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David Lloyd George

A Biography in Cartoons

By: Alan Mumford

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This review of cartoons of the life of one of the major politicians of the twentieth century is unique in covering Lloyd George from the first cartoon in May 1894 to his death in March 1945. The context for the cartoons is provided through a summary of his life, the special features of Lloyd George as an 'outsider' and the social economic and political environment. The book proceeds through the major events in his life – the Boer War, the 1909 Budget and struggle with the House of Lords, the Marconi scandal… His role as 'the man who won the War', as a divisive figure in the Liberal Party and then the initiator of proposals to reduce unemployment is also shown. A further chapter focuses on attempts to portray him as a man playing many parts – snake charmer, music hall performer, revolutionary, Charlie Chaplin...

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1783065567

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9781783065561

George Young – Teacher, Performer, War Hero and Friend

By: Alan Sharp

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George Young – Teacher, Performer, War Hero and Friend

By: Alan Sharp

I wrote this book because, like many others, I found George Young an inspiration. It seemed it would be valuable to share his story, using his own words, wherever possible. He was a man of many and varied talents. An exceptionally gifted teacher at Colchester Royal Grammar School - the bookís appendix consists of 36 individualsí memories of his impact on them. They became his friends for as many as 60 years after leaving school and helped raise funds for a fine building as a memorial to him. Yet his influence and contribution extended far beyond the school. He had a distinguished career as an officer with the Green Howards during the Second World War and was awarded the Military Cross. Even after his retirement from teaching he continued to perform on the theatre and Music Hall stages until after his 90th birthday, receiving a national award at the age of 91 as the oldest regular amateur performer in the country. His huge contribution to the theatrical life of Colchester as an actor and director with local drama groups included raising funds to assist with the establishment of the Mercury Theatre. Open any page in this book for a fascinating insight into Georgeís character and wisdom, his wit and his accomplishments. It feels right to have a remarkable life such as his recorded for posterity.

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Paragon Publishing

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1782226869

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9781782226864

David Lloyd George

Great Britain

By: Alan Sharp

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David Lloyd George

Great Britain

By: Alan Sharp

David Lloyd George (1863-1945). The end of the First World War saw Britain at the height of its power. Its fleet and air force were the largest in the world. Its armies had triumphed in the Middle East and spearheaded the final attacks in Western Europe that had driven the defeated Germans to seek an armistice. Britain now had to translate this military victory into the achievement of its war aims and future security and prosperity. Its main negotiator at the forthcoming peace conference would be its prime minister, the ebullient and enigmatic David Lloyd George, the "Welsh Wizard" and "the man who had won the war." Lloyd George's energy had maintained the war effort through the dark days of 1917 and early 1918, but now he anticipated, with relish, the prospect of winning the peace. Few were better equipped. He was a skilled and accomplished negotiator with the knack of reconciling the apparently irreconcilable. His admirers, of whom there were many, pointed to his brilliant and agile mind, his rapid grasp of complex questions and his powers of persuasion. His critics, who were also numerous, distrusted his sleight of hand, fleetness of foot and, frankly, his word. His six months in Paris in 1919, as he pitted his wits against formidable world leaders like Woodrow Wilson and Georges Clemenceau, were among the most enjoyable but exhausting of his life. This study investigates the extent to which Lloyd George succeeded in his aims and evaluates the immediate and longer-term results of his negotiations for Britain.

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Haus Publishing

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1907822178

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9781907822179

George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation

By: Alan L. Mintz

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George Eliot & the Novel of Vocation

By: Alan L. Mintz

Mintz has discovered a new sub-genre of fiction: the novel of vocation. In the nineteenth century, he maintains, work ceased to be merely what one did for a living or out of a sense of duty and became a vehicle for self-definition and self-realization. The change was prepared for by the growth of professions and the increase in middle-class career opportunities, He shows how George Eliot, in particular, linked these new social possibilities to the older Puritan doctrine of calling or vocation, achieving in her late novels a fictional structure that could encompass the conflicting energies of the age. In the idea of vocation she found a way to explore how far it is possible to be ambitious both for oneself and for a large cause, and a way to probe the contradictions between ambitious, self-defining work and the older institutions; of family, community, and religion. The book is solidly grounded in cultural and historical reality. Although Mintz concentrate on George Eliot and especially Middlemarch, he also examines the conceptions of self and work in Victorian biographies and autobiographies and the emergence in late-nineteenth-century fiction of the idea of the vocation of art.

