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Curious Earth

A Novel

By: Gerard Woodward

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In this successor to his Man Booker Prize finalist work "I'll Go to Bed at Noon, A Curious Earth" slyly pits defiant Aldous Jones against the hazards of aging in this "brave, funny, and beautifully written ("The Guardian") novel.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393330974

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The Paper Lovers

By: Gerard Woodward

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The Paper Lovers

By: Gerard Woodward

Hugely enjoyable, a unique love story that’s both witty and poignant.' John Boyne, author of The Heart's Invisible Furies Arnold Proctor’s quiet life is thrown off balance when he falls obsessively in love with Vera, a religious woman and one of his wife’s friends. Vera seems untroubled by her wrongdoing, yet faithless Arnold is wracked with guilt. He has never believed in God, but now he wonders if he truly believes in anything at all? Polly makes handcrafted paper, and even though the age of paper is dead, she runs a successful shop selling her exquisite products. Polly is secure and happy in her life, until the day her husband Arnold makes a very uncharacteristic declaration. Gerard Woodward's The Paper Lovers is a devastating story of sexual, religious and artistic obsession. It is about love and betrayal, and what becomes of us after our greatest certainties have been shattered.

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Pan Macmillan

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1509847979

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Legoland

By: Gerard Woodward

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Legoland

By: Gerard Woodward

A stunning new collection of stories from the Man Booker Prize and Whitbread Prize-shortlisted author.Many of Legoland's fifteen stories begin with Woodward's sharp and unflinching eye alighting upon an apparently everyday detail or situation, but then a sudden twist takes them to an unsettling place where life's normal rules no longer apply.Whether he's writing about domestic subjects - such as in 'The Unloved', when a woman in a dysfunctional marriage finally leaves home after decades of misery - or tackling large issues on a global stage - the tyranny of dictators in 'The Fall of Mr and Mrs Nicholson', or the invasion of an unnamed country in 'The Flag' - each story is full of Woodward's blacker-than-black humour, fearless surrealism, and gift for phrase-making.The collection also includes Woodward's brilliant story 'The Family Whistle', which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times EFG Short Story Award, in which a woman's husband returns home from war, only to discover his wife thinks he's been back for years because another man has already claimed his place.Legoland celebrates Woodward's gift for clarity, wit and surprise: his lithe prose and willingness to ignore convention carrying us from comedy to tragedy and back again, sometimes in a single story; it confirms him as one of the most gifted and original writers of our time.

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Pan Macmillan

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144728867X

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I'll Go to Bed at Noon

By: Gerard Woodward

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I'll Go to Bed at Noon

By: Gerard Woodward

Colette Jones has had drink problems in the past, but now it seems as though her whole family is in danger of turning to alcohol. Her oldest son has thrown away a promising musical career for a job behind the counter in a builders' merchants, and his drinking sprees with his brother-in-law Bill, a pseudo-Marxist supermarket butcher who seems to see alcohol as central to the proletarian revolution, have started to land him in trouble with the police. Meanwhile Colette's recently widowered older brother is following an equally self-destructive path, having knocked back an entire cellar of homemade wine, he's now on the gin, a bottle a day and counting. Who will be next? Her youngest son had decided to run away to sea, but when her own husband hits the bottle Colette realises she has to act. As the pressure builds on Colette to cope with these damaged people, her own weaknesses begin to emerge, and become crucial to the outcome of all their lives. By way of an odyssey through the pubs, parks and drying-out clinics of suburban North London, Gerard Woodward's richly woven second novel I'll Go To Bed At Noon charts in microscopic detail the continuing history of a troubled but unforgettable family (first encountered in August) as it lurches from farce to tragedy and back again, and from one end of the 1970's to the other, and at the same time presents an unflinching portrait of British society in the unstable years leading up to the Thatcher revolution.

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Arrow

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0099286939

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9780099286936

We Learn about Mass, Second Edition

By: Gerard Moore

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We Learn about Mass, Second Edition

By: Gerard Moore

This book will help you learn the new words of Mass and how you take part of Mass.

