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Deeply shaped by the counterculture of the 1960s—which arrived belatedly in Franco’s Spain—Almodóvar has long been fascinated by the exhilarating power and devastating limitations of artistic and sexual transgression. In rich readings, Miller shows how Almodóvar tests the blurry line between fiction and reality, the bounds of individual freedom, and the durability of a sense of self. In so doing, the director turns cinema into a form of philosophical investigation and self-exploration. A keenly observed, masterfully written portrait of one of world cinema’s greatest creative forces, The Passion of Pedro Almodóvar finds in film new ways to tell the story of a life.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56229416665461,"sku":"9780231220040","price":22.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780231220040.jpg?v=1786012159"},{"product_id":"9781292186719","title":"Statistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry","description":"\u003cp\u003eStatistics and Chemometrics for Analytical Chemistry 7th edition provides a clear, accessible introduction to main statistical methods used in modern analytical laboratories.\u003c\/p\u003eIt continues to be the ideal companion for students in Chemistry and related fields keen to build their understanding of how to conduct high quality analyses in areas such as the safety of food, water and medicines, environmental monitoring, and chemical manufacturing. With a focus on the underlying statistical ideas, this book incorporates useful real world examples, step by step explanation and helpful exercises throughout.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFeatures of the new edition:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e·    Significant revision of the Quality of analytical measurements chapter to incorporate more detailed coverage of the estimation of measurement uncertainty and the validation of analytical methods.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e·    Updated coverage of a range of topics including robust statistics, Bayesian methods, and testing for normality of distribution, plus expanded material on regression and calibration methods.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e·    Additional experimental design methods, including the increasingly popular optimal designs.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e·    Worked examples have been updated throughout to ensure compatibility with the latest versions of Excel and Minitab.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e·    Exercises are available at the end of each chapter to allow student to check understanding and prepare for exams.  Answers are provided at the back of the book for handy reference.\u003c\/p\u003e  This book is aimed at undergraduate and graduate courses in Analytical Chemistry and related topics.  It will also be a valuable resource for researchers and chemists working in analytical chemistry.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297718317429,"sku":"9781292186719","price":69.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781292186719_d570edd8-4ddf-438b-87e4-87cdb835d973.jpg?v=1786018485"},{"product_id":"9781839830846","title":"The Finest Road in the World","description":"Trains and stagecoaches stuck in the snow, wild storms driving sailing ships off course, traffic pile-ups on so-called 'killer' highways - stories abound about the horrors of travel in the Highlands and Islands, and have done for as far as the records go back.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames Miller tells the dramatic and sometimes surprisingly humorous story of travel and transport in the Highlands. Some of the figures in the story are familiar - General George Wade, Thomas Telford and Joseph Mitchell among them - but there are a host of others too, including the intrepid Lady Sarah Murray, who offered sound advice for travellers ('Provide yourself with a strong roomy carriage, and have the springs well corded').\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis thought-provoking book will appeal to all who like stories of travel and transport, and are interested in how changing modes of transport have affected the ways of life in the Highlands and remain crucial to the modern life and the future of the region.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307909853557,"sku":"9781839830846","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839830846_f920a6d2-743d-44a9-9aba-27893f872d21.jpg?v=1786034169"},{"product_id":"9781849954891","title":"The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs","description":"The Dunbars of Ackergill and Hempriggs emerged in the late 1600s as one of the largest landowners in Caithness. As such they played a major part in the history of the county, a role revealed in the family papers with their wide variety of documents, including personal letters and legal missives. Readers will learn about the Dunbars selling Caithness grain in the Lowlands, coping with the effects of the last Jacobite rising, handling disputes with their neighbours, arranging elections, dealing with debt – and that is just in the 18th century. During the Napoleonic wars the Dunbars recruited a fencible regiment called the Caithness Legion that saw action in Ireland. At the same time the British Fisheries Society acquired land from the family and began to develop Pulteneytown as a major herring fishing port. An agricultural revolution swept over the estates, leading to the enclosing of fields, disputes over common land, evictions and refurbishment of farms. In the mid-19th century, when the family home at Ackergill Tower was refashioned by the architect David Bryce, the Dunbars adopted the lifestyle of the Victorian country gentry as well as finding careers in the Empire. With family trees, photographs, maps and documents, the book presents an absorbing, intriguing and, at times, amusing account of the social and economic life of the Dunbars over more than three hundred years, using unique messages from the past, never before made public.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308450787701,"sku":"9781849954891","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781849954891_3e76f787-ed02-4487-bb22-dc0e2c897d5e.jpg?v=1786029213"},{"product_id":"scapa","title":"Scapa","description":"Scapa Flow was one of the world’s great naval bases and the scene of many of the major events of twentieth-century naval history. During both World Wars, the Royal Navy made Scapa the home for its capital ships, and thousands of servicemen and women were posted to Orkney. From here the Grand Fleet sailed for Jutland in 1916, from here the escorts for the Russian convoys set off, and it was in this beautiful, bleak anchorage that the German High Seas fleet committed the greatest act of suicide ever seen at sea – ‘The Grand Scuttle’ – before being later raised and scrapped in the most astonishing feat of maritime salvage in history. It was also in Scapa that the last photographs of Kitchener were taken as he boarded HMS Hampshire, shortly before she was sunk by mine off Marwick Head.Scapa is also the grave of many who fought for their country in both World Wars. In its silent waters lie the wrecks of the battleship Vanguard, blown apart by an explosion in 1917, and the Royal Oak, sunk by U-47 in a spectacular raid at the beginning of World War II . Here the first Luftwaffe raids on Britain occured, here too Italian prisoners-of-war built both the spectacular Churchill causeways and the exquisite chapel on the island of Lamb Holm.In this book, illustrated with over 130 archive photographs, James Miller traces the story of this remarkable place, weaving together history, eyewitness accounts and personal experience to capture the life and spirit of Scapa Flow when it was home to thousands of service personnel and the most powerful fleet in the world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57490336153973,"sku":"9781843410058","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781843410058.jpg?v=1786442225"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-james-miller.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}