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Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as
Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won
four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing
Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour's
greatest ever election winner. How did he do it - and at what cost?
Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political
calculator, even as a Soviet secret agent. In this powerful new
portrait, drawing on previously unavailable sources and first-hand
parliamentary insight, acclaimed biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds
reveals a more complex figure. Wilson was a new kind of politician
but, in his own way, this media-savvy harbinger of modernity was
also a deeply traditional man, whose actions often suggest nothing
less than a spiritual mission. In an intriguing paradox, Wilson,
influenced by the distinctively democratic faith of his Yorkshire
boyhood, united a fractured Labour Party, ushering in the cultural
and social changes of the 'swinging sixties'. His was the
government to decriminalise homosexuality, legalise abortion and
abolish capital punishment. With a brilliant mind, sure-footed
political moves and a feel for public opinion, he was a survivor
who over and over again emerged from desperate crises - even,
perhaps, conspiracies - to lead his party to victory. It is time at
last to learn his secrets.
Harold Wilson is the only post-war leader of any party to serve as
Britain's Prime Minister on two separate occasions. In total he won
four General Elections, spending nearly eight years in Downing
Street. Half a century later, he is still unbeaten, Labour's
greatest ever election winner. How did he do it - and at what cost?
Critics then and now have painted him as an opportunistic political
calculator, even as a Soviet secret agent. In this powerful new
portrait, drawing on previously unavailable sources and first-hand
parliamentary insight, acclaimed biographer Nick Thomas-Symonds
reveals a more complex figure. Wilson was a new kind of politician
but, in his own way, this media-savvy harbinger of modernity was
also a deeply traditional man, whose actions often suggest nothing
less than a spiritual mission. In an intriguing paradox, Wilson,
influenced by the distinctively democratic faith of his Yorkshire
boyhood, united a fractured Labour Party, ushering in the cultural
and social changes of the 'swinging sixties'. His was the
government to decriminalise homosexuality, legalise abortion and
abolish capital punishment. With a brilliant mind, sure-footed
political moves and a feel for public opinion, he was a survivor
who over and over again emerged from desperate crises - even,
perhaps, conspiracies - to lead his party to victory. It is time at
last to learn his secrets.
A biography of a key figure in British political life, now with a
new foreword by Keir Starmer, providing a vivid portrait of the man
and his politics. Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare
state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including
India - has been acclaimed by many as Britain's greatest
twentieth-century Prime Minister. Yet somehow Attlee the man
remains elusive. How did such a moderate, modest man bring about so
many enduring changes? What are the secrets of his leadership
style? And how do his personal attributes account for both his
spectacular successes and his apparent failures? When Attlee became
Prime Minister in July 1945 he was the leader of a Labour party
that had won a landslide victory. With almost 50 percent of the
popular vote, Attlee seemed to have achieved the platform for
Labour to dominate post-war British politics. Yet just 6 years and
3 months after the 1945 victory, and despite all Attlee's
governments had appeared to achieve, Labour was out of office,
condemned to opposition for a further 13 years. This presents one
of the great paradoxes of twentieth-century British history: how
Attlee's government achieved so much, but lost power so quickly.
But perhaps the greatest paradox was Attlee himself. Attlee's
obituary in "The Times" in 1967 stated that 'much of what he did
was memorable; very little that he said'. This new biography, based
on extensive research into Attlee's papers and first-hand
interviews, examines the myths that have arisen around this key
figure of British political life, providing a vivid portrait of
this man and his politics.
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Professional Knowledge Management - Third Biennial Conference, WM 2005, Kaiserslautern, Germany, April 10-13, 2005, Revised Selected Papers (Paperback, 2005 ed.)
Klaus-Dieter Althoff, Andreas Dengel, Ralph Bergmann, Markus Nick, Thomas Roth-Berghofer
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Professional knowledge management is imperative for the success of
enterprises. One decisive factor for the success of knowledge
management projects is the coordination of elements such as
corporate culture, enterprise organization, - man resource
management, as well as information and communication techn- ogy.
