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Hereford and Oxford in the century following the Restoration were
two widely contrasting sees. Hereford was old, dating from ad 676,
and large, sprawling over Herefordshire, half of Shropshire and
small parts of other border counties. The Oxford diocese, on the
other hand, dated from just 1542 and was compact, merely covering
the county of Oxfordshire. This interesting book concerns a
much-overlooked period in history, drawing on little-known original
sources to build a picture of the administration of these disparate
dioceses. There are fascinating insights into the working of the
church courts (which controlled people's lives in a way and to an
extent that would be unacceptable today), portrayals of the key
figures in both sees, and an analysis of diocesan patterns of
welfare and education provision. William Marshall's research also
reveals that there was a strong commitment to repair - or to build
new - places of worship, and to make good the damage caused to
Church infrastructure during the civil wars of the 1640s. The
closing chapters go on to examine the work of the bishops, their
social origins, their academic standards, their efficiency and
diligence. As a group, they certainly cut a more energetic and
conscientious figure than has often been supposed, and for the most
part, the author argues, they were competent men who saw and
acknowledged the weaknesses of the Church and sought to address
them. In a departure from commonly held wisdom, what emerges from
William Marshall's research is that in many places the Church at
the time was very much alive, and even vigorous. Its worst failings
were, he claims, in its social welfare and in the tedium of its
worship for the mass of the people, but here, at this time, it was
certainly neither asleep nor decadent.
Our Might Always: The 355th Fighter Group in World War II is an
exhaustive history in day-by-day combat diary format with over 800
rare images of the 355th including fifty color profiles of P-47s
and P-51s. The 355th was third in combined German aircraft
destroyed during World War II, first in ground credits, and fifth
in air-to-air victory credits within the 8th Air Force. The book is
extensively researched with respect to Luftwaffe units engaged, the
data tables are extremely detailed and extensive for aircraft,
pilots, victory credits, pilot rosters, losses, aces scores and
unit awards.
Between 1787 and 1798, the agricultural writer and land agent
William Marshall (1745 1818) published a number of works on the
rural economies of England, covering Norfolk, his native Yorkshire,
Gloucestershire, the Midlands and the South. This two-volume study
appeared in 1796 and investigated the farming, geography, public
works and produce of districts in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and
Cornwall. Volume 1 looks in detail at West Devon, the eastern parts
of Cornwall, and the South Hams. The coverage includes aspects of
the laws surrounding land ownership, farming implements peculiar to
the areas, woodland management, orchards and the production of
fruit-based liquors. The result is a richly detailed survey of the
area in the Georgian period and an important record of rural and
agricultural life, so often overlooked by other contemporary
chroniclers."
William Marshall (1745-1818), an experienced farmer and land agent,
published this work anonymously in 1785. (His later, two-volume
Planting and Rural Ornament is also reissued in this series.) His
intention here is 'to bring into one point of view, and arrange in
compendious form, the Art of Planting and Laying-Out Plantations',
which had been treated by previous authorities as two distinct
subjects. The book begins with instructions on propagation,
planting out and transplanting, followed by an outline of the
Linnaean system and an extensive alphabetical plant list (by Latin
names). The second part consists of advice on the use of plants in
the wider landscape: stands of timber for cutting, hedges,
woodlands, and the landscaping of 'grounds'. The work includes a
history of modern gardening, and discussions of 'factitious
accompaniments', including the hunting-box and the ornamented
cottage, though not the temple, which was 'a great act of folly'
according to Marshall's criteria.
William Marshall (1745-1818), from farming stock, became a farmer
and then estate manager and land agent after several years
conducting business in the West Indies. This 1779 book (one of his
earliest) describes his observations and experiments on his farm in
Surrey (which he later had to give up because of his partner's
bankruptcy). A description of the size, soil type and aspect of his
various fields is followed by a summary of the experiments he
carried out - mostly simple ones, such as comparing results if
seeded fields were rolled or not. Diary records over two years for
each crop are given, with areas sown, soil conditions and weather
data. A chapter is devoted to weather prognostications, and another
to day-to-day farm management and accounts. Marshall hoped that the
systematic reporting of his findings would be of use to others, and
the work provides interesting insights into the beginnings of
scientifically based agriculture.
