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The Formation of Hell

Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds

By: Alan E. Bernstein

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The Formation of Hell

Death and Retribution in the Ancient and Early Christian Worlds

By: Alan E. Bernstein

What becomes of the wicked? Hell—exile from God, subjection to fire, worms, and darkness—for centuries the idea has shaped the dread of malefactors, the solace of victims, and the deterrence of believers. Although we may associate the notion of hell with Christian beliefs, its gradual emergence depended on conflicting notions that pervaded the Mediterranean world more than a millennium before the birth of Christ. Asking just why and how belief in hell arose, Alan E. Bernstein takes us back to those times and offers us a comparative view of the philosophy, poetry, folklore, myth, and theology of that formative age.Bernstein draws on sources from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, and Israel, as well as early Christian writings through Augustine, in order to reconstruct the story of the prophets, priests, poets, and charismatic leaders who fashioned concepts of hell from an array of perspectives on death and justice. The author traces hell's formation through close readings of works including the epics of Homer and Vergil, the satires of Lucian, the dialogues of Plato and Plutarch, the legends of Enoch, the confessions of the Psalms, the prophecies of Isaiah, Ezechiel, and Daniel, and the parables of Jesus. Reenacting lively debates about the nature of hell among the common people and the elites of diverse religious traditions, he provides new insight into the social implications and the psychological consequences of different visions of the afterlife.This superb account of a central image in Western culture will captivate readers interested in history, mythology, literature, psychology, philosophy, and religion.

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Cornell University Press

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150171175X

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9781501711756

Goliath's Head

By: Alan Fleishman

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Goliath's Head

By: Alan Fleishman

GOLIATH'S HEAD tells the story of a search for courage and hope in the midst of crushing oppression. Avi Schneider is a Jewish boy growing up in Russia on the eve of early-twentieth-century revolution. He is only nine years old when he first meets his own personal devil, Viktor Askinov, a brutal youngster who relishes tormenting Jews. In the years that follow, Avi is the object of his tormentor's obsession. The story reaches a climax fourteen years later in 1905 when the Tsar instigates riots - pogroms - against the poor, teeming Jewish villages. Now a husband and father, Avi takes to the barricades to defend his village from the mob coming to kill the men, rape the women, and burn his village to the ground. Armed, he again faces Viktor Askinov, who is leading the mob. But he has been warned that if he kills Viktor Askinov, he puts his beautiful young wife Sara, and newborn son Itzhak, in deadly peril. Avi must decide this night what he stands for. Is it survival at any cost, for himself and those he loves? Or is it righteous vengeance for his people?

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Alan Fleishman

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1449946534

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9781449946531

Egypt of the Pharaohs

An Introduction

By: Alan Henderson Gardiner

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Egypt of the Pharaohs

An Introduction

By: Alan Henderson Gardiner

Now available in new covers, this volume provides a comprehensive history of Ancient Egypt from its earliest days to the conquest of Alexander the Great in 332 B.C.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195002679

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9780195002676

Fleas!

By: Alan MacDonald

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Fleas!

By: Alan MacDonald

Bertie finds trouble everywhere, and in this trio of adventures he has plans for his dog's fleas, locks a substitute teacher in the storeroom, and has an encounter with a fire engine.

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Capstone

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1434246183

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Botany Bay

the real story

By: Alan Frost

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Botany Bay

the real story

By: Alan Frost

This book digs deeper and sheds new light on the decision to start a colony in Australia. He examines the impact of the American War of Independence and Britain's shifting strategic aims, the role of ministerial incompetence and ambition, and the concerns of a turbulent society obsessed with law and order. In doing so, he questions several accepted ideas about how and why Britain set its sights on an Australian colony.

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Black Inc.

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1921870516

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9781921870514

Government Politics in Australia

By: Alan Fenna,Jane Robbins,John Summers

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Government Politics in Australia

By: Alan Fenna,Jane Robbins,John Summers

Government and Politics in Australia 10e is the comprehensive and scholarly political science text that provides thorough and accessible content written by authorities in the field. Now in its 10th edition, Government and Politics in Australia continues to provide students with a research-based, in-depth contemporary introduction to the Australian political system. A strengthened focus on government and politics ensures that this classic text remains the most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the structure and institutions of Australian government, as well as political parties, representation, interest groups and the role of the media in Australian politics. The 10th edition has been thoroughly revised and updated by experts in the field led by a new editor team and includes a completely new chapter on Australia in the world.

