Matthew White

Presents both hard facts and military, social, and political histories of the world's one hundred most violent events, from the second Persian War in 480 BCE to the modern war in the Congo.

Atrocities: The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History

Was the twentieth century the most violent in history? Are religions or tyrants, capitalism or communism the cause of most human suffering? Has violence increased or decreased over the course of history? In this wholly original and remarkably ambitious work, 'Atrocitologist' Matthew White considers man's inhumanity to man across several thousand years of history. From the First Punic War and the collapse of Mayan rule, to the reign of Peter the Great and the cataclysmic events of the Second World War, White's epic book spans centuries and civilisations as it measures the hundred most violent events in human history. While sceptical of any grand theory for the causes of human violence, White does share three big lessons gleaned from his careful statistical analysis: one, chaos is more deadly than tyranny; two, the world is even more disorganised than we realise; and three, wars kill more civilians than soldiers (in fact, the army is usually the safest place to be). If we study history to avoid the mistakes of the past, then there can be no more important place to start than this eye-opening and entertaining book.

Humanity's 100 Deadliest Achievements

Atrocitology

Roald Dahl

Helen MacGregor

Ana Sanderson

Georgs Pelecis

Roald Dahl's irreverant Revolting Rhymes have an enduring appeal, and now for the first time, children can enjoy the fun of performing two of them as musicals. In Jack and the beanstalk, Jack and the friendly farm animals defy the Giant's phenomenal sniffing powers and Jack's mother's murderous way with a vacuum cleaner to come out triumphantly rich - and squeaky clean. The Dahl script, the instantly enjoyable new songs, and clever staging ideas are all wrapped up in one accessible and affordable pack - complete with a performance/backing tracks CD and excerpts from the orchestral adaptation by Georg Pelecis.

A Gigantically Amusing Musical

Roald Dahl's Jack and the Beanstalk

Steven Pinker

The 100 Deadliest Episodes in Human History

Atrocities

Another revolting addition to A&C Black's Roald Dahl series of musicals for schools - a complete performance pack containing everything you need to stage a hugely successful and highly enjoyable production.

A Tail-Twistingly Treacherous Musical

Roald Dahl's the Three Little Pigs

This book analyses the compatibility of data retention in the UK with the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). The increase in the use of modern technology has led to an explosion of generated data and, with that, a greater interest from law enforcement and intelligence agencies. In the early 2000s, data retention laws were introduced into the UK, and across the European Union (EU). This was met by domestic challenges before national courts, until a seminal ruling by the Court of Justice in the European Union (CJEU) ruled that indiscriminate data retention was incompatible with EU law. Since then, however, the CJEU has revised its position and made certain concessions, particularly under the guise of national security. This book focuses on data retention in the UK with the principal aim of examining compatibility with the ECHR. This is explored through a variety of ways including providing an account of democracy and why secret surveillance poses a threat to it, a history of data retention, assessing the seriousness that data retention poses to fundamental rights, the collection of rights that are affected by data retention which are crucial for a functioning democracy, the implications of who can be obligated to retain (and what to retain), the idea that data retention is a form of surveillance and ultimately, with all things considered, whether this is compatible with the ECHR. The work will be an invaluable resource for students, academics, researchers and policy-makers working in the areas of privacy, human rights law and surveillance.

A Risk to Democracy

Surveillance Law, Data Retention and Human Rights

Reproduction of the original: Two Boys and a Fortune by Matthew White

Two Boys and a Fortune

Evangelistas del progreso humano cumplen su contrario en el Mateo Blanco exploración épica de cien eventos de la historia más violentas o, en frases picantes de White, los números que la gente quiere discutir. Que se remonta a 480 segundos guerra persa BCE, White mueve cronológicamente la historia de la guerra de este siglo en el Congo y dedica capítulos a cada evento, donde se rodea datos (tiempo y lugar) y comida para llevar breves (que por lo general tiene la culpa?) Con animadas historias militares, sociales y políticos. Con el ojo de un estadístico experimentado, Blanco asigna a cada entrada de la clasificación basada en número de muertos, y al hacerlo le da voz al sufrimiento de la gente común que, inexorablemente, se definen cada época histórica. Por turnos gracioso, perspicaz, materia-de-hecho, y en última instancia favorable a los que murieron, el gran libro de las cosas horribles que ofrece a los lectores la oportunidad de llegar a sus propias conclusiones, mientras que ofrece un claro recordatorio de la oscuridad del corazón humano.

crónica de las grandes atrocidades de la historia

El libro negro de la humanidad

A step-by-step guide to the whole process of putting on a musical, placing a firm emphasis upon good organisation and careful planning. This book describes all the elements involved including: how to choose the right show, budgets and schedules, auditions, rehearsals and performances. There are also sections on set designs, costumes, sound, lighting and publicity.

