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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.
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.
The ultimate guide to Real Madrid. The Real Madrid Handbook is an
entertaining compendium of fascinating facts, match coverage,
stories, personalities and trivia from the biggest club team on the
planet. Rab MacWilliam traces the history of Real Madrid from the
early 20th century, examining its progress in the domestic cup and
league, and analyses the impact that the Republic, the Spanish
Civil War and the repressive authoritarian aftermath had on the
club. He relates how the stunning success in European football in
the mid-1950s to the early 1960s was one of the factors that helped
to ease Spain's integration into Europe and explores the club's
rise to become one of the most skilful and dominant teams in the
global game over the last thirty years. Fascinating, informative,
irreverent and insightful, The Real Madrid Handbook is the perfect
guide to the history of this extraordinary club.
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.
You know him as the founder of Microsoft; the philanthropic,
kind-hearted billionaire who has donated endless funds to good causes
around the world. But there’s another side to Bill Gates.
In this fearless, groundbreaking investigation, Tim Schwab offers
readers a counter-narrative, one where Gates has used his monopolistic
approach in business to amass a stunning level of control over public
policy, scientific research and the news media. Whether he is pushing
new educational standards in America, health reforms in India or
industrialized agriculture in Africa, Gates’s unbridled social
experimentation has shown itself to be not only undemocratic, but also
ineffective.
All of which begs the question: why should the super rich be able to
transform their wealth into political power, and just how far can they
go?
In Jews, Judaism, and Success, Robert Eisen attempts to solve a
long-standing mystery that has fascinated many: How did Jews become
such a remarkably successful minority in the modern western world?
Eisen argues that Jews achieved such success because they were
unusually well-prepared for it by their religion - in particular,
Rabbinic Judaism, or the Judaism of the rabbis. Rooted in the
Talmud, this form of Judaism instilled in Jews key values that
paved the way for success in modern western society: autonomy,
freedom of thought, worldliness, and education. The book carefully
analyses the evolution of these four values over the past two
thousand years in order to demonstrate that they had a longer and
richer history in Jewish culture than in western culture. The book
thus disputes the common assumption that Rabbinic Judaism was
always an obstacle to Jews becoming modern. It demonstrates that
while modern Jews rejected aspects of Rabbinic Judaism, they also
retained some of its values, and these values in particular led to
Jewish success. Written for a broad range of readers, Jews,
Judaism, and Success provides unique insights on the meaning of
success and how it is achieved in the modern world.
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?
Colleges and universities in urban centers have often leveraged
their locales to appeal to students while also taking a more active
role in addressing local challenges. They embrace civic engagement,
support service-learning, tailor courses to local needs, and even
provide university-community collaborations such as lab schools and
innovation hubs. Engaging Place, Engaging Practices highlights the
significant role the academy, in general, and urban history, in
particular, can play in fostering these critical connections. The
editors and contributors to this volume address topics ranging from
historical injustices and affordable housing and land use to
climate change planning and the emergence of digital humanities.
These case studies reveal the intricate components of a city's
history and how they provide context and promote a sense of
cultural belonging. This timely book appreciates and emphasizes the
critical role universities must play as intentional-and
humble-partners in addressing the past, present, and future
challenges facing cities through democratic community engagement.
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.
An imposing art deco building, covering two and one quarter acres,
it was built 1927-1933 as a memorial to the many Freemasons who
died on active service in the First World War. Initially known as
the Masonic Peace Memorial, it reverted to the name Freemasons'
Hall at the outbreak of war in 1939. The headquarters of English
freemasonry have been located in Great Queen Street, London, since
the last quarter of the eighteenth century. This publication,
written by staff at the Library and Museum of Freemasonry, tells
the story of the various buildings on the site.
Germany did not have professional players or a national league
until the 1960s, yet it became one of the most successful football
nations in the world. Tor! (Goal!) traces the extraordinary story
of Germany's club and international football, from the days when it
was regarded as a dangerously foreign pastime, through the horrors
of the Nazi years to postwar triumphs and the crisis of the new
century. Tor! challenges the myth that German football is
'predictable' or 'efficient' and brings to life the fascinating
array of characters who shaped it: the betrayed pioneer Walther
Bensemann; the enigmatic genius Sepp Herberger; the all-conquering
Franz Beckenbauer; the modern misfit Lothar Matthaus. And even the
radio commentator Herbert Zimmermann, whose ecstatic cries of
'Tor!' greeted the winning goal in the 1954 World Cup final and
helped change a whole nation's view of itself. Fully revised and
updated ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Tor! is the definitive history
of German football.
