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Sport For Inspector West

By: John Creasey

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Guy Randall suffered a sudden and violent death. Roger West of Scotland Yard is tasked with solving the case, but is perplexed. All leads go back to a series of thefts from a chain of shops and nearly everyone involved seems to belong to the same Football Club. It is a very unusual and complex case which has an equally surprising conclusion.

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258

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House of Stratus

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0755137507

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9780755137503

Borderwork in Multicultural Australia

By: John O'Carroll

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Borderwork in Multicultural Australia

By: John O'Carroll

Refugees. Border protection. Ethnic gangs. Terrorism. History wars. Pauline Hanson. Australia's faith in multiculturalism has been shaken by fierce attacks from its enemies and a sense of crisis among its friends. Multiculturalism has become a political tool to win votes and generate community anxiety. What is left of the multicultural ideal? Bob Hodge and John O'Carroll take the pulse of multicultural Australia in the wake of September 11. They investigate the hot spots' of multiculturalism, showing how they cluster around fiercely defended boundaries and borders, both literal and symbolic. They tackle the issues of racism past and present, and show how injustice impacts on many communities in Australia, including Aboriginals as well as more recent migrant groups. The authors argue that despite appearances, multiculturalism is alive and well in Australia, and a commitment to tolerance and diversity characterises daily life. In fact, Australia's multiculture is the best kind of borderwork against terrorism, racism and injustice. A timely, original and optimistic discussion of Australia's multicultural past and our possible futures.' Graeme Turner, Director, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland This clearly written book shines a welcome light on the fog of critique of Australian multiculturalism from both the Right and the Left.' Jock Collins, Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney

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196

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Routledge

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1000256383

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9781000256383

The Melancholy Man

A Study of Dickens's Novels

By: John Lucas

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The Melancholy Man

A Study of Dickens's Novels

By: John Lucas

First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary conditions. It reveals the importance of nature to Dickens as a rich metaphor of human freedom and potentiality, and emphasises his concern with time and the problems of freedom. The author considers the peculiarity of Dickens being unanimously acclaimed as a great writer considering the difficulty in placing him definitively within the literary tradition. The author argues Dickens was an isolated figure, indifferent to changing fashions and with a strong sense of the dignity of human nature and that this formed the basis of his character and writings.

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406

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Routledge

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1317198697

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9781317198697

Cromwell Against the Scots

The Last Anglo-Scottish War, 1650–1652

By: John D. Grainger

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Cromwell Against the Scots

The Last Anglo-Scottish War, 1650–1652

By: John D. Grainger

Although also known as the Third English Civil War, the author makes it clear that this was the last war between the Scots and English as separate states. He narrates in detail the the events following the exiled King Charles II’s landing in Scotland and his alliance with the Scots Covenanters, erstwhile allies of the English Parliamentarians. Cromwell’s preemptive invasion of Scotland led to the Battle of Dunbar, a crushing defeat for the Scots under David Leslie, though this only unified the Scottish cause and led to the levying of the Army of the Kingdom under Charles II himself. Charles II led a desperate counter-invasion over the border, hoping to raise a royalist rebellion and forcing Cromwell to follow him, though he left Monck to complete the pacification of Scotland. Cromwell caught up with Charles II at Worcester, where the Scots/Royalist army was decisively defeated and destroyed, thousands of the prisoners being sold into slavery in the West Indies and the American colonies. This revised and updated edition contains an expanded chapter on the aftermath of the war and the fate of the POWs, drawing on major new archaeological evidence, as well as an expanded Conclusion.

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292

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Pen and Sword Military

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1526786516

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9781526786517

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

By: John Avlon

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Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

