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Pride and Perjury

An Autobiography

By: Jonathan Aitken

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When Jonathan Aitken stepped from Number 10 Downing Street on July 20th 1994, he was soon tipped as next Leader of the Conservative Party. John Major had just appointed him First Secretary to the Treasury and his future could not have been brighter. What went wrong? Within a year headlines appeared such as 'Aitken tried to arrange girls for Saudi friends' and 'New Light on who paid what at The Ritz in Paris.' Accused of pimping, arms dealing and corruption, both his career and reputation hung in the balance as he came out fighting with his now famous Sword of Truth speech.In 'Pride and Perjury' Aitken tells for the first time how he became the most vilified politician in Britain since John Profumo. He reveals his dealings with cabinet colleagues, his relationship with the Saudi Royal Family, and a full account of his stay at the Ritz Hotel in Paris. He also describes the intense and dramatic events behind his failed libel action and his subsequent trial for perjury and attempting to pervert the course of justice.Aitken's fall from grace was the greatest personal catastrophe for a public figure since the trials of Oscar Wilde - a living hell including bankruptcy, divorce and a prison sentence. With insight and with elegance Pride and Perjury is a moving and compelling account of a fallen politician's penitence and delves into the darker side of human nature. It is also an inspiring message of hope and redemption.

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1441131019

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Kazakhstan

Surprises and Stereotypes After 20 Years of Independence

By: Jonathan Aitken

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Kazakhstan

Surprises and Stereotypes After 20 Years of Independence

By: Jonathan Aitken

Jonathan Aitken has written an insightful and illuminating portrait of 21st Century Kazakhstan as it approaches its 20th Anniversary of independence from the former Soviet Union. Surprises abound in Aitken's lively pages as he captures the creative tensions between Old and New Kazakhstan. Thanks to his unique access, the author has probed the darkest corners of the fading Soviet era, reporting from inside the prisons, the KGB and the Special Prosecutor's Office. He has also enjoyed the bright lights of the country's cultural renaissance, particularly in Almaty with its four orchestras, 19 theatres, 27 concert halls and Opera Houses. Aitken is at his best unravelling the economic and political surprises which are flowing from the Caspian oil boom with its knock on effects on foreign policy, GDP, and political reform. 'Kazakhstan is the newest powerhouse of Asia. From its President to its painters, poets, economists and entrepreneurs, this is a nation confidently on the move.' says Aitken 'we need to understand the new national identity of this increasingly successful player on the world stage.

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1441107630

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Margaret Thatcher

Power and Personality

By: Jonathan Aitken

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Margaret Thatcher

Power and Personality

By: Jonathan Aitken

The Complete Life of Margaret Thatcher in One Volume

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1472909208

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Porridge and Passion

By: Jonathan Aitken

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Porridge and Passion

By: Jonathan Aitken

Emerging from Bellmarsh Prison, with nothing but a black plastic sack of clothes, the author recounts how he was accepted at Wycliffe Hall Oxford to read theology and how this reconditioned his mind as well as his soul. This sequel to his first volume of autobiography ( Pride and Perjury ), starts his story as he is taken down from the courtroom.

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Heroes and Contemporaries

By: Jonathan Aitken

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Heroes and Contemporaries

By: Jonathan Aitken

Heroes and Contemporaries is a book of profiles written with the author's personal insights, anecdotes and judgments on fascinating public figures he encountered in life's journey. Jonathan Aiken was for many years at the heart of British journalism and politics. The early chapters here offer illuminating portraits of historical characters Aitken knew as a young man including Sir Winston Churchill, Randolph Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook, the author's great uncle, who founded the Aitken dynasty of newspaper owners and politicians. In his own career, which took him through 23 years in the House of Commons to the Cabinet, Aitken became close to some of the most intriguing figures in British politics including Harold Wilson; Margaret Thatcher and her family; and Michael Portillo - all profiled in these pages. Jonathan Aitken also enjoyed a colourful personal and business life which ranged wider than politics. This is reflected in the chapters on Sir James Goldsmith, John Aspinall and Sir Frank Williams. During his prison sentence Aitken was visited by several of his subjects including Lord Longford and Nicky Gumbel. The resulting mixture of these profiles makes a book attractively written biographical studies full of fresh perceptions and revealing stories.

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John Newton

From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

By: Jonathan Aitken

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John Newton

From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

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Discusses the life of John Newton.

