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The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern

By: Alan Stewart

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The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern

By: Alan Stewart

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume2. Early Modern explores life-writing in England between 1500 and 1700, and argues that this was a period which saw remarkable innovations in biography, autobiography, and diary-keeping that laid the foundations for our modern life-writing. The challenges wrought by the upheavals and the sixteenth-century English Reformation and seventeenth-century Civil Wars moulded British and early American life-writing in unique and lasting ways. While classical and medieval models continued to exercise considerable influence, new forms began to challenge them. The English Reformation banished the saints' lives that dominated the writings of medieval Catholicism, only to replace them with new lives of Protestant martyrs. Novel forms of self-accounting came into existence: from the daily moral self-accounting dictated by strands of Calvinism, to the daily financial self-accounting modelled on the new double-entry book-keeping. This volume shows how the most ostensibly private journals were circulated to build godly communities; how women found new modes of recording and understanding their disrupted lives; how men started to compartmentalize their lives for public and private consumption. The volume doesn't intend to present a strict chronological progression from the medieval to the modern, nor to suggest the triumphant rise of the fact-based historical biography. Instead, it portrays early modern England as a site of multiple, sometimes conflicting possibilities for life-writing, all of which have something to teach us about how the period understood both the concept of a 'life' and what it mean to 'write' a life.

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0191506990

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The Oxford History of Life-writing

By: Alan Stewart

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The Oxford History of Life-writing

By: Alan Stewart

The Oxford History of Life-Writing: Volume 1: The Middle Ages' explores the richness and variety of life writing in the Middle Ages, ranging from Anglo-Latin lives of missionaries, prelates, and princes to high medieval lives of scholars and visionaries to late medieval lives of authors and laypeople.

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0199684073

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Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland

By: Alan John Fletcher

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Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland

By: Alan John Fletcher

A study of the early history of drama and performance in Ireland, from the 7th century through the 16th and 17th centuries, ending on the eve of the arrival of Oliver Cromwell.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802043771

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Understanding Sport

A Socio-cultural Analysis

By: John Horne,Alan Tomlinson,Garry Whannel

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Understanding Sport

A Socio-cultural Analysis

By: John Horne,Alan Tomlinson,Garry Whannel

In the decade or more since publication of the first edition of Understanding Sport, both sport and wider global society have undergone profound change. In this fully updated, revised and expanded edition of their classic textbook, John Horne, Alan Tomlinson, Garry Whannel and Kath Woodward offer a critical and reflective introduction to the relationship between sport and contemporary society and explain how sport remains an important agent and symptom of socio-cultural change. Fully integrating historical, sociological, political and cultural analysis, the book covers every key topic in the study of sport and society, including: debate, interpretation and theory sport and the media sport and the body sport and politics commercialization globalization. Retaining the accessibility and scholarly rigour for which Understanding Sport has always been renowned, this new edition includes entirely new chapters on global transformations, sports mega-events and sites, sporting bodies and governance, as well as a succinct guide to researching sport. With review and seminar questions included in every chapter, plus concise, helpful guides to further reading, Understanding Sport remains an essential textbook for all courses on sport and society, the sociology of sport, sport and social theory, or social issues in sport.

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Routledge

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0415591406

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Cutting Hill

A Chronicle of a Family Farm

By: Alan Pistorius

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Cutting Hill

A Chronicle of a Family Farm

By: Alan Pistorius

This is the true story of how you get your milk. And because this is the story of a family dairy farm in Vermont it is also the true story of how you get delicious, Grade A maple syrup. Author Alan Pistorius embedded with the Treadway family for a year, recording four seasons of milking, fixing, plowing and syrup making. Pistorius' careful observations make for a powerful meditation on farming, business and family.

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Garrett County Press

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1891053434

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England in the Thirteenth Century

By: Alan Harding

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England in the Thirteenth Century

By: Alan Harding

The first single-volume account of the political, administrative and social history of England in the thirteenth century.

