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The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh

The Inside Story of The Sandbaggers and Television's Top Spy

By: Robert G. Folsom

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The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh

The Inside Story of The Sandbaggers and Television's Top Spy

By: Robert G. Folsom

Presents a behind-the-scenes look at the classic spy television program "The Sandbaggers," and investigates the disappearance of the show's creator Ian Mackintosh, whose airplane vanished over the Gulf of Alaska in 1979.

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U of Nebraska Press

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1612341888

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9781612341880

The Romantic Conception of Life

Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe

By: Robert J. Richards

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The Romantic Conception of Life

Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe

By: Robert J. Richards

All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the world influenced (and was influenced by) both the lives of the people who held it and the development of nineteenth-century science. Integrating Romantic literature, science, and philosophy with an intimate knowledge of the individuals involved—from Goethe and the brothers Schlegel to Humboldt and Friedrich and Caroline Schelling—Richards demonstrates how their tempestuous lives shaped their ideas as profoundly as their intellectual and cultural heritage. He focuses especially on how Romantic concepts of the self, as well as aesthetic and moral considerations—all tempered by personal relationships—altered scientific representations of nature. Although historians have long considered Romanticism at best a minor tributary to scientific thought, Richards moves it to the center of the main currents of nineteenth-century biology, culminating in the conception of nature that underlies Darwin's evolutionary theory. Uniting the personal and poetic aspects of philosophy and science in a way that the German Romantics themselves would have honored, The Romantic Conception of Life alters how we look at Romanticism and nineteenth-century biology.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226712184

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9780226712185

A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich

Vol. I

By: Walter Scott,Robert Southey,John Warden Robberds

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A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich

Vol. I

By: Walter Scott,Robert Southey,John Warden Robberds

Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.

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3385109310

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9783385109315

China Bound

John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980

By: Robert Bickers

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China Bound

John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980

By: Robert Bickers

From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the Americas, now directs a highly diversified group of interests operating across the globe but with a core focus on Asia. From 1866 its fate was intertwined with developments in China, with the story of steam, and later of flight, and with the movements of people and of goods that made the modern world. China Bound charts the story of the firm, its family owners and staff, its operations, its successes and its disasters, as it endured wars, uprisings and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires - China's, Britain's, Japan's – and the twists and turns of the global economy. This is the story of a business that reshaped Hong Kong, developed Cathay Pacific Airways, dominated China's pre-Second World War shipping industry, and helped pioneer containerization. Robert Bickers' remarkable new book is the history of a business, and of its worlds, of modern China, Britain, and of the globalization that entangled them, of compradors, ship-owners, and seamen, sugar travellers, tea-tasters, and stuff merchants, revolutionaries, pirates and Taipans. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in global commerce, China Bound provides an intimate history that helps explain the shape of Asia today.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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147294996X

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9781472949967

Was Hitler a Darwinian?

Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory

By: Robert J. Richards

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Was Hitler a Darwinian?

Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory

By: Robert J. Richards

In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior, including moral behavior, ultimately selfish. Few doubt that Darwinian theory, especially as construed by the master’s German disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler and led to Nazi atrocities. In this collection of essays, Robert J. Richards argues that this orthodox view is wrongheaded. A close historical examination reveals that Darwin, in more traditional fashion, constructed nature with a moral spine and provided it with a goal: man as a moral creature. The book takes up many other topics—including the character of Darwin’s chief principles of natural selection and divergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel Wallace over man’s big brain, the role of language in human development, his relationship to Herbert Spencer, how much his views had in common with Haeckel’s, and the general problem of progress in evolution. Moreover, Richards takes a forceful stand on the timely issue of whether Darwin is to blame for Hitler’s atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwinian? is intellectual history at its boldest.

