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The City & Guilds Textbook: Site Carpentry & Architectural Joinery for the Level 3 Apprenticeship (6571), Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma (7906) & Level 3 Diploma (6706)

By: Martin Burdfield,Stephen Jones,Stephen Redfern,Colin Fearn

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The City & Guilds Textbook: Site Carpentry & Architectural Joinery for the Level 3 Apprenticeship (6571), Level 3 Advanced Technical Diploma (7906) & Level 3 Diploma (6706)

By: Martin Burdfield,Stephen Jones,Stephen Redfern,Colin Fearn

Help realise your learners' ambitions of becoming a specialist site carpenter or joiner in the construction industry with this comprehensive new textbook published in association with City & Guilds for the Level 3 6706, 7906 and new Apprenticeship standard. This brand new title will help students: - Study with confidence, using the most up-to-date information available for the new specifications and industry standards - Enhance their understanding of tools and concepts in carpentry and joinery with clear and accurate technical drawings and step-by-step photo sequences - Get ready for the workplace with industry tips and case studies - Develop core skills with authors Stephen Jones, Stephen Redfern and Martin Burdfield who draw on their extensive teaching and industry experience

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A Criminal History of Mankind

By: Colin Wilson

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A Criminal History of Mankind

By: Colin Wilson

This “immensely stimulating story of true crime down the ages” tells the history of human violence, from Peking Man to the Mafia (The Times, London). This landmark work offers a completely new approach to the history and psychology of human violence. Its sweep is broad, its research meticulous and detailed. Colin Wilson explores the bloodthirsty sadism of the ancient Assyrians and the mass slaughter by the armies led by Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Ivan the Terrible, and Vlad the Impaler. He delves into modern history, exploring the genocides practiced by Stalin and Hitler. He then takes a chilling look into the sex crimes and mass murders that have become symbols of the neuroses and intensity of modern life. With breathtaking audacity and stunning insight, Wilson puts criminality firmly in a wide, illuminating historical context. “A work of massive energy, compulsively readable, splendidly informative . . . it establishes Wilson in a European tradition of thought that includes H. G. Wells, Sartre and Shaw.” —Time Out London “A tremendous resource for crime buffs as well as a challenging exposition for some of the more subtle criminological thinking of our time.” —Kirkus Reviews

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1626818673

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Sanctified by the Spirit

John Owen, Habits of Grace, and Biblical Counseling

By: Colin R. McCulloch

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Sanctified by the Spirit

John Owen, Habits of Grace, and Biblical Counseling

By: Colin R. McCulloch

Biblical counselor Colin R. McCulloch retrieves John Owen’s theology of Trinitarian sanctification to address modern concerns in counseling methodology. McCulloch examines two divergent approaches to sanctification within the biblical counseling movement, suggesting that Owen’s emphasis on Spirit-infused habitual grace provides a more holistic vision for soul care. Far from a mere historical study, McCulloch’s incisive analysis will help pastors and laymen alike minister to sinners and sufferers in Christ’s church.

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Reformation Heritage Books

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The Celtic Tree Oracle

A System of Divination

By: Colin Murray,Liz Murray

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The Celtic Tree Oracle

A System of Divination

By: Colin Murray,Liz Murray

Within this box lies the secret language of the Celts. To life the lid is to discover an ancient method of communication-and a means of divination. In the Celtic Ogham or tree alphabet, each letter embodies the spirit of a tree or plant, here represented on a richly decorated card. Whatever your question, doubt or worry, the 2,000-year-old wisdom of The Tree Oracle provides remarkable guidance and insight for Twentieth Century men and women. Contents: -25 beautiful tree cards -Illustrated book of explanation -Record sheet and pad

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Macmillan

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0312020325

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A Casebook of Murder

A Compelling Study of the World's Most Macabre Murder Cases

By: Colin Wilson

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A Casebook of Murder

A Compelling Study of the World's Most Macabre Murder Cases

By: Colin Wilson

From the bestselling author of The Outsider, an exhaustive historical true crime survey. Colin Wilson, co-author of the bestselling Encyclopedia of Murder, has written a definitive volume on the world’s major cases of violent murder. In doing so, he traces the history of violence from its beginnings. From Sawney Bean and his cannibal family to Ed Gein, the Wisconsin Necrophile, Wilson illustrates the “changing fashions of murder” and indicates some hope for the future.

