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  • Fortune’s Turn: The Desperate Year of 1942

    by David Pollard ...
    The year 1942 began with disaster for the Allies but paved the way to victory.World War II was a conflict over land and resources but also democracy and freedom. The 1920s and '30s had seen liberal democracy losing the fight against challengers from the Left and Right. By the end of the 1930s, Hitler had destroyed the few functioning democracies in Europe, and at the end of 1941, the future looked ... Read more

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  • Bird of Oblivion

    by David Pollard ...
    ' David Pollard has the poet's preoccupation with the limitations of language in his compelling collection, Bird of Oblivion. He approaches the painful subject of a loved one's dementia obliquely, often using nautical metaphors to explore how it feels to be utterly powerless. This distancing technique frees him to write with unflinching honesty, taking the reader straight to the heart of suffering ... Read more

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  • Nietzsche's Footfalls

    by David Pollard ...
    How strange that one of the finest books on Nietzsche should be a novel – Jason Wirth (Seattle University)Only the day after tomorrow belongs to me. Some are born posthumously.Nietzsche's FootfallsDuring the final decade of Nietzsche's life, when he was mad, his sister created an archive in his name. She placed him upstairs as a living exhibit while she beavered away in the rooms beneath rewriting ... Read more

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  • Waterloo iSampler No 4

    by David Pollard ...
    Pollard's work shows an explosive, protean diversity, a polyphonic way of showing how harmony enriches by dividing into different voices. Styles here bounce off each other as if fighting for possession. He displays an uncanny ability to let words collide so as to interrupt their sense, only then to renew their saying power somewhere beyond the limit of fixed speech. ... Read more

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  • Radical Obedience

    How Submission to Authorities Displays the Heart of Christ

    by David Pollard ...
    What could be more counter-cultural than obedience to the point of death? That is precisely what Jesus did for us, and then he called all his followers to do the same. If we are the beneficiaries of his obedience, how can we obey for the benefit of others? Jesus says, "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love" (John ... Read more

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  • Nietzsche's Footfalls

    by David Pollard ...
    During the final decade of Nietzsche's life, when he was mad, his sister created an archive in his name. She placed him upstairs as a living exhibit while she beavered away in the rooms beneath rewriting his work and establishing him as a great name in the new world of Nazi Germany. Her efforts gave him a 'posthumous existence' totally at odds with his own expressed desires.This image is at the ... Read more

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  • The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil

    by David Pollard ...
    The Continuing Legacy of Simone Weil analyzes the core work of Simone Weil and her views on the nature of the human condition, humanity’s relationship with God, and the objective state of our world. David Pollard argues that though much of Weil’s work was focused on particular conditions operating in Europe prior to and including the period of the Second World War, much of it is as relevant today ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

  • The Law of Pension Trusts

    by David Pollard ...
    This work on the law of pension trusts comprehensively fills a gap in the provision of good commentary on pensions law, both from a practical and scholarly perspective. Responding to a paucity of up-to-date publications in this area, David Pollard provides the most detailed treatment available of trust law as it relates to occupational pension schemes. The book provides answers to difficult ... Read more

    $212.99 USD

  • A User's Guide to Measure Theoretic Probability

    by David Pollard ...
    Series Book 8 - Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics
    Rigorous probabilistic arguments, built on the foundation of measure theory introduced eighty years ago by Kolmogorov, have invaded many fields. Students of statistics, biostatistics, econometrics, finance, and other changing disciplines now find themselves needing to absorb theory beyond what they might have learned in the typical undergraduate, calculus-based probability course. This 2002 book ... Read more

    $55.79 USD

  • Corporate Governance and the Global Financial Crisis

    International Perspectives

    Edited by William Sun, Jim Stewart, David Pollard ...
    Over the last two decades there has been a notable increase in the number of corporate governance codes and principles, as well as a range of improvements in structures and mechanisms. Despite this, corporate governance failed to prevent a widespread default of fiduciary duties of corporate boards and managerial responsibilities in the finance industry, which contributed to the 2007–10 global ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

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  • Excalibur's Return

    by Maurice Whelan ...
    “If stillness can be tasted, precious memories will return, such as poetry once learned by heart, which in Maurice Whelan’s case told of King Arthur receiving his sword Excalibur from the maiden in the lake. If silence can be heard, a poetry in life will breathe, as in this poet’s observation about a dawn which ‘…holds / its perfection/as long/as you hold your breath’. As contrast to a hurried ... Read more

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  • Nine Marks of a Healthy Church (New Expanded Edition)

    by Mark Dever, Joshua Harris ...
    What makes for a healthy church? A large congregation? Plentifulparking? Vibrant music?You may have read books on this topic before-but not like thisone. This new expanded edition of Nine Marks of a Healthy Church isnot an instruction manual for church growth. It is a pastor'srecommendation of how to assess the health of your church usingnine crucial qualities that are neglected by many of today ... Read more

    $10.99 USD