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Justification and Legitimacy
A. John Simmons is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and creative of today's political philosophers. His work on political obligation is regarded as definitive and he is also internationally respected as an interpreter of John Locke. The characteristic features of clear argumentation and careful scholarship that have been hallmarks of his philosophy are everywhere evident in this collection. The essays focus on the problems of political obligation and state legitimacy as well as on historical theories of property and justice. Cumulatively the collection presents a distinctive social and political philosophy, exploring the nature of our most fundamental rights and obligations, and displaying the power and plausibility of Lockean ideal theory.
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Approaching the Terminus
Born in Derbyshire in 1951, John Simms developed a love of railways at an early age, a passion that would shape his life and eventually see him become one of three finalists for a Group Travel Organiser Award. Although he considers himself a Somerset man, Simms has travelled extensively across Britain and around the world, exploring railway lines, meeting fellow enthusiasts, and even encountering celebrities drawn to the charm of steam locomotion.From riding in half-century-old coaches and engaging with passengers, to absorbing spectacular scenery and documenting local routes, his journey is one of deep enthusiasm and lived experience. Approaching the Terminus – A Life Around Railways is an engaging memoir that offers a detailed account of heritage railways, their links to film and television, and the many highs, lows, and takeover attempts that shaped them – culminating in thoughtful reflections on an intriguing life.The book traces a lifetime spent around railways, from Derbyshire collieries and the Somerset & Dorset line to volunteering with the Somerset & Dorset Railway Trust and the Corris Railway. Simms also spent twenty-two years working full-time behind the scenes, promoting the West Somerset Railway to both the general public and dedicated enthusiasts. Along the way, he weaves in incidental but entertaining reflections on beer, pubs, and music—including the unlikely story of how Aunt Fortescue’s Bluesrockers were played on air by John Peel, beating The Desperate Bicycles to the punch.Both a valuable reference for railway enthusiasts and an enjoyable memoir in its own right, this is a fascinating journey through a life lived alongside the rails.
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Justification and Legitimacy
A. John Simmons is widely regarded as one of the most innovative and creative of today's political philosophers. His work on political obligation is regarded as definitive and he is also internationally respected as an interpreter of John Locke. The characteristic features of clear argumentation and careful scholarship that have been hallmarks of his philosophy are everywhere evident in this collection. The essays focus on the problems of political obligation and state legitimacy as well as on historical theories of property and justice. Cumulatively the collection presents a distinctive social and political philosophy, exploring the nature of our most fundamental rights and obligations, and displaying the power and plausibility of Lockean ideal theory.
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Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End Of The World
Best of 2021 Lists:NewYork Public LibraryEntertainmentWeeklyIndigoAndmore..."A wonderfully dizzy mixture of Menin Black, John Carpenter, Stephen King, The Matrix, and 1970s conspiracythrillers."- Forbes“A story forour zeitgeist. SIMMONDS' art invokes Bill Sienkiewicz.”- EntertainmentWeekly"It is FANTASTIC. Can't wait toread the whole series!"- Patton OswaltCOLETURNER has studied conspiracy theories all his life, but he isn't prepared forwhat happens when he discovers that all of them are true, from the JFKAssassination to Flat Earth Theory and Reptilian Shapeshifters. One organizationhas been covering them up for generations. What is the deep, dark secret behindthe Department of Truth? From bestsellingwriter JAMES TYNION IV (BATMAN, SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN) and breakoutartist MARTIN SIMMONDS (DYING ISEASY)!Collects DEPARTMENT OF TRUTH#1-5
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Sir John Franklin and the Arctic Regions
In May 1845, the famous Arctic explorer John Franklin (1786–1847) embarked on another attempt to find the elusive North-West Passage. He never returned from this voyage, and was last seen by whalers in Baffin Bay in July 1845. Some thirty rescue missions were launched between 1847 and 1859 to find the missing men. Franklin was not the first explorer to make the dangerous voyage to find the route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific, and journalist Peter Lund Simmonds (1814–97) draws from a wide range of reports and publications about these expeditions in his history of the search for the North-West Passage, published in 1851. The detailed account also includes descriptions of the many missions to find Franklin, and this second edition was published later in the same year as the first in order to include updated reports on the progress of his rescue.
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Memoirs of John Addington Symonds
This edition is the first to reproduce John Addington Symonds's Memoirs in its entirety. It offers a panoramic view of middle-class Victorian life, shedding light upon sexual cultures and life histories too often hidden from history. Symonds (1840-93) began writing his Memoirs in 1889. It was, he confessed, 'a foolish thing to do.' Symonds was a respected man of letters, an historian, translator, essayist and poet; he was also married with children. But rather than unfold a simple tale of public and private achievement, the Memoirs record his struggle to reconcile his homosexuality with these professional and familial identities. His autobiography offers a confessional account of relationships beyond the accepted bounds of nineteenth-century social mores, presenting an alternative case study that contests the legal and medical authorities that would label his desires a crime or disease. Yet being so eloquent on matters of heterodox sexuality, the Memoirs were suppressed. The manuscript survives because Symonds recognised its import, however 'foolish': he instructed his literary executor to preserve the text, a duty ultimately discharged by placing the manuscript under embargo in the care of the London Library.
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Passions of John Addington Symonds
John Addington Symonds (Bristol 1840 - Rome 1893) was one of Victorian Britain's most prolific authors, with works that included poems, translations, travel essays, and scholarly studies on topics ranging from classical literature to the Renaissance to the poetry of his contemporaries. Today, however, he is usually remembered for his long unpublished Memoirs, a major early monument of queer life-writing, and for two privately printed, secretly circulatedessays, one of which includes the earliest printed appearance in English of the word homosexual. This new word, first coined in German, has long provided a useful milestone for historians of sexuality charting the emergence not only of new typologies but of whole new regimes of knowledge. But what of the rest ofSymonds's vast body of work? This book returns to Symonds, not as the origin of a now familiar history, but as a far more complex thinker, with an ambitious vision of the queerness of the world itself—and of what it means to live in it.
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John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality
The book brings together for the first time John Addington Symonds' key writings on homosexuality, and the entire correspondence between Symonds and Havelock Ellis on the project of Sexual Inversion. The source edition contains a critical introduction to the sources.
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Season of Adventure
This book had its origin in a daily journal I kept when accompanying my late husband, Professor Stuart Simmonds, at that time a Lecturer in Tai Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, on a field trip in Continental South-East Asia in the middle 1950s. The part of the world we visited then has changed enormously during the past half century and has been riven by wars, upheavals and political chicanery.
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John Addington Symonds (1840-1893) and Homosexuality
The book brings together for the first time John Addington Symonds' key writings on homosexuality, and the entire correspondence between Symonds and Havelock Ellis on the project of Sexual Inversion. The source edition contains a critical introduction to the sources.
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