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A biographical essay about William Harrison Ainsworth , with brief critical analysis of major works. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Jack Sheppard.
Paz, D. G.
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Jack Sheppard.
Masterplots, Fourth Edition. Nov2010, p1-4. 4p.
A brief synopsis and critical analysis of William Harrison Ainsworth ’s Jack Sheppard. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Discursos, mujeres y artes. ¿Construyendo o derribando fronteras?.
Grana, Romina;Grana, Romina
Este libro nace de un llamado que convoca, que reúne e interpela. Un llamado surgido d...
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Discursos, mujeres y artes. ¿Construyendo o derribando fronteras?.
2021
Este libro nace de un llamado que convoca, que reúne e interpela. Un llamado surgido del deseo de poner en diálogo espacios de saber al interior de los cuales se tienden puentes para la interpretación de los fenómenos sociales. De allí su importancia y vitalidad.Los textos aquí reunidos habilitan miradas retrospectivas y prospectivas sobre temas convocantes desde muchos puntos de vista; así, discursos, mujeres y artes son los grandes tópicos que organizan este volumen. Sin embargo, y muy sutilmente, se inmiscuyen otros temas que guardan alguna relación con aquellos tales como la violencia entre pares, el rol de las mujeres profesionales o cabeza de familia en la actualidad, los análisis literarios sobre frontera o exilio y la función de los medios en un mundo globalizado. Éstas y otras cuestiones se cruzan en los artículos que funcionan como sede de profundas reflexiones.
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Smart Geotechnics for Smart Societies : Proceedings of the 17th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (17th ARC, Astana, Kazakhstan, 14-18 August, 2023)
Askar Zhussupbekov;Assel Sarsembayeva;Victor N. Kaliakin;Askar Zhussupbekov...
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Smart Geotechnics for Smart Societies : Proceedings of the 17th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (17th ARC, Astana, Kazakhstan, 14-18 August, 2023)
2023
Smart Geotechnics for Smart Societies contains the contributions presented at the 17th Asian Regional Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (17th ARC, Astana, Kazakhstan, 14-18 August, 2023). The topics covered include: Geomaterials for soil improvement Tunneling and rock engineering Slope, embankments and dams Shallow and deep foundations Soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering Geoenvironmental engineering and frost geotechnics Investigation of foundations of historical structures and monitoring Offshore, harbor geotechnics and GeoEnergy Megaprojects and transportation geotechnics Smart Geotechnics for Smart Societies will be of interest to academics and engineers interested or involved in geotechnical engineering.
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A Curious History of Sex
Kate Lister;Kate Lister
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cu...
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A Curious History of Sex
2020
This is not a comprehensive study of every sexual quirk, kink and ritual across all cultures throughout time, as that would entail writing an encyclopaedia. Rather, this is a drop in the ocean, a paddle in the shallow end of sex history, but I hope you will get pleasantly wet nonetheless.The act of sex has not changed since people first worked out what went where, but the ways in which society dictates how sex is culturally understood and performed have varied significantly through the ages. Humans are the only creatures that stigmatise particular sexual practices, and sex remains a deeply divisive issue around the world. Attitudes will change and grow – hopefully for the better – but sex will never be free of stigma or shame unless we acknowledge where it has come from.Based on the popular research project Whores of Yore, and written with her distinctive humour and wit, A Curious History of Sex draws upon Dr Kate Lister's extensive knowledge of sex history. From medieval impotence tests to twentieth-century testicle thefts, from the erotic frescoes of Pompeii, to modern-day sex doll brothels, Kate unashamedly roots around in the pants of history, debunking myths, challenging stereotypes and generally getting her hands dirty.This fascinating book is peppered with surprising and informative historical slang, and illustrated with eye-opening, toe-curling and meticulously sourced images from the past.You will laugh, you will wince and you will wonder just how much has actually changed.
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2024 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association.
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Educar para transformar: Innovación pedagógica, calidad y TIC en contextos formativos.
López-Meneses, Eloy;Martín-Padilla, Antonio-Hilario;Molina-García, Laura;Ja...
Educar para transformar: Innovación pedagógica, calidad y TIC en contextos formativos.
2023
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Educación y Sociedad: Pensamiento e innovación para la transformación social.
Cobos-Sanchiz, David;López-Meneses, Eloy;Jaén-Martínez, Alicia;Martín-Padil...
Educación y Sociedad: Pensamiento e innovación para la transformación social.
2023
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Educación, tecnología, innovación y transferencia del conocimiento.
