How competing visions of world order in the 1940s gave rise to the modern concept of globalism During & after the Second World War public intellectuals in Britain & the United States grappled with concerns about the future of democracy the prospects of liberty & the decline of the imperial system Without using the term "globalization" they identified a shift toward technological economic cultural & political interconnectedness & developed a "globalist" ideology to reflect this new postwar reality The Emergence of Globalism examines the competing visions of world order that shaped these debates & led to the development of globalism as a modern political concept Shedding critical light on this neglected chapter in the history of political thought Or Rosenboim describes how a transnational network of globalist thinkers emerged from the traumas of war & expatriation in the 1940s & how their ideas drew widely from political philosophy geopolitics economics imperial thought constitutional law theology & philosophy of science She presents compelling portraits of Raymond Aron Owen Lattimore Lionel Robbins Barbara Wootton Friedrich Hayek Lionel Curtis Richard Mc Keon Michael Polanyi Lewis Mumford Jacques Maritain Reinhold Niebuhr H G Wells & others Rosenboim shows how the globalist debate they embarked on sought to balance the tensions between a growing recognition of pluralism on the one hand & an appreciation of the unity of humankind on the other An engaging look at the ideas that have shaped today's world The Emergence of Globalism is a major work of intellectual history that is certain to fundamentally transform our understanding of the globalist ideal & its origins ...

A brilliant new anthology of poems that will help you to overcome stress depression & other anxieties Arranged by spiritual ailment the sections include a range of verse new & old which may be of comfort to those in need of a pick-me-up for the soul The collection has been carefully compiled by Deborah Alma the world's first & only emergency poet who travels to schools libraries festivals & other events in her 1970s ambulance to offer consultations & prescribe poems as cures for various maladies This collection is designed to lift your mood & offers poetic help whenever it may be required Other poetry collections include The Everyday Poet Poems to Live By ...

It is late August 1939 Britain is on the brink of war & preparations are under way to evacuate London's children to the countryside When twelve-year-old Tilly & her best friend Rosy find out that they will not be able to take their beloved dog & cat with them
- & that even worse their pets will along with countless other animals be taken to the vet to be put down
- they decide to take action The two girls come up with the idea of hiding them in a derelict hut in the woods & when other children find out & start bringing their rabbits guinea pigs & hamsters their secret den turns into an emergency zoo Inspired by real events during the Second World War Miriam Halahmy's novel is a touching tale of courage resourcefulness & camaraderie in desperate times as well as a stirring defence of animal welfare

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At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish emigres in the twentieth century But gradually as Sebald&s precise almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile & loss Written with a bone-dry sense of humour & a fascination with the oddness of existence The Emigrants is highly original in its heady mix of fact memory & fiction & photographs ...

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Take an adventure in the secret world inside your smartphone to Textopolis a bustling city where all your favourite emojis live In this world each Emoji has only one facial expression
- except for Gene (TJ Miller) who is bursting with multiple expressions Determined to become normal Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) & the notorious code breaker Emoji Jailbreak (Anna Faris) Together these unlikely heroes embark on an epic app-venture through the apps on the phone each its own wild & fun world to find the code that will fix Gene Directors Anthony Leondis Writers Anthony Leondis Eric Siegel Mike White Producers Michelle Raimo Language English Subtitles Czech Slovak Portuguese Croatian Polish Arabic Hebrew Slovene Bulgarian Hungarian Icelandic Romanian Greek Turkish English Serbian Japanese Dubbed Czech Portuguese Slovak Polish Arabic Hungarian Bulgarian Hebrew Icelandic Romanian Turkish Greek Japanese Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Audio Description English Number of discs 2
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Take an adventure in the secret world inside your smartphone to Textopolis a bustling city where all your favourite emojis live In this world each Emoji has only one facial expression
- except for Gene (TJ Miller) who is bursting with multiple expressions Determined to become normal Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) & the notorious code breaker Emoji Jailbreak (Anna Faris) Together these unlikely heroes embark on an epic app-venture through the apps on the phone each its own wild & fun world to find the code that will fix Gene Directors Anthony Leondis Writers Anthony Leondis Eric Siegel Mike White Producers Michelle Raimo Language English Subtitles Portuguese Polish English Japanese Dubbed Portuguese Japanese Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Audio Description English Number of discs 1
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Take an adventure in the secret world inside your smartphone to Textopolis a bustling city where all your favourite emojis live In this world each Emoji has only one facial expression
- except for Gene (TJ Miller) who is bursting with multiple expressions Determined to become "normal" Gene enlists the help of his handy best friend Hi-5 (James Corden) & the notorious code breaker Emoji Jailbreak (Anna Faris) Together these unlikely heroes embark on an epic "app-venture" through the apps on the phone each its own wild & fun world to find the code that will fix Gene Directors Anthony Leondis Writers Anthony Leondis Eric Siegel Mike White Producers Michelle Raimo Language English Subtitles German Polish Turkish English Dubbed German Turkish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Audio Description English Number of discs 1
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The science behind David Goleman's Emotional Intelligence The Emotional Brain provides a cutting-edge scientific background to such books as Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence showing that while cognitive studies have tended to ignore the emotions we are increasingly understanding how crucial they are to our evolutionary survival as shortcuts to cut through conscious reasoning when speed & rules-of-thumb are more important & effective than logic Much of our emotional life is lived unconsciously & is far richer than simply our conscious feelings
- for example our conscious mind will already be reacting to situations of danger some time before we begin to be afraid Not only does Le Doux present a fascinating insight into how our emotions function normally but also provides a new understanding of emotional disorders
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Cori addresses the psychological wounds that get inflicted by emotionally absent mothers Often the grown children of such mothers can't quite put a finger on what's missing from their lives but struggle with relationships & their own self-worth But there are steps they can take to identify their inner strengths & heal attachment wounds 288 pages Cori Jasmin Lee ...