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The Maverick Preacher: The Hand-me-down Family The Maverick Preacher (Mills And Boon Historical Ser.)
by Victoria BylinIndulge your fantasies of delicious Regency Rakes, fierce Viking warriors and rugged Highlanders. Be swept away into a world of intense passion, lavish settings and romance that burns brightly through the centuries Once upon a time, he was one of Boston's most righteous ministers.
Maverick Spy: Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II
by Hamish MacGibbonAt the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James's death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear-in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for Operation Overlord, D-Day. In this book, James's son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and their flirtation with wartime espionage. It is a unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War.
Maverick Spy: Stalin's Super-Agent in World War II
by Hamish MacGibbonA few years before he died James MacGibbon confessed to his close family that he had spied for the Soviet Union during World War II. At the end of the war MI5 suspected him of espionage and interrogated him but he did not confess. Nevertheless they kept James, his wife Jean and their young family under close surveillance for a number of years, regularly intercepting their mail and recording their telephone conversations. Only after James's death did the true significance of what he might have revealed become clear – in his wartime office role, James had access to the plans for Operation Overlord, D-Day. In this book, James's son Hamish tells the story of his parents, their interaction with the communist party and their flirtation with wartime espionage. It is a unique portrait of two very ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary events of World War Two and the Cold War.
Maverick Wild (Mills And Boon Historical Ser.)
by Stacey KayneHaunted by a promise he couldn’t keep – and a past he couldn’t forget
The Maverick's Bride (Mills And Boon Love Inspired Ser.)
by Catherine PalmerHer faith takes her across the world and into the path of a most extraordinary man. Freshly arrived in East Africa, Emma Pickering is instantly drawn to Adam King.
Mavis’s Story (Individual stories from WISH YOU WERE HERE! #2)
by Lynn Russell Neil HansonOne of seven touching true stories from Wish You Were Here!, the tale of Butlin’s holiday camps.
Max and the Midknights (Max and the Midknights #1)
by Lincoln PeirceMagic and (mis)adventures abound in Max and the Midknights, a hilarious illustrated novel from the New York Times bestselling creator of the Big Nate series, Lincoln Peirce.'Max is epic fun!' – Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.'Fantastic! I loved it!' – Dav Pilkey, bestselling author of the Dog Man series.Join Max's quest to become a knight in this laugh-out-loud New York Times bestselling adventure!Max wants to be a knight – too bad that dream is about as likely as finding a friendly dragon. But when Max's uncle Budrick is kidnapped by the cruel King Gastley, Max has to act . . . and fast! Joined by a band of brave adventurers – the Midknights – Max sets out on a thrilling quest: to save uncle Budrick and restore the realm of Byjovia to its former glory!
Max and the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins (Max and the Midknights #2)
by Lincoln PeirceJoin Max's quest to become a knight! The second book in the New York Times bestselling illustrated series is full of even more laughs, more magic and more (mis)adventure – from the creator of Big Nate!'Epic fun! Epic laughs!' Jeff Kinney, bestselling author of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series.'Another masterpiece!' Dav Pilkey, bestselling author of the Dog Man series.Byjovia is under attack, and it's up to Max and her best friends – the Midknights – to save the day! The quest is on as the Midknights set out to face the beastly Bodkins, powerful spells and their greatest foes yet.With his trademark comic book-style illustrations, Lincoln Peirce brings epic adventure, riotous fun and medieval silliness in Max and the Midknights: Battle of the Bodkins, book two in the Max & the Midknights series.
Max Beaverbrook: Not Quite A Gentleman
by Charles WilliamsFinancial magician, flamboyant politician, minister in both world wars, press baron, serial philanderer, Winston Churchill's boon companion in the dark days of 1940-41 and in his later years, Max Beaverbrook was without a doubt one of the most colourful characters of the first half of the twentieth century. Born and brought up in the Scottish Presbyterian fastness of northeast Canada, he escaped to make his fortune in Canadian financial markets.By 1910, when he migrated to Britain at the age of thirty-one, he was already a multimillionaire. With a seat in the House of Commons and then a peerage, he came to know all the senior figures in both British and Canadian politics. In acquiring the Daily Express, he not only built it into a news empire but used its considerable influence to campaign for his own pet causes.As Charles Williams's sweeping biography shows, Beaverbrook was loved and loathed in equal measure. Nevertheless, Williams brings to life a rounded character, with all its flaws and virtues. Above all, it is a story of eighty years of entrepreneurism, political dogfights, wars, sex and grand living, all set in the rich tapestry of the dramatic years of the twentieth century.
