Churchill S Bestiary

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789290516

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Churchill's Bestiary by Piers Brendon Pdf

'From beak to tail feather and from flipper to fin, this is a book that will long be known, read and savoured.' - James W. Muller, Chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the International Churchill Society Winston Churchill was known for his great love for and admiration of animals. In fact, one of Churchill's key characteristics was his fascination with the animal kingdom - creatures of all sorts were a crucial element in his existence. He was amused, intrigued and enchanted by, sometimes even besotted with a vast menagerie, from his pet budgerigar, dogs, cats, fish, butterflies, to his own lion, leopard and white kangaroos kept at London Zoo, and even more unusual species. Dwelling and walking amid flora and fauna was Churchill's ideal form of existence - 'The world would be better off if it were inhabited only by animals' - and he signed his letters home as a boy 'The Pussy Cat'. In this fascinating biography, Dr Piers Brendon looks deeper into Churchill's love of the animal kingdom, and at how animals played such a large part in his everyday life. We encounter the paradox of the animal-loving-hunter: he hunts foxes yet keeps them as pets, he likes fishing but loves fish; along with the man who used analogies to animals time and time again in his speeches and writings. The picture that emerges shows another side to the great man, showcasing his wit, wisdom and wayward genius from a different perspective and shedding new and fascinating light on the man voted The Greatest Briton.

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643131801

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Churchill's Menagerie by Piers Brendon Pdf

Winston Churchill was known for his great love for and admiration of animals. In fact, one of Churchill’s key characteristics was his fascination with the animal kingdom—creatures of all sorts were a crucial element throughout his life. He was amused, intrigued, enchanted by, and sometimes even besotted with, a vast menagerie, from his pet budgerigar, dogs, cats, fish, and butterflies, to his own lion, leopard, and white kangaroos kept at London Zoo, and even more unusual species. Dwelling amid flora and fauna was Churchill’s ideal form of existence—“The world would be better off if it were inhabited only by animals”—and he signed his boyhood letters home “The Pussy Cat.”In this fascinating book, Dr. Piers Brendon looks deeper into Churchill’s love of the animal kingdom and at how animals played such a large part in his everyday life. We encounter the paradox of the animal-loving-hunter, who hunts foxes yet keeps them as pets, who likes fishing but loves fish, along with the man who used analogies to animals time and time again in his speeches and writings. The picture that emerges shows another side of the great man, showcasing his wit, wisdom, and wayward genius from a different perspective and shedding new and fascinating light on his love of the animal kingdom.

Author : Allen Packwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108887854

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The Cambridge Companion to Winston Churchill by Allen Packwood Pdf

Viewed by some as the saviour of his nation, and by others as a racist imperialist, who was Winston Churchill really, and how has he become such a controversial figure? Combining the best of established scholarship with important new perspectives, this Companion places Churchill's life and legacy in a broader context. It highlights different aspects of his life and personality, examining his core beliefs, working practices, key relationships and the political issues and campaigns that he helped shape, and which in turn shaped him. Controversial subjects, such as area bombing, Ireland, India and Empire are addressed in full, to try and explain how Churchill has become such a deeply divisive figure. Through careful analysis, this book presents a full and rounded picture of Winston Churchill, providing much needed nuance and context to the debates about his life and legacy.

Author : Cita Stelzer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781639364862

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Churchill's American Network by Cita Stelzer Pdf

A revelatory portrait showing how the famed British statesman created a network of American colleagues and friends who helped push our foreign policy in Britain’s favor during World War II Winston Churchill was the consummate networker. Using newly discovered documents and archives, Churchill’s American Network reveals how the famed British politician found a network of American men and women who would push American foreign policy in Britain’s direction during World War II—while at the same time producing lucrative speaking fees to support his lavish lifestyle. Stelzer has gathered contemporary local newspaper reports of Churchill’s lecture tours in many American cities, as well as interactions with leaders of local American communities—what he said in public, what he said at private meetings, how he comported himself. Readers observe Churchill as he is escorted by an armed Scotland Yard detective, aided by local police when Indian nationalists threaten to assassinate him, while he travels in deluxe private rail cars provided by wealthy members of his network; and as he recovers from a near-death automobile crash—with the help of liquor prescribed by a friendly doctor with no use for Prohibition. The links in Churchill’s network include some of fascinating American figures: the millionaire financier Bernard Baruch; the railroad magnate, Averell Harriman, who became an FDR-Churchill go-between; media moguls William Randolph Hearst (and wife and mistress); Robert R. McCormick—who attacked Churchill’s policies but enjoyed his company—and Charles Luce, who made him TIME’s Man of the Year and later Man of the Century; and bit players such as Mark Twain, Charlie Chaplin, and David Niven. It is no accident that Churchill was able to put these links together into an important network that served to his, and Britain’s, advantage. He worked at it relentlessly, remaining in close contact with his American friends by letter, signed copies of his many books, and by attending to their needs when they were in Britain. Many of these colleagues were invited to dinners at Chartwell and, later, Downing Street. Perhaps most importantly, Churchill’s network of American allies had Franklin Roosevelt’s ear while the president was deciding how to overcome opposition in congress to helping Britain take on the threat from Germany.

Author : Aldon Lynn Nielsen
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0252068327

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Reading Race in American Poetry by Aldon Lynn Nielsen Pdf

Here, inter-racial poets and critics join together to analyze the role that race plays in the reading and writing of American poetry, and the role that poetry plays in our understanding of race.

