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Churchill's Phoney War

A Study in Folly and Frustration

By: Graham Clews

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Churchill's Phoney War

A Study in Folly and Frustration

By: Graham Clews

Given the dearth of scholarship on the Phoney War, this book examines the early months of World War II when Winston Churchill’s ability to lead Britain in the fight against the Nazis was being tested. Graham T. Clews explores how Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, proposed to fight this new world war, with particular attention given to his attempts to impel the Royal Navy, the British War Cabinet, and the French, toward a more aggressive prosecution of the conflict. This is no mere retelling of events but a deep analysis of the decision-making process and Churchill’s unique involvement in it. This book shares extensive new insights into well-trodden territory and original analysis of the unexplored, with each chapter offering material which challenges conventional wisdom. Clews reassesses several important issues of the Phoney War period including: Churchill’s involvement in the anti-U-boat campaign; his responsibility for the failures of the Norwegian Campaign; his attitude to Britain’s aerial bombing campaign and the notion of his unfettered “bulldog” spirit; his relationship with Neville Chamberlain; and his succession to the premiership. A man of considerable strengths and many shortcomings, the Churchill that emerges in Clews’ portrayal is dynamic and complicated. Churchill’s Phoney War adds a well-balanced and much-needed history of the Phoney War while scrupulously examining Churchill’s successes and failures.

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Naval Institute Press

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1682472809

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The Essential Dave Allen

By: Graham Mccann

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The Essential Dave Allen

By: Graham Mccann

When Dave Allen passed away in March 2005, we lost a true comedy great. Sitting cross-legged on a high stool, whiskey in one hand, cigarette in the other, Dave Allen's exasperated commentaries on the absurdities of modern life struck a chord with millions of fans in Britain, Ireland and Australia for over four decades. He was a compelling storyteller - able to spin shaggy dog stories out of the almost any subject, including the missing tip of his fourth finger of his left hand, for which he provided various unlikely explanations. But his gentle, laconic wit could also give way to ferocious attacks on the media, the state and, most famously, the Catholic Church. He was a unique talent - a comic who could make his audiences laugh, cry, and be shocked, all in one. This official celebration of Dave Allen's comedy has been drawn together by Graham McCann - Britain's best-loved entertainment writer. It is a treasure trove of stories, stand-up routines, sketches, interviews and photos, which takes us on a journey from the cradle to the grave. It will delight Dave Allen's million of fans, old and new alike. 'Dave Allen was our greatest storyteller and nobody ever came close to his ability to spin a yarn. He was unique, right up there with the greats.' Jack Dee

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444717766

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9781444717761

Churchill's Dilemma

The Real Story Behind the Origins of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign

By: Graham T. Clews

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Churchill's Dilemma

The Real Story Behind the Origins of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign

By: Graham T. Clews

This book completely rewrites the history of the origins of the Dardanelles Campaign and Winston Churchill's role in it, adding a new perspective to the military and political history of World War I. Churchill's Dilemma: The Real Story Behind the Origins of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign is an entirely original study of the origins of the disastrous Dardanelles Campaign of 1915 and Winston Churchill's role in it. The work challenges long-held beliefs about Churchill's actions as First Lord, including the perceptions that he had a preoccupation with the Dardanelles bordering on obsession, and that he only reluctantly promoted a naval-only attempt to force the Dardanelles because there were no troops available for a full-scale amphibious assault on the Peninsula. Opening with a brief study of prewar naval policy in the age of the mine and submarine and the implications of the growing threat from Germany, this in-depth study shows that neither perception is true. Churchill's preoccupation was with northern Europe, not the Mediterranean. He promoted his naval-only operation because he hoped this would preempt a major British military commitment to a southern theatre that would compromise his northern aspirations. In studying the motivations that drove and the other key players in this drama, this groundbreaking work does nothing less than unlock the true origins of the Dardanelles campaign.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313384754

