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David Jordan has chosen 15 of the best short walks around Arnside
and Silverdale for you to explore. Our guide comes with
easy-to-read Ordnance Survey maps and clear route descriptions,
perfect if you're new to walking or are looking for something you
can enjoy with the whole family. We've included information on
local beauty spots and tasty refreshment stops, and most of the
walks can be completed in under 3 hours. We haven't included any
walks with challenging terrain or complicated navigation, and all
you'll need to take with you are a waterproof jacket and a pair of
comfortable trainers.
World War II was the greatest conflict in the history of mankind.
It penetrated into every corner of the globe, from the Arctic to
the Pacific Oceans. Immense armed forces engaged one another in
battle in every type of environment, from the desert sands of North
Africa to the jungles of Burma and New Guinea. The Allied and Axis
forces met in brutal encounters ranging from small commando raids
to gigantic armoured battles. World War II Illustrated Atlas is a
comprehensive visual guide to this complex conflict. It plots the
exact course of the land, sea and air campaigns in fine detail,
enabling the reader to trace the ebb and flow of the fortunes of
both sides. With the aid of over 160 full-colour maps, every
theatre of war is covered. Contents include the land campaigns in
North-west Europe, Italy, North Africa, Russia, South-East Asia and
the Pacific; the naval war in the Atlantic and Mediterranean; the
great carrier battles of the Pacific war; and the strategic bombing
campaigns of Europe and the Pacific, culminating in the destruction
of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This new edition provides another 25
maps showing the key raids and battles of the war, ranging from the
St Nazaire raid in 1942 to the battle for Corregidor in February
1945. The isometric map views give a new perspective on the war,
and are accompanied by detailed descriptions of the battles and
raids along with photographs from the event. This complete atlas
provides an invaluable work of reference for both the general
reader and the serious student of World War II.
State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the
Iraqi Baʿth regime’s (r. 1968–2003) entanglement with Sufis
and of Sunnī Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until
2003 and beyond. For far too long, the secular and authoritarian
Baʿth regime has been reduced to the dictator Saddam Husayn and
portrayed as antireligious. Its growing political employment of
Islam during the 1990s, in turn, has been interpreted either as an
abstract Baʿthist-nationalist Islam or as an ideological U-turn
from secularism to a form of Islamism that ultimately contributed
to the spread of Islamist terrorism after 2003. Broadening the
narrow focus on Saddam Husayn, this book analyses other leading
regime figures, their close entanglement with Sufis, and Baʿth
religious politics of a state-sponsored revival of Sufi Islam and
Iraq’s broad and distinct Sufi culture. It is the story of a
secular regime’s search for "moderate" Islam in order to overcome
the challenges of radical Islamism and sectarianism in Iraq. The
book’s two-pronged interdisciplinary approach that deals equally
with politics and Sufi Islam in Iraq makes it a valuable
contribution to scholars and students in Islamic and Middle Eastern
Studies, Religious Anthropology and Sociology, Political Science,
and International Relations.
State and Sufism in Iraq is the first comprehensive study of the
Iraqi Ba'th regime's (r. 1968-2003) entanglement with Sufis and of
Sunni Sufi Islam in Iraq from the late Ottoman period until 2003
and beyond. For far too long, the secular and authoritarian Ba'th
regime has been reduced to the dictator Saddam Husayn and portrayed
as antireligious. Its growing political employment of Islam during
the 1990s, in turn, has been interpreted either as an abstract
Ba'thist-nationalist Islam or as an ideological U-turn from
secularism to a form of Islamism that ultimately contributed to the
spread of Islamist terrorism after 2003. Broadening the narrow
focus on Saddam Husayn, this book analyses other leading regime
figures, their close entanglement with Sufis, and Ba'th religious
politics of a state-sponsored revival of Sufi Islam and Iraq's
broad and distinct Sufi culture. It is the story of a secular
regime's search for "moderate" Islam in order to overcome the
challenges of radical Islamism and sectarianism in Iraq. The book's
two-pronged interdisciplinary approach that deals equally with
politics and Sufi Islam in Iraq makes it a valuable contribution to
scholars and students in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies,
Religious Anthropology and Sociology, Political Science, and
International Relations.
