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"Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just southwest of the Syrian capital. Yet for four years it lived in another world. Besieged by government forces early in the Syrian Civil War, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by heavy artillery, and under the constant fire of snipers. But deep beneath this scene of frightening devastation lay a hidden library. While the streets above echoed with shelling and rifle fire, the secret world below was a haven of books. Long rows of well-thumbed volumes lined almost every wall: bloated editions with grand leather covers, pocket-sized guides to Syrian poetry, and no-nonsense reference books, all arranged in well-ordered lines. But this precious horde was not bought from publishers or loaned by other libraries-they were the books salvaged and scavenged at great personal risk from the doomed city above"--

"In May 2012 Auckland businessman Matt Blomfield found himself the target of a vicious online attack, the work of Whale Oil blogger Cameron Slater. The attack came out of the blue, destroying Blomfields reputation and career, stealing his identity, turning him into a social outcast. Two years after the online attack began an armed gunman came to Blomfields house and tried to kill him. He only survived because the intruders shotgun misfired. Many people have been smeared by Whale Oil over the years. Matt Blomfield decided to fight back. He spent seven years and many hundreds of thousands of dollars taking a defamation case against Slater. It conclusively established that Slaters vendetta was based entirely on lies...[This book] is a chilling account of how inadequate our protection is in the face of a digital attack, and a depressing exposé of police indifference to a citizen's predicament. But, too, it is a story of courage and tenacity, which reminds us how important it is to stand up to bullies, and to be reassured that in the end they do not always win"--Back cover

An authoritative account of the life and achievements of George Morley, who was for years a teacher at Christ Church, Oxford, before becoming Dean of the College, and then ultimately the Bishop of Worcester and then Winchester. He was as such an important C17th figure, even beyond the University of Oxford and Dioceses of Worcester and Winchester, and fundamentally entwined nationally in the heightened political and religious controversies of his time. He was involved in the restoration of the monarch in 1660, as well as in the consequent deliberations regarding a settlement with a view to establishing church unity in the subsequent decades. He was also a man who straddled cultures and political epochs, born at the end of the C16th and living through much of the C17th, thus a life that began in the era of the Gunpowder plot and which ended in the run-up to the so-called Glorious Revolution. This meant that Morley's personal and professional evolution touches on moments of extraordinary tumult and contention, requiring him to develop profound skills of negotiation, compromise, and bridge-building. As such he become a skilled mediator, a diplomat at a time when this was most in demand.

A sobering study of the troubled African nation, both pre- and post-genocide, and its uncertain future The brutal civil war between Hutu and Tutsi factions in Rwanda ended in 1994 when the Rwandan Patriotic Front came to power and embarked on an ambitious social, political, and economic project to remake the devastated central-east African nation. Susan Thomson, who witnessed the hostilities firsthand, has written a provocative modern history of the country, its rulers, and its people, covering the years prior to, during, and following the genocidal conflict. Thomson's hard-hitting analysis explores the key political events that led to the ascendance of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its leader, President Paul Kagame. This important and controversial study examines the country's transition from war to reconciliation from the perspective of ordinary Rwandan citizens, Tutsi and Hutu alike, and raises serious questions about the stability of the current peace, the methods and motivations of the ruling regime and its troubling ties to the past, and the likelihood of a genocide-free future

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Problem -- Insights of Marx and Mantoux -- Issues and Directions -- Part I. The Manufacturing Dynamic -- 2. The Evolution of Markets -- Shoe Production in 1800 -- Market Formation and Growth -- Accounting for Market Growth -- 3. Reorganizing Production -- Capitalist Production and the Central Shop System -- Innovation and the Craft System -- Markets and the Evolution of Production -- 4. New Means of Production -- The Pegged Shoe -- Lasts and Standardization -- New Tools -- The Innovative Process -- New Means of Production and the Manufacturing Dynamic -- Part II. Initial Mechanization -- 5. The Introduction of Shoe Machines -- The First Shoe Machines -- The Importance of Mechanization -- Understanding Initial Mechanization -- 6. Prospects -- Barriers to Mechanization -- Potential Usage -- Capacity -- Communication -- Prospects and Processes -- 7. The Birth of the Sewing Machine -- Invention -- The Commodity Path of Mechanization -- Prospects for Technological Development -- Nodality -- The Virtuous Circle of Failure -- 8. Self-Sustaining Success -- Redefining Product and Market -- Market Penetration and Ongoing Technical Change -- The Path of Sewing Machine Development -- 9. The Genesis of Shoe Machinery -- Shoe-Sewing Machines -- Other Shoe Machines -- Ongoing Mechanization and New Sectors -- Part III. Continuing Mechanization -- 10. The Evolution of Dry-Thread Sewing Machines -- After the Industrial Revolution -- The One and the Many -- Market Penetration -- New Inventors -- Repeat Inventors -- Refining the Standard Machine -- Specialized Machines -- The Novelty of Continuing Mechanization -- 11. Leather-Sewing Machines -- The McKay Machine -- The Goodyear Machine -- Waxed-Thread Invention as a Whole -- Path or Paths?

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- WAYS IN TO THE TEXT -- Who Was Ernst Kantorowicz? -- What Does The King's Two Bodies Say? -- Why Does The King's Two Bodies Matter? -- SECTION 1: INFLUENCES -- Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context -- Module 2: Academic Context -- Module 3: The Problem -- Module 4: The Author's Contribution -- SECTION 2: IDEAS -- Module 5: Main Ideas -- Module 6: Secondary Ideas -- Module 7: Achievement -- Module 8: Place in the Author's Work -- SECTION 3: IMPACT -- Module 9: The First Responses -- Module 10: The Evolving Debate -- Module 11: Impact and Influence Today -- Module 12: Where Next? -- Glossary of Terms -- People Mentioned in the Text -- Works Cited.