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Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology

Performance Apophatics

By: Claire Maria Chambers

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Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology

Performance Apophatics

By: Claire Maria Chambers

This book explores the intersection between apophaticism - negative theology - and performance. While apophaticism in literature and critical theory may have had its heyday in the heady debates about negative theology and deconstruction in the 1990s, negative ways of knowing and speaking have continued to structure conversations in theatre and performance studies around issues of embodiment, the non- and post-human, objects, archives, the ethics of otherness in intercultural research, and the unreadable and inaccessible in the work of minority artists. A great part of the history of apophaticism lies in mystic literature. With the rise of the New Age movement, which claimed historical mysticism as part of its genealogy, apophaticism has often been sidelined as spirituality rather than serious study. This book argues that the apophatic continues to exert a strong influence on the discourse and culture of Western literature and especially performance, and that by reassessing this ancient form of negative epistemology, artists, scholars, students, and teachers alike can more deeply engage forms of unknowing through what cannot be said and cannot be represented in language, on the stage, and in every aspect of social life.

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1137520442

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Jean Genet

By: David Bradby,Claire Finburgh

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Jean Genet

By: David Bradby,Claire Finburgh

This book is the only introductory text to Genet in English, offering an overview of this key figure in defining and understanding twentieth-century theatre. The authors provide a comprehensive account of Genet's key plays and productions, his early life and his writing for and beyond the theatre.

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1134188269

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Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific

By: Claire Cronin,Lia Kent,JoAnne Wallis

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Civil Society and Transitional Justice in Asia and the Pacific

By: Claire Cronin,Lia Kent,JoAnne Wallis

Over the last two decades, civil society has helped catalyse responses to the legacies of violent conflicts and oppressive political regimes in Asia and the Pacific. Civil society has advocated for the establishment of criminal trials and truth commissions, monitored their operations and pushed for take-up of their recommendations. It has also initiated community-based transitional justice responses. Yet, there has been little in-depth examination of the breadth and diversity of these roles. This book addresses this gap by analysing the heterogeneity of civil society transitional justice activity in Asia and the Pacific. Based upon empirically grounded case studies of Timor-Leste, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bougainville, Solomon Islands and Fiji, this book illustrates that civil society actors can have different - and sometimes competing - priorities, resources and approaches to transitional justice. Their work is also underpinned by diverse understandings of 'justice'. By reflecting on the richness of this activity, this book advances contemporary debates about transitional justice and civil society. It will also be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners working on Asia and the Pacific.

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ANU Press

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1760463299

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Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper

By: Claire Knowles

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Della Cruscan Poetry, Women and the Fashionable Newspaper

By: Claire Knowles

This book explores Della Cruscan poetry in the late eighteenth-century literary scene. A sociable, ornate, and deeply theatrical type of poetry, Della Cruscanism was associated with writers like Robert Merry, Mary Robinson, and Hannah Cowley. While Merry is the poet most commonly associated with the Della Cruscan school, this book argues that Della Cruscanism was a movement dominated by female poets and that this was one of the key reasons for the later disavowal and downgrading of its poetic accomplishments. It offers a close examination of these women writers and their role in shaping the poetic culture of the fashionable newspaper. In doing so, this study offers the first account of the feminization of the fashionable newspaper and of popular literary culture in the final years of the eighteenth century.

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Springer Nature

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3031372670

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South American Independence

Gender, Politics, Text

By: Catherine Davies,Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Catherine Davies,Claire Brewster,Hilary Owen

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South American Independence

Gender, Politics, Text

By: Catherine Davies,Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese Studies Catherine Davies,Claire Brewster,Hilary Owen

Examining women writers from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Colombia, this book traces the contradictions inherent in revolutionary movements that, while arguing for the rights of all, remained ambivalent, at best, about the place of women. It reveals the complex role of women in shaping the vexed ideologies of independence.

