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Contains accounts of ten medical scientists who may be regarded as representatives of Islamic medicine.
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A firsthand account of a highly successful businessman, Tanri Abeng, who served as Minister for State-Owned Enterprises in Indonesia and was responsible for reforming and privatising the SOEs in order to take pressure off the national budget, attract investment, improve management skills, and change a bureaucratic culture for a commercial one focused on competition. The book covers an 18-month period, from March 1997 to the end of 1998, a period when Indonesia's economy was in crisis and the country's economic policies were being overhauled. The author recounts his experiences and lessons learnt and provides a model and method for others in similar situations. In addition Tanri provides insights to the widely differing styles of leadership of the two presidents who led during his term in office: Soeharto and Habibie.
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Dannie Abse's rich mixture of Welsh and Jewish backgrounds, and his dual occupations of doctor and author, have led to what is widely regarded as one of the most readable, humorous and poignant autobiographies since the war. Goodbye, Twentieth Century incorporates his acclaimed first volume of autobiography, A Poet in the Family, in a new volume which brings his life up to the present and the outset of a new century.
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• Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Author's note; PROLOGUE: THE PRICE OF WASTE AND POLLUTION: AN INSIDIOUS MASSACRE; 1 HORMONES AND BREAST CANCER WHY ME?; 2 DEATH OF FATHER HAIR, OIL AND MOURNING; 3 DNA REPORT AND S-PHASE TAKE ME TOWARDS HEALING; 4 CANCERS, DISEASES, SUFFERING ALL ROUND LIFE, DROP BY DROP; 5 LYMPH NODES MY BREAST OFFERED IN SACRIFICE; 6 RADIATION MY BODY LIKE A BATTLEFIELD; 7 BUREAUCRATIC DOCTORS BUT WHO'D WANT TO LIVE ANYWHERE ELSE?; 8 BREAST CANCER IN FRANCE WHY SO HUSHED UP?; 9 A NO-WIN SITUATION CELEBRATING FRIENDSHIP IN TUNISIA

• 10 PARIS BREAST BLUES THE FEAR OF RECURRENCE11 BEIRUT, WAR AND CANCER KAHABRA BRINGS KAHABRA; 12 SEARCHING FOR ALTERNATIVES INCOMPREHENSIBLE PAINS; 13 TRAGIC IRONY ONE HEALED; THE OTHER HIT; 14 MY LOVE HAS CANCER FACING UP; 15 MALE HORMONES LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ!; 16 ALL AROUND, YET AGAIN IS THERE AN END?; 17 RECURRENCES MOVE ON: THE EARTH WILL TAKE YOUR SHAPE; EPILOGUE: MEDICINE, DEATH, AND RECOVERY; REFERENCES; OTHER BOOKS BY SPINIFEX

A moving journey through the experience of breast cancer, and the many different approaches and treatments. This is a rare insight into cross-cultural understandings of illness. Multi-layered and many tongued, this book would be of interest to medical practitioners, as well as those facing and interacting with cancer.

