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William Penn, the might of Pittsburgh steel and the Revolutionary
figures of Philadelphia dominate the scene of Pennsylvania history.
Thomas White brings together a collection of tales that have been
cast in the shadows by these giants of the Keystone State. From the
1869 storm that pelted Chester County with snails to the bloody end
of the Cooley gang, White selects events with an eye for the
humorous and strange. Mostly true accounts of cannibalistic feasts,
goat-rescuing lawmen, heroic goldfish, the funeral of a gypsy queen
and a Pittsburgh canine whose obituary was featured in the "New
York Times" all leap from the lost pages of history.
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Good People (DVD)
Michael Fox, Omar Sy, Kate Hudson, Diarmaid Murtagh, Maarten Dannenberg, …
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R23
Discovery Miles 230
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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James Franco and Kate Hudson star in this thriller directed by
Henrik Ruben Genz. American couple Tom and Anna Wright (Franco and
Hudson) are in the process of renovating their London townhouse but
are struggling to make ends meet as they frequently spend more
money than they make. When their tenant Ben (Francis Magee) fails
to turn down his music after multiple requests, Tom and Anna let
themselves into his flat to check if anything is wrong. When they
discover Ben's dead body they panic and call the police, but not
before Tom finds a bag containing more than two hundred thousand
pounds. As the cash-strapped couple decide to take the money to pay
off their debts, they soon discover that the money did not belong
to Ben and the real owner wants it back...
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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The Rotifera (Hardcover)
Charles Thomas Hudson; Created by Philip Henry Gosse
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R885
Discovery Miles 8 850
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The 3rd book in the Saga: The Emperor Shangri-La died trying to
attack the Earth in book 1; the Empress-his twin sister-died trying
to attack Tom Swift in book 2. Now, it seems the very Moon on which
they built their Shangri-La colony of slaves is on the brink of
being attacked by the ground under their feet. Harlan Ames, former
Swift Enterprises Chief of Security has been the Administrator of
the now free colony but is getting anxious to take his twin
children back to Earth. Their safety may depend on it; their mother
was the much hated Empress! But, something bad is happening inside
the Moon. He hopes his old boss can figure things out before it is
too late. In the meantime, he leaves his children in the care of
Lola "Grandma" Reyes at the lunar colony while he heads out to see
if there is anything to discover at the former "Master's" ruined
fortress in the Philippines. It is a race against time to see if
clues can be found to help avoid a catastrophe.
In this hardbound second installment of the Lunar Trilogy (Tom
Swift and the Space Battering Ram was part 1) an environmental
disaster hits California at the same time the lunar colony-now free
of the tyranny of the Masters-is facing a crisis of their own, and
it seems a single solution needs to be found for both. At the same
time, Harlan Ames ventures to Tibet in search of answers about the
Empress and where she might have crashed her evacuation spacecraft.
What he finds will turn his world on end and nearly ruin the
now-free colony on the Moon. With his own troubles, Tom must find a
way to mine water from a passing comet and bring it to the Moon and
down to the Earth safely and quickly before people start to die. As
it is, people are leaving the state as if it is becoming a new
dustbowl. The inhabitants of the lunar colony don't have that
luxury. Will Harlan's search and Tom's projects succeed? Or, with
they intersect with disastrous consequences?
Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and
Resistance is an edited volume that explores the critical
intersection of public theology, political theology, and communal
practices of activism and political resistance. This volume
functions as a sister/companion to the text Religion and Science as
Political Theology: Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts and
focuses on public, civic, performative action as a response to
experiences of injustice and diminishments of humanity. There are
periods in a nation's civil history when the tides of social unrest
rise into waves upon waves of public activism and resistance of the
dominant uses of power. In American history, activism and public
action including and extending beyond the Women's Suffrage, the
Million Man March, protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil
Rights Movement, Boston Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, the
Stonewall Rebellion are hallmarks of transitional or liminal
moments in our development as a society. Critical periods marked by
increases in public activism and political resistance are
opportunities for a society to once again decide who we will be as
a people. Will we move towards a more perfect union in which all
persons gain freedom in fulfilling their potential or will we
choose the perceived safety of the status quo and established norms
of power? Whose voices will be heard? Whose will be silenced
through intimidation or harm? Ultimately, these are theological
questions. Like other forms of non-textual research subjects
(movement, dance, performance art), public activism requires a set
of research lenses that are often neglected in theological and
religious studies. Attention to bodies, as a category, performance,
or epistemological vehicle, is sorely lacking so it is no wonder
that attention to the mass of moving bodies in activism is largely
absent. Activism and public political resistance are a hallmark of
our current social webbing and deserve scholarly attention.
Taking It to the Streets: Public Theologies of Activism and
Resistance is an edited volume that explores the critical
intersection of public theology, political theology, and communal
practices of activism and political resistance. This volume
functions as a sister/companion to the text Religion and Science as
Political Theology: Navigating Post-Truth and Alternative Facts and
focuses on public, civic, performative action as a response to
experiences of injustice and diminishments of humanity. There are
periods in a nation's civil history when the tides of social unrest
rise into waves upon waves of public activism and resistance of the
dominant uses of power. In American history, activism and public
action including and extending beyond the Women's Suffrage, the
Million Man March, protests against the Vietnam War, the Civil
Rights Movement, Boston Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, the
Stonewall Rebellion are hallmarks of transitional or liminal
moments in our development as a society. Critical periods marked by
increases in public activism and political resistance are
opportunities for a society to once again decide who we will be as
a people. Will we move towards a more perfect union in which all
persons gain freedom in fulfilling their potential or will we
choose the perceived safety of the status quo and established norms
of power? Whose voices will be heard? Whose will be silenced
through intimidation or harm? Ultimately, these are theological
questions. Like other forms of non-textual research subjects
(movement, dance, performance art), public activism requires a set
of research lenses that are often neglected in theological and
religious studies. Attention to bodies, as a category, performance,
or epistemological vehicle, is sorely lacking so it is no wonder
that attention to the mass of moving bodies in activism is largely
absent. Activism and public political resistance are a hallmark of
our current social webbing and deserve scholarly attention.
