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Re:Align

A Leadership Blueprint for Overcoming Disruption and Improving Performance

By: Jonathan Trevor

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Re:Align

A Leadership Blueprint for Overcoming Disruption and Improving Performance

By: Jonathan Trevor

Why do some businesses thrive while many more struggle? In this age of disruption, a key reason is the failure of many leaders to realign all the moving parts of their enterprise, including its business strategy and how it is organised, to best support its enduring purpose. Thousands of enterprises globally are operating below their potential simply because they are not well aligned or fail to realign to reflect the new realities of their changing business environment. This book aims to change that. This book is about strategic realignment, a leadership process to overcome disruption and secure high performance on a sustainable basis. Given that change is a constant and disruption to the business environment ever more likely, strategic realignment must become a core competency in order that all enterprises and leaders can succeed in the future. Most executives recognise this but lack a robust system of thought to execute strategic realignment effectively and realise its full benefits. But once mastered, strategic realignment offers a means of turning disruption into an advantage. In Re:Align, Jonathan Trevor provides a blueprint to help leaders ask good questions, have better conversations and make the best possible choices to realign their enterprise to be fit for purpose. Drawing upon active research at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School (with contributions from the joint works of Dr Jonathan Trevor and Dr Barry Varcoe), the book also provides practical case studies and evidence-based insights. Re:Align offers both a thoughtful and compelling message as well as an effective toolkit to help leaders everywhere to overcome disruption and improve enterprise performance.

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1399400606

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Align

A Leadership Blueprint for Aligning Enterprise Purpose, Strategy and Organisation

By: Jonathan Trevor

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Align

A Leadership Blueprint for Aligning Enterprise Purpose, Strategy and Organisation

By: Jonathan Trevor

Shortlisted for the 2020 Business Book Awards Why do some businesses thrive, while many more struggle and fail? A key reason – and the focus of this book – is strategic alignment. This is the careful arrangement of the various elements of an enterprise – from its business strategy to its organisation – to best support the fulfillment of its long-term purpose. The best-aligned enterprises are the best performing. Most executives recognise that their enterprises should be managed in this aligned way, but lack a robust system of thought to allow them to execute strategic alignment effectively and realise its full benefits. There are thousands of organisations globally that are operating below their potential simply because they are not aligned. This book aims to change that. In Align, Jonathan Trevor provides a blueprint for how strategic alignment can be effectively developed, implemented and sustained. Drawing upon active research at the University of Oxford's Saïd Business School (with contributions from the joint works of Dr Jonathan Trevor and Dr Barry Varcoe), Jonathan also provides practical case studies and evidence-based insights – culminating in a thoughtful and compelling message to help leaders everywhere to improve their alignment and enterprise performance.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147295940X

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The Play That Goes Wrong

3rd Edition

By: Henry Lewis,Henry Shields,Jonathan Sayer

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The Play That Goes Wrong

3rd Edition

By: Henry Lewis,Henry Shields,Jonathan Sayer

Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock. After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls? The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by award-winning company Mischief. It was first published as a one-act play and is published in this new edition as a two-act play.

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1474244971

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The Teen's Guide to Social Media... and Mobile Devices

21 Tips to Wise Posting in an Insecure World

By: Jonathan McKee

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The Teen's Guide to Social Media... and Mobile Devices

21 Tips to Wise Posting in an Insecure World

By: Jonathan McKee

Ever regret something you’ve posted? Honestly? How smart are you being when it comes to streaming, messaging, gaming, commenting. . .? The Teen’s Guide to Social Media & Mobile Devices will help you navigate the digital world with 21 refreshingly honest and humorous tips that will not only inform, but that also just might change the way you think about your social media interaction. 21 real-life tips including. . . Know the app before you snap. Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want Grandma, your boss, and Jesus seeing! (Jesus is on Insta, you know!) Peek at your privacy settings. . .so you know who’s peeking at you. Take more “selflessies.” Press pause before you post. . . .and many more will provide just the information you need to post wisely in an insecure world.

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Barbour Publishing

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1683225279

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9781683225270

A Smudge of Gray

A Novel

By: Jonathan Sturak

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A Smudge of Gray

A Novel

By: Jonathan Sturak

Detective Brian Boise finds himself on the trail of a murder suspect he could never have imaginedNthe mysterious businessman Trevor Malloy. Malloy is an irresistible hit man with everything going for him, while Detective Boise is a cutthroat detective going against the grain. These two men, both breadwinners and keystones of their families, play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse.

