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Author : Sidney Lee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780198652083
Total Pages : 1036 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of National Biography written by Sidney Lee and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1036 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Former Provost of the Queen's College Oxford and Pro-Vice Chancellor Lord Blake
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780364607046
Total Pages : 1038 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (7 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography written by Former Provost of the Queen's College Oxford and Pro-Vice Chancellor Lord Blake and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 1038 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dictionary of National Biography: 1971-1980 A category small in number but not unimportant consists of those who have been engaged in secret intelligence of one sort or another. They are difficult to identify except through private information because their obituary notices and entries in Who's Who are usually enigmatic and uninformative. Nor is it easy to find authors who both know about them and are prepared to sign an article. Happily there has been no need for any anonymous entries in this volume. If Secret Service figures of sufficient eminence deserve inclusion, so do members of the sometimes overlapping circle of enemy agents. None of the latter, as far as current public knowledge goes, expired in this period, but it is to be hoped that the names of Philby, Maclean, Blake, Blunt, and others will not be forgotten when the time comes. The choice of both entries and authors lies with the editors. Some entrants choose themselves for inclusion, indeed most do; but there is a borderline where Opinions may well differ. The editors hope that they have not omitted anyone who obviously ought to be in, but they cannot expect that the 'fringe will be other than controversial. They recognize too that fame may surface later than the date of the publication of the volume. Gerard Manley Hopkins and Wilfrid Owen omitted from earlier volumes are famous examples, but it would be hard to blame the editors of the day. As far as possible we have tried to choose as authors people who knew the entrant personally, though such knowledge need not be very intimate. We have tried in particular to choose those who seem not only knowledgeable but also impartial. In a few cases there are several refusals before one can find an author but these are rare and most of those invited accept on the first round. The editors have done all they can to verify facts. Any errors are their responsibility. Opinions are another matter, and the contributors must be responsible for these. The roll of authors is almost as distinguished as that of entrants; three prime ministers have contributed to this volume. With a few very rare exceptions we have avoided inviting close relations of the entrant. Whatever they thought of the person at the time there is a tendency to set up a memorial shrine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Blake
Publisher : Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198652083
Total Pages : 1040 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Dictionary of National Biography, 1971-1980 written by Robert Blake and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A place in The Dictionary of National Biography has sometimes been described as the final accolade. The 748 men and women, whose lives are recorded in this supplement, died between the years 1971 and 1980, and their collective experience spans almost the whole of the twentieth century to date.
Author : Frank Leslie Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0192802909
Total Pages : 1842 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church written by Frank Leslie Cross and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uniquely authoritative and wide-ranging in its scope, The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church is the indispensable one-volume reference work on all aspects of the Christian Church. It contains over 6,000 cross-referenced A-Z entries, and offers unrivalled coverage of all aspects of this vast and often complex subject, including theology, churches and denominations, patristic scholarship, the bible, the church calendar and its organization, popes, archbishops, saints, and mystics. In this revision, innumerable small changes have been made to take into account shifts in scholarly opinion, recent developments, such as the Church of England's new prayer book (Common Worship), RC canonizations, ecumenical advances and mergers, and, where possible, statistics. A number of existing articles have been rewritten to reflect new evidence or understanding, for example the Holy Sepulchre entry, and there are a few new articles. Perhaps most significantly, a great number of the bibliographies have been updated. Established since its first appearance in 1957 as an essential resource for ordinands, clergy, and members of religious orders, ODCC is an invaluable tool for academics, teachers, and students of church history and theology, as well as for the general reader.
Author : C.S. Nicholls
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312300418
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Elspeth Huxley written by C.S. Nicholls and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the conservationalist and chronicler of colonial Kenya describes her childhood in east Africa and wartime Britain; marriage to Thomas Huxley; roles as a farmer, writer, and government advisor.
Author : Christian Fleck
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1849660506
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (496 download)
Download or read book A Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences written by Christian Fleck and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. From the beginning of the twentieth century, scientific and social scientific research has been characterised by intellectual exchange between Europe and the US. The establishment of the Third Reich ensured that, from the German speaking world, at least, this became a one-way traffic. In this book Christian Fleck explores the invention of empirical social research, which by 1950 had become the binding norm of international scholarship, and he analyses the contribution of German refugee social scientists to its establishment. The major names are here, from Adorno and Horkheimer to Hirshman and Lazarsfeld, but at the heart of the book is a unique collective biography based on original data from more than 800 German-speaking social scientists. Published in German in 2008 to great acclaim, Fleck's important study of the transatlantic enrichment of the social sciences is now available in a revised English-language edition.
