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Absenteeism (Hardcover)
Lady Morgan, Thomas Charles Morgan
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Discovery Miles 8 130
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Charles Morgan, a confirmed atheist, argues that the Christian
church does in fact have a vital message and could play a major
role in modern society. However it insists of making itself
inaccessible to modern people with its layers of mumbo jumbo and
strange and unlikely beliefs. In this book he maps out just how the
church might apply the philosophy of Jesus Christ in a secular
world order. Morgan also shows how, from the point of view of a
scientist, the intelligent design and Creation theories have some
of the truth in them and goes on to show how meditation and the use
of designer mood drugs could fit into modern society and Christian
ethics.
Charles Morgan, a confirmed atheist, argues that the Christian
church does in fact have a vital message and could play a major
role in modern society. However it insists of making itself
inaccessible to modern people with its layers of mumbo jumbo and
strange and unlikely beliefs. In this book he maps out just how the
church might apply the philosophy of Jesus Christ in a secular
world order. Morgan also shows how, from the point of view of a
scientist, the intelligent design and Creation theories have some
of the truth in them and goes on to show how meditation and the use
of designer mood drugs could fit into modern society and Christian
ethics.
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the
1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly
expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in
affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text
and artwork.
Originally published in 1935, this book charts the revolution from
a banking to an industrial conception of currency which took place
between 1922 and 1932. Having failed to stabilise the purchasing
power of gold, General Strong stabilised the purchasing power of
the dollar, an idea which was revived on an international scale by
the Ottawa Conference of 1932. The stabilisation of purchasing
power, independently of gold, was subsequently adopted as the
keystone of British currency policy.
Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when
the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny. Global
financial circles were discussing the necessity of reducing the
price of gold, pressing for the return of Britain to a gold
standard and imposing a managed currency. Against a background of
post-war monetary and financial dislocations, the author argues
that the unique monetary quality of gold is its liquidity, and its
universal acceptability as a natural form of money throughout the
world.
Originally published in 1935, this book charts the revolution from
a banking to an industrial conception of currency which took place
between 1922 and 1932. Having failed to stabilise the purchasing
power of gold, General Strong stabilised the purchasing power of
the dollar, an idea which was revived on an international scale by
the Ottawa Conference of 1932. The stabilisation of purchasing
power, independently of gold, was subsequently adopted as the
keystone of British currency policy.
Originally published in 1931, this book was written at a time when
the utility and value of gold was under great scrutiny. Global
financial circles were discussing the necessity of reducing the
price of gold, pressing for the return of Britain to a gold
standard and imposing a managed currency. Against a background of
post-war monetary and financial dislocations, the author argues
that the unique monetary quality of gold is its liquidity, and its
universal acceptability as a natural form of money throughout the
world.
Valérie André is one of the great military aviators of the
twentieth century. She was the first woman to fly a helicopter in
combat and one of the first three helicopter medevac pilots. Flying
more than 150 helicopter rescue missions during the French war in
Indochina (including at Dien Bien Phu), and parachuting into the
field twice, André was a trailblazer, a pioneer of flying
helicopters in combat and an innovator of battlefield medicine, who
risked her life to treat the wounded, whether they were French or
Vietnamese, whether they were friend, civilian, or foe. Aviation
historian Charles Morgan Evans tells her story with verve and
pathos. André was born in Strasbourg, France, in 1922. From an
early age, she wanted to fly, but as a woman, she faced challenges.
While boys could receive government-funded flight lessons, André
had to pay for hers by tutoring. During World War II, she left
Strasbourg against German prohibitions in order to study medicine
in Paris, where she completed her studies under threat of arrest by
the Gestapo. Assigned to an army hospital in Saigon in French
Indochina in the late 1940s, André trained as a neurosurgeon,
performing one hundred procedures per month. When the French
medical corps developed mobile surgical units to be air-dropped
into military outposts, she quickly volunteered, and then when the
service acquired a few primitive helicopters, she volunteered for
that, which meant learning to fly helicopters in combat. Flying
through bullets and bombs, fatigue, parasitic illness, and
mechanical issues with the helicopters— not to mention the French
army’s prejudice against a female pilot and surgeon—André
nonetheless became a legend in Indochina. The Vietnamese called her
“the woman who comes down from the sky” and “Mrs.
Ventilator.” On one day in December 1951, she flew her chopper
into the teeth of antiaircraft fire to a besieged base, where she
performed emergency brain surgeries, then flew the wounded to
hospitals in Hanoi, two at a time. After Indochina, she continued
to be an innovator in military aviation and medicine as well as an
advocate for women’s integration into the French military. In the
early 1960s, she flew another 236 missions in Algeria. In 1975, she
became the first female general in the French army, and at her
retirement, she had flown nearly 500 combat missions, logged 4,000
hours in helicopters, and won the Croix de Guerre five times, the
Cross of Military Valor twice, and the Grand Cross of the National
Order of Merit. André, who just turned ninety-nine, is still alive
and lives near Paris, and this book is based on a series of author
interviews with her and comprehensive research in other sources.
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Absenteeism (Paperback)
Lady Morgan, Thomas Charles Morgan
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R508
Discovery Miles 5 080
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Time (Paperback)
Charles Morgan
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R463
Discovery Miles 4 630
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