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A First-Class Temperament

The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

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A First-Class Temperament

The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905-1928

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

In this classic of American biography, based upon thousands of original documents, many never previously published, the prize-winning historian Geoffrey C. Ward tells the dramatic story of Franklin Roosevelt’s unlikely rise from cloistered youth to the brink of the presidency with a richness of detail and vivid sense of time, place, and personality usually found only in fiction. In these pages, FDR comes alive as a fond but absent father and an often unfeeling husband--the story of Eleanor Roosevelt’s struggle to build a life independent of him is chronicled in full–as well as a charming but pampered patrician trying to find his way in the sweaty world of everyday politics and all-too willing willing to abandon allies and jettison principle if he thinks it will help him move up the political ladder. But somehow he also finds within himself the courage and resourcefulness to come back from a paralysis that would have crushed a less resilient man and then go on to meet and master the two gravest crises of his time.

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Vintage

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0804173354

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9780804173353

The War Diaries of General David Watson

By: Geoffrey Jackson

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The War Diaries of General David Watson

By: Geoffrey Jackson

The diary of David Watson, who rose through the officer ranks to command one of the four divisions in the Great War, is an exceptional document that details with candid insight the responsibilities of senior command and shows the talent required to rise through the CEF to divisional command. The only published diary of a Canadian who held this rank in the last two (critical) years of the war, it focuses on the evolution of military leadership and associated challenges that Watson (and his peers) faced during the Great War. It recounts how he navigated not only the military battlefield in France and Belgium but also the political battlefield of the Canadian Expeditionary Force and larger British Expeditionary Force. The divisional commanders played a central role in the Corps’ transformation into a first-rate professional army, a transformation that coincided with Watson’s tenure at the 4th Division. Major-General David Watson’s personal accounts offer valuable insights into the innermost workings of the Canadian Corps at various stages during the war and in particular its emergence as an elite fighting force and the pride of a nation

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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177112508X

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9781771125086

Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain

By: Geoffrey Beard,Jeff Orton,Richard Ireland

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Decorative Plasterwork in Great Britain

By: Geoffrey Beard,Jeff Orton,Richard Ireland

Decorative plasterwork was created by skilled craftsmen, and for over four hundred years it has been an essential part of the interior decoration of the British country house. In this detailed and comprehensive study, Geoffrey Beard has created a book that will delight the eye and inform the interested reader. For those who have sometimes been puzzled by the complexities of plaster decoration it will be a most useful work of reference on a fascinating art form, about which no book has been published for nearly fifty years. After discussing the part that patrons played in commissioning and financing these beautiful decorations, a useful chapter is devoted to materials and methods of work and here the author describes the ingredients of good plaster; he has studied the work of present-day English plasterers and Swiss stucco-restorers in order to establish precisely how the materials of plaster and stucco were composed and used.

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Routledge

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1317742877

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9781317742876

The First Fleet Piano: Volume One

A Musician’s View

By: Geoffrey Lancaster

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The First Fleet Piano: Volume One

A Musician’s View

By: Geoffrey Lancaster

During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable part of social life, but also inspired the creation of an expressive and scintillating repertoire. Square pianos reinforced music as life’s counterpoint, and were played by royalty, by musicians of the highest calibre and by aspiring amateurs alike. On Sunday, 13 May 1787, a square piano departed from Portsmouth on board the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, bound for Botany Bay. Who made the First Fleet piano, and when was it made? Who owned it? Who played it, and who listened? What music did the instrument sound out, and within what contexts was its voice heard? What became of the First Fleet piano after its arrival on antipodean soil, and who played a part in the instrument’s subsequent history? Two extant instruments contend for the title ‘First Fleet piano’; which of these made the epic journey to Botany Bay in 1787–88? The First Fleet Piano: A Musician’s View answers these questions, and provides tantalising glimpses of social and cultural life both in Georgian England and in the early colony at Sydney Cove. The First Fleet piano is placed within the musical and social contexts for which it was created, and narratives of the individuals whose lives have been touched by the instrument are woven together into an account of the First Fleet piano’s conjunction with the forces of history. View ‘The First Fleet Piano: Volume Two Appendices’. Note: Volume 1 and 2 are sold as a set ($180 for both) and cannot be purchased separately.