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Pendan Publishing

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0982589441

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Lethal Evidence

By: Jonathan G. Rigley

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Lethal Evidence

By: Jonathan G. Rigley

Following an horrific crash landing, Flight 1872 would uncover one of the governments biggest ever kept secrets. With the 'Container' now missing from the burning wreckage, it's clear it needs to be found and protected at what ever the cost. Who is protecting the 'Containers' secret? Could this be a worldwide cover up and a cure to a killer disease? With such a rare blood group and failing organs, will Nathan be able to save David Benson, the pilot, his mentor, his soul mate? In desperation and acting on impulse, Will Nathan enlist the help of Shiva Lawman, who by anyone's standards is a gaunt, dark, creepy, cold and calculated killer. What does Shiva do night after night in the secret under ground medical theatre and who are 'The Night Men'? Is Shiva Lawman a sinister serial killer? Will Detective Inspector Neil Curtis find him and stop him in time? Will Shiva kill again? Nathan and Ellie convince Vernon, a simple but extremely clever computer hacker who endeavours to help them both in their desperation to save David and Diana. Will he be able to keep his findings secret and help them for what seems to be the unthinkable, or will he reveal their plan to the authorities? With time running out and Nathan and Ellie being followed at every turn, Lethal Evidence is an explosive, heart racing, epic adventure, into a dark and mysterious world of murder, medical procedures and government conspiracies. With Nathan and Ellie paying the ultimate price with friendship and love.

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AuthorHouse

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1481785168

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Who's to Blame

By: Jonathan Kroeker

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Who's to Blame

By: Jonathan Kroeker

Kroeker is a death investigator in the largest county in the Nation. He has investigated nearly 4,000 deaths and brings to his writing this vast experience. Blame is a series of short stories that explores the role the individual played in their death. Blame attempts to educate the reader on personal choices they make daily, which could bring their life to an untimely end, or promote a long prosperous life.

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1105410978

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Peter Pan Goes Wrong

2023 West End Edition

By: Henry Lewis,Jonathan Sayer,Henry Shields

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Peter Pan Goes Wrong

2023 West End Edition

By: Henry Lewis,Jonathan Sayer,Henry Shields

In one of Chris' productions, due to an ill-timed haircut Rapunzel had to be imprisoned in a bungalow. But now with no further ado, please put your hands together for J.M. Barrie's Christmas classic: Peter Pan! The inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present J. M. Barrie's classic tale of Peter Pan, their most audacious production to date. Flying? Pyrotechnics? Sharp hooks? What ensues is two acts of hysterical disaster. You'll laugh, they'll cry. Something so wrong has never been so right. From the mischievous minds of the West End and Edinburgh hit The Play That Goes Wrong comes this highly original, chaos-filled re-telling of J.M. Barrie's much-loved classic. Peter Pan Goes Wrong received its world premiere at the Pleasance Theatre, London, on 10 December 2013 and transferred to the West End on 4 December 2015. The show opened on Broadway on 19 April 2023, and this updated edition was published to coincide with the show returning to the West End for a limited 2023 Christmas season.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350462446

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Essentials of Business Research

A Guide to Doing Your Research Project

By: Jonathan Wilson

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Essentials of Business Research

A Guide to Doing Your Research Project

By: Jonathan Wilson

Written specifically for business students, this best-selling, jargon-free textbook highlights each stage of the research process, guiding the reader through actionable steps and explicitly setting out how best to meet a supervisor′s expectations. Easy to navigate and full of practical advice, it shows you how to choose a topic and write a proposal, with easy to follow tips and detailed screenshots and diagrams. Key student features include: ′You′re the Supervisor′ sections - helps students to meet learning objectives ′Common questions and answers′ - real-world advice on how to tackle common challenges Examples from different types of international businesses Detailed guidance on software packages such as SPSS Student case studies Annotated further reading Accompanied by a fully integrated companion website designed to support learning. Free to access, it includes author podcasts, guides to online tools, links to downloadable journal articles, examples of completed projects, PowerPoint slides and students′ multiple choice questions to test progress. A must-have title for all business and management students; this is the ideal companion for achieving success in your research project.

