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Beatrice's Last Smile is a sweeping narrative history of the
medieval west from the beginning of the third century to the
beginning of the sixteenth. This book focuses on slow formation of
Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the
disintegration of the western Roman Empire. Beatrice's Last Smile
is a sweeping narrative history of the medieval west from the
beginning of the third century to the beginning of the sixteenth.
The reader travels from the Mediterranean to the North Sea, from
the Nile to the Volga, from north Africa to the central Asia, until
finally ending in the Americas. Through a focus on slow formation
of Latin Christendom over a millennium in the aftermath of the
disintegration of the western Roman Empire, Beatrice's Last Smile
is a history of holiness which includes Judaism and the revelations
of Muhammad. The narrative moves from the violence within
fifth-century Britain and Gaul to the Hundred Years War between
England and France, from the plague of the sixth century to the
Black Death of the fourteenth, from the first crusaders sacking
Jerusalem to the Spanish capturing Tenochtitlán, from Viking raids
to Mongol invasions, from the inquisitons into heresy to the trials
of witches, from a third-century Christian mother dying in a Roman
arena to the immolation of Joan of Arc in the fifteenth, from an
ancient universe without heaven and hell to a medieval cosmos with
a fiery inferno and a shimmering paradise. Over these centuries
there is an emphasis on individual men and women and their stories
woven together with the story of the emergence of a distinctive
western culture.
A top-to-bottom look at England's national game, from one of the
UK's leading business economists. The Premier League is the most
commercially successful football league in history, the
self-proclaimed 'best league in the world'. But success has come at
a cost, unbalancing the English game to a profound and damaging
degree. Football's stumbling response to COVID-19 and the European
Super League disaster are just the most recent examples. It is
estimated that more than two thirds of the country's 92
professional clubs are loss-making; payments to agents each year
regularly total more than the combined income of all 44 clubs in
Leagues 1 and 2; supporters have been squeezed to the limit; racist
incidents are on the rise; grassroots facilities are in a dreadful
state; and failed World Cup bids have severely weakened England's
standing in the global game. The national team's performance at
Euro 2020 can't paper over the cracks. There is an alternative. In
this revealing and eye-opening analysis, leading economist Mark
Gregory reveals the breadth and depth of the problems facing our
national men's game, and shows us a way to bring football home for
good.
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Toggle (Paperback)
Mark Gregory Akins
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R521
R436
Discovery Miles 4 360
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Project Ostium (Paperback)
Erin Guntren, Hannah Marks; Gregory John Guntren
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R306
Discovery Miles 3 060
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On two hundred and one days between May 1, 1245, and August 1,
1246, more than five thousand people from the Lauragais were
questioned in Toulouse about the heresy of the good men and the
good women (more commonly known as Catharism). Nobles and diviners,
butchers and monks, concubines and physicians, blacksmiths and
pregnant girls--in short, all men over fourteen and women over
twelve--were summoned by Dominican inquisitors Bernart de Caux and
Jean de Saint-Pierre. In the cloister of the Saint-Sernin abbey,
before scribes and witnesses, they confessed whether they, or
anyone else, had ever seen, heard, helped, or sought salvation
through the heretics. This inquisition into heretical depravity was
the single largest investigation, in the shortest time, in the
entire European Middle Ages.
Mark Gregory Pegg examines the sole surviving manuscript of
this great inquisition with unprecedented care--often in unexpected
ways--to build a richly textured understanding of social life in
southern France in the early thirteenth century. He explores what
the interrogations reveal about the individual and communal lives
of those interrogated and how the interrogations themselves shaped
villagers' perceptions of those lives. "The Corruption of Angels,"
similar in breadth and scope to Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie's
"Montaillou," is a major contribution to the field. It shows how
heretical and orthodox beliefs flourished side by side and, more
broadly, what life was like in one particular time and place.
Pegg's passionate and beautifully written evocation of a medieval
world will fascinate a diverse readership within and beyond the
academy.
