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Coates, Kenneth Sidney was born on September 16, 1930 in Leek, Stafford, England. Son of Eric Coates and Mary (Griffiths) Coates.
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The authors provide a blow-by-blow rebuttal of Peter Mandelson and Roger Liddle''s blueprint for New Labo ur''s headlong fight to the Right. Whatever is happening to t he Labour Party? '
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Even among modern atheists, a fragile consensus holds that Jesus was at least a real person, whose historical presence, though embellished, has been reliably established in the order of disinterested scholarship. Whether he is envisioned as peace-loving rabbinical sage or as a militant prophet of doom, this man called Jesus is widely assumed to have had an important, even a profound, impact on the course of world history. But in the early years of the 21st century a radical though not particularly new thesis has become increasingly difficult to ignore. This thesis, as it is argued over and disseminated across the Internet and made accessible in a rapidly growing number of books, threatens to displace the regnant historiographical paradigm with a simple but devastating proposition: that Jesus never existed at all! In the space of this hard-hitting monograph and supplemental interview, dissident scholar Kenneth Humphreys interrogates the biblical and historical evidence to offer this concise and pithy exposition of a fringe idea whose time has come. Not content to merely poke holes in tall tales from antiquity, Humphreys presents a surprisingly straightforward case that Jesus, thought by millions of naive believers to have been God incarnate, or at least the Son of God, was not even a man. Until now, most scholars of religion have, at least publicly, been content to repeat the safe and conciliatory assurance that a Jesus probably existed. But we may well be approaching a tipping point when those same scholars, confronted with powerful evidence and an inquisitive public, will summon the courage to aver that Jesus probably never existed after all. Having devoted much of his life to the careful study of ancient history, Humphreys harbors no doubt: Jesus, the non-existent son of a non-existent father, will soon be consigned to a place among his ancestors Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses in the realm of mythology, not history. Let this be your introduction to the ultimate heresy!
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(The relationship between the British trade union movement...)
The relationship between the British trade union movement and political organizations and activity, notably the Labour Party, is a subject of continuing controversy and interest. New legislation, based on the Conservative election manifesto, promises to make far-reaching changes in this relationship. This book, written by two people with a long involvement in and support for the trade union movement, puts the links between trade unions and the Labour Party, the state of trade union political contributions and the scope of the changing relationship between the unions - the effects both of economic conditions on collective bargaining and the weakening of trade union organization in a number of ways, and of measures taken by the government aimed at changing the unions' practices and their political status.
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European parliamentarian adult education educator
Coates, Kenneth Sidney was born on September 16, 1930 in Leek, Stafford, England. Son of Eric Coates and Mary (Griffiths) Coates.
Bachelor in Sociology, University Nottingham, 1959.
Tutor in sociology then reader University Nottingham, 1960-1989, special professor, 1989-1999. Member European Parliament, 1989—1999, chairman sub-commission on human rights, member foreign affairs committee, 1989-1994, rapporteur temporary committee on employment, 1994-1995.
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Author: Work-Ins, Sit-Ins and Industrial Democracy, 1981, Heresies, 1983, The Most Dangerous Decade, 1984. Co-author: Industrial Democracy in Great Britain, 1967, Poverty-The Forgotten Englishmen, 1971, Trade Unions in Britain, 1980, Trade Unions and Politics, 1986, The Making of the Transport and General Workers' Union, Volume 1 parts I and II, 1991, Full Employment in Europe, 1995. Joint author: Dear Commissioner, 1996, The Blair Revelation, 1996.
Editor: The Right to Work, 1995, Community Under Attack, 1998.
Member, editor-in-chief Russell Foundation.
Married Betty Marina, 1949 (divorced 1959). Children: Dylan, Lawrence, Natalia (deceased 1980), Michael. Married Tamara Tura, August 21, 1969.
Children: Deborah, Francesca, Helena.