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1682300102

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10 Keys for Unlocking the Bible

By: Colin S. Smith

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10 Keys for Unlocking the Bible

By: Colin S. Smith

If you're just beginning to explore the rewards of Bible study, here is the perfect introduction! Colin S. Smith has drawn from all four volumes of his work, Unlocking the Bible Story, to create this fascinating and thought-provoking guide. Using ten key words from his books, he leads the reader through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and opens doors to further inspiration. 10 Keys offers a bridge to his series, and is also a wonderful stand-alone book of revitalizing truths.

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Clinical Cardiology, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice

By: Colin Schwarzwald,Katharyn J Mitchell

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Clinical Cardiology, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Equine Practice

By: Colin Schwarzwald,Katharyn J Mitchell

This issue of Veterinary Clinics: Equine Practice, Guest Edited by Dr. Colin Schwarzwald and Dr. Katharyn Mitchell, in collaboration with Consulting Editor Dr. Thomas Divers, focuses on Clinical Cardiology. Article topics include: An overview of the equine heart in health and disease; Examination of horses with cardiac disease; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Cardiac arrhythmias; Congenital cardiac disease; Acquired valvular disease; Pericardial disease, myocardial disease, and great vessel abnormalities; CV causes of exercise intolerance and poor performance; Assessment of the CV system during prepurchase and insurance examinations; Monitoring of the CV system; Response to exercise and training; and Drugs used to treat cardiac disease.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032367836X

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Cross & Tapper on Evidence

By: Colin Tapper

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Cross & Tapper on Evidence

By: Colin Tapper

Cross & Tapper continues to provide exceptionally clear and detailed coverage of the modern law of evidence, with an element of international comparison. The foremost authority in the area, it is a true classic of legal literature.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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Dock Workers

International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970

By: Sam Davies,Colin J. Davis,David de Vries,Lex Heerma van Voss,Lidewij Hesselink,Klaus Weinhauer

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Dock Workers

International Explorations in Comparative Labour History, 1790-1970

By: Sam Davies,Colin J. Davis,David de Vries,Lex Heerma van Voss,Lidewij Hesselink,Klaus Weinhauer

Workers who loaded and unloaded ships have formed a distinctive occupational group over the past two centuries. As trade expanded so the numbers of dock labourers increased and became concentrated in the major ports of the world. This ambitious two-volume project goes beyond existing individual studies of dock workers to develop a genuinely comparative international perspective over a long historical period. Volume 1 contains studies of 22 major ports worldwide. Built around an agreed framework of issues, these 'port studies' examine the type of workers who dominated dock labour, their race, class and ethnicity, the working conditions of dockers and the role of government as employer, arbitrator and supporter. The studies also detail how dockers organized their labour, patterns of strike action and involvement in political organizations. The structure of the port city is also outlined and descriptions given of the waterside environment. These areas of investigation form the basis for a series of 11 thematic studies which comprise Volume 2. Drawing on the information provided in the port studies, these essays identify important aspects and recurring themes, and explain how and why particular cases diverge from the rest. The final chapter of the book synthesizes the various approaches taken to offer a model which suggests several configurations of dock labour and presents suggestions for future research. This major scholarly achievement represents the most sustained attempt to date to provide a comparative international history of dock labour. An annotated bibliography completes this essential reference work.

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Routledge

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1351943243

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Constitutional and Administrative Law

By: Roger Masterman,Colin Murray

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Constitutional and Administrative Law

By: Roger Masterman,Colin Murray

Provides an accessible, discursive, and scholarly treatment of the key contemporary issues in UK Public Law.

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1009158481

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Marital Imagery in the Bible

An Exploration of Genesis 2:24 and its Significance for the Understanding of New Testament Divorce and Remarriage Teaching

By: Colin Hamer

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Marital Imagery in the Bible

An Exploration of Genesis 2:24 and its Significance for the Understanding of New Testament Divorce and Remarriage Teaching

