Background
Stephens, Robert was born on July 14, 1931. Son of Rueben and Gladys (Deverell) Stephens.
(When first published in 1968, (later updated in 1992), Py...)
When first published in 1968, (later updated in 1992), Pygmalion in the Classroom was received with almost universal acclaim for its ground breaking research. The "Pygmalion Phenomenon" is the self-fulfilling prophecy embedded in teachers' expectations. Simply put, when teachers expect students to do well and show intellectual growth, they do; when teachers do not have such expectation performance and growth are not as encouraged and may in fact be discouraged in a number of ways. Research suggests that our expectations strongly influence the performance of those around us from the members of our football team to the students in our classes. In the Oak School experiment discussed in this book teachers were led to believe that certain students, selected at random, were likely to be showing signs of a spurt in intellectual growth and development. The results were startling. At the end of the year, the students of whom the teaches had these expectations showed significantly greater gains in intellectual growth than did those in the control group.
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( The inner critic is the voice in our heads that whisper...)
The inner critic is the voice in our heads that whispers, whines, and needles us into poor self-esteem and self-confidence. It edits our thoughts, controls our behavior, and inhibits our actions. It thinks it is protecting us from being hurt or feeling abandoned, but all it really does is reinforce our feelings of shame and guilt, sabotage our intimate relationships, and incline us to self-destructive behaviors. Conquer Your Critical Inner Voice presents a revolutionary new strategy for dealing with the inner critic: externalizing it. This subtle, powerful technique turns internal self-criticisms into 'you' statements that can be evaluated objectively and exposed as the gross exaggerations, unfair comparisons, or flat out lies they really are. This book takes you through the step-by-step process of learning how to keep track of your negative thoughts, analyze their reality, and recognize how they impact your life. Learn to use a variety of techniques to help release your inner critic's stranglehold and combat its subversive effect on your career achievement, intimate relationships, and sexuality. A final chapter of the book offers parents simple ways to help their children avoid forming a tyrannical inner critic.
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(Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eas...)
Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world. Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day. Offering vivid portraits of the protagonists and decisive events in communist history, Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries. After outlining communism’s origins with Marx and Engels and its first success with Lenin and the Russian Revolution in 1917, Service examines the Soviet bloc, long-lasting regimes like Yugoslavia and Cuba, the Chinese revolution, the spread of communism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the international links among the hundreds of parties. He covers communism’s organization and ideology as well as its general appeal. He looks at abortive communist revolutions and at the ineffectual parties in the United States and elsewhere. Service offers a human view of the story as well as a global analysis. His uncomfortable conclusion—and an important message for the twenty-first century—is that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compellingly written, Comrades! is the most comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.
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( This book draws together the Civil War correspondence o...)
This book draws together the Civil War correspondence of Robert Gould Shaw, the young colonel who led the North's vanguard black regiment, the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts Infantry. Killed in 1863 while leading his men in an assault on a fort protecting Charleston Harbor, Shaw was memorialized in numerous poems, in a magnificent sculpture on Boston Common, and in the Oscar-winning film Glory. Yet, as this book reveals, he accepted command of the Fifty-fourth with great reluctance, and he remained a much more divided and complex—if no less heroic—figure than his legend would have it.
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(What internal factors cause a person to end his or her li...)
What internal factors cause a person to end his or her life, and what are the familial and societal factors which seem to make a destructive contribution? The answers to both questions are at the heart of this volume, which will be invaluable for practitioners when assessing risk and designing treatment for depressed and suicidal patients. The author argues that the key to understanding suicidal behaviour comes from a knowledge of the destructive thought processes of those at risk, and an awareness of their origins in early family interactions. Firestone sees negative events in our lives as being less harmful than what we tell ourselves about them, which can result in a downward spiral of negative internal conversations. Wi
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( Meet Cinderella Skeleton, as sweetly foul as only a gho...)