The practical wisdom that has guided Raymond Ackerman is revealed in this account of his roller-coaster ride as a businessman in a highly politicised society. His private passions and sound business ethics are shown to have enabled his passionate positive engagement with his country and with life.
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• IllustrationsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsPrologu
• e1. In the realm of Porloc
• k2. Around the Qua
• d3. Fowle Ayresand false start
• s4. Mental travellin
• g5. The threefold strai
• n6. The appeal of island
• s7. Turning Japanes
• e8. In the shadow of Trak
• l9. Consumed by ar
• t10. DreamNotesIndex.
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Best known as the founding editor of "Quadrant", an unrepentant Cold War warrior and an advocate of the sanctity of Christian marriage, poet and polemicist, James McAuley, is shown here to have had darker traits which escaped the limelight. The biography also explores his many links with Harold Stewart and what turned this writer, critic and habitue of Sydney's bohemian world, into a rabid hater of his native land. Why did he choose to spend the last 30 years of his life in self-imposed exile in Japan. The resulting narrative traces McAuley and Stewarts' collaborative decades - peaking with Australia's most notorious literary hoax - and their harsh falling-out in later years, set against the backdrop of Australian life between the Great Depression and the Vietnam War. The book probes the lives of the two talented and enigmatic figures, who made enduring and prescient contributions to Australia's political, spiritual and literary culture.
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Although John Wesley Powell and party are usually given credit for the first river descent through the Grand Canyon, the ghost of James White has haunted those claims. White was a Colorado prospector, who, almost two years before Powell's journey, washed up on a makeshift raft at Callville, Nevada. Hell or High Water is the first full account of White's story and how it became distorted and he disparaged over time. Eilean Adams, White's granddaughter, over decades and with the assistance of notable Colorado River historians, gradually uncovered the record of James White's adventure.
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• Contents: List of Illustrations List of Maps Preface
• 1. Son of Tennessee Pioneers1
• 2. A Time for Learning
• 3. Boatman, Woodsman, Indian Fighter
• 4. "That Infernal Pay Department"
• 5. "War to the Rope" in Florida
• 6. The Road to Mexico City
• 7. "Prince of Dragoons" in Texas
• 8. "Great White Chief" on the Plains
• 9. Return to Riverine Warfare in Florida
• 10. Civil Unrest in Kansas and Utah
• 11. The Pacific Northwest, "No Ordinary Sphere"
• 12. "Loyal Soldier" in Missouri
• 13. "Our Old Friend" as Peace Commissioner
• 14. A Time for Reflection Notes Selected Bibliography Index.
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Between the War of 1812 and the Civil War, General William S. Harney became one of the best-known military figures in America. In a career aided by Andrew Jackson and the concept of an expansible army, Harney saw duty in virtually every part of the country and participated in most of the key military episodes of his time. He chased remnants of Lafitte pirates in Louisiana, campaigned with Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis during the Black Hawk War, developed Vietnam-style riverine tactics that ended the Second Seminole War, and led Winfield Scott's cavalry in the Mexican War. In the 1850s Harney devised the army's largest and most successful pre-Civil War campaign against Plains Indians, commanded troops charged with upholding federal authority in Kansas and Utah, and almost provoked hostilities with Great Britain in the Pacific Northwest. Removed from command amid false charges of disloyalty during the Missouri secession crisis, he returned as a leading member of the Indian Peace Commission of 1867-68.Harney was bold, ambitious, and innovative, but also impulsive, vindictive, and violent. His career illustrates the nineteenth-century army's role in implementing federal policy, highlights its limited resources compared to its responsibilities, and illuminates key aspects of its organizational structure, the behavior of its officers, and its impact on personal lives. George Rollie Adams is president and CEO of Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.
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At the pinnacle of his career, Sir James Douglas, fur trader and colonial governor, was knighted by the order of Queen Victoria, and greatly enjoyed the pomp of his position. Considering his modest beginnings as a mixed-race baby in South America, this lofty status was remarkable. The life of Amelia, companion throughout James' long rise, saw even more surprising changes. Amelia was of mixed blood too, being part-Cree, part-Scot. She never left the northern Canadian forests until she married James, but ended up a respected lady of the Empire. Between them, James and Amelia Douglas knew everybody who was anybody in western North America. Their lives saw astonishing contrasts, from crossing North America by canoe to touring Europe by train, from Native uprisings to frantic gold rushes. They met with grief as well as glory, losing seven of their beloved children. This is an engaging story of courage and companionship. Though James Douglas's role as a public figure is well known, this book offers the first real glimpses of him as a private man, husband and father.
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Sam Maloof (born 1916) is revered for both the beauty and the integrity of his furniture and his pioneering role in the American craft movement. The examples in this book trace Maloof's remarkable career in woodworking from his humble beginnings to his position today as America's most celebrated furniture designer and craftsman.
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• LIFE AND MILITARY CAREER OF THOMAS JACKSON
• PREFACE
• CONTENTS.
• CHAPTER I.
• BEFORE THE REBELLION.
• His Military Career an Episode in the History of the Rebellion
• Compared with the Puritan Leaders of England
• Resemblance to Havelock
• Northern Appreciation of his Gallantry
• Birth and Parentage
• Becomes a Student at West-Point
• Slow at Study
• Futile Attempt to play the Flute
• Specimens of Eccentricities
• Graduates
• Class-Mates
• Enters the Army
• Proceeds to Mexico
• Promoted for his Bravery
• Instances of Gallantry
• Retires from the Army.

• Becomes Professor of Mathematics at Lexington, Va.
• Escapes Assassination
• Married
• Becomes a Widower
• Married a Second Time
• CHAPTER II.
• THE UPPER POTOMAC .
• Jackson resigns his Professorship and joins the Confederate Army
• Becomes a Colonel
• Joins Johnston's Forces on the Upper Potomac
• Rebel Evacuation of Harper's Ferry
• Scenes of Devastation
• Encounter with Patterson at Falling Waters
• Jackson's First Display of Strategetic Ability
• Johnston eludes Patterson and joins Beauregard
• Jackson made a Brigadier-General.
• CHAPTER III.
• THE BATTLE OF BULLRUN.

• Jackson's Position at the Opening of the Battle
• His Timely Appearance upon the Principal Scene
• Origin of the Sobriquet "Stonewall"
• Description of the Main Battle-Ground
• Desperate Position of the Confederates
• Terrible Conflicts between the Opposing Forcess
• Gallantry of Jackson's Brigade
• The Federals finally Repulsed
• They become Panic-Stricken
• Reasons why they were not Pursued by the Rebels
• Beauregard's Official Remarks on Jackson's Heroism
• His Appearance on the Field of Battle.
• CHAPTER IV.
• WINTER CAMPAIGN ON THE UPPER POTOMAC.
• Lull in Military Proceedings.

• Jackson placed in Command on the Upper Potomac
• March to Hancock
• Severity of the Weather and Suffering of the Troops
• Skirmish at Bath
• Engagement at Hancock
• Results of the Expedition
• Jackson's Energy as a Commander
• His Endurance of Fatigue
• Illustrations of his Piety.
• CHAPTER V.
• THE BATTLE OF WINCHESTER .
• Jackson retires from the Upper Potomac
• Skirmish at Blue's Gap
• Encounter at Blooming Gap
• Death of General Lander
• Harper's Ferry reoccupied by the Federals
• Advance of General Banks to Winchester
• Skirmishes before the Battle.

• Country around Winchester
• Opening of the Engagement
• Terrific Conflict near a Stone Wall
• The Confederates finally repulsed
• Numbers and Losses of the Combatants.
• CHAPTER VI.
• CAMPAIGN IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHENANDOAH
• RETREAT OF GENERAL BANKS.
• Retreat of Jackson up the Valley
• Federal Plans to capture him
• Battle of McDowell
• Compels Banks to retreat
• Battle of Front Royal
• Alarm of General Banks at Strasburgh
• He commences a rapid Retreat
• Disasters by the Way
• Exciting Scenes in Winchester
• Second Battle of Winchester.