By: Colin Hamer

Marital Imagery in the Bible. It can only be imagined that when the New Testament writers made their (albeit brief) comments on divorce and remarriage that they assumed they would be understood. So what has gone wrong? In the years after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 CE, when Graeco-Roman culture was at its height, the Jewish perspective of marriage and divorce, and thus the context of those brief New Testament comments was lost. The Christian church of that era was influenced by the neoplatonic ideas of the day, and an idealised concept of marriage developed from on Adam and Eve’s marriage recorded in Genesis 2:23—it was love at first sight, a marriage made in heaven. These concepts frame an understanding of marriage in much of Western culture even today. However, that was never the understanding of ancient Israel. Instead they looked to Genesis 2:24: ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’—so a naturally born man chooses a wife for himself, and their union was based on a ‘covenant’—in other words an agreement. The Old Testament makes it clear what the basis of that agreement was. Furthermore, it is clear, if that agreement was broken, there could be a divorce and a remarriage. All the Bible’s marital imagery (where the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures imagine that God is married to his people) is based on that understanding of human marriage. But so strong is our concept of marriage, that when Genesis 2:24 is referred to in the New Testament, it is thought that the reference is to Adam and Eve’s marriage. It is a paradigmatic marriage that for many excludes (or greatly restricts) the possibility of divorce and remarriage. This study looks to challenge that paradigm—and to suggest that the New Testament writers would not have employed an imagery which had at its center divorce and remarriage, only to deny the possibility of such in their own human marriage teaching. Colin Hamer’s thesis represents the only recent work on metaphor theory in biblical scholarship. It challenges centuries of academic scholarship and ecclesiastical assumptions about divorce. Hamer’s detailed and well researched analysis challenges the consensus view that the marriage of Adam and Eve in Gen 2:24 represents an ontological unity, suggesting important implications for contemporary Christian teaching on marriage and divorce.

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1532669208

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AD 33

The Year that Changed the World

By: Colin Duriez

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AD 33

The Year that Changed the World

By: Colin Duriez

In AD 33 an obscure religious teacher died a criminal's death in a distant outpost of the Roman Empire, yet this was an event with world-changing consequences. Duriez's compelling book brings to life events in the Roman Empire and beyond.

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Unlocking the Bible Story Series with Study Guides

By: Colin S. Smith

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Unlocking the Bible Story Series with Study Guides

By: Colin S. Smith

This set includes the entire collection of Unlocking the Bible Story Series with Study Guides: Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Vol 1 with Study Guide; Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Vol 2 with Study Guide; Unlocking the Bible Story: New Testament Vol 3 with Study Guide; and Unlocking the Bible Story: New Testament Vol 4 with Study Guide. The Bible takes its readers from the center of the Garden to today's urban centers with the same message for all: Christ has come to deliver the captives. Pastor Colin Smith shows how Jesus Christ is the focus of Scripture, indirectly or directly, from beginning to end. Beginning with the Old Testament (Volumes 1 and 2), he unlocks rich, life-changing truths while encouraging and strengthening readers in their daily walk with Christ. The second half of the story is told in Volume 3 and 4, as Pastor Colin S. Smith continues to uncover the truths of and in the Bible and encourages readers to discover the life-changing realities found in the New Testament. Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Vol 1 and its accompanying study guide will help you unlock the Bible Story from Genesis to Nehemiah. Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Vol 2 and its accompanying study guide will help you unlock the Bible Story from Job to Malachi. Unlocking the Bible Story: New Testament Vol 3 and its accompanying study guide will help you unlock the Bible Story from Matthew to Acts. Unlocking the Bible Story: New Testament Vol 4 and its accompanying study guide will help you unlock the Bible Story from Romans to Revelation. The accompanying Unlocking the Bible Story Study Guides will help you: Focus you or your small group's study time to be as productive and rewarding as it can possibly be Enrich your understanding of the book and your comprehension of God's Word Apply the book's lessons in ways that will change your life forever

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Moody Publishers

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0802481663

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The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

Finding Freedom in God's Commands

By: Colin S. Smith

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The 10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life

Finding Freedom in God's Commands

By: Colin S. Smith

Can the Ten Commandments help you finally break through? Do you struggle with time? With a temper? With dishonesty or discontentment? Whatever it is, find help where it may surprise you: the Ten Commandments. In The10 Greatest Struggles of Your Life, pastor Colin Smith opens up the Ten Commandments to show how there is more to them than meets the eye. Moving from dos and don’ts to matters of the heart, they become barometers of your love for God. You’ll discover areas of your life that are out of sync with His will, and you’ll receive wisdom for living in greater love, strength, and freedom in Christ. Includes a 30-page study guide ideal for personal or group use, helping you take the next steps toward joyful submission to God’s Word.

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080249255X

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Introduction to Management

By: Colin Combe

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Introduction to Management

By: Colin Combe

This brand new textbook equips the next generation of managers with the skills to succeed in a global business environment. Skillsets help students improve both their academic work and their employability, a truly international range of case studies broadens their horizons, and practitioner insights show them how skills are used in the real world.