Meet Cinderella Skeleton, as sweetly foul as only a ghoul can be. Poor Cinderella has no one to help her hang the cobwebs and arrange dead flowers--certainly not her evil stepsisters. But the Halloween Ball is just around the corner. . . . Will Cinderella find happiness at last?
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(Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eas...)
Almost two decades after the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe and the USSR, leading historian Robert Service examines the history of communism throughout the world. Comrades! moves from Marx and Lenin to Mao and Castro and beyond to trace communism from its beginnings to the present day. Offering vivid portraits of the protagonists and decisive events in communist history, Service looks not only at the high politics of communist regimes but also at the social conditions that led millions to support communism in so many countries. After outlining communism’s origins with Marx and Engels and its first success with Lenin and the Russian Revolution in 1917, Service examines the Soviet bloc, long-lasting regimes like Yugoslavia and Cuba, the Chinese revolution, the spread of communism in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and the international links among the hundreds of parties. He covers communism’s organization and ideology as well as its general appeal. He looks at abortive communist revolutions and at the ineffectual parties in the United States and elsewhere. Service offers a human view of the story as well as a global analysis. His uncomfortable conclusion—and an important message for the twenty-first century—is that although communism in its original form is now dying or dead, the poverty and injustice that enabled its rise are still dangerously alive. Unsettling and compellingly written, Comrades! is the most comprehensive study of one of the most important movements of the modern world.
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( The Civil War Generals offers an unvarnished and largel...)
The Civil War Generals offers an unvarnished and largely unknown window into what military generals wrote and said about each other during the Civil War era. Drawing on more than 170 sources—including the letters, diaries, and memoirs of the general officers of the Union and Confederate armies, as well as their staff officers and other prominent figures—Civil War historian Robert Girardi has compiled a valuable record of who these generals were and how they were perceived by their peers. The quotations within paint revealing pictures of the private subjects at hand and, just as often, the people writing about them—a fascinating look at the many diverse personalities of Civil War leadership. More than just a collection of quotations, The Civil War Generals is also a valuable research tool, moving beyond the best-known figures to provide contemporary character descriptions of more than 400 Civil War generals. The quotes range in nature from praise to indictment, and differing opinions of each individual give a balanced view, making the book both entertaining and informative. A truly one-of-a-kind compilation illustrated with approximately 100 historical photographs, The Civil War Generals will find a home not only with the casual reader and history buff, but also with the serious historian and researcher.
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(Civil War. Trade Paperback. Robert Kean, a graduate of th...)
Civil War. Trade Paperback. Robert Kean, a graduate of the University of Virginia and a lawyer, was thirty-three years old when the Civil War broke out. He enlisted as a private in the Confederated army and saw active combat prior to April, 1862, when he was promoted to captain and appointed head of the Bureau of War in Richmond. Because of his legal and scholarly training, Kean excelled in that position, and in the course of his work he kept a diary carefully recounting his experiences.
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(A condensed version of the listed best sellers of 1999.)
A condensed version of the listed best sellers of 1999.
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(Everyone has that nagging, judgmental voice inside that s...)
Everyone has that nagging, judgmental voice inside that says we're not smart enough, pretty enough, good enough. Learn to identify the self-critical and hostile voices that plague you the most and develop good work habits, overcome sexual disfunction, addition, and depression.
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(Many spiritual traditions claim "the answers lie within" ...)
Many spiritual traditions claim "the answers lie within" but few actually teach how to get those answers. This is not a book about meditation, nor an inspirational book. Answers Within is a step-by-step systematic approach to tapping your inner voice, an unlimited source of wisdom, direction, spirituality and psychic awareness.
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(Nice is the queen of the Cote d'Azur. Founded by the Gree...)