"Stonewall" Jackson has been considered by military authorities to be one of the most brilliant commanders of his time. He had a skillful, though sometimes peculiar, style of fighting that could turn the tide of a battle in the Confederate favor and avoid disastrous defeat.

• Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Martin's father
• Montgomery bus boycott
• Powerful man of peace
• Free at last.

Tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his life, accomplishments in the civil rights movement, and his impact on American history.

For the last 15 years of Jascha Heifetz's life, Ayke Agus was his closest companion. She came to him as a violin student in his master class at the University of Southern California, but he sigled her out when he heard her play the piano; she became his private accompanist and ultimately his assistant and confidante. A sensitive and astute observer, Agus takes up where previous biographers left off; her book is a loving yet unblinking portrait of an ageing master by his disciple. The greatest violinist of the 20th century was a genius who was also insecure and unreasonable; in many respects the former prodigy had never had to grow up. But the aged Heifetz had much to tell, and Agus absorbed it all as they shared their stories about their lives and about music-making. He imparted not only the legacy of his art but all his beliefs and idiosyncrasies. "Now, you make sure that you do not forget to put all this in the book you are going to write after I am dead and gone", he told her. She fulfills this wish in an astounding portrait drawn with utter honesty, understanding, humour and devotion.
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• pt. 1. Ithbât an-nubuwwa (The proof of prophethood)
• pt. 2. Other topics
• pt. 3. Biographies.

Born in Delhi in 1915, Syed Habib Ahmed rose to work at the highest level of the United Nations. Now retired, he lives in Canada. This autobiography follows his life and career, showing how he tried to unite Asian and western culture.
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As a five-year-old, George Alagiah emigrated with his family to Ghana - the first African country to attain independence from the British Empire. This is Alagiah's shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight and outrage. His viewpoint is spiked with the freshness of his younger self on his arrival in Ghana, the wonder inspired by his first impressions of Africa and the affection with which he still regards stories of his early family life. A sense of possibility lingers, even though the book is full of uncomfortable truths and the author tempers his personal insights with his integrity and sense of obligation in his role as a writer and reporter. He regards Africa not only as a group of nations or a vast continent, but as the site of an epic of individual pride and suffering.
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This biography was written with full access to Sir Malcolm's private papers. It tells the story of the boy from the gasworks of Stamford, who became the most popular conductor in England. It is also an exploration of celebrity and the English psyche.
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• Preface. He Turns to Fight (October 1869). In the Beginning. The Peace Unravels (1824). The Death of Pisago Cabezon and the Rise of Cochise (1838). War to the Death: Cochise He Rises (1846). Storm from the East: The White Eyes Arrive (1856). "Cut--the--Tent"
• Driven to War (1861). War of Extermination (1861). Cochise Triumphant (1861). Battle of Apache Pass: Return of the Americans (July 1862). Death of Mangas Coloradas: The Shadow of the Giant (Late 1862). Cochise the Avenger (Late 1864). Turn toward Peace: Thomas Jeffords (Early 1871). Power Takes a Hand (Mid--1871). The One--Armed General and the Last War Won (October 1872). The Frail Peace--the Dying Chief (1873). Epilogue. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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This is a biography of one of the most important figures in the history of the American West. This rare biography of the revered Cochise is also the first to adopt an Apache view of a crucial period in American history. Already a powerful and sophisticated leader after years of fighting the Mexicans, Cochise was the only Native American leader to win a war against the Americans after they wrested the southwest from the Mexicans in 1848. Revealed here is the complex and intimate relationship between the Apache and the Mexicans - and the bewilderment of Apache leaders in dealing with what appeared to be a confusing, contradictory, and, in the end, incomprehensible white world. Peter Aleshire (Phoenix, AZ) is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of American Studies at Arizona State University, West Campus, and author of "Reaping the Whirlwind" and "The Fox and the Whirlwind: Gen George Crook and Geronimo". He is also the Associate Editor of "Phoenix Magazine".
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• The child is the father of the man
• To escape the reproach of her birth and blood
• The wooing
• One damned night of folly
• Parted.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2002! On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of former slaves, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed "the most promising young colored man in America, " was dead from tuberculosis at the age of 33. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African-American literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar's and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, one-word telegram ("No"). This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among African-American elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of post-slavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love.
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• The child is the father of the man
• To escape the reproach of her birth and blood
• The wooing
• One damned night of folly
• Parted.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2002! On February 10, 1906, Alice Ruth Moore, estranged wife of renowned early twentieth-century poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, boarded a streetcar, settled comfortably into her seat, and opened her newspaper to learn of her husband's death the day before. Paul Laurence Dunbar, son of former slaves, whom Frederick Douglass had dubbed "the most promising young colored man in America, " was dead from tuberculosis at the age of 33. Lyrics of Sunshine and Shadow traces the tempestuous romance of America's most noted African-American literary couple. Drawing on a variety of love letters, diaries, journals, and autobiographies, Eleanor Alexander vividly recounts Dunbar's and Moore's tumultuous affair, from a courtship conducted almost entirely through letters and an elopement brought on by Dunbar's brutal, drunken rape of Moore, through their passionate marriage and its eventual violent dissolution in 1902. Moore, once having left Dunbar, rejected his every entreaty to return to him, responding to his many letters only once, with a blunt, one-word telegram ("No"). This is a remarkable story of tragic romance among African-American elites struggling to define themselves and their relationships within the context of post-slavery America. As such, it provides a timely examination of the ways in which cultural ideology and politics shape and complicate conceptions of romantic love.
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By the 1920s, Jews were - by all economic, political, and cultural measures of the day - making it in America. But as these children of immigrants took their places in American society, many deliberately identified with groups that remained excluded. Despite their success, Jews embraced resistance more than acculturation, preferring marginal status to assimilation. The stories of Al Jolson, Felix Frankfurter, and Arnold Rothstein are told together to explore this paradox in the psychology of American Jewry. All three Jews were born in the 1880s, grew up around American Jewish ghettos, married gentile women, entered the middle class, and rose to national fame. All three also became heroes to the American Jewish community for their association with events that galvanized the country and defined the Jazz Age. Rothstein allegedly fixed the 1919 World Series - an accusation this book disputes. Frankfurter defended the Italian anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. Jolson brought jazz music to Hollywood for the first talking film, "The Jazz Singer", and regularly impersonated African Americans in blackface. Each of these men represented a version of the American outsider, and American Jews celebrated them for it. Michael Alexander's account complicates the history of immigrants in America. It challenges charges that anti-Semitism exclusively or even mostly explains Jews' feelings of marginality, while it calls for a general rethinking of positions that have assumed an immigrant quest for inclusion into the white American mainstream. Rather, Alexander argues that Jewish outsider status stemmed from the group identity Jews brought with them to this country in the form of the theology of exile. "Jazz Age Jews" shows that most Jews felt culturally obliged to mark themselves as different - and believed that doing so made them both better Jews and better Americans.
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• Reputation construction
• the war of image commences - Napoleon and the liberals
• romanticism
• popular Bonapartism
• Napoleon and the triumphant republic
• Napoleon and the right
• determinism, structuralism and the great man
• the great man and the "weaker sex"
• the modern Charlemagne and European integration.
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Egocentric tyrant? Primitive Corsican condottiere? Motor of world progress? Superman beyond good and evil? Embodiment of the talents and aspirations of the common man? Or insignificant grain in the sands of time? Chracterizations of Napoleon Bonaparte are in plentiful supply. In part, the evolution of his reputation is a story of historical construction; Bonaparte was just the first in a long queue of agents eager to reveal the "real" Napoleon. But it is also true that the reputation alters according to circumstance: the Napoleon of Restoration Europe was a far cry from the Napoleon that emerged after world war and subsequent experience of totalitarianism. In more recent times he advances simultaneously as gender bigot and father of European integration. None of this is entirely irreconcilable with `the truth'; the apparent contradictions of his reputation can be traced back to the ambiguities of Napoleonic character and rule. Napoleon Bonaparte was not a conviction politician; his power lay in the ability to reflect what others wanted to see. Whether for or against, we all become followers because we discern in him so much of what we love and hate, cherish and despise.
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There is no shortage of characterizations of Napoleon, but not since Peter Geyl's classic "Napoleon: For and Against in the 1940s" has a writer tried to assess his many reputations and how they have evolved, and continue to evolve. Drawing on the latest scholarship, this is an addition to the "Reputations" series. Alexander treats Napoleon as a universal figure, rather than a specifically French one, and draws from an array of evidence in many media. He focuses particularly on how Napoleon's reputation has been altered by such events as the World Wars and the Cold War, and by association with such figures as Hitler, Santa Anna, Mehemet Ali, and Mussolini.
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In early 20th-century Charleston, Laura Bragg was called a woman ahead of her time, a fresh drink of water in a cultural desert, but never a "proper Southern lady". This biography tells the story of the woman who changed the cultural face of Charleston and the nation's approach to museum education.
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This is a full and authorised biography of leading playwright Alan Ayckbourn. Paul Allen attempts to discover what has made Ayckbourn such a successful writer, producer and director.

