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The Lucifer Gospel

By: Paul Christopher

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Young archaeologist Finn Ryan and charismatic pilot and photographer Virgil Hilts are scouring the Sahara for the long-lost tomb of an apostle. But they find something they weren’t looking for: signs of a decades-old murder, along with an ancient Roman medallion bearing the infamous name of a fallen archangel. It doesn’t take long for them to realize that they’ve found a piece of a much bigger puzzle—and a trail of clues that could get them killed. Forced to flee from a relentless enemy, Finn and Virgil are pursued across the globe. From the sinister ruins of an ancient monastery to a sunken ship in the Caribbean, the two desperately search for a truth that can save their lives, but might shake the foundations of history...

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1101099747

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The Making of the British Isles

The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660

By: Steven G. Ellis,Christopher Maginn

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The Making of the British Isles

The State of Britain and Ireland, 1450-1660

By: Steven G. Ellis,Christopher Maginn

The history of the British Isles is the story of four peoples linked together by a process of state building that was as much about far-sighted planning and vision as coincidence, accident and failure. It is a history of revolts and reversal, familial bonds and enmity, the study of which does much to explain the underlying tension between the nations of modern day Britain. The Making of the British Islesrecounts the development of the nations of England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland from the time of the Anglo-French dual monarchy under Henry VI through the Wars of the Roses, the Reformation crisis, the reigns of Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, the Anglo-Scottish dynastic union, the British multiple monarchy and the Cromwellian Republic, ending with the acts of British Union and the Restoration of the Monarchy.

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1317900502

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Objective-C Fundamentals

By: Collin Ruffenach,Johannes Fahrenkrug,Christopher Fairbairn

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Objective-C Fundamentals

By: Collin Ruffenach,Johannes Fahrenkrug,Christopher Fairbairn

Summary Objective-C Fundamentals is a hands-on tutorial that leads you from your first line of Objective-C code through the process of building native apps for the iPhone using the latest version of the SDK. You'll learn to avoid the most common pitfalls, while exploring the expressive Objective-C language through numerous example projects. About the Technology The iPhone is a sophisticated device, and mastering the Objective C language is the key to unlocking its awesome potential as a mobile computing platform. Objective C's concise, rich syntax and feature set, when matched with the iPhone SDK and the powerful Xcode environment, offers a developers from any background a smooth transition into mobile app development for the iPhone. About the Book Objective-C Fundamentals guides you gradually from your first line of Objective-C code through the process of building native apps for the iPhone. Starting with chapter one, you'll dive into iPhone development by building a simple game that you can run immediately. You'll use tools like Xcode 4 and the debugger that will help you become a more efficient programmer. By working through numerous easy-to-follow examples, you'll learn practical techniques and patterns you can use to create solid and stable apps. And you'll find out how to avoid the most common pitfalls. No iOS or mobile experience is required to benefit from this book but familiarity with programming in general is helpful. Purchase of the print book comes with an offer of a free PDF, ePub, and Kindle eBook from Manning. Also available is all code from the book. What's Inside Objective-C from the ground up Developing with Xcode 4 Examples that work unmodified on iPhone Table of Contents PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH OBJECTIVE-C Building your first iOS application Data types, variables, and constants An introduction to objects Storing data in collections PART 2 BUILDING YOUR OWN OBJECTS Creating classes Extending classes Protocols Dynamic typing and runtime type information Memory management PART 3 MAKING MAXIMUM USE OF FRAMEWORK FUNCTIONALITY Error and exception handling Key-Value Coding and NSPredicate Reading and writing application data Blocks and Grand Central Dispatch Debugging techniques

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Simon and Schuster

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Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick

Britain, 1800-1854

By: Christopher Hamlin

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Public Health and Social Justice in the Age of Chadwick

Britain, 1800-1854

By: Christopher Hamlin

A revisionist account of the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521583632

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Smart Leadership – Wise Leadership