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Cambridge University Press

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052131612X

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Arnold's Poetic Landscapes

By: Alan Roper

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Arnold's Poetic Landscapes

By: Alan Roper

Originally published in 1969. Alan Roper studies the degree to which Arnold achieved a unity of human significance and literal landscape. If landscape poetry is to rise above the level of what Roper calls "country contentments in verse," the poet cannot think and describe alternately; his thinking and describing must be a part of one another. That Matthew Arnold was aware of the difficulty in achieving the necessary unity becomes clear in his own criticism, which Roper examines along with a large and representative number of Arnold's poems. Considering the latter roughly in the order they were published—except for a fuller analysis of Empedocles on Etna, "The Scholar-Gipsy," and "Thyrsis"—Roper follows important changes in Arnold's view of the function and nature of poetry as it emerged in the poems themselves. Basic to the author's critical method is a distinction between geographical sites and poetic landscapes. Focusing on the ways that Arnold and, to a lesser extent, the Augustan and Romantic poets before him untied thought and description, Roper adds a critical dimension to Arnold scholarship. Concerned not with the development of Arnold's ideas nor with their sources in classical antiquity and the Romantic period, he considers Arnold a self-conscious poet who, though sometimes successful, became increasingly unsuccessful in his efforts to imbue a landscape with meaning for individual or social man.

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JHU Press

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1421430991

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American Ballads and Folk Songs

By: John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax

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American Ballads and Folk Songs

By: John A. Lomax,Alan Lomax

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

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Courier Corporation

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048631992X

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American Ballads and Folk Songs

By: Alan Lomax

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American Ballads and Folk Songs

By: Alan Lomax

Music and lyrics for over 200 songs. John Henry, Goin' Home, Little Brown Jug, Alabama-Bound, Ten Thousand Miles from Home, Shack Bully Holler, Black Betty, The Hammer Song, Bad Man Ballad, Jesse James, Down in the Valley, The Bear in the Hill, Shortenin' Bread, The Ballad of Davy Crockett, and many more.

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0486282767

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A Second Dawn...

By: alan w greenwood

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A Second Dawn...

By: alan w greenwood

Trinity was the name of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon conducted by the United States military on July 16, 1945, as part of the Manhattan Project. The test site at White Sands was about 35 miles southeast of Socorro, New Mexico. The project was top secret and local inhabitants of towns and adjacent ranches and farms were unaware of the magnitude and destiny of the top secret test. Alan Greenwood's mother related experiencing the test first hand and later watching a Movietone news article that mentioned no endangered population of worry closer than Albuquerque.".

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1329564588

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Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland

A Repertory of Sources and Documents from the Earliest Times Until C. 1642

By: Alan John Fletcher

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Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland

A Repertory of Sources and Documents from the Earliest Times Until C. 1642

By: Alan John Fletcher

The Irish contribution to world theatre is famous, but today awareness of Irish theatrical activity is chiefly confined to the modern period. This book corrects that imbalance with an unparalleled study of the early history of drama and performance in Ireland, from the seventh century through the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and ending on the eve of the arrival of Oliver Cromwell. The work of professional entertainers is discussed, as is that of amateurs, in theatricals sponsored by churches, guilds, civic authorities, and aristocratic patrons. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, many unpublished, Alan Fletcher opens up a vibrant but forgotten Irish landscape in which drama and performance collaborated actively in the mapping and manufacture of social history. Modern Irish drama is acknowledged as having a rich and vibrant tradition. Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland helps to show how that vibrant tradition of drama and theatre has a very long history. Dr. Fletcher deals not only with performance traditions outside the Pale in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but for the first time delves into such traditions as can be gleaned about Gaelic Ireland during the preceding millennium. Fletcher surveys the 'native' traditions beyond the Pale; early and sixteenth-century activities within Dublin; Kilkenny drama; provincial centres outside Dublin; and Dublin in the seventeenth century up to the arrival of Oliver Cromwell, when the Irish theatres were closed.