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SAGE

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1446293475

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Be A More Resilient You!

By: Jonathan Phelan

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Be A More Resilient You!

By: Jonathan Phelan

Be A More Resilient You!' is a wellbeing guide. It challenges the belief that mental health is all about your mind; and that when things go wrong, the solution lies only in science, medicine and therapy. Your mental wellbeing is affected by your environment too. In the right environment for you, you thrive. In more challenging environments you struggle. 'Be A More Resilient You!' gives you 12 practical and straightforward steps to help you discover the environments that have the biggest impact on your wellbeing. You then get a series of tools and techniques to help you make choices on how to manage your wellbeing and strengthen your resilience. Let Evenhood change the way you think about wellbeing. Create an environment that allows you to be yourself and be valued for who you are.

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The Evenhood Organisation Limited

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1916017126

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The Decolonization of Knowledge

By: Jonathan D. Jansen,Cyrill A. Walters

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The Decolonization of Knowledge

By: Jonathan D. Jansen,Cyrill A. Walters

A timely and innovative study on how the decolonization movement is transforming universities, curricula and campuses.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316514188

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Sinners and Shrouds

By: Jonathan Latimer

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Sinners and Shrouds

By: Jonathan Latimer

Sinners and Shrouds, first published in 1955 as an Inner Sanctum Mystery, is a fast-paced, action-packed novel by master crime-writer Jonathan Latimer (1906-1983). The story centers on newspaper reporter Sam Clay, who becomes his own story when he wakes up next to a corpse and with no memory of the woman’s identity and of what took place the previous night. Clay knows that he is being framed for the murder but has to prove this—both to himself and to the police. Reporter Sam Clay had awakened in a strange room with a hangover and a blonde. The hangover was ugly and the blonde was dead! After a fast check Sam realized that he was the fall guy in a first-class frame-up. Then he heard the maid coming into the apartment. So he picked up a half-filled bottle of brandy and slipped into the closet. Sam didn’t make a practice of knocking women unconscious with bottles. But this was an emergency. When the maid turned her back... bang! He let her have it. As she sank to the floor with a moan, Sam wondered just how long he could stay one jump ahead of the cops!

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1789129397

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9781789129397

More 10-Minute Talks

24 Messages Your Students Will Love

By: Jonathan McKee

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More 10-Minute Talks

24 Messages Your Students Will Love

By: Jonathan McKee

Sometimes you don’t have their attention for very long. Whether you’ve planned for a short message or your program has run long, a ten-minute talk is sometimes all you have space for in your youth ministry. So make sure you make it ten minutes that really count! If you need to communicate something meaningful in just a little time, 10-Minute Talks has just what you need—more than two dozen ready-to-go, story-based talks. With talks for spiritual growth, targeted at your Christian students, and outreach talks, perfect for any teenager, you’ll be prepared to give them a bite of truth that they can walk away remembering. Following the method Jesus used most often, these More 10-Minute Talks give you stories that can impact students with one simple point. Each talk gives you the tools you need to make it count, and the flexibility to make it work for your context. Along with each topic and title, you’ll find: • The Big Idea • Scripture • The Story • The Transition Statement • Application • Closing Don’t get caught with nothing to say—or too much to say in the time you’ve got! Get 10 Minute Talks and get a meaningful message across quickly!

