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  • The seed is in all: A journey through the Quaker world

    by Tim Gee ...
    In the 2025 James Backhouse Lecture, The seed is in all: a journey through the Quaker world,Tim Gee reflects on his journey and international friendships to share some ideas. “Quakers will have a future for as long as God has a purpose for us, and so long as we unite with that purpose”. Quakerism worldwide is energetic, dynamic, diverse, growing, and making change for peace. How can Quakers in ... Read more

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  • Open for Liberation

    An Activist Reads the Bible

    by Tim Gee ...
    Jesus was a revolutionary. He led an anti-colonial movement of the dispossessed which affirmed women's leadership, racial equality and sexual diversity. Yet within three centuries, Christianity began being used at the service of the very same forms of discrimination Jesus had spent his life opposing. Open for Liberation argues that the task of liberating humanity from oppression must involve ... Read more

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  • Quaker Quicks - Why I am a Pacifist

    A Call For A More Nonviolent World

    by Tim Gee ...
    Tim Gee tells the story of why he became a pacifist and what it means to him. Gee reflects on the lives of peacemakers past and present to provide responses to questions like “Don’t we have to hit back if we're hurt?”, “Don’t we need war to respond to evil?” and “Doesn’t religion justify wars?”. This is a critique of war, but more than that, it stakes a claim for pacifism's feminist and anti ... Read more

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  • Counterpower

    Making Change Happen

    by Tim Gee ...
    This timely book argues that no major movement has ever been successful without counterpower, or the power that the "have-nots" can use to remove the power of the "haves."Investigating the history and tactics of major movements of the past and today's global justice and human rights movements, Tim Gee demonstrates what works and what doesn't work. In showing how counterpower can be strategically ... Read more

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  • The City in Central Europe

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1999, this volume explores how the cities of central Europe, among them Berlin, Budapest, Hamburg, Vienna and Prague, went through a period of phenomenal growth during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Their rapid expansion and growing economic importance made citizens aware of the need to manage the fabric and culture of the urban environment, while burgeoning ... Read more

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  • Printed Matters

    Printing, Publishing and Urban Culture in Europe in the Modern Period

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    This title was first published in 2002: Since the invention of printing in the mid-fifteenth century the production, distribution and consumption of printed matter have been the principal means through which new ideas and representations have been spread. In recent times cultural historians have taken a growing interest in the previously somewhat isolated field of book history, shifting the study ... Read more

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    Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future

    A Full-Cast BBC Radio Adventure

    Unabridged

    2 hours 35 min

    Crash land with Dan Dare, the world’s Number One space hero!Decades after he first appeared in the comic Eagle, Dan Dare hits the airwaves and embarks on a mission to Venus to save the world. Classic comic-book fans and adventure lovers alike will relish this vintage production as Dan Dare, British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson, fires up his spaceship and ... Read more

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  • The House of Fragile Things

    Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France

    by James McAuley ...
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  • Censors at Work

    How States Shaped Literature

    "Splendid…[Darnton gives] us vivid, hard-won detail, illuminating narrative, and subtle, original insight." —Timothy Garton Ash, New York Review of BooksWith his uncanny ability to spark life in the past, Robert Darnton re-creates three historical worlds in which censorship shaped literary expression in distinctive ways.In eighteenth-century France, censors, authors, and booksellers collaborated ... Read more

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  • Sites of Memory, Sites of Mourning

    The Great War in European Cultural History

    by Jay Winter ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    Jay Winter's powerful study of the 'collective remembrance' of the Great War offers a major reassessment of one of the critical episodes in the cultural history of the twentieth century. Dr Winter looks anew at the culture of commemoration and the ways in which communities endeavoured to find collective solace after 1918. Taking issue with the prevailing 'modernist' interpretation of the European ... Read more

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  • Fire in the Minds of Men

    Origins of the Revolutionary Faith

    This book traces the origins of a faith--perhaps the faith of the century. Modern revolutionaries are believers, no less committed and intense than were Christians or Muslims of an earlier era. What is new is the belief that a perfect secular order will emerge from forcible overthrow of traditional authority. This inherently implausible idea energized Europe in the nineteenth century, and became ... Read more

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