Alice in Westminster

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786731517
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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Book Synopsis Alice in Westminster by : Rachel Reeves

Download or read book Alice in Westminster written by Rachel Reeves and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-11-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice Bacon was one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable female politicians. Born and raised in the Yorkshire town of Normanton, she defied the odds to be elected Labour MP for Leeds North East in the 1945 General Election. Famed in her home town for her unlikely love of sports cars, she was a much-respected, no-nonsense, hard-working representative for her beloved Yorkshire home in Westminster. Mentored by Herbert Morrison and Hugh Gaitskell, she rose through the party becoming a Home Office minister under Roy Jenkins and latterly an Education Minister with responsibility for the introduction of comprehensive schools. In the Home Office in the 1960s she oversaw the introduction of substantial societal changes, including the abolition of the death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality and the legalisation of abortion. Her political career spanned some of the most momentous decades in Britain's postwar history and she played an integral part in some of the most significant social, educational and political changes which the country has ever witnessed.Labour MP Rachel Reeves here tells Alice Bacon's story, narrating one woman's extraordinary progression from the coalfields to the Commons.

Alice in Wonderland

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Publisher : Seven Books
ISBN 13 : 3988655856
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)

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Book Synopsis Alice in Wonderland by : Lewis Carroll

Download or read book Alice in Wonderland written by Lewis Carroll and published by Seven Books. This book was released on 2024-09-25 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is an 1865 English children's novel by Lewis Carroll, a mathematics don at the University of Oxford. It details the story of a girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatures. It is seen as an example of the literary nonsense genre. The artist John Tenniel provided 42 wood-engraved illustrations for the book.It received positive reviews upon release and is now one of the best-known works of Victorian literature; its narrative, structure, characters and imagery have had a widespread influence on popular culture and literature, especially in the fantasy genre. It is credited as helping end an era of didacticism in children's literature, inaugurating an era in which writing for children aimed to "delight or entertain". The tale plays with logic, giving the story lasting popularity with adults as well as with children. The titular character Alice shares her name with Alice Liddell, a girl Carroll knewscholars disagree about the extent to which the character was based upon her.

Westminster's World

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674950726
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)

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Book Synopsis Westminster's World by : Donald Searing

Download or read book Westminster's World written by Donald Searing and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Policy Advocates to Whips to Ministers, the many roles within the British Parliament are shaped not only by institutional rules but also by the individuals who fill them, yet few observers have fully appreciated this vital aspect of governing in one of the world's oldest representative systems. Applying a new motivational role theory to materials from extensive first-hand interviews conducted during the eventful 1970s, Donald Searing deepens our understanding of how Members of Parliament understand their goals, their careers, and their impact on domestic and global issues. He explores how Westminster's world both controls and is created by individuals, illuminating the interplay of institutional constraints and individual choice in shaping roles within the political arena. No other book tells us so much about political life at Westminster. Searing has interviewed 521 Members of Parliament--including Conservative Ministers Margaret Thatcher, Peter Walker, and James Prior; Labour Ministers Harold Wilson, Barbara Castle, and Denis Healey; rising stars Michael Heseltine, Norman Tebbitt, David Owen, and Roy Hattersley; habitual outsiders, like Michael Foot, who eventually joined the inner circle; and former insiders, like Enoch Powell, who were shut out. Searing also gives voice to the vast number of Westminster's backbenchers, who play a key part in shaping political roles in Parliament but are less likely to be heard in the media: trade unionists, knights of the shires, owners of small businesses, and others. In this segment of his study, women, senior backbenchers, and newcomers are well represented. Searing adroitly blends quantitative with qualitative analysis and integrates social and economic theories about political behavior. He addresses concerns about power, duty, ambition, and representation, and skillfully joins these concerns with his critical discoveries about the desires, beliefs, and behaviors associated with roles in Parliament. Westminster's World offers political scientists, historians, anthropologists, political commentators, and the public rich new material about the House of Commons as well as a convincing model for understanding the structure and dynamics of political roles.

