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Simple Chess

New Algebraic Edition

By: Michael Stean

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Simple Chess

New Algebraic Edition

By: Michael Stean

Written by a Grand Master, this guide isolates basic elements and illustrates them through Master and Grand Master games, breaking down the mystique of strategy into easy-to-understand ideas.

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Courier Corporation

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0486316963

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9780486316963

Prodigal

By: Michael Waterhouse

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Can Stephen Padgett save himself and make peace with his past? Taken hostage while out on army patrol in Afghanistan, he finds himself imprisoned in a cell with his translator, Rashid.The news of Stephen's disappearance shatters the comfortable lives of his parents in England and stirs memories of their son's dark past.

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eBook Partnership

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1913227685

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9781913227685

The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes

By: Michael Newton

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The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes

By: Michael Newton

Over 800 entries examine the facts, evidence, and leading theories of a variety of unsolved murders, robberies, kidnappings, serial killings, disappearances, and other crimes.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438119143

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9781438119144

The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games .

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By: Wesley So,Michael Adams,Graham Burgess,John Nunn,John Emms

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The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games .

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By: Wesley So,Michael Adams,Graham Burgess,John Nunn,John Emms

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time, from Adolf Anderssen's 'Immortal Game' to Magnus Carlsen's world championship victories, and featuring a foreword by five-times World Champion Vishy Anand. This book is written by an all-star team of authors. Wesley So is the reigning Fischer Random World Champion, the 2017 US Champion and the winner of the 2016 Grand Chess Tour. Michael Adams has been the top British player for the last quarter of a century and was a finalist in the 2004 FIDE World Championship. Graham Burgess is the author of thirty books, a former champion of the Danish region of Funen, and holds the world record for marathon blitz chess playing. John Nunn is a three-time winner of both the World Solving Championship and the British Chess Federation Book of the Year Award. John Emms is an experienced chess coach and writer, who finished equal first in the 1997 British Championship and was chess columnist of the Young Telegraph. The 145 greatest chess games of all time, selected, analysed, re-evaluated and explained by a team of British and American experts and illustrated with over 1,100 chess diagrams. Join the authors in studying these games, the cream of two centuries of international chess, and develop your own chess-playing skills - whatever your current standard. Instructive points at the end of each game highlight the lessons to be learned. First published in 1998, a second edition of The Mammoth Book of the World's Greatest Chess Games in 2004 included an additional twelve games. Another new edition in 2010 included a further thirteen games as well as some significant revisions to the analysis and information regarding other games in earlier editions of the book, facilitated by the use of a variety of chess software. This 2021 edition, further updated and expanded, now includes 145 games. The authors have made full use of the new generation of chess analysis engines that apply neural-network based AI.

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Robinson

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1472146212

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Detroit's Belle Isle

Island Park Gem

By: Michael J. Rodriguez,Thomas Featherstone

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Detroit's Belle Isle

Island Park Gem

By: Michael J. Rodriguez,Thomas Featherstone

One of the most unique urban parks in the world, Belle Isle has long been a source of civic pride in Detroit. In 1879, just as its population, land area, and industry were flourishing, the city of Detroit purchased this 700-acre island for use as a park. Famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was soon commissioned to transform the island into an idyllic retreat from the industrial city. This book uses remarkable images drawn from the Walter P. Reuther Library to document Belle Isle's distinctive history. Throughout the city's periods of accomplishment, economic flux, and social turmoil, Belle Isle is revealed as a romantic haven where Detroit's many cultures came together to relax, celebrate, and play.

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Arcadia Publishing

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0738523151

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9780738523156

Answers from The Working Actor

Two Backstage Columnists Share Ten Years of Advice

By: Jackie Apodaca,Michael Kostroff

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Answers from The Working Actor

Two Backstage Columnists Share Ten Years of Advice

By: Jackie Apodaca,Michael Kostroff

For nearly a decade, Jackie Apodaca and Michael Kostroff shared duties as advice columnists for the actors’ trade paper, Backstage. Their highly popular weekly feature, "The Working Actor," fielded questions from actors all over the country. A cross between "Dear Abby" and The Hollywood Reporter, their column was a fact-based, humorous, compassionate take on the questions actors most wanted answered. Using some of their most interesting, entertaining, and informative columns as launch points, Answers from "The Working Actor" guides readers through the ins and outs (and ups and downs) of the acting industry. Apodaca and Kostroff share an approach that is decidedly "on the ground." They’ve both labored in the trenches just like their readers—dealing with auditions, classes, photos, résumés, rehearsals, contract negotiations, representatives, jobs, challenging colleagues, and the search for that elusive life/career balance. There are few absolutes in the acting profession and virtually no proven and reliable steps. Unlike books that claim to offer "Quick Steps to a Successful Acting Career," Answers from "The Working Actor" deals honestly with the realities, providing facts, options, strategies, stories, points of view, and the wisdom of experience, while ultimately challenging readers to make their own decisions. This book will give new actors a head start on their journeys and remind experienced professionals that, in the acting business, there is never only one answer to any question.

