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In this message, the author draws on his life-long ministerial
experience to convey the realities of where we are on our journey
through this life to where it is we are going. The book reflects
the treasure of shared knowledge and reveals what the author terms
the unconscious unreality, which draws people away from the
conscious realities that would otherwise enrich their lives. It is
directed to all God's people, both Christians and non-Christians.
These spiritual messages come at a time when the world is set on a
course that is causing much consternation and answers many
perplexing problems facing individuals. The author takes church
leaders to task for allowing much of what is changing the face of a
civil society. This book is not for idle curiosity. Each chapter is
at times sad, at times joyful, and at times soul-searching. There
is strong emphasis on the lure of easy borrowing and
sensationalism, one of the plagues of modern times that mask the
face of lasting values, diminishing the hunger for the spiritual
life, and depleting the soul of contentment. This book offers a
clear and unshakeable understanding of the truth of God and
clarifies scriptural text about the end times-it speaks about you.
Drawing on his legendary firearms knowledge and combat
experience, U.S. Navy SEAL and #1 bestselling author of American
Sniper Chris Kyle dramatically chronicles the story of
America--from the Revolution to the present--through the lens of
ten iconic guns and the remarkable heroes who used them to shape
history: the American long rifle, Spencer repeater, Colt .45
revolver, Winchester 1873 rifle, Springfield M1903 rifle, M1911
pistol, Thompson submachine gun, M1 Garand, .38 Special police
revolver, and the M16 rifle platform Kyle himself used. American
Gun is a sweeping epic of bravery, adventure, invention, and
sacrifice.
Featuring a foreword and afterword by Taya Kyle and illustrated
with more than 100 photographs, this new paperback edition features
a bonus chapter, "The Eleventh Gun," on shotguns, derringers, and
the Browning M2 machine gun.
This survey of European history covers a period of one and a half
centuries which witnessed the beginnings of the contemporary world.
In his account of the economic, social, intellectual, and
governmental structure and development of pre-revolutionary Europe,
the author stresses throughout the importance of economic and
social trends, and places emphasis on the analysis of the structure
of society as well as the narration of events. He shows how the
contradictions of the old order contributed to a crisis which
affected several of the major states in the late eighteenth
century, when the growth of governmental power led to a series of
clashes between governments and governing classes. Out of these
conflicts, particularly in France, arose a revolutionary crisis.
The nature of this crisis, and the impact of the change it
produced, are examined in detail in the final section of the book.
For this second edition, Professor Doyle has revised the text of
the book, and comprehensively updated the Bibliography.
The counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s remains a highly controversial and divisive topic in our society; virtually the only thing that anyone can agree on is its enormous impact on American life. Critics on the right complain of the shattering of cherished social norms, while those on the left take many movements to task for not going far enough and selling out. Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures. The fascinating constellation of topics covered include feminism, psychedelic drug experimentation, guerrilla theatre, the New Left, Jimi Hendrix, communal living, underground comics, and avant-garde film. As a whole, Imagine Nation offers exciting new interpretations of how the counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s irrevocably changed American society.
According to a professional association of 67,000 pediatricians,
"the lifelong success of children is based on their ability to be
creative and to apply the lessons learned from playing." But
play-including physical activity, the arts, and even free play-is
being eliminated in our society and schools and despite huge
financial investment these education policies have not improved
learning. In Let the Children Play, the authors, both fathers of
school-age children, tell how switching countries - Pasi Sahlberg
brought his Finnish family to the United States, while William
Doyle brought his American family to Finland - shocked them into
writing this book. With research breakthroughs and case histories
from Finland, China, Singapore, Scotland, New York, Texas, and
around the world, the authors reveal how intellectual and physical
play is the ultimate engine of transforming education - the key to
giving our children the well-being, happiness, and skills they need
to thrive in the 21st century, including curiosity, creativity,
teamwork, problem-solving, communication, and empathy. Written for
parents, educators, and policymakers, this book reveals a striking
vision of an inspiring future of our children's education-and how
to make it happen.
