Bøger af Peter Harris

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Blood is the life-force of every human being (and other animals). When it leaks out of our blood vessels, we die. When the aorta, the biggest blood vessel in the body, bursts, death usually comes quickly but for a lucky few it's not instantaneous. For them, survival is possible with emergency surgery. When a blockage in a blood vessel stops the blood from flowing, the deprived part of the body malfunctions and may decay if an operation to relieve the blockage is not performed. When Peter Harris first became a consultant vascular surgeon in the 1980s, the operations were big and bloody. When he finished in 2012, scalpels and saws had been largely superseded by bloodless needle-puncture procedures guided by X-ray images on a television screen. The evolution of the technology that made this possible is told primarily through the experiences of patients and includes vivid and, at times, harrowing descriptions of their operations and aftermath. Accounts of his own trials and tribulations and the good times are set against the troubled backdrop of the NHS starting in Broadgreen Hospital on the outskirts of Liverpool in 1979 and ending at University College Hospital in London in 2012.

Invited to witness a lifesaving heart transplant operation, journalist Edwin Benn is thrilled to be in on the action. But when it comes to interviewing the fortunate recipient, Edwin finds himself questioning whether the man was worth saving.

What can happen when one unknowing mouse ventures across a room? The 14 clever and deceptively simple rhymes in this book start with just a mouse stirring in a peaceful house. But the rhymes trace a chain of events that continue as a farmyard full of animals crashes through the fences, into a nearby field, and lands directly in the middle of two armies having a hillside battle. Full color.

"More than an introduction, this book challenges the reader to think about tax issues conceptually and holistically. Illustrated with practical examples, it will be useful to postgraduate students and junior practitioners, as well as to senior tax practitioners and academics who want to refresh their basic understanding of tax issues"--

Both a riveting courtroom drama and a real-life thriller, A Just Defiance tells the story of four young black South Africans who were arrested for a string of political murders in 1987. In gripping prose, Peter Harris--the white lawyer who defended the men--describes how he came to understand, while constructing the case to save the defendants from the death penalty, the chain of events that led them to undergo training at ANC camps in Angola and return to their homeland to execute some of the apartheid regime's most notorious collaborators. The shocking twists and turns of the high-profile trial kept the public in suspense during the dying days of apartheid.Harris's account of the trial is intercut with flashbacks to instances of the cold-blooded brilliance and deadly efficiency of the squad's operations. We see Nelson Mandela recently released from Robben Island as he begins negotiations that will eventually lead to the assumption of power by the ANC. We read about bomb-making and assassination attempts by both the ANC and the South African police. A critical and popular success in South Africa, this book is a tale of people driven to extremes by injustice and repression, and of ordinary citizens caught up in extraordinary events. Finally, it is the story of a country's search for reconciliation, one that captures the moral vertigo of South Africa's violent apartheid years.

The most famous firsthand account of the Kingdom of Angkor was left by the imperial Chinese envoy Zhou Daguan. But Zhou's was not the only portrait of Angkor and the kingdoms that came before it. The Empire Looks South draws on other sources to provide new and engrossing perspectives on early Cambodia up to and including the time of Angkor. These sources include accounts in official Chinese histories, descriptions by Buddhist monks, reflections of Daoists searching for immortality, and reports by Chinese merchants seeking perfumes and other exotic goods. The first kingdom of Cambodia, Funan, was centered on the lower Mekong. After its mysterious demise in the seventh century, Funan was succeeded by Zhenla, the Chinese name for Cambodia until the time of Zhou Daguan. Peter Harris provides details of the kingdom of Funan. He then describes the royal government and customs of Zhenla, while taking account of Cambodia's likely fragmentation at the time into several polities. The book concludes with accounts of Angkor in its final centuries, including an updated translation of Zhou Daguan's Record.

UN TREPIDANTE THRILLER AMBIENTADO EN LA SEGUNDA GUERRA MUNDIAL EN TORNO A LA OPERACIÓN FÉLIX, PENSADA PARA EXPULSAR A LOS BRITÁNICOS DE GIBRALTAR.Verano de 1940. Mientras el paso de las tropas alemanas retumba en las calles de París, Winston Churchill llama al pueblo británico a la resistencia: lucharán en las ciudades, en los campos, en las costas. Ante las dificultades para invadir Gran Bretaña, Hitler decide cerrar el Mediterráneo a los convoyes británicos. Con precisión germánica, el general Alfred Jodl empieza a trabajar en la llamada Operación Félix, cuyo objetivo es apoderarse de Gibraltar. Sin embargo, un suceso inesperado interfiere en su trabajo, y requiere la intervención de la Gestapo.En España, gobernada con mano de hierro por Franco, Leandro San Martín trata de pasar desapercibido como un modesto representante de tejidos y ropa de hogar, ocultando su pasado republicano. Aunque lo que más desea es rehacer su vida, se verá inmerso en una peligrosa misión que lo llevará al campo de Gibraltar. Del éxito de su cometido dependerá el curso de la guerra.