Environments of Value in an Emerging Future

By: Christopher Steed

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Smart Leadership – Wise Leadership

Environments of Value in an Emerging Future

By: Christopher Steed

There is a strong link between organisational culture and profit after all a happy workforce is a productive workforce. Yet a culture of inertia rather than innovation prevails in many organisations. Wise leaders, however, know how to work with the grain of human value and worth, harnessing it, so as to add shared value both for the organisation and for the good of society. So, how can astute leaders set the right conditions for creativity and cultivate non-economic goods, such as time and relationships, that make for a happy, effective workforce? The author proposes the notion of organisational culture as ’environments of value’ wherein inner value translated into external value is embedded within the triple bottom line and indeed an awareness of how an organisation is like a force field: it exercises power and leaves a footprint. This construct informs the emerging concept of Shared Value as requiring five literacies about: ¢ Shareholder value and return for risk ¢ Value for the social environment linked to respect for the natural environment ¢ Inner value of those in the enterprise, which, when unlocked, releases energies and adds value ¢ Nurture of non-quantifiable qualities that promote human flourishing ¢ Understandings of how power relations distort the way organisations operate He clearly signposts the link between promoting an environment of value within which these literacies flourish and the added value for the organisation arising from such a culture.

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Fragments

From Two Lives on Three Continents

By: Anne And Chris Wortham,Christopher Wortham

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Fragments

From Two Lives on Three Continents

By: Anne And Chris Wortham,Christopher Wortham

Award-winning authors share an astonishing collection of memories of travels, joys, sorrows, events, people, places, and things, beautifully rendered in this deeply moving and inspiring narration.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1606933302

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The CG Story

Computer-Generated Animation and Special Effects

By: Christopher Finch

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The CG Story

Computer-Generated Animation and Special Effects

By: Christopher Finch

The Art of Walt Disney author Christopher Finch tells the story of the pioneers of CG films: producer/directors like George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Ridley Scott; and John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, founders of Pixar. Computer generated imagery, commonly called “CG,” has had as big an impact on the movie industry as the advent of sound or color. Not only has it made possible a new kind of fully animated movie, but it also has revolutionized big-budget, live-action filmmaking. The CG Story is one of determined experimentation and brilliant innovation carried out by a group of gifted, colorful, and competitive young men and women, many of whom would become legendary in the digital world. George Lucas, Steven Spielberg, and Ridley Scott embraced the computer to create believable fantasy worlds of a richness that had seldom if ever been realized on screen. Their early efforts helped inspire a revolution in animation, enabled by technical wizardry and led by the founders of Pixar, including John Lasseter and Ed Catmull, who would create the entirely computer-produced worlds of Toy Story and subsequent Pixar films. Meanwhile, directors like James Cameron used the new technology to make hybrid live-action and CG films, including the extraordinary Avatar. Finch covers these and more, giving a full account of today’s most significant CG films.

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1580933572

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The Palace

By: Christopher Reich

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The Palace

By: Christopher Reich

In this third installment of a series lauded for its "nonstop action," an international spy must face a ring of ruthless masterminds and foil a plot with global implications as he becomes the world's most wanted man (Booklist). Life is good for Rafael de Bourbon. The forty-year-old Spaniard recently married to a wealthy English beauty, and is days away from opening a luxury boutique hotel off the southern coast of Thailand. But when the Royal Thai Police storm the hotel and arrest him for blackmail and extortion, "Rafa" is thrown into Bangkok's most notorious jail. In desperation, he reaches out to the one man who can prove his innocence. Simon Riske, ex-con and now "private spy," owes Rafa his life. Once he and De Bourbon were the closest of friends, until a woman came between them. Riske rushes to Bangkok to secure his friend's release and overnight, finds himself caught up in a web of intrigue larger and more dangerous than he could imagine. In hours, it is Riske who finds himself the wanted man. On the run in a foreign country, pursued by powerful unseen forces who will stop at nothing until he is killed, Riske must stay alive long enough to uncover the truth behind an international conspiracy that threatens to wreak carnage across the glittering capitals of Europe. From Bangkok to Singapore and ultimately to Cannes, Riske enlists the help of a daring investigative reporter, a rogue Mossad agent, and his own band of home-grown specialists, to thwart the cabal behind the plot, only to learn its very origins are frighteningly close to his past. Frighteningly timely, diabolically clever, and ever so stylish, The Palace is Christopher Reich's sharpest and most exciting book yet.