In ancien regime France almost all posts of public responsibility
had to be bought or inherited. Rather than tax their richer
subjects directly, French kings preferred to sell them privileged
public offices, which further payments allowed them to sell or
bequeath at will. By the eighteenth century there were 70,000 venal
offices, comprising the entire judiciary, most of the legal
profession, officers in the army, and a wide range of other
professions - from financiers handling the king's revenues down to
auctioneers and even wigmakers. Though now yielding diminishing
returns to the king, offices were more in demand than ever for the
privileges and prestige, profit and power, that they conferred; and
although it was widely accepted that selling public authority was
undesirable, nobody imagined that those who had invested in offices
could ever be bought out. The Revolution brought an unexpected
opportunity to do so, but the legacy of venality has marked French
institutions down to our day. William Doyle, one of the foremost
historians of early modern Europe, has written the first
comprehensive history of the last century of venality. He traces
the evolution and dissolution of a system which was fundamental to
the workings of state and society in France for over three
centuries.
In The Oxford Handbook of the Old Regime, an international team of
30 contributors surveys and presents current thinking about the
world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe.
The idea of the Old Regime (ancien regime) was invented by the
French revolutionaries to define what they hoped to destroy and
replace. But it was not a precise definition, and although
historians have found it conceptually useful, there is wide
disagreement about what the Old Regime's main features were, how
they worked, how old they were, how far they stretched, how dynamic
or inert they were, and how far the revolutionaries succeeded in
their ambitions to eradicate them.
In this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer
areas of research into the Old Regime are presented and assessed,
and there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The
result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Old
Regime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new
directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of
historical problems which it continues to pose.
The French Revolution is a time of history made familiar from
Dickens, Baroness Orczy, and Tolstoy, as well as the legends of let
them eat cake, and tricolours. Beginning in 1789, this period of
extreme political and social unrest saw the end of the French
monarchy, the death of an extraordinary number of people beneath
the guillotine's blade during the Terror, and the rise of Napoleon,
as well as far reaching consequences still with us today, such as
the enduring ideology of human rights, and decimalization. In this
Very Short Introduction, William Doyle introduces the French old
regime and considers how and why it collapsed. Retelling the
unfolding events of the revolution, he analyses why the
revolutionaries quarrelled with the king, the church and the rest
of Europe, why this produced Terror, and finally how it
accomplished rule by a general. Doyle also discusses how and why
the revolution destroyed the age-old cultural, institutional, and
social structures in France and beyond. In this new edition, Doyle
includes new sections highlighting the main developments in the
field since the first edition, before exploring the legacy of the
revolution in the form of rationality in public affairs and
responsible government. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short
Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds
of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books
are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our
expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and
enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly
readable.
Maximilien Robespierre is one of the greatest figures of European history but is at the same time one of the most reviled and revered. The essays in this volume seek to explain these contradictory views of Robespierre. They provide a balanced and up-to-date account of Robespierre's life and work by looking in turn at his ideology and vision of the Revolution, his role in the political life of Revolutionary France, and finally at representations of Robespierre in the history, drama and fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Two centuries after the French Revolution, Maximilien Robespierre
is still regarded as its towering figure. Perceived by some as the
champion, indeed the incarnation, of the Revolution's purest and
noblest ideals, among others he will always be remembered as the
reasoned advocate of the Terror, the defender of mass killing
during the Revolution's darkest and most tragic phase. This volume
comprises essays by an array of international scholars and examines
Robespierre's life and work from three main perspectives: his
ideology and vision of the Revolution, his role in the period's
tumultous politics, culminating in his year on the Committee of
Public Safety in 1793-94, and nineteenth- and twentieth-century
representations of the Incorruptible - by historians, dramatists
and writers of fiction. This book illuminates many facets of
Robespierre's career, thought and reputation, and provides a
balanced and up-to-date appraisal of one of the great figures of
European history.
In the space of less than twenty years, Napoleon turned Europe
upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by a
mixture of luck, audacity and military genius, he was able to
harness the energies released by the French Revolution to resolve
the internal problems which it had created, before turning his
restless ambition to remodeling the political structure of the
whole continent in a series of brilliant military victories. He was
never able to finally subdue all his foreign enemies, and in the
end they came together to bring him down; but by then it was
impossible to restore what he had destroyed, or, in France, to
destroy much of what he had created. The memory of his epic
exploits, carefully refashioned during his last years in exile,
haunted Europe for over a century, while the more distant effects
of his career changed the whole destiny of the Americas and of the
world.
