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Shipping and the Environment

Law and Practice

By: Colin de la Rue,Charles B Anderson,Jonathan Hare

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Shipping and the Environment

Law and Practice

By: Colin de la Rue,Charles B Anderson,Jonathan Hare

From the time it was first published in 1998, Shipping and the Environment has been the leading text on international and US law and practice in this field. Written by renowned legal and insurance practitioners with over 100 years of combined specialist experience, including first-hand knowledge of many major incidents, it is not only a comprehensive reference work but an abundant source of introductory material and practical insights, all explained with a clarity appreciated by lawyers and non-lawyers alike in a broad international readership. While updating its core subjects of pollution from ships, wreck removal and dumping at sea, this enlarged text extends into other modern areas including pollution from offshore operations after Deepwater Horizon, plastics released into the sea, recycling of vessels, polar operations, and the fast-changing restrictions on carbon emissions from ships, as well as safety threats such as cyberattacks, terrorism and modern forms of piracy. With a highly readable introductory chapter amounting to a book within a book, this is a volume of great importance to all whose work or studies are concerned with marine environmental affairs, whether in government, international bodies, industry, technical organizations, the professions, environmental NGOs, the academic world or other walks of life.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429516665

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9780429516665

SPECIAL EVENT POSTMARKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM VOLUME 5

By: ALAN FINCH,COLIN PEACHEY

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SPECIAL EVENT POSTMARKS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM VOLUME 5

By: ALAN FINCH,COLIN PEACHEY

A catalogue of postmarks used on mail posted at congresses, exhibitions, shows etc, and for anniversaries from 2004-2013.

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BRITISH POSTMARK SOCIETY

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0900214147

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9780900214141

Edward Frankland

Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England

By: Colin A. Russell

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Edward Frankland

Chemistry, Controversy and Conspiracy in Victorian England

By: Colin A. Russell

The first scientific biography of Edward Frankland, the most eminent chemist of nineteenth-century Britain.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521545811

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9780521545815

Paris

The Biography of a City

By: Colin Jones

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Paris

The Biography of a City

By: Colin Jones

From the Roman Emperor Julian, who waxed rhapsodic about Parisian wine and figs, to Henry Miller, who relished its seductive bohemia, Paris has been a perennial source of fascination for 2,000 years. In this definitive and illuminating history, Colin Jones walks us through the city that was a plague-infested charnel house during the Middle Ages, the bloody epicenter of the French Revolution, the muse of nineteenth-century Impressionist painters, and much more. Jones’s masterful narrative is enhanced by numerous photographs and feature boxes—on the Bastille or Josephine Baker, for instance—that complete a colorful and comprehensive portrait of a place that has endured Vikings, Black Death, and the Nazis to emerge as the heart of a resurgent Europe. This is a thrilling companion for history buffs and backpack, or armchair, travelers alike.

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593

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Penguin

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1440626995

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9781440626999

The Annenberg Collection

Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Colin B. Bailey

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The Annenberg Collection

Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-impressionism

By: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.),Colin B. Bailey

The Walter and Leonore Annenberg Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, watercolors, and drawings constitutes one of the most remarkable groupings of avant-garde works of art from the mid-19th to the early 20th century ever given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A revised and expanded edition of the 1989 publication Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection, this volume presents more than fifty masterworks by such luminaries as Manet, Degas, Morisot, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, and Matisse, accompanied by elucidating texts and a wealth of comparative illustrations. -- From publisher.

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Metropolitan Museum of Art

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1588393410

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9781588393418

French Cinema—A Critical Filmography

Volume 1, 1929–1939

By: Colin Crisp

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French Cinema—A Critical Filmography

Volume 1, 1929–1939

By: Colin Crisp

This invaluable resource by one of the world's leading experts in French cinema presents a coherent overview of French cinema in the 20th century and its place and function in French society. Each filmography includes 101 films listed chronologically (Volume 1: 1929–1939 and Volume 2: 1940–1958) and provides accessible points of entry into the remarkable world of 20th-century French cinema. All entries contain a list of cast members and characters, production details, an overview of the film's cultural and historical significance, and a critical summary of the film's plot and narrative structure. Each volume includes an appendix listing rewards earned and an extensive reference list for further reading and research. A third volume, covering the period 1958–1974, is forthcoming.

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Indiana University Press

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0253017033

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9780253017031

The Culture of War

Literature of the Siege of Paris 1870-1871

By: Colin Foss

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The Culture of War

Literature of the Siege of Paris 1870-1871

By: Colin Foss

During the Siege of Paris, literature was big business. A study of cultural production and consumption, The Culture of War examines how Parisians fuelled the industries of literature even as the Prussian blockade isolated them from the outside world in the winter of 1870-1871.

