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The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

First published in 1999 this book responds to the meaning given to the welfare principle attracts a great deal of controversy and explores the reasons for the controversy and examines the growing legal significance attached to the principle. In an illuminating and accessible manner this informative volume: provides a record of the milestones which have shaped the principles development by tracing its evolution over the centuries discloses the essence of what has been termed 'the golden thread running through the common law' provides a measure of the impact of the principle on the coherence of modern family law by assessing the significance of its present operational role and functions. The welfare principle began as a common law principle forged in medieval England yet it has informed the law relating to children in some of the most developed western societies. It is now being refracted through international legislative and judicial developments to challenge the future shape of family law in the UK. By considering the ways in which the legal system has shaped and been shaped by the principle this invaluable book leads its readers to an appreciation of the content and structural influence of the welfare principle. | The Welfare of the Child The Principle and the Law

GBP 31.99
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The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

The publication in 1988 of Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses triggered a furor that pitted much of the Islamic world against the West over issues of blasphemy and freedom of expression. The controversy soon took on the aspect of a confrontation of civilizations provoking powerful emotions on a global level. It involved censorship protests riots a break in diplomatic relations culminating in the notorious Iranian edict calling for the death of the novelist. In The Rushdie Affair Daniel Pipes explains why the publication of The Satanic Verses became a cataclysmic event with far-reaching political and social consequences. Pipes looks at the Rushdie affair in both its political and cultural aspects and shows in considerable detail what the fundamentalists perceived as so offensive in The Satanic Verses as against what Rushdie's novel actually said. Pipes explains how the book created a new crisis between Iran and the West at the time-disrupting international diplomacy billions of dollars in trade and prospects for the release of Western hostages in Lebanon. Pipes maps out the long-term implications of the crisis. If the Ayatollah so easily intimidated the West can others do the same? Can millions of fundamentalist Muslims now living in the United States and Europe possibly be assimilated into a culture so alien to them? Insightful and brilliantly written this volume provides a full understanding of one of the most significant events in recent years. Koenraad Elst's postscript reviews the enduring impact of the Rushdie affair. | The Rushdie Affair The Novel the Ayatollah and the West

GBP 145.00
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The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

Originally published in 1956 this book brings together from the canonical writings of Buddhism Islam and Christianity the most important of the passages in which the view of the Founder is reflected. It aims to let each of the sacred traditions tell its own story and only such comments have been added as seem necessary to bring out the full significance of the passage quoted. The final chapter summarizes some of the difficult questions which arise from a comparison of the extracts from the 3 traditions. | The Buddha The Prophet and the Christ

GBP 27.99
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The North the South and the Environment

The North the South and the Environment

The essays in this study contribute to an analysis of the prospects for the world's economy in the face of environmental constraints. The contributors examine the implications of development in both northern and southern hemispheres and the extreme differences between rich and poor nations in the distribution of income resource use and consumption. Using extensive case studies from WIDER-sponsored research the text explores the limits and consequences of further development. | The North the South and the Environment

GBP 175.00
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Biotechnology the Science the Products the Government the Business

Biotechnology the Science the Products the Government the Business

The over-riding premise for biotechnology in this book is bringing novel products to market to substantially advance patient care and disease mitigation. Biotechnology over its relatively brief existence of 40 years has experienced a mercurial growth. The vast educational need for biotechnology information in this rapidly burgeoning field is a basic rationale here. However a more prominent underpinning is that bringing biotech products to market for patient care involves success in the following four areas of engagement simultaneously - scientific advances for healthcare technologies novel and varied products for untreated diseases regulatory authorities and biotech companies. Features Comprehensive coverage of biotechnology science topics used in development and manufacturing Addresses all the scientific technologies within biotechnology responsible for products on the market and the pipeline Presents business issues such as marketing and sales of the products as well as companies engaged and how biotech business has evolved | Biotechnology the Science the Products the Government the Business