López Meneses, Eloy (Editor);Bernal Bravo, César (Editor);López Meneses, El...
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Educación, tecnología, innovación y transferencia del conocimiento.
2023
La presente obra es el resultado de las valiosas contribuciones científicas presentadas en el I Congreso Internacional de Educación, Tecnología, Innovación y Transferencia del Conocimiento EduEmer 2023 los días 25 y 26 de mayo de 23, Congreso Internacional organizado por la Cátedra institucional de Educación y Tecnologías Emergentes, Gamificación e Inteligencia Artificial en colaboración con AFOE Formación, bajo el título “Educación, Tecnología, Innovación y Transferencia de Conocimiento”, Esta publicación recopila doscientos dieciocho aportaciones científicas que representan una miscelánea de innovaciones y reflexiones docentes en distintas áreas del currículo y de las diversas etapas educativas, Estas contribuciones suponen un abanico de buenas prácticas para el desarrollo profesional, El trabajo agrupa tres conceptos clave para el desarrollo económico y social de cualquier país: innovación, educación y transferencia tecnológica, Sin embargo, no siempre se les presta la debida atención ni se les asigna los recursos necesarios para impulsarlos, La obra pretende ofrecer una visión integral y actualizada de estos temas, analizando sus fundamentos teóricos, sus experiencias prácticas y sus desafíos futuros, A lo largo de sus capítulos, se abordan aspectos como el papel de la investigación, la creatividad, el emprendimiento, la cooperación, la aplicabilidad de las tecnologías emergentes, la evaluación o el proceso de transferencia de conocimiento, Asimismo, se presentan casos de éxito y buenas prácticas de diferentes profesionales, que ilustran cómo la innovación, la educación y la transferencia de conocimiento pueden contribuir al bienestar colectivo y al progreso sostenible formativo, Esperamos que esta publicación socio-educativa contribuya al desarrollo de buenas prácticas profesionales y futuras experiencias que fomenten el desarrollo sostenible de la calidad docente y la innovación en las estructuras curriculares,
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A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017)
Tom Moore;Tom Moore
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A Biography of Power: Research and Excavations at the Iron Age 'oppidum' of Bagendon, Gloucestershire (1979-2017)
2020
A Biography of Power explores the changing nature of power and identity from the Iron Age to Roman period in Britain. Presenting detailed excavation results and integrating a range of comprehensive specialist studies, the book provides fresh insights into the origins and nature of one of the lesser-known, but perhaps most significant, Late Iron Age oppida in Britain: Bagendon in Gloucestershire. Combining the results of a large-scale geophysical survey with analysis of both historic and new excavations, this volume reassesses Iron Age occupation at Bagendon. It reveals evidence for diverse artisanal activities and complex regional exchange networks that saw livestock, and people, travelling to Bagendon from west of the Severn. The results of the excavation of two morphologically unusual, banjo-like enclosures, and of one of the previously unexamined dykes, has revealed that the Bagendon oppidum had earlier origins and more complex roles than previously envisaged. The volume also provides new insights into the nature of the Iron Age and Roman landscape in which Bagendon was situated. Detailing the discovery of two, previously unknown, Roman villas at Bagendon demonstrates the continued significance of this landscape in the early Roman province. This volume redefines Bagendon as a landscape of power, offering important insights into the changing nature of societies from the Middle Iron Age to the Roman period. It calls for a radical reassessment of how we define oppida complexes and their socio-political importance at the turn of the 1st millennium BC. Contains contributions from Sophia Adams, Michael J. Allen, Sam Bithell, Cameron Clegg, Geoffrey Dannell, Lorne Elliott, Elizabeth Foulds, Freddie Foulds, Christopher Green, Darren Gröcke, Derek Hamilton, Colin Haselgrove, Yvonne Inall, Tina Jakob, Mandy Jay, Sally Kellett, Robert Kenyon, Mark Landon, Edward McSloy, Janet Montgomery, J.A. Morley-Stone, Geoff Nowell, Charlotte O'Brien, Chris Ottley, Cynthia Poole, Richard Reece, Harry Robson, Ruth Shaffrey, John Shepherd, Jane Timby, Dirk Visser, D.F. Williams , Steven Willis.
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Verleger als Leser und als Vermittler von Lesekultur : Britische Verlegerkarrieren zwischen 1800 und 1926 unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung lesebiographischer Ansaetze
Sandra Simon;Sandra Simon
Verlegerpersönlichkeiten, die das Profil ihrer Verlage entscheidend gestalteten und au...
