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THE GORODOMLYA ISLAND PROJECT

AMANDA VICKERS

RAF recruit Neville Cox is trapped in Soviet rocket development, facing espionage and a daring escape from KGB captivity. When 20-year old RAF recruit Neville Cox, or ‘Cocky’, joins up in 1946, he is dismayed that the end of the war means he will never get to fly. Instead, he will be doing more of the technical drawing he is trained for. On a mission to a former Nazi-supported ...

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RETHINKING THE FUTURE

P. JEANNE VICKERS

Rethinking the Future is the story of a relationship between two highly original thinkers who achieved great distinction in their chosen fields and in their respective countries. After a distinguished career in law, civil administration, and industrial management, Geoffrey Vickers made an exceptional contribution to academic debate with regard to ethics, epistemology, and "gove...

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

BRIAN VICKERS

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected ...

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

BRIAN VICKERS

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected ...

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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

BRIAN VICKERS

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected ...

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CONDUCT LITERATURE FOR WOMEN, PART V, 1830-1900 VOL 2

JACKY EDEN / ROY VICKERS / PAM MORRIS

Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea of the nation evolved as systems of cultural representation. ...

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CONDUCT LITERATURE FOR WOMEN, PART V, 1830-1900 VOL 1

JACKY EDEN / ROY VICKERS / PAM MORRIS

Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea of the nation evolved as systems of cultural representation. ...

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CONDUCT LITERATURE FOR WOMEN, PART V, 1830-1900 VOL 3

JACKY EDEN / ROY VICKERS / PAM MORRIS

Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea of the nation evolved as systems of cultural representation. ...

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CONDUCT LITERATURE FOR WOMEN, PART V, 1830-1900 VOL 4

JACKY EDEN / ROY VICKERS / PAM MORRIS

Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea of the nation evolved as systems of cultural representation. ...

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CONDUCT LITERATURE FOR WOMEN, PART V, 1830-1900 VOL 6

JACKY EDEN / ROY VICKERS / PAM MORRIS

Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea of the nation evolved as systems of cultural representation. ...

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CONDUCT LITERATURE FOR WOMEN, PART V, 1830-1900 VOL 5

JACKY EDEN / ROY VICKERS / PAM MORRIS

Covers the Victorian period, bringing together a range of texts reflecting the role of women in an era when their cultural influence broadened as science, religious doubt, and the idea of the nation evolved as systems of cultural representation. ...

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OUTPOURING

JASON E. VICKERS / THOMAS H. MCCALL

Outpouring is a theological exploration of religious revivals and awakenings. The authors reflect on God's pursuit of human persons in the light of Scripture and classical Christian doctrine. They also take seriously eyewitness testimonies to God's presence and power in events like the Great Awakenings and the Asbury Outpouring of 2023, allowing such events to raise fresh quest...

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OUTPOURING

JASON E. VICKERS / THOMAS H. MCCALL

Outpouring is a theological exploration of religious revivals and awakenings. The authors reflect on God's pursuit of human persons in the light of Scripture and classical Christian doctrine. They also take seriously eyewitness testimonies to God's presence and power in events like the Great Awakenings and the Asbury Outpouring of 2023, allowing such events to raise fresh quest...

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TRANSFORMING HITLER'S GERMANY

TIM HEATH / ANNAMARIE VICKERS

As the last flames of the Second World War flickered and died, Germany emerged into an apocalyptic wasteland, where the Hitler Youth generation would be cursed with the running sore of National Socialism. With the uncaged bear of the Soviet Union flexing its muscles and the escalating tensions between East and West providing some distraction from the funeral pyre of the Third R...

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TRANSFORMING HITLER'S GERMANY

TIM HEATH / ANNAMARIE VICKERS

As the last flames of the Second World War flickered and died, Germany emerged into an apocalyptic wasteland, where the Hitler Youth generation would be cursed with the running sore of National Socialism. With the uncaged bear of the Soviet Union flexing its muscles and the escalating tensions between East and West providing some distraction from the funeral pyre of the Third R...

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RETURNING TO SHAKESPEARE

BRIAN VICKERS

Returning to Shakespeare addresses two broad areas of Shakespeare criticism: the unity of form and meaning, and the history of the plays’ reception. Originally published in 1989, the collection represents the best of Brian Vickers’ work from the previous fifteen years, in a revised and expanded form. The first part of the book focuses on the connection between a work’s structur...