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Boydell & Brewer

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0859915735

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Match of the Day: Top 10 of Everything

Our Ultimate Football Debates

By: Gary Lineker,Alan Shearer,Micah Richards

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Match of the Day: Top 10 of Everything

Our Ultimate Football Debates

By: Gary Lineker,Alan Shearer,Micah Richards

Football isn't life or death - it's much more serious than that... Which players will the fans never forget? Who are the Premier League's best buys? Who were the best link ups in history? In Match of the Day Top 10 of Everything, Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer and Micah Richards bring all of the charm, wit and punditry of their hit BBC Sounds podcast onto the page, arguing the toss over their favourite strikers, Premier League managers, shock transfers, cult heroes, hard men, FA Cup Finals, and much, much more. The question is...will you agree with their picks?

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Random House

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1473533082

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Die Casting Metallurgy

Butterworths Monographs in Materials

By: Alan David Kaye,Arthur Street

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Die Casting Metallurgy

Butterworths Monographs in Materials

By: Alan David Kaye,Arthur Street

Die Casting Metallurgy focuses on developments in the metallurgy of die casting. Ore distribution, smelting methods, and energy requirements for the major non-ferrous metals that are die cast are considered. This text has 29 chapters; the first of which provides an overview of early developments in die casting. After explaining how metals and alloys are die cast, the book turns to the production of aluminum and its alloys, aluminum alloy die castings, and melting equipment for aluminum alloys. The chapters that follow explore the metallurgy of zinc and magnesium alloys; brass and ferrous die casting; automatic metal transfer systems; metal melting treatments; and the metallurgy of die casting machines. Developments in lubrication, die casting, and finishing processes are also considered. This book also describes pressure die casting dies, thermal fatigue of die casting dies, heat treatment of die steels, and surface treatment of steels. Some comparative alloy specifications are summarized and an attempt is made to correlate units of hardness, strength, and other properties. This book will be of interest to materials scientists and industrial materials engineers.

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Elsevier

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1483163393

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A Death in the Venetian Quarter

A Medieval Mystery

By: Alan Gordon

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A Death in the Venetian Quarter

A Medieval Mystery

By: Alan Gordon

In 1203, the relative peace of the Byzantine Empire is imperiled when the ships of the Fourth Crusade show up outside the walls of Constantinople. Instead of traveling to the Holy Land to battle the infidels, the Crusade, having sailed out of Venice, has been subverted and is now besieging the city. The jester known as Feste, his wife Viola, and their compatriots within the city are faced with catastrophe as the peace the Fool's Guild has worked so hard to maintain is about to be shattered. With such a disaster looming, the death of one silk merchant in the Venetian Quarter of Constantinople seems insignificant. But Philoxenites, the Imperial Treasurer and one of the most power schemers at court, has taken a special interest in the case and wants Feste to investigate Venetian merchant's death. The merchant, of course, was not what he appeared to be and, if Constantinople is to have any hope of surviving the troops outside its gates, Feste must quickly uncover what forces were at work when the merchant lost his life.

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Minotaur Books

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1466823100

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Game Changers: Inside English Football: From the Boardroom to the Bootroom

By: Alan Curbishley

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Game Changers: Inside English Football: From the Boardroom to the Bootroom

By: Alan Curbishley

Alan Curbishley has spent a lifetime in football both as a fan, player and manager.

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0008158169

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The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern

The Oxford History of Life Writing: Volume 2. Early Modern

The Oxford History of Life-writing

The Oxford History of Life-writing

Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland

Drama, Performance and Polity in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland

Understanding Sport

Understanding Sport

Cutting Hill

Cutting Hill

England in the Thirteenth Century

England in the Thirteenth Century

Arnold's Poetic Landscapes

Arnold's Poetic Landscapes

American Ballads and Folk Songs

American Ballads and Folk Songs

American Ballads and Folk Songs

American Ballads and Folk Songs

A Second Dawn...

A Second Dawn...

Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland

Drama and the Performing Arts in Pre-Cromwellian Ireland

Match of the Day: Top 10 of Everything

Match of the Day: Top 10 of Everything

Die Casting Metallurgy

Die Casting Metallurgy

A Death in the Venetian Quarter

A Death in the Venetian Quarter

Game Changers: Inside English Football: From the Boardroom to the Bootroom

Game Changers: Inside English Football: From the Boardroom to the Bootroom

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