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Within the Old Testament books of 1 and 2 Samuel we find some of
the most well-known stories of the Bible - those of Hannah, David,
Absalom and many more which have been fruitful sources of
inspiration for classic artworks and musical compositions, as well
as innumerable Sunday school lessons. Yet often we only consider
these stories in a way that's disconnected from our everyday faith.
In this accessible and stimulating commentary, Mary Evans guides us
through The Message of 1 & 2 Samuel in the conviction that they
are a vital part of God's Word, full of teaching that is
dynamically relevant for all Christian believers. Exploring the
narratives and creatively bringing out their application, she shows
us how we can interpret and respond to them today in a way that is
both challenging and exciting. With questions for further
reflection that can be used by individuals and small groups, this
is an invigorating study that will help you better understand the
meaning of 1 & 2 Samuel and their continued relevance for
today. Part of the much loved Bible Speaks Today series of
commentaries, The Message of 1 & 2 Samuel offers a thoughtful
and readable exposition of the Biblical text as well as considering
the lessons Christians can still learn from it today. Used by Bible
students and teachers around the world, the Bible Speaks Today
commentaries are ideal for students and preachers who are looking
to delve more deeply into the riches of Scripture. This beautifully
redesigned edition has also been sensitively updated to include
modern references and use the NIV Bible text. The Message of 1
& 2 Samuel will be helpful for anyone looking for commentaries
on Samuel that will give them a better knowledge and understanding
of its meaning both for its original audience and for modern
Christians.
This book explores the sublime in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s later
major prose in relation to more recent theories of the sublime.
Building on the author’s previous monograph Sublime
Coleridge: The Opus Maximum, this study focuses on sublime theory
and discourse in Coleridge’s other major prose texts of the
1820s: Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit (wr.
1824), Aids to Reflection (1825), and On the
Constitution of the Church and State (1829).
This book thus ponders the constellations of
aesthetics, literature, religion, and politics in the sublime
theory and practice of this central Romantic author and three of
his important successors: Julia Kristeva, Theodor Adorno, and
Jacques Rancière.
Augusta Jane Wilson, or Augusta Evans Wilson, (1835-1909) was an
American Southern author and one of the pillars of Southern
literature.
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The 2012 French Presidential elections marked a watershed moment
for the French Left, marking their return to a full term of
executive power for the first time since 1981. From early in the
campaign, the victory of Francois Hollande appeared inevitable,
given the unpopularity of the Right-wing incumbent, Nicolas
Sarkozy, and the economic crisis afflicting France. This book
provides a comprehensive analysis of the lead-up to the
Presidential elections, including the political landscape, the
candidate selection and the campaign. It looks at how each of the
ten candidates set out their policy alternatives, and how the Right
in particular failed to present the united front necessary to
defeat a coherent Left challenge. It also examines the events and
outcomes of the subsequent legislative elections, to understand
whether these constituency elections now represent anything more
than an early plebiscite for the newly elected president.
The classic explanation of the craft of history and the vital worth
of historians to civilizationIn this volume, English historian
Richard Evans offers a defence of the importance of his craft. At a
time when fact and historical truth are under unprecedented
assault, Evans shows us why history is necessary. Taking us into
the historians' workshop to show us just how good history gets
written, he demolishes the wilder claims of postmodern historians,
who deny the possibility of any realistic grasp of history, and
explains the deadly political dangers of losing a historical
perspective on the way we live our lives.
Emphasizing the need for businesses to take a proactive approach
to media relations, examines methods and techniques used by
executives to develop successful press relations. "Marketing
News"
Media relations is a hot topic on today's business agenda. This
timely book advocates that business take a proactive approach to
media relations to prevent biased treatment. Various strategies are
developed and techniques that executives can use are explored. Many
case examples are cited of campaigns waged by companies in diverse
circumstances. It is based on a national survey of business
executives of the Fortune 1,000 largest corporations and
journalists from the nation's largest newspapers.
'The terrible cholera epidemic of 1892' offers a wealth of insights
into the inner life of a great European city at the height of the
industrial age. Why were nearly 10,000 people killed in six weeks
in Hamburg, whilst most of Europe was left almost unscathed? As
Richard J.Evans explains, it was largely because the town was a
unique anomaly: a 'free city' within Germany governed by local
notables, who believed in the 'English' ideals of laissez-faire.