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ENGLAND IN THE LATER MIDDLE AGES

K.H. VICKERS

First published in 1950 in its 7th edition, this volume became a standard work. Covering 213 years, it begins with Edward I and proceeds through events including the Black Death and the Hundred Years War to Edward IV. In doing so, the author balanced political, constitutional, social and economic aspects of England’s national evolution. ...

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POLICYMAKING, COMMUNICATION, AND SOCIAL LEARNING

GEOFFREY VICKERS

Policymaking, Communication, and Social Learning presents Sir Geoffrey Vickers's seminal essays on policymaking and related issues facing modern Western culture. These essays, many of them published here for the first time, illustrate the range of Sir Geoffrey's thought, and also articulate certain recurrent themes. He portrays a unique view of policymaking, building on his not...

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HANDEL

DAVID VICKERS

This anthology represents scholarly literature devoted to Handel over the last few decades, and contains different kinds of studies of the composer's biography, operatic career, singers, librettists, and his relationship with the music of other composers. Case studies range from recent research that transforms our knowledge of large-scale English works to an interdisciplinary e...

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DRAMA SCRIPTS FOR PEOPLE WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

SHEREE VICKERS

You may wish to use drama in a teaching or group situation but lack either the confidence to speak in character or the time to develop a role and/or workshop. This book solves both of these problems by providing the words to speak, an established well-worked lesson plan to use and an easy format to follow for multiple adaptations and future dramas. If you have experience of usi...

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EDUCATION AND SOCIETY IN POST-MAO CHINA

EDWARD VICKERS / ZENG XIAODONG

The post-Mao period has witnessed rapid social and economic transformation in all walks of Chinese life – much of it fuelled by, or reflected in, changes to the country’s education system. This book analyses the development of that system since the abandonment of radical Maoism and the inauguration of ‘Reform and Opening’ in the late 1970s. The principal focus is on formal educ...

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LABOUR IN THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY IN THE ASIA PACIFIC

VICKI CRINIS AND ADRIAN VICKERS

The clothing industry provides employment for 60 million workers worldwide. More than a quarter of these workers are employed in the Asia-Pacific region, where the industry is based on subcontracted production on behalf of international buyers. Rapid movements of manufacturing activity from country to country in search of cost advantages make clothing workers part of a globaliz...

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REFUGEES, CAPITALISM AND THE BRITISH STATE

TOM VICKERS

Today, in a period of economic crisis, public sector cuts and escalating class struggle, Marxism offers important tools for social workers and service users to understand the structures of oppression they face and devise effective means of resistance. This book uses Marxism's lost insights and reinterprets them in the current context by focussing on one particular section of th...

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CONSTRUCTING MODERN ASIAN CITIZENSHIP

VICKERS, EDWARD / KUMAR, KRISHNA

In many non-Western contexts, modernization has tended to be equated with Westernization, and hence with an abandonment of authentic indigenous identities and values. This is evident in the recent history of many Asian societies, where efforts to modernize – spurred on by the spectre of foreign domination – have often been accompanied by determined attempts to stamp national va...

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SOPHOCLES AND ALCIBIADES

MICHAEL VICKERS

Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past and that any resemblance to contemporary events or individuals is purely coincidental. In this book, Michael Vickers challenges this view and argues that Sophocles makes regular and extensive allusion to Athenian politics in his plays, espe...

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JUMPSTART! HISTORY

SARAH WHITEHOUSE / KARAN VICKERS-HULSE

This collection of simple to use and fun activities will jumpstart pupils’ understanding of the historical skills of chronology, enquiry, historical inference and knowledge and understanding of people, places and time. History is an effective way to engage pupils in a topic and can act as a fantastic hook for learning. This book will enable you to make history a fundamental par...

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FEAR AND LOATHING IN ANCIENT ATHENS

ALEXANDER RUBEL / MICHAEL VICKERS

Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and offers a new approach to th...

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VALUE SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL PROCESS

VICKERS, GEOFFREY

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 vol...

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THE ARTISTRY OF SHAKESPEARE'S PROSE

BRIAN VICKERS

First published in 1968. This re-issues the revised edition of 1979. The Artistry of Shakespeare's Prose is the first detailed study of the use of prose in the plays. It begins by defining the different dramatic and emotional functions which Shakespeare gave to prose and verse, and proceeds to analyse the recurrent stylistic devices used in his prose. The general and particular...

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HISTORY EDUCATION AND NATIONAL IDENTITY IN EAST ASIA

EDWARD VICKERS

Visions of the past are crucual to the way that any community imagines itself and constructs its identity. This edited volume contains the first significant studies of the politics of history education in East Asian societies. ...

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