Richard Carr: 16 books
Charlie Chaplin
A Political Biography from Victorian Britain to Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
Richard Carr’s Charlie Chaplin places politics at the centre of the filmmaker’s life as it looks beyond Chaplin’s role as a comedic figure to his constant political engagement both on and off the screen.
Drawing from a wealth of archival sources from across the globe, Carr provides an...
One Nation Britain
History, the Progressive Tradition, and Practical Ideas for Today’s Politicians
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
What is One Nation politics? What has it been, and what should be it be today? Since Ed Miliband’s speech at the 2012 Labour Party Conference these questions have been much asked, but not so often clearly answered. Outlining the historical context, and offering suggestions for contemporary thinkers,...
The Global 1920s
Politics, economics and society
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
The 1920s is often recognised as a decade of fascism, flappers and film. Covering the political, economic and social developments of the 1920s throughout the world, The Global 1920s takes an international and cross-cultural perspective on the critical changes and conditions that prevailed from roughly...
Veteran MPs and Conservative Politics in the Aftermath of the Great War
The Memory of All That
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Between 1918 and 1939, 448 men who performed uniformed service in the First World War became Conservative MPs. This relatively high-profile cohort have been under-explored as a distinct body, yet a study of their experiences of the war and the ways in which they - and the Conservative Party - represented...
Onward, Voyager
A Science Fiction and Fantasy Sampler
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Read samples of Harper Voyager's great science fiction, fantasy, and horror offerings! Featuring an introduction by Chuck Wendig. Excerpts include:
ZER0ES by Chuck Wendig
A CRUCIBLE OF SOULS by Mitchell Hogan
DEPARTURE by AG Riddle
STAR CARRIER: DEEP TIME by Ian Douglas
SHADOW...
The Cruciform Church, Annivesary Edition
Becoming a Cross-Shaped People in a Secular World
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
What is left of the Gospel if you take away the cross?
This central question, asked by C. L. Loos but tucked away in a nineteenth-century journal, launched The Cruciform Church twenty-five years ago. Read by a generation of ministers and church leaders, The Cruciform Church began a reimagination...
by Philip Carr-Gomm, Richard Heygate
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Through experiments to try and places to visit, as well as a historical exploration of magic and interviews with leading magicians, The Book of English Magic will introduce you to the extraordinary world that lies beneath the surface. Magic runs through the veins of English history, part of daily...
Early Psychosocial Interventions in Dementia
Evidence-Based Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2008
For the increasing number of people diagnosed with dementia each year, treatment in the early stages can make a significant difference to their quality of life. This book provides examples of psychosocial interventions: taking into consideration the individual, social and environmental aspects of...
Signs of Power
The Rise of Cultural Complexity in the Southeast
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2010
Traces the sources of power and large-scale organization of prehistoric peoples among Archaic societies.
By focusing on the first instances of mound building, pottery making, fancy polished stone and bone, as well as specialized chipped stone, artifacts, and their widespread exchange, this...
by Michael Boyd, Bryan Brown, Paul Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Encountering Ensemble, is a text for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre. It is the first book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples,...
by Elisabeth A. Behnke, David Carr, J. Claude Evans
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This encyclopedia presents phenomenological thought and the phenomenological movement within philosophy and within more than a score of other disciplines on a level accessible to professional colleagues of other orientations as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Entries average...
Medievalia et Humanistica, No. 36
Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international...
City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2016
City-country consolidation builds upon the Progressive tradition of favoring structural reform of local governments. This volume looks at some important issues confronting contemporary efforts to consolidate governments and develops a theoretical approach to understanding both the motivations for...
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies...
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