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Any Given Sunday

The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games

By: Matthew Sherry

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Any Given Sunday

The NFL's Epic 100-Year History in 20 Games

By: Matthew Sherry

An authoritative 100-year history of America's National Football League from its founding. The NFL has become the most lucrative sports league in the world, yet it has not always been a roaring success story. It is a rocky road filled with detours and wrong turns; with heroes and villains; and, most importantly, with thousands of games. Any Given Sunday recounts twenty of the biggest of those, starting with the first contest ever played in 1920 and working through to key fixtures in the recent past. Each chapter is complemented by interviews with some of the game's true stars; first-hand accounts from games, including multiple Super Bowls; and, finally, full access to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Matthew Sherry, founder of Gridiron, the UK's only NFL magazine, takes readers from the boardroom to the field, into the locker-room and inside the journeys of legends, providing a full snapshot of the NFL's epic first century.

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Weidenfeld & Nicolson

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1474613675

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9781474613675

Victims and Policy Making

A Comparative Perspective

By: Matthew Hall

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Victims and Policy Making

A Comparative Perspective

By: Matthew Hall

This volume sets out to contrast and compare the development of policies related to victims of crime and their place within the criminal justice systems in nine separate jurisdictions (the USA, the Netherlands, England and Wales, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa). Based on first hand interviews with those responsible for formulating such policies, as well as detailed grounded and document analysis across these jurisdictions, this book exposes the national and transnational policy networks surrounding victims of crime and, in particular, examines how the provision of victim care is becoming globalized.

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298

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Routledge

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1843928256

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9781843928256

Monumental Sounds

Art and Listening before Dante

By: Matthew G. Shoaf

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Monumental Sounds

Art and Listening before Dante

By: Matthew G. Shoaf

In Monumental Sounds, Matthew G. Shoaf examines interactions between sight and hearing in spectacular church decoration in Italy between 1260 and 1320. In this "age of vision," authorities' concerns about whether and how worshipers listened to sacred speech spurred Giotto and other artists to reconfigure sacred stories to activate listening and ultimately bypass phenomenal experience for attitudes of inner receptivity. New naturalistic styles served that work, prompting viewers to give voice to depicted speech and guiding them toward spiritually fruitful auditory discipline. This study reimagines narrative pictures as site-specific extensions of a cultural system that made listening a meaningful practice. Close reading of religious texts, poetry, and art historiography augments Shoaf's novel approach to pictorial naturalism and art's multisensorial dimensions. This book has received the Weiss-Brown Publication Subvention Award from the Newberry Library. The award supports the publication of outstanding works of scholarship that cover European civilization before 1700 in the areas of music, theater, French or Italian literature, or cultural studies.

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316

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BRILL

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9004460810

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9789004460812

Victims of Environmental Harm

Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law

By: Matthew Hall (Criminologist)

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Victims of Environmental Harm

Rights, Recognition and Redress Under National and International Law

By: Matthew Hall (Criminologist)

In recent years, the increasing focus on climate change and environmental degradation has prompted unprecedented attention being paid towards the criminal liability of individuals, organisations and even states for polluting activities. These developments have given rise to a new area of criminological study, often called 'green criminology'. Yet in all the theorising that has taken place in this area, there is still a marked absence of specific focus on those actually suffering harm as a result of environmental degradation. This book represents a unique attempt to substantively conceptualise and examine the place of such 'environmental victims' in criminal justice systems both nationally and internationally. Grounded in a comparative approach and drawing on critical criminological arguments, this volume examines many of the areas traditionally considered by victimologists in relation to victims of environmental crime and, more widely, environmental harm. These include victims' rights, compensation, treatment by criminal justice systems and participation in that process. The book approaches the issue of 'environmental victimisation' from a 'social harms' perspective (as opposed to a 'criminal harms' one) thus problematising the definitions of environmental crime found within most jurisdictions. Victims of Environmental Harm concludes by mapping out the contours of further research into a developing green victimology and how this agenda might inform criminal justice reform and policy making at national and global levels.This book will be of interest to researchers across a number of disciplines including criminology, international law, victimology, socio-legal studies and physical sciences as well as professionals involved in policy making processes.

