History does not run in straight lines. Instead of inevitable progress, what we get is more often false starts, blind alleys, random events, good intentions that go wrong. Robert Cooper's incisive and elegant book is therefore not a continuous diplomatic history. Richelieu and Mazarin inhabited a 16th-century world we can hardly imagine today, but it is from their time that we can begin to see the outline of today's Europe.The Ambassadors includes a brilliant analysis of t...

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In this book, Robert Cooper sets out his radical interpretation of the new world order that has emerged from the debris of communism. It is an essential account of the times in which we live.'A fluent, stimulating and often original book' Brendan Simms, Sunday Times'An excellent new analysis of the cracks in today's geopolitical landscape.'Philip Stephens, Financial Times'Intelligent and stylish' Robert Skide...

In Cracking the Freemason's Code, Robert Cooper explains exactly who the Freemasons are and what they do. As the Curator of the Scottish Masonic Museum and Library, the author is in a unique position to reveal the secret history of this elect brotherhood. Prompted by growing public interest and provoked by the controversial stories that circulate about Freemasonry, this is the first time that he has chosen to do so.Cracking the Freemason's Code is written with an ...

This book presents the lives of my parents and step-parentslargely in their own words and focusing particularly on how their early ambitions and expectations were compromised by reality. Lawyer Ben Warfield started as a tax attorney and ended in the USIA. Farm girl Lucile Newell dreamed of marrying urban Mister Right and didon the third try. Bea Whitcomb wanted to escape from home and then from a first husband, and got lucky in her second marriage. Finally, Dick Coopers life illustrates ho...

Robert Cooper, who died in 2013, was the leading theorist of organization working in England over the past few decades. Describing himself as a ‘social philosopher,’ he was one of the first writers to introduce post-structuralist and post-modern thought into theories of organization but was always reluctant to reduce what he did to being part of ‘Management.’ Instead, he concentrated on thinking about organizations and organizing, working with ideas about entity and process views of organi...

The book is structured as an extraction of key passages from the Bible, accompanied by Cooper’s commentary and analysis. He focuses on various themes, contradictions, and moral issues present within the scriptures, encouraging readers to question traditional interpretations and the divine authority often attributed to these texts. Cooper's approach reflects a growing trend during his time, as the Enlightenment and emerging secularist movements fostered a more critical view of religious tex...

Abordant le courant postmoderne et par contraste avec le courant « moderne », et par la pensée de ses figures majeures, employant des niveaux de lecture (philosophiques, théoriques, méthodologiques, voire éthiques) et des modalités de traitement (celui de la description, celui de l’analyse, voire celui de la polémique) différents, les articles de Cooper et Burrell ne sont pas d’un accès très aisé. L’écriture des auteurs elle-même qui se veut « respectueuse de la phraséologie, des concepts ...

This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species.There is no judgement as to validity, and the authors leaves it to the reader to subjectively recognize or synonymize those taxa as they see fit, based on the premises and philosophies to which they ascribe. The author argues that the taxonomy offered by the Treatise, the fundamental reference work, is no...

Miracle-worker or man of straw? Count Alessandro Cagliostro was a cult figure of European society in the tumultuous years leading to the French Revolution. An alchemist, healer and Freemason, he inspired both wild devotion and savage ridicule – as well as novels by Alexandre Dumas, a drama by Goethe and Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute.Count Alessandro Cagliostro’s sincere belief in the magical powers, including immortality, conferred by his Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry won him fame,...

Corpus Linguistics for Translation and Contrastive Studies provides a clear and practical introduction to using corpora in these fields. Giving special attention to parallel corpora, which are collections of texts in two or more languages, and demonstrating the potential benefits for multilingual corpus linguistics research to both translators and researchers, this book:explores the different types of parallel corpora available, and shows how to use basic a...

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