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The Founders of Psychical Research

By: Alan Gauld

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The Founders of Psychical Research

By: Alan Gauld

Originally published in 1968 The Founders of Psychical Research is centred upon the lives and work of Henry Sidgwick, Edmund Gurney and Frederic Myers – prominent in the Society for Psychical Research (S.P.R) - during its early years: it is not a history of the Society. It passes over important aspects of the S.P.R.’s story and deals at some length with matters quite outside it. The book frequently gives accounts of ‘paranormal’ phenomena which if indeed they occurred, would not be explainable through any recognisable hypothesis, but are treated throughout as unexplained.

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Routledge

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0429594127

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9780429594120

Ruling the World

Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

By: Alan Lester,Kate Boehme,Peter Mitchell

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Ruling the World

Freedom, Civilisation and Liberalism in the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

By: Alan Lester,Kate Boehme,Peter Mitchell

Ruling the World tells the story of how the largest and most diverse empire in history was governed, everywhere and all at once. Focusing on some of the most tumultuous years of Queen Victoria's reign, Alan Lester, Kate Boehme and Peter Mitchell adopt an entirely new perspective to explain how the men in charge of the British Empire sought to manage simultaneous events across the globe. Using case studies including Canada, South Africa, the Caribbean, Australia, India and Afghanistan, they reveal how the empire represented a complex series of trade-offs between Parliament's, colonial governors', colonists' and colonised peoples' agendas. They also highlight the compromises that these men made as they adapted their ideals of freedom, civilization and liberalism to the realities of an empire imposed through violence and governed in the interests of Britons.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108567479

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9781108567473

Ronald Reagan & the Evil Empire

A Fictional Autobiography of Ronald Reagan

By: Alan Allen

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Ronald Reagan & the Evil Empire

A Fictional Autobiography of Ronald Reagan

By: Alan Allen

(Spring 2010) This historical novel finds President Reagan and First Lady Nancy trying to do the best acting of their lives to leave the White House, alive. (abridged edition) Our most loved and hated President after Kennedy and before Obama, Ronnie struggles to defeat the Evil Empire and not lose his mind to Alzheimers dementia. Can he still trust Bill Casey and George Bush, George Shultz, Selwa Roosevelt and Mike Deaver? Can Ronnie find out who's pulling his strings? A fervent anti-Communist and Nazi hater praised by his wife Nancy and ultra-conservatives, groomed by Bechtel Corporation since 1950 and sold StarWars by Dick Cheney and Paul Nitze during the most scandal-ridden presidency in American history, daughter Patti, college students and flower children despised Reagan for supporting the Vietnam War and Contra death squads and felt the Reagan-Bush Administration was run by Nazis. As it turns out, it was. This historical novel documents the foreign policy, national security and monetary policies of the Reagan-Bush Administration were run by Nazis thru the life of character Reinhard Gehlen, Hitlers chief of Foreign Armies East intelligence, whom Dulles hired to run and train CIA as Freikorps Nazi deathsquad torturers, terrorists and assassins who then trained the Contras ...that Gehlen was later handled by Bill Casey (Ronnie's campaign manager) then George Bush (Ronnie's vice president) to fight, exaggerate and invent the Cold War in order to capture the Russian Baku oil fields. And, the unabridged edition goes on to document thar the City of London/Fed/CIA/Bank of England/MI-6/7 financed (and implied ongoing financing) of the Moslem Brotherhood (also known as Al Queda, Muhajadin, Hezbollah, Hamas and Arab Nazis) at the bequest of the private owners (the interlocking directorate) of the Fed/G8. The unabridged edition goes on to document how the Fed today, through the companies they direct and/or directed, such as Enron and all the major banks and oil companies, Halliburton, Bechtel, Brown & Root, Blackwater, continue to hire narcoterrorists to protect Fed & G8 directed oil pipelines and heroin and weapons trafficking markets. (Note, much of all the documentation mentioned above, is in the unabridged edition.) Based on autobiographies of the Reagan family, Cabinet, and White House Staff, the book includes charts from: Staff Report, Committee on Banking, Currency & Housing, House of Representatives, 94th Congress, 2d session, Aug. 1976 -- Federal Reserve Directors, a Study of Corporate & Banking Influence. This series of charts documents the private owners of the Fed and the companies they direct, and the study in the unabridged edition has the conclusion of the House of Representatives, which states: "In summary, the Federal Reserve directors are apparently representatives of a small elite group that dominates much of the economic life of this nation.