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Liverpool University Press

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184631027X

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Excellence in Compassionate Nursing Care

Leading the Change

By: Claire Chambers,Elaine Ryder

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Excellence in Compassionate Nursing Care

Leading the Change

By: Claire Chambers,Elaine Ryder

We are passionately interested in the importance of nursing values and believe that excellence in compassionate nursing care lies at the heart of nursing practice and that leadership is key to making this happen. Every nurse, whatever their position and role, has a vital leadership role to play in ensuring excellent care remains at the heart of nursing practice. From the preface Highly committed nurses often feel disillusioned, disempowered and angry when they are faced with negative media reports about poor standards of care. They are genuinely concerned, and want to address issues, when patients and clients feel they are not being cared for with compassion. However, complex and under-resourced healthcare environments pose many challenges. Developing ideas and initiatives from the highly successful Compassion and Caring in Nursing, in this new book Claire Chambers and Elaine Ryder focus on these potential difficulties and offers practitioners a chance to build on their current knowledge and experience, and consider ways to take the lead and act as catalysts for change. Each chapter focuses on a particular issue and case scenarios are used and revisited in each chapter, so that theory and practice are integrated throughout. Specific prompts encourage readers to bring about vital change in practice. All nurses, health visitors and health and social care practitioners should find this book motivating and realistic. It also offers thought-provoking inspiration for undergraduate and postgraduate healthcare students.

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1846198291

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Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels

By: Claire Chambers

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Making Sense of Contemporary British Muslim Novels

By: Claire Chambers

This book is the sequel to Britain Through Muslim Eyes and examines contemporary novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain. It builds on studies of the five senses and ‘sensuous geographies’ of postcolonial Britain, and charts the development since 1988 of a fascinating and important body of fiction by Muslim-identified authors. It is a selective literary history, exploring case-study novelistic representations of and by Muslims in Britain to allow in-depth critical analysis through the lens of sensory criticism. It argues that, for authors of Muslim heritage in Britain, writing the senses is often a double-edged act of protest. Some of the key authors excoriate a suppression or cover-up of non-heteronormativity and women’s rights that sometimes occurs in Muslim communities. Yet their protest is especially directed at secular culture’s ocularcentrism and at successive British governments’ efforts to surveil, control, and suppress Muslim bodies.

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1137520892

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A Sun within a Sun

The Power and Elegance of Poetry

By: Claire Chi-ah Lyu

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A Sun within a Sun

The Power and Elegance of Poetry

By: Claire Chi-ah Lyu

A Sun within a Sun is a sustained poetic reflection on the enterprise of poetry, on what poetry is and might be, not only for poet and theorist but also for reader, critic, teacher, and student. It sees poetry as life at its most genuine.Using Baudelaire and Mallarme as principal examples, but drawing on a wide range of poets and thinkers, from Greek mythology to Poe, Rimbaud, Rilke, and Blake; from Nietzsche, Gilles Deleuze, and Italo Calvino to William James and Henry Miller, Claire Chi-ah Lyu challenges contemporary poetic theory, using precise and acute deconstruction of poetic imagery to reconstruct language so that it celebrates both meaning and beauty. A Sun within a Sun explores the notions of lightness and weight, discipline and indulgence, freedom and loss of will that are inherent in the poetic enterprise. It poses that lightness, discipline, freedom, and risk are essential for an approach to the enigma of beauty through an elegant shaping of form that holds true not only in poetry but also in pure science and even fashion. Poetry is a language within a language, a heightened and intense awareness of what words mean and what they can do, at its best creating an intensity of a sun within a sun. The poet and reader of poetry must take the risk Icarus took of approaching the sun, for without the risk there is no fulfillment.A Sun within a Sun seeks a shaping of form and content that discovers poetry as power, as a practice of life that honors and makes possible both thought and feeling.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822973294

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Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries

A Campaign for Justice

By: Claire McGettrick,Katherine O’Donnell,Maeve O'Rourke,James M. Smith,Mari Steed

