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Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

Everyone knows about the Battle of Waterloo – or do they?This book presents the battle as never before: through the personal stories of over 150 people present at the battle or its immediate aftermath. A reference book a biographical dictionary and a myth-busting expose Who was Who at Waterloo is an indispensable guide to history's most famous battle. Arranged in alphabetical order and with entries highlighted throughout the text like links in a website the book boasts a colourful cast of soldiers politicians peasants surgeons artists novelists poets scientists entrepreneurs and more. It provides many sorties into nineteenth century culture politics medicine and science. It also provides a thorough look at the sources identifying myths irregularities and cover-ups. The book demonstrates how little we can really know about Waterloo. And yet it also demonstrates just how much can be said about the battle's participants. | Who was Who at Waterloo A Biography of the Battle

GBP 175.00
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The Battle for Bodies Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki 1946–1951

The Battle for Bodies Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki 1946–1951

The previously unpublished memoir of social worker Charles Schermerhorn offers new and eye-opening source material pertaining to the epicenter of the early Cold War: northern Greece. This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s through the highly perceptive views of a firsthand observer of the turmoil. Schermerhorn’s writings speak most compellingly to the power of human agency amid adverse sociopolitical circumstances. His memoir takes a child-centered and social-historical approach to controversial events filling a great void in our knowledge. This book looks at a single mid-twentieth-century crisis in multidimensional ways as a moral material social and institutional calamity that mobilized a motley crew of actors from new humanitarian aid organizations to press agents from soldiers to destitute repeat-refugees from fledgling modern missionaries to foreign diplomats and economic strategists. It was Schermerhorn’s unique achievement to interact with them all seeking common ground in the arduous task of trying to improve living conditions for children and rural families. But he also realized how easily foreign aid could become a tool of political power and expediency. Focusing on the Greek Civil War this book will interest readers studying the Cold War the heated peripheries of proxy wars and the devastating social fallout of conflicts raging in areas hidden from public view. The global history of humanitarian crises is a burgeoning field and Schermerhorn was the first to place Greek children and villagers who themselves left hardly any sources behind at the center of this urgent and ever-relevant debate. | The Battle for Bodies Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki 1946–1951

GBP 130.00
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The Englishman's Chair Origins Design and Social History of Seat Furniture in England

The Englishman's Chair Origins Design and Social History of Seat Furniture in England

Originally published in 1964 The Englishman’s Chair is a history of English chairs written as a continuous story from the 15th to the 20th Century and because of the revealing powers inherent in chair-making and design it is also an unconventional footnote to English social history. The changes in taste and fashion the increase of skill the introduction of new materials and the long battle between dignity and comfort are discussed as is the impact that modern industrial designers have had on chair design. | The Englishman's Chair Origins Design and Social History of Seat Furniture in England

GBP 105.00
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The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner conflicts in their works. They leave residues in their works that if we pay attention can become building blocks that reveal aspects of the unconscious. Readers may find that the questions raised add to the pleasure of reading Shakespeare and that they deepens their understanding of his plays. Topics covered include the pivotal position of Hamlet the poet and his calling the Oedipus complex intrapsychic conflict the battle against paranoia and the homosexual compromise. By using psychoanalytic techniques in analyzing his plays and characters the author reveals more about Shakespeare's hidden motivations and mental health. | The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

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A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores Indonesia Updated Paperback Edition

A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores Indonesia Updated Paperback Edition

In the most revolutionary archaeological find of the new century an international team of archaeologists led by Mike Morwood discovered a new diminutive species of human on the remote Indonesian island of Flores. Nicknamed theHobbit this was no creation of Tolkien's fantasy. The three foot tall skeleton with a brain the size of a chimpanzee‘s was a tool-using fire-making cooperatively hunting person who inhabited Flores alongside modern humans as recently as 13 000 years ago. This book is Morwoods description of this monumental discovery and the intense study that has been undertaken to validate his view of its relationship to our species. He chronicles the bitter debates over Homo Floresiensis the objections (some spiteful) of colleagues the theft and damage of some of the specimens and the endless battle against government and academic bureaucracies that hindered his research. This updated paperback edition contains an epilogue that reports on the most recent debates findings and analyses of this amazing discovery. | A New Human The Startling Discovery and Strange Story of the Hobbits of Flores Indonesia Updated Paperback Edition