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Mulholland Books

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0316455946

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Scotland and Nationalism

Scottish Society and Politics, 1707 to the Present

By: Christopher Harvie

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Scotland and Nationalism

Scottish Society and Politics, 1707 to the Present

By: Christopher Harvie

An authoritative survey of Scottish social and political history from 1707 to the present day. This fourth edition brings the story and historiography of Scottish society and politics up to date.

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Psychology Press

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0415327253

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The Encyclopedia of Supreme Court Quotations

By: Christopher A. Anzalone

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The Encyclopedia of Supreme Court Quotations

By: Christopher A. Anzalone

A veritable feast of 1,500 quotes from more than 1,000 Supreme Court decisions, this is the first such reference devoted solely to the Supreme Court. Dating from the beginning of the Republic to the present, these excerpts provide a powerful historical overview of the mission and majesty of the Supreme Court. They are topically arranged and cover the legislative, judicial, and executive branches; states' rights; due process; free speech; equal rights; and freedom of religion. Each entry features the quote -- especially chosen for its profound, compelling, and inspirational nature; the name of the case, primary citation, year, and author; and the kind of decision (dissenting, concurring, or opinion of the Court).

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1315501279

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Flora of Tropical East Africa - Violaceae (1986)

By: Christopher Grey-Wilson

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Flora of Tropical East Africa - Violaceae (1986)

By: Christopher Grey-Wilson

This volume focuses on the family Violaceae. They are annual or perennial herbs, shrubs or small trees and contains about 22 genera and some 900 species and confines mainly to the old New world tropics and sub tropics, however the genus Viola is predominantly temperate in distribution.

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The Incredibly Strange Features of Ray Dennis Steckler

By: Christopher Wayne Curry

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The Incredibly Strange Features of Ray Dennis Steckler

By: Christopher Wayne Curry

American filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler may forever be remembered for his cult classic The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies!!? but his career path is even more fascinating than his strange signature film. Between 1962 and 1986, Steckler wrote, directed, edited and occasionally acted in nine more underground feature films. After his live oddities roadshows helped propel the director to even greater cult infamy, Steckler turned his camera towards the adult film world. Between 1970 and 1984, Steckler directed no fewer than three dozen of these explicit genre pieces. This book covers Steckler's nearly 50 movies, including several lost, incomplete or experimental films. Each entry includes a full list of cast and crew credits, along with a plot synopsis, plenty of images and behind-the-scenes anecdotes. Transcriptions of the author's interviews with Steckler's ex-wife Carolyn Brandt, his daughter Laura H. Steckler, actor Ron Jason and stuntman and actor Gary Kent are included along with an homage chapter and an overview of the director's collectable memorabilia.

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McFarland

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1476647682

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The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World

Questions and Perspectives

By: Christopher Schliephake

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The Environmental Humanities and the Ancient World

Questions and Perspectives

By: Christopher Schliephake

What can a study of antiquity contribute to the interdisciplinary paradigm of the environmental humanities? And how does this recent paradigm influence the way we perceive human-'nature' interactions in pre-modernity? By asking these and a number of related questions, this Element aims to show why the ancient tradition still matters in the Anthropocene. Offering new perspectives to think about what directions the ecological turn could take in classical studies, it revisits old material, including ancient Greek religion and mythology, with central concepts of contemporary environmental theory. It also critically engages with forms of classical reception in current debates, arguing that ancient ecological knowledge is a powerful resource for creating alternative world views.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108802370

