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Religion and Public Culture

Encounters and Identities in Modern South India

By: Keith E. Yandell Keith E. Yandell,John J. Paul

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Religion and Public Culture

Encounters and Identities in Modern South India

By: Keith E. Yandell Keith E. Yandell,John J. Paul

The last two centuries have witnessed profound changes in the nature of public consciousness. Nowhere has this been more true than in India, especially in relation to changing cultures of public life and religious tradition in South India. Essays in this collection attempt to explore the intricacies of what is perhaps the single most complex socio-religious environment in the world. The essays consider the evolution of the notion of Hinduism as a distinct and singular separate religion; the relationship between this kind of formulation and various European or western influences in India; and differences which the formation of this idea and its acceptance have made upon wider public consciousness. Each essay also considers certain general issues - such as the passing along of religious authority from one generation to the next, and the rise of disputes over matters both ideological (or doctrinal) and institutional, disputes that are fundamental to the traditions concerned and yet have unmistakable cross-cultural references.

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Routledge

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1136818014

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Compota Thesaurariorum Regum Scotorum. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland

Vol. IV

By: Thomas Dickson,James Balfour Paul,C. T. McInnes,Athol Laverick Murray

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Compota Thesaurariorum Regum Scotorum. Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer of Scotland

Vol. IV

By: Thomas Dickson,James Balfour Paul,C. T. McInnes,Athol Laverick Murray

Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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338552248X

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Victoria Crosses on the Western Front, April 1915–June 1916

By: Paul Oldfield

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Victoria Crosses on the Western Front, April 1915–June 1916

By: Paul Oldfield

During visits to the First World War battlefields the author often wondered where various Victoria Cross actions took place; he resolved to find out. Research commenced in 1988 and numerous sources have been consulted in the meantime. The book is designed for the battlefield visitor as much as the armchair reader. A detailed account of each VC action is set within the wider strategic and tactical context. Detailed sketch maps show the area today, together with the battle-lines and movements of the combatants. It allows visitors to stand upon the spot, or very close, where the VC actions took place and understand what happened and where. Photographs of the battle sites illustrate the accounts. There is also a comprehensive biography for each recipient covering every aspect of their lives 'warts and all' - parents and siblings, education, civilian employment, military career, wife and children, death and burial/commemoration. There is also a host of other information, much of it published for the first time. Some fascinating characters emerge, with numerous links to many famous people and events.

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Casemate Publishers

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1473872081

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The Divine Economy

How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People

By: Paul Seabright

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The Divine Economy

How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People

By: Paul Seabright

A novel economic interpretation of how religions have become so powerful in the modern world Religion in the twenty-first century is alive and well across the world, despite its apparent decline in North America and parts of Europe. Vigorous competition between and within religious movements has led to their accumulating great power and wealth. Religions in many traditions have honed their competitive strategies over thousands of years. Today, they are big business; like businesses, they must recruit, raise funds, disburse budgets, manage facilities, organize transportation, motivate employees, and get their message out. In The Divine Economy, economist Paul Seabright argues that religious movements are a special kind of business: they are platforms, bringing together communities of members who seek many different things from one another—spiritual fulfilment, friendship and marriage networks, even business opportunities. Their function as platforms, he contends, is what has allowed religions to consolidate and wield power. This power can be used for good, especially when religious movements provide their members with insurance against the shocks of modern life, and a sense of worth in their communities. It can also be used for harm: political leaders often instrumentalize religious movements for authoritarian ends, and religious leaders can exploit the trust of members to inflict sexual, emotional, financial or physical abuse, or to provoke violence against outsiders. Writing in a nonpartisan spirit, Seabright uses insights from economics to show how religion and secular society can work together in a world where some people feel no need for religion, but many continue to respond with enthusiasm to its call.

