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In London, as the eighteenth century began, there had been significant recovery from the Great Plague and the Great Fire in the past three decades. Tracts of the city had been rebuilt and the population was growing once more. The city, largely through England’s success in battles at sea, was taking centre stage in Europe and, critically, through taking the lion’s share of the lands of the New World of America and snatching slave trading rights in West Africa. England had great wealth at its fingertips and London was at the heart of all of it.People flocked to the capital to seek their fortune. Wealthy people invested in the new companies exploiting Africa or set up manufacturing concerns in the city. They moved into large houses in the wealthy area of the Strand and spread into other prosperous areas such as Cavendish Place. Their houses were staffed by teams of domestic servants.At the other end of the income scale, people were leaving their rural homes where traditional jobs as labourers and in the fields were drying up, hoping to make a living in London. So many people arrived searching for work that there were too few jobs and many opportunities to be exploited. With no safety net, they had to resort to desperate measures to survive.Babies were abandoned on the mounds of animal and human waste which towered over the overcrowded alleys. Some were dead, others dying. People walked past this tragic sight every day and chose to do nothing. One man, however, a ship-builder from Lyme, decided on a plan to save them.The vilification of illegitimate babies and the general disdain for the poor meant that it took Thomas Coram years to garner enough support to get his plan to save the babies off the ground. However, when, in 1739, he was able to found England’s first institution for abandoned and illegitimate babies, it became a place for London’s high society to be seen.Royalty, politicians and scientists joined the crowds of people who went to the London Foundling Hospital to see the works of Hogarth or listen to Handel perform. It became the most fashionable charity in London. But even this could not stop the babies dying.

The landscape setting of the Iron Age oppidum and Roman city of Calleva Atrebatum (Silchester) was initially explored through analysis of the available aerial photography and Lidar data over c. 1000 km2. Focusing on a 50 km square centred on Calleva, six locations with suspected later prehistoric enclosures were sampled by coring and excavation and accompanied by extensive programmes of radiocarbon dating and environmental, especially pollen analysis. Phases of activity and/or settlement were followed by abandonment and the regeneration of the woodland. Neolithic and Bronze Age activity was identified, but the first permanent settlements appeared to be of Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age date. The period with the most numerous settlements is the Middle Iron Age (4th to 2nd century BC), which was characterised by hillforts and smaller ditched enclosures. Their abandonment was once again followed by woodland regeneration. At the end of the 1st century BC new settlements were founded, including the 38 ha defended oppidum in a wooded and otherwise empty landscape. A territory with a radius of c. 2 km and devoid of individual farmsteads was established around the oppidum to provide land for cultivation and grazing and it was retained with the founding of the Roman city. This territory corresponds approximately with the combined present-day parishes of Mortimer West End and Silchester. The charcoal assemblages show evidence for the management of the woodlands including for the preparation of charcoal from the Late Iron Age though the Roman and into the medieval period. Dated charcoal shows continued activity in the Environs in the post-Roman and early medieval periods including the re-occupation of the hillfort at Pond Farm.

The Second World War was the single most important event of the 20th century. It changed the world forever, establishing the importance of aircraft and armoured vehicles whilst quick-firing artillery remained king of the battlefield. Yet, as with all conflicts before and after it, the war on the ground was fought by infantry engaging in countless firefights for which portable weapons were essential.  Inspired by the Royal Armouries’ Second World War exhibits, Jonathan Ferguson charts the differing approaches taken to modernise small arms, associated training, and industrial infrastructure from the 1930s to the end of the war in 1945. It takes a British perspective but covers arms from Britain, Germany, the Soviet Union, Japan and the United States. It places into tactical context the most iconic firearms of the conflict—the Bren and MG42 machine guns, the M1 Garand rifle, the Sten submachine gun and many more. Why were so many different types in use? Who used them, and for what purpose? What was their legacy?