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University of Chicago Press

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022605909X

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9780226059099

Pavlov's Legacy

How and What Animals Learn

By: Robert A. Boakes

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Pavlov's Legacy

How and What Animals Learn

By: Robert A. Boakes

Pavlov's work played a vital role in the development of animal learning research. This book examines his influence on the following 50 years of research, providing extensive coverage of key studies and contributors. Intended for graduate students and researchers in behavioural neuroscience, as well as those interested in learning theory.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009076671

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

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Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

By: Robert Benedetto,Donald K. McKim

As its name implies, the Reformed tradition grew out of the 16th century Protestant Reformation. The Reformed churches consider themselves to be the Catholic Church reformed. The movement originated in the reform efforts of Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) of Zurich and John Calvin (1509-1564) of Geneva. Although the Reformed movement was dependent upon many Protestant leaders, it was Calvin's tireless work as a writer, preacher, teacher, and social and ecclesiastical reformer that provided a substantial body of literature and an ethos from which the Reformed tradition grew. Today, the Reformed churches are a multicultural, multiethnic, and multinational phenomenon. Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, Third Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 1,000 cross-referenced entries on leaders, personalities, events, facts, movements, and beliefs of the Reformed churches. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about reformed churches.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538130041

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9781538130049

Scotland's Books

A History of Scottish Literature

By: Robert Crawford

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Scotland's Books

A History of Scottish Literature

By: Robert Crawford

From Treasure Island to Trainspotting, Scotland's rich literary tradition has influenced writing across centuries and cultures far beyond its borders. Here, for the first time, is a single volume presenting the glories of fifteen centuries of Scottish literature. In Scotland's Books the much loved poet Robert Crawford tells the story of Scottish imaginative writing and its relationship to the country's history. Stretching from the medieval masterpieces of St. Columba's Iona - the earliest surviving Scottish work - to the energetic world of twenty-first-century writing by authors such as Ali Smith and James Kelman, this outstanding account traces the development of literature in Scotland and explores the cultural, linguistic and literary heritage of the nation. It includes extracts from the writing discussed to give a flavor of the original work, and its new research ranges from specially made translations of ancient poems to previously unpublished material from the Scottish Enlightenment and interviews with living writers. Informative and readable, this is the definitive single-volume guide to the marvelous legacy of Scottish literature.

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Oxford University Press

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0199727678

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9780199727674

Hometown Horizons

Local Responses to Canada's Great War

By: Robert Allen Rutherdale

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Hometown Horizons

Local Responses to Canada's Great War

By: Robert Allen Rutherdale

In Hometown Horizons, Robert Rutherdale considers how people and communities on the Canadian home front perceived the Great War. Drawing on newspaper archives and organizational documents, he examines how farmers near Lethbridge, Alberta, shopkeepers in Guelph, Ontario, and civic workers in Trois-Rivières, Québec took part in local activities that connected their everyday lives to a tumultuous period in history. Many important debates in social and cultural history are addressed, including demonization of enemy aliens, gendered fields of wartime philanthropy, state authority and citizenship, and commemoration and social memory. The making of Canada’s home front, Rutherdale argues, was experienced fundamentally through local means. City parades, military send-offs, public school events, women’s war relief efforts, and many other public exercises became the parochial lenses through which a distant war was viewed. Like no other book before it, this work argues that these experiences were the true "realities" of war, and that the old maxim that truth is war’s first victim needs to be understood, even in the international and imperialistic Great War, as a profoundly local phenomenon. Hometown Horizons contributes to a growing body of work on the social and cultural histories of the First World War, and challenges historians to consider the place of everyday modes of communication in forming collective understandings of world events. This history of a war imagined will find an eager readership among social and military historians, cultural studies scholars, and anyone with an interest in wartime Canada.

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UBC Press

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0774810149

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9780774810142

Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969

By: Robert Fitzgerald

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Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969

By: Robert Fitzgerald

Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969 is a major study in the history of marketing in economic development, in addition to being a history of a well-known international company. Marketing history remains a neglected field of study, yet Rowntree's commercial success has been the direct result of applied marketing methods and major advances in product development, branding and advertising. It is surprising that marketing and mass consumption has been so neglected; yet Rowntree was a marketing pioneer. The company had in addition a prominent role in questioning managerial organization, business culture, industrial relations, restrictive practices, and multinational business. This book offers a comprehensive account of a company and its industry, but pursues themes and seeks to answer areas of debate, illuminating the ways in which marketing contributed to the growth of an enterprise.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521435129

