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Rebalancing Public Partnership

Innovative Practice Between Government and Nonprofits from Around the World

By: Mr John Brothers

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Rebalancing Public Partnership

Innovative Practice Between Government and Nonprofits from Around the World

By: Mr John Brothers

Based on his original research, John Brothers brings together prominent thought leaders from the United States and around the world by exploring the prevailing attitudes and perceptions of the nonprofit sector towards government and vice versa and provides advice and direction to help both sides of the equation towards effective collaborative working. Both sides of this emerging partnership need fast-track education on each other’s capabilities, constraints and working practice. Dr. Brothers’ contributors provide some very valuable perspectives and insights that will inform and direct this process.

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1472433688

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Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi, 1425–1650

From Late Medieval Classic to Early Modern Bestseller

By: Mr Maximilian von Habsburg

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Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi, 1425–1650

From Late Medieval Classic to Early Modern Bestseller

By: Mr Maximilian von Habsburg

The Imitatio Christi is considered one of the classic texts of Western spirituality. There were 800 manuscript copies and more than 740 different printed editions of the Imitatio between its composition in the fifteenth century and 1650. During the Reformation period, the book retained its popularity with both Protestants and Catholics; with the exception of the Bible it was the most frequently printed book of the sixteenth century. In this pioneering study, the remarkable longevity of the Imitatio across geographical, chronological, linguistic and confessional boundaries is explored. Rather than attributing this enduring popularity to any particular quality of universality, this study suggests that its key virtue was its appropriation by different interest groups. That such an apparently Catholic and monastic work could be adopted and adapted by both Protestant reformers and Catholic activists (including the Jesuits) poses intriguing questions about our understanding of Reformation and Counter Reformation theology and confessional politics. This study focuses on the editions of the Imitatio printed in English, French, German and Latin between the 1470s and 1650. It offers an ambitious and comprehensive survey of the process of translation and its impact and contribution to religious culture. In so doing it offers a fresh analysis of spirituality and devotion within their proper late medieval and early modern contexts. It also demonstrates that spirituality was not a peripheral dimension of religion, but remains at the very heart of both Catholic and Protestant self-perception and identity.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409482642

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Letters from the East

Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th Centuries

By: Mr Keith Bate,Professor Malcolm Barber

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Letters from the East

Crusaders, Pilgrims and Settlers in the 12th–13th Centuries

By: Mr Keith Bate,Professor Malcolm Barber

This volume presents translations of a selection of the letters sent by crusaders and pilgrims from Asia Minor, Syria and Palestine. There are accounts of all the great events from the triumph of the capture of Jerusalem in 1099 to the disasters of Hattin in 1187 and the loss of Acre in 1291. They convey the immediacy of circumstances which were frequently dramatic and often life-threatening, and show us the feelings of those who lived in and visited the crusader states. Some of the letters translated here are famous, others hardly known, but all offer unique insight into the minds of those who took part in the crusading movement.

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1472413954

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9781472413956

The World of William Byrd

Musicians, Merchants and Magnates

By: Mr John Harley

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The World of William Byrd

Musicians, Merchants and Magnates

By: Mr John Harley

In The World of William Byrd John Harley builds on his previous work, William Byrd: Gentleman of the Chapel Royal (Ashgate, 1997), in order to place the composer more clearly in his social context. He provides new information about Byrd's youthful musical training, and reveals how in his adult life his music emerged from a series of overlapping family, business and social networks. These networks and Byrd's navigation within and between them are examined, as are the lives of a number of the individuals comprising them.

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140949408X

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9781409494089

The Po 8

By: Mr. Frank A. Podesta

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The Po 8

By: Mr. Frank A. Podesta

The book is sort of a biography about a famous character through the eyes of my grandfather Peter Podesta. My grandfather was one of the last living stage coach drivers for Wells Fargo Co. The book started out to be a book about the Po8 and ended up being the book about the lives of three men. The book tells the story, according to Peter Podesta, and other sources that has never been put to print to this date. There are many attempts to define and determine what happened to the Po8, however, the best kept secret in the West was discovered, but covered up time after time. No one has ever mentioned my grandfather except about his stage being robbed outside of Jackson, California. Little known to friends and family was the relationship he had with the Po8. This book will bring to light Peters telling of this extraordinary story about the real old west and a mystery that has been long in the minds of authors and historians alike.