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Princeton University Press

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069113300X

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9780691133003

Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918

By: Paul Rodmell

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Opera in the British Isles, 1875-1918

By: Paul Rodmell

While the musical culture of the British Isles in the 'long nineteenth century' has been reclaimed from obscurity by musicologists in the last thirty years, appraisal of operatic culture in the latter part of this period has remained largely elusive. Paul Rodmell argues that there were far more opportunities for composers, performers and audiences than one might expect, an assertion demonstrated by the fact that over one hundred serious operas by British composers were premiered between 1875 and 1918. Rodmell examines the nature of operatic culture in the British Isles during this period, looking at the way in which opera was produced and 'consumed' by companies and audiences, the repertory performed, social attitudes to opera, the dominance of London's West End and the activities of touring companies in the provinces, and the position of British composers within this realm of activity. In doing so, he uncovers the undoubted challenges faced by opera in Britain in this period, and delves further into why it was especially difficult to make a breakthrough in this particular genre when other fields of compositional endeavour were enjoying a period of sustained growth. Whilst contemporaneous composers and commentators and later advocates of British music may have felt that the country's operatic life did not measure up to their aspirations or ambitions, there was still a great deal of activity and, even if this was not necessarily that which was always desired, it had a significant and lasting impact on musical culture in Britain.

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Routledge

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1317085450

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9781317085454

Unchained

The Eddie Van Halen Story

By: Paul Brannigan

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Unchained

The Eddie Van Halen Story

By: Paul Brannigan

Arriving in California as a young boy in the early 1960s, Edward Van Halen and his brother Alex were ripe for the coming musical revolution. The sons of a Dutch, saxophone-playing father, the brothers discovered the Beatles, Cream, and other icons as they bound together as musical partners, forming identities for themselves in their adopted home along the way. “Affectionate and unflinching portrait of heavy metal’s Mount Everest…. Paul Brannigan goes deep here, his detailed…biography probing Van Halen’s psyche as well as his music.” —MOJO From the moment their hugely influential 1978 debut landed, Van Halen set a high bar for the rock ’n’ roll lifestyle, creating an entirely new style of post-’60s hard rock and becoming the quintessential rock band of the 1980s. But the high-flying success was fraught with difficulty, as Eddie struggled with alcohol and drug addiction while simultaneously battling David Lee Roth over the musical direction of the band, eventually taking the band in an entirely new direction with Sammy Hagar and scaling new heights, before that iteration of Van Halen disintegrated. Acclaimed biographer Paul Brannigan tackles the dramatic story with respect and affection for one of rock’s greatest musicians, pairing original interviews with meticulous research to bring the story of Eddie Van Halen completely up-to-date. Unchained: The Eddie Van Halen Story is a remarkable account of determination, genius, and single-minded commitment to the music.

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Permuted Press

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1637583516

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Places Made After Their Stories

Design and the Art of Choreotopography

By: Paul Carter

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Places Made After Their Stories

Design and the Art of Choreotopography

By: Paul Carter

Places Made After Their Stories shows how the emotional geographies we carry inside us and the ecstatic desire at the heart of democratic community-making can come together to inform contemporary landscape and urban design. Using Australian case studies of public space design from Alice Springs to Perth and Melbourne. Paul Carter describes a new approach to place-making in which topography and choreography fuse. He counters the symbolic neglect of functionalist design with a brilliant account of poetic and graphic techniques developed to materialize ambience. Carter describes a practice of sense-making and form-making that embodies fundamental gestures of welcome, arrangement, and exchange in the built setting.

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Apollo Books

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1742587607

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Sources of Irish Traditional Music, C. 1600-1855

By: Aloys Fleischmann,Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin,Paul McGettrick

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Sources of Irish Traditional Music, C. 1600-1855

By: Aloys Fleischmann,Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin,Paul McGettrick

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Taylor & Francis

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082406948X

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9780824069483

Kagnew Station

By: Paul Betit

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Kagnew Station

By: Paul Betit

About the Book: In this sequel to Phu Bai, CID investigator John Murphy travels to a remote U.S. military base in East Africa during the summer of 1968 to investigate the mysterious death of a U.S. soldier. Evidence points to a marauding band of Eritrean rebels. The investigation becomes personal when someone tries to kill Murphy, still coming to grips with his Vietnam War experience. Murphy uncovers the identity of the murderer but faces an unusual dilemma while wrapping up the case. About the Author: Working as an intelligence analyst, Paul Betit spent nearly two years at Kagnew Station. For more than 30 years, he's worked as a newspaperman in Maine. He lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Deborah. The couple has two sons.