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LiturgyTrainingPublications

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1616710349

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9781616710347

Douglas Haig, 1861–1928

By: Gerard J. De Groot

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Douglas Haig, 1861–1928

By: Gerard J. De Groot

For seventy years Douglas Haig had been portrayed on the one hand as the ‘Butcher of the Somme’ – inept, insensitive and archaic; and on the other as the ‘Saviour of Britain’ – noble, unselfish and heroic. This polarised, strident and ultimately inconclusive argument had resulted in Haig becoming detached from his own persona; he had become a shallow symbol of a past age to be pilloried or praised. The middle ground in the Haig debate had been as barren as No Man’s Land. There should be no mystery about Haig. Certain from a very early age of his own greatness, he preserved every record of his achievements: diaries, letters, official reports etc. The opinions of his contemporaries are likewise readily available. But until this book the material had not been used to construct a complete and accurate picture. Critics and supporters have raided the historical records for evidence of the demi-god or demon and have ignored that which conflicts with their preconceptions. They have likewise raced through his early life in order to get to the war, in the process ignoring the complex process of his development as a soldier. Analyses of Haig’s command have consequently been as shallow as the prevailing images of the man. After eight years of painstaking and detailed research into previously neglected sources, Gerard De Groot gave us a more complete and balanced picture. This book, originally published in 1988, which will appeal both to the general and the specialised reader, is not simply a critique of Haig’s command in the war, but an exploration into his personality. Close attention to his early life and career reveals him as a creature of his society, a man who mirrored both the virtues and the faults of Edwardian Britain. What emerges is an intense, dedicated, but ultimately flawed servant of his country whose ironic fate it was to grow up in one age and to command in another.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000338983

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9781000338980

The Cosmopolitan Imagination

The Renewal of Critical Social Theory

By: Gerard Delanty

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The Cosmopolitan Imagination

The Renewal of Critical Social Theory

By: Gerard Delanty

Gerard Delanty provides a comprehensive assessment of the idea of cosmopolitanism in social and political thought which links cosmopolitan theory with critical social theory. He argues that cosmopolitanism has a critical dimension which offers a solution to one of the weaknesses in the critical theory tradition: failure to respond to the challenges of globalization and intercultural communication. Critical cosmopolitanism, he proposes, is an approach that is not only relevant to social scientific analysis but also normatively grounded in a critical attitude. Delanty's argument for a critical, sociologically oriented cosmopolitanism aims to avoid, on the one hand, purely normative conceptions of cosmopolitanism and, on the other, approaches that reduce cosmopolitanism to the empirical expression of diversity. He attempts to take cosmopolitan theory beyond the largely Western context with which it has generally been associated, claiming that cosmopolitan analysis must now take into account non-Western expressions of cosmopolitanism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139483277

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Social Marketing

Why Should the Devil Have All the Best Tunes?

By: Gerard Hastings

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Social Marketing

Why Should the Devil Have All the Best Tunes?

By: Gerard Hastings

Social marketing takes thinking used in commercial marketing to influence consumer behaviour and applies it to health and social behaviour - and in the process provides innovative solutions to many of the world's most pressing problems - from HIV/AIDS to global warming." - cover.

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Butterworth-Heinemann

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0750683503

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9780750683500

Seismic Inversion

By: Gerard T. Schuster

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Seismic Inversion

By: Gerard T. Schuster

This book describes the theory and practice of inverting seismic data for the subsurface rock properties of the earth. The primary application is for inverting reflection and/or transmission data from engineering or exploration surveys, but the methods described also can be used for earthquake studies. Seismic Inversion will be of benefit to scientists and advanced students in engineering, earth sciences, and physics. It is desirable that the reader has some familiarity with certain aspects of numerical computation, such as finite-difference solutions to partial differential equations, numerical linear algebra, and the basic physics of wave propagation. For those not familiar with the terminology and methods of seismic exploration, a brief introduction is provided. To truly understand the nuances of seismic inversion, we have to actively practice what we preach (or teach). Therefore, computational labs are provided for most of the chapters, and some field data labs are given as well.

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SEG Books

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156080341X

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The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan

Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash

By: Gerard N. Magliocca

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The Tragedy of William Jennings Bryan

Constitutional Law and the Politics of Backlash

By: Gerard N. Magliocca

Looks at how William Jennings Bryan's attempts to reach the White House invigorated conservatives across the United States and changed approaches to constitutional law.

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Yale University Press

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0300153147

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9780300153149

Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers

By: Gerard L'E. Turner

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Renaissance Astrolabes and their Makers

By: Gerard L'E. Turner

This book is about the archaeology of science, or what can be learnt from the systematic examination of the artefacts made by precision craftsmen for the study of the natural world. An international authority on historical scientific instruments, Gerard Turner has collected here his essays on European astrolabes and related topics. By 1600 the astrolabe had nearly ceased to be made and used in the West, and before that date there was little of the source material for the study of instruments that exists for more modern times. It is necessary to 'read' the instruments themselves, and astrolabes in particular are rich in all sorts of information, mathematical, astronomical, metallurgical, in addition to what they can reveal about craftsmanship, the existence of workshops, and economic and social conditions. There is a strong forensic element in instrument research, and Gerard Turner's achievements include the identification of three astrolabes made by Gerard Mercator, all of whose instruments were thought to have been destroyed. Other essays deal with the discovery of an important late 16th-century Florentine workshop, and of a group of mid-15th-century German astrolabes linked to Regiomontanus.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040235719

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Cell Phone Culture

Mobile Technology in Everyday Life

By: Gerard Goggin

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Cell Phone Culture

Mobile Technology in Everyday Life

By: Gerard Goggin

Comprehensive introduction to cell phone culture and theory.