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Fabrication

Fabrication

Packed with stunning images this is an indispensable visual guide illustrating and explaining current fabrication processes and material transformation. Providing a documentary of an eclectic range of fabrication techniques this is the ideal reference for designers who wish to learn more about the materials and current technologies in material production available to them. Featuring the work of 12 fabricators based in the UK the case studies displayed range from manufacture of complex wire rope the processes of metal spinning large-scale composite casting to computer controlled sheet steel fabrication. With a full knowledge of how the materials are transformed this book provides readers with a greater ability to employ material processes for their own designs and to better understand material fabrication. This is a book that provides information on contemporary technology and design inspiration in abundance.

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Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks?

Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks?

Over the past few decades a number of emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) have disrupted societies throughout the world including HIV Ebola H5N1 (or ‘‘avian flu’’) and SARS and of course the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) which spread worldwide to become a global pandemic. As well as EIDs countries and regions also contend with endemic diseases such as malaria. There are many factors that have contributed to the rise in and spread of EIDs and other diseases including overpopulation rapid urbanization environmental degradation and antibiotic resistance. Political and cultural responses to disease can greatly affect their spread. The global community needs to defend itself against disease threats: one weak link is enough to start a chain reaction that results in a global pandemic such as COVID-19. Some states take a nationalistic approach towards combating disease; however international cooperation and meaningful ‘‘viral sovereignty’’—empowering countries to create effective health institutions and surveillance systems in order to contain disease—must be considered. This volume with a focus on Southeast Asia Africa and North America considers the intersection between disease politics science and culture in the global battle against pandemics making use of case studies and interviews to examine the ways in which governments and regions handle outbreaks and pandemics. | Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks?

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Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy 1940–1945 Bombing among Friends

Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy 1940–1945 Bombing among Friends

Tens of thousands of Italian civilians perished in the Allied bombing raids of World War II. More of them died after the Armistice of September 1943 than before when the air attacks were intended to induce Italy’s surrender. Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy 1940–1945 addresses this seeming paradox by examining the views of Allied political and military leaders Allied air crews and Italians on the ground. It tells the stories of a little-known diplomat (Myron Charles Taylor) military strategist (Solly Zuckerman) resistance fighter (Aldo Quaranta) and peace activist (Vera Brittain) – architects and opponents of the bombing strategies. It describes the fate of ordinary civilians drawing on a wealth of local and digital archival sources memoir accounts novels and films including Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 and John Huston’s The Battle of San Pietro. The book will be of interest to readers concerned about the ethical legal and human dimensions of bombing and its effects on civilians to students of military strategy and Italian history and to World War II buffs. They will benefit from a people-focused history that draws on a range of eclectic and rarely used sources in English and Italian. The Open Access version of this book available at www. taylorfrancis. com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license | Allied Air Attacks and Civilian Harm in Italy 1940–1945 Bombing among Friends

GBP 120.00
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Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