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Pearson Higher Education AU

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1486001386

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9781486001385

Pathandu

By: William Alan Rieser

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Pathandu

By: William Alan Rieser

Pathandu is the sequel to The Find, the 2nd Chronicle of Zusalem. The team expands their numbers and powers, reaching into hidden chambers around the world in places like Pakistan and Tibet to oppose Chronus who seeks nothing less than the total domination of mankind. The Cephilim, the most mysterious society on earth, join the Zusalem to assist their efforts by wielding an intrinsic fear of their own. Chronus resurrects ancient armies to fling indiscriminately at his enemies in an all out war of wrath but finds himself fighting equally potent forces, including the American Army. The ploys and tactics by both sides pile upon each other according to an old agreement and set of rules that are still regulated by the spirits of those who formulated them. Eventually, a final facedown is reached in the last surviving chamber where Chronus is compelled to personally fight for his life against the Zusalem who look for lasting justice.

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iUniverse

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0595209629

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The Biggest Twitch

Around the World in 4,000 birds

By: Alan Davies,Ruth Miller

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The Biggest Twitch

Around the World in 4,000 birds

By: Alan Davies,Ruth Miller

Most people dream of packing in their humdrum city life, selling up and heading off into the unknown for a life of adventure. For Ruth Miller and Alan Davies this dream became a reality, albeit with a twist; they decided to pack in their jobs, sell their house and take on the ultimate birder's challenge - to smash the world record for the number of species seen in one calendar year. This book is the story of their great expedition, searching for birds from Ecuador to Ethiopia via Argentina, Australia and Arizona. We follow this birding odyssey as they rachet up the species and the stamps in their passports, sharing in amazing birding experiences such as monkey-hunting Harpy Eagles in the Brazilian rain forest, seedsnipes in the Peruvian highlands and lekking bustards in South Africa, all leading to the ultimate question - will they break the magic 4,000? Written in an accessible style, this book will be of great interest to birders, readers of travel literature, and to people who simply enjoy a good adventure!

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A&C Black

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1408134047

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition

The Original Text Edition

By: Alan Gribben

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition

The Original Text Edition

By: Alan Gribben

Perennially listed among the classics of American literature, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) broke new ground by allowing a teenage boy to narrate his own story. The son of a cruel town drunkard, Huck Finn vividly describes his friendship with Tom Sawyer, his resolve to run away from his abusive father, and his decision to join a runaway slave named Jim in a search for freedom. Jim and Huck’s days and nights on a raft floating down the Mississippi River form one of the most evocative stories of interracial bonding ever written, and the bizarre characters they encounter in their journey are memorably sketched. Though comical in places, ultimately the book warns about the price of immoral social conformity. Editor Alan Gribben explains the historical and literary context of Twain’s novel and vigorously defends it against the many critics who fault its language, relationships, and conclusion. Gribben also supplies a helpful guide to Twain’s satirical targets. This Original Text Edition faithfully follows the wording of the first edition.

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NewSouth Books

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1603062424

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9781603062428

Stand Up and Fight

When Munster Beat the All Blacks

By: Alan English

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Stand Up and Fight

When Munster Beat the All Blacks

By: Alan English

A modern classic . . . Absolutely riveting and frequently moving' – The Telegraph 'Among the best books ever written on Irish sport' – Sunday Tribune 'Brilliant . . . Stand Up and Fight is the definitive account. It captures the essence of what makes Munster rugby and its provincial team so unique' – Tony Ward, Irish Independent 'A terrific combination of intelligent reportage and open-eyed mythmaking' – Sunday Times 'A seminal account' – New Zealand Herald 'Irresistible' – Guardian 31/10/1978, Thomond Park. On one of the greatest days in rugby history, Munster beat the All Blacks. More than 100,000 people claimed to have watched the game, even though the ground could only hold 12,000. Now, fully updated for the 45th anniversary of the match, Alan English tells the true story.

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Birlinn Ltd

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1915359295

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9781915359292

Leading the Blind

A Century of Guide Book Travel

By: Alan Sillitoe

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Leading the Blind

A Century of Guide Book Travel

By: Alan Sillitoe

A journey into nineteenth-century travel guides to the UK, Europe, and Soviet Union as researched and written by one of England’s most distinguished authors. In this quirky and illuminating social history, bestselling British author Alan Sillitoe culls fascinating details from Victorian-era guidebooks and travelogues in order to recount the pleasures, dangers, traps, and delights of travel in the century leading up to World War I. For instance, in Switzerland, an English officer once fell into a bears’ den and was “torn in pieces.” In Paris, the outdoor seating at cafés was in “unpleasant proximity to the gutters.” In Germany and the Rhine, the denominations marked on coins did not necessarily indicate their value. And in Northern Italy, a traveler could look forward to a paradise of citron and myrtle, palms and cyclamen. For the armchair traveler journeying into a bygone era, Sillitoe begins with the essential practicalities relevant to any tourist: the price of passports and visas, how best to clear customs, and how many bags to pack. He includes timeless advice, such as: Board a boat on an empty stomach if you are prone to seasickness, and always break in your boots before embarking on a trip. Anachronistic recommendations abound as well: It is best to leave your servant at home, carry your milk with you when traveling to small Italian villages, and not pay children and “donkey women” for flowers. From convalescent hotels in the South of France to malaria-ridden marshes between Rome and Naples, and from the chaos of Sicily and southern Italy to the dazzling bullfights and rampant thieves of sunny Spain, Sillitoe guides readers through the minutiae of the Mediterranean with wit and historical insight. Then he takes an anecdote-filled road east into Greece, Egypt, the Holy Lands, Turkey, and Russia. Of course, the Grand Tour would not be complete without a thorough account of his home turf of England, with her idiosyncratic hamlets, smoke-filled skies, and working-class townsfolk in high-buckled shoes. At once a fascinating history of travel books from 1815 to 1914 and an entertaining ode to wanderlust, Leading the Blind brings to life the absurd and profound wonders of Victorian globetrotting. With simple but captivating prose, Sillitoe also shows how the way we view foreign lands can reveal a lot about what is happening at home.