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Zondervan

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0310692911

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9780310692911

Night Moves

An Alex Delaware Novel

By: Jonathan Kellerman

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Night Moves

An Alex Delaware Novel

By: Jonathan Kellerman

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The master of the psychological thriller makes all the right moves in this new novel of spellbinding suspense. Even with all his years of experience, LAPD homicide detective Milo Sturgis knows there are crimes his skill and savvy cannot solve alone. That’s when he calls on brilliant psychologist Alex Delaware to read between the lines, where the darkest motives lurk. And if ever the good doctor’s insight is needed, it’s at the scene of a murder as baffling as it is brutal. There’s no spilled blood, no evidence of a struggle, and, thanks to the victim’s missing face and hands, no immediate means of identification. And no telling why the disfigured corpse of a stranger has appeared in an upscale L.A. family’s home. Chet Corvin, his wife, and their two teenage children are certain the John Doe is unknown to them. Despite that, their cooperation seems guarded. And that’s more than Milo and Alex can elicit from the Corvins’ creepy next-door neighbor—a notorious cartoonist with a warped sense of humor and a seriously antisocial attitude. As the investigation ensues, it becomes clear that this well-to-do suburban enclave has its share of curious eyes, suspicious minds, and loose lips. And as Milo tightens the screws on potential persons of interest—and Alex tries to breach the barriers that guard their deepest secrets—a strangling web of corrupted love, cold-blooded greed, and shattered trust is exposed. Though the grass may be greener on these privileged streets, there’s enough dirt below the surface to bury a multitude of sins. Including the deadliest. Praise for Night Moves “Exceptionally well-plotted . . . Newcomers will find this an easy entry point into this long-running series.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “A taut, procedural thriller . . . One of the most tightly plotted, tightly written of the Alex Delaware series . . . a real puzzler . . . Fans of the long-running Delaware series will be thrilled with this one, and because each book functions just fine as a stand-alone, there’s nothing keeping new readers from diving in.”—Booklist “Jonathan Kellerman continues to amaze, dazzle, delight and entertain. . . . Night Moves is simply the best.”—Bookreporter

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Ballantine Books

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0345541480

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"Blighted Beginnings"

Coming of Age in Independent Ireland

By: Jonathan Bolton

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"Blighted Beginnings"

Coming of Age in Independent Ireland

By: Jonathan Bolton

This book also looks at how authors have persistently used the bildungsroman to complicate and challenge the idealization of the family, exposing the divorce ban as symptomatic of an unrealistic notion of domestic inviolability. This study concludes with a discussion of the future of the bildungsroman in a country that has transcended many of its formative crises. This chapter considers Doyle's A Star Called Henry as a text that inaugurates a new phase in Irish coming-of-age narratives in which many of the problems of Irish life, formerly treated so earnestly and tragically, can be a source of play and humor." "By looking at a comprehensive range of novels by writers like Sean O'Faolain, Elizabeth Bowen, Edna O'Brien, and William Trevor, as well as lesser known figures like Eimar O'Duffy, Francis MacManus, and Mary Morrissy, Blighted Beginnings traces the evolving concerns of Irish writers as they pushed for a greater accommodation of individual freedoms and aspirations."--BOOK JACKET.

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Bucknell University Press

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0838757731

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9780838757734

The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong

By: Henry Lewis,Jonathan Sayer,Henry Shields

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The One-Act Play That Goes Wrong

By: Henry Lewis,Jonathan Sayer,Henry Shields

You all know the classic murder mystery story. There has been an untimely death at a country manor, everyone is a suspect, and an inspector is set on the case to find who the culprit is. However, when this play is performed by the accident-prone thespians of The Cornley Drama Society, everything that can go wrong…does! The actors and crew battle against all odds to make it through to their final curtain call, with hilarious consequences! From Mischief, the creators of the West End smash Peter Pan Goes Wrong, critically acclaimed TV series The Goes Wrong Show, and the Tony-winning Broadway hit The Play That Goes Wrong, this is the original one-act play which started everything going wrong. Over the course of an hour, expect a plethora of disasters from missed lines to falling props. Do you ever find out who murdered Charles Haversham? You’ll have to see for yourself!

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Dramatists Play Service, Inc.

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0822241994

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9780822241997

The Beak of the Finch

A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Jonathan Weiner

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The Beak of the Finch

A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

By: Jonathan Weiner

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • A dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research of Darwin's discovery of evolution that "spark[s] not just the intellect, but the imagination" (Washington Post Book World). “Admirable and much-needed.... Weiner’s triumph is to reveal how evolution and science work, and to let them speak clearly for themselves.”—The New York Times Book Review On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. In this remarkable story, Jonathan Weiner follows these scientists as they watch Darwin's finches and come up with a new understanding of life itself. The Beak of the Finch is an elegantly written and compelling masterpiece of theory and explication in the tradition of Stephen Jay Gould.