'Gyorgy Scrinis exposes the folly of the reductionist approach and proposes an alternative food quality paradigm based on respecting traditional dietary patterns and reducing technological processing. It may offend nutritionists and will upset the food industry but it could also herald a delicious revolution in our ability to eat well. ' - Dr Rosemary Stanton OAM NutritionistFrom the fear of 'bad nutrients' such as fat and cholesterol to the celebration of supposedly health-enhancing vitamins and omega-3 fats our understanding of food and health has been dominated by a reductive scientific focus on nutrients. It is on this basis that butter and eggs have been vilified yet highly processed foods such as margarine have been promoted as being healthier than whole foods. Gyorgy Scrinis argues that this ideology of nutritionism has narrowed and distorted our appreciation of food quality while promoting nutrition confusion and nutritional anxieties. The food industry exploits these anxieties by nutritionally modifying their food products and marketing them with nutritional and health claims. Through a fascinating investigation into such issues as the butter versus margarine debate the battle between low-fat low-carb low-calorie and low-GI weight-loss diets the limitations of dietary guidelines and the search for the optimal dietary pattern - from Mediterranean and vegetarian to paleo diets - Scrinis builds a revealing history of the scientific social and economic factors driving our modern fascination with nutrition and explores alternative ways of understanding food quality. | Nutritionism The science and politics of dietary advice

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Human Rights Tribal Movements and Violence Tribal Tenacity in the Twenty-first Century in Central Eastern India

Human Rights Tribal Movements and Violence Tribal Tenacity in the Twenty-first Century in Central Eastern India

This book sheds light on the issues of structural violence perpetrated against the tribes and analyzes the infringement of human rights of the tribes in the neo-liberal hegemonic context due to which the tribes are going through massive upheaval – induced displacement and dispossession from livelihood. They are unable to advance their existentialist interests and fulfil their aspirations because of which they are taking recourse to extremism and get caught into the battle of state sponsored militia and forces on the one hand and the extremists on the other. The mechanism of structural violence is embedded in the global capitalism which has its roots in colonialism and imperialism. Tribal movements of the central-eastern India inspired by human rights exigencies are up against this imperial project that violates the trajectories of state-led development initiatives for the reason that these movements have been brutally suppressed by the military forces. This has given a political impetus to the tribes for self-assertion. Similarly tribal activism in the central-eastern India during the twenty-first century addresses the issue of violence in nature and the infringement of human rights in the context of development-induced displacement and the spread of extremism. The book is based on the collection of data from the field investigations done during the last seven years and it will definitely fill the vacuum in the history of tribal movements in the neo-liberal era. | Human Rights Tribal Movements and Violence Tribal Tenacity in the Twenty-first Century in Central Eastern India

GBP 130.00
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Towards Freedom in Pondicherry Society Economy and Politics under French Rule (1816-1962)

Towards Freedom in Pondicherry Society Economy and Politics under French Rule (1816-1962)

Pondicherry had its own history due to its connection with the French. After delving deeply into social cultural economic aspects of the Pondicherry society the study focuses on politics and the freedom movement as it developed there using sources written in Tamil English and French. But when the freedom movement gathered steam in British India Pondicherry and its dependencies were caught between the ideas of joining the French Union or the Indian Union. Goubert’s Socialist Party’s strategy had always been to safeguard French India’s special identity and interests. He and his party associates and supporters turned against the French offer to hold a referendum on the question of independence and decided to join the Indian Union because Jawaharlal Nehru provided him a better guarantee to safeguard French Indian and Pondicherry interests. It was rather a very well planned move that took all his political adversaries including the French by surprise. Goubert actually won his battle without bloodshed by accepting to bear a certain dishonor for that among the French. The French government finally chose to set aside the constitutional provisions of Article 27 of the French Constitution which stipulated that no cession or exchange or addition to the territories was valid without the consent of the concerned population. Thus they disregarded the population of French India deliberately and scuttled out of French India. Earlier they had given away the loges to India even without consulting the parliament or the people concerned but now they threw overboard the French constitutional provision to disengage themselves from India permanently after obtaining some weak guarantees for their cultural presence. | Towards Freedom in Pondicherry Society Economy and Politics under French Rule (1816-1962)

GBP 120.00
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Process and Pattern in Culture Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward

Process and Pattern in Culture Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward

This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students colleagues and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was no preconceived attempt to give the volume any greater sense of unity or to impose upon the contributors any restrictions as to subject matter. On the contrary each author was urged to write on an anthropological topic of greatest current interest to himself. Many of the essays could be placed just as handily within a division other than the one to which they have arbitrarily been assigned in the book. This kind of interchangeability may reflect in some measure the interrelatedness of Steward's contributions to anthropological theory. The broad relevance of all the selections to Steward's work could reflect also the extent to which his interests continue to be reflected in the work of anthropologists influenced by him. It could also reflect a parallelism of theoretical concerns within the profession that stem from the cultural ambience that produced Steward himself. Parallelisms and convergence are aspects of the kind of cultural determinism which has claimed Steward's attention during the many years that he fought a fairly lonely battle to establish the respectability of evolutionism in anthropology. Now that respectability has been achieved-with an almost bandwagon fervor-it is clear that Steward as much as anyone else in anthropology was responsible for the change. The essays in this collection are at once a vindication of his patience an evidence of the high status he enjoys among anthropologists and a testimony to the impact of his unusual creativity on his colleagues. | Process and Pattern in Culture Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward

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The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

Why do writers so often write about writers? This book offers the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of the fictional novelist as a character in literature arguing that our notions of literary genius – and what it means to be an author – are implicitly shaped by and explicitly challenged in novels about novelists a genre that has been critically underexamined. Employing both close and distant reading techniques to analyse a large corpus of author-stories The Novelist in the Novel explores the forms and functions of author-stories and the characters within them offering a new theory that frames these works as textual sites at which questions of literary value and the cultural conceptions around authorship are constantly being negotiated and revised in a form of covert criticism aimed directly at readers. While nineteenth-century novels about novelists reveal a pervasive frustration with the market – a starving artist vs. commercial sell-out dichotomy – modernist examples of the genre focus on the development of the individual author-as-artist entirely aloof from the marketplace and from the literary sphere at large. Yet each of these dynamics is gendered with women denigrated to commercial producers and men elevated to artists and while the canon has largely supported the male view of authorship a closer look at the work of women writers from this period reveals concerted attempts to counteract it. Silly Lady Novelists are pitted against serious male modernists in a battle to define what it means to be a literary genius. | The Novelist in the Novel Gender and Genius in Fictional Representations of Authorship 1850–1949

GBP 130.00
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The Political Economy of Immigration in The Netherlands Population Land and Welfare

The Political Economy of Immigration in The Netherlands Population Land and Welfare

Economists measure the effects of immigration through the yardstick of income. This book offers a broad survey of the conventional approach but in addition also considers better measures of welfare or well-being and provides a detailed description and evaluation of policies - rules regulations and implementation. The book offers a long historical perspective on the development of population density in the Netherlands. It begins with the history of the Netherlands: geological and cultural formation of the land - and water - and population development. The Netherlands is unique in that much of the land is man-made in particular the western part which is economically speaking the most developed area. It is also special for its very high population growth rate that took off during the 19th century. The key argument of the book is that population size is irrelevant for income per capita that land is a binding constraint in the Netherlands and that negative external effects of increasing population size lead to welfare losses from further population growth whether by natural growth or by immigration. At present the battle for scarce land is intense and bitter with a strong clash between developers who want to build houses farmers who do not want to give up farming and conservationists who increasingly find support in the courts for insufficiently caring for the natural environment. The book combines a general analysis of population density both theoretical and empirical with an in-depth presentation of actual policies in a country with intense pressure on available land. | The Political Economy of Immigration in The Netherlands Population Land and Welfare

GBP 130.00
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Rats Lice and History