Nice is the queen of the Cote d'Azur. Founded by the Greeks some time after the 6th century BC, it has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen on the Grand Tour as well as Lost Generation literati from Hemingway to Fitzgerald. Since the late 19th century it has been known as a "pleasure capital", and now tourism is its beating heart. But how did this happen? What was it that changed not just Nice or the French Riviera, but our leisure habits as a whole? This is a book about pleasure and escape - about what five months or five days in a strikingly beautiful, foreign place, wrested from lives choked with stress and toil back home, meant to a few wealthy people 250 years ago, and mean to millions more of more modest means today. It is about how modern tourism got the way it did. It is about how Nice and the Riviera became what they are; and about the price they paid to do so.
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(They were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental ...)
They were legalized pirates empowered by the Continental Congress to raid and plunder, at their own considerable risk, as much enemy trade as they could successfully haul back to America’s shores; they played a central role in American’s struggle for independence and later turned their seafaring talents to the slave trade; embodying the conflict between enterprise and morality central to the American psyche. In Patriot Pirates, Robert H. Patton, grandson of the battlefield genius of World War II, writes that during America’s Revolutionary War, what began in 1775 as a New England fad--converting civilian vessels to fast-sailing warships, and defying the Royal Navy’s overwhelming firepower to snatch its merchant shipping--became a massive seaborne insurgency that ravaged the British economy and helped to win America’s independence. More than two thousand privately owned warships were commissioned by Congress to prey on enemy transports, seize them by force, and sell the cargoes for prize money to be divided among the privateer’s officers, crewmen, and owners. Patton writes how privateering engaged all levels of Revolutionary life, from the dockyards to the assembly halls; how it gave rise to an often cutthroat network of agents who sold captured goods and sparked wild speculation in purchased shares in privateer ventures, enabling sailors to make more money in a month than they might otherwise earn in a year. As one naval historian has observed, “The great battles of the American Revolution were fought on land, but independence was won at sea.” Benjamin Franklin, then serving at his diplomatic post in Paris, secretly encouraged the sale of captured goods in France, a calculated violation of neutrality agreements between France and Britain, in the hopes that the two countries would come to blows and help take the pressure off American fighters. Patton writes about those whose aggressive speculation in privateering promoted the war effort: Robert Morris--a financier of the Revolution, signer of the Declaration of Independence, member of the Continental Congress who helped to fund George Washington’s army, later tried (and acquitted) for corruption when his deals with foreign merchants and privateers came to light, and emerged from the war as one of America’s wealthiest men . . . William Bingham… John R. Livingston--scion of a well-connected New York family who made no apologies for exploiting the war for profit, calling it “a means of making my fortune.” He worried that peace would break out too soon. (“If it takes place without a proper warning,” said Livingston, “it may ruin us.”) Vast fortunes made through privateering survive to this day, among them those of the Peabodys, Cabots, and Lowell's of Massachusetts, and the Derbys and Browns of Rhode Island. A revelation of America’s War of Independence, a sweeping tale of maritime rebel-entrepreneurs bent on personal profit as well as national freedom.
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( A hero is forged in battle and a legend is born in this...)
A hero is forged in battle and a legend is born in this second installment in the Vespasian series Thracia, AD30: Even after four years of military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before it falls to the Roman legion besieging it. Vespasian's mission is the key move in a deadly struggle for the right to rule the Roman Empire. The man he has been ordered to seize could be the witness that will destroy Sejanus, commander of the Praetorian Guard, and ruler of the Empire in all but name. Before he completes his mission, Vespasian will face ambush in snowbound mountains, pirates on the high seas, and Sejanus's spies all around him. But by far the greatest danger lies at the rotten heart of the Empire, at the nightmarish court of Tiberius, Emperor of Rome and debauched, paranoid madman.
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(Hardback book with dust jacket titled DARKNESS WHERE LIGH...)
Hardback book with dust jacket titled DARKNESS WHERE LIGHT FAILS TO SHINE by Robert Van Dyke Small. Published by Exposition Press in 1976.
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(What happens when the boy does NOT win the girl? Can he s...)