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Verleger als Leser und als Vermittler von Lesekultur : Britische Verlegerkarrieren zwischen 1800 und 1926 unter besonderer Beruecksichtigung lesebiographischer Ansaetze
2019; Vol. 00041
Verlegerpersönlichkeiten, die das Profil ihrer Verlage entscheidend gestalteten und auf die Lesekultur ihrer Zeit einwirkten, prägten das Verlagswesen im neunzehnten Jahrhundert. Gegenstand der vorliegenden Publikation sind die vier britischen Verleger William (1800-1883) und Robert Chambers (1802-1871), C. Kegan Paul (1828-1902) sowie J. M. Dent (1849-1926). Im Rückgriff auf biographische Ansätze der Leserforschung und Verlagsgeschichte arbeitet die Autorin die konkreten Umstände der Lesesozialisation der Verleger, ihren Bezug zum Lesen und zum Buch sowie die Auswirkungen auf das Selbstverständnis der Verleger und ihren Einfluss auf die Lesekultur ihrer Zeit heraus.
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
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Dictionary of World Biography
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Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post-industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World : Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway
Stein Haugen;Anne Barros;Coen van Gulijk;Trond Kongsvik;Jan Erik Vinnem;Ste...
Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World collects the papers presen...
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Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World : Proceedings of ESREL 2018, June 17-21, 2018, Trondheim, Norway
2018
Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World collects the papers presented at the 28th European Safety and Reliability Conference, ESREL 2018 in Trondheim, Norway, June 17-21, 2018. The contributions cover a wide range of methodologies and application areas for safety and reliability that contribute to safe societies in a changing world. These methodologies and applications include: - foundations of risk and reliability assessment and management- mathematical methods in reliability and safety- risk assessment - risk management- system reliability- uncertainty analysis- digitalization and big data- prognostics and system health management- occupational safety- accident and incident modeling- maintenance modeling and applications- simulation for safety and reliability analysis- dynamic risk and barrier management- organizational factors and safety culture- human factors and human reliability- resilience engineering- structural reliability- natural hazards- security- economic analysis in risk management Safety and Reliability – Safe Societies in a Changing World will be invaluable to academics and professionals working in a wide range of industrial and governmental sectors: offshore oil and gas, nuclear engineering, aeronautics and aerospace, marine transport and engineering, railways, road transport, automotive engineering, civil engineering, critical infrastructures, electrical and electronic engineering, energy production and distribution, environmental engineering, information technology and telecommunications, insurance and finance, manufacturing, marine transport, mechanical engineering, security and protection, and policy making.
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A People's History of Classics : Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939
Edith Hall;Henry Stead;Edith Hall;Henry Stead
A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the liv...
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A People's History of Classics : Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939
2020
A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a ‘Classics-Free Zone'. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war. A People's History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
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Working class--Great Britain--Intellectual life - Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching--Ireland--History - Civilization, Classical--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History - Working class--Ireland--Intellectual lifeContent provider:
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Encyclopedia of Bullying (7 Volume Set)
Silje C. Vestergaard;Silje C. Vestergaard
This 7-volume set is a compilation of important research on bullying. Some of the topi...
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Encyclopedia of Bullying (7 Volume Set)
2020
This 7-volume set is a compilation of important research on bullying. Some of the topics addressed include: cyberbullying, a form of bullying carried out using electronic communication; violent behavior; homophobia and its role in bullying; bullying prevention programs; predictors of school bullying; coping strategies and efforts to counter bullying behavior.
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
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Dictionary of World Biography
2020
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Chocolate City : A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
Chris Myers Asch;George Derek Musgrove;Chris Myers Asch;George Derek Musgro...
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-ce...
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Chocolate City : A History of Race and Democracy in the Nation's Capital
2017
Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights.Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from'Chocolate City'to'Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.
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Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature
William Hughes;William Hughes
Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic li...
