Books by "E. Henry Gurney"
6 books found
First published in 1999. This is Volume III of twenty-one of a series on Cognitive Psychology. Written in 1926, this book looks at what common sense is, how we might arrive at an idea or discovery by inspiration, or at a judgment or decision by intuition; when in either case we have no knowledge as to how the result is suddenly attained.
During the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine (1939–1948), Arabs and Jews used the law as a resource to gain leverage against each other and to influence international opinion. The parties invoked "transformational legal framing" to portray the essentially political-religious conflict as a legal dispute involving claims of justice, injustice, and victimisation, and giving rise to legal/equitable remedies. Employing this form of narrative and framing in multiple "trials" during the first 15 years of the Mandate, the parties continued the practice during the last and most crucial decade of the Mandate. The term "trial" provides an appropriate typology for understanding the adversarial proceedings during those years in which judges, lawyers, witnesses, cross-examination, and legal argumentation played a key role in the conflict. The four trials between 1939 and 1947 produced three different outcomes: the one-state solution in favour of the Palestinian Arabs, the no-state solution, and the two-state solution embodied in the United Nations November 1947 partition resolution, culminating in Israel's independence in May 1948. This study analyses the role of the law during the last decade of the British Mandate for Palestine, making an essential contribution to the literature on lawfare, framing and narrative, and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides
by John Alexander Harvie-Brown, Thomas E. Buckley
1892
Dr. Charles Shumaker was employed by the Methodist Board of Mission in 1948 and was considered the master school builder in Southeast Asia until 1959. His service in the U.S. Navy in World War II had taken him to the U.S. Naval Language School, where he became a Chinese Interpreter during the war years and served a tour on mainland China until the war ended. Through the Board of Missions, he was sent to Malacca Malaya with his wife and three children with one more child born in Malaya. He served there until 1954 when he was transferred to Medan Sumatra. During his tour in Malaya, he became friends with Dato Sir Cheng Lock. The friendship blossomed to the point where they regularly discussed all the pertinent political points of a nation trying to find its birth among racial problems, the Communist Insurrection, and the disintegration of the British Empire. This book takes a firsthand historical path through the birth of the Malaysian Nation. His friendship with Dato Sir Cheng Lock and the access he had to all of Sir Cheng Lock’s personnel papers and correspondence gave Dr. Shumaker an insight that very few were fortunate enough to see. Dr. Shumaker truly did live with and among those who were instrumental in the Formative Years of Malaysian Politics. Dr. Shumaker left the Methodist Board of Missions on 1959 and finished his career in the State Department. He served tours in Jordan, Taiwan, and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania; but he never lost his passion for the peoples of Malaysia.