Author : Dennis Trewin
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 1925021327
Total Pages : 797 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Measuring and Promoting Wellbeing written by Dennis Trewin and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australia continues to be at the forefront of international work on measuring and promoting wellbeing, Ian Castles being a significant contributor over the last forty years as an official and academic. This book combines a selection of Castles’ important work with contemporary research from a range of contributors. The material is in four parts: 1. The role of economics in defining and promoting wellbeing 2. Measuring real income and wellbeing 3. Measuring inequality 4. Climate change and the limits to growth. The issues canvassed are both long-standing and current. Does economic growth contribute to wellbeing? How different is income to wellbeing? How do we measure societal wellbeing and take its distribution into account? The book will be of value to all those looking to informed debate on global challenges such as reducing poverty, sustaining the environment and advancing the quality of life, including politicians, commentators, officials and academics.
Author : John Cooper
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1909821268
Total Pages : 463 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Pride Versus Prejudice written by John Cooper and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Cooper's pioneering full-length study is a treasure trove of new information, fresh in terms of the ground it covers and the material it assembles. Building on newspapers, archives, and interviews to illustrate the lives and professional experiences of the individuals involved, Cooper also brings out such broad underlying themes as emancipation, antisemitism, radical assimilation, and professionalization. This engaging work on Anglo-Jewry will be of value to the historian and general reader alike.
Author : Richard Henry Dalitz
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9810239203
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Foundations of Newtonian Scholarship written by Richard Henry Dalitz and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2000 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Historians of science, teachers and students of the history and philosophy of science and mathematics will be astounded at the difference a few decades of research has made in the assessment of Newton's work. Most heartily recommended to all who seek authoritative and readable glimpses of Newton at work".Choice, 2001
Author : Iain Boyd Whyte
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415258401
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (584 download)
Download or read book Modernism and the Spirit of the City written by Iain Boyd Whyte and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of groundbreaking essays offers a significant and long overdue reassessment of the aims and intentions of European architecture and urbanism over the period 1880-1960.
Author : Charles R. Epp
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022677242X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)
Download or read book The Rights Revolution written by Charles R. Epp and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United States over the last half-century. Less well known is that other countries have experienced "rights revolutions" as well. Charles R. Epp argues that, far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts—the influence of advocacy groups, the establishment of governmental enforcement agencies, the growth of financial and legal resources for ordinary citizens, and the strategic planning of grass roots organizations. In other words, the shift in the rights of individuals is best understood as a "bottom up," rather than a "top down," phenomenon. The Rights Revolution is the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the growth of civil rights, examining the high courts of the United States, Britain, Canada, and India within their specific constitutional and cultural contexts. It brilliantly revises our understanding of the relationship between courts and social change.
Author : Colin F. Baxter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313387699
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1887-1976 written by Colin F. Baxter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1999-10-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the desperate summer of 1942, Hitler seemed to be on the verge of victory in Russia and the Middle East. With Rommel nearing Cairo, a little known lieutenant-general, Bernard Montgomery, took charge of what Churchill called a baffled and bewildered British 8th Army. Assuming command, Montgomery issued his famous order, Here we will stand and fight;...If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead, and led the Army to one of the Allies' greatest victories—El Alamein. Monty became an instantly recognizable Allied leader, but as a man with strong views, unbending principles, and outspoken frankness, he was both loved and disliked, praised and criticized. This bibliography presents and evaluates the extensive body of literature that has grown up around the controversial Field Marshal. Any serious study of World War II military campaigns must confront Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, an individualist with both admirers and detractors. This book provides an extensive historiographical overview of the literature in Part I and a bibliography of significant works in Part II. It is a basic reference and research guide for the student, scholar, and general reader.