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218

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Routledge

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0415677009

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9780415677004

Victims of Crime

Construction, Governance and Policy

By: Matthew Hall

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Victims of Crime

Construction, Governance and Policy

By: Matthew Hall

This volume critically engages with the development of official policy and reform in relation to the support of victims of crime both within and beyond the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Since the election of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government in May 2010 it is argued that victimization has increasingly taken on a greater cultural resonance both in England and Wales and in other industrialised countries. Images of terrorism, public debates around the handling of sexual victimisation by the courts, and the issue of child sexual exploitation have catapulted victim issues into the public consciousness like never before – generating a new form of what Hall terms ‘victim capital’. As such, this book utilises a combination of cultural victimological analysis, governance theory and legal scholarship to address fundamental questions concerning the drivers and impact of victim policy in England and Wales in the 21st century. An engaging and original study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of victimology and the criminal justice system, as well as activists and policy makers.

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348

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Springer

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3319645897

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9783319645896

Heroes and Cowards

The Social Face of War

By: Dora L. Costa,Matthew E. Kahn

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Heroes and Cowards

The Social Face of War

By: Dora L. Costa,Matthew E. Kahn

When are people willing to sacrifice for the common good? What are the benefits of friendship? How do communities deal with betrayal? And what are the costs and benefits of being in a diverse community? Using the life histories of more than forty thousand Civil War soldiers, Dora Costa and Matthew Kahn answer these questions and uncover the vivid stories, social influences, and crucial networks that influenced soldiers' lives both during and after the war. Drawing information from government documents, soldiers' journals, and one of the most extensive research projects about Union Army soldiers ever undertaken, Heroes and Cowards demonstrates the role that social capital plays in people's decisions. The makeup of various companies--whether soldiers were of the same ethnicity, age, and occupation--influenced whether soldiers remained loyal or whether they deserted. Costa and Kahn discuss how the soldiers benefited from friendships, what social factors allowed some to survive the POW camps while others died, and how punishments meted out for breaking codes of conduct affected men after the war. The book also examines the experience of African-American soldiers and makes important observations about how their comrades shaped their lives. Heroes and Cowards highlights the inherent tensions between the costs and benefits of community diversity, shedding light on how groups and societies behave and providing valuable lessons for the present day.

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344

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Princeton University Press

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1400829755

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9781400829750

Once a Jolly Swagman

The Ballad of Waltzing Matilda

By: Matthew Richardson

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Once a Jolly Swagman

The Ballad of Waltzing Matilda

By: Matthew Richardson

Banjo' Paterson's 'Waltzing Matilda' is the one song that has been bringing people together spontaneously since 1895, and the one song that belongs to all Australians.Generations of experts have argued about the original story that Paterson immortalised, about the origins of the tune, and about what Paterson meant by his almost parodic over-use of Australian colloquialisms.Once a Jolly Swagman takes readers off the score sheet into the story of the song, and tells of its evolution up until the twenty-first century. It tries to answer the riddles within the song, and unpick its inherent contradictions: where's the heroism in a suicidal thief? What was jolly about the jumbuck? Is 'Waltzing Matilda' the key to Australian values? What does it mean that a beloved song about Australia's pioneering past is written by a city lawyer?In this age of economic rationalism and a globalised world, how does a voice from the billabong saying, 'You'll come a waltzing matilda with me' still matter, and what does it tell us about ourselves?

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252

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522853080

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9780522853087

The Renaissance Restored

Paintings Conservation and the Birth of Modern Art History in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By: Matthew Hayes

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The Renaissance Restored

Paintings Conservation and the Birth of Modern Art History in Nineteenth-Century Europe

By: Matthew Hayes

This handsomely illustrated volume traces the intersections of art history and paintings restoration in nineteenth-century Europe. Repairing works of art and writing about them—the practices that became art conservation and art history—share a common ancestry. By the nineteenth century the two fields had become inseparably linked. While the art historical scholarship of this period has been widely studied, its restoration practices have received less scrutiny—until now. This book charts the intersections between art history and conservation in the treatment of Italian Renaissance paintings in nineteenth-century Europe. Initial chapters discuss the restoration of works by Giotto and Titian, framed by the contemporary scholarship of art historians such as Jacob Burckhardt, G. B. Cavalcaselle, and Joseph Crowe that was redefining the earlier age. Subsequent chapters recount how paintings conservation was integrated into museum settings. The narrative uses period texts, unpublished archival materials, and historical photographs in probing how paintings looked at a time when scholars were writing the foundational texts of art history, and how contemporary restorers were negotiating the appearances of these works. The book proposes a model for a new conservation history, object focused yet enriched by consideration of a wider cultural horizon.

