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Lord Cromer

Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul

By: Roger Owen

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Lord Cromer

Victorian Imperialist, Edwardian Proconsul

By: Roger Owen

In the heyday of Empire just before the First World War, Lord Cromer was second only to Lord Curzon in fame and public esteem. In the days when Cairo and Calcutta represented the twin poles of British power in Asia and Africa, Cromer's commanding presence seemed to radiate the essential spiritof imperial rule. In this first modern biography Roger Owen charts the life of the man revered by the British and hated by today's Egyptians, the real ruler of Egypt for nearly a quarter of a century.A member of the famous City banking family of Baring Brothers, Cromer in his youth seemed to be distinguished mainly by lack of academic ability and a taste for the fashionable pursuits of his day. His first military posting, to Corfu, was welcomed by him on account of the excellent shooting to behad in the region. Roger Owen shows how, almost imperceptibly, his commitment to public service grew, due in part at least to his relationship with Ethel Errington who, after long delay, became his first wife. From the island outposts of the old British Empire, to India, the jewel in its crown, and finally to the new Empire in Africa, Cromer represented the might of Britain's Empire. Few imperial administrators had either his range of experience or his long practice of ruling different non-Europeanpeoples, at a time when the whole notion of Empire itself entered more and more into the metropolitan political debate. Roger Owen makes extensive use of Cromer's official correspondence, family papers, memoirs, and the personal letters of his friends and colleagues to explore all aspects of Cromer's life in imperial government. He examines his innovative role in international finance and his energetic re-engagementwith Britain's troubled political life following his formal retirement in 1907. Finally, he assesses the sometimes bitter legacy of imperial rule left by Cromer.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199279667

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9780199279661

The Gypsy Lover

By: Roger Ladd Memmott

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The Gypsy Lover

By: Roger Ladd Memmott

A Gemstone Book (TRADE PAPERBACK) - 349 pages *** To escape a life of abuse, fifteen-year-old Evan Adamson sacrifices the love of his childhood sweetheart only to find himself caught up in the ill-begotten adventures of three Gypsy outcasts who ultimately teach him the ways of the heart and the soul, and most importantly that, ..".there will always be that in this world which goes beyond understanding and speaks to the heart in a more meaningful way." When Evan finds himself torn between the dark girl of his dreams and a promise he made to his mother years before, he sees in a single moment the reflection of his own true nature and the capacity for a love that transcends all else. By the very enigma of riddles, he comes to discover himself. And those discoveries are heartbreaking and wise, as complex as they are devastating-for in heaven and in our dreams, love is simple and glorious, but it is something quite different in the world of flesh.

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Lulu.com

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1411622006

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9781411622005

America's Bank

The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve

By: Roger Lowenstein

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America's Bank

The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve

By: Roger Lowenstein

A tour de force of historical reportage, America’s Bank illuminates the tumultuous era and remarkable personalities that spurred the unlikely birth of America’s modern central bank, the Federal Reserve. Today, the Fed is the bedrock of the financial landscape, yet the fight to create it was so protracted and divisive that it seems a small miracle that it was ever established. For nearly a century, America, alone among developed nations, refused to consider any central or organizing agency in its financial system. Americans’ mistrust of big government and of big banks—a legacy of the country’s Jeffersonian, small-government traditions—was so widespread that modernizing reform was deemed impossible. Each bank was left to stand on its own, with no central reserve or lender of last resort. The real-world consequences of this chaotic and provincial system were frequent financial panics, bank runs, money shortages, and depressions. By the first decade of the twentieth century, it had become plain that the outmoded banking system was ill equipped to finance America’s burgeoning industry. But political will for reform was lacking. It took an economic meltdown, a high-level tour of Europe, and—improbably—a conspiratorial effort by vilified captains of Wall Street to overcome popular resistance. Finally, in 1913, Congress conceived a federalist and quintessentially American solution to the conflict that had divided bankers, farmers, populists, and ordinary Americans, and enacted the landmark Federal Reserve Act. Roger Lowenstein—acclaimed financial journalist and bestselling author of When Genius Failed and The End of Wall Street—tells the drama-laden story of how America created the Federal Reserve, thereby taking its first steps onto the world stage as a global financial power. America’s Bank showcases Lowenstein at his very finest: illuminating complex financial and political issues with striking clarity, infusing the debates of our past with all the gripping immediacy of today, and painting unforgettable portraits of Gilded Age bankers, presidents, and politicians. Lowenstein focuses on the four men at the heart of the struggle to create the Federal Reserve. These were Paul Warburg, a refined, German-born financier, recently relocated to New York, who was horrified by the primitive condition of America’s finances; Rhode Island’s Nelson W. Aldrich, the reigning power broker in the U.S. Senate and an archetypal Gilded Age legislator; Carter Glass, the ambitious, if then little-known, Virginia congressman who chaired the House Banking Committee at a crucial moment of political transition; and President Woodrow Wilson, the academician-turned-progressive-politician who forced Glass to reconcile his deep-seated differences with bankers and accept the principle (anathema to southern Democrats) of federal control. Weaving together a raucous era in American politics with a storied financial crisis and intrigue at the highest levels of Washington and Wall Street, Lowenstein brings the beginnings of one of the country’s most crucial institutions to vivid and unforgettable life. Readers of this gripping historical narrative will wonder whether they’re reading about one hundred years ago or the still-seething conflicts that mark our discussions of banking and politics today.