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Crossway

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1581348487

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Prayers for People Under Pressure

By: Jonathan Aitken

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Prayers for People Under Pressure

By: Jonathan Aitken

A collection of prayers and reflections that offers stressed readers a true path for their spiritual journey and communication with God.

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Porridge and Passion

By: Jonathan Aitken

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Porridge and Passion

By: Jonathan Aitken

In this sequel to his first volume of autobiography Pride and Perjury, Aitken starts his story as he is taken down from the courtroom and incarcerated at Her Majesty's Pleasure. How this Old Etonian former Cabinet Minister on Mrs Thatcher's inner circle managed to establish new relationships and lasting friendships with fellow prisoners is fascinating - so too is this account of how religious belief transformed his life. Aitken has lost none of his charm, fluency and determination - and he has found an authentic new life which readers of this entertaining new book will be able to judge for themselves. 'A rich collection of humorous tales of prison life... Aitken seems to have found a new vocation of both a funny writer and a serious prison reformer.' Tablet

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John Newton

From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

By: Jonathan Aitken

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From Disgrace to Amazing Grace

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Discusses the life of John Newton.

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The Jazz Republic

Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

By: Jonathan O. Wipplinger

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The Jazz Republic

Music, Race, and American Culture in Weimar Germany

By: Jonathan O. Wipplinger

The Jazz Republic examines jazz music and the jazz artists who shaped Germany’s exposure to this African American art form from 1919 through 1933. Jonathan O. Wipplinger explores the history of jazz in Germany as well as the roles that music, race (especially Blackness), and America played in German culture and follows the debate over jazz through the fourteen years of Germany’s first democracy. He explores visiting jazz musicians including the African American Sam Wooding and the white American Paul Whiteman and how their performances were received by German critics and artists. The Jazz Republic also engages with the meaning of jazz in debates over changing gender norms and jazz’s status between paradigms of high and low culture. By looking at German translations of Langston Hughes’s poetry, as well as Theodor W. Adorno’s controversial rejection of jazz in light of racial persecution, Wipplinger examines how jazz came to be part of German cultural production more broadly in both the US and Germany, in the early 1930s. Using a wide array of sources from newspapers, modernist and popular journals, as well as items from the music press, this work intervenes in the debate over the German encounter with jazz by arguing that the music was no mere “symbol” of Weimar’s modernism and modernity. Rather than reflecting intra-German and/or European debates, it suggests that jazz and its practitioners, African American, white American, Afro-European, German and otherwise, shaped Weimar culture in a central way.

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Rockwood and Wilkins' Fractures in Children

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By: Peter M. Waters,David L. Skaggs,John M. Flynn,Lindsay Andras,Donald S. Bae,Keith D. Baldwin,Jonathan G. Schoenecker

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Rockwood and Wilkins' Fractures in Children

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By: Peter M. Waters,David L. Skaggs,John M. Flynn,Lindsay Andras,Donald S. Bae,Keith D. Baldwin,Jonathan G. Schoenecker

Since its first edition over 60 years ago, Rockwood and Wilkins’ Fractures in Children has been the go-to reference for treating a wide range of fractures in children and adolescents. The landmark tenth edition continues this tradition with the addition of four associate editors, a refreshed mix of contributors, and fully revised content throughout, bringing you fully up to date with today’s techniques and technologies in fractures in pediatric orthopaedics. Drs. Peter M. Waters, David L. Skaggs, John M. Flynn, Lindsay Andras, Donald S. Bae, Keith D. Baldwin, and Jonathan G. Schoenecker lead a team of experts who ensure that the most up-to-date information is presented in a comprehensive yet easy to digest manner.

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Kill Again

By: Neal Baer,Jonathan Greene

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Kill Again

By: Neal Baer,Jonathan Greene

With their electrifying debut, Kill Switch, Neal Baer, executive producer of Under the Dome, and Jonathan Greene delivered "suspense on the order of The Silence of the Lambs" (Denver Post). Now the former executive producers of NBC’s Law & Order: Special Victims Unit are back with a stunning new thriller featuring forensic psychiatrist Claire Waters—and a razor-sharp madman who’s ready to Kill Again... Haunted by a brutal childhood, Dr. Claire Waters finds solace in helping other survivors of abuse. Her favorite patient, Rosa Sanchez, is finally getting her life together after being victimized for years. So it’s a shock when Rosa is handcuffed and led away by a man Claire assumes is law enforcement. But as she soon realizes, Rosa has been abducted. Stunned, Claire turns to her friend Nick Lawler, a homicide detective in the NYPD. Relegated to desk work because of his failing eyesight, Nick will have to risk his career to find Rosa—and track down a deranged criminal who reduces his victims to nothing but bones. A brilliant gamesman obsessed with order and perfection, scrawling words and phrases across the walls of his basement apartment, the killer has been preparing for this moment all of his life—when every letter is in place, every piece is in play—and the object of his obsession, Dr. Claire Waters, is in the game. Win, lose, or die... Kill Again is a harrowing psychological thrill-ride filled with terrifying twists and turns, captivating characters, and mindbending puzzles that will keep you guessing until the final, shocking climax.

