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2. RESIDES ANNOUNCES APPOINTMENT OF WILLIAM LONG AS VICE PRESIDENT OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
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Executives -- Appointments, resignations and dismissals - Abstract
HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C., Aug. 28, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- REsides, Inc. an independent and borderless MLS with a unique equity-ownership model, announced today the appointment of William Long as Vice [...]
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- 2024
3. Content analysis of food and beverage marketing in global esports: sponsorships of the premier events, leagues, teams and players
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Robin Ireland, John William Long, Sara Jordan Maksi, Francisco Javier López Frías, and Travis D Masterson
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Public aspects of medicine ,RA1-1270 - Abstract
Background Food marketing has been implicated as a driving force of the obesity epidemic. Electronic sports, or ‘esports’, garners billions of viewership hours and is a consolidation of two major marketing outlets, online social media and sporting events, making it a focal point for food marketers and policy-makers.Methods The top 10 esports events and leagues were identified using data scraped between 1 January 2021 and 15 December 2021. The 10 teams within each league (90 total teams) and up to 10 players from each team (451 total players) were identified. Of the top 10 events and leagues, 6 events and 2 leagues were held or located outside the USA, reflecting the global popularity of esports. Food and beverage brands associated with each event, league, team or player were systematically identified and extracted via official websites and social media accounts. The number of sponsorships was totalled for each brand. Brands were then categorised based on product type into the following categories: energy drinks, sugar-sweetened beverages, alcohol, candy/snacks, restaurants, food delivery and stores, and supplements. The total number of brand sponsorships was then calculated for each product category.Results 90 unique food and beverage brands were identified. Across all brands, a total of 497 food brand sponsorships were identified. For product categories, energy drink brands had the most sponsorships (181 sponsorships, 36.4%), followed by restaurants (86 sponsorships, 17.3%) and candy/snacks (64 sponsorships, 12.8%). The individual brand with the most sponsorships was Monster Energy (47 sponsorships, 9.4%), followed by Jack Links (44 sponsorships, 8.8%) and Red Bull (42 sponsorships, 8.4%).Conclusion Despite its nascent character, the esports industry is already heavily saturated by food and beverage marketing. There is a need to consider policies to appropriately regulate food and beverage marketing within esports communities to safeguard the health of viewers.
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4. Apuntes históricos relacionados al óxido nitroso, éter, cloroformo y los inicios de la anestesia inhalatoria en México.
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Carrillo-Esper, Raúl and Pineda-Cervantes, Andrés
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- 2024
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5. ELECTRONIC ASSENT: ASSURING THE REVIEW AND COMPREHENSION OF CONTRACT TERMS IN FRANCHISING.
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EMERSON, ROBERT W.
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LAW reform ,CONTRACTS ,PROBLEM solving ,DIGITAL technology ,DISCLOSURE - Abstract
Franchisees often sign agreements without understanding the contract to which they have theoretically agreed. Digital business technology has become the norm across the world, however; and electronic contracts—e-contracts—come with a unique set of advantages—faster turnaround, seamless integration, increased flexibility—and also a unique set of challenges. This Article considers the technological developments and ramifications of digital contracts and the resulting behavior of franchise parties. It briefly discusses acceptance and then delves into cases and legislation, both domestic and foreign, about different categories of electronic contracts. Finally, this Article examines technology’s impact on franchise contract formation. As the process becomes faster and more fluid, the parties’ actual knowledge and decision-making prowess should increase. Still, while the technology may assist franchise disclosure and franchisee sophistication, problems arise from the stigma that e-signatures are not wholly enforceable, and from consumers’ failure to understand the terms of the contract, and, in some cases, their role as offeror or offeree. Solving these problems likely requires legal reform as well as improved business and contracting practices; it perhaps depends on a cultural shift. Certainly, it demands from parties, lawyers, and adjudicators more personal experience and, in general, education. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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6. Pieces of me.
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Sheffield, Rob
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WIDENING of roads ,INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics) ,SOCIAL processes ,OLDER men ,WILD horses ,JOY - Abstract
The article discusses Dr. Rob Sheffield's book, "Pieces of Us: The Rise, Decline and Future of a Welsh Neighbourhood," which explores the history and transformation of the Greenhill neighborhood in Swansea. The book includes personal testimonies from residents who lived in Greenhill from the 1930s to the present day, highlighting the strong social cohesion and cultural identity of the area. However, over time, housing clearances, road widening, and global trends led to a decline in social infrastructure and a loss of the neighborhood's distinctiveness. The book also delves into the author's personal connection to Greenhill and his feelings of loss and longing for the place. Overall, the book emphasizes the importance of social capital and the impact of social isolation on communities. [Extracted from the article]
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7. YOU AIN’T SEEN NOTHING YET.
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BIENSTOCK, RICHARD
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- LOST & Found (Film), MEASOM, Tyler
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- 2024
8. FEDERAL REGISTER.
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GOVERNMENT agency rules & practices ,AIRWORTHINESS ,BERYLLIUM - Abstract
The article offers information on the public regulations and legal notices issued by different U.S. government agencies, as of July 16, 2024. Topics include the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) miscellaneous corrections to its regulations, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) new airworthiness directive for airplanes with the Garmin GFC 500 Autopilot System, and the Department of Labor's updated criteria for establishing beryllium sensitivity.
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9. SILVER, SCANDINAVIANS and Slaves.