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Vintage

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1101872969

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9781101872963

Afghanistan

A History from 1260 to the Present

By: Jonathan L. Lee

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Afghanistan

A History from 1260 to the Present

By: Jonathan L. Lee

A colossal history of Afghanistan from its earliest organization into a coherent state up to its turbulent present. Located at the intersection of Asia and the Middle East, Afghanistan has been strategically important for thousands of years. Its ancient routes and strategic position between India, Inner Asia, China, Persia, and beyond has meant the region has been subject to frequent invasions, both peaceful and military. As a result, modern Afghanistan is a culturally and ethnically diverse country, but one divided by conflict, political instability, and by mass displacements of its people. In this magisterial illustrated history, Jonathan L. Lee tells the story of how a small tribal confederacy in a politically and culturally significant but volatile region became a modern nation-state. Drawing on more than forty years of study, Lee places the current conflict in Afghanistan in its historical context and challenges many of the West’s preconceived ideas about the country. Focusing particularly on the powerful Durrani monarchy, which united the country in 1747 and ruled for nearly two and a half centuries, Lee chronicles the origins of the dynasty as clients of Safavid Persia and Mughal India: the reign of each ruler and their efforts to balance tribal, ethnic, regional, and religious factions; the struggle for social and constitutional reform; and the rise of Islamic and Communist factions. Along the way, he offers new cultural and political insights from Persian histories, the memoirs of Afghan government officials, British government and India Office archives, and recently released CIA reports and Wikileaks documents. He also sheds new light on the country’s foreign relations, its internal power struggles, and the impact of foreign military interventions such as the “War on Terror.”

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Reaktion Books

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1789140196

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9781789140194

Fallout

By: Jonathan Guppy

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Fallout

By: Jonathan Guppy

April 1986: Number 4 Reactor, Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, explodes, releasing a deadly cocktail of radioactive materials. The fallout reaches Britain three days later, as the world slowly wakes up to the worst nuclear accident in history...Two decades later, four retired British civil servants are found dead. The deaths do not appear suspicious, and the men seem unconnected. Then an old man commits suicide. Before he dies, he sends a document to a young journalist. It reveals a terrifying secret at the heart of Britain's nuclear establishment, a secret people are prepared to kill for. A secret vital to Britain's security. A secret worth billions.Has the government covered up the true effects of the radioactive dust that settled across Britain? And why? Or is the truth far worse...?

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Lulu.com

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140923973X

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

By: Jonathan Coe

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

By: Jonathan Coe

Maxwell Sim can’t seem to make a single meaningful connection. His absent father was always more interested in poetry; he maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife, though under a false identity; his incomprehensible teenage daughter prefers her BlackBerry to his conversation; and his best friend since childhood is refusing to return his calls. He has seventy-four friends on Facebook, but nobody to talk to. In an attempt to stir himself out of this horrible rut, Max quits his job as a customer liaison at the local department store and accepts a strange business proposition that falls in his lap by chance: he’s hired to drive a Prius full of toothbrushes to the remote Shetland Islands, part of a misguided promotional campaign for a dental-hygiene company intent on illustrating the slogan “We Reach Furthest.” But Max’s trip doesn’t go as planned, as he’s unable to resist making a series of impromptu visits to important figures from his past who live en route. After a string of cruelly enlightening and intensely awkward misadventures, he finds himself falling in love with the soothing voice of his GPS system (“Emma”) and obsessively identifying with a sailor who perpetrated a notorious hoax and subsequently lost his mind. Eventually Max begins to wonder if perhaps it’s a severe lack of self-knowledge that’s hampering his ability to form actual relationships. A humane satire and modern-day picaresque, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is a gently comic and rollickingly entertaining novel about the paradoxical difficulties of making genuine attachments in a world of advanced communications technology and rampant social networking.

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Vintage

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0307595552

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Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth Century Literature

By: Jonathan Taylor

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Science and Omniscience in Nineteenth Century Literature

By: Jonathan Taylor

Iinvestigates some of the ways in which Laplacian and, indeed, Newtonian models of observation and the universe are at once assimilated and complicated by Romantic and Victorian writers such as Carlyle, Burke, Abbott, Poe and Wordsworth. This book explains how some of these literary reimaginings look forward to more modern conceptions of science.

