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The Chattahoochee Trace in southeast Alabama and west Georgia is
steeped in Native, African and early American tradition--stories
often deeply rooted in folklore. Unusual beasts such as the Kolowa,
the Wampus Cat and even Bigfoot roam the area. Crossroads magic,
hoodoo and Huggin' Molly make their homes in the storied region.
The Native American trickster rabbit, the Nunnehi Cherokee
watchers, the tales of the Indian mounds and the saga of Brookside
Drive are forever etched in Chattahoochee lore. From the Creek wars
to Indian removal and Sherman's March to the Sea, the legends of
"the Hooch" have left an indelible mark on Georgia and Alabama.
Join author Michelle Smith as she reveals many of the strange
creatures and myths that sing "the Song of the Chattahoochee."
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NICK (Paperback)
Michael Smith
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Critically acclaimed novelist Michael Farris Smith pulls Nick
Carraway out of the shadows and into the spotlight in this
exhilarating imagination of his life before The Great Gatsby Before
Nick Carraway moved to West Egg and into Gatsby's world, he was at
the centre of a very different story - one taking place along the
trenches and deep within the tunnels of World War I. Floundering in
the wake of the destruction he witnessed first-hand, Nick delays
his return home, hoping to escape the questions he cannot answer
about the horrors of war. Instead, he embarks on a transcontinental
redemptive journey that takes him from a whirlwind Paris romance -
doomed from the very beginning - to the dizzying frenzy of New
Orleans, rife with its own flavour of debauchery and violence. An
epic portrait of a truly singular era and a sweeping, romantic
story of self-discovery, this rich and imaginative novel breathes
new life into a character that many know only from the periphery.
Charged with enough alcohol, heartbreak, and profound yearning to
transfix even the heartiest of golden age scribes, Nick reveals the
man behind the narrator who has captivated readers for decades.
An argument against the myth of American exceptionalism Endless
Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire
helps us to come to terms with what we have long suspected: the
rise of the U.S. Empire has relied upon an almost unimaginable loss
of life, from its inception during the European colonial period, to
the present. And yet, in the face of a series of endless holocausts
at home and abroad, the doctrine of American exceptionalism has
plagued the globe for over a century. However much the ruling class
insists on U.S. superiority, we find ourselves in the midst of a
sea change. Perpetual wars, deteriorating economic conditions, the
resurgence of white supremacy, and the rise of the Far Right have
led millions of people to abandon their illusions about this
country. Never before have so many people rejected or questioned
traditional platitudes about the United States. In Endless
Holocausts author David Michael Smith demolishes the myth of
exceptionalism by demonstrating that manifold forms of mass death,
far from being unfortunate exceptions to an otherwise benign
historical record, have been indispensable in the rise of the
wealthiest and most powerful imperium in the history of the world.
At the same time, Smith points to an extraordinary history of
resistance by Indigenous peoples, people of African descent, people
in other nations brutalized by U.S. imperialism, workers, and
democratic-minded people around the world determined to fight for
common dignity and the sake of the greater good.
'The authors of this absorbing book have a strong command of
detail, context and narrative structure... the results are
impressively claustrophobic.' - Times Literary Supplement
'Gripping... The authors skillfully capture the fear and
claustrophobia. A riveting real-life drama.' - Kirkus 'Cabin Fever
is riveting, taut, and extensively researched. Smith and Franklin
have written a page-turning adventure that will keep you reading
late into the night.' - Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times
bestselling author of Taking Paris 'A gripping account of how an
invisible stowaway - the Covid-19 virus - transformed a fun-filled
luxury cruise into an unimaginable nightmare.' - Sara Gay Forden,
bestselling author of House of Gucci 'Extensive first-hand
testimony and the authors' brisk, matter-of-fact style enrich this
propulsive account of how a holiday cruise turned into a nightmare.
Readers will be riveted.' - Publishers Weekly In early 2020, the
world was on edge. An ominous virus was spreading and no one knew
what the coming weeks would bring. Far from the hotspots, the
cruise ship Zaandam was preparing to sail from Buenos Aires loaded
with 1,200 passengers - British, American, Australian, European and
South American tourists, plus 600 crew. Most passengers were over
the age of 65. There was concern about the virus in the news but
that was oceans away. Escaping to sea at the ends of the earth for
a few weeks seemed like it might be a good option. The cruise line
had said the voyage would go ahead as scheduled and it would be
safe. Within days, people aboard the Zaandam began to fall sick.