GBP 32.99
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The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c. 600 to 1050 AD the period in which Islamic society was formed. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the great Arab conquests of the seventh century and the golden age of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates when the world of Islam was politically and culturally far more developed than the West. The crisis of the tenth century put an end to the political unity of the Muslim world and saw the emergence of the Fatimid caliphate in Egypt and independent dynasties in the Eastern Islamic world. The book concludes with the advent of Seljuk Turkish rule in the mid-eleventh century. This new edition is fully updated to take into account recent research and there are two entirely new chapters covering the economic background during the period and the north-east of Iran in the post Abbasid period. Based on extensive reading of the original Arabic sources Kennedy breaks away from the Orientalist tradition of seeing early Islamic history as a series of ephemeral rulers and pointless battles by drawing attention to underlying long-term social and economic processes. The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates deals with issues of continuing and increasing relevance in the twenty-first century when it is perhaps more important than ever to understand the early development of the Islamic world. Students and scholars of early Islamic history will find this book a clear informative and readable introduction to the subject. | The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates The Islamic Near East from the Sixth to the Eleventh Century

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The Bront in the World of the Arts

The Bront in the World of the Arts

Although previous scholarship has acknowledged the importance of the visual arts to the Brontës relatively little attention has been paid to the influence of music theatre and material culture on the siblings' lives and literature. This interdisciplinary collection presents new research on the Brontës' relationship to the wider world of the arts including their relationship to the visual arts. The contributors examine the siblings' artistic ambitions productions and literary representations of creative work in both amateur and professional realms. Also considered are re-envisionings of the Brontës' works with an emphasis on those created in the artistic media the siblings themselves knew or practiced. With essays by scholars who represent the fields of literary studies music art theatre studies and material culture the volume brings together the strongest current research and suggests areas for future work on the Brontës and their cultural contexts. | The Bront�in the World of the Arts

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The Unknown Relatives The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

The Unknown Relatives The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

The Unknown Relatives analyses a large body of Victorian literary texts dealing with the topic of Catholicism and Catholics written from the non-Catholic perspective. The readings of these texts are inspired by psychoanalytic criticism primarily by the work of Freud and Kristeva. Kristeva’s work on abjection the paradoxical repulsion mixed with attraction provides the framework for the first part of the book which argues that Victorian depictions of Catholicism exhibit the same mixture of fascination and attraction. The second part of the book is constructed largely around Freud’s idea of the uncanny showing how Catholicism was cast in the role of the archaic religion profoundly strange and yet at the same time somehow familiar. The book includes the readings of a number of Victorian authors both canonical (Charlotte Brontë William Thackeray Charles Dickens) and lesser-known ones (George Borrow John Shorthouse Mrs Humphry Ward). The book will be of interest to scholars of cultural literary and religious studies as well as to readers interested in the matters of religion in literature and religious prejudice. | The Unknown Relatives The Catholic as the Other in the Victorian Novel

GBP 38.99
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The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

This book offers a survey of the encounter between the Third Reich and European Jewry. Pointing out the difficulties historians face in interpreting the ever-expanding documentary record it includes treatment of the role of non-Germans in the Holocaust consideration of the much-debated nexus between the Holocaust and modernity and discussion on how 'the Holocaust' developed as a distinct historical topic. Fully updated this new third edition incorporates the latest scholarly findings with expanded treatment of gendered aspects of the Holocaust the Holocaust’s world historical contexts the long-term history of Jewish-Christian relations and thinking about the Holocaust’s contemporary relevance as well as additional documents reflecting recent archival discoveries. Offering a concise narration that appeals to both the intellect and the emotions the book enables students to gain a real understanding of the events of this catastrophic time. Including a useful selection of original documents (many never before anthologised in English) a chronology glossary and 'who’s who' David Engel’s book will be welcomed by anyone trying to get to grips with this complex and far-reaching subject. | The Holocaust The Third Reich and the Jews

GBP 34.99
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The Bible: The Basics

The Bible: The Basics

The Bible: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the Bible as both a sacred text central to the faith of millions and a classic work of Western literature containing a tapestry of genres voices perspectives and images. This guide skilfully addresses both aspects of the Bible’s character by exploring: the rich variety of literary forms from poetry to prophecy and epistles to apocalypses; the historical geographic and social context of the Bible; contemporary attitudes to the Bible held by believers and non-believers; the status of biblical interpretation today. The second edition has been updated throughout and includes maps and detailed suggestions for further reading. This is an ideal starting point for people of any faith or none who are studying the Bible in any setting or who simply want to know more about the best-selling book of all time.

