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The End of the Church?

Conversations with the Work of David Jasper

By: Hannah Marije Altorf,John Reuben Davies,Tibor Fabiny,Michael Fuller,Trevor Hart,Alison Jack,Elisabeth Jay,Lori A . Kanitz,Vassiliki Kolocotroni,Ann Loades,Margaret Masson,Donald Orr,Jeremy J . Smith,Heather Walton

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The End of the Church?

Conversations with the Work of David Jasper

These 14 essays by scholars who have worked with David Jasper in both church and academy develop original discussions of themes emerging from his writings on literature, theology and hermeneutics. The arts, institutions, literature and liturgy are among the subject areas they cover.

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Sacristy Press

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1789592542

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9781789592542

Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud

By: Alison Cronin

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Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud

By: Alison Cronin

Through a rational reconstruction of orthodox legal principles, and reference to cutting-edge neuro-science, this book reveals some startling truths about the criminal law, its history and the fundamental doctrines that underpin the attribution of criminal fault. While this has important implications for the criminal law generally, the focus of this work is the development of a theory of corporate criminality that accords with modern theory of group agency, itself informed by advancements in contemporary philosophy and social science. The innovation it proposes is the theoretical and practical means by which criminal fault can be attributed directly to the corporate actor, where liability cannot or should not be reduced to its individual members.

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225

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Routledge

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1351716840

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9781351716840

Kinship and Clientage

Highland Clanship 1451-1609

By: Alison Cathcart

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Kinship and Clientage

Highland Clanship 1451-1609

By: Alison Cathcart

This volume examines Highland society during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries highlighting the extent to which kinship and clientage were organising principles within clanship. Based on clans located in the central and eastern Highlands this study goes some way to addressing the imbalance in Highland historiography which hitherto has concentrated largely on the west Highlands and islands. Focusing initially on internal clan structure, the study broadens into an analysis of local politics within the context of regional and national affairs, raising questions regarding the importance of land and the nature of lordship as well as emphasising the need for Highland history to be integrated further into broader studies of Scottish society during this period.

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288

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BRILL

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9047409191

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9789047409199

The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

Town Planning in Modern Society

By: Alison Ravetz

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The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

Town Planning in Modern Society

By: Alison Ravetz

Britain’s planning system began as ‘town and country planning’ to repair the ravages of unplanned industrialism and promote ideal environments for the future. Steering a course between left and right, public control and for-profit development, it survived successive booms and busts, broadening to include new concerns like ecology, conservation and community participation. By the 1986, when this book was first published, the system’s survival beyond the year 2000 was in doubt. It did endure, but it is now under serious threat from the right, which sees it as obstructing enterprise and the restoration of ‘growth’. It has been stripped of some of its core aims and mechanisms, while as yet there is no agenda distinguishing growth that will be sustainable from growth which self-evidently is not. The Government of Space was written as a concise guide for the non-specialist to the origins and evolution of British planning, its intellectual pedigree, achievements and cruxes. It is an invaluable background to the state of planning and the cases for and against it today.

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157

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Routledge

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1134465173

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9781134465170

This Realm of New Zealand

The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown

By: Janet McLean,Alison Quentin-Baxter

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This Realm of New Zealand

The Sovereign, the Governor-General, the Crown

By: Janet McLean,Alison Quentin-Baxter

New Zealand is a democratic constitutional monarchy, one of Queen Elizabeth II's sixteen realms. This book provides a comprehensive account of how the Queen, the Governor-General and the Crown interact with our democratically-elected leaders under New Zealand's unwritten constitution.The authors explain how these islands in the South Pacific were first brought within Queen Victoria's dominions, the arrangements then made for their future government, and how those arrangements developed over time with the pressure for democracy and responsible government to become New Zealand's current constitution. They discuss the responsibilities of, and interactions between, the key office-holders: the Sovereign herself; her representative, the Governor-General; the impersonal and perpetual Crown, and the Prime Minister, other Ministers and Members of Parliament. All of them affect in some way the government which runs the country day to day. In an afterword, the authors examine some of the key issues to be considered should New Zealand become a republic.The parliamentary democracy that we take for granted can conceal New Zealand's ultimate constitutional underpinnings in the monarchy. But, as the authors make clear, the monarchy's continuing role in New Zealand's constitution is significant. And understanding the roles of the Queen, the Governor-General and the Crown will be critical as we look forward to debates about the possibility of a republic in New Zealand.

