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All Can Achieve
In 1986, Sylvan High School in Crystal Palacewas a broken school, with a pass rate of 9 per cent, truancy of 60 per cent andteachers who seldom lasted longer than six months. Today, the Harris CityAcademy Crystal Palace, Sylvan’s successor, is hailed as one of the bestschools in the country.This transformation was the blueprint for anational education revolution. Philip Harris’s achievements paved the way forthe academies movement, and academies now account for nearly half of England’sschools. The same remarkable effect can be seen throughout the HarrisFederation, the most successful multi-academy trust in England, which runsfifty-nine state academies with around 50,000 students and 5,000 members ofstaff. Every single one is rated ‘Good’ or better by Ofsted, and seven wererecently listed in an international report as ‘World Class’.The Harris revolution has driven theextraordinary improvements in our education system over the past twenty years.In 2009, England lagged at twenty-seventh in the world for maths andtwenty-fifth for reading. Today, reports show it is among the best-performingcountries in Europe.All Can Achieveis both the inspiring account of how Philip Harris took on the near-impossiblechallenge of turning around failing state schools and the inside story of aseismic change in English education.
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Blake, Myth, and Enlightenment
This book provides compelling new readings of William Blake’s poetry and art, including the first sustained account of his visionary paintings of Pitt and Nelson. It focuses on the recurrent motif of apotheosis, both as a figure of political authority to be demystified but also as an image of utopian possibility. It reevaluates Blake’s relationship to Enlightenment thought, myth, religion, and politics, from The French Revolution to Jerusalem and The Laocoön. The book combines careful attention to cultural and historical contexts with close readings of the texts and designs, providing an innovative account of Blake’s creative transformations of Enlightenment, classical, and Christian thought.
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Milton and Newton
John Milton, England's greatest narrative poet, and Isaac Newton, England's greatest natural philosopher, are rarely thought of together. While one is regarded as the last great figure of the English Renaissance and the other as the first great figure of the English Enlightenment, their lives overlapped for three decades, and their intellectual and social networks intersected. This book not only reveals surprising and arresting parallels between their vitalist speculations on the life of matter, their unorthodox views on the Christian godhead, and their self-understanding as prophets, but also demonstrates that their natural philosophical views are connected to their unusual and, from orthodox perspectives, heretical antitrinitarian Christian views. While Milton's and Newton's systems of thought parallel each other in sometimes uncanny ways, those systems diverge in ways dictated by their deepest commitments, Milton's to freedom of the will and Newton's to divine omnipotence. In a revision of Stephen M. Fallon's argument in Milton among the Philosophers that Milton's animist materialism was idiosyncratic, Milton emerges in this book as both a participant in a vigorous vitalist movement in experimental natural philosophy and an early adopter of key ideas that would characterize the Newton circle in the decades after the poet's death. This study casts light on the significance of Milton's thought and on his place in intellectual history, while at the same time situating less familiar aspects of Newton's work in that history. Readers will find that apparently fanciful elements of Milton's epic stage have solid contemporary natural philosophical foundations.
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Milton's Peculiar Grace
Despite writing about himself extensively and repeatedly, John Milton, the archetypal Puritan author, resolutely avoids the obligatory Augustinian narrative of sinfulness, conviction of sin, reception of the Word, regeneration of the spirit, and sanctification. The doctrine of fall, grace, and regeneration, so well illustrated in Paradise Lost, has no discernible effect on Milton's overt self-representations. Exploring this anomaly in his new book, Stephen M. Fallon contends that Milton, despite his deep engagement with theology, is not a religious writer. Why, Fallon asks, does Milton write about himself so compulsively? Why does he substitute, for the otherwise universal theological script, a story of precocious and continued virtue, even, it seems, a narrative of sinlessness? What pressures does this decision to reject the standard narrative exert on his work? In Milton's Peculiar Grace, Fallon argues that Milton writes about himself to gain immortality, secure authority for his arguments, and exert control over his readers' interpretations. He traces the return of the repressed narrative of fallenness in the author's unacknowledged and displaced self-representations, which in turn account for much of the power of the late poems. Fallon's book, based on close readings of Milton's "self-constructions" in prose and poetry throughout his career, provides a new view of Milton's life and his importance for contemporary literary theory-in particular for continued questions about authorial intention. To listen to a radio interview with Stephen Fallon discussing Milton's enduring significance, on the Australian Broadcasting Company's "Late Night Live," click here.