Author : Jeremy A. Crang
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571271413
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Burning Blue written by Jeremy A. Crang and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was, of course, the Battle of Britain, or rather its conclusion, that prompted one of Winston Churchill's most memorable pieces of oratory that has its epitome in the sentence, 'Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.' If the Battle of Britain had been lost it is very likely the New Order to which the Axis powers had pledged themselves would have become global with unthinkable consequences for the world afterwards. The importance of the Battle of Britain cannot be exaggerated though inevitably in the succeeding years the accretion of myth has brought about many distortions. This multi-faceted symposium emerged from the Centre of Second World War Studies at Edinburgh University with the aim, in the words of the editors, 'to reassess established themes while opening up new ones.' After a masterly introduction by Brian Bond, the book is divided into six parts: Before the Battle; The Battle; The View from Afar; Experience and Memory; The Making of a British Legend and The Significance. The contributors are: Klaus A. Maier; Malcolm Smith; Horst Boog; Sebastian Cox; Sergei Kudryshov; Richard P. Hallion; Theodore F. Cook; Hans-Ekkehard Bob; Wallace Cunningham; Nigel Rose; Owen Dudley Edwards; Angus Calder; Tony Aldgate; Adrian Gregory; Jeremy Lake and John Schofield; Paul Addison and Jeremy A. Crang and Richard Overy. No survey could be more wide-ranging or fascinating. First published in 2000 to mark the 60th anniversary, it is now being reissued in 2010 to mark the 70th anniversary. 'But it is terrific. It's not only an acknowledgement of the heroism of the fighter pilots (and all the ancillary crew), but a serious contribution to the historical record. Seventeen contributors write about the Battle from pretty much every conceivable angle; and Addison and Crang have chosen them well. . . This is not an automatically worshipful book; it poses questions about the morality of war, the existence of heroism, the reliability of memory. But it treats the subject honestly and with justice. And it tells us why we won: because, it would appear, it helps to come from a society that is sceptical of authority rather than in blind, unthinking terror of it.' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian ''This book is a first-class piece of work, stimulating, informative and concise.' Brian Holden Reid, Times Higher Education Supplement. 'This is a nugget of a book . . . it assembles, most readably, a range of authoritative and international views on the Battle, its history, and its significance.' Air Chief Marshall Sir Michael Graydon, Royal United Services Institute 'This is a much told story, but the varied viewpoints of the 20 contributors to Burning Blue - ranging from a fascinating essay by Owen Dudley Edwards on the air war as reflected in children's literaturer to the memories of pilots who fought in it on both sides - give an impressive breadth and depth. And even though it strips away hindsight and refuses to burnish legends, what is left is still one of the most remarkable stories in the whole of British history. The British empire didn't last a thousand years, but the man was right: this truly was its finest hour.' David Robinson, The Scotsman
Author : Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr.
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811734134
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (341 download)
Download or read book Rommel's Desert War written by Samuel W. Mitcham, Jr. and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most famous battles of one of World War II's most legendary commandersTold largely from Rommel's perspective, using his papers and lettersIn a series of battles marked by daring raids and quick-armored thrusts against a numerically superior enemy, Erwin Rommel, the notorious Desert Fox, and his Afrika Korps waged one of World War II's toughest campaigns in the North African desert in 1942. The Axis campaign climaxed in June with the recapture of Tobruk, a triumph that netted 33,000 prisoners and earned Rommel a field marshal's baton. By fall, however, after setbacks at Alam Halfa and the 2 battles of El Alamein, the Afrika Korps teetered on the brink of defeat, which would come in Tunisia 6 months later.
Author : Roy M. MacLeod
Publisher : Sydney University Press
ISBN 13 : 1920898808
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Archibald Liversidge, FRS written by Roy M. MacLeod and published by Sydney University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Archibald Liversidge first arrived at Sydney University in 1872 as reader in Geology and Assistant in the Laboratory he had about ten students and two rooms in the main building. In 1874 he became professor of geology and mineralogy and by 1879 he had persuaded the senate to open a faculty of science. He became its first dean in 1882. In 1880 he visited Europe as a trustee of the Australian Museum and his report helped to establish the Industrial, Technological and Sanitary Museum which formed the basis of the present Powerhouse Museum's collection. Liversidge also played a major role in the setting up of the Australasian Association for the Advancement of Science which held its first congress in 1888. For anyone interested in Archibald Liversidge, his contribution to crystallography, mineral chemistry, chemical geology, strategic minerals policy and a wider field of colonial science.
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Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 185109850X
Total Pages : 1542 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Korean War [3 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A multidimensional, multidisciplinary work on one of the least understood but most important conflicts in modern history. A cornerstone work in ABC-CLIO's distinguished list of reference works on military history, The Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History is a comprehensive resource on the confrontation that became the first shooting war of the Cold War, the first limited conflict of the Atomic Age, and the war that led to a dramatic escalation of the national security state while foreshadowing U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Encyclopedia of the Korean War offers complete coverage of strategies, weapon systems, and clashes that marked the course of events on the battlefield. But this authoritative, multidisciplinary work expands beyond the military perspective to portray the overall culture of the era, addressing a variety of political, economic, social, and popular culture topics as well. Incorporating a wealth of recent research, the new edition adds more than 130 entries and updated coverage throughout, plus more bibliographic listings, an expanded historiographical essay, and a documents volume.
Author : C.T. McIntire
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300130082
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Herbert Butterfield written by C.T. McIntire and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Butterfield (1900-1979) was an important British historian and religious thinker whose ideas, in particular his concept of a “Whig interpretation of history,” remain deeply influential. In this intellectual biography—the first comprehensive study of Butterfield—C.T. McIntire focuses on the creative processes that lay behind Butterfield’s intellectual accomplishments. Drawing on his investigations into Butterfield’s vast and diverse output of published and unpublished work, McIntire explores Butterfield’s ideas and methods. He describes Butterfield’s lifelong devotion to his Methodist faith and shows how his Christian spirituality animated his historical work. He also traces the theme of dissent that ran through Butterfield’s life and work, presenting a man who found himself at odds with prevailing convictions about history, morality, politics, religion, and teaching, a man who elevated the notion of dissent into an ethic of living in tension with any established system.