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9780313384752

Genesis

Embracing Beginnings and Honoring Covenants: A Fifty-Day Devotional

By: Graham Joseph Hill

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Genesis

Embracing Beginnings and Honoring Covenants: A Fifty-Day Devotional

By: Graham Joseph Hill

Dive deep into the first book of the Bible: Genesis. This foundational book of the Bible sets the stage for the entire biblical narrative and offers profound insights into God’s plan for humanity. Through a dedicated fifty-day journey, readers will explore Genesis, unveiling its broader significance within the tapestry of Scripture. Rooted in rigorous biblical and theological scholarship, this devotional encourages a fuller understanding of the stories of Genesis and their relevance in today’s world. Each day, readers are invited to meditate on a complete chapter, reflecting on its overarching themes and intricate details. This Genesis-centered journey is the first book in a series of devotional books and podcast episodes designed to guide you through the entire Bible, nourishing your soul, renewing your purpose, and deepening your theology, contemplation, and action. In the Daily Devotions with Jesus series, Rev. Dr. Graham Joseph Hill guides you through the entire Bible, moving chapter by chapter from Genesis to Revelation. This is a groundbreaking Bible podcast and devotional book series. See how each book of the Bible deepens your faith and inspires you to follow Jesus in life-changing ways! See the podcast here: grahamjosephhill.com/devotions.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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9798385208456

Folkways

A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

By: William Graham Sumner

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Folkways

A Study of Mores, Manners, Customs and Morals

By: William Graham Sumner

This century-old classic of sociology offers thousands of illustrations of the social, sexual, and religious customs of ancient Greece and Rome, Africa, Australia, Melanesia, Japan, China, India, as well as medieval Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and modern Western civilization in Europe and America. Subjects include labor, wealth, slavery, cannibalism, marriage, education, and many other absorbing topics.

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Courier Corporation

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0486424960

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9780486424965

Memory Traces

By: Laura M. Amrhein,Cynthia Kristan-Graham

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Memory Traces

By: Laura M. Amrhein,Cynthia Kristan-Graham

In Memory Traces, art historians and archaeologists come together to examine the nature of sacred space in Mesoamerica. Through five well-known and important centers of political power and artistic invention in Mesoamerica—Tetitla at Teotihuacan, Tula Grande, the Mound of the Building Columns at El Tajín, the House of the Phalli at Chichén Itzá, and Tonina—contributors explore the process of recognizing and defining sacred space, how sacred spaces were viewed and used both physically and symbolically, and what theoretical approaches are most useful for art historians and archaeologists seeking to understand these places.Memory Traces acknowledges that the creation, use, abandonment, and reuse of sacred space has a strongly recursive relation to collective memory and meanings linked to the places in question, and reconciles issues of continuity and discontinuity of memory in ancient Mesoamerican sacred spaces. It will be of interest to students and scholars of Mesoamerican studies and material culture, art historians, architectural historians, and cultural anthropologists.

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University Press of Colorado

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1457196336

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9781457196331

Matthew

Seeking the Kingdom and Pursuing Righteousness: A Fifty-Day Devotional

By: Graham Joseph Hill

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Matthew

Seeking the Kingdom and Pursuing Righteousness: A Fifty-Day Devotional

By: Graham Joseph Hill

Dive deep into the first book of the New Testament: the Gospel of Matthew. This Gospel is a spiritual bridge between the Old and New Testaments, capturing the essence of Jesus Christ’s life, teachings, and profound impact on humanity. This Gospel is often called the “teaching Gospel,” rich in parables and events that guide us spiritually. From the Sermon on the Mount to the Great Commission, Matthew lays a foundational framework for living a deeply spiritual life. This devotional is rooted in rigorous biblical and theological scholarship and encourages a fuller understanding of Matthew and its relevance in today’s world. This devotional is the second book in a series of devotional books and podcast episodes designed to guide you through the entire Bible, nourishing your soul, renewing your purpose, and deepening your theology, contemplation, and action. In the Daily Devotions with Jesus series, Rev. Dr. Graham Joseph Hill guides you through the entire Bible, moving chapter by chapter from Genesis to Revelation. This is a groundbreaking Bible podcast and devotional book series. See how each book of the Bible deepens your faith and inspires you to follow Jesus in life-changing ways! See the podcast here: grahamjosephhill.com/devotions.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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ISBN 13

9798385211593

Traffic Accidents

Causes and Outcomes

By: Graham P. Bartley

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Traffic Accidents

Causes and Outcomes

By: Graham P. Bartley

This book examines a wide range of issues related to traffic accidents including prevention, safety, prediction, precipitation, mitigation, and related law enforcement issues.