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Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature
2013
Literary fashions come and go, but some hang around longer than others, like Gothic literature which has existed ever since The Castle of Otranto in 1764. During this long while, it has spread from England, to the rest of Great Britain, and across to the continent, and off to America and Australia, filling in the gaps more recently. Most of it is in English, but hardly all, and it has adopted all styles, from romanticism, to modernism, to postmodernism and even adjusted to feminist and queer literature, and science fiction. We have all, read some Gothic tales or if not read then seen them in the cinema, since they adapt well to film treatment, and it would be hard to find anyone who has not heard of ghosts and vampires, let alone Count Dracula and Frankenstein. On the other hand, some of us are inveterate Gothic fans, reading one book or story after the other.The Historical Dictionary of Gothic Literature follows this long and winding path, first in an extensive chronology and then a useful introduction which explains the nature of Gothic and shows how it has evolved. Obviously, the dictionary section has entries on major writers, and some of the best-known works, but also on geographical variants like Irish, Scottish or Russian Gothic and Female Gothic, Queer Gothic and Science Fiction. This is provided in over 200 often substantial and always intriguing entries. More can be found in a detailed bibliography, including general works but also more specialized ones on different styles and genres, and also specific authors. This book should certainly interest the fans but also more serious researchers.
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Gothic revival (Literature)--Dictionaries - Gothic fiction (Literary genre)--DictionariesContent provider:
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Dictionary of World Biography
Barry Jones;Barry Jones
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Dictionary of World Biography
2018
Jones, Barry Owen (1932–). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne High School and Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry and abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the'post‑industrial'society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age'and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the •Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968) and Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty Is Death (1968, revised and expanded 2022). Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership: Insights & Reflections, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.He received a DSc in 1988 for his services to science and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia's five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia's 100 ‘living national treasures'in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life'. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
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Medievalism: a Critical History
David Matthews;David Matthews
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Medievalism: a Critical History
2015; Vol. 00006
An accessibly-written survey of the origins and growth of the discipline of medievalism studies. The field known as'medievalism studies'concerns the life of the Middle Ages after the Middle Ages. Originating some thirty years ago, it examines reinventions and reworkings of the medieval from the Reformation to postmodernity,from Bale and Leland to HBO's Game of Thrones. But what exactly is it? An offshoot of medieval studies? A version of reception studies? Or a new form of cultural studies? Can such a diverse field claim coherence? Should it be housed in departments of English, or History, or should it always be interdisciplinary? In responding to such questions, the author traces the history of medievalism from its earliest appearances in the sixteenth century to the present day, across a range of examples drawn from the spheres of literature, art, architecture, music and more. He identifies two major modes, the grotesque and the romantic, and focuses on key phases of the development of medievalism in Europe: the Reformation, the late eighteenth century, and above all the period between 1815 and 1850, which, he argues, represents the zenith of medievalist cultural production. He also contends that the 1840s were medievalism's one moment of canonicity in several European cultures at once. After that, medievalism became a minority form, rarely marked with cultural prestige, though always pervasive and influential. Medievalism: a Critical History scrutinises several key categories - space, time, and selfhood - and traces the impact of medievalism on each. It will be the essential guide to a complex and still evolving field of inquiry. David Matthews is Professor of Medieval and Medievalism Studies at the University of Manchester.
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More of a Man : Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
Andrew Holman;Robert K. Kristofferson;Andrew Holman;Robert K. Kristofferson
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More of a Man : Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
2013
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith's journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man.Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith's life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end. Historians of labour, gender, and migration in the North Atlantic world will find More of a Man a valuable primary document of considerable insight and depth. All readers will find it a lively story of life in the nineteenth century.
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 : The Complete and Authoritative Edition
Mark Twain;Harriet E. Smith;Benjamin Griffin;Victor Fischer;Michael Barry F...
'I've struck it!'Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend.'And I will give it awa...
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Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 : The Complete and Authoritative Edition
2010
'I've struck it!'Mark Twain wrote in a 1904 letter to a friend.'And I will give it away—to you. You will never know how much enjoyment you have lost until you get to dictating your autobiography.'Thus, after dozens of false starts and hundreds of pages, Twain embarked on his'Final (and Right) Plan'for telling the story of his life. His innovative notion—to'talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment'—meant that his thoughts could range freely. The strict instruction that many of these texts remain unpublished for 100 years meant that when they came out, he would be'dead, and unaware, and indifferent,'and that he was therefore free to speak his'whole frank mind.'The year 2010 marks the 100th anniversary of Twain's death. In celebration of this important milestone and in honor of the cherished tradition of publishing Mark Twain's works, UC Press is proud to offer for the first time Mark Twain's uncensored autobiography in its entirety and exactly as he left it. This major literary event brings to readers, admirers, and scholars the first of three volumes and presents Mark Twain's authentic and unsuppressed voice, brimming with humor, ideas, and opinions, and speaking clearly from the grave as he intended. Editors: Harriet E. Smith, Benjamin Griffin, Victor Fischer, Michael B. Frank, Sharon K. Goetz, Leslie Myrick
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