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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'The Church of England and the First World War' (first published in 1978) explores in depth the role of the church during the tragic circumstances of the First World War using biographies, newspapers, magazines, letters, poetry and other sources in a balanced evaluation. The myth that the war was fought by 'lions led by donkeys' powerfully endures - it turns heroes into victims. Alan Wilkinson demonstrates the sheer horror, moral ambiguity, and the interaction between religion, the church and war with a scholarly, and yet poetic, hand. The author creates a vivid image of the church and society, includes views of the Free Churches and Roman Catholics, portrays the pastoral problems and challenges to faith presented by war, and the pressures for reform of church and society. 'The Church of England and the First World War' is written with compelling compassion and great historical understanding, making the book hard to put down. This expert and classic study will grip the religious and secular alike, the general reader or the student. Alan Wilkinson, an Anglican priest, has ministered in three parishes, was Chaplain of St Catharine's College Cambridge and Principal of Chichester Theological College. He taught at the universities of Cambridge, Bristol and Portsmouth and the Open University. Since 1988 he has been an honorary priest at the Portsmouth Cathedral. He has written extensively on the interaction between church and society in the twentieth century. 'Gathering together an impressive range of printed sources, it remains the leading published work on the subject.' Stephen Parker and Tom Lawson (eds) 'God and War', 2012. 'It is the most vivid account yet available of English religion in this or any other period of the twentieth century. . . . But Canon Wilkinson is no apologist for the official church.' David Edwards, 'The Church Times'.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recently updated in 2016 (with additional information on 'cannabis cures,' lung health, and ear candling), Unlock the Power to Heal is a book that should be required reading for doctors and lay people alike. Why did the authors write this book Because there is misconception about natural medicine in today's 'Big Pharma' controlled world. For most people, genuine healing is something out of reach, like it is locked away in a safe that you are unable to open. It can be both frustrating and frightening when you realize that the 'experts' (medical doctors) know very little about accessing the natural tools for health recovery, much less health maintenance. When that moment of disillusionment occurs, you have a choice to make. You can give up, because the authorities keep telling you that you can't possibly know how to heal yourself unless you have a degree and a license. Or you can recognize the truth that having a 'duh'-gree or permission from the government can never replace your God-given birthright to do that which your cells know to be true. But how do you get information that must be so valuable that it has been locked away and is seemingly unobtainable It's all in the book. You'll learn the history of modern medicine, the basics about micronutrients, vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and probiotics. You'll learn how to restore your gastrointestinal tract to optimal condition, which will have a positive cascading effect on your overall health. You'll learn about health sovereignty with homeopathy and some terrific tips for treating tissue trauma. So, buckle your seatbelts as Robert Scott Bell and Ty Bollinger take you for a tour down 'medical memory lane,' explain the intricacies about the building blocks of health, and provide you with the keys necessary to unlock the power to heal.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - There are many types of political scandals: sex, corruption, and election scandals are but a few. Political scandals are public events that have tremendous consequence on citizenry and can undermine democratic institutions-when we pay attention to scandal, we risk ignoring weightier matters. This volume brings together an array of academics to explore the impact of political scandals. What makes this book different from others is the wide spectrum of perspectives brought together to help analyze a single subject.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Virginia Woolf has for many years been seen as a key participant in British literary modernism. Following a period of relative critical neglect following her tragic death in 1941, her body of work has earned her recognition as a groundbreaking feminist thinker, a perceptive literary critic, a formidably creative diarist and correspondent, and as one of the twentieth century's leading essayists. Most notably, her experimental fiction, from her first novel The Voyage Out to the posthumously published Between the Acts, has grown in both popularity and critical renown. All of her work remains in print, and novels such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Jacob's Room are regularly read and discussed both inside and outside the academy. Few modernist writers--indeed, few writers of any period-have had such a pronounced and lasting impact on literary culture.There has been, and continues to be, an enormous amount of critical and scholarly work done on almost all aspects of Woolf's writing and life. Monographs, journal articles, and collections of essays dedicated to Woolf's writing appear every year alongside scholarly and popular biographies, and there is an annual international conference dedicated solely to her work. Yet amidst this veritable inundation of exegetical energy, this tremendous and ever-growing body of scholarly work on Woolf, there is one curious omission. While Woolf was both in theory and practice fascinated by questions of character and characterization, scholarship has not generally been directed towards this field. This may be due to both general theoretical discomfort with the critical category of character, and to a sense that Woolf's work in particular may not respond well to such interpretations. However, Woolf was very much an experimenter in character, and readings that minimize or ignore this interest miss an important facet of her work.This book offers the first full-length reading of Virginia Woolf's career-long experimentation in character. It examines her early journalism, from her short reviews of contemporary literature to more substantial essays on Gissing and Dostoyevsky, for indications of her engagement with questions of characterization, and links this interest to her later fictional writings. In The Voyage Out she establishes a continuum of levels of characterization, a key element of which is the Theophrastan type, an alternative form of characterization that corresponds to a way of knowing real people, while in Jacob's Room she seeks to represent an elusive 'essence' that may exist outside of the structuring forms of social life, and which is accessible through speculative identification. Mrs Dalloway explores the shaping of character through social pressure, and To the Lighthouse proposes a simplified version of character as an ethically acceptable way of relating to other people. A similar notion is picked up in The Waves, in which a limited character, or form of caricature, is proposed as a possible solution to the problems of characterization. In Between the Acts, many of these themes reappear as Woolf simultaneously situates her characters more firmly than ever in a comprehensible physical and social context, and explores areas where language and rationality fail.Virginia Woolf: Experiments in Character is an important book for Woolf studies in particular, modernism studies more generally, and literature collections.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Since coming to power in 2007, the Sandinista Front of National Liberation (FSLN) has proclaimed itself the 'government of the poor' and the 'government of peace and reconciliation.' Accordingly, the regime has endeavoured to control and manipulate the symbols, social images, important spaces, and situations of popular struggles for social justice in the country. Under the watch of Daniel Ortega's administration, Nicaragua has become a country where an extraordinary effort is put into social spectacles, propaganda, and theatricality to create the impression of social and economic transformation.While the current regime orchestrates impressive social performances in support of its power, there are other social spectacles marking Nicaragua's urban landscape that tell a different story. performances in support of its power, there are other social spectacles marking Nicaragua's urban landscape that tell a different story. These mine the gap between experiences and promises in today's Nicaragua. The exhibit of suffering bodies in public national spaces as political weapons by pesticide victims, as well as a transvestite circus spectacle in Managua redefine spaces and states of 'invisibility' and 'visibility' by articulating social positions through performance. The bodies of these Nicaraguans--refusing to be invisible--show Nicaragua's ongoing social drama of a predominant social power relation of inclusion and exclusion within a narrative intersected by political power, marginality and theatricality. As spectacularized bodies, they become avenues for showing processes of structural violence. Although there has been some excellent academic research focusing on performance or/and theatre in Nicaragua, such scholarship seldom attends to the very important connections between daily staged public social acts and local, national/global politics that deal directly and indirectly with marginalized social/cultural landscapes in this country. This book fills the gap by examining the connections between Nicaragua's marginalized landscapes and bodies, between social/political visibility and invisibility, and the relationship between social abandonment and social encompassment in the nation.This is an important book for performance studies, social cultural anthropology, theatre studies and Latin American studies.This book is in the Cambria Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series (general editor: John Clum, Duke University) and includes rare images.