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Auckland University Press

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1775589633

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9781775589631

Tree of strings

Crann nan teud: a history of the harp in Scotland

By: Keith Sanger,Alison Kinnaird

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Tree of strings

Crann nan teud: a history of the harp in Scotland

By: Keith Sanger,Alison Kinnaird

This is the first history of the harp in Scotland to be published. It sets out to trace the development of the instrument from its earliest appearance on the Pictish stones of the 8th century, to the present day. Describing the different harps played in the Highlands and the Lowlands of Scotland, the authors examine the literary and physical evidence for their use within the Royal Courts and "big houses" by professional harpers and aristocratic amateurs. They vividly follow the decline of the wire-strung clarsach from its links with the hereditary bards of the Highland chieftains to its disappearance in the 18th century, and the subsequent attempts at the revival of the small harp during the 19th and 20th centuries. The music played on the harp, and its links with the great families of Scotland are described. The authors present, in this book, material which has never before been brought to light, from unpublished documents, family papers and original manuscripts. They also make suggestions, based on their research, about the development and dissemination of the early Celtic harps and their music. This book, therefore, should be of great interest, not only to harp players but to historians, to all musicians in the fields of traditional and early music, and to any reader who recognises the importance of these beautiful instruments, and their music, throughout a thousand years of Scottish culture.

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311

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Routledge

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1317300904

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9781317300908

The Web of Empire

English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660

By: Alison Games

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The Web of Empire

English Cosmopolitans in an Age of Expansion, 1560-1660

By: Alison Games

How did England go from a position of inferiority to the powerful Spanish empire to achieve global pre-eminence? In this important work, Alison Games explores the period when England challenged dominion over the American continents, established new long-distance trade routes in the eastern Mediterranean and the East Indies, and emerged in the 17th century as an empire to reckon with.

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Oxford University Press

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0199733384

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9780199733385

HAUNTINGS: A SHORT COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALES

By: ALISON STUART

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HAUNTINGS: A SHORT COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALES

By: ALISON STUART

From the dark days of the English Civil War to a family camping trip in the Australian bush, this lighthearted collection of ghost stories from Alison Stuart is guaranteed if not to scare, then at least to entertain. Stories: THE PROMISE Badly wounded at the battle of Worcester, the last battle of the English Civil War, Ben has returned to his home and someone is waiting for him, someone who has a promise to keep… THE GREY LADY The Grey Lady is only seen when the last male heir of the Compton-Barrs will die a violent death...But the Compton-Barrs have left Livingstone Hall. There are no male heirs... or are there? THE BALL OF THE LOST SOULS After a lifetime devoted to caring for others, Alice Collins takes a cruise to Bermuda... but this is a cruise unlike any other. What will she find at the Ball of the Lost Souls? LOST! A dark cloud covers Mt. Oberon and the wind blows in from the south... young Brad Cooper has gone missing on a family walk on the Lilly Pilly Gully track. Will he be found in time or will the Australian bush once more claim a life - just as it did eighteen months previously?

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Oportet Publishing

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0645237809

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History of Europe During the French Revolution

By: Archibald Alison

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History of Europe During the French Revolution

By: Archibald Alison

This bestselling history, published between 1833 and 1842, interpreted the French Revolution as a warning about the dangers of democracy.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108025447

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Entangled Things

Objects and the Anthropocene

By: Alison Hulme

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Entangled Things

Objects and the Anthropocene

By: Alison Hulme

Entangled Things takes the concept of entanglement as its starting point in investigating the relationship between us and the material things we engage with. Each chapter illustrates a particular form of entanglement – desiring things, hoarding things, creating things, ridding ourselves of things – using ethnographic examples and theoretical perspectives. Hulme encourages a wider consideration of the place of humans in the world, and the kind of choices we enact when influenced by the material things around us. She explores our relationships with material objects in light of both personal and planetary ‘space’, and personal and historical time, from the space in our homes, storage spaces, landfill and oceans; to the times in our lives and the times in wider shared histories that things connect us to, not to mention our sense of time and our own place in the world. In so doing, Hulme intentionally places discussions on our entanglement with things squarely back into the context of the Anthropocene, with a provocative analysis in which the Anthropocene is posited as a concept which on one hand takes away human agency, placing us in the context of immense geological epochs, whilst on the other hand pushes agency upon humans, blaming us for the extreme challenges of the current era and looking to us to solve those challenges. For Hulme, material things are instrumental in helping us to grasp our existential place in the world and weave a way through the complications of living in epochal times.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000185354

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9781000185355

Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley

By: Alison Weir

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Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley

By: Alison Weir

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Alison Weir's Mary Boleyn. Handsome, accomplished, and charming, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, staked his claim to the English throne by marrying Mary Stuart, who herself claimed to be the Queen of England. It was not long before Mary discovered that her new husband was interested only in securing sovereign power for himself. Then, on February 10, 1567, an explosion at his lodgings left Darnley dead; the intrigue thickened after it was discovered that he had apparently been suffocated before the blast. After an exhaustive reevaluation of the source material, Alison Weir has come up with a solution to this enduring mystery. Employing her gift for vivid characterization and gripping storytelling, Weir has written one of her most engaging excursions yet into Britain’s bloodstained, power-obsessed past.