Queen Elizabeth II was crowned in 1953, following the death of her father, King George VI, the year before. This book celebrates her 50 years of reign and is written with the special insight of its author, Ronald Allison, who joined the Royal Household after some years as the BBC's Court Correspondent and worked for the Queen as her Press Secretary for five years. The book begins with an overview of The Queen's reign, and this is followed by an in-depth look at each individual year. Her growing family, the Royal tours, the Commonwealth, her governments and the changing world about her are detailed in words and pictures, while key events for each year, in the world and in Great Britain, set the activities of The Queen in a wider international context.
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WINNER OF THE CANADIAN NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD This account of how two brothers fight for life is both thrilling and disturbing. Available in hardcover and paperback.
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This is a riveting account of two orphaned brothers whose courage enabled them to survive the rarely told horrors of the Holocaust in Romania. As Jews expelled from Bukovina & Bessarabia to Transnistria, young Joil & his brother Avrum witnessed the cruel deaths of their parents & many others. This is a deeply personal account told through the memories of a child. Readers will never forget the powerful & loving bond between these two brothers. This memoir becomes an inspiring & thoughtful experience for any reader willing to consider both the constructive & the destructive capacities of humankind. This is a story both poignant & triumphant as Joil recounts how he survived the Holocaust with an unmistakable optimism that ultimately brought him to the prairies of Canada.
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• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The Car That Made the Man: Henry Ford's Model T \comp: apostrophe in
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• Chapter 2 The Raise Heard 'round the World: The Five-Dollar Day
• Chapter 3 Man Overboard: The Lampooning of Ford's Peace Ship
• Chapter 4 Battle of a Different Sort: Henry Ford's Run for the U.S. Senate
• Chapter 5 Flexing His Political Muscle: Henry Ford's Run for the White House
• Chapter 6 Ford and Muscle Shoals: The Muscle in Ford's Bid for the White House
• Chapter 7 Claim of Ignorance: Ford, Jews, and the Sapiro Trial
• Chapter 8 A Case of "Ford-osis": The Hatching of the Model A
• Chapter 9 Ford, Newspapers, and Cartoons: From Obscurity to Legend Notes Index.
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• Special Places : Tour That Thought It's Seen It All Takes in Real Eye-Boggler ; Saving Grace of a Lonely Life ; Poet Finds Past Job Maid to Order ; Wedgwood Society Dreams Still on the Table ; Gents (and Ladies) in White Reclaim Turf after Dry Spell ; Limousines: Not Just for the Rich
• Chicago Passions and Styles : "Wild Ones" Says It Simply Isn't So ; Clothes Found in Rubbish Don't Have to Look Trashy ; Five Guys in Their Forties Sing about, Well, Guys in Their Forties ; Foraging Friends Savor Tastes of Great Outdoors ; At Least Once a Month, Anarchists Reign at Meeting ; Courting Laughs ; Finding the Humor in Haggis ; Club Dispenses Plenty of Bon Mots ; "Deee-fense! Deee-fense!" ; Laundromats Take Clean to New Extremes
• All the New Thinking About the Arts : Portrait of the Artists: White Coats, but No Chisels ; Betting on Butter, Art Gallery Spreads It on Thick ; Faux Ethnic Dishes Feed Students' Minds ; Working-Class Artists Do a Little PR ; The Views from the Boat ; Fragments Gain New LIfe in Hands of Mosaic Artist ; Mittens Knit a Tribute to the 43 Forgotten ; Class Views Circus as Art ; String Fever ; For the CSO, It's Mahler Onstage and Ping-Pong Backstage
• Chicago: Land of Books and Writers : Hometown Hug for Hemingway ; Irish Author's Fans Gather to Celebrate Ulysses, Other Tales ; Booker Winners Don't Go by the Book When Collecting ; Where Old Books Go to Be Read Again ; A Sanctuary Where Writers Can Think and Be Creative ; He Chooses His Words Wisely
• Leaders of the Great Parades : A Mogul Talks about His Family Dynasty ; Czechs and Balances ; Lady Thatcher Sets Down Her Record ; "Am I Happy? Yes, I'm Happy!" ; Auctioneer to Host the Last Bash at Butler's Digs
• Chicago Lifestyles of the Not-So-Rich, Not-So-Famous : Cicero Cops on Crash Course ; Can't Go Home Again? Try the Bus ; Painting Tell Tales of Beverly Life ; Hopes Blossom in North Lawndale ; Austin Village Shows No Place Like Home ; A Hyde Park Denizen Comes of Age ; New Drive for South Side Y ; Memories of Titanic Unsinkable ; Light Pole Painter Has a True Brush with Fame ; The Ultimate Out-of-Towners ; River's Friends Go Where Only Most Hardy Dare
• Local Tactics in the Restless Search for Love : Shrinks in Love ; One Language Needs No Translation ; Small Delights on the Zephyr ; In Touch with Sex ; Algren Affair to Remember Lives Again ; Porn Star Missy Is Graphic about Safe Sex ; Marriage an Open Book for Loggins, Wife
• Oh, To Be a Fish (Or Cat) in Chicago : Finned Friends Cheer Lonely Guests ; Animal Lovers Ferret Out a Unique Halfway House ; 268 Paws Tug at Her Heartstrings ; Paws Put Furry Faces in the Adoption Market ; Gold Coast Pays Tribute to Its Storied Vet
• The Meaning of Life? Don't Ask : Suds, Sanctuary Are Match Made in Heaven ; A Generation Tries to Remember ... Something or Other ; Song Helps Rekindle Spark in Alzheimer's Patients ; Near-Death Experiences Share Common Thread ; The Meaning of LIfe? Don't Ask.

