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Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

By: Dr Frances Cruickshank

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Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

By: Dr Frances Cruickshank

Innovative and highly readable, this study traces George Herbert's and John Donne's development of a distinct poetics through close readings of their poems, references to their letters, sermons, and prose treatises, and to other contemporary poets and theorists. In demonstrating a relationship between poetics and religious consciousness in Donne's and Herbert's verse, Frances Cruickshank explores their attitudes to the cultural, theological, and aesthetic enterprise of writing and reading verse. Cruickshank shows that Donne and Herbert regarded poetry as a mode not determined by its social and political contexts, but as operating in and on them with its own distinct set of aesthetic and intellectual values, and that ultimately, verse mattered as a privileged mode of religious discourse. This book is an important contribution to the ongoing scholarly dialogue about the nature of literary and cultural study of early modern England, and about the relationship between the writer and the world. Cruickshank confirms Donne's reputation as a fascinating and brilliant poetic figure while simultaneously rousing interest in Herbert by noting his unique merging of rusticity and urbanity and tranquility and uncertainty, allowing the reader to enter into these poets' imaginative worlds and to understand the literary genre they embraced and then transformed.

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1409476154

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Mathematics in Victorian Britain

By: photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis

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Mathematics in Victorian Britain

By: photographer and broadcaster Foreword by Dr Adam Hart-Davis

During the Victorian era, industrial and economic growth led to a phenomenal rise in productivity and invention. That spirit of creativity and ingenuity was reflected in the massive expansion in scope and complexity of many scientific disciplines during this time, with subjects evolving rapidly and the creation of many new disciplines. The subject of mathematics was no exception and many of the advances made by mathematicians during the Victorian period are still familiar today; matrices, vectors, Boolean algebra, histograms, and standard deviation were just some of the innovations pioneered by these mathematicians. This book constitutes perhaps the first general survey of the mathematics of the Victorian period. It assembles in a single source research on the history of Victorian mathematics that would otherwise be out of the reach of the general reader. It charts the growth and institutional development of mathematics as a profession through the course of the 19th century in England, Scotland, Ireland, and across the British Empire. It then focuses on developments in specific mathematical areas, with chapters ranging from developments in pure mathematical topics (such as geometry, algebra, and logic) to Victorian work in the applied side of the subject (including statistics, calculating machines, and astronomy). Along the way, we encounter a host of mathematical scholars, some very well known (such as Charles Babbage, James Clerk Maxwell, Florence Nightingale, and Lewis Carroll), others largely forgotten, but who all contributed to the development of Victorian mathematics.

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Oxford University Press

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0191627933

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The TUC and Education Reform, 1926-1970

By: Dr Clive Griggs,Clive Griggs

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The TUC and Education Reform, 1926-1970

By: Dr Clive Griggs,Clive Griggs

This book covers a crucial period for the development of state education in Britain; the advent of the comprehensive debate before and during the Second World War; the War years themselves and the 1944 Education Act; the post-War Labour Government; and Churchill's last government in a time of education expansion. From the 1960s, the focus shifted to questions of social deprivation and educational opportunities, secondary school selection, the debate on standards, Robbins and higher education, and the continuing theme of the dominance of public schools. The book is divided into four sections, which are then divided into chapters. Each chapter takes as its main reference point a key issue within the chronological framework of the book, e.g. resistance to secondary education for all, politics and textbooks, multilateral and technical schools, pressure groups and the 1944 Education Act, Churchill and the Conservatives. Much new light is thrown on the topics by the author's use of new material and he has made a valuable contribution to the politics of education.

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Routledge

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1134724012

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Sir Henry Lee (1533–1611): Elizabethan Courtier

By: Dr Sue Simpson

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Sir Henry Lee (1533–1611): Elizabethan Courtier

By: Dr Sue Simpson

A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as ‘the most accomplished cavaliero’ in England. This handsome, entertaining and highly convivial gentleman was an important participant in life at court as Elizabeth’s tournament champion. He created the spectacular Accession Day tournaments held annually before London crowds of more than 8,000 people, was Lieutenant of Elizabeth’s palace at Woodstock, and Master of the Armoury at the Tower of London during the Spanish Armada. This is the only biography of Sir Henry Lee in print, and explores the interaction of politics, culture and society of the Elizabethan court through the eyes of a popular and long-serving courtier. Indeed, few other courtiers managed to live such a long and satisfying life, and although this study of Sir Henry’s life shows a diverse nature typical of many Elizabethan gentlemen - his travels to the courts of Italy, his knowledge of arms and armour, his delight in the world of emblems and symbolism, his close association with Philip Sidney, and his intimate relationship with a notorious woman at least thirty years his junior - it also questions what it meant to be a courtier. Was the game actually worth the candle?