Ještě nikdy jsme nebyli pod tak velkým tlakem na to, abychom byli šťastní a šťastně i vypadali. Očekává se od nás, že budeme neustále pozitivní, šťastní a vděční. Je nám podsouváno, abychom na vše pohlíželi z té lepší stránky a abychom se usmívali, i když je nám zrovna do pláče. Protože pozitivní přístup přece vyřeší všechny naše problémy, ne? Nedostatek prostoru pro mluvení o skutečných pocitech Je nám neustále opakováno, že klíčem ke štěstí je umlčet negativitu všude tam, kde se objevuje – v nás i v ostatních. Dokonce i když čelíme nemoci, ztrátě, rozchodu a dalším nepříjemnostem, jen málo kdy smíme upřímně mluvit o svých skutečných pocitech a zpracovat je tak, abychom se přes ně přenesli a mohli jít dál. Je v pořádku jen tak být. Toxická pozitivita je škodlivá pro nás a naše vztahy Psychoterapeutka Whitney Goodman předkládá na základě nejnovějších výzkumů a příběhů svých klientů odpověď na otázku, kterou vás možná ani nenapadlo si položit: Jak může příliš mnoho pozitivity uškodit? A představuje jednoduché způsoby, jak prožívat a zpracovávat náročné emoce. Výsledkem je více autenticity, spojení a růstu – a v důsledku toho cesta k tomu, abychom se ukázali takoví, jací skutečně jsme. Najděte konečně rovnováhu Zdravá pozitivita znamená otevřít se naději, ale i realitě. Ale co když to není tak jednoduché? Co když je skutečná síla v tom, že si dovolíme prožít i ty nejtěžší okamžiky, než se rozhodneme, jak dál? Kniha, kterou držíte v rukou, vám ukáže, jak najít rovnováhu mezi pozitivním přístupem a přijetím všech emocí, které v sobě nosíme.

V praxi sa vyskytujú situácie, kedy zamestnávateľ zamestnancovi mzdu síce zúčtuje, ale fyzicky mu ju nevyplatí. Ako má zamestnávateľ postupovať z hľadiska odvodu poistného na zdravotné a sociálne poistenie a odvodu daňovej povinnosti? Za uchádzača o zamestnanie sa môže považovať len taký občan, ktorý môže pracovať, chce pracovať, hľadá si zamestnanie a je vedený v evidencii uchádzačov o zamestnanie úradu. Aké podmienky musí spĺňať osoba, ktorá je uchádzačom o zamestnanie? Obdobie letných prázdnin je pre mnohých mladých ľudí späté s využitím voľného času na výkon zárobkovej činnosti. Aké podmienky musia byť splnené, aby zamestnávanie mladistvých bolo realizované v súlade so Zákonníkom práce? Zúčtované a nevyplatené príjmy zo závislej činnosti V praxi sa vyskytujú situácie, kedy zamestnávateľ zamestnancovi mzdu síce zúčtuje, ale fyzicky mu ju nevyplatí. Ide spravila o zamestnávateľov, ktorí sa dostali do finančných ťažkostí a na výplatu príjmov im chýbajú peňažné prostriedky, alebo sa vyskytnú iné dôvody, pre ktoré zamestnávateľ vyplatenie mzdy zamestnancovi pozastavil. Ako má zamestnávateľ postupovať v týchto prípadoch z hľadiska odvodu poistného na zdravotné a sociálne poistenie a odvodu daňovej povinnosti? Uchádzač o zamestnanie – obmedzenie príjmu Právo na prístup k zamestnaniu predstavuje v zmysle ustanovenia § 14 ods. 1 zákona č. 5/2004 Z. z. o službách zamestnanosti a o zmene a doplnení niektorých zákonov v z. n. p. (ďalej iba „zákon o službách zamestnanosti“) právo občana, ktorý chce pracovať, môže pracovať a hľadá zamestnanie, na služby podľa spomínaného právneho predpisu zamerané na pomoc a podporu uľahčenia jeho vstupu na trh práce vrátane pomoci a podpory vstupu a zotrvania znevýhodneného uchádzača o zamestnanie na trhu práce najmenej počas obdobia šiestich po sebe nasledujúcich kalendárnych mesiacov. Zamestnávanie mladistvých Ustanovenie § 40 ods. 3 Zákonníka práce definuje mladistvého zamestnanca ako zamestnanca, ktorý je mladší ako 18 rokov. Uvedené však neznamená, že zamestnancom môže byť akákoľvek osoba, ktorá nedovŕšila 18 rokov veku. Ochrana detí pred detskou prácou je realizovaná prostredníctvom medzinárodných dohovorov, ktoré Slovenská republika ratifikovala a sú tak súčasťou nášho právneho poriadku. Vplyv zvýšeného stravného na daň z príjmov Výška tuzemských diét sa zvyšuje na základe údajov štatistického úradu o indexe cien jedál a nealkoholických nápojov v reštauračnom stravovaní. Od výšky diét pre časové pásmo 5 až 12 hodín sa odvíja krátenie stravného z dôvodu poskytnutia bezplatného stravovania na tuzemských pracovných cestách, minimálna výška stravovacích poukážok, výška príspevkov zamestnávateľa na stravovanie zamestnancov. Oprava chýb zamestnávateľa pri zdanení príjmov Ak zamestnávateľ v pozícii platiteľa dane v priebehu roka nesprávne zrazil zamestnancovi preddavky na daň z príjmov zo závislej činnosti alebo nesprávne vyplatil daňový bonus a uvedené nevysporiadal ani v rámci ročného zúčtovania preddavkov, resp. vykonal ročné zúčtovanie nesprávne, chyby opraví v rámci zákonných možností aj v závislosti od toho, či k pochybeniu došlo z jeho viny alebo z viny zamestnanca. Digitálne zručnosti v každom veku V dnešnej informačnej dobe je digitálna gramotnosť jednou z kľúčových zručností, ktorú potrebujeme aplikovať nielen v školstve, ale neskôr aj v každodennom živote. Digitálna gramotnosť zahŕňa oveľa viac, než len základné počítačové zručnosti, ide v podstate o schopnosť efektívne používať technológie, bezpečne pracovať s informáciami a kriticky zhodnotiť ich obsah. Reklama a propagácia Pojem reklamy má viacero definícií, ktorých spoločnou teóriou je využitie reklamy ako procesu šírenia informácií s cieľom zaujať prijímateľa produktu. Najvšeobecnejšia definícia vymedzuje reklamu ako cieľavedomé komunikačné pôsobenie zamerané na určitú cieľovú skupinu, ktorej úlohou je pomáhať pri utváraní postojov, názorov a zvyklostí, vedúcich k žiaducim činnostiam. Základným a samozrejmým cieľom reklamy je upútať príjemcu dostatočne na to, aby si kúpil propagovaný produkt. Vybavenie podaní obcou Pri vybavovaní podaní obcou je potrebné rozlišovať, či obec rozhoduje v rámci originálnej alebo delegovanej kompetencie decentralizovanej štátnej správy. V prípade originálnych kompetencií ide o rozhodovanie obce v prípadoch, ktoré jej boli zverené priamo právnou úpravou. Ide o správu obecného majetku alebo rozhodovanie v oblasti správy daní a poplatkov, kde majú obce právne postavenie správcu dane s rozhodovacou právomocou. V prípade delegovaných kompetencií ide o rozhodovanie obce v rámci kompetencií decentralizovanej štátnej správy. V tejto oblasti môže obec využiť činnosť spoločných obecných úradov.