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Random House

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0307431479

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9780307431479

Britain's Royal Families

The Complete Genealogy

By: Alison Weir

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Britain's Royal Families

The Complete Genealogy

By: Alison Weir

Fascinating and authoritative of Britain's royal families from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I to Queen Victoria, by leading popular historian Alison Weir 'George III is alleged to have married secretly, on 17th April, 1759, a Quakeress called Hannah Lightfoot. If George III did make such a marriage...then his subsequent marriage to Queen Charlotte was bigamous, and every monarch of Britain since has been a usurper, the rightful heirs of George III being his children by Hannah Lightfoot...' Britain's Royal Families provides in one volume, complete genealogical details of all members of the royal houses of England, Scotland and Great Britain - from 800AD to the present. Drawing on countless authorities, both ancient and modern, Alison Weir explores the crown and royal family tree in unprecedented depth and provides a comprehensive guide to the heritage of today's royal family – with fascinating insight and often scandalous secrets. 'Staggeringly useful... combines solid information with tantalising appetisers.’ Mail on Sunday

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Random House

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1446449114

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9781446449110

The Lost Tudor Princess

The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

By: Alison Weir

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The Lost Tudor Princess

The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

By: Alison Weir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE INDEPENDENT • From bestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir comes the first biography of Margaret Douglas, the beautiful, cunning niece of Henry VIII of England who used her sharp intelligence and covert power to influence the succession after the death of Elizabeth I. Royal Tudor blood ran in her veins. Her mother was a queen, her father an earl, and she herself was the granddaughter, niece, cousin, and grandmother of monarchs. Lady Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, was an important figure in Tudor England, yet today, while her contemporaries—Anne Boleyn, Mary, Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I—have achieved celebrity status, she is largely forgotten. Margaret’s life was steeped in intrigue, drama, and tragedy—from her auspicious birth in 1530 to her parents’ bitter divorce, from her ill-fated love affairs to her appointment as lady-in-waiting for four of Henry’s six wives. In an age when women were expected to stay out of the political arena, alluring and tempestuous Margaret helped orchestrate one of the most notorious marriages of the sixteenth century: that of her son Lord Darnley to Mary, Queen of Scots. Margaret defiantly warred with two queens—Mary, and Elizabeth of England—and was instrumental in securing the Stuart ascension to the throne of England for her grandson, James VI. The life of Margaret Douglas spans five reigns and provides many missing links between the Tudor and Stuart dynasties. Drawing on decades of research and myriad original sources—including many of Margaret’s surviving letters—Alison Weir brings this captivating character out of the shadows and presents a strong, capable woman who operated effectively and fearlessly at the very highest levels of power. Praise for The Lost Tudor Princess “This is a substantial, detailed biography of a fascinating woman who lived her extraordinary life to the full, taking desperate chances for love and for ambition. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in the powerful women of the Tudor period.”—Philippa Gregory, The Washington Post “Tackling the family from an unexpected angle, Weir offers a blow-by-blow account of six decades of palace intrigue. . . . Weir balances historical data with emotional speculation to illuminate the ferocious dynastic ambitions and will to power that earned her subject a place in the spotlight.”—The New York Times Book Review

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0345521412

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Book's by Alison Erskine

The End of the Church?

The End of the Church?

Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud

Corporate Criminality and Liability for Fraud

Kinship and Clientage

Kinship and Clientage

The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

The Government of Space (Routledge Revivals)

This Realm of New Zealand

This Realm of New Zealand

Tree of strings

Tree of strings

The Web of Empire

The Web of Empire

HAUNTINGS: A SHORT COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALES

HAUNTINGS: A SHORT COLLECTION OF GHOSTLY TALES

History of Europe During the French Revolution

History of Europe During the French Revolution

Entangled Things

Entangled Things

Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley

Mary, Queen of Scots, and the Murder of Lord Darnley

Britain's Royal Families

Britain's Royal Families

The Lost Tudor Princess

The Lost Tudor Princess

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