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George of Bohemia

George of Bohemia

Frederick Gotthold Heymann

Princeton University Press
2015
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Anarchy followed the Hussite Revolution in Bohemia until George of Podebrady was elected king. Professor Heymann shows how the Roman Catholic Church failed to dislodge George from his royal authority, and how the Bohemian king prevented the destruction of the Czech reformation, enabling it to influence, to an extent not fully appreciated, the development of European reform ideas up to the age of the German and Swiss Reformation. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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George Eliot and Herbert Spencer

George Eliot and Herbert Spencer

Nancy L. Paxton

Princeton University Press
2016
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This analysis of the writings of two major Victorian intellectuals examines the crucial place of gender in the larger Victorian debate about nature, religion, and evolutionary theory. Demonstrating the primacy of Herbert Spencer's influence on George Eliot's thought, Nancy Paxton discloses the continuous dialogue between this profoundly learned novelist and one of the most formidable and influential scientific authorities of her time. Using rarely cited first editions of Spencer's published works, Paxton reveals that Eliot and Spencer initially agreed in supporting several of the goals of early Victorian feminism when they met in 1851. Paxton surveys all of Spencer's writing to show when and why he repudiated his early feminism and demonstrates Eliot's determined resistance to the most conservative tendencies of evolutionary theory in her representation of female sexuality, motherhood, feminist ambition, and desire. In comparing Eliot's and Spencer's evolutionary "reconstruction of gender," the book draws on a wide variety of biographical, literary, and critical texts and on interdisciplinary scholarship about the relation between scientific and literary discourse in the nineteenth century. By thus reassessing Eliot's contribution to feminist thought, it presents a revolutionary reading of her novels which is informed by contemporary feminist criticism and the new historicism. "This is an important book because of the questions it raises, the issues it covers, and the illumination it brings to Eliot and Spencer and to crucial problems in the nineteenth century: Paxton looks at the ways scientific data get turned into arguments about the nature of women in society, about women and education, about women and sexuality. This work shows how truly current Eliot's novels are, no matter what their setting."--Barry Qualls, Rutgers University Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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George Seferis

George Seferis

George Seferis

Princeton University Press
2016
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This new bilingual edition of George Seferis: Collected Poems both supplements and revises the two earlier editions published in 1967 and 1969. It presents for the first time the complete Notes for a 'Week,' " Three Secret Poems, and three later poems that were not collected by the poet himself but whose English translation he authorized during his lifetime. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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George of Bohemia

George of Bohemia

Frederick Gotthold Heymann

Princeton University Press
2016
sidottu
Anarchy followed the Hussite Revolution in Bohemia until George of Podebrady was elected king. Professor Heymann shows how the Roman Catholic Church failed to dislodge George from his royal authority, and how the Bohemian king prevented the destruction of the Czech reformation, enabling it to influence, to an extent not fully appreciated, the development of European reform ideas up to the age of the German and Swiss Reformation. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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George Mueller: Pickpocket to Praying Provider

George Mueller: Pickpocket to Praying Provider

Rebecca Davis

Potter's Wheel Books
2015
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When people weren't looking, he stole money from them. He stole from his father, he stole from his teacher, he even stole from the pastor of his church.And he was studying to be a pastor himself.But one day George Mueller found out that the God he had been pretending to worship was real. His life changed completely. Now, instead of taking from others, he wanted to give to help others.And give . . . and give . . . and give. By the end of his life, George Mueller had given over a million dollars. But where did he get it?He didn't steal the money. He didn't work for the money. He didn't ask anyone for the money. That is, he didn't ask any people. He asked God. And God gave . . . and gave . . . and gave.George Mueller used that money to provide homes for over ten thousand orphans in his lifetime. All of England was changed because of this one man.
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George Washington and American Constitutionalism

George Washington and American Constitutionalism

Glenn A. Phelps

University Press of Kansas
1993
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This text offers an understanding of George Washington and the history and government he helped to make. Phelps makes the case for the President's decisive importance to the development of American constitutional republicanism with emphasis on the strength and coherence of Washington's political philosophy.
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George W. Goethals and the Army