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BENNETT, GRAHAM
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SILVER ,SILVER mining ,SCANDINAVIANS ,ENSLAVED persons ,SLAVE trade ,MEDALS - Published
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10. Vengeance Is Mine
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Dave Bongianino and Dave Bongianino
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Vengeance Is Mine is the story of the Calloway brothers, William and Samuel. As young boys, they idolized their father, who served his country in the Marine Corps. Thomas Calloway was a standout student and football player for the Crimson of Harvard University. He became a distinguished lawyer and married the love of his life. He provided a sturdy foundation for his two boys to follow in his footsteps. William is brilliant like his father, with an I.Q. of 170, while Samuel is hot-tempered like his mom but loyal to a fault. William is the older brother, attending Harvard and studying law just like his father.Upon graduation from college, Samuel is now old enough to enlist, and the boys do so together. They see plenty of combat, and along the way, they are both changed by the brutality of war. True horror is what one human being can do to another. When their tour of duty is over, William decides he wants to make a difference in the world and forgoes his law practice to submit his application to the FBI. His military background, high I.Q., and law degree make him a great fit for the bureau. Samuel is content to open up an exotic knife shop in his hometown of Warm Springs, Virginia. It doesn't take William long to realize that red tape and politics get in the way of actual justice. Frustrated, suspended, and near losing his job, he has a talk with Samuel one day about how justice would work in their world. Samuel is reluctant to get involved at first but agrees to keep an eye on a suspect who has eluded the law so far, a suspect William knows is guilty but can't prove. Samuel follows the suspect and catches him in the act of committing a horrible crime against an innocent child. What follows is one man's definition of justice.
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11. FEDERAL REGISTER.
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LEGAL notice ,GOVERNMENT agencies ,FEDERAL regulation ,PUBLICATIONS - Abstract
The article focuses on the publication of the Federal Register by the Office of the Federal Register, U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, under the Federal Register Act. Topics include the uniform system for making regulations and legal notices issued by Federal agencies available to the public, the daily publication process, and the availability of the Federal Register in various formats and through online platforms.
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12. FEDERAL REGISTER.
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GOVERNMENT agencies ,AGRICULTURAL marketing ,INSURANCE commissions (Government) ,CENSUS - Abstract
The article focuses on the Federal Register, a daily publication by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration, under the Federal Register Act and regulations of the Administrative Committee. It reports that it provides a uniform system for releasing regulations and legal notices issued by federal agencies, covering topics including the Agricultural Marketing, Census Bureau, Energy Department, Insurance Corporation and other departments.
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13. Investigators from University of Texas San Antonio Have Reported New Data on Sports Medicine (Relationship Between Workload, Psychological State and Recovery In Female Soccer Athletes).
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WOMEN'S soccer ,SLEEP duration ,SLEEP quality ,RATE of perceived exertion ,SPORTS medicine - Abstract
A study conducted by researchers from the University of Texas San Antonio examined the relationship between workload, psychological state, and recovery in female collegiate soccer athletes. The study utilized a prospective longitudinal design and measured various factors such as GPS training load, mental stress, sleep duration, and soreness. The findings showed that workload and mental stress had a significant impact on the athletes' perceived exertion, while the interaction between day in the season and mental stress, sleep duration, and soreness became stronger over time. The study concluded that accounting for individual variations in the random effects improved the predictive power of the models. [Extracted from the article]
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14. New Advertising Research Has Been Reported by Researchers at University of Glasgow (Content analysis of food and beverage marketing in global esports: sponsorships of the premier events, leagues, teams and players).
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FOOD advertising ,SOCIAL media ,BEVERAGE marketing ,BEVERAGE analysis ,FOOD chemistry - Abstract
A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Glasgow examined the presence of food and beverage marketing in the global esports industry. The study found that the esports industry is heavily saturated with food and beverage sponsorships, with energy drink brands having the most sponsorships. The researchers suggest that there is a need for policies to regulate food and beverage marketing in esports communities in order to protect the health of viewers. This study highlights the impact of advertising on the obesity epidemic and the need for further research and regulation in this area. [Extracted from the article]
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15. FEDERAL REGISTER.
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The article focuses on the Federal Register, a daily publication that provides a uniform system for making federal regulations and legal notices available to the public. Topics discussed include the types of documents published and the availability of documents for public inspection, the authenticity of the Federal Register, and subscription details.
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16. AUSTRALASIA’S TOP EMERGING PHOTOGRAPHERS
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Photographers - Abstract
PRESENTED BY Now in its 16th year Australasia’s Top Emerging Photographers, presented by Fujifilm, showcases the very best emerging photographic talent across Australasia. The awards recognise and acknowledge talented photographers [...]
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17. Karyopharm Therapeutics Inc Annual Shareholders Meeting - Final
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Stockholders ,Business - Abstract
Presentation OPERATOR: Welcome to the Karyopharm Therapeutics 2024 Annual Meeting of Stockholders. I'd like to now turn the call over to the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, Richard Paulson. [...]
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18. Prince Harry's cruel two-word insult against Camilla went too far for Charles; King Charles III was reportedly furious at Prince Harry's attacks on Queen Consort Camilla in Spare -and there was one particularly damning nickname
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General interest ,News, opinion and commentary - Abstract
Byline: By, Kyle O'Sullivan Prince Harry and Meghan Markle evicted from Frogmore Cottage last year -and it may have all come down to a two-word insult directed at Queen Consort [...]
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19. Patent Issued for Long acting glucagon like polypeptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists and methods of use (USPTO 12084485)
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Patient compliance -- Methods ,Amino acids -- Intellectual property -- Methods ,Type 2 diabetes -- Methods ,Glucagon -- Methods ,Health - Abstract
2024 SEP 30 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity & Diabetes Week -- According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent [...]
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20. New Advertising Research Has Been Reported by Researchers at University of Glasgow (Content analysis of food and beverage marketing in global esports: sponsorships of the premier events, leagues, teams and players)
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Beverages ,Advertising ,Advertising, marketing and public relations ,University of Glasgow - Abstract
2024 AUG 24 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Marketing Weekly News -- Data detailed on advertising have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Glasgow, [...]
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21. Researcher at Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) Describes Research in Sports Medicine (Relationship between Workload, Psychological State and Recovery in Female Soccer Athletes)
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Soccer -- Research ,Athletes -- Research ,Health ,The Pennsylvania State University - Abstract
2024 AUG 23 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Health & Medicine Week -- Researchers detail new data in sports medicine. According to news reporting out of [...]
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22. Patent Issued for Systems and methods relating to effective management of fluid infrastructure (USPTO 12037262)
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Infrastructure (Economics) -- Methods ,Company business management ,Computers - Abstract
2024 AUG 6 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Information Technology Newsweekly -- A patent by the inventors Buahin, Caleb (Mishawaka, IN, US), Ercan, Mehmet (South Bend, [...]