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Open Road Media

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1504035003

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9781504035002

Commentary 1-98

By: Alan. B LLoyd

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Commentary 1-98

By: Alan. B LLoyd

Preliminary material /Alan B. Lloyd -- COMMENTARY /Alan B. Lloyd -- ADDENDA ET CORRIGENDA /Alan B. Lloyd.

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BRILL

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9004295100

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9789004295100

Figs of the Imagination

Tales of bairns, wee men, lads and lassies

By: Alan J. Yates

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Figs of the Imagination

Tales of bairns, wee men, lads and lassies

By: Alan J. Yates

The work explores the notion that we are all perceptually branded by the experiences and milieu of early childhood. The author illustrates this with tales set in his native Edinburgh, Scotland during the 1940s and 1950s. Through a series of adventures and misadventures, the young protagonist makes discoveries about life and people, ranging from the inconsistencies and contradictions of adult behavior to learning about mortality. In one episode, the young lad is tricked into having his tonsils removed. As he grows older, he learns about betrayal by adults and authority figures. Poems that reinforce each of these learning themes introduce each chapter and the use of local dialect sharpens the sense of location and social milieu. Exploring the universal themes of the innocence of childhood, “Figs of the Imagination” illustrates how much we are a product of the formative years and how these key life experiences prepare children to become adults.

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Trafford Publishing

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1426991975

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9781426991974

The Medieval English Universities

Oxford and Cambridge to c. 1500

By: Alan B. Cobban

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The Medieval English Universities

Oxford and Cambridge to c. 1500

By: Alan B. Cobban

First published in 1988, this book traces the complex evolution of Oxford and Cambridge from the twelfth through the early sixteenth centuries. In the process, the author incorporates new research on Cambridge University that has become available only recently. Alan B. Cobban is able to give an overall view of the functioning of the English universities, touching on the development of the academic hierarchy, the various features of the curriculum and the teaching offered by these institutions. The author also addresses the social and economic circumstances of students and the relations between the universities and their respective town and ecclesiastical authorities. Cobban draws on much recent work to supply new details and altered perspectives in this single-volume reappraisal of the history of these two distinguished educational institutions.

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Routledge

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1351885790

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9781351885799

Buster

By: Alan Burns

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Buster

By: Alan Burns

Buster was the first, and arguably the most traditional, work of fiction by Alan Burns - dating from before his aleatoric style developed into "e;cutting up"e;, but displaying early examples of the trademark disjointed, brisk and biting style which earned him a cult following. Imbued with autobiographical sentiment, the novel shows a young man's upbringing during World War II and his disillusioned vision of the post-war world. Never before published in standalone volume form since its original publication in the inaugural New Writers anthology in 1961, Buster is characteristically succinct and of huge literary merit, but in its autobiographical and pre-aleatoric style it provides, perhaps more importantly, a key to understanding the rest of Burns's works.

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Alma Books

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0714550078

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9780714550077

The Blood Libel Legend

A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore

By: Alan Dundes

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The Blood Libel Legend

A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore

By: Alan Dundes

Alan Dundes, in this casebook of an anti-Semitic legend, demonstrates the power of folklore to influence thought and history. According to the blood libel legend, Jews murdered Christian infants to obtain blood to make matzah. Dundes has gathered here the work of leading scholars who examine the varied sources and elaborations of the legend. Collectively, their essays constitute a forceful statement against this false accusation. The legend is traced from the murder of William of Norwich in 1144, one of the first reported cases of ritualized murder attributed to Jews, through nineteenth-century Egyptian reports, Spanish examples, Catholic periodicals, modern English instances, and twentieth-century American cases. The essays deal not only with historical cases and surveys of blood libel in different locales, but also with literary renditions of the legend, including the ballad “Sir Hugh, or, the Jew’s Daughter” and Chaucer’s “The Prioress’s Tale.” These case studies provide a comprehensive view of the complex nature of the blood libel legend. The concluding section of the volume includes an analysis of the legend that focuses on Christian misunderstanding of the Jewish feast of Purim and the child abuse component of the legend and that attempts to bring psychoanalytic theory to bear on the content of the blood libel legend. The final essay by Alan Dundes takes a distinctly folkloristic approach, examining the legend as part of the belief system that Christians developed about Jews. This study of the blood libel legend will interest folklorists, scholars of Catholicism and Judaism, and many general readers, for it is both the literature and the history of anti-Semitism.