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Penguin

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0143109847

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A Dakota Rod and Nimrod

By: Roger Wiltz

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A Dakota Rod and Nimrod

By: Roger Wiltz

It was early fall 1973, and I was the high school principal in Burke, South Dakota. Around dawn, I had gone fishing in one of the areas many stock dams in an effort to catch a few bass before my workday began. I caught a good-sized bass, and I took it to Fernaus Grocery for official weighing. It went 5 lbs. 9 oz. Apparently, the word was out. During the course of the day, Pries Fahrenbacher, owner and publisher of the Burke Gazette, called and asked if I still had the bass. He wanted a picture and a brief account of how I had caught the fish. I obliged, and it was in the following weeks newspaper. Shortly thereafter, Pries told me that people enjoyed the story and asked if I would consider penning a weekly column. I welcomed the opportunity, and it wasnt long before other area papers wanted to subscribe. Forty-four years later, I decided to put some of the columns in a book along with a number of short stories written over the years. That brings us to the present. While a very modest writing income is a plus, I much enjoy writing my column, and I look forward to knocking out a new one every week. Local history fascinates me, and telling a little-known story about my surroundings is also rewarding, hence, the people and places section. Im neither a talented hunter nor a great fisherman, but I do have enthusiasm. I also believe that for a guy who likes to hunt and fish, South Dakota cant be beaten. Just about everything that can be hunted in South Dakota is at least touched on in this book. These include antelope, deer, elk, buffalo, coyote, bobcat, fox, mountain lion, rabbits, pheasants, ducks, geese, grouse, and prairie chickens. Im also curious about whats over the next hill. In choosing between a new pickup truck vs. a hunt in Argentina, Ill continue to drive my twelve-year-old Dodge Dakota rather than a late model. A guy living on South Dakota teacher retirement checks and social security looks for creative ways to hunt and fish foreign soil. To that end, Ive been successful as many of the hunts and fishing trips from beyond Dakota borders fill this category. At the present time, the outfitters mentioned in this book remain in business. I strongly recommend all of them. Today, essential tremor and peripheral neuropathy cause me a great deal of difficulty when I hunt or fish. In shooting a rifle, I must have a rock solid anchor. I must not touch the trigger until my scope reticle is glued to my target, and I pass on most shots. Numb legs and poor balance prevent me from navigating slopes. Im a long way from being a role model, but it would have been easy to quit. Dont allow some minor handicap keep you from the field or lake. Ive discovered that most fellow sportsmen and women are anxious to assist in any way they can. Hopefully, youll enjoy this book.

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1524695912

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The Mosaic of Christian Belief

Twenty Centuries of Unity and Diversity

By: Roger E. Olson

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The Mosaic of Christian Belief

Twenty Centuries of Unity and Diversity

By: Roger E. Olson

In this second edition of Roger E. Olson's classic work, he thematically traces the contours of Christian belief down through the ages, revealing a pattern of both unity and diversity. He finds a consensus of teaching that is both unitive and able to incorporate a faithful diversity when not forced into the molds of false either-or alternatives.