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Routledge

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0415367433

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9780415367431

Catastrophizing

Materialism and the Making of Disaster

By: Gerard Passannante

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Catastrophizing

Materialism and the Making of Disaster

By: Gerard Passannante

When we catastrophize, we think the worst. We make too much of too little, or something of nothing. Yet what looks simply like a bad habit, Gerard Passannante argues, was also a spur to some of the daring conceptual innovations and feats of imagination that defined the intellectual and cultural history of the early modern period. Reaching back to the time between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, Passannante traces a history of catastrophizing through literary and philosophical encounters with materialism—the view that the world is composed of nothing but matter. As artists, poets, philosophers, and scholars pondered the physical causes and material stuff of the cosmos, they conjured up disasters out of thin air and responded as though to events that were befalling them. From Leonardo da Vinci’s imaginative experiments with nature’s destructive forces to the fevered fantasies of doomsday astrologers, from the self-fulfilling prophecies of Shakespeare’s tragic characters to the mental earthquakes that guided Kant toward his theory of the sublime, Passannante shows how and why the early moderns reached for disaster when they ventured beyond the limits of the sensible. He goes on to explore both the danger and the critical potential of thinking catastrophically in our own time.

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University of Chicago Press

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022661221X

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9780226612218

The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power, and the Making of the Borgia Myth

By: Gerard Noel

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The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power, and the Making of the Borgia Myth

By: Gerard Noel

Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the worlds largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new fundraising initiative was launched: the sale of indulgences. The Renaissance Popes were statesmen, warriors, patrons of the arts as well as churchmen. These were earthly times and the reputations of popes like Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia patriarch, and Julius 'Il Terrible' II for murder, poison, sodomy and simony vary only in degree. Meanwhile, the sin of heresy, which threatens the very core of the Catholic soul, was tirelessly targeted by two other lasting innovations of the period: the Inquisition and witch-hunts. Alexander VI, father of the ruthless Cesare and jezebel Lucrezia, is seen to this day as the embodiment of this iniquity. But Gerard Noel shows this is unjust, and based on false confessions and historical myth. What's more, Alexander created the blueprint for reform -- the first of its kind -- that would eventually lead to the Counter-Reformation. In his survey of the colourful reigns of the seventeen Renaissance Popes and his examination of the great Borgia myth Noel brings to light the true legacy -- political, artistic, religious -- of an extraordinary time.

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Constable

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147212507X

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9781472125071

Apps

From Mobile Phones to Digital Lives

By: Gerard Goggin

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Apps

From Mobile Phones to Digital Lives

By: Gerard Goggin

Since the rise of the smartphone, apps have become entrenched in billions of users' daily lives. Accessible across phones and tablets, watches and wearables, connected cars, sensors, and cities, they are an inescapable feature of our current culture. In this book, Gerard Goggin provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the development of apps as a digital media technology. Covering the technological, social, cultural, and policy dynamics of apps, Goggin ultimately considers what a post-app world might look like. He argues that apps represent a pivowtal moment in the development of digital media, acting as a hinge between the visions and realities of the “mobile,” “cyber,” and “online” societies envisaged since the late 1980s and the imaginaries and materialities of the digital societies that emerged from 2010. Apps offer frames, construct tools, and constitute “small worlds” for users to reorient themselves in digital media settings. This fascinating book will reframe the conversation about the software that underwrites our digital worlds. It is essential reading for students and scholars of media and communication, as well as for anyone interested in this ubiquitous technology.

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John Wiley & Sons

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150953850X

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9781509538508

Trusts Law

Text and Materials

By: Graham Moffat,Gerard M. D. Bean,Rebecca Probert

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Trusts Law

Text and Materials

By: Graham Moffat,Gerard M. D. Bean,Rebecca Probert

This classic textbook brings a modern perspective to the study of the law of equity. Its hallmark contextualized approach and commercial focus will help students understand the subject, and the authors' commentary on the factors informing trusts law allows students to confidently grapple with complex ideas.

