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The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Politics Representation and Management

The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Politics Representation and Management

This book offers a critical examination of the 2023 Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) Women’s World Cup being held in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on perspectives from sociology history political science and management it sheds new light on the development of women’s soccer and on women’s sport more broadly. This book examines the politics of the build-up to the tournament including the bidding process as well as how the tournament has been represented in the media the governance structures of the tournament itself and policy proposals designed to leave an enduring legacy for women and girls in sport. The 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup is the first Women’s World Cup to be held in the Southern Hemisphere and the first to be held with an expanded 32-team format. This book shows why the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup represents a unique opportunity to enhance our understanding of women’s football gender-oriented sport development initiatives and strategies national sport policy and programming and the management of international sporting events. This book is fascinating reading for any student researcher or practitioner with an interest in sport development sport management sport policy sport sociology event management gender studies political science or the relationship between sport and wider society. | The 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup Politics Representation and Management

GBP 130.00
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The State in Relation to Labour

The State in Relation to Labour

W. Stanley Jevons was a central figure linking political economy with social policy and The State in Relation to Labour is the quintessential product of that fusion. Jevons reviews how legislation enacted for the protection of labor re-established the social contract on a new industrial footing. The concept of industrial partnership insured that the state continued to hold a monopoly of power while taking account of rising labor agitation. Jevons' scholarly brilliance is evident in this pathbreaking work on economics and policy construction. The State in Relation to Labour deals with the economic role of government in resolving conflicts between different groups of English citizens. The issue of class is central to the topic and two further points are implicit. The first is the market economy as a product of the institutions which form and operate through it. Jevons argues that markets can be and indeed have been formed to favor one class interest or another. Second he asserts that conventional arguments favor the class interests they serve whether or not they are recognized to doing so. Jevons neither shrinks from candid analysis of English social political and economic history and institutions nor espouses an openly pragmatic approach to the economic role of government. He eschews the erection of class or other ideological sentiment into principles of policy. Implicit in his analysis is an understanding that some law some set of legal rights and limitations is necessary. The issue is not whether government will establish relative rights and responsibilities but what they will be and further when they will be changed. Among the topics discussed are principles of industrial legislation direct interference of the state with labor the Factory Acts and similar legislation directly affecting laborers trade union legislation the law of industrial conspiracy cooperation and industrial partnership and arbitration and conciliation. In a new introduction Warren J. Samuels examines the life and works of William Stanley Jevons. He discusses the various arguments put forth in The State in Relation to Labour and the consequences of Jevons' approach.

GBP 130.00
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Computer-Aided Glaucoma Diagnosis System

Computer-Aided Glaucoma Diagnosis System

Glaucoma is the second leading cause of blindness globally. Early detection and treatment can prevent its progression to avoid total blindness. This book discusses and reviews current approaches for detection and examines new approaches for diagnosing glaucoma using CAD system. Computer-Aided Glaucoma Diagnosis System Chapter 1 provides a brief introduction of the disease and current methodology used to diagnose it today. Chapter 2 presents a review of the medical background of the disease followed by a theoretical and mathematical background used in fundus image processing. Chapter 3 is a literature review about segmentation and feature extraction. Chapter 4 describes the formulation of the proposed methodology. In Chapter 5 the results of optic disc and optic cup segmentation algorithm are presented the feature extraction and selection method experimental results and performance evaluations of the classifier are given. Chapter 6 presents the conclusions and discussion of the future potential for the diagnostic system. This book is intended for biomedical engineers computer science students ophthalmologists and radiologists looking to develop a reliable automated computer-aided diagnosis system (CAD) for detecting glaucoma and improve diagnosis of the disease. Key Features Discusses a reliable automated computer-aided diagnosis system (CAD) for detecting glaucoma and presents an algorithm that detects optic disc and optic cup Assists ophthalmologists and researchers to test a new diagnostic method that reduces the effort and time of the doctors and cost to the patients Discusses techniques to reduce human error and minimize the miss detection rate and facilitate early diagnosis and treatment Presents algorithms to detect cup and disc color shape features and RNFL texture features Dr. Arwa Ahmed Gasm Elseid is an assistant professor Department of Biomedical Engineering Sudan University of Science and Technology Khartoum Sudan. Dr. Alnazier Osman Mohammed Hamza is professor of Medical Imaging College of Engineering Sudan University of Sciences and Technology Khartoum Sudan.

