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The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815

By: Noel Mostert

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The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815

By: Noel Mostert

Mostert's narrative tells the thrilling story of Britain's struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Admiral Horatio Nelson's brilliant naval exploits. 16 pages of illustrations, 6 maps.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393066533

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9780393066531

Appetite for Life

The Biography of Julia Child

By: Noel Riley Fitch

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Appetite for Life

The Biography of Julia Child

By: Noel Riley Fitch

Describes the life and career of the French chef and television personality, from her wealthy childhood in California and married years in France to her successful cooking show in the United States

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0385493835

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Rebels, Believers, Survivors

Studies in the History of the Albanians

By: Noel Malcolm

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Rebels, Believers, Survivors

Studies in the History of the Albanians

By: Noel Malcolm

Thanks to its half-century under Communism, as well as its little-known language, Albania has suffered from neglect and a sense of isolation. Yet, as this study helps to show, the Albanian lands have a long history of interaction with others. They have been a meeting-ground of Christianity and Islam; a channel through which Venice connected with the Ottoman Balkans; a place of interest to the Habsburgs; and a focus for the ambitions of neighbouring powers in the late Ottoman period. Albanians themselves could have many different identities. The studies in this volume, by one of the world's leading experts on Albanian history, range from the fifteenth century to the twentieth, taking in politics, social history, religion and diplomacy. Each is based on original research; the longest, on Ali Pasha, uses a wealth of manuscript material to tell, for the first time, the full story of the vital role he played in the international politics of the Napoleonic Wars. Other studies bring to life ordinary individuals hitherto unknown to history: women hauled before the Inquisition, for example, or the author of the first Albanian autobiography. Some of these studies have been printed before (several in hard-to-find publications, and one only in Albanian), but the greater part of this book appears here for the first time. This is not only a landmark publication for readers interested in south-east European history. It also engages with many broader issues, including religious conversion, 'crypto-Christianity' among Muslims, methods of enslavement within the Ottoman Empire, and the nature of modern myth-making about national identity.

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Oxford University Press

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0192599224

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9780192599223

Hornblower's Historical Shipmates

The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable

By: Heather Noel-Smith,Lorna M. Campbell

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Hornblower's Historical Shipmates

The Young Gentlemen of Pellew's Indefatigable

By: Heather Noel-Smith,Lorna M. Campbell

A fascinating account of varied careers, providing a rich snapshot of the later eighteenth-century sailing navy in microcosm. This book sets out the lives of seventeen 'young gentlemen' who were midshipmen under the famous Captain Sir Edward Pellew. Together, aboard the frigate HMS Indefatigable, they fought a celebrated action in 1797 against theFrench ship of the line Les Droits de l'Homme. C. S. Forester, the historical novelist, placed his famous hero, Horatio Hornblower, aboard Pellew's ship as a midshipman, so this book tells, as it were, the actual stories of Hornblower's real-life shipmates. And what stories they were! From diverse backgrounds, aristocratic and humble, they bonded closely with Pellew, learned their naval leadership skills from him, and benefited from his patronage and his friendship in their subsequent, very varied careers. The group provides a fascinating snapshot of the later eighteenth-century sailing navy in microcosm. Besides tracing the men's naval lives, the book shows how they adapted to peace after 1815, presenting details of their civilian careers. The colourful lives recounted include those of the Honourable George Cadogan, son of an earl, who survived three courts martial and a duel to retire with honouras an admiral in 1813; Thomas Groube, of a Falmouth merchant family, who commanded a fleet of boats which destroyed the Dutch shipping at Batavia, capital of the Dutch East Indies, in 1806; and James Bray, of Irish Catholic descent, who was killed commanding a sloop during the American war of 1812. Heather Noel-Smith is a genealogist and a retired Methodist minister. Lorna Campbell is a digital education manager at the University of Edinburgh and an education technology consultant. They are both independent researchers.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783270993

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9781783270996

Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation

By: Riley Noel Fitch

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Sylvia Beach And The Lost Generation

By: Riley Noel Fitch

Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393302318

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9780393302318

Agents of Empire

Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-century Mediterranean World

By: Noel Malcolm

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Agents of Empire

Knights, Corsairs, Jesuits and Spies in the Sixteenth-century Mediterranean World

By: Noel Malcolm

The story of a Venetian-Albanian family in the late sixteenth century forms the basis of a sweeping account of the interaction between East and West Europe and the Ottoman Empire at a pivotal moment in history.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0190262788

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9780190262785

The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.

