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Crucible

The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924

By: Charles Emmerson

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Crucible

The Long End of the Great War and the Birth of a New World, 1917-1924

By: Charles Emmerson

The gripping story of the years that ended the Great War and launched Europe and America onto the roller coaster of the twentieth century, Crucible is filled with all-too-human tales of exuberant dreams, dark fears, and the absurdities of chance In Petrograd, a fire is lit. The Tsar is packed off to Siberia. A rancorous Russian exile returns to proclaim a workers' revolution. In America, black soldiers who have served their country in Europe demand their rights at home. An Austrian war veteran trained by the German army to give rousing speeches against the Bolshevik peril begins to rail against the Jews. A solar eclipse turns a former patent clerk into a celebrity. An American reporter living the high life in Paris searches out a new literary style. Lenin and Hitler, Josephine Baker and Ernest Hemingway, Rosa Luxemburg and Mustafa Kemal--these are some of the protagonists in this dramatic panorama of a world in turmoil. Revolutions and civil wars erupt across Europe. A red scare hits America. Women win the vote. Marching tunes are syncopated into jazz. The real becomes surreal. Encompassing both tragedy and humor, the celebrated author of 1913 brings immediacy and intimacy to this moment of deep historical transformation that molded the world we would come to inherit.

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1610397835

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9781610397834

1913

In Search of the World Before the Great War

By: Charles Emmerson

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1913

In Search of the World Before the Great War

By: Charles Emmerson

Liberating the world of 1913 from a prelude to war narrative and exploring it as it was, this fascinating volume, filled with stories, insights and colorful characters, brings to life a world more integrated and internationalized than we remember.

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Public Affairs

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1610392566

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9781610392563

The Future History of the Arctic

By: Charles Emmerson

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The Future History of the Arctic

By: Charles Emmerson

Long at the margins of global affairs and at the edge of our mental map of the world, the Arctic has found its way to the center of the issues which will challenge and define our world in the twenty-first century: energy security and the struggle for natural resources, climate change and its uncertain speed and consequences, the return of great power competition, the remaking of global trade patterns In The Future History of the Arctic, geopolitics expert Charles Emmerson weaves together the history of the region with reportage and reflection, revealing a vast and complex area of the globe, loaded with opportunity and rich in challenges. He defines the forces which have shaped the Arctic's history and introduces the players in politics, business, science and society who are struggling to mold its future. The Arctic is coming of age. This engrossing book tells the story of how that is happening and how it might happen -- through the stories of those who live there, those who study it, and those who will determine its destiny.

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443

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0786746246

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9780786746248

The Enemy Within Never Did Without

German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945

By: Jeffrey L. Littlejohn,Charles H. Ford

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The Enemy Within Never Did Without

German and Japanese Prisoners of War At Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942-1945

By: Jeffrey L. Littlejohn,Charles H. Ford

Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations across the country and set a high standard for the treatment of prisoners. Between 1943 and 1945, the camp housed roughly 4,700 German POWs and experienced tense relations between incarcerated Nazi and anti-Nazi factions. Then, during the last months of the war, the American military selected Camp Huntsville as the home of its top-secret re-education program for Japanese POWs. The irony of teaching Japanese prisoners about democracy and voting rights was not lost on African Americans in East Texas who faced disenfranchisement and racial segregation. Nevertheless, the camp did inspire some Japanese prisoners to support democratization of their home country when they returned to Japan after the war. Meanwhile, in this country, the US government sold Camp Huntsville to Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1946, and the site served as the school’s Country Campus through the mid-1950s. “This long-overdue project is one I started working on decades ago but didn’t finish. It is gratifying to see the book come to fruition through the efforts of these two history professors. And what a job they’ve done!”—Paul Ruffin, Director, TRP

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Texas A&M University Press

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1680030299

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9781680030297

Autoethnographic Reflections on a Research Journey

Dual Perspectives from a Doctoral Student and a Researcher Development Specialist

By: Juliet Aleta Rivera Villanueva,Douglas Charles Forbes Eacersall

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Autoethnographic Reflections on a Research Journey

Dual Perspectives from a Doctoral Student and a Researcher Development Specialist