The world's ports shut down. Zaandam became a top story on the news
and was denied safe harbour everywhere. With only two doctors
aboard and few medical supplies to test for or treat Covid-19, and
with dwindling food and water, the ship wandered the oceans on an
unthinkable journey. Cabin Fever is a riveting narrative thriller,
taking readers behind the scenes of the ship's complex workings,
and below decks into the personal lives of passengers and crew who
were caught unprepared for the deadly ordeal that lay ahead. It is
a story layered with moments of peril, perseverance and kindness. A
remarkable tale that is filled with individual acts of heroism and
the struggles and the tragedies of the crew and passengers.
'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative'
Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good
read'Â John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a
detailed, highly professional account'Â Sir John Scarlett,
former MI6 Chief ​ The Special Relationship between America and
Britain is feted by politicians on both sides of the Atlantic
when it suits their purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a
myth, not least by the media, which announces its supposed
death on a regular basis. Yet the simple truth is that the two
countries are bound together more closely than either is to
any other ally. In The Real Special Relationship, Michael Smith
reveals how it all began, when a top-secret visit by four American
codebreakers to Bletchley Park in February 1941 - ten months before
the US entered the Second World War - marked the start of a close
collaboration between the two nations that endures to this day.
Once the war was over, and the Cold War began, both sides
recognised that the way they had worked together to decode German
and Japanese ciphers could now be used to counter the Soviet
threat. Despite occasional political conflict and public disputes
between the two nations, such as during the Suez crisis, behind the
scenes intelligence sharing continued uninterrupted, right up to
the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine. Smith, the
bestselling author of Station X and having himself served in
British military intelligence, brings together a fascinating range
of characters, from Winston Churchill and Ian Fleming to Kim Philby
and Edward Snowden, who have helped shape the security of our two
nations. Supported by in-depth interviews and an excellent range of
personal contacts, he takes the reader into the mysterious workings
of MI6, the CIA and all those who work to keep us safe.Â
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For Winston Churchill the men and women at Bletchley Park were '
the geese the laid the golden eggs' , providing important
intelligence that led to the Allied victory in the Second World
War. At the peak of Bletchley' s success, a total of twelve
thousand people worked there of whom more than eight thousand were
women. These included a former ballerina who helped to crack the
Enigma Code; a debutante working for the Admiralty with a direct
line to Churchill; the convent girl who operated the Bombes, the
top secret machines that tested Enigma settings; and the German
literature student whose codebreaking saved countless lives at
D-Day. All these women were essential cogs in a very large machine,
yet their stories have been kept secret. In The Debs of Bletchley
Park author Michael Smith, trustee of Bletchley Park and chair of
the Trust' s Historical Advisory Committee, tells their tale.
Through interviews with the women themselves and unique access to
the Bletchley Park archives, Smith reveals how they came to be
there, the lives they gave up to do ' their bit' for the war
effort, and the part they played in the vital work of ' Station X'
. They are an incredible set of women, and this is their story.
This volume explores the relationship between representation,
affect, and emotion in texts for children and young adults. It
demonstrates how texts for young people function as tools for
emotional socialisation, enculturation, and political persuasion.
The collection provides an introduction to this emerging field and
engages with the representation of emotions, ranging from shame,
grief, and anguish to compassion and happiness, as psychological
and embodied states and cultural constructs with ideological
significance. It also explores the role of narrative empathy in
relation to emotional socialisation and to the ethics of
representation in relation to politics, social justice, and
identity categories including gender, ethnicity, disability, and
sexuality. Addressing a range of genres, including advice
literature, novels, picture books, and film, this collection
examines contemporary, historical, and canonical children's and
young adult literature to highlight the variety of approaches to
emotion and affect in these texts and to consider the ways in which
these approaches offer new perspectives on these texts. The
individual chapters apply a variety of theoretical approaches and
perspectives, including cognitive poetics, narratology, and
poststructuralism, to the analysis of affect and emotion in
children's and young adult literature.
There was no rising from the dead and there was no hand to calm the
storms and there was no peace in no valley. In the
hurricane-ravaged bottomlands of South Mississippi, where stores
are closing and jobs are few, a fierce zealot has gained a
foothold, capitalizing on the vulnerability of a dwindling
population and a burning need for hope. As she preaches and
promises salvation from the light of the pulpit, in the shadows she
sows the seeds of violence. Elsewhere, Jessie and her toddler,
Jace, are on the run across the Mississippi/Louisiana line, in a
resentful return to her childhood home and her desolate father.