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The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy

An Annotated Bibliography

By: Noel Harold Kaylor, Jr.

Originally published in 1992 The Medieval Consolation of Philosophy is an annotated bibliography looking at the scholarship generated by the translations of the works of Boethius. The book looks at translations which were produced in medieval England, France, and Germany and addresses the influence exercised by Boethius, which extended into almost every area of medieval intellectual and artistic life. The book acts in two ways, as a whole the book acts as a bibliography and study of the European tradition of Consolatio translations, but viewed on a chapter-by-chapter basis, it is a collection of independent bibliographies on the individual vernacular traditions. The book contains separate chapters looking at the Consolatio traditions of medieval France and Germany.

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Routledge

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0429614802

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9780429614804

Useful Enemies

Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750

By: Noel Malcolm

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Useful Enemies

Islam and The Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750

By: Noel Malcolm

From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the deep hostility of Western Christendom towards Islam. Yet there was also much curiosity about the social and political system on which the huge power of the sultans was based. In the sixteenth century, especially, when Ottoman territorial expansion was rapid and Ottoman institutions seemed particularly robust, there was even open admiration. In this path-breaking book Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, studying all the ways in which thinkers in the West interpreted the Ottoman Empire as a political phenomenon - and Islam as a political religion. Useful Enemies shows how the concept of 'oriental despotism' began as an attempt to turn the tables on a very positive analysis of Ottoman state power, and how, as it developed, it interacted with Western debates about monarchy and government. Noel Malcolm also shows how a negative portrayal of Islam as a religion devised for political purposes was assimilated by radical writers, who extended the criticism to all religions, including Christianity itself. Examining the works of many famous thinkers (including Machiavelli, Bodin, and Montesquieu) and many less well-known ones, Useful Enemies illuminates the long-term development of Western ideas about the Ottomans, and about Islam. Noel Malcolm shows how these ideas became intertwined with internal Western debates about power, religion, society, and war. Discussions of Islam and the Ottoman Empire were thus bound up with mainstream thinking in the West on a wide range of important topics. These Eastern enemies were not just there to be denounced. They were there to be made use of, in arguments which contributed significantly to the development of Western political thought.

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Oxford University Press

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0192565818

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9780192565815

Reporting the Nuremberg Trials

How Journalists Covered Live Nazi Trials and Executions

By: Noel Marie Fletcher

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Reporting the Nuremberg Trials

How Journalists Covered Live Nazi Trials and Executions

By: Noel Marie Fletcher

Reporting the Nuremburg Trials is steeped in reverence for an era in journalism faintly lit by modern history despite its many parallels to today. Fletcher again and again reveals lessons for today's real-time news cycles, including the perils of misinformation, professional subterfuge and abbreviated ethics." — Jesse Garnier, Journalism Chair and Associate Professor, San Francisco State University For the first time, journalists who shared details about Nazi crimes from the International Military Tribunal, better known as the Nuremberg Trial, have their own story told. As World War II in Europe drew to a close in 1945, the Allies prepared to hold Nazi leaders accountable for crimes against humanity and selected Nuremberg as the site for the trial. The U.S. military took the lead in refurbishing a courtroom and making accommodations for 325 journalists and 23 defendants plus Allied judges, prosecutors, translators and administrative staff. Because publicity was a main consideration, the latest innovations and technology were incorporated into the courtroom to enhance news coverage of the trial. Press passes were in demand worldwide for courtroom seats. A press pool was selected to witness the executions in which 10 criminals were hung on Oct. 16, 1946. Famous war correspondents and young journalists who later became household names were headquartered in a castle, explored bombed ruins and faced dangers as a lingering spirit of Nazism seethed within the city. The lengthy trial became an excruciating endurance test for journalists by the time it ended (far longer than expected) on Oct. 1, 1946, setting a precedent for coverage of subsequent justice at Nuremberg. The author, a long-time journalist and former foreign correspondent, provides an insider’s look at how the news was gathered and conveyed. The book is based on extensive research and insights gathered from Nuremberg, including at the location where the journalists were housed and at the courtroom itself.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399045849

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9781399045841

Aspects of Hobbes

By: Noel Malcolm

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Aspects of Hobbes

By: Noel Malcolm

The author presents a set of extended essays on a wide variety of aspects of the life and work of this giant of early modern thought. An introduction to Hobbes's life and thought acts as a foundation for discussion of such topics as his political philosophy and theory of international relations.