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23. The Medieval Chantry in England
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Julian M. Luxford and Julian M. Luxford
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- Chantries--History.--England
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Chantries were religious institutions endowed with land, goods and money. At their heart was the performance of a daily mass for the spiritual benefit of their founders, and the souls of all faithful dead. To Church reformers, they exemplified some of medieval Catholicism's most egregious errors; but to the orthodox they offered opportunities to influence what occurred in an unknowable afterlife. The eleven essays presented here lead the reader through the earliest manifestations of the chantry, the origins and development of ‘stone-cage'chapels, royal patronage of commemorative art and architecture, the chantry in the late medieval parish, the provision of music and textiles, and a series of specific chantries created for William of Wykeham, Edmund Audley, Thomas Spring and Abbot Islip, to the eventual history and the cultural consequences of their suppression in the mid-16th century.
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24. Ravenous: A Life of Barbara Villiers, Charles II's Most Infamous Mistress
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Andrea Zuvich and Andrea Zuvich
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Barbara Villiers was a woman so beautiful, so magnetic and so sexually attractive that she captured the hearts of many in Stuart-era Britain. Her beauty is legendary: she became the muse of artists such as Peter Lely, the inspiration of writers such as John Dryden and the lover of John Churchill, the future great military leader whom we also know as the 1st Duke of Marlborough. Her greatest amorous conquest was King Charles II, King of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with whom she had a tempestuous and passionate relationship for the better part of a decade.But this loveliest of Stuart-era ladies had a dark side. She hurt and humiliated her husband, Roger Palmer, for decades with her unashamedly adulterous lifestyle, she plotted the ruin of her enemies, constantly gambled away vast sums of money, is remembered for the destruction of the Tudor-era Nonsuch Palace, and was known to unleash terrible rages when crossed. Crassly lampooned by John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, and subjected to verbal and written assaults, she was physically abused by a later, violent spouse.Barbara lived through some of the most turbulent times in British history: civil war, the Great Plague of London, which saw the deaths of around 100,000 people, the Great Fire of London, which destroyed much of the medieval city, and foreign conflicts such as the Anglo-Dutch Wars, the Williamite wars, and the War of the Spanish Succession.An impoverished aristocrat who rose to become a wealthy countess and then a duchess, taking her lovers from all walks of life, Barbara laughed at the morals of her time and used her natural talents and her ruthless determination to the material benefit of herself and her numerous offspring. In great stately homes and castles such as Hampton Court Palace, her portraits are widely seen and appreciated even today. She had an insatiable appetite for life, love, riches, amusement, and power. She was simply ‘ravenous'…
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25. Essere pietra : Ecologia di un mondo minerale
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Federico Luisetti and Federico Luisetti
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La questione dei diritti della natura e del nostro rapporto con gli ecosistemi naturali è uno dei grandi temi del dibattito filosofico contemporaneo. I soggetti non-umani, in particolare quelli appartenenti al mondo minerale, sono da sempre considerati materia inerte o risorsa da sfruttare. Questa visione antropocentrica affonda le proprie radici in quella separazione tra cultura e natura che sta alla base del pensiero moderno occidentale. Ma è possibile immaginare un modello culturale che ci aiuti a riconoscere anche pietre e montagne quali attori politici? E in che modo, con un gesto ancora più radicale, ci si può lasciare alle spalle l'idea stessa di persona? Concentrandosi sulla materia litica – tra massi erratici e opere d'arte, tra analisi etnografiche e suggestioni poetiche – Federico Luisetti ci regala, sulle orme di Italo Calvino, un'appassionante riflessione sull'essere pietra. Un testo originale e fondamentale di ecologia politica, che allarga le prospettive e il nostro stesso orizzonte cognitivo.
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26. The Irish in the Resistance : The Untold Stories of the Ordinary Heroes Who Resisted Hitler
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Clodagh Finn, John Morgan, Clodagh Finn, and John Morgan
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'You simply couldn't stand by with your arms folded.'These were the words of Samuel Beckett who famously returned to France from a holiday in Ireland when World War II broke out. His clandestine work against the Nazi occupation of Europe is well documented, but there were many other ordinary Irish people who joined the underground network. Some took up arms. Others gathered intelligence, sheltered fugitives, committed acts of sabotage or broke codes. This new history tells the stories of those forgotten Irish men and women. Discover Captain John Keany from Cork, who parachuted into occupied Italy to help the local Resistance; Margaret Kelly, the Dublin founder of the world-famous Bluebell Girls cabaret troupe in Paris, who hid her Jewish husband; and Catherine Crean, the Irish governess born on Moore Street, Dublin, who was sent to a concentration camp for helping Allied airmen in Belgium. These, and many more stories, span the course of World War II and remind us of the power of individuals to make a difference.'An eye-opening account of how ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations helped to fight the Nazis'David McCullagh'A truly important and groundbreaking book'Mary Kenny
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27. Nature's Altars : Mountains, Gender, and American Environmentalism
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Susan R. Schrepfer and Susan R. Schrepfer
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From the ancient Appalachians to the high Sierra, mountains have always symbolized wilderness for Americans. Susan Schrepfer unfolds the history of our fascination with high peaks and rugged terrain to tell how mountains have played a dramatic role in shaping American ideas about wilderness and its regulation.Delving into memoirs and histories, letters and diaries, early photos and old maps, Schrepfer especially compares male and female mountaineering narratives to show the ways in which gender affected what men and women found to value in rocky heights, and how their different perceptions together defined the wilderness preservation movement for the nation. The Sierra Club in particular popularized the mystique of America's mountains, and Schrepfer uses its history to develop a sweeping interpretation of twentieth-century wilderness perceptions and national conservation politics.Schrepfer follows men like John Muir, Wilderness Society cofounder Robert Marshall, and the Sierra Club's own David Brower into the mountains—and finds them frequently in the company of women. She tells how mountaineering women shaped their lives through high adventure well before the twentieth century, participating in Appalachian mountain clubs and joining men as “Mazamas”—mountain goats—scaling Oregon's Mount Hood.From these expeditions, Schrepfer examines how women's ideas, language, and activism helped shape American environmentalism just as much as men's, parsing the “Romantic sublime” into its respective masculine and feminine components. Tracing this history to the 1964 Wilderness Act, she also shows how the feminine sublimes continue to flourish in the form of ecofeminism and in exploits like the all-woman climb of Annapurna in 1978.By explaining why both women and men risked their lives in these landscapes, how they perceived them, and why they wanted to save them, Schrepfer also reveals the ways in which religion, social class, ethnicity, and nationality shaped the experience of the natural world. Full of engaging stories that shed new light on a history many believe they already know, her book adds subtlety and nuance to the oft-told annals of the wild and gives readers a new perspective on the wilderness movement and mountaineering.
