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The Third Reich's Celluloid War

Propaganda in Nazi Feature Films, Documentaries and Television

By: Ian Garden

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The Third Reich's Celluloid War

Propaganda in Nazi Feature Films, Documentaries and Television

By: Ian Garden

This book exposes the myths surrounding the propaganda films produced during the Third Reich. One, that the Nazis were infallible masters in the use of film propaganda. Two, that everything the Nazis said was a lie. Three, that only the Riefenstahl documentaries are significant to the modern viewer. It reveals the truth, lies, successes and failures of key films designed to arouse hostility against the Nazis’ enemies, including Ohm Krüger - the most anti-British film ever produced; their 1943 anti-capitalist version of Titanic; anti-English films about Ireland and Scotland; and anti-American films like The Emperor of California and The Prodigal Son. Including an objective analysis of all the key films produced by the Nazi regime and a wealth of film stills, Ian C. Garden takes the reader on a journey through the Nazi propaganda machine. In today’s turbulent world the book serves as a poignant reminder of the levels to which powerful regimes will stoop to achieve power and control.

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The History Press

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0752477870

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9780752477879

An Essex Quiz Book

By: Ian Yearsley

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An Essex Quiz Book

By: Ian Yearsley

Essex is a remarkable county with a fascinating history, but how well do you know it? This fun, easy-to-use book contains 500 quiz questions in 50 rounds which are designed to test your knowledge about Essex. They range in difficulty from very easy to very hard and they cover topics as diverse as history, ancient buildings, scenes, waterways, transport, towns and villages, local claims to fame, towers, fortifications, the seaside, people, sport, writers, industry, science and islands. There are also some anagrams and some cryptic questions for you to try. Fourteen of the rounds are picture rounds. Can you recognise the places in them? This book can be used to test your own knowledge or the knowledge of your family members and friends. It can also be used in more competitive team quiz challenges in a village hall or a pub. You can even take it with you on a journey and test your knowledge of the places you visit as you go. The book can also be used as an educational tool, providing ideas for places to visit, as the answers include background information on all the topics covered. There is much of interest in Essex and this book will help you uncover it and learn about many aspects of the county’s long and interesting history. Enjoy discovering or rediscovering the many fascinating places in the best county in the country!

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146

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Paragon Publishing

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1782228543

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9781782228547

Economies in Transition

By: Ian Jeffries

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Economies in Transition

By: Ian Jeffries

This volume provides an in-depth review of major economic developments in those economies which are in some stage of transition, following the collapse of communism in the Eastern block. The book is divided into four parts: * theoretical issues in the transition from command to market economies * the events in the fifteeen independent countries of the former Soviet Union * Eastern Europe * non-European states In all, the author chronicles events from 1993 to 1995 in thirty-five countries. Economic developments are set in their political context and presented chronologically as far as possible. A Guide to the Economies in Transition carries on where Ian Jeffries' previous book left off. The work is entirely new and, as such, can be seen as a companion to the earlier title. These books are becoming known as invaluable guides, providing unique levels of reference in work of this type.

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878

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Routledge

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1134776896

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9781134776894

The Great War

1914-1918

By: Ian F. W. Beckett

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The Great War

1914-1918

By: Ian F. W. Beckett

The course of events of the Great War has been told many times, spurred by an endless desire to understand 'the war to end all wars'. However, this book moves beyond military narrative to offer a much fuller analysis of of the conflict's strategic, political, economic, social and cultural impact. Starting with the context and origins of the war, including assasination, misunderstanding and differing national war aims, it then covers the treacherous course of the conflict and its social consequences for both soldiers and civilians, for science and technology, for national politics and for pan-European revolution. The war left a long-term legacy for victors and vanquished alike. It created new frontiers, changed the balance of power and influenced the arts, national memory and political thought. The reach of this acount is global, showing how a conflict among European powers came to involve their colonial empires, and embraced Japan, China, the Ottoman Empire, Latin America and the United States.

