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When Jeff Buckley drowned at the age of thirty in 1997, he not only left behind a legacy of brilliant music -- he brought back haunting memories of his father, '60s troubadour Tim Buckley, a gifted musician who barely knew his son and who himself died at twenty-eight. Both father and son made transcendent music that mixed rock, jazz, and folk; both amassed a cadre of obsessive, adoring fans. This absorbing dual biography -- based on interviews with more than one hundred friends, family members, and business associates as well as access to journals and unreleased recordings -- tells for the first time the intriguing, often heartbreaking story of these two musicians. It offers a new understanding of the Buckleys' parallel lives -- and tragedies -- while exploring the changing music business between the '60s and the '90s. Finally, it tells the story of a father and son, two complex, enigmatic men who died searching for themselves and each other.
* Designed as a core textbook for a broad range of essential
Marketing courses and modules, with textbook pedagogy included
throughout to aid understanding and cement learning. * Uniquely
practical and applied in its approach with an emphasis on
employability, with a 25,000-word running case study embedded
within each chapter, which enables students to 'progress' through a
'marketing career' by applying their newly learned knowledge into
realistic and modern context. * Unlike the competition in the area,
this is a concise textbook, which is user-friendly for a wide,
international readership.
Eruptions, Initiatives and Evolution in Citizen Activism is the
result of a collaborative research project spanning Asia, Africa,
Latin America, and Europe. The book analyses internal and external
challenges to civil society in more than twenty countries. It
investigates through studies of ountries that include South Africa,
India and the Netherlands of civil society evolution; examinations
of citizen activism, such as Occupy London, the Chilean student
movement, the Cambodian farmers campaign against land grabs;
regional overviews such as the Southern Cone of Latin America,
Southern Africa, and Russia. The studies identify changing roles,
capacities, contributions and limitations of civil society in
response to changing political, economic and social contexts. The
book goes on to present selected studies, identifies patterns and
lessons that emerge across countries and regions. It articulates
implications of those lessons for practitioners and policy makers
concerned with civil society contributions to national and regional
development.
This book was published as a special double issue of Development
in Practice.
This book is about the transformation of England's trade and
government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution
that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the
'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but
sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting
secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the
foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a
dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject
Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is
the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and
their profound political influence. It is essential reading for
students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the
origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement. --
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This book seeks to help shape the debate surrounding power and
polarity in the twenty-first century both by assessing the
likelihood of US decline and by analysing what each of the
so-called 'rising powers' can do (in terms of 'hard' and 'soft'
power), what they want to do (i.e. foreign and security policy),
and the weaknesses and obstacles that may hinder their continued
development. In doing so, it will examine the implications of a
multipolar world for international security. American supremacy has
generated intense debate surrounding both the nature and quality of
this power, as well as the execution and thrust of US foreign
policy. At the same time, significant developments in four rising
powers - China, Russia, India and the European Union -- have
provoked analysts to ask whether multipolarity is a realistic
prospect. Such a development may result from a rebalancing
occasioned by US decline or because the US, still hugely powerful,
is joined by two or more of these states (or - in the case of the
EU -- a collection of states). To be considered a pole', the
potential competitors to the US will have to either amass
sufficient power in all of Waltz's categories of power (including
population size, territory, resources, economic wealth, military
strength and competence') or manage to reshape the power paradigm
to reflect a new kind of superpower. Written by a combination of
emerging scholars and recognised experts, this volume will provide
a timely and authoritative analysis of one of the most
controversial and compelling security debates of the twenty-first
century. The book will appeal to students of International
Relations, Security Studies and Foreign Policy.
A practical, road-tested vision and process to equip church leaders
to reinvigorate their church How can churches stay healthy and
dynamic over the long-term? What's needed to avoid or reverse
church stagnation and decline? While some churches are vibrant and
growing, many more are struggling, especially after Covid. The
congregation might be declining and ageing, there's little success
in reaching out to with the gospel, and more time is spent on
inward facing problems than loving God and loving others. But the
potential that could be released is huge. David Brown draws on his
experience revitalising a church in central Paris to offer a vision
and a process for church revitalisation, with a focus on UK and
European contexts. Whether you are church planting, in a
well-established and thriving church, or looking to turn around a
church in decline, Brown provides biblically grounded wisdom along
with change management principles for long-term health. When we
reapply God's priorities to the church, we unleash new life and
energy in following Christ in community.
