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The Beauty and the Sorrow

An Intimate History of the First World War

By: Peter Englund,Peter Graves

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The Beauty and the Sorrow

An Intimate History of the First World War

By: Peter Englund,Peter Graves

An intimate narrative history of World War I told through the stories of twenty men and women from around the globe--a powerful, illuminating, heart-rending picture of what the war was really like. In this masterful book, renowned historian Peter Englund describes this epoch-defining event by weaving together accounts of the average man or woman who experienced it. Drawing on the diaries, journals, and letters of twenty individuals from Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Russia, Venezuela, and the United States, Englund’s collection of these varied perspectives describes not a course of events but "a world of feeling." Composed in short chapters that move between the home front and the front lines, The Beauty and Sorrow brings to life these twenty particular people and lets them speak for all who were shaped in some way by the War, but whose voices have remained unheard.

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Vintage

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0307739287

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9780307739285

The Great War

A Combat History of the First World War

By: Peter Hart

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The Great War

A Combat History of the First World War

By: Peter Hart

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2013 by The Economist World War I altered the landscape of the modern world in every conceivable arena. Millions died; empires collapsed; new ideologies and political movements arose; poison gas, warplanes, tanks, submarines, and other technologies appeared. -Total war- emerged as a grim, mature reality. In The Great War, Peter Hart provides a masterful combat history of this global conflict. Focusing on the decisive engagements, Hart explores the immense challenges faced by the commanders on all sides. He surveys the belligerent nations, analyzing their strengths, weaknesses, and strategic imperatives. Russia, for example, was obsessed with securing an exit from the Black Sea, while France--having lost to Prussia in 1871, before Germany united--constructed a network of defensive alliances, even as it held a grudge over the loss of Alsace-Lorraine. Hart offers deft portraits of the commanders, the prewar plans, and the unexpected obstacles and setbacks that upended the initial operations.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199976279

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9780199976270

The Humanist Project

Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico

By: Peter Carravetta

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The Humanist Project

Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico

By: Peter Carravetta

Humanistic studies has been subjected to critiques from the inside of the university disciplines and shrinking support structures on the outside; moreover, recent technological developments have trapped humans in the maws of the information machine, where will, agency, and dialogue are constantly stunted and mediated, disclosing a nihilistic, dilated present. Against this panorama, Peter Carravetta argues that there is a need to recover the “human” in humanistic reflection, here described as a free social, creative, yet elusive being, caught between idealizations (utopias, concepts of society, autonomy of powers), the realities of survival (basic economics and geographies), and the dynamics of power (the languages and the praxis of actually running the society). The Humanist Project: Will, Judgment, and Society from Dante to Vico presents Dante as the first true humanist, with his stressing the preeminence of free will and individual responsibility in the life of the polis; Boccaccio’s later encyclopedic works as a philosophy of existence and history; Pico della Mirandola’s autopoiesis of the thinking and acting human in light of recent theories of interpretation, the self, and society; Machiavelli and the challenge of chance in determining sociohistorical patterns; Campanella as the last true utopic writer and first to conceive of a realist, world-scale political vision; and Vico as the thinker who identifies and describes the dialectic between historical recurrences and the free will of the individual.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1666920371

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9781666920376

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 2, 1546-1750

By: Victor Morgan,Damian Riehl Leader,Peter Searby

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A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 2, 1546-1750

By: Victor Morgan,Damian Riehl Leader,Peter Searby

This volume brings to completion the four-volume A History of the University of Cambridge, and is a vital contribution to the history not only of one major university, but of the academic societies of early modern Europe in general. Its main author, Victor Morgan, has made a special study of the relations between Cambridge and its wider world: the court and church hierarchy which sought to control it in the aftermath of the Reformation; the 'country', that is the provincial gentry; and the wider academic world. Morgan also finds the seeds of contemporary problems of university governance in the struggles which led to and followed the new Elizabethan Statutes of 1570. Christopher Brooke, General Editor and part-author, has contributed chapters on architectural history and among other themes a study of the intellectual giants of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.

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Cambridge University Press

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052135059X

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9780521350594

Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning

By: Peter Sullivan,Doug Clarke,Barbara Clarke

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Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning

By: Peter Sullivan,Doug Clarke,Barbara Clarke

This book is about how teachers can use classroom mathematics tasks to support student learning, and presents data on the ways in which teachers used those tasks in a particular research project. It is the product of research findings focusing on teacher practice, teacher learning and knowledge, and student learning. It demonstrates how teachers can use mathematics tasks to promote effective student learning.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461446805

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9781461446804

Developing Public Private Partnerships in Liberia

By: Zachary A. Kaplan,Peter Kyle,Chris Shugart,Alan Moody

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Developing Public Private Partnerships in Liberia

By: Zachary A. Kaplan,Peter Kyle,Chris Shugart,Alan Moody

This Study examines the way to deepen private sector development through public-private partnerships in Liberia. The Study focuses on drawing links between Liberia s experience with natural resource concessions with leveraging additional private sector investment in PPPs.