Max Bense: Ausgewählte Schriften in vier Bänden.Band 2: Philosophie der Mathematik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik
by Elisabeth EmterDie auf vier Bände angelegten "Ausgewählten Schriften" von Max Bense bieten einen repräsentativen Querschnitt durch dessen umfangreiches philosophisches und essayistisches Werk, das nach wie vor ungeschmälerte Aufmerksamkeit beanspruchen darf.
Max Bense: Ausgewählte Schriften in vier Bänden.Band 4: Poetische Texte
by Friederike RothMax Benses Schaffen berührt ganz unterschiedliche Themen u.a. Physik, Technik, Literatur, Malerei und Texttheorie. Schwerpunkte seiner Arbeit bilden vor allem die Auseinandersetzung mit Philosophie, Mathematik, Semiotik und Ästhetik. Die 'Ausgewählten Schriften' führen durch das umfangreiche Lebenswerk. Gute Orientierung bieten die ausführlichen Einleitungen zu jedem Band und die detaillierten Anmerkungen. Band 4 vereinigt einige von Benses poetischen Texten.
Max Bense: Ausgewählte Schriften in vier Bänden.Band 1: Philosophie
by Elisabeth WaltherMax Benses Schaffen berührt ganz unterschiedliche Themen, darunter Physik, Technik, Literatur, Malerei und Texttheorie. Schwerpunkte seiner Arbeit bilden vor allem die Auseinandersetzung mit Philosophie, Mathematik, Semiotik und Ästhetik. Die 'Ausgewählten Schriften' führen durch das umfangreiche Lebenswerk. Gute Orientierung bieten die ausführlichen Einleitungen zu jedem Band und die detaillierten Anmerkungen. Band 1 enthält Arbeiten zur Philosophie im allgemeinen, die sich u.a. mit Leibniz, Descartes, Hegel und Kierkegaard auseinandersetzen und Benses kulturpolitische Polemik.
Max Eastman: A Life
by Christoph IrmscherThe definitive biography of a radical activist and intellectual Max Eastman (1883–1969) was a prolific writer, radical, and public intellectual who helped shape the twentieth century. While researching this masterful work, acclaimed biographer Christoph Irmscher was granted unprecedented access to the Eastman family archive, allowing him to document little-known aspects of the famously handsome and charismatic radical. Considered one of the “hottest radicals” of his time, Eastman edited two of the most important modernist magazines, The Masses and The Liberator, and campaigned for women’s suffrage and world peace. A fierce critic of Joseph Stalin, Eastman befriended and translated Leon Trotsky and remained unafraid to express unpopular views, drawing criticism from both conservatives and the Left. Set against the backdrop of several decades of political and ideological turmoil, and interweaving Eastman’s singular life with stories of the fascinating people he knew and loved, this book will have broad interdisciplinary appeal in twentieth-century history and politics, intellectual history, and literary studies.
Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe
by Max HastingsA two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.
Max Liebermann and International Modernism: An Artist's Career from Empire to Third Reich (Studies in German History #14)
by Marion Deshmukh Françoise Forster-Hahn Barbara GaehtgensAlthough Max Liebermann (1847–1935) began his career as a realist painter depicting scenes of rural labor, Dutch village life, and the countryside, by the turn of the century, his paintings had evolved into colorful images of bourgeois life and leisure that critics associated with French impressionism. During a time of increasing German nationalism, his paintings and cultural politics sparked numerous aesthetic and political controversies. His eminent career and his reputation intersected with the dramatic and violent events of modern German history from the Empire to the Third Reich. The Nazis’ persecution of modern and Jewish artists led to the obliteration of Liebermann from the narratives of modern art, but this volume contributes to the recent wave of scholarly literature that works to recover his role and his oeuvre from an international perspective.