What happens when the boy does NOT win the girl? Can he survive and even make the football team, one of the epicenters of high school life? And what about those countless teams which come close, but do not win championships? "Near Misses" has the answers at a unique time in our history - the World War II years - when the author and his friends were just a few years shy of being part of THE GREATEST GENERATION, but as "The Next Generation," were greatly influenced by the War on the Home Front. Bowling Green, circa 1938-1950, where churches, spinster teachers and the Boy Scouts strived to educate and mold character,was an ideal venue for growing up. The hilltop college conveniently provided even more book learning although public schools were segregated - separate but unequal - and black students had to leave town for college training. Yet, regardless of great efforts by the churches, those dedicated teachers and Troop 202, the most profound influence was exerted by an unlikely partnership: the Bowling Green High football team and its coaches on the one hand and the school's fledgling "femme fatales" on the other. It was a lively mix, especially when sharing time with World War II and the town's post-war leap to the mid- century mark.
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( This clearly written and engrossing book presents a glo...)
This clearly written and engrossing book presents a global narrative of the origins of the modern world from 1400 to the present. Unlike most studies, which assume that the “rise of the West” is the story of the coming of the modern world, this history, drawing upon new scholarship on Asia, Africa, and the New World and upon the maturing field of environmental history, constructs a story in which those parts of the world play major roles, including their impacts on the environment. Robert B. Marks defines the modern world as one marked by industry, the nation state, interstate warfare, a large and growing gap between the wealthiest and poorest parts of the world, increasing inequality within the wealthiest industrialized countries, and an escape from the environmental constraints of the “biological old regime.” He explains its origins by emphasizing contingencies (such as the conquest of the New World); the broad comparability of the most advanced regions in China, India, and Europe; the reasons why England was able to escape from common ecological constraints facing all of those regions by the eighteenth century; a conjuncture of human and natural forces that solidified a gap between the industrialized and non-industrialized parts of the world; and the mounting environmental crisis that defines the modern world. Now in a new edition that brings the saga of the modern world to the present in an environmental context, the book considers how and why the United States emerged as a world power in the twentieth century and became the sole superpower by the twenty-first century, and why the changed relationship of humans to the environmental likely will be the hallmark of the modern era—the “Anthopocene.” Once again arguing that the U.S. rise to global hegemon was contingent, not inevitable, Marks also points to the resurgence of Asia and the vastly changed relationship of humans to the environment that may in the long run overshadow any political and economic milestones of the past hundred years.
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(Selecting literature to convey the essence of the Holocau...)
Selecting literature to convey the essence of the Holocaust is difficult because there was no standard Holocaust experience. Each person who experienced the Holocaust - whether victim, witness, resuer, or descendant - has a unique story to tell. Selections for this anthology include fiction (both short stories and excepts from novels), poetry, historical accounts, biographical sketches, and drama. Each entry is preceded by a brief biographical note about the author and an introduction. In addition, each chapter opens with material that provides historical context for the selections that follow.
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( On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murd...)
On November 8, 1985, 18-year-old Tom Odle brutally murdered his parents and three siblings in the small southern Illinois town of Mount Vernon, sending shockwaves throughout the nation. The murder of the Odle family remains one of the most horrific family mass murders in U.S. history. Odle was sentenced to death and, after seventeen years on death row, expected a lethal injection to end his life. However, Illinois governor George Ryan’s moratorium on the death penalty in 2000, and later commutation of all death sentences in 2003, changed Odle’s sentence to natural life. The commutation of his death sentence was an epiphany for Odle. Prior to the commutation of his death sentence, Odle lived in denial, repressing any feelings about his family and his horrible crime. Following the commutation and the removal of the weight of eventual execution associated with his death sentence, he was confronted with an unfamiliar reality. A future. As a result, he realized that he needed to understand why he murdered his family. He reached out to Dr. Robert Hanlon, a neuropsychologist who had examined him in the past. Dr. Hanlon engaged Odle in a therapeutic process of introspection and self-reflection, which became the basis of their collaboration on this book. Hanlon tells a gripping story of Odle’s life as an abused child, the life experiences that formed his personality, and his tragic homicidal escalation to mass murder, seamlessly weaving into the narrative Odle’s unadorned reflections of his childhood, finding a new family on death row, and his belief in the powers of redemption. As our nation attempts to understand the continual mass murders occurring in the U.S., Survived by One sheds some light on the psychological aspects of why and how such acts of extreme carnage may occur. However, Survived by One offers a never-been-told perspective from the mass murderer himself, as he searches for the answers concurrently being asked by the nation and the world.