Drawn from Anderson's newspaper column of the same name, ""City Watch"" introduces readers to an eclectic mix of social clubs, subcultures, and individuals, from ""Foraging Friends"" a group of penniless ecologists who forage for wild foods, to a group simply known as ""Some Chicago Anarchists.
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This English translation of Friedrich Nietzsche in seinen Werken offers a rare, intimate view of the philosopher by Lou Salom, a free-thinking, Russian-born intellectual to whom Nietzsche proposed marriage at only their second meeting. Published in 1894 as its subject languished in madness, Salom's book rode the crest of a surge of interest in Nietzsche's iconoclastic philosophy. She discusses his writings and such biographical events as his break with Wagner, attempting to ferret out the man in the midst of his works. Salom's provocative conclusion - that Nietzsche's madness was the inevitable result of his philosophical views - generated considerable controversy. Nietzsche's sister, Elisabeth Frster-Nietzsche, dismissed the book as a work of fantasy. Yet the philosopher's longtime acquaintance Erwin Rohde wrote, "Nothing better or more deeply experienced or perceived has ever been written about Nietzsche." Siegfried Mandel's extensive introduction examines the circumstances that brought Lou Salom and Nietzsche together and the ideological conflicts that drove them apart.
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Among documents of Florida's Spanish colonial period, few eyewitness accounts exist. One of these, the 1595 narrative by Fray Andres de San Miguel, expertly translated by John Hann, describes the two-year odyssey of a teenager from Spain across the Atlantic to Mexico, Havana, and Florida and finally back to Spain. The future friar's account of his experiences as a young sailor brings to life the fleets of the Golden Age of Spain and reveals how those adventures would change his life forever. After Andres's ship passed Cape Canaveral, it was battered by a four-day storm and separated from the fleet. The officers commandeered the only launch and escaped; the crew kept the ship afloat and improvised a box-like vessel in which 30 survivors reached shore near the mouth of the Altamaha River. The author offers detailed descriptions of the Guale Indians and of Mission San Pedro Mocama on Cumberland Island. He also provides vignettes of life in St. Augustine and, on his way to Havana, of encounters with South Florida Indians. The adventure closes with Fray Andres' return to Cadiz, where he witnessed the 1596 British siege and burning of that port. Only seventeen years old at the time of the voyage, Fray Andres presents a cold-eyed view of the sailing experience in the 16th century, trenchant observations on the behavior of the ship's officers and the circumstances of the survival of the crew, and insight into the ambitions, concerns, and religiosity of the Spaniards. The book includes Hann's translation of a brief introductory essay written by Fray Anders' Mexican publisher, telling of the young man's entry into the Carmelites and the accomplishments of his later life as a church architect, builder, and hydrographic expert involved in the drainage of the valley of Mexico City.
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Set both in the present and in the dust-laden reaches of Angola in 1976, "Buried in the Sky" is an album of stories about men, women and war. Rick Andrew, himself a conscript at that time, allows his comrades to tell their stories.
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The second part of C.S. "Todd" Andrews' autobiography tells of his life after 1924 and his determination to help shape a new Ireland, as well as his forthright evocation of the personalities who helped to form Ireland's social and intellectual climate during his own lifetime.
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• List of Illustrations Preface Acknowledgments
• 1. John Monro: The Making of a Mad-Doctor
• 2. The "Real Use" of Discussing Madness: The Great Lunacy Debate
• 3. Madness in Their Methodism: Religious Enthusiasm, the Mad-Doctors, and the Case of Alexander Cruden
• 4. Mad as a Lord: Monro and the Case of the Earl of Orford
• 5. Mansions of Misery: Mad-Doctors and the Mad-Trade
• 6. Murder Most Foul, Madness Most High: The Courtroom, the Stateroom, and the Misty Summits of the Mad-Doctor's Expertise Notes Select Bibliography Index.
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As visiting physician to Bethlem Hospital, the archetypal 'Bedlam' and Britain's first and (for hundreds of years) only public institution for the insane, Dr. John Monro (1715-1791) was a celebrity in his own day. Jonathan Andrews and Andrew Scull call him a 'connoisseur of insanity, this high priest of the trade in lunacy'. Although the basics of his life and career are well known, this study is the first to explore in depth Monro's colorful and contentious milieu. Mad-doctoring grew into a recognized, if not entirely respectable, profession during the eighteenth century, and besides being affiliated with public hospitals, Monro and other mad-doctors became entrepreneurs and owners of private madhouses and were consulted by the rich and famous. Monro's close social connections with members of the aristocracy and gentry, as well as with medical professionals, politicians, and divines, guaranteed him a significant place in the social, political, cultural, and intellectual worlds of his time. Andrews and Scull draw on an astonishing array of visual materials and verbal sources that include the diaries, family papers, and correspondence of some of England's wealthiest and best-connected citizens. The book is also distinctive in the coverage it affords to individual case histories of Monro's patients, including such prominent contemporary figures as the Earls Ferrers and Orford, the religious 'enthusiast' Alexander Cruden, and the 'mad' King George III, as well as his crazy would-be assassin, Margaret Nicholson. What the authors make clear is that Monro, a serious physician neither reactionary nor enlightened in his methods, was the outright epitome of the mad-trade as it existed then, esteemed in some quarters and ridiculed in others. The fifty illustrations, expertly annotated and integrated with the text, will be a revelation to many readers.
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Starting in Krakow, Poland in 1890, and spanning more than one hundred years, five generations, and four continents, "Mosaic" is Diane Armstrong's moving account of her remarkable, resilient family. This story begins when Daniel Baldinger divorces the wife he loves because she cannot bear children. Believing that "a man must have sons to say Kaddish for him when he dies, " he marries a much younger woman, and by 1913, Daniel and his second wife Lieba have eleven children, including six sons. In this richly textured portrait, Armstrong follows the Baldinger children's lives over decades, through the terrifying years of the Holocaust, to the present. Based on oral histories and the diaries of more than a dozen men and women, "Mosaic" is an extraordinary story of a family and one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage. .
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• Introduction - a product of the colonial periphery
• 1930s - post-independence backlash
• 1940s - public debate
• 1950s - searching for an intellectual and liberal Catholic Ireland
• 1960s-1980s - surrender to imagination of the past
• conclusion
• works cited.
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A critical exploration of the life and work of Sean O'Faolain, a somewhat neglected Irish writer, placing his achievement in historical and political context. Marie Arndt's theoretical framework uses primarily Foucault and Fanon. Though O'Faolain tried to convey a picture of himself as an internationalist, he also remained emotionally attached to his Irish roots. This study proposes that these fundamental points lie at the heart of his often contradictory arguments on contemporary Irish issues such as the Gaelic heritage, Catholicism, nationalism, and the Anglo-Irish and English colonial presence in Ireland.
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Actor James Arness gives a full account of his early years, his family, his military career during the Second World War and his toil in Hollywood including his long run on "Gunsmoke".
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Gandhi's is an extraordinary and compelling story. Few individuals in history have made so great a mark upon their times. And yet Gandhi never held high political office, commanded no armies and was not even a compelling orator. His 'power' therefore makes a particularly fascinating subject for investigation. David Arnold explains how and why the shy student and affluent lawyer became one of the most powerful anti-colonial figures Western empires in Asia ever faced and why he aroused such intense affection, loyalty (and at times much bitter hatred) among Indians and Westerners alike. Attaching as much influence to the idea and image of Gandhi as to the man himself, Arnold sees Gandhi not just as a Hindu saint but as a colonial subject, whose attitudes and experiences expressed much that was common to countless others in India and elsewhere who sought to grapple with the overwhelming power and cultural authority of the West. A vivid and highly readable introducation to Gandhi's life and times, Arnold's book opens up fascinating insights into one of the twentieth century's most remarkable men.
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Algernon Blackwood was one of the greatest writers of supernatural fiction of the 20th century. He published over 200 stories and a dozen novels, all designed to awaken our consciousness to the wonder, mystery and power of the world. He said all his stories - however strange and exotic - were based on personal experiences or those of close friends. An adventurous traveller, an undercover agent during World War I, and Searcher for the Red Cross, he originated the Starlight Express, was a member of the magical order of the Golden Dawn, and knew most of the literary and artistic establishment of his day from Hilaire Belloc to Arthur Machen, from Sinclair Lewis to H.G. Wells, and from Gracie Fields to Sir Edward Elgar. From an aristocratic and deeply evangelical family, Blackwood rebelled and became a Buddhist. He tried many careers, ending up as a down-and-out sleeping in New York's central park, before returning home, the prodigal son. Then his life really began, investigating haunted houses and helping people with psychic afflictions; he found love, and fame as a writer, and Britain's first television story-teller.
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A unique and hitherto undocumented portrait of Samuel Beckett. 'After fifteen years of memorable conversations with Beckett, I realized I could not depend on my memory. The unforgettable was becoming the irretrievable...' Anne Atik and her husband, the distinguished Israeli painter Avigdor Arika, were part of Samuel Beckett's circle in Paris from the 1950s until the latter's death in 1989. Memento is a personal record of Beckett the man, whose reticence and privacy were paradoxically among his most famous traits. What is less well-known is Beckett's gift for company and friendship, and this book is a testament to the many facets of his often enigmatic personality. Anne Atik began jotting down conversations with Beckett in 1970, and these document his interests and passions - for chess, for sport, for music, and above all his deep knowledge of literature in several languages. Atik's recollections deal in minute particulars - details of dress, evenings in and nights out in Montparnasse. She recalls the classical recordings to which Beckett preferred to listen, the passages he would quote and re-quote from the poets, the paintings he admired, the touchstones by which he measured himself and others. The memoir is complemented by facsimiles of unpublished Beckett letters, family photographs and some of Avigdor Arika's intimate portrait drawings of the playwright.
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• v. 1. Early papers
• v. 2. K-theory
• v. 3-4. Index theory
• v. 5. Gauge theories
• v. 6. [untitled]
• v. 7. 2002-2013.