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Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries

A Campaign for Justice

By: Claire McGettrick,Katherine O’Donnell,Maeve O'Rourke,James M. Smith,Mari Steed

Between 1922 and 1996, over 10,000 girls and women were imprisoned in Magdalene Laundries, including those considered 'promiscuous', a burden to their families or the state, those who had been sexually abused or raised in the care of the Church and State, and unmarried mothers. These girls and women were subjected to forced labour as well as psychological and physical maltreatment. Using the Irish State's own report into the Magdalene institutions, as well as testimonies from survivors and independent witnesses, this book gives a detailed account of life behind the high walls of Ireland's Magdalene institutions. The book offers an overview of the social, cultural and political contexts of institutional survivor activism, the Irish State's response culminating in the McAleese Report, and the formation of the Justice for Magdalenes campaign, a volunteer-run survivor advocacy group. Ireland and the Magdalene Laundries documents the ongoing work carried out by the Justice for Magdalenes group in advancing public knowledge and research into Magdalene Laundries, and how the Irish State continues to evade its responsibilities not just to survivors of the Magdalenes but also in providing a truthful account of what happened. Drawing from a variety of primary sources, this book reveals the fundamental flaws in the state's investigation and how the treatment of the burials, exhumation and cremation of former Magdalene women remains a deeply troubling issue today, emblematic of the system of torture and studious official neglect in which the Magdalene women lived their lives. The Authors are donating all royalties in the name of the women who were held in the Magdalenes to EPIC (Empowering People in Care).

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0755617517

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The Invisible Woman

The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

By: Claire Tomalin

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The Invisible Woman

The Story of Nelly Ternan and Charles Dickens

By: Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens’s marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record. In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen rescues Nelly from the shadows of history, not only returning the neglected actress to her rightful place, but also providing a compelling portrait of the great Victorian novelist himself. The result is a thrilling literary detective story and a deeply compassionate work that encompasses all those women who were exiled from the warm, well-lighted parlors of Victorian England.

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Vintage

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0307822397

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Daughters of the Declaration

How Women Social Entrepreneurs Built the American Dream

By: Claire Gaudiani,D. Graham Burnett

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Daughters of the Declaration

How Women Social Entrepreneurs Built the American Dream

By: Claire Gaudiani,D. Graham Burnett

Argues that a diverse group of women entrepreneurs are responsible for organizing local associations and began the original women's movement in America.

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Public Affairs

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1610390318

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Getting the Buggers to Read 2nd Edition

By: Claire Senior

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Getting the Buggers to Read 2nd Edition

By: Claire Senior

This is a fully up-dated guide for teachers and trainees, containing a new chapter on getting boys into books, plus an extended directory and plenty suggestions for further reading. Although reading is essential for every subject, very little attention has been paid to how it is taught, especially in secondary schools. This practical guide shows teachers how they can improve their students' reading skills using a variety of strategies, including setting up reading clubs, celebrating world book day and creating a reader-friendly school. Brimming with top tips and innovative advice, this book will prove invaluable to teachers everywhere.

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1441100180

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9781441100184

British Muslim Fictions

Interviews with Contemporary Writers

By: Claire Chambers

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British Muslim Fictions

Interviews with Contemporary Writers

By: Claire Chambers

What does it mean to be a writer of Muslim heritage in the UK today? Is there such a thing as "Muslim fiction"? In a collection of revealing new interviews, Claire Chambers talks to writers including Tariq Ali, Ahdaf Soueif, Hanif Kureishi, and Abdulrazak Gurnah to discuss the impact that their Muslim heritage has had on their writing, and to argue that this body of writing is some of the most important and politically engaged fiction of recent years. From literary techniques and influences to the political and cultural debates that matter to Muslims in Britain and beyond -- such as the hijab, the war on terror and the Rushdie affair -- these thirteen interviews challenge the idea of a monolithic voice for Islam in Britain. Instead, together they paint a picture of the diversity of voices creating "British Muslim fictions" which ultimately enriches the cultural, social and political landscape of contemporary Britain.

