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Here is the history of how exciting and innovative environmental
education has been provided by the Countryside Education Trust for
40 years. People of all ages have visited the farm-based
residential centre, a study centre in beautiful ancient woodland,
or taken part in a range of countryside activities.
For 125 years the British & Irish Lions have stood out as a
peerless emblem in world sport. This unique account of the best
from the four Home Nations examines every tour in the Lions'
history, including the victorious 2013 tour to Hong Kong and
Australia, told in the players' words. Behind the Lions sees rugby
writers from across the Home Nations delve to the heart of what it
means to be a Lion, interviewing a vast array of former and current
players to uncover the passion, pride and exhilaration experienced
when wearing the famous red jersey. It is a tale of heartbreak and
ecstasy, humour and poignancy that is at once inspirational, moving
and utterly compelling. This is the story of the British &
Irish Lions in their own words.
An unfortunate consequence of the restructuring of teacher
education in South Africa over the past 15 years has been the
virtual disappearance of history of education from tertiary
programmes and a corresponding decline in the number of
publications on the subject. But this is now changing; especially
in postgraduate courses. A history of schooling in South Africa:
method and context provides a perspective on the development of
schooling for all of South Africa's diverse population groups, from
pre-colonial times to present day, in as much detail as is possible
in a single volume.
South Carolina has been home to good, old-fashioned barbeque for
quite a long time. Hundreds of restaurants, stands and food trucks
sell tons of the southern staple every day. But the history of
Palmetto State barbeque goes deeper than many might believe--it
predates the rest of America. Native Americans barbequed pork on
makeshift grills as far back as the 1500s after the Spanish
introduced the pig into the Americas. Since the early 1920s, South
Carolinians have been perfecting the craft and producing some of
the best-tastin' 'que in the country. Join author and president of
the South Carolina Barbeque Association Lake E. High Jr. as he
traces the delectable history from its pre-colonial roots to a
thriving modern-day tradition that fuels an endless debate over
where to find the best plate.
David Moore's book chronicles how the momentous season unfolded,
match by match, week by week, starting with the successful
pre-season tour of Germany and Holland right up to the famous
encounter with Liverpool. It is a story of a triumphant season as
Derby County were crowned champions of England for the first time.
It was the Rams' seventy-second in League football, forty-five of
which had been played in the top flight and Brian Clough's tiny
squad of first team players had to finish above the likes of Don
Revie's formidable Leeds United and Bill Shankly's outstanding
Liverpool side to win the title. David Moore's book chronicles how
the momentous season unfolded, match by match, week by week,
starting with the successful pre-season tour of Germany and Holland
right up to the famous encounter with Liverpool at the beginning of
May which was followed seven days later by the nail-biting climax
when Leeds and Liverpool failed to secure the points needed to deny
Derby the title they richly deserved. Clough and Taylor also found
time to mastermind victory in the Texaco Cup, but a promising run
in the FA Cup came to a dramatic end in a 5th Round second replay
against double holders Arsenal at Leicester City's Filbert Street
in March. To round off a memorable season Derby's reserve side won
the Central League. David's book records the Rams' exploits in
those competitions too.
From the #1 international bestselling author of The Revenant - the
book that inspired the award-winning movie - comes the remarkable
true story of the worst mining disaster in American history. In
1917, the lives of a company of miners changed forever when the
underground labyrinth of tunnels in which they worked burst into
flames. Within an hour, more than four hundred men would be locked
in a battle to survive. Within three days, one hundred and
sixty-four of them would be dead.
Whatever does the word 'Bauseant' mean? Why does the Malta Cross
have eight points? Whatever is a Turcopolier and why do knights
have an Admiral? Over the last 25 years, whilst becoming Provincial
Prior in two areas, the Revd Neville Barker Cryer has produced
shorter booklets providing some of the answers to these and other
similar questions. So successful have they been in explaining
various aspects of the degrees of Knight Templar and of Malta that
it was decided to expand the number of subjects dealt with and make
them available to any knight in England.Stories about the Knights
Templar and their exploits abound; here is something to help
Masonic knights become more informed about what they do and say.
The subjects include: Templar Churches and the Holy Sepulchre, Why
Is the Royal Arch Linked with the Knights Templar?, The Pilgrim's
Hat, The Accolade of Dubbing, What Is the Significance of the
Mediterranean Pass?, What Does the Patte Cross of the Degrees
Mean?, The Malta Banners, What Exactly Was the Office of
Conservator?, The Knightly Garments, Is there any Link between the
First Templars and Freemasonry?
Rangers 101 distils the history of the most successful football
club in the world, Glasgow Rangers F.C. From their founding in 1872
and their first (drawn) League Championship, all the way through to
the present day, Rangers' history is brought to life via people,
matches and objects. This fascinating volume traces the nearly 150
years of this unsurpassed institution - sometimes irreverent but
always faithful to the characters, controversies, disasters and
achievements that have taken place to give the club such a rich
tapestry of triumph. Whether an old fan or new this is a perfect
partner for those who support the club, are interested in its
history and who love to recall past and present glories.
