Peter Townsend

Former RAF ace chronicles the growth of the Royal Air Force and the Luftwaffe and their decisive engagements during the Battle of Britain in 1940.

Duel of Eagles

An investigation of the link between Islamic teaching and violence carried out in its name.

Investigating the West's Most Dangerous Blind Spot

Nothing to Do with Islam?

Many questions are currently being asked about the place of Islam in the modern world. Among these questions the most important one of all sometimes gets lost: Is Islam true? With his new book author Peter Townsend invites you to accompany him on a journey through the foundational texts of the Muslim religion. In the process the truth-claims of Islam will be respectfully, honestly and impartially evaluated. Along the way the following questions will be asked:• Can the traditional Islamic historical accounts be trusted?• Is the Qur'an a 'Perfect Book, Perfectly Preserved'?• Was Muhammad indeed a 'Beautiful Pattern of Conduct'?The answers to these questions will not be sought from modern commentaries on Islam. Instead Questioning Islam goes straight to the classic sources of Islam namely the Qur'an, hadiths (traditions) and biographies of Muhammad. Questioning Islam is not an attempt to promote any other belief system or ideology. Its focus is simply on asking the hard questions about Islam that are all too often ignored or swept under the carpet. Simply put, if you have ever wondered whether the truth-claims of Islam can withstand critical scrutiny then this book is for you!

Tough Questions & Honest Answers About the Muslim Religion

Questioning Islam

A Survey of Household Resources and Standards of Living

Poverty in the United Kingdom

Christina Pantazis

Gordon, David

Nandy, Shailen

Simon A. Pemberton

This report presents the first ever scientific measurement of the extent and depth of child poverty in developing regions. This measurement is based upon internationally agreed definitions arising from the international framework of child rights. Indicators of severe deprivation of basic human need for shelter, sanitation, safe water, information, health, education and food were constructed using survey data on nearly 1.2 million children in 46 countries collected mainly during the late 1990's. This is the largest, most accurate survey sample of children ever assembled.

Child Poverty in the Developing World

A persuasive appreciation of what jazz is and of how it has permeated and enriched the culture of America

Jazz in American Culture

David Gordon

Since 1990, the World Bank, most of the other international agencies and an increasing number of governments have committed themselves to the eradication of poverty. But the basis of their work badly needs overhaul and concerted verification. Breadline Europe provides a scientific and international basis for the analysis and reduction of poverty. It demonstrates that there is far more important research into the problem of poverty going on in many countries of Europe than the international agencies and national governments admit or even realise. Knowledge of the major scientific advances in research needs to be spread among other countries within as well as outside Europe.Breadline Europe has been written by a number of leading European poverty researchers and has three main themes: the need for a scientific poverty line: for better definition and measurement of what is the biggest and rapidly growing international social problem; the need for better theories distinguishing between poverty and social exclusion, with the corresponding policies calculated to diminish these problems;the need for better international social policy and for better policy-related analyses of poverty: for more exact analysis of the year-by-year contribution of specific policies to poverty.This is the first book to examine poverty in Europe within the international framework agreed at the 1995 World Summit on Social Development. Breadline Europe provides up-to-date, essential reading for social science undergraduates and postgraduate students. It will also be of considerable interest to policy makers and NGOs with a concern for poverty reduction.

The Measurement of Poverty

Breadline Europe

In May 1940, Group Captain Peter Townsend took command of 85 Squadron, tasked with preparing it for the defence of Great Britain against German bombers. It was the beginning of the long, hot, lethal summer in which the RAF and the Luftwaffe fought to the death over England in the furious conflict which ultimately saved Britain from Nazi invasion. DUEL OF EAGLES, Townsend's gripping account of the Battle of Britain, is widely acknowledged as the classic account of this desperate, defining clash. Townsend tells the story of dogfights in the sky from the perspectives of pilots on both sides - including his own - and traces the background of the conflict, from the years of secret preparation in Germany following the end of the First World War to the ruthless political manoeuvres played out on the ground in England as the RAF was established. This dramatic and evocative account of the air battles which changed the course of the Second World War and the people involved is a powerful and epic telling of one of the greatest triumphs in British military history. 'A remarkable exercise in research at air-crew levels. He writes of air combat with verve and at times almost with poetry' Sunday Times 'Lively and well written ... encompasses moments of exhilaration and terror' Kirkus Reviews 'A fine book' Len Deighton, New York Times

Recounts the courageous story of a Vietnamese girl who was the sole survivor of a shipwreck, which had occurred months earlier during an attempt to escape from South Vietnam

The Girl in the White Ship

An Autobiography

Time and Chance

Eleven Fabian Essays

Social Services for All?

In this autobiographical account of a flying nightfighter during the Battle of Britain the author relates his experiences as a pilot in the greatest air battle in history

The Odds Against Us

This reader brings together for the first time a collection of Peter Townsend's most distinctive work, allowing readers to review the changes that have taken place over the past six decades, and reflect on issues that have returned to the fore today.

The Peter Townsend Reader

The study, when published in 2002, received coverage across the globe from Brazil to Greece and attracted the support of the then High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson. Anyone interested in understanding, campaigning or simply debating the issues facing policy makers today will find this book a rich and compelling resource.

New Policies to Defeat an Old Enemy

World Poverty

This essay examines the effects of the internationalization of the market and the transferral of powers regulating social policy from domestic parliaments to EC bodies will have on a variety of social issues: labour laws; the rights of ethnic minorities; Third World aid; and income inequality.

The Prospects for European Social Policy

Hard Times

Emeritus Professor of Experimental Physics in Engineering Peter Townsend

A close examination of the period when World War II transformed American popular music

Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s

Pearl Harbor Jazz

Decline and Fall of the British Empire

The Last Emperor

The Revolution in China

China Phoenix

Brian Abel-Smith

The Poor and the Poorest

Nick Davidson

The text stresses how crucial it is to promote health in addition to correcting the organisational changes in favour of equality in the NHS itself. The two reports demonstrate the scientific evidence in favour of the need for action to reduce poverty and material deprivation in order to improve the standard of health in the population and so save lives.

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