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Autumn's Dying

By: Gavin Cathcart

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Immortality can be a tough row to hoe, particularly when you have to continually kill folks to keep on going. Since being slain by a female vampire in the autumn of 1944, Luke Bennek has stuck to the shadows, carving out a gritty existence in the decaying sections of America's cities. To avoid detection, he feeds only when necessary, taking those that will be little missed. For over seven decades it'd been going fairly well, but time catches up with everyone. In a rapidly changing world, Luke is finding it harder and harder to stay under the radar, and now someone has discovered what he is. When the predator becomes the prey, all bets are off, and something's gotta give.

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0359138179

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9780359138173

'Greek' Thomson

Neo-classical Architectural Theory, Buildings & Interiors

By: Gavin Stamp

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'Greek' Thomson

Neo-classical Architectural Theory, Buildings & Interiors

By: Gavin Stamp

Alexander 'Greek' Thomson is at last being recognised as an architect of genius, comparable in stature to Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Now in paperback, this is the first book in which a team of distinguished architectural commentators and historians use the latest research in the area to illuminate the full range of Thomson's talents. Thomson emerges not just as a great architect, but as a towering intellect whose theory and practice synthesised the best thought of his time in architectural history, aesthetic philosophy and, not least, theology. His ventures into urban planning are explored, and his approaches to facade design and interiors are examined in detail, while rare colour plates complete a portrait which brings this outstanding architect to life. With an Introduction by the late Sir John Summerson this volume celebrates the work of arguably the greatest exponent of the Greek Revival.

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275

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474472826

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9781474472821

Is That All There Is?

The Strange Life of Peggy Lee

By: James Gavin

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Is That All There Is?

The Strange Life of Peggy Lee

By: James Gavin

A biography of singer Peggy Lee"--

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Simon and Schuster

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1451641680

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9781451641684

The Great Inoculator

The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution

By: Gavin Weightman

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The Great Inoculator

The Untold Story of Daniel Sutton and his Medical Revolution

By: Gavin Weightman

Smallpox was the scourge of the eighteenth century: it showed no mercy, almost wiping out whole societies. Young and old, poor and royalty were equally at risk – unless they had survived a previous attack. Daniel Sutton, a young surgeon from Suffolk, used this knowledge to pioneer a simple and effective inoculation method to counter the disease. His technique paved the way for Edward Jenner’s discovery of vaccination – but, while Jenner is revered, Sutton has been vilified for not widely revealing his methods until later in life. Gavin Weightman reclaims Sutton’s importance, showing how the clinician’s practical and observational discoveries advanced understanding of the nature of disease. Weightman explores Sutton’s personal and professional development, and the wider world of eighteenth-century health in which he practised inoculation. Sutton’s brilliant and exacting mind had a significant impact on medicine – the effects of which can still be seen today.

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Yale University Press

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0300256310

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9780300256314

American Lonesome

The Work of Bruce Springsteen

By: Gavin Cologne-Brookes

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American Lonesome

The Work of Bruce Springsteen

By: Gavin Cologne-Brookes

American Lonesome: The Work of Bruce Springsteen begins with a visit to the Jersey Shore and ends with a meditation on the international legacy of Springsteen’s writing, music, and performances. Gavin Cologne-Brookes’s innovative study of this popular musician and his position in American culture blends scholarship with personal reflection, providing both an academic examination of Springsteen’s work and a moving account of how it offers a way out of emotional solitude and the potential lonesomeness of modern life. Cologne-Brookes proposes that the American philosophical tradition of pragmatism, which assesses the value of ideas and arguments based on their practical applications, provides a lens for understanding the diversity of perspectives and emotions encountered in Springsteen’s songs and performances. Drawing on pragmatist philosophy from William James to Richard Rorty, Cologne-Brookes examines Springsteen’s formative environment and outsider psychology, arguing that the artist’s confessed tendency toward a self-reliant isolation creates a tension in his work between lonesomeness and community. He considers Springsteen’s portrayals of solitude in relation to classic and contemporary American writers, from Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Emily Dickinson to Richard Wright, Flannery O’Connor, and Joyce Carol Oates. As part of this critique, he discusses the difference between escapist and pragmatic romanticism, the notion of multiple selves as played out both in Springsteen’s work and in our perception of him, and the impact of performances both recorded and live. By drawing on his own experiences seeing Springsteen perform—including on tours showcasing the album The River in 1981 and 2016—Cologne-Brookes creates a book about the intimate relationship between art and everyday life. Blending research, cultural knowledge, and creative thinking, American Lonesome dissolves any imagined barriers between the study of a songwriter, literary criticism, and personal testimony.

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LSU Press

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0807169471

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9780807169476

Interwar

British Architecture 1919-39

By: Gavin Stamp

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Interwar

British Architecture 1919-39

By: Gavin Stamp

British architecture between the wars is most famous for the rise of modernism - the flat roofs, clean lines and concrete of the Isokon flats in Hampstead and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo - but the reality was far more diverse. As the modernists came of age and the traditionalists began to decline, there arose a rich variety of styles and tastes in Britain and across the empire, a variety that reflected the restless zeitgeist of the years before the Second World War. At the time of his death in 2017, Gavin Stamp, one of Britain's leading architectural critics, was at work on a deeply considered account of British architecture in the interwar period, correcting what he saw as the skewed view of earlier historians who were unable to see past modernism. Beginning with a survey of the modern movement after the armistice, Interwar untangles the threads that link lesser-known movements like the Egyptian revival with the enduring popularity of the Tudorbethan, to chronicle one of Britain's most dynamic architectural periods. The result is more than an architectural history - it is the portrait of a changing nation. As an account of the period that still shapes much of Britain's towns and cities, Gavin Stamp's final work is the definitive history of British architecture between the Great War and the Blitz.

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Profile Books

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180081741X

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9781800817418

Autumn's Dying

By: Gavin Cathcart

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Autumn's Dying

Autumn's Dying

'Greek' Thomson

'Greek' Thomson

Is That All There Is?

Is That All There Is?

The Great Inoculator

The Great Inoculator

American Lonesome

American Lonesome

Interwar

Interwar

Autumn's Dying

Autumn's Dying

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