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Man of the Century

Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945

By: John Ramsden

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Man of the Century

Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945

By: John Ramsden

Man of the Century is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades--including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.

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Columbia University Press

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0231131062

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9780231131063

The Spirit and Creation in Paul

By: John W. Yates

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The Spirit and Creation in Paul

By: John W. Yates

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Cambridge, 2007.

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244

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161498178

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9783161498176

A Celebration of the Light

Zen in the Novels of Neil Gunn

By: John Burns

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A Celebration of the Light

Zen in the Novels of Neil Gunn

By: John Burns

This is a penetrating study of the striking parallels between the work of Scottish novelist Neil Gunn and Eastern thought, particularly those of Zen Buddhism and Taoism. All of his books are crucially concerned with man's archetypal quest for wisdom and freedom. Many of his characters have just those qualities of stillness, inner luminosity and unspoken meaning that characterize the traditional Oriental religions. In a detailed and lively analysis of seven of Gunn's major novels including Highland River, The Silver Darlings, and The Well at the World's End, Burns explores the significance of such moments in Gunn's fiction. Contents: Light, Delight and Zen, Introduction; The Pivot of Tao, Butcher's Broom 1934; Returning to the Source, Highland River 1937; The Heart of the Circle, The Silver Darlings 1941; Slaying the Mind, The Serpent 1943; The World of Light, The Well at the World's End 1951; Beyond Violence, Bloodhunt 1952; Seeking the Master, The Other Landscape 1954; Celebration of the Light; References; Glossary of Zen Terms; Bibliography; Index

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214

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0389207802

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9780389207801

An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961

By: John Kenneth Muir

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An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961

By: John Kenneth Muir

Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond made its television debut in 1959, nine months before Rod Serling's classic The Twilight Zone, and paved the way for a generation of television programs devoted to paranormal topics such as the occult, ESP, and ghost stories. One Step Beyond was also where some of Hollywood's most famous leading men, including Warren Beatty, William Shatner, and Charles Bronson, got their starts in television. This complete reference work to the 96 half-hour episodes that ran for three seasons on ABC also offers a detailed history, extensive commentary and summaries of the critical reception of One Step Beyond as well as coverage of the sequel series produced in 1978 entitled The Next Step Beyond. Complete credits for both series are provided.

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313

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McFarland

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0786455349

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9780786455348

Neil M. Gunn

By: John Barclay Pick

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Neil M. Gunn

By: John Barclay Pick

Neil Gunn has long been recognized in Scotland as one of the well-springs of the literary renaissance of the nineteen-twenties and nineteen-thirties and is now generally accepted as the most significant novelist the Highlands of Scotland has produced. Yet his work has divided the critics: one view sees him as essentially a regional writer recreating the history of the Highlands and exploring the values of a traditional society. Another sees his greatest contribution in the later novels which deal with the deepest issues of the day in more exploratory and experimental fashion. This study demonstrates that in fact Gunn accepts no limitations in psychological and philosophical penetration, and deals always with the whole universe of man and the other landscape of the mind. The varied criticism of Gunn and the reasons for his neglect outside Scotland are sharply examined, and his status as a novelist of European stature is assessed.

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128

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Northcote House Pub Limited

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0746311206

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9780746311202

So Young to Burn

By: John Creasey

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So Young to Burn

By: John Creasey

A series of acid-throwing attacks has everyone mystified. Is it the work of young hooligans, or are there more sinister forces at play? Roger ‘Handsome’ West of Scotland Yard must solve the case, and quickly. However, he finds himself dealing with bigoted parents and a hospital full of perverts, not to mention robbery and murder along the way.

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189

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House of Stratus

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0755152239

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9780755152230

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

By: John Graham Gibson

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Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

By: John Graham Gibson

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping provides a comprehensive biographical and genealogical account of pipers and piping in highland Scotland and Gaelic Cape Breton.The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fitted unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.

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460

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773522913

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9780773522916

The Secret War Against the Jews

How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People

By: John Loftus,Mark Aarons

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The Secret War Against the Jews

How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People

By: John Loftus,Mark Aarons

Unearthing the Subverted Truth: Espionage, Global Power Play and the Hidden War Against the Jews A hugely controversial work that exposes a series of scandals from Oliver North to the British royal family, The Secret War Against the Jews reveals as much about political corruption inside Western intelligence as it does about Israel. Using thousands of formerly top-secret documents and numerous insider accounts, Loftus and Aarons expose the clandestine operations of Western countries such as the United States and Great Britain. Professed allies of Israel on the world stage, these countries are revealed to have repeatedly spied on Palestine and Israel for oil, multinational profits and geopolitical gains. The startling duplicity reaches as deep as the Orwellian manipulation of international covert policies and national security agendas. This book transcends the realm of mere history, raising grave allegations that will be the subject of debate for years to come.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1250167264