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854

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Routledge

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1317866150

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Expressing Critical Thinking through Disciplinary Texts

Insights from Five Genre Studies

By: Ian Bruce

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Expressing Critical Thinking through Disciplinary Texts

Insights from Five Genre Studies

By: Ian Bruce

Exploring how critical thinking is expressed in writing, this book investigates the specific linguistic elements involved in this process. Ian Bruce takes a genre-based approach to compare the textual expression of critical thinking in samples of academic, professional and journalistic writing, using five studies to examine the similarities and differences in the elements deployed across different genres. Looking at phenomena such as the relations between propositions and words which express the writer's personal attitude, content-organizing patterns, and the role of metaphor, this book highlights the most important contributory factors in the expression of critical thinking. Providing an in-depth exploration of how it is articulated through different types of specialist writing, this book provides a lens to both examine texts and to identify and practice this skill.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350127914

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9781350127913

Australian History Live!

Eyewitness Accounts from the Past

By: Ian Warden

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Australian History Live!

Eyewitness Accounts from the Past

By: Ian Warden

This book is a collection of virtual time-travellings back to Australiae(tm)s past. AustralianHistory Live! is a compelling look at Australian history using first person accounts asreported in the press and in journals and diaries. Included in the collection are grippingaccounts of occasions both great and minor. Here you can find the heart wrenchingaccount of a bewildered little terrier dog refusing to leave the bayoneted dead body ofits master just killed at the Eureka Stockade. Read an amazing description of BertHinkler landing his absurdly tiny little aeroplane (hee(tm)d just flown it across the world in aworld-record time) on the straight at Flemington Racecourse. Share scientist FrancisRatcliffee(tm)s experience of being caught and shaken by a very wild willy-willy.

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National Library Australia

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0642277788

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9780642277787

Star Tales

By: Ian Ridpath

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Star Tales

By: Ian Ridpath

Every night, a pageant of Greek mythology circles overhead. Perseus flies to the rescue of Andromeda, Orion faces the charge of the snorting Bull, and the ship of the Argonauts sails in search of the Golden Fleece. Constellations are the invention of the human imagination, not of nature. They are an expression of the human desire to impress its own order upon the apparent chaos of the night sky. Modern science tells us that these twinkling points of light are glowing balls of gas, but the ancient Greeks, to whom we owe many of our constellations, knew nothing of this. Ian Ridpath, well-known astronomy writer and broadcaster, has been intrigued by the myths of the stars for many years. Star Tales is the first modern guide to combine all the fascinating myths in one book, illustrated with the beautiful and evocative engravings from two of the leading star atlases: Johann Bode's Uranographia of 1801 and John Flamsteed's Atlas Ceolestis of 1729. This is an excellent reference and the perfect gift for the armchair astronomer and those interested in classical mythology alike.

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James Clarke & Co.

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0718826957

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9780718826956

Bottom of the Barrel

Africa's Oil Boom and the Poor

By: Ian Gary,Terry Lynn Karl

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Bottom of the Barrel

Africa's Oil Boom and the Poor

By: Ian Gary,Terry Lynn Karl

The new African oil boomcentered on the oil-rich Atlantic waters of the Gulf of Guinea, from Nigeria to Angolais a moment of great opportunity and great peril for countries beset by wide-scale poverty.

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Catholic Relief Services

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1614920311

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9781614920311

Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering

By: Ian Foster,Dennis B. Gannon

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Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering

By: Ian Foster,Dennis B. Gannon

A guide to cloud computing for students, scientists, and engineers, with advice and many hands-on examples. The emergence of powerful, always-on cloud utilities has transformed how consumers interact with information technology, enabling video streaming, intelligent personal assistants, and the sharing of content. Businesses, too, have benefited from the cloud, outsourcing much of their information technology to cloud services. Science, however, has not fully exploited the advantages of the cloud. Could scientific discovery be accelerated if mundane chores were automated and outsourced to the cloud? Leading computer scientists Ian Foster and Dennis Gannon argue that it can, and in this book offer a guide to cloud computing for students, scientists, and engineers, with advice and many hands-on examples. The book surveys the technology that underpins the cloud, new approaches to technical problems enabled by the cloud, and the concepts required to integrate cloud services into scientific work. It covers managing data in the cloud, and how to program these services; computing in the cloud, from deploying single virtual machines or containers to supporting basic interactive science experiments to gathering clusters of machines to do data analytics; using the cloud as a platform for automating analysis procedures, machine learning, and analyzing streaming data; building your own cloud with open source software; and cloud security. The book is accompanied by a website, Cloud4SciEng.org, that provides a variety of supplementary material, including exercises, lecture slides, and other resources helpful to readers and instructors.

