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Ken Dodd: The Biography

The Biography

by Stephen Griffin ...

This is the first complete biography of the last of the great British comedians, published to coincide with his 80th birthday in November 2007. ... Read more

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This is the first complete biography of the last of the great British comedians, published to coincide with his 80th birthday in November 2007.
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Long Wars and the Constitution

by Stephen M. Griffin ...

In a wide-ranging constitutional history of presidential war decisions from 1945 to the present, Stephen M. Griffin rethinks the long-running debate over the “imperial presidency” and concludes that the eighteenth-century Constitution is inadequate to the challenges of a post-9/11 world.The Constitution requires the consent of Congress before the United States can go to war. Truman’s decision to ... Read more

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In a wide-ranging constitutional history of presidential war decisions from 1945 to the present, Stephen M. Griffin rethinks the long-running debate over the “imperial presidency” and concludes that the eighteenth-century Constitution is inadequate to the challenges of a post-9/11 world.The Constitution requires the consent of Congress before the United States can go to war. Truman’s decision to
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Broken Trust

Dysfunctional Government and Constitutional Reform

by Stephen M. Griffin ...

Series series Constitutional Thinking
Variously and roundly perceived as gridlocked, incompetent, irresponsible, and corrupt, American government commands less respect and trust today than perhaps at any time in the nation’s history. But the dysfunction in government that we like so little, along with the policy disasters it engenders, is in fact a product of that deep and persistent distrust, Stephen M. Griffin contends in Broken ... Read more

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Variously and roundly perceived as gridlocked, incompetent, irresponsible, and corrupt, American government commands less respect and trust today than perhaps at any time in the nation’s history. But the dysfunction in government that we like so little, along with the policy disasters it engenders, is in fact a product of that deep and persistent distrust, Stephen M. Griffin contends in Broken
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American Constitutionalism

From Theory to Politics

by Stephen M. Griffin ...

Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience. He surveys in an unpolemical way the theoretical issues raised by ... Read more

$41.79 USD

Despite the outpouring of works on constitutional theory in the past several decades, no general introduction to the field has been available. Stephen Griffin provides here an original contribution to American constitutional theory in the form of a short, lucid introduction to the subject for scholars and an informed lay audience. He surveys in an unpolemical way the theoretical issues raised by
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Gardens of Stone: My Boyhood in the French Resistance

My Boyhood in the French Resistance

by Stephen Grady, Michael Wright ...

Narrated by Gordon Griffin, Luke Thompson ...

Series Audiobook 6 - Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories of World War Two
Unabridged

12 hours 16 min

An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece.A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write...September 1939, Nieppe, Northern France.14 year-old Stephen is living with his ... Read more

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An extraordinary wartime memoir, combining the best kind of adventure story with a coming of age testimony of unforgettable resonance and poignancy.September 2011, Halkidiki, Northern Greece.A solitary 86 year-old man gazes across an Aegean headland, knowing that he must finally confront his past. He begins to write...September 1939, Nieppe, Northern France.14 year-old Stephen is living with his
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Abolitionist Voices

by Ruth Kinna, Jon Burnett, Harry Blagg, Joy James, Micheal Dellwing, Viviane-Salah Hannah, Johannes Feest, Chloe Taylor, Thalia Anthony, Nathan Stephens-Griffin, Caius Brandão, Lisa Guenther, Andrea Brock, Hannah Bowman, Valeria Vegh Weis ...

Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination, and repression.This exciting and innovative edited collection shows how ... Read more

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Why have so many radical thinkers advocated for the abolition of prisons and punishment? And why have their ideas been so difficult to popularize or garner the political will for change? This book outlines several different approaches to penal abolitionism and showcases their calls for the ending of legal coercion, domination, and repression.This exciting and innovative edited collection shows how
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Understanding Veganism

Biography and Identity

by Nathan Stephens Griffin ...

