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  • A Shostakovich Casebook

    A collection of writings analyzing the controversial 1979 posthumous memoirs of the great Russian composer at their significance.In 1979, the alleged memoirs of legendary composer Dmitry Shostakovich (1906–1975) were published as Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitry Shostakovich As Related to and Edited by Solomon Volkov. Since its appearance, however, Testimony has been the focus of controversy in ... Read more

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  • Verdun 1916

    by Malcolm Brown ...
    1916 was a year of killing. The British remember the Somme, but earlier in the year the heart of the French army was ripped out by the Germans at Verdun. The garrison city in north-eastern France was the focus of a massive German attack; the French fought back ferociously, leading to a battle that would claim hundreds of thousands of lives and permanently scar the French psyche. To this day one ... Read more

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  • Introducing the Liberal Arts

    A Guidebook for English Learners

    Introducing the Liberal Arts: A Guidebook for English Learners offers students a broad introduction to the essential disciplines of a Liberal Arts education. Covering Humanities, Social Sciences, and Sciences, each of the 31 chapters—written by experienced professors—guides readers through subjects ranging from English Literature and Sociology to Biology and Physics. Each chapter provides context ... Read more

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  • The Imperial War Museum Book of the Western Front

    by Malcolm Brown ...
    An unrivalled and readable introduction to the years of Trench Warfare' TESThe First World War was won and lost on the Western Front. Covering the whole war, from the guns of August 1914 to the sudden silence of the November 1918 Armistice, the IWM Book of the Western Front reveals what life was really like for the men and women involved. With first-hand accounts of off-duty entertainments, trench ... Read more

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  • Australia's Worst Disasters

    by Malcolm Brown ...
    Graphic accounts of Australia’s worst disasters – historical as well as events of recent years.From the Ash Wednesday bushfires of 1983 to the implosion of the Royal Canberra Hospital in 1997, and from the shocking Granville railway crash in 1977 to the Sea King helicopter crash of 2005, Australia's history has been punctuated by incidents of disaster and tragedy that have shocked us all. ... Read more

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  • Cold Blooded Murder

    by Malcolm Brown ...
    Gripping accounts of some of Australia’s worst murder cases – and insights into the men and women who committed the crimes.Why do some people cross the threshold from rational behaviour to cold blooded murder?What could motivate a mother to kill her own children? How could a man kill his own pregnant wife and toddler with a spear gun? How could someone kill a political rival - and think they could ... Read more

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  • From Complex Analysis to Operator Theory: A Panorama

    In Memory of Sergey Naboko

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This volume is dedicated to the memory of Sergey Naboko (1950-2020). In addition to original research contributions covering the vast areas of interest of Sergey Naboko, it includes personal reminiscences and comments on the works and legacy of Sergey Naboko’s scientific achievements. Areas from complex analysis to operator theory, especially, spectral theory, are covered, and the papers will ... Read more

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  • Family History and Historians in Australia and New Zealand

    Related Histories

    Series series Routledge Approaches to History
    Since the turn of the twenty-first century, family history is the place where two great oceans of research are meeting: family historians outside the academy, with traditionally trained, often university-employed historians. This collection is both a testament to dialogue and an analysis of the dynamics of recent family history that derives from the confluence of professional historians with ... Read more

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  • Elijah the Bodhisattva

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    This is an interspiritual commentary -- largely though not exclusively Buddhist-inspired -- on the life of Elijah as recounted in the Bible. It treats the externals of his life as metaphors for internal mind-states, his story as a labyrinth-like journey toward enlightenment, an unfolding realization of the non-duality of himself and God. Elijah begins with a henotheistic conception of God as a ... Read more

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  • Jonny Jakes Investigates the Hamburgers of Doom

    by Malcolm Judge ...
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    Series series Middle-grade Novels
    Meet Jonny Jakes, undercover reporter for banned school newspaper The Woodford Word. Nothing will stop his pursuit of the truth. Not teachers. Not parents. Not even detention. When a new principal arrives halfway through the semester, Jonny smells a rat. Teachers handing out candy? All-you-can-eat hamburgers? He's determined to get to the bottom of it, because Jonny Jakes investigates the same way ... Read more

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  • Tensions in Christian Ethics

    An Introduction

    The book draws on the author's teaching of ethics at undergraduate and postgraduate level for the Cambridge Theological Federation since 2000. Its purpose is to introduce the reader to questions in Christian ethics through a careful examination of the fundamental meta-ethical questions posed by the 'state we're in', whether understood as a new phase of modernity or as postmodernity. Brown draws on ... Read more

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  • Meetings in No Man's Land

    Christmas 1914 and Fraternisation in the Great War

    The soldiers' 'football match' and the unofficial ceasefire of Christmas 1914 has become a legend of the Great War, but fraternization between enemy troops was actually widespread. In winter 1914, after months of marching, soldiers on both fronts began to dig trenches, and the war became a battle of attrition in which young men faced each other across what was often only a few yards of the muddy, ... Read more

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