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28. The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law
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Lucas Lixinski, Lucie K. Morisset, Lucas Lixinski, and Lucie K. Morisset
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- Cultural property--Protection--Law and legisla, Cultural property--Protection (International law, Law and art
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The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law sheds light on the relationship between the two fields and analyses how the law shapes heritage and heritage practice in both expected and unexpected ways.Including contributions from 41 authors working across a range of jurisdictions, the volume analyses the law as a transnational phenomenon and uses international and comparative legal methodologies to distil lessons for broad application. Demonstrating that the law is fundamentally a language of power and contestation, the Handbook shows how this impacts our views of heritage. It also shows that, to understand the ways in which the law impacts key aspects of heritage practice, it is important to tap into the possibilities of heritage as points of convergence of identity, struggles over resources, and the distribution of power. Framing heritage as a driver for legal engagement rather than a passive regulatory object, the book first reviews the legal fields or mechanisms that can shape action in the heritage field, then questions how these enable authority and give power to those who seize heritage, and finally envisions how the discussion between heritage and the law can lay new grounds in both those fields. Lifting the mists that often render the law opaque in heritage studies, the Handbook showcases the law as a medium through which the culture and the power of heritage are expressed and might be shared.The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law presents a view of the law that is aimed at those who wish to reflect on how law has changed, or could change, what heritage is and how it can support social, cultural, local, or other development. It will be of interest to scholars, students, policymakers, and practitioners working in the areas of museum studies, heritage studies, and urban studies, as well as in cultural intervention and planning.Chapter 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.Chapter 34 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) 4.0 license.The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law | Lucas Lixinski, Lucie (taylorfrancis.com)
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29. Manxmen at Sea in the Age of Nelson, 1760-1815
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Matthew Richardson and Matthew Richardson
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- History
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The Isle of Man is predominantly a maritime nation. For many generations its menfolk have made their living from the sea, sometimes as fishermen, but often as crewmen aboard merchant vessels or warships. Indeed, such were their skills of seamanship that they were in great demand for the latter in time of war.As smugglers, or as privateers they made their living on the waves, in the Atlantic, Caribbean or Pacific. Whether taken by a Press Gang, or enlisted voluntarily, the Manx saw action in some of the greatest naval events between 1760 and 1815. The Isle of Man had a high degree of literacy and education even among the poor at this time, and consequently a significant body of first-hand evidence has survived from those who served below decks, aboard merchant ships, privateers and warships.Some, such as Peter Heywood, were eyewitness to the most famous event in naval history, the Mutiny on the Bounty. Others, such as John Quilliam climbed the naval career ladder, served with Nelson and gained distinction at the greatest sea battle in history, Trafalgar. One, Captain Hugh Crow, fought against the French, made his fortune in the slave trade, and commanded the last legal voyage.In this book we meet them all, and their words echo to us across the waves and down the centuries.
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- 2024
30. Henry V : The Astonishing Triumph of England's Greatest Warrior King
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Dan Jones and Dan Jones
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'Ambitious... With meticulous research and in lively style, Jones presents us with the man beyond the Shakespeare character.'—The New York Times“The best biography yet of England's greatest king.'—Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs and JerusalemThe New York Times bestselling author returns with a biography examining the dramatic life and unparalleled leadership of England's greatest medieval king Henry V reigned over England for only nine years and four months and died at the age of just thirty-five, but he looms over the landscape of the late Middle Ages and beyond. The victor of Agincourt, he is remembered as the acme of kingship, a model to be closely imitated by his successors. William Shakespeare deployed Henry V as a study in youthful folly redirected to sober statesmanship. For one modern medievalist, Henry was, quite simply, “the greatest man who ever ruled England.” For Dan Jones, Henry V is one of the most intriguing characters in all medieval history, but one of the hardest to pin down. He was a hardened, sometimes brutal warrior, yet he was also creative and artistic, with a bookish temperament. He was a leader who made many mistakes, who misjudged his friends and family, but he always seemed to triumph when it mattered. As king, he saved a shattered country from economic ruin, put down rebellions, and secured England's borders; in foreign diplomacy, he made England a serious player once more. Yet through his conquests in northern France, he sowed the seeds for three generations of calamity at home, in the form of the Wars of the Roses. Henry V is a historical titan whose legacy has become a complicated one. To understand the man behind the legend, Jones first examines Henry's years of apprenticeship, when he saw the downfall of one king and the turbulent reign of another. Upon his accession in 1413, he had already been politically and militarily active for years, and his extraordinary achievements as king would come shortly after, earning him an unparalleled historical reputation. Writing with his characteristic wit and style, Jones delivers a thrilling and unmissable life of England's greatest king.
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- 2024
31. Scotland Yard : A History of the London Police Force's Most Infamous Murder Cases
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Simon Read and Simon Read
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A riveting true-crime history of London's first modern police force as told through its most notorious murder cases.The idea of'Scotland Yard'is steeped in atmospheric stories of foggy London streets, murder by lamplight, and fiendish killers pursued by gentleman detectives. From its establishment in 1829 through the eve of World War II, Scotland Yard—the world's first modern, professional, and centrally organized police force—set new standards for policing and investigating. Scotland Yard advanced ground-breaking use of forensics—from fingerprints to ballistics to evidence collection—made the first attempt at criminal profiling, and captivated the public on both sides of the Atlantic with feats of detective work that rivaled any fictional interpretation. Based on official case files, contemporary newspaper reporting, trial transcripts, and the first-hand accounts of the detectives on the beat, Scotland Yard tells the tales of some of history's most notorious murders—with cases that proved to be landmarks in the field of criminal inquiry.