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Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Volume 1

By: Colin S. Smith

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Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Volume 1

By: Colin S. Smith

For all who are wondering how the pieces fit into the jigsaw of God's revelation, Colin Smith has provided an answer, which is refreshingly simple, biblically accurate, and will prove phenomenally helpful to the serious Bible student and the new beginner alike. — Alistair Begg, senior pastor, Parkside Church In Unlocking the Bible Story, Colin Smith moves gradually through portions of the Bible to explain how it all holds together. He tells God's one grand story of salvation and reflects on major themes along the way. In volume 1 he moves through the Pentateuch and Historical Books of the Old Testament, which tell the story of God creating the world, choosing a people for Himself, and loving them despite their continued sin. Includes the study guide formerly sold separately. One of the most urgent needs in the church today is for a crisp and comprehensive knowledge of the Bible's storyline. To grasp how the sacred history moves from Genesis to Revelation not only brings fresh insight into how the Bible hangs together, and what each part contributes to the whole, but also is crucial for developing a Christian worldview. Colin Smith has met these needs admirably. I hope these volumes will circulate widely and be read and re-read. — D. A. Carson, research professor New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, cofounder of The Gospel Coalition

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0802496083

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The A to Z of Anglicanism

By: Colin Buchanan

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The A to Z of Anglicanism

By: Colin Buchanan

Anglicanism arguably originated in 1534 when Parliament passed the Act of Supremacy, which transferred papal power over the Church of England to the king. Today, approximately 550 dioceses are located around the world, not only in England, but also everywhere that the British Empire's area of influence extended. With an estimated total membership of about 75 million, Anglicanism is one of the largest and most varied Christian denominations. With such a long history and widespread flock, it is not easy to keep track of the variations of a religious community that has not ceased adapting since its inception. Hundreds of entries on significant persons and events, concepts and institutions, rituals and liturgy, and national communities, make this an invaluable reference for religious historians, theologians, and researchers. Also included are an introduction, a chronology that traces the church's evolution over time, and a bibliography.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810870088

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The Bridegroom Messiah

The Cross: Love's Greatest Story

By: Colin Hamer

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The Bridegroom Messiah

The Cross: Love's Greatest Story

By: Colin Hamer

The cross is love’s greatest story. Colin Hamer introduces the Bridegroom Messiah, and highlights the four reasons why he had to die, from the perspective of the Bible’s marital imagery. The Bridegroom Messiah died: (1) To transform the elect into a virgin bride by cleansing her with his blood, to circumvent the Deuteronomy 24 marriage law; (2) So he as high priest could take a virgin bride; (3) To pay the mohar; (4) To cleanse us from sin so that we could come back into God’s presence after the expulsion from Eden. David Instone-Brewer, of Tyndale House, Cambridge, calls Hamer’s treatment of marital imagery: “A significant contribution without precedent in the literature.”

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Unlocking the Bible Story Old Testament Vol 1 with Study Guide

By: Colin S. Smith

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Unlocking the Bible Story Old Testament Vol 1 with Study Guide

By: Colin S. Smith

This set includes Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Vol 1 and Unlocking the Bible Story Study Guide: Old Testament Vol 1. The Bible takes its readers from the center of the Garden to today's urban centers with the same message for all: Christ has come to deliver the captives. Pastor Colin Smith shows how Jesus Christ is the focus of Scripture, indirectly or directly, from beginning to end. Beginning with the Old Testament, he unlocks rich, life-changing truths while encouraging and strengthening readers in their daily walk with Christ.Unlocking the Bible Story: Old Testament Vol 1 and its accompanying study guide will help you unlock the Bible Story from Genesis to Nehemiah. Unlocking the Bible Story Study Guides will help you: Focus you or your small group's study time to be as productive and rewarding as it can possibly be Enrich your understanding of the book and your comprehension of God's Word Apply the book's lessons in ways that will change your life forever Once you've finished the volume 1 and study guide set, the volume 2 and study guide set is highly recommended as it will complete your study in the Old Testament--you or your small group could move through the entire Old Testament by using both sets in less than a year. Then dive into the New Testament study guides by using volumes 3 and 4.

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0802481841

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10 Keys to Unlocking the Bible with Participant and Leader's Guide

By: Colin S. Smith

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10 Keys to Unlocking the Bible with Participant and Leader's Guide

By: Colin S. Smith

This set includes 10 Keys for Unlocking the Bible, 10 Keys for Unlocking the Bible Participant's Guide, and 10 Keys for Unlocking the Bible Leader's Guide. If you're just beginning to explore the rewards of Bible study, here is the perfect introduction! Colin S. Smith has drawn from all four volumes of his work, Unlocking the Bible Story, to create this fascinating and thought-provoking guide. Using ten key words from his books, he leads the reader through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation, and opens doors to further inspiration. 10 Keys offers a bridge to his series, and is also a wonderful stand-alone book of revitalizing truths. The Participant's Guide is a great tool to help you follow along with the video by offering background information, outlines, summaries, charts, discussion questions--everything you need to make your sessions as rewarding as they can possibly be. The Leader's Guide will help you enhance your group discussions. It covers group logistics and planning, and it gives you important highlights and teaching points for all ten sessions.

