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Book SynopsisFirst appearing in 1964, and long since out of print, Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel’s landmark book The Popular Arts takes seriously the importance of studying popular culture, thereby opening up an almost unprecedented field of analysis of everything from film, pulp crime novels, and jazz to television and advertising.Table of ContentsIntroduction to 2018 Edition / Richard Dyer vii Introduction 13 Part I: Definitions 1. The Media and Society 19 2. Minority Art, Folk Art, and Popular Art 45 3. Popular Art and Mass Culture 66 Part II. Topics for Study 4. Popular Forms and Popular Artists 89 5. Violence on the Screen 110 6. The Avenging Angels 142 7. Falling in Love 164 8. Fantasy and Romance 196 9. Friends and Neighbours 225 10. The Young Audience 269 11. The Big Bazaar 313 Part III. Social Themes 12. The Institutions 341 13. Mass Society: Critics and Defenders 364 Acknowledgments 385 Index 387

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Book SynopsisFinance Fictions examines the tension between psychosis and realism in the contemporary finance novel and shows that compared to earlier instances of the genre (Wolfe; Ellis), the 21st-century finance novel (Alger; Harris; Houellebecq; Lerner) develops a new realist approach to a contemporary economy of financial instruments and automated trading.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Revisiting The Bonfire of the Vanities 2. Psychotic Realism in (American) Psycho 3. Financial Realism in The Fear Index 4. The Financial Universe (After Meillassoux) 5. Michel Houellebecq, Finance Novelist 6. Financing the Novel: Ben Lerner’s 10:04 Conclusion: Economic Defense Systems; Or: On Financial Immunity Acknowledgments Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBurlingame interprets Lincoln's private life, discussing his marriage to Mary Todd, the untimely death of his son Willie to disease in 1862, and his recurrent anguish over the enormous human costs of the war.Table of Contents19. "The Man Does Not Live Who Is More Devoted to Peace Than I Am, But It May Be Necessary to Put the Foot Down Firmly": From Springfield to Washington (February 11–22, 1861)20. "I Am Now Going to Be Master": Inauguration (February 23–March 4, 1861)21. "A Man So Busy Letting Rooms in One End of His House, That He Can't Stop to Put Out the Fire That Is Burning in the Other": Distributing Patronage (March–April 1861)22. "You Can Have No Conf lict Without Being Yourselves the Aggressors": The Fort Sumter Crisis (March–April 1861) 23. "I Intend to Give Blows": The Hundred Days (April–July 1861)24. Sitzkrieg: The Phony War (August 1861–January 1862) 25 "This Damned Old House": The Lincoln Family in the Executive Mansion26. "I Expect to Maintain This Contest Until Successful, or Till I Die, or Am Conquered, or My Term Expires, or Congress or the Country Forsakes Me": From the Slough of Despond to the Gates of Richmond (January–July 1862)27. "The Hour Comes for Dealing with Slavery": Playing the Last Trump Card (January–July 1862) 28. "Would You Prosecute the War with Elder- Stalk Squirts, Charged with Rose Water?": The Soft War Turns Hard (July–September 1862)29. "I Am Not a Bold Man, But I Have the Knack of Sticking to My Promises!": The Emancipation Proclamation (September– December 1862)30. "Go Forward, and Give Us Victories": From the Mud March to Gettysburg (January–July 1863)31. "The Signs Look Better": Victory at the Polls and in the Field (July–November 1863)32. "I Hope to Stand Firm Enough to Not Go Backward, and Yet Not Go Forward Fast Enough to Wreck the Country's Cause": Reconstruction and Renomination (November 1863–June 1864) 33. "Hold On with a Bulldog Grip and Chew and Choke as Much as Possible": The Grand Offensive (May–August 1864)34. "The Wisest Radical of All": Reelection (September–November 1864) 35. "Let the Thing Be Pressed": Victory at Last (November 1864– April 1865) 36. "I Feel a Presentiment That I Shall Not Outlast the Rebellion. When It Is Over, My Work Will Be Done.": The Final Days (April 9–15, 1865) Acknowledgments Note on Sources Notes Index

