‘It is hard to write the history of the British Isles in these years as anything other than a success story.’In reality, nothing about these successes was preordained.In the mid seventeenth century the British Isles were marginal to Europe. A warring group of islands, frequently the scene of catastrophe, they counted for less than the sum of their parts. Yet, by 1832, the reverse was true. United politically as never before, these isles thrived when their E...

DedicationTo everyone who's ever dared to love and stumbled through the tangled mess of joy and heartbreak—this book is for you. To the bruised hearts who keep hoping, to the souls who stitch themselves back together after being undone, and to those who bravely reach out for connection again, even when it feels impossibly hard.I write these pages for every brother and sister who's searched for warmth in the cold shadow of disappointment, who's watched love slip through trem...

Scholarship on the history of the British Isles is currently experiencing a golden age. The breakdown of modernism and the eclipse of both the Marxist tradition and the 'Whig interpretation' that sees all history as progress, combined with the trajectories of nationalism in Ireland, Scotland and Wales, have generated unprecedented intellectual activity.Nor has the world stood still: the collapse of communism, the issue of integration into the EU, and the advance of multiculturalism...

Here’s how to make 2x to 5x more money…If you own a small business, imagine how good it would feel if your marketing mix turned you into a celebrity in your local area. Where everyone knows who you are and comes to you as an expert in your niche…Be honest, why are you in business? To make money, yes? This book can give you an almost unfair advantage over your competition. You can take more of the customers away from them and fill your books instead. And jus...

This book tells a new story of the royal castle of Lincoln in the north of England, how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town, and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the English king or his aristocratic associates, leaving us a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS Heritage, archaeologists, architectural historians and a large cohort of the general public have combined to produce a revealing and accessible account of t...

What has happened to American foreign policy? Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke argue that the members of what used to be called the foreign policy establishment are no longer doing the job of keeping our foreign policy informed and rational. Instead, hungry to coin the next Big Idea, they are in the business of advancing simplistic, glib mythologies. The result is that Americans are often presented with a fantasy world of nightmare scenarios rather than with explanations that lead to rati...

Now hard to believe, Eilean Donan Castle was once one of the largest castles in the west Highlands, known to have featured seven towers, the remains of which lie buried on the island. This book provides a refreshed view of the lost medieval guise of the castle, of its 13th-century origins and form, and of who was responsible for building it, allowing the castle to be positioned accurately in the complex dynamics of powerholding and display of the earls of Ross and associated militarized ki...

A minute-by-minute analysis of Francis Ford Coppola's paranoid thriller The Conversation (1974).Blending film criticism with creative nonfiction, each book in the Timecodes series focuses on one film, exploring it minute by minute beginning with minute one, and ending with the final minute before the closing credits.When it was released, The Conversation depicted the isolation and loneliness caused by a surveillance state we ourse...

This book draws from the authors' unique experiences as military surgeons to guide readers through orthognathic surgery from workup, planning, and maxillary and mandibular surgery to managing complications. Learn the best techniques and tips for performing Le Forts, bilateral sagittal split osteotomies, and maxillomandibular fixation. Adjunctive cosmetic surgeries, including genioplasty, are also reviewed. Throughout, the authors emphasize the critical thinking that informs medical decisio...

Fundamentally, leaders are in charge of two things: objectives and execution. Said another way, leaders set the direction and are responsible for the optimal performance of operations. How do leaders achieve superlative outcomes? Where do they begin? What are the specific steps and tasks that take them through the process? "Managing in Reverse" provides leaders, professionals, and teams with the proper methodology for optimizing performance and achieving objectives. The eight steps of "Man...

This innovative text presents a comprehensive review of the theoretical and empirical support for a wellness approach to counseling with current techniques for client assessment, case conceptualization, treatment planning, and intervention. The authors provide holistic strategies for wellness promotion with children, adolescents, and young, midlife, and older adults, as well as in counseling with groups, couples, and families. Each chapter includes reflection questions, learning activities...

Yes, White people can be saved. In God's redemptive plan, that goes without saying. But what about the reality of white normativity? This idea and way of being in the world has been parasitically joined to Christianity, and this is the ground of many of our problems today. It is time to redouble the efforts of the church and its institutions to muster well-informed, gospel-based initiatives to fight racialized injustice and overcome the heresy of whiteness.Written by a wor...