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Divided Empire
In Divided Empire, Robert T. Fallon examines the influence of John Milton's political experience on his great poems: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes. This study is a natural sequel to Fallon's previous book, Milton in Government, which examined Milton's decade of service as Secretary for Foreign Languages to the English Republic.Milton's works are crowded with political figures—kings, counselors, senators, soldiers, and envoys—all engaged in a comparable variety of public acts—debate, decree, diplomacy, and warfare—in a manner similar to those who exercised power on the world stage during his time in public office. Traditionally, scholars have cited this imagery for two purposes: first, to support studies of the poet's political allegiances as reflected in his prose and his life; and, second, to demonstrate that his works are sympathetic to certain ideological positions popular in present times.Fallon argues that Paradise Lost is not a political testament, however, and to read its lines as a critique of allegiances and ideologies outside the work is limit the range and scope of critical inquiry and to miss the larger purpose of the political imagery within the poem. That imagery, the author proposes, like that of all Milton's later works, serves to illuminate the spiritual message, a vision of the human soul caught up in the struggle between vast metaphysical forces of good and evil. Fallon seeks to enlarge the range of critical inquiry by assessing the influence of personal and historical events upon art, asking, as he puts it, "not what the poetry says about the events, but what the events say about the poetry." Divided Empire probes, not Milton's judgment on his sources, but the use he made of them.
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Where Truth Lies
A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. This boldly original book traces the evolution of documentary film and photography as they migrated onto digital platforms during the first decades of the twenty-first century. Kris Fallon examines the emergence of several key media forms—social networking and crowdsourcing, video games and virtual environments, big data and data visualization—and demonstrates the formative influence of political conflict and the documentary film tradition on their evolution and cultural integration. Focusing on particular moments of political rupture, Fallon argues that the ideological rifts of the period inspired the adoption and adaptation of newly available technologies to encourage social mobilization and political action, a function performed for much of the previous century by independent documentary film. Positioning documentary film and digital media side by side in the political sphere, Fallon asserts that “truth” now lies in a new set of media forms and discursive practices that implicitly shape the documentation of everything from widespread cultural spectacles like wars and presidential elections to more invisible or isolated phenomena like the Abu Ghraib torture scandal or the “fake news” debates of 2016.
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Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare
Robert Fallon has written a book for those whose encounter with a play by Shakespeare, either in performance or on the printed page, has left them occasionally puzzled as to what in the world is going on. Shakespeare can be difficult: he wrote largely in verse and not in everyday speech; his plays are set in unfamiliar locales; and his lines abound in allusions that were familiar to Elizabethan audiences but not, alas, to us. His plays move us despite these difficulties, but they would even more so if we had a bit of deciphering and knew more about Shakespeare's London. A Theatergoer’s Guide opens a window to that time while illuminating the timelessness of Shakespeare’s plays, their portrayal of the human condition in any age. Written for the general reader “in plain though not inelegant English,” the book is mercifully free of academic jargon or scholarly apparatus. It examines the most frequently staged plays scene by scene, and those less frequently performed act by act, in chapters that may be read in one sitting in anywhere from five to forty minutes. These chapters pursue the sequence of events clearly, but they are much more than tedious plot summaries, and they do not “dumb down” Shakespeare. They provide intelligent readers with incisive and engaging commentary on character, theme, setting, poetry, and stage history, in surveys that will help them follow the action with ease and understanding. Dedicated theatergoers as well as students and teachers unfamiliar with a play will find the book a rich source of pleasure and insight. It is destined to become a standard work in the field.
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Fallon 4
In the fourth instalment of the K-Twelve Legacy Series, the Office of Special Projects is under new management - Colonel James Scott. It is now the noughties, and Scott has brought the OSP into the modern era. As tough as nails, uncompromising. When a former operative dies suddenly whilst researching a book and then his son disappears without trace, Scott assigns rookie operative Fiona Dexter to investigate. When she is almost killed, Scott must rethink and brings out the big guns. Jacob Fallon, great-grandson of the legendary Jonathan Fallon, explodes literally on to the page as the modern K-12.Fallon is sent to Scotland to investigate the death of an analyst who's body is washed up on the shores of the River Clyde. Files suddenly get delivered to the OSP headquarters that point to an attack by a far right group called 'The Wolf Pack', whose origins hark back to the end of the Second World War, who plan to bomb a climate change conference.Join us as Fallon and Dexter follow the clues as they race to stop the wolf pack and learn of an even more sinister plot.