GBP 105.00
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Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector

Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector

Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector Second Edition thoroughly examines the world of transportation as it relates to public procurement stressing the importance of not only procuring the right goods materials and services but also ensuring their proper delivery to their final destination. Designed to educate the public procurement professional on ways to realize enhanced cost savings it offers an introduction to the history of transportation as well as industry terminology and accepted practices. Authors Darin Matthews and Linda Stanley explore recent transportation industry evolutions including the development of important technologies like package tracing delivery notification and drone delivery and ways to successfully integrate this technology. Sustainability in transportation—including product packaging material reuse and reduced emissions for delivery vehicles— is likewise examined. Through the use of case studies and transportation industry resources Managing Logistics and Transportation in the Public Sector Second Edition offers a complete package for professionals looking to enhance their knowledge of logistics and transportation as well as for university courses on transportation supply chain management and public procurement.

GBP 89.99
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An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

When the existential philosopher Colin Wilson died in December 2013 it was suggested by one perceptive obituary writer that despite the seemingly diverse subject matter of his books his true legacy lay in the field of Consciousness Studies. This is particularly apparent when studying his many essays and books on psychology and taking into consideration his close association with the celebrated American psychologist Abraham Maslow whose concept of 'Peak Experiences'(PEs) became for Wilson an important link to experiencing enhanced consciousness. Maslow however felt that PEs could not be induced at will; Wilson thought otherwise and through his work sought to encourage his readers and students to live more vital and appreciative lives thereby paving the way toward an evolutionary leap for mankind in consciousness-indeed a change in consciousness that would potentially change everything. In this study Colin Stanley Wilson's bibliographer and author of Colin Wilson's 'Outsider Cycle': A Guide for Students and Colin Wilson's 'Occult Trilogy': A Guide for Students provides an illuminating essay on each of Wilson's nine major books on psychology. | An Evolutionary Leap Colin Wilson on Psychology

GBP 130.00
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American Abolitionists

American Abolitionists

This book the latest in the Seminar Studies in History series examines the movement to abolish slavery in the US from the origins of the movement in the eighteenth century through to the Civil War and the abolition of slavery in 1865. Books in this Seminar Studies in History series bridge the gap between textbook and specialist survey and consists of a brief Introduction and/or Background to the subject valuable in bringing the reader up-to-speed on the area being examined followed by a substantial and authoritative section of Analysis focusing on the main themes and issues. There is a succinct Assessment of the subject a generous selection of Documents and a detailed bibliography. Stanley Harrold provides an accessible introduction to the subject synthesizing the enormous amount of literature on the topic. American Abolitionists explores the roles of slaves and free blacks in the movement the importance of empathy among antislavery whites for the suffering slaves and the impact of abolitionism upon the sectional struggle between the North and the South. Within a basic chronological framework the author also considers more general themes such as black abolitionists feminism and anti-slavery violence. For readers interested in American history.

