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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PLATES -- PREFACE -- NOTE -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS USED IN REFERENCES -- Introduction -- I. 'Safe Legislative Progress', 1866-7 -- II. Leaping and Landing, 1867-8 -- III. 'The Utmost Reserve and Quietness', 1869-71 -- IV. Achilles from His Tent, 1872-4 -- V. The Condition of the People, 1874-6 -- VI. Decline and Fall, 1877 -80 -- Conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Who you are -- Ambition -- Open-mindedness -- Creativity -- Curiosity and learning -- Courage -- Integrity -- Self-reliance -- Grit -- Hard work and struggles in life -- Self-confidence -- Self-discipline : money and delayed gratification -- Health -- Positive mental attitude -- Dealing with loss -- How you treat other people -- Kindness -- Patience -- Fairness and justice -- Humility -- Respect for others -- Friendship -- Social intelligence -- Forgiveness and gratitude -- Appreciation of beauty -- Getting started -- An invitation -- Appendix: story matrix -- Additional reading -- Index.

Daring, audacious and mind-blowing - or terrifying, brutal and horrific. Scotland has been home to some of Britain''s most high profile robberies and Heist lifts the lid on some of those notorious raids, reopening the files on both solved and unsolved cases. By retracing the steps of the robbers and through interviews with experts and those who had their lives hit by the incidents, the book puts a new slant on some jaw-dropping crimes. From one of the highest profile art thefts of the modern era to an SAS style aerial assault on a bank, Heist tracks raids on everything from stately homes to in

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Who you are -- Ambition -- Open-mindedness -- Creativity -- Curiosity and learning -- Courage -- Integrity -- Self-reliance -- Grit -- Hard work and struggles in life -- Self-confidence -- Self-discipline : money and delayed gratification -- Health -- Positive mental attitude -- Dealing with loss -- How you treat other people -- Kindness -- Patience -- Fairness and justice -- Humility -- Respect for others -- Friendship -- Social intelligence -- Forgiveness and gratitude -- Appreciation of beauty -- Getting started -- An invitation -- Appendix: story matrix -- Additional reading -- Index.

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Paul Smith examines how the Senate has attempted, since 1958, to locate itself within the French (semi-) presidential system, how it asserts its place in relation to the President, Government and National Assembly and how it has sought, in recent years, to develop an autonomous and particular sense of identity.

This text provides a comprehensive examination of key concepts and theories in moral and political philosophy. With a clear focus on the essentials of each topic, Smith presupposes no prior knowledge and relates moral philosophy to social and political issues

For cultural critic Paul Smith, the tension between progressive and primitive is a constitutive condition of American history and culture. In Primitive America, Smith contemplates this primary contradiction as it has played out in the years since 9/11. An urgent and important engagement with current American policies and practices, Primitive America is, at the same time, an incisive critique of the ideology that fuels the ethos of America's capitalist culture