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Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands

The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action During the 1982 Conflict

By: Rodney Boswell

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Mountain Commandos at War in the Falklands

The Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre in Action During the 1982 Conflict

By: Rodney Boswell

A former Royal Marine provides a vividly detailed, firsthand account of Mountain Commando operations in the Falklands War. On June 8th, 1982, eight Royal Marines infiltrated Goat Ridge in East Falkland, a rocky hilltop surrounded by Argentine infantry. From their hiding place just meters away from the enemy, they gathered essential intelligence for a British assault that overwhelmed the Argentine defenses days later. This is just one example of the missions undertaken by the Royal Marines Mountain and Arctic Warfare Cadre during the Falklands War, all of which are described in graphic detail in Rod Boswell’s eyewitness account. Using his own recollections and those of his comrades, he describes their operations in the Falklands: the observation posts set up in the no man’s land between San Carlos and Port Stanley; the raid at Top Malo House; and the reconnaissance patrols they carried out close to the Argentine lines during the conflict. His first-hand account gives a fascinating insight into the operational skills of a small, specially trained unit and shows the important contribution it made to the success of the British advance. This chronicle also records the entire experience of the Falklands War from their point of view, from the long voyage south through the Atlantic to the landings, the advance, and the liberation of Stanley.

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Pen and Sword Military

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1526791633

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Encounters that Changed the World

By: Rodney Castleden

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Encounters that Changed the World

By: Rodney Castleden

Empress Josephine grew up in a well off, white Creole, sugar-plantation-owning family in Martinique. But a hurricane destroyed the plantation along with her family’s fortunes. In 1795 she met Napoleon Bonaparte and a legendary romance developed. Her hair was dark and silky, her voice was low and beautifully modulated. Napoleon need no encouragement and they married in 1796. Napoleon’s passionate infatuation with his new wife was evident for all to see. Read about the romance between Napoleon and Josephine along with many other great encounters that changed the world.

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Canary Press eBooks

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1908698365

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9781908698360

Great Friendships

That Changed the World

By: Rodney Castleden

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Great Friendships

That Changed the World

By: Rodney Castleden

This e-book is an extract from Encounters that Changed the World and is also available as part of that complete publication. In many relationships we know a great deal about a friendship from one participant’s point of view and much less from the other’s. Because Plato wrote and Socrates did not, we know a great deal about what Plato thought of Socrates, but we know absolutely nothing about what Socrates thought of Plato. We think of Plato as Socrates’ greatest pupil and perhaps Socrates did too ... or did he see the young Plato as just another pupil? This book shines a light back in time to reveal great friendships that were so significant that they changed the world forever.

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1908698381

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Heritage

Critical Approaches

By: Rodney Harrison

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Heritage

Critical Approaches

By: Rodney Harrison

Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museumsewe live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally cherished? And what concepts and approaches are necessary to understanding this global obsession? Over the decades, since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, various e~crisese(tm) of definition have significantly influenced the ways in which heritage is classified, perceived and managed in contemporary global societies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the many tangible and intangible e~thingse(tm) now defined as heritage, this book attempts simultaneously to account for this global phenomenon and the industry which has grown up around it, as well as to develop a e~toolkit of conceptse(tm) with which it might be studied. In doing so, it provides a critical account of the emergence of heritage studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic study. This is presented as part of a broader examination of the function of heritage in late modern societies, with a particular focus on the changes which have resulted from the globalisation of heritage during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Developing new theoretical approaches and innovative models for more dialogically democratic heritage decision making processes, Heritage: Critical Approaches unravels the relationship between heritage and the experience of late modernity, whilst reorienting heritage so that it might be more productively connected with other pressing social, economic, political and environmental issues of our time.

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Routledge

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0415591953

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9780415591959

The Hessians

By: Rodney Atwood

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The Hessians

By: Rodney Atwood

A study of the German auxiliaries who fought with the British against the American colonists.

