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  • Sir John Hawkwood

    Chivalry and the Art of War

    In Florence cathedral hangs a remarkable portrait by Uccello of Sir John Hawkwood, the English soldier of fortune who commanded the Florentine army at the age of 70 and earned a formidable reputation as one of the foremost mercenaries of the late middle ages. His life is an amazing story. He rose from modest beginnings in an Essex village, fought through the French campaigns of Edward III, went to ... Read more

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  • The Real Falstaff

    Sir John Fastolf and the Hundred Years War

    This historical study examines the life and military accomplishments of the medieval knight who inspired one of Shakespeare's most beloved characters.One of the most famous English knights of the Hundred Years War, Sir John Fastolf is widely thought to be a model for Shakespeare's immortal character, Sir John Falstaff. In The Real Falstaff, historian Stephen Cooper examines the link in full, ... Read more

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  • Agincourt

    Myth and Reality, 1415–2015

    The overwhelming victory of Henry V's English army at Agincourt in October 1415 has passed into myth as one of the defining events of the Hundred Years War against France, as a feat of arms outshining the previous famous English victories at Crcy and Poitiers, and as a milestone in English medieval history. This epic story of how an exhausted, outnumbered army, commanded by an inspirational leader ... Read more

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  • Wentworth Woodhouse: The House, the Estate and the Family

    It was the home of a knight, a baron, a viscount, two marquises and nine earls. The family had estates not only in South Yorkshire, but also in North Yorkshire, the Midlands and Ireland, at their greatest extent covering nearly 120,000 acres. One head of household was beheaded. Another saw one of the last wolves in the British Isles. One owner built the Palladian mansion at Wentworth, which has ... Read more

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  • The John Fante Reader

    "Fante was my god." -Charles BukowskiIt's not every day that a writer, almost unheard of in his lifetime, emerges twenty years after his death as a voice of his generation. But then again, there aren't many writers with such irrepressible genius as John Fante.The John Fante Reader is the important next step in the reintroduction of this influential author to modern audiences. Combining excerpts ... Read more

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  • Chasing the Phantom

    The lost words of war poet Nowell Oxland

    Lieutenant Nowell Oxland, killed at Gallipoli in 1915 aged just 24, wrote poems and stories deeply rooted in place. He is unknown bar one poem Farewell, published anonymously in The Times nine days after his death. A native of Cumberland, he wrote it on the way to war, his heart longing for home:'There's a pool for which I'm grieving,Near the water-ouzel's home....And the curlews faintly crying, ... Read more

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  • Rural Social Work

    Building and Sustaining Community Capacity

    A thoughtful text integrating strengths, assets, and capacity-building themes with contemporary issues in rural social work practiceNow in its second edition, Rural Social Work is a collection of contributed readings from social work scholars, students, and practitioners presenting a framework for resource building based on the strengths, assets, and capacities of people, a tool essential for ... Read more

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  • Psychiatry by Ten Teachers

    Psychiatry by Ten Teachers follows the highly-praised and successful ‘Ten Teachers’ tradition of providing the key information in a chosen specialty as required by the medical undergraduate, junior doctor and trainee GP, written by ten respected experts in the field. With medical students closely involved in the text’s development from the outset the text focuses on what the medical student and ... Read more

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  • John Fante's Ask the Dust

    A Joining of Voices and Views

    Series series Critical Studies in Italian America
    This volume assembles for the first time a staggering multiplicity of reflections and readings of John Fante’s 1939 classic, Ask the Dust, a true testament to the work’s present and future impact.The contributors to this work—writers, critics, fans, scholars, screenwriters, directors, and others—analyze the provocative set of diaspora tensions informing Fante’s masterpiece that distinguish it from ... Read more

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  • Bacterial Growth and Division

    Biochemistry and Regulation of Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic Division Cycles

    How does a bacterial cell grow during the division cycle? This question is answered by the codeveloper of the Cooper-Helmstetter model of DNA replication. In a unique analysis of the bacterial division cycle, Cooper considers the major cell categories (cytoplasm, DNA, and cell surface) and presents a lucid description of bacterial growth during the division cycle. The concepts of bacterial ... Read more

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  • The George W. Bush Presidency

    A Rhetorical Perspective

    Series series Bloomsbury Studies in Political Communication
    To date, there are only a couple dozen or so books specifically about the Presidency of George W. Bush. Political operatives, members of the media, and former administration officials have written most of the volumes. Additionally, the early books on the Bush presidency focus on the various aspects and dimensions of the “War on Terror.” In essence, these studies challenge the justification of our ... Read more

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    The Life and Death of Britain's most famous War Minister

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    In June 1916, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener set sail from Orkney on a secret mission to bolster the Russian war effort. Just a mile off land and in the teeth of a force 9 gale, HMS Hampshire suffered a huge explosion, sinking in little more than fifteen minutes. Crew and passengers numbered 749; only twelve survived. Kitchener's body was never found.Remembered today as the face of the famous First ... Read more

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