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Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of ...

Bloody Victory: The Sacrifice on the Somme and the Making of ...

William Philpott

ABACUS First published in Great Britain in 2009 by Little, Brown This edition published in 2016 by Abacus Copyright © William Philpott 2009 The right of William Philpott to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in ...
A short account of the lives and sufferings of several godly ...

A short account of the lives and sufferings of several godly ...

England

JOHN PHILPOTT. Mr. John Philpott, a son of Sir Peter Philpott, of Hampshire, had studied for six or seven years in New College, in Oxford, applying himself to the civil law, as also to the knowledge of languages, and particularly of the Hebrew.
War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War

War of Attrition: Fighting the First World War

William Philpott

William Philpott. 18. Ibid., pp. 74–79. Ibid., pp. 81–84. Ibid., pp. 85–87. Esher journal, 22 January 1915, in M. V. Brett and O. Brett (eds.), Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher, vol. 3: 1910–1915 (London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson , ...
Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern ...

Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern ...

Daniel Philpott

How did the world come to be organized into sovereign states? Daniel Philpott argues that two historical revolutions in ideas are responsible.
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Daniel Philpott

In Just and Unjust Peace, Daniel Philpott offers an innovative and hopeful response to these questions. He challenges the approach to peace-building that dominates the United Nations, western governments, and the human rights community.
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Daniel Philpott

In the wake of political evil on a large scale, what does justice consist of? Daniel Philpott takes up this question in Just and Unjust Peace.
Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation

Daniel Philpott

STUDIES IN STRATEGIC PEACEBUILDING Series Editors R. Scott Appleby, John Paul Lederach, and Daniel Philpott The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame STRATEGIES OF PEACE Transforming ...
Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth ...

Three Armies on the Somme: The First Battle of the Twentieth ...

William Philpott

An exciting, indispensable work of military history that challenges our received ideas about the Battle of the Somme, and about the very nature of war. From the Hardcover edition.
Mastering the Industrial Battlefield: Military ...

Mastering the Industrial Battlefield: Military ...

William Philpott

In order to broaden and deepen our understanding of the nature and processes of military change on the Western Front, this collection of essays engages with the latest research on the three principal belligerent armies.
Attrition: Fighting the First World War

Attrition: Fighting the First World War

William Philpott

Drawing on the experience of front line soldiers, munitions workers, politicians and those managing the vast economy of industrialised warfare, War of Attrition explains for the first time why and how this new type of conflict born out of ...
Consuming Colorado: Landscapes, Leisure, and the Tourist Way ...

Consuming Colorado: Landscapes, Leisure, and the Tourist Way ...

William P. Philpott

People will be interested in expanding commercial possibilities, and well get enough money to build more adequate tows and lifts. The war won't last forever." Sally Barlow-Perez and James Sloan Allen repeat this quotation in their books on  ...
Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High ...

Vacationland: Tourism and Environment in the Colorado High ...

William Philpott

Barlow-Perez, History of Aspen, 37–43; A. G. Coleman, Ski Style, 55, 74, 77–78, 97; Fay, History of Skiing in Colorado, ... Historians Sally Barlow-Perez and James Sloan Allen both repeat this quotation in their books, and it does largely fit with ...
The Magic of Magnetic Healing: The Real Magic Bullet

The Magic of Magnetic Healing: The Real Magic Bullet

Anthony Di Fabio

The Magic of Magnetic Healing - The Real Magic Bullet! consists of a large collection of the writings and research papers of William H. Philpott, M.D., a former psychiatrist who, when challenged with safe alternative methods, had the ...
Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern ...

Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern ...

Daniel Philpott

This is a book which undoubtedly will stimulate much debate and which demands and deserves thoughtful attention at a time when that state system is in the midst of yet another revolutionary transformation.
Revolutions in sovereignty: how ideas shaped modern ...

Revolutions in sovereignty: how ideas shaped modern ...

Daniel Philpott

This is a book which undoubtedly will stimulate much debate and which demands and deserves thoughtful attention at a time when that state system is in the midst of yet another revolutionary transformation.
In Defence of Self-Determination

In Defence of Self-Determination

Daniel Philpott

"Chances are that the history of any group is a rich (and perhaps tragic) tale of overlapping communities, some of whom have been conquered by other communities, many of whom acquired a new dialect or language during its period of ...
Working for Full Employment

Working for Full Employment

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John Philpott. tirle indicates the importance of adapting policy to meet the needs of today and the generation to come. While it is useful for society to look back to Beveridge and the 1944 White Paper to re-enlist the intellectual rigour and moral  ...
Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections

Brain Allergies: The Psychonutrient and Magnetic Connections

Willam Philpott

This text explains in layperson's terms how supernutrition, magnetic therapy and other cutting edge therapies can offer hope to those suffering from so-called untreatable conditions.
National Self-Determination and Secession

National Self-Determination and Secession

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DANIEL PHILPOTT If you want to see the problem with self-determination, drive through the Bosnian countryside and look at the villages. War's destruction there is checkered: houses of rubble and weeds lie next to wholly intact houses, ones ...
World Religions and Democracy

World Religions and Democracy

Larry Diamond

Daniel Philpott is associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame and faculty fellow at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He is the author of Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern ...

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