New Releases by David Cairns

Precarity is a concern that affects researchers in academia across the world. Despite being experienced and highly qualified, many endure working conditions more traditionally associated with people lacking skills and credentials. This book explores this perverse situation, focusing on Portugal, with a view to explaining how precarity starts and then continues for the entire duration of a research career. Using 100 interviews conducted with researchers from across Portugal in 2022-2023, covering a wide range of scientific fields, the book gives these people the opportunity to explain why they became researchers and how they have coped with precarity during the early career stages, and at intermediate and advanced levels. As a sociological study, the book draws on the theoretical concepts of ambivalence, liminality and cruel optimism to help map the parameters of precarity, while the evidence demonstrates its often visceral personal and professional impacts, reaching the conclusion that believing research needs to be a precarious profession must be challenged within higher education institutions and at policy level.

Is it really possible that you have stumbled across a secret lost for centuries? A secret that that could change the world order? From the bustling gold rush and the streets of Melbourne in 1864 to the ancient city of Edinburgh in Scotland, three friends flee from a secret society out for revenge, only to find themselves at the centre of a swirling modern-day Jacobite plot and a ‘stop at nothing’ British Secret Service. Major Findo Gask and his Sherlockian friend, Errol Rait, hunted by a murderous secret society, are forced to make a clandestine escape from Melbourne back to Gask’s hometown of Edinburgh. While in hiding, Gask visits a second-hand bookshop which launches him on a puzzling trail with several twists and turns. And deadly consequences. Rait, Gask and Mary Mitchell find themselves pitted against the full might of the British Empire’s secret services and a centuries-old Knights Templar Lodge of the Freemasons with a secret to guard and an explosive plan to replace Queen Victoria on the throne with the true King. Murder, kidnap, torture, death stalk their trail. Gask and Rait alone have the key to avert a constitutional crisis and the violent conflict that would follow. But can they survive to unlock the puzzle? Immerse yourself in the 1860s with deeply researched real background events and an intermingling with real characters of the day. This is the third book in the Major Gask series – the introductory novel was a five-star read by Reader’s Choice Book Awards. Readers of the Major Gask mysteries have become time travellers trapped in an adventure – “..left me unable to put it down until my eyes were fuzzy and I had to sleep. First thing the following morning after dog duties etc I had to return to it”….. “The setting of the mining camp was so well done with such detail, I had to finish the chapter because I thought I had mud all over me after finishing the last sentence of the chapter”. If you enjoy a Sherlock Holmes adventure or the atmosphere in a Dickens story – this will be right up your street. Will Findo be successful or will the Templars or the Secret Service triumph? You will be unprepared for the heart-thumping ending. Travel back in time and join the adventure.

This book looks at the changes that have taken place in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, following the lockdown of societies and imposition of border controls in an attempt to limit the spread of the virus. Using empirical evidence from Portugal, a geopolitically important point of intersection within Europe and between Global South and Global North, the book examines consequences of the apparent end of mobility expansionism, developing a refreshing theoretical concept of ‘immobility turn.’ Focusing on the tourist industry, universities hosting international students and migration agencies, the book offers invaluable insights about how the pandemic affected institutions and individuals’ lives, informing policy-making processes on a global level.

Multiple murders: a stolen inheritance. Injured at the start of the Indian mutiny in 1858, Scotsman Findo Gask finds himself in Melbourne during the fabled Gold Rush where he stumbles across the mystery of a stolen inheritance. Together with his new idiosyncratic friend, Erroll Rait he seeks out the truth, travelling back to London, Edinburgh, the Scottish highlands and then to Melbourne again, uncovering multiple murders and then a sinister plot to add himself and his client to the list of victims.Taking readers back to the days of steam trains and clipper ships, gas-lit Edinburgh streets and the goldfields of Australia with the unravelling of a mystery and the discovery of a relentless murderer, The Case of the Emigrant Niece is a spellbinding novel that captures the imagination and transports you back to a different age.Suspenseful and engaging. Loved the characters and story, also the historical content and references. I look forward to reading more of the author's books. Melbourne Book Club Reviewer

in 1853, the Australian colonies were rocked by the audacious robbery of a fortune in gold being escorted from the goldfields to Melbourne. Soon 400 men were searching the bush to track the gang down including aboriginal trackers. Unsuccessfully. The leader, Joe Grey was never caught and disappeared - or did he? Some of the bushrangers intended to escape on the Madagacar, a ship that left Melbourne and was never seen again. What happened to it? Mystery upon mystery.

This book explores the relationship between youth labour market marginality and political participation, focusing on the example of Portugal and the role played by austerity policies in shaping patterns of activism. Through integrating primary and secondary empirical evidence with key ideas from classical and contemporary Sociology, the authors illustrate some of the key features of youth unemployment and job precariousness, also highlighting trends in formal and informal activist activities. Central to Youth Unemployment and Job Precariousness is the argument that following the onset of the economic crisis, there has been the birth of what we the authors term 'an austerity generation', comprised of young people facing difficulties in the labour market and uncertain futures. The book also highlights the difficulties young people have in making a political response to austerity, as well as their hopes for the future, including the need to raise consciousness about youth labour market marginalization and to return to more accountable forms of democracy.