Jste neustále zahlceni věcmi, úkoly a povinnostmi? Nic nestíháte, doma je nepořádek a vy máte pocit, že tohle rozhodně není život podle vašich představ? Pojďte to změnit! Žijte svobodněji a klidněji díky tomu, že vědomě omezíte množství věcí, které vlastníte. Naučte se rozlišit, které věci přinášejí do vašeho života hodnotu a které vás jen obtěžují. Objevte způsoby, jak se rychle zbavit nepotřebného a udělat si prostor pro to důležité. Získejte nejen hezčí domácnost, jejíž úklid vám zabere pouhou chvilku, ale především sebevědomí a svobodu. Díky tomuto přístupu pocítíte hlubokou spokojenost se svým životem i vztahy. Navíc výrazně ušetříte, aniž byste měli pocit, že se omezujete. Život je příliš krátký na to, abyste ho trávili péčí o nepotřebné věci. A příliš cenný na to, abyste žili podle názorů ostatních. Je čas odvážit se mít méně!

Druhý díl vybraných spisů katolického teologa a biskupa skryté církve Jana Konzala (1935–2021) obsahuje jeho převážně dosud knižně nepublikované texty. Jedná se o rozsáhlý výbor z velkého množství přednášek, programových řečí a promluv k obnově závazků presbyterátu pražské obce ES a nástupnické Společné cesty. Dále soubor přináší Konzalovy homilie k obnově manželských závazků, písemné přípravy k duchovním obnovám a ukázky katechezí ke svátostem křtu, biřmování, manželství a smíření. Svazek uzavírají dva učební texty z 90. let Úvod do hermeneutiky Písma a tradice a Krátký kurz homiletiky.