What would happen if you built one of the world's most advanced
societies inside a forest-and strove to make women full partners in
power? After living for twenty-five years in New York, Naomi
Moriyama moved with her husband and co-author William Doyle and
their seven-year-old child to the vast forest of Finland's Karelia,
a mysterious region on the Russian border that helped inspire J.R.
R. Tolkien's Middle Earth fantasies. She entered a life-altering
zone of tranquility, peace, and beauty, the spiritual heart of the
nation ranked as the happiest nation on Earth, with among the
world's most empowered women. Finland is also the country with
cleanest air and water and the best schools, a country where
motherhood and fatherhood are championed by law, childhood is
revered, schoolchildren are required to play outdoors multiple
times a day, and trains contain mini-libraries and mini-playgrounds
for children to enjoy. It was here in the Karelian forest that
Naomi found a culinary symphony of succulent wild edibles, herbs,
berries, mushrooms and fish, all freshly plucked from the
moss-carpeted forest and sparkling clear streams. She also found
something that changed her life-a tribe of invincible women who
became her soul-sisters. As an idyllic summer and fall gave way to
a sub-Arctic winter of mind-bending darkness and cold, Naomi faced
her fears and her future. Over the course of six unforgettable
months with her family and her new "sisters", she found her life
transformed, and discovered the power that lay within her all
along. Then she tried to leave. But she kept coming back. Come,
take a journey deep into Europe's most distant, magical wilderness,
and join the sisterhood of the enchanted forest.
One of the most lively of France's younger historians, Guy
Chaussinand-Nogaret argues in this pioneering essay that the
traditional picture of the pre-revolutionary French nobility as a
caste of intransigent reactionaries and parasites is a fabrication
of revolutionary propaganda. Using a whole range of new research
and calculations, he argues that the nobility represented all that
was most vigorous and forward-looking in eighteenth-century French
society. Constantly renewing itself by recruiting the richest
members of the middle classes or marrying their daughters, the
nobility was in the forefront of French economic and intellectual
life, and until 1789 was at the head of the movement for reform of
the old regime state. In an afterword specially written for the
English edition, the author explains how the revolutionaries came
to turn against a group that had done more than any other to bring
about the Revolution.
Since its first publication to mark the bicentenary of the French
Revolution in 1989, this Oxford History has established itself as
the Revolution's most authoritative and comprehensive one-volume
history in English, and has recently been translated into Chinese.
Running from the accession of Louis XVI in 1774, it traces the
history of France through revolution, terror, and
counter-revolution to the final triumph of Napoleon in 1802. It
also analyses the impact of events in France upon the rest of
Europe and the world beyond. The study shows how a movement which
began with optimism and general enthusiasm soon became a tragedy,
not only for the ruling orders, but also for the millions of
ordinary people whose lives were disrupted by religious upheaval,
economic chaos, and civil and international war. Now in its third
edition, this volume has been fully updated in the light of current
research, and includes an appendix surveying the past and present
historiography of the revolutionary period.
The counterculture of the 1960s and 1970s remains a highly controversial and divisive topic in our society; virtually the only thing that anyone can agree on is its enormous impact on American life. Critics on the right complain of the shattering of cherished social norms, while those on the left take many movements to task for not going far enough and selling out. Amidst the recent flourishing of Sixties scholarship, Imagine Nation is the first collection to focus solely on the counterculture. Its fourteen provocative essays seek to unearth the complexity and rediscover the society-changing power of significant movements and figures. The fascinating constellation of topics covered include feminism, psychedelic drug experimentation, guerrilla theatre, the New Left, Jimi Hendrix, communal living, underground comics, and avant-garde film. As a whole, Imagine Nation offers exciting new interpretations of how the counterculture of. the 1960s and 1970s irrevocably changed American society.