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Taylor & Francis

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1351839136

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9781351839136

My Basilian Priesthood

1961 to 1967

By: Michael Quealey

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My Basilian Priesthood

1961 to 1967

By: Michael Quealey

My Basilian Priesthood is a memoir of Michael Quealey’s six years in the order in the 1960s. During his priesthood, Quealey was director of the Newman Centre at the University of Toronto and engaged in reforming the mass and in other theological matters. The 1960s was a time of questioning traditions, including the role of Biblical criticism, the nature of liturgy, the place of women in the Church and in society, and the power of community living and decision-making. Quealey was deeply involved in all these matters, and sought to fulfill his commitment to service and balance that with his faith and vows of obedience to the institution of the Church. Written decades after the events he describes, the book is his reflection on the excitement of the times and the tensions created when tradition encountered new ideas and new forms of communal living. Here’s a story that blends Toronto history with Catholic Church history and an inside look at 1960s counterculture.

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Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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1771122684

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9781771122689

National Park Service

Efforts to Link Resources to Results Suggest Insights for Other Agencies

By: Michael J. Curro

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National Park Service

Efforts to Link Resources to Results Suggest Insights for Other Agencies

By: Michael J. Curro

The National Park Service faces a variety of complex resource & management challenges, & has undertaken to develop its strategic plan & link its planning & budgeting processes under the Government Performance & Results Act (GPRA). This report: describes how the GPRA has influenced planning & budgeting at the Park Service, (2) discusses the extent to which strategic & annual planning & budgeting processes have become linked & the challenges in achieving such a linkage, & (3) provides insights that the Park Service's experiences with results-oriented management & budgeting suggest for other agencies implementing the GPRA. Charts & tables.

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DIANE Publishing

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078817830X

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9780788178306

Shivers for Christmas

An Anthology of Crime, Mystery and Horror Stories

By: Michael O'Mara Books

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Shivers for Christmas

An Anthology of Crime, Mystery and Horror Stories

By: Michael O'Mara Books

With content from some of the finest writers - from Arthur Conan Doyle to M R James - this chilling anthology peeks behind the curtain of the festive season to surprise, entertain and unnerve.

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Michael O'Mara Books

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1782433724

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9781782433729

Causation and Responsibility

An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics

By: Michael S. Moore

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Causation and Responsibility

An Essay in Law, Morals, and Metaphysics

By: Michael S. Moore

The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. What precisely is the connection between the concept of causation used in attributing responsibility and the accounts of causal relations offered in the philosophy of science and metaphysics? How much of what we call causal responsibility is in truth defined by non-causal factors? This book argues that much of thelegal doctrine on these questions is confused and incoherent, and offers the first comprehensive attempt since Hart and Honoré to clarify the philosophical background to the legal and moral debates.The book first sets out the place of causation in criminal and tort law and outlines the metaphysics presupposed by the legal doctrine. It then analyses the best theoretical accounts of causation in the philosophy of science and metaphysics, and using these accounts criticises many of the core legal concepts surrounding causation - such as intervening causation, forseeability of harm and complicity. It considers and rejects the radical proposals to eliminate the notion of causation from law byusing risk analysis to attribute responsibility. The result of the analysis is a powerful argument for revising our understanding of the role played by causation in the attribution of legal and moral responsibility.

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Oxford University Press

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0199599513

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9780199599516

John Sloan

Drawing on Illustration

By: Michael Lobel

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John Sloan

Drawing on Illustration

By: Michael Lobel

This fascinating book highlights the artist’s early career as an illustrator and how it influenced his work as a painter and shaped his response to modernism.

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Yale University Press

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0300195559

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9780300195552

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London

By: Lisa Ritchie,Michael Leapman

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DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: London

By: Lisa Ritchie,Michael Leapman

For things to do and see visitors to London are spoiled for choice. Whether you are in London for a long trip or a quick taste of the city the Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you to make the most of your time. You will find suggestions on what to see, how to get about and where to eat and stay. Annually revised and updated and with beautiful new full-color photos, illustrations, and maps, this guide includes information on local customs, currency, medical services, and transportation. Consistently chosen over the competition in national consumer market research. The best keeps getting better!