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Harvard University Press

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0674348737

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9780674348738

The Story Behind George Orwell's Animal Farm

By: Alan Brown

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The Story Behind George Orwell's Animal Farm

By: Alan Brown

How is this novel an analysis of the abuse of political power? What famous poet turned down the chance to publish this novel? What events in George Orwell's life were the inspiration for this novel? Discover how fighting in the Spanish Civil War inspired Orwell to write against totalitarianism.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1403482039

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9781403482037

George Toma

Nitty Gritty Dirt Man

By: George Toma,Alan Goforth

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George Toma

Nitty Gritty Dirt Man

By: George Toma,Alan Goforth

This is the story of George Toma, who climbed from his roots in a poor coal-mining town in Depression-era Pennsylvania to the top of his profession as a groundskeeper. Toma has become the authority in his profession, preparing the field for every Super Bowl that has ever been played. Toma was inducted into the NFL Hall of Fame in 2001.

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Sports Publishing LLC

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1582616469

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George W.E. Nickelsburg in Perspective, vol. 2

An Ongoing Dialogue of Learning

By: Jacob Neusner,Alan Avery-Peck

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George W.E. Nickelsburg in Perspective, vol. 2

An Ongoing Dialogue of Learning

By: Jacob Neusner,Alan Avery-Peck

In these volumes we pays tribute to George W.E. Nickelsburg through acts of engaged, critical scholarship, in which specialists reread articles reproduced in these pages and respond to them, with Nickelsburg then joining issue—a protracted engagement, spanning an entire intellectual career and many of its more important moments. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129870).

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BRILL

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9004531319

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9789004531314

George Gently Omnibus (Books 1-4)

By: Alan Hunter

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George Gently Omnibus (Books 1-4)

By: Alan Hunter

Discover the first four titles in the George Gently series at an unmissable price _______________ GENTLY DOES IT The last thing you need when you're on holiday is to become involved in a murder. For George Gently, it is a case of business as usual. The Chief Inspector's quiet Easter break in Norchester is rudely interrupted when a local timber merchant is found dead. His son, with whom he had been seen arguing, immediately becomes the prime suspect, although Gently is far from convinced of his guilt. Norchester City Police gratefully accept Gently's offer to help investigate the murder, but he soon clashes with Inspector Hansom, the officer in charge of the case. Locking horns with the local law is a distraction Gently can do without when he's on the trail of a killer. _______________ GENTLY BY THE SHORE In a British seaside holiday resort at the height of the season, you would expect to find a promenade and a pier, maybe some donkeys. You would not expect to find a naked corpse, punctured with stab wounds, lying on the sand. Chief Inspector George Gently is called in to investigate the disturbing murder. The case has to be wrapped up quickly to calm the nerves of concerned holidaymakers. No one wants to think that there is a maniac on the loose in the town but with no clothes or identifying marks on the body, Gently has a tough time establishing who the victim is, let alone finding the killer. In the meantime, who knows where or when the murderer might strike again? _______________ GENTLY DOWN THE STREAM Time spent messing about on the river isn't supposed to end with a brutal murder. The staff at Stoley's Boatyard were used to holidaymakers returning their pleasure cruisers a little late after a week or so exploring the network of waterways around Norchester. They were not used to finding their yachts burned almost beyond recognition with the charred remains of a client still aboard.Taking on the murder investigation, Chief Inspector George Gently faces an enquiry like no other. Somewhere beneath the lies of the victim's wife, somewhere obscured by the brittle edge of her daughter's fear, somewhere hidden by her son's hysteria, lies the truth. Gently's only hope is to sweep aside the litter of chaos and confusion to uncover the identity of the killer. _______________ LANDED GENTLY: Having been invited to spend Christmas in the country, fishing for pike, Gently finds himself hunting a completely different predator when a guest at Merely Hall, a nearby stately home, is found dead at the foot of the grand staircase on Christmas morning. At first the tragedy is assumed to be a simple accident, but Gently is not one to jump to conclusions and is soon in no doubt whatsoever that this was murder. Merely produces the finest tapestries in England but the threads that Gently must unravel in his investigation are more complex than any weaver's design, with everyone from the lord of the manor to his most lowly servant falling under suspicion. Find out why readers LOVE the George Gently series 'Very descriptive . . . great fun to read' 'Witty, well-plotted, and thoroughly enjoyable' 'Charming whodunnit

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C & R Crime

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1780339755

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Curious George and the Dinosaur

By: H. A. Rey,Margret Rey,Alan J. Shalleck

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Curious George and the Dinosaur

By: H. A. Rey,Margret Rey,Alan J. Shalleck

While visiting the museum with Jimmy's class, Curious George can't resist climbing onto one of the exhibits. The director of the museum isn't very happy about that, but George sure knows how to make a field trip interesting!