William Marshall (1745-1818), from farming stock, became a farmer
and then estate manager and land agent after several years spent
conducting business in the West Indies. A pioneer of scientific
methods of farming, he published widely on best practice, and was
also known for his geographical surveys of agriculture. This
two-volume 1789 work covers the county of Gloucestershire, but also
includes dairy management in north Wiltshire and the orchards and
fruit products of Herefordshire. A hands-on reporter, Marshall
stayed in the vale of Gloucester to learn the art of cheese-making,
and then spent a year in various locations studying local farming
practice. Volume 1 describes the rural economy of the area, with
the different activities suited to the different geographical
locations and soil types, giving information on the types of land
tenure, crops and animals, and providing a list of 'provincialisms'
which offer fascinating insights into the Gloucestershire dialect.
William Marshall (1745-1818), from farming stock, became a farmer
and then estate manager and land agent after several years spent
conducting business in the West Indies. A pioneer of scientific
methods of farming, he published widely on best practice, and was
also known for his geographical surveys of agriculture. This
two-volume 1789 work covers the county of Gloucestershire, but also
includes dairy management in north Wiltshire and the orchards and
fruit products of Herefordshire. A hands-on reporter, Marshall
stayed in the vale of Gloucester to learn the art of cheese-making,
and then spent a year in various locations studying local farming
practice. Volume 2 covers the Cotswold Hills and the vale of
Berkeley, with detailed descriptions of dairy farming in these
areas. A section is devoted to Herefordshire, its orchards, and the
manufacturing processes and marketing of its famous 'fruit
liquors', cider and perry.
William Marshall (1745-1818), an experienced farmer and land agent,
published this work in 1795, and early in 1796 produced a second
edition (reissued here), 'with large additions'. The two-volume
work was intended as a practical guide for the owners or managers
of large estates on how to establish and maintain timber
plantations, both for their financial value and also as important
decorative elements in the landscaping of the surroundings of the
owner's house. The work covers the practical issues of planting,
propagating and transplanting, and discusses the choice of trees
for different commercial purposes, and the planning and maintenance
of hedgerows, as well as ornamental buildings. Volume 1 includes a
review of the writings on landscape by such figures as Horace
Walpole, (one of whose essays is reproduced), giving insights into
the economic as well as the aesthetic aspects of landscape
gardening in its golden age.
William Marshall (1745-1818), an experienced farmer and land agent,
published this work in 1795, and early in 1796 produced a second
edition (reissued here), 'with large additions'. The two-volume
work was intended as a practical guide for the owners or managers
of large estates on how to establish and maintain timber
plantations, both for their financial value and also as important
decorative elements in the landscaping of the surroundings of the
owner's house. The work covers the practical issues of planting,
propagating and transplanting, and discusses the choice of trees
for different commercial purposes, and the planning and maintenance
of hedgerows, as well as ornamental buildings. Volume 2 begins with
an account of the Linnaean system of plant classification and its
sexual basis, and supplies both an alphabetical list of trees and
shrubs in their Latin Linnaean classes, and an index of plants
under their English names.
Between 1787 and 1798, the agricultural writer and land agent
William Marshall (1745 1818) published a number of works on the
rural economies of England, covering Norfolk, his native Yorkshire,
Gloucestershire, the Midlands and the South. This two-volume study
appeared in 1796 and investigated the farming, geography, public
works and produce of districts in Devon, Somerset, Dorset and
Cornwall. Volume 2 looks in detail at the upland areas of Cornwall
and Devon, at Dartmoor, North Devon, the vales of Exeter and
Taunton, and West Dorset. The coverage includes aspects of the laws
surrounding land ownership, the chemistry of the soil, notes on the
dairy industry, and suggested improvements to farming practices.
The result is a richly detailed survey of the area in the Georgian
period and an important record of rural and agricultural life, so
often overlooked by other contemporary chroniclers."
The first in Marshall's unforgettable, classic series of police
procedurals - suspenseful and hilarious in equal measure.
Yellowthread Street is the sort of place that breeds more crime
than any cops can handle. Among the gangsters and the goldsmiths of
Hong Bay, Chief Inspector Feiffer and his police department had
their hands full . . . tourist troubles, a US sailor turned
stick-up artist, and the jealous Chinese who solved his marital
difficulties with an axe. Then the Mongolian with a kukri brought
an extra touch of terror to the district . . . Yellowthread Street
brings to vivid life a seamy world where people called Osaka Oniki
the Disemboweller, Shotgun Sen and The Chopper feel at home, a
world of surreal possibility recorded with unique humour and a
poignant sense of humanity.