GBP 19.99
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The Workplace of the Future The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

The Workplace of the Future The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is a global development that shows no signs of slowing down. In his book The Workplace of the Future: The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies Jon-Arild Johannessen sets a chilling vision of how robots and artificial intelligence will completely disrupt and transform working life. The author contests that once the dust has settled from the Fourth Industrial Revolution workplaces and professions will be unrecognizable and we will see the rise of a new social class: the precariat. We will live side by side with the 'working poor' – people who have several jobs but still can’t make ends meet. There will be a small salaried elite consisting of innovation and knowledge workers. Slightly further into the future there will be a major transformation in professional environments. Johannessen also presents a typology for the precariat the uncertain work that is created and develops a framework for the working poor as well as for future innovation and knowledge workers and sets out a new structure for the social hierarchy. A fascinating and thought-provoking insight into the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution The Workplace of the Future will be of interest to professionals and academics alike. The book is particularly suited to academic courses in management economy political science and social sciences. | The Workplace of the Future The Fourth Industrial Revolution the Precariat and the Death of Hierarchies

GBP 39.99
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‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda

‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda

The Special Issue consolidates new approaches to the study of the EU’s role in the eastern neighbourhood and beyond informed by post-structuralist traditions in international relations. More specifically by revisiting the European Neighbourhood Policy’s agenda from the conceptual perspective of ‘the political’ and redefining the notions of ‘othering’ ‘differentiation’ and ‘normalisation’ this volume renders a new and much-needed theoretical and empirical outlook onto the policy developments and their practices. By unpacking and connecting security regional institutional normative and sector-thematic policy dimensions the book seeks to re-politicise the agenda and re-focus policy revision on understanding the fundamentals of power relations when applied to the EU external relations. In light of the compounding crises external and internal one can no longer afford to simply tinker around the edges of the policy content and instruments. A more radical theoretical undertaking is overdue to re-shape re-define and re-centre the EU relations with the eastern region especially put in the context of the new EU’s Global Security Strategy and the new aspirations for the 2017 European Neighbourhood summit. The chapters originally published as a special issue in East European Politics. | ‘The Politics’ and ‘The Political’ of the Eastern Partnership Initiative Reshaping the Agenda

GBP 38.99
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The Red Rose and the White The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487

The Red Rose and the White The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487

If Richard III had not charged to his death at Bosworth how different might the history of Britain have been? Beginning in 1453 and ending in 1487 The Red Rose and the White provides a gripping overview of the bitter dynastic struggle for supremacy that raged between the houses of York and Lancaster for thirty years culminating in the dramatic events on Bosworth Field in 1485. As well as offering a comprehensive account of the campaigns battles and sieges of the conflict the book also assesses the commanders and men involved and considers the weapons and tactics employed. Photographs maps and portraits of the principal characters help to bring the period to life whilst the fast-paced narrative conveys a sense of what it was actually like to fight in battles such as Towton or Tewkesbury the effect of the arrow storm and the grim realities of hand-to-hand combat with edged and bladed weapons. Skilfully weaving in political and social events to place the conflict in its context The Red Rose and the White is a fascinating exploration of the turbulent period that would change the course of British history forever. | The Red Rose and the White The Wars of the Roses 1453-1487

GBP 35.99
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The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

Originally published in 1982 The Shaman and the Magician draws on the author’s wide experience of occultism western magic and anthropological knowledge of shamanism to explore the interesting parallels between traditional shamanism and the more visionary aspects of magic in modern western society. In both cases as the author shows the magician encounters profound god-energies of the spirit and it is up to the individual to interpret these experiences in psychological or mythological terms. The book demonstrates that both shamanism and magic offer techniques of approaching the visionary sources of our culture. | The Shaman and the Magician Journeys Between the Worlds

GBP 29.99
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Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