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Book SynopsisBeautifully illustrated with a covetable rose gold foil cover, Modern Calligraphy is a step-by-step workbook for those wanting to learn this super trendy form of lettering.Written by Lucy Edmonds, the founder of Quill London, the book will guide readers through the first steps of pointed pen calligraphy, encouraging you to spend an hour a week developing and practicing the new skill. Designed for complete beginners, the book offers tips, tricks and techniques on the materials required and how to use them properly, how to approach the modern calligraphy letterforms, and most importantly explores ways to develop our own modern calligraphy style. You''ll learn about inks and how to make your own, brush calligraphy, and what you can do with your new skill - from envelope addressing and event stationery to beautiful dinner party menus and gift tags.

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Book SynopsisThe Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners.Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and booTrade Review'Archie Dick's Hidden History offers us a fine example of a historian working in an imaginative way to show how, at various junctures in the South African past, book and reading cultures have arisen, survived or even thrived despite the ways in which controlling and repressive regimes have sought to destroy or limit the impact of reading and writing for their own purposes.' -- Charles van Onselen Quarterly Bulletin of the National Library of South Africa, vol. 66:03:2012 'The scholarship is exemplary, and the book opens up new areas of research.' -- Anthony Olden Information and Culture: A Journal of History, October 2013 'Engaging and path breaking book...Rarely, if ever, is a work on South African history published that covers such a vast stretch of time, and is based on such a truly remarkable range of primary sources.' -- Gerald Groenewald Scrutiny2: Issues in English Studies in Southern Africa; vol 19:1:2014 'Trailblazing study.' -- Daniel Magaziner American Historical Review - vol 119:03:2014 'This is an inventive and engaging book that will do much to advance studies of southern African print culture and reading and their broader significance. Richly researched and lucidly written, the book will lend itself well to classroom use.' -- Isabel Hofmeyr African Studies Review vol 57:03:2014 'This wide ranging book contains a treasure-trove of stories about print cultures in South Africa between the mid-seventeenth century and mid-1990s... Dick has produced a study that is informative as well as ambitious.' -- Stephanie Newell SHARP News vol 24:04:2015Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations List of Tables Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction: The Significance of Common Readers in South Africa 1 Early Readers at the Cape, 1658-1800 2 Literacy, Class, and Regulating Reading, 1800-1850 3 The Women's Building of Nations: History Books in the Early Twentieth Century 4 Books for Troops in the Second World War 5 Politics and the Libraries, Part One: Book Theft, Intellectual Fraud, and Book Burning, 1950-1971 6 Politics and the Libraries, Part Two: Dissident Readers and Librarians in the 1980s Townships 7 Reading in Exile after Soweto, 1978-1992 8 Combating Censorship and Making Space for Books Conclusion: Revealing the Hidden Books and Hidden Readers Notes Index

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Book Synopsis"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonization, and powerful ideological currents, many of them hostile to Christianity"--Amazon.com.Trade Review"Shortlisted for the Catholic Herald Book Award in History""Winner of the 2018 Book Award for Excellence in Missiology, American Society of Missiology""Winner of a 2019 Award of Merit in History, Christianity Today Book Awards""One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018""One of First Things' Favorite Books of 2018""[This] book is an essential foundation for understanding the perilous times in which we live."---Diarmaid MacCulloch, Times Literary Supplement"A finely crafted exploration of Christianity in the 20th century. Stanley . . . provides an ingenious and informative history of the Christian faith through the last century . . . A well-written religious history that is destined to become a standard classroom text." * Kirkus *"This ambitious work . . . surveys narratives of 20th-century Christian activity around the globe. . . . At times the array of Christian organizations . . . and the rapid jumps between locations can feel bewildering—yet the author provides reader-friendly transitions into and out of each theme." * Publishers Weekly *"To outline the course of 20th century Christian history in one volume is a daunting task and it is not surprising that few have attempted it but it has to be said that Stanley has succeeded in producing a masterpiece that will be read for many years to come."---Paul Richardson, The Church of England Newspaper"This book is . . . ambitious in scope and . . . succeeds. If you want to know the Christian background to problems abroad or why the situation at home is not replicated elsewhere, then read this book."---Pamela Evans, Congregational History Society Magazine"What emerges from this book is a deep sense of the vibrant presence of different forms of Christianity across many parts of the world, and of the continuing ability of Christians and churches to adapt to new and very various contexts."---Charlotte Methuen, Theology"THis major work of scholarship greatly informs and illuminates our understanding of Christianity in the 20th century world."---Rev. Brian Cooper, The Gandhi Way

