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The J-Complex

by Peter Batchelor ...

Could she, a professor of mathematics, follow the simple arithmetic of suicide, or would her courage fail her?A calculated terrorist attack on Australian soil raises alarm for the local police. Greater horrors lie behind the catastrophe of an imminent second action. The history of the early twenty-first century rests with three main characters: Josh, an ex-navy clearance diver; Jack, his Sydney ... Read more

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Could she, a professor of mathematics, follow the simple arithmetic of suicide, or would her courage fail her?A calculated terrorist attack on Australian soil raises alarm for the local police. Greater horrors lie behind the catastrophe of an imminent second action. The history of the early twenty-first century rests with three main characters: Josh, an ex-navy clearance diver; Jack, his Sydney
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Demilitarisation and Peace-Building in Southern Africa

Volume I - Concepts and Processes

by Peter Batchelor ...

Series series Routledge Revivals
First published in 2004 , this work is based on a collaborative research project, this trilogy considers the dynamics of demilitarisation and peace-building in southern Africa in the aftermath of major violent conflicts. The overall aim of the research is to support and facilitate the achievement of sustainable peace and human development in southern Africa, by analysing demilitarisation and peace ... Read more

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First published in 2004 , this work is based on a collaborative research project, this trilogy considers the dynamics of demilitarisation and peace-building in southern Africa in the aftermath of major violent conflicts. The overall aim of the research is to support and facilitate the achievement of sustainable peace and human development in southern Africa, by analysing demilitarisation and peace
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The Bluff of Virtue

by Peter Batchelor ...

A story of the effects of trauma across three generations of family. A boy dies and a boy is left to navigate an un-envisioned adulthood. Members of subsequent generations find their individual way to function, each driven by the enigma that is virtue. ... Read more

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A story of the effects of trauma across three generations of family. A boy dies and a boy is left to navigate an un-envisioned adulthood. Members of subsequent generations find their individual way to function, each driven by the enigma that is virtue.
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Reasons and Persons

by Derek Parfit ...

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29 hours 18 min

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for ... Read more

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Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for
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VCs of the First World War: Western Front 1915

by Peter F. Batchelor, Christopher Matson ...

Series series VCs of the First World War
The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found themselves trapped in the murderous stalemate of trench warfare. British troops had suffered badly in the early campaigns and by January 1915 were holding some 30 miles of trench. The year 1915 was to witness some of the bloodiest and bitter battles of the ... Read more

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The predictions of the war 'being over by Christmas' turned out to be far from the truth. By January 1915 the British Expeditionary Force found themselves trapped in the murderous stalemate of trench warfare. British troops had suffered badly in the early campaigns and by January 1915 were holding some 30 miles of trench. The year 1915 was to witness some of the bloodiest and bitter battles of the
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The Idiot

by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Richard Pevear ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Unabridged

30 hours 46 min

Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker)Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set ... Read more

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Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era. (The New Yorker)Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky’s masterful translation of The Idiot is destined to stand with their versions of Crime and Punishment, The Brothers Karamazov, and Demons as the definitive Dostoevsky in English.After his great portrayal of a guilty man in Crime and Punishment, Dostoevsky set
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Reasons and Persons

by Derek Parfit ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Unabridged

29 hours 18 min

Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for ... Read more

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Challenging, with several powerful arguments, some of our deepest beliefs about rationality, morality, and personal identity, Parfit claims that we have a false view about our own nature. It is often rational to act against our own best interests, he argues, and most of us have moral views that are self-defeating. We often act wrongly, although we know there will be no one with serious grounds for
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Notes from Underground

by Fyodor Dostoevsky ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Series series Vintage Classics
Unabridged

5 hours 44 min

"Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era." (The New Yorker)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly ... Read more

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"Pevear and Volokhonsky may be the premier Russian-to-English translators of the era." (The New Yorker)Dostoevsky’s most revolutionary novel Notes from Underground marks the dividing line between 19th- and 20th-century fiction and between the visions of self each century embodied. One of the most remarkable characters in literature, the unnamed narrator is a former official who has defiantly
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol (Vintage Classics)

by Nikolai Gogol ...

Narrated by Peter Batchelor ...

Unabridged

17 hours 37 min

Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme.Selected from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and Petersburg ... Read more

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Using, or rather mimicking, traditional forms of storytelling, Gogol created stories that are complete within themselves and only tangentially connected to a meaning or moral. His work belongs to the school of invention, where each twist and turn of the narrative is a surprise unfettered by obligation to an overarching theme.Selected from Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka, Mirgorod, and Petersburg
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Controlling Small Arms

Consolidation, innovation and relevance in research and policy

Edited by Peter Batchelor, Kai Michael Kenkel ...

Series series Studies in Conflict, Development and Peacebuilding
This edited volume takes stock of the state of research and policy on the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), ten years after the UN first agreed to deal with the problem.The end of the Cold War originated a series of phenomena that would subsequently come to dominate the political agenda. Perhaps most symptomatic of the ensuing environment is the marked escalation in the scale and ... Read more

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This edited volume takes stock of the state of research and policy on the issue of Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW), ten years after the UN first agreed to deal with the problem.The end of the Cold War originated a series of phenomena that would subsequently come to dominate the political agenda. Perhaps most symptomatic of the ensuing environment is the marked escalation in the scale and
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Chromophobia

by David Batchelor ...

Narrated by Peter Coates ...

Series series Focus on Contemporary Issues
Unabridged

3 hours 55 min

The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse—a fear of corruption or contamination through color—lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some "foreign body"—the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological—or by relegating it to ... Read more

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The central argument of Chromophobia is that a chromophobic impulse—a fear of corruption or contamination through color—lurks within much Western cultural and intellectual thought. This is apparent in the many and varied attempts to purge color, either by making it the property of some "foreign body"—the oriental, the feminine, the infantile, the vulgar, or the pathological—or by relegating it to
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VCs of the First World War: The Air VCs

by Peter G. Cooksley, Peter F. Batchelor ...

Of more than 600 Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Empire servicemen during the First World War, nineteen were awarded to airmen of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. Of these, four were posthumous awards and all but one of the total were to officers. Some of these valorous airmen were from humble backgrounds and with limited education, others were collegiate ... Read more

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Of more than 600 Victoria Crosses awarded to British and Empire servicemen during the First World War, nineteen were awarded to airmen of the newly formed Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. Of these, four were posthumous awards and all but one of the total were to officers. Some of these valorous airmen were from humble backgrounds and with limited education, others were collegiate
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