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Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

By: Richard Frankham,Jonathan D. Ballou,Katherine Ralls,Mark Eldridge,Michele R. Dudash,Charles B. Fenster,Robert C. Lacy,Paul Sunnucks

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Genetic Management of Fragmented Animal and Plant Populations

By: Richard Frankham,Jonathan D. Ballou,Katherine Ralls,Mark Eldridge,Michele R. Dudash,Charles B. Fenster,Robert C. Lacy,Paul Sunnucks

One of the greatest unmet challenges in conservation biology is the genetic management of fragmented populations of threatened animal and plant species. More than a million small, isolated, population fragments of threatened species are likely suffering inbreeding depression and loss of evolutionary potential, resulting in elevated extinction risks. Although these effects can often be reversed by re-establishing gene flow between population fragments, managers very rarely do this. On the contrary, genetic methods are used mainly to document genetic differentiation among populations, with most studies concluding that genetically differentiated populations should be managed separately, thereby isolating them yet further and dooming many to eventual extinction! Many small population fragments are going extinct principally for genetic reasons. Although the rapidly advancing field of molecular genetics is continually providing new tools to measure the extent of population fragmentation and its genetic consequences, adequate guidance on how to use these data for effective conservation is still lacking. This accessible, authoritative text is aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students interested in conservation biology, conservation genetics, and wildlife management. It will also be of particular relevance to conservation practitioners and natural resource managers, as well as a broader academic audience of conservation biologists and evolutionary ecologists.

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0191086061

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Kill Switch

By: Neal Baer,Jonathan Greene

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Kill Switch

By: Neal Baer,Jonathan Greene

A prime-time thriller. . . suspense on the order of Silence of the Lambs. --Denver Post Haunted by a disturbing childhood incident, Dr. Claire Waters is drawn to those "untreatable" patients who seem to have no conscience or fear. In a holding cell at Rikers Island, where the young forensic psychiatrist meets with a dangerous inmate whose boyish looks mask a sordid history of violence, her daring methods reveal a key to her own dark past. And when the case propels her into the mind of a homicidal maniac watching her every move, the only way to stop a killer from killing again is to go beyond the edge of reason... "A psychological thriller of the first order."--David Baldacci "A high-octane, intricate thriller, delivered with skill." --Publishers Weekly "A startling, intense suspense novel that will have readers staying up at night--with the light on." --Suspense Magazine "A masterful thriller. Highly recommended." --Douglas Preston "A non-stop thrill ride." --Michael Palmer "Riveting psychological suspense." --Gayle Lynds "A masterful thriller. Highly recommended." --Douglas Preston "Exciting, fast-paced, filled with twists." --The Mystery Gazette "Keeps the reader engrossed and guessing." --Bookreporter.com "Suspenseful." --Booklist "A fast-paced, gritty crime thriller." --Christopher Meloni "Will keep you on the edge of your seat. " --Ice-T "An end you’ll never see coming." --Mariska Hargitay

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0786031778

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Ministers at War

Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

By: Jonathan Schneer

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Ministers at War

Winston Churchill and His War Cabinet

By: Jonathan Schneer

In May 1940, with France on the verge of defeat, Britain alone stood in the path of the Nazi military juggernaut. Survival seemed to hinge on the leadership of Winston Churchill, whom the King reluctantly appointed Prime Minister as Germany invaded France. Churchill's reputation as one of the great twentieth-century leaders would be forged during the coming months and years, as he worked tirelessly first to rally his country and then to defeat Hitler. But Churchill -- regarded as the savior of his nation, and of the entire continent -- could not have done it alone. As prize-winning historian Jonathan Schneer reveals in Ministers at War, Churchill depended on a team of powerful ministers to manage the war effort as he rallied a beleaguered nation. Selecting men from across the political spectrum -- from fellow Conservative Anthony Eden to leader of the opposing socialist Labor Party Clement Attlee -- Churchill assembled a War Cabinet that balanced competing interests and bolstered support for his national coalition government. The group possessed a potent blend of talent, ambition, and egotism. Led and encouraged by Churchill, the ministers largely set aside their differences, at least at first. As the war progressed, discord began to grow. It reached a peak in 1945: with victory seemingly assured, Churchill was forced by his Minsters at War to dissolve the Government and call a General Election, which, in a shocking upset, he lost to his rival Attlee. Authoritatively recasting our understanding of British high politics during World War II, Schneer shows that Churchill managed the war effort by managing his team of supremely able yet contentious cabinet members. The outcome of the war lay not only in Churchill's individual brilliance but also in his skill as an executive, and in the collective ability of men who muted their personal interests to save the world from barbarism.

