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Cops and Robbers

By: John Townsend

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Cops and Robbers

By: John Townsend

Discover the risks robbers will take to steal money and how police use dogs to sniff out criminals.

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Heinemann-Raintree Library

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1410914283

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Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia

By: W. John Morgan,Irina N. Trofimova,Grigori A. Kliucharev

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Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia

By: W. John Morgan,Irina N. Trofimova,Grigori A. Kliucharev

Civil Society, Social Change and a New Popular Education in Russia is a detailed account of contemporary issues that draws upon recent survey research conducted by the Institute of Sociology, Russian Academy of Sciences, as well as from secondary published work in both Russian and English. The book explores how social change and developments in civil society are occurring in Russia and the role played by a new popular education. The right to lifelong learning is guaranteed by the Russian state, as it was by the Soviet Union, where formal education, based on communist ideology, emphasised the needs of the state over those of individuals. In practice a wide range of educational needs, many of which relate to coping with changing economic, social and technological circumstances, are being met by non-governmental providers, including commercial companies, self-help groups, and community and neighbourhood clubs. This book discusses how this new popular education is both an example of developing civil society and stimulates its further development. However, as the book points out, it is also part of a growing educational divide, where motivated, articulate people take advantage of new opportunities, while disadvantaged groups such as the unemployed and the rural poor continue to be excluded.

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204

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Routledge

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1134625685

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9781134625680

The Empire That Would Not Die

The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740

By: John Haldon

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The Empire That Would Not Die

The Paradox of Eastern Roman Survival, 640–740

By: John Haldon

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. Only a century later, it was a fraction of its former size. Surrounded by enemies, ravaged by warfare and disease, the empire seemed destined to collapse. Yet it did not die. In this holistic analysis, John Haldon elucidates the factors that allowed the eastern Roman Empire to survive against all odds into the eighth century. By 700 CE the empire had lost three-quarters of its territory to the Islamic caliphate. But the rugged geography of its remaining territories in Anatolia and the Aegean was strategically advantageous, preventing enemies from permanently occupying imperial towns and cities while leaving them vulnerable to Roman counterattacks. The more the empire shrank, the more it became centered around the capital of Constantinople, whose ability to withstand siege after siege proved decisive. Changes in climate also played a role, permitting shifts in agricultural production that benefitted the imperial economy. At the same time, the crisis confronting the empire forced the imperial court, the provincial ruling classes, and the church closer together. State and church together embodied a sacralized empire that held the emperor, not the patriarch, as Christendom’s symbolic head. Despite its territorial losses, the empire suffered no serious political rupture. What remained became the heartland of a medieval Christian Roman state, with a powerful political theology that predicted the emperor would eventually prevail against God’s enemies and establish Orthodox Christianity’s world dominion.

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Harvard University Press

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0674969170

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9780674969179

Total Surveillance

Investigating the Big Brother World of E-Spies, Eavesdroppers and CCTV

By: John Parker

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Total Surveillance

Investigating the Big Brother World of E-Spies, Eavesdroppers and CCTV

By: John Parker

Big Brother is no longer fiction. and lives of ordinary individuals and businesses, as well as terrorists, subversives and criminals are being recorded in every detail.This book makes public for the first time:--The alarming effect computer technology has had on our privacy.-The CCTV capital of the world, with more cameras per square mile than anywhere else on earth, is the UK; this book highlights the implications of CCTV for personal freedom.-The UK and USA operate a secret worldwide listening operation involving MI5, GCHQ and the Secret Intelligence Service (M16).-What today's spies do - and who they investigate.-The largest spy station in the world is located at Menwith Hill in North Yorkshire. and ECHELON system can capture and analyse virtually every landline and mobile phone call, fax or e-mail anywhere in the world.-Private communications from organisations like Rolls Royce and Marconi, and telephone calls of individuals, European trades unions and US congressmen have been intercepted via the spy station at Menwith Hill.-Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed were tracked in their last days and their conversations recorded.-Why the Data Protection Act is too little, too late.