In the seamy Hong Bay district of Hong Kong, crimes of every shape
and size are commonplace. But not letter bombs. Not till Mr Leung
and Mr Ramaswamy are successively spread bloodily over the office
walls. When Detective Inspector Spencer narrowly escapes becoming
victim number 3, the Yellowthread Street police are grimly
determined to track down the culprit - before the Special Branch
get to him. But unless they can find the link between the neatly
timed warning letters, the ghosts in the Chinese graveyard and the
strange mission of Mr Conway Kan the millionaire, the killer will
go free... Gelignite is another tense and exciting drama from the
pen of a master. Full of real police procedure, suspense and fine
irony, but with whole extra dimensions of the surreal and the
poignant, the Yellowthread Street novels have no real compare - a
hidden masterpiece of crime fiction.
"With personal interviews of players and owners and with over
two decades of research in newspapers and archives, Bill Marshall
tells of the players, the pennant races, and the officials who
shaped one of the most memorable eras in sports and American
history. At the end of World War II, soldiers returning from
overseas hungered to resume their love affair with baseball.
Spectators still identified with players, whose salaries and
off-season employment as postmen, plumbers, farmers, and insurance
salesmen resembled their own. It was a time when kids played
baseball on sandlots and in pastures, fans followed the game on the
radio, and tickets were affordable. The outstanding play of Joe
DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, Bob Feller, Don Newcombe,
Warren Spahn, and many others dominated the field. But perhaps no
performance was more important than that of Jackie Robinson, whose
entrance into the game broke the color barrier, won him the respect
of millions of Americans, and helped set the stage for the civil
rights movement. Baseball's Pivotal Era also records the attempt to
organize the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Mexican League's success in
luring players south of the border that led to a series of lawsuits
that almost undermined baseball's reserve clause and antitrust
exemption. The result was spring training pay, uniform contracts,
minimum salary levels, player representation, and a pension
plan--the very issues that would divide players and owners almost
fifty years later. During these years, the game was led by A.B.
""Happy"" Chandler, a hand-shaking, speech-making, singing Kentucky
politician. Most owners thought he would be easily manipulated,
unlike baseball's first commissioner, the autocratic Judge Kennesaw
Mountain Landis. Instead, Chandler's style led one owner to
complain that he was the ""player's commissioner, the fan's
commissioner, the press and radio commissioner, everybody's
commissioner but the men who pay him.""
A planeful of passengers dead from cyanide poisoning. Twelve bodies
riddled with bullets in the sewers of Hong Kong. And one evil
genius who outwits the cops at every turn . . . The voice on the
phone is cool - and vicious. His threat: a continued escalation of
terrorism until his blackmailing demands are met. For Chief Harry
Feiffer and his crew at the Yellowthread Street Police Station in
the most notorious section of Hong Kong, that is only the beginning
of the nightmare. As the city is paralyzed with fear, and tempers
within the police department reach breaking point, Feiffer is
thrust into the spotlight - as the prime suspect! This title in
William Marshall's acclaimed crime series offers suspense,
atmosphere, and pungent humour.
Postman Lawrence Shang was watching a film called The Axeman of
Shanghai when his life abruptly ended. Carpet trader Edward Peng
was enjoying The Last Picture Show. Death in both cases was
instantaneous, caused by a small calibre handgun used at a range of
two feet. With their deaths begins a series of apparently
motiveless murders in one cinema after another across the Hong Bay
district of Hong Kong - and a nightmarish investigation for Harry
Feiffer, Detective Chief Inspector, Royal Hong Kong Police Force,
and his staff at the Yellowthread Police Station. The Hatchet Man's
next victim is a sailor off an American ship. Then a German is shot
in an auction room. There's an unaccountable killing on a train
near the Chinese border. And the crazy old Mrs Mortimer from the
Old People's Home steps in front of a tram . . . And for Harry
Feiffer, time is running out. Full of real police procedure,
suspense and fine irony, but with whole extra dimensions of the
surreal and the poignant, the Yellowthread Street novels have no
real compare - a hidden masterpiece of crime fiction.
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The distinctive feature of this Federal Courts casebook, and the
main difference between it and other Federal Courts books, is its
systematic focus on remedial issues, especially the problems that
arise when a litigant tries to enforce federal constitutional
rights against state officers in the federal courts. Departing from
the traditional approach of Federal Courts books, the book begins
with a chapter on 1983 litigation, and includes a comprehensive
treatment of habeas corpus. The book stresses economy of means,
clarity of presentation, and attention to the real-world Federal
Courts issues that students need to understand and anticipate. This
edition covers the principal cases decided by the Supreme Court
over the past four years, including Hertz Corp. v. Friend (chapter
3), Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation and Massachusetts v.