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472437411

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9781472437419

Would You Have Known?

A Quiz on Britain and the USA

By: Dr. Peter Zupancic

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Would You Have Known?

A Quiz on Britain and the USA

By: Dr. Peter Zupancic

If you want to test your knowledge of Britain and the USA, be prepared for a host of demanding items of an arbitrary selection that may take your breath away. Keep cool, think hard, remember precisely and weigh your decisions. In any case, you will be on the winning side.

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3748157916

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9783748157915

George Hadfield: Architect of the Federal City

By: Dr Julia King

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George Hadfield: Architect of the Federal City

By: Dr Julia King

During his lifetime, the work of architect George Hadfield (1763–1826) was highly regarded, both in England and the United States. Since his death, however, Hadfield's contributions to architecture have slowly faded from view, and few of his buildings survive. In order to reassess Hadfield's career and work, this book draws upon a wide selection of written and visual sources to reconstruct his life and legacy.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472412745

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Teaching as a Professional Discipline

A Multi-dimensional Model

By: Dr Geoffrey Squires,Geoffrey Squires

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Teaching as a Professional Discipline

A Multi-dimensional Model

By: Dr Geoffrey Squires,Geoffrey Squires

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1135701563

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9781135701567

The Environmental Tradition

Studies in the architecture of environment

By: Dr Dean Hawkes,Dean Hawkes

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The Environmental Tradition

Studies in the architecture of environment

By: Dr Dean Hawkes,Dean Hawkes

This text brings together a unique collection of writing by a leading researcher and critic which outlines the evolution of the environmental dimension of architectural theory and practice in the past twenty-five years. It deals with the transformation of the environmental design field which was brought about by the growth of energy awareness in the 1970s and 1980s, and places environmental issues in the broader theoretical and historical context in architecture.

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1136741011

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Explaining in the Secondary School

By: Dr George A Brown,Prof E C Wragg

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Explaining in the Secondary School

By: Dr George A Brown,Prof E C Wragg

This book explores strategies for building up a repertoire of ideas, approaches and techniques that allow teachers to develop effective explanatory skills. It covers issues such as the use of an appropriate language register and analogies for handling topics with which teachers might be unfamiliar.

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1134534353

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Common, Delinquent, and Special

The Institutional Shape of Special Education

By: Dr J Richardson

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Common, Delinquent, and Special

The Institutional Shape of Special Education

By: Dr J Richardson

This book explores the historical origins and institutional shape of special education across the American states. It begins with the decade of the 1840s as states anticipated the legislation of compulsory attendance laws. With these laws, the institutional beginnings of special education emerge defined by the exemption of physically and mentally handicapped youth and by the power of schools to exclude juvenile delinquent youth as well. With the passage of these laws states formalized the "rules of access" to a common schooling, thereby structuring the school age population into three segments: the common, delinquent, and special. As the worlds of delinquency and exceptionality progressively encroached upon public schools, their inclusion has been the central force behind the expansion of special education; as a structure of handicapping categories and as a professional field within education generally. This institutional expansion of special education has occurred over the past thirty years, and has reshaped public education by defining the "rules of passage.

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113566885X

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Christopher Smart and Satire

'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife

By: Dr Min Wild

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Christopher Smart and Satire

'Mary Midnight' and the Midwife

By: Dr Min Wild

Christopher Smart and Satire explores the lively and idiosyncratic world of satire in the eighteenth-century periodical, focusing on the way that writers adopted personae to engage with debates taking place during the British Enlightenment. Taking Christopher Smart's audacious and hitherto underexplored Midwife, or Old Woman's Magazine (1750-1753) as her primary source, Min Wild provides a rich examination of the prizewinning Cambridge poet's adoption of the bizarre, sardonic 'Mary Midnight' as his alter-ego. Her analysis provides insights into the difficult position in which eighteenth-century writers were placed, as ideas regarding the nature and functions of authorship were gradually being transformed. At the same time, Wild also demonstrates that Smart's use of 'Mary Midnight' is part of a tradition of learned wit, having an established history and characterized by identifiable satirical and rhetorical techniques. Wild's engagement with her exuberant source materials establishes the skill and ingenuity of Smart's often undervalued, multilayered prose satire. As she explores Smart's use of a peculiarly female voice, Wild offers us a picture of an ingenious and ribald wit whose satirical overview of society explores, overturns, and anatomises questions of gender, politics, and scientific and literary endeavors.