When a church member accuses the pastor of having an affair with
his wife and then commits suicide, the few moments of horror plunge
the reverend, his wife and their 12-year-old son into a struggle
with God and one another that will span generations--a struggle to
find something that lasts beyond the rage, lies, and fear.
Many on the Left have looked upon "universal" as a dirty word, one
that signals liberalism's failure to recognize the masculinist and
Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. In rejecting
universalism, we have learned to reorient politics around
particulars, positionalities, identities, immanence, and multiple
modernities. In this book, one of our most important political
philosophers builds on these critiques of the tacit exclusions of
Enlightenment thought, while at the same time working to rescue and
reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary
politics answerable to the common. In the contemporary quarrel of
universals, Balibar shows, the stakes are no less than the future
of our democracies. In dialogue with such philosophers as Alain
Badiou, Judith Butler, and Jacques Ranciere, he meticulously
investigates the paradoxical processes by which the universal is
constructed and deconstructed, instituted and challenged, in modern
society. With critical rigor and keen historical insight, Balibar
shows that every statement and institution of the universal-such as
declarations of human rights-carry an exclusionary, particularizing
principle within themselves and that every universalism immediately
falls prey to countervailing universalisms. Always equivocal and
plural, the universal is thus a persistent site of conflict within
societies and within subjects themselves. And yet, Balibar
suggests, the very conflict of the universal-constituted as an
ever-unfolding performative contradiction-also provides the
emancipatory force needed to reinvigorate and reimagine
contemporary politics and philosophy. In conversation with a range
of thinkers from Marx, Freud, and Benjamin through Foucault,
Derrida, and Scott, Balibar shows the power that resides not in the
adoption of a single universalism but in harnessing the energies
made available by claims to universality in order to establish a
common answerable to difference.
Peter Jordan's vital, insightful teaching on the challenges and
opportunities that await returning missionaries makes this
essential reading for every short- and long-term out-reach
participant and every local church and mission agency that sends
out workers.
This text provides an introduction to group theory with an emphasis
on clear examples. The authors present groups as naturally
occurring structures arising from symmetry in geometrical figures
and other mathematical objects. Written in a 'user-friendly' style,
where new ideas are always motivated before being fully introduced,
the text will help readers to gain confidence and skill in handling
group theory notation before progressing on to applying it in
complex situations. An ideal companion to any first or second year
course on the topic.
Many on the Left have looked upon "universal" as a dirty word, one
that signals liberalism's failure to recognize the masculinist and
Eurocentric assumptions from which it proceeds. In rejecting
universalism, we have learned to reorient politics around
particulars, positionalities, identities, immanence, and multiple
modernities. In this book, one of our most important political
philosophers builds on these critiques of the tacit exclusions of
Enlightenment thought, while at the same time working to rescue and
reinvent what universal claims can offer for a revolutionary
politics answerable to the common. In the contemporary quarrel of
universals, Balibar shows, the stakes are no less than the future
of our democracies. In dialogue with such philosophers as Alain
Badiou, Judith Butler, and Jacques Ranciere, he meticulously
investigates the paradoxical processes by which the universal is
constructed and deconstructed, instituted and challenged, in modern
society. With critical rigor and keen historical insight, Balibar
shows that every statement and institution of the universal-such as
declarations of human rights-carry an exclusionary, particularizing
principle within themselves and that every universalism immediately
falls prey to countervailing universalisms. Always equivocal and
plural, the universal is thus a persistent site of conflict within
societies and within subjects themselves. And yet, Balibar
suggests, the very conflict of the universal-constituted as an
ever-unfolding performative contradiction-also provides the
emancipatory force needed to reinvigorate and reimagine
contemporary politics and philosophy. In conversation with a range
of thinkers from Marx, Freud, and Benjamin through Foucault,
Derrida, and Scott, Balibar shows the power that resides not in the
adoption of a single universalism but in harnessing the energies
made available by claims to universality in order to establish a
common answerable to difference.
