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The Teleios Ring

By: Adam Loxley

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In a quiet corner in rural Kent, a 75 year old spinster is found dead at the bottom of her stairs, apparently killed while disturbing a burglary. Within days, two more people have been brutally murdered, triggering a race against time to catch a serial-killer before it is too late.Local Police Officer, John Garrick is on the case, closely followed by Journalist Neil Ashton, both of them out of their depth but both trying to unravel the mystery of something called Teleios, the word sprayed in bright, red letters at each of the murder scenes. And unknown to both of them, sinister, ex-government security agent, Craven, also wants to find out what Teleios means – but for very different reasons. What none of them realise is the magnitude of what they are dealing with; a chain of events that threatens the very heart of the establishment and which will change the fabric of society forever. An outcome so unimaginable that people are prepared to kill for it. Will any of them get there in time? And when they discover the true meaning of Teleios, will their lives ever be the same again?The plot combines the classic English murder mystery with the murky world of politics and international espionage. In an old fashion sense, the story is a mixture of Agatha Christie and John le Carré. In contemporary terms, the story is told from the perspective of three different protagonists, in a style reminiscent of Robert Goddard and Susan Hill.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1848769202

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Material Texts in Early Modern England

By: Adam Smyth

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Material Texts in Early Modern England

By: Adam Smyth

What was a book in early modern England? By combining book history, bibliography and literary criticism, Material Texts in Early Modern England explores how sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books were stranger, richer things than scholars have imagined. Adam Smyth examines important aspects of bibliographical culture which have been under-examined by critics: the cutting up of books as a form of careful reading; book destruction and its relation to canon formation; the prevalence of printed errors and the literary richness of mistakes; and the recycling of older texts in the bodies of new books, as printed waste. How did authors, including Herbert, Jonson, Milton, Nashe and Cavendish, respond to this sense of the book as patched, transient, flawed, and palimpsestic? Material Texts in Early Modern England recovers these traits and practices, and so crucially revises our sense of what a book was, and what a book might be.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108369421

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9781108369428

Radio Free Stein

Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays

By: Adam J. Frank

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Radio Free Stein

Gertrude Stein's Parlor Plays

By: Adam J. Frank

Returns us to Gertrude Stein’s theater by way of the modernist medium of radio What happens when we listen to Gertrude Stein’s plays as radio and music theater? This book explores the sound of Stein’s theater and proposes that radio, when approached both historically and phenomenologically, offers technical solutions to her texts’ unique challenges. Adam J. Frank documents the collaborative project of staging Stein’s early plays and offers new critical interpretations of these lesser-known works. Radio Free Stein grapples with her innovative theater poetics from a variety of disciplinary perspectives: sound and media studies, affect and object relations theory, linguistic performativity, theater scholarship, and music composition.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810148080

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9780810148086

Shakespeare Unlearned

Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity

By: Adam Zucker

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Shakespeare Unlearned

Pedantry, Nonsense, and the Philology of Stupidity

By: Adam Zucker

Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding and shared community in words and ideas that might in the past have been considered too silly to matter much for serious scholarship. Each chapter pursues a self-knowing, gently ironic study of the lexicon and scripting of words and acts related to what has been called 'stupidity' in work by Shakespeare and other authors. Each centers significant, often comic situations that emerge -- on stage, in print, and in the critical and editorial tradition pertaining to the period -- when rigorous scholars and teachers meet language, characters, or plotlines that exceed, and at times entirely undermine, the goals and premises of scholarly rigor. Each suggests that a framing of putative 'stupidity' pursued through lexicography, editorial glossing, literary criticism, and pedagogical practice can help us put Shakespeare and semantically obscure historical literature more generally to new communal ends. Words such as 'baffle' in Twelfth Night or 'twangling' and 'jingling' in The Tempest, and characters such as Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Holofernes the pedant, might in the past have been considered unworthy of critical attention -- too light or obvious to matter much for our understanding of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Adam Zucker's meditation on the limits of learnedness and the opportunities presented by a philology of stupidity argues otherwise.

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Oxford University Press

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0198906781

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9780198906780

"Profit and Delight"

Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682

By: Adam Smyth

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"Profit and Delight"

Printed Miscellanies in England, 1640-1682

By: Adam Smyth

The first sustained study of seventeenth-century printed miscellanies.

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Wayne State University Press

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0814330142

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9780814330142

Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England

By: Adam Lucas

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Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England

By: Adam Lucas

This is the first detailed study of the role of the Church in the commercialization of milling in medieval England. Focusing on the period from the late eleventh to the mid sixteenth centuries, it examines the estate management practices of more than thirty English religious houses founded by the Benedictines, Cistercians, Augustinians and other minor orders, with an emphasis on the role played by mills and milling in the establishment and development of a range of different sized episcopal and conventual foundations. Contrary to the views espoused by a number of prominent historians of technology since the 1930s, the book demonstrates that patterns of mill acquisition, innovation and exploitation were shaped not only by the size, wealth and distribution of a house’s estates, but also by environmental and demographic factors, changing cultural attitudes and legal conventions, prevailing and emergent technical traditions, the personal relations of a house with its patrons, tenants, servants and neighbours, and the entrepreneurial and administrative flair of bishops, abbots, priors and other ecclesiastical officials.