From Chilika India's largest coastal lake the echoes of poetry the reflections of festive lamps its ever-present turmoil and biodiverse bounty have come together to portray livelihoods and lives half full and half empty. After a broad conceptual framework about fish fishery and fishing livelihoods this book has explicitly focused on the lake's ecosystem in Odisha and sustainability in fishing communities. The voices of the fishers have lent credence to the socio-cultural belief systems right of commons and disputes over conservation at individual and community levels. The volatility over the common user rights is underscored by lack of protection to the locals absence of guiding principles and powerful usurpers. The disruption of livelihoods through insufficient economic support is underlined by the lack of viable equitable and regulated credit structures in the region. Issues of mechanization ecological hazards adverse impact of climate change and environmental degradation are explained through their own bearing on bionomic and traditional livelihood disruptions and in-situ footprints on common property resources. In the final countdown the sustained coexistence of Chilika lake and its varied community is narrated through an integrated socio-economic lens that accommodates extant challenges into its field of vision. This book is co-published with Aakar Books New Delhi. Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the print versions of this book in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Chilika The Fishermen the Catch and the Challenges

GBP 130.00
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The Thought of the Prophets

The Thought of the Prophets

Originally published in 1953 The Hebrew Prophets’ conception of the meaning and purpose of human history has considerable significance for a religious view of the world situation in the middle of the 20th Century. This book discusses the nature of the Hebrew prophets and the grounds for their claim to inspiration. He then examines the fundamental and universal religious ideas underlying their pronouncements. Particular attention is paid to their views on the basis of human morals the character of the good society the duties of government and the relation between religion and politics. Other chapters deal with their ideas of true religion and of the relation of God to human life. | The Thought of the Prophets

GBP 27.99
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The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the Parthian Empire which existed for almost 500 years from 247 BC to 224 AD. The Parthians were Rome’s great opponents in the east but comparatively little is known about them. The Parthians focuses on the rise expansion flowering and decline of the Parthian Empire and covers both the wars with the Romans in the west and the nomads in the east. Sources include the small amount from the Empire itself as well as those from outside the Parthian world such as Greek Roman and Chinese documents. Ellerbrock also explores the Parthian military social history religions art architecture and numismatics all supported by a great number of images and maps. The Parthians is an invaluable resource for those studying the Ancient Near East during the period of the Parthian Empire as well as for more general readers interested in this era. | The Parthians The Forgotten Empire

GBP 36.99
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The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

In this collection of studies by James M. Powell two related centres of attention can be seen. One is the campaigns undertaken by western Europeans in the eastern Mediterranean chiefly in the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries - the Crusades - the reasons for them and manner in which they were organized and promoted. The other is the Kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II himself a Crusader and its society and economy including its Muslim population. A characteristic feature is the author's interest in ordinary participants and the attempt to get behind the generalizations of macro-historians to the extent that may be possible. | The Crusades The Kingdom of Sicily and the Mediterranean

GBP 42.99
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The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry offers a study of the construction and use of gold dental appliances in ancient Etruscan culture and their place within the framework of a general history of dentistry with special emphasis on appliances from Bronze Age Mesopotamia and Egypt to modern Europe and the Americas. Included are many of the ancient literary sources that refer to dentistry - or the lack thereof - in Greece and Rome as well as the archaeological evidence of ancient dental health. The book challenges many past works in exposing modern scholars’ fallacies about ancient dentistry while presenting the incontrovertible evidence of the Etruscans’ seemingly modern attitudes to cosmetic dentistry. | The Etruscans and the History of Dentistry The Golden Smile through the Ages

GBP 38.99
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We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

Charles A. Beard's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. Forrest McDonald's We the People was the first major challenge to Beard's thesis. This superbly researched and documented volume restored the Constitution as the work of principled and prudential men. It did much to invalidate the crude economic determinism that had become endemic in the writing of American history. We the People fills in the details that Beard had overlooked in his fragmentary book. MacDonald's work is based on an exhaustive comparative examination of the economic biographies of the 55 members of the Constitutional Convention and the 1 750 members of the state ratifying conventions. His conclusion is that on the basis of evidence Beard's economic interpretation does not hold. McDonald demonstrates conclusively that the interplay of conditioning or determining factors at work in the making of the Constitution was extremely complex and cannot be rendered intelligible in terms of any single system of interpretation. McDonald's classic work while never denying economic motivation as a factor also demonstrates how the rich cultural and political mosaic of the colonies was an independent and dominant factor in the decision making that led to the first new nation. In its pluralistic approach to economic factors and analytic richness We the People is both a major work of American history and a significant document in the history of ideas. It continues to be an essential volume for historians political scientists economists and American studies specialists. | We the People The Economic Origins of the Constitution