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(Facsimile edition of pulp magazine.)
Facsimile edition of pulp magazine.
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(Founded by seafaring Greeks, colonized by Romans, and tra...)
Founded by seafaring Greeks, colonized by Romans, and transformed by spoiled English aristocrats into an elegant stop on the Grand Tour, the city of Nice has beguiled travelers for two millennia. Once the winter playground for Russian royalty and an inspiration for Matisse, Isadora Duncan, and Picasso, Nice is now one of the capitals of mass tourism, overrun each summer with a motley international crowd of pleasure seekers. In High Season, acclaimed writer Robert Kanigel recounts how and why Nice came to define the nature of vacation itself-liberation, exoticism, sun, sex, and sensuality. For centuries Nice slumbered beside the Mediterranean in beautiful serenity-an amalgam of French, Italian, and Provençal cultures built over tantalizing classical ruins. Then, in the mideighteenth century, English traveler Tobias Smollett exalted the splendors of Nice in a bestselling travel chronicle-and overnight, high society descended. Jefferson visited, F. Scott Fitzgerald partied in its seaside villas, and both Nazis and Jews took refuge there during World War II. Though the rich and famous now often turn elsewhere, Nice remains the queen of the Riviera: seductive, complex, stylish, dazzling in its light and loveliness. Written with wit, verve, and originality, High Season is a tour de force of contemporary nonfiction-and a must read for anyone captivated by the beauty of the Mediterranean.
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(The Perfect Season is a fictional novel based on the real...)
The Perfect Season is a fictional novel based on the real undefeated, untied and unscored upon season of the 1954 Churchland Truckers of Portsmouth, Virginia. The Truckers had a tough, unique Coach they called "Shotgun". He was a wildman who refused to lose! What made him so tough and how was it that his team never lost? What was it in his past that threatened the perfect season? It was a time of "iron man" football when rock and roll was new and cars had fins! If you have ever been to any High School football game, cruised and rocked after the game, or had a High School romance, this is the book for you! Riveting football action, crazy High School hijinks and a deeply emotional story!
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(UPDATE: SECOND EDITION - WITH ADDED CONTENT!! ***Warning ...)
UPDATE: SECOND EDITION - WITH ADDED CONTENT!! ***Warning – This book contains graphic pictures that may not be suitable for all ages*** There is no doubt that the atrocities committed in WWII are hard to stomach. Most people think of the guards at the worst concentration camps as the epitome of Hitler’s regime, the blonde hair, blue-eyed, man. There were female guards through that made some of those men look like choirboys. Irma Grese, probably the most notorious of them all, was lesson in depravity who seemed to find pleasure and enjoyment in the torture inflicted on others. Find out what she said in her last moments on the gallows. Dorothea Binz was equally sadistic. Read more about what might have caused her to develop these depraved actions. Could a broken heart be the cause of it? The controversy regarding Ilse Koch is still ongoing today. Was she really the “Red Witch” as some claimed or did her actions have lesser consequences? While there’s no doubt she wasn’t innocent, some of the claims against her have been questioned over the years. Learn more about what she did or may not have done. These are just a few of the stories contained in this book. We explore the mind of the female SS Guard. Some of the claims are shocking. The author examines why we find so many of these crimes even more shocking than similar crimes committed by male guards. Not meant to sensationalize but to educate, these stories are approached with a lighter tone that doesn’t trivialize but lessens the blow the brutality. History can be hard to hear. If we are determined to never again let these atrocities occur again though, we must learn the lessons of it now. Comments From Other Readers “I’ll admit, this was hard to read at times. Some of the things that these women did, not because they were forced to but because they wanted to, were difficult to take. Honestly though, it wasn’t much worse than what some of their male counterparts did. I think it’s harder to read about women committing these crimes. The author does a great job at not sensationalizing it and keeps the tone of the book conversational. Great book!” – George (Alabama, US) “The first thing that caught my eye about this book was some of the images. I haven’t seen these things in other books before. I know they’re out there but it’s not something that you come across very often. The stories and analysis in this book were well written and thought out. I liked the tone that the author took. It’s different from other books. It made the stories more palatable. If you want to understand this side of history, this is the book to do it.” – Sami (Massachusetts, US)
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(Reader's Digest authorized condensed editions of: The Ham...)