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0465040586

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Organization Theory and Public Management

By: Jonathan R. Tompkins

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Organization Theory and Public Management

By: Jonathan R. Tompkins

Organization Theory and Public Management is written for current and future public managers. Understanding organization theory helps managers at all levels define program objectives, overcome constraints, and accomplish mandated purposes. Armed with theoretical and conceptual knowledge, managers can better identify the factors that affect organizational performance, determine how these factors interrelate, and decide how best to resolve problems and attain goals. Familiarity with organization theory can facilitate fresh ways to view organizational challenges and discover new paths for pursuing change. Organization theory, supported by intuition and common sense, can be a powerful guide to action. The book approaches each organization theory school of thought on its own terms, drawing out its implications for public management as objectively as possible. Chapter 1 introduces organization theory as a field of study, chapter 2 establishes the unique context of public management, and chapter 3 presents three analytical frameworks for assessing the theories of organization covered in the twelve chapters that follow.

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1478651776

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My Brother's Keeper

By: Jonathan Burnside,Joanna R. Adler,Nancy Loucks,Gerry Rose

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My Brother's Keeper

By: Jonathan Burnside,Joanna R. Adler,Nancy Loucks,Gerry Rose

Ten years ago there were no faith-based units in prisons outside South America. Today, they are spreading all over the world, including the United States, Europe and the Commonwealth. My Brother's Keeper is the first major study of a global phenomenon. Exploring the roots of faith-based units in South America, it explains why the Prison Service of England and Wales set up the first Christian-based unit in the western world in 1997 - and its rapid expansion. It also explains how, at exactly the same time, the United States introduced Christian-based units - and why they were complimented by interfaith and multifaith initiatives. At the heart of My Brother's Keeper is an interior account of life inside four Christian-based prison units in England. It draws on the findings of a detailed evaluation conducted by the authors for the Home Office, Prison Service and Kainos Community between 2000 and 2001, including an updated reconviction study. It is an authoritative account of an innovative programme. Its analysis of what works and what doesn't in faith-based units around the world makes My Brother's Keeper a valuable roadmap for all who care about improving prison conditions. It presents a vision of justice that is not just concerned with building more prisons but with rebuilding more prisoners. It argues that by making prisons more human and punishment more humane, faith-based units can be of value - and keep faith in prisons.

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Routledge

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1134040180

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The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide

By: Jonathan Herring

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The Right to Be Protected from Committing Suicide

By: Jonathan Herring

This book argues that suicidal people have the right to receive treatment and for reasonable steps to be taken that they are protected from killing themselves. Those suffering threats to life from mental health issues deserve the same protection as those who face threats to life from ill health or violence from others. The book explores the ethical and legal case for giving those beset with suicidal thoughts the treatment they need and for reasonable steps to be taken to prevent them attempting suicide. Debates around suicide tend to be dominated by cases involving those with terminal medical conditions seeking assisted dying. But of those wishing to die, it is far more common to find middle aged men and young people oppressed by mental health and personal problems. Too often the woeful failure in the funding of mental health services in the UK means that suicidal people are denied the support and help they desperately need. This ground-breaking book makes the legal and ethical case for recognising that the state and public authorities have a duty to provide and implement an effective suicide prevention strategy.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509949054

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Number Training Your Brain: Teach Yourself

By: Jonathan Hancock,Jon Chapman

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Number Training Your Brain: Teach Yourself

By: Jonathan Hancock,Jon Chapman

Train your brain to be quicker, sharper and more acute by challenging yourself with these puzzles and games. This book does much more than give you the skills to tackle maths with confidence - instead it shows you how, by learning to solve practical problems and perfecting your mental arithmetic, you can strengthen all your key thinking skills and astonish your friends and family. This is the ultimate mental workout - and the only one to show you how these fun and diverting number games will actually make you smarter, quicker and more acute than any of your peers.