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- 2024
32. Scouting for Boys : A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship
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Robert Baden-Powell, Elleke Boehmer, Robert Baden-Powell, and Elleke Boehmer
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'A Scout is a Friend to all'An amalgam of imperial myth, borrowed tips on health and hygiene, and object lessons in woodcraft, the 1908 text of Robert Baden-Powell's Scouting for Boys is the original blueprint and'self-instructor'of the Boy Scout Movement. One of the all-time bestsellers in the English-speaking world, this primer of'yarns and pictures'constitutes probably the most influential manual for youth ever published. Yet the book is at the same time a roughly composed hodge-podge of jingoist lore and tracker legend, padded with lengthy quotations from adventure fiction and Baden-Powell's own autobiography, and seamed through with the multiple anxieties of its time: fears of degeneration, concerns about masculinity and self-restraint, and invasion paranoia. Elleke Boehmer's edition of Scouting for Boys reprints the original text and illustrations, and her fine introduction investigates a book that has been cited as an authority by militarists and pacifists, capitalists and environmentalists alike. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
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- 2024
33. Mound City : The Place of the Indigenous Past and Present in St. Louis
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Patricia Cleary and Patricia Cleary
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- Mounds--Missouri--Saint Louis--History, Indians of North America--Missouri--Saint Louis--History, Indians of North America--Missouri--Saint Louis--Antiquities
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Nearly one thousand years ago, Native peoples built a satellite suburb of America's great metropolis on the site that later became St. Louis. At its height, as many as 30,000 people lived in and around present-day Cahokia, Illinois. While the mounds around Cahokia survive today (as part of a state historic site and UNESCO world heritage site), the monumental earthworks that stood on the western shore of the Mississippi were razed in the 1800s. But before and after they fell, the mounds held an important place in St. Louis history, earning it the nickname “Mound City.” For decades, the city had an Indigenous reputation. Tourists came to marvel at the mounds and to see tribal delegations in town for trade and diplomacy. As the city grew, St. Louisans repurposed the mounds—for a reservoir, a restaurant, and railroad landfill—in the process destroying cultural artifacts and sacred burial sites. Despite evidence to the contrary, some white Americans declared the mounds natural features, not built ones, and cheered their leveling. Others espoused far-fetched theories about a lost race of Mound Builders killed by the ancestors of contemporary tribes. Ignoring Indigenous people's connections to the mounds, white Americans positioned themselves as the legitimate inheritors of the land and asserted that modern Native peoples were destined to vanish. Such views underpinned coerced treaties and forced removals, and—when Indigenous peoples resisted—military action. The idea of the “Vanishing Indian” also fueled the erasure of Indigenous peoples'histories, a practice that continued in the 1900s in civic celebrations that featured white St. Louisans “playing Indian” and heritage groups claiming the mounds as part of their own history. Yet Native peoples endured and in recent years, have successfully begun to reclaim the sole monumental mound remaining within city limits. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Patricia Cleary explores the layers of St. Louis's Indigenous history. Along with the first in-depth overview of the life, death, and afterlife of the mounds, Mound City offers a gripping account of how Indigenous histories have shaped the city's growth, landscape, and civic culture.
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- 2024
34. Mummy Movies : A Comprehensive Guide
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Bryan Senn and Bryan Senn
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- Mummy films--History and criticism
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In 1932, The Mummy, starring Boris Karloff, introduced another icon to the classic monster pantheon, beginning a journey down the cinematic Nile that has yet to reach its end. Over the past century, movie mummies have met everyone from Abbott and Costello to Tom Cruise, not to mention a myriad of fellow monsters. Horrifying and mysterious, the mummy comes from a different time with uncommon knowledge and unique motivation, offering the lure of the exotic as well as the terrors of the dark. From obscure no-budgeters to Hollywood blockbusters, the mummy has featured in films from all over the globe, including Brazil, China, France, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, and even its fictional home country of Egypt--with each film bringing its own cultural sensibilities. Movie mummies have taken the form of teenagers, superheroes, dwarves, kung fu fighters, Satanists, cannibals and even mummies from outer space. Some can fly, some are sexy, some are scary and some are hilarious, and mummies quickly moved beyond horror cinema and into science fiction, comedy, romance, sexploitation and cartoons. From the Universal classics to the Aztec Mummy series, from Hammer's versions to Mexico's Guanajuato variations, this first-ever comprehensive guide to mummy movies offers in-depth production histories and critical analyses for every feature-length iteration of bandaged horror.
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- 2024
35. Philosophy of the Family : Ethics, Identity and Responsibility
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Teresa Baron, Christopher Cowley, Teresa Baron, and Christopher Cowley
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- Domestic relations
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Almost everyone grows up in a family, and family ties play an important role in daily life. But what exactly is a'family'? What is a'family tie'? We use the general concept of'family'in many contexts – in fiction, in talk shows, in law, in politics – and yet one person's family may be strikingly different from another's. This introductory guide sets out to examine the multiple meanings of the family and related concepts. It explores the different roles played by these concepts in our attempts to understand who we are, where we belong, and what we owe to whom, and the relationships between individual, family, and society. Grounded in philosophy and ethics, the book also draws extensively from other disciplines such as law and sociology, discussing the concrete implications of these ideas for issues such as parental love, marriage and divorce, family autonomy, and assisted reproduction.
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- 2024
36. Rugby, Soccer and Irish Society : 1921-1990
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Conor Murray and Conor Murray
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- Rugby football--History.--Ireland, Soccer--History.--Ireland, Sports and state--History.--Ireland, Sports--Anthropological aspects--Ireland
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This book is the first academic all-island history of either rugby union or association football, two of the three most popular male sporting pastimes in Ireland, across the seven decades that followed the political partition of that country between 1920 and 1922.It moves beyond the occasionally simplistic explanations of the development of Irish sport that have focused on political and sectarian divisions, and goes deeper into the social, cultural and geographical dynamics of the island of Ireland to explain why certain people have played certain games in certain places. Drawing on historical and archival sources as well as cutting-edge geographical information systems, the book brings to life the spatial trends in each game's administrative development and geographical distribution, that have not normally been a feature of many previous histories of Irish sport. The book also examines first-and-second-hand accounts of athletes and administrators involved in rugby and football during that period, to explore what it meant to represent a province or country at these crucial moments in Irish history and compares the Irish experience of both sports with experiences in other comparable countries.Shining important new light on the interactions between Irish rugby and football and the political, social, economic and cultural trends of Ireland in the twentieth century, this book is fascinating reading for anybody with an interest in the history of sport, Ireland or the UK.