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ANU Press

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1922144657

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9781922144652

Labour’s Decline and the Social Democrats’ Fall

By: Geoffrey Lee Williams

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Labour’s Decline and the Social Democrats’ Fall

By: Geoffrey Lee Williams

This book traces the decline of the Labour Party's popularity and the development of the Social Democratic party. The authors have also written "Crisis in European Defence" and "The European Defence Initiative: Europe's Bid for Equality".

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Springer

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1349199486

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Corpus Linguistics

Readings in a Widening Discipline

By: Geoffrey Sampson,Diana McCarthy

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Corpus Linguistics

Readings in a Widening Discipline

By: Geoffrey Sampson,Diana McCarthy

Corpus Linguistics seeks to provide a comprehensive sampling of real-life usage in a given language, and to use these empirical data to test language hypotheses. Modern corpus linguistics began fifty years ago, but the subject has seen explosive growth since the early 1990s. These days corpora are being used to advance virtually every aspect of language study, from computer processing techniques such as machine translation, to literary stylistics, social aspects of language use, and improved language-teaching methods. Because corpus linguistics has grown fast from small beginnings, newcomers to the field often find it hard to get their bearings. Important papers can be difficult to track down. This volume reprints forty-two articles on corpus linguistics by an international selection of authors, which comprehensively illustrate the directions in which the subject is developing. It includes articles that are already recognized as classics, and others which deserve to become so, supplemented with editorial introductions relating the individual contributions to the field as a whole. This collection of readings will be useful to students of corpus linguistics at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as academics researching this fascinating area of linguistics.

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A&C Black

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1441139370

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9781441139375

Chemistry and Mode of Action of Crop Protection Agents

By: Leonard G Copping,H Geoffrey Hewitt

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Chemistry and Mode of Action of Crop Protection Agents

By: Leonard G Copping,H Geoffrey Hewitt

This book examines the chemistry and mode of action of herbicides, insecticides, fungicides and plant growth regulators. It follows crop protection strategies from early discoveries to the present day, emphasising the biochemical targets of the compounds discussed. Chemistry and Mode of Action of Crop Protection Agents provides an in-depth, yet easy to read and understand, review of the major classes of pesticides, explaining also the basis of their activity and selectivity. Throughout, there are many references to allow the reader to pursue areas of special interest, and each chapter contains questions to ensure that the text has been understood. This is the first book on the mode of action of pesticides to have been published in over ten years, and as such will have a very wide audience. It is aimed primarily at graduate level but will also be relevant to the needs of some sixth form and undergraduate courses, as well as to industrialists and advisors in the field of crop protection.

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Royal Society of Chemistry

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1847550428

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9781847550422

Statistically-driven Computer Grammars of English

The IBM/Lancaster Approach

By: Geoffrey N. Leech

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Statistically-driven Computer Grammars of English

The IBM/Lancaster Approach

By: Geoffrey N. Leech

This book is about building computer programs that parse (analyze, or diagram) sentences of a real-world English. The English we are concerned with might be a corpus of everyday, naturally-occurring prose, such as the entire text of this morning's newspaper.Most programs that now exist for this purpose are not very successful at finding the correct analysis for everyday sentences. In contrast, the programs described here make use of a more successful statistically-driven approach.Our book is, first, a record of a five-year research collaboration between IBM and Lancaster University. Large numbers of real-world sentences were fed into the memory of a program for grammatical analysis (including a detailed grammar of English) and processed by statistical methods. The idea is to single out the correct parse, among all those offered by the grammar, on the basis of probabilities. Second, this is a how-to book, showing how to build and implement a statistically-driven broad-coverage grammar of English. We even supply our own grammar, with the necessary statistical algorithms, and with the knowledge needed to prepare a very large set (or corpus) of sentences so that it can be used to guide the statistical processing of the grammar's rules.

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Rodopi

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9051834780

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9789051834789

Recombinant Poxviruses

By: Matthew M. Binns,Geoffrey L. Smith

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Recombinant Poxviruses

By: Matthew M. Binns,Geoffrey L. Smith

Recombinant Poxviruses provides a comprehensive examination of poxviruses with an emphasis on the potential of these viruses as new vaccines. The book considers a wide range of issues involved in producing new genetically engineered live vaccines, such as efficacy, safety, stability, cost, host range, immune response, immunization route, use of multivalent vaccines, and need for revaccination. The opening chapter describes the origin of vaccinia virus, its use to eradicate smallpox, and the pathogenesis of poxvirus infections. Subsequent chapters examine the molecular biology of poxviruses, methods of constructing vaccinia virus recombinants, and applications; the use and immune responses induced by poxvirus recombinants as live vaccines; and the important issues of the safety and immunogenicity of vaccinia virus. The book's final two chapters report the progress that has been made developing avipoxviruses and parapoxviruses as candidate recombinant vaccines. Recombinant Poxviruses will be a welcome addition to the bookshelves of virologists, microbiologists, infectious disease specialists, and veterinarians.