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0830899707

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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams

How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results

By: Roger M. Schwarz

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Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams

How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results

By: Roger M. Schwarz

A proven approach for helping leaders and teams work together to achieve better decisions, greater commitment, and stronger results More than ever, effective leadership requires us to work as a team, but many leaders struggle to get the results they need. When stakes are high, you can't get great results by just changing what you do. You also need to change how you think. Organizational psychologist and leadership consultant Roger Schwarz applies his 30+ years of experience working with leadership teams to reveal how leaders can drastically improve results by changing their individual and team mindset. Provides practical guidance to help teams increase decision quality, decrease implementation time, foster innovation, get commitment, reduce costs and increase trust Outlines 5 core values leadership teams can adopt to exponentially improve results Author of The Skilled Facilitator and The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook Get the results you and your team need. Start by applying the practical wisdom of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams.

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0787988731

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9780787988739

Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 8

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

This eight-volume, reset edition in two parts collects rare primary sources on Victorian science, literature and culture. The sources cover both scientific writing that has an aesthetic component – what might be called 'the literature of science' – and more overtly literary texts that deal with scientific matters.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040246354

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The Bush Crime Family

The Inside Story of an American Dynasty

By: Roger Stone,Saint John Hunt

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The Bush Crime Family

The Inside Story of an American Dynasty

By: Roger Stone,Saint John Hunt

This book is very tough." - President Donald Trump The Bush Crime Family smashes through the layers of lies and secrecy that have surrounded and protected our country’s most successful political dynasty for nearly two centuries. New York Times bestselling author Roger Stone lashes out with a blistering indictment, exposing the true history and monumental hypocrisy of the Bushes. In Stone’s usual “go for the jugular” style, this is a no-holds-barred history of the Bush family, comprised of smug, entitled autocrats who both use and hide behind their famous name. They got a long-overdue taste of defeat and public humiliation when Jeb’s 2016 presidential bid went down in flames. Besides detailing the vast litany of Jeb’s misdeeds — including receiving a $4 million taxpayer bailout when his father was vice president as well as his startlingly-close alignment with supposed “enemy” Hillary Clinton — Stone travels back to Bush patriarchs Samuel and Prescott, right on through to presidents George H. W. and George W. Bush to weave an epic story of privilege, greed, corruption, drug profiteering, assassination, and lies. A new preface to this paperback edition features explosive information, including the family’s Machiavellian plan to propel Jeb’s son George Prescott Bush forward as the family’s next political contender. The Bush Crime Family will have readers asking, “Why aren’t these people in prison?”

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Simon and Schuster

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1510721444

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9781510721449

Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee

A Civil War Biographical Dictionary

By: Roger D. Hunt

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Colonels in Blue--Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee

A Civil War Biographical Dictionary

By: Roger D. Hunt

This biographical dictionary documents the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Entries are arranged first by state and then by regiment, and provide a biographical sketch of each colonel focusing on his Civil War service. Many of the colonels covered herein never rose above that rank, failing to win promotion to brigadier general or brevet brigadier general, and have therefore received very little scholarly attention prior to this work.

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1476613869

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9781476613864

Turn That Thing Off!

Collaboration and Technology in 21st-Century Actor Training

By: Rose Burnett Bonczek,Roger Manix,David Storck

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Turn That Thing Off!

Collaboration and Technology in 21st-Century Actor Training

By: Rose Burnett Bonczek,Roger Manix,David Storck

As personal technology becomes ever-present in the classroom and rehearsal studio, its use and ubiquity is affecting the collaborative behaviors that should underpin actor training. How is the collaborative impulse being distracted and what kind of solutions can re-establish its connections? The daily work of a theater practitioner thrives on an ability to connect, empathize, and participate with other artists. This is true at every level, from performing arts students to established professionals. As smartphones, social media, and other forms of digital connectedness become more and more embedded in daily life, they can inhibit these collaborative, creative skills. Turn That Thing Off! Collaboration and Technology in 21st-Century Actor Training explores ways to foster these essential abilities, paving the way for emerging performers to be more present, available, and generous in their work.