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Just Write Books

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0976653303

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An Ordinary of Arms

Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland

By: James Balfour Paul

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An Ordinary of Arms

Contained in the Public Register of All Arms and Bearings in Scotland

By: James Balfour Paul

This definitive work lists over 5,500 arms recorded in the official heraldic Public Register of Scotland. This is the authentic Register of Arms for Scotland since, according to Scottish law, no persons of Scottish descent whose arms are not registered in the Public Register have a right to armorial bearings unless they can prove that they represent families whose arms are known to have been in existence previous to 1672. The "Ordinary" contains coats of arms systematically grouped under their component parts to enable the searcher to ascertain to whom an unnamed coat of arms belongs. At the same time, the arms of particular families can be found by consulting the extensive index. The information given in each entry includes a description of the arms, the name of the holder, and the date of registration.

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Genealogical Publishing Com

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0806302739

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Colours of the Stars

By: David Malin,Paul Murdin

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Colours of the Stars

By: David Malin,Paul Murdin

Colours of the stars uses spectacular photography to shw the coulours of stars, galaxies, and nebulae." -- dust jacket.

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CUP Archive

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052125714X

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Deeper Than Indigo

Tracing Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer

By: Jenny Balfour-Paul

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Deeper Than Indigo

Tracing Thomas Machell, Forgotten Explorer

By: Jenny Balfour-Paul

Set on the edges of time, this intriguing odyssey, part biography, part memoir and part historical detective story, has a magical extra dimension. Tracking Thomas, an elusive young man of the past, the author follows him out of the British Library to the China Seas and remote islands of Polynesia, to Indias plantation lands in the days of the British Raj, and through the deserts of Arabia. Finding she is often in her own footsteps too, can she span what seems an unbridgeable gap between the known and the unknown and solve a mystery? A unique and enthralling love story."--Publisher's website

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Medina Publishing

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1909339709

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Boys and Schooling in the Early Years

By: Paul Connolly

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Boys and Schooling in the Early Years

By: Paul Connolly

Boys' underachievement in education has now become a global concern, taxing the minds of governments across the Western world. Boys and Schooling in the Early Years represents the first major study of its kind to focus specifically on young boys and achievement. It makes a powerful argument for the need to begin tackling the problem of boys' lower educational performance in the early years. This book includes one of the most detailed and up-to-date analyses of national evidence regarding gender differences in educational achievement - from the early years through to the end of compulsory schooling. Together with original and in-depth case studies that vividly capture the differing experiences and perspectives of 5-6 year old boys, the book sets out the nature of the problems facing them in education and highlights a number of practical ways in which these issues can begin to be addressed. This is essential reading for all those working in the early years, who are concerned about boys' lower levels of achievement, and want to know what they can do about it.

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Routledge

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1134427468

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The Irish General

Thomas Francis Meagher

By: Paul R. Wylie

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The Irish General

Thomas Francis Meagher

By: Paul R. Wylie

Irish patriot, Civil War general, frontier governor—Thomas Francis Meagher played key roles in three major historical arenas. Today he is hailed as a hero by some, condemned as a drunkard by others. Paul R. Wylie now offers a definitive biography of this nineteenth-century figure who has long remained an enigma. The Irish General first recalls Meagher’s life from his boyhood and leadership of Young Ireland in the revolution of 1848, to his exile in Tasmania and escape to New York, where he found fame as an orator and as editor of the Irish News. He served in the Civil War—viewing the Union Army as training for a future Irish revolutionary force—and rose to the rank of brigadier general leading the famous Irish Brigade. Wylie traces Meagher’s military career in detail through the Seven Days battles, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. Wylie then recounts Meagher’s final years as acting governor of Montana Territory, sorting historical truth from false claims made against him regarding the militia he formed to combat attacking American Indians, and plumbing the mystery surrounding his death. Even as Meagher is lauded in most Irish histories, his statue in front of Montana’s capitol is viewed by some with contempt. The Irish General brings this multi-talented but seriously flawed individual to life, offering a balanced picture of the man and a captivating reading experience.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806184000

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Charles Fletcher Dole, Liberal Theology, and Reform