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Reason’s Inquisition

On Doubtful Ground

By: Christopher A. Colmo

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Reason’s Inquisition

On Doubtful Ground

By: Christopher A. Colmo

Reasons Inquisition: On Doubtful Ground is an exploration in the literature of political philosophy before and after Alfarabi and ranging from Thucydides to Leo Strauss and Eric Voegelin. These studies, most of them previously unpublished, open inquiries into theory and practice, reason and revelation, and the relation between thinkers ancient and modern. Readers may be surprised to see the Platonist Alfarabi presented as a critic of Plato’s theory in the name of practice, while Alfarabi and Hobbes are shown to have a common interest in a theory commensurate with action. Strauss, Voegelin and Lucien Febvre all explore the problem of reason and revelation in relation to the limits of human knowledge. An ambitious study of Shakespeare’s Macbeth explores the ambiguity of both nature and knowledge in relation to male and female, good and evil, present and future. The contrast between ancients and moderns is explicit in questions of the modern aspects of Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and of Rousseau’s reversal of Plato. Kierkegaard and Heidegger bring radical modernity into focus against a Platonic background in the closing essay. These diverse essays attempt to follow the thinkers and themes explored in turning a critical gaze upon reason itself.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666921963

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Craft Class

The Writing Workshop in American Culture

By: Christopher Kempf

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Craft Class

The Writing Workshop in American Culture

By: Christopher Kempf

Uncovering the hidden history of the creative writing "workshop," this book reveals the profound social and economic consequences involved in figurations of literary production as craft labor"--

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Physical Activity and Rehabilitation in Life-threatening Illness

By: Amy J. Litterini,Christopher M. Wilson

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Physical Activity and Rehabilitation in Life-threatening Illness

By: Amy J. Litterini,Christopher M. Wilson

This book is a comprehensive summary of the recommendations for best practice, and current evidence, for physical activity and rehabilitation of functional deficits in individuals with end-stage diseases. While advances in technology have afforded us the opportunity to live longer lives, it has also demanded an expansion of focus of medical interventions towards palliative care to enhance the quality of life. Exercise and healthcare professionals must strive to broaden their perspectives to provide for the unique needs of these individuals, and to successfully engage with them, to achieve the most positive outcomes throughout the entire continuum of care. Healthcare providers play a critical role in advocating for care to allow individuals to remain physically active for as long as possible, even in the face of declining health. Finally, due to the increasing and progressively emergent healthcare utilization required by these individuals, a significant cost burden is experienced by healthcare systems, patients, families, and payers. There is evidence of substantial protective effects of physical activity, prevention, safety, and rehabilitative procedures to reduce hospital readmissions, reduce length of stay, and assist in avoiding unwarranted or unnecessary diagnostic tests or procedures. Physical activity has been proven to have a substantial impact and protective effects on virtually all medical conditions. During curative management, but especially during transitional phases to palliative care, other strategies need enhanced consideration to complement the existing plan of care and help to improve patient’s quality of life. Ideally, physical medicine would be at the forefront of allowing individuals to live their best life until the very end. Physical Activity and Rehabilitation in Life-threatening Illness is key reading for academics and policy makers in physical activity, international exercise, wellness and rehabilitation, and related disciplines, as well as research-focused clinicians in settings where patients with advanced illness are frequently encountered.