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Trafford Publishing

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1466978260

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9781466978263

A Surgeon with Stilwell

Dr. John H. Grindlay and Combat Medicine in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

By: Alan K. Lathrop

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A Surgeon with Stilwell

Dr. John H. Grindlay and Combat Medicine in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II

By: Alan K. Lathrop

United States Army surgeon John H. Grindlay served in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II in 1941-1944. Drawing on his unpublished war diary and letters, this book sheds new light on the conduct of battlefield medicine in the tropics and provides a new perspective on such personalities as General Joseph W. Stilwell, the famed "Burma Surgeon" Dr. Gordon S. Seagrave, and Chiang Kai-shek. Stilwell's famous 1942 "walkout" retreat from Burma to India is covered, along with the 1943 Allied return to Burma to push the Japanese from the Ledo Road connecting northeast India to southwestern China.

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McFarland

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1476673500

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9781476673509

Understanding Sport

An Introduction to the Sociological and Cultural Analysis of Sport

By: John Horne,Alan Tomlinson,Garry Whannel

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Understanding Sport

An Introduction to the Sociological and Cultural Analysis of Sport

By: John Horne,Alan Tomlinson,Garry Whannel

Bringing a cultural and social dimension to the study of sport, this introductory guide will help students understand the context of sport and the place it has in the lives of individuals as well as in modern British society as a whole. Theoretically rigorous yet accessible, Understanding Sport includes: up-to-date coverage of key socio-cultural issues suggested further reading, to expand students' understanding of the topics introduced end-of-chapter essay topics and questions, to help students consolidate their knowledge extensive referenece lists and a thematic index, to direct sutdents and lecturers toward further research materials.

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Routledge

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1135921075

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9781135921071

Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-the-counter Medications

Recognition and Management

By: Thomas Markham Brown,Alan Stoudemire

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Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-the-counter Medications

Recognition and Management

By: Thomas Markham Brown,Alan Stoudemire

Both prescription and non-prescription medications used in medicine and psychiatry can cause a varietyof problems for those taking them, both in terms of their behavior and their ability to think. The first book to thoroughly examine how to recognize and manage the psychological side-effects of these medicines, this exhaustive work also provides a fingertip source of vital information for everyone from psychiatrists, primary care doctors and other medical subspecialty practitioners to students, residents and general readers. Noted physicians Thomas Markham Brown and Alan Stoudemire cover all of the major medications used in medicine and psychiatry, with full chapters on such topics as: * Antipsychotics* Antidepressants* Lithium* Anticonvulsants* Anesthetic agents* Sedative-Hypnotic and related agents* Antibiotics* Cardiovascular agents* Antineoplastic agents* Gastrointestinal agents* Pulmonary agents* Hematologic agents* Antilipemic agents* Drugs affecting the endocrine system Throughout this information-packed reference, the authors, noted physicians Thomas Markham Brown and Alan Stoudemire, cover all of the major medications used in medicine and psychiatry. They focus on the fundamental ways drugs cause cognitive toxicity and map strategies for clinical management. They also address the consequences of drug interactions and the basic pathophysiology of central nervous system toxicity. With the help of Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications, readers will be able to quickly identify the ways drugs sometimes negatively affect behavior and ability to reason, and then determine the best practical course for treating those problems. A CD-ROM containing the complete contents of Psychiatric Side Effects of Prescription and Over the Counter Medications is included. Fully searchable, this CD-ROM is compatible on both MACINTOSH and WINDOWS systems.