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Piatkus Books

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0749920335

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9780749920333

English and Catholic

The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century

By: John D. Krugler

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English and Catholic

The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century

By: John D. Krugler

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, to be English and Catholic was to face persecution, financial penalties, and sometimes death. Yet some English Catholics prospered, reconciling their faith and loyalty to their country. Among the most prominent was George Calvert, a talented and ambitious man who successfully navigated the politics of court and became secretary of state under King James I. A conforming Protestant from the age of twelve, Calvert converted back to Catholicism when a political crisis forced him to resign his position in 1625. The king rewarded Calvert by naming him Baron of Baltimore in Ireland. Insulated by wealth, with the support of powerful friends, and no longer occupied with court business, Baltimore sought to exploit his land grants in Ireland and Newfoundland. Seeking to increase his own fortune and status while enlarging the king's dominions, he embarked on a series of colonial enterprises that eventually led to Maryland. The experiences of Calvert and his heirs foster our understanding of politics and faith in Jacobean England. They also point to one of the earliest codifications of religious liberty in America, for in founding Maryland, Calvert and his son Cecil envisioned a prosperous society based on freedom of conscience. In English and Catholic, John D. Krugler traces the development of the "Maryland Designe," the novel solution the Calverts devised to resolve the conflict of loyalty they faced as English Catholics. In doing so, Krugler places the founding and early history of Maryland in the context of pervasive anxieties in England over identity, allegiance, and conscience. Explaining the evolution of the Calvert vision, Krugler ties together three main aspects of George Calvert's career: his nationalism and enthusiasm for English imperialism; his aim to find fortune and fame; and his deepening sense of himself as a Catholic. Skillfully told here, the story of the Calverts' bold experiment in advancing freedom of conscience is also the story of the roots of American liberty. -- Jerome de Groot

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JHU Press

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0801890837

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9780801890833

Sea-level Changes and Their Effects

By: John Noye,Marcus Grzechnik

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Sea-level Changes and Their Effects

By: John Noye,Marcus Grzechnik

This book contains updated, reviewed versions of some selected papers on OC Sea-Level Changes and their EffectsOCO presented at the International Ocean and Atmosphere Pacific Conference (OAP 95), held in Adelaide, South Australia, 23OCo27 October 1995. In addition several reviewed articles on important topics not covered by the papers presented at OAP 95 were invited. The articles in this volume will find an audience among coastal developers, marine biologists and environmentalists. They cover a range of topics including the efforts of long-term sea-level rise on coastal flows and its impact on mangrove communities, the determination of long-term sea-level change relative to the vertical motion of the land, to the numerical modelling of short term sea-level changes due to tides, tsunamis and the weather. Contents: Sea-Level Change in the Pacific (P D Nunn); Effects of Sea-Level Rise on the Hydrodynamics of a Coral Reef Lagoon: Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii (C J Hearn & M J Atkinson); Possible Impacts of Predicted Sea-Level Rise on South Pacific Mangroves (J Ellison); Monitoring Sea Level: Who''s Monitoring the Land? (S M Turner & G M Homes); Relative Sea-Level Change and Geologic Corrections to South Australian Tide Gauge Records (E J Barnett & N Harvey); Low Frequency Sea Level Variability in the Western Tropical Pacific 1992OCo1998 (J-M Verstraete); An Analysis of Variance in Pacific Tide Gauge Data (J L Luick); Hindcast Modelling of Recent Tsunamis in the Australian Region (W M Mitchell et al.); Adaptation Policies-Addressing Climate Change Impacts in the Pacific Region (C Kaluwin). Readership: Students and scientists working on sea level-changes and their effects.

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World Scientific

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9812811931

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9789812811936

Britten's Children

By: John Bridcut

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Britten's Children

By: John Bridcut

Britten's Children confronts the edgy subject of the composer's obsessional yet strangely innocent relationships with adolescent boys. One of the hallmarks of Benjamin Britten's music is his use of boys' voices, and John Bridcut uses this to create a fresh prism through which to view the composer's life. Interweaving discussion of the music he wrote for and about children with interviews with the boys whom Britten befriended, Bridcut explores the influence of these unique friendships - notably with the late David Hemmings - and how they helped Britten maintain links with his own happy childhood. In a remarkable part of the book Bridcut tells for the first time the full story of Britten's love affair in the 1930s with the 18-year-old German Wulff Scherchen, son of the conductor Hermann Scherchen. As Paul Hoggart of The Times commented, 'this type of love belonged to an emotional landscape that has vanished for ever, and we are the poorer for it'. Since making the film, the author has extended his research to include friendships Britten had with children which have not previously been documented. The documentary Britten's Children won the Royal Philharmonic Society's 2005 Award for Creative Communication: 'this serious and beautiful film explored one aspect of a composer's life in great depth. Avoiding the temptation of sensationalism, Britten's Children was imaginatively researched and both touching and revelatory'.

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Faber & Faber

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0571260926

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9780571260928

The Law Emprynted and Englysshed

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change in Law and Legal Culture 1475-1642

By: David John Harvey

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The Law Emprynted and Englysshed

The Printing Press as an Agent of Change in Law and Legal Culture 1475-1642

By: David John Harvey

What impact did the printing press – a new means of communicating the written word – have on early modern English lawyers? This book examines the way in which law printing developed in the period from 1475 up until 1642 and the start of the English Civil War. It offers a new perspective on the purposes and structures of the regulation of the printing press and considers how and why lawyers used the new technology. It examines the way in which lawyers adapted to the use of printed works and the way in which the new technology increased the availability of texts and books for lawyers and the administrative community. It also considers the wider humanist context within which law printing developed. The story is set against the backdrop of revolutionary changes in English society and the move not only to print the law, but also increase its accessibility by making information available in English. The book will be of interest to lawyers and legal historians, print and book historians and the general reader.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1782257322

