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Archbishop Pole

Archbishop Pole

This fresh exploration of the life work and writing of Archbishop Pole focuses particularly on Pole’s final years (1556-58) as Archbishop of Canterbury. Fully integrating Pole’s English and Continental European experiences John Edwards places these in their historical context and signposts lessons for contemporary issues and concerns. Stressing the events and character of Pole's 'English' life up to his exile in the 1530s as well as in his final years in England (1554-58) this book explores his close relationship both genealogical and emotional with Henry VIII and Mary I. Portraying Pole as a crucial figure in the Catholic-Protestant division which still affects Britain today this book details the first and so far last attempt to restore Roman Catholicism as the 'national religion' of England and Wales by telling the life-story of the hinge figure in forging English religious and political identity for several centuries. The final section of this book draws together important and illuminating source material written by Pole during his years as Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Femininity Feminism and Recreational Pole Dancing

Femininity Feminism and Recreational Pole Dancing

This book explores the phenomenon of pole dancing as an increasingly popular fitness and leisure activity for women. It moves beyond previous debates surrounding the empowering or degrading nature of pole dancing classes and instead explores the complexities of these concepts and highlights that women participating in this practice cannot be seen as one dimensional. Femininity Feminism and Recreational Pole Dancing explores the construction negotiation and presentation of a gendered and classed identity and self through participation in pole dancing the meaning of pole dancing as a fitness practice for women and the concepts of community and friendship as developed through classes. Using empirical research the book uncovers the stories and experiences of the women who participate in these classes and examines what the mainstreaming of this type of sexualised dance means for the women who practice it. Pole dancing is shown to be a practice in which female identities are negotiated performed and enacted and this book positions pole dancing as an activity which both reinforces but also presents some challenge to ideas of feminism and femininity for the women that participate. Women's participation in pole dancing is described in a discourse of choice and control yet this book argues that the decision to participate is somewhat constructed by the advertising of these classes as enabling women to create a particular desirable self which is perpetuated throughout our culture as the ‘ideal’. Exploring the ways in which women attempt to manage impressions and present themselves as ‘respectable’ the book examines how women wish to dis-identify with both women who work as strippers and women who are feminist seeing both identities as contradictory to the feminine image that they pursue. The book explores the capacity of these classes to offer women some feelings of agency but challenges the idea that participating in pole dancing can offer collective empowerment. The book ultimately argues that women’s participation can be viewed both in terms of their active engagement and enjoyment of these classes and in terms of the structures and pressures which continue to shape their lives. This timely publication explores the complexity of the pole dancing phenomenon and highlights a range of questions surrounding this activity as a leisure form. It will be a valuable contribution to those interested in women’s and gender studies cultural studies feminism sociology and leisure studies.

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Multiplier-Cum-Divider Circuits Principles Design and Applications

Multiplier-Cum-Divider Circuits Principles Design and Applications

This reference text discusses principles design and applications of various types of multiplier-cum-divider circuits (MCDs) and covers applications of operational amplifiers to perform as MCDs circuits The text covers principles of multiplying circuits dividing circuits square rooting and vector magnitude circuits in detail. It discusses how multiplier-cum-divider circuits are developed with saw tooth and triangular waves. It covers important topics including non-linear op-amp circuits triangular wave referenced multiplier-cum-divider with multiplexes saw tooth wave referenced MCD with analog switches peak responding MCD with analog switches and triangular wave referenced MCD with analog switches. The text will be useful for senior undergraduate graduate students and professionals in the fields of electrical engineering and electronics and communication engineering. | Multiplier-Cum-Divider Circuits Principles Design and Applications

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Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World

Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World

Violence had long been central to the experience of Hellenistic Greek cities and to their civic discourses. This volume asks how these discourses were shaped and how they functioned within the particular cultural constructs of the Hellenistic world. It was a period in which warfare became more professionalised and wars increasingly ubiquitous. The period also saw major changes in political structures that led to political and cultural experimentation and transformation in which the political and cultural heritage of the classical city-state encountered the new political principles and cosmopolitan cultures of Hellenism. Finally and in a similar way it saw expanded opportunities for cultural transfer in cities through (re)constructions of urban space. Violence thus entered the city through external military and political shocks as well as within emerging social hierarchies and civic institutions. Such factors also inflected economic activity religious practices and rituals and the artistic literary and philosophical life of the polis. | Cultural Perceptions of Violence in the Hellenistic World

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The Russian Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev 2008-2012 The Next Step Forward or Merely a Time Out?