In The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime, an international team
of thirty contributors survey and present current thinking about
the world of pre-revolutionary France and Europe. The idea of the
Ancien Regime was invented by the French revolutionaries to define
what they hoped to destroy and replace. But it was not a precise
definition, and although historians have found it conceptually
useful, there is wide disagreement about what the Ancien Regime's
main features were, how they worked, how old they were, how far
they stretched, how dynamic or inert they were, and how far the
revolutionaries succeeded in their ambitions to eradicate them. In
this wide-ranging and authoritative collection, old and newer areas
of research into the Ancien Regime are presented and assessed, and
there has been no attempt to impose any sort of consensus. The
result shows what a lively field of historical enquiry the Ancien
Regime remains, and points the way towards a range of promising new
directions for thinking and writing about the intriguing complex of
historical problems which it continues to pose.
What if there were a land where people lived longer than anywhere
else on earth, the obesity rate was the lowest in the developed
world, and women in their forties still looked like they were in
their twenties? Wouldn't you want to know their extraordinary
secret?
Japanese-born Naomi Moriyama reveals the secret to her own
high-energy, successful lifestyle-and the key to the enduring
health and beauty of Japanese women-in this exciting new book. The
Japanese have the pleasure of eating one of the most delicious,
nutritious, and naturally satisfying cuisines in the world without
denial, without guilt...and, yes, without getting fat or looking
old.
As a young girl living in Tokyo, Naomi Moriyama grew up in the food
utopia of the world, where fresh, simple, wholesome fare is prized
as one of the greatest joys of life. She also spent much time
basking in that other great center of Japanese food culture: her
mother Chizuko's Tokyo kitchen. Now she brings the traditional
secrets of her mother's kitchen to you in a book that embodies the
perfect marriage of nature and culinary wisdom-Japanese home-style
cooking.
If you think you've eaten Japanese food, you haven't tasted
anything yet. Japanese home-style cooking isn't just about sushi
and raw fish but good, old-fashioned everyday-Japanese-mom's
cooking that's stood the test of time-and waistlines-for decades.
Reflected in this unique way of cooking are the age-old traditional
values of family and the abiding Japanese love of simplicity,
nature, and good health. It's the kind of food that millions of
Japanese women like Naomi eat every day to stay healthy, slim, and
youthful while pursuing an energetic, successful, on-the-go
lifestyle. Even better, it's fast, it's easy, and you can start
with something as simple as introducing brown rice to your diet.
You'll begin feeling the benefits that keep Japanese women among
the youngest-looking in the world after your very next meal!
If you're tired of counting calories, counting carbs, and counting
on being disappointed with diets that don't work and don't satisfy,
it's time to discover one of the best-kept and most delicious
secrets for a healthier, slimmer, and long-living lifestyle. It's
time to discover the Japanese fountain of youth....
"From the Hardcover edition."
The years between the Fronde and the French Revolution were the longest period of calm in French history. For much of it, France dominated the international scene in Europe and made efforts to achieve a comparable role in the wider world. Meanwhile, French cultural achievements set standards imitated everywhere. This volume, bringing together an international team of contributors, surveys the full variety of the period on its own terms rather than as a mere prelude to later revolutionary upheavals.
Since time immemorial Europe had been dominated by nobles and
nobilities. In the eighteenth century their power seemed better
entrenched than ever. But in 1790 the French revolutionaries made a
determined attempt to abolish nobility entirely. "Aristocracy"
became the term for everything they were against, and the nobility
of France, so recently the most dazzling and sophisticated elite in
the European world, found itself persecuted in ways that horrified
counterparts in other countries.
Aristocracy and its Enemies traces the roots of the attack on
nobility at this time, looking at intellectual developments over
the preceding centuries, in particular the impact of the American
Revolution. It traces the steps by which French nobles were
disempowered and persecuted, a period during which large numbers
fled the country and many perished or were imprisoned.
In the end abolition of the aristocracy proved impossible, and
nobles recovered much of their property. Napoleon set out to
reconcile the remnants of the old nobility to the consequences of
revolution, and created a titled elite of his own. After his fall
the restored Bourbons offered renewed recognition to all forms of
nobility. But nineteenth century French nobles were a group
transformed and traumatized by the revolutionary experience, and
they never recovered their old hegemony and privileges. As William
Doyle shows, if the revolutionaries failed in their attempt to
abolish nobility, they nevertheless began the longer term process
of aristocratic decline that has marked the last two centuries.
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