By: Juliet Aleta Rivera Villanueva,Douglas Charles Forbes Eacersall

This book assists research students, supervisors, practitioners, and associated others to successfully navigate their research journey by highlighting research student experiences leading to student success. It reveals the research journey through an auto-ethnographic study based on the research student’s narratives accompanied by digital artifacts. It also includes commentary from the perspective of a researcher development specialist who assisted this researcher throughout this journey. This book provides insights into research journeys through layered accounts and meanings, which include the first author’s life events spanning almost two decades alongside higher education pursuits. It presents the perspective of a K-12 teacher-researcher moving into higher education in her local university, who is a Southeast Asian female international student embarking on her second-chance degree in a predominantly Australian learning environment/culture. Accompanying this is the perspective of a research training and development professional who has also undertaken higher degree by research studies.

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Springer Nature

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9819949297

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9789819949298

Prairie Albion

An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois

By: Charles Boewe

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Prairie Albion

An English Settlement in Pioneer Illinois

By: Charles Boewe

Originally published in 1962, this story of the English Settlement in pioneer Illinois is compiled from the eyewitness accounts of the participants. The founders, Morris Birkbeck and George Flower, as well as their associates and the many visitors to their prairie settlement, wrote mainly for immediate and sometimes controversial ends. Charles Boewe has selected excerpts from letters, descriptions, diaries, histories, and periodicals within a chronological framework to emphasize the implicit drama of the settlers' deeds as they searched for a suitable site, founded their colony, and augmented their forces with new arrivals from England. No less dramatic is the subsequent estrangement of the two founders, the disillusionment of many of the English settlers, the untimely death of Birkbeck, and the financial ruin of Flower.

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364

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SIU Press

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0809322838

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9780809322831

Nomads

By: Charles Brobst

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Nomads

By: Charles Brobst

Nomads is a book of situations of what could happen in the United States and the world. The main characters are retired and living moderately wealthy in a travel trailer as snowbirds. They buy items at flea markets and auctions in southwestern states for resale in northwestern states. Through a series of events, they acquire land in Idaho and wind up with a group of other campers to start a mutual aid farm.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1796041394

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9781796041392

Norfolk Annals

Volume 1

By: Charles Mackie

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Norfolk Annals

Volume 1

By: Charles Mackie

Reproduction of the original: Norfolk Annals by Charles Mackie

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3752414812

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9783752414813

Our Uncommon Heritage

Biodiversity Change, Ecosystem Services, and Human Wellbeing

By: Charles Perrings

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Our Uncommon Heritage

Biodiversity Change, Ecosystem Services, and Human Wellbeing

By: Charles Perrings

Biodiversity change is the biggest environmental problem of our time. It leads to much more than species extinctions, affecting the food we eat, the diseases we face, our vulnerability to fire and flood, and our ability to adapt to climate change. Our Uncommon Heritage explores the many dimensions of human-driven biodiversity change. It integrates ecology, economics and policy to examine the causes and consequences of changes in ecosystems, species and genes, and to identify better ways to manage those changes. It explores the place of biodiversity in the wealth of nations, the rights and responsibilities people have for natural resources at local, regional, national and international levels, and the challenges faced in protecting the common good at the global level. This is an important book for students and researchers in the fields of conservation and sustainability science, ecology, natural resource economics and management. It also has much to say to those engaged in international conservation, health, agriculture, forestry and fisheries policy.

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563

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Cambridge University Press

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1139916858

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9781139916851

The Appearance of Witchcraft

By: Charles Zika

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The Appearance of Witchcraft

By: Charles Zika

Shortlisted for the 2008 Katharine Briggs Award. For centuries the witch has been a powerful figure in the European imagination; but the creation of this figure has been hidden from our view. Charles Zika’s groundbreaking study investigates how the visual image of the witch was created in late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century Europe. He charts the development of the witch as a new visual subject, showing how the traditional imagery of magic and sorcery of medieval Europe was transformed into the sensationalist depictions of witches in the pamphlets and prints of the sixteenth century. This book shows how artists and printers across the period developed key visual codes for witchcraft, such as the cauldron and the riding of animals. It demonstrates how influential these were in creating a new iconography for representing witchcraft incorporating themes such as the power of female sexuality, male fantasy, moral reform, divine providence and punishment, the superstitions of non-Christian peoples and the cannibalism of the new world. Lavishly illustrated and encompassing in its approach, The Appearance of Witchcraft is the first systematic study of the visual representation of witchcraft in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It will give the reader a unique insight into how the image of the witch evolved in the early modern world.