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World Bank Publications

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0821394819

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9780821394816

Strategic Management

The Challenge of Creating Value

By: Peter FitzRoy,James M. Hulbert,Abby Ghobadian

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Strategic Management

The Challenge of Creating Value

By: Peter FitzRoy,James M. Hulbert,Abby Ghobadian

Students trying to navigate the strategy jungle may lose sight of the fact that strategic management is about creating value in an organization. Understanding strategic management is a core part of all business qualifications and this textbook brings a new and easy-to-follow understanding of this vital business function. In addition to walking the student through the basics of the subject, the authors provide an array of analytical tools to help facilitate a thorough understanding of strategic management. The book addresses thoroughly the impact of financial markets on a firm’s strategic capabilities, as well as looking at other challenging environmental factors. Aided by an array of student-friendly features, such as: learning objectives, 'strategic management in practice' case studies and review questions in each chapter, Strategic Management will help students to excel in their strategic management classes and better prepare them for the real business world. A comprehensive companion website, containing a wealth of supplementary materials for students and lecturers alike, is available at: http://www.routledge.com/cw/fitzroy.

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Routledge

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1136640398

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9781136640391

Mathematics, Affect and Learning

Middle School Students’ Beliefs and Attitudes About Mathematics Education

By: Peter Grootenboer,Margaret Marshman

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Mathematics, Affect and Learning

Middle School Students’ Beliefs and Attitudes About Mathematics Education

By: Peter Grootenboer,Margaret Marshman

This book examines the beliefs, attitudes, values and emotions of students in Years 5 to 8 (aged 10 to 14 years) about mathematics and mathematics education. Fundamentally, this book focuses on the development of affective views and responses towards mathematics and mathematics learning. Furthermore, it seems that students develop their more negative views of mathematics during the middle school years (Years 5 to 8), and so here we concentrate on students in this critical period. The book is based on a number of empirical studies, including an enquiry undertaken with 45 children in Years 5 and 6 in one school; a large-scale quantitative study undertaken with students from a range of schools across diverse communities in New Zealand; and two related small-scale studies with junior secondary students in Australia. This book brings substantial, empirically-based evidence to the widely held perception that many students have negative views of mathematics, and these affective responses develop during the middle years of school. The data for this book were collected with school students, and students who were actually engaged in learning mathematics in their crucial middle school years. The findings reported and discussed here are relevant for researchers and mathematics educators, policy makers and curriculum developers, and teachers and school principals engaged in the teaching of mathematics.

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145

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Springer

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9812876790

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9789812876799

Shakespeare's Individualism

By: Peter Holbrook

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Shakespeare's Individualism

By: Peter Holbrook

Providing a provocative and original perspective on Shakespeare, Peter Holbrook argues that Shakespeare is an author friendly to such essentially modern and unruly notions as individuality, freedom, self-realization and authenticity. These expressive values vivify Shakespeare's own writing; they also form a continuous, and a central, part of the Shakespearean tradition. Engaging with the theme of the individual will in specific plays and poems, and examining a range of libertarian-minded scholarly and literary responses to Shakespeare over time, Shakespeare's Individualism advances the proposition that one of the key reasons for reading Shakespeare today is his commitment to individual liberty - even as we recognize that freedom is not just an indispensable ideal but also, potentially, a dangerous one. Engagingly written and jargon free, this book demonstrates that Shakespeare has important things to say about fundamental issues of human existence.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139484958

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9781139484954

What Teachers Need to Know about Numeracy

By: Peter S. Westwood,Peter Westwood

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What Teachers Need to Know about Numeracy

By: Peter S. Westwood,Peter Westwood

There is an increasing need for numeracy skills in all aspects of life. This book explores the issues that are emerging regarding the teaching of these skills, beginning with preschool and the early years of primary school through to adults with poor numeracy skills. It draws on research and relevant literature from several different countries to provide a comprehensive overview of the subject and contains many links to other sources of information and additional resources.

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Aust Council for Ed Research

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0864319045

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9780864319043

The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry

Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th Century

By: Peter Hühn,Jens Kiefer

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The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry

Studies in English Poetry from the 16th to the 20th Century

By: Peter Hühn,Jens Kiefer

This study offers a fresh approach to the theory and practice of poetry criticism from a narratological perspective. Arguing that lyric poems share basic constituents of narration with prose fiction, namely temporal sequentiality of events and verbal mediation, the authors propose the transgeneric application of narratology to the poetic genre with the aim of utilizing the sophisticated framework of narratological categories for a more precise and complex modeling of the poetic text. On this basis, the study provides a new impetus to the neglected field of poetic theory as well as to methodology. The practical value of such an approach is then demonstrated by detailed model analyses of canonical English poems from all major periods between the 16th and the 20th centuries. The comparative discussion of these analyses draws general conclusions about the specifics of narrative structures in lyric poetry in contrast to prose fiction.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110184079

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9783110184075

Book's by Peter Mousley

The Beauty and the Sorrow

The Beauty and the Sorrow

The Great War

The Great War

The Humanist Project

The Humanist Project

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 2, 1546-1750

A History of the University of Cambridge: Volume 2, 1546-1750

Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning

Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning

Developing Public Private Partnerships in Liberia

Developing Public Private Partnerships in Liberia

Strategic Management

Strategic Management

Mathematics, Affect and Learning

Mathematics, Affect and Learning

Shakespeare's Individualism

Shakespeare's Individualism

What Teachers Need to Know about Numeracy

What Teachers Need to Know about Numeracy

The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry

The Narratological Analysis of Lyric Poetry

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