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Fallon 3
In the third instalment of the K-Twelve Legacy Series, a new political landscape has emerged from the dust left by the Great War. However, old wounds still served to fuel hatred and a new, more dangerous foe has arisen from the ashes - The Nazis. New organisations are formed to combat this new threat but the old guard, in the form of the Office of Special Projects, are still there. Colonel John Forrester is at a crossroads, his most trusted operative, Jonathan Fallon, has retired, leaving the K-12 post vacant. Many have come forward and many have fallen.It is March 1942. Deep in occupied France, an agent for the Special Operations Executive is on the run for his life. He has vital information about the goings on at a nearby chateau and must inform his superiors back in Britain. He manages to get his hands on a radio set and begins to transmit, but is killed before he could finish. What has startled this agent so much to make him break his cover and give his life to pass this information on? John Forrester and the OSP are tasked with finding the answer, but who can he assign to the mission? A new breed of man steps forward, somehow different but also the same. His name... FALLON
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Fallon 2
In the second instalment of The K-Twelve Legacy Series, following on from the original Fallon: Non Est Optio Defectum, Jonathan Fallon is in semi-retirement, enjoying becoming both a husband and a father. However, his idyllic world is soon shattered after an encounter at his local pub turns violent and the perpetrator wreaks his vengeance on Fallon by kidnapping his wife and young son after ambushing the family whilst they were out walking. Leaving Fallon for dead, Lukas Falcone takes his 'prize' home with him to Kalander Island, which is owned by his father, industrialist Alexandre Falcone. Jonathan Fallon must use all his skills to recover his wife and son as well as solving the unanswered question left over from the original novel: who financed the Riga affair in Egypt? In a plot that twists and turns and drips with revenge, a mysterious hitman arrives on the island, summoned there by Falcone senior to deal with the Fallon problem. Who is this Louis Serpens and where does he fit into this complicated chess game of move and countermove? And just how far will Agent K-Twelve go to save his family? After all, Familia Super Omnia - Family Above All.
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Dynamic Constitution
In this revised and updated second edition of The Dynamic Constitution, Richard H. Fallon, Jr provides an engaging, sophisticated introduction to American constitutional law. Suitable for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, this book discusses contemporary constitutional doctrine involving such issues as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, rights to privacy and sexual autonomy, the death penalty, and the powers of Congress. Through examples of Supreme Court cases and portraits of past and present Justices, this book dramatizes the historical and cultural factors that have shaped constitutional law. The Dynamic Constitution, 2nd edition, combines detailed explication of current doctrine with insightful analysis of the political culture and theoretical debates in which constitutional practice is situated. Professor Fallon uses insights from political science to explain some aspects of constitutional evolution and emphasizes features of the judicial process that distinguish constitutional law from ordinary politics.
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Changing Constitution
In The Changing Constitution, Richard H. Fallon Jr. explores the constitutional law of the United States as reflected in decisions of the Supreme Court, including recent blockbusters. The author analyses controversial rulings addressing topics such as freedom of speech and religion, the Second Amendment right to bear arms, abortion, affirmative action, gay rights, and the powers and prerogatives of the President. Examining modern controversies from a historical perspective he argues that it's impossible to understand U.S. constitutional law without recognizing the political and institutional forces that always have brought, and will continue to bring, innovations and occasional reversals in constitutional doctrine. Fallon also highlights distinctive aspects of the current era, including the judicial philosophies of the sitting Justices. This intellectually sophisticated overview of constitutional law and Supreme Court practice additionally discusses anxieties about whether and how the Justices, who can overrule their own precedents, are meaningfully constrained by law.
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Dynamic Constitution
In this revised and updated second edition of The Dynamic Constitution, Richard H. Fallon, Jr provides an engaging, sophisticated introduction to American constitutional law. Suitable for lawyers and non-lawyers alike, this book discusses contemporary constitutional doctrine involving such issues as freedom of speech, freedom of religion, rights to privacy and sexual autonomy, the death penalty, and the powers of Congress. Through examples of Supreme Court cases and portraits of past and present Justices, this book dramatizes the historical and cultural factors that have shaped constitutional law. The Dynamic Constitution, 2nd edition, combines detailed explication of current doctrine with insightful analysis of the political culture and theoretical debates in which constitutional practice is situated. Professor Fallon uses insights from political science to explain some aspects of constitutional evolution and emphasizes features of the judicial process that distinguish constitutional law from ordinary politics.
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Paper Overload
Paper overload is collection of 100 poems written by Fallon Salomon. There are 67 micropoems (short poems in simple stanzas) and 33 Haikus all together to make up this artistically written masterpiece. There are a wide range of themes, including love, loss, nature and wonder, and reflections of a student writer.
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Nature of Constitutional Rights
What does it mean to have a constitutional right in an era in which most rights must yield to 'compelling governmental interests'? After recounting the little-known history of the invention of the compelling-interest formula during the 1960s, The Nature of Constitutional Rights examines what must be true about constitutional rights for them to be identified and enforced via 'strict scrutiny' and other, similar, judge-crafted tests. The book's answers not only enrich philosophical understanding of the concept of a 'right', but also produce important practical payoffs. Its insights should affect how courts decide cases and how citizens should think about the judicial role. Contributing to the conversation between originalists and legal realists, Richard H. Fallon, Jr explains what constitutional rights are, what courts must do to identify them, and why the protections that they afford are more limited than most people think.
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