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American Psychiatric Pub

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0880488689

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9780880488686

Flinx's Folly

By: Alan Dean Foster

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Flinx's Folly

By: Alan Dean Foster

Bestselling author Alan Dean Foster delivers a Pip and Flinx novel featuring a certain twenty-four-year-old with red hair, growing powers, and a loyal sidekick who just happens to be a flying mini-dragon. Flinx’s Folly follows Flinx on a thrilling quest to unravel the mysteries of his mind and body. It is a quest that forces him to confront a horror almost beyond human comprehension concealed somewhere in the universe . . . and coming closer. It’s a good thing Flinx is no stranger to trouble, because he’s swimming in it. Even before the latest murderous attack by a new gang of assailants, there seems no end to people determined to arrest, examine, or kill him. To add insult to all that injury, Flinx has been spirited away and enlisted in a battle against a monstrous extra-galactic threat. Hidden behind the Great Emptiness, in a place where it seems matter and energy have never been, there is only evil. Pure evil that is approaching him, accelerating. Against such a quintessence of colossal evil what can one puny human and a formidable mini-drag protector do? Flinx must tell someone or go out of his already addled mind. Choosing a confidant is easy: Clarity Held, a crush he hasn’t seen in six years. She is a young woman who has clearly gone on with her life in ways that (he soon learns) don’t necessarily include Flinx. Whatever happens, Flinx makes up his mind to act quickly. His decision is the beginning of a terrifying, high-stakes adventure through perilous new realms that will rocket him into the very heart of danger–and into the arms of the only woman he’s ever loved. As he and Pip bravely travel to a place where no man or mini-drag has gone before, Flinx discovers he has a few more friends than he thought–and far more enemies than he ever imagined.

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Del Rey

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0345450396

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9780345450395

The Paper Bag Christmas

A Novel

By: Kevin Alan Milne

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The Paper Bag Christmas

A Novel

By: Kevin Alan Milne

Dr. Christopher Ringle is the last person you'd expect to find moonlighting as Santa Claus at the mall on the day after Thanksgiving. But it is there that he meets a young man named Molar Alan, who desperately needs a new perspective on the underlying value of Christmas. Dr. Ringle recruits Mo and his older brother as volunteers at a nearby children's hospital for the holiday season. At the hospital, Mo is tasked to help bring holiday cheer to the young cancer patients on the fifth floor. His biggest challenge is befriending a decidedly angry girl who is so embarrassed by her scarred appearance that she hides her face behind the safety of a paper bag. Almost in spite of himself, Mo finds that Christmas joy emanates from a source far greater than the North Pole, while the young girl learns that she is more beautiful than she had ever imagined.

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Hachette+ORM

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1599951827

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9781599951829

The British Consumer Co-operative Movement and Film, 1890s-1960s

By: Alan Burton

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The British Consumer Co-operative Movement and Film, 1890s-1960s

By: Alan Burton

This volume provides a new study on the Co-operative Movement's engagement with film for educational, cultural and publicity purposes. It provides insights into the political and commercial use of cinema in the 20th century and significantly extends our understanding of the achievements of workers' cinema in Britain.

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Manchester University Press

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0719064163

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9780719064166

Darkness After Midnight

By: Alan Brown

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Darkness After Midnight

By: Alan Brown

Underneath the city of Springfield, Missouri, in the caves and tunnels around downtown, lives a dark community all its own. And as Detective Booger McClain discovers: above ground isn’t much different. As McClain searches for answers in a famous local homicide case, he and his wife, Rose, run straight into his old nemesis, The Order, a secretive group of wealthy men who hold tremendous power and influence. And this time, The Order is hellbent on destroying the nosy Ozarks’ detective for good before he learns too much. Will what’s hidden in the darkness stay hidden? Will the light of truth win out in the end? When even good friends are foes, who can Booger turn to? Luckily, McClain has an ace up his sleeve. Nobody messes with Rose’s man.