Professor Atiyah is one of the greatest living mathematicians and is well known throughout the mathematical world. He is a recipient of the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and is still at the peak of his career. His huge number of published papers, focusing on the areas of algebraic geometry and topology, have here been collected into six volumes, divided thematically for easy reference by individuals interested in a particular subject. From 1977 onwards his interest moved in the direction of gauge theories and the interaction between geometry and physics.
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Professor Atiyah is one of the greatest living mathematicians and is well known throughout the mathematical world. He is a recipient of the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and is still at the peak of his career. His huge number of published papers, focusing on the areas of algebraic geometry and topology, have here been collected into six volumes, divided thematically for easy reference by individuals interested in a particular subject. This first volume covers his early and general papers dating back to his first paper written in 1952 whilst being a second-year undergraduate student.
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Professor Atiyah is one of the greatest living mathematicians and is well known throughout the mathematical world. He is a recipient of the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of the Nobel Prize, and is still at the peak of his career. His huge number of published papers, focusing on the areas of algebraic geometry and topology, have here been collected into six volumes, divided thematically for easy reference by individuals interested in a particular subject. Volumes III and IV cover papers written in 1963-84 and are the result of a long collaboration with I. M. Singer on the Index Theory of elliptic operators.
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• Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductio
• n1. Going Nort
• h2. The Rhythm Pal
• s3. Cholly and Dott
• y4. Struttin' for Uncle Sa
• m5. Coles and Atkin
• s6. The End of Our Roa
• d7. Rhythm Tap and Mor
• e8. In Walked May
• e9. Hitsville, U.S.A
• .10. Back to Freelancin
• g11. The Way I Do the Things I D
• o12. Black and BlueEpilogueGlossarySelected BibliographyIndex.
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Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie. As tap reached a nadir in the fifties, Cholly created the new specialization of "vocal choreography, " teaching rhythm-and-blues singers how to perform their music by adding rhythmical dance steps drawn from twentieth-century American dance, from the Charleston to rhythm tap. For the burgeoning Motown record label, Cholly taught such artists as the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Marvin Gaye to command the stage in ways that would enhance their performances and "sell" their songs. Class Act tells of Cholly's boyhood and coming of age, his entry into the dance world of New York City, his performing triumphs and personal tragedies, and the career transformations that won him gold records and a Tony for choreographing Black and Blue on Broadway. Chronicling the rise, near demise, and rediscovery of tap dancing, the book is both an engaging biography and a rich cultural history.
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• Preface and AcknowledgmentsIntroductio
• n1. Going Nort
• h2. The Rhythm Pal
• s3. Cholly and Dott
• y4. Struttin' for Uncle Sa
• m5. Coles and Atkin
• s6. The End of Our Roa
• d7. Rhythm Tap and Mor
• e8. In Walked May
• e9. Hitsville, U.S.A
• .10. Back to Freelancin
• g11. The Way I Do the Things I D
• o12. Black and BlueEpilogueGlossarySelected BibliographyIndex.
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Cholly Atkins's career has spanned an extraordinary era of American dance. He began performing during Prohibition and continued his apprenticeship in vaudeville, in nightclubs, and in the army during World War II. With his partner, Honi Coles, Cholly toured the country, performing with such jazz masters as Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Count Basie. As tap reached a nadir in the fifties, Cholly created the new specialization of "vocal choreography, " teaching rhythm-and-blues singers how to perform their music by adding rhythmical dance steps drawn from twentieth-century American dance, from the Charleston to rhythm tap. For the burgeoning Motown record label, Cholly taught such artists as the Supremes, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, the Temptations, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Marvin Gaye to command the stage in ways that would enhance their performances and "sell" their songs. Class Act tells of Cholly's boyhood and coming of age, his entry into the dance world of New York City, his performing triumphs and personal tragedies, and the career transformations that won him gold records and a Tony for choreographing Black and Blue on Broadway. Chronicling the rise, near demise, and rediscovery of tap dancing, the book is both an engaging biography and a rich cultural history.
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• Caving on ice
• A passion for science
• At home underground
• Caving underwater
• Caring for caves.

