This edition has been brought up-to-date with cases and legislation. The aim is to provide a clear and unambiguous treatment of the main principles of the law of tort, presenting a basic framework of the subject. The text is split into seven parts dealing with general principles.

Law of Tort (Pitman Law Textbook Series)

Cooke, John

Pearson Higher Education

The essays in this volume are, at first sight, a curiously varied assortment. Written solely for personal pleasure, without intention or expectation of publication, many have long lain forgotten, gathering digital dust over many years. Except for those covering aspects of Balinese culture and history, they possess no unifying theme to justify inclusion. They range from the semi-academic to the frivolous, from the serious to the trivial. One essay explores an unexpected connection between narcissism and travel, another considers possibilities of life in the hereafter. Art and Disability is discussed next to atomic weapons, high crimes and nuclear misdemeanors. A comic village dispute in the depths of rural France is juxtaposed against the dramatic discovery of a new-found family uncovered by untangling threads of DNA. It is manifestly a strange collection, offered without excuse or apology in the hope that readers may perhaps find something to interest or amuse.

LAMENT FOR DEMOCRACY AND OTHER ESSAYS

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

Lulu Press, Inc.

Sublime Lunacy is a collection of random anecdotes and recollections resurrected in old age from a musty attic of memories--often in response to gentle prompting from Bacchus. From a childhood encounter with a U-Boat in mid-Atlantic to incarceration in a Macedonian jail; from the joys of foot safaris in Africa to the delight of hearing pure Elizabethan English in the high pastures of the Zagros Mountains; from the rigours of an English Public School education to the dangerous freedoms of undergraduate life at Oxford; from rock climbing on crags and colleges to dining with Japanese royalty. Sublime Lunacy combines travel and exploration with stories of natural history and scientific research. It is presented for public scrutiny in the hope that readers might find something to interest or amuse among this residue of a life well spent.

Sublime Lunacy

Greene's Tu Quoque or, The Cittie Gallant: The Renaissance Imagination (Routledge Revivals)

Published in 1984: Greene's Tu Quoque, or, The Cittie Gallantis a satirical play from 1611 which was first presented at court by the Queen's players.

Greene's Tu Quoque or, The Cittie Gallant (Routledge Revivals)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Routledge

Published in 1984: Greene's Tu Quoque, or, The Cittie Gallant is a satirical play from 1611 which was first presented at court by the Queen's players.

The Common Law of Obligations provides coverage of the history of obligations and its underlying principles, remedies, negation of liability and specific obligations. The book draws out the common themes that exist between traditional tort and contract courses, whilst the elements pertaining to the law of restitution are also included.

The Common Law of Obligations

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Oxford University Press

Lieutenant Winston Clark was a helicopter pilot. He is just what he wanted to be and where he wanted to be. When he arrived in Vietnam, he was fresh from the hills of Old Catawba and fully prepared to "bear any burden," as the handsome young president had said. But was he prepared for what awaited him at Les Trungs rubber plantation? Was he prepared for his encounter with the mysterious Frenchman, "Voltaire Six"? Was he prepared for the girl named Genevieve, the girl with the honey-colored hair? And was he prepared for the "68th Buddha" and the climactic and explosive battles of the Tet offensive?Prepared or not, the Top Tigers and the Viet Cong were on a violent collision course and this tour of duty would haunt Lieutenant Clark forever. Voltaire Six is the story of fighting men and women on both sides of the ideological lines rushing down a stormy wind-tunnel of passion, history, and destiny. John Cooke writes with a marvelous sense of character, time, and place. You are there-and you will not forget it.

Voltaire Six: The Top Tigers

United States

iUniverse

Waterscapes are one of the most popular subjects for painting. Water is a variable element and its changing shapes and tonal complexities need to be studied by the artist in order to paint successfully. The author discusses the part water plays in landscapes and goes on to discuss perspectives of waterscapes and their effect on composition of various viewpoints. Weather and seasons and their effects on waterscapes are anbother important consideration making it necessary for the artist to employ different techniques and colours in order to capture nature's transient moods. John Cook also explains what he terms "eyeball mechanics", an understanding of which is absolutely crucial when working on a painting with strong contrasts of light and dark. Since water reflects light, a sense of light has to be developed by the artist wishing to paint reflections. The author shows you how to achieve luminosity in painting by sacrificing some contrasts in order to enhance others. There is an endless variety of source material for waterscapes and this book illustrates and discusses urban and industrial waterscapes, such as canals, ponds, reservoirs, fountains and bridges as well as streams, rivers and lakes, mountain waters and coastline. Working directly from nature is not always practicable and the author discusses alternative methods of collecting source material. This book should prove a valuable guide to the beginner as well as the experienced painter.

Waterscape Painting

Arts & Photography

Painting

B.T.BATSFORD LTD

The Restless Kingdom: An Exploration of Animal Movement

Blandford

John Esten Cooke was a writer, not a fighter, and yet he enjoyed (in every sense of the word) a remarkable and extensive Civil War career that took him from John Brown’s raid to General Lee’s surrender and put him in close touch with some of the greatest commanders in American history, most notably his much-admired cousin-in-law, J. E. B. Stuart. Wearing of the Gray, published in 1867, contains Cooke’s best writing on the war―sparkling vignettes that display an excellent eye for local color and the picaresque, a wry sense of humor, and a quick grasp of character. It includes eleven vivid portraits of both famous figures―such as Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, P. G. T. Beauregard, John Singleton Mosby, and Jubal Early―and less famous, as well as stories and sketches based on Cooke’s experiences. Though Cooke tends to romanticize the past―as evinced in his merry rendition of Stuart’s cavalry campaign in the summer of 1863, an event most participants remembered as nightmarish―he is equally capable, for example, of capturing with moving and stark simplicity what the surrender at Appomattox meant to the Confederates present there. In sum, Cook’s unique pairing of advantaged military perspective and authorial talent “give his wartime sketches a combination of validity and vitality almost unmatched in the literature of the Civil War” (Civil War History).

Wearing of the Gray: Being Personal Portraits, Scenes and Adventures of the War

History

Americas

LSU Press

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