David Nash

Blasphemy is the battleground where religious and secular worlds come into conflict. It has a history which reaches into issues of religious belief, freedom of expression, and is bound up with the growth and development of new media. This title draws together a variety of primary sources relating to blasphemy from the Enlightenment onwards.

David Nash finds himself falling in love with a woman with a past and a jealous boyfriend who will do anything to have her back, including killing anyone who gets in his way. The story takes you from the Bahamas to Las Vegas.

Two young people fall in love in Southern California during the surf era of the mid 1960's and grow up fast. Surfing and travel become a part of their lives.

David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as a crime against the sacred and individual religious identity. Investigating its appearance in speech, literature, popular publishing and the cinema, he disinters the likely motives and agendas of blasphemers themselves, as well as offering a glimpse of blasphemy's victims. In particular, he seeks to understand why this seemingly medieval offence has reappeared to become a distinctly modern presence in the West.

This book provides sensible, practical assistance on pressure equipment. European Pressure Equipment has been written using the day-to-day practical experience of pressure vessel users, manufacturers and suppliers for specifiers, and users of pressure equipment. It has been compiled to provide practical information about all aspects of design, selection and use. The book is aimed at everyone who has technical problems as well as those wanting to know more about pressure equipment and the Pressure Equipment Directive (PED), and also those who want to know who supplies what, and from where in Europe. Aimed at users of pressure vessels in industries such as the power, oil, petrochemical, chemical, pharmaceutical, food, utility and other industries, and also those involved in the specifying and purchasing of pressure vessels and ancillary equipment. The book will of course be of considerable use to designers and manufacturers. Content include: GeneralLegislation and standardsSpecification of pressure vesselsDesignManufactureInspection and testingInstallation, maintenance and in-service inspectionUnits and conversions and materials dataUseful terms translatedClassification guide to manufacturers and suppliersReference index

This beautifully produced book is sculptor David Nash's response to the three hundred year old yews in the gardens of Powis Castle. After decades – in some cases centuries – without trimming some twenty yews by the castle have grown into fantastic, organic shapes not usually associated with the formally trained yews of traditional gardens. The plasticity of these striking trees instantly challenged Nash when he first saw them: now the resulting drawings, reliefs and sculptures are collected here, together with a brief essay by Nash and a short history of the Powis Castle gardens by art historian Sarah Blomfield. With bilingual text in English and Welsh, printed on high quality paper and case bound in fine linen this exclusive book is sought after by readers interested in art and gardens alike. David Nash is an internationally acclaimed sculptor, based in Blaenau Ffestiniog, north Wales. His work can be found in major collections around the world.