A Life Well Lived

By: Paul T. Burlin

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Charles Fletcher Dole, Liberal Theology, and Reform

A Life Well Lived

By: Paul T. Burlin

This book is a historical look at the life and theology of Charles Fletcher Dole. It argues that while Dole’s radical theology was the source of his civic engagement, his iteration of the social gospel was to some extent also shaped and delimited by the socio-economic position he occupied.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666928712

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The Voyageur

'Marvellous work of art' John Banville

By: Paul Carlucci

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The Voyageur

'Marvellous work of art' John Banville

By: Paul Carlucci

But everyone expects at least a little bit of deception as they go through their days and nights, and there's a chance of winning nevertheless, so many choose to play Alex is a motherless stockboy in 1830s Montreal, waiting desperately for his father to return from France. Serge, a drunken fur trader, promises food and safety in return for friendship, but an expedition into the forest quickly goes awry. At the mercy of men whose motives are unclear, Alex must learn to find his own way in a world where taking advantage of others has become second nature. But will he have to abandon his humanity to survive? The Voyageur is a brilliantly realised novel set on the margins of British North America, where kindness is costly, and where the real wilderness may not be in the landscape surrounding Alex but in the deceptive hearts of men.

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Swift Press

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1800753160

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Petty Justice

Low Law and the Sessions System in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867

By: Paul Craven

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Petty Justice

Low Law and the Sessions System in Charlotte County, New Brunswick, 1785-1867

By: Paul Craven

Until the late nineteenth-century, the most common form of local government in rural England and the British Empire was administration by amateur justices of the peace: the sessions system. Petty Justice uses an unusually well-documented example of the colonial sessions system in Loyalist New Brunswick to examine the role of justices of the peace and other front-line low law officials like customs officers and deputy land surveyors in colonial local government. Using the rich archival resources of Charlotte County, Paul Craven discusses issues such as the impact of commercial rivalries on local administration, the role of low law officials in resolving civil and criminal disputes and keeping the peace, their management of public works, social welfare, and liquor regulation, and the efforts of grand juries, high court judges, colonial governors, and elected governments to supervise them. A concluding chapter explains the demise of the sessions system in Charlotte County in the decade of Confederation.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442621788

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Tracks and Traces

Baptist Identity in Church and Theology

By: Paul S. Fiddes

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Tracks and Traces

Baptist Identity in Church and Theology

By: Paul S. Fiddes

This is a comprehensive, yet unusual, book on the faith and life of Baptist Christians. It explores a Baptist understanding of the church, ministry, sacraments, and mission from a thoroughly theological perspective. In a series of interlinked essays, the author relates Baptist identity to a theology of covenant, and to participation in the communion of the triune God. The book thus surveys the tracks of heritage, giving a solid historical background to each of the major themes, while at the same time offering traces of possible paths for the future, based on a tracing out of a vision of God.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1597527297

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9781597527293

Information Privacy Law

By: Daniel J. Solove,Paul M. Schwartz

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Information Privacy Law

By: Daniel J. Solove,Paul M. Schwartz

A clear, comprehensive, and cutting-edge introduction to the field of information privacy law, with the latest cases and materials exploring issues of emerging technology, information privacy, algorithmic decisions, AI, data security, and European data protection law. New to the 8th Edition: Tighter editing and shorter chapters New sections about AI and algorithms in law enforcement (Chapter 4), consumer privacy (Chapter 9), and employment privacy (Chapter 12) New cases: MD Anderson, Loomis v. Wisconsin, Clearview AI Discussion of post-Carpenter cases Discussion of new FTC enforcement cases involving dark patterns and algorithm deletion Discussion of protections of reproductive health data after Dobbs Benefits for instructors and students: Extensive coverage of FTC privacy enforcement, HIPAA and HHS enforcement, and standing in privacy lawsuits, among other topics Chapters devoted exclusively to data security, national security, employment privacy, and education privacy Sections on government surveillance and freedom to explore ideas Engaging approach to complicated laws and regulations such as HIPAA, FCRA, ECPA, GDPR, and CCPA

