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Sexuality and the Church of England, 1918-1980

by Laura Ramsay ...

Series series History (R0)
This book presents an original and archivally rich account of the Church of England’s institutional grappling with matters of sex, relationships, marriage, birth control, and same-sex attraction between 1918 and 1980, uncovering a long and complex history of debates and disagreements that led to its present-day impasse over issues of sexuality. Across a long and previously underexplored chronology ... Read more

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This book presents an original and archivally rich account of the Church of England’s institutional grappling with matters of sex, relationships, marriage, birth control, and same-sex attraction between 1918 and 1980, uncovering a long and complex history of debates and disagreements that led to its present-day impasse over issues of sexuality. Across a long and previously underexplored chronology
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The Church of England and British Politics since 1900

by Tom Rodger, Matthew Grimley, Peter Webster, Philip A Williamson, Rob Freathy, S J D Green, Sarah Stockwell, Stephen G. Parker0, Andrew Connell1, Arthur Burns2, Daniel Loss3, Hannah Elias4, Julia Stapleton5, Laura Ramsay6 ...

During the twentieth century, the relationship between the Church of England and the British state was transformed. The character and dynamics of the connections shifted as politics became more democratic and society more secular,as the role of the Crown and parliament in Church government was curtailed, and as the Christian foundations of secular law were weakened. Yet the increasing formal ... Read more

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During the twentieth century, the relationship between the Church of England and the British state was transformed. The character and dynamics of the connections shifted as politics became more democratic and society more secular,as the role of the Crown and parliament in Church government was curtailed, and as the Christian foundations of secular law were weakened. Yet the increasing formal
... Read more
The Crux of Refugee Resettlement

Rebuilding Social Networks

by Surendra Bir Adhikari, Juana Domingo Andrés, Liana Chase, Chaitri Desai, Margaret Evans, Béatrice Halsouet, Laura l. Heinemann, Claire Herzog, Nicole Hoellerer, Melanie Kim, Jaclyn Kirsch, Jennifer Kue, Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Margo Minnich, Celeste Mitchell, Sharon D. Morrison, Laeth Nasir, Tracy Nichols, Maura Nsonwu, Georgina Ramsay, Martin Renzo Rosales, Holly Sienkiewicz, Joseph Stadler, Kathryn Stam, Kelly Yotebieng, Jhuma N. Acharya, Bimala Bastola, Khada Bhandari, Jay Breneman, Kiri Hata, Govin Magar, Madhu Neupane, Natacha Nikokeza, Angela K. Plummer, Lance Rasbridge, Chris Sunderlin, David Thatcher, John Tluang ...

Series series Crossing Borders in a Global World: Applying Anthropology to Migration, Displacement, and Social Change
While the world’s refugee population reaches record high numbers, countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement. Combining anthropology with a variety of professional perspectives (education, health care, theology, administration, politics, and social ... Read more

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While the world’s refugee population reaches record high numbers, countries offering third-country resettlement are increasingly shifting toward policies of exclusion and austerity. This edited volume envisions a more humane future for refugee resettlement. Combining anthropology with a variety of professional perspectives (education, health care, theology, administration, politics, and social
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Global Multiculturalism

Comparative Perspectives on Ethnicity, Race, and Nation

by Grant H. Cornwell, Eve Walsh Stoddard, Henley Adams, Patricia Alden, Anne Csete, Judith De Groat, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira, Louis Dupont, Kirk Fuoss, Randall T. H. Hill, William Hunt, Joseph Kling, Nathalie LeMarchand, John Makumbe, Celia Nyamweru, Laura Nuzzi O’Shaughnessy, Ansil Ramsay, Steven F. White ...

Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries-each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of ... Read more

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Global Multiculturalism offers a rich collection of case studies on ethnic, racial, and cultural diversity drawn from thirteen countries-each unique in the way it understands, negotiates, and represents its diversity. A multi-disciplinary group of authors shows how, in different nations, identity groups are included, or made invisible by forced assimilation, or reviled even to the point of
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Howls from the Scene of the Crime

A Crime Horror Anthology

by Jessica Peter, Timaeus Bloom ...

Narrated by Pandora Beatrix, Joe Bierzynski, Cassie Byrne, Justine Leah Hince, LKAT, L.J. Long, Lance Lovegood, Justice Margowski, Candace McAfee, Patrick McCook, Laura Mirsky, Christopher O'Halloran, Robert Rein Ramsay, Kylie Rutzen, Rich Summers, James Takahashi, Torchide ...

