Ursula Owen has been a significant figure in the worlds of literature and free expression since the 1970s. A founding director of Virago Press in 1974, later becoming Joint Managing Director, she worked with a committed teams as the company rapidly developed an international reputation, rediscovering and repositioning women writers and, over two decades, transforming both the literary canon and the contemporary publishing world. During the 1990s, Owen became a director of the Paul Hamlyn Fund, Cultural Policy Advisor to the Labour Party and Chief Executive of Index on Censorship. Yet behind these and other signal achievements lies the story of a refugee, a child who fled the Nazis, was educated at Putney High School, went up to Oxford, trained as a researcher in social services, travelled extensively, marrying, becoming a mother, and eventually separating. In this frank and compelling memoir, we discover an extraordinary life where culture prevails against the tumultuous conflicts of the twentieth-century, as well as the twenty-first.
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Imagine someone who has spent a lifetime listening deeply and attentively to the full range of Scripture's testimony. Stepping back, they now describe what they have seen and heard. What emerges is a theological cathedral, laid out on the great vectors of Scripture and fitted with biblically sourced materials.This is what John Goldingay has done. Well known for his three-volume Old Testament Theology, he has now risen to the challenge of a biblical theology. While taking the New Testament as a portal into the biblical canon, he seeks to preserve the distinct voices of Israel's Scriptures, accepting even its irregular and sinewed pieces as features rather than problems. Goldingay does not search out a thematic core or overarching unity, but allows Scripture's diversity and tensions to remain as manifold witnesses to the ways of God. While many interpreters interrogate Scripture under the harsh lights of late-modern questions, Goldingay engages in a dialogue keen on letting Scripture speak to us in its own voice. Throughout he asks, "What understanding of God and the world and life emerges from these two testaments?"Goldingay's Biblical Theology is a landmark achievement—hermeneutically dexterous, biblically expansive, and nourishing to mind, soul and proclamation.
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This carefully crafted ebook: "VICTOR L. WHITECHURCH Ultimate Collection: 30+ Thrillers & Mysteries, including The Thorpe Hazell Detective Tales, The Thrilling Stories of the Railway & Other Tales On and Off the Rails" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Victor Lorenzo Whitechurch (1868-1933) was a Church of England clergyman and author. He is best known for his detective stories featuring Thorpe Hazell, the first amateur railway detective, whom the author intended to be as far from Sherlock Holmes as possible. Another Whitechurch's character was the spy Captain Ivan Koravitch. His stories were admired for their immaculate plotting and factual accuracy. Whitechurch was one of the first writers to submit his manuscripts to Scotland Yard for vetting as to police procedure. Table of Contents: Novels: The Canon in Residence Downland Echoes Murder at the Pageant Short Stories: Thrilling Stories of the Railway Peter Crane's Cigars The Tragedy on the London and Mid-Northern The Affair of the Corridor Express Sir Gilbert Murrell's Picture How the Bank Was Saved The Affair of the German Dispatch-Box How the Bishop Kept His Appointment The Adventure of the Pilot Engine The Stolen Necklace The Mystery of the Boat Express How the Express Was Saved A Case of Signaling Winning the Race The Strikers The Ruse That Succeeded Other Railway Stories A Perilous Ride The Slip Coach Mystery In the Rockhurst Tunnel The Convict's Revenge A Warning in Red A Jump for Freedom Special Working Instructions Pierre Cournet's Last Run Between Two Fires The Triumph of Seth P. Tucker A Policy of Silence In a Tight Fix The Romance of the "Southern Queen"
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Ce livre retrace l’histoire et l’évolution de la marine moderne. <br>La découverte du Nouveau-Monde, en ouvrant aux navires à voiles un champ forcément interdit aux bâtiments à rames, donna naissance à une marine nouvelle. Les progrès de l’artillerie en assurèrent bientôt sur toutes les mers la prééminence. Le corps royal des galères, créé sous Charles VI, conserva néanmoins en France jusqu’en I749 son organisation propre, ses crédits spéciaux, ses officiers militaires et ses officiers de finances. Les vaisseaux ronds, — ce fut le premier nom sous lequel on désigna les vaisseaux à voiles, — auront eu, malgré leur perfection relative, une moins longue existence; ils n’auront guère duré plus de deux siècles. Ces deux siècles comprennent toute l’histoire de la marine moderne, histoire héroïque et sanglante qui a traversé dans le court espace de deux cents années trois phases bien distinctes. La première de ces périodes est remplie par les luttes successives que l’Espagne soutient contre les Provinces-Unies, contre l’Angleterre, et en dernier lieu contre la France. Le gros des flottes se compose alors de navires d’une centaine de tonneaux, de trois ou quatre cents tout au plus. C’est le temps où, après en être venu aux mousquetades, on s’efforce de jeter à la faveur de la fumée les grappins sur le bâtiment ennemi. Les piques rendent alors plus de service que les canons. Dans la seconde période, l’Angleterre et la Hollande se disputent la suprématie des mers. Nous assistons à de grands combats éclairés par la lueur d’immenses incendies; ce sont les vaisseaux qui ébauchent la victoire, ce sont les brûlots qui l’achèvent. Une troisième époque enfin semble s’ouvrir avec l’apparition de la marine de Louis XIV. Les lignes deviennent plus serrées et plus régulières, l’action du canon est plus efficace. Les véritables combats d’artillerie commencent, ils vont se prolonger jusqu’à nos jours. La marine à voiles a en quelque sorte trouvé sa position d’équilibre; elle ne subit plus que des transformations de détail presque insignifiantes. C’est au contraire parce qu’elle se transformait dans ses dispositions les plus essentielles que, pendant presque toute la durée du XVIIe siècle, on la voit modifier sans cesse ses procédés de combat. Qu’étaient les vaisseaux ronds au début?... <br> <br>