The Russian Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev 2008-2012 The Next Step Forward or Merely a Time Out?

The term tandem was used to describe the Putin-Medvedev combination which ruled Russia from 2008 to 2012 when Medvedev was president and Putin prime minister. Many people saw Putin as the real wielder of power with Medvedev as his puppet. Others however saw Medvedev as a visionary someone who envisioned large scale schemes - even though these schemes have not yet come to fruition. At the same time many in the West regarded Medvedev favourably and gave him credit for raising expectations among both the elite and the middle classes in Russia in such a way as to make it difficult for the Russian state to return to its old ways. This book presents a comprehensive survey of the Medvedev presidency covering all areas including politics the economy international relations and social developments. The author concludes that it is still too early to assess Medvedev's achievements definitively. | The Russian Presidency of Dmitry Medvedev 2008-2012 The Next Step Forward or Merely a Time Out?

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Industrialization in Developing and Peripheral Regions

Industrialization in Developing and Peripheral Regions

The ten years before this book was originally published in 1986 saw major restructuring in the economies of the developed world. This was often closely related to industrial development in newly industrializing and third world countries. This book examines the performance of these developing countries and includes studies of 'peripheral regions' – less developed regions within more advanced economies. The overall findings are that whilst some areas and countries have success stories to tell (such as Korea) many so-called newly industrializing countries and regions have had serious problems. | Industrialization in Developing and Peripheral Regions

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Herbs Botanicals and Teas

Herbs Botanicals and Teas

Herbs Botanicals and Teas presents the latest scientific and technical information on the chemical pharmacological epidemiological and clinical aspects of major herbal and tea products. Written by leading researchers contributing to the field this is the first reference to provide in-depth coverage of garlic ginseng Echinacea ginger fenugreek St. John's Wort Ginko Biloba goldenseal saw palmetto valerian evening primrose licorice bilberries and blueberries and black and green teas. Also included are chapters on international regulations and quality assurance and quality control for the herbal and tea industry.

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Political Parties in Britain 1783-1867

Political Parties in Britain 1783-1867

The theme of Professor Evan's book is the growth of a recognizable modern party system from the much looser and often family-based attachments of the eighteenth century. He examines the significance of the terms 'Whig' and 'Tory' in the later eighteenth century and the growth of a party aligment between 1788 and 1812 - a period in which war was a major factor in polarization. He discusses the years of Tory hegemony under Liverpool and the decline of the independent member and then takes as his main themes the transition from Whigs to Liberals and from Tories to Conservatives in the period of 1830-46 which saw so much concern both with political reform and with social questions. He also examines the substantial growth of political organizations. Professor Evans goes on to deal with the paradox that though the Tory party was shattered by the corn law crisis the subsequent period to 1867 saw an increasing importance being attached to party allegiance. He also discusses the waning power of the Crown the growing importance of general elections and various areas of divergence between parties. Although the emphasis of this book is necessarily thematic a firm sense of chronology is always maintained. | Political Parties in Britain 1783-1867

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Stalin's British Victims

Stalin's British Victims

First published in 2004 this book tells the stories of four remarkable British women whose lives were scorched by Stalin’s purges. One was shot as a spy; one nearly died as a slave labourer in Kazakhstan; and two saw their husbands taken away to the gulag and had to spirit their small children out of the country. We think of the horrors of the middle of the twentieth century- the Holocaust in Central Europe the purges in the Soviet Union- as something foreign: terrible but remote. Rosal Rust Rose Cohen Freda Utley and Pearl Rimel were all Londoners. Like hundreds of young idealistic Britons in the 1930s they looked to the Soviet Union for inspiration for a way in which society could be run better without the exploitation and poverty which unrestrained capitalism had created. They were less fortunate than most of us: they saw their dreams fulfilled. In this book Francis Beckett draws on personal letters interviews with surviving relatives and archivists to create a picture of four courageous intelligent and very different women. The result is a harrowing human document with vivid and unforgettable insights into the world of Stalin’s Russia: its secret trials labour camps random disappearances and concealed executions. | Stalin's British Victims

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The Anti-Abortion Campaign in England 1966-1989

The Anti-Abortion Campaign in England 1966-1989

This book comprises a history of the anti-abortion campaign in England focusing on the period 1966-1989 which saw the highest concentration of anti-abortion activity during the twentieth century. It examines the tactics deployed by campaigners in their efforts to overturn the 1967 Abortion Act. Key themes include the influence of religion on attitudes towards sexuality and pregnancy; representations of women and the female body; and the varied and often deeply contested attitudes towards the status of the fetus articulated by both anti-abortion and pro-choice advocates during the years 1966-1989. | The Anti-Abortion Campaign in England 1966-1989