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Oxford University Press

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0199275408

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9780199275403

Learning to Educate

Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries

By: Ernesto Schiefelbein,Noel F. McGinn

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Learning to Educate

Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries

By: Ernesto Schiefelbein,Noel F. McGinn

Learning to Educate: Proposals for the Reconstruction of Education in Developing Countries is a practical and strategic guide for education leaders and others who want to do more to improve the quality of curriculum, learning, teaching, and assessment. The book is also a philosophical guide that articulates and affirms the fundamental values and purposes of education in a rapidly changing world. It confronts us with the opportunity and the necessity to unravel bedrock assumptions and stimulate further discussion about the nature of teaching and learning. What does it take to change mindsets? And how do we bring about “reconstruction” without losing our groundings and bearings? The authors, Ernesto Schiefelbein and Noel McGinn, use the full weight of their extensive knowledge in education research, teaching, policy, and action, to argue that, in order to reconstruct quality education, we must begin by improving its foundation. The result is a seasoned and superbly articulated examination of the principles and practices of teaching and learning, which focuses on the crucial need of all children to learn how to learn. Innovative, cultured, and consistently captivating, this book is bold and, in the field of comparative and international education, unprecedented. “... Current and cutting-edge knowledge on critically important dimensions of effective teaching and learning ...” – N’Dri Thérèse Assié-Lumumba, Cornell University “... A treasury of insights into the education challenge currently proposed by the UN global 2030 Agenda: universal quality learning ...” – Kenneth King, University of Edinburgh “... A helpful roadmap to the essential questions facing educators today ...” – Fernando M. Reimers, Harvard University

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Springer

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9463009477

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9789463009478

The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power, and the Making of the Borgia Myth

By: Gerard Noel

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The Renaissance Popes: Culture, Power, and the Making of the Borgia Myth

By: Gerard Noel

Between the years of 1447 (Nicholas V) and 1572 (Pius V) Rome was transformed from a ruined Medieval city. The Vatican became the official home of the church and the worlds largest bureaucracy, a spectacular new Basilica of St Peters took 100 years to build and Michelangelo changed the course of art history with his Sistine Chapel. So vast and expensive was this cultural explosion that a new fundraising initiative was launched: the sale of indulgences. The Renaissance Popes were statesmen, warriors, patrons of the arts as well as churchmen. These were earthly times and the reputations of popes like Alexander VI, the infamous Borgia patriarch, and Julius 'Il Terrible' II for murder, poison, sodomy and simony vary only in degree. Meanwhile, the sin of heresy, which threatens the very core of the Catholic soul, was tirelessly targeted by two other lasting innovations of the period: the Inquisition and witch-hunts. Alexander VI, father of the ruthless Cesare and jezebel Lucrezia, is seen to this day as the embodiment of this iniquity. But Gerard Noel shows this is unjust, and based on false confessions and historical myth. What's more, Alexander created the blueprint for reform -- the first of its kind -- that would eventually lead to the Counter-Reformation. In his survey of the colourful reigns of the seventeen Renaissance Popes and his examination of the great Borgia myth Noel brings to light the true legacy -- political, artistic, religious -- of an extraordinary time.

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Constable

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147212507X

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Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War

An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes

By: Senior Research Fellow Noel Malcolm,Noel Malcolm

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Reason of State, Propaganda, and the Thirty Years' War

An Unknown Translation by Thomas Hobbes

By: Senior Research Fellow Noel Malcolm,Noel Malcolm

Acclaimed writer and historian Noel Malcolm presents his sensational discovery of a new work by Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679): a propaganda pamphlet on behalf of the Habsburg side in the Thirty Years' War, translated by Hobbes from a Latin original. Malcolm's book explores a fascinating episode in seventeenth-century history, illuminating both the practice of early modern propaganda and the theory of "reason of state".