In the first half of the twentieth century, Jewish immigrants and
refugees sought to rebuild their lives in Chile. Despite their
personal histories of marginalization in Europe, many of these
people or their descendants did not take a stand against the 1973
military coup, nor the political persecution that followed. Chilean
Jews' collective failure to repudiate systematic human rights
violations and their tacit support for the military dictatorship
reflected a complicated moral calculus that weighed expediency over
ethical considerations and ignored individual acts of moral
courage. Maxine Lowy draws upon hundreds of first-person
testimonials and archival resources to explore Chilean Jewish
identity in the wake of Pinochet's coup, exposing the complex and
sometimes contradictory development of collective traumatic memory
and political sensibilities in an oppressive new context. Latent
Memory points to processes of community gestures of moral
reparation and signals the pathways to justice and healing
associated with Shoah and the Jewish experience. Lowy asks how
individuals and institutions may overcome fear, indifference, and
convenience to take a stand even under intense political duress,
posing questions applicable to any nation emerging from state
repression.
"This is the best book looking inside the mind of a big-league
manager I have ever read, because Francona is sharp and loves the
game, because Shaughnessy is eloquent and a dazzling
storyteller."--"Philadelphia Daily News"
When Terry Francona took over as manager of the Boston Red Sox in
2004, the storied franchise hadn't won a World Series championship
in eighty-six years. Led by Francona, the team won two over the
course of four years. During the full eight years of Francona's
tenure, the Red Sox were transformed from "cursed" into one of the
most successful and profitable teams in baseball history--only to
fall back to last place as soon as Francona was gone.
"Francona: The Red Sox Years" lets readers in on the inner workings
of the Red Sox clubhouse like no book has ever done before. From
the highs of the World Series to the lows of the final months of
the 2011 season--the most epic collapse of a team in baseball
history--this book features the never-before-told stories about Sox
fans' favorite players, moments, wins, and losses.
"A scorched-earth memoir . . . that] touches fleetingly on steroid
use, sabermetrics, and Michael Jordan's stint in the minor leagues
. . . but saves its heaviest artillery for the owners . . . and]
Theo Epstein backs him up."--"New York Times Book Review"
"It's not often that baseball aficionados and gossip gluttons can
plunk down on a shared portion of outfield grass with the same book
for an afternoon of readerly delight, but "Francona "can bridge
those kinds of differences."--"Boston Globe"
By exploring a range of films about American women, this book
offers readers an opportunity to engage in both history and film in
a new way, embracing representation, diversity, and historical
context. Throughout film history, stories of women achieving in
American history appear few and far between compared to the many
epic tales of male achievement. This book focuses largely on films
written by women and about women who tackled the humanist issues of
their day and mostly won. Films about women are important for all
viewers of all genders because they remind us that the American
Experience is not just male and white. This book examines 10 films,
featuring diverse depictions of women and women's history, and
encourages readers to discern how and where these films deviate
from historical accuracy. Covering films from the 1950s all the way
to the 2010s, this text is invaluable for students and general
readers who wish to interrogate the way women's history appears on
the big screen. Focuses on 10 films with an emphasis on racial and
class diversity Explores where storytelling and historical accuracy
diverge and clarifies the historical record around the events of
the films Organized chronologically, emphasizing the progression of
women's history as portrayed on film Accessible for general readers
as well as students
Although the evolution of human rights diplomacy during the second
half of the 20th century has been the subject of a wealth of
scholarship in recent years, British foreign policy perspectives
remain largely underappreciated. Focusing on former Foreign
Secretary David Owen's sustained engagement with the related
concepts of human rights and humanitarianism, David Owen, Human
Rights and the Remaking of British Foreign Policy addresses this
striking omission by exploring the relationship between
international human rights promotion and British foreign policy
between c.1956-1997. In doing so, this book uncovers how human
rights concerns have shaped national responses to foreign policy
dilemmas at the intersections of civil society, media, and
policymaking; how economic and geopolitical interests have defined
the parameters within which human rights concerns influence policy;
how human rights considerations have influenced British
interventions in overseas conflicts; and how activism on normative
issues such as human rights has been shaped by concepts of national
identity. Furthermore, by bringing these issues and debates into
focus through the lens of Owen's human rights advocacy, analysis
provides a reappraisal of one of the most recognisable, albeit
enigmatic, parliamentarians in recent British history. Both within
the confines of Whitehall and without, Owen's human rights advocacy
served to alter the course of British foreign policy at key
junctures during the late Cold War and post-Cold War periods, and
provides a unique prism through which to interrogate the
intersections between Britain's enduring search for a distinctive
'role' in the world and the development of the international human
rights regime during the period in question.
In Three Centuries of Girls' Education, Mary Anne O'Neil offers
both an examination and the first English translation of Les
Reglemens des religieuses Ursulines de la Congregation de Paris.
Published in 1705, Regulations is the first pedagogical system
explicitly designed for the education of girls. It is also one of
the few surviving documents describing the day-to-day operations of
early Ursuline schools. O'Neil traces the history of the document
from the writings of the Italian foundress of the Ursulines, to the
establishment of the religious order in Paris in 1612, to the
changes in the organization of Ursuline schools in
nineteenth-century France, and, finally, to Mother Marie de St.
Jean Martin's spirited defense of the traditional French Ursuline
method after World War II. In the eighteenth century, New Orleans
Ursulines used the Regulations as a guide to establish their
schools and teaching methods. Overall, O'Neil's history and
translation recover a vital source for historians of the early
modern era but will also interest scholars in the fields of
education history and female religious life.
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