Tag: Enigma

The Kitchener Enigma The Life and Death of Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, 1850-1916


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English | ISBN: 0750967293 | 2016 | 416 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
In this critically acclaimed biography, now fully updated, Royle revises Kitchener’s latter-day image as a stern taskmaster, the ultimate war lord, to reveal a caring man capable of displaying great loyalty and love to those close to him.New light is thrown on his Irish childhood, his years in the Middle East as a biblical archaeologist, his attachment to the Arab cause and on the infamous struggle with Lord Curzon over control of the army in India.In particular, Royle reassesses Kitchener’s role in the Great War, presenting his phenomenally successful recruitment campaign – ‘Your Country Needs You’ – as a major contribution to the Allied victory and rehabilitating him as a brilliant strategist who understood the importance of fighting the war on multiple fronts.

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Ultra Versus U-Boats Enigma Decrypts in the National Archives


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Pen & Sword | 2008 | ISBN: 1844158748 | English | 264 pages | PDF | 124.56 MB
Keeping the Atlantic sea-lanes open was a vital factor in the fight against Nazi Germany. In the battle to protect merchant shipping from the menace of surface raiders and U-boats, Allied resolve and resources were tested to the utmost.

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The Enigma of Metaphor Philosophy, Pragmatics, Cognitive Science


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031568656 | 185 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 3 MB
This book deals with the complicated realm of metaphor, an enigma deeply embedded in language and cognition. There has been much discussion of metaphor in the past, but it was characterized by a certain fragmentation and lacked interdisciplinarity. In this field of study, the dominance of Cognitive Linguistics, epitomized by the Conceptual Metaphor Theory of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, has caused the marginalization of alternative perspectives. To fill this gap, this book embarks on an interdisciplinary journey, inviting different theoretical frameworks to engage in a fruitful dialog. It navigates the labyrinth of theories and illuminates the nuanced facets of metaphor.

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The Logic of Immunity Deciphering an Enigma


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English | January 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1421447657 | 208 pages | True EPUB | 2.35 MB
Unveils how the immune system works and explores strategies for harnessing its potential for maintaining good health.

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Magical American Jew The Enigma of Difference in Contemporary Jewish American Short Fiction and Film


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English | ISBN: 1498565026 | 2017 | 158 pages | EPUB | 494 KB
Efforts to describe contemporary Jewish American identities often reveal more questions than concrete articulations, more statements about what Jewish Americans are not than what they are. Highlighting the paradoxical phrasings that surface in contemporary writings about Jewish American literature and culture-language that speaks to the elusive difference felt by many Jewish Americans-Aaron Tillman asks how we portray identities and differences that seem to resist concrete definition. Over the course of Magical American Jew, Tillman examines this enigma-the indefinite yet undeniable difference that informs contemporary Jewish American identity-demonstrating how certain writers and filmmakers have deployed magical realist techniques to illustrate the enigmatic difference that Jewish Americans have felt and continue to feel.

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