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- 2024
37. Scars : A Practical Guide for Scar Therapy
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Sebastian P. Nischwitz, Lars-Peter Kamolz, Ludwik K. Branski, Sebastian P. Nischwitz, Lars-Peter Kamolz, and Ludwik K. Branski
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- Surgery, Plastic, Dermatology, Surgery, Medical sciences, Pediatrics, Psychology
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This unique medical guide focuses on scars. The impact of scars is often underestimated and rarely discussed, and they are considered an inevitable side effect of surgery or trauma. Although therapies for distressing scars do exist, many are based on myths rather than evidence. This strongly practice-oriented book provides step-by-step instructions with scales and measuring instruments for assessing scars. Featuring brief abstracts and summaries, this valuable reference resource benefits clinical professionals such as doctors and nurses alike. It will appeal to practitioners who want to understand the nature and background of planned treatments, and to non-experts who simply want to broaden their medical horizons.
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- 2024
38. The Politics of Safety : The Black Struggle for Police Accountability in La Guardia's New York
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Shannon King and Shannon King
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- Police--Complaints against--New York (State)--New York--20th century, Public safety--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century, Police-community relations--New York (State)--New York--20th century, African Americans--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions--20th century, Racism in law enforcement--New York (State)--New York--20th century
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For much of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, public officials in cities like New York, Chicago, and Baltimore have criminalized uprisings as portending Black'thugs'throwing rocks at police and plundering private property to undermine complaints of police violence. Liberal mayors like Fiorello H. La Guardia have often been the deftest practitioners of this strategy. As the Depression and wartime conditions spurred youth crime, white New Yorkers'anxieties—about crime, the movement of Black people into white neighborhoods, and headlines featuring Black'hoodlums'emblazoned all over the white media—drove their support for the expansion of police patrols in the city, especially in Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant. Though Blacks also called for police protection and for La Guardia to provide equitable municipal resources, they primarily received more punishment. This set the stage for the Harlem uprising of 1943.Shannon King uncovers how Black activism for safety was a struggle against police brutality and crime, highlighting how the police withholding protection operated as a form of police violence and an abridgement of their civil rights. By decentering familiar narratives of riots, King places Black activism against harm at the center of the Black freedom struggle, revealing how Black neighborhoods became occupied territories in La Guardia's New York.
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- 2024
39. Capital of Mind : The Idea of a Modern American University
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Adam R. Nelson and Adam R. Nelson
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- Capitalism and education--United States, Capitalism--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century, Universities and colleges--United States--History--19th century, Education, Higher--Economic aspects--United States--History--19th century
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The second volume of an ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Capital of Mind is the second volume in a breathtakingly ambitious new economic history of American higher education. Picking up from the first volume, Exchange of Ideas, Adam R. Nelson looks at the early decades of the nineteenth century, explaining how the idea of the modern university arose from a set of institutional and ideological reforms designed to foster the mass production and mass consumption of knowledge. This “industrialization of ideas” mirrored the industrialization of the American economy and catered to the demands of a new industrial middle class for practical and professional education. From Harvard in the north to the University of Virginia in the south, new experiments with the idea of a university elicited intense debate about the role of scholarship in national development and international competition, and whether higher education should be supported by public funds, especially in periods of fiscal austerity. The history of capitalism and the history of the university, Nelson reveals, are intimately intertwined—which raises a host of important questions that remain salient today. How do we understand knowledge and education as commercial goods? Should they be public or private? Who should pay for them? And, fundamentally, what is the optimal system of higher education for a capitalist democracy?
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- 2024
40. No Average Day : The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944
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Rona Simmons and Rona Simmons
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On Tuesday, October 24, 1944, nearly three years after the United States entered World War II, over 2,600 Americans perished—more than on any other single day of the conflict—yet the day remains overshadowed by more widely remembered dates in WWII history. Drawing from the accounts of men from diverse backgrounds who served in the U.S. Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Corps, Rona Simmons offers a gripping retelling of the fateful day, hour by hour and incident by incident. The book begins with Army Private First Class Paul Miller's demise in a prisoner of war camp and ends with the death of Navy Seaman Second Class Wanza E. Matthews after the Japanese submarine I-56 attacked his ship off New Guinea. The sinking of the Japanese “hellship” Arisan Maru—a lesser-known tragedy of the war—looms large, deftly interwoven through each part of the narrative. Perhaps the most compelling aspect of No Average Day is its attention to the human side of conflict, telling the stories of ordinary individuals—clerks, radio operators, cooks, sailors, machinist mates, riflemen, and pilots and their air crews—as they grapple with the horrors of the war. Despite its narrow focus, or perhaps because of it, No Average Day reveals the vastness of World War II through a consideration of the largely overlooked events that unfolded on what, for members of the US Armed Forces, was its deadliest day.
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- 2024
41. International Handbook of Blockchain Law : A Guide to Navigating Legal and Regulatory Challenges of Blockchain Technology and Crypto Assets
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Thomas Richter, Matthias Artzt, Thomas Richter, and Matthias Artzt
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- Technology and law, Blockchains (Databases)--Law and legislation
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Blockchain's significant advances since 2020 – including a plethora of new use cases – have necessitated a comprehensive revision of the first edition of this matchless resource. While new chapters and topics have been added, the handbook still follows the systematic and structured approach of the first edition. Each contributor – all of them practitioners experienced with blockchain projects within their respective areas of expertise and specific jurisdictions – elucidates the implications of blockchain technology and related legal issues under such headings as the following: understanding blockchain from a technological point of view; regulatory aspects of blockchain; smart contracts; data privacy; capital markets; crypto asset regulation in Europe, the UK and the US; intellectual property; and antitrust law. The foundational chapter on the technical aspects of blockchain technology has been meticulously expanded to elucidate the proof of stake consensus mechanism alongside fresh insights into the ERC-721 Token Standard for non-fungible tokens, decentralized exchanges, staking, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies. As blockchain law cements itself as a distinct legal field, this new edition is poised to be an invaluable asset for legal practitioners, in-house lawyers, IT professionals, consultancy firms, blockchain associations, and legal scholars. At a depth that allows non-IT experts to understand the groundwork for legal assessments, the handbook provides those charting the dynamic waters of this field of law with a compass, ensuring they are well-equipped to tackle the legal issues raised by the usage of blockchain technology.