Rats Lice and History

When Rats Lice and History appeared in 1935 Hans Zinsser was a highly regarded Harvard biologist who had never written about historical events. Although he had published under a pseudonym virtually all of his previous writings had dealt with infections and immunity and had appeared either in medical and scientific journals or in book format. Today he is best remembered as the author of Rats Lice and History which gone through multiple editions and remains a masterpiece of science writing for a general readership. To Zinsser scientific research was high adventure and the investigation of infectious disease a field of battle. Yet at the same time he maintained a love of literature and philosophy. His goal in Rats Lice and History was to bring science philosophy and literature together to establish the importance of disease and especially epidemic infectious disease as a major force in human affairs. Zinsser cast his work as the biography of a disease. In his view infectious disease simply represented an attempt of a living organism to survive. From a human perspective an invading pathogen was abnormal; from the perspective of the pathogen it was perfectly normal. This book is devoted to a discussion of the biology of typhus and history of typhus fever in human affairs. Zinsser begins by pointing out that the louse was the constant companion of human beings. Under certain conditions to wash or to change clothing lice proliferated. The typhus pathogen was transmitted by rat fleas to human beings who then transmitted it to other humans and in some strains from human to human. Rats Lice and History is a tour de force. It combines Zinsser's expertise in biology with his broad knowledge of the humanities

GBP 145.00
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Classical Islam A History 600 A

Classical Islam A History 600 A

In a book written with the poignancy and beauty appropriate to its subject matter the author opens by reminding us that the essence of a society is in a sense identical with its history. Classical Islam also serves as a reminder that in the case of Islam despite its triumphs on the fields of battle telling its history is the only way open to us to render that essence accessible and show it from all sides. The work offers a grand narrative of a faith that offers an interpretation of the world a way of life and a style of thinking that goes far beyond institutional or political supports. The relevance of this historical perspective is beyond dispute. The period from 610 A. D. when Muhammad received his call until the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258 is known as the classical period of Islam. This was the period of the great expansion of Islam both as a political structure and as a religious and intellectual community. It established the base for the development of the high Islamic civilization of North Africa the Near East Persia and India as well as further expansion of the Islamic religious and intellectual community throughout the world. This book presents an authoritative history of the period written by one of the world's leading experts on the subject. Classical Islam examines the relationships both cultural and political between the Islamic world and the Mediterranean countries and India and elaborates on the economic social and intellectual factors and forces that shaped the Muslim world and molded its interactions with infidels. The work is written in a clear and direct narrative form emphasizing simultaneously the major intellectual trends and the political events and tendencies of the formative period in Islamic history that still resonates today. | Classical Islam A History 600 A

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The Good Society

The Good Society

The Good Society is a critical text in the history of liberalism. Initially a series of articles published in a variety of Lippmann's favorite magazines as the whole evolved it became a frontal assault against totalitarian tendencies within American society. Lippmann took to task those who sought to improve the lot of mankind by undoing the work of their predecessors and by undermining movements in which men struggle to be free. This book is a strong indictment of programs of reform that are at odds with the liberal tradition and it is critical of those who ask people to choose between security and liberty. The Good Society falls naturally into two segments. In the first Lippmann shows the errors and common fallacies of faith in government as the solution to all problems. He says from left to right from communist to conservative. They all believe the same fundamental doctrine. All the philosophies go into battle singing the same tune with slightly different words. In the second part of the book Lippmann offers reasons why liberalism lost sight of its purpose and suggests the first principles on which it can flourish again. Lippmann argues that liberalism's revival is inevitable because no other system of government can work given the kind of economic world mankind seeks. He did not write The Good Society to please adherents of any political ideology. Lippmann challenges all philosophies of government and yet manages to present a positive program. Bewildered liberals and conservatives alike will find this work a successful effort to synthesize a theory of liberalism with the practice of a strong democracy. Gary Dean Best has provided the twenty-first century reader a clear-eyed context for interpreting Lippmann's defense of classical liberalism. The Good Society is the eleventh in a series of books written by Walter Lippmann reissued by Transaction with new introductions and in a paperback format. As with other major figures of the twentieth century such as Thorstein Veblen Peter Drucker Margaret Mead and Richard Hoggart these are classic books with contemporary perspectives.

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