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The dwarf who moved : and other remarkable tales from a life in the law
\"New Zealand's pre-eminent criminal barrister looks back on his remarkable life and times. In his time as a criminal defence lawyer in the New Zealand courts, the late Sir Peter Williams QC saw it all. From the days when abortion, homosexuality and even telling fortunes could see a person hauled before the courts, to sensational cases of wrongful imprisonment and police corruption, he witnessed the defining moments in the evolution of our modern judicial and penal systems. In this rich and wise collection of memoir, anecdote and forensic analysis our pre-eminent courtroom advocate recalls the people (including Ronald Jorgensen, Arthur Allan Thomas, 'Mr Asia', James K Baxter, Winston Peters and many more) and the cases (both celebrated and obscure) that defined his remarkable career. Fearless, astute and compassionate, Peter Williams proves -- beyond reasonable doubt -- that truth is nearly always stranger than fiction. Peter Williams QC was New Zealand's best known criminal barrister. He appeared in some of the country's most celebrated and controversial trials, including the so-called ژMr Asia' case, the notorious Basset Road machinegun murders, the Arthur Allan Thomas appeal and the murder trial of World War II hero Peta Awatere. Made Queen's Counsel in 1987, he was appointed a Knight Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit shortly before his death in June 2015\"--Page 4 of cover.
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Peter Orchard Williams
If Peter Williams had acted on his original career plan he would have become a botanist. If he'd stuck to his second plan he would have spent his life as a doctor. He twice changed his mind, the second time in favour of research administration. Whatever the loss this represented to botany and medicine, it proved a significant gain for biomedical research.
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The magic words: Using computers to uncover mental associations for use in magic trick design
The use of computational systems to aid in the design of magic tricks has been previously explored. Here further steps are taken in this direction, introducing the use of computer technology as a natural language data sourcing and processing tool for magic trick design purposes. Crowd sourcing of psychological concepts is investigated; further, the role of human associative memory and its exploitation in magical effects is explored. A new trick is developed and evaluated: a physical card trick partially designed by a computational system configured to search for and explore conceptual spaces readily understood by spectators.
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Cobbett's cartography: Identifying the map from his 1826 rural ride down the vale of Avon
'Rural Rides' (1830), the best-known work of prolific English radical journalist and politician William Cobbett, includes an account of his three-month 1826 ride across south-western England. The book contains a single map, of the Vale of Avon, traced by the author from an unidentified \"very old map of Wiltshire\" and showing 58 unnamed locations, only 16 of which Cobbett identifies in his text. Analysis of Cobbett's text and map reveal the source map he traced is most likely one of two 1760s reprints of Emanuel Bowen's 1755 county map of Wiltshire, from which information the locations depicted can almost all be identified. The reason Cobbett used a source so out of date, when three more accurate and up-to-date surveys of the county were available to him, is also discussed.
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WILLIAM PETER ADAMS (1936-2018)
Barr presents an obituary for a scientist, university professor, author, and a politician William Peter Adams, who died on Sep 28, 2018 at the age of 82. Adams political career began with his election to the Kawartha Pine Ridge Public School Board, whose mandate included the public schools in Peterborough.
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William Cobbett, James Gillray and the Market for Caricatures in 1790s Philadelphia
Stagg focuses on William Cobbett, James Gillray and the market for caricatures in Philadelpia PA in the late 1790s. In this same period, vast numbers of caricatures published in London England by artists such as James Gillray (1756/7-1815), Thomas Rowlandson (1756-1827) and Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811) were imported to the European continent, thus allowing for the assumption that the unspecified British caricatures mentioned in the American newspaper advertisements may well have been by these notable artists. Details found in documents dating from the last decade of the eighteenth century, however, allow for a more thorough examination of the availability of and interest in imported and American caricatures in Philadelphia in the late 1790s. The primary source is an account book in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester MA of the famous British radical, polemicist and publisher William Cobbett (1763-1835), who took refuge in America in 1793.
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From Victim to Savior: Women in Demonic Possession Films
The amount of theoretical work devoted to demonic possession horror films has been limited in comparison to its counterpart, the slasher. In an attempt to track the demonic possession sub-genre and its changes—or lack thereof—in this thesis I analyze the The Exorcist, The Last Exorcism, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Possession of Hannah Grace, Evil Dead, and lastly, Jennifer’s Body. Since little critical work has been done on this sub-genre, I use criticism of slasher movies to conclude that there has been little to no progression of the demonic possession film. Jennifer’s Body is not the latest demonic possession film discussed in this thesis but it is the only one that took the model The Exorcist created and twisted it to produce a progressive take on the genre. The renewed popularity of the slasher sub-genre in recent years and the related decline of demonic possession films, which were once the top sub-genre of horror in movie theaters, suggests that something has to change for demonic possession films to succeed again. I argue that the sub-genre needs to embrace what Jennifer’s Body attempted, and allow women to be their own saviors instead of showing possession as a punishment for a woman’s “shortcomings.” Additionally, the sub-genre should open itself up and place men in the position of the possessed and allow them to have the same emotions as the possessed woman—primal terror, sorrow, and fear.
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