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Flamboyant, cultured and refined, aristocracy is often seen as a
national treasure. Lords of Misrule takes a different view and
considers the role of an aristocracy behaving badly. This is a book
about the political, social and moral failings of aristocracy and
the ways in which they have featured in political rhetoric. Drawing
on the views of critics of aristocracy, it explores the dark side
of power without responsibility. Less 'patrician paragons' than
dissolute and debauched debtors, the aristocrats featured here
undermined, rather than augmented, the fabric of national life. For
the first time, Lords of Misrule recaptures the views of those
radicals and reformers who were prepared to contemplate a Britain
without aristocrats.
I have been asked to write a brief foreword to this volume honoring
Hisako Ikeda, providing a review of the accomplishments in our
field over the past four decades, when Hisako was an active
participant. This I am delighted to do. It has been a most exciting
time in vision research and Hisako has been right in the middle of
much of the excitement, publishing on a wide variety of topics and
providing much new data and many new insights. Hisako's research
career can be divided by decades into four quite distinct areas of
inquiry. In the 1950s, as a student in Japan, her research
interests were psychophysical in nature, and she was concerned with
visual illusions, figural aftereffects, and motion detec tion. In
the 1960s, after her move to London, she began electrophysiological
studies. Much of her work in the 1960s was concerned with the
electroretinogram (ERG), its components, and the use of this
electrical response for evaluating spectral sensitivities of the
eye and retinal degenerations. This work represented the beginning
of her electrodiagnostic clinical work, which continued until her
retirement."
I have been asked to write a brief foreword to this volume honoring
Hisako Ikeda, providing a review of the accomplishments in our
field over the past four decades, when Hisako was an active
participant. This I am delighted to do. It has been a most exciting
time in vision research and Hisako has been right in the middle of
much of the excitement, publishing on a wide variety of topics and
providing much new data and many new insights. Hisako's research
career can be divided by decades into four quite distinct areas of
inquiry. In the 1950s, as a student in Japan, her research
interests were psychophysical in nature, and she was concerned with
visual illusions, figural aftereffects, and motion detec tion. In
the 1960s, after her move to London, she began electrophysiological
studies. Much of her work in the 1960s was concerned with the
electroretinogram (ERG), its components, and the use of this
electrical response for evaluating spectral sensitivities of the
eye and retinal degenerations. This work represented the beginning
of her electrodiagnostic clinical work, which continued until her
retirement."
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Operation Hannibal
Anthony Taylor; Bob Taylor
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R472
Discovery Miles 4 720
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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What happens when all heaven breaks loose? The idyllic setting of a
university town on the Mid-Wales coast. New arrivals from various
parts of Britain, exhilarated and apprehensive at the prospect of
grappling with the unfamiliar, in learning, ideas - and life. Four
boys, extrovert, loner, poetry lover, aspiring intellectual. A
malapropistic landlady. Three girls, one worldly, one demurely
innocent, one full of adolescent ardour. A lecturer and would-be
writer romantically inclined towards his students. And ever-present
in all its moods, watching the human drama unfold, inspirer and
tempter, lovely and sinister, the sea. The situation is ripe for a
series of adventures, by turns comic, traumatic, poignant and, for
one of the characters, ultimately tragic.
Anthony Taylor's poems and songs offer a range of topics and
emotions as varied as life itself - from the warm-hearted humour of
The Hugging Song and the playful but touching romanticism of I'd
Like To Be The Morning Sun to the despairing voices of Russian
Roulette and Commuter's Lament; from the tenderness of Dream Of Me
Tonight to the indictments of war in First Moustache and Gorillas
Hearing Gunfire; from celebrations of natural beauty in Winter Sun
Over Aberystwyth and Samothrace to the grief of The Daffodils
Outside My Mother's Window and Skeleton House; from the joyful
assurance of Sailboats In The Sky to the ominous note sounded in
Dead Hedgehog; from the contentment of Canals to the sad
solitariness of Alone Eighty and Missing. In between, the verse
takes in such diverse subjects as music, summers and sand,
commuting, snow, rugby, busking, faith, cruelty to animals and
world conflict and peace. Through all there shines a love of and
concern for life and living things.
"WHEN LOVE IS BY CHOICE INSTEAD OF CHANCE"
"When Love Is By Choice Instead Of Chance" takes a fresh look at
relationships between lovers and spouses, and parents and
children.
We are shown the difference between the strength of making
choices, and the weakness of leaving what we value up to
chance.
It encourages opening our hearts and minds to a fuller
expression of potential for understanding, intimacy, caring, and
love.
It shows that taking relationship needs for granted is a sure
way of promising that those needs may never be fulfilled.
Author Clarence Taylor introduces us to constructive-acceptance,
constructive-compromise, primary-relationship, primary-affection,
affection-deficit, and the acronym S.E.L.F.
Taylor also simplifies the meaning of self-love.
There is a real need in society for a deeper respect and
responsibility toward relationships. "When Love Is By Choice
Instead Of Chance" offers us a reason to take a deeper look at who
we ourselves and those we relate to are. It is, in the
quintessential meaning of the word, dynamite, in a small
package.
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