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Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

This book posits that Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy draws inspiration from the Italian “politic histories” of the early modern period. These works of history influenced by the Roman historian Tacitus delve into the exploration of the machinations of power politics in governance and the shaping of historical events. The argument is that closely analysing these Italian “politic histories” can significantly enhance our understanding of the “politic” aspects dramatized in Shakespeare’s early English History plays. Specifically the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli are highlighted as contributing to this understanding. These “politic histories” were accessible (in a variety of forms) to many English early modern writers including Shakespeare. Thus they serve as foundation for political and strategic analogies enriching our interpretation of Shakespeare’s politic histories. While delving into the Italian “politic” historians can illuminate Shakespeare’s achievement it is suggested that we should regard the English History plays as “politic histories” in their own right. In essence they are dramatized versions of precisely the same kinds of “politic” historical writing with its emphasis on ragion di Stato or raison d’état. This emphasis on what the Elizabethans called “stratagems” introduces new approaches to interpreting the plays. Considering the motivation and action of its characters entails novel approaches that challenge the established reading of the plays’ ‘Machiavellian’ characters (particularly Richard III) and shed light on previously overlooked characters (particularly Buckingham and Stanley) revealing their considerably greater strategic acumen. This exploration provides fresh avenues for reading the Shakespeare’s politic histories and better appreciate their Italian connection. | Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

GBP 145.00
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Celebrating the Nation A critical study of Australia's bicentenary

Celebrating the Nation A critical study of Australia's bicentenary

Celebrating the Nation offers the first major critical retrospective on Australia's Bicentenary. The editors have collected a series of essays focusing on the different ways in which 1988 was celebrated. From the soccer Gold Cup to literary commissions from Expo 88 to the Travelling Exhibition and the Stockman's Hall of Fame it examines the cultural and ideological frameworks which shaped the discourses and rhetoric of those celebrations. The contributors also put the Australian Bicentenary of 1988 in historical and international perspective comparing the celebrations of 1988 with earlier Australian anniversary celebrations and with recent national celebrations in France Canada and the United States. Drawing on the findings of a major research project organised by the Institute for Cultural Policy Studies at Griffith University Celebrating the Nation provides a provocative and insightful analysis of the cultural and political processes through which modern nations organise and symbolise their histories and identities. | Celebrating the Nation A critical study of Australia's bicentenary

GBP 130.00
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Sports Business Management Decision Making Around the Globe

Sports Business Management Decision Making Around the Globe

This new edition of a widely adopted textbook equips students with a comprehensive understanding of the sport industry. With a focus on management strategy marketing and finance the decision-making approach of the book emphasizes key concepts while translating them into practice. Content specific to each of the vital stakeholders in the sport business is included. Foster O’Reilly and Dávila present a set of modular chapters supported with international examples. Supplementary materials available to instructors include mini-cases full case studies activities in-class lecture materials and exercises to help students apply the decision-making approach to real-world situations. The book includes content about sport organizations such as the Olympic Games FIFA World Cup the European Premier Leagues and Major North American Professional Sport Leagues. Stanford cases are updated for the second edition and entirely new chapters cover the latest topics including esports sports gambling fantasy sports and crisis management. This is an ideal textbook for upper-level undergraduate and postgraduate students of sports business and management. | Sports Business Management Decision Making Around the Globe

GBP 99.99
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Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

Wilderness Wanderings slashes through the tangled undergrowth that Christianity in America has become to clear a space for those for whom theology still matters. Writing to a generation of Christians that finds itself at once comfortably ?at home? yet oddly fettered and irrelevant in America Stanley Hauerwas challenges contemporary Christians to reimagine what it might mean to ?break back into Christianity? in a world that is at best semi-Christian. While the myth that America is a Christian nation has long been debunked a more urgent constructive task remains; namely discerning what it may mean for Christians approaching the threshold of the twenty-first century to be courageous in their convictions. Ironically reclaiming the church's identity and mission may require relinquishing its purported ?gains??which often amount to little more than a sense of comfort the seduction of feeling ?at ease in Zion?? to take up again the risk and adventure of life ?on the way. ? Accordingly this book gives no comfort to the religious right or left which continues to think Christianity can be made compatible with the sentimentalities of democratic liberalism. Such a re-visioned church will not establish itself through conquest or in a reconstituted Christendom but rather must develop within its own life the patient attentive skills of a wayfaring people. At least a church seasoned by a peripatetic life stands a better chance of noticing the changing directions of God's leading. The wilderness therefore ought not to appear to contemporary Christians in America as a foreboding and frightening possibility but as an opportunity to rediscover the excitement and spirit but also the rigorous discipline of faithful itinerancy. At such a crucial time as this Hauerwas challenges Christians to eschew the insidious dangers that attend too permanent a habitation in a place called America and to assume instead the holy risks and hazards characteristic of people called out set apart | Wilderness Wanderings Probing Twentieth-century Theology And Philosophy