Max Perutz And The Secret Of Life
by Georgina FerryFew scientists have thought more deeply about their calling and its impact on humanity than Max Perutz (1914-2002). Born in Vienna, Jewish by descent, lapsed Catholic by religion, Max came to Cambridge in 1936, to join the lab of the legendary Communist thinker J.D. Bernal. In 1940 he was interned and deported to Canada as an enemy alien, only to be brought back and set to work on a bizarre top secret war project. Seven years later he founded the small research group in which Francis Crick and James Watson discovered the structure of DNA. Max Perutz himself explored the protein haemoglobin and his work, which won him a shared Nobel Prize in 1962, launched a new era of medicine, heralding today's astonishing advances in the genetic basis of disease.Max Perutz's story, wonderfully told by Georgina Ferry, brims with life; it has the zest of an adventure novel and is full of extraordinary characters. Max was demanding, passionate and driven but also humorous, compassionate and loving. Georgina Ferry's absorbing biography is a marvellous tribute to a great scientist.
Max Planck und die moderne Physik
by Dieter HoffmannMax Planck (1858-1947) zählt zu den herausragenden Physikern des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Seine Quantenhypothese wurde zur Grundlage für die Entwicklung der Quantentheorie und bildet eine der zentralen Säulen der modernen Physik. Damit ist Plancks Wirken jedoch keineswegs erschöpfend charakterisiert: In diesem Buch arbeiten anerkannte Physikhistoriker das gesamte Spektrum von Plancks physikalischem Schaffen heraus und würdigen seine Bedeutung für die Entwicklung der modernen Physik.
Max Scheler (1874–1928) Centennial Essays: Centennial Essays
by Manfred S. FringsIt is the purpose of these essays to commemorate the one hundredth birthday of the philosopher Max Scheler. On this centennial occasion it may be appropriate to recall the first two major works of the philosopher's life. Scheler is known mostly as the author of a monumental work on ethics, entitled: Der Formalismus in der Ethik und die materiale Wertethik (Formalism in Ethics and Non-Formal Ethics of Values), which is the only existing foundation of ethics written by a European philosopher in this century. Although its two parts were published separately (1913/1916) because of circumstances during World War I, all manuscripts had been finished by Scheler prior to the outbreak of the war. His ethics has been translated into various languages, including a recent translation in English. In the same year (1913) Scheler also published another major work which dealt with the phenomenology of sympathetic feelings, and which is translated into English under the title of the enlarged second and following editions: The Nature of Sympathy.
Max Schmeling and the Making of a National Hero in Twentieth-Century Germany (Palgrave Studies in Sport and Politics)
by Jon HughesThis book presents the first in-depth study of the German boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) as a national hero and representative figure in Germany between the 1920s and the present day. It explores the complex relationship between sport, culture, politics and national identity and draws on a century of journalism, film, visual art, life writing and fiction. Detailed chapters analyse Schmeling’s emergence as an icon in the Weimar Republic, his association with America, his celebrity status in the Third Reich, and his rivalry with Joe Louis as a focus for an extraordinary propaganda and ideological contest. The book also examines how Schmeling’s post-war success in business associated him with the culture of the ‘zero hour’ nation in the era of ‘economic miracle’, and how he was later claimed as ‘good German’ and moral example for a post-war generation of Germans determined to ‘come to terms’ with the past. This book will appeal to readers with an interest in the history and representation of sport and boxing, in sports discourse and political culture, and in questions of national identity in modern German history.
Max Schmeling und die Entstehung eines Nationalhelden in Deutschland im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert
by Jon HughesDieses Buch ist die erste umfassende Studie über den deutschen Boxer Max Schmeling (1905-2005) als Nationalheld und Repräsentationsfigur in Deutschland zwischen den 1920er Jahren und der Gegenwart. Es untersucht die komplexen Beziehungen zwischen Sport, Kultur, Politik und nationaler Identität und stützt sich dabei auf ein Jahrhundert von Journalismus, Film, bildender Kunst, Lebensberichten und Belletristik. Detaillierte Kapitel analysieren Schmelings Aufstieg zur Ikone in der Weimarer Republik, seine Verbindung zu Amerika, seinen Prominentenstatus im Dritten Reich und seine Rivalität mit Joe Louis als Mittelpunkt eines außergewöhnlichen propagandistischen und ideologischen Wettstreits. Das Buch untersucht auch, wie Schmelings geschäftlicher Erfolg in der Nachkriegszeit ihn mit der Kultur der "Stunde Null" in der Ära des "Wirtschaftswunders" in Verbindung brachte und wie er später als "guter Deutscher" und moralisches Beispiel für eine Nachkriegsgeneration von Deutschen, die entschlossen waren, die Vergangenheit zu "bewältigen", in Anspruch genommen wurde. Das Buch richtet sich an Leser, die sich für die Geschichte des Sports und des Boxens, für Sportdiskurse und politische Kultur sowie für Fragen der nationalen Identität in der modernen deutschen Geschichte interessieren.