"Gregory's writing is full of enthusiasm and self-deprecating
humour, and he evokes vividly the naive spirit of a pre X Factor
age when bands' careers were built on hard touring and leopardskin
waistcoats " GEOFF BARTON - CLASSIC ROCK MAGAZINE "I loved this
book. It was a great head-banging memoire. A very cool stroll
through a life." MARTIN POPOFF: H.M. AUTHOR & PUBLISHER
"Wonderful book." ROB EVANS: CLASSIC ROCK AOR MAGAZINE "Endlessly
entertaining " STEVE PRATT: NORTHERN ECHO "Saltburn, Salford,
Salisbury, or Southampton, if you followed any local music scene
back in the day, this is a must read " MIKE SWEENEY: ROCK RADIO
& BBC "Fantastic memories of a time when small town bands
dreamed of being major league Rock Stars........excellent stuff
STEVE BARDSLEY: BLACK ROSE "Bloody Brilliant Great use of pyro "
GARY PHILIPSON: REAL RADIO "If you love the band Satan, you'll love
this mighty tome." DAVE SHERWOOD: IRON FIST MAGAZINE "No Sleep Till
Saltburn is an important book. It captures an untold story, and
also gives you an insight into the humour, the 'Carry On'
atmosphere of the time." CHRIS PHIPPS: ROCK MUSIC HISTORIAN, ITV "A
very witty and true to life rendition of heavy metal life in the
early 80's I know because I was there and it was a load of fun,
very much like this book " DAVE HARDY: NWOBHM MUSIC & ROADIE
"Very funny and full of stuff I'd either forgotten or didn't know
Thank God somebody was taking notes " CHRIS WATSON: BLACK ROSE Let
Mark Gregory drag you kicking and screaming back to the truly
"Golden Age Of Rock & Roll." To the great North East New Wave
Of British Heavy Metal in the early 1980's. A time when you worked
hard, played hard, and rocked even harder A time when there really
was... "No Sleep Till Saltburn "
Blue Bonnie Butterfly and Tanya Turtle starring in Tale of Two
Tails is a whimsical bedtime story with a few lessons hidden
amongst the rhymes. Bonnie helps her friends to help themselves
shine Together at the Rock in Lake Ranch Bonnie and her friend
Tanya learn to love themselves and the life they have been given.
This tale of perseverance proves everyone can be special if they
try Blue Bonnie Butterfly and Tanya Turtle encourage positive
interaction with your child to teach the lessons of real life as
well as those learned through their vivid imagination. Blue Bonnie
Butterfly and her many friends always remember to hold on to their
dreams.
Blue Bonnie Butterfly is a whimsical bedtime story with life
lessons hidden amongst the rhymes. Bonnie learns to gracefully
overcome adversity, when she gets knocked down she gets right back
up. Together at the Rock in Lake Ranch both Bonnie and her friend
Tanya learn to love themselves and the life they have been given.
Blue Bonnie Butterfly and her many friends always remember to hold
on to their dreams.
Familiarity with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) is a necessity for
those working in or aspiring to work in biotech, pharma, and even
academic research, where partnerships with industry require ever
greater awareness of drug development regulations. Thus, this
guidebook serves to not only summarize GLP regulations, but explain
the interaction of these various components in the development of a
GLP compliant study. Far from being long-winded, special attention
has been paid to the brevity of each chapter. If more detail is
needed, the reader can easily refer to the official FDA verbiage
provided below each chapter summary. Inspired by the lack of
affordable, succinct, and easily accessible training options
available to students, scientists, and entrepreneurs, Dr. Slomiany
set out to create a guidebook which conveys the underlying
principles of GLP in an easily digestible format, while providing
resources for more in-depth study.
In January of 1208, a papal legate was murdered on the banks of the
Rhone in southern France. A furious Pope Innocent III accused
heretics of the crime and called upon all Christians to exterminate
heresy between the Garonne and Rhone rivers--a vast region now
known as Languedoc--in a great crusade. This most holy war, the
first in which Christians were promised salvation for killing other
Christians, lasted twenty bloody years--it was a long savage battle
for the soul of Christendom.
In A Most Holy War, historian Mark Pegg has produced a
swift-moving, gripping narrative of this horrific crusade, drawing
in part on thousands of testimonies collected by inquisitors in the
years 1235 to 1245. These accounts of ordinary men and women,
remembering what it was like to live through such brutal times,
bring the story vividly to life. Pegg argues that generations of
historians (and novelists) have misunderstood the crusade; they
assumed it was a war against the Cathars, the most famous heretics
of the Middle Ages. The Cathars, Pegg reveals, never existed. He
further shows how a millennial fervor about "cleansing" the world
of heresy, coupled with a fear that Christendom was being eaten
away from within by heretics who looked no different than other
Christians, made the battles, sieges, and massacres of the crusade
almost apocalyptic in their cruel intensity. In responding to this
fear with a holy genocidal war, Innocent III fundamentally changed
how Western civilization dealt with individuals accused of
corrupting society. This fundamental change, Pegg argues, led
directly to the creation of the inquisition, the rise of an
anti-Semitism dedicated to the violent elimination of Jews, and
even the holy violence of the Reconquista in Spain and in the New
World in the fifteenth century. All derive their divinely
sanctioned slaughter from the Albigensian Crusade.
Haunting and immersive, A Most Holy War opens an important new
perspective on a truly pivotal moment in world history, a first and
distant foreshadowing of the genocide and holy violence in the
modern world.
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Man vs. Machine (DVD)
Mark Gregory, Randy Miller, Mike Meyers
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R2,821
R2,677
Discovery Miles 26 770
Save R144 (5%)
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Mark Gregory and other P.L. Vulcan instructors effectively
demonstrate the techniques and tools required to successfully
extricate a victim from various types of machinery. Topics
addressed in this instructional video include: Proper techniques to
perform extrication Tools required and safety tips regarding use of
these tools Patient care/lockout/tag-out Man vs. Machine is an
important resource for paid and volunteer, urban and suburban fire
departments, industrial fire departments, and EMS providers.
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