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Nova Publishers

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1604564261

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9781604564266

A Fundamental Mistake

Human Nature, Coercion and Bad Behaviour

By: Graham Cliff

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A Fundamental Mistake

Human Nature, Coercion and Bad Behaviour

By: Graham Cliff

Does it puzzle you that, despite ever-increasing rules, controls and counter-measures, antisocial behaviour is seemingly spiralling out of control? Why have there been riots in Britain? Why is law enforcement failing to make our society a better place in which to live? Have our politicians lost the plot? Are our values wrong? A Fundamental Mistake explains why a change of direction is needed in society's thinking about how to get people to behave themselves; it also offers a carefully argued strategy by which to achieve this. The emphasis needs to shift away from coercion and punishment, and towards inducement and reward. The remarkable thing is that although we already have the necessary knowledge, it's not put to good use. Taking a fresh approach, Graham Cliff draws on mainstream behavioural psychology and applied ethics to make his case for challenging some of our time-honoured cultural assumptions and practices. Be prepared to re-think your position. Despite the weightiness of the subject, this is a book for everyone because it works up from first principles in a readily readable way. No expertise is needed to follow the flow from the basics of human nature to the way our minds work, then through the web of customs and rules that make up society, on to government, laws and punishment, and finally to how and why things might be done differently. Nobody will agree with everything that A Fundamental Mistake has to say, because that's what debate is all about. However, it's as well to remember this: when it comes to tackling antisocial behaviour, it's not enough just to get tough – we must get clever, too.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1780880790

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9781780880792

Mark

Receiving Redemption and Fulfilling Divine Promise: A Fifty-Day Devotional

By: Graham Joseph Hill

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Mark

Receiving Redemption and Fulfilling Divine Promise: A Fifty-Day Devotional

By: Graham Joseph Hill

The Gospel of Mark, the second book of the New Testament, serves as a profound narrative enriching Christian spirituality. At its heart, Mark's Gospel is a vivid and concise account of Jesus's ministry, focusing primarily on his actions and miracles. This briskly paced story propels us into the core of Jesus's life, revealing him as the ultimate Servant and the Son of God. Its simplicity and directness make it an accessible yet profoundly thought-provoking text for daily devotion and reflection. This devotional is the fifth book in a series of devotional books and podcast episodes designed to guide you through the entire Bible, nourishing your soul, renewing your purpose, and deepening your theology, contemplation, and action. In the Daily Devotions with Jesus series, Graham Joseph Hill guides you through the entire Bible, moving chapter by chapter from Genesis to Revelation. This is a groundbreaking Bible podcast and devotional book series. See how each book of the Bible deepens your faith and inspires you to follow Jesus in life-changing ways! See the podcast at https://grahamjosephhill.com/devotions.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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9798385214174

Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine

By: Thomas Graham

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Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine

By: Thomas Graham

Florida Book Awards, Bronze Medal for Florida Nonfiction Florida Historical Society Charlton Tebeau Book Award Arguably no man did more to make over a city—or a state—than Henry Morrison Flagler. Almost single-handedly, he transformed the east coast of Florida from a remote frontier into the winter playground of America’s elite. Mr. Flagler’s St. Augustine tells the story of how one of the wealthiest men in America spared no expense in transforming the country’s “Oldest City” into the “Newport of the South.” He built railroads into remote areas where men feared to tread and erected palatial hotels on swampland. He funded hospitals and churches and improved streets and parks. The rich and famous flocked to his invented paradise. In tracing Flagler’s life and second career, Thomas Graham reveals much about the inner life of the former oil magnate and the demons that drove him to expand a coastal empire southward to Palm Beach, Miami, Key West, and finally Nassau. Graham also gives voice to the individuals history has forgotten: the women who wrote tourist books, the artists who decorated the hotels, the black servants who waited tables, and the journalists who filed society columns in the newspapers. Filled with fascinating details that bring the Gilded Age to life, this book will stand as the definitive history of Henry Flagler and his time in Florida.

