La casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy.

"Jean de Croy had sworn a remarkable pact with 18 of his fellow knights: they would fight as a body and kill the English king, or die in the attempt. And so they did--launching themselves at the English line. Croy and all 18 of these knights were killed in fierce fighting, but not before they had got close enough to the king to strike repeated blows on his battle helmet, one of them severely damaging the crown that was welded to it--so that two of its rubies were smashed off."
Michael Jones brings the iconic battle vividly to life, drawing on countless authentic eyewitness...

Accounting is the provision of financial information to managers or owners, as well as to external users, so that they can make business decisions. It measures, monitors and controls business activities.

Management Accounting provides a very accessible and easy-to-follow introduction to accounting. It introduces students to accounting and provides them with a clear understanding of the theory and practice of management accounting. The text blends theory and practice by stressing the underlying concepts and context of accounting.

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Michael Jones tells the human story of Leningrad. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and diaries, he shows Leningrad in its every dimension including taboos, long-suppressed by the Soviets, such as looting, criminal gangs and cannibalism, but also the triumph of human spirit as people inspired, comforted and helped each other.

Accounting 3e provides a very accessible and easy-to-follow introduction to accounting. It is intended as a core textbook for students studying accounting for the first time: either those following an undergarduate degree in a business school, or non-business studies students stuyding an accounting course. This includes students on both accounting and non-accounting degrees and also MBA students.

Designed to be both engaging and accessible to the student, Accounting 3e features:

• A lively presentational style integrating cartoons and soundbites
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The powerful story of the Red Army's battle of liberation against the Nazi invader - from Stalingrad all the way to Berlin

Michael K. Jones's new history of Stalingrad offers a radical reinterpretation of the most famous battle of the WW2. Combining eyewitness testimony of Red Army fighters with fresh archive material, the book gives a dramatic insight into the thinking of the Russian command and the mood of the ordinary soldiers. He focuses on the story of the Russian 62nd Army, which began the campaign in utter demoralization, yet turned the tables on the powerful German 6th Army. He explains the Red Army's extraordinary performance using battle psychology, emphasizing the vital role of leadership, morale and...

This book brings together a collection of essays that discuss alternative development and its relevance for local/global processes of marginalization and change in the Global South. Alternative development questions who the producers of development knowledges and practices are, and aims at decentring development and geographical knowledge from the Anglo-American centre and the Global North. It involves resistance to dominant political-economic processes in order to further the possibilities for non-exploitative and just forms of development. By discussing how to unravel marginalization and...

In the past few years anxiety and depression has become a typical condition to hear about. It has become common to hear that an individual is suffering from depression and anxiety. While many individuals have some kind of experience with this type of condition, it happens to be the solution for the condition that many people have become alarmed about. The most important thing for individuals to do if they are suffering from depression or anxiety is to realize and recognize what happened to change their lives. If an individual closely take a look at their daily activities, their environment,...

An authoritative synthesis of the major themes in European fourteenth-century history.