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1524690570

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Sir John Soane’s Influence on Architecture from 1791

A Continuing Legacy

By: Mr Oliver Bradbury

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Sir John Soane’s Influence on Architecture from 1791

A Continuing Legacy

By: Mr Oliver Bradbury

Through examinations of internationally-renowned architects, Bradbury demonstrates that Sir John Soane’s influence has been truly international in the pre-modern era, reaching throughout the British Isles and beyond to North America and even colonial Australia. Through his inclusion of select, detailed case studies, Bradbury contends that Soane’s is a continuing, not negated, legacy in architecture.

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1472409108

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9781472409102

Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy

By: Mr Brian Gee

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Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy

By: Mr Brian Gee

Francis Watkins was an eminent figure in his field of mathematical and optical instrument making in mid-eighteenth century London. Working from original documents, Brian Gee has uncovered the life and times of an optical instrument maker, who - at first glance - was not among the most prominent in his field. In fact, because Francis Watkins came from a landed background, the diversification of his assets enabled him to weather particular business storms - discussed in this book - where colleagues without such an economic cushion, were pushed into bankruptcy or forced to emigrate. He played an important role in one of the most significant legal cases to touch this profession, namely the patenting of the achromatic lens in telescopes. The book explains Watkins's origins, and how and why he was drawn into partnership with the famous Dollond firm, who at that point were Huguenot incomers. The patent for the achromatic telescope has never been satisfactorily explained in the literature, and the author has gone back to the original legal documents, never before consulted. He teases out the problems, lays out the evidence, and comes to some interesting new conclusions, showing the Dollonds as hard-headed and ruthless businessmen, ultimately extremely successful. The latter part of the book accounts for the successors of Francis Watkins, and their decline after over a century of successful business in central London.

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1409466450

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13 Years With A Bullet

By: Mr. Mike Sanchez

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13 Years With A Bullet

By: Mr. Mike Sanchez

This is a story about a middle-aged married Christian man. How his life changed when an unexpected thing happened to him. The way he handled it was the wrong way to handle it. He became a fugitive from the law. He was on the run for thirteen years till the police arrested him. This Christian man prayed to the Lord and prayed for his help and protection through his ordeal. Mr. Mike Sanchez

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1635255384

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9781635255386

Defoe’s Writings and Manliness

Contrary Men

By: Mr Stephen H Gregg

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Defoe’s Writings and Manliness

Contrary Men

By: Mr Stephen H Gregg

Defoe's Writings and Manliness is a timely intervention in Defoe studies and in the study of masculinity in eighteenth-century literature more generally. Arguing that Defoe's writings insistently returned to the issues of manliness and its contrary, effeminacy, this book reveals how he drew upon a complex and diverse range of discourses through which masculinity was discussed in the period. It is for this reason that this book crosses over and moves between modern paradigms for the analysis of eighteenth-century masculinity to assess Defoe's men. A combination of Defoe's clarity of vision, a spirit of contrariness and a streak of moral didacticism resulted in an idiosyncratic and restless testing of the forces surrounding his period's ideas of manliness. Defoe's men are men, but they are never unproblematically so: they display a contrariness which indicates that a failure of manliness is never very far away.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475433

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White Cap and Bails

Adventures of a much loved Umpire

By: Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird

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White Cap and Bails

Adventures of a much loved Umpire

By: Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird

In this anecdotal book, the unstoppable Dickie Bird takes one County Cricket Club at a time and revisits each with the aid of memorabilia, statistics, books and videos. A mass of new hilarious stories flow from Dickie as he flexes his memory: he describes the cricketers, the matches and the character of these clubs. Dickie also relives his journeys as a umpire to clubs and Test match arenas overseas and recalls the humorous times that have filled his unique career. A must have for cricket enthusiasts everywhere.

