This is the third volume of Peter Simpson’s distinguished series, England in the Middle Ages, the culmination of extensive and meticulous research. It encompasses the early Plantagenet period (1216 to 1307) and offers a comprehensive examination of English life, covering the domains of art, science, medicine, economics, and religion. The subsequent sections explore the reigns of Henry III and Edward I, addressing pivotal events such as the Magna Carta, the Second Baron’s War, and Edward’s ...

The first of an extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by New Zealand's most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919–1987) was New Zealand's greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings, abstraction, the introduction of words, and Maori motifs, McCahon's work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom. Collected and exhibited extensively in Australasia and Europe, McCahon's work has not been assessed as ...

Following on from the popular first book in this series covering the Norman period, "The Angevins" traces the establishment and growth of the English nation state. Covering the reigns of Henry II, Richard I and the infamous King John, the narrative flows from the ending of the civil war known as the Anarchy to the First Baron's War and the Magna Carta. With over 190 illustrations and maps, the format has been designed to enable the reader to absorb the essence of the period. This is a seri...

A vibrant portrait of New Zealand's art scene in mid-century Christchurch.Explore the interconnected lives and legacies of artists, writers, and musicians who shaped Christchurch's cultural identity from 1933 to 1953. Peter Simpson delves into the fertile period when figures like Rita Angus, Colin McCahon, Ngaio Marsh, and Douglas Lilburn forged a unique blend of European modernism and New Zealand nationalism.Discover the untold stories behind the Caxton Pr...

This book is a meticulously researched but very readable story of Huguenot Paul Fourdriniers journey from being an apprentice in Holland to a highly recognized printmaker in London in the eighteenth century. Paul is almost forgotten and artistically underrated but was an accomplished copper engraver who founded the English Fourdrinier dynasty, which produced the developers of the Fourdrinier papermaking machine and the mother of Cardinal Newman. The reader will be immersed in his world and...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first BMETs job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important points. With this book, you'll be able to revise your application into a much stronger docu...

This book describes an approach based on attention that can help individuals and groups to cooperate more effectively. It presents the first book-length reassessment of Wilfred Bion's ideas on groups. Every group has a purpose or purposes - or, as Bion put it, "every group, however casual, meets to 'do' something." The approach described here shows how individual group members' use of attention - both broad or "evenly suspended" and focused - can promote a better understanding of purpose, ...

That the Gospels are the writings of their traditional Apostolic authors was long held to be settled truth. It was also long held that Matthew was first and as early as the 40sAD, followed by Mark and Luke, and lastly by John, and that all were written before about 70AD. These views have been doubted or denied by New Testament scholars from about the end of the 18thCentury. The dominant view is that the Gospels were not written by eyewitnesses, though they depend on material that may go ba...

The Politics, Aristotle’s classic work on the nature of political community, has been a touchstone of Western debates about society and government. In this volume, Peter Simpson presents a complete philosophical commentary on the Politics, an analysis of the logical structure of the entire text and each of its constitutive arguments and conclusions. Unlike other contemporary works on the Politics, Simpson’s philosophical commentary is not, save incidentally, a di...

Among the works on ethics in the Aristotelian corpus, there is no serious dispute among scholars that the Eudemian Ethics is authentic. The Eudemian Ethics isincreasingly read and used by scholars as a useful support and confirmation and sometimes contrast to the Nicomachean Ethics. Yet, it remains a largely neglected work in the study of Aristotle's ethics, both among scholars and moral philosophers.Peter L. P. Simpson provides an analytical outline of t...

This book deconstructs the story of liberalism that John Rawls, author of Political Liberalism, and many others have put forward. Peter L.P. Simpson argues that political liberalism is despotic because it denies to politics a concern with the comprehensive human good; political illiberalism overcomes this despotism and restores genuine freedom. In Political Illiberalism, Simpson provides a detailed account of these political phenomena and presents a political theory opposed to that of Rawl...

2021 Publication Award in Biography from the Wyoming State Historical SocietyWesterners International Co-Founders Book Award, second placeGeorge W. T. Beck, an influential rancher and entrepreneur in the American West, collaborated with William F. “Buffalo Bill” Cody to establish the town of Cody, Wyoming, in the 1890s. He advanced his financial investments in Wyoming through his numerous personal and professional contacts with various eastern investors and politicians in Wa...