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Future Truths, #1

by Alan Raw ...

Series Book 1 - Future Truths
Not every future has to be bleak.The ice melted faster than anyone predicted. The sea took the towns. And in the poisoned soil it left behind, something is growing that shouldn't be.Rowan Cullen watches the drowned coast from a clifftop station, keeping his distance — until a Dutch researcher and her extraordinary vessel pull him into a community that won't give up on the land, or on each other. ... Read more

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Not every future has to be bleak.The ice melted faster than anyone predicted. The sea took the towns. And in the poisoned soil it left behind, something is growing that shouldn't be.Rowan Cullen watches the drowned coast from a clifftop station, keeping his distance — until a Dutch researcher and her extraordinary vessel pull him into a community that won't give up on the land, or on each other.
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To Sustainability and Beyond

by Alan Raw ...

Space has become infrastructureAs satellites have become essential infrastructure for navigation, climate monitoring, finance, and governance on Earth, sustainability can no longer be an afterthought.To Sustainability and Beyond is a practical guide to environmental responsibility in the space sector, written for people already working inside its systems and those training to enter the sector.The ... Read more

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Space has become infrastructureAs satellites have become essential infrastructure for navigation, climate monitoring, finance, and governance on Earth, sustainability can no longer be an afterthought.To Sustainability and Beyond is a practical guide to environmental responsibility in the space sector, written for people already working inside its systems and those training to enter the sector.The
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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron

by Jonathon Shears, Alan Rawes ...

Series series Oxford Handbooks
The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture. The chapters are organized into ... Read more

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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable readers to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture. The chapters are organized into
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Byron�s Poetic Experimentation

Childe Harold, the Tales and the Quest for Comedy

by Alan Rawes ...

Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron's poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo. Beginning with a close reading of the sustained poetic experimentation that constitutes Childe Harold I and II, he charts the progress of that experimentation in the Tales where Byron's poetry gets entrenched in a tragic idiom. The author then describes Byron's ... Read more

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In this study, the author examines the evolution of Byron's poetry from Childe Harold I and II through to the composition of Beppo. Beginning with a close reading of the sustained poetic experimentation that constitutes Childe Harold I and II, he charts the progress of that experimentation in the Tales where Byron's poetry gets entrenched in a tragic idiom. The author then describes Byron's
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Robert Burns in Global Culture

by Murray Pittock, Leith Davis, Dominique Delmaire, R D. S. Jack, Nigel Leask, Pauline Anne Mackay, Clark McGinn, Silvia Mergenthal, Andrew Monnickendam, Alan Rawes, Frauke Reitemeier, Christopher A. Whatley, Robert Crawford ...

Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States ... Read more

$105.99 USD

Robert Burns has been a key figure in Scottish identity globally since his death in 1796. But he has always been much more than that. In America, his admirers have included Emerson, President Lincoln, Maya Angelou and many others, for Burns was long held to be a friend to the American way of life, an opponent of kings and tyranny, and someone who proved that the values that built the United States
... Read more
Romantic Biography

by Arthur Bradley ...

Series series The Nineteenth Century Series
Romantic biography lives. Despite the so-called 'death of the author', popular interest in the lives of the major Romantic writers has reached a new peak. Romantic Biography brings together Romantic biographers and critics to consider some of the key questions surrounding this publishing phenomenon. What precisely is Romantic biography? What is the relationship between it and Romantic writings ... Read more

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Romantic biography lives. Despite the so-called 'death of the author', popular interest in the lives of the major Romantic writers has reached a new peak. Romantic Biography brings together Romantic biographers and critics to consider some of the key questions surrounding this publishing phenomenon. What precisely is Romantic biography? What is the relationship between it and Romantic writings
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Byron and Italy

Edited by Alan Rawes, Diego Saglia ...

Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018Byron in Italy – Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poet’s ‘last attachment’ – forms part of the fabric of Romantic mythology. Yet Byron’s time in Italy was crucial to his development as a writer, to Italy’s sense of itself as a nation, to Europe’s perceptions of ... Read more

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Winner of the Elma Dangerfield Prize 2018Byron in Italy – Venetian debauchery, Roman sight-seeing, revolution, horse-riding and swimming, sword-brandishing and pistol-shooting, the poet’s ‘last attachment’ – forms part of the fabric of Romantic mythology. Yet Byron’s time in Italy was crucial to his development as a writer, to Italy’s sense of itself as a nation, to Europe’s perceptions of
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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron

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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable listeners to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture.The chapters are organized into ... Read more

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The Oxford Handbook of Lord Byron offers the latest in critical thinking about the poet that defined the Romantic era across Europe and beyond. The volume presents forty-four groundbreaking essays that enable listeners to assess Lord Byron's central position in Romantic traditions and his profound and far-reaching influence on British, European, and world culture.The chapters are organized into
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Stakeknife's Dirty War

The Inside Story of Scappaticci, the IRA's Nutting Squad and the British Spooks Who Ran the War

by Richard O'Rawe ...

Narrated by Alan Turkington ...

Unabridged

8 hours 10 min

Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984.From the outside, Scappaticci appeared to be a dedicated volunteer, but inwardly, he had become disenchanted with the IRA and, in 1977, he started working for ... Read more

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Freddie Scappaticci was born in 1946 and raised in a deeply nationalist area of Belfast. When the Troubles broke out in 1969, he joined the Provisional IRA, where he quickly rose through the ranks, becoming commander of Belfast in 1984.From the outside, Scappaticci appeared to be a dedicated volunteer, but inwardly, he had become disenchanted with the IRA and, in 1977, he started working for
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On Bloody Sunday

A New History Of The Day And Its Aftermath – By The People Who Were There

by Julieann Campbell ...

Narrated by Julieann Campbell, Annie Farr, Eleanor Methven, Gordon Griffin, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Melanie MacHugh, Niall Cusack, Pat Lynch, Simon Nelson ...

Unabridged

14 hours 12 min

*****'A momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered and yet, have nurtured the desire that lessons be learned.' - Michael Mansfield QC*, who represented a number of families during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.*'It's a wonderful book. The technique used - multiple voices speaking directly to us - is very ... Read more

$24.99 USD

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*****'A momentous chronicle, timely and vital, which highlights that the burden of change rests, as always, upon the shoulders of those who suffered and yet, have nurtured the desire that lessons be learned.' - Michael Mansfield QC*, who represented a number of families during the Bloody Sunday Inquiry.*'It's a wonderful book. The technique used - multiple voices speaking directly to us - is very
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Romanticism

A Literary and Cultural History

by Carmen Casaliggi, Porscha Fermanis ...

The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated ... Read more

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The Romantic period coincided with revolutionary transformations of traditional political and human rights discourses, as well as witnessing rapid advances in technology and a primitivist return to nature. As a broad global movement, Romanticism strongly impacted on the literature and arts of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in ways that are still being debated and negotiated
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Seeing What's Next

Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change

by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, Erik A. Roth ...

Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth present a groundbreaking framework for predicting outcomes in the ... Read more

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Every day, individuals take action based on how they believe innovation will change industries. Yet these beliefs are largely based on guesswork and incomplete data and lead to costly errors in judgment. Now, internationally renowned innovation expert Clayton M. Christensen and his research partners Scott D. Anthony and Erik A. Roth present a groundbreaking framework for predicting outcomes in the
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