Campaign 2: English for the military. Workbook (with audio)

Для сайта:Мир книгCampaign - Награжденный призом курс английского языка для вооруженных сил. Удовлетворяет английские языковые потребности военнослужащих, участвующих в международных коалиционных силах: поддержание мира, гуманитарная помощ, учения ....Книга дополнена аудиофайлом.Campaign is an award-winning direction in English for the army. It meets the English language wishes of army team of workers on foreign operations peacekeeping, humanitarian information and coaching exercises....

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The Manuscripts in the Library at Lambeth Palace by Montague Rhodes James

By Montague Rhodes James

M. R. James (1862-1936) is perhaps top remembered as a author of chilling ghost tales, yet he was once a good pupil of medieval literature and palaeography, who served either as Provost of King's collage, Cambridge, and as Director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and plenty of of his tales mirror his educational history. His certain descriptive catalogues of manuscripts owned by way of faculties, cathedrals and museums are nonetheless of price to students this present day. This ebook, first released in 1900, lists approximately 600 medieval manuscripts within the library at Lambeth Palace, such a lot of them amassed by means of Archbishop Bancroft (d. 1610). those have been despatched to Cambridge collage Library in the course of Cromwell's Protectorate, and lower back to Lambeth Palace on the recovery. concerning a number of early inventories, James succeeds in tracing the possession of the various manuscripts again to English monastic homes dissolved on the Reformation together with Durham Priory, Lanthony (near Gloucester), and Ely.

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Liberal Eugenics: In Defence of Human Enhancement by Nicholas Agar

By Nicholas Agar

During this provocative publication, thinker Nicholas Agar defends the concept that mom and dad may be allowed to augment their children’s characteristics.Gets clear of fears of a Huxleyan ‘Brave New international’ or a go back to the fascist eugenics of the pastWritten from a philosophically and scientifically expert element of viewConsiders genuine modern instances of oldsters making a choice on what sort of baby to haveUses ‘moral pictures’ so as to get readers without historical past in philosophy to contemplate ethical dilemmasProvides an authoritative account of the technological know-how concerned, making the booklet compatible for readers with out wisdom of geneticsCreates an ethical framework for assessing all new applied sciences

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The social gospel in black and white: American racial by Ralph E. Luker

By Ralph E. Luker

In an important revision of accredited knowledge, this e-book, initially released via UNC Press in 1991, demonstrates that American social Christianity performed a massive position in racial reform through the interval among Emancipation and the civil rights circulation. As corporations created by means of the heirs of antislavery sentiment foundered within the mid-1890s, Ralph Luker argues, a brand new new release of black and white reformers—many of them representatives of yankee social christianity—explored quite a few strategies to the matter of racial clash. a few of them helped to arrange the Federal Council of church buildings in 1909, whereas others back to abolitionist and residential missionary techniques in organizing the NAACP in 1910 and the nationwide city League in 1911. A part century later, such firms shaped the institutional middle of America's civil rights circulation. Luker additionally exhibits that the black prophets of social Christianity who espoused theological personalism created an influential culture that at last produced Martin Luther King Jr.

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