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"An important, original, and timely book—richly detailed and beautifully thought out."—Jack A. Goldstone, University of California, Davis"This book is clearly the state of the art in formal modeling and computer simulation of long-term historical changes in territorial states. Elegantly formulated and clearly written, it takes an important topic to a new level of formal sophistication."—Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"Honorable Mention for the Luebbert Best Book Award, Comparative Politics Section of the American Political Science Association""One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018""What a tonic Lisa Blaydes’s new book is. . . . Blaydes deserves a medal for a book that is impeccably researched and challenges so many myths with calm objective analysis. Her argument is one in the eye for those who say the modern state is incompatible with Islam."---Tim Stanley, Daily Telegraph"It is out of the question that State of Repression is the product of very impressive scholarly research and analysis."---Sophia Hoffmann, Journal of Perpetrator Research

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Book SynopsisPride in Modesty argues that ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.Trade Review'Pride in Modesty brings a valuable new perspective to the scholarship on Italian modernism. Sabatino unquestionably establishes the vernacular as a major feature of Italian modernism and invites scholars to reconsider the topography of inter-war and post-war Italian architecture, which has far too long been defined by a narrow cannon of exemplars.' -- Lucy Maulsby Canadian Art Review: vol35:02:10 'Pride in Modesty offers the Anglophone scholar a rigorous and nuanced analysis not of Italian vernacular architecture per se but instead of the intellectual and creative engagement architects, engineers, and other proponents of modernist trends with everyday architecture in Italy during the twentieth century. Sabatino deftly navigates architects' adaptation of vernacular traditions under fascism...A compelling and insightful study of Italian Modernist architects.' -- Joseph Sciorra Buildings & Landscapes: vol 18:01:2011 'Sabatino's eloquent and significant study establishes and develops the critical ground that will serve as a bench mark for future research.' -- Andrew J. Manson , Traditional Dwellings & Settlements Review, vol :23:01:2011

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Book SynopsisNaamiwan's Drum follows the story of a famous Ojibwe medicine man, his gifted grandson, and remarkable water drum. The book contains a powerful Anishinaabe interpretive perspective on repatriation and on anthropology itself.Trade Review‘What this book does excellently is to uncover in subtle ways how objects are actors in the drama of repatriation whether one takes First Nations perspective or not.’ -- Max Carocci * Transmotion Journal vol 4:01:2018 *‘This work will no doubt become a standard by which repatriation and perhaps even cultural and community studies are judged.’ -- Patricia Harms * The Canadian Journal of Native Studies vol 37:02:2017 *Table of ContentsMAPS AND PHOTOGRAPHS COLOUR PLATES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION Chapter 2 OMISHOOSH: Visit to the Museum Chapter 3 ANIMACY: Linguistic Considerations Chapter 4 DEWE'IGAN: Repatriation Chapter 5 PERSONHOOD: Wiikan and Artefact Chapter 6 THREE FIRES MIDEWIWIN LODGE: Ojibwe Advocacy and Revitalization Chapter 7 REPATRIATION: Cultural Rights and the Construction of Meaning Chapter 8 NELSON OWEN: Mitigwakik Homecoming Chapter 9 AGENCY AND ARTEFACTS: New Theoretical Approaches Chapter 10 REPATRIATING AGENCY: An Agency Analysis of Repatriation APPENDIX A: TIME LINE APPENDIX B: OJIBWE LANGUAGE NOTES APPENDIX C: OJIBWE GLOSSARY REFERENCES CITED END NOTES