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CRC Press

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0849361796

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9780849361791

International Law and the Public

How Ordinary People Shape the Global Legal Order

By: Geoffrey P. R. Wallace

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International Law and the Public

How Ordinary People Shape the Global Legal Order

By: Geoffrey P. R. Wallace

In International Law and the Public, Geoffrey P.R. Wallace investigates the public as a crucial, often overlooked, actor in international law. He asks just who is it that counts in the operation of the international legal order. Defying conventional wisdom that sees governments, leaders, generals, lawyers, or elites from the upper echelons of society as the main international legal players, Wallace advances a "popular international law" where ordinary people are considered important legal actors in their own right alongside the usual focus on elites. Far from powerless or unwitting, publics possess both the cognitive and material capacities to understand and contribute to the intricacies of international legal rules. Combining rigorous theorizing with wide-ranging evidence, International Law and the Public is an account of an international legal politics from below, taking seriously the place of ordinary people in international affairs.

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Cornell University Press

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1501776541

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9781501776540

Aces, Airmen and The Biggin Hill Wing

A Collective Memoir, 1941–1942

By: Jon E. C. Tan,Geoffrey Wellium

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Aces, Airmen and The Biggin Hill Wing

A Collective Memoir, 1941–1942

By: Jon E. C. Tan,Geoffrey Wellium

During the Second World War, RAF Biggin Hill was one of Fighter Commands premier stations. Throughout the Battle of Britain and beyond, it became a hotbed of talent and expertise, home to many of the Commands most notable and successful squadrons. Both on the ground and in the air, Biggin Hill had a formidable reputation and its prowess was very much built on a partnership between air and ground personnel, including squadron members, specialist engineers, armorers and other ground-crew. This fascinating new book from Jon Tan offers a rich account of the years 1941-1942, an incredibly varied and eventful period in Biggins story.The authors late grandfather, David Raymond Davies, was assigned to a specialist armorers team at Biggin Hill and his grandsons narrative serves as a tribute to a particularly fascinating RAF career. Told from Davies firsthand viewpoint and taking a ground-crew members perspective, no other history has been published that examines day-to-day operations at Biggin Hill in this way.Drawing on many sources, including original interviews with veterans, the narrative foregrounds Davies story, using it as the backbone for Tans broader historical record of the operations of Biggins Spitfire squadrons. It thus establishes a collective memoir, taking in accounts by such notable pilots as Don Kingaby, Jamie Rankin, Brian Kingcome, Walter Johnnie Johnston, Dickie Milne and Raymond Duke-Woolley, all of whom had close associations with Davies in his capacity as a specialist armourer. Reading the manuscript, Squadron Leader Johnnie Johnston told the author I read it often; it sits here on the table next to me. Its the closest to how I remember it.Far from being a dry account of daily operations, this narrative seeks to engage the reader emotionally. Bringing together a considerable amount of evidence and oral history, it tells the story of one twenty-one year old and his comrades, thrown into the howling gale of the Second World War and the intensity of the conflict as experienced by front-line RAF personnel.

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Casemate Publishers

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1473881714

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9781473881716

Sports of Santa Cruz County

By: Geoffrey Dunn

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Sports of Santa Cruz County

By: Geoffrey Dunn

Its inviting climate, enticing rugged mountains, and welcoming beaches have always made Santa Cruz County a haven for athletic activities. A wide variety of sporting endeavors, some beyond the norm, have called Santa Cruz home over the decades. In the 19th century, Santa Cruz served as a springboard for modern surfing. It was an early bastion for organized baseball, too, beginning in the 1860s, and it was home to a series of professional teams as early as the 1870s. Other colorful athletic activities took place here (including fire hose teams, long-distance walking, and bicycling), along with more traditional American sports like basketball, football, boxing, and tennis. The region boasts of a strong tradition of women athletes as well, in particular Marion Hollins, perhaps the greatest all-around woman athlete of the early 20th century.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467130079

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9781467130073

Behind Blue Eyes

The Life of Pete Townshend

By: Geoffrey Giuliano

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Behind Blue Eyes

The Life of Pete Townshend

By: Geoffrey Giuliano

As musically creative as his performances are destructive, the Who's main man gets the full biographical treatment from his childhood to his current role as a rock sage.