Reader's Digest authorized condensed editions of: The Hammer of Eden, Welcome to the World Baby Girl!, Stonewall's Gold, and River's End.
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(Although Charlemagne held a strong position in defining F...)
Although Charlemagne held a strong position in defining France's national identity for more than ten centuries, he was swiftly rejected as a national hero from the 1870s onwards for being too German and has never really regained his rightful place in France's history. This study, now available in English, explores the reasons why Charlemagne was at the heart of French mythology for so long. Morrissey examines two major stages or `cycles' in the history of Charlemagne, the first beginning after his death in 814, lasting until the end of the 16th century, and the second involving the remythologising of Charlemagne in the Renaissance and during the Reformation. He assesses Charlemagne's symbolic importance in people's quest to find their roots and define the origins of French identity, and asks what it was about the man that embodied French ideals and aspirations for so many years.
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(It is always exciting when a new musical can be produced....)
It is always exciting when a new musical can be produced. This finished version of “The Cherry Orchard” has had years of being refined, polished and rewritten until the author was satisfied. For a musical to work successfully there are several elements that must be present: the story, the actions that the characters have upon each other, music and lyrics which create mood, drama and humor. The “Cherry Orchard” has all of this. The script of “The Cherry Orchard” has a wonderful flow and always keeps the viewer interested in the next moment. The score expands that enjoyment. It is rare to have one person who has the multi/ talents to compose music and lyrics. Some of the greats of past years have been Stephen Sondheim, Irving Berlin, Jerry Herman, Cole Porter and Frank Loesser. Someday the name of Robert Roberson will be added to the list. Don Pippin is a Broadway musical director who has been awarded the Tony Award, the Emmy Award and the Drama Desk Award for his excellence in the theatre. He has been guest conductor for many of the world’s major symphony orchestras and composed the score for several successful off-Broadway musicals.
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(This volume offers a unique approach to the study of the ...)
This volume offers a unique approach to the study of the great German reformer, Martin Luther. Robert Kolb and Charles Arand offer an introduction to two significant themes that form the heart of Luther's theology. The first theme concerns what it means to be truly human. For Luther, "passive righteousness" described the believer's response to God's grace. But there was also an "active righteousness" that defined the relationship of the believer to the world. The second theme involves God's relation to his creation through his Word, first creating and then redeeming the world. Clergy and general readers will find here a helpful introduction to Luther's theology and its continuing importance for applying the good news of the gospel to the contemporary world.
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(In January 1952 Cairo burned in a wave of insurgency agai...)