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Aspen Publishing

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9798886143362

Sounds of liberty

Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790–1914

By: Kate Bowan,Paul A. Pickering

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Sounds of liberty

Music, radicalism and reform in the Anglophone world, 1790–1914

By: Kate Bowan,Paul A. Pickering

Throughout the long nineteenth-century the sounds of liberty resonated across the Anglophone world. Focusing on radicals and reformers committed to the struggle for a better future, this book explores the role of music in the transmission of political culture over time and distance. Following in the footsteps of relentlessly travelling activists – women and men - it brings to light the importance of music making in the lived experience of politics. It shows how music encouraged, unified, divided, consoled, reminded, inspired and, at times, oppressed. The book examines iconic songs; the sound of music as radicals and reformers were marching, electioneering, celebrating, commemorating as well as striking, rioting and rebelling; and it listens within the walls of a range of associations where it was a part of a way of life, inspiring, nurturing, though at times restrictive. It provides an opportunity to hear history as it happened.

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Manchester University Press

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152610623X

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Contemporary Orangeism in Canada

Identity, Nationalism, and Religion

By: James W. McAuley,Paul Nesbitt-Larking

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Contemporary Orangeism in Canada

Identity, Nationalism, and Religion

By: James W. McAuley,Paul Nesbitt-Larking

This book uses original research and interviews to consider the views of contemporary members of the Orange Order in Canada, including their sense of political and societal purpose, awareness of the decline of influence, views on their present circumstances, and hopes for the future of Orangeism in Canada. In so doing, it details the organisational structure of Canadian society: the role of religion in public life, the changing context of multicultural Canada, and the politics of resistance of a political and social organisation in decline. This book offers a social scientific complement to existing historical work on the role of the Orange Order in Canadian society, and builds upon it through an analysis of contemporary Orangeism. It considers the Orange Order as a worldwide body and makes some comparisons and contrasts with its organisational status and membership in Ireland and elsewhere. As such, the book makes a distinctive contribution to our knowledge of a fraternal organisation and the role of religious belief and politics in contemporary society.

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Springer

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3319618423

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The Countess of Kensington

By: Paul M. Collins

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The Countess of Kensington

By: Paul M. Collins

In the far distant future, the Baker family lives in a city of mutant giant redwood trees. Homes are carved right out of the wooden giants, and everyone must travel down walkways and roadways linked together through the dense British forest. Paul Baker is a little boy with a big problem. He just received a bad report card with a failing grade in history. Paul's teacher says he is lazy and uninspired by the past. How can Paul learn what he needs to know about history to succeed in school? On a trip to London with his friend, Maureen, he meets the Countess of Kensington, who teaches him that it is necessary to know the past, before we can contribute anything worthwhile to the future. Author PAUL M. COLLINS is married, with two children and three grandchildren. He wrote The Countess of Kensington as homage to the environment. This is his second book in a series. The story is set a thousand years in the future, when people have found answers to the many environmental issues which besiege us today. It is an optimistic story because I am an optimistic believer in the future. I believe people will solve the problems ahead simply because they cannot afford to ignore them. After teaching in London for 17 years, Collins then taught in Benin, West Africa, where he and his wife started their own school. He is now retired.

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Strategic Book Publishing

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1608607119

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An Improbable Spy

By: David Paul Collins

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An Improbable Spy

By: David Paul Collins

Tehran was well known to American businessman Jack Devlin until the day everything changed. When radical Islamic students stormed the US embassy on November 4, 1979, Jack narrowly escaped the revolutionary chaos, leaving behind 80 percent of his business and 100 percent of his heart. To get his beautiful girlfriend, Farideh, out of Iran, Jack accepts a devil’s bargain with the CIA and MI6. He must slip back into Tehran, where the militant students are holding dozens of Americans hostage in their own embassy. His part of the bargain is to steal the coveted client ledger of the world’s most powerful arms dealer, Mustafa Khaki, Farideh’s father. Surprised by an additional assignment, Jack is also ordered to strip a KGB defector of details on Russian collusion with Iran and their plan to eliminate the American hostages while infiltrating the highest levels of Ayatollah Khomeini’s government. From the damp cellars of KGB headquarters to the cold chill of British espionage to the blistering heat of the Kuwaiti desert, readers will learn, in an erroneous twist, that not all the turncoats are Russians.