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0230308783

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Compassion and Caring in Nursing

By: Claire Chambers,Elaine Ryder

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Compassion and Caring in Nursing

By: Claire Chambers,Elaine Ryder

Compassion, in its many manifestations, is the key to rediscovering what lies at the heart of nursing practice all over the world. It is absolutely essential that nurses start to revisit compassion as a central focus for nursing practice...' This user-friendly book adopts a patient-centred approach to care. The challenging theories are grounded in practical applications, encouraging readers to recognise opportunities for change in their daily practice. The book focuses on six key concepts central to compassionate care: A*

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Routledge

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1315357852

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Storying Relationships

Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and Love

By: Richard Phillips,Claire Chambers,Nafhesa Ali,Indrani Karmakar,Kristina Diprose

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Storying Relationships

Young British Muslims Speak and Write about Sex and Love

By: Richard Phillips,Claire Chambers,Nafhesa Ali,Indrani Karmakar,Kristina Diprose

Storying Relationships explores the sexual lives of young British Muslims in their own words and through their own stories. It finds engaging and surprising stories in a variety of settings: when young people are chatting with their friends; conversing more formally within families and communities; scribbling in their diaries; and writing blogs, poems and books to share or publish. These stories challenge stereotypes about Muslims, who are frequently portrayed as unhappy in love and sexually different. The young people who emerge in this book, contradicting racist and Islamophobic stereotypes, are assertive and creative, finding and making their own ways in matters of the body and the heart. Their stories – about single life, meeting and dating, pressure and expectations, sex, love, marriage and dreams – are at once specific to the young British Muslims who tell them, and resonant reflections of human experience.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786998459

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Brave Green World

How Science Can Save Our Planet

By: Chris Forman,Claire Asher

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Brave Green World

How Science Can Save Our Planet

By: Chris Forman,Claire Asher

How we can harness cutting-edge biology and manufacturing to fight waste and pollution. In Nature, there is little chemical waste; nearly every atom is a resource to be utilized by organisms, ensuring that all the available matter remains in a perpetual cycle. By contrast, human systems of energy production and manufacturing are linear; the end product is waste. In Brave Green World, Chris Forman and Claire Asher show what our linear systems can learn from the efficient circularity of ecosystems. They offer an unblinkered yet realistic and positive vision of a future in which we can combine biology and manufacturing to solve our central problems of waste and pollution.

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MIT Press

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0262044463

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Britain Through Muslim Eyes

Literary Representations, 1780-1988

By: Claire Chambers

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Britain Through Muslim Eyes

Literary Representations, 1780-1988

By: Claire Chambers

What did Britain look like to the Muslims who visited and lived in the country in increasing numbers from the late eighteenth century onwards? This book is a literary history of representations of Muslims in Britain from the late eighteenth century to the eve of Salman Rushdie's publication of The Satanic Verses (1988).

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1137315318

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A Guide to Compassionate Healthcare

How to Develop Resilience and Wellbeing in Today’s Stressful Environment

By: Claire Chambers

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A Guide to Compassionate Healthcare

How to Develop Resilience and Wellbeing in Today’s Stressful Environment

By: Claire Chambers

A Guide to Compassionate Healthcare looks at how to maintain wellbeing in today’s challenging healthcare environments, enabling practitioners to make a positive difference to the care environment whilst providing compassionate care to patients. This practical guide focuses on strategies to maintain health and wellbeing as health care practitioners, in relation to stress management, resilience and positivity. Health and social care practitioners have been challenged over and above anything they have faced before due to the Covid pandemic. These situations have caused extreme trauma and stress to patients, their loved ones and those who have been struggling to care for them. The book highlights why resilience and good stress management are crucial, and how they can be achieved through a focus on wellbeing and positivity, referring to her RESPECT toolkit: Resilience, Emotional intelligence, Stress management, Positivity, Energy and motivation, Challenge and Team leadership. This is essential reading for all those working in healthcare today who are passionate about compassionate care and want to ensure that they remain positive and well, particularly newly qualified staff.