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Routledge

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1317196201

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9781317196204

Pembroke Dock 1814-2014

A Bicentennial Look Back

By: Phil Carradice,Roger MacCallum

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Pembroke Dock 1814-2014

A Bicentennial Look Back

By: Phil Carradice,Roger MacCallum

Charting the development of the town from the first half of the Nineteenth century, through the Twentieth century to the present day

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445617927

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9781445617923

The Butcher's List

By: Roger S. Williams

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The Butcher's List

By: Roger S. Williams

What would happen if you lived in a nice quiet community and terror started to erupt? Children have started to be murdered and chilling torture took place. Someone has made a list of victims. That list continues to grow. Roger S. Williams has a way of intriguing his audience with spine chilling action that takes his readers into the ghastly mind of a serial killer.

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1257844849

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9781257844845

Corridors

Passages of Modernity

By: Roger Luckhurst

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Corridors

Passages of Modernity

By: Roger Luckhurst

We spend our lives moving through passages, hallways, corridors, and gangways, yet these channeling spaces do not feature in architectural histories, monographs, or guidebooks. They are overlooked, undervalued, and unregarded, seen as unlovely parts of a building’s infrastructure rather than architecture. This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its origins in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals, and asylums, to the “corridors of power,” bureaucratic labyrinths, and housing estates of the twentieth century. Taking in a wide range of sources, from architectural history to fiction, film, and TV, Corridors explores how the corridor went from a utopian ideal to a place of unease: the archetypal stuff of nightmares.

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1789141036

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American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

By: Charles F. Ritter,James Roger Sharp,Nancy Weatherly Sharp,Jon L. Wakelyn

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American Legislative Leaders in the Midwest, 1911-1994

By: Charles F. Ritter,James Roger Sharp,Nancy Weatherly Sharp,Jon L. Wakelyn

The second of four volumes comprising a biographical dictionary of state house speakers from 1911 to 1994, this book covers speakers from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. Entries provide basic biographical and career information on more than 1,400 speakers. The book opens with an analytical introduction and includes useful statistical appendixes. The four volumes, covering state speakers in the West, Midwest, Northeast, and South, are designed to complement Charles R. Ritter's and Jon L. Wakelyn's book American Legislative Leaders, 1850-1910 (1989).

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313032076

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9780313032073

The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science

Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Roger Cooter

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The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science

Phrenology and the Organization of Consent in Nineteenth-Century Britain

By: Roger Cooter

This study concentrates on the social and ideological functions of science during the consolidation of urban industrial society.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521227437

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9780521227438

Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006

By: Roger Ebert

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Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2006

By: Roger Ebert

Now fully updated, this annual yearbook includes every review Ebert had written from January 2007 to July 2009. It also includes interviews, essays, tributes, and all-new questions and answers from his Questions for the Movie Answer Man columns.

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Andrews McMeel Publishing

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0740755382

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9780740755385

Surfing the High Tech Wave:

A History of Novell 1980-1990

By: Roger Bourke White Jr.

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Surfing the High Tech Wave:

A History of Novell 1980-1990

By: Roger Bourke White Jr.

A crackling good story! To go from a struggling startup with negative sales to a billion-dollar company with seventy-percent market share To go from going bust making printers and computers to making history selling an industry-standard operating system To go from having six presidents in one year to making dozens of millionaires This is a crackling good story!

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1452023042

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Beyond Belief

The British Bomb Tests: Australia's Veterans Speak Out

By: Roger Cross,Avon Hudson

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Beyond Belief

The British Bomb Tests: Australia's Veterans Speak Out

By: Roger Cross,Avon Hudson

This provocative historical work provides a voice for the forgotten victims of the British atomic bomb tests conducted in Australia during the 1950s. Raising disturbing questions about the authorities who conducted the tests, this investigative work reveals how successive British and Australian governments have denied their understanding of the dangers of ionizing radiation in the 1950s. Uncovering scenarios in which government scientists employed to monitor the tests were given protective clothing, while military personnel and workers were left unprotected and exposed to a simulated theatre of atomic war, this work places Australia's forgotten atomic tragedy into a global context.