The History of World War I series recounts the battles and
campaigns that took place during the 'Great War'. From the Falkland
Islands to the lakes of Africa, across the Eastern and Western
Fronts, to the former German colonies in the Pacific, the series
provides a six-volume history of the battles and campaigns on land,
at sea and in the air. The assassination in Sarajevo of the
Austro-Hungarian heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand lit an explosive
mixture of ethnic tensions, nationalism, political opportunism, and
the quest for power within the Balkans to plunge Europe into a
conflict that would cost millions of lives. Austro-Hungary faced
both Serbia and Russia during the opening phase of the war, but
Bulgaria's decision to join the Central Powers in October 1915 led
to the opening of the Salonika front in Greece, where 150,0000
British and French troops saw little fighting until the disastrous
1918 Doiran campaign. At the war's outbreak, the British
authorities in Africa were totally unprepared, with few forces
available to attack the German colonies, who themselves were
effectively left isolated from help. The German commander in East
Africa, Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, launched a brilliant guerrilla
campaign with scant resources, conducting lightning attacks on
Allied targets, particularly the Uganda Railway. He was opposed by
the South African General Jan Smuts and his mixture of Boer,
British, Rhodesian, Indian, African, Belgian and Portuguese
soldiers: fighting continued until November 1918. Italy entered the
war against the Central Powers in April 1915. For two years,
Austro-Hungarian forces were kept at bay on Italy's northern
borders, until a combined German and Austro-Hungarian defeated the
Italian forces at the Battle of Caporetto in October 1917. Revenge
came with the Allied victory at Vittorio Veneto in November 1918,
which led to Austro-Hungary's collapse. With the aid of over 300
photographs, complemented by full-colour maps, The Balkans, Italy
& Africa provides a detailed guide to the background and
conduct of the war in the Balkan, Italian and African theatres from
the assassination in Sarajevo to the surrender of the Central
Powers.
The reader is taken from the peak of Nazi power in Europe to the
utter destruction of the German war machine supported by a series
of colour maps and black and white illustrations.
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Governing by Debt (Paperback)
Maurizio Lazzarato; Translated by Joshua David Jordan
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An argument that under capitalism, debt has become infinite and
unpayable, expressing a political relation of subjection and
enslavement. Experts, pundits, and politicians agree: public debt
is hindering growth and increasing unemployment. Governments must
reduce debt at all cost if they want to restore confidence and get
back on a path to prosperity. Maurizio Lazzarato's diagnosis,
however, is completely different: under capitalism, debt is not
primarily a question of budget and economic concerns but a
political relation of subjection and enslavement. Debt has become
infinite and unpayable. It disciplines populations, calls for
structural reforms, justifies authoritarian crackdowns, and even
legitimizes the suspension of democracy in favor of "technocratic
governments" beholden to the interests of capital. The 2008
economic crisis only accelerated the establishment of a "new State
capitalism," which has carried out a massive confiscation of
societies' wealth through taxes. And who benefits? Finance capital.
In a calamitous return to the situation before the two world wars,
the entire process of accumulation is now governed by finance,
which has absorbed sectors it once ignored, like higher education,
and today is often identified with life itself. Faced with the
current catastrophe and the disaster to come, Lazzarato contends,
we must overcome capitalist valorization and reappropriate our
existence, knowledge, and technology. In Governing by Debt,
Lazzarato confronts a wide range of thinkers-from Felix Guattari
and Michel Foucault to David Graeber and Carl Schmitt-and draws on
examples from the United States and Europe to argue that it is time
that we unite in a collective refusal of this most dire status quo.
A new and radical reexamination of today's neoliberalist "new
economy" through the political lens of the debtor/creditor
relation. "The debtor-creditor relation, which is at the heart of
this book, sharpens mechanisms of exploitation and domination
indiscriminately, since, in it, there is no distinction between
workers and the unemployed, consumers and producers, working and
non-working populations, between retirees and welfare recipients.