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1000356892

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CMJ

A Cricketing Life

By: Christopher Martin-Jenkins

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CMJ

A Cricketing Life

By: Christopher Martin-Jenkins

Christopher Martin-Jenkins, or CMJ to his many fans as well as listeners of Test Match Special, was perhaps thevoice of cricket; an unparalleled authority whose insight and passion for cricket, as well as his style of commentary, captured what it is that makes the sport so special. In his many years as a commentator and journalist - reporting for the BBC, The Times and the Cricketeramong others - CMJ covered some of the biggest moments in the sport's history. And in this memoir he looks back on a lifetime spent in service to this most bizarre and beguiling of sports and tells the stories of the players, coaches and fans he met along the way. Recounted with all the warmth and vigour that has endeared CMJ to generations of cricket fans, this memoir relives the moments that defined modern cricket and which shaped his life in turn. It is a must-have book for all devotees of the sport.

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Simon and Schuster

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0857200836

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Reporters on the Battlefield

The Embedded Press System in Historical Context

By: Christopher Paul,James J. Kim

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Reporters on the Battlefield

The Embedded Press System in Historical Context

By: Christopher Paul,James J. Kim

Focusing on the embedded press system deployed during Operation Iraqi Freedom, this book attempts to answer the following questions: How effective was the embedded press system in meeting the needs of the three main constituencies-the press, the military, and the citizens of the United States? What policy history led to the innovation of an embedded press system? Where are press-military relations likely to go in the future?

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Rand Corporation

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083304057X

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Stories from the Camera

Reflections on the Photograph

By: Thomas F. Barrow,Geoffrey Batchen,Van Deren Coke,Sarah Greenough,Christopher Kaltenbach,Robert ParkeHarrison,Beaumont Newhall,Eugenia Parry,Meridel Rubenstein,Richard Rudisill,April M. Watson,Carla Williams,Joel-Peter Witkin

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Stories from the Camera

Reflections on the Photograph

Appendix Two: University of New Mexico Art Museum Directors and Curators -- Bibliography of Related Works -- Index -- Back Cover

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University of New Mexico Press

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0826355897

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Professional Ethics and Law in Education

A Canadian Guidebook

By: Bruce Maxwell,Dianne Gereluk,Christopher Martin

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Professional Ethics and Law in Education

A Canadian Guidebook

By: Bruce Maxwell,Dianne Gereluk,Christopher Martin

Designed as a guide for pre-service education students and in-service teachers, Professional Ethics and Law in Education: A Canadian Guidebook provides an accessible and accurate source of information on the ethical and legal frameworks of the teaching profession while encouraging the examination of fundamental issues that underpin key debates in Canadian schooling and education. Divided into four sections, this guidebook is grounded in the idea that teacher professionalism requires a solid understanding of the ethical and legal expectations that society has of teachers. Written for both the student and the professional, this text is an essential companion to both aspiring and active teachers. It provides clear guidance on how to navigate the complex regulatory framework of contemporary teaching while highlighting the indispensable contribution that individual judgment and shared values make to thoughtful, informed, and well-reasoned decision making in teaching, making it necessary reading for educators in Canada. FEATURES: - Each chapter includes an introduction, a list of chapter objectives and highlights, and review questions - Contains supplementary readings, additional resources, and websites for further exploration and information - Connects theory to practice through consideration of federal and provincial legal statutes, case studies, jurisprudence, and codes of professional conduct

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Canadian Scholars

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American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era

A Study of Social Commentary in Films and Television Programs, 1961-1973

By: Christopher P. Lehman

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American Animated Cartoons of the Vietnam Era