George W. Goethals and the Army

Rory McGovern

University Press of Kansas
2023
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Best known for leading the construction of the Panama Canal, George W. Goethals (1858–1928) also played a key role in the decades-long reform that transformed the American military from a frontier constabulary to the expeditionary force of an ascendant world power. George W. Goethals and the Army is at once the first full account of Goethals's life and military career in ninety years and an in-depth analysis of the process that defined his generation's military service—the evolution of the US Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.George W. Goethals was a lieutenant and a captain during the post-Reconstruction years of debate about reform and the future of the army. He was a major when the most significant reforms were created, and he helped with their implementation. As a major general during World War I, he directed a significant part of the army's adaptation, resolving crises in the mobilization effort caused largely by years of internal resistance to reform. Following Goethals's career and analyzing reform from his unique perspective, military historian Rory McGovern effectively shifts the focus away from the intent and toward the reality of reform—revealing the importance of the interaction between society, institutional structures, and institutional culture in the process. In this analysis, Goethals's experiences, military thought, managerial philosophy, conceptions of professionalism, and attitude about training and development provide a framework for understanding the army's institutional culture and his generation's relative ambivalence about reform.In its portrait of an officer whose career bridged the distance between military generations, George W. Goethals and the Army also offers a compelling and complex interpretation of American military reform during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era—and valuable insight into the larger dynamics of institutional change that are as relevant today as they were a century ago.
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George Henry Thomas

George Henry Thomas

Brian Steel Wills

University Press of Kansas
2019
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Richard B. Harwell AwardAlthough often counted among the Union's top five generals, George Henry Thomas has still not received his due. A Virginian who sided with the North in the Civil War, he was a more complicated commander than traditional views have allowed. Brian Wills now provides a new and more complete look at the life of a man known to history as "The Rock of Chickamauga," to his troops as "Old Pap," and to General William T. Sherman as a soldier who was "as true as steel."While biographers have long been hampered by Thomas's lack of personal papers, Wills has drawn on previously untapped sources-notably the correspondence of Thomas's contemporaries-to offer new insights into what made him tick. Focusing on Thomas's personality and motivations, Wills contributes revealing discussions of his style and approach to command and successfully captures his troubled interactions with other Union commanders, providing a particularly more evenhanded evaluation of his relationship with Grant. He also gives a more substantial account of battlefield action than can be found in other biographies, capturing the ebb and flow of key encounters—Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga and Atlanta, Stones River and Mill Springs, Peachtree Creek and Nashville—to help readers better understand Thomas's contributions to their outcomes.Throughout Wills presents a well-rounded individual whose complex views embraced the worlds of professional military service and scientific inquisitiveness, a man known for attention to detail and compassion to subordinates. We also meet a sharp-tempered person whose disdain for politics hurt his prospects for advancement as much as it reflected positively on his character, and Wills offers new insight into why Thomas might not have progressed as quickly up the ladder of command as he might have liked.More deeply researched than other biographies, Wills's work situates Thomas squarely in his own time to provide readers with a more thorough and balanced life story of this enigmatic Union general. It is a definitive military history that gives us a new and needed picture of the Rock of Chickamauga—a man whose devotion to duty and ideals made him as true as steel.
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George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent

George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent

David A. Yalof

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS
2023
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One of the earliest and most consequential presidential decisions in American history was George Washington’s choice to step down after two terms in office, despite the fact that he would almost certainly have won a third term had he chosen to run. The example he intended to set—and the circumstances he faced at the time—tell a more complicated story of the true motives behind his decision to retire and the impact his decision had on his successors and the nation. In George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent, David A. Yalof examines how this decision set a pattern that would be followed by presidents for more than a century until FDR began serving a third term in 1941.While often portrayed simply as a noble decision by Washington to restrain the power of the executive office, Washington’s decision was in fact motivated by self-interest and a desire to cement a legacy of honor and integrity. Yalof shows that he was never motivated by the desire to reign in the executive with an unwritten two-term limit. If anything, Washington hoped to strengthen the executive branch by demonstrating that the institution of the presidency could be trusted with the power and independence than it had so far received. His voluntary relinquishment of the presidency after two terms in office achieved these goals.Yalof focuses on the two-term precedent and how it came into being not by legal prescription but by the tacit influence of Washington’s refusal to run for a third term and what it suggests about American conceptions of executive power. George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent offers a sober reminder that the country’s most famous and original hero chose to walk away from power, and it was that decision that cemented his greatness in American history.
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George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent

George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent

David A. Yalof

UNIVERSITY PRESS OF KANSAS
2023
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One of the earliest and most consequential presidential decisions in American history was George Washington’s choice to step down after two terms in office, despite the fact that he would almost certainly have won a third term had he chosen to run. The example he intended to set—and the circumstances he faced at the time—tell a more complicated story of the true motives behind his decision to retire and the impact his decision had on his successors and the nation. In George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent, David A. Yalof examines how this decision set a pattern that would be followed by presidents for more than a century until FDR began serving a third term in 1941.While often portrayed simply as a noble decision by Washington to restrain the power of the executive office, Washington’s decision was in fact motivated by self-interest and a desire to cement a legacy of honor and integrity. Yalof shows that he was never motivated by the desire to reign in the executive with an unwritten two-term limit. If anything, Washington hoped to strengthen the executive branch by demonstrating that the institution of the presidency could be trusted with the power and independence than it had so far received. His voluntary relinquishment of the presidency after two terms in office achieved these goals.Yalof focuses on the two-term precedent and how it came into being not by legal prescription but by the tacit influence of Washington’s refusal to run for a third term and what it suggests about American conceptions of executive power. George Washington and the Two-Term Precedent offers a sober reminder that the country’s most famous and original hero chose to walk away from power, and it was that decision that cemented his greatness in American history.
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George and the Mini Dragon (PB)

