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This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy. However, unlike other studies, this research emphasizes the role of logistics, especially afloat support logistics and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. In doing so, the author rejects the current theory underpinning military operations at distance, that distance degrades capability, and posits an alternative theory, that time is the key factor, for maritime-based forces. The UK must reengage with its maritime status and maintain a maritime-based capability to protect its interests in the new maritime century as a leader within the international community. The book will be of use to scholars and researchers interested in naval history and defence policy.
Unlock the strategies, mindsets, and wealth-building secrets that the top 1% have used for generations. Inside the Vault: Hidden Wealth Secrets of the 1% isn't just another book on finances-it's a powerful look at how the elite safeguard, grow, and pass down wealth. Discover what goes on behind the closed doors of the wealthy as you learn how trusts, tax-efficient investments, strategic life insurance, and exclusive asset classes can set you on a path to real financial independence. In this book, Christopher Martin opens up the vault of knowledge the ultra-wealthy use to stay at the top. If you're ready to go beyond ordinary wealth-building advice, this guide provides the step-by-step tactics to help you establish a legacy, protect your assets, and build a resilient financial empire-no matter where you start. Step inside and take control of your financial future with the tools, insights, and actionable steps the 1% rely on every day.
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This book argues that the UK, as a post-modern globalised state, will require means to have influence over events and opponents that threaten the UK's interests in the 21st century, and that its means is the Royal Navy. However, unlike other studies, this research emphasizes the role of logistics, especially afloat support logistics and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary. In doing so, the author rejects the current theory underpinning military operations at distance, that distance degrades capability, and posits an alternative theory, that time is the key factor, for maritime-based forces. The UK must reengage with its maritime status and maintain a maritime-based capability to protect its interests in the new maritime century as a leader within the international community. The book will be of use to scholars and researchers interested in naval history and defence policy.
A book of poetry and short-stories, Wojcik writes in a straightforward and accessible way. Covering a variety of moods, Many Moons is at various times touching, humorous, heart-breaking, and whimsical. Many Moons contains 68 poems, 8 short-stories, and a few other literary musings. This 3rd Edition features nearly a hundred pages of new material not found in the 2nd Edition. Winner of the 2010 Vance Creek Literary Arts Award and the 2017 South Fork Poetry Award.
What does it mean to say that a person has been educated? This question forms the basis of global education policy debates; from the way governments establish funding for national school systems, to the way children are treated in the classroom. Should there be a common ethical core to such polices? What kind of educational process should aboriginal groups in Labrador, Canada, have a moral right to, and should this process be different from what children in New York's boroughs have claim to? Should a school-based curriculum, such as the UK's National Curriculum, make well-being a central concern or are there other ethical dimensions to be addressed? Christopher Martin explores these questions and argues that the best way to consider them is to view education as a matter of public moral understanding. He brings together traditions of thought central to philosophy of education, such as R.S. Peters, and connects this tradition to the moral philosophy and critical theory of Jurgen Habermas, whose theory of Discourse Morality has previously been given little attention in education circles.
Understanding addiction is the only way to help a drug addict overcome their problem. This book helps you not only understand addicts and their behaviors, but also to identify and understand the triggers that make addicts continue to abuse drugs. Sections are divided into the four main types of addicts. At the end of each section you are given easy action steps you can use to speed up and ease the process of recovery for any addict. This book is for anyone who loves an addict. It was written by Christopher Martin, a former drug addict who was addicted to some of the worst drugs you can imagine for over a decade. He has seen things firsthand that no doctor or addiction specialist will ever know about. If you've spent your time worrying about an addict, trying to help them with rehab, detox and interventions this book is for you. The truth is, most of the things taught in colleges and in treatment centers don't work. If they did work then rehab would not be the revolving door that it is. Treatment centers and specialists are not trained to help the root causes of drug and alcohol addiction. Most time addicts come out worse off than when they started. To beat addiction you need to understand what caused it, and what continues to trigger the addict's brain - they are not always the same thing. Addicts and alcoholics tend to only listen to other addicts and alcoholics. That's because they can understand and relate to each other. This book gives you the knowledge and experience to do the same. Now you can help the addict you love because you will know more about what they are going through, and how to stop it. This is a short, easy to read action plan that dives into the nitty gritty behaviors that drug addicts try to hide. Knowing and understanding these things gives you an advantage over addiction, which will help you callout your addict and make them understand what they are doing. Often addicts do not realize the things they do until it's too late. This book helps you put an end to that vicious cycle. If you love someone you feel like you are losing to drug addiction this book is for you. There is light at the end of the tunnel. There is a positive outcome waiting just around the corner for you. Take advantage of the real-world experience this author has to offer. Don't wait until it's too late. Don't let addiction carry someone you love even further down the wrong road. Get your copy now.
How did Shakespeare and his contemporaries, whose works mark the last quarter century of Elizabeth I’s reign as one of the richest moments in all of English literature, regard and represent old age? Was late life seen primarily as a time of withdrawal and preparation for death, as scholars and historians have traditionally maintained? In this book, Christopher Martin examines how, contrary to received impressions, writers and thinkers of the era—working in the shadow of the kinetic, long-lived queen herself—contested such prejudicial and dismissive social attitudes. In late Tudor England, Martin argues, competing definitions of and regard for old age established a deeply conflicted frontier between external, socially “constituted” beliefs and a developing sense of an individual’s “constitution” or physical makeup, a usage that entered the language in the mid-1500s. This space was further complicated by internal divisions within the opposing camps. On one side, reverence for the elder’s authority, rooted in religious and social convention, was persistently challenged by the discontents of an ambitious younger underclass. Simultaneously, the ageing subject grounded an enduring social presence and dignity on a bodily integrity that time inevitably threatened. In a historical setting that saw both the extended reign of an aging monarch and a resulting climate of acute generational strife, this network of competition and accommodation uniquely shaped late Elizabethan literary imagination. Through fresh readings of signature works, genres, and figures, Martin redirects critical attention to this neglected aspect of early modern studies.