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1444136496

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Pride and Perjury

An Autobiography

By: Jonathan Aitken

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An Autobiography

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Intelligence Work

The Politics of American Documentary

By: Jonathan Kahana

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Intelligence Work

The Politics of American Documentary

By: Jonathan Kahana

Intelligence Work establishes a new genealogy of American social documentary, proposing a fresh critical approach to the aesthetic and political issues of nonfiction cinema and media. Jonathan Kahana argues that the use of documentary film by intellectuals, activists, government agencies, and community groups constitutes a national-public form of culture, one that challenges traditional oppositions between official and vernacular speech, between high art and popular culture, and between academic knowledge and common sense. Placing iconic images and the work of celebrated filmmakers next to overlooked and rediscovered productions, Kahana demonstrates how documentary collects and delivers the evidence of the American experience to the public sphere, where it lends force to political movements and gives substance to the social imaginary.

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Columbia University Press

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0231512120

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Death So Noble

Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

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Death So Noble

Memory, Meaning, and the First World War

By: Jonathan F. Vance

This book examines Canada's collective memory of the First World War through the 1920s and 1930s. It is a cultural history, considering art, music, and literature. Thematically organized into such subjects as the symbolism of the soldier, the implications of war memory for Canadian nationalism, and the idea of a just war, the book draws on military records, memoirs, war memorials, newspaper reports, fiction, popular songs, and films. It takes an unorthodox view of the Canadian war experience as a cultural and philosophical force rather than as a political and military event.

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0774842318

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Nexus

By: Jonathan Reed Winkler

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Nexus

By: Jonathan Reed Winkler

In an illuminating study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history, Winkler shows how U.S. officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global communications. In this absorbing history, Winkler sheds light on the early stages of the global infrastructure that helped launch the United States as the predominant power of the century.

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Harvard University Press

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0674033906

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Markan Typology

Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4:35–6:45

By: Jonathan Rivett Robinson

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Markan Typology

Miracle, Scripture and Christology in Mark 4:35–6:45

By: Jonathan Rivett Robinson

Responding to the belief that typology was a later development of the early church, and not applicable to the earliest canonical Gospel, Jonathan Robinson stresses that typology has deep Jewish roots, and that typological modes of thought were a significant part of the Gospel's historical and cultural background. He brings this insight to bear on four of the most dramatic miracles in Mark's Gospel, discovering a surprisingly consistent typological approach. Essential to Robinson's argument is the discovery of distinctive words and phrases taken from the Septuagint, that serve as unique indictors of Mark's intent to refer back to miracles from the Jewish scriptures, pointing to influence from Jonah, David, Elisha and Moses. These references in turn provide insight into Mark's Christology, revealing that Mark presents Jesus as both the fulfilment of scriptural human types and as assuming the narrative form of Israel's God. Robinson argues that rather than imposing categories extracted from earlier Jewish literature like “divine identity” and “exalted human figures”, Mark should be allowed to speak on its own terms and with its own unique voice.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567708748

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Battle of Britain Voices

37 Fighter Pilots Tell Their Extraordinary Stories

By: Jonathan Reeve

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Battle of Britain Voices

37 Fighter Pilots Tell Their Extraordinary Stories

By: Jonathan Reeve

The most comprehensive collection of fighter pilot accounts ever published.

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1445642743

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The Death and Afterlife of Achilles

By: Jonathan S. Burgess

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The Death and Afterlife of Achilles

By: Jonathan S. Burgess

Achilles' death -- by an arrow shot through the vulnerable heel of the otherwise invincible mythic hero -- was as well known in antiquity as the rest of the history of the Trojan War. However, this important event was not described directly in either of the great Homeric epics, the Iliad or the Odyssey. Noted classics scholar Jonathan S. Burgess traces the story of Achilles as represented in other ancient sources in order to offer a deeper understanding of the death and afterlife of the celebrated Greek warrior. Through close readings of additional literary sources and analysis of ancient artwork, such as vase paintings, Burgess uncovers rich accounts of Achilles' death as well as alternative versions of his afterlife. Taking a neoanalytical approach, Burgess is able to trace the influence of these parallel cultural sources on Homer's composition of the Iliad. With his keen, original analysis of hitherto untapped literary, iconographical, and archaeological sources, Burgess adds greatly to our understanding of this archetypal mythic hero.

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0801890292

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