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Wakefield Press

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1862546606

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9781862546608

Captives in Gray

The Civil War Prisons of the Union

By: Roger Pickenpaugh

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Captives in Gray

The Civil War Prisons of the Union

By: Roger Pickenpaugh

Perhaps no topic is more heated, and the sources more tendentious, than that of Civil War prisons and the treatment of prisoners of war (POWs). Partisans of each side, then and now, have vilified the other for maltreatment of their POWs, while seeking to excuse their own distressing record of prisoner of war camp mismanagement, brutality, and incompetence. It is only recently that historians have turned their attention to this contentious topic in an attempt to sort the wheat of truth from the chaff of partisan rancor. Roger Pickenpaugh has previously studied a Union prison camp in careful detail (Camp Chase) and now turns his attention to the Union record in its entirety, to investigate variations between camps and overall prison policy and to determine as nearly as possible what actually happened in the admittedly over-crowded, under-supplied, and poorly-administered camps. He also attempts to determine what conditions resulted from conscious government policy or were the product of local officials and situations. A companion to Pickenpaugh's Captives in Blue.

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University of Alabama Press

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0817316523

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On a Pedestal

A Trip around Britain's Statues

By: Roger Lytollis

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On a Pedestal

A Trip around Britain's Statues

By: Roger Lytollis

This is a book for people who are interested in statues . . . and for people who aren't. It explores those immortalised in marble and bronze - and what the rest of us think about them. As Roger Lytollis travels Britain he encounters a man at Liverpool's Beatles statue convinced that Rod Stewart was in the Fab Four. In Edinburgh he walks into a row over Greyfriars Bobby's nose and in Glasgow learns why the Duke of Wellington wears a traffic cone on his head. London brings a controversial nude statue and some hard truths about racism. Elsewhere, Roger sees people dancing with Eric Morecambe, finds a statue being the backdrop to a marriage proposal and, everywhere he goes, pigeons. Always pigeons . . . On a Pedestal is the first book to examine public statues around the nation. It looks at their emergence into our culture wars; the trend for portraying musicians, sports stars and comedians rather than monarchs, politicians and generals; the amazing tales of many of those commemorated on our streets. It also features interviews with sculptors, including Sir Antony Gormley, telling the stories behind some of our most popular modern statues. Part history book, part travelogue, On a Pedestal brings statues to life. Informative and entertaining, it's a book that - ultimately - is more about blood than bronze.

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Robinson

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1472146115

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Realism and Regionalism, 1860 - 1910

By: Roger Lathbury

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Realism and Regionalism, 1860 - 1910

By: Roger Lathbury

This engaging volume discusses sectionalism, industrialism, and literary regionalism; slave narratives and race relations; the life and works of Mark Twain; urban writers and internationalism; regionalism; and naturalism, determinism, and social reform.

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1438118546

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Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York

By: Roger Wunderlich

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Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York

By: Roger Wunderlich

In the mid 1800s, deep in the Long Island pine barrens, Modem Times was established as an experimental community whose members would not be bound by any government, church, constitution, or bylaws. Never more than 150 strong, set on a plat of only 90 acres, here was a haven for nonconformists. lts currency was words; its religion was discussion; its standard of conduce was unfettered individual freedom. Low Living and High Thinking at Modern Times, New York rescues this model village from obscurity and demonstrates its importance in the history of American communitarianism and social reform, especially in its pursuit of economic justice, women's rights, and free love. The first full-length study of Modem Times, Wunderlich's account offers telling portraits of this small but significant group of reformers, pioneers, freethinkers, and sexual radicals. For 13 years they tested the precepts of the founders of the community, the philosophical anarchists Josiah Warren and Stephen Pearl Andrews, who advocated the sovereignty of the individual and private, but profitless enterprise. Each person lived as he or she pleased, provided this did not impair the right of another to do the same; and each traded goods and services at cost, rather than market value, enabling cash-poor pioneers co own homesteads. The community championed every kind of reform, from abolitionism, women's rights, and vegetarianism co hydropathy, pacifism, total abstinence, and the bloomer costume. Indifference co marital status and the advocacy of a free-love vanguard contributed to the community's controversial and somewhat illicit reputation. In 1864, seeking to remove themselves from the limelight, Modem Times's remaining settlers renamed the village Brentwood. Wunderlich pieces together the village, person-by-person, by relying on primary sources such as land deeds, census entries, and eyewitness accounts. He also sheds new light on Warren and Andrews, two key figures in the communitarian movement, and discusses at length such important contemporaries as Thomas and Mary Gove Nichols, Robert Owen, John Humphrey Noyes, Horace Greeley, John Stuart Mill, Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and George Ripley.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815625545

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Tapping the Riches of Science

Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth

By: Roger L. Geiger,Creso M. Sá

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Tapping the Riches of Science

Universities and the Promise of Economic Growth

By: Roger L. Geiger,Creso M. Sá

This title reveals the ways that economic development has been incorporated into university commitments and makes a strong case for the long-term promise of practical uses for academic research.