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Book SynopsisIn the new knowledge economy, traditional modes of thinking are no longer effective. Compartmentalizing problems and solutions and assuming everything can be solved with the right formula can no longer keep pace with the radical changes occurring daily in the modern business world. It’s Not Complicated offers a paradigm shift for business professionals looking for simplified solutions to complex problems. In his straightforward and highly engaging style, Rick Nason introduces the principles of complexity thinking which empower managers to understand, correlate, and explain a diverse range of business phenomena. For example, why some new products go viral while others remain unnoticed, how office cliques develop despite collaborative work policies and spaces, how economic bubbles form, and how an unknown retiree foiled one of the most carefully planned product launches ever with a single letter to the editor of his local newspaper. Rather than consider complicateTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Introduction to Systems and Complexity Chapter 2: The False Axioms of Business Chapter 3: It's Not Complicated Chapter 4: The Wonders of Complexity Chapter 5: Managing Complexity Chapter 6: The Complexity of Strategic Planning Chapter 7: The Complex Economy Chapter 8: Risk Management and Complexity Chapter 9: The Complex Future

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Book SynopsisA bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.Trade Review'Modern Realism offers a clear and in-depth analysis for anyone seeking access to a new understanding of the genre, and an excellent resource for critics and scholars seeking to discover newly refound examples of modern realist Canadian fiction.' -- Marc Andre Fortin Canadian Literature issue #218 autumn 2013Table of ContentsAcknowledgments * The Modern-Realist Movement: Contexts, Aesthetics, Origins * Manifestos for a Modern Realism: Canadian Bookman and The Canadian Forum of the 1920s * Raymond Knister: Revolutionary Modern Realist * The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 1: Prairie Realism Re-evaluated * Frederick Philip Grove's Eclectic Realism and 'The Great Tradition' * The Proliferation of Modern Realism in Canada, Part 2: Urban and Social Realism Reclaimed * Morley Callaghan's Cosmopolitan Modern Realism * Modern Realism and Canadian Literature Notes Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn this meditation/how-to guide on drawing as an ethnographic method, Andrew Causey offers insights, inspiration, practical techniques, and encouragement for social scientists interested in exploring drawing as a way of translating what they "see" during their research.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Etudes Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. Can't See? 3. Dare to See and Dare to Draw 4. Seeing Edges as Lines 5. Seeing Inside Edges 6. Seeing Movement 7. Seeing Absence 8. Final Words Appendix References Index

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Book SynopsisThe Hotel: Occupied Space explores the hotel as both symbol and space through the concept of occupancy. By examining how it manifests in art, photography, and film as well as its uses during wartime and as a sanctuary for displaced people, this book offers a timely critique of a crucial modern space.Trade Review"Its assemblage of sources unique to Davidson’s perspective and its original articulation of the concept of occupancy makes The Hotel: Occupied Space a topical study that, while broad in scope, is refreshingly clear and accessible to anyone interested in our evolving relationship with the built environment in the age of global conduct." -- Matthew D’Ambrosio Griffith, Harvard University * Between *"Through his provocative series of close readings, Davidson uses the hotel form as a way to register the significance of incursions of state power into the contractually arranged relationship to space that defines the modern hotel." -- Jordan J. Howie, University of Toronto * University of Toronto Quarterly: Letters in Canada 2018 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The Overlooked Space Part I: The Realm of Imagination Chapter 1: The Pictorial Hotel Chapter 2: The Cinematic Hotel Part II: The Built Environment Chapter 3: The Wartime Hotel Chapter 4: The Displacement Hotel Conclusion: The Hotel Attraction Notes Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAccomplished art instructor Julie Gilbert Pollard offers expert advice on oil painting through the lens of the common landscape.