In Spinoza’s Argument for Substance Monism: Why There Is Only One Thing, Christopher Martin provides an interpretation and defense of this argument, using speculative metaphysics as a method to show how the key terms and concepts are employed and fit together. Specifically, Martin argues that (i) Spinoza’s understanding of substance and attribute departs only slightly from dominant historic notions; (ii) his definition of God in terms of attributes instead of perfections is quite helpful and (mostly) compatible with more traditional definitions; and (iii) Spinoza’s pairing of causal and conceptual relations is more intuitive than we think. Martin also shows how these essences function as causes and explains why, with Spinoza’s understanding of emanation and conceptual independence, any substance must have every attribute. These features of Spinoza’s argument explain and defend his ultimate claim that God/Nature is the only substantial being in existence. This book demonstrates how approachable and compelling Spinoza’s argument is and illustrates the practice and potential of speculative metaphysics for specialists and non-specialists alike.
A haunting, fast-paced war memoir, Chasing Alexander is Christopher Martin's account of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A failing college student obsessed with Alexander the Great, Martin enlists in the US Marines to become a different sort of man, a man like Alexander. From his difficulty at boot camp to his disappointing deployment to Iraq, Martin fears he may never follow in Alexander's footsteps. Then, after a strategy change, Martin and his unit arrive in Marjah, "the bleeding ulcer" of Afghanistan. There he faces heat, fleas, and a hidden enemy. As the casualties mount, Martin struggles to control his emotions and his newfound sense of power. Chasing Alexander looks unflinchingly at the seductive side of war, and its awful consequences.
Am Beispiel von Inkassokosten als Nebenforderung werden Bestehen und Umfang der Befugnis des Rechtspflegers zur Prufung der im Mahnverfahren geltend gemachten Forderungen untersucht. Als Grundlage der Untersuchung werden die rechtlichen Rahmenbedingungen der Inkassotatigkeit einschliesslich der anfallenden Kosten sowie die materielle Ersatzfahigkeit von Inkassokosten geklart. Nach einer Darstellung der historischen Entwicklung des Mahnverfahrens sowie der gesetzgeberischen Intention folgt eine genaue Untersuchung von Rechtsgrundlagen und Umfang der Prufungsbefugnis des Rechtspflegers. Im Ergebnis ist der Rechtspfleger zu einer eingeschrankten Sachprufung berechtigt und verpflichtet. Bei der Geltendmachung uberhohter Inkassokosten als Nebenforderung im Mahnverfahren fuhrt er eine Zugangskontrolle zum Mahnverfahren durch."
Muchos estudios asumen que la educaci n p blica es un sistema que responde a las pol ticas y programas que elaboran e implementan los funcionarios a cargo de ella. En este libro arg imos que el coraz n de la educaci n p blica est en donde acontece la ense anza-aprendizaje: la escuela. En M xico existe un abismo entre la realidad de la escuela y la versi n oficial que muestran los programas y reportes. Este libro desmenuza las razones de este abismo al examinar las pr cticas educativas y administrativas cotidianas reales en el aula, incorporando testimonios de maestros, alumnos y padres de familia, quienes tienen que negociar un modus vivendi muy diferente de lo esperado, y adem s, lidiar con condiciones precarias y normas incoherentes. Concluimos, que para mejorar el fallido sistema educativo en M xico, es indispensable dirigir nuestra atenci n a estas condiciones profesionales y de trabajo de los profesores, sus alumnos y familias y quitarle la venda de los ojos a los funcionarios que siguen mascullando la ineficaz ret rica de la fallida reforma educativa.
As we encounter the dramatic imagery and predictions about self-driving cars that appear almost daily in the media it can become easy to think of automated driving as being a revolutionary new experience. But is it? Why is it that we can drive to work and arrive realizing that we were lost in thought the whole way there? Why can we feel comfortable catching up with an old friend while hurtling down the highway in a steel and glass box on wheels? Sometimes it can come to feel as though the way we are driving is already automatic. Through the concepts of practice, perception, and embodiment this book analyzes material collected through interviews and drives conducted in Sweden and the United States as well as historical materials from the early and “golden” ages of the American automobile. In doing so it seeks to use cultural analysis in order to shed light both on the automation of driving in historical and contemporary everyday practice, and on how these encounters with automation can shape how a drive is experienced and how a driver might understand new forms of automation in the car. Christopher Martin is an ethnologist holding a B.Sc. in Anthropology from Ball State University and an M.A. in Applied Cultural Analysis from Lund University. Shifting Gears is his doctoral dissertation.
The England team has delighted and frustrated in equal measures over the past few decades. This book highlights the most memorable occasions on which the side has triumphed, be it a consummate thrashing of the opposition or an epic against-all-odds comeback from the brink of defeat. Featuring match reports and scorecards from thirty fine victories, including matches from the epic Ashes series of summer 2005, the 2004 romp against New Zealand at Lord's and the Fourth Test in Trinidad in the winter of 1967/68, this volume celebrates the good times in the modern era. With a foreword and commentary from the inimitable Christopher Martin-Jenkins and a wealth of illustration, this book will source of great nostalgia and delight for all England cricket fans.