They are all 'debtors,' guilty and responsible in the eyes of
capital, which has become the Great, the Universal, Creditor."
-from The Making of the Indebted Man Debt-both public debt and
private debt-has become a major concern of economic and political
leaders. In The Making of the Indebted Man, Maurizio Lazzarato
shows that, far from being a threat to the capitalist economy, debt
lies at the very core of the neoliberal project. Through a reading
of Karl Marx's lesser-known youthful writings on John Mill, and a
rereading of writings by Friedrich Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, Felix
Guattari, and Michel Foucault, Lazzarato demonstrates that debt is
above all a political construction, and that the creditor/debtor
relation is the fundamental social relation of Western societies.
Debt cannot be reduced to a simple economic mechanism, for it is
also a technique of "public safety" through which individual and
collective subjectivities are governed and controlled. Its aim is
to minimize the uncertainty of the time and behavior of the
governed. We are forever sinking further into debt to the State, to
private insurance, and, on a more general level, to corporations.
To insure that we honor our debts, we are at once encouraged and
compelled to become the "entrepreneurs" of our lives, of our "human
capital." In this way, our entire material, psychological, and
affective horizon is upended and reconfigured. How do we extricate
ourselves from this impossible situation? How do we escape the
neoliberal condition of the indebted man? Lazzarato argues that we
will have to recognize that there is no simple technical, economic,
or financial solution. We must instead radically challenge the
fundamental social relation structuring capitalism: the system of
debt.
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Java Data Objects (Paperback)
David Jordan; Contributions by Craig Russell
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This book, written by the JDO Specification Lead and one of the key contributors to the JDO Specification, is the definitive work on the JDO API. It gives you a thorough introduction to JDO, starting with a simple application that demonstrates many of JDO's capabilities. It shows you how to make classes persistent, how JDO maps persistent classes to the database, how to configure JDO at runtime, how to perform transactions, and how to make queries. More advanced chapters cover optional features such as nontransactional access and optimistic transactions. The book concludes by discussing the use of JDO in web applications and J2EE environments
Whether you only want to read up on an interesting new technology, or are seriously considering an alternative to JDBC or EJB CMP, you'll find that this book is essential. It provides by far the most authoritative and complete coverage available.
Expanding upon the material delivered during the LMS Autumn Algebra
School 2020, this volume reflects the fruitful connections between
different aspects of representation theory. Each survey article
addresses a specific subject from a modern angle, beginning with an
exploration of the representation theory of associative algebras,
followed by the coverage of important developments in Lie theory in
the past two decades, before the final sections introduce the
reader to three strikingly different aspects of group theory.
Written at a level suitable for graduate students and researchers
in related fields, this book provides pure mathematicians with a
springboard into the vast and growing literature in each area.
Coros y Danzas explores how women of the early Franco regime
adapted musical folklore and Spanish nationalism according to
different political circumstances. Author Daniel David Jordan
focuses on the end of the Spanish Civil War until the Pact of
Madrid with the United States-a period where Spain transformed
itself from a supporter of Nazi Germany to a faithful ally of the
Western Bloc. The Seccion Femenina of the fascist Falange party
officially represented the regime's views and policies on female
gender roles. Sending their instructoras de musica to remote
villages throughout the nation's diverse cultural and linguistic
regions to select, transcribe, and compose songs and dances, they
were portrayed as the keepers of Spanish folk music. Through their
Music Department, these women shaped traditional Spanish songs and
dances to promote ideas of Catholic morality throughout the
nation's culturally diverse regions, helped legitimize colonial
involvement in Spain's African territories, and formed political
ties with the Allied powers after World War II. The Seccion
Femenina was never simply a one-sided mouthpiece of the
dictatorship's nationalist, Catholic underpinnings. Despite the
Franco regime's patriarchal nature, many members were highly
independent, negotiating with local cultural elites and foreign
political diplomats to further their own careers and personal
philosophies. Drawing from literature on cultural diplomacy and
nation-building, Coros y Danzas proposes how the Seccion Femenina's
definition of Spanish cultural and racial purity was never
monolithic, but a malleable concept that was nuanced depending on
geographical and social contexts in which its members were
operating.
