The tension structures discussed in this book are predominantly roofing forms created from pre-stressed cable nets, cable trusses, and continuous membranes (fabric structures). A unique feature in their design is "form-finding" - an interactive process of defining the shape of a structure under tension.

Phoenix New Writing is an anthology of poetry and prose bringing together the diverse voices of Coventry, with the City itself as the central theme.

Editor and poet David Morley worked with over 3,000 people in a series of writing workshops throughout Coventry as part of the Phoenix Initiative regeneration scheme.

In recent years, the study of Renaissance literature has all but disappeared in many language departments. However, in the troubled political circumstances in which we find ourselves today, sixteenth century voices again speak to us eloquently through the ages with their simple messages of faith, moderation and tolerance, and their questioning of those fixed, pompous viewpoints that pass as expressions of truth within society.

This book presents a literary study of the processes involved in the translation of the Bible. Beginning in Anglo-Saxon times with Bede and Caedmon, Lynn Long discusses the translations of Alfred and Aelfric before exploring the work of Wycliffe, the impact of printing, the rise of Humanism, Tyndale and the sixteenth century editions, and concluding with an account of the King James translation.