James Davey: 7 books
In Nelson's Wake
The Navy and the Napoleonic Wars
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Horatio Nelson’s celebrated victory over the French at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 presented Britain with an unprecedented command of the seas. Yet the Royal Navy’s role in the struggle against Napoleonic France was far from over. This groundbreaking book asserts that, contrary to the accepted...
Broadsides
Caricatures and the Navy 1756-1815
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
Broadsides explores the political and cultural history of the Navy during the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries through contemporary caricature. This was a period of intense naval activity – encompassing the Seven Years War, the American War of Independence, the wars against revolutionary...
Nelson, Navy & Nation
The Royal Navy and the British people, 1688-1815
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
Nelson, Navy & Nation explores the Royal Navy's relationship with Britain from the Glorious Revolution to the Napoleonic Wars. The book encompasses the realities of naval life in this period; the navy's connection to society; culture and national identity; and the story of Nelson's life and career....
Connections 500
Blackout; Eclipse; What Are They Like?; Bassett; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Gargantua; Children of Killers; Take Away; It Snows; The Musicians; Citizenship; Bedbug
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.
Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and...
Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally
CARR Yearbook 2018/2019
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2019
2018 was a tumultuous year in global politics. Starting with the rise of the Lega Nord in Italy and ending with the election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, it has never been such a pertinent time to study the radical right. This yearbook pulls together the best commentary and analysis from an international...
One Year with Jesus: 365 Devotional Thoughts on the Red Letter Words
365 Devotional Thoughts on the Red Letter Words
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
If Jesus said it, you should know it-and One Year with Jesus provides 365 brief, easy-to-read devotionals based on the Bible's words of Christ. From Jesus' first recorded words at age 12 (Luke 2) through His many pronouncements in the Gospels and book of Acts, One Year with Jesus lays out both what...
Gadamer verstehen
Gadamer verstehen /Understanding Gadamer
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Hans-Georg Gadamer ist eine der herausragenden Gestalten der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Sein Hauptwerk ›Wahrheit und Methode‹ ist ein Klassiker der philosophischen Hermeneutik. Der vorliegende Band ist ein Kompendium zu Gadamers Philosophie. Ideengeschichtlich werden die unterschiedlichsten Einflüsse...