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Cooper Square Press

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1461731968

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9781461731962

Advanced Therapy of Breast Disease

By: S. Eva Singletary,Geoffrey L. Robb,Gabriel N. Hortobagyi

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Advanced Therapy of Breast Disease

By: S. Eva Singletary,Geoffrey L. Robb,Gabriel N. Hortobagyi

The information surveyed in this volulme is designed to provide the clinician with an expert overview of the current state of the art in breast cancer management. It should provide at least a flavor of the major paradigm shift that is occurring in this rapidly evolving field. Breast cancer management is moving away from a "kill or cure" model and advancing toward a model focused on strategies of prevention and of long-term management of breast cancer as a chronic disease. The acceptance of this new paradigm by patients and clinicians alike will represent a major focus for the twenty-first century.

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PMPH-USA

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1550092626

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9781550092622

Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill

By: Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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Churchill's Shadow: The Life and Afterlife of Winston Churchill

By: Geoffrey Wheatcroft

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A major reassessment of Winston Churchill that examines his lasting influence in politics and culture. Churchill is generally considered one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century, if not the greatest of all, revered for his opposition to appeasement, his defiance in the face of German bombing of England, his political prowess, his deft aphorisms, and his memorable speeches. He became the savior of his country, as prime minister during the most perilous period in British history, World War II, and is now perhaps even more beloved in America than in England. And yet Churchill was also very often in the wrong: he brazenly contradicted his own previous political stances, was a disastrous military strategist, and inspired dislike and distrust through much of his life. Before 1939 he doubted the efficacy of tank and submarine warfare, opposed the bombing of cities only to reverse his position, shamelessly exploited the researchers and ghostwriters who wrote much of the journalism and the books published so lucratively under his name, and had an inordinate fondness for alcohol that once found him drinking whisky before breakfast. When he was appointed to the cabinet for the first time in 1908, a perceptive journalist called him “the most interesting problem of personal speculation in English politics.” More than a hundred years later, he remains a source of adulation, as well as misunderstanding. This revelatory new book takes on Churchill in his entirety, separating the man from the myth that he so carefully cultivated, and scrutinizing his legacy on both sides of the Atlantic. In effervescent prose, shot through with sly wit, Geoffrey Wheatcroft illuminates key moments and controversies in Churchill’s career—from the tragedy of Gallipoli, to his shocking imperialist and racist attitudes, dealings with Ireland, support for Zionism, and complicated engagement with European integration. Charting the evolution and appropriation of Churchill’s reputation through to the present day, Churchill’s Shadow colorfully renders the nuance and complexity of this giant of modern politics.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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1324002778

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9781324002772

Making Waves, Revised and Expanded

New Cinemas of the 1960s

By: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

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Making Waves, Revised and Expanded

New Cinemas of the 1960s

By: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

The 1960s was famously the decade of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll. It was also a decade of revolution and counter-revolution, of the Cuban missile crisis, of the American intervention in Vietnam, of economic booms and the beginning of consumerism (and the rebellion against it). In Hollywood, the genres which had held audiences captive in the 1940s and 50s - musicals, Westerns, melodramas - were losing their appeal and their great practitioners were approaching retirement. The scene was therefore set for new cinemas to emerge to attract the young, the discriminating, the politically conscious and the sexually emancipated. Making Waves, Revised and Expanded is a sharp, focused, and brilliant survey of the innovative filmmaking of the 1960s, placing it in its political, economic, cultural and aesthetic context - capturing the distinctiveness of a decade which was great for the cinema and for the world at large. Geoffrey Nowell-Smith pays particular attention to a handful of the most remarkable talents (Godard, Antonioni, Oshima) that emerged during the period and helped to make it so special. Nowell-Smith updates his classic text with a focus on 1960s Japan and the burgeoning New York scene.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1623565626

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9781623565626

The Roosevelts

An Intimate History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

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The Roosevelts

An Intimate History

By: Geoffrey C. Ward

An extraordinarily vivid and personal portrait of America's greatest political family and its enormous impact on our nation--the tie-in volume to the PBS documentary to air in the fall of 2014.