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Routledge

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1135632995

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9781135632991

Shanghai Conspiracy

The Sorge Spy Ring, Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York

By: Maj.-Gen. Charles A. Willoughby

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Shanghai Conspiracy

The Sorge Spy Ring, Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo, San Francisco, New York

By: Maj.-Gen. Charles A. Willoughby

Originally published in 1952, General Willoughby’s book Shanghai Conspiracy, which includes the story of Richard Sorge, is of the gravest importance because it presents a clear delineation of a worldwide pattern of Communist sabotage and betrayal which was still being practiced at the time of publication in 1952. During [the U.S.’s] Occupation of Japan, military intelligence exercised limited civil functions in collaboration with the modernized Japanese police, in an alert against national and foreign communism. The story of Richard Sorge, Soviet master spy, falls into this category of security surveillance. It represents a devastating example of a brilliant success of espionage—its evolution, techniques, and methods. Elements of this Soviet-inspired conspiracy actually ranged from China and Japan into the United States, in the period 1931-50. Over a period of years, there has been filed with Washington a most extensive documentation on the case, aggregating over a million words with hundreds of plates, photostats, and illustrations. Enormous efforts in translation and research have gone into it. It has been reviewed and authenticated by American lawyers, and is now being brought into focus by the Senate and House Committees on Internal Security and Un-American Activities. Sorge’s story did not begin or end with Tokyo but was only a chip in the general mosaic of Soviet Far Eastern strategy. It deals with a sinister epoch in the history of modern China and must be viewed against the vicious background of world conspiracy. Shanghai was a vineyard of communism for men and women of many nationalities who had no conceivable personal stake in China, but an almost inexplicable fanaticism for an alien cause—the Communist subjugation of the Western world. Here were sown the dragon’s teeth that have since ripened into the Red harvest of today.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787202461

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9781787202467

Finance and Occupational Pensions

Theories and International Evidence

By: Charles Sutcliffe

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Finance and Occupational Pensions

Theories and International Evidence

By: Charles Sutcliffe

Occupational pensions are major participants in global financial markets with assets of well over $30 trillion, representing more than 40% of the assets of institutional investors. Some occupational pension funds control assets of over $400 billion, and the largest 300 occupational pension funds each have average assets of over $50 billion. The assets of UK pension funds are equivalent to UK GDP, and US pension fund assets are 83% of US GDP. These statistics highlight the importance of pension funds as major players in financial markets, and the need to understand the behaviour of these large institutional investors. Occupational pensions also play an important, but neglected, role in corporate finance. For example, US company pension schemes account for over 60% of company market value, and yet they are often ignored when analysing companies. This book is based on the substantial body of evidence available from around the world on a topic that has become increasingly important and controversial in recent years. Written for practitioners, students and academics, this book brings together and systematizes a very large international literature from financial economists, actuaries, practitioners, professional organizations, official documents and reports. The underlying focus is the application of the principles of financial economics to occupational pensions, including the work of Nobel laureates such as Merton, Markowitz, Modigliani, Miller and Sharpe, as well as Black. This book will give readers an up-to-date understanding of occupational pensions, the economic issues they face, and some suggestions of how these issues can be tackled. The first section explains the operation of defined benefit and defined contribution pensions, along with some descriptive statistics. The second section covers selected aspects of occupational pensions. The focus of these first two sections is on the economic and financial aspects of pensions, accompanied by some basic information on how they operate. This is followed by three further sections that analyse the investment of pension funds, the corporate finance implications of firms providing pensions for their employees, and annuities.

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Springer

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1349948632

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9781349948635

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Crucible

Crucible

1913

1913

The Future History of the Arctic

The Future History of the Arctic

The Enemy Within Never Did Without

The Enemy Within Never Did Without

Autoethnographic Reflections on a Research Journey

Autoethnographic Reflections on a Research Journey

Prairie Albion

Prairie Albion

Nomads

Nomads

Norfolk Annals

Norfolk Annals

Our Uncommon Heritage

Our Uncommon Heritage

The Appearance of Witchcraft

The Appearance of Witchcraft

Shanghai Conspiracy

Shanghai Conspiracy

Finance and Occupational Pensions

Finance and Occupational Pensions

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