A series which is a model of its kind. Edmund King, History This
volume demonstrates the vitality and range of studies in the area.
It begins with an appropriately timely chapter on the Magna Carta,
the Allen Brown Memorial Lecture, given by John Hudson. Further
topics include seals; English towns and urban society after the
Norman Conquest; the records of Barking Abbey; the Bayeux Tapestry;
monastic writing; and medical practitioners in Normandy.
Contributors: Anna Sapir Abulafia, Casey Beaumont, Elma Brenner,
Giles Gasper, Kate Hammond, John Hudson, Alan Murray, Jean-Francois
Nieus, Jonathan Paletta, Susan Raich, Luigi Rosso, Miri Rubin, Hugh
Thomas.
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806-84), a
supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal
Newman, was also a historian of architecture, whose two-volume
Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic
Architecture is also reissued in this series. In 1851, he published
a volume on English domestic architecture from the Norman Conquest
to 1300 by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815-52), and on
Turner's death he completed the second volume, on the fourteenth
century, himself. Both volumes are highly illustrated with line
drawings and plans. Volume 1, after an introductory chapter about
pre-Conquest buildings, discusses architectural plans, features,
building materials and techniques of the twelfth and thirteenth
centuries, and gives examples of surviving buildings, from grand to
modest, all over England, as well as reproducing documents throwing
light on the painting and decoration of medieval buildings.
"Johnson After Three Centuries: New Light on Texts and
Contexts" examines several aspects of Johnson's career through
fresh perspectives and original interpretations by some of the
best-known and widely-repsected scholars of our time. Included are
essays by James Basker, James Engell, Nicholas Hudson, Jack Lynch,
and Allen Reddick.
The brief Russian presence in California yielded some of the
earliest ethnography of Native Californians and some of the best
collections of their material culture. Unstudied by western
scholars because of their being housed in Russian museums, they are
presented here for the first time in an English language volume.
Descriptions of early nineteenth-century travelers such as von
Wrangel and Voznesenskii are followed by a catalog of objects
ranging from hunting weapons to household objects to ritual dress
to musical instruments, games, and gift objects. This catalog of
objects includes over 150 images, many in full color. An essential
volume for those interested in the ethnology, archaeology, art, and
cultures of Native Californians.
The brief Russian presence in California yielded some of the
earliest ethnography of Native Californians and some of the best
collections of their material culture. Unstudied by western
scholars because of their being housed in Russian museums, they are
presented here for the first time in an English language volume.
Descriptions of early nineteenth-century travelers such as von
Wrangel and Voznesenskii are followed by a catalog of objects
ranging from hunting weapons to household objects to ritual dress
to musical instruments, games, and gift objects. This catalog of
objects includes over 150 images, many in full color. An essential
volume for those interested in the ethnology, archaeology, art, and
cultures of Native Californians.
This new edition of The Law of Trusts provides comprehensive and up
to date coverage of both the general principles and the application
of trust law in specific areas of legal practice.
The book has been fully revised and updated to take into account
recent legislation and case law from key trust jurisdictions, and
to include new material on the rule in Hastings-Bass; different
applications of the constructive trust; trustees' liability for
breach of trust; the taxation of trusts and estate planning; trusts
of pension schemes and financial regulation. It also contains
expanded material on areas that have recently grown in importance,
such as the emergence of shams and retention of control of trust
assets by the settlor; and the growing use of Special Purpose
Vehicles in offshore commercial dealings.
The book is helpfully split into two parts along these lines: Part
One considers the general principles involved and includes coverage
of: all aspects of express private trusts; the duties and powers of
trustees; the variation of trusts; trusts implied by law; and
breach of trusts. Part Two puts the general principles to work by
covering key practice areas including: insolvency; private client
trusts; international trusts; pension funds; financial
transactions; commercial transactions; and trusts of land. This is
a substantial work written by expert academics who also have
experience of practice, supported by contributions from key
specialists.
Ideal for both neurosurgical residents and recertifying
neurosurgeons, Neurosurgery Self-Assessment: Questions and Answers
offers the most comprehensive, up to date coverage available. Over
1,000 clinically relevant multiple-choice questions across 46 topic
areas test the candidate's knowledge of basic neuroscience and
neurosurgical subspecialties to an unparalleled degree and provide
detailed answer explanations to facilitate learning and assessment.
Over 700 histology, pathology, radiology, clinical and anatomical
images serve as an index of routinely tested-on images in
neurosurgical examinations with high-yield summaries of each
pathology to reinforce and simplify key concepts. Includes only
multiple choice questions in both single-best-answer and extended
matching item (10-20 options) format increasingly adopted by
neurosurgery certification boards worldwide. Questions are
organized by topic and classified by degree of difficulty through a
highly visual "traffic light system" which codes each question in
green, amber, or red. Includes coverage of the landmark studies in
areas such as vascular, stroke, spine and neurooncology. Practical
tips facilitate study with test-taking strategies and things to
consider before sitting for an exam. Utilizes Imperial and SI units
throughout. Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase.
This enhanced eBook experience acts an interactive question bank
which automatically scores and provides immediate answer feedback,
as well as allowing you to search all of the text, figures, and
references from the book.
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