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An Analysis of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning From More to Shakespeare

An Analysis of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning From More to Shakespeare

What is a self? Greenblatt argues that the 16th century saw the awakening of modern self-consciousness the ability to fashion an identity out of the culture and politics of one’s society. In a series of brilliant readings Greenblatt shows how identity is constructed in the work of Shakespeare Marlowe Spenser and other Renaissance writers. A classic piece of literary criticism and the origins of the New Historicist school of thought Renaissance Self-Fashioning remains a critical and challenging text for readers of Renaissance literature. | An Analysis of Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning From More to Shakespeare

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The Search for Beulah Land

The Search for Beulah Land

This book first published in 1980 describes and analyses the revolutionary years that saw the birth of the first modern Welsh nation and the American Republic. In the last days of the eighteenth century as the Atlantic world responded to the challenge of the American and French revolutions the novel industrial capitalism of England planted itself in the Welsh south and east and disrupted traditional rural community to west and north. Wales a marginal and poverty-stricken country was propelled into modernisation cultural revival a breach with the Establishment a millenarian mitigation and its first politics. | The Search for Beulah Land

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Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

Dulwich’s mid-century modern architecture is increasingly recognised for its qualities of light landscape and lifestyle. In the 1950s 60s and 70s around 2 000 new homes were created to the most modern standards without destroying the qualities which had made Dulwich so attractive to previous generations. With both historic and new photography this book showcases the award-winning work of the Dulwich Estate’s architects Austin Vernon & Partners working with house builder Wates. Today there is much to be learned from the architects and landscape planners who saw their role as fundamental to building Britain’s modern society. | Dulwich Mid-Century Oasis

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Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

This book assesses how theorists explained processes of change set in motion by the rise of capitalism. It situates them in the milieu in which they wrote. They were never neutral observers standing outside the conditions they were trying to explain. Their arguments were responses to those circumstances and to the views of others commentators living and dead. Some repeated earlier views; others built on those perspectives; a few changed the way we think. While surveying earlier writers the author’s primary concerns are theorists who sought to explain industrialization imperialism and the consolidation of nation-states after 1840. Marx Durkheim and Weber still shape our understandings of the past present and future. Patterson focuses on explanations of the unsettled conditions that crystallized in the 1910s and still persist: the rise of socialist states anti-colonial movements prolonged economic crises and almost continuous war. After 1945 theorists in capitalist countries influenced by Cold War politics saw social change in terms of economic growth progress and modernization; their contemporaries elsewhere wrote about underdevelopment dependency or uneven development. In the 1980s theorists of postmodernity neoliberalism globalization innovations in communications technologies and post-socialism argued that they rendered earlier accounts insufficient. Others saw them as manifestations of a new imperialism capitalist accumulation on a global scale environmental crises and nationalist populism. | Social Change Theories in Motion Explaining the Past Understanding the Present Envisioning the Future

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Literacy Essentials Engagement Excellence and Equity for All Learners

Literacy Essentials Engagement Excellence and Equity for All Learners

In her practical and inspirational book Literacy Essentials: Engagement Excellence and Equity for All Learners author Regie Routman guides K-12 teachers to create a trusting intellectual and equitable classroom culture that allows all learners to thrive as self-directed readers writers thinkers and responsible citizens. Over the course of three sections Routman provides numerous Take Action ideas for implementing authentic and responsive teaching assessing and learning. This book poses a key question: How do we rise to the challenge of providing an engaging excellent equitable education for all learners including those from high poverty and underserved schools? Teaching for Engagement: Many high performing schools are characterized by a a thriving school culture built on a network of authentic communication. Teachers can strengthen classroom engagement by building a trusting and welcoming environment where all students can have a safe and collaborative space to grow and develop. Pursuing Excellence: Routman identifies 10 key factors that describe an excellent teacher ranging from intellectual curiosity to creativity and explains how carrying yourself as a role model contributes to an inclusive caring empathic and fair classroom. She also stresses the importance for school leaders to make job-embedded professional development a top priority. Dismantling Unequal Education: The huge gap in the quality of education in high vs low income communities is the civil rights issue of the 21st century according to Routman. She spells out specific actions educators can take to create more equitable schools and classrooms such as diversifying texts used in curriculums and ensuring all students have access to opportunities to discuss reflect and engage with important ideas. From the author I wrote Literacy Essentials because I saw a need to simplify teaching raise expectations and make expert teaching possible for all of us. I saw a need to emphasize how a school culture of kindness trust respect and curiosity is essential to any lasting achievement. I saw a need to demonstrate and discuss how and why the beliefs actions knowledge we hold determine the potential for many of our students. Equal opportunity to learn depends on a culture of engagement and equity which under lies a relentless pursuit of excellence. | Literacy Essentials Engagement Excellence and Equity for All Learners