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Hodder & Stoughton

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1444717553

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Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance

Shakespeare and Company

By: Mr Tim Fitzpatrick

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Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance

Shakespeare and Company

By: Mr Tim Fitzpatrick

Analyzing Elizabethan and Jacobean playtexts for their spatial implications, this innovative study discloses the extent to which the resources and constraints of public playhouse buildings affected the construction of the fictional worlds of early modern plays. The study argues that playwrights were writing with foresight, inscribing the constraints and resources of the stages into their texts. It goes further, to posit that Shakespeare and his playwright-contemporaries adhered to a set of generic conventions, rather than specific local company practices, about how space and place were to be related in performance: the playwrights constituted thus an overarching virtual 'company' producing playtexts that shared features across the acting companies and playhouses. By clarifying a sixteenth- to seventeenth-century conception of theatrical place, Tim Fitzpatrick adds a new layer of meaning to our understanding of the plays. His approach adds a new dimension to these particular documents which–though many of them are considered of great literary worth–were not originally generated for any other reason than to be performed within a specific performance context. The fact that the playwrights were aware of the features of this performance tradition makes their texts a potential mine of performance information, and casts light back on the texts themselves: if some of their meanings are 'spatial', these will have been missed by purely literary tools of analysis.

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140947898X

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Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

By: Mr Martin Hall,Professor Jonathan Phillips

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Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

By: Mr Martin Hall,Professor Jonathan Phillips

This volume provides the first comprehensive English translation, with a substantial introduction and notes, of the writings of Caffaro of Genoa, as well as related texts and documents on Genoa and the crusades. The majority of early crusading historiography is from a northern European and clerical perspective. Here is a very different voice, one with a more secular, Mediterranean tone. To see the similarities and differences with the mainstream sources offers an exciting new dimension to our understanding of the reception of crusading ideas in the Mediterranean and, given Genoa’s prominence in the commercial world, can help to illuminate the complex and controversial relationship between holy war and financial gain. Caffaro’s main composition, the ‘Annals’ of Genoa, began with the First Crusade and extended down to 1163. It also covers the city’s dealings with the Papacy, the German Empire, Sicily, Muslim Spain, and Pisa, as well as the development of Genoa itself. Sections from Caffaro’s continuators take the story down to the Third Crusade. Caffaro’s two other texts are exclusively about the crusades: ‘The Liberation of the Cities of the East’ and ‘The Capture of Almería and Tortosa’, while associated with him but of a later date is the ‘Short History of Jerusalem’. Alongside these narratives are a number of charters and letters that relate to, and complement, the main texts. These relate to matters such as Genoese privileges in the Holy Land and form a valuable resource in their own right. Placed alongside Caffaro’s narratives they can show the blend of commercial energy, civic pride and religious conviction that were the basis of Genoese activity in the complex world of the medieval Mediterranean.

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1472401425

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9781472401427

Taxi Driver—The Ill Fated Lad

From Heaven to Hell

By: Mr. Donny Churchill

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Taxi Driver—The Ill Fated Lad

From Heaven to Hell

By: Mr. Donny Churchill

This book is a real life story about the beauty of life when you have a wonderful income, which ultimately gave me a glamorous lifestyle. I had a lavished apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, where I was always entertaining my friends and their friends. Sometimes my friends and I would use limousine just for the night out. At the end of my company contract and after about another six months without income, I sold my condominium at a reasonable price and relocated to Jersey City in New Jersey. I lived in a spacious apartment for another five months without income, then I decided to drive a yellow cab. I went to TLC for my hack license to enable me to drive a taxi. I registered with a taxi company in Brooklyn, and I became a taxi driver. Driving the taxi and continuing my job hunting at the same time was daunting. With too many summonses from police officers and TLC inspectors within a period of about four years taxi driving, my license was revoked. No more taxi driving, no more income. And my life became too miserable.

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1524686573

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Hey Mom! Cobwebs Are Lurking from Inconspicuous Places

By: Miz Judy L’Au Meyers,Mr. Mel H. Meyers

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Hey Mom! Cobwebs Are Lurking from Inconspicuous Places

By: Miz Judy L’Au Meyers,Mr. Mel H. Meyers

Writing this book, there were many topics that even while she was living, my mother and I read over and over several times a day for many years, making sure not one got lost. At this time, Mom and I were trying to write a book but kept getting interrupted by a story just seemed to be out of place or when it became more like a topic of a fairytale. We knew we had ancestors that were giving us stories of the anomaly, like my Grandma Rock, who was a good storyteller. This meant we had to make sure nothing was going into this book as a fable.

