrets of Chichester.
The very first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet was also the first of Conan Doyle's books to be published. His two creations, Holmes, the master of the science of detection and Watson, the great detective's faithful companion, are immediately in fine form. The mystery itself, its solution plucked unerringly by Holmes from the heart of Victorian London, proves to be the inevitable consequence of a tragedy of the American West. The story is harrowing in its alternating hope and despair, although Holmes himself was later to complain that the book `produces much the same effect as if you worked a love-story or an elopement into the fifth proposition of Euclid'. - ;The very first Sherloc...
This book, packed with superb, evocative imagescaptures that certain, yet sometimes indefinableatmosphere that is unique within the region.Considerable emphasis has been placed on threecontrasting islands ¿ Skye, Eigg and Harris, each withtheir own chapters, but not neglecting several of theremaining islands. This, coupled with an initialchapter describing the mainland western seaboardputs the Hebrides into their true island context asquite literally a place apart, a place beyond.