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Cambridge University Press

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052152637X

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Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan

By: Rodney Edgecombe

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Aspects of Form and Genre in the Poetry of Edwin Morgan

By: Rodney Edgecombe

Edwin Morgan was born in 1920 in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow University where he later taught literature. He is much admired for his experimental writings, his ‘social’ poems, as well as for the diversity of his output. The present book comprises a chapter on Morgan’s early vision poems (which have received scant critical attention hitherto); two on his hodoiporika, The Cape of Good Hope and The New Divan; a chapter on his deployment of the grotesque mode, centred chiefly on the Instamatic Poems and The Whittrick; another on his adaptations of the elegy, in which Edgecombe propose a new genre called the “thanasimon;” and, finally, an examination of his various monologic poems, read in terms of his avowed enterprise of “voicing” the universe. The study is topped by a prologue that sets out the consistency of Morgan’s vision over time, and tailed by an epilogue that connects his various critical pronouncements to his remarkably diverse output.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443807567

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9781443807562

A Biographical Dictionary of Contributors to the Natural History of the Free State and Lesotho

By: Rodney Moffett

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A Biographical Dictionary of Contributors to the Natural History of the Free State and Lesotho

By: Rodney Moffett

This work briefly records the lives and achievements of 502 men and women who contributed, or are still contributing, to the natural history of the Free State and Lesotho, between 1829 and 2013.

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UJ Press

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1920382356

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9781920382353

Institutional Memory as Storytelling

How Networked Government Remembers

By: Jack Corbett,Dennis Christian Grube,Heather Caroline Lovell,Rodney James Scott

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Institutional Memory as Storytelling

How Networked Government Remembers

By: Jack Corbett,Dennis Christian Grube,Heather Caroline Lovell,Rodney James Scott

How do bureaucracies remember? The conventional view is that institutional memory is static and singular, the sum of recorded files and learned procedures. There is a growing body of scholarship that suggests contemporary bureaucracies are failing at this core task. This Element argues that this diagnosis misses that memories are essentially dynamic stories. They reside with people and are thus dispersed across the array of actors that make up the differentiated polity. Drawing on four policy examples from four sectors (housing, energy, family violence and justice) in three countries (the UK, Australia and New Zealand), this Element argues that treating the way institutions remember as storytelling is both empirically salient and normatively desirable. It is concluded that the current conceptualisation of institutional memory needs to be recalibrated to fit the types of policy learning practices required by modern collaborative governance.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108805930

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9781108805933

Shaping Immigration News

A French-American Comparison

By: Rodney Benson

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Shaping Immigration News

A French-American Comparison

By: Rodney Benson

This book offers a comprehensive portrait of French and American journalists in action as they grapple with how to report and comment on one of the most important issues of our era. Drawing on interviews with leading journalists and analyses of an extensive sample of newspaper and television coverage since the early 1970s, Rodney Benson shows how the immigration debate has become increasingly focused on the dramatic, emotion-laden frames of humanitarianism and public order. In both countries, less commercialized media tend to offer the most in-depth, multi-perspective and critical news. Benson challenges classic liberalism's assumptions about state intervention's chilling effects on the press, suggests costs as well as benefits to the current vogue in personalized narrative news, and calls attention to journalistic practices that can help empower civil society. This book offers new theories and methods for sociologists and media scholars and fresh insights for journalists, policy makers and concerned citizens.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107244404

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9781107244405

Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks

By: Kurt Bucher,Rodney Grapes

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Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks

By: Kurt Bucher,Rodney Grapes

Petrogenesis of Metamorphic Rocks presents a large number of diagrams showing the stability relations among minerals and groups of minerals found in metamorphic rocks. The diagrams help to determine the pressure and temperature conditions under which a given set of metamorphic rocks may have formed. Other parameters that control metamorphic mineral assemblages are also discussed and pitfalls resulting from simplifications and generalizations are highlighted. The book discusses the most common metamorphic rock types, their nomenclature, structure and graphical representation of their mineral assemblages. Part I defines basic principles of metamorphism, introduces metamorphic processes, geologic thermometry and barometry and defines metamorphic grade. Part II presents in a systematic way mineralogical changes and assemblages found in the most common types of metamorphic rocks. The computation of diagrams is based on recent advances in quantitative petrology and geochemistry. An extensive bibliography, including the key contributions and classic papers in the field, make it an invaluable source book for graduate students and professional geologists.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540741690