GBP 130.00
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The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s Governance Impacts and Controversies

The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s Governance Impacts and Controversies

This book explores various social cultural political and economic issues through the lenses of various sport mega-events in the twenty-first century including the Olympic Games and the World Cup and European Championships in football. In a time where sport mega-events are closely followed by controversies legacy discourses and questions of their governance the chapters within this book showcase why sport mega-events continue to ignite important questions for scholars commentators fans and sport and political authorities. By covering various topics emerging around sport mega-events such as physical activity legacies rhetoric media coverage environmental impacts diplomacy and spectators' experiences this book breaks new ground as it considers a range of longstanding and emerging socio-political issues relating broadly to the staging of spectacular sport mega-events in the present-day. This is a fascinating reading for students and researchers situated in sociology sport management event management political science sport studies sport business urban studies and leisure studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Sport in Society. | The Sport Mega-Events of the 2020s Governance Impacts and Controversies

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Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology

Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology

This book addresses the timely subject of systems applications in astrobiology. It demonstrates how astrobiology – a multidisciplinary interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field of science – can benefit from adopting the systems approach. Astrobiology draws upon its founding sciences such as astronomy physics chemistry biochemistry geology and planetary sciences. However astrobiologists can encounter difficulties working across these fields. The systems approach we believe is the best contemporary approach to consider astrobiology holistically. The approach is currently used in other fields such as engineering which uses systems analysis routinely. Such an approach needs to be learned both in principle and through examples from the field. This book features chapters from experts across the field of astrobiology who have applied the systems approach. It will be a valuable guide for astrobiology students at the advanced undergraduate and graduate levels in addition to researchers in the field both in academia and the space industry. Key Features: Offers a unique and novel approach to studying and understanding astrobiology Encourages astrobiologists to apply a holistic systems approach to their work rather than being bogged down in details Imparts practical knowledge to readers which can be adopted in different research and job opportunities in the field of astrobiology Vera M. Kolb obtained degrees in chemical engineering and organic chemistry from Belgrade University Serbia and earned her PhD in organic chemistry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale Illinois United States. Following a 30-year career she is Professor Emerita of Chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Kenosha Wisconsin. During her first sabbatical leave with the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training (NSCORT) in Astrobiology she conducted research with Dr. Leslie Orgel at the Salk Institute and Prof. Stanley Miller at UC San Diego. Her second sabbatical was with Prof. Joseph Lambert at Northwestern University where she studied sugar silicates and their potential astrobiological relevance. She is credited for authoring over 160 publications in the fields of organic and medicinal chemistry green chemistry and astrobiology including several books. Recently she authored Green Organic Chemistry and Its Interdisciplinary Applications (CRC 2016). In the astrobiology field she edited Astrobiology: An Evolutionary Approach (CRC 2015) and Handbook of Astrobiology (CRC 2019). She co-authored (with Benton C. Clark) Astrobiology for a General Reader: A Questions and Answers Approach (CSP 2020) and Systems Approach to Astrobiology (CRC 2023). | Guidebook for Systems Applications in Astrobiology

GBP 99.99
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The Future of Political Science

