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Mediterranean Heritage, first published in 1978, offers a
wide-ranging and perceptive discussion of the often concealed links
between English culture and the common heritage of Western Europe:
the Graeco-Roman legacy of the Mediterranean. There seems to have
been no time when England has not been in touch with the
civilisations of Greece and Italy: even Stonehenge, the most
dramatic survivor of our remotest past, has a carved dagger of
Mycenaean pattern among its ornaments. The pioneers of a distinctly
English creative vision - Shakespeare, Sidney, Milton - clearly
looked to Italy. Throughout the eighteenth century 'grand tourists'
found southern Europe irresistible. The Romantics all became
enraptured by the Mediterranean, and passed on their fascination in
some of the most passionate poetry in English. Appearing at a time
which England is more obviously a part of Europe than she has been
for sixteen hundred years, Mediterranean Heritage provides valuable
insights into the origins of our culture's greatest achievements.
Mediterranean Heritage, first published in 1978, offers a
wide-ranging and perceptive discussion of the often concealed links
between English culture and the common heritage of Western Europe:
the Graeco-Roman legacy of the Mediterranean. There seems to have
been no time when England has not been in touch with the
civilisations of Greece and Italy: even Stonehenge, the most
dramatic survivor of our remotest past, has a carved dagger of
Mycenaean pattern among its ornaments. The pioneers of a distinctly
English creative vision - Shakespeare, Sidney, Milton - clearly
looked to Italy. Throughout the eighteenth century 'grand tourists'
found southern Europe irresistible. The Romantics all became
enraptured by the Mediterranean, and passed on their fascination in
some of the most passionate poetry in English. Appearing at a time
which England is more obviously a part of Europe than she has been
for sixteen hundred years, Mediterranean Heritage provides valuable
insights into the origins of our culture's greatest achievements.
How one man used his SAS training as a force for Global good...
David likes to make things happen. In this inspirational book he
gives encouragement in an uncertain world through seven golden
principles defined by his own adventures, his altruism, and his
training in the SAS. This book will motivate, and uplift you and is
filled with stories and advice on how to push your boundaries to
achieve self-fulfilment.
Sealy and Hooley's Commercial Law: Text, Cases, and Materials
provides students with an extensive and valuable range of extracts
from key cases and writings in this most dynamic field of law. The
authors' expert commentary and questions enliven each topic while
emphasizing the practical application of the law in its business
context. Five renowned experts in the field continue the legacy of
Richard Hooley and Len Sealy, capturing the essence of this
fascinating topic at a time of significant legislative, regulatory,
and political change. Digital formats and resources This edition is
available for students and institutions to purchase in a variety of
formats. The e-book offers a mobile experience and convenient
access along with functionality tools, navigation features and
links that offer extra learning support:
www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/ebooks
Even more than thirty years after the dissolution of the Soviet
Union, the role of the secret police in shaping culture and society
in communist USSR has been difficult to study, and defies our
complete understanding. In the last decade, the opening of
non-Russian KGB archives, notably in Ukraine after 2015, has
allowed scholars to explore state security organizations in ways
not previously possible. Moving beyond well-known cases of
high-profile espionage and repression, this study is the first to
showcase research from a wide range of secret police archives in
former Soviet republics and the countries of the former Soviet
bloc—some of which are rapidly closing or becoming inaccessible
once again. Rather than focusing on Soviet leadership, The Secret
Police and the Soviet System integrates the secret police into
studies of information, technology, economics, art, and ideology.
The result is a state-of-the-art portrait of one of the world’s
most notorious institutions, the legacies of which are directly
relevant for understanding Vladimir Putin’s Russia today.
During the 1920s and 1930s thousands of European and American
writers, professionals, scientists, artists, and intellectuals made
a pilgrimage to experience the "Soviet experiment" for themselves.
Showcasing the Great Experiment explores the reception of these
intellectuals and fellow-travelers and their cross-cultural and
trans-ideological encounters in order to analyze Soviet attitudes
towards the West. Many of the twentieth century's greatest writers
and thinkers, including Theodore Dreiser, Andre Gide, Paul Robeson,
and George Bernard Shaw, notoriously defended Stalin's USSR despite
the unprecedented violence of its prewar decade. While many
visitors were profoundly affected by their Soviet tours, so too was
the Soviet system. The early experiences of building showcases and
teaching outsiders to perceive the future-in-the-making constitute
a neglected international part of the emergence of Stalinism at
home. Michael David-Fox contends that each side critically examined
the other, negotiating feelings of inferiority and superiority,
admiration and enmity, emulation and rejection. By the time of the
Great Purges, these tensions gave way to the dramatic triumph of
xenophobia and isolationism; whereas in the twenties the new regime
assumed it had much to learn from Western modernity, by the
Stalinist thirties the Soviet order was declared superior in all
respects. Drawing on the declassified archival records of the
agencies charged with crafting the international image of
communism, David-Fox shows how Soviet efforts to sell the Bolshevik
experiment abroad through cultural diplomacy shaped and were, in
turn, shaped by the ongoing project of defining the Soviet Union
from within. These interwar Soviet methods of mobilizing the
intelligentsia for the international ideological contest, he
argues, directly paved the way for the cultural Cold War.