Staging a Musical

Consumer Guide

How to Win at Nintendo Video Games

Nintendo Strategies

Wrongly accused of theft and fired from his job, Guy and his mother join a travelling musical troupe and tour the country.

Guy Hammersley, Or, Clearing His Name

What began as the childhood pursuit of "tiny bits of Eden" in Amarillo, Texas and developed into a deep personal connection with the art and architecture of Italy culminates in Matthew White's expansive Italy of My Dreams. Full of theatrical, bold exteri

The Story of an American Designer's Real-life Passion for Italian Style

Italy of My Dreams

Existem várias formas de contar a história da humanidade. Matthew White, um autoproclamado especialista em atrocidades, escolheu contar a história pelo seu viés mais sombrio: as mortes. Como William Shakespeare destacou na peça Julius Caesar, "O mal que os homens fazem sobrevive a eles. O bem é geralmente enterrado com seus ossos". A frase resume bem a ideia do livro de White, que reúne os cem eventos com as maiores taxas de mortalidade causadas pelo homem. O resultado é uma surpreendente releitura da História, onde acontecimentos pouco lembrados, como A Revolta Mahdi e a Rebelião Taiping, ganham destaque ao lado das muito estudadas – e sangrentas – Guerras Mundiais. E não só de conflitos é composta a lista de Matthew White. Outros episódios, que muitas vezes são dissociados de seu impacto humano, mostram-se igualmente cruéis, como a conquista das Américas e o período da Dinastia Xin. Cada um dos acontecimentos é contextualizado e seus principais personagens destacados. As consequências para a população – além da óbvia morte – também é esclarecida. Os episódios narrados no livro vão desde a Segunda Guerra Persa (480 – 479 a.C.), que ocupa o 96o lugar na lista, até a Segunda Guerra do Congo (1998 – 2002), o 27o evento mais sangrento da história. Nenhuma parte do mundo escapa da curiosidade aguçada de White, que cobre desde a Revolução Mexicana (46o) até a Guerra Civil Chinesa (19o). Ao ler O grande livro das coisas horríveis, o leitor é convidado, desde o início, a conhecer a história sob uma narrativa diferente, sem seguir os imperadores, reis e ditadores, mas conhecendo seus súditos e o que aconteceu com eles. Quem ganha o primeiro lugar na lista de White? O leitor curioso vai descobrir.

A crônica definitiva da história das 100 piores atrocidades

O Grande Livro das Coisas Horríveis

It's time for web development to be fun again, time to write engaging and attractive apps--fast--in this brisk tutorial. Build a complete user interface in a few lines of code, create reusable web components, access RESTful services and cache the results for performance, and use JavaScript modules to bring abstraction to your code. Find out how you can get your crucial app infrastructure up and running quickly, so you can spend your time on the stuff great apps are made of: features. With its 2.0 release, the Ember JavaScript framework has taken a major step forward. In this book, you'll learn these new features: how to use module-driven development with Ember CLI, take advantage of the new DOM-based rendering engine, and use a service-based architecture to make your apps flexible, not brittle. Use the Ember CLI to build your app using module-focused JavaScript classes with a clear project structure. Learn how to use Ember's routing classes to organize your app, write web components that marry your user interface and logic without leaky access to state, and read and write data from RESTful services with almost no code. Make use of services to encapsulate logic and inject it throughout your app, and use Ember CLI to rapidly iterate changes, deploy locally, test your code, and build for production. You'll learn all the essentials of working with Ember. If you're tired of feeling limited by your web development tools, unleash your ambition and start creating ambitious web applications with Ember. What You Need:You need Ember, Ember CLI, Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox, and a text editor.

Deliver Audacious Web Apps with Ember 2

Andy Gregory

Dave McAleer

Includes all the British hit singles since 1956, as well as artist biographies, side notes, label and catalogue numbers, peak positions, number of weeks on the charts, weeks at #1 and much more. Original.

The Virgin Book of British Hit Singles

Matthew White se ha hecho mundialmente famoso por su esfuerzo en identificar las peores matanzas de la historia y, lo que es más importante, por cuantificarlas: por establecer, utilizando toda la información posible, el número de las víctimas de cada uno de los acontecimientos que estudia, desdela Segundaguerra persa y las campañas de Alejandro Magno, hasta los genocidios de Ruanda y del Congo. Como dice Steven Pinker, profesor dela Universidadde Harvard: establecer los números de los muertos en cada una de las guerras y las matanzas es “un atroz pero crucial ejercicio, necesario para contestar preguntas como: ¿Ha sido realmente el siglo XX el más violento de la historia? ¿Cuál ha sido la causa de los mayores sufrimientos humanos: las religiones, los tiranos, el capitalismo, el comunismo, la lucha por los recursos o por el territorio? Sin alguna idea acerca de los números de las víctimas, que los historiadores no nos han dado hasta ahora, no podemos ni siquiera comenzar a contestar estas preguntas”.

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