The Story of Alice

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967798
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Book Synopsis The Story of Alice by : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Download or read book The Story of Alice written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst illuminates two entangled lives: the Oxford mathematician Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) and Alice Liddell, the child for whom he invented the Alice stories. This relationship influenced Carroll’s imaginative creation of Wonderland—a sheltered world apart during the stormy transition from the Victorian to the modern era

Westminster Abbey

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Publisher : Studies in British Art
ISBN 13 : 9781913107024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis Westminster Abbey by : David Cannadine

Download or read book Westminster Abbey written by David Cannadine and published by Studies in British Art. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and authoritative history that explores the significance of one of the most famous buildings and institutions in England Westminster Abbey was one of the most powerful churches in Catholic Christendom before transforming into a Protestant icon of British national and imperial identity. Celebrating the 750th anniversary of the consecration of the current Abbey church building, this book features engaging essays by a group of distinguished scholars that focus on different, yet often overlapping, aspects of the Abbey's history: its architecture and monuments; its Catholic monks and Protestant clergy; its place in religious and political revolutions; its relationship to the monarchy and royal court; its estates and educational endeavors; its congregations; and its tourists. Clearly written and wide-ranging in scope, this generously illustrated volume is a fascinating exploration of Westminster Abbey's thousand-year history and its meaning, significance, and impact within society both in Britain and beyond. Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in association with the Dean and Chapter of the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster (Westminster Abbey)/Distributed by Yale University Press

Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes

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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664236465
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (364 download)

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Book Synopsis Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes by : Alice Ogden Bellis

Download or read book Helpmates, Harlots, and Heroes written by Alice Ogden Bellis and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive book, the first of its kind, the author shares the work of many feminist biblical scholars who have examined women's stories in the last twenty-five years. These stories are powerful accounts of women in the Old Testament--stories that have profoundly affected how women understand themselves. -- Publisher description.

Westminster Abbey

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Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674017160
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Westminster Abbey by : Richard Jenkyns

Download or read book Westminster Abbey written by Richard Jenkyns and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-31 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Westminster Abbey is the most complex church in existence. National cathedral, coronation church, royal mausoleum, burial place of poets, resting place of the great and of the Unknown Warrior, former home of parliament, backdrop to the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales—this rich and extraordinary building unites many functions. Westminster Abbey is both an appreciation of an architectural masterpiece and an exploration of the building’s shifting meanings. We hear the voices of those who have described its forms, moods, and ceremonies, from Shakespeare and Voltaire to Dickens and Henry James; we see how rulers have made use of it, from medieval kings to modern prime ministers. In a highly original book, classicist and cultural historian Richard Jenkyns teaches us to look at this microcosm of history with new eyes.

Womanist Midrash

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Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 1611648122
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (116 download)

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Book Synopsis Womanist Midrash by : Wilda C. Gafney

Download or read book Womanist Midrash written by Wilda C. Gafney and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2017-08-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her own translations, Gafney offers a midrashic interpretation of the biblical text that is rooted in the African American preaching tradition to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Gafney employs a solid understanding of womanist and feminist approaches to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical culture of the ancient Near East. This unique and imaginative work is grounded in serious scholarship and will expand conversations about feminist and womanist biblical interpretation.

Women of Westminster

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1788316770
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)

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Book Synopsis Women of Westminster by : Rachel Reeves

Download or read book Women of Westminster written by Rachel Reeves and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919 Nancy Astor was elected as the Member of Parliament for Plymouth Sutton, becoming the first woman MP to take her seat in the House of Commons. Her achievement was all the more remarkable given that women (and even then only some women) had only been entitled to vote for just over a year. In the past 100 years, a total of 491 women have been elected to Parliament. Yet it was not until 2016 that the total number of women ever elected surpassed the number of male MPs in a single parliament. The achievements of these political pioneers have been remarkable – Britain has now had two female Prime Ministers and women MPs have made significant strides in fighting for gender equality from the earliest suffrage campaigns to Barbara Castle's fight for equal pay to Harriet Harman's recent legislation on the gender pay gap. Yet the stories of so many women MPs have too often been overlooked in political histories. In this book, Rachel Reeves brings forgotten MPs out of the shadows and looks at the many battles fought by the Women of Westminster, from 1919 to 2019.

