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In this sequel to 'Escape from the Planet of the Apes' the year is
1991. Caesar (Roddy McDowall), the son of Zira and Cornelius, has
been sheltered for 18 years by circus owner Armando (Ricardo
Montalban). Following a plague which wiped out all cats and dogs,
apes have been adopted as pets by humans, but when Caesar sees them
being treated as slaves, he leads his brother simians in rebellion
against their overlords.
Over the last twenty years research on the Reformation in Germany
has shifted both chronologically and thematically toward an
interest in the 'long' or 'delayed' Reformations, and the structure
and operation of the Holy Roman Empire. Whilst this focus has
resulted in many fascinating new insights, it has also led to the
relative neglect of the early Reformation movement. Put together
with the explicit purpose of encouraging scholars to reengage with
the early 'storm years' of the German Reformation, this collection
of eleven essays by Tom Scott, explores several issues in the
historiography of the early Reformation which have not been
adequately addressed. The debate over the nature and function of
anticlericalism remains unresolved; the mainsprings of iconoclasm
are still imperfectly understood; the ideological role of
evangelical doctrines in stimulating and legitimising popular
rebellion - above all in the German Peasants' War - remains
contentious, while the once uniform view of Anabaptism has given
way to a recognition of the plurality and diversity of religious
radicalism. Equally, there are questions which, initially broached,
have then been sidelined with undue haste: the failure of Reforming
movements in certain German cities, or the perception of what
constituted heresy in the eyes of the Reformers themselves, and not
least, the part played by women in the spread of evangelical
doctrines. Consisting of seven essays previously published in
scholarly journals and edited volumes, together with three new
chapters and an historical afterword, Scott's volume serves as a
timely reminder of the importance of the early decades of the
sixteenth century. By reopening seemingly closed issues and by
revisiting neglected topics the volume contributes to a more
nuanced understanding of what the Reformation in Germany entailed.
On an Empty Stomach examines the practical techniques humanitarians
have used to manage and measure starvation, from Victorian
"scientific" soup kitchens to space-age, high-protein foods.
Tracing the evolution of these techniques since the start of the
nineteenth century, Tom Scott-Smith argues that humanitarianism is
not a simple story of progress and improvement, but rather is
profoundly shaped by sociopolitical conditions. Aid is often
presented as an apolitical and technical project, but the way
humanitarians conceive and tackle human needs has always been
deeply influenced by culture, politics, and society. Txhese
influences extend down to the most detailed mechanisms for
measuring malnutrition and providing sustenance. As Scott-Smith
shows, over the past century, the humanitarian approach to hunger
has redefined food as nutrients and hunger as a medical condition.
Aid has become more individualized, medicalized, and rationalized,
shaped by modernism in bureaucracy, commerce, and food technology.
On an Empty Stomach focuses on the gains and losses that result,
examining the complex compromises that arise between efficiency of
distribution and quality of care. Scott-Smith concludes that
humanitarian groups have developed an approach to the empty stomach
that is dependent on compact, commercially produced devices and is
often paternalistic and culturally insensitive.
Charles Upham was the most highly decorated soldier in the
Commonwealth forces of WWII, and could arguably be called the
bravest soldier of the war. An unassuming stock worker/ valuer at
the beginning of the war, he stormed through Crete and the Western
Desert amazing and confounding his comrades with his exploits. He
won two Victoria Crosses (the only combat soldier ever to do so)
and in the opinion of his superiors deserved many more. Captured,
he became an escape artist and ended his war in the famous Colditz
POW camp. Shy and reluctant to take credit for his actions, he
deflected all praise onto his soldiers and was described as
“distraught” that he had been honoured. He then farmed in North
Canterbury until his death in 1994, avoiding the limelight wherever
possible. There has been one previous biography, “Mark of the
Lion” published in 1962, which was a major bestseller and sells
to this day.
The CIA sends an American Homeland Security Agent on a special
assignment to Italy to search for a shipment of smuggled
surface-to-air missiles, and the ingredients for a dirty bomb.
Benjamin Stafford is a wise cracking former U.S. Army Ranger, who
fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was raised in Dothan, Alabama,
where his parents still live. Stafford has followed in his
stepfathers footsteps, and gotten a job with the Department of
Homeland Security. As an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
Agent, he works in Washington D.C., where he meets a fellow ICE
agent named Frank Hernandez, who wants to be safe, and Beth St.