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154627121X

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Shakespeare's Companies

William Shakespeare's Early Career and the Acting Companies, 1577–1594

By: Mr Terence G Schoone-Jongen

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Shakespeare's Companies

William Shakespeare's Early Career and the Acting Companies, 1577–1594

By: Mr Terence G Schoone-Jongen

Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with the various London acting companies before his membership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. Locating Shakespeare in the confusing records of the early London theater scene has long been one of the many unresolved problems in Shakespeare studies and is a key issue in theatre history, Shakespeare biography, and historiography. The aim in this book is to explain, analyze, and assess the competing claims about Shakespeare's pre-1594 acting company affiliations. Schoone-Jongen does not demonstrate that one particular claim is correct but provides a possible framework for Shakespeare's activities in the 1570s and 1580s, an overview of both London and provincial playing, and then offers a detailed analysis of the historical plausibility and probability of the warring claims made by biographers, ranging from the earliest sixteenth-century references to contemporary arguments. Full chapters are devoted to four specific acting companies, their activities, and a summary and critique of the arguments for Shakespeare's involvement in them (The Queen's Men, Strange's Men, Pembroke's Men, and Sussex's Men), a further chapter is dedicated to the proposition Shakespeare's first theatrical involvement was in a recusant Lancashire household, and a final chapter focuses on arguments for Shakespeare's membership in a half dozen other companies (most prominently Leicester's Men). Shakespeare's Companies simultaneously opens up twenty years of theatrical activity to inquiry and investigation while providing a critique of Shakespearean biographers and their historical methodologies.

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1409475131

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Dickie Bird Autobiography

An honest and frank story

By: Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird

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Dickie Bird Autobiography

An honest and frank story

By: Dickie Bird,Mr H D Bird

Dickie Bird's retirement was an international event shown on TV screens and newspapers throughout the world. He is a household name, an eccentric, and one of the most loved and respected characters in world cricket. His idiosyncratic style and infectious humour has endeared him to millions, transcending his sport. Fiercely proud of his background as a Yorkshire miner's son, his account follows his youth in Barnsley, his early days as a cricketer, through to his career as an umpire and his experiences of the international scene, all told with total honesty by this very private person. As the most respected umpire in the game, Dickie has serious and constructive points to make about modern cricket. He has fearlessly berated fast-bowlers when necessary. He has some sharp comments to make about ball tampering and he has mixed feelings about the introduction of the third umpire. Dickie wanted to go out at the top and he has certainly done so - after standing at 66 Test matches, three World Cup finals and 92 one-day Internationals. Combining forthright views on the game and those involved in it, compelling accounts of what it is like behind the scenes in cricket at the highest level, and the hilarious stories for which Dickie is so well known, here is the refreshing and enjoyable autobiography of a sporting legend.

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1444756079

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Rebalancing Public Partnership

Rebalancing Public Partnership

Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi, 1425–1650

Catholic and Protestant Translations of the Imitatio Christi, 1425–1650

Letters from the East

Letters from the East

The World of William Byrd

The World of William Byrd

The Po 8

The Po 8

Sir John Soane’s Influence on Architecture from 1791

Sir John Soane’s Influence on Architecture from 1791

Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy

Francis Watkins and the Dollond Telescope Patent Controversy

13 Years With A Bullet

13 Years With A Bullet

Defoe’s Writings and Manliness

Defoe’s Writings and Manliness

White Cap and Bails

White Cap and Bails

Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance

Playwright, Space and Place in Early Modern Performance

Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

Caffaro, Genoa and the Twelfth-Century Crusades

Taxi Driver—The Ill Fated Lad

Taxi Driver—The Ill Fated Lad

Hey Mom! Cobwebs Are Lurking from Inconspicuous Places

Hey Mom! Cobwebs Are Lurking from Inconspicuous Places

Shakespeare's Companies

Shakespeare's Companies

Dickie Bird Autobiography

Dickie Bird Autobiography

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