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  • Trinacria, 'An Island Outside Time'

    International Archaeology in Sicily

    Trinacria, the ancient name for Sicily extending back to Homeric Greek, has understandably been the focus of decades of archaeological research. Recognizing Sicily’s rich prehistory and pivotal role in the history of the Mediterranean, Sebastiano Tusa - professor, head of heritage agencies and councillor for Cultural Heritage for the Sicilian Region - promoted the exploration of the island’s ... Read more

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  • Peggy and the Fairy Knolls

    I've always known where it is, and could show you the place, even in my sleep…Growing up in the wild Hebridean landscape, Peggy and her best friend Penny are inseparable, with the magical fairy knolls as constant in their lives as church or school. But as childhood passes, Peggy must learn to navigate the boundaries between the ordinary and the otherworldly, especially when the lines between myth ... Read more

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  • Spook City

    If, as Carl Jung said, Liverpool is "the pool of life" then here are things from the darkest depths of that pool, brought to the surface to terrify and startle you...Liverpool has long been known as a city of dreamers. But not all those dreams are as beautiful as a Beatles melody or as funny as a Paul O'Grady punchline. Here are the darker dreams of the Merseyside imagination, the macabre ... Read more

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  • Cotting School

    Series series Campus History
    Cotting School details the interesting history of this national leader in serving children with a broad spectrum of disabilities. In 1893, two pioneering orthopedic surgeons, Dr. Augustus Thorndike and Dr. Edward Bradford, saw the need to educate children whose physical challenges prevented them from attending school. As an experiment, they founded the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed ... Read more

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  • Donald and His Seven Cows

    Perhaps Donald Michael MacDonald invented the round mile, all 2,240 yards of it. Donald and his seven cows, walking the same steps each day through the past and the future, the fairy knoll and the poison pool, the eternal truths and the unknowable possibilities. Rarely does Donald venture beyond the round mile, for he has no need to: all of history can be found on his land. Yet the wind farms, the ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD

  • An Impossible Dream

    A Non-Believer on the Camino

    We live in disturbed times. Seemingly more now than at any time in the previous five decades, the planet appears riven. Against this troubling global background, An Impossible Dream traces author Peter Campbells six-week, eight-hundred-kilometre long walk along the Camino de Santiago across northern Spain, capturing what he saw and what he felt during the journey.Using the Camino as a backdrop, ... Read more

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  • Triumphs of Our Fleur-de-Lys

    150 Years of Trinity College Melbourne

    Trinity College opened in 1872 as the first student residence associated with the University of Melbourne. Established by the Anglican Church, it provided supervised accommodation and academic support for undergraduate students. Over the years, this was expanded to include a theological school (1877), a women's hostel (1886, later called Janet Clarke Hall), and a foundation studies program (1990) ... Read more

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  • Persistent Creativity

    Making the Case for Art, Culture and the Creative Industries

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    Recent years have seen the increasing valuation and promotion of ‘creativity’. Future success, we are often assured, will rest on the creativity of our endeavours, often aligned specifically with ‘cultural’ activity. This book considers the emergence and persistence of this pattern, particularly with regards to cultural policy, and examines the methods and evidence deployed to make the case for ... Read more

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  • Power and Politics in Old Regime France, 1720-1745

    First Published in 2004. Power and Politics in Old Regime France is a major history of the politics of the first half of the reign of Louis XV. It is based on exhaustive archival research and offers the first comprehensive analysis of the neglected ministries of the duc de Bourbon and the cardinal de Fleury. Peter R. Campbell deals first with court, faction and policy. A second section offers new ... Read more

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  • Military Realism

    The Logic and Limits of Force and Innovation in the U.S. Army

    Series series American Military Experience
    After the Vietnam War, the U.S. Army considered counterinsurgency (COIN) a mistake to be avoided. Many found it surprising, then, when setbacks in recent conflicts led the same army to adopt a COIN doctrine. Scholarly debates have primarily employed existing theories of military bureaucracy or culture to explain the army’s re-embrace of COIN, but Peter Campbell advances a unique argument centering ... Read more

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  • Electricity

    'In pencil-written and drawing-spattered notebooks intended for her Australian granddaughter, an elderly woman, now in Edinburgh, remembers and relives her Hebridean childhood. The community thus recreated is one where modernity – its emblem the Electricity of Angus Peter Campbell's title – collides and overlaps with all sorts of linguistic, cultural and other continuities. But this is no ... Read more

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