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- 2024
42. At War With Wellington : The Peninsular War Letters of William, George and Charles Napier
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Gareth Glover, Robert Burnham, Gareth Glover, and Robert Burnham
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- Peninsular War, 1807-1814--Personal narratives
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The Napier family are famous for their military exploits in the Peninsular War. Charles served in the 50th and 102nd Foot, George in the 52nd and 71st Foot and William (the famous historian of the Peninsular War) who served with the 43rd Foot. Two or three of them were always serving in the Peninsula at any given time and all suffered a number of severe wounds.William has a basic biography written of him and his famous History of the Peninsular War is littered with his personal and professional prejudices; Charles wrote a form of autobiography, mostly dealing with his later India campaigns; and virtually nothing has been written on poor George, despite the fact that he commanded the storming party at Ciudad Rodrigo, where he was severely wounded. However, much of this writing emanates from decades after they fought, when memories and changing political attitudes had clearly affected their writing.At War With Wellington focuses on their private letters penned immediately from the front, without that dreaded hindsight. They are packed with detail of the horrors of battle and siege warfare, but also show life in the Army, the close bond between the three brothers while serving close to each other in action and also with their mother at home, who clearly had constant fears that her three boys would never come home again. All three did survive but were all badly maimed during this war.Their individual exploits are legion, but no one has ever brought all of this material together in one book, until now. Between them, they participated in almost every action in the six-year war and two of them participated in the Army of Occupation in France from 1815-18, although none were at the Battle of Waterloo.Their close relationships with many senior officers of the period, gives a rare glimpse into the thinking of the generals and helps us understand how the decisions were made and with what information they were formed. Being also politically active, it is fascinating to hear their views on both political matters at home and the Allied cause against France.This material is both absorbing and revealing. It adds much to our understanding, primarily of the Napier's themselves, but also the effects of a world war on the family dynamics, the political upheavals surrounding it, the failures of the Allied campaigns and even the perceived failings of the senior officers in their promotion of the war effort, which are expressed vehemently.At War With Wellington opens a window onto a different view of the war, from very experienced soldiers, but with very different political leanings, and will cause readers to question some of their long-held views.
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- 2024
43. Jim Crow: Voices From a Century of Struggle Part 1 (LOA #376) : 1876 - 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
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Tyina L. Steptoe and Tyina L. Steptoe
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- Racism--United States
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This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War IA vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction—and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their alliesW.E.B. Du Bois famously identified'the problem of the color-line'as the defining issue in American life. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality.Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle, Part One brings together speeches, pamphlets, newspaper and magazine articles, public testimony, judicial opinions, letters, and poems and song lyrics—more than eighty essential texts in all—from the end of Reconstruction in 1876 to the bloody “Red Summer” of 1919.The volume includes writing by both famous and lesser known individuals, including:Ida B. Wells on the scourge of lynchingRichard T. Greener's scathing critique of America's “White Problem'Charles Chesnutt on the nullification of the Fifteenth AmendmentBooker T. Washington's historic Atlanta addressJohn Marshall Harlan's eloquent and prophetic dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson;Mary Church Terrell on segregation in the nation's capital and the convict lease systemWilliam Monroe Trotter's dramatic White House confrontation with Woodrow WilsonJeanette Carter's tribute to the men and women who fought back against white mobs in 1919The volume also presents revealing examples of white supremacist advocacy by Nathaniel Shaler and Benjamin Tillman; testimony about the “Exoduster” migration to Kansas in the 1870s; celebrations of pathbreaking Black musicians and stage performers; writing about the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, the founding of the NAACP, and Black soldiers in World War I; and contrasting editorials from the Black and white press on prizefighter Jack Johnson and the outlaw Robert Charles.As the teaching of our nation's history, especially the history of race in America, becomes increasingly contested, this book will serve as a vital resource, a crucial reminder of where we've been, how far we've come, and how long the road ahead remains.
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- 2024
44. The Edinburgh Companion to the Eighteenth-Century British Novel and the Arts
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Jakub Lipski, M-C. Newbould, Jakub Lipski, and M-C. Newbould
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- Performing arts and literature--Great Britain, English fiction--18th century--History and criticism
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The eighteenth century witnessed an explosion in new literary and creative forms that rapidly expanded, and the relations between which became more complex. This has typically been described as a period that ushered in the novel form: the malleability of the concept of the novel genre and its history opens up intriguing possibilities for its role within wider networks of interartistic relationships in the period. This Companion is concerned with how the fertile conversations that different artforms enjoyed in the long eighteenth century intersected fruitfully with the emergent shapes of prose fiction. The essays comprising this volume range from the important overview to the case study, providing readers with a unique opportunity to navigate a vast and sprawling terrain through engaging scholarly insights.
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- 2024
45. Les Pionniers irlandais du Québec et de l'Ontario : Fermiers, ouvriers et bûcherons
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Lucille Campey and Lucille Campey
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Traduit de l'anglais par Annie Bergeron Dès la fin de la guerre de Sept Ans, un nombre croissant d'Irlandais ont migré au Canada à la recherche d'une vie meilleure. Libérés des contraintes économiques et sociales étouffantes qui les retenaient dans leur pays d'origine, ils ont prospéré, notamment au Québec et en Ontario. Dans cet ouvrage synthèse, Lucille H. Campey dépeint les communautés irlandaises qui se sont formées dans différentes régions de l'Ontario et du Québec aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, à travers un récit informatif et vivant de cette grande saga de l'immigration. L'ouvrage décrit aussi les navires qui les ont transportés, dévoile les nombreuses réalisations de ces pionniers et déconstruit ainsi les interprétations modernes tendant à victimiser cette population. Lucille H. Campey est née à Ottawa. Chercheuse et historienne professionnelle, elle est titulaire d'une maîtrise en histoire médiévale (Université de Leeds) et d'un doctorat en histoire de l'émigration (Université d'Aberdeen). Elle est l'autrice de quatorze ouvrages sur l'immigration écossaise, anglaise et irlandaise au Canada. Elle a reçu le Prix du Québec 2016 pour son travail de recherche sur l'immigration irlandaise au Canada. Elle vit près de Salisbury, dans le Wiltshire, en Angleterre.