Readers share the adventures of two women cavers - a teacher and a microbiologist - as they explore ice caves in Greenland, underwater caves in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, and terrestrial caves in the southeastern United States. Their exploits form the basis for MacGillivray Freeman's large format film Journey Into Amazing Caves, which will be shown in IMAX theaters beginning in March 2001.
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• 1 Early Years. 2 Rhodes to Cambridge. 3 For King and Country. 4 In Command. 5 From the Cavendish to Cape Town. 6 And Then There Was Lightning. 7 Enter Cockroft. 8 The Wings Begin to Spread. 9 Two Chairs and the BPI. 10 Bernard Price's Institute. 11 The SSS at War. 12 "Could I Be of Service?". 13 Soldiers and Civillians. 14 Montgomery's Scientist. 15 When Smuts Called. 16 Nationalists and Internationalists. 17 "Come Over to Macedonia and Help Us". 18 Cockcroft's Man. 19 Scientia et Labore. 20 "Cometh the Hour". 21 Harwell. 22 Fission but not Fusion. 23 Zeta and Windscale. 24 Captain And Not First Officer. 25 "For the Future Lies With You". Notes and Sources. Index.
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"Schonland: Scientist and Soldier" is a biography of Sir Basil Schonland FRS (1896-1972). Schonland was a major contributor to twentieth-century British and Commonwealth science, both in peace and war. This is not just a scientific biography, but a biography that tells much of a highly placed scientist and administrator, of the increasing engagement between science and the military, and of changing military-diplomatic relationships between Britain and South Africa. The author has drawn on a profusion of primary and secondary source material, from both South African and British archives, to produce a fine biography that is very readable and interesting.
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Nazi Germany threw men and equipment against Russia in unprecedented numbers in World War II. This is the story of the ordinary and extraordinary men and women soldiers of Russia: the snipers who engaged in duels in No Man's Land; Cossack cavalry regiments crossing the ice at night to raid ammunition dumps; pilots out of ammunition using their propellers to cut off the tailplanes of enemy aircraft; and more. Using interviews and primary evidence collected in Russia, Albert Axell tells the story of the Eastern Front as it unfolded, interweaving his accounts of individual exploits with the progress of the war itself.
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• Prelude
• 1965-1970
• 1970-1975
• Memory.