This book examines the relationship between tax law and crisis. In times of environmental, financial, and public health breakdown, policymakers look to tax for solutions. Yet these crises also constrain the ways in which tax liabilities can be imposed and administered, and limit the revenues that can be collected. What should governments do in these circumstances and what are the wider consequences for states, societies, and institutions such as the EU?The book shows how crises place strain on the basic functions of tax, including revenue-raising, institution-building, regulation, redistribution, and the structuring of society. These strains bear more heavily on some sections of business and society than others. This makes the tax consequences of crisis unpredictable. It also means that the best choice of legal response is not merely a technical matter. Instead, it engages deeper attitudes towards crisis relief, change, social values, and democratic control.These issues are highlighted by COVID-19 but are of utmost lasting importance. The book takes a comprehensive approach and looks in more depth at the systemic roles that crises play in contemporary tax systems. It features an impressive cast of leading researchers across multiple jurisdictions and is essential for policymakers and scholars alike.

These are papers from the 10th Cambridge Tax Law History Conference, which took place in July 2020. The papers fall within the following basic themes:- UK tax administration issues- UK tax reforms in the 20th century- History of tax in the UK- The UK's first double tax treaty- The 1982 Australia-US tax treaty- The legacy of colonial influence- Reform of Dutch excises, and- Canadian tax avoidance.

A new translation of a beloved anthology of poems from the golden age of Chinese culture—a treasury of wit, beauty, and wisdom from many of China's greatest poets.These roughly three hundred poems from the Tang Dynasty (618-907)—an age in which poetry and the arts flourished—were gathered in the eighteenth century into what became one of the best-known books in the world, and which is still cherished in Chinese homes everywhere. Many of China's most famous poets—Du Fu, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, and Wang Wei—are represented by timeless poems about love, war, the delights of drinking and dancing, and the beauties of nature. There are poems about travel, about grief, about the frustrations of bureaucracy, and about the pleasures and sadness of old age.Full of wisdom and humanity that reach across the barriers of language, space, and time, these poems take us to the heart of Chinese poetry, and into the very heart and soul of a nation.

The appreciation of Zen philosophy and art has become universal, and Zen poetry, with its simple expression of direct, intuitive insight and sudden enlightenment, appeals to lovers of poetry, spirituality, and beauty everywhere. This collection of translations of the classical Zen poets of China, Japan, and Korea includes the work of Zen practitioners and monks as well as scholars, artists, travelers, and recluses, ranging from Wang Wei, Hanshan, and Yang Wanli, to Shinkei, Basho, and Ryokan.

A complete guide to using key managerial accounting techniques for planning, controlling and improving profitability at the business property level - the "cutting-edge" of routine decision making. Extended edition now includes a major new section Step-by-Step: Quantitative analysis of cost functions in hotels & restaurants.

A pictorial history of the working life of the city of Salford and it's people over the last century and more.

This book is designed to help with every stage of the report writing process including what to put in each section and recommendations for formatting and style.

Suitable for hotel, restaurant and licensed house managers, this book focuses on profit planning, the major area of finance which the general manager needs to get to grips with. It focuses on the practical aspects of day-to-day profit planning, helping the reader to understand the approach with minimum theory and technical jargon.

This book was first published in 2006. Many common law countries inherited British income tax rules. Whether the inheritance was direct or indirect, the rationale and origins of some of the central rules seem almost lost in history. Commonly, they are simply explained as being of British origin without more, but even in Britain the origins of some of these rules are less than clear. This book traces the roots of the income tax and its precursors in Britain and in its former colonies to 1820. Harris focuses on four issues that are central to common law income taxes and which are of particular current relevance: the capital/revenue distinction, the taxation of corporations, taxation on both a source and residence basis, and the schedular approach to taxation. He uses an historical perspective to make observations about the future direction of income tax in the modern world.