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1351605402

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A Secret Sisterhood

The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf

By: Emily Midorikawa,Emma Claire Sweeney

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A Secret Sisterhood

The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot & Virginia Woolf

By: Emily Midorikawa,Emma Claire Sweeney

A fascinating, inspirational look at the relationships between some of our best-loved female authors and their little-known literary collaborators and friends

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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054488373X

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The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Hitler

By: Claire Ortiz Hill

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The Roots and Flowers of Evil in Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Hitler

By: Claire Ortiz Hill

Baudelaire, Nietzsche, and Hitler-a poet, a philosopher, and a politician-each profoundly understood the seductive attraction of evil. All three clearly and candidly depicted evil in idealized garb. Underheath superficial appearances of contradiction, we find in their writings uncanny insight into the human essence behind the masks of convention and hypocrisy.

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Open Court Publishing

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0812695860

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9780812695861

Naviguer, commercer, gouverner

Économie maritime et pouvoirs à Venise (XVe-XVIe siècles)

By: Claire Judde de Larivière

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Naviguer, commercer, gouverner

Économie maritime et pouvoirs à Venise (XVe-XVIe siècles)

By: Claire Judde de Larivière

The convoys of public galleys, the typical form of Venetian medieval sea-faring, had disappeared gradually by the time of the battle of Lepanto. This disappearance was not the sign of a general economic crisis, but was nevertheless the corollary of important political, economic and social changes which marked the history of sixteenth-century Venice. Through the study of economic actors, their identity, their practices and their functions, this book analyses public and private commercial navigation in relation to the evolution of forms and functions of the State, within a general context of the redefinition of the relationship between public good and private interests.

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BRILL

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9047424034

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9789047424031

Court of Honor

By: William P. Wood,Claire Zion

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Court of Honor

By: William P. Wood,Claire Zion

Called upon to assist federal investigator Neil Roemer in his hunt for corrupt judges, Superior Court judge Tim Nash digs into a world of dirty deals and disloyalty and uncovers a plot of betrayal.

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0671731777

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Antoinette

Number 2 in series

By: Claire Lorrimer

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Antoinette

Number 2 in series

By: Claire Lorrimer

Antoinette, daughter of the beautiful Scarlett and a French Vicomte, has inherited her mother's exquisite beauty and her passionate, impulsive nature. But the two women are rivals. Antoinette is irresistibly drawn to her mother's former lover, Sir Peregrine Waite. But he only sees her as a child and does not yield to her loving advances. Burning with fury and humiliation at his rejection, Antoinette becomes involved with a notorious philanderer and finds herself plunged into disgrace and degradation. And despite the dangerous secret she discovers, her love for Sir Peregrine remains. Set against a stunning background of the wealthy and priveleged in Europe, this is a scorching, tempestuous sequel to SCARLETT.

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Piatkus

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0748123210

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Charles Dickens

A Life

By: Claire Tomalin

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Charles Dickens

A Life

By: Claire Tomalin

Award-winning Claire Tomalin, author of A Life of My Own, sets the standard for sophisticated and popular biography, having written lives of Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys, and Thomas Hardy, among others. Here she tackles the best recognized and loved man of nineteenth-century England, Charles Dickens; a literary leviathan whose own difficult path to greatness inspired the creation of classic novels such as Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, and Hard Times. From his sensational public appearances to the obsessive love affair that led him to betray, deceive, and break with those closest to him, Charles Dickens: A Life is a triumph of the biographer’s craft, a comedy that turns to tragedy in a story worthy of Dickens’ own pen.

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1101547995

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Performance Studies and Negative Epistemology

Performance Apophatics

By: Claire Maria Chambers

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Performance Apophatics

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