GBP 150.00
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The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

The Language of the Lens explores the expressive power of the camera lens and the storytelling contributions that this critical tool can make to a film project. This book offers a unique approach to learning how lenses can produce aesthetically and narratively compelling images in movies through a close examination of the various ways lens techniques control the look of space movement focus flares distortion and the optical personality of your story’s visual landscape. Loaded with vivid examples from commercial independent and world cinema The Language of the Lens presents dozens of insightful case studies examining their conceptual narrative and technical approaches to reveal how master filmmakers have harnessed the power of lenses to express the entire range of emotions themes tone atmosphere subtexts moods and abstract concepts. The Language of the Lens provides filmmakers at any level or experience with a wealth of knowledge to unleash the full expressive power of any lens at their disposal whether they are shooting with state-of-the-art cinema lenses or a smartphone and everything in between. | The Filmmaker's Eye: The Language of the Lens The Power of Lenses and the Expressive Cinematic Image

GBP 28.99
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The Dissolution of the Monasteries

The Dissolution of the Monasteries

Originally published in 1971 this book begins with the assumption that the Dissolution of the Monasteries was neither an integral nor an essential part of the English reformation. This book pursues the story chronologically and thus helps students re-discover what contemporaries knew was happening at each successive stage. An important part of this process consists in watching - with the help of a selection of surviving records - how the Court of Augmentation went to work not only centrally but in the field. The part played by Thomas Cromwell in both the devising and the carrying out of the Dissolution is reassessed and particular attention is paid to the chronological relation between his career and the early stages of the dispersal of the crown's new resources among the King’s subjects.

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Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

The explosive growth of bioeconomy and bioscience coupled with an interconnected planet increases the potential impact of large-scale bio-events. Either causing public health threats as in epidemics or posing food security issues from mass poisonings to large-scale starvation such eventualities are direct threats and indirect destabilizers in a planetary context. The issue of Biosecurity thus pervades every affected aspect from exploitations of the agro-sector and the food industry to the Public Health management the novel therapeutic/treatment approaches the new age of space deep-sea and subterranean explorations and the interface with the cyber world and the massive or small-scale projection of violence. It has been present since ancient times tacitly and discreetly but only recently took its present guise the different aspects of which are explored in this book. | Biosecurity in the Making The Threats the Aspects and the Challenge of Readiness

GBP 105.00
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The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army The IRA

The Secret Army is the definitive work on the Irish Republican Army. It is an absorbing account of a movement that has had a profound effect on the shaping of the modern Irish state. The secret army in the service of the invisible Republic has had a powerful effect on Irish events over the past twenty-five years. These hidden corridors of power interest Bell and inspired him to spend more time with the IRA than many volunteers spend in it. This book is the culmination of twenty-five years of work and tens of thousands of hours of interviews. Bell's unique access to the leadership of the republican movement and his contacts with all involved British politicians Irish politicians policemen arms smugglers and others committed or opposed to the IRA explain why The Secret Army is the book on the subject. This edition represents a complete revision and includes vast quantities of new information. Bell's book gives us vital insight into our times as well as Irish history. This edition of The Secret Army contains six new chapters that bring the history of this clandestine organization up to date. They are: The First Decade The Nature of the Long War 1979-1980; Unconventional Conflict The Hunger Strikes January 1980-October 3 1981; The Protracted Struggle September 1981-January 1984; War Politics and the Split January 1984-December 1986; The Troubles as Institution 1987-1990: and The Armed Struggle Transformed 1991-1996 The End Game. In his new introduction Bell reflects on his decades of research the experiences he has had and the people he has met during his extensive visits to Ireland. | The Secret Army The IRA

GBP 145.00
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