James, who wants to reintroduce him to the God he pushed away years
ago. While searching for the reasons behind a big decline in
cocaine seizures along the Mexican border, Stafford learns that a
fellow agent has been murdered. A U.S. Senator claims that he has
proof the U.S. government is behind the deaths of thousands of
Americans. Anti-government demonstrations are occurring all over
the country. Politicians are calling for the President to resign.
Stafford's superiors are trusting him to find out who murdered the
agent, why the cocaine seizures have declined, why thousands of
Americans are dying, and what part a retired Army General might
have had in these crimes. Stafford must find the answers, and save
America's future.
By the year 2000, the most critical world problem--as things stand
now--will be sustaining the human race. The quality and the
availability of food will continue to be central to this issue.
However, since the beginning of the final quarter of the twentieth
century, few attempts have been made to organize and integrate
information applying our knowledge of the regulation of plant
growth to the enhancement of the world's yield of food, forage,
fiber, and other useful plants. It is appropriate, therefore, to
approach a solution to future human needs by combining an area of
basic science with a defined and needed application of it. The
purpose of this NATO Advanced Study Institute--Plant Regulation and
World Agriculture--is reflected in the content of this volume. It
covers a wide range of physiological processes including
photosynthesis, translocation, seed germination, source sink
relationships, water relationships, flowering, fruiting, and
adaptations to stress. The identification, chemistry, and bio
chemistry of naturally occurring as well as known and new synthetic
plant growth regulators are discussed in relation to productivity,
growth retardation, and herbicidal activity. Other topics include
plant breeding and genetics, tissue culture and its use in the
improvement of and the increase in plant varieties, and ecological
implications in agriculture. Chapter titles in bold print in the
Table of Contents designate keynote presentations for the three
major subtopics in Section II."
Title: The Hawick Tradition of 1514: the town's common, flag, and
seal, etc. With plates and a map.]Publisher: British Library,
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British Library Craig, Matthew Robert Smith; Laing, Adam; Scott,
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Drawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of
Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days,
his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his
fallings out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic
legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and Murray Ball, his travels to the
ends of the earth with his close friend Ed Hillary, and more...
Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume
brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with
a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced
migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this
oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range
of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law,
architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a
particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections
on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design
and displacement.
Questioning what shelter is and how we can define it, this volume
brings together essays on different forms of refugee shelter, with
a view to widening public understanding about the lives of forced
migrants and developing theoretical understanding of this
oft-neglected facet of the refugee experience. Drawing on a range
of disciplines, including sociology, anthropology, law,
architecture, and history, each of the chapters describes a
particular shelter and uses this to open up theoretical reflections
on the relationship between architecture, place, politics, design
and displacement.
The current debate about the best methods of European organization
- central or regional - is influenced by an awareness of regional
identity, which offers an alternative to the rigidities of
organization by nation-state. Yet where does the sense of
regionalism come from? What are the distinctive factors that
transform a geographical area into a particular 'region'? Tom Scott
addresses these questions in this study of one apparently 'natural'
region - the Upper Rhine - between 1450 and 1600. This region has
been divided between three countries and so historically
marginalized, yet Dr Scott is able to trace the existence of a
sense of historical regional identity cutting across national
frontiers, founded on common economic interests. But that identity
was always contingent and precarious, neither 'natural' nor
immutable.
This regional study examines the declining fortunes of a craft town
on the Upper Rhine from 1450 to 1530, in the context of its
relations with the country communities around it. In the debate on
the transition between feudalism and capitalism in this period,
rival interpretations have focused on town and country in isolation
from each other. Tom Scott has used the techniques of historical
and economic geography to examine them as a totality, consciously
writing regional history, but also contributing to the wider
history and theory of revolution as he extends these techniques to
analyse popular protest.
Society and Economy in Germany, 1300-1600 surveys the social and economic development of the German-speaking lands from the age of the Black Death to the eve of the Thirty Years War. It outlines the political geography of the German lands, the aristocratic character of the Empire as a constitutional polity based on a society of Estates, and the changes in society and economy in the wake of the late medieval agrarian crisis. It examines in detail divergent regional and economic trends, and the widening social gulf between the West German landlordship and the new seigneurialism east of the Elbe, and gives wide coverage of urban and rural revolts.
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