John Gill

When he moved to the mountains of Andaluc a in 1999, the first housewarming present John Gill received was a telescope. While small - a three-inch aperture reflector, nicknamed Cleo, after its donor - it rekindled a childhood fascination with astronomy and set him on a journey into both space and time. From a rooftop terrace half a mile above sea level in the Serran a de Ronda mountains, he began locally, with the Moon, but soon found himself at the limits of the solar system. With Cleo's reach failing, he hitched aboard a variety of other craft - from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich to the Hubble Space Telescope, via Mount Palomar and the SETI project - on a journey to the edge of space, where 'lookback time', the time light takes to reach Earth from astronomical objects, stretches back some 13.666 billion light years (and counting...), the assumed age of the known universe. Away from his telescope, he also immersed himself in his new community, not least by becoming a music columnist - in Spanish - on a small underground arts magazine, discovering an entirely different Spain to the culture, often driven by expatriates, to be found forty miles away on the Costa del Sol. He interlaces his stop-offs at the way stations to the stars with sideways observations on a modern society coming to terms with a feudal past in a young democracy barely thirty years old. Space Travel for Beginners follows on from his earlier The Stars Over Paxos, about a year on a Greek island armed only with binoculars and a clifftop launchpad barely one hundred feet above the Ionian Sea. Like his hero, Italo Calvino's Mr. Palomar, it is concerned with the near and the far, the big and the small, the present, the future and the deep past.

The highly-anticipated Fourth Edition of this bestselling text still succeeds in providing a step-by-step guide to implementing particular methodologies, while simultaneously encouraging a strong awareness of philosophical assumptions. NEW to the Fourth Edition: - Expanded coverage to accommodate recent developments in management research methodology. New topics include: doing a literature review, case study research, action research, mixed methods, and writing-up. - Packed with practical research examples and exercises that encourage students to reflect upon the issues raised and relate them to their own experience. - Additional learning features including critical reflection boxes, case studies and chapter summaries. - A companion website with a full Instructors' Manual and PowerPoint slides. Students have free access to downloadable journal articles and author podcasts. Using a practical approach, but with explicit attention to the role of theory in management research, the new edition of Research Methods for Managers is a stimulating guide for students in management, organization and organization research.

The highly-anticipated Fourth Edition of this bestselling text still succeeds in providing a step-by-step guide to implementing particular methodologies, while simultaneously encouraging a strong awareness of philosophical assumptions. NEW to the Fourth Edition: - Expanded coverage to accommodate recent developments in management research methodology. New topics include: doing a literature review, case study research, action research, mixed methods, and writing-up. - Packed with practical research examples and exercises that encourage students to reflect upon the issues raised and relate them to their own experience. - Additional learning features including critical reflection boxes, case studies and chapter summaries. - A companion website with a full Instructors' Manual and PowerPoint slides. Students have free access to downloadable journal articles and author podcasts. Using a practical approach, but with explicit attention to the role of theory in management research, the new edition of Research Methods for Managers is a stimulating guide for students in management, organization and organization research.

Archaeological Recording at St George's Church, Bloomsbury

A garden at the foot of Europe and a crossroads between Spain, Africa and the New World, Andaluca has been a cultural customs house on the border of the Mediterranean and Atlantic civilisations for more than ten thousand years. This book traces its origins from the earliest hominid settlers in the Granada mountains 1.8 million years ago, through successive Phoenician, Greek, Roman and Muslim cultures, and the past five hundred years of modern Castilian rule, up to and including the present day of post-modern novelists in Crdoba and Sevilla, guerrilla urban archaeologists in Torremolinos and Marbella, and underground lo-fi bands in Granada and Mlaga.