On 6 April 1941, Nazi Germany, along with Italy and Hungary, invaded Yugoslavia after the overthrow of the Yugoslav regent, Prince Paul. Hitler sought to secure the right flank for his upcoming invasion of the USSR and assist Mussolini, who had failed to conquer Greece. The German attack was swift, and by 17 April, Yugoslavia capitulated, leading to the creation of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH).Ante Pavelić, leader of the fascist Ustaše organization, was installed as the head of Croatia. His government immediately began a brutal campaign of repression against non-Croatians, especially Serbs. This sparked rebellions, with Serbian Chetnik bands and Croatian communists forming separate guerrilla movements. The Croatian state was soon overwhelmed by these insurgencies.Italy further complicated matters by creating occupation zones within Croatia, supporting Chetnik bands, and hampering Croatian military efforts. The Croatian Army, unable to fortify its territory due to Italian restrictions, was often attacked by Chetniks and forced to fight on two fronts.Despite these challenges, including inadequate armament and the constant interference of its allies, Croatia maintained a military force that continued to fight until the war’s bitter end.

Fundamental to Islamic thought is the idea that there is a way that human beings simply are, by nature or creation. This concept is called f? a. Rooting her investigation in the two central passages in the Qur''an and Hadith literature, where it is asserted that God created human beings in a certain way, the author moves beyond discussion of the usual figures who have commented on those texts to look instead at a group of classical Islamic philosophers rarely discussed in conjunction with ethical matters. Tracing the development of f? a through this overlooked strand of medieval thinking, von Doetinchem de Rande uses f? a as an entrée to wider topics in Islamic ethics. She shows that the notion of f? a articulated by al-Farabi, Ibn Bajja, Ibn Tufayl and Ibn Rushd highlights important issues about organizational hierachies of human nature. This, she argues, has major implications for contemporary political and legal debates.

After the terrible losses of The Great War, twenty years later the Second World War resulted in the death of some of the finest sporting icons. This book honours the ninety international rugby players who lost their lives. Fifteen were Scottish, fourteen English, eleven Welsh and eight Irish. Australia and New Zealand suffered with ten and two internationals killed respectively and France eight. Germany topped the list with nineteen. In the same way that the Authors best-selling Into Touch remembered the 130 Internationals lost in the First World War, Final Scrum gives an individual biography of each of the ninety with their international and club playing record as well as their backgrounds, details of their military careers and circumstances of their death. We learn where they are buried or commemorated together with at least one photograph of each player. Rugby enthusiasts will find this book a fascinating and moving record of the sacrifice of the finest young men of their generation who fought in the second worldwide conflict of the 20th Century.

Too often historical writing on the Russian War of 1854-56 focuses narrowly on the land campaign fought in the Crimean peninsula in the Black Sea. The wider war waged at sea by the British and French navies against the Russians is ignored. The allied navies aimed to strike at Russian interests anywhere in the world where naval force could be brought to bear and as a result campaigns were waged in the Baltic, the Black Sea, the White Sea, on the Russian Pacific coast and in the Sea of Azoff. Yet it is the land campaign in the Crimea that shapes our understanding of events. In this graphic and original study, Peter Duckers seeks to set the record straight. He shows how these neglected naval campaigns were remarkably successful, in contrast to the wretched failures that beset the British army on land. Allied warships ranged across Russian waters sinking shipping, disrupting trade, raiding ports, bombarding fortresses, destroying vast quantities of stores and shelling coastal towns. The scale and intensity of the naval operations embarked upon during the war are astonishing, and little appreciated, and this new book offers the first overall survey of them.