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1409489957

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9781409489955

The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715

By: Dr Jonathan Oates

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The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715

By: Dr Jonathan Oates

Most works written about the Jacobites have tended to look at the 1745 Rebellion, rather than the earlier attempt to reinstate the Stuart dynasty. Drawing upon a wealth of under-utilised sources and giving weight to the community and individual dimensions of the crisis as well as to the military ones, this book focuses on events in 1715, when English and Scottish Jacobites tried to replace George I with James Stuart. It provides a narrative and analysis of the campaign that led to the decisive battle at Preston and ended the immediate prospects of the Jacobite cause.

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1472441559

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Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830

By: Dr Richard Harding,Richard Harding

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Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830

By: Dr Richard Harding,Richard Harding

From the author of "Amphibious Warfare in the Eighteenth Century" and "The Evolution of the Sailing Navy, 1509-1815", this book serves as a single- volume survey of war at sea and the expansion of naval power in the 18th century. The book is intended for undergraduate courses on 18th century European history, and for amateur and professional military historians, and for navy colleges, and navy and ex-navy professionals.

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1135364869

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9781135364861

How to be a Great Nurse – the Heart of Nursing

By: Dr Julie Santy-Tomlinson,Dr Carolyn Mackintosh-Franklin

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How to be a Great Nurse – the Heart of Nursing

By: Dr Julie Santy-Tomlinson,Dr Carolyn Mackintosh-Franklin

How to be a great nurse focuses on fundamental issues that are relevant to all nurses, across all countries, fields and areas of practice. It is essential reading for student nurses, qualified nurses, supervisors, assessors, managers and nurse academics, who all want the nursing profession to invest in the highest-quality care, firmly rooted in the real heart of nursing practice. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of great nursing, illustrated by case studies, self-assessment tools and exercises, and supported by suggestions for further reading and self-development. Chapter 1 explores the ‘head, heart and hands principles’ of nursing care. Chapter 2 focuses on the core values of nursing practice from a professional perspective, with an emphasis on personal integrity. Chapters 3 and 4 enable readers to reflect on the skills and emotional intelligence needed to be an effective nurse, highlighting the importance of communication and individual learning needs. Career progression, resilience and the support of other nurses are discussed in Chapters 5 and 6. Chapter 7 then draws many of these ideas together by looking at nursing practice from the perspective of those receiving care. This enables readers to deepen their learning and reflect on their own practice. The final chapter considers the future of nursing, and the new nursing roles that may be needed, to ensure that great nurses meet the varied demands of future practice scenarios. Contents include: • The meaning of great nursing • Core values for nursing • Learning to be a great nurse • Effective nursing • Making a successful career of nursing • Supporting and influencing others to be great nurses • Patient perceptions of great nursing care • Embracing the future of nursing

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M&K Update Ltd

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1910451622

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9781910451625

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

By: Dr Kevin Curran

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Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

By: Dr Kevin Curran

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court constitutes the first full-length study of Jacobean nuptial performance, a hitherto unexplored branch of early modern theater consisting of masques and entertainments performed for high-profile weddings. Scripted by such writers as Ben Jonson, Thomas Campion, George Chapman, and Francis Beaumont, these entertainments were mounted for some of the most significant political events of James's English reign. Here Kevin Curran analyzes all six of the elite weddings celebrated at the Jacobean court, reading the masques and entertainments that headlined these events alongside contemporaneously produced panegyrics, festival books, sermons, parliamentary speeches, and other sources. The study shows how, collectively, wedding entertainments turned the idea of union into a politically versatile category of national representation and offered new ways of imagining a specifically Jacobean form of national identity by doing so.

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140947545X

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Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

Verse and Poetics in George Herbert and John Donne

Mathematics in Victorian Britain

Mathematics in Victorian Britain

The TUC and Education Reform, 1926-1970

The TUC and Education Reform, 1926-1970

Sir Henry Lee (1533–1611): Elizabethan Courtier

Sir Henry Lee (1533–1611): Elizabethan Courtier

Would You Have Known?

Would You Have Known?

George Hadfield: Architect of the Federal City

George Hadfield: Architect of the Federal City

Teaching as a Professional Discipline

Teaching as a Professional Discipline

The Environmental Tradition

The Environmental Tradition

Explaining in the Secondary School

Explaining in the Secondary School

Common, Delinquent, and Special

Common, Delinquent, and Special

Christopher Smart and Satire

Christopher Smart and Satire

The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715

The Last Battle on English Soil, Preston 1715

Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830

Seapower and Naval Warfare, 1650-1830

How to be a Great Nurse – the Heart of Nursing

How to be a Great Nurse – the Heart of Nursing

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

Marriage, Performance, and Politics at the Jacobean Court

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