Max Stirner (Critical Explorations in Contemporary Political Thought)
by Saul NewmanMax Stirner was one of the most important and seminal thinkers of the mid-nineteenth century. He exposed the religiosity behind secular humanism and rationalism, and the domination of the individual behind liberal modes of politics. This edited collection explores Stirner's radical and contemporary importance as a political theorist.
Max Weber and Contemporary Capitalism
by N. GaneThis book explores the uses and limits of Max Weber's work for thinking sociologically about capitalism today. The books argues that through Weber, a network of concepts can be developed that can frame a sociological analysis of the present.
Max Weber and Islam
by Wolfgang SchluchterMax Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam, along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates.Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber's conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters, Islamic specialists consider such major topics as the developmental history of Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic reform, Islamic law and capitalism, secularization in Islam, as well as the value of attempting to apply Weber's concept of sects to Islam. While some authors find flaws in Weber's factual knowledge of Islam, they also find considerable merit in the kinds of questions Weber raised.Contributors to the volume include highly respected contemporary international scholars of Islam: Ira Lapidus, Nehemia Levtzion, Richard M. Eaton, Peter Hardy, Rudolph Peters, Barbara Metcalf, Francis Robinson, Patricia Crone, Michael Cook, and S.N. Eisenstadt. Toby Huff's introduction not only knits the thematics of the separate essays together but adds its own stresses while engaging the contributors in dialogue and debate about fundamental issues. This acute collective analysis establishes a new benchmark for understanding Weber and Islam. This book also provides an up-to-date overview of the developmental history of many aspects of Islam. A major reappraisal of the entire span of Max Weber's sociological thought on Islam, this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of particular interest to sociologists specializing in religion and Middle East area specialists.
Max Weber and Islam
by Wolfgang SchluchterMax Weber and Islam is a major effort by Islamic-studies specialists to reexamine and appraise Max Weber's perspectives on Islam and its historical development. Eight specialists on Islam and two sociologists explore many dimensions of Weber's comments on Islam, along with Weber's conceptual framework. The volume's introduction links the discussions to contemporary issues and debates.Wolfgang Schluchter reconstructs Weber's conceptual apparatus as it applies to Islam and its historical development. In subsequent chapters, Islamic specialists consider such major topics as the developmental history of Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic reform, Islamic law and capitalism, secularization in Islam, as well as the value of attempting to apply Weber's concept of sects to Islam. While some authors find flaws in Weber's factual knowledge of Islam, they also find considerable merit in the kinds of questions Weber raised.Contributors to the volume include highly respected contemporary international scholars of Islam: Ira Lapidus, Nehemia Levtzion, Richard M. Eaton, Peter Hardy, Rudolph Peters, Barbara Metcalf, Francis Robinson, Patricia Crone, Michael Cook, and S.N. Eisenstadt. Toby Huff's introduction not only knits the thematics of the separate essays together but adds its own stresses while engaging the contributors in dialogue and debate about fundamental issues. This acute collective analysis establishes a new benchmark for understanding Weber and Islam. This book also provides an up-to-date overview of the developmental history of many aspects of Islam. A major reappraisal of the entire span of Max Weber's sociological thought on Islam, this book will appeal to a wide range of scholars and laymen interested in the Islamic world. It will be of particular interest to sociologists specializing in religion and Middle East area specialists.
Max Weber and Postmodern Theory: Rationalization versus Re-enchantment
by N. GaneThis book explores the contemporary nature of Max Weber's work by looking in detail at his key concepts of rationalization and disenchantment. Thematic parallels are drawn between Weber's rationalization thesis and the critiques of contemporary culture developed by Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault and Jean Baudrillard. It is suggested that these three 'postmoden' thinkers develop and respond to Weber's analysis of modernity by pursuing radical strategies of affirmation and re-enchantment. Examining the work of these three key thinkers in this way casts new light both on postmodern theory and on Weber's sociology of rationalization.