Marginal Comment, which attracted keen and widespread interest on
its original publication in 1994, is the remarkable memoir of one
of the most distinguished classical scholars of the modern era. Its
author, Sir Kenneth Dover, whose academic publications included the
pathbreaking book Greek Homosexuality (1978, reissued by Bloomsbury
in 2016), conceived of it as an 'experimental' autobiography -
ruthlessly candid in retracing the full range of the author's
experiences, both private and public, and unflinching in its
attempt to analyse the entanglements between the life of the mind
and the life of the body. Dover's distinguished career involved not
only an influential series of writings about the ancient Greeks but
also a number of prominent positions of leadership, including the
presidencies of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the British
Academy. It was in those positions that he became involved in
several high-profile controversies, including the blocking of an
honorary degree for Margaret Thatcher from Oxford University, and a
bitter debate in the British Academy over the fellowship of Anthony
Blunt after his exposure as a former Soviet spy. This edition of
Marginal Comment is much more than a reissue: it includes an
introduction which frames the book in relation to its author's life
and work, as well as annotations based in part on materials
originally excluded by Dover but left in his personal papers on
this death. Now newly available, the memoir provides not only the
self-portrait of an exceptional individual but a rich case-study in
the intersections between an intellectual life and its social
contexts.
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.
In 1870, a prominent samurai from Tohoku sells his castle to become
an agrarian colonist in Hokkaido. Decades later, a man also from
northeast Japan stows away on a boat to Canada and establishes a
salmon roe business. By 1930, an investigative journalist travels
to Brazil and writes a book that wins the first-ever Akutagawa
Prize. In the 1940s, residents from the same area proclaim that
they should lead Imperial Japan in colonizing all of Asia. Across
decades and oceans, these fractured narratives seem disparate, but
show how mobility is central to the history of Japan's Tohoku
region, a place often stereotyped as a site of rural stasis and
traditional immobility, thereby collapsing boundaries between
local, national, and global studies of Japan. This book examines
how multiple mobilities converge in Japan's supposed hinterland.
Drawing on research from three continents, this monograph
demonstrates that Tohoku's regional identity is inextricably
intertwined with Pacific migrations.
Riche de ses editeurs scolaires et de ses collections enfantines,
le dix-neuvieme siecle a-t-il invente le marche du livre pour
enfants? Dans la France du dix-huitieme siecle, de nombreux acteurs
s'efforcent deja de separer, au sein de la librairie, les lectures
adaptees aux enfants et aux jeunes gens. Les rituels pedagogiques
des colleges et des petites ecoles, les strategies commerciales des
libraires, les preoccupations des Eglises, les projets et les
politiques de reforme scolaire, tous pousses par la fievre
educative de la noblesse et de la bourgeoisie, produisent alors
d'innombrables bibliotheques enfantines, plurielles et plastiques,
avec ou sans murs. Cet ouvrage montre comment, a un ordre des
livres domine par les logiques des institutions scolaires et des
metiers du livre, se surimpose a partir des annees 1760 une
nouvelle categorie, celle du " livre d'education ", qui ne
s'identifie plus a un lieu, mais a un projet de lecture, et
s'accompagne de l'emergence de nouvelles figures d'auteurs. Alors
que les etudes sur la litterature de jeunesse poursuivent partout
leur developpement et leur structuration, ce livre dialogue avec
les dernieres recherches europeennes sur la question. A l'inverse
des travaux litteraires, il part, non des auteurs et des textes,
mais des objets et de leurs manipulations. Son originalite est
d'apporter un regard historien sur ces questions, en articulant
histoire du livre et de la librairie, histoire de l'education,
histoire des milieux litteraires et de la condition d'auteur. ---
With its wealth of educational publishers and children's
collections, did the nineteenth century invent the children's book
market? In eighteenth-century France, many people were already
trying to separate the literature suitable for children and young
people within the bookstore. The pedagogical rituals of colleges
and small schools, the commercial strategies of booksellers, the
concerns of the churches, the projects and policies of school
reform, all driven by the educational fever of the nobility and the
bourgeoisie, produced countless children's libraries, plural and
plastic, with or without walls. At the beginning of the century,
the ordering of books was dominated by the rationale of educational
institutions and the book trade: this book shows how a new category
emerged from the 1760s onwards, that of the "educational book",
which was no longer identified with a place, but with a literacy
project, and which was accompanied by the emergence of new authors.
As studies on children's literature continue to be developed and
shaped in many areas, this book is in dialogue with the latest
European research on the subject. In contrast to literary studies,
this research does not start from authors and texts, but from
objects and their uses. Its originality lies in the fact that it
provides a historical perspective on these issues, articulating the
history of books and bookshops, the history of education, the
history of literary circles and the status of the author.
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