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0802481914

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Cross and Tapper on Evidence

By: Colin Tapper

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Cross and Tapper on Evidence

By: Colin Tapper

Cross and Tapper on Evidence discusses the theory and practice of this field, and provides criticism and comment on the law, drawing on numerous recent cases to illustrate the workings of the law. It has been fully revised and rewritten to take into account the radical and controversial newCriminal Justice Act 2003. Major changes brought about by the new legislation, including those relating to the effect on acquittals, all the rules relating to character, and the hearsay rule in criminal cases, have been fully incorporated into the text.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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The Papal Monarchy

The Western Church from 1050 to 1250

By: Colin Morris

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The Papal Monarchy

The Western Church from 1050 to 1250

By: Colin Morris

The two centuries covered in this volume were among the most creative in the history of the Church. Colin Morris charts the emergence of much that is considered characteristic of European culture and religion, including universities and commercial cities, the crusades, the friars, chivalry, marriage, and church architecture. In all these developments, the Roman Church played an important and often fundamental role. A re-evaluation of that role is now particularly apt given the dissolution of Christendom in its old form witnessed by today's generation.

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Fortress Conservation and International Accountability for Human Rights Violations against Batwa in Kahuzi-Biega National Park

By: Colin Luoma

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Fortress Conservation and International Accountability for Human Rights Violations against Batwa in Kahuzi-Biega National Park

By: Colin Luoma

The Kahuzi-Biega National Park (‘PNKB’) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo presents an existential threat to the indigenous Batwa people. For millennia, Batwa occupied the forests surrounding Mount Kahuzi and Mount Biega, utilizing traditional ecological knowledge and sustainable practices to foster one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. The creation of the PNKB in the 1970s forced Batwa from their ancestral lands, rendering them deeply impoverished, landless, dependent and culturally disconnected. When they seek to return home and access their lands and resources, they are subjected to extreme violence by park authorities who treat them as trespassers, poachers and enemies of conservation. This report situates the serious human rights violations suffered by Batwa in the PNKB within the broader global phenomenon of ‘fortress conservation’ and analyses the respective roles and accountability of the park’s core international partners. Ongoing violence against Batwa in the PNKB is a stark reminder of the immense human and environmental costs associated with pursuing conservation policies that prevent indigenous peoples from owning, governing, accessing and benefiting from their territories and resources. These policies are bolstered by donors, global NGOs and international organizations which enable and tacitly uphold a violent and anti-indigenous status quo in the PNKB and other protected areas. Donors, conservation organizations and other international partners of the PNKB have failed to adequately ensure that their support did not contribute to human rights violations committed against Batwa. These international partners had explicit knowledge of unresolved human rights abuses committed by ecoguards, as well as threats of imminent violence against Batwa communities living inside the park. Yet, they continued to equip, fund and train ecoguards and actively promoted the increasing militarization of the PNKB. This militarization has resulted in overly aggressive policing and military-style actions by ecoguards (often jointly with the Congolese Army) who explicitly target, criminalize and brutalize Batwa. At the same time, the park consistently fails to meet environmental expectations and objectives. Thus, the PNKB represents a clear case of how fortress conservation fails both people and the environment. Regrettably, it is not an isolated example of flawed conservation policy. Instead, it is indicative of the institutional shortcomings and systemic failures inherent in the dominant ways in which conservation is pursued by states and promoted by international conservation actors in the Congo Basin and in other parts of the world.

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Minority Rights Group

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1912938502

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Song of the Forest

A Novel of Scotland in the Dark Ages

By: Colin MacKay

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Song of the Forest

A Novel of Scotland in the Dark Ages

By: Colin MacKay

Lyrical, intense, and foreboding, this is a remarkable first novel. Set in the Dark Ages, it tells of a year in the life of a remote village, the labors of its inhabitants, their struggles and fleeting pleasures in the face of threatening forces that surround them. The forest dominates their lives--in it lurk the fierce riders who come to rob, kill, and rape, and from it they evoke a being, half-man, half-clay, for their defense.

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