The Nine Years'' War recounts Ireland''s near-expulsion of English rule, led by Hugh O?Neill?s remarkable Irish confederation.The Nine Years War (1593-1603), sometimes known as Tyrone?s Rebellion, was one of the most devastating and brutal conflicts to sweep the island. Never would the English Crown come so close to losing its grip on Ireland. It was brought on by a combination of English misrule, Irish ambition and the fortuitous creation of political ties with Spain. A confederation of Irish lords led by the charismatic and exceptionally gifted Hugh O?Neill, Earl of Tyrone, swept from one victory to another. Part 1 of this series examines the years of Irish triumph as English nonchalance turned to disbelief and then panic as Irish armies engaged with and defeated all attempts by the Crown to restore English authority.Tyrone duped the English state into believing it was engaged in a local affair against Hugh Maguire, lord of Fermanagh, for the first two years of the war. While the English fought a shooting war in the west of Ulster, Tyrone raised an unprecedented confederation of Irish lords that set aside parochial self-interest to mount a concerted and coordinated effort to eject English power from Ireland once and for all.Time and again, English armies were engaged and defeated by modernised Irish forces fighting with a skill and technical sophistication never before seen. This series of Crown defeats came to a bloody climax at the battle of the Yellow Ford on 14 August 1598. The Irish shattered the English field army in a matter of hours. Its commander, Henry Bagenal, was killed along with almost half his men. The battle remains the greatest defeat given to the English by Irish arms and a striking reverse to a period often seen as Elizabeth?s Golden Age.

This volume of essays gathers together some of the articles by Sr Edmée Kingsmill SLG that were published in the Fairacres Chronicle, the Journal of the Sisters of the Love of God, between 1977 and 2018. The collection concludes the series of books of her works collected and published in 2024 and 2025. Its title reflects the ways in which Sr Edmée examined penetratingly all that was around her, looking to all points of the compass in her interests, her reading, and her knowledge. This volume includes the brief essay that she wrote examining the meaning of her life’s journey, prefacing the texts of talks and articles on subjects that fascinated her and exercised her intellectually. She engaged with all of her subjects argumentatively, and in the case of her critiques of the work of other writers extended the reach of the subject of the book under review through her own exploration of its subject matter.

Paris is the physical memory of seven World Expos that took place in the city from 1855 to 1937. These Expos left behind monuments like the Eiffel Tower, the Musée d''Orsay, the Grand and Petit Palais... But many traces are more subtle: your suitcase today is an evolution of the trunk Louis Vuitton won a gold medal with at Paris’ Exposition Universelle in 1867, and the typical Parisian bistro chairs were designed during those years when a multitude of cafés and restaurants flourished because of the Expos, including icons like Le Procope.A cocktail of travel guide and history book, Nobody Sits Like the French tells these stories and many more, pointing out the marks the Expos left behind. From now on, you’ll know that every time you sip a glass of burgundy, drink from Baccarat crystal, admire a Manet or a Gauguin, and even enjoy the benefits of a working sewer system in Paris, you owe it to a World Expo there.

The First Witches: Women of Power in the Classical World takes you on a journey into the world of Classical literature, from the adventurous Homeric epic of the Odyssey to the grim warfare of Lucan’s De Bello Civili. In doing so, you will be introduced to a handful of powerful women who will later be labelled as “witches”. The chapters focus upon two specific groups of women from the Graeco-Roman world: the divine Hecate and the formidable yet beautiful Circe, who first feature in Greek texts, and the nefarious Thessalian witches and Erictho, who become marked antagonists in Roman literature. Both Hecate and Circe are fundamentally divine, yet early in their mythologies, they harbour characteristics that will become distinct tropes of witchcraft from being associated with the underworld, lunar lore and dangerous transformative powers. With the onset of increased social tensions in the late Roman Republican to early imperial periods, these divine women become increasingly more demonised within the literature, culminating in Hecate becoming a consort for witches and Circe a seductress and the epitome of the femme fatale.Simultaneous to these representations, Roman writers adopted a stock character within prose and verse of the hag-witch who was shocking in both appearance and character, displaying many elements of moral turpitude and a disturbing penchant for bestial activities such as cannibalism and the kidnapping and killing of infants. Thus, the hag-witch, most commonly associated with the world of the modern witch hunts and within the pages of modern fairy tale, was born. This book, therefore, provides a readable overview of how the Western witch originated. So profound was the impact of the classical witch upon Western thought and literature that she even lives on today as a prototype of the gruesome woman found in folklore, horror stories and movies. This is why the studying and reading of classical works is so relevant today as it was for our forebears since the literature contains the very ingredients that help to captivate our imaginations and our fears. The authors of the literature and the characters within it will continue to serve as powerful reminders of how the Western world came to be.