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Book SynopsisIn his groundbreaking study, Art, Politics and Development, Philipp Lepenies contributes to the ongoing controversy about why the track record of development aid is so dismal. He asserts that development aid policies are grounded in a specific way of literally looking at the world. This worldview is the result of a mental conditioning that began with the invention of linear perspective in Renaissance art. It not only triggered the emergence of modern science and brought forth our Western notion of progress, but ultimately, development as well. Art, Politics, and Development examines this process by pulling from a range of disciplines, including art history, philosophy, literature, and social science. Lepenies not only explains the shortcomings of modern aid in a novel fashion, he also proposes how aid could be done differently. In the series Politics, History and Social Change, edited by John C. TorpeyTrade Review"While none of [the book's] components [are] original, the combination of them may be. The best section, on the invention of perspective... cites art historian Erwin Panofsky's Perspective as Symbolic Form. Lepenies isn't writing history; he's building an intellectual construct. Its end point is the assertion that contemporary thinking on development supports a linear concept of progress and that we possess a privileged viewpoint on it."--Library Journal, October 2013Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction1. Perspective: A Window to the World and to the FuturePERSPECTIVEMedieval Art, Optics, and Perspectives • The Invention of Perspective: The Mirror • From the “Intercisione” to the Vanishing Point • The Window • The Role of Mathematics • Rediscovery or InventionAnticipation of a New Weltanschauung: Transgressing Medieval BoundariesThe Iconic Gaze • The Window Revisited • Iconic Space, Subjective Objectivity, and the Invention of Infinity • Friction with Religion • The Artist as Creator • The Horizon • The World and the Future • A Case in Point: The Città Ideale of Berlin2. From Art to WorldviewThe Disenchantment of the Physical WorldThe Universe Open to Our Gaze • The Order to Conquer Nature • Everything Has a Mathematical Counterpart • The Predictable Universe • Control through Calculation Toward a New Horizon: The Discovery of Linear Time and the Idea of ProgressThe Threat of Doomsday Comes to an End • Circularity and Linearity • Progress as the Advancement of Knowledge • Turgot and the Progress of the Human MindCondorcet: From the Linear Perspective Worldview to the Development Mind-setA Life of Science, Action, and Tragedy • Social Mathematics • The Esquisse: The Philosophy of Future Progress • The Future and the Others • Mathematics, the Future, and ActionThe Notion of the “Other” prior to the EsquisseAlternative Views of Otherness • Slavery and the Société des Amis des Noirs The Development Mind-set Further Concretized: The Idea of Civilizing and CivilizationThe Meaning of Civilization • The Destiny of All Nations • The Need for Education and Educators • Civilizing by Teaching PerspectiveLinear Perspective and the Development Mind-set: A Summary of Key Concepts3. Modern DevelopmentThe Contemporary Development Mind-setUs and Them • Endless and Dynamic Progress • The Aim of All AidEducating the “Others”Development as Knowledge Transfer • Knowledge Transfer in Historical PerspectiveThe “Rage de Vouloir Conclure”Knowledge Transfer as a Hindrance to Development and Change • The Visiting Economist Syndrome 115 • Anthropological Views • The Earth Is Not Flat • Planners • Unhelpful Helpers • Summary4. CounterperspectivesResistance to the Perspective WorldviewAntiperspective Movements in Art HistoryArab Views • The Perspective Wars of Paris • Through the Eye of a Cow: Rationalist versus Empiricist Perspective • SummaryProposals for Development AlternativesReversals • Searchers • Midwives • PossibilismA Nonlinear ApproachNonlinearity • Challenges • The Way Forward: Self-Critical Historical Awareness and Knowledge CoalitionsConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