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9780521435123

Macaulay

The Tragedy of Power

By: Robert E. Sullivan

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Macaulay

The Tragedy of Power

By: Robert E. Sullivan

On the 150th anniversary of the death of the English historian and politician Thomas Babington Macaulay, Robert Sullivan offers a portrait of a Victorian life that probes the cost of power, the practice of empire, and the impact of ideas. His Macaulay is a Janus-faced master of the universe: a prominent spokesman for abolishing slavery in the British Empire who cared little for the cause, a forceful advocate for reforming Whig politics but a Machiavellian realist, a soaring parliamentary orator who avoided debate, a self-declared Christian, yet a skeptic and a secularizer of English history and culture, and a stern public moralist who was in love with his two youngest sisters. Perhaps best known in the West for his classic History of England, Macaulay left his most permanent mark on South Asia, where his penal code remains the law. His father ensured that ancient Greek and Latin literature shaped Macaulay’s mind, but he crippled his heir emotionally. Self-defense taught Macaulay that power, calculation, and duplicity rule politics and human relations. In Macaulay’s writings, Sullivan unearths a sinister vision of progress that prophesied twentieth-century genocide. That the reverent portrait fashioned by Macaulay’s distinguished extended family eclipsed his insistent rhetoric about race, subjugation, and civilizing slaughter testifies to the grip of moral obliviousness. Devoting his huge talents to gaining power—above all for England and its empire—made Macaulay’s life a tragedy. Sullivan offers an unsurpassed study of an afflicted genius and a thoughtful meditation on the modern ethics of power.

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625

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Harvard University Press

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0674054695

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9780674054691

Behind the Scenes

The Life and Work of William Clifford Clark

By: Robert A. Wardhaugh

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The Life and Work of William Clifford Clark

By: Robert A. Wardhaugh

William Clifford Clark, federal deputy minister of finance from 1932 to 1952, had a profound impact on Canadian history. An important intellectual figure during the first half of the twentieth century, he was leader of 'The Ottawa Men,' a group of federal civil servants who shaped a new liberal vision of the nation. Robert A. Wardhaugh chronicles Clark's contributions to Canada's modern state in Behind the Scenes, which reconstructs the public life and ideas of one of Canada's most important bureaucrats. The Department of Finance sat at the centre of critical federal decisions and debates. From this axis, Clark's wide-ranging contributions to Canadian policy were nothing short of phenomenal: he was the driving force behind the creation of the Bank of Canada and he spearheaded national housing policy. Clarke also managed the economy during the Great Depression and during the Second World War and he was instrumental in forging Canada's international economic role in the postwar era.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442660457

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9781442660458

The Rough Guide to Britain

By: Robert Andrews

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The Rough Guide to Britain

By: Robert Andrews

The Rough Guide to Britain is the ultimate insiders' handbook to England, Wales and Scotland. The full-colour introduction brings the countries' highlights to life, from the Eden Project in Cornwall to Edinburgh's Royal Mile. The authors provide lively accounts of every sight from the latest attractions such as the Cardiff Bay area and Gateshead's Baltic Centre to established landmarks from the Tower of London to Edinburgh Castle. For every town and region there are lively reviews of the best places to stay, eat and drink, to suit all pockets and with accompanying maps pinpointing each location. There's also practical tips on exploring the great British countryside from the rugged Pembrokeshire coastline to the picturesque valleys of the Yorkshire Dales.

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Rough Guides

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1843533014

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Book's by Robert Mackintosh

The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh

The Life and Mysterious Death of Ian MacKintosh

The Romantic Conception of Life

The Romantic Conception of Life

A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich

A Memoir of the Life and Writings of the Late William Taylor of Norwich

China Bound

China Bound

Was Hitler a Darwinian?

Was Hitler a Darwinian?

Pavlov's Legacy

Pavlov's Legacy

Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches

Scotland's Books

Scotland's Books

Hometown Horizons

Hometown Horizons

Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969

Rowntree and the Marketing Revolution, 1862-1969

Macaulay

Macaulay

Behind the Scenes

Behind the Scenes

The Rough Guide to Britain

The Rough Guide to Britain

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