A Study of Social Commentary in Films and Television Programs, 1961-1973

By: Christopher P. Lehman

In the first four years of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (1961-64), Hollywood did not dramatize the current military conflict but rather romanticized earlier ones. Cartoons reflected only previous trends in U.S. culture, and animators comically but patriotically remembered the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and both World Wars. In the early years of military escalation in Vietnam, Hollywood was simply not ready to illustrate America's contemporary radicalism and race relations in live-action or animated films. But this trend changed when US participation dramatically increased between 1965 and 1968. In the year of the Tet Offensive and the killings of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert Kennedy, the violence of the Vietnam War era caught up with animators. This book discusses the evolution of U.S. animation from militaristic and violent to liberal and pacifist and the role of the Vietnam War in this development. The book chronologically documents theatrical and television cartoon studios' changing responses to U.S. participation in the Vietnam War between 1961 and 1973, using as evidence the array of artistic commentary about the federal government, the armed forces, the draft, peace negotiations, the counterculture movement, racial issues, and pacifism produced during this period. The study further reveals the extent to which cartoon violence served as a barometer of national sentiment on Vietnam. When many Americans supported the war in the 1960s, scenes of bombings and gunfire were prevalent in animated films. As Americans began to favor withdrawal, militaristic images disappeared from the cartoon. Soon animated cartoons would serve as enlightening artifacts of Vietnam War-era ideology. In addition to the assessment of primary film materials, this book draws upon interviews with people involved in the production Vietnam-era films. Film critics responding in their newspaper columns to the era's innovative cartoon sociopolitical commentary also serve as invaluable references. Three informative appendices contribute to the work.

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0786451424

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Punishment

Rhetoric, Rule, and Practice

By: Christopher Harding,Richard W. Ireland

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Punishment

Rhetoric, Rule, and Practice

By: Christopher Harding,Richard W. Ireland

First published in 1989, Punishment examines the practice of punishment, not simply as a typical sanction employed by the state but as a pervasive feature of social organisation in both past and contemporary societies. With depth and rigour, they consider penal practice in a variety of historical and cultural contexts, such as the family, kinship and tribal groupings, small communities, educational institutions, the workplace and the commercial environment, criminal organisations, and the wider international community, as well as that of the state. In this way they widen the scope of the debate about the use of punishment as an instrument of human organisation, presenting different perspectives on the phenomenon of punishment and questioning the boundaries between different disciplines – juridical, philosophical, sociological, psychological and historical – within which the subject has been considered in the past. This book will be of interest to students and teachers of history, sociology, criminology, law, philosophy and psychology.

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1000655849

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Damned Yankee

The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon

By: Christopher Phillips

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Damned Yankee

The Life of General Nathaniel Lyon

By: Christopher Phillips

Nathaniel Lyon (1818–1861) was the first Union general to die in the Civil War. Killed at the Battle of Wilson’s Creek, Missouri, he became the North’s first war hero, famed as the man who saved Missouri for the Union. In Damned Yankee, chosen by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book in 1991, Christopher Phillips portrays Lyon not as the savior of a border state threatened by secessionist extremists but as an unbalanced, monomaniacal Unionist zealot who purposely—and perhaps unnecessarily—brought war to a fragile state whose populace had voted overwhelmingly to stay out of the conflict. Phillips meticulously examines Lyon’s role in the Camp Jackson affair, his quest to oust the pro-southern governor of Missouri, and his campaign to eliminate the secessionist element in the state. He contends that Lyon’s actions in Missouri in 1861 were congruent with his dogmatic personality and troubled past. Damned Yankee is a complex, often shocking, portrait of one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War and a sobering study of how the faults of men may greatly affect history.

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The Snow Garden

By: Christopher Rice

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The Snow Garden

By: Christopher Rice

From the son of Anne Rice comes his electrifying "New York Times" bestseller of infidelity, murder, and betrayal on a college campus. "An enthralling narrative . . . "--"Booklist.

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0743470389

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Moose Pastures and Mergers

The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980

By: Christopher Armstrong

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Moose Pastures and Mergers

The Ontario Securities Commission and the Regulation of Share Markets in Canada, 1940-1980

By: Christopher Armstrong

A history of the development of the Ontario Securities Commission from the post-war years to the increasingly complex financial world of the 1970s and 1980s.

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0802035108

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Sightseeking

Clues to the Landscape History of New England

By: Christopher J. Lenney

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Sightseeking

Clues to the Landscape History of New England

By: Christopher J. Lenney

A startlingly original synthesis of keen observation and interpretive skill that will transform one s understanding of New England s man-made landscape

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