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London Tube Stations 1924-1961
Charles Holden's designs for the London Underground from the mid-1920s to the outbreak of World War II represent a high point of transport architecture and Modernist design in …
Modern African Wars (1)
The Rhodesian War of 1965 80 is the battle for control of present day Zimbabwe. The former British colony of Southern Rhodesia rejected British moves towards majority rule and on …
Strong Presidents
Transformation of Initial Teacher Education
Tracing the development of initial teacher education since the large-scale expansion of the teaching profession after the Second World War to the present day, The Transformation of …
Sit on Our Hands, or Stand on Our Feet?
Challenge of the American Presidency
According to Niccolo Machiavelli, leaders must always be prepared for unexpected change, sometimes rapidly and in violent and dramatic forms, in order to retain control of their …
Sit on Our Hands, or Stand on Our Feet?
States of Perfect Freedom
Sit on Our Hands, or Stand on Our Feet?
The aim of Sit on Our Hands, or Stand on Our Feet? is not to present a theology that explains disasters. In fact there is no such theology. Nor is this work primarily for those who …
Narratives of Faith from the Haiti Earthquake
This book presents an in-depth ethnographic case study carried out in the years following the 2010 Haiti earthquake to present the role of faith beliefs in disaster response. The …
Scoring from Second
Why do accomplished writers (and grown-ups) like Ron Carlson, Rick Bass, and Michael Chabon (to name but a few of those represented here) still obsess over their baseball days? …