Series series Social Sciences (R0)
This book focuses on the increasingly popular phenomenon of veganism, a way of living that attempts to exclude all animal products on ethical grounds. Using data from biographical interviews with vegans, the author untangles the complex topic of veganism to understand vegan identity from a critical and biographical perspective. Shaped by the participants’ biographical narratives, the study ... Read more

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This book focuses on the increasingly popular phenomenon of veganism, a way of living that attempts to exclude all animal products on ethical grounds. Using data from biographical interviews with vegans, the author untangles the complex topic of veganism to understand vegan identity from a critical and biographical perspective. Shaped by the participants’ biographical narratives, the study
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Open Heart

A Cardiac Surgeon's Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table

by Stephen Westaby ...

Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...

Unabridged

10 hours 27 min

In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from deathWhen Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a ... Read more

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In gripping prose, one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons lays bare both the wonder and the horror of a life spent a heartbeat away from deathWhen Stephen Westaby witnessed a patient die on the table during open-heart surgery for the first time, he was struck by the quiet, determined way the surgeons walked away. As he soon understood, this detachment is a crucial survival strategy in a
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Governing under Stress

Middle Powers and the Challenge of Globalization

Edited by Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Stephen Clarkson ...

Series series Globalization and the Semi-Periphery
This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial terms, 'semi-peripheral' countries share two qualities: they are conscious of their subordination ... Read more

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This volume is the first work to emerge from a major international comparative research project exploring the political economy of globalization. This inter-disciplinary team of scholars is focusing on the semi-periphery of world power. Whether defined in social, cultural, economic or simply spatial terms, 'semi-peripheral' countries share two qualities: they are conscious of their subordination
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The Trauma Chronicles

by Dr Stephen Westaby ...

Narrated by Gordon Griffin ...

Unabridged

9 hours 20 min

'Never, never, never give in'. Winston Churchill's famous quotation best sums up the life of Stephen Westaby, the world-leading cardiothoracic surgeon. This book chronicles the triumphs and failures of his surgical life, the lives saved and extended, the innovations he developed (such as artificial hearts) and his research discoveries. Having spent his childhood in the backstreets of a northern ... Read more

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'Never, never, never give in'. Winston Churchill's famous quotation best sums up the life of Stephen Westaby, the world-leading cardiothoracic surgeon. This book chronicles the triumphs and failures of his surgical life, the lives saved and extended, the innovations he developed (such as artificial hearts) and his research discoveries. Having spent his childhood in the backstreets of a northern
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Washington & Napoleon

by Matthew J. Flynn and Stephen E. Griffin ...

George Washington became president of the newly formed United States just as the French Revolution erupted in 1789, a moment that would pave the way for Napoleon and his eventual empire. In this momentous year, the Americans consolidated the gains of their rebellion, and the French embarked upon a more radical transformation of their own. Though strikingly different, the American and French ... Read more

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George Washington became president of the newly formed United States just as the French Revolution erupted in 1789, a moment that would pave the way for Napoleon and his eventual empire. In this momentous year, the Americans consolidated the gains of their rebellion, and the French embarked upon a more radical transformation of their own. Though strikingly different, the American and French
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The Grand Life: Confessions of an Old School Hotelier in the Digital Age

by Patrick L Griffin OAM, Juliana Payne ...

Narrated by Stephen Harwood ...

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A funny, moving and heartfelt memoir of social upheaval from postwar Britain to the digital age.Patrick Langley Griffin OAM grew up in the post war years of a gloomy Britain in the 40s and 50s and his career spanned fifty years as a hotelier in Grand hotels across the UK, Europe and Australia. His memoir is filled with characters famous, infamous and hitherto unknown. From his first star encounter ... Read more

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A funny, moving and heartfelt memoir of social upheaval from postwar Britain to the digital age.Patrick Langley Griffin OAM grew up in the post war years of a gloomy Britain in the 40s and 50s and his career spanned fifty years as a hotelier in Grand hotels across the UK, Europe and Australia. His memoir is filled with characters famous, infamous and hitherto unknown. From his first star encounter
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