The proper alignment and balancing of these factors are currently
little understood especially the role of information technology,
which is often - garded only as an implementation tool, though it
can be a catalyst by making new knowledge management solutions
possible. This conference brought together representativesfrom
practical and research ?elds for discussing experiences,
professional applications, and visions through presentations,
workshops, tutorials, and an accompanying industry exhibition. The
main focus of the conference was the realization of knowledge mana-
ment strategies with the aid of innovative information technology
solutions, such as intelligent access to organizational memories,
or integration of business processes and knowledge management. Also
of interest were holistic/integrative approaches to knowledge
management that deal with issues raised by the in- gration of
people, organizations, and information technology."
Rudolf Steiner discovered that, in addition to "ordinary" space,
negative space, or "counterspace," also exists, leading to a more
holistic worldview. Steiner suggested that it was important to
understand counterspace as a necessary supplement to the
conventional approach. The author relates the phenomena of our
world to both space and counterspace, which leads to a new
scientific understanding. If counterspace actually exists, then the
resulting interplay between counterspace and "ordinary" space must
be significant. This concept is applied to gravity, liquids, gases,
heat, light, chemistry, and life. Each aspect involves a separate
investigation, whereas the various threads begin to interweave and
become a unified whole. A new concept of time, and indications for
a new approach to relativity and quantum physics begin to emerge.
Note: Science between Space and Counterspace contains advanced
mathematical and scientific proofs that the nonspecialist, general
reader might find difficult.
Using an accessible question-and-answer format, this short but
focused book tackles themes relating to the etheric - or life -
realm. What is etheric technology? What are the impacts of
radioactivity and atomic energy? How should we read apocalyptic
symptoms in science and society? In a fascinating series of
discussions Nick Thomas examines a range of concepts, including:
the right and wrong ways to develop an etheric technology;
spiritual events in the etheric realm; how the physical world works
into the etheric world and vice versa; Rudolf Steiner's 'Strader
machine'; the nature of truth and lies; attacks by the adversaries
on forces of vitality; and humanity's crossing of the threshold to
the spiritual world. His explanations and ideas help to evoke a
living picture of a great struggle between forces of good and evil,
with the future of humanity and the Earth at stake.
What does it mean to be human? What is knowledge? What is freedom?
Philosophy offers answers to these questions, but are its rarefied
arguments relevant to people today, or just abstractions? Are we
not more preoccupied with day-to-day survival and the unending
problems surrounding human relationships? Yet most if not all
people seek for meaning in life. We are not content with being
specks on a random planet in a solar system, part of a vast
clockwork universe. To dismiss consciousness as worthless, or
merely the play of chance, is to give up on finding real meaning in
existence. Freedom Through Love offers possibilities for dealing
with some of these big questions, leading to satisfying and
convincing conclusions. Although based on Rudolf Steiner's
Philosophy of Freedom, Nick Thomas does not begin his book with
complex philosophical arguments, but with themes that reflect
modern times. 'Let us not start with abstract questions far from
life, but from life itself!', he states in his opening page. Thus
the search for meaning, truth, freedom and love begins with the
realities of daily life - people and their relationships - as these
constitute the most difficult, but real, issues of contemporary
society.
In this third, enlarged edition of Lehrs' classic study, the reader
is led, step by step, to a spiritual-scientific method of
investigation. The author demonstrates how one can transcend the
boundaries of the physical-material world, to the metaphysical
origins of nature and the human being. This is a pioneering new
method of training both the mind and eye, as well as other human
senses, leading to a transformation from our modern 'onlooking'
consciousness to a new kind of 'participative' consciousness. The
beginnings of this method were formulated by Goethe (1749-1832)
more than 200 years ago, but his contemporaries offered little in
the way of fertile ground for his ideas. It was Rudolf Steiner
(1861-1925) who recognized the significance of 'Goetheanism' for
the future development not only of science, but of human culture in
general, and who developed Goethe's work in modern times. Man or
Matter contains the systematic results of the author's work using
the methods of Goethe and Steiner (the latter whom he knew
personally). With this unique study, he addresses himself to anyone
- with or without a specialized scientific training - who is
concerned with developing the human power of cognition in the
present time. This revised edition was edited by Nick Thomas and
Peter Bortoft.
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Vienna (Paperback)
Nick Thomas
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Vienna (Hardcover)
Nick Thomas
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