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9781782257325

Between Scholarship and Church Politics

The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650

By: John Maddicott

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Between Scholarship and Church Politics

The Lives of John Prideaux, 1578-1650

By: John Maddicott

Between Scholarship and Church Politics describes the life and career of John Prideaux, rector of Exeter College, Oxford, 1612-1642, regius professor of divinity, 1615-1642, and bishop of Worcester, 1641-1646. Prideaux was the leading representative of the 'old guard' in the Church of England - Calvinist believers in the doctrines of grace and predestination, who set themselves against the growing power of the Arminian modernisers within the Church, largely the followers of Archbishop Laud. But Prideaux was also an outstandingly successful head of his Oxford college and made it a home for foreign scholars and students. Devoted to teaching, the writers of numerous books for undergraduates and theology students, and thoroughly involved in his College's everyday affairs, he was a model rector. In this study, John Maddicott addresses at length both with Prideaux's political and ecclesiastical career and his role in the College, while also paying particular attention to his personality, his family life (he was twice married and had nine children), and to his wide circle of relatives, colleagues, and allies. Born the son of a Devonshire yeoman and brought up on a farm on the edge of Dartmoor, he rose to occupy some of the highest offices in the university of Oxford and in the church: a result of his intellectual power, his ambition, his learning and scholarship, and his capacity for hard work. Between Scholarship and Church Politics is as much a study of character as a contribution to the political and church history of early Stuart England.

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Oxford University Press

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0192896105

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9780192896100

The Face of Battle

A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme

By: John Keegan

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The Face of Battle

A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme

By: John Keegan

John Keegan's groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle -- a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare The Face of Battle is military history from the battlefield: a look at the direct experience of individuals at the "point of maximum danger." Without the myth-making elements of rhetoric and xenophobia, and breaking away from the stylized format of battle descriptions, John Keegan has written what is probably the definitive model for military historians. And in his scrupulous reassessment of three battles representative of three different time periods, he manages to convey what the experience of combat meant for the participants, whether they were facing the arrow cloud at the battle of Agincourt, the musket balls at Waterloo, or the steel rain of the Somme. The Face of Battle is a companion volume to John Keegan's classic study of the individual soldier, The Mask of Command: together they form a masterpiece of military and human history.

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Penguin

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0140048979

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9780140048971

Construct 2 Game Development by Example

By: John Bura

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Construct 2 Game Development by Example

By: John Bura

This book uses practical examples to teach readers, and imparts the key skills and techniques of working in Construct 2 through building complete game projects. This book is for complete beginners who have always wanted to learn how to make games and have never tried. It is the perfect introduction to game development, design, and production.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

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1849698074

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9781849698078

Essential Britten

A Pocket Guide for the Britten Centenary

By: John Bridcut

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Essential Britten

A Pocket Guide for the Britten Centenary

By: John Bridcut

John Bridcut, author of the acclaimed 'Britten's Children', has included significant fresh material which will make the book indispensable for Britten aficionados as well as for those who are discovering the composer's music for the first time. This guide is all about finding a way into Britten's music. An outline of planned chapters: - The Top Ten Britten pieces - Critics' First Impressions - Britten's Life - Britten and Pears - The things they said - The Music (stage works, choral works, songs, chamber music, orchestral works) - The Interpreters of Britten's work - Britten as Performer - The Impresario (English Opera Group and Aldeburgh Festival) - Britten's Homes - Trivial Pursuits

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Faber & Faber

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0571290744

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9780571290741

Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade

Forging the Geopolitics of the American Old Right

By: John W. Lemza

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Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade

Forging the Geopolitics of the American Old Right

By: John W. Lemza

Beware the Red Peril!" was the clarion call of General Charles A. Willoughby at the close of World War II. The refrain echoed from Capitol Hill into American living rooms. For three decades after the war, the Old Right crusaded against global communist expansion, sniffing out internal and external threats to the American way of life. These paleo-conservatives faced resistance from the Left, as well as from an emerging faction on the Right that sought to frame a new identity for conservatism. Despite those obstacles, the Old Right made a lasting imprint on geopolitical thought in the early Cold War period. This book investigates their influence, the roles played by women, minorities and Jewish conservatives, and their legacy in early 20th century ideologies.

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1476693501

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Cops and Robbers

Cops and Robbers

Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia

Civil Society, Social Change, and a New Popular Education in Russia

The Empire That Would Not Die

The Empire That Would Not Die

Total Surveillance

Total Surveillance

English and Catholic

English and Catholic

Sea-level Changes and Their Effects

Sea-level Changes and Their Effects

Britten's Children

Britten's Children

The Law Emprynted and Englysshed

The Law Emprynted and Englysshed

Between Scholarship and Church Politics

Between Scholarship and Church Politics

The Face of Battle

The Face of Battle

Construct 2 Game Development by Example

Construct 2 Game Development by Example

Essential Britten

Essential Britten

Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade

Charles A. Willoughby and the Anti-Communist Crusade

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