Persons searching for Bahamian ancestors will want to study the various lists of names which appear throughout this work, as well as the biographical sketches of descent of more than 200 contemporary Bahamians of distinction.

After the revised Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations (TUPE) were introduced in April 2006, UK employers and their advisers have been grappling with the consequences for terms and conditions of employment, pensions provision, and insolvencies. Since the second edition of this book was published, the UK's courts have continued to see clarification of the position of TUPE in relation to insolvency. Further, there have been clarifications of what is meant by "service provision change." To that end, this third edition encapsulates these changes and many others caused...

'To be loved to madness - such was her great desire'
Eustacia Vye criss-crosses the wild Egdon Heath, eager to experience life to the full in her quest for 'music, poetry, passion, war'. She marries Clym Yeobright, native of the heath, but his idealism frustrates her romantic ambitions and her discontent draws others into a tangled web of deceit and unhappiness.
Early readers responded to Hardy's 'insatiably observant' descriptions of the heath, a setting that for D. H. Lawrence provided the 'real stuff of tragedy'. For modern readers, the tension between the mythic setting of the...