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    Book collection

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    Item consists of a bill to Allan Robb Fleming from London bookseller Colin Richardson for several listed books and unlisted typographical books valuing 88 pounds

    Fleming, adaptation, and the author biopic

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    The mini-series Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond, which aired in the U.S. on BBC America and in the U.K. on Sky Atlantic in 2014, offered an entertaining and glamorised account of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond. Focusing in particular on Fleming’s time during the Second World War, a period in which he served in British Naval Intelligence, successive episodes comprised embroidered accounts of his experiences, with a heavy emphasis on scenes and motifs that chimed with the doings of his most famous character. This approach to the author’s life-story foregrounded the same elements upon which previous small-screen biographies of Ian Fleming had focused, especially his creation of Bond. The TV film Goldeneye: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1989) addressed his wartime experiences and subsequent Bond writing, while Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) doubled down on its Bond connections by casting Jason Connery (son of original film 007, Sean Connery) as Fleming in a Second World War adventure with numerous James Bond parallels. Likewise, Ian Fleming: Bondmaker (2005) and Ian Fleming: Where Bond Began (2008) both framed Fleming first and foremost in terms of his literary creation. With high production values, and a strong cast that included Dominic Cooper, Lara Pulver, and Samuel West, Fleming bore several of the hallmarks of what has come to be called “quality television” (Thompson, 1997) , and was heavily promoted in the weeks running up to its broadcast. However, a contemporary review in Wired by Graeme McMillan saw it as evidence of a problematic tendency in recent biopics. McMillan asserted that while such texts were previously “a mix of entertainment, education and guilt-free voyeurism,” they have become “a contradictory mix of hagiography and revisionism, lionizing their subjects while somehow managing to diminish them in comparison to the products of their imagination” (McMillan, 2014). In this chapter I will look to unpick this contention, and—in particular—to approach Fleming and the author biopic in terms of adaptation

    Colin Fleming addresses the English Association of Queensland (Brisbane Branch) on 'The Child in Literature: Children and Kipling', 26 Jun 1979

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    The English Association was founded in 1906 by a small group of English teachers and scholars, including F.S. Boas, A.C. Bradley and Sir Israel Gollancz. It took a leading part in the movement to develop English studies in schools, while encouraging advanced studies in further education. Past Presidents of the Association have included John Galsworthy, Harley Granville-Barker, Sir Kenneth Clark and George Steiner. The English Association today is an international organisation with branches and members in Britain and throughout the world. The English Association of Queensland was founded in 1923, with branches established in both Brisbane and Townsville. Records of the English Association and English Association of Queensland: receipt books, programmes of meetings, reports, newsletters, correspondence, cash books, syllabi, published material, annual reports and minute books

    Fleming, R.L. Sr., Fleming, R.L., Jr. & Bangdel, L.S. — Birds of Nepal, with reference to Kashmir and Sikkim. Katmandu, Nepal, chez le senior author (Box 229), 1976

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    Bourlière François. Fleming, R.L. Sr., Fleming, R.L., Jr. & Bangdel, L.S. — Birds of Nepal, with reference to Kashmir and Sikkim. Katmandu, Nepal, chez le senior author (Box 229), 1976. In: La Terre et La Vie, Revue d'Histoire naturelle, tome 31, n°2, 1977. p. 348

    Supplemental Material, Supplemental_Online_Materials_-_religiosity_predicts_evidentiary_standards - Religiosity Predicts Evidentiary Standards

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    Supplemental Material, Supplemental_Online_Materials_-_religiosity_predicts_evidentiary_standards for Religiosity Predicts Evidentiary Standards by Emilio J. C. Lobato, Shadab Tabatabaeian, Morgan Fleming, Sven Sulzmann and Colin Holbrook in Social Psychological and Personality Science</p

    James Bond: international man of gastronomy

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    This article is concerned with the representation of food and drink in Ian Fleming’s James Bond novels. In particular, it examines how the author uses Bond’s culinary knowledge and habits of consumption as an important constituent of his hero’s character. Similarly, the food choices of other characters, notably villains, are shown to be linked, by Fleming, to core aspects of their identity − principally their ethnicity. Bond’s impulse to observe and classify, very much in evidence in the novels’ food sequences, is examined in terms of the texts’ construction of Bond as a skilled identifier of signs

    Did Alexander Fleming deserve the Nobel Prize?

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    Penicillin is a serendipitous discovery par excellence. But, what does this say about Alexander Fleming’s praiseworthiness? Clearly, Fleming would not have received the Nobel Prize, had not a mould accidently entered his laboratory. This seems paradoxical, since it was beyond his control. The present article will first discuss Fleming’s discovery of Penicillin as an example of moral luck in science and technology and critically assess some common responses to this problem. Second, the Control Principle that says that people are not responsible for things beyond their control will be defended. An implication of this principle is that Alexander Fleming’s desert, which is based on his epistemic skills, remains untouched by luck. Third, by distinguishing different notions of praiseworthiness, a way to resolve the paradox of moral luck will be elaborated. Desert provides only a pro tanto reason to determine whether someone is an appropriate addressee of reward. Here, luck can make a difference. Forth, it will be argued that stimulating the quest for socially beneficial science provides a compelling reason to treat scientists with equal desert differently. Penicillin provides striking evidence for the importance of this quest and showcasing it incentivizes the making of socially beneficial science. Ultimately, it will be justified why Fleming deserved the Nobel Prize in at least one sense of the concept.Ethics & Philosophy of Technolog
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