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299131149

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9780299131142

A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV

By: David Asheri,Alan Lloyd,Aldo Corcella

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A Commentary on Herodotus Books I-IV

By: David Asheri,Alan Lloyd,Aldo Corcella

Herodotus, one of the earliest and greatest of Western prose authors, set out in the late fifth century BC to describe the world as he knew it. This commentary by leading scholars, originally published in Italian, has been fully revised by the original authors and is now presented for English readers.

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Oxford University Press

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0198149565

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9780198149569

Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition

The Original Text Edition

By: Alan Gribben

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn: The Original Text Edition

The Original Text Edition

By: Alan Gribben

Mark Twain’s two most famous novels are published here as the continuous narrative that he originally envisioned. Twain started writing Adventures of Huckleberry Finn soon after finishing The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), but difficulties with the sequel took him eight years to resolve. Consequently his contemporary readers failed to view the volumes as the companion books he had intended. In the twentieth century, publishers, librarians, and academics continued to separate the two titles, with the result that they are seldom read sequentially even though they feature many of the same characters and their narratives open in the identical Mississippi River village, St. Petersburg. This Original Text Edition brings the stories back together and faithfully follows the wording of the first editions.

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NewSouth Books

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1603062386

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9781603062381

Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition

The NewSouth Edition

By: Alan Gribben

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Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: The NewSouth Edition

The NewSouth Edition

By: Alan Gribben

In a radical departure from standard editions, Mark Twain’s most famous novel is published here with one disturbing racial label translated as “slave.” In seeking to record accurately the speech of uneducated boys and adults along the Mississippi River in the 1840s, Twain casually included an epithet that is diminishing the potential audience for his masterpiece. While dozens of other editions preserve the inflammatory slur that the author employed for the sake of realism, the NewSouth Edition proves that the main point of Twain’s masterpiece—the immense harm deriving from inhumane social conformity—comes through just as vibrantly without obliging readers to confront hundreds of insulting racial pejoratives. The editor’s Introduction supplies the historical and literary context for Twain’s groundbreaking book, along with a helpful guide to his satirical targets.

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NewSouth Books

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160306236X

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Interrogating Public Policy Theory

A Political Values Perspective

By: Linda Courtenay Botterill,Alan Fenna

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Interrogating Public Policy Theory

A Political Values Perspective

By: Linda Courtenay Botterill,Alan Fenna

This book questions the way policy making has been distanced from politics in prevailing theories of the policy process, and highlights the frequently overlooked ubiquity of values and values conflicts in politics and policy. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of current theories, reviews the illusions of rationalism in politics, and explores the way values are implicated throughout the democratic process, from voter choice to policy decisions. It argues that our understanding of public policy is enhanced by recognizing its intrinsically political and value-laden nature.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1784710083

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9781784710088

Brooklyn Boy

By: Alan Lelchuk

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Brooklyn Boy

By: Alan Lelchuk

Follow the growth and fortune of Aaron Scholssberg as he moves from boyhood to early adulthood, from domestic turmoil to gutsy independence, from Brooklyn to Manhattan and the open sea. The story records the shaping of a young sensibility under the influence of a powerful place and time. While laying out a boy's moral and romantic journey, Brooklyn Boy also pays homage to and is a personal mapping of a legendary site. Aaron's history is Brooklyn's.

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Terrace Books

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0299187446

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Rocket Science

From Fireworks to the Photon Drive

By: Mark Denny,Alan McFadzean

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Rocket Science

From Fireworks to the Photon Drive

By: Mark Denny,Alan McFadzean

This is a book about rocket science: what it is and what it does. From the earliest fireworks to nuclear-powered spacecraft, all you would ever want or need to know about the subject is here, along with a straightforward explanation of how, why and when things work—or sometimes don't. We begin with the history and workings of early terrestrial rocketry before moving onto the main subject of the book: how we get things into space and, on occasion, back again. Entirely math-free, the chapters weave together innumerable anecdotes, real-world examples, and easy walk-throughs to help readers break down the complex physics behind some of humankind’s most amazing feats. Neither a pure textbook nor a populist space travel tome, the book will educate, inform and above all entertain anyone intrigued by rocket science.

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Springer Nature

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3030280802

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9783030280802

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