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Harvard University Press

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0674031288

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9780674031289

Not Forgotten

By: Roger Hawkins

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Not Forgotten

By: Roger Hawkins

A local history written after reading the microfilmed Canton newspapers ,from 1875 to 1899, that are at the Canton library.

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1984585525

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9781984585523

The Making of the Tudor Dynasty: Classic Histories Series

By: Ralph A. Griffiths,Roger S. Thomas

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The Making of the Tudor Dynasty: Classic Histories Series

By: Ralph A. Griffiths,Roger S. Thomas

The peculiar origins of the Tudor family and the improbable saga of their rise and fall and rise again in the centuries before the Battle of Bosworth have been largely overlooked. Based on both published and manuscript aources from Britain and France, The Making of the Tudor Dynasty sets the record straight by providing the only coherant and authoritative account of the ancestors of the Tudor royal family from their beginnings in North Wales at the start of the thirteenth century, through royal English and French connections in the fifteenth century, to Henry Tudor's victory at Bosworth Field in 1485.

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The History Press

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0752473123

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Shielded': A Diary of the Pandemic 2020-2023

By: Roger Davidson

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Shielded': A Diary of the Pandemic 2020-2023

By: Roger Davidson

The diary provides a wide-ranging commentary on one of the most life-changing events in modern history. From the first lockdown in March 2020 through to the Covid-19 Inquiries of 2023 it reflects on the social politics shaping the response of government to the pandemic. Throughout, it juxtaposes the everyday lived experience and coping strategies of a 'shielded' member of the community with the competing agendas of Whitehall, Westminster, and Holyrood in their tortuous, sometimes comedic and often egregious efforts to contain the virus. Part 1 of the diary captures the initial crisis posed by the belated imposition of lock-down, the critical lack of personal protection equipment and of effective testing and contact tracing procedures. It reflects on the shifting role of scientific and medical expertise within the policy-making process and the breakdown in political and public consensus over the timing and content of an 'exit' strategy from lock-down in the autumn of 2020 in the face of a second wave of the pandemic. In Part 2 the focus in the early months of 2021 is on the development of the first vaccines and the medico-political issues surrounding their production and distribution. Thereafter, the diary reflects the continuing efforts of the NHS to cope with new variants of Covid-19 and the re-emergence in government discourse of a 'herd immunity' approach to managing the pandemic. The politics of Brexit and IndyRef2 are seen increasingly to marginalise the pandemic in the media. Parts 3 and 4 record the growing acceptance in 2022 that society would in the future have to live with the virus and that legal restrictions on movement would be replaced by individual risk assessment. The diary focuses on the gradual phasing out of 'test and trace' and 'shielded' status. It also charts the further normalization of the presence of Covid-19 and its variants. The process of investigating the conduct of the Government during the pandemic and especially Partygate and the cronyism in the awarding of contracts, increasingly occupies the entries as does the failure to clearly identify the processes and procedures that are needed when the existential threat of the next pandemic confronts us.

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Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England

By: Roger D. Lund

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Ridicule, Religion and the Politics of Wit in Augustan England

By: Roger D. Lund

Arguing for the importance of wit beyond its use as a literary device, Roger D. Lund outlines the process by which writers in Restoration and eighteenth-century England struggled to define an appropriate role for wit in the public sphere. He traces its unpredictable effects in works of philosophy, religious pamphlets, and legal writing and examines what happens when literary wit is deliberately used to undermine the judgment of individuals and to destabilize established institutions of church and state. Beginning with a discussion of wit's association with deception, Lund suggests that suspicion of wit and the imagination emerges in attacks on the Restoration stage, in the persecution of The Craftsman, and in criticism directed at Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan and works by writers like the Earl of Shaftesbury, Thomas Woolston, and Thomas Paine. Anxieties about wit, Lund shows, were in part responsible for attempts to suppress new communal venues such as coffee houses and clubs and for the Church's condemnation of the seditious pamphlets made possible by the lapse of the Licensing Act in 1695. Finally, the establishment's conviction that wit, ridicule, satire, and innuendo are subversive rhetorical forms is glaringly at play in attempts to use libel trials to translate the fear of wit as a metaphorical transgression of public decorum into an actual violation of the civil code.

