Guidebook to a 5-day cycle tour of the Lake District, with 2 options each day up to a total of 186 miles and almost 5000m of ascent, and 15 tough day rides from Keswick, Ambleside, Penrith and bases to the southwest and southeast of the National Park. With outlines of other tours and the Fred Whitton Challenge ride (112 miles over 7 iconic ......
Trials and Sexual Conflict at the Turn of the Century
A century ago a spate of high-profile trials fuelled public debates in England and France about marriage and divorce laws, women's rights, temperance, homosexual prostitution and lesbian literature. This study of some of those trials addresses the role of the state in regulating sexual morality.
Thornton's classic text surveying the English pastoral tradition answers basic questions: How does an Anglican spiritual guide go about the job? and What body of knowledge is required for competent guidance and how should it be applied? Thornton's survey moves from the New Testament to St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, and the English tradition's ......
Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context
The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001 aroused a number of extraordinary counter measures in response, including an executive order authorizing the creation of military tribunals or commissions for the trial of accused terrorists. This title explains what military tribunals are, and how they function.
Kern (history, Northern Illinois U.) documents a recurring pattern in Pre-Raphaelite and Impressionist painting that arranges the sexes so that a profiled man gazes at a women while she looks away from him at the viewer and ponders on an apparent offer. He challenges feminist claims that gazing men
The definitive account of one of rock 'n' roll's most engagingly shambolic acts as well as an evocative portrait of the times in which they raised hell and recorded some timeless tracks, now updated with details of the sad death of keyboard player Ian McLagan.
A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Vict
Literature for the masses appeared on an unprecedented scale in the first half of the 19th-century.This famous and innovative book inquires as to the nature of this new material, the responses to it, and its audiences amidst the new reading public which it illuminates.
A Study of the Literature Produced for the Working Classes in Early Vict
Literature for the masses appeared on an unprecedented scale in the first half of the 19th-century. This famous and innovative book enquires as to the nature of this new material, the responses to it, and its audiences amidst the new reading public which it illuminates.