Their failure to supply clean water, fresh air and pure food played
a major role in the catastrophe. Their medical theories, influenced
by political and economic interest, only made matters worse. The
whole story of 'the cholera years' is tragically revealing of the
age's social inequalities and administrative incompetence; it also
offers some disquieting parallels with today's attitudes to AIDS.
As women increasingly play a role and gain ever greater prominence
in congressional politics, they need to navigate the at times
conflicting demands of loyalty to party culture, responsiveness to
party leadership, political goals, and the need to get reelected.
Based on extensive interviews and historical research, this book
examines differences between Republican and Democratic political
cultures, how these differences affect women members of Congress as
they pursue agendas and seek to bolster their electability, and the
effectiveness of women within an institution traditionally
dominated by men.
This book, which was first published in 1988, deals with the
neglected history of the lowest layers of German society, of
marginal, outcast and deviant groups such as arsonists, witches,
bandits, infanticides, poachers, murderers, prostitutes, vagrants
and thieves, from the end of the thirteenth century to the middle
of the twentieth. This book is ideal for students of history,
particularly the German history.
In Rereading German History, first published in 1997, Richard J.
Evans draws together his seminal review essays on the political,
economic, cultural and social history of Germany through war and
reunification. This book provides a study of how and why historians
- mainly German, American, British and French - have provided a
series of differing and often conflicting readings of the German
past. It also presents a reconsideration of German history in the
light of the recent decline of the German Democratic Republic,
collapse of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany.
Rereading German History re-examines major controversies in modern
German history, such as the debate over Germany's 'special path' to
modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the
discussions in the 1980s on the uniqueness or otherwise of
Auschwitz. Evans also analyses the arguments over the nature of
German national identity. The book offers trenchant and important
analytical insights into the history of Germany in the last two
centuries, and is ideal reading material for students of modern
history and German studies.
In the search for the causes of the First World War and the origins
of Hitler's 'Third Reich', the attention of historians has turned
increasingly towards the development of German society under Kaiser
Wilhelm II. These ten essays, first published in 1978, introduced
interpretations of Wilhelmine Germany to an English-speaking
audience and contributed towards the discussion of these
interpretations that were taking place amongst German historians.
This book is ideal for student of history, particularly German
history.
This book, first published in 1986, surveys the history of rural
society in Germany from the eighteenth century to the present day.
The contributions include studies of Junker estates and small
farming communities, serfs and landless labourers, maidservants and
worker-peasants. They demonstrate the variety and complexity of the
social division that structures the rural economy. Throughout the
book there is an emphasis on the conflicts that divided rural
society, and the ways and means in which these were expressed,
whether in serf strikes in eighteenth-century Brandenburg, village
gossip in early twentieth-century Hesse, or factional struggles
over planning permission in present-day Swabia. The rural world
emerges not as traditional, passive and undifferentiated , but as
actively participating in its own making; not only responding to
the changes going on around it, but exploiting them for its own
purposes and influencing them in its own way. This book is ideal
for students of history, particularly German history.
Unemployment was perhaps the major problem confronting European
society at the time in which this book was first published in 1987,
and is arguably still the case today. This collection of essays by
British and German historians contributes to the debate by taking a
close look at unemployment in the Weimar Republic. What groups were
most severely affected, and why? How did they react? How effective
were welfare and job creation schemes? Did unemployment fuel social
instability and political extremism? How far was unemployment a
cause of the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the triumph of the
Third Reich? Did the Nazis solve the unemployment problem by
peaceful Keynsianism or through massive rearmament? This book is
ideal for students of history, sociology, and economics.
This book surveys the history of the German family in the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions deal with the
influence of industrialisation on family life in town and country,
with rural families and communities under the impact of social and
economic change, and with the role and influence of the family in
the lives of men and women in the newly-emerged working class.
Research on the history of the family had so far, at the point of
this book's publication in 1981, concentrated on England and
France; this book adds an important comparative dimension by
extending the discussion into Central Europe and bringing fresh
evidence and interpretation to bear on the wider debate about the
effects of industrialisation on family structure and family life as
a whole. The authors approach the subject from a variety of
perspectives, including social anthropology, oral history, economic
history and feminist studies. This book is ideal for students of
history, particularly the history of Germany.
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