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Cambridge University Press

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052176789X

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9780521767897

Malta Magnificent

By: Maj. Francis Gerard

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Malta Magnificent

By: Maj. Francis Gerard

Malta Magnificent, written by Major Francis Gerard and first published in 1943, tells of the siege of Malta, one of the epic incidents in the world’s history. For two years, the Luftwaffe was hurled against the island day and night, but Malta and its people stood indomitable and unshaken throughout, and the “George Cross Island” held. A gripping account.

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787201791

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Nineteenth-century Scientific Instruments

By: Gerard L'Estrange Turner,Margaret Weston

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Nineteenth-century Scientific Instruments

By: Gerard L'Estrange Turner,Margaret Weston

Examines the variety of instruments and equipment used in scientific research in fields such as chemistry, mechanics, meteorology, and electricity

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Univ of California Press

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0520051602

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9780520051607

AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC

By: G. Martin Moeller Jr.

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AIA Guide to the Architecture of Washington, DC

By: G. Martin Moeller Jr.

The additions and revisions incorporated into the latest edition illuminate broader demographic and physical changes in the city, including the emergence of new neighborhoods and the redevelopment of once-neglected areas.

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JHU Press

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1421443848

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9781421443843

Bosnia Remade

Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal

By: Gerard Toal,Carl T. Dahlman

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Bosnia Remade

Ethnic Cleansing and its Reversal

By: Gerard Toal,Carl T. Dahlman

Bosnia Remade is an authoritative account of ethnic cleansing and its partial undoing from the onset of the 1990s Bosnian wars up through the present. Gerard Toal and Carl Dahlman combine a bird's-eye view of the entire war from onset to aftermath with a micro-level account of three towns that underwent ethnic cleansing and--later--the return of refugees. There have been two major attempts to remake the ethnic geography of Bosnia since 1991. In the first instance, ascendant ethno-nationalist forces tried to eradicate the mixed ethnic geographies of Bosnia's towns, villages and communities. These forces devastated tens of thousands of homes and lives, but they failed to destroy Bosnia-Herzegovina as a polity. In the second attempt, which followed the war, the international community, in league with Bosnian officials, endeavored to reverse the demographic and other consequences of this ethnic cleansing. While progress has been uneven, this latter effort has transformed the ethnic demography of Bosnia and moved the nation beyond its recent segregationist past. By showing how ethnic cleansing was challenged, Bosnia Remade offers more than just a comprehensive narrative of Europe's worst political crisis of the past two decades. It also offers lessons for addressing an enduring global problem.

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Oxford University Press

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0199742413

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9780199742417

Moffat's Trusts Law

By: Jonathan Garton,Graham Moffat,Gerard M. D. Bean,Rebecca Probert

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Moffat's Trusts Law

By: Jonathan Garton,Graham Moffat,Gerard M. D. Bean,Rebecca Probert

Detailed, thorough and authoritative new edition of Moffat's Trusts Law.

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Cambridge University Press

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110710548X

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9781107105485

The Paper Lovers

By: Gerard Woodward

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The Paper Lovers

By: Gerard Woodward

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Pan Macmillan

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1509847979

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Thy Will Be Done

The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

By: Gerard Colby,Charlotte Dennett

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Thy Will Be Done

The Conquest of the Amazon: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil

By: Gerard Colby,Charlotte Dennett

A “blistering exposé” of the USA’s secret history of financial, political, and cultural exploitation of Latin America in the 20th century, with a new introduction (Publishers Weekly). What happened when a wealthy industrialist and a visionary evangelist unleashed forces that joined to subjugate an entire continent? Historians Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett tell the story of the forty-year campaign led by Standard Oil scion Nelson Rockefeller and Wycliffe Bible Translators founder William Cameron Townsend to establish a US imperial beachhead in Central and South America. Beginning in the 1940s, future Vice President Rockefeller worked with the CIA and allies in the banking industry to prop up repressive governments, devastate the Amazon rain forest, and destabilize local economies—all in the name of anti-Communism. Meanwhile, Townsend and his army of missionaries sought to undermine the belief systems of the region’s indigenous peoples and convert them to Christianity. Their combined efforts would have tragic and long-lasting repercussions, argue the authors of this “well-documented” (Los Angeles Times) book—the product of eighteen years of research—which legendary progressive historian Howard Zinn called “an extraordinary piece of investigative history. Its message is powerful, its data overwhelming and impressive.”

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Open Road Media

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1504048393

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9781504048392

Parents and Textbooks

Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement

By: Gerard Giordano

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Parents and Textbooks

Answers that Reveal Essential Steps for Improvement

By: Gerard Giordano

Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they realized that they sometimes had conflicting interests. They resolved to get the information they wanted on their own: they would examine classroom textbooks. This book recounts the common sense questions that parents posed about these materials.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475838980

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