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The New Punitiveness (Hardcover)
John Pratt, David Brown, Mark Brown, Simon Hallsworth, Wayne Morrison
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Throughout much of the western world more and more people are being
sent to prison, one of a number of changes inspired by a 'new
punitiveness' in penal and political affairs. This book seeks to
understand these developments, bringing together leading
authorities in the field to provide a wide-ranging analysis of new
penal trends, compare the development of differing patterns of
punishment across different types of societies, and to provide a
range of theoretical analyses and commentaries to help understand
their significance. As well as increases in imprisonment this book
is also concerned to address a number of other aspects of 'the new
punitiveness': firstly, the return of a number of forms of
punishment previously thought extinct or inappropriate, such as the
return of shaming punishments and chain gangs (in parts of the
USA); and secondly, the increasing public involvement in penal
affairs and penal development, for example in relation to length of
sentences and the California Three Strikes Law, and a growing
accreditation of the rights of victims. The book will be essential
reading for students seeking to understand trends and theories of
punishment on law, criminology, penology and other courses.
This volume deals with the first 15 months of the Mediterranean
Campaign including the preparations for war and the entry of Italy
into the war on 10th June 1940. The Royal Navy's attack on Oran on
3rd July resulted in the sinking of one French battleship and two
others damaged with heavy loss of life while another one escaped to
France. The attack, three days later on Mers-el-Kebir by carrier
aircraft, damaged another French battleship in port. Also covered
are the first battles against the Italian fleet at Calabria and
Cape Spada which left one Italian battleship damaged and a heavy
cruiser sunk. The account ends in August with the first
Mediterranean convoy battle to run supplies from Gibraltar to
Alexandria - Operation Hat.
This is the official Naval Staff history of the Norway campaign,
originally published internally in 1951. It covers the period from
early April 1940 to the completion of operations in June. The
operation involved most of the Royal Navy's ships in the Home
theatre at the time.
This is an interspiritual commentary --Â largely though not
exclusively Buddhist-inspired --Â on the life of Elijah as
recounted in the Bible. It treats the externals of his life as
metaphors for internal mind-states, his story as a labyrinth-like
journey toward enlightenment, an unfolding realization of the
non-duality of himself and God. Elijah begins with a henotheistic
conception of God as a national deity connected to the land of
Israel and progresses to a realization of God as the ground of
being, being-itself, the God of those who struggle with God, which
is the deeper meaning of the name Israel. While the inner dimension
is emphasized, there is also a focus on the political dimension of
the story, which liberation theologians call God’s preferential
option for the poor, and here it is called the politics of
anatta -- the core Buddhist principle of not-self.
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as
reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical
analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a
necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the
emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced,
wide-ranging, and compelling introduction to this significant and
recurrent theme in literary history. David Brown Morris argues that
wandering, as a primal and recurrent human experience, is basic to
the understanding of certain literary texts. In turn, certain
prominent literary and cultural texts (from Paradise Lost to pop
songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the
film Nomadland) demonstrate how representations of wandering have
changed across cultures, times, and genres. Wanderers provides an
initial overview necessary to grasp the importance of wandering
both as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical
event, including contemporary forms such as homelessness and
climate migration that make urgent claims upon us. Wanderers takes
you on a thoroughly enjoyable and informative stroll through a
significant concept that will be of interest to those studying or
researching literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.
* Designed as a core textbook for a broad range of essential
Marketing courses and modules, with textbook pedagogy included
throughout to aid understanding and cement learning. * Uniquely
practical and applied in its approach with an emphasis on
employability, with a 25,000-word running case study embedded
within each chapter, which enables students to 'progress' through a
'marketing career' by applying their newly learned knowledge into
realistic and modern context. * Unlike the competition in the area,
this is a concise textbook, which is user-friendly for a wide,
international readership.