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World Castle Publishing, LLC

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9798891262430

The East End

Four Centuries of London Life

By: Alan Palmer

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The East End

Four Centuries of London Life

By: Alan Palmer

The East End as an idea is known to every Londoner, and to many others, though its boundaries are vague. Alan Palmer's historical overview of the area (first published in 1989 and revised in 2000) takes its extent to be the traditional limits of Hackney and Tower Hamlets, Hoxton and Shoreditch, the docklands and their overflow into West Ham and East Ham. And at the heart of the East End lies Spitalfields, home to a transient, often radical and hard-working population. Though it is often seen as London's centre of industry and poverty, in comparison to the well-to-do West End, the East End has always been a diverse place: in the seventeenth century, Hackney was a pleasant country retreat; Stepney and the docklands a bustling world of sailors and merchants. The book traces the development of the area from these roots, through the nineteenth century - when the East End became notorious as the home of radicals, exiled revolutionaries and the very poor, its crowded streets the scene of murder, riot and cholera -to the bombing of the first and second world war; and the subsequent decline and regeneration of the twentieth century.

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Faber & Faber

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0571305881

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9780571305889

Forgotten Wars

Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia

By: Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper

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Forgotten Wars

Freedom and Revolution in Southeast Asia

By: Christopher Alan Bayly,Timothy Norman Harper

This is a panoramic account of the bitter wars of the end of empire, seen not only through the eyes of the fighters, but also through the personal stories of ordinary people.

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Harvard University Press

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0674021533

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9780674021532

Normal-Ish

A Memoir

By: Alan Simmons

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Normal-Ish

A Memoir

By: Alan Simmons

Most kids want to fit in. To be normal. But Alan Simmons never quite made it to normal. His Southern Baptist family worked for and lived next to the Monastery of St. Clare, a Catholic convent that housed 28 secluded nuns. Normal kids played sports. Alan helped his father bury deceased nuns and seal their graves in a crypt underneath the monastery. Normal kids brought toys or pet hamsters to Show and Tell. Alan brought rosary beads. Growing up straddling 2 cultures eventually gets to a kid. Especially a fat kid whose chances of fitting in are slim to begin with. But there's never a dull moment. The priest next door thinks he's a Jack London character. Sister Joan's cousin is from another planet. And Sister Angela's great-nephew is an 80s rock icon. Despite his comical surroundings, though, Alan fights a daily battle with self-hatred, and he's at the end of his rope. He's desperate to feel loved, to feel normal. But he's starting to think he might just have to settle for normal-ish.

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Lulu.com

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125788235X

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9781257882359

Mothermelters

The Inside Story of Cryonics and the Dora Kent Homicide

By: Alan Kunzman,Paul Nieto

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Mothermelters

The Inside Story of Cryonics and the Dora Kent Homicide

By: Alan Kunzman,Paul Nieto

THOUGHTS AND OPINIONS OF A LIFELONG TRUCKER. THE TRUTH ABOUT: COMPANY DRIVER LEASE-OPERATOR OWNER-OPERATOR SAFETY ISSUES UNDERSTANDING LOGBOOKS PAY AND CONDITIONS FATIGUE CAUSES AND SOLUTIONS DRIVER RETENTION PROBLEM Why is there a continuing ongoing shortage of 80,000 OVER THE ROAD truck drivers??? THIS BOOK SHOULD BE READ BY ANYONE INTERESTED IN OVER THE ROAD TRUCKING AS A CAREER. IT SHOULD ALSO BE OF INTEREST TO ANYONE WHO HAS EVER DRIVEN A TRUCK OR IS PRESENTLY DRIVING A TRUCK, AS WELL AS THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN REGARD TO SAFELY SHARING THE HIGHWAYS WITH BIG TRUCKS. THIS IS REALITY! THIS IS TRUTH!