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Oxford University Press

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0199215936

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9780199215935

Interpreting the Moving Image

By: Noel Carroll

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Interpreting the Moving Image

By: Noel Carroll

A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521589703

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9780521589703

Mea Culpa: a Way out of Hell

Land of the Hummingbird

By: Dennis Noel

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Mea Culpa: a Way out of Hell

Land of the Hummingbird

By: Dennis Noel

From birth to death, we pass the same milestones, forks in the road, and dead ends. Each next step may lead us to disaster. Dennis Noel, a native of the dual-island nation of Trinidad and Tobago, shares lessons from his own journey in book one of his life story. His prime directive is to show the interconnectivity of everything in the universe, between universes, and between beings. His story is connected to othersand their stories are all part of a much bigger story. He reveals regrets many of us choose to ignore. Some of these lie buried deep in the recesses of our minds to be forgotten or diluted with enough justifications to dissolve any real ownership, but he seeks to move toward a more enlightened path. He also looks back at the many times in his life that help was given, sometimes in the form of angels disguised as strangers or via doors opened with whispers urging him closer to faith.

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Archway Publishing

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1480847534

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9781480847538

Voyages: Canada's Heritage Rivers (soft cover)

By: Lynn E. Noel

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Voyages: Canada's Heritage Rivers (soft cover)

By: Lynn E. Noel

Voyages is an exceptional book that celebrates the diversity and splendor of the twenty-seven rivers nominated to the Canadian Heritage Rivers system. Lynn Noel has assembled an impressive collection of stories that are filled with a spirit of adventure, discovery, beauty, and joy. The rivers in this book are more than flowing water, each has a unique story to tell, and each represents an important part of our Canadian heritage and identity. These rivers are the threads that bind this nation, from the Arctic Barrens to southe Ontario 's farmlands, from Newfoundland Rocky Hills to the mountains and glaciers of British Columbia. This is a perfect book for anyone who cares for or wishes to lea about, Canada's Spectacular River heritage and environment. - Don Gibson, National Manager, Canadian heritage rivers system project. The exploration of Canada's national river conservation system in its first ten years. Their spirit of place is captured in river songs, folktales, and Canadian Literature, with color photographs and hand-drawn maps.

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Breakwater Books

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1550810995

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9781550810998

Writing and Madness

(Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis)

By: Shoshana Felman,Martha Noel Evans

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Writing and Madness

(Literature/Philosophy/Psychoanalysis)

By: Shoshana Felman,Martha Noel Evans

This is the author's most influential work of literary theory and criticism in which she explores the relations between literature, philosophy, and psychoanalysis.

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Stanford University Press

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0804744491

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9780804744492

Kindness Wars

The History and Political Economy of Human Caring

By: Noel A. Cazenave

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Kindness Wars

The History and Political Economy of Human Caring

By: Noel A. Cazenave

Kindness Wars rescues our understanding of kindness from the clutches of an intellectually and morally myopic popular psychology and returns it to the stage of big ideas, in keeping with the important Enlightenment-era debates about human nature and possibilities. Cazenave conceptualizes kindness not just as a benevolent feeling, a caring thought, or a generous action but as a worldview, a theory, or an ideology that explains who we are and justifies how we treat others. Here “kindness wars” refer to the millennia-old “kindness theory” and ideological conflicts over what kind of societies humans can and should have. The book’s title denotes the two types of kindness wars it analyzes, conflict over (1) whether to be kind or not (i.e., the conflicts between kindness and other societal values and ideologies) and (2) what it means to be kind (i.e., the wars within kindness over different ideas as to what it means to be kind and to whom). Using a conflict theoretical perspective, Kindness Wars examines the history of the kindness concept; its many struggles with opposing notions of our true nature and possibilities; and what the lessons of that history and those battles offer us toward the development of a large, robust, and politically engaged conceptualization of kindness.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000954641

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9781000954647

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