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9781250167262

The Crimean Doctors

A History of the British Medical Services in the Crimean War

By: John Shepherd

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The Crimean Doctors

A History of the British Medical Services in the Crimean War

By: John Shepherd

A comprehensive medical history of the Crimean War, this work assesses the role of the British doctors � 6 Army, navy and civilian � 6 while taking account of the contemporary state of medicine and surgery, as well as the limited attention paid to the Army and navy medical services by successive governments before the war.

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374

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Liverpool University Press

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0853231079

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9780853231073

The Protest Years

The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

By: John Blaxland

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The Protest Years

The Official History of ASIO, 1963-1975

By: John Blaxland

By 1963, Robert Menzies had been prime minister for thirteen years, Australia had its first troops in Vietnam, and change was in the air. There would soon be street protests over women's rights, Aboriginal land rights and the Vietnam War and unprecedented student activism. With the Cold War lingering, ASIO was concerned that protests were being orchestrated to foment revolution. The Protest Years tells the inside story of Australia's domestic intelligence organisation from the last of the Menzies years to the dismissal of the Whitlam government. With unrestricted access to ASIO's internal filesand extensive interviews with insiders, for the first time the circumstances surrounding the alleged role of ASIO in the demise of the Whitlam government are revealed and the question of the CIA's involvement in Australia is explored. The extraordinary background to the raid on ASIO headquarters in Melbourne by Attorney-General Lionel Murphy and Australia's efforts at countering Soviet bloc espionage, as well as the sensitive intelligence activities in South Vietnam, are exposed. This is a ground-breaking political and social history of some of Australia's most turbulent years as seen through the secret prism of ASIO. The Protest Years is the second of three volumes of The Official History of ASIO.

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Allen & Unwin

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1925268519

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9781925268515

Evatt

A life

By: John Murphy

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Evatt

A life

By: John Murphy

John Murphy’s Evatt: A life is a biography of Australian parliamentarian and jurist HV Evatt. Remembered as the first foreign minister to argue for an independent Australian policy in the 1940s and for his central role in the formation of the UN, Evatt went on to be the leader of the Labor party in the 1950s, the time of the split that resulted in the party being out of power for a generation. Evatt traces the course of Evatt’s life and places him in the context of a long period of conservatism in Australia. It treats Evatt’s inner, personal life as being just as important as his spectacular, controversial and eventual tragic public career. Murphy looks closely at Evatt’s previously unexamined private life and unravels some of the puzzles that have lead Evatt to be considered erratic, even mad. ‘Bert’ Evatt remains a polarising figure – still considered by many in Labor as the man who ‘split the party’ and by many conservatives as unreliable and dangerous.

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NewSouth

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1742242405

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9781742242408

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 1

My Father, Ted Docker

By: John Docker

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Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 1

My Father, Ted Docker

By: John Docker

Ted Docker was an Australian of Irish descent who as a young man wanted to change the world, joining first the Industrial Workers of the World and then helping form the Communist Party of Australia. He was steadfastly loyal to the Soviet Union and by historical record a stern hard-liner. This is not the whole story.

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Kerr Publishing

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1875703373

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9781875703371

Sir James Dowling

Second Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1837-1844

By: John Michael Bennett

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Sir James Dowling

Second Chief Justice of New South Wales, 1837-1844

By: John Michael Bennett

Sir James Dowling: second Chief Justice of New South Wales 1837-1844 (Lives of the Australian chief justices)

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Federation Press

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1862873917

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9781862873919

A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century

By: John Ashley Soames Grenville

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A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century

By: John Ashley Soames Grenville

Provides a comprehensive survey of the key events and personalities of this period.

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Psychology Press

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0415289556

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9780415289559

Book's by John Menzies

Man of the Century

Man of the Century

The Spirit and Creation in Paul

The Spirit and Creation in Paul

A Celebration of the Light

A Celebration of the Light

An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961

An Analytical Guide to Television's One Step Beyond, 1959-1961

Neil M. Gunn

Neil M. Gunn

So Young to Burn

So Young to Burn

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

The Secret War Against the Jews

The Secret War Against the Jews

The Crimean Doctors

The Crimean Doctors

The Protest Years

The Protest Years

Evatt

Evatt

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 1

Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi Volume 1

Sir James Dowling

Sir James Dowling

A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century

A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century

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