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Liverpool University Press

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1789627710

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9781789627718

The Entropy Exhibition

By: Colin Greenland

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The Entropy Exhibition

By: Colin Greenland

Michael Moorcock edited and produced the magazine New Worlds from 1964 to 1973. Within its pages he encouraged the development of new kinds of popular writing out of the genre of science fiction, energetically reworking traditional themes, images and styles as a radical response to the crisis of modern fiction. The essential paradox of the new writing lay in its fascination with 'entropy' - the universal and irreversible decline of energy into disorder. Entropy provides the key both to the anarchic vitality of the magazine and to its neglect by critics and academics, as well as its intimate connection with other cultural experiments of the 1960s. The fiction of the New Worlds writers, who included Brian Aldiss, J. G. Ballard and Moorcock himself, was not concerned with the far future and outer space, but with the ambiguous and unstable conditions of the modern world. As Ballard put it: 'The only truly alien planet is Earth.' The Entropy Exhibition is the first critical assessment of the literary movement known as 'New Wave' science fiction. It examines the history of the magazine and its background in the popular imagination of the 1960s, traces the strange history of sex in science fiction and analyses development in stylistic theory and practice. Detailed attention is given to each of the three principal contributors to New Worlds - Aldiss, Ballard and Moorcock. Moorcock himself is most commonly judged by his commercial fantasy novels instead of by the magazine he supported with them, but here the balance is at last redressed: New Worlds emerges as nothing less than a focus and a metaphor for many of the transformations of English and American literature in the past two decades.

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Gateway

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0575127597

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9780575127593

Patriotic Taste

Collecting Modern Art in Pre-revolutionary Paris

By: Colin B. Bailey

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Patriotic Taste

Collecting Modern Art in Pre-revolutionary Paris

By: Colin B. Bailey

During the final decades of the ancient regime, prominent collectors in Paris commissioned and collected French paintings of the period, works by Greuze, Fragonard, David and others that together comprised 'l'Ecole Francoise' - the French School. In this book, an art historian discusses six of these collectors and the collections they assembled, showing that private patronage in this period was revitalized by this patriotic desire to collect contemporary art. Colin B. Bailey explains why a taste for modern art emerged at this time and how it was encouraged and fostered. Examining the relationship between artist and patron, he discusses the degree of influence these enlightened patrons and collectors expected to exercise when new works were being commissioned. Bailey shows that collectors of eighteenth-century French painting seem not to have made rigid distinctions between the various genres or styles of the Academy's practitioners. Instead, history paintings and genre paintings - both rococo and neo-classical - were exhibited proudly on their walls as superb examples of the French School.

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Yale University Press

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0300089864

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9780300089868

Shipping and the Environment

By: Colin De La Rue,Charles B Anderson

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Shipping and the Environment

By: Colin De La Rue,Charles B Anderson

The first edition of this book was quickly acclaimed as the new leading text worldwide on the law and practice of pollution from ships. The second edition deals with a variety of developments since then in this fast-moving subject: the Erika and the Prestige; changes in international law on maritime safety and compensation; latest decisions on claims for compensation; analysis of the SCOPIC regime; new material on ports of refuge, transboundary movements, and pollution from offshore craft; latest cases and regulatory changes in the US; and enlarged chapters on enforcement of laws and criminal sanctions. Like its predecessor, the second edition is superbly indexed and written clearly with the needs in mind of a wide international readership.

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1358

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CRC Press

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1317375823

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9781317375821

Georges Auric

A Life in Music and Politics

By: Colin Roust

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Georges Auric

A Life in Music and Politics

By: Colin Roust

Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Moulin Rouge - the names popularly associated with film composer Georges Auric's career conjure visions of a distant and glamorous early twentieth-century Parisian art world. Auric wrote well over 100 film scores, including the soundtrack for Roman Holiday, and was notably affiliated with Les Six, a group of French composers reacting to the musical establishment of the 1920s. But Auric's life and work spanned far beyond this limited sphere. A lifelong involvement in politics - from his leftism during the Popular Front years of the 1930s to his significant role in the French Communist Party's musical resistance of the 1940s - heavily influenced his sound and aesthetic. His advocacy on behalf of his fellow musicians led him into the fight for fair copyright laws, initially in France and then worldwide. And over the course of a seven-decade-long career, Auric took on roles as diverse as music critic, opera director, and arts administrator, revealing a deep involvement in his country's musical life that makes the label of "composer" seem inadequate. The first English-language biography of Auric, Georges Auric: A Life in Music and Politics rethinks the conventional ideas of what it means to be a composer. Drawing from an astonishing three dozen untapped archives, including the private archives of Auric's widow, author Colin Roust presents a picture of Auric that is as multifaceted as the man's career. Using Auric's life as a lens, Roust reveals the transforming role of music - and the composer - in twentieth-century society.