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A death row cell that recounts the dark stories of its inmates. An informant who consumes shards of crystallized skulls to see the past. A world where to speak of the dead is a violation of an unjust society's rules. Heists, drugs, cults, detectives, murder, monsters, revenge.Commit yourself to Howls from the Scene of the Crime, an anthology of crime horror laced with blood, secrets, and occult ... Read more

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A death row cell that recounts the dark stories of its inmates. An informant who consumes shards of crystallized skulls to see the past. A world where to speak of the dead is a violation of an unjust society's rules. Heists, drugs, cults, detectives, murder, monsters, revenge.Commit yourself to Howls from the Scene of the Crime, an anthology of crime horror laced with blood, secrets, and occult
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Cruel and Unusual

Scarpetta 4

by Patricia Cornwell ...

Series series The Scarpetta Series
The inspiration for Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video series Scarpetta—starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis!“A knockout” (People) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.Dr. Kay Scarpetta isn’t used to planning autopsies on men who are still alive, but that’s exactly what she’s tasked with when serial killer Ronnie ... Read more

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The inspiration for Season 2 of the Amazon Prime Video series Scarpetta—starring Nicole Kidman and Jamie Lee Curtis!“A knockout” (People) of a thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta.Dr. Kay Scarpetta isn’t used to planning autopsies on men who are still alive, but that’s exactly what she’s tasked with when serial killer Ronnie
... Read more
Invasion of Privacy

A Novel

by Christopher Reich ...

One woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most dangerous conspiracy in America—Invasion of Privacy is the riveting, new standalone suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich.On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant and ... Read more

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One woman's quest to discover the truth behind her husband's death will pit her against a new generation of cutting-edge surveillance technology and the most dangerous conspiracy in America—Invasion of Privacy is the riveting, new standalone suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author Christopher Reich.On a remote, dusty road forty miles outside of Austin, Texas, FBI agent Joe Grant and
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British Universities Past and Present

by Prof Robert Anderson ...

This book is both a concise history of British universities and their place in society over eight centuries, and a penetrating analysis of current university problems and policies as seen in the light of that history. It explains how the modern university system has developed since the Victorian era, and gives special attention to changes in policy since the Second World War, including the effects ... Read more

$141.99 USD

This book is both a concise history of British universities and their place in society over eight centuries, and a penetrating analysis of current university problems and policies as seen in the light of that history. It explains how the modern university system has developed since the Victorian era, and gives special attention to changes in policy since the Second World War, including the effects
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Piety and Privilege

Catholic Secondary Schooling in Ireland and the Theocratic State, 1922-1967

by Tom O'Donoghue, Judith Harford ...

For centuries, the Catholic Church around the world insisted it had a right to provide and organize its own schools. It decreed also that while nation states could lay down standards for secular curricula, pedagogy, and accommodation, Catholic parents should send their children to Catholic schools and be able to do so without suffering undue financial disadvantage. Thus, from the Pope down, the ... Read more

$82.79 USD

For centuries, the Catholic Church around the world insisted it had a right to provide and organize its own schools. It decreed also that while nation states could lay down standards for secular curricula, pedagogy, and accommodation, Catholic parents should send their children to Catholic schools and be able to do so without suffering undue financial disadvantage. Thus, from the Pope down, the
... Read more
Hobbes

A Very Short Introduction

by Richard Tuck ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of ... Read more

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Thomas Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, has long had the reputation of being a pessimistic atheist, who saw human nature as inevitably evil and proposed a totalitarian state to subdue human failings. In this illuminating study, Richard Tuck re-evaluates Hobbes's philosophy and dispels these myths, revealing him to have been passionately concerned with the refutation of
... Read more
Ireland

A Short History

by Joseph Coohill ...

Series series Short Histories
From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the St Andrews Agreement and decommissioning of IRA weapons, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how differing interpretations of history, ancient and modern, have influenced modern Irish society. Combining factual information with a critical approach, Coohill covers all the key events, including the Great Famine, ... Read more

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From the first prehistoric inhabitants of the island to the St Andrews Agreement and decommissioning of IRA weapons, this uniquely concise account of Ireland and its people reveals how differing interpretations of history, ancient and modern, have influenced modern Irish society. Combining factual information with a critical approach, Coohill covers all the key events, including the Great Famine,
... Read more
Nineteenth-Century Britain

A Very Short Introduction

by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...

Series series Very Short Introductions
First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

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First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914,
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