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Liverpool University Press

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1837641773

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9781837641772

The Crime of Crimes

Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620

By: Jonathan L. Pearl

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The Crime of Crimes

Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620

By: Jonathan L. Pearl

One of the most intriguing, and disturbing, aspects of history is that most people in early modern Europe believed in the reality and dangers of witchcraft. Most historians have described the witchcraft phenomenon as one of tremendous violence. In France, dozens of books, pamphets and tracts, depicting witchcraft as the most horrible of crimes, were published and widely distributed. Yet, in his new book, The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620, Jonathan Pearl shows that France carried out relatively few executions for witchcraft. Through careful research he shows that a zealous Catholic faction identified the Protestant rebels as traitors and heretics in league with the devil and clamoured for the political and legal establishment to exterminate these enemies of humanity. But the courts were dominated by moderate Catholics whose political views were in sharp contrast to those of the zealots and, as a result, the demonologists failed to ignite a major witch-craze in France. Very few studies have taken such a careful and penetrating look at demonology in France. The Crime of Crimes: Demonology and Politics in France, 1560-1620 sheds new light on an important period in the history of witchcraft and will be welcomed by scholars and laypersons alike.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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0889206503

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Men at Play

Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s

By: Jonathan Bollen,Adrian Kiernander,Bruce Parr

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Men at Play

Masculinities in Australian Theatre since the 1950s

By: Jonathan Bollen,Adrian Kiernander,Bruce Parr

How are masculinities enacted in Australian theatre? How do Australian playwrights depict masculinities in the present and the past, in the bush and on the beach, in the city and in the suburbs? How do Australian plays dramatise gender issues like father-son relations, romance and intimacy, violence and bullying, mateship and homosexuality, race relations between men, and men’s experiences of war and migration? Men at Play explores theatre’s role in presenting and contesting images of masculinity in Australia. It ranges from often-produced plays of the 1950s to successful contemporary plays – from Dick Diamond’s Reedy River, Ray Lawler’s Summer of the Seventeenth Doll, Richard Beynon’s The Shifting Heart and Alan Seymour’s The One Day of the Year to David Williamson’s Sons of Cain, Richard Barrett’s The Heartbreak Kid, Gordon Graham’s The Boys and Nick Enright’s Blackrock. The book looks at plays as they are produced in the theatre and masculinity as it is enacted on the stage. It is written in an accessible style for students and teachers in drama at university and senior high school. The book’s contribution to contemporary debates about masculinity will also interest scholars in gender, race and sexuality studies, literary studies and Australian history.

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BRILL

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9401205523

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9789401205528

Performing King Lear

Gielgud to Russell Beale

By: Jonathan Croall

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Performing King Lear

Gielgud to Russell Beale

By: Jonathan Croall

King Lear is arguably the most complex and demanding play in the whole of Shakespeare. Once thought impossible to stage, today it is performed with increasing frequency, both in Britain and America. It has been staged more often in the last fifty years than in the previous 350 years of its performance history, its bleak message clearly chiming in with the growing harshness, cruelty and violence of the modern world. Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play, being centred firmly on the reality of creation and performance. The book is based on Jonathan Croall's unique interviews with twenty of the most distinguished actors to have undertaken this daunting role during the last forty years, including Donald Sinden, Tim Pigott-Smith, Timothy West, Julian Glover, Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Jacobi, Christopher Plummer, Michael Pennington, Brian Cox and Simon Russell Beale. He has also talked to two dozen leading directors who have staged the play in London, Stratford and elsewhere. Among them are Nicholas Hytner, David Hare, Kenneth Branagh, Adrian Noble, Deborah Warner, Jonathan Miller and Dominic Dromgoole. Each reveals in precise and absorbing detail how they have dealt with the formidable challenge of interpreting and staging Shakespeare's great tragedy.

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1474223885

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Limbus, Inc.

By: Jonathan Maberry ,Brett J. Talley,Joseph Nassise ,Benjamin Kane Ethridge,Anne C. Petty

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Limbus, Inc.

By: Jonathan Maberry ,Brett J. Talley,Joseph Nassise ,Benjamin Kane Ethridge,Anne C. Petty

Are you laid off, downsized, undersized? Call us. We employ. 1-800-555-0606 How lucky do you feel? So reads the business card from LIMBUS, INC., a shadowy employment agency that operates at the edge of the normal world. LIMBUS's employees are just as suspicious and ephemeral as the motives of the company, if indeed it could be called a company in the ordinary sense of the word. In this shared-world anthology, five heavy hitters from the dark worlds of horror, fantasy, and scifi pool their warped takes on the shadow organization that offers employment of the most unusual kind to those on the fringes of society. One thing’s for sure – you’ll never think the same way again about the fine print on your next employment application!

