Huw Davies Bücher

Cultural and religious beliefs can significantly influence healthcare decisions, particularly for families with disabled children. This book explores how adherence to specific faiths may limit treatment options, potentially compromising health outcomes. It delves into the complex interplay between cultural identity and medical care, highlighting the challenges faced by families as they navigate these critical choices while striving to balance their beliefs with the best interests of their children's health.

Intelligence is often the critical factor in a successful military campaign. This was certainly the case for Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, in the Peninsular War. In this book, author Huw Davies offers the first full account of the scope, complexity, and importance of Wellington's intelligence department.

A compelling history of the British Army in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries-showing how the military gathered knowledge from campaigns across the globe

Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington lives on in popular memory as the 'Invincible General', loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate - and controversial - new analysis of Wellington's remarkable military career.

A vagrant de Tocqueville gives an eloquent, dry-eyed report of his tramping adventures in the violent underworld of late 19th century America and Britain An untutored Welsh tramp who became a popular poet acclaimed by the conservative Georgians and the vanguard Ezra Pound alike, W. H. Davies surprised his contemporaries with the unlikeliest portrait of the artist as a young man ever written. After a delinquent childhood Davies renounced home and apprenticeship and at twenty-two sailed to America—the first of more than a dozen Atlantic crossings, often made by cattle boat. From 1893 to 1899 he was schooled by the hard men of the road, disdaining regular work and subsisting by begging. Crossing Canada to join the “Klondyke” gold rush, Davies fell while hopping a train. His foot was crushed and his leg amputated. “All the wildness had been taken out of me,” Davies wrote, “and my adventures after this were not of my own seeking.” Praised by Osbert Sitwell for his “primitive splendour and directness,” Davies evokes the beauty and frontier violence of turn-of-the-century America in prose that George Bernard Shaw commended to “literary experts for its style alone.” The insurgent wanderlust that found an American voice in Jack London and Jack Kerouac is expressed here in a raucous true adventure story by the man Shaw called “the incorrigible Supertramp who wrote this amazing book.”

14-year-old 'model pupil' Davidde (his parents had trouble spelling) lives with his dad after his mother died. Then the new headteacher unfairly labels Davidde a troublemaker. To the horror of his teachers, Davidde finds a new passion for mortorcycle scrambling. At last he is able to take on the school bullies, not to mention the Black Rider...

Neocenitelné rady pro začínající sportovce týkající se jednak tréninku či soutěžení v celé řadě týmových i individuálních, tradičních i méně tradičních sportů (fotbal, kriket, baseball, házená, akrobatický kiting, rychobruslení, atletika, plavání, golf apod.), a dále rady týkající se recesistických akcí typu "mistrovství světa v kutálení sýra" či "v dělání grimas". Tato vtipně napsaná a ilustrovaná publikace obsahuje též několik námětů na sebepropagaci pro případ, že se člověk skutečně stane úspěšným vrcholovým sportovcem (např. jak poskytovat rozhovory, jak na sebe upozornit na skupinové fotografii nebo jak si užít kolečko slávy).

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