EPA (chapter 4), Watson v. Philip Morris and Haywood v. Drown
(chapter 7), Boumediene v. Bush, Danforth v. Minnesota, Schriro v.
Landrigan, Panetti v. Quarterman, and Magwood v. Patterson (chapter
9).
In the early stages of World War Two, the Italian Forces in
Abyssinia, East Africa, consisting of 200,000 troops and nearly 400
aircraft constituted a grave threat to Kenya and the Sudan. To meet
this threat three South African Air Force (SAAF) fighter squadrons
were deployed to East Africa to counter the attacking Italian Air
Force. The three squadrons operated mostly old and antiquated
bi-planes in the form of Hawker Furies, Gloster Gauntlets and
Gloster Gladiators. Between then they did also operate a number of
Hawker Hurricane Mk. Is, of which some still had fabric wing
surfaces and two-bladed wooden propellers. These aircraft were also
passed along between the various units, depending on the area that
had the highest requirement. Among the three squadrons, 1 Squadron
primarily used Gloster Gladiators, while 2 Squadron used Furies and
Gladiators, with 3 Squadron being the primary users of the
Hurricanes. These units were joined by 4 Squadron, training on
Furies and Curtiss Mohawks, before moving to Egypt for operations
in the Desert. 3 Squadron later converted to these Curtiss Mohawks,
and eventually ended up with a mix of Mohawks, again supplemented
by Gladiators. 41 Squadron, an Army-Cooperation unit, also
converted to a fighter squadron after the major campaign was
completed and served as a holding unit in East Africa, flying
Hawker Hurricane Mk. IIs. One Detached Flight, operating Mohawks
during the final part of the campaign, was renumbered as B-Flight
of 3 Squadron and joined the primary unit for the last major
operations in East Africa. The squadrons operated on all fronts in
Somaliland and Abyssinia, and made a considerable contribution
towards the victory that was achieved in that campaign. Commenting
on the part, that the SAAF Fighter Squadrons played in the
campaign, Sir Archibald Sinclair said: "When the Italian come to
draw up a list of the factors that caused them to lose the East
African Empire, they will place the South African Air Force
somewhere near the top of the list". This volume covers the combat
history of these fighter squadrons during the campaign, as well as
the colors and markings of their aircraft. Primary sources, such as
Squadron war Diaries and Pilot Logbooks. were used in the
preparation of the text contained herein. This volume contains 23
full-color plates and 112 b&wphotos, indicating the people and
aircraft operated by these squadrons. This volume will be followed
by two further volumes, tracing the onwards history of these
squadrons as well as additional SAAF Fighter Squadrons during the
campaign in North Africa and Malta, and the campaign in Sicily,
Italy and the Balkans. The authors have already written eight books
covering the colors and markings of the SAAF and SA Army equipment
in a series of booklets entitled South African Colours and
Markings, numbers 1 to 8.
For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A.
Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and
Commerce-one of the most powerful committees in Congress-Bruce C.
Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer's look at how committees
develop and promote legislation. With its insider's view of the
rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform,
tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee
uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory
and literature of political science. The authors engage with the
important questions that political science asks about committee
power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning
policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the
House. The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation
in Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a
chairman's role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both
novice and die-hard readers of politics.
For three years while serving as a senior adviser to Rep. Henry A.
Waxman (D-CA), chairman of the House Committee on Energy and
Commerce-one of the most powerful committees in Congress-Bruce C.
Wolpe kept a diary, a senior staffer's look at how committees
develop and promote legislation. With its insider's view of the
rough-and-tumble politics of cap-and-trade, healthcare reform,
tobacco, oversight, and the debt ceiling agreement, The Committee
uniquely melds the art of politics and policymaking with the theory
and literature of political science. The authors engage with the
important questions that political science asks about committee
power, partisanship, and the strategies used to build winning
policy coalitions both in the Committee and on the floor of the
House. In this new edition, the authors revisit the relationship
between the executive and Congress in the wake of the sweeping
changes wrought by the Trump administration, as well as thoughts
about how that relationship will change again as President Biden
faces a 117th Congress that is strikingly similar to Obama's 111th.
The insider politics and strategies about moving legislation in
Congress, from internal and external coalition building to a
chairman's role in framing policy narratives, will captivate both
novice and die-hard readers of politics.
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