On the lives and works of Yogamāyā, 1860-1941 and Durga Devi, 1918-1973, women social reformers from Nepal.

This is a translation from the Persian language account of two holy men, who came from Central Asia to the Deccan in the late 17th century just at the time when emperor Awrangzeb came south to fight his wars against the Marathas.
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Jimmy Santiago Baca's harrowing, brilliant memoir of his life before, during, and immediately after the years he spent in a maximum-security prison garnered tremendous critical acclaim and went on to win the prestigious 2001 International Prize. Long considered one of the best poets in America today, Baca was illiterate at the age of twenty-one and facing five to ten years behind bars for selling drugs. A Place to Stand is the remarkable tale of how he emerged after his years in the penitentiary -- much of it spent in isolation -- with the ability to read and a passion for writing poetry. A vivid portrait of life inside a maximum-security prison and an affirmation of one man's spirit in overcoming the most brutal adversity, A Place to Stand "stands as proof there is always hope in even the most desperate lives" (Fort Worth Morning Star-Telegram).
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• 1. Sublime Abjection: The Ascendancy of Corpses
• 2. Mirabeau, or The Spectacle of the Public Corpse
• 3. Voltaire, or The Body of the Philosopher King
• 4. The Princess de Lamballe, or Sex Slaughtered
• 5. Louis XVI, or The Sacred Remains
• 6. Geffroy, or The Fear of Others
• 7. Robespierre, or The Terrible Tableau
• 8. Madame Necker, or The Poetry of the Corpse.
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Glory and Terror forwards the argument that the key moment of the French Revolution were a series of "dialogues with the dead, " and looks to excavate these discourses by examining contemporary visual and literary representations of executions, funerals, processions, ceremonies etc. De Baecque is a writerly historian who does not shy away from the vivid and often gory details of the events he investigates. As reviewer Daniel Gordon notes, De Baecque "has a cinematic sense of history: a talent for evoking grand visuals." Among the events examined are the exhumation and transportation of Voltaire's body to the Pantheon, the burial of the corpse of Louis XVI, and the agonizingly slow death of Robespierre. Glory and Terror is a cultural and literary volume that will appeal to the general reader who enjoys the work of Simon Schama and Robert Darnton and generate much discussion among professional historians.
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