The Future of Political Science

Harold D. Lasswell is arguably the quintessential face of political science to the larger public of the past century. However there is a side to Lasswell less well known but of special importance in this day and age: the place of the profession of politics as an academic activity. This book written at the start of the culture wars thirty years ago outlines the basic core position of political science practitioners. It helps to explain why the field kept its collective cool when other social science professionals veered to more extreme activist positions. The Future of Political Science grew out of the phenomenally rapid expansion of the study of government in the United States and elsewhere. The study of professionalism among physical scientists lawyers engineers etc. was not matched by such internal examination within the social sciences until much later. Lasswell's overview centered on developments in the United States. There unfettered study of government reached unprecedented heights in the final stage of the twentieth century. The key concept of this volume one that continues to inform discourse is the relationship of political science as a mechanism for the study and teaching of the political system to the field as a tool of the Establishment. This concern grew in the wake of a variety of scandals and secret support sponsored by both government and non-government organizations alike. The Future of Political Science covers areas ranging from membership size and disparities intervention scenarios in world events the nature of creativity in political research collaboration in projects with the other social sciences and the location of scientific centers of gravity in the study of politics. Because of Lasswell's works we have a field of the political science of knowledge as well as the sociology of knowledge. Harold D. Lasswell served as Ford Foundation Professor of the Social Sciences at Yale University Distinguished Professor of Policy Sciences at John Jay College of the City University of New York and as professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He was a past president of the American Political Science Association and author of many books covering the full range of political and policy research. Jay Stanley is professor emeritus of sociology at Towson State University. He is former editor of Armed Forces & Society and co-author of Challenges in Military Health Care.

GBP 130.00
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Biosafety and Bioethics in Biotechnology Policy Advocacy and Capacity Building

Biosafety and Bioethics in Biotechnology Policy Advocacy and Capacity Building

This book covers a range of important topics in biotechnology policy advocacy and education bioethics biosafety regulations for genetically modified organisms and gene-edited products and biotechnology manpower development. Throughout the book the contributors review biosafety and bioethical guidelines that could enhance adoption of biotechnology in alignment with national priorities and research agendas. They also discuss the importance of current biotechnology policy advocacy enlightenment and public engagement with stakeholders and policy makers. The book will be useful reference material for scientists and researchers working in the fields of food and agricultural biotechnology biopharmaceuticals and medical biotechnology environmental biotechnology biotechnology policy and advocacy biotechnology communication and manpower development biosafety and bioethics etc. Emphasizes recent advances in biotechnology that could ameliorate the high-level global food insecurity through the deployment of the technology in Nigeria Provides detailed information on how to domesticate biotechnology and boost training of the biotechnology workforce in the universities and research institutes Introduces new frontiers in the area of organizing informal biotechnology capacity building courses and professional certification Reviews biosafety and bioethical guidelines that could enhance adoption of biotechnology in alignment with national priorities and research agendas Discusses current biotechnology policy advocacy enlightenment and public engagement with stakeholders and policy makers Sylvia Uzochukwu Ph. D. is a Professor of Food Science and Biotechnology and Director Biotechnology Centre Federal University Oye-Ekiti Nigeria. Arinze Stanley Okoli Ph. D. is an Associate Professor at Genoek – Centre for Biosafety Universitetet II Breivika Tromsoe Norway. Nwadiuto (Diuoto) Esiobu Ph. D. is a Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology at Florida Atlantic University Boca Raton FL USA and the President and Founder of Applied Biotech Inc. and ABINL. Emeka Godfrey Nwoba Ph. D. is currently at the Algae Research & Development Centre Murdoch University Western Australia. Christpeace Nwagbo Ezebuiro Ph. D. is a Project Manager Renewable Energy Expert and Head of Clean Technology Division at the National Biotechnology Development Agency Abuja Nigeria. Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji Ph. D. is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology and the Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer Edo State University Uzairue Nigeria. Abdulrazak B. Ibrahim Ph. D. is a Capacity Development Expert at the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and Associate Professor of Biochemistry Ahmadu Bello University Zaria Nigeria. Benjamin Ewa Ubi Ph. D. is a Professor of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology and Director Biotechnology Research and Development Centre Ebonyi State University Abakaliki Nigeria. | Biosafety and Bioethics in Biotechnology Policy Advocacy and Capacity Building