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0547562810

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George W.E. Nickelsburg in Perspective, vol. 1

An Ongoing Dialogue of Learning

By: Jacob Neusner,Alan Avery-Peck

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George W.E. Nickelsburg in Perspective, vol. 1

An Ongoing Dialogue of Learning

By: Jacob Neusner,Alan Avery-Peck

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9004531300

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9789004531307

George Washington: America's First Strategic Leader

By: Lt.-Colonel Alan L. Orr III USMC

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George Washington: America's First Strategic Leader

By: Lt.-Colonel Alan L. Orr III USMC

George Washington is widely recognized as one of the greatest strategic leaders in our nation’s history. His ability to lead a rag-tag group of militia against the most powerful nation of his time appears to be unexplainable. Through further analysis though, one can begin to see a pattern appear that may explain why Washington’s personal theory of war was so successful, and hence explain why he became such a great strategic leader. George Washington was not a particularly successful tactical leader, and his experiences in leading troops culminated prior to the Revolutionary War at the Regimental level. He went on to lead a productive life as a statesman in the Virginia legislature until the war with Britain erupted and he was cast into the role as America’s first Commander in Chief. His ability to comprehend the conflict for what it was, as well as his ability to understand the will of his fellow countrymen allowed him to craft a wartime strategy for victory against the most powerful nation on earth at the time. He kept the will of the people, the tactics of the army and the desires of the state in balance to devise a strategy that would allow him to go down in history as America’s first strategic leader.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1782896481

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The Legal Ideology of Removal

The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations

By: Tim Alan Garrison

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The Legal Ideology of Removal

The Southern Judiciary and the Sovereignty of Native American Nations

By: Tim Alan Garrison

This study is the first to show how state courts enabled the mass expulsion of Native Americans from their southern homelands in the 1830s. Our understanding of that infamous period, argues Tim Alan Garrison, is too often molded around the towering personalities of the Indian removal debate, including President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee leader John Ross, and United States Supreme Court Justice John Marshall. This common view minimizes the impact on Indian sovereignty of some little-known legal cases at the state level. Because the federal government upheld Native American self-dominion, southerners bent on expropriating Indian land sought a legal toehold through state supreme court decisions. As Garrison discusses Georgia v. Tassels (1830), Caldwell v. Alabama (1831), Tennessee v. Forman (1835), and other cases, he shows how proremoval partisans exploited regional sympathies. By casting removal as a states' rights, rather than a moral, issue, they won the wide support of a land-hungry southern populace. The disastrous consequences to Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaws, Chickasaws, and Seminoles are still unfolding. Important in its own right, jurisprudence on Indian matters in the antebellum South also complements the legal corpus on slavery. Readers will gain a broader perspective on the racial views of the southern legal elite, and on the logical inconsistencies of southern law and politics in the conceptual period of the anti-Indian and proslavery ideologies.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820334170

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9780820334172

The Utah Guide, 3rd Ed

By: Alan Kent Powell

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The Utah Guide, 3rd Ed

By: Alan Kent Powell

This is the most comprehensive guidebook to the state of Utah, with information on historic attractions, festivals, cultural events, outdoor activities, accommodations, and restaurants. 139 photos. 9 maps.

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Fulcrum Publishing

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1555911145

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9781555911140

George Orwell

After "1984"

By: Alan Sandison

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George Orwell

After "1984"

By: Alan Sandison

First published in 1974 under the title The Last Man in Europe, Alan Sandison's book took an unusual view of Orwell as a writer of paradox wherein the Protestant urge to question struggles with a longing to assent. The argument of the book was described in the Economist as 'brilliantly sustained and magisterially cumulative'. Ten years after first publication this new edition of the book, which significantly extends the argument, is still a challenge to conventional thinking about Orwell, showing him to be remarkably dependent upon the Protestant/Puritan tradition which he is no longer able to accept.

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Springer

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1349181099

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9781349181094

George W. Bush Speaks to the Nation

By: George Walker Bush,Alan M. Gottlieb

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George W. Bush Speaks to the Nation

By: George Walker Bush,Alan M. Gottlieb

Selected speeches of President George W. Bush that start with his first Inaugural Address, includes his National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, his Declaration of War on Terror, his State of the Union speeches, his major speeches on the war on Iraq, his important Progress of Democracy in the Middle East speech and his famous We did not Charge...only to Retreat speech at Whitehall Palace in Britain.

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0936783400

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9780936783406

V for Vendetta

By: Alan Moore

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V for Vendetta

By: Alan Moore

The graphic novel that inspired the hit Warner Bros. motion picture and DVD from the Wachowski Bros., the directors of THE MATRIX films and SPEED RACER. In the near future, England has become a corrupt, totalitarian state, opposed only by V, the mystery man wearing a white porcelain mask who intends to free the masses through absurd acts of terrorism.

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DC Comics

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1779511922

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9781779511928

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