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AuthorHouse

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141079198X

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9781410791986

Longears and Losers

By: Alan K. La Selle

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Longears and Losers

By: Alan K. La Selle

In a state of carnal bliss, Ad succumbs to Janae's pestering to enter the world of equine ownership. Their animal of choice is the Equus mulus. While enjoying mule ownership, a tragedy occurs. Ad is seriously injured when he's shot by an adversary he didn't know was still around and is forced into a period of convalescence that throws the family's emotions into shambles. Paddy O'Brien, the mule trader who sold them the critters, comes to Plantation Gartenberg to assist the family in their recovery from Ad's malady. Paddy's love of people, generosity, sense of humor, and imaginary constant companions, help him with his quest. New characters add a dimension of conspiracy to the tale while romance develops between a detective and a rebellious lady doctor who was inadvertently involved in Ad's injury.

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Page Publishing Inc

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1647018544

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9781647018542

Surviving Immortality

By: Alan Chin

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Surviving Immortality

By: Alan Chin

This is the story of the fountain of youth. When Kenji Hiroshige discovers a formula that will keep people youthful and healthy for several thousand years, he tells the world he will not divulge his secret until every gun, tank, battleship, and bomb hasbeen destroyed. When the world is free of weapons, everyone can live forever. And then he goes into hiding. Before he disappears, his son Matt Reece is exposed to the formula. Kenji takes Matt Reece on the run with him, but as they struggle to elude both government agencies and corporations who will do anything to profit from Kenji’s discovery, Matt Reece learns that world peace might not be his father’s only goal. But what can a young man who’s barely stepped foot off his isolated ranch do in the face of something so sinister? This is the story of human greed and the lust for violence. It’s the story of a world on the brink of destruction, but it’s also a tale of one young man who finds in himself the will, courage, and compassion to stand against the darkness—both outside and within himself. This is a story of hope.

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DSP Publications

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1640805443

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9781640805446

Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance

Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

By: Alan Lester,Fae Dussart

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Colonization and the Origins of Humanitarian Governance

Protecting Aborigines across the Nineteenth-Century British Empire

By: Alan Lester,Fae Dussart

This book reveals the ways in which those responsible for creating Britain's nineteenth-century empire sought to make colonization compatible with humanitarianism.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107007836

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9781107007833

The Struggle for Market Power

Industrial Relations in the British Coal Industry, 1800-1840

By: James Alan Jaffe

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The Struggle for Market Power

Industrial Relations in the British Coal Industry, 1800-1840

By: James Alan Jaffe

An account of the respective market ideologies of capital and labour during the Industrial Revolution.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521529417

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9780521529419

An Introduction to Akkadian Literature

Contexts and Content

By: Alan Lenzi

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An Introduction to Akkadian Literature

Contexts and Content

By: Alan Lenzi

This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the novice reader will develop the literary competence necessary to read and interpret Akkadian texts in translation and will gain a broad familiarity with the major genres and compositions in the language. The first part of the book presents introductory discussions of major critical issues, organized under four key rubrics: tablets, scribes, compositions, and audiences. Here, the reader will find descriptions of the tablets used as writing material; the training scribes received and the institutional contexts in which they worked; the general characteristics of Akkadian compositions, with an emphasis on poetic and literary features; and the various audiences or users of Akkadian texts. The second part surveys the corpus of Akkadian literature defined inclusively, canvasing a wide spectrum of compositions. Legal codes, historical inscriptions, divinatory compendia, and religious texts have a place in the survey alongside narrative poems, such as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Enuma elish, and Babylonian Theodicy. Extensive footnotes and a generous bibliography guide readers who wish to continue their study. Essential for students of Assyriology, An Introduction to Akkadian Literature will also prove useful to biblical scholars, classicists, Egyptologists, ancient historians, and literary comparativists.

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Penn State Press

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1646020308

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9781646020300

Compass

A Story of Exploration and Innovation

By: Alan Gurney

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Compass

A Story of Exploration and Innovation

By: Alan Gurney

Gurney chronicles the misadventures of those who attempted to perfect the compass, an instrument so precious to sixteenth-century seamen that, by law, any man found tampering with it had his hand pinned to the mast with a dagger.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393050734

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9780393050738

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