In January 1952 Cairo burned in a wave of insurgency against the British as the Suez crisis took hold. Three months earlier, however, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty of 1936 had been abrogated, leading to the withdrawal of all British military personnel from the city to the Canal Zone base at Suez. Colonel Robert Hornby was already committed as the press spokesman for the British Army and chose to stay in Cairo. Without diplomatic immunity and vulnerable to arrest, Hornby endeavored to respond to the demands of the international press and squash the claims of propagandist Egyptian newspapers. He set up a secret, and highly illegal, line of communication to the garrison switchboard at Ismalia to allow journalists to subvert the censorship imposed on correspondence sent via cable and wireless, their only means of reporting to their newspapers. Hornby's non-diplomatic status led to his attempted arrest by Egyptian police, but he escaped with his family to Cyprus. He soon returned to Egypt with a Foreign Office diplomatic passport and valid Egyptian entry visa as an assistant military attache' at the British Embassy in Cairo. During his time in Egypt he witnessed the abdication of King Farouk and the rise and fall of General Neguib. Hornby's close contact with the press, his friendship with Anwar Sadat, future prime minister of Egypt, and his links with army and embassy combine to give a unique account of the period, set against the inevitable strains of living in a volatile country with a wife and children.
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( Most classical authors and modern historians depict the...)
Most classical authors and modern historians depict the ancient Greek world as essentially stable and even static, once the so-called colonization movement came to an end. But Robert Garland argues that the Greeks were highly mobile, that their movement was essential to the survival, success, and sheer sustainability of their society, and that this wandering became a defining characteristic of their culture. Addressing a neglected but essential subject, Wandering Greeks focuses on the diaspora of tens of thousands of people between about 700 and 325 BCE, demonstrating the degree to which Greeks were liable to be forced to leave their homes due to political upheaval, oppression, poverty, warfare, or simply a desire to better themselves. Attempting to enter into the mind-set of these wanderers, the book provides an insightful and sympathetic account of what it meant for ancient Greeks to part from everyone and everything they held dear, to start a new life elsewhere--or even to become homeless, living on the open road or on the high seas with no end to their journey in sight. Each chapter identifies a specific kind of "wanderer," including the overseas settler, the deportee, the evacuee, the asylum-seeker, the fugitive, the economic migrant, and the itinerant, and the book also addresses repatriation and the idea of the "portable polis." The result is a vivid and unique portrait of ancient Greece as a culture of displaced persons.
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(Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman in Paris in 1926) ...)
Robert Clary (born Robert Max Widerman in Paris in 1926) is best known for his portrayal of the spirited Corporal Louis Lebeau on the popular television series Hogan's Heroes (on the air from 1965 to 1971 and widely syndicated around the globe). But it is Clary's experiences as a Jew during the Holocaust that infuse his compelling memoir with an honest recognition of life's often horrific reality, a recognition that counters his glittering five-decade career as an actor, singer, and artist and distinguishes this book from those by other entertainers. Clary describes his childhood in Paris, the German occupation in 1940, and his deportation in 1942 at the age of sixteen to the infamous transit camp Drancy. He recounts his nightmarish, two-and-a-half-year incarceration in Nazi concentration camps like Ottmuth, Blechhammer, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald. In April 1945, the Allies liberated Clary and other inmates. But the news that his parents, two sisters, two half-sisters, and two nephews had not survived the Nazis' genocidal campaign against the Jews reduced his joy to grief. After the war, Clary made his way to the United States and, against great odds, achieved fame on Broadway and in Hollywood. From the Holocaust to Hogan's Heroes is Robert Clary's extraordinary account of his remarkable life both as a survivor and as an entertainer. Once read, it will not be forgotten.
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Stephens, Robert was born on July 14, 1931. Son of Rueben and Gladys (Deverell) Stephens.
Degree Bradford Civic Theatre School.