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210

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Getty Publications

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1606067222

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The Latinx Files

Race, Migration, and Space Aliens

By: Matthew David Goodwin

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The Latinx Files

Race, Migration, and Space Aliens

By: Matthew David Goodwin

In The Latinx Files, Matthew David Goodwin traces how Latinx science fiction writers are reclaiming the space alien from its xenophobic legacy in the science fiction genre. The book argues that the space alien is a vital Latinx figure preserving Latinx cultures by activating the myriad possible constructions of the space alien to represent race and migration in the popular imagination. The works discussed in this book, including those of H.G. Wells, Gloria Anzaldúa, Junot Diaz, André M. Carrington, and many others, often explicitly reject the derogatory correlation of the space alien and Latinxs, while at other times, they contain space aliens that function as a source of either enlightenment or horror for Latinx communities. Throughout this nuanced analysis, The Latinx Files demonstrates how the character of the space alien has been significant to Latinx communities and has great potential for future writers and artists.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978815107

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9781978815100

Reforming New Orleans

The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy

By: Peter F. Burns,Matthew O. Thomas

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Reforming New Orleans

The Contentious Politics of Change in the Big Easy

By: Peter F. Burns,Matthew O. Thomas

In Reforming New Orleans, Peter F. Burns and Matthew O. Thomas chart the city's recovery and assess how successfully officials at the local, state, and federal levels transformed the Big Easy in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

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Cornell University Press

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1501700944

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9781501700941

Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears

Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West

By: Matthew P. Mayo

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Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears

Fifty of the Grittiest Moments in the History of the Wild West

By: Matthew P. Mayo

From slaughters, shootouts, and massacres to maulings, lynchings, and natural disasters, Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears cuts to the chase of what draws people to the history and literature of the Wild West. Matthew P. Mayo, noted author of Western novels, takes the fifty wildest episodes in the region’s history and presents them in one action-packed volume. Set on the plains, mountains, and deserts of the West, and arranged chronologically, they capture all the mystique and allure of that special time and place in America’s history. Read about: John Colter’s harrowing escape from the Blackfeet Hugh Glass’s six-week crawl to civilization after a grizzly attack Janette Riker’s brutal winter in the Rockies John Wesley Powell’s treacherous run through the rapids of the Grand Canyon The Earp Brothers’ hot-tempered gun battle at Tombstone General Custer’s ill-advised final clash with the Sioux

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265

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Rowman & Littlefield

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076276211X

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9780762762118

Burundi

By: Allan Carpenter,Matthew Maginnis

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Burundi

By: Allan Carpenter,Matthew Maginnis

Introduces the geography, people, culture, history and present-day problems of the little mountain country which has been called, The Switzerland of Africa.

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102

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Children's Press(CT)

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0516045547

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9780516045542

The Early Modern Child in Art and History

By: Matthew Knox Averett

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The Early Modern Child in Art and History

By: Matthew Knox Averett

Childhood is not only a biological age, it is also a social construct. The essays in this collection range chronologically from the fifteenth to the eighteenth century, and geographically across England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. They chart the depictions of children in various media including painting, sculpture and the graphic arts.

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Routledge

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1317316592

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9781317316596

Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)

By: Allan Carpenter,Matthew Maginnis

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Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)

By: Allan Carpenter,Matthew Maginnis

An introduction to the people, industry, government, and history of the island nation, Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world.

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Any Given Sunday

Any Given Sunday

Victims and Policy Making

Victims and Policy Making

Monumental Sounds

Monumental Sounds

Victims of Environmental Harm

Victims of Environmental Harm

Victims of Crime

Victims of Crime

Heroes and Cowards

Heroes and Cowards

Once a Jolly Swagman

Once a Jolly Swagman

The Renaissance Restored

The Renaissance Restored

The Latinx Files

The Latinx Files

Reforming New Orleans

Reforming New Orleans

Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears

Cowboys, Mountain Men, and Grizzly Bears

Burundi

Burundi

The Early Modern Child in Art and History

The Early Modern Child in Art and History

Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)

Malagasy Republic (Madagascar)

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