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Wild Apples Henry David Thoreau - Wild Apples is a compilation of two classic philosophical nature essays by the great American naturalist and philosopher, Henry David Thoreau. I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil--to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature, rather than a member of society. I wish to make an extreme statement, if so I may make an emphatic one, for there are enough champions of civilization: the minister and the school committee and every one of you will take care of that. Walking, or sometimes referred to as "The Wild", is a lecture by Henry David Thoreau first delivered at the Concord Lyceum on April 23, 1851. It was written between 1851 and 1860, but parts were extracted from his earlier journals. Thoreau read the piece a total of ten times, more than any other of his lectures. "Walking" was first published as an essay in the Atlantic Monthly after his death in 1862.[1] He considered it one of his seminal works, so much so, that he once wrote of the lecture, "I regard this as a sort of introduction to all that I may write hereafter." Walking is a Transcendental essay in which Thoreau talks about the importance of nature to mankind, and how people cannot survive without nature, physically, mentally, and spiritually, yet we seem to be spending more and more time entrenched by society. For Thoreau walking is a self-reflective spiritual act that occurs only when you are away from society, that allows you to learn about who you are, and find other aspects of yourself that have been chipped away by society. "Walking" is an important canon in the transcendental movement that would lay the foundation for his best known work, Walden. Along with Ralph Waldo Emerson's Nature, and George Perkins Marsh's Man and Nature, it has become one of the most important essays in the Transcendentalist movement. "Walking" The main theme is Nature. Thoreau is looking at nature, and how nature brings self-reflection through the act of walking, how nature represents the wild natural aspect to man that has been suppressed by society, and criticizing society and people who think society is everything, and lastly Thoreau is trying to push us towards exploration particularity in the west, because at the a time the United States was living under the idea of Manifest destiny that promised westward expansion to fulfill a duty to cultivate and civilize land, however, for Thoreau the west represents a different kind of future with new opportunities.
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Eine berüchtigte und gefährliche Banditenbande, die einfach nicht zu stellen war, trieb ihr Unwesen! Das ist an und für sich nichts Neues — das gibt es auch heute noch im alten, schönen Texas — und das wird es immer geben, so lange Cowboys auf schnellen Pferden über die Prärien jagen ... Aber mit dieser berüchtigten Kreuz-As-Bande hatte es eine besondere Bewandtnis. Es waren nur drei unglaublich tollkühne, unbeschreiblich verwegene Kerle, denen es gelang, ein ganzes Land zu terrorisieren — und mitten drin ein kleiner, komischer Kauz, mit dem kein Mensch etwas anfangen konnte — auch Conny Cöll nicht und sogar Schwarzwolf ließ ihn in Ruhe und hatte keinen Argwohn gegen ihn ... ... und doch war er von einem Geheimnis umwittert, welches nicht gelöst werden konnte ... Mitten im Grand Canon steht ein Haus und auch dieses ist voller Rätsel ... Hier leben Menschen, die bis heute noch keinen 'Weißen sahen und die bis heute noch von keinem Weißen gesehen wurden ... Aufgrund des Alters des Textes kann es sein, dass im Inhalt Begriffe verwendet werden, die heute nicht mehr gebräuchlich bzw. nicht mehr politisch korrekt sind.
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Vivimos en un mundo dominado por el canon científico que nos aporta certezas antes desconocidas, pero vivimos, también, en una cierta perplejidad moral y con dilemas éticos que no son fáciles de resolver. Cada grupo humano comparte, en principio y con variaciones internas, un conjunto de valores, una moral y un modo de vida tradicional. La presentación etnográfica narrativa sobre qué aprecian, qué menosprecian y cómo lo verbalizan nos lleva a la estructura del pensamiento evaluativo comunitario; las relaciones de cooperación, dependencia y evaluación de los otros como portadores de intención y significado nos llevan a la transcendencia de la intersubjetividad, mientras que la debilidad en la conformidad cultural y el desdén de la tradición minan la identidad colectiva. En este nuevo estudio antropológico de Carmelo Lisón Tolosana el octavo sobre Galicia, norma, valor, obligación y derecho aparecen presentados etnográficamente, con el rigor, la ambivalencia y la sofisticación con los que los dialogantes los han transmitido, enmarcado todo en casos, situaciones y contextos, sin el fetichismo que envuelve en abstracto y en abstrusa retórica mucha filosofía sobre los derechos humanos.
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Gian-Luca has a rocky start in life, his mother dying in childbirth, his father unknown, and he is sent to grow up with his grandparents amongst an Italian immigrant community on Old Compton Street. He becomes a waiter, where he learns the value of hard work, and soon lands a promotion to head waiter in a fine-dining restaurant. He excels in this position, and it is not long before he meets Maddelena, to whom he gets married. It seems he has found a happy ending. However, despite his marriage to Maddelena and his achievements in his work, he finds he is not happy, after all. Life loses its joy, and he comes to despise those he serves in the restaurant, seeing in the diners the ugly side of society. Disconsolate, he sets out to seek a more fulfilling life, and becomes a hermit, trying to reconnect with nature, and hoping to find peace outside of society. Despite winning awards upon its publication, Adam's Breed sank into obscurity following the censorship of Hall's later novel The Well of Loneliness. An early example of immigrant narratives, yet still relevant today, it is time Gian-Luca's stirring tale found its way back to the canon.
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