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Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Gay (Illustrated)

By: John Gay

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Delphi Complete Poetical Works of John Gay (Illustrated)

By: John Gay

An eighteenth century poet and dramatist, John Gay is best remembered for ‘The Beggar's Opera’ (1728), a ballad opera featuring the characters Captain Macheath and Polly Peachum, who swiftly became household names. Gay’s refined and satirical poetry was much influenced by his close friend Alexander Pope. His first important poem, ‘Rural Sports’, is a descriptive and didactic work in two short books dealing with hunting and fishing, as well as meditations on the Horatian theme of retirement. Gay’s finest poem, ‘Trivia: or, The Art of Walking the Streets of London’ (1716), displays an assured craftsmanship in which rhythm and diction portrays the many experiences he describes. Other notable poems include ‘The Shepherd’s Week’ (1714), a series of mock classical poems in a pastoral setting and the ‘