Prior to the building of the new Bath Spa, in the centre of the
World Heritage City of Bath, excavations were carried out to record
the archaeological remains threatened by its construction. Evidence
was recovered of the presence and perhaps the rituals of mesolithic
hunter-gatherers, hitherto unknown official Roman buildings of the
first and second centuries and some indication of activity in the
late Saxon and medieval periods. An important part of the dig was a
programme of geoarchaeological research to study the microstructure
of the soils excavated with a view to understanding the activities
that led to their formation.
Build Geospatial and Spatial Data Science applications with Python
to intelligently connect with the world around you Key Features *
Hands-on case studies with code samples that can be reproduced,
expanded upon, or improved * Learn to confidently integrate spatial
data and thinking into traditional data science workflows * Learn
critical spatial thinking skills, enabling you to approach problems
through a geographic lens Book Description The goal of the book is
to help data scientists and GIS professionals to learn and
implement Geospatial Data Science with Python. We will learn
various GeoPython libraries. We will be learning how to read
spatial data effectively, manipulate and process spatial data, and
carry out spatial operations. We will also learn spatial data
visualization. We will also showcase various use cases that will
help the readers understand and help them during implementation. By
the end of the book, the readers will be able to develop geospatial
data science solutions in Python. What you will learn * Understand
the fundamentals and methods needed to work with geospatial data *
Develop an introductory portfolio of work using a code base *
Working with geospatial data or treating it as a tabular dataset *
Hands-on skills with case studies relevant to geospatial data
science * Understanding geospatial data and database and how it is
used effectively * Best practices of using Geospatial Data to
connect with the world around you Who This Book Is For This book is
developed for 1) data scientists seeking to incorporate geospatial
analysis into their work and 2) GIS professionals seeking to
incorporate data science methods into theirs. The reader will need
to have a foundational knowledge of python for data analysis and/or
data science.
One of the first comprehensive treatments of Deleuzian thought.
There is always something schizophrenic about logic in Deleuze,
which represents another distinctive characteristic: a deep
perversion of the very heart of philosophy. Thus, a preliminary
definition of Deleuze's philosophy emerges: an irrational logic of
aberrant movements. -from Aberrant Movements In Aberrant Movements,
David Lapoujade offers one of the first comprehensive treatments of
Deleuzian thought. Drawing on the entirety of Deleuze's work as
well as his collaborations with Felix Guattari, from the
"transcendental empiricism" of Difference and Repetition to the
schizoanalysis and geophilosophy of Anti-Oedipus and A Thousand
Plateaus, Lapoujade explores the central problem underlying the
delirious coherence of Deleuze's philosophy: aberrant movements.
These are the movements that Deleuze wrests from Kantian idealism,
Nietzsche's eternal return, and the nonsense of Lewis Carroll; they
are the schizophrenic processes of the unconscious and the nomadic
line of flight traversing history-in short, the forces that
permeate life and thought. Tracing and classifying their
"irrational logics" represent the quintessential tasks of Deleuzian
philosophy. Rather than abstract notions, though, these logics
constitute various modes of populating the earth-involving the
human as much as the animal, physical, and chemical-and the
affective, mental, and political populations that populate human
thought. Lapoujade argues that aberrant movements become the
figures in a combat against the forms of political, social,
philosophical, aesthetic, and scientific organization that attempt
to deny, counter, or crush their existence. In this study of a
thinker whose insights, theoretical confrontations, and perverse
critiques have profoundly influenced philosophy, literature, film,
and art over the last fifty years, Lapoujade invites us to join in
the discordant harmonies of Deleuze's work-and in the battle that
constitutes the thought of philosophy, politics, and life.
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