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Penguin

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0756691176

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9780756691172

From Billy Fury to YouTube

By: Michael Parkinson (The other one)

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From Billy Fury to YouTube

By: Michael Parkinson (The other one)

These are the tales of Michael Parkinson, YouTuber extraordinaire. Michael has posted hundreds of videos to YouTube and has thousands of hits on them every day. In this book he tells the stories of how the videos came to be: behind the scenes when promoting Billy Fury dance shows with 300 amateur performers, and a show with professional dancers in London; Michael’s biography of Billy Fury and an explanation of his graveside tribute to Britain’s first rock ’n’ roll star. Some highlights from Michael’s YouTube adventures: A pretty Italian pianist and how she influenced his YouTube Channel X Factor finalist Saara Aalto singing for him in Leicester Square Walking the Thames Path, he did not video the copulating couple but did capture the giggly girls and the horses Thursford Christmas Spectacular – bandleaders and penguins Blackpool Tower ballroom and Scarborough Spa precede Brighton and boobette Joanna Forest with an emotional farewell appearance from Judith Durham and the Seekers at Nottingham Disneyland Paris, the Royal Academy of Music, a biography of Eric Coates, a story of Notts and England cricket. Read Michael’s hints on where to attend free or inexpensive London concerts; find out how he captured Scottish Football fans invading Trafalgar Square, and fell in love with the Chamber Choir from Drake University, Iowa USA. It can get personal: exam nerves, childhood memories and his National Service. And emotional: The Gardener and Alzheimers Lady and the Tuneless Choir.

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Paragon Publishing

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1782225889

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9781782225881

Amazing Audition

An exciting anthology of stories about Liverpool legend Billy Fury, whose life and music has affected people in so many ways

By: Michael Parkinson

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Amazing Audition

An exciting anthology of stories about Liverpool legend Billy Fury, whose life and music has affected people in so many ways

By: Michael Parkinson

This hugely different biography starts with the Amazing Audition that propelled Billy Fury from unknown to pop star. Marty Wilde discloses new poignant information, Michael Parkinson describes promoting Billy Fury Shows with 200 dancers and narrators. Robert worked with young Ronald Wycherley who showed songs that he was writing. Ann used her artistic ability to become a friend. Avril accommodated Billy, Marty and other performers at no charge because they were so badly paid. Christine watched filming of ‘Ive Gotta Horse’. Colin Paul is a tribute singer with a big story. Billy visited Marion in hospital leading to a lifelong friendship. Myra writes a heart wrenching story of male jealousy. Pauline became a dedicated fan club worker. Peter has produced a guitar instrumental tribute to Billy. Sandra describes meeting Billy Fury when she was 15 and wrote about his shyness. One hundred and twenty pictures accompany the stories to make this a very interesting compilation.

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Paragon Publishing

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1782228314

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9781782228318

Principles Of Abilities And Human Learning

By: Michael J.A. Howe

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Principles Of Abilities And Human Learning

By: Michael J.A. Howe

This book is about human abilities and the ways in which people acquire and extend them. It contains many useful facts about people's learning and the mental processes that make it possible. Chapter one looks at the kinds of events that create learning, and identifies some important general principles of human learning. Chapter two examines the capabilities that children gain in their early years. They acquire a number of basic capacities that they can draw upon throughout life. These include language, reading, and numerical abilities. The acceleration of early abilities is also considered. Chapter three raises a number of intriguing questions about abilities. What exactly are they? What are their most important charactersitics? How can different capabilities and items of knowledge become joined to one another? The answers are surprisingly different from what common sense predicts.; Chapter four Considers The Important Contributions Of Motivation. A Person Has To Have good reasons for engaging in learning activities. Motivation supplies incentives for doing whatever is necessary in order to make learning happen. Chapter five investigates more advanced attainments. It looks at the effects of practising and other ways in which individuals extend their expertise. The use of memory aids and learning techniques is examined. Other topics include the influence of intelligence, creativity, the possible roles of innate gifts and talents, and child prodigies and geniuses. The best way to apply discoveries concerning learning and the acquisition of abilities is to use them for our own daily activities. Chapter six addresses the question of how to learn and study more effectively. It introduces ways of reading more effectively, and gives advice on improving writing skills and studying for exams. The aim here is to help the reader to succeed better at gaining needed capabilities.