GBP 115.00
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Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

Vernon Lee was the chosen name of Violet Paget (1856–1935) a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction and her radical polemics. She was also an active letter writer whose correspondents include many well-known figures in fin de siècle intellectual circles across Europe. This multi-volume scholarly edition presents a comprehensive selection of her English French Italian and German correspondence — compiled from more than 30 archives worldwide — that reflect her wide variety of interests and occupations as a Woman of Letters philosopher psychologist and political activist. Letters written in a language other than English have been expertly translated by scholars Sophie Geoffroy (from the French) Crystal Hall (from the Italian) and Christa Zorn (from the German). Full transcriptions of some 2000 letters are arranged in chronological order along with introductions biographical notes and detailed footnotes that explain their context and identify the recipients friends and colleagues mentioned. In this third volume covering the years 1890-1896 the 429 assembled letters follow Violet Paget-Vernon Lee from the age of thirty-four when she lives with her parents and half-brother the poet and invalid Eugene Lee-Hamilton at Villa Il Palmerino (Florence) to the ripe age of forty when both her parents died and her brother recovered from his illness and decided to leave home. As Lee copes with Eugene’s invalidism and her own physical and psychological ailments we get a view of the practice and teaching of medicine and nursing in Europe in the late 1890s. Lee sponsors her friend’s Amy Turton’s convalescent home and nurses’ training. Mental sciences are at the forefront from experimental psychology psychiatry and neurology to neurophysiology; and in August 1892 Vernon Lee and Clementina Anstruther-Thomson attend the Psychological Congress in Paris with speakers Hermann von Helmholtz James Sully Alexander Bain Francis Galton G. Stanley Hall and Amboise-Auguste Liebeault. Lee came to consider herself as a psychologist as much as a philosopher of art and delved more deeply into experimental psychology; and with her partner Clementina Anstruther-Thomson she refined a theory of aesthetic empathy and inner mimicry. According to this theory a viewer’s response to a work of art can be measured through his or her physiognomy breathing heartbeats and eye and muscular movements thus providing a scientific basis for an innate appreciation of aesthetic value. They published a synthesis of their work: “Beauty and Ugliness” (The Contemporary Review October-November 1897). While travelling Lee continues to write her travel essays (e. g. Genius Loci: Notes on Places 1899) and her popular supernatural tales. She starts lecturing emulating Eugénie Sellers’s British Museum lectures and her method for attribution and connoisseurship. Her interest in socialism and political economy intensify as her circle widens beyond an aristocratic and society milieux to working-class districts and her collection Althea (1894) shows her interest in ethics moral duties and free-thinking. She indicts the proponents of art for art’s sake. Her discussions about contracts copyright and royalties pirated editions and money matters are intertwined with educational ethics and a concern for the fair recognition of women’s higher education and careers. She becomes involved in the university extension program by giving her first lectures on ancient art and aesthetics in the East End and at Toynbee Hall and her experience of lecturing in London Cambridge Oxford and Rome allows her to meet other intellectuals: Eugénie Sellers Mrs Arthur Strong etc. and new audiences. In 1894 the Affaire Dreyfus (1894–1906) begins revealing the rise of anti-Semitism targeting many of Lee’s close friends also defenders of Dreyfus such as James Darmesteter. After he died Darmesteter’s wife Mary (Robinson) and Lee once again became close to one another. By the time she turned forty Vernon Lee experienced several emotional blows: her friend and mentor Walter Pater died on 30 July 1894. That same year four months later on 14 November 1894 her father died from complications related to asthma Eugene Lee-Hamilton started to recover from chronic illness soon after his stepfather’s death. Eighteen months | Selected Letters of Vernon Lee 1856–1935 1890-1896

GBP 110.00
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