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9783540741695

Shoshone

By: Rodney Kleid

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Shoshone

By: Rodney Kleid

This richly illustrated and fascinating book explores the complex and diverse Shoshone people. Shoshone history and culture—past and present—is explored through an examination of the people and places that impacted the Shoshone, while language, ritual, and folklore tell the tale of a spiritual people. The Shoshone are deeply protective of their lands, from their earliest battles with the Mormons to later political activism to thwart nuclear testing. Readers will come away with a deep appreciation for the Shoshone way of life.

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The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

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1499416814

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9781499416817

Bondi in the Sinai

Australia, the MFO and the Politics of Participation

By: Rodney Gouttman

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Bondi in the Sinai

Australia, the MFO and the Politics of Participation

By: Rodney Gouttman

This book reveals the political atmospherics behind Australia's involvement in the American-inspired Multi-national and Observers' Force in the Sinai. A child of the Egypt/Israel peace pact of 1979, the Force's lack of United Nations approval proved a formidable barrier for a skeptical Australian audience. Australia's inclusion in the NFO would not have been possible without the singular efforts of her staunchly anti-Communist Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser. Background factors examined include resentment of the American Alliance, changing attitudes to the Middle East peace process, and the emotional fall-out of the Vietnam War. This book deals with previously unpublished contemporary material in a holist political analysis.

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University Press of America

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0761804587

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9780761804581

Ali - Life of Ali Bacher

By: Rodney Hartman

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Ali - Life of Ali Bacher

By: Rodney Hartman

Ali Bacher has commanded a place at the coalface of sport in South Africa during its most turbulent and historic period. His exceptional contribution is reflected in this biography with pace and passion, an important chronicle of momentous events in the contemporary history of the new South Africa. Bacher's story is essentially about the roles he played in cricket, but this new, updated edition reveals his unexpected decision to step into the minefield of South African rugby at the height of the bitter controversy that raged in its corridors of power. It contains several previously unpublished disclosures.

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Penguin Random House South Africa

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0143529226

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9780143529224

A Reader's Guide to the Narrative and Lyric Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

By: Rodney Edgecombe

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A Reader's Guide to the Narrative and Lyric Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes

By: Rodney Edgecombe

Beddoes poses a peculiar problem for critics and scholars who wish to redress the marginal position that he occupies in the Romantic canon – a problem seemingly unique to him, and created in part by his misconception of his own strengths as a writer. An extremely good poet who, had things turned out differently, might have functioned as a missing link between Keats and Tennyson, he fatally divided his attention between verse and medicine, a discipline that by his own admission (made in the poem composed for Zoë King) served to wither his creative gift. This fission of energy was bad enough, but more damaging still was his misconception of metier, for whatever mental resources remained to Beddoes after gruelling days in the classroom he invested in writing an unstageable drama instead of in his primary gift for lyric verse. Whereas the Beddoes revival that has been gathering momentum in recent years has centred on Death's Jest-Book, the play onto which the poet directed – some might say ‘misdirected’ – so much of his creative energy, this study focuses wholly on his lyric and narrative verse, much of which has received short critical shrift. It follows the sequence of poems set out in the Donner edition, and focuses on their verbal richness and inventiveness as they unspool upon the page.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443884057

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9781443884051

The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

The Extraordinary Story of a Victorian Wife

By: Rodney Bolt

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The Impossible Life of Mary Benson

The Extraordinary Story of a Victorian Wife

By: Rodney Bolt

The remarkable true story of the life of Mary Benson: wife of an archbishop, friend of Queen Victoria, mother of three "unpermissably gifted" children—including E. F. Benson, and in love with dozens of women Sometimes touching and sometimes hilarious, this is the story of one lovable, brilliant woman and her trajectory through the often surprising opportunities and the remarkable limitations of a Victorian woman's life. Young Minnie Sidgwick was just 12 years old when her cousin, 12-year-old Edward Benson, proposed to her in 1853. Edward went on to become Archbishop of Canterbury and little Minnie—as Mary Benson—to preside a social world that ranged from Tennyson, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde to foreign royalty and Queen Victoria herself. Yet Mrs. Benson's most intense relationships were not with her husband and his associates, but with other women. When the Archbishop died, Mary, or "Ben" to her intimates, turned down an offer from the Queen to live at Windsor, and set up home in a Jacobean manor house with her friend Lucy Tait. Drawing on the diaries and novels of the Bensons themselves, including E. F. Benson's Mapp and Lucia novels, as well as the writing of contemporary writers and poets, this book creates a very rich portrait of Mary Benson, her family, her close female friends, and their world.