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Book SynopsisExamines in detail how General Francisco Franco became dictator and how his leadership led to victory in the Spanish Civil War that consolidated his regime. The authors also explore Franco's role in the great repression that accompanied the Civil War and examine at length his controversial role in World War II.Trade ReviewAn intimate portrait of Franco the man, provoking a lively and necessary debate about the nature of the dictator's regime.""- Julius Ruiz, author of Franco's Justice""This compelling biography of Francisco Franco situates the Caudillo in his Spanish and global context. It covers every aspect of Franco's life- from birth to death, from the political to the personal- displaying a judicious and critical understanding of this very controversial figure.""- Michael Seidman, author of The Victorious Counterrevolution: The Nationalist Effort in the Spanish Civil War""During and after his life, Francisco Franco garnered more than fifty studies of his life, but Franco: A Personal and Political Biography is quite simply one of the best. At last we are presented with a genuinely objective, balanced, above all dispassionate biography, written by two vastly experienced and distinguished scholars. The book's cool and measured conclusions- always lucidly presented- reflect almost uncannily the meticulously pragmatic approach of the subject himself to the numberless military and political issues his career confronted. From being a twentieth-century pariah of world politics, Franco has now come into his own in terms of serious academic attention.""- Robert Stradling, author of Your Children Will Be Next: Bombing and Propaganda in the Spanish Civil War""Francisco Franco is the only major twentieth-century dictator to die peacefully in his bed- after almost four decades in power. His regime was brutal, despicable, and in many respects ineffectual, yet it did not join the Axis powers in World War II and was a transitional type between traditional military dictatorships and more recent totalitarian regimes. This book, impeccably based on the available sources and displaying sober judgment, could well be the definitive work on the subject.""- Walter Laqueur, author of Fascism: Past, Present, Future""A very thorough and readable biography that masterfully combines research on Franco's life and regime with new and unique sources including Franco's private papers and interviews with Franco's only daughter. It will appeal to a broad readership including anyone interested in the history of twentieth-century Spain, the Spanish civil war, and the Franco regime.""- Joan Maria Thomàs, University Rovira-Virgili, SpainTable of Contents List of Illustrations Preface 1 The Making of a Spanish Officer (1892–1913) 2 The Youngest General in Europe (1913–1926) 3 Director of the General Military Academy (1926–1931) 4 From Ostracism to Chief of Staff (1931–1936) 5 The Destruction of Republican Democracy (1936) 6 Franco Becomes Generalissimo (1936) 7 Forging a Dictatorship (1936–1939) 8 Winning the Civil War (1936–1939) 9 Franco and the Nationalist Repression (1936–1945) 10 From Civil War to World War (1939–1940) 11 The Great Temptation (1940–1941) 12 Surviving World War II (1941–1945) 13 Franco at Bay (1945–1953) 14 Franco at His Zenith (1953–1959) 15 Franco at Home 16 Development Dictator (1959–1964) 17 Facing the Future (1964–1969) 18 Franco and the Modernization of Spain 19 Twilight Years (1969–1974) 20 The Death of Franco (1974–1975) Conclusion: Franco in the Perspective of History Notes Index

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Book SynopsisA practical and lighthearted guide to planning, designing, and delivering a presentation.Table of Contents Preface Part I: General Principles of Public Speaking Chapter 1: Speaking (and Stammering) About Psychology Chapter 2: The First Commandment of Public Speaking: Know Thine Audience Chapter 3: Preparing and Delivering Your Talk Chapter 4: Answering Questions Chapter 5: Managing Anxiety Chapter 6: When Disaster Strikes: Handling Problems With Humor and Grace Part II: Help With Specific Presentations Chapter 7: Research Talks Chapter 8: Poster Presentations Chapter 9: Job Talks Chapter 10: Presentations for Lay Audiences Epilogue References Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis updated edition by one of the world's leading apologists presents a systematic, positive case for Christianity that reflects the latest work in the contemporary hard sciences and humanities. Brilliant and accessible.

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Book SynopsisThis book responds to 7 common misconceptions aboutsingleness, helping everyonemarried and unmarried alikevaluethe unique opportunitiesthat singleness affords to contribute to the flourishing of the church as a whole.

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Book SynopsisBlack & White Cat from the new Eco Puppet Buddies range is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. This beautiful collection features embroidered eyes, and wonderfully soft materials and offers a lot of fun at an excellent price point. With its vibrant orange fur, giving you a sense of warmth and playfulness, this purr-fect feline puppet is bound to steal hearts with its irresistible charm and lovable personality.