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Knopf

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0307700232

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9780307700230

From Witchcraft to Wisdom

A History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the British Isles

By: Geoffrey Chamberlain

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From Witchcraft to Wisdom

A History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the British Isles

By: Geoffrey Chamberlain

This book provides a history of childbearing in the British Isles from 1540 to the high-tech deliveries of today.

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RCOG

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1904752144

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9781904752141

The Little Book of Yorkshire

By: Geoffrey Howse

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The Little Book of Yorkshire

By: Geoffrey Howse

The Little Book of Yorkshire is a funny, fast-paced, fact-packed compendium of the sort of frivolous, fantastic or simply strange information which no-one will want to be without. The county's most unusual crimes and punishments, eccentric inhabitants, famous sons and daughters, royal connections and literally hundreds of wacky facts about Yorkshire's landscape, cities, towns and villages (plus some authentically bizarre bits of historic trivia), come together to make it essential reading for visitors and locals alike. Soak up the vast array of quirky tales from the regal Richmond of John of Gaunt to the sporting Barnsley of Dickie Bird. A handy little book for residents and visitors alike.

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The History Press

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0752462679

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9780752462677

Dr. Taylor of Norwich

Wesley's Arch Heretic

By: Geoffrey Thackray Eddy

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Dr. Taylor of Norwich

Wesley's Arch Heretic

By: Geoffrey Thackray Eddy

Dr. John Taylor rose to prominence in the mid-eighteenth century with his devastating attack on the doctrine of Original Sin. This drew fierce counterattacks from prominent Methodists such as John Wesley and Jonathan Edwards. While Wesley referred publicly to Taylor as a "great man," he believed him to be a heretic who did great damage to the Christian faith. The tendency among Methodist writers has been to follow Wesley's lead in their assessment of Taylor. However, this controversial and definitive volume, the first of its kind for over a century, reexamines this fascinating man and the controversy he began, offering a fuller and fairer account of the man behind the myth.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1620320754

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9781620320754

American Musical Theater: Grove Music Essentials

By: Geoffrey Block,Kate Van Winkle Keller,Anne Dhu McLucas,Sandra Jean Graham,Orly Leah Krasner,Todd Decker,Paul R. Laird

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American Musical Theater: Grove Music Essentials

By: Geoffrey Block,Kate Van Winkle Keller,Anne Dhu McLucas,Sandra Jean Graham,Orly Leah Krasner,Todd Decker,Paul R. Laird

A survey of the history of musical theater in the United States. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.oxfordmusiconline.com.

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Oxford University Press

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0190268743

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Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792- 1914

By: Geoffrey Wawro

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Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792- 1914

By: Geoffrey Wawro

Combining original research with the latest scholarship Warfare and Society in Europe, 1792 - 1914 examines war and its aftermath from Napoleonic times to the outbreak of the First World War. Throughout, this fine book treats warfare as a social and political phenomenon no less than a military and technologial one, and includes discussions on: * The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars * Napoleon III and the militarization of Europe * Bismark, Molkte, and the Franco-Prussian War, 1870-71 * new technologies and weapons * seapower, imperialism and naval warfare * the origins and outbreak of the First World War. For anyone studying, or with in interest in European warfare, this book details the evolution of land and naval warfare and highlights the swirling interplay of society, politics and military decision making.

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Routledge

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1134611005

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9781134611003

Militia Stand Down: The First Objective Reading of the 2nd Amendment

By: Geoffrey Smith

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Militia Stand Down: The First Objective Reading of the 2nd Amendment

By: Geoffrey Smith

On June 12,1823 Thomas Jefferson quilled the following "History may distort truth, and will distort it for a time, by the superior efforts at justification of those who are conscious of needing it most. Nor will the opening scenes of our present government be seen in their true aspect, until the letters of the day, now held in private hoards, shall be broken up and laid open to public view. What a treasure will be found in General Washington's cabinet, when it shall pass into the hands of as candid a friend to truth as he was himself!" This volume of work is the "public view" he speaks of because ALL interpretations of the 2nd Amendment have exploited history to re-author its meaning. This full story is told with the hoarded letters spanning 84 years and their treasure ultimately revealed by the "Candid a friend of Truth". The 2nd amendment was crafted ahead of its time and its time has finally arrived. It is literally the Holy Grail of Gun Control and the final legacy of the United States Constitution.

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Lulu.com

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0995099006

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9780995099005

Oberlin Architecture, College and Town

A Guide to Its Social History

By: Geoffrey Blodgett

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Oberlin Architecture, College and Town

A Guide to Its Social History

By: Geoffrey Blodgett

Contains brief vignettes that describe approximately 130 buildings on Oberlin's campus and in the surrounding town which were built between 1837 and 1977, and includes photographs.