Author : Gerald Summers
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036366727

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An African Bestiary by Gerald Summers Pdf

Author : Roland A. Carlstedt, PhD
Publisher : Springer Publishing Company
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826110959

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Handbook of Integrative Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Medicine by Roland A. Carlstedt, PhD Pdf

"This is the long-awaited text on interdisciplinary treatment and assessment of, among other clinical topics, brain-derived behavioral, cognitive, and neurological disorders...." --Niels Birbaumer, PhD University of T ̧bingen, Germany Member of the German Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina "Gone is the unidimensional approach of the expert summarizing a topic from a single vantage point. Instead, the content shifts laterally, embracing not only interdisciplinary expertise, but an integrative way of thinking that transcends each discipline....What makes the Handbook so refreshing is that this cross pollination of ideas and approaches is more than novel theorizing. It offers clinicians a new way forward." --Anthony Feinstein, MD, MPhil, PhD, FRCP University of Toronto To maintain the highest standards, allied health care practitioners must keep pace with evolving trends in diagnostics, interventions, and methodologies. This book supports clinicians by disseminating important perspectives, research, and procedures. It provides an integrative roadmap that fosters interdisciplinary cooperation. Key Features: Presents reviews of research on a broad selection of clinical disorders Includes a wide range of established and emerging diagnostic and intervention approaches Discusses viable evidence-based alternative treatment methods Critiques certain approaches, paradigms, and practices that may need to be revised Includes contributions from renowned psychologists, psychiatrists, and researchers Clinicians, researchers, and students will find this book a valuable source for interdisciplinary practice and research. It facilitates a sorely needed move toward integrative practice in an era in which specialization pervades.

Author : Roxburghe Club
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1921
Category : Bestiaries
ISBN : OSU:32435017988049

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A Peterborough psalter and bestiary of the fourteenth century by Roxburghe Club Pdf

Author : V. A. Kolve
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0804713499

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Chaucer and the Imagery of Narrative by V. A. Kolve Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Piers Brendon
Publisher : Pegasus Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1643131362

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Churchill's Menagerie by Piers Brendon Pdf

In this unique narrative, Piers Brendon looks deeply into Churchill’s admiration of the animal kingdom—and how animals played such a large part in his everyday life. Winston Churchill was known for his great love for and admiration of animals. In fact, one of Churchill’s key characteristics was his fascination with the animal kingdom—creatures of all sorts were a crucial element throughout his life. He was amused, intrigued, enchanted by, and sometimes even besotted with, a vast menagerie, from his pet budgerigar, dogs, cats, fish, and butterflies, to his own lion, leopard, and white kangaroos kept at London Zoo, and even more unusual species. Dwelling amid flora and fauna was Churchill’s ideal form of existence—“The world would be better off if it were inhabited only by animals”—and he signed his boyhood letters home “The Pussy Cat.” In this fascinating book, Dr. Piers Brendon looks deeper into Churchill’s love of the animal kingdom and at how animals played such a large part in his everyday life. We encounter the paradox of the animal-loving-hunter, who hunts foxes yet keeps them as pets, who likes fishing but loves fish, along with the man who used analogies to animals time and time again in his speeches and writings. The picture that emerges shows another side of the great man, showcasing his wit, wisdom, and wayward genius from a different perspective and shedding new and fascinating light on his love of the animal kingdom.

Author : Winston S. Churchill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:929233960

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The Collected Works of Sir Winston Churchill by Winston S. Churchill Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1954-07
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007796241

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New Statesman and Nation by Anonim Pdf

Author : Christopher Andrew
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785908866

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The Spy Who Came in from the Circus by Christopher Andrew Pdf

For almost half a century, Bertram Mills Circus was a household name throughout Britain among both children and adults and it's Director, Cyril Bertram Mills, was one of the best-known and most influential names in the country's entertainment business. But for forty years, Cyril Mills had also enjoyed a top-secret and wide-ranging career in British intelligence: obtaining the best aerial intelligence on Nazi rearmament for MI6 before the Second World War; becoming the first case officer to monitor the best double agent (Garbo) of the war after joining MI5; and working part-time during the Cold War 'for MI5 or 6 or both without being paid a penny'. Remarkably, no word of Mills's secret career appeared in public until he was over eighty. Nobody suspected that the glamorous world of pre-war circus entertainment had been an extraordinarily fitting rehearsal for the lethal arena of deception and surveillance. In this remarkable true story, Christopher Andrew, best-selling official biographer of MI5, brings to life one of the most surprising and fascinating tales of espionage ever told.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : London (England)
ISBN : MINN:31951001356769W

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The Illustrated London News by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. Paul Halferty,Cathy Leeney
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030855741

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Analysing Gender in Performance by J. Paul Halferty,Cathy Leeney Pdf

Analysing Gender in Performance brings together the fields of Gender Studies and Performance Analysis to explore how contemporary performance represents and interrogates gender. This edited collection includes a wide range of scholarly essays, as well as artists’ voices and their accounts of their works and practices. The Introduction outlines the book’s key approaches to concepts in English language gender discourses and gender’s intersectionalities, and sets out the approaches to performance analysis and methods of research employed by the various contributors. The book focuses on performances from the Global North, staged over the past fifty years. Case studies are diverse, ranging from site-specific, dance theatre, speculative drag, installation, and music video performances to Mabou Mines, Churchill, Shakespeare and Ibsen. Contributors explore how gender intersects with sexuality, social class, race, ethnicity, indigeneity, culture and history. Read individually or in tension with one another, the essays confront the contemporary complexities of analysing gender in performance.