George and the Mini Dragon (PB)

George Webster; Helen Harvey

Scholastic
2025
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The start of a fabulous new series for kids aged 6 and older by CBeebies star George Webster “George Webster: inspiration, ambassador, actor, author, pioneer, role model, myth-buster, BAFTA-winner, best presenter, top dancer, top bloke, all-round legend.” - Sam Wollaston, the Guardian Most of George's classmates have cats and dogs as pets, but George's parents are not pet lovers and despite George's pleading they refuse to get him either. On George's birthday, he decides to wish for a pet Labrador, but at the last minute he changes his mind... a pet dragon would surely be more fun?! When George finds a dragon at the end of the garden, he realises his wish has come true, but this dragon has a mind of its own, and it's going to be hard to conceal its antics at school and to his parents. Can George and his friends keep Lava a secret together? Full of fun, adventure and mayhem, this series is perfect for early readers Filled with engaging illustrations by Tim Budgen, illustrator of bestselling books such as Twenty Dinosaurs at Bedtime Authored by George Webster – an actor, BAFTA-winning TV presenter and Ambassador for Mencap
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George and the Mini Dragon 2

George and the Mini Dragon 2

George Webster; Helen Harvey

Scholastic
2026
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The second book in the fabulous series for 6+ readers by Cbeebies star George Webster, full of more dragon mayhem with new dragons, magic and adventure. “George Webster: inspiration, ambassador, actor, author, pioneer, role model, myth-buster, BAFTA-winner, best presenter, top dancer, top bloke, all-round legend.” – Sam Wollaston, the Guardian George and his friends are back for another adventure … this time into a magical forest on a school camping trip! Joined by two new mini dragons, Slushie and Glitz, the gang learn survival 101 skills, including how to roast marshmallows! But when mysteriously Lava flies off, George and the gang are left to their own devices. Magical mishaps happen along the way as Glitz and Slushie discover their special powers, while Jason and Faiza struggle to get along. Can George get his friends to work together, and find Lava? Chaos and mayhem will fly, and new dragons will emerge from the wilderness as George and the mini dragons embark on a brand-new adventure… Even more dragon chaos and magic in the second book of the series for early readers Filled with gorgeous illustrations by Tim Budgen, illustrator of bestselling books such as Twenty Dinosaurs at Bedtime Authored by George Webster, actor, BAFTA-winning TV presenter and Ambassador for Mencap
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George Eliot and the Gothic Novel

George Eliot and the Gothic Novel

Royce Mahawatte

University of Wales Press
2013
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Royce Mahawatte critically compares the frightening, startling and melodramatic moments in George Eliot's fiction with excerpts from Gothic and sensation novels and in doing so argues that suspenseful plotting, and Gothic figures and tropes, play a role within Eliot's ambitions for the Victorian novel.
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George Sand and Frederick Chopin in Majorca

George Sand and Frederick Chopin in Majorca

George Sand

Kegan Paul
2008
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First published in 2008. In this fascinating book, the writer George Sand recounts the story of her 1838 winter in Majorca, a winter she passed in the company of Frederick Chopin. In it she describes the natural beauties of Majorca as well as the rumblings of approaching war. A preface by Luis Ripoll, an expert on the loves of Chopin and Sand, helps the reader to appreciate the significance of this unique work.
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George Clooney: Anatomy of an Actor

George Clooney: Anatomy of an Actor

Jeremy Smith

Phaidon Press Ltd
2016
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A comprehensive study of George Clooney's work through the lens of ten of his most iconic roles. A new title in the fascinating Anatomy of an Actor series from world-renowned cinema magazine Cahiers du cinema. This book explores the career of George Clooney (b.1961). A TV heartthrob doctor for five years, he made one of the most successful transitions from television to being a critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning film actor starring in both mainstream and art-house films. An accessible text combines both a narrative and analytical dimension and is illustrated by 300 film stills, set photographs and film sequences The book will appeal to enthusiastic moviegoers as well as serious cinephiles, fans, and those who want to become actors.
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