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1317062973

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The Culture Cult

Designer Tribalism And Other Essays

By: Roger Sandall

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The Culture Cult

Designer Tribalism And Other Essays

By: Roger Sandall

The Culture Cultis an acerbic critique of that longing widespread in society today to ?retreat from civilization.? From Rousseau and the Noble Savage to modern defenders of ethnicity such as Isaiah Berlin and Karl Polanyi, a prominent intellectual tradition has over-romanticized the virtues of tribal life. In contrast, another tradition, represented by Karl Popper, Michael Polanyi, and Ernest Gellner, defends modern values and civil society. The Culture Cult discusses both sides of this divide between "culture" and "civilization," and between "closed" and "open" societies. The romantic insistence on the superiority of the primitive is increasingly grounded in a fictionalized picture of the past-a picture often created with the aid of well-meaning but misguided anthropologists. Such idealizations work to the detriment of the very people they are meant to help, for they isolate minorities from such undeniable benefits of modern society as literacy and health care, and discourage them from participating in modern life. Few will find comfort in The Culture Cult, but many will recognize a valuable criticism of currently popular social politics.

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0429976348

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Victorian Science and Literature, Part II vol 6

By: Gowan Dawson,Bernard Lightman,Claire Brock,Marwa Elshakry,Sujit Sivasundaram,Ralph O'Connor,Roger Luckhurst,Justin Sausman

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Taylor & Francis

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104024405X

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Evangelicals United

Ecumenical Stirrings in Pre-Victorian Britain, 1795-1830

By: Roger H. Martin

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Evangelicals United

Ecumenical Stirrings in Pre-Victorian Britain, 1795-1830

By: Roger H. Martin

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Scarecrow Press

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0810815869

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The New Black Middle Class in South Africa

By: Roger Southall

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The New Black Middle Class in South Africa

By: Roger Southall

Provides the most comprehensive account since the early 1960s of South Africa's "black middle class". 2016 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title The "rise of the black middle class" is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the country's democratic reshaping, analysis of its role has been all but lacking. Rather, the image presented by the media has been of "black diamonds", consumers of the products of advanced industrial economies, and of corrupt "tenderpreneurs" who use their political connections to obtain contracts. This book seeks to complicate that picture with a much-needed analysis that recounts its historical development in colonial society prior to 1994, before examining the size, shape andstructure of the new black middle class in contemporary South Africa and its relation to its counterparts in the Global South. Roger Southall is Professor Emeritus in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand. Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Jacana

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Boydell & Brewer

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1847011438

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Wroxeter: Ashes under Uricon

A Cultural and Social History of the Roman City

By: Roger H. White

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A Cultural and Social History of the Roman City

By: Roger H. White

This book reflects on how people over time have viewed the abandoned Roman city of Wroxeter in Shropshire. It responds to three main artistic outputs: poetry, images and texts. It explores what locals and visitors thought of the site over time, and considers how access to the site has altered, impacting on who visits and what is understood.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803272503

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The Medium and the Minister

Who on Earth Knows about the Afterlife?

By: Roger Straughan

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The Medium and the Minister

Who on Earth Knows about the Afterlife?

By: Roger Straughan

You don't have to 'be religious' to believe there may be a life after death! The Medium and the Minister explores psychical and religious approaches to the possibility of an afterlife. The tensions and conflicts between these two approaches and the heated controversies they have generated are illustrated by a number of case studies. These focus on the challenges posed by psychical research and spiritualism to orthodox religion as the ultimate authority for information and teaching about the afterlife. Prominence is given initially to the campaigns of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Sir Oliver Lodge which aimed to publicise the psychical evidence and to the Church’s reaction to them. Later developments and initiatives to try to reconcile the opposing positions are then examined in the light of further psychical research. The issues raised are shown to be still highly relevant to current beliefs and attitudes and to the question of what might constitute evidence for life after death.

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John Hunt Publishing

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1789048818

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