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Kent State University Press

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0873383095

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9780873383097

Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

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Delphi Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer (Illustrated)

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

The first volume of our new Series Three offers the complete works of Geoffrey Chaucer, with medieval illustrations, scholarly features, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Chaucer's life and works * Concise introductions to the poems and other texts * Images of how the books were first illustrated, giving your eReader a taste of the medieval texts * Excellent formatting of the poetry * THE CANTERBURY TALES features the original Ellesmere Manuscript illustrations of the pilgrims * Offers two versions of the major texts THE CANTERBURY TALES and TROILUS AND CRISEDYE, each with individual contents tables and links: The Oxford University 1894 scholarly text, with original spellings and line numbers (ideal for students) AND a modernised spellings and annotated text version to help the general reader now you can truly enjoy Chaucers language! * Special criticism section, with essays by writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Virginia Woolf and James Joyce evaluating Chaucers contribution to literature * Features four biographies immerse yourself in Chaucer's medieval world! * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Poetry THE ROMAUNT OF THE ROSE THE BOOK OF THE DUCHESS THE HOUSE OF FAME ANELIDA AND ARCITE PARLEMENT OF FOULES TROILUS AND CRISEYDE (ORIGINAL TEXT) TROILUS AND CRISEYDE (MODERNISED AND ANNOTATED) THE LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN THE CANTERBURY TALES (ORIGINAL TEXT) THE CANTERBURY TALES (MODERNISED AND ANNOTATED) MINOR POEMS The Non-Fiction BOECE TREATISE ON THE ASTROLABE The Criticism CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES by Grace Eleanor Hadow ON MR. GEOFFREY CHAUCER by G. K. Chesterton ADVENTURES IN CRITICISM by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch LECTURES ON CHAUCER AND SPENSER by William Hazlitt Extract from MY LITERARY PASSIONS by William Dean Howells THE RENAISSANCE AND THE REFORMATION by Andrew Lang THE PASTONS AND CHAUCER by Virginia Woolf Extract from INTRODUCTION TO THE PAINTINGS by D. H. Lawrence Extract from REALISM AND IDEALISM IN ENGLISH LITERATURE by James Joyce The Biographies CHAUCER AND HIS ENGLAND by G. G. Coulton CHAUCER by Sir Adolphus William Ward CHAUCERS OFFICIAL LIFE by James Root Hulbert BRIEF LIFE OF GEOFFREY CHAUCER by D. Laing Purves Please click here to browse our other titles

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1909496006

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The Music Business and Recording Industry

By: Geoffrey P Hull,Geoffrey Hull,Thomas Hutchison,Richard Strasser

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The Music Business and Recording Industry

By: Geoffrey P Hull,Geoffrey Hull,Thomas Hutchison,Richard Strasser

The Music Business and Recording Industry is a comprehensive music business textbook focused on the three income streams in the music industry: music publishing, live entertainment, and recordings. The book provides a sound foundation for understanding key issues, while presenting the latest research in the field. It covers the changes in the industry brought about by the digital age, such as changing methods of distributing and accessing music and new approaches in marketing with the Internet and mobile applications. New developments in copyright law are also examined, along with the global and regional differences in the music business.

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Routledge

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1136911111

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9781136911118

The Development of International Law

By: Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Butler,Geoffrey Butler,Simon Maccoby

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The Development of International Law

By: Sir Geoffrey Gilbert Butler,Geoffrey Butler,Simon Maccoby

Believing that changes in International Law have been ultimately an expression of changes in the state system of the world and in the practice of the nations, we have tried, as it were, to cut into the procession of history at fixed points, to select some central theme at each stage, and to treat it in the light of history and law. In this attempt we arrived at a division of history from our point of view into three major periods which we have termed respectively those of the Prince, of the Judge, and of the Concert. In the first period, the scholar is still in the age of the dissolving Holy Roman Empire; in the second, commercial and dynastic wars - above all, the long-drawn-out struggle between France and England - dominate the scene; in the third and last, it is the voice of some force other than that of pure nationalism which, whatever the reason, reasserts itself. No division of this kind can be wholly satisfactory, but it is our belief that under one or another of these headings almost every issue which has interest for the historian of the Law of Nations can be conveniently treated." -- from the Preface by the author.

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1584772158

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