Holt, Jace's father, is missing and hunted by a brutish crowd, and
an old man witnesses the wrong thing in the depths of night. In
only a matter of days, all of their lives will collide, and be
altered, in the maelstrom of the changing world. At once elegiac
and profound, Salvage This World journeys into the heart of a
region growing darker and less forgiving, and asks how we keep
going - what do we hold onto - in a land where God has fled.
In this compelling investigation, author Michael Smith explores the
critical moment in a spy's life: that split-second decision to
embrace a double life; to cheat and hide and hurt; to risk disgrace
- even death - without any guarantee of being rewarded or even
recognised. Each chapter centres on a number of different spies,
following the path they took that led, finally, to the point of no
return. Were they propelled by personal convictions? Blackmailed
and left without a choice? Too desperate for money to think about
the consequences? Through in-depth insider knowledge, Michael Smith
also uncovers new and unknown cases, including a spy inside ISIS,
President Trump's links with Russia and Edward Snowden's role as a
whistle-blower, to offer compelling psychological portraits of
these men and women, homing unerringly on the fault-lines and shady
corners of their characters, their weaknesses and their strengths,
the lies they tell other people, and the lies they always end up
telling themselves.
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The Fighter (Paperback)
Michael Smith
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The acres and acres of fertile soil, the two-hundred year old
antebellum house, all gone. And so is the woman who gave it to him.
The foster mother who saved Jack Boucher from a childhood of
abandonment now rests in a hospice. Her mind eroded by dementia,
the family legacy she entrusted to Jack is now owned by banks and
strangers. And Jack's mind is failing too, as concussion after
concussion forces him to carry around a notebook of names that
separate friend from foe. In a single twisted night Jack is
derailed. Losing the money that will clear his debt with the queen
of Delta vice, and forcing Jack into the fighting pit one last
time. The stakes - nothing less than life or death.
1. This book contributes to research in the popular area of protest
policing. However, unlike other books on the topic, this book
considers specific police operational tactics, written by a police
insider. 2. Courses on policing are popular at undergraduate,
though this will be particularly useful reading for students on a
professional policing degree.
Whole System Design is increasingly being seen as one of the most
cost-effective ways to both increase the productivity and reduce
the negative environmental impacts of an engineered system. A focus
on design is critical, as the output from this stage of the project
locks in most of the economic and environmental performance of the
designed system throughout its life, which can span from a few
years to many decades. Indeed, it is now widely acknowledged that
all designers - particularly engineers, architects and industrial
designers - need to be able to understand and implement a whole
system design approach. This book provides a clear design
methodology, based on leading efforts in the field, and is
supported by worked examples that demonstrate how advances in
energy, materials and water productivity can be achieved through
applying an integrated approach to sustainable engineering.
Chapters 1-5 outline the approach and explain how it can be
implemented to enhance the established Systems Engineering
framework. Chapters 6-10 demonstrate, through detailed worked
examples, the application of the approach to industrial pumping
systems, passenger vehicles, electronics and computer systems,
temperature control of buildings, and domestic water systems.
Published with The Natural Edge Project, the World Federation of
Engineering Organizations, UNESCO and the Australian Government.
Whole System Design is increasingly being seen as one of the most
cost-effective ways to both increase the productivity and reduce
the negative environmental impacts of an engineered system. A focus
on design is critical, as the output from this stage of the project
locks in most of the economic and environmental performance of the
designed system throughout its life, which can span from a few
years to many decades. Indeed, it is now widely acknowledged that
all designers - particularly engineers, architects and industrial
designers - need to be able to understand and implement a whole
system design approach. This book provides a clear design
methodology, based on leading efforts in the field, and is
supported by worked examples that demonstrate how advances in
energy, materials and water productivity can be achieved through
applying an integrated approach to sustainable engineering.
Chapters 1-5 outline the approach and explain how it can be
implemented to enhance the established Systems Engineering
framework. Chapters 6-10 demonstrate, through detailed worked
examples, the application of the approach to industrial pumping
systems, passenger vehicles, electronics and computer systems,
temperature control of buildings, and domestic water systems.
Published with The Natural Edge Project, the World Federation of
Engineering Organizations, UNESCO and the Australian Government.