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JournalStone

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1936564750

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Haig's Enemy

Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front

By: Jonathan Boff

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Haig's Enemy

Crown Prince Rupprecht and Germany's War on the Western Front

By: Jonathan Boff

During the First World War, the British Army's most consistent German opponent was Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria. Commanding more than a million men as a General, and then Field Marshal, in the Imperial German Army, he held off the attacks of the British Expeditionary Force under Sir John French and then Sir Douglas Haig for four long years. But Rupprecht was to lose not only the war, but his son and his throne. Haig's Enemy by Jonathan Boff explores the tragic tale of Rupprecht's war--the story of a man caught under the wheels of modern industrial warfare. Providing a fresh viewpoint on the history of the Western Front, Boff draws on extensive research in the German archives to offer a history of the First World War from the other side of the barbed wire. He revises conventional explanations of why the Germans lost with an in-depth analysis of the nature of command, and of the institutional development of the British, French, and German armies as modern warfare was born. Using Rupprecht's own diaries and letters, many of them never before published, Haig's Enemy views the Great War through the eyes of one of Germany's leading generals, shedding new light on many of the controversies of the Western Front. The picture which emerges is far removed from the sterile stalemate of myth. Instead, Boff re-draws the Western Front as a highly dynamic battlespace, both physical and intellectual, where three armies struggled not only to out-fight, but also to out-think, their enemy. The consequences of falling behind in the race to adapt would be more terrible than ever imagined.

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Oxford University Press

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0191649309

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Performing Hamlet

Actors in the Modern Age

By: Jonathan Croall

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Performing Hamlet

Actors in the Modern Age

By: Jonathan Croall

Hamlet is arguably the most famous play on the planet, and the greatest of all Shakespeare's works. Its rich story and complex leading role have provoked intense debate and myriad interpretations. To play such a uniquely multi-faceted character as Hamlet represents the supreme challenge for a young actor. Performing Hamlet contains Jonathan Croall's revealing in-depth interviews with five distinguished actors who have played the Prince this century: Jude Law: 'You get to speak possibly the most beautiful lines about humankind ever given to an actor.' Simon Russell Beale: 'Hamlet is a very hospitable role: it will take anything you throw at it.' David Tennant: 'No other part has been so satisfying. It was tough, but utterly compelling.' Maxine Peake: 'Hamlet was a way of accessing bits of me as an actress I've not been able to access before.' Adrian Lester: 'Working with Peter Brook on Hamlet changed me as an actor, and for the better.' The book benefits from the author's interviews with six leading directors of the play during these years: Greg Doran, Nicholas Hytner, Michael Grandage, John Caird, Sarah Frankcom and Simon Godwin. Many other productions are described, from those starring Michael Redgrave, Alec Guinness and Paul Scofield in the 1950s, to the performances of Benedict Cumberbatch, Andrew Scott and Paapa Essiedu in recent times. The volume also includes an updated text of the author's earlier book Hamlet Observed, and an account of actors' experiences of performing at Elsinore.

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1350030732

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Vet at the End of the Earth

Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic

By: Jonathan Hollins

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Vet at the End of the Earth

Adventures with Animals in the South Atlantic

By: Jonathan Hollins

The passionate story of a vet’s care for all creatures great and small in the colorful, diverse, and distinctive South Atlantic islands. The role of a resident vet in the remote islands of the Falklands, St. Helena, Ascension, and Tristan da Cunha encompasses many wonderful complexities: caring for the world’s oldest living land animal (a 200-year-old giant tortoise, denizen of the St. Helena governor’s lawn); pursuing mystery creatures and invasive microorganisms; relocating herds of reindeer; and rescuing animals in extraordinarily rugged landscapes, from subtropical cloud forests to volcanic cliff faces. Hugely entertaining and affectionate, Jonathan Hollins’s tales of island vet life are not only full of ingenuity and astounding fauna—they are also steeped in the unique local cultures, history, and peoples of the islands, far from the hustle of continental life. Come join Jonathan on his daily adventures with these alluring and fascinating creatures.

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Simon and Schuster

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1639367438

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The Vices of Integrity

E. H. Carr 1892-1982

By: Jonathan Haslam

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The Vices of Integrity

E. H. Carr 1892-1982

By: Jonathan Haslam

In Edward Hallet Carr’s definitive biography Jonathan Haslam paints a compelling portrait of a man torn between a vicarious identification with the romance of revolution and the ruthless realism of his own intellectual formation.

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1859842895

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