The Red Cross Movement

The Red Cross Movement
Author: Neville Wylie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 526
Release: 2020-03-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1526133539

This book offers new and exciting scholarship on the history of the Red Cross Movement by leading historians in the field. It re-imagines and re-evaluates the Red Cross as an institutional network and a key actor in the humanitarian space through two centuries of war and peace.

First Aid at Work

First Aid at Work
Author: HSE Books
Publisher: HSE Books
Total Pages: 22
Release: 2009
Genre: First aid in illness and injury
ISBN: 9780717662609

The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulations 1981 apply to workplaces in the UK, including those with less than five employees, and to the self-employed.

Atlantic Double-Cross

Atlantic Double-Cross
Author: Robert Weisbuch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 1989-11-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780226891514

In this ambitious study of the intense and often adversarial relationship between English and American literature in the nineteenth century, Robert Weisbuch portrays the rise of American literary nationalism as a self-conscious effort to resist and, finally, to transcend the contemporary British influence. Describing the transatlantic "double-cross" of literary influence, Weisbuch documents both the American desire to create a literature distinctly different from English models and the English insistence that any such attempt could only fail. The American response, as he demonstrates, was to make strengths out of national disadvantages by rethinking history, time, and traditional concepts of the self, and by reinterpreting and ridiculing major British texts in mocking allusions and scornful parodies. Weisbuch approaches a precise characterization of this "double-cross" by focusing on paired sets of English and American texts. Investigations of the causes, motives, and literary results of the struggle alternate with detailed analyses of several test cases. Weisbuch considers Melville's challenge to Dickens, Thoreau's response to Coleridge and Wordsworth, Hawthorne's adaptation of Keats and influence on Eliot, Whitman's competition with Arnold, and Poe's reshaping of Shelley. Adding a new dimension to the exploration of an emerging aesthetic consciousness, Atlantic Double-Cross provides important insights into the creation of the American literary canon.

Sapphic Crossings

Sapphic Crossings
Author: Ula Lukszo Klein
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2021-02-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0813945526

Across the eighteenth century in Britain, readers, writers, and theater-goers were fascinated by women who dressed in men’s clothing—from actresses on stage who showed their shapely legs to advantage in men’s breeches to stories of valiant female soldiers and ruthless female pirates. Spanning genres from plays, novels, and poetry to pamphlets and broadsides, the cross-dressing woman came to signal more than female independence or unconventional behaviors; she also came to signal an investment in female same-sex intimacies and sapphic desires. Sapphic Crossings reveals how various British texts from the period associate female cross-dressing with the exciting possibility of intimate, embodied same-sex relationships. Ula Lukszo Klein reconsiders the role of lesbian desires and their structuring through cross-gender embodiments as crucial not only to the history of sexuality but to the rise of modern concepts of gender, sexuality, and desire. She prompts readers to rethink the roots of lesbianism and transgender identities today and introduces new ways of thinking about embodied sexuality in the past.

Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest

Up: My Life’s Journey to the Top of Everest
Author: Ben Fogle
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2018-10-18
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0008319200

My eyes lifted to the horizon and the unmistakable snowy outline of Everest. Everest, the mountain of my childhood dreams. A mountain that has haunted me my whole life. A mountain I have seen hundreds of times in photographs and films but never in real life.

One More River To Cross

One More River To Cross
Author: J. H. Joiner
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Total Pages: 492
Release: 1990-12-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0850527880

Military bridging, often impeded by mines and hostile enemy fire, is a vital part of the advance of any modern army. Britain's Royal Engineers have played a leading role in this crucial military operation, from the ravines behind the D-Day beaches to recent operations in Bosnia and Kosovo. The Royal Engineers have displayed incredible ingenuity in developing responses to the increasing amounts of firepower directed at bridging troops. This definitive study has been prepared with the assistance of the Royal Engineers and contains details on 170 pieces of bridging equipment, the history of all Royal Engineer assault squadrons, and accounts of all Victoria Crosses won during bridging actions.