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Oxford University Press

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0190607785

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9780190607784

The Fall of Robespierre

24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

By: Colin Jones

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The Fall of Robespierre

24 Hours in Revolutionary Paris

By: Colin Jones

The day of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) is universally acknowledged as a major turning-point in the history of the French Revolution. At 12.00 midnight, Maximilien Robespierre, the most prominent member of the Committee of Public Safety which had for more than a year directed the Reign of Terror, was planning to destroy one of the most dangerous plots that the Revolution had faced. By 12.00 midnight at the close of the day, following a day of uncertainty, surprises, upsets and reverses, his world had been turned upside down. He was an outlaw, on the run, and himself wanted for conspiracy against the Republic. He felt that his whole life and his Revolutionary career were drawing to an end. As indeed they were. He shot himself shortly afterwards. Half-dead, the guillotine finished him off in grisly fashion the next day. The Fall of Robespierre provides an hour-by-hour analysis of these 24 hours.

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Oxford University Press

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0191025046

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9780191025044

Traces of War

Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-century French Writing

By: Colin Davis

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Traces of War

Interpreting Ethics and Trauma in Twentieth-century French Writing

By: Colin Davis

Traces of War examines how the trauma of the Second World War influenced the work of the brilliant generation of writers and intellectuals who lived through it.

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262

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Oxford University Press

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1786940426

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9781786940421

Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France

Work, Health and Education Among the 'Classes Populaires'

By: Colin Heywood

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Childhood in Nineteenth-Century France

Work, Health and Education Among the 'Classes Populaires'

By: Colin Heywood

The central theme of this book is the changing experience of childhood in nineteenth-century France.

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368

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Cambridge University Press

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0521892775

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9780521892773

Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec

By: Colin MacMillan Coates

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Metamorphoses of Landscape and Community in Early Quebec

By: Colin MacMillan Coates

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries French settlers radically transformed the landscape of the St Lawrence river, creating strong local communities that became the crucibles of a New World nationalism. Drawing on the insights and methods of cultural history, Colin Coates examines the seigneuries of Batiscan and Sainte-Anne de la Pérade, recreating the social relations between individuals and ethnic groups that inhabited the area. He shows that successive waves of immigrants sought to appropriate the landscape of the New World and replace it with a physical and cultural reality much closer to their European roots and traditions.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773518967

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9780773518964

The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother

By: Lady Colin Campbell

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The Untold Story of Queen Elizabeth, Queen Mother

By: Lady Colin Campbell

Packed with stunning revelations, this is the inside story of The Queen Mother from the New York Times bestselling author who first revealed the truth about Princess Diana. Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has been called the "most successful queen since Cleopatra." Her personality was so captivating that even her arch-enemy Wallis Simpson wrote about "her legendary charm." Portrayed as a selfless partner to the King in the Oscar-winning movie The King's Speech, The Queen Mother is most often remembered from her later years as the smiling granny with the pastel hats. When she died in 2002, just short of her 102nd birthday, she was praised for a long life well lived. But there was another side to her story. For the first time, Lady Colin Campbell shows us that the untold life of the Queen Mother is far more fascinating and moving than the official version that has been peddled ever since she became royal in 1923. With unparalleled sources - including members of the Royal Family, aristocrats, and friends and relatives of Elizabeth herself, this mesmerizing account takes us inside the real and sometimes astonishing world of the royal family.

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eBook Partnership

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1910050202

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9781910050200

The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard

Masterpieces of French Genre Painting

By: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa),Colin B. Bailey,Thomas Gaehtgens,Philip Conisbee,Thomas W. Gaehtgens,National Gallery of Canada,Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, Germany)

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The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard

Masterpieces of French Genre Painting

By: Musée des beaux-arts du Canada (Ottawa),Colin B. Bailey,Thomas Gaehtgens,Philip Conisbee,Thomas W. Gaehtgens,National Gallery of Canada,Gemäldegalerie (Berlin, Germany)

Leading scholars shed light on the development of genre painting in this heavily illustrated volume.

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Yale University Press

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0300099460

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9780300099461

The Pathology of Vessels

By: Phat N. Vuong,Colin Berry

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The Pathology of Vessels

By: Phat N. Vuong,Colin Berry

Vascular pathology is essentially based on a transverse, the main basic lesions, this book provides precise multi-organ approach to pathology. It has been the descriptions in all of the main areas : atherosclerotic, subject of only a few reference works as it tends to be inflammatory, dysplastic, and traumatic diseases, etc. ignored by organ specialists. However, the vascular Throughout this book, the lesions are precisely system is widely distributed in all tissues ; it is modelled described with identification of the various recognized very early during organogenesis by haemodynamic syndromes and discussion of the main established factors, it possesses a remarkable reactivity and pathophysiological interpretations, together with a plasticity, and it is involved in a large number of complete bibliography. pathological processes. General pathologists are often poorly equipped to interpret morphological features We hope this book, based on the authors' medical and encountered during histological examination and to scientific knowledge, has the success it deserves. We integrate these findings into a rational approach. would like to thank them for giving us a very well documented book, which will be useful to both This book by Doctor Phat N. VUONG and Professor students and experienced pathologists.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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2817807863

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9782817807867

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