The writings of David Cairns have played a major part in the relatively recent acceptance of Berlioz as a central figure in western classical music. Discovering Berlioz collects articles, lectures and other texts from several decades of advocacy, throwing new light on this outsize personality - the Romantic composer par excellence. For the past half-century and more David Cairns has been one of the world's pre-eminent Berlioz scholars, translating Berlioz's freewheeling memoirs and writing a monumental biography of the composer that earned a procession of awards. But many of Cairns' writings on Berlioz were intended for particular audiences - the Berlioz Society Bulletin, articles in books and journals, contributions to newspapers (he was a critic for The Sunday Times for 25 years) and lectures - and have never been collected between a single set of covers. Discovering Berlioz presents nearly 40 essays from the past five decades that even now throw unexpected light on this most quixotic and profound of composers - firebrand and philosopher almost in the same breath. These articles follow the chronology of Berlioz's life, examining the influences of his provincial childhood on his music, the revelations of Virgil, Gluck, Shakespeare and Beethoven, the tribulations of his professional life in Paris, when the pressure to earn a living as a reviewer and writer robbed him of the time he should have spent on composition, and finally focusing on the masterpiece that crowned Berlioz's difficult life, the operatic epic Les Troyens. Discovering Berlioz also charts the history of Berlioz reception: the composer who in the mid-twentieth century was regarded as aneccentric outsider is now seen as one of the most vital figures in the history of western music - a re-assessment for which David Cairns himself deserves much of the credit.

This is a new release of the original 1923 edition.

David Cairns explains the challenge posed by the theology of Rudolf Bultmann in an accessible way and outlines its relevance for preachers. Reprint. Originally published: 1960.

A noted music critic weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart's operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole.

All EU listed companies will be required to issue financial statements using International Accounting Standards (International Financial Reporting Standards) from 2005. This will have major implications for anyone in Europe involved in preparing or auditing listed company accounts. Written by a former IASC Secretary-General and with a foreword by Sir David Tweedie, Chairman of the International Accounting Standards Board, Applying International Accounting Standards is the most authoritative and practical book in this area. Now dealing with all recent developments, including IAS 39 on Financial Instruments, IAS 40 on Investment Property and the IASB's improvements project, Applying International Accounting Standards is an essential purchase for any practising accountant. The fourth edition includes full guidance on all the new international accounting standards, which all UK listed companies must have full compliance with by 2005.

Berlioz, Volume I, previously published only in Britain, is now available to American readers in a revised edition, together with the eagerly awaited, new Volume II. These two volumes together comprise a monumental biographical achievement, sure to stand as the definitive Berlioz biography.

A l'un des plus grands compositeurs français, il fallait consacrer un monument. C'est chose faite avec cet ouvrage en deux tomes, où David Cairns allie la flamme de l'enthousiaste et la minutie du chercheur. Le premier volume, " La formation d'un artiste ", traite des premières années : l'enfance en Dauphiné, la vocation qui éclôt, les rapports familiaux difficiles, terreau d'un manque de reconnaissance où s'enracinent les frustrations futures. À Paris, ensuite, le musicien, qui prend de l'envergure, rencontre bien des traverses, tant dans son affirmation artistique (l'incompréhension des milieux officiels contraint Berlioz à plusieurs tentatives avant d'obtenir le prix de Rome) que dans ses amours (la comédienne anglaise Harriet Smithson, objet d'une adulation torturante, ne répond que par des rebuffades à ses démonstrations). Les tourments qui agitent cette âme tumultueuse se situent dans le Paris de la Restauration, creuset des arts et des lettres où se côtoient les principaux acteurs du mouvement romantique, avec qui Berlioz noue des amitiés consolantes. Malgré toutes les entraves, une œuvre capitale voit le jour, emblème romantique au même titre que l'Hernani de Victor Hugo : la Symphonie fantastique, véritable coup de tonnerre qui révèle des potentialités orchestrales inconnues. Ce premier tome se clôt sur le concert du 9 décembre 1832 au Conservatoire, jour mémorable où Berlioz, de retour de Rome, est accueilli avec ferveur à Paris et où son amour pour Harriet se voit enfin couronné de succès.

Covers the life of the French composer, including his struggle to establish himself in Paris and how his work was created.

The biography of Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) describes with unprecedented intimacy, affection, and respect the life of one of France's greatest artists. Vol 1: 30 photos. Vol. 2: 50 photos.

"Writing Ireland is a provocative and wide-ranging examination of culture, literature and identity in nine-teenth- and twentieth-century Ireland. Moving beyond the reductionist reading of the historical moment as a backdrop to cultural production, the authors deploy contemporary theories of discourse and the constitution of the colonial subject to illuminate key texts in the cultural struggle between the colonizer and the colonized. The book opens with a consideration of the originary moment of the colonial relationsip of England and Ireland through re-reading of works by Shakespeare and Spenser. Cairns and Richards move then to the constitution of the modern discourse of Celticism in the nineteenth century. A fundamental re-reading of the period of the Literary Revival through the works of Yeats, Synge, Joyce and O'Casey locates them in a social moment illuminated by detailed considerations of poems, playwrights and polemicists such as D. P. Moran, Arthur Griffith, Patrick Pearse and Thomas MacDonagh. Writing Ireland examines the psychic, sexual and social costs of the decolonisation struggle in the society and culture of the Irish Free State and its successor. Beckett, Kavanagh and O'Faolain registered the enervation and paralysis consequent upon sustaining a repressive view of Irish identity. The book concludes in the contemporary moment, as Ireland's post-colonial culture enters crisis and writers like Seamus Heaney, Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and Seamus Deane grapple with the notion of alternative identities. Writing Ireland provides students of literature, history, cultural studies and Irish studies with a lucid analysis of Ireland's colonial and post-colonial situation on which an innovative methodology transcends disciplinary divisions."--