By: John Avlon

A groundbreaking and “affecting and powerful” (The New York Times Book Review) history of Abraham Lincoln’s plan to secure a just and lasting peace after the Civil War—a vision that inspired future presidents as well as the world’s most famous peacemakers. As the tide of the Civil War turned in the spring of 1865, Abraham Lincoln took a dangerous two-week trip to visit the troops on the front lines accompanied by his young son, seeing combat up close, meeting liberated slaves in the ruins of Richmond, and comforting wounded Union and Confederate soldiers. The power of Lincoln’s personal example in the closing days of the war offers a portrait of a peacemaker. He did not demonize people he disagreed with. He used humor, logic, and scripture to depolarize bitter debates. Balancing moral courage with moderation, Lincoln believed that decency could be the most practical form of politics, but he understood that people were more inclined to listen to reason when greeted from a position of strength. Ulysses S. Grant’s famously generous terms of surrender to General Robert E. Lee at Appomattox that April were an expression of a president’s belief that a soft peace should follow a hard war. While his assassination sent the country careening off course, Lincoln’s vision would be vindicated long after his death, inspiring future generations in their own quests to secure a just and lasting peace. As US General Lucius Clay, architect of the post-WWII German occupation said when asked what guided his decisions: “I tried to think of the kind of occupation the South would have had if Abraham Lincoln had lived.” Lincoln and the Fight for Peace reveals with “its graceful prose and wise insights” (Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America) how Lincoln’s character informed his commitment to unconditional surrender followed by a magnanimous peace. Even during the Civil War, surrounded by reactionaries and radicals, he refused to back down from his belief that there is more that unites us than divides us. But he also understood that peace needs to be waged with as much intensity as war. Lincoln’s plan to win the peace is his unfinished symphony, but in its existing notes, we can find an anthem that can begin to bridge our divisions today.

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368

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Simon and Schuster

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1982108142

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9781982108144

A Bridge to Justice

The Life of Franklin H. Williams

By: Enid Gort,John Caher

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A Bridge to Justice

The Life of Franklin H. Williams

By: Enid Gort,John Caher

Documents the life of a gifted African American leader whose contributions were pivotal to the movement for social justice and racial equality Franklin Hall Williams was a visionary and trailblazer who devoted his life to the pursuit of civil rights—not through acrimony and violence and hatred but through reason and example. A Bridge to Justice sheds new light on this practical, pragmatic bridge-builder and brilliant, complex individual whose life reflected the opportunities and constraints of an intellectually elite Black man in the twentieth century. Franklin H. Williams was considered a “bridge” figure, someone whose position outside the limelight allowed him to navigate both Black and white circles, span the more turbulent racial waters below, and persuade people to see the world in a new way. During his prolific lifetime, he was a civil rights leader, lawyer, diplomat, organizer of the Peace Corps, United Nations representative, foundation president, and associate of Thurgood Marshall on some of the seminal civil liberties cases of the past hundred years, though their relationship was so fraught with tension that Marshall had Williams sent to California. He worked in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, served as a diplomat, and became an exceptionally persuasive advocate for civil rights. Even after enduring the segregated Army, suffering cruel discrimination, and barely escaping a murderous lynch mob eager to make him pay for zealously representing three innocent Black men falsely accused of rape, Franklin was not a hater. He believed that Americans, in general, were good people who were open to reason and, in their hearts, sympathetic to fairness and justice. Dr. Enid Gort, an anthropologist and Africanist who conducted hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with Williams, his family, friends, colleagues, and compatriots, and John M. Caher, a professional writer and legal journalist, have co-written an exhaustively researched and scrupulously documented account of this civil rights champion’s life and impact. His story is an object lesson to help this nation heal and advance through unity rather than tribalism.

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186

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Fordham Univ Press

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1531500870

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9781531500870

A catalogue of a valuable collection of books

By: John Russell Smith

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A catalogue of a valuable collection of books

By: John Russell Smith

Reprint of the original, first published in 1871.

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301

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3368121227

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9783368121228

The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Second Series

Vol. 14

By: W. S. W. Vaux,John Evans,Barclay V. Head

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The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Second Series

Vol. 14

By: W. S. W. Vaux,John Evans,Barclay V. Head

Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

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3368759434

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9783368759438

The Odyssey of Mary B

A True Tale

By: John Durand

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The Odyssey of Mary B

A True Tale

By: John Durand

In 1792 a young woman called Mary B became the talk of London with her story of suffering and escape from the penal colony in Australia. This is a fictionalized account of her experiences and of Australia's founding.

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0974378313

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9780974378312

Book's by John Akerman

Sport For Inspector West

Sport For Inspector West

Borderwork in Multicultural Australia

Borderwork in Multicultural Australia

The Melancholy Man

The Melancholy Man

Cromwell Against the Scots

Cromwell Against the Scots

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

Lincoln and the Fight for Peace

A Bridge to Justice

A Bridge to Justice

A catalogue of a valuable collection of books

A catalogue of a valuable collection of books

The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Second Series

The Numismatic Chronicle and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society Second Series

The Odyssey of Mary B

The Odyssey of Mary B

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