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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: James Beattie, Michael Winterbottom, Nick Dougherty, Robert Bolton, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Russell Harty, Ernest Marsden, Netar Mallick, Richard Bowker, Albert Peter Hall, Hubert Whitsey, Wayne Hemingway. Excerpt:The Right Reverend (Albert) Peter Hall (born 2 September 1930) was Bishop of Woolwich from 1984 until 1996. Hall was educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn and St John's College, Cambridge .Ordained in 1956 he began his ecclesiastical career with a Curacy at St Martin,Birmingham after which he Rector of Avondale, Harare and then Birmingham before his elevation to the Episcopate . A keen mountain walker, he is married with two sons and in retirement continues to serve the church as an Assistant Bishop within the Diocese of Birmingham . Religious titles References (URLs online) A hyperlinked version of this chapter is at Sir Ernest Marsden (19 February 1889 - 15 December 1970) was an English -New Zealand physicist . He was born in East Lancashire, living in Rishton and educated at Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn , where an inter-house trophy rewarding academic excellence ('The Marsden Merit Trophy') bears his name. He met Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester . While still an undergraduate he conducted the famous Geiger-Marsden experiment called the gold foil experiment in 1909 together with Hans Geiger under Rutherford's supervision. In 1915 he moved to Victoria University College , New Zealand as Professor of Physics; he was recommended by Rutherford. Marsden served in France during World War I as a Royal Engineer in a special sound-ranging section and earned the Military Cross . Following the war he became New Zealand's leading scientist, founding the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR) in 1926 and organizin... ... Read more

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Chapters: Jane Ellen Harrison, Brian Rix, Baron Rix, George Pryme, Michael Bilton, Chris Else, Benjamin Bolton, Patricia Shakesby, John Ellerton Stocks, Herbert Hart. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jane Ellen Harrison (9 September 18505 April 1928) was a British classical scholar, linguist and feminist. Harrison is one of the founders, with Karl Kerenyi and Walter Burkert, of modern studies in Greek mythology. She applied 19th century archaeological discoveries to the interpretation of Greek religion in ways that have become standard. Contemporary classics scholar Mary Beard, Harrison's biographer, has described her as "in a way ... first female professional 'career academic'". Harrison was born in Cottingham, Yorkshire and first received tutelage under family governesses in subjects such as the many languages Harrison learned: initially German, Latin, Greek and Hebrew, later expanded to about sixteen languages, including Russian. Harrison spent most of her professional life at Newnham, the progressive, recently-established college for women at Cambridge. She knew Edward Burne-Jones and Walter Pater, and moved in the Bloomsbury group, with Virginia Woolf (who was one of Harrison's close friends and looked to her as a mentor), Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell and Roger Fry. With Gilbert Murray, F. M. Cornford, and A. B. Cook, she was inspired to apply anthropology and ethnography to the study of classical art and ritual. Harrison and this later group of people have become known as Cambridge Ritualists. Harrison was, at least ideologically, a moderate suffragist of the early feminist movement. Rather than support women's suffrage by protesting, Harrison applied her scholarship in anthropology to defend women's right to vote. In responding to an anti-...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=453672 ... Read more

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In celebration of the 30th anniversary of Chris Claremont's first X-Men story, the House of Ideas presents a timeless testament to another true Marvel visionary! Best known for ushering the X-Men from reprints to blockbuster franchise, Claremont has steered Marvel's mutants for three decades while working alongside some of comicdom's top artists. Collects Daredevil #102, Marvel Premiere #11, Iron Fist #14, Uncanny X-Men #137, 153, 205, 268, Uncanny X-Men Annual #12, Wolverine #3, New Mutants #21, Classic X-Men #12, Excalibur #16, X-Men Unlimited #36, and Avengers Annual #10. ... Read more

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Visionary author, poor packaging
Marvel's line of hardcover Marvel Visionaries books seem like a good idea, but there are a few that while they display the highlighted author's talents, they are poorly assembled.This hardcover TPB, which focuses on legendary X-Men scribe Chris Claremont, is sadly misassembled thanks to only featuring single issues of his various runs on different series' instead of full storyarcs, which really doesn't display Claremont's talent as a whole to begin with.The issues we get here aren't bad though: the penultimate issue of his legendary Dark Phoenix Saga from Uncanny X-Men, an issue from his Wolverine mini-series (featuring art from Frank Miller), as well as various issues from his runs on Excalibur, New Mutants, Iron Fist, and Daredevil.While what you get here isn't bad, if you start to dig the story you're reading and want to see how it ends, prepare to lay down more cash to pick up the whole thing in TPB form.There's nothing bad here at all, and Claremont is more than worthy of being labeled a visionary, but this poorly assembled TPB fails to display just how great and influential a writer Claremont was way back when. ... Read more