At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, despite many difficulties and falling manpower, coalmining was the most important industry in Great Britain. It employed around a million persons in well over 3,000 pits ranging from small hillside drift mines with a few hands to substantial collieries with workforces and pit communities the size of villages and small towns. A few months into the conflict, Lloyd George in a patriotic speech to a coal conference proclaimed that coal was ''everything for us, the country''s life and blood, its international coinage''.As well as digging coal for the war effort, often in dreadful and dangerous conditions, miners demonstrated ''their old work in a new guise'' when serving in huge numbers during the Great War. Thousands voluntarily swapped the pit for what many thought would be a better and safer option, around a quarter of a million enlisting by 1915; and about one in five of all military volunteers came from the coalfields of England, Scotland and Wales, an astonishing proportion. The massive response to the Call for Arms was most obvious in industrial areas where the so-called ''Pals battalions'' were established and it was these recruits who suffered so heavily during the disastrous Somme offensive of 1916. The sheer number and range of gallantry awards including several VCs - also testify to the immense contribution of former miners.The many thousands of pitmen who paid the ultimate price are inscribed on public war memorials in coalfield communities, often dominating the listings. Such was the response from large pits that many others are commemorated on memorials specially erected by colliery and coal companies, one the earliest in the village of Brampton in South Yorkshire on behalf of Cortonwood Colliery.Whether working below and above ground at collieries or as part of the armed forces, miners played a very significant role during the Great War of 1914-18, a total contribution that deserves to be told.

In a world defined by the brutalities of war, one German general stands apart from the Hollywood stereotype. Before the storm of the Second World War, Fridolin von Senger und Etterlin was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, fluent in multiple languages, and a devoted Christian — a lifelong Benedictine Oblate. From the very outset he was anti-Nazi and, on many occasions, defied Hitler’s orders. His military skills were good; in France he beat Rommel to Cherbourg and on the Eastern Front he tried to relieve the German 6th Army in Stalingrad. It was in Italy where his reputation grew by safely evacuating German troops from Sicily, Sardinia and Corsica, a delicate matter because the Italians had changed sides. He defeated General Clark’s forces at the Rapido battle fiasco, and he caused Cassino to become a serious hold up for the Allied advance north. It was he who willingly signed the surrender documents in Italy on 4 May 1945.His Christian beliefs meant there were no barbarities within his command, and he made lifelong friends with some occupied residents, helping to save lives from the dreaded SS, and the Italian partisans never attacked him because he had helped the helpless. He was a brilliant tactician, always with his troops on the frontline, and his anti-Nazi views were not a post-war justification but were widely known during the war years by friend and foe. Von Senger was never even considered for war crimes, and was granted the rare privilege of being allowed to explore the English countryside from the Bridgend PoW camp. Discover the life of a general who fought not just for victory, but for honour, compassion, and morality under the brutal Nazi regime.

‘The infantryman always bears the brunt’ according to Field-Marshal Wavell in 1945. The ‘Poor Bloody Infantry,’ ‘The Grunts on the Ground,’ the infantry have often been seen as the humble, indeed shunned, relations of others, from cavalry to tanks. This book is their story, one from the dawn of human conflict to the present day, a study that looks round the world to consider fighting, weaponry, recruitment, contexts and impact. Infantry as the shock of assault as well as firepower, as the force in state-to-state conflict and in civil warfare, in symmetrical and asymmetrical warfare, are considered, as are the different accounts of development that are offered. Central to the military and to combat, infantry has also served many non-combat roles, notably as the arm of government. Indeed, infantry can be crucial to political history and nation-building, from coups to iconic battles

Harry Styles captivates audiences worldwide with his talent, charisma and sartorial wit. From his early days as a member of the boyband One Direction to his wildly successful solo career, Styles marries mass appeal with a celebration of fluidity; blurring the lines of fashion, musical genres and gender norms. Once dismissed as a flash-in-the-pan teen trend, Styles has proven himself as a once-in-a-generation talent. Today, Harry Styles is less of a pop star and more of a lifestyle.When her twenty-year marriage ended, Keris Fox fell into the One Direction fandom and her whole life changed. Ten years on, and numerous live shows later, Keris has travelled the world with a host of new-found fandom friends and learned that it’s never too late to let the things you love teach you how to be yourself.Part fandom memoir, part celebration of Harry Styles as an artist, The Harry Styles Effect is about the profound impact one of the biggest stars in the world can have on fans of all ages and backgrounds, and the transformative power of collective joy.