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iUniverse

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1532080301

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Contract Law

By: Paul A McDermott,James McDermott

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Contract Law

By: Paul A McDermott,James McDermott

Contract Law, Second Edition is a comprehensive and informative account of Irish contract law which contains all of the developments since the first edition was published in 2001. Building on the original material of the first edition, this edition contains two new chapters which examine the topics of: - How to successfully make contracts - Remedies other than damages, namely specific performance, injunctions and restitution The law relating to contracts is set out and explained under clear headings and in straightforward language. In addition, every major Irish case on contract law is considered. Particular emphasis is placed on practical matters such as the construction of contracts, breach of contract and contractual remedies. This edition also includes a large number of new cases from the High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court on every area. This title was written by a practitioner who is also an academic, the book sets out the principles and case law in a clear and structured manner with easy to use headings and an easy to navigate format. The information is both of an academic interest and with serious practical relevance. Practitioners, students and anyone who has to deal with contracts in the course of their work will benefit from this most welcome new edition.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1780436270

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9781780436272

Death at the Spring Tide

A Mystery Novel

By: Paul A. Egbers

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Death at the Spring Tide

A Mystery Novel

By: Paul A. Egbers

Tony owns a boat hire business on the Norfolk Broads. He is requested by his friend Sgt. Westgate to help search for a missing boat that was taking a woman down to Gt. Yarmouth. They find the boat, sunk, with a body onboard. Next night the mill where the woman was staying catches on fire, and Tony helps put it out. The circumstances surrounding the woman and her husband become suspicious and Tony with his knowledge of boats and maps is asked to help the police. A young woman comes to ask Tony for help in learning about boats as she wants to run day trips from her home town of Yarmouth. When a close friend of Tony is attacked the police enquiry becomes a personal matter. With the help of his new assistant they become involved in a bizarre series of events which ends with another death.

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1532063199

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David's Politics

Servant, Rebel, King

By: Paul R. Abramson

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David's Politics

Servant, Rebel, King

By: Paul R. Abramson

David’s Politics evaluates what we can learn about politics by studying David’s life as presented in the Books of Samuel through the first two chapters of 1 Kings. I begin by discussing the rules for kingship set forth in Deuteronomy and carry this through to the elders’ demand that the prophet Samuel appoint a king. Despite his reluctance he appoints Saul, who has many military successes. But when he fails when he fails to annihilate the Amalekites God withdraws his grace and Saul falls into a state of depression, which grows worse as the story progresses. David is called to Saul’s court as a musician. I argue that he has three roles, first as a servant to King Saul, second as a rebel against Saul, and third as king. As a servant to Saul, David establishes his credentials as a warrior and also becomes the king’s son-in-law. As a rebel against Saul, David again takes actions that solidify his future support in Israel and Judah. David has two opportunities to kill Saul, but refuses to kill him. He also cements his political support in Judah. After becoming king, David’s military successes are the prime reason for his support. He also administered justice, which may have further bolstered his legitimacy. Indeed, David did what was right “all the days of his life, except in the matter of Uriah the Hittite” (1 Kings 15:5). By committing adultery with Bathsheba, Uriah’s wife, and by having Uriah murdered, David brings grief upon himself and his family: the rape of his only named daughter, the murder of Amnon, his first-born son and the death in battle of Absalom, who is probably David’s oldest surviving son. Throughout most of this account David displays remarkable political sagacity, and more can be learned studying his life than that of any other king of Israel or Judah.

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"I Will Sing the Wondrous Story"

A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America

By: David W. Music,Paul Akers Richardson

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"I Will Sing the Wondrous Story"

A History of Baptist Hymnody in North America

By: David W. Music,Paul Akers Richardson

Baptists have a long and rich heritage of congregational song. The hymns Baptists have sung and the books from which they have sung them have been shaping forces for Baptist theology, worship, and piety. Baptist authors and composers have provided songs that have made an impact not only among Baptists in America but also across denominational and geographic lines. Congregational singing continues to be a key component of Baptist worship in the twenty-first century. Beginning with an overview of the British background, this book is a survey of the history of Baptist hymnody in America from Baptist beginnings in the New World to the present. Its intent is to help the reader better understand the background against which current Baptist congregational song practices operate. Unlike earlier writings on the subject, this book provides both comprehensive coverage and a continuous narrative. It gives thorough attention to the major Baptist bodies in America as well as calling attention to the contributions of significant smaller groups. The British Baptist background is dealt with in an introductory section. The book also includes many texts and tunes as illustrations of the topics being discussed and focuses on some of the contributions of Baptist authors and composers to the repertory of congregational song. Book jacket.