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Routledge

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1317146468

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9781317146469

Will Not Attend

Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation

By: Adam Resnick

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Will Not Attend

Lively Stories of Detachment and Isolation

By: Adam Resnick

“Damn, this book is good.”—Jon Stewart “A biting, darkly hilarious collection of personal essays that begs to be read aloud.”—Chicago Tribune Emmy Award–winning writer Adam Resnick began his career at Late Night with David Letterman before honing his chops in movies and cable television, including HBO’s The Larry Sanders Show. While courageously admitting to being “euphorically antisocial,” Resnick plunges readers deep into his troubled psyche in this uproarious memoir-in-essays. Shaped by such touchstone events as a traumatic Easter egg hunt and overwrought by obsessions, he refuses to be burdened by chores like basic social obligation and personal growth, adhering to his own steadfast rule: “I refuse to do anything I don’t want to do.”

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Penguin

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0147516218

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The Opening of the Apartheid Mind

Options for the New South Africa

By: Heribert Adam,Kogila Moodley

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The Opening of the Apartheid Mind

Options for the New South Africa

By: Heribert Adam,Kogila Moodley

Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad relies on stereotypes of violent tribalism and false colonial analogies. Adam and Moodley criticize the personality cult surrounding Nelson Mandela and the accolades accorded F. W. de Klerk. They reject the black-versus-white conflict and substitute sober analysis and strategic pragmatism for the moral outrage that typifies so much writing about South Africa. Believing that the best expression of solidarity emanates from sympathetic but candid criticism, they pose challenging questions for the African National Congress and Nelson Mandela. They give in-depth coverage to political violence, the ANC-South African Communist Party alliance, Inkatha, and other controversial topics as well. The authors do not propose a solution that will guarantee a genuinely democratic South Africa. What they offer is an understanding of the country's social conditions and political constraints, and they sketch options for both a new South Africa and a new post-Cold War foreign policy for the whole of southern Africa. The importance of this book is as immediate as today's headlines.

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Univ of California Press

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0520354761

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9780520354760

Tawarikh Melayu dan Melaka

Esei-Esei Pilihan

By: Ahmat Adam

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Tawarikh Melayu dan Melaka

Esei-Esei Pilihan

By: Ahmat Adam

“...penerbitan esei-esei ini juga digerakkan oleh rasa tidak senang penulis terhadap beberapa orang yang berlagak sarjana ilmu tawarikh tetapi menulis hal-hal dongeng ciptaannya sendiri yang didakwanya sebagai sejarah, tanpa mengemukakan dalil sahih yang menjadi landasan penulisan ilmu tawarikh atau ilmu sejarah.” Dalam karya terbarunya ini, Prof. Emeritus Ahmat Adam membincangkan zaman silam Melaka dan kaitannya dengan tawarikh bangsa Melayu. Esei-esei yang terkumpul dalam buku ini adalah hasil daripada penyelidikan beliau, dan antara topik yang dibincangkan ialah penaklukan kesultanan Melayu Melaka oleh bangsa Portugis, perihal Laksamana Melaka yang bergelar Hang Tuha (bukan “Tuah”), dan warisan budaya Nusantara seperti ilmu huruf serta hubungannya dengan permasalahan dan makna huruf al-Qur’an yang sangat mempengaruhi para sarjana zaman dahulu.

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Strategic Information and Research Development Centre

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9672464983

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9789672464983

The Artemis File

By: Adam Loxley

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The Artemis File

By: Adam Loxley

A national newspaper publishes a crossword, a catastrophic event that reveals covert intelligence known only to the security services. And a defected CIA officer, long thought dead, suddenly reappears in London, passing an envelope to a total stranger in St. James’s Park. An envelope which is completely empty… Cue panic in London, Tel Aviv and Langley, Virginia – before a desperate chase is launched to preserve a secret kept hidden for over 20 years; a real-life conspiracy so breathtaking, it threatens to bring down governments and change the balance of world power for ever. Who is threatening the establishment, what do they want, and crucially, who or what is Artemis?

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1789018730

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The Teleios Ring

By: Adam Loxley

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By: Adam Loxley

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The Teleios Ring

The Teleios Ring

Material Texts in Early Modern England

Material Texts in Early Modern England

Radio Free Stein

Radio Free Stein

Shakespeare Unlearned

Shakespeare Unlearned

"Profit and Delight"

"Profit and Delight"

Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England

Ecclesiastical Lordship, Seigneurial Power and the Commercialization of Milling in Medieval England

Will Not Attend

Will Not Attend

The Opening of the Apartheid Mind

The Opening of the Apartheid Mind

Tawarikh Melayu dan Melaka

Tawarikh Melayu dan Melaka

The Artemis File

The Artemis File

The Teleios Ring

The Teleios Ring

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