Perspectives on World Politics has been essential reading for
students of international relations since the 1980s. This new
edition fully updates this key text for the twenty-first century.
Focusing on the main competing analytical perspectives, the first
and second editions established an authoritative sense of the
conceptual tools used to study world politics, as well as
reflecting the major debates and responses to changes in the world
arena. This third edition builds on the success of its predecessors
by presenting a fresh set of readings within this framework: -
Power and Security - Interdependence and Globalization - Dominance
and Resistance It also includes a much-expanded fourth section,
'World Politics in Perspective', which reflects the methodological
and normative debates that have developed since publication of the
previous edition. This is an essential text for all students and
scholars of politics and international relations.
'Fascinating analysis' Nigel West; 'Grippingly told, authoritative'
Mail on Sunday; 'Meticulously researched...a remarkably good read'
John Brennan, former CIA Director; 'Excellent...a detailed, highly
professional account' Sir John Scarlett, former MI6 Chief The
Special Relationship between America and Britain is feted by
politicians on both sides of the Atlantic when it suits their
purpose and just as frequently dismissed as a myth, not least by
the media, which announces its supposed death on a regular basis.
Yet the simple truth is that the two countries are bound together
more closely than either is to any other ally. In The Real Special
Relationship, Michael Smith reveals how it all began, when a
top-secret visit by four American codebreakers to Bletchley Park in
February 1941 - ten months before the US entered the Second World
War - marked the start of a close collaboration between the two
nations that endures to this day. Once the war was over, and the
Cold War began, both sides recognised that the way they had worked
together to decode German and Japanese ciphers could now be used to
counter the Soviet threat. Despite occasional political conflict
and public disputes between the two nations, such as during the
Suez crisis, behind the scenes intelligence sharing continued
uninterrupted, right up to the recent Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Smith, the bestselling author of Station X and having himself
served in British military intelligence, brings together a
fascinating range of characters, from Winston Churchill and Ian
Fleming to Kim Philby and Edward Snowden, who have helped shape the
security of our two nations. Supported by in-depth interviews and
an excellent range of personal contacts, he takes the reader into
the mysterious workings of MI6, the CIA and all those who work to
keep us safe.
1. This book contributes to research in the popular area of protest
policing. However, unlike other books on the topic, this book
considers specific police operational tactics, written by a police
insider. 2. Courses on policing are popular at undergraduate,
though this will be particularly useful reading for students on a
professional policing degree.
In 1922 a journalist commented on British tenacity to General
Bruce, leader of the British Everest Expedition. Bruce replied with
a single word: 'Shackleton'. Ernest Shackleton is one of history's
great explorers, an extraordinary Edwardian character who pioneered
the path to the South Pole and became a leading figure in Antarctic
discovery. His incredible adventures on four expeditions to the
Antarctic have captivated generations. A restless adventurer from
an Irish background, he joined the Empire's last great endeavour of
exploration - to reach the South Pole with Scott on the Discovery
expedition. A clash with Scott led to Shackleton being ordered home
and a bitter feud. Shackleton's riposte was the Nimrod expedition,
which uncovered the route to the Pole, achieved the first fixing of
the South Magnetic Pole, and honed the acclaimed leadership skills
which kept despair at bay and encouraged men to overcome
unimaginable hardship on the Endurance expedition. But Shackleton
was a flawed character whose chaotic private life contrasted with
celebrity status as the leading explorer. Persistent money problems
left his men unpaid and his family with debts.This first
comprehensive biography in a generation brings a fresh perspective
to the heroic age of Polar exploration dominated by Shackleton's
complex, compelling and enduringly fascinating story.
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Reading to Learn (Paperback)
Sheila Harri-Augstein, Michael Smith, Laurie Thomas
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R1,054
Discovery Miles 10 540
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Originally published in 1982. This book is concerned with the new
kinds of demands on our reading ability made by the work we
undertake for A-level, or in college, or at university, or indeed
at work. It is not a speed reading book, or a reading skills book.
Anyone with a lot of reading to get through may not want to read
all of it quickly. Some things can be skimmed through; others take
a lot of reading. This book helps readers discriminate and gives
techniques to assume responsibility for their own reading. The book
takes the form of a reading workbook, and consists of a number of
exercises together with an interleaving commentary, along with
suggestions for further work. It can be used by the individual
student, by students in groups or with a teacher, and as a
sourcebook for courses in study skills.