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Mercer University Press

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0865549486

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Alle Thyng Hath Tyme

Time and Medieval Life

By: Gillian Adler,Paul Strohm

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Time and Medieval Life

By: Gillian Adler,Paul Strohm

An insightful account of how medieval people experienced time. Alle Thyng Hath Tyme recreates medieval people’s experience of time as continuous, discontinuous, linear, and cyclical—from creation through judgment and into eternity. Medieval people measured time by natural phenomena such as sunrise and sunset, the motion of the stars, or the progress of the seasons, even as the late-medieval invention of the mechanical clock made time-reckoning more precise. Negotiating these mixed and competing systems, Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm show how medieval people gained a nuanced and expansive sense of time that rewards attention today.

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Reaktion Books

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1789147220

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Editors Construct the Renaissance Canon, 1825-1915

By: Paul Salzman

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Editors Construct the Renaissance Canon, 1825-1915

By: Paul Salzman

This book argues that nineteenth-century editors created the modern idea of English Renaissance literature. The book analyses the theories and practices of editors who worked on Shakespeare, but also on complete editions of a remarkable range of early modern writers, from the early nineteenth century through to the early twentieth century. It reassesses the point at which purportedly more scientific theories of editing began the process of obscuring the work of these earlier editors. In recreating this largely ignored history, this book also addresses the current interest in the theory and practice of editing as it relates to new approaches to early modern writing, and to literary and book history, and the material conditions of the transmission of texts. Through a series of case studies, the book explores the way individual editors dealt with Renaissance literature and with changing ideas of how texts and their contexts might be represented.

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Springer

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3319779028

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Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora

Archetypes of Transition

By: Paul Griffith

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Art and Ritual in the Black Diaspora

Archetypes of Transition

By: Paul Griffith

Archetypes of Transition in Diaspora Art and Ritual examines residually oral conventions that shape the black diaspora imaginary in the Caribbean and America. Colonial humanist violations and inverse issues of black cultural and psychological affirmation are indexed in terms of a visionary gestalt according to which inner and outer realities unify creatively in natural and metaphysical orders. Paul Griffith’s central focus is hermeneutical, examining the way in which religious and secular symbols inherent in rite and word as in vodun, limbo, the spirituals, puttin’ on ole massa, and dramatic and narrative structures, for example, are made basic to the liberating post-colonial struggle. This evident interpenetration of political and religious visions looks back to death-rebirth traditions through which African groups made sense of the intervention of evil into social order. Herein, moreover, the explanatory, epistemic, and therapeutic structures of art and ritual share correspondences with the mythic archetypes that Carl Jung posits as a psychological inheritance of human beings universally.

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1498527442

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Children and their Urban Environment

Changing Worlds

By: Claire Freeman,Paul Tranter

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Children and their Urban Environment

Changing Worlds

By: Claire Freeman,Paul Tranter

In our fast-changing urban world, the impacts of social and environmental change on children are often overlooked. Children and their Urban Environment examines these impacts in detail, looking at the key activities, spaces and experiences children have and how these can be managed to ensure that children benefit from change. The authors highlight the importance of planners, architects and housing professionals in creating positive environments for children and involving them in the planning process. They argue that children‘s lives are becoming simultaneously both richer and more deprived, and that, despite apparently increasing wealth, disparities between children are increasing further. Each chapter includes international examples of good practice and policy innovations for redressing the balance in favour of child supportive environments. The book seeks to embrace childhood as a time of freedom, social engagement and environmental adventure and to encourage creation of environments that better meet the needs of children. The authors argue that in doing so, we will build more sustainable neighbourhoods, cities and societies for the future.

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1136539700

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