What if a wise and loving soul gently took you by the hand and
showed you how to be happier than you've ever been before? If you
are stressed out, hurting, anxious, or in pain, you need Comfort,
Healing and Joy. This book of heartfelt essays takes you on a
journey from pain to happiness. Appropriate for people of all ages
who are searching for a way to bring more joy into their lives,
this book offers peace of mind and hope. Comfort, Healing, and Joy
is a beautifully written, penetratingly insightful treasure trove
of profound truths and practical how-to exercises that will
interrupt the patterns which hold you back and shows you how to
increase your current level of happiness. When you read this gentle
and uplifting book, you will feel accepted, understood, and guided
by a kind and steady hand. You will find ways to stop self-created
suffering, gain peace of mind, and share the radiance inside you
with the world. David Fox, M.D., spent three decades discovering
and cultivating powerful skills that will allow you to transform
yourself, no matter what problems you are facing, Based on wisdom
gained during his own personal journey and his work caring for high
risk patients, Dr. Fox brings a healer's touch to this affirming
book. REVIEWS Comfort, Healing, and Joy is a caring guide that
ushers us into claiming our birthright of inner and outer
wholeness. It is a most excellent medicine for healing any sense of
lack, limitation or unworthiness, and for stepping into the innate
capacities of the human heart and spirit. Savor it Michael Bernard
Beckwith author of Spiritual Liberation Fulfilling Your Soul's
Potential
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This book examines how cryptocurrencies based on blockchain
technologies fit into existing general law categories of public and
private law. The book takes the common law systems of the United
Kingdom as the centre of its study but extends beyond the UK to
show how cryptocurrencies would be accommodated in some Western
European and East Asian legal systems outside the common law
tradition. By investigating traditional conceptions of money in
public law and private law the work examines the difficulties of
fitting cryptocurrencies within those approaches and models.
Fundamental questions regarding issues of ownership, transfer,
conflict of laws, and taxation are addressed with a view to
equipping the reader with the tools to answer common transactional
questions about cryptocurrencies. The international contributor
team uses the common law systems of the United Kingdom as a basis
for the analysis, but also looks comparatively to other systems
across the wider common law and civil law world to provide detailed
examination of the legal problems encountered.
Using archival materials never previously accessible to Western
scholars, Michael David-Fox analyzes Bolshevik Party educational
and research initiatives in higher learning after 1917. His fresh
consideration of the era of the New Economic Policy and cultural
politics after the Revolution explains how new communist
institutions rose to parallel and rival conventional higher
learning from the Academy of Sciences to the universities.
Beginning with the creation of the first party school by
intellectuals on the island of Capri in 1909, David-Fox argues, the
Bolshevik cultural project was tightly linked to party educational
institutions. He provides the first account of the early history
and politics of three major institutions founded after the
Revolution: Sverdlov Communist University, where the quest to
transform everyday life gripped the student movement; the Institute
of Red Professors, where the Bolsheviks sought to train a new
communist intellectual or red specialist; and the Communist
Academy, headquarters for a planned, collectivist, proletarian
science.
Silence has many causes: shame, embarrassment, ignorance, a desire
to protect. The silence that has surrounded the atrocities
committed against the Jewish population of Eastern Europe and the
Soviet Union during World War II is particularly remarkable given
the scholarly and popular interest in the war. It, too, has many
causes--of which antisemitism, the most striking, is only one.
When, on July 10, 1941, in the wake of the German invasion of the
Soviet Union, local residents enflamed by Nazi propaganda murdered
the entire Jewish population of Jedwabne, Poland, the ferocity of
the attack horrified their fellow Poles. The denial of Polish
involvement in the massacre lasted for decades.
Since its founding, the journal "Kritika: Explorations in Russian
and Eurasian History" has led the way in exploring the East
European and Soviet experience of the Holocaust. This volume
combines revised articles from the journal and previously
unpublished pieces to highlight the complex interactions of
prejudice, power, and publicity. It offers a probing examination of
the complicity of local populations in the mass murder of Jews
perpetrated in areas such as Poland, Ukraine, Bessarabia, and
northern Bukovina and analyzes Soviet responses to the Holocaust.
Based on Soviet commission reports, news media, and other
archives, the contributors examine the factors that led certain
local residents to participate in the extermination of their Jewish
neighbors; the interaction of Nazi occupation regimes with various
sectors of the local population; the ambiguities of Soviet press
coverage, which at times reported and at times suppressed
information about persecution specifically directed at the Jews;
the extraordinary Soviet efforts to document and prosecute Nazi
crimes and the way in which the Soviet state's agenda informed that
effort; and the lingering effects of silence about the true impact
of the Holocaust on public memory and state responses.
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