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MIT Press

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0262037246

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9780262037242

Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050

Scenarios, Results, Policy Options

By: Gerald C. Nelson, Mark W. Rosegrant, Amanda Palazzo, Ian Gray, Christina Ingersoll, Richard Robertson, Simla Tokgoz, Tingju Zhu, Timothy B. Sulser, Claudia Ringler, Siwa Msangi, and Liangzhi You

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Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050

Scenarios, Results, Policy Options

By: Gerald C. Nelson, Mark W. Rosegrant, Amanda Palazzo, Ian Gray, Christina Ingersoll, Richard Robertson, Simla Tokgoz, Tingju Zhu, Timothy B. Sulser, Claudia Ringler, Siwa Msangi, and Liangzhi You

As the global population grows and incomes in poor countries rise, so too, will the demand for food, placing additional pressure on sustainable food production. Climate change adds a further challenge, as changes in temperature and precipitation threaten agricultural productivity and the capacity to feed the world's population. This study assesses how serious the danger to food security might be and suggests some steps policymakers can take to remedy the situation.Using various modeling techniques, the authors project 15 different future scenarios for food security through 2050. Each scenario involves an alternative combination of potential population and income growth and climate change. The authors also examine the specific test case of a hypothetical extended drought in South Asia, to demonstrate the possible effects of increased climate variability on a particular world region. They conclude that the negative effects of climate change on food security can be counteracted by broad-based economic growthparticularly improved agricultural productivityand robust international trade in agricultural products to offset regional shortages. In pursuit of these goals, policymakers should increase public investment in land, water, and nutrient use and maintain relatively free international trade. This inquiry into the future of food security should be of use to policymakers and others concerned with the impact of climate change on international development.

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Intl Food Policy Res Inst

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0896291863

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9780896291867

Shipping Company Losses of the Second World War

By: Ian M. Malcolm

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Shipping Company Losses of the Second World War

By: Ian M. Malcolm

During the Second World War, the Merchant Navy suffered a higher percentage loss than any of the British armed forces, but despite this extraordinary fact few people today are aware of it. In total, 33,000 merchant seamen died, while others were severely injured both physically and mentally. This book is an important volume attempting to dispel the ignorance, and for the first time brings together a wealth of information concerning ship losses, including such details as ships' names, their captains, the route they were lost on, date and positions when lost, loss of life, and many other particulars. A former wartime Merchant Navy man himself, Malcolm presents a compendium of shipping company losses that is staggering in scale. This work will be of great value to shipping enthusiasts and anyone interested in the war at sea.

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469

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The History Press

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0750953713

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9780750953719

Mountain Biking in the Yorkshire Dales

By: Ian Boydon

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Mountain Biking in the Yorkshire Dales

By: Ian Boydon

A guidebook of 30 short, medium, long and full-day mountain bike routes across the Yorkshire Dales. The graded circular rides visit all the major dales and include loops around two of the famous Yorkshire Three Peaks - Whernside and Pen-y-ghent. Routes are graded for difficulty and this guidebook gives all the necessary background information. Choose a route by grade, percentage off-road, length or time at a glance. Old Roman roads and other ancient byways once used for lead mining and livestock droving are now perfect terrain for mountain bikes. Fast-rolling lanes can be combined with rocky drops down steep gullies and sinuous tracks meandering high over deserted moorland. Mountain bikers of all abilities will find their own challenges here and some surprises for novices and experienced riders alike.

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241

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Cicerone Press Limited

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1849656282

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Book's by Ian Boote

The Third Reich's Celluloid War

The Third Reich's Celluloid War

An Essex Quiz Book

An Essex Quiz Book

Economies in Transition

Economies in Transition

The Great War

The Great War

Expressing Critical Thinking through Disciplinary Texts

Expressing Critical Thinking through Disciplinary Texts

Australian History Live!

Australian History Live!

Star Tales

Star Tales

Bottom of the Barrel

Bottom of the Barrel

Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering

Cloud Computing for Science and Engineering

Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050

Food Security, Farming, and Climate Change to 2050

Shipping Company Losses of the Second World War

Shipping Company Losses of the Second World War

Mountain Biking in the Yorkshire Dales

Mountain Biking in the Yorkshire Dales

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