Hay Fever 1964, The Royal Hunt of the Sun 1964, Much Ado About Nothing 1965, Lindsay in Armstrongs’ Last Goodnight 1965, Tom Wrench (Trelawney of the Well’s) 1965, Leonido (A Bond Honoured) 1966, Harold Goringe (Black Comedy) 1966, Kurt (The Dance of Death) 1967, Vershinin (Three Sisters) 1967, Jacques (As You Like It) 1967, Tartuffe (Tartuffe) 1967, Frederick (Home and Beauty) 1968, Beaux Stratagem 1970, Design for Living 1970, Private Lives 1972, The Seagull, Ghosts, Hamlet 1914, Murderer, Zoo Story, Sherlock Holmes 1975, Othello, Private Lives 19d’. The Cherry Orchard 1978, Brand 1978, The Double Dealer 1978, Has “Washington” Legs 1978, Pygmalion 1979, Othello (S. Africa) 19ffi. W.C.P.C. 1982, A Midsummer Night's Dream 1983, Inner Voices rew. Cinderella 1983, Three Passion Plays 1985, Light Up the Sky 1985, Henry IV (Part 1) 1991; directed one of a triple bill A Most Unwarrantable Intrusion 1968; appeared in and co-directed Macrune's Guevara 1969; directed and appeared in Apropos the Falling Sleet. Films: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie 1969, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes 1970, The Asphyx 1972, Travels with my Aunt 1972, Luther 1972, The Duellists La nuit tous les chats sont gris 1977, The Holocaust 1978, The Shout Alexander the Great 1980, Les jeux de la comtesse 1980, Dolingen de Gratz 1980, Year of the French 1982, 111 Fares the Land 1982, Puccini 1984, Comrades 1985, High Season 1986, Empire of the Sun 1987, The Fruit Machine 1988, Henry V 1989; numerous TV and radio plays including series Hells Bells (BBC TV) and Three Passion Plays (Channel 4 TV) 85, Lizzie’s Pictures (BBC TV series) 1986, Fortunes of War (BBC TV series) 1987, Shostakovich 1987. Member English Stage Company, Royal Court, 1956, National Theatre Company, since 1963.
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Performer, stage appearances: Sherlock Holmes, 1975. Murderer, 1975, Zoo Story, 1975, Othello, 1976, The Cherry Orchard, 1978, Brand, 1978, The Double Dealer, 1978, Has "Washington" Legs?, 1978, Pygmalion, 1979, A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1983, Inner Voices, 1983, Cinderella, 1983, The Mystery Plays, 1985, Henry IV-Part I, 1993, Henry IV-Part II, 1993 (Best Actor Olivier award, 1993), King Lear, 1993-1994 (Sir John Guelgud award for best actor, 1994), Julius Ceasar, 1993 (Best Stage Actor award Variety Club, 1994). Actor: (films) A Taste of Honey, 1962, Cleopatra, 1963, The Small World of Sammy Lee, 1963, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, 1969, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, 1970, Travels with my Aunt, 1972, The Asphyx, 1973, Luther, 1974, Puccini, 1984, By the Sword Divided Sseries, 1984, Hells Bells, 1985, Comrades, 1985, High Season, 1986, Fortunes of War, 1986, Lizzie's Pictures, 1986, Shostokovich, 1987, Empire of the Sun, 1987, The Fruit Machine, 1988, Henry V, 1989, The Bonfire of the Vanities, 1990, The Pope Must Die, 1991, Afraid of the Dark, 1992, Searching for Bobby Fischer, 1992, Century, 1992, Secret Rapture, 1993.Performer: (television series) QB VII, 1974, Kean, 1978, Voyage of Charles Darwin, 1978, Office Story, 1978, Friends in Space, 1979, Suez, 1979, The Executioner, 1980, Adelaide Bartlett, 1980, Winter's Tale, 1980, The Double Dealer, 1980, The Trial of Madame Famay, 1980, Alexander the Great, 1980, Holocaust, 1980, Eden End, 1981, The Year of the French, 1981, War and Remembrance, 1986, (radio plays) The Light Shines in the Darkness, 1985, Timon of Athens, 1989.
English Stage Company, Royal Court 1956-1962.
Married Tarn Basset Stephens. Married Maggie Smith Stephens, 1967 (divorced 1975). Married Patricia Quinn Stephens, January 1995.