Over the past five years, the EU has established a new system of
diplomacy centred on the European External Action Service (EEAS)
and the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security
Policy. This new system reflects a process of evolution in a
changing context, and has been faced by major challenges since its
inception. This book examines the diplomatic system of the EU,
locating it within the broader study of diplomacy and the European
integration project. The volume is structured around the
interrelated themes of institutional change and the evolving
practices of EU diplomacy. It tracks the development of the EU's
system of diplomacy, with particular reference to the
implementation of the Lisbon Treaty, the establishment of the EEAS
and the emerging practices of EU strategic and structural
diplomacy. Bringing together contributions from leading experts in
the field, this book provides an original approach to the
development and operation of the EU's diplomatic system. This book
will be of interest to students and scholars of European Union
international relations, European Union politics and diplomacy.
King Arthur’s Death (commonly referred to as the Alliterative
Morte Arthure) is a Middle English poem that was written in
Lincolnshire at the end of the fourteenth century. A source work
for Malory’s later Morte d’Arthur, it is an epic tale which
documents the horrors of war, the loneliness of kingship and the
terrible price paid for arrogance. This magnificent poem tells of
the arrival of emissaries from Imperial Rome demanding that Arthur
pays his dues as a subject. It is Arthur’s refusal to accept
these demands, and the premise of foreign domination, which leads
him on a quest to confront his foes and challenge them for command
of his lands. Yet his venture is not without cost. His decision to
leave Mordred at home to watch over his realm and guard Guinevere,
his queen, proves to be a costly one. Though Arthur defeats the
Romans, events in Britain draw him back where he must now face
Mordred for control of his kingdom – a conflict ultimately fatal
to the pair of them. Combining heroic action, probing insight into
human frailty and a great attention to contemporary detail, King
Arthur’s Death is not only a lesson in effective kingship, it is
also an astonishing mirror on our own times, highlighting the folly
of letting stubborn dogma drive political decisions.
At Home with the Aztecs provides a fresh view of Aztec society,
focusing on households and communities instead of kings, pyramids,
and human sacrifice. This new approach offers an opportunity to
humanize the Aztecs, moving past the popular stereotype of
sacrificial maniacs to demonstrate that these were successful and
prosperous communities. Michael Smith also engagingly describes the
scientific, logistic and personal dimensions of archaeological
fieldwork, drawing on decades of excavating experience and
considering how his research was affected by his interaction with
contemporary Mexican communities. Through first-hand accounts of
the ways archaeologists interpret sites and artifacts, the book
illuminates how the archaeological process can provide information
about ancient families. Facilitating a richer understanding of the
Aztec world, Smith's research also redefines success, prosperity
and resilience in ancient societies, making this book suitable not
only for those interested in the Aztecs but in the examination of
complex societies in general.
For 2nd and 3rd year courses in international politics and foreign
policy. This text examines foreign policy in relation to 'change
and transformation.' It discusses traditional assumptions about
foreign policy and foreign policy making, and develops a framework
to facilitate analysis of the challenges faced by foreign policy
makers in the late 1990s. The central elements of the framework are
the foreign policy arena, decision-making and implementation. The
book then applies the framework to a set of regional case studies,
to explore the global and regional arenas and the challenges to
which they give rise. Finally, specific case studies of two
countries per region highlight the range of impacts for the
changing global and regional context, to focus on the analysis of
decision-making and implementation, and to illustrate the benefits
of comparative analysis.
In his bestselling Station X, Michael Smith brought us the
astonishing true story of the breaking of the Enigma Code. In The
Emperor's Codes, he continues the tale as he examines how Japan's
codes were broken and explores the consequences for the Second
World War. The Emperor's Codes tells the stories of John Tiltman,
the eccentric British soldier turned codebreaker who made many of
the early breaks into Japanese diplomatic and military codes; Eric
Nave, the Australian sailor recruited to work for the British who
pioneered breakthroughs in Japanese naval codes; and Hiroshi
Oshima, the hard-drinking Japanese ambassador to Berlin whose
candid reports to Tokyo of his conversations with Hitler and other
high-ranking Nazis were a major source of intelligence in the war
against Germany. Many of these revelations have been made possible
only thanks to recently declassified British files, privileged
access to Australian secret official histories and interviews with
an unprecedented number of British, American and Australian
codebreakers.
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