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Psychology Press

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1135471827

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9781135471828

Hitler's War Beneath the Waves

The menace of the U-Boats

By: Michael FitzGerald

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Hitler's War Beneath the Waves

The menace of the U-Boats

By: Michael FitzGerald

At the beginning of World War II, the devastating impact of German submarines on both the Royal Navy and merchant shipping saw Britain on the brink of starvation and defeat. The enemy was formidable. U-boat crews saw themselves as an elite and they preferred to scuttle their vessels at the end of the war rather than surrender. They suffered the heaviest losses of any branch of the German services: out of 40,900 men, 28,000 were killed and 5,000 taken prisoner; by 1945, the average age was 19 and the survival rate was only three missions. This is the story of how the Allies redressed the balance of power, focusing in particular on the role of the wolfpacks of U-boats in the Atlantic, whose stealthy presence beneath the waves ensured that British ships diced with death every time they put to sea.

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Arcturus Publishing

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183940387X

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9781839403873

Visuomotor Coordination

Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots

By: Jorg Peter Ewert,Michael A. Arbib

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Visuomotor Coordination

Amphibians, Comparisons, Models, and Robots

By: Jorg Peter Ewert,Michael A. Arbib

Various brain areas of mammals can phyletically be traced back to homologous structures in amphibians. The amphibian brain may thus be regarded as a kind of "microcosm" of the highly complex primate brain, as far as certain homologous structures, sensory functions, and assigned ballistic (pre-planned and pre-pro grammed) motor and behavioral processes are concerned. A variety of fundamental operations that underlie perception, cognition, sensorimotor transformation and its modulation appear to proceed in primate's brain in a way understandable in terms of basic principles which can be investigated more easily by experiments in amphibians. We have learned that progress in the quantitative description and evaluation of these principles can be obtained with guidance from theory. Modeling - supported by simulation - is a process of transforming abstract theory derived from data into testable structures. Where empirical data are lacking or are difficult to obtain because of structural constraints, the modeler makes assumptions and approximations that, by themselves, are a source of hypotheses. If a neural model is then tied to empirical data, it can be used to predict results and hence again to become subject to experimental tests whose resulting data in tum will lead to further improvements of the model. By means of our present models of visuomotor coordination and its modulation by state-dependent inputs, we are just beginning to simulate and analyze how external information is represented within different brain structures and how these structures use these operations to control adaptive behavior.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1489908978

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9781489908971

Wars of the Roses A Gazetteer- 2

By: Michael Ryan Jones

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Wars of the Roses A Gazetteer- 2

By: Michael Ryan Jones

Between 1455 and 1485, 15th century England was ravaged by war. The dynastic struggle was between supporters of two rival branches of the royal House of Plantagenet: the houses of Lancaster and York The "Red" and "White" Roses. These books are of people and places, listing them and trying to locate their situations on maps of the counties ( Shires ).

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Lulu.com

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1471699366

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9781471699368

The History of the Harwood Families of Darwen, Lancashire

By: Michael Harwood

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The History of the Harwood Families of Darwen, Lancashire

By: Michael Harwood

This book gives an insight into how our Lancashire ancestors lived and interacted with the environment in which they existed, over the centuries. Apart from a general history of Darwen life, this volume covers not only the very first ancestral tree but follows the story of one particular family branch through to the twentieth century and into living memory. The story includes detailed information of many other families which whom the Harwoods have intermingled over the centuries, and it would be a rare Darwener, who could not find some connection to his own ancestors within these pages. “Enthusiasm, in-depth research, and a unique authorial voice: this book is what genealogy should result in. It locates the Harwood family in a specific historical place and then watches them grow up and move out. Family journeys are explored from the paper mills of Kent to the goldfields of Ballarat and Maori massacres. “The sheer numbers of documents illustrated show both their value as evidence and the breadth of Mike’s research. There are fruitful and informative diversions into work, leisure, and religion, with excursions into the history of education, nonconformity, and workhouses, among many other things. It’s a story of Lancashire, and a Lancashire in the world. And it’s hard to argue with its announcement of itself not as a history but as the history of the Lancashire Harwoods. They are both typical and unique, and in tracing the development of Lancashire from a rural to an industrial economy, Mike never loses focus on his ancestors’ place in it.” —Neil Sayer, archive access manager, Lancashire Archives

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AuthorHouse

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1496994647

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9781496994646

The Uses of Reform

Godly Discipline and Popular Behavior in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610

By: Michael F. Graham

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The Uses of Reform

Godly Discipline and Popular Behavior in Scotland and Beyond, 1560-1610

By: Michael F. Graham

This work examines the social impact of Reformed protestantism through a study of the workings of the network of disciplinary courts created in Scotland during the second half of the sixteenth century.

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BRILL

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9004102612

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9789004102613

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