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University Press of Florida

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0813047560

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The Great American Songbooks

Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture

By: T. Austin Graham

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The Great American Songbooks

Musical Texts, Modernism, and the Value of Popular Culture

By: T. Austin Graham

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American authors pioneered a mode of musical writing that quite literally resounded beyond the printed page. Novels gained soundtracks, poetry compelled its audiences to sing, and the ostensibly silent act of reading became anything but. The Great American Songbooks is the story of this literature, at once an overview of musical and authorial practice at the century's turn, an investigation into the sensory dimensions of reading, and a meditation on the effects that the popular arts have had on literary modernism. The writings of John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer, and Walt Whitman are heard in a new key; the performers and tunesmiths who inspired them have their stories told; and the music of the past, long out of print and fashion, is recapitulated and made available in digital form. A work of criticism situated at the crossroads of literary analysis, musicology, and cultural history, The Great American Songbooks demonstrates the importance of studying fiction and poetry from interdisciplinary perspectives, and it suggests new avenues for research in the dawning age of the digital humanities.

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Oxford University Press

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0199862125

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9780199862122

Be Understood or Be Overlooked

Mastering communication in the workplace

By: Graham Andrewartha

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Be Understood or Be Overlooked

Mastering communication in the workplace

By: Graham Andrewartha

Shows employees how to better communicate and boost their morale to achieve greater understanding and success in the workplace.

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Allen & Unwin

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174115118X

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Major Companies of Europe 2000

By: Gale Group,Graham & Whiteside, Limited

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Major Companies of Europe 2000

By: Gale Group,Graham & Whiteside, Limited

This established directory has been thoroughly revised, updated and expanded to provide current and comprehensive information on more than 24,000 of Europe's largest companies. Four volumes are filled with facts and contacts for major public and private companies in all 20 countries of Western Europe.

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Gale Cengage

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1860991645

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9781860991646

Churchill's Dilemma

The Real Story Behind the Origins of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign

By: Graham T. Clews

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The Real Story Behind the Origins of the 1915 Dardanelles Campaign

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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Churchill's Phoney War

A Study in Folly and Frustration

By: Graham Clews

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A Study in Folly and Frustration

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Eboracvm

Carved in Stone

By: Graham Clews

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Eboracvm

Carved in Stone

By: Graham Clews

Following the forced exile Cethen Lamh-fada and his family by the Ninth Hispana Legion, (as told in Eboracvm, The Village), the book Eboracvm, The Fortress continues the story as their children come of age. As the fate of both generations grows inexorably entwined with that of their Roman counterpart, the legate Gaius Sabinius and his son Marcus, each must decide where true loyalty lies; and, in so doing, deal with the inevitable consequence. As their cultures clash, both sides find themselves drawn further and further northward, one pursued, the other the pursuer, in a surprisingly ironic twist of fortunes. According to history, the outcome of the extended campaign of General Gnaeus Julius Agricola seemed inevitable in its conclusion; but defeat is a personal thing, and not always total. In the long run, the final battle at Mons Graupius settled nothing; in the short run, it was a Oright buggerO for both sides, but mainly for the families of people such as Cethen Lamh-Fada, and his sharp witted wife, Elena. Laced with action and turmoil, plus a dose of hard romance, the narrative is told with a dark humour that highlights the never ending ironies of choice, many of them strikingly familiar today. In the words of Marg Gilks, author and editor: The characters live and breathe on the page, moving through meticulously researched and vividly described settings that not only bring the ancient world to life, but show the reader that some aspects of the human condition transcend time.

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Trafford Publishing

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142693615X

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Eboracum

The Village

By: Graham Clews

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Eboracum

The Village

By: Graham Clews

An action filled tale of the founding of Eboracvm (York), the chieftain dwelling there, and the Roman soldier forcing his eviction; told with a stark realism and dark humour that truly reflects the times.

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1425119999

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