A New Alice in the Old Wonderland

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Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1587151995
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (871 download)

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Book Synopsis A New Alice in the Old Wonderland by : Anna M. Richards

Download or read book A New Alice in the Old Wonderland written by Anna M. Richards and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

God's Secret Agents

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Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060542276
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis God's Secret Agents by : Alice Hogge

Download or read book God's Secret Agents written by Alice Hogge and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2005-06-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One evening in 1588, just weeks after the defeat of the Spanish Armada, two young men landed in secret on a beach in Norfolk, England. They were Jesuit priests, Englishmen, and their aim was to achieve by force of argument what the Armada had failed to do by force of arms: return England to the Catholic Church. Eighteen years later their mission had been shattered by the actions of the Gunpowder Plotters -- a small group of terrorists who famously tried to destroy the Houses of Parliament -- for the Jesuits were accused of having designed "that most horrid and hellish conspiracy." In an unusual turn of events, the future of every Catholic they had hoped to save would soon come to depend on the silence of one Oxford carpenter, a man being tortured in the Tower of London for building priest holes, those bunkers in which the Catholic clergy hid from English authorities. Using contemporary documents, Alice Hogge's brilliant new book pieces together a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between priests and government spies, as Queen Elizabeth and her ministers fought to defend the state, and English Catholics fought to defend their souls. It follows the priests -- God's Secret Agents -- from their schooling on the Continent, through their perilous return journeys and their lonely lives in hiding, to the scaffold, where a gruesome death awaited them. To their government they were traitors; to their fellow Catholics they were glorious martyrs. It was a distinction that the Gunpowder Plot would put to the test. Ultimately God's Secret Agents is the story of men who would die for their cause undone by men who would kill for it.

The Annotated Alice

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Publisher : Wings
ISBN 13 : 9780517189207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (892 download)

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Book Synopsis The Annotated Alice by : Lewis Carroll

Download or read book The Annotated Alice written by Lewis Carroll and published by Wings. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully annotated and illustrated version of both ALICE IN WONDERLAND and THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS that contains all of the original John Tenniel illustrations. From "down the rabbit hole" to the Jabberwocky, from the Looking-Glass House to the Lion and the Unicorn, discover the secret meanings hidden in Lewis Carroll's classics. (Orig. $29.95)

No, Nancy, No!

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ISBN 13 : 9781406378917
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (789 download)

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Book Synopsis No, Nancy, No! by : Alice Tait

Download or read book No, Nancy, No! written by Alice Tait and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Synopsis coming soon.......

Nobody

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Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1324005602
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (24 download)

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Book Synopsis Nobody by : Alice Oswald

Download or read book Nobody written by Alice Oswald and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collage of water stories from the Odyssey, reconstructed as a mesmeric and hallucinatory book-length poem by acclaimed poet Alice Oswald. In Memorial, her unforgettable transformation of the Iliad, Alice Oswald breathed new life into myth. In Nobody, she returns to Homer, this time fixing her gaze on a minor character in the Odyssey—a poet abandoned on a stony island—and the sea that surrounds him. Familiar voices drift in and out of the poem; though there are no proper names, we recognize Helios, Icarus, Alcyone, Philoctetes, Calypso, Clytemnestra, Orpheus, Poseidon, Hermes, and the presiding spirit of Proteus, the shape-shifting sea-god. As with all of Oswald’s work, this is poetry that is made for the human voice, but here the language takes on the qualities of another element: dense, muscular, and liquid. Reading Nobody is like watching the ocean; we slip our earthly moorings and follow the circling shoal of sea voices into a mesh of sound and light and water—fluid, abstract, and moving with the wash of waves.

Separate Is Never Equal

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Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781419710544
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Separate Is Never Equal written by Duncan Tonatiuh and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--

Alice's Wonderland

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ISBN 13 : 193799497X
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (379 download)

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Book Synopsis Alice's Wonderland by : Catherine Nichols

Download or read book Alice's Wonderland written by Catherine Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of Alice's adventures in Wonderland, discussing works that were inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic tale.

Alice's Adventures

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826414335
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (143 download)

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Book Synopsis Alice's Adventures by : Will Brooker

Download or read book Alice's Adventures written by Will Brooker and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of "Batman Unmasked" and "Using the Force", turns his attention to Lewis Carroll and Alice taking the reader through a revealing tour of late 20th Century popular culture, following Alice and her creator wherever they go. The result is an in-depth analysis of how one original creation symbolizes different things to different people.