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Book SynopsisCow Puppet from the new Eco Puppet Buddies range is made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. This beautiful collection features embroidered eyes, and wonderfully soft materials and offers a lot of fun at an excellent price point. With its distinctive colours of black and white and its soft body, the Cow puppet captures a delightful, gentle representation of this iconic farm animal. Ideal for children.

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Book SynopsisFantastic Wolf from the new Eco Puppet Buddies range made from 100% recycled plastic bottles. This beautiful collection features embroidered eyes, and wonderfully soft materials and offers a lot of fun at an excellent price point. With its piercing eyes, sleek fur, and majestic presence, this puppet beautifully captures the essence of the wild wolf. Ideal for children. Ideal for children (designed to fit most adult hands, too).

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Book SynopsisThe Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty and explores the coming to consciousness of the human understanding of risk.Trade ReviewA remarkable book. Mr. Franklin writes clearly and exhibits a wry wit. But he also ranges knowledgeably across many disciplines and over many centuries. Wall Street Journal The Science of Conjecture opens an old chest of human attempts to draw order from havoc and wipes clean the rust from some cast-off classical tools that can now be reused to help build a framework for the unpredictable future. Science Franklin's style is clear and fluent, with an occasional sly Gibbonian aside to make the reader chuckle. New Criterion An admirably accessible study written in a crisp prose. It presents the reader with anarching historical perspective throughout many a century of human action. -- Giora Hon Centaurus Franklin gives a magisterial account of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist historiography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics. His treatment of medieval law is among the best I have ever read. International Journal of Evidence and Proof Franklin's book is magnificent... Think of [it] as a non-fiction equivalent of Tolstoy's War and Peace. -- Peter Tillers The Jurist The Science of Conjecture is a masterly work, beautifully written, and based on encyclopaedic research... It is simply a tour de force that is unlikely to be surpassed for many a year. -- Barry Miller The Thomist Statistics teachers who like to sprinkle a little history and philosophy into their classes will find much here to delight and challenge them... This is a serious and scholarly work that I expect often will inform my teaching. -- Richard J. Cleary Journal of the American Statistical Association [This book has given me] sheer enjoyment in its density of strange information, in the wit and clarity if its writing, and in the vigour of its argumentation. I recommend it unreservedly to all interested in its subject. -- Oliver Mayo Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics This is the intellectual book of the year, and it ought to become one of the great classics of intellectual history. -- Scott Campbell Interdisciplinary Science Reviews The strength of The Science of Conjecture lies in its panoramic exposition of developments across the centuries and across intellectual disciplines and human endeavors. It is, as one reviewer wrote, 'a magesterial account of matters as diverse as the Talmud, Justinian's Digest, torture, witch hunts, Tudor treason trials, ancient and medieval astronomy and physics, humanist histriography, scholastic philosophy, speculations in public debt, and 17th century mathematics.' -- D. H. Kaye Law and History Review A remarkable book. Mr. Franklin writes clearly and exhibits a wry wit. But he also ranges knowledgeably across many disciplines and over many centuries. There are several reasons to read this book, but perhaps the best reason is its contemporary relevance. The lessons he discusses have pertinence to an age like ours, which has witnessed a gradual waning of faith in the objectivity of the relation of uncertain evidence to conclusion. Wall Street Journal In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin shows us how deeply and subtly jurists and philosophers from ancient Greece onwards have explored how we can deal rationally with real-life cases (law cases, for instance, or scientific experiments) where the link between cause and effect is not obvious. -- J.M. Coetzee The Australian Since many in the nominalist/empiricist/positivist tradition deny that we can know natures, this book has a place in teacher education as well as legal education for the challenges it poses the reader on how we know, and how well we know, through induction, perception and abstraction. Metascience The text has an even wider importance in that it signals the need for more, not less, study of the history, philosophy and social studies in science to occupy a greater space in undergraduate degrees so that an educated electorate is better able to evaluate what the STEM community tells us is good for the progress of society. 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