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Atlantic Books

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0857895826

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9780857895820

Scotland's Families and the Edinburgh Goldsmiths

By: Rodney Dietert,Janice Dietert

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Scotland's Families and the Edinburgh Goldsmiths

By: Rodney Dietert,Janice Dietert

This book provides Scottish genealogical information for families connected to the freemen Edinburgh goldsmiths. Entries span a period of more than 500 yrs from c. 1490 to the present and are organized into a series of 214 family trees. Significant ancestral locales are displayed in maps, diagrams and photos. Indexes of goldsmiths are provided by surname, chronology of freedom dates and family tree.

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Lulu.com

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0615260268

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9780615260266

A Distant War Comes Home

Maine in the Civil War Era

By: Donald A. Beattie,Rodney Cole,Charles Waugh

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A Distant War Comes Home

Maine in the Civil War Era

By: Donald A. Beattie,Rodney Cole,Charles Waugh

Drawing upon original sources and published material, A Distant War Comes Home is a fascinating survey of the many individual stories that linked Maine with the war hundreds of miles away.

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Down East Books

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1461744660

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9781461744665

Civil War and Reconstruction

By: Rodney P. Carlisle

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Civil War and Reconstruction

By: Rodney P. Carlisle

Portrays the American Civil War and its aftermath through such primary sources as memoirs, diaries, letters, contemporary journalism, and official documents.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438108753

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9781438108759

Encyclopedia of Politics

By: Rodney P. Carlisle

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Encyclopedia of Politics

By: Rodney P. Carlisle

With the Left and Right amusingly placed into left-hand (v.1) and right-hand (v.2) volumes respectively, this encyclopedia contains articles on the people, ideas, events, laws, and issues associated with left and right politics in language that will be accessible to the high school and undergraduate student as well as the general reader. Each entry includes cross-references and a bibliography. Among the topics for politics of the left are Susan B. Anthony, Jean- Jacques Rousseau, abolitionism, desegregation, ACLU, the New Deal, Solidarity, and the Workingmen's Party. Entries are included in each volume for 40 countries and regions, giving the history and current affairs for politics in each. Among the topics for the right are capitalism, Darwinism, censorship, martial law, and the Christian Coalition. The contributors teach at universities worldwide; some are independent scholars. Carlisle is at Rutgers U. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

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SAGE

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1412904099

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9781412904094

Enchanted Looms

Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers

By: Rodney Cotterill

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Enchanted Looms

Conscious Networks in Brains and Computers

By: Rodney Cotterill

This beautifully written 1998 book examining consciousness, and which received high praise in the reviews, is now available in paperback.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521794625

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9780521794626

Ponders, Proverbs and Principles

By: Rodney R. Weckworth

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Ponders, Proverbs and Principles

By: Rodney R. Weckworth

The best quotations, proverbs, wisdom, trivia, and humor compiled into one of the most inspiring, motivating, and character-building volumes! Many of the stories are true, some are fictional, but all of them will move the reader to achieve his or her potential for life's best. The emphasis is on practicality through timeless insights from the world's great personalities. As the reader meditates on, thinks through, and then applies the material in this book, positive results can be expected! The book comes with powerful endorsements from some heavy-hitters. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf requested that the material be sent to him during the Gulf War so it could be read to the troops. Others who have personally expressed their appreciation and enthusiasm to the author include Colin Powell; Alan Greenspan; and Dan Reeves. Ponders, Proverbs & Principles includes a compelling endorsement by Zig Ziglar, who also wrote the Foreword.

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