This book introduces the idea and experience of wandering, as
reflected in cultural texts from popular songs to philosophical
analysis, providing both a fascinating informal history and a
necessary vantage point for understanding - in our era - the
emergence of new wanderers. Wanderers offers a fast-paced,
wide-ranging, and compelling introduction to this significant and
recurrent theme in literary history. David Brown Morris argues that
wandering, as a primal and recurrent human experience, is basic to
the understanding of certain literary texts. In turn, certain
prominent literary and cultural texts (from Paradise Lost to pop
songs, from Wordsworth to the blues, from the Wandering Jew to the
film Nomadland) demonstrate how representations of wandering have
changed across cultures, times, and genres. Wanderers provides an
initial overview necessary to grasp the importance of wandering
both as a perennial human experience and as a changing historical
event, including contemporary forms such as homelessness and
climate migration that make urgent claims upon us. Wanderers takes
you on a thoroughly enjoyable and informative stroll through a
significant concept that will be of interest to those studying or
researching literature, cultural studies, and philosophy.
This book offers a fresh assessment of George W. Bush's foreign
policies. It is not designed to offer an evaluation of the totality
of George W. Bush's foreign policy. Instead, the analysis will
focus on the key aspects of his foreign and security policy record,
in each case considering the interplay between principle and
pragmatism. The underpinning contention here is that policy
formulation and implementation across Bush's two terms can more
usefully be analysed in terms of shades of grey, rather than the
black and white hues in which it has often been painted. Thus, in
some key policy areas it will be seen that the overall record was
more pragmatic and successful than his many critics have been
prepared to give him credit for. The president and his advisers
were sometimes prepared to alter and amend their policy direction,
on occasion significantly. Context and personalities, interpersonal
and interagency, both played a role here. Where these came together
most visibly - for instance in connection with dual impasses over
Iraq and Iran - exigencies on the ground sometimes found expression
in personnel changes. In turn, the changing fortunes of Bush's
first term principals presaged policy changes in his second. What
emerges from a more detached study of key aspects of the Bush
administration - during a complicated and challenging period in the
United States' post-Cold War history, marked by the dramatic
emergence of international Islamist terrorism as the dominant
international security threat - is a more complex picture than any
generalization can ever hope to sustain, regardless of how often it
is repeated. This book will be of much interest to students of US
foreign policy, international politics and security studies.
Exam Board: Edexcel Level: A level Subject: History First teaching:
September 2015 First exams: June 2017 This book: covers the
essential content in the new specifications in a rigorous and
engaging way, using detailed narrative, sources, timelines, key
words, helpful activities and extension material helps develop
conceptual understanding of areas such as evidence,
interpretations, causation and change, through targeted activities
provides assessment support for both AS and A level with sample
answers, sources, practice questions and guidance to help you
tackle the new-style exam questions. It also comes with three
years' access to ActiveBook, an online, digital version of your
textbook to help you personalise your learning as you go through
the course - perfect for revision.
Expertly steering readers through the often tumultuous and
exhilarating history of the United States, from its early modern
Native American roots to twenty-first-century neoliberalism and the
shifting political climate of the past decade, this highly readable
textbook provides a compelling overview of American development
over the last five centuries. This book avoids either celebratory
or condemnatory rhetoric to present a critical examination of
domestic America and its interaction with the rest of the world.
Balancing coverage of political, social, cultural, and economic
history, each chapter also includes a wealth of features to
facilitate learning: Timelines situating key events in their wider
chronology Lists of topics covered within each chapter for easy
reference Concept boxes discussing selected issues in more detail
Historiography boxes exploring key debates Chapter summaries
offering condensed outlines of the main themes of each chapter
Further reading lists guiding readers to additional resources Maps
and images bringing to life important events and figures from
America's history Clearly and engagingly written and positioning
America's narrative within the wider global context, this textbook
is particularly accessible for non-US students and is the perfect
introduction for those new to US history. This textbook is also
supported by a companion website offering interactive content
including a timeline, multiple-choice quizzes, and links to
selected web resources.
Published in 1996, this book aims to address the problem faced by
teachers needing basic information about the subject they have been
asked to teach. It includes addresses of publishers, suppliers,
agencies and organizations which should be useful for teachers.
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