Ian Edwards

Balanced perfectly to give students thought-provoking contextual discussion with succinct and focused coverage. "Criminal Law" explains, analyses, and critiques the criminal law. Contextual coverage ensures that students can enjoy a comprehensive understanding of this most fascinating subject. Key Features: 1. The text closely covers all the areas studied on mainstream criminal law courses in sufficient detail without being overwhelming, providing students new to the subject with the ideal balance of coverage. 2. The straightforward and jargon-free approach towards the legal and judicial process helps students feel comfortable with the subject and develop their own critical skills 3." Law in Context" boxes frame the law in its practical context, exploring the modern challenges that the law faces today 4. Further reading sections at the end of each chapter provide those preparing essays with a carefully targeted starting point for research 5. Boxed examples, case fact summaries, key points, and questions help to highlight important points, break the text down, and aid effective learning 6. Also available as an e-book with functionality, navigation features, and links that offer extra learning support New to this Edition: New coverage examining the relevance of a defendant's right to protest in criminal damage cases following the decision in Attorney General's Reference [2022] Includes the Law Commission's 2023 Consultation on Evidence in Sexual Offence Prosecutions and 2021 Hate Crime Laws recommendations Includes increases in punishments for destroying or damaging a memorial enacted by the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act 2022 and the Sentencing Code (introduced by the Sentencing Act 2020) Digital formats and resources: The seventeeth edition is available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of formats: the eBook and Law Trove offer a mobile experience and convenient access along with multiple choice questions for students, functionality tools, navigation features and links that offer extra learning support. For more information about eBooks, please visit: www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks

Produced to celebrate the International Year of Forests 2011 by the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, with support from Forestry Commission Scotland, this book of folk tales encapsulate man's essential relationship with trees. A modern retelling of tales recounted through generations the book explores man's ancient association with the forest setting and demonstrates how the tradition of storytelling can teach us essential lessons of respect for our environment.

Mr Grumpy was so grumpy that the birds didn't fly into his yard. Dogs crossed the road rather than pass too closely. Mr Grumpy didn't welcome or speak nicely to anyone or anything. If Mr Grumpy had another name, people had forgotten it because he had been grumpy for so long. Mem loves stories and can remember every one told to her. Point has a talent for noticing things and then pointing them out. Together, they use their gifts to help Mr Grumpy lose his rumpy. The Adventures of Mem and Point children's book series teaches about the value of friendship and community. Suitable for primary school age children.

Family secrets, despite their quiescence, do not die entirely. They merely compost over the decades, becoming part of a soil which produces new consequences for old decisions. Ruth and Todd are a generation apart. She is a pillar of the church and he is on the point of leaving it. One day Ruth, who is 93, invites Todd to a Bequest Society luncheon at the Port Adelaide football club - she has surrendered her driving licence and would welcome both a companion and a ride. At church Todd and Ruth talk about the footy. At the club they talk about their lives and their church. When Ruth reveals how, at age six, she was seriously injured, falling nine metres into the empty hold of the old Windjammer her family lived on, it marks the start of a quest by Ruth and Todd to better understand her family and its secrets. For it was on the day of this accident that Ruth's father mysteriously disappeared from her life. Friendship cuts through Ruth and Todd's differences to shed light not only on past secrets but on what is passing in their lives now: her church and his faith.

Against a backdrop of war, poverty, extreme physical injury, disability and suffering the reader accompanies physiotherapy teacher Ian Edwards on a thirty year journey of experiences in war devastated Afghanistan and impoverished and remote rural Mexico. This story traverses the full spectrum of humanity, from violence and social injustice to unreserved hospitality and compassion. Edwards reflects upon and makes sense of these experiences in self revealing dialogues with his recently deceased brother Paul and his young granddaughter Ocean.

Alan Rose has quit his job and, much to his disappointment, moved in with his girlfriend, Rosie. But if only it was. Rosy, that is. You see, he's not getting any mail. Convinced his neighbours are stealing it, he investigates. Only to find evidence of...witchcraft. Meanwhile the Merton Palace Theatre is being renovated. As the building work continues, strange noises can be heard from the cellar. What have the builders unearthed? Frankie Fortune is having strange dreams about the Merton Palace Theatre. Could it simply be flashbacks to when he died there in 1982, or is it something more sinister? The crew of the cable TV show Scared Stiff are sent in to broadcast the strange happenings live on air. What could possibly go wrong?