This is the first complete account of the establishment of the Arts and Humanities Research Council among the Research Councils of the United Kingdom in 2005. It focuses on the campaign carried forward from the 1997 Dearing Report to the 2004 Higher Education Act to establish a public agency investing in humanities and arts research that would be equivalent to those funding natural and social science research - a campaign that can be emulated in other countries.
Built on interviews with leading participants, regional and national press coverage, and analysis of influential national...

Written as a collection of letters from the author to today's twenty- and thirtysomethings, this reflective memoir is an inspiring and persuasive work offering grandfatherly advice and encouragement to help young people learn how and why to take jobs seriously as they enter adulthood.

While there are many books about the current issue of arrested adulthood and young people's failure to launch, there are few books that are written directly to this audience. To Jonah, When You Are Twenty-Five offers novice adults a kindly compass into the work life that awaits them and into the...

Can a ghost haunt a ghost?
Can the dead reach out and touch the living?
Can ancient evil be made manifest?
These are the questions that confront investigator David Ash when he is sent to the picturesque village of Sleath in the Chiltern Hills to look into mysterious reports of mass hauntings. What he discovers is a terrified community gripped by horrors and terrorized by ghosts from the ancient village's long history. As each dark secret is unveiled and terrible, malign forces are unleashed, he will fear for his very sanity. Sleath. Where the dead will walk the streets.