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- 2024
46. Reeds Western Almanac 2025
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Perrin Towler, Simon Jollands, Perrin Towler, and Simon Jollands
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The Reeds Western Almanac covers the British coastline from Cape Wrath to Padstow as well as the whole of Ireland, providing navigation and pilotage information for the coasts of Wales, Western Scotland, Ireland and Western England. Completely updated for 2025, it offers ready access to essential navigation information by virtue of its clear layout and user friendly format. Topics include seamanship, pilotage, tide tables, safety procedures, navigation tips, radio, lights, waypoints, weather forecast information, communications, Mayday and distress procedures. The large type size and clear layout, including full colour harbour plans and diagrams throughout, makes information easy to read even in adverse conditions. It is the complete guide for both Irish and Welsh mariners as well as those cruising the UK west coast.Includes a free Reeds Marina Guide.Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk'There are some things I would not go to sea without - Reeds is one of them.'Sir Chay Blyth
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- 2024
47. Reeds Nautical Almanac 2025
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Perrin Towler, Simon Jollands, Perrin Towler, and Simon Jollands
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Reeds Nautical Almanac is the indispensable trusted annual compendium of navigational data for yachtsmen and motorboaters. Known as the Yachtsman's Bible, Reeds provides all the information required to navigate Atlantic coastal waters around the whole of the UK, Ireland, Channel Islands and the entire European coastline from the tip of Denmark right down to Gibraltar, Northern Morocco, the Azores and Madeira.The 2025 Almanac continues the tradition of year on year improvement and meticulous presentation of all the data required for safe navigation. Now with an improved layout for easier reference and with over 45,000 annual changes, it is regarded as the bible of almanacs for anyone going to sea.The 2025 edition is updated throughout and includes: 700 harbour chartlets; tide tables and tidal streams; buoyage and lights; 7,500 waypoints; invaluable passage notes; distance tables; radio, weather and safety information; first aid section. Also: a free Marina Guide.Also available: free supplements of up-to-date navigation changes from January to June at: www.reedsnauticalalmanac.co.uk
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- 2024
48. Analog Superpowers : How Twentieth-Century Technology Theft Built the National Security State
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Katherine C. Epstein and Katherine C. Epstein
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- Fire control (Naval gunnery)--Technological inno, Analog computers--Great Britain, Patent infringement--History--20th century. --, Patent laws and legislation--History--20th cen, National security--United States, National security--Great Britain, Inventors--Great Britain
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A gripping history that spans law, international affairs, and top-secret technology to unmask the tension between intellectual property rights and national security. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two British inventors, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, became fascinated by a major military question: how to aim the big guns of battleships. These warships—of enormous geopolitical import before the advent of intercontinental missiles or drones—had to shoot in poor light and choppy seas at distant moving targets, conditions that impeded accurate gunfire. Seeing the need to account for a plethora of variables, Pollen and Isherwood built an integrated system for gathering data, calculating predictions, and transmitting the results to the gunners. At the heart of their invention was the most advanced analog computer of the day, a technological breakthrough that anticipated the famous Norden bombsight of World War II, the inertial guidance systems of nuclear missiles, and the networked “smart” systems that dominate combat today. Recognizing the value of Pollen and Isherwood's invention, the British Royal Navy and the United States Navy pirated it, one after the other. When the inventors sued, both the British and US governments invoked secrecy, citing national security concerns. Drawing on a wealth of archival evidence, Analog Superpowers analyzes these and related legal battles over naval technology, exploring how national defense tested the two countries'commitment to individual rights and the free market. Katherine C. Epstein deftly sets out Pollen's and Isherwood's pioneering achievements, the patent questions raised, the geopolitical rivalry between Britain and the United States, and the legal precedents each country developed to control military tools built by private contractors. Epstein's account reveals that long before the US national security state sought to restrict information about atomic energy, it was already embroiled in another contest between innovation and secrecy. The America portrayed in this sweeping and accessible history isn't yet a global hegemon but a rising superpower ready to acquire foreign technology by fair means or foul—much as it accuses China of doing today.
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- 2024
49. Christian Culture and Society in Later Catholic England : Studies in Memory of F. Donald Logan
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Travis Baker and Travis Baker
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- Catholic Church--History.--England, Christianity and culture--History--Middle Ages
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This book in memory of F. Donald Logan explores different aspects of Christian culture and society in England from the twelfth to the sixteenth century. Although this period has traditionally been interpreted in terms of decline and decay, this excessively gloomy picture has slowly given way over the last eighty years or so to a more positive view of Christian civilization during these centuries. The twenty-two studies brought together here seek to build on this ongoing reassessment of Later Catholic England, especially in those areas in which Professor Logan himself had done so much to deepen our understanding of Christian English society. Contributors are: Travis Baker, Caroline Barron, Nicholas Bennett, Barbara Bombi, Paul Brand, Janet Burton, James G. Clark, Karen Corsano, Virginia Davis, Charles Donahue Jr, Anne J. Duggan, Joan Greatrex, Diana Greenway, Michael Haren, R.H. Helmholz, Philippa Hoskin, Henry Ansgar Kelly, Frederik Pedersen, Seymour Phillips, Michael J.P. Robson, Jens Röhrkasten, Jane Sayers, R.N. Swanson, Daniel Williman, and Patrick Zutshi.
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- 2024
50. Nonconformist Women Writers, 1720-1840, Part II Vol 6
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Timothy Whelan and Timothy Whelan
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- PR1177
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These volumes will present, in some cases for the first time, the lives and works of a coterie of Nonconformist women writers from the West Country.
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- 2024
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