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Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk A Study in Social Evolution

Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk A Study in Social Evolution

Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk expands on Carpenter’s idea of the Intermediate type; a person of mixed sexes such as a feminine body with a masculine mind or vice versa. Originally published in 1914 this text explores the role that intermediate types played amongst early civilisations as well as in religion and military situations. Whilst later civilisations tended to look down on those who did not fit into traditional gender roles some early peoples saw intermediate types as important figures in their social organisation. This title will be of interest to students of sociology gender studies and anthropology. | Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk A Study in Social Evolution

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Slums and Redevelopment Policy and Practice in England 1918–1945 with Particular Reference to London

Slums and Redevelopment Policy and Practice in England 1918–1945 with Particular Reference to London

Slums and Redevelopment (1992) moves between national policy formation and detailed local studies particularly of London studies involving landlords and property tenants and rehousing and the implementation of programmes. The interwar period it examines saw the restoration of slum clearance following a period of opposition and the onset of the first national slum clearance programme reaching its climax in the plans for large-scale redevelopment mad during World War II. Inner city redevelopment of this kind had its intellectual origins in the 1930s and had much wider repercussions for property and social policy. | Slums and Redevelopment Policy and Practice in England 1918–1945 with Particular Reference to London

GBP 90.00
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Tariff Levels and the Economic Unity of Europe An Examination of Tariff Policy Export Movements and the Economic Integration of Europe 1913-1931

Tariff Levels and the Economic Unity of Europe An Examination of Tariff Policy Export Movements and the Economic Integration of Europe 1913-1931

The years between the Wars saw rapid and far-reaching changes to the character and distribution of the world’s trade. Governments of the world attempted to mould and control their own economies and economic nationalism grew to unseen levels. This book first published in 1938 is the comprehensive examination of the European tariffs of the time and it traces their effects upon the actual course of trade and in so doing is one of the few factual studies on the reality of tariffs. | Tariff Levels and the Economic Unity of Europe An Examination of Tariff Policy Export Movements and the Economic Integration of Europe 1913-1931

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Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

The 1980s saw an alarming revival of protectionism among Western countries as a result of a decade of persistent economic crises slow growth industrial decline and rising unemployment. The two major actors the US and the European Community between them bore the major responsibility for the breakdown of the liberal world trading system. Protection in the 1970s and 1980s took the form of replacing free international markets by bilateral agreements. This book first published in 1986 examines the European Community’s Generalized System of Preferences whereby the manufactured exports of developing nations would have duty-free access to the markets of the EEC and the consequences to this System of the new protectionism. | Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

GBP 29.99
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Studies on Ancient Christianity

Studies on Ancient Christianity

This third collection of articles by Henry Chadwick brings together a series of studies on Augustine written in light of the new texts now available and on other individual Christian authors of antiquity in other words of the age when Christianity was acquiring its now familiar shape. A number of papers published here appear in print for the first time or make accessible to English readers studies which first saw the light in German. These include a substantial discussion of the idea of conscience important in the highly ethical context of early Christianity and a study of ancient anthologies and are complemented by other essays on general themes in the history of the early Church. | Studies on Ancient Christianity

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Gregorian and Old Roman Eighth-mode Tracts A Case Study in the Transmission of Western Chant

Gregorian and Old Roman Eighth-mode Tracts A Case Study in the Transmission of Western Chant

This title was first published in 2002: This text uses detailed analysis of the eigth-mode tracts in addressing some of the still unresolved questions of chant scholarship. The first question is that of the nature of the relationship between Old Roman and Gregorian chant the second of the relationship between oral and written modes of transmission in the ecclesiastical culture of the Middle Ages. Also the Middle Ages saw a transition to a culture more dependent on writing. The book investigates the effect this transition had on the way eighth-mode tracts were understood by those who performed and notated them. | Gregorian and Old Roman Eighth-mode Tracts A Case Study in the Transmission of Western Chant

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