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The Trials of Masculinity

Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

By: Angus McLaren

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The Trials of Masculinity

Policing Sexual Boundaries, 1870-1930

By: Angus McLaren

In this path-breaking history of manhood and masculinity, Angus McLaren examines how nineteenth- and twentieth-century western society created what we now take to be the traditional model of the heterosexual male. "Inherently interesting. . . . Exhibitionism, pornography, and deception all have their place here."—Library Journal "An appealing wealth of evidence of what trials can reveal about the boundaries of men's roles around the turn of the century."—Kirkus Reviews "It is difficult to imagine a better guide to the most notorious scandals of our great-grandparents' day."—Graham Rosenstock, Lambda Book Report

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University of Chicago Press

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0226500691

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9780226500690

Agents Under Fire

Materialism and the Rationality of Science

By: Angus J. L. Menuge

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Agents Under Fire

Materialism and the Rationality of Science

By: Angus J. L. Menuge

In Agents Under Fire, Menuge defends a robust notion of agency and intentionaility against eliminative and naturalistic alternatives, showing the interconnections between the philosophy of mind, theology, and Intelligent Design.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742534049

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9780742534049

Reproduction by Design

Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain

By: Angus McLaren

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Reproduction by Design

Sex, Robots, Trees, and Test-Tube Babies in Interwar Britain

By: Angus McLaren

Drawing on novels, plays, science fiction, and films of the 1920s and 1930s, this book examines modern science's place in reproduction in British and American cultural history.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226560694

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9780226560694

The Death of Ramón González

The Modern Agricultural Dilemma

By: Angus Wright

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The Death of Ramón González

The Modern Agricultural Dilemma

By: Angus Wright

The Death of Ramón González has become a benchmark book since its publication in 1990. It has been taught in undergraduate and graduate courses in every social science discipline, sustainable and alternative agriculture, environmental studies, ecology, ethnic studies, public health, and Mexican, Latin American, and environmental history. The book has also been used at the University of California-Santa Cruz as a model of interdisciplinary work and at the University of Iowa as a model of fine journalism, and has inspired numerous other books, theses, films, and investigative journalism pieces. This revised edition of The Death of Ramón González updates the science and politics of pesticides and agricultural development. In a new afterword, Angus Wright reconsiders the book's central ideas within the context of globalization, trade liberalization, and NAFTA, showing that in many ways what he called "the modern agricultural dilemma" should now be thought of as a "twenty-first century dilemma" that involves far more than agriculture.

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University of Texas Press

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0292786603

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9780292786608

Habitat: Human Settlements in an Urban Age

By: Angus M. Gunn

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Habitat: Human Settlements in an Urban Age

By: Angus M. Gunn

Habitat: Human Settlements in an Urban Age discusses the man-made environment and its physical setting, focusing on the urban slums of the world and rural hinterlands that caused the slums. Each chapter of this book deals with a specific issue, and the study of each issue is concluded with three questions—one answerable from the text, a second raising value questions for discussion, and a third extending the study beyond the documentation available in this text. Numerous maps, statistical charts, photographs, and end table of facts and figures are also provided to further assist in the investigation process. Topics elaborated in this text include the rural-urban system; urban frontier; rural stagnation; population; poor and rich; hazards of the environment; energy crisis; shelter for the urban millions; and planning for tomorrow. This publication is intended for secondary and tertiary students, but is also a good reference for individuals researching on the issues of habitat or human settlement.

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Elsevier

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1483136531

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9781483136530

Scripture: A Very Theological Proposal

By: Angus Paddison

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Scripture: A Very Theological Proposal

By: Angus Paddison

To identify the biblical texts as 'Scripture' is to make a series of specific claims about this text: that it is drawn into the activity of the triune God of Israel; that its ultimate destination is the worshipping church; and that it has a ministry in shaping Christian thinking and acting. Scripture: A Very Theological Proposal advances that the resources for reading Scripture, understanding its claims, and acting upon them will be found by looking to the church's life and doctrines. Reading Scripture with a host of theologians, Paddison proposes a hermeneutic appropriate to reading Scripture both as divine address and the book of the church. The book positions itself by resisting accounts in which Scripture's relationship to God and its life within the church are understood competitively, as if the more we attend to one the less we are attending to the other. Chapters further explore a doctrine of Scripture and the relationship of ethics, doctrine, and preaching to Scripture. A final chapter asks, can, or should, Scripture be read in the university?

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567588513

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9780567588517

Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Angus McLaren

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Birth Control in Nineteenth-Century England

By: Angus McLaren

The decline of the British birth rate was arguably the most important social change to occur in the last decades of the nineteenth century, but historians have shown remarkably little interest in the phenomenon. Most of the work done on the question has been by sociologists and reflects their assumption that the progressive adoption of birth control was largely a matter of the lower classes aping the behaviour of their ‘betters’. Originally published in 1978, this book argues against this interpretation. It contends that the great interest of the nineteenth-century birth control debate is that it reveals that there was not a growing consensus of opinion on the question of family planning but rather two cultural confrontations – the struggle of the middle-class propagandists of both left and right to manipulate for political purposes working-class attitudes towards procreation, and, on a deeper level, the clash of the differing attitudes of men and women towards the possibility of fertility control. The purpose of this study is to place the idea and practice of birth control in their social and political context, and four major factors are focused upon to this end: the first is that the birth control issue played a key role in the confrontation between Malthusians, socialists, eugenists and feminists. Secondly, the whole question of contraception led to a conflict between doctors, quacks, midwives and ordinary men and women seeking to control their own fertility. Thirdly, men and women belong to different sexual cultures and necessarily respond in different ways to the possibility of family regulation, and finally, despite the claims of some that birth control was an innovation, it was the pre-industrial forms of fertility control – including abortion – which brought the birth rate down.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000629945

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9781000629941

Such Darling Dodos

And Other Stories

By: Angus Wilson

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Such Darling Dodos

And Other Stories

By: Angus Wilson

Towards the end of Angus Wilson's life his short stories were entombed in a collected volume. By way of signifying the corpus was sadly complete that made sense but it didn't do justice to the importance and quality of his work in this medium. Three volumes of short stories were published - The Wrong Set, Such Darling Dodos and A Bit Off the Map. Faber Finds are reissuing these original selections. Angus Wilson made his initial reputation by his short stories, The Wrong Set and Such Darling Dodos being his first two published books, appearing in 1949 and 1950 respectively. When reviewing Such Darling Dodos C. P. Snow perceptively wrote, 'Part-bizarre, part-savage and part-maudlin, there is nothing much like it on the contemporary scene. It is rather as though a man of acute sensibility felt left out of the human party, and was surveying it, half-enviously, half-contemptuously, from the corner of the room, determined to strip-off the comfortable pretences and show that this party is pretty horrifying after all ... Sometimes the effect is too mad to be pleasant, sometimes most moving; no one could deny Mr Wilson's gift.' As Margaret Drabble points out in her biography of Angus Wilson (to be reissued in Faber Finds) his stories were in their own way to be as iconoclastic and irreverent as John Osborne's plays were to be. They not so much deserve as demand to be re-read.

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Faber & Faber

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0571253105

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9780571253104

Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law

By: Simon Deakin, FBA,Angus Johnston,Basil Markesinis

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Markesinis and Deakin's Tort Law

By: Simon Deakin, FBA,Angus Johnston,Basil Markesinis

Fully updated to cover developments including the Protection from Harassment Act 1997, the Human Rights Act, Regina vs. Ireland, and Regina vs. Burstow, this book provides comprehensive commentary on tort law. The authors provide a variety of comparative and economic perspectives upon the area.

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1002

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Oxford University Press

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0199591989

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9780199591985

A Prescription for Murder

The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream

By: Angus McLaren

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A Prescription for Murder

The Victorian Serial Killings of Dr. Thomas Neill Cream

By: Angus McLaren

McLaren develops a historiographical survey on Victorian attitudes toward sexuality and morality, and their relation to violence as he describes the story of Dr. Thomas Cream. Cream murdered prostitutes and women seeking abortions in England and North America between 1877 and 1892.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226560686

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9780226560687

The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby

Volume I: Ascent, 1799-1851

By: Angus Hawkins

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The Forgotten Prime Minister: The 14th Earl of Derby

Volume I: Ascent, 1799-1851

By: Angus Hawkins

The first ever full biographical study of Lord Derby - the first British statesman to become prime minister three times and the longest serving leader in the history of British party politics. A book that is likely to seriously affect the way we think not only about Derby himself, but also about Victorian politics and society more generally.

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Oxford University Press

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0199204403

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9780199204403

The Operation of Steam Locomotives

By: Angus Sinclair

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The Operation of Steam Locomotives

By: Angus Sinclair

Reprint of the original.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368260146

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9783368260149

The Impact of Geology on the United States

A Reference Guide to Benefits and Hazards

By: Angus M. Gunn

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The Impact of Geology on the United States

A Reference Guide to Benefits and Hazards

By: Angus M. Gunn

Everything we see in our landscapes today was created by geological actions, all of them accompanied by earthquakes and volcanism. This thorough examination of the geology of the United States and its impact on people's lives explores the processes that shape the land surfaces of the United States. These processes act over long periods of time and are affected by such factors as wind, rain, and temperature. Readers will discover how they frequently catch us by surprise when unexpected events occur, as well as how we often ignore signals that indicate repeat disasters. The hazards associated with geological processes are a continuing concern, but readers will also discover the benefits of many of these so-called natural disasters. Geologic regions define the framework for the book. Gunn provides readers with an accessible overview of geology, defining such concepts as erosion and deposition and discussing such factors as the different kinds of rocks found in the earth's crust. He also explores the concept of plate tectonics in detail. Representative states have been selected to illustrate hazards and geologic features found over large areas, and students can discover those areas that are the most dangerous in which to live. Students are encouraged to draw on the resources provided for further in-depth study of the fascinating topics introduced and discussed.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313074410

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9780313074417

In Search of Your British & Irish Roots

A Complete Guide to Tracing Your English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Ancestors

By: Angus Baxter

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In Search of Your British & Irish Roots

A Complete Guide to Tracing Your English, Welsh, Scottish & Irish Ancestors

By: Angus Baxter

Whether you conduct your research in person or by mail, this celebrated manual--now in its Fourth Edition--will guide you in finding your ancestors in Britain or Ireland. Noted genealogist Angus Baxter provides detailed instructions for locating records abroad and shows how easy it is to do it by mail or in person.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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080631611X

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9780806316116

Playboys and Mayfair Men

Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

By: Angus McLaren

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Playboys and Mayfair Men

Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London

By: Angus McLaren

The shocking true story of a diamond theft gone wrong. In December 1937, four respectable young men in their twenties, all products of elite English public schools, conspired to lure to the luxurious Hyde Park Hotel a representative of Cartier, the renowned jewelry firm. There, the “Mayfair men” brutally bludgeoned diamond salesman Etienne Bellenger and made off with eight rings that today would be worth approximately half a million pounds. Such well-connected young people were not supposed to appear in the prisoner’s dock at the Old Bailey. Not surprisingly, the popular newspapers had a field day responding to the public’s insatiable appetite for news about the upper-crust rowdies and their unsavory pasts. In Playboys and Mayfair Men, Angus McLaren recounts the violent robbery and sensational trial that followed. He uses the case as a hook to draw the reader into a revelatory exploration of key interwar social issues, from masculinity and cultural decadence to broader anxieties about moral decay. In his gripping depiction of Mayfair’s celebrity high life, McLaren describes the crime in detail, as well as the police investigation, the suspects, their trial, and the aftermath of their convictions.

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273

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JHU Press

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1421423472

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9781421423470

Invasion!

Operation Sea Lion, 1940

By: Martin Marix Evans,Angus Mcgeoch

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Invasion!

Operation Sea Lion, 1940

By: Martin Marix Evans,Angus Mcgeoch

This terrifying alternative reality is actually based on historical facts. The book follows the real course of events up to1 September, including the planning in Britain and Germany, and the aerial war. The fictional story then supposes that the Germans halted their advance in France along the Seine and the Aisne after the fall of Paris and that Marshal Petain conceded an armistice at that point. The Panzer divisions are thus able to rest and re-equip in northern France... A brilliant blend of meticulous research and imagination, this book is bound to appeal to anyone with an interest in the causes and effects of historical events, and indeed to anyone interested in world war history itself.

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Routledge

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1317868285

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9781317868286

A Respectable Ditch

A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway, 1833-1920

By: James T. Angus

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A Respectable Ditch

A History of the Trent-Severn Waterway, 1833-1920

By: James T. Angus

Canada's leaders were key participants. Governor-generals, from Sir Guy Carleton, who ordered the first survey, to Lord Syndenham, who cancelled construction in 1841, were intimately involved in the project. For nearly a century every prime minister, from Francis Hincks, who tried to sell the decaying locks and dams, through John A. Macdonald, who revived the scheme, to Robert Borden, who finally completed it, was caught up in this most persistent public project. But the most important participants were countless little-known Canadians who, for one reason or another, promoted the scheme and doggedly pushed it to a conclusion. This is their story.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773561331

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9780773561335

Locomotive Engine Running and Management; A Treatise On Locomotive Engines

in large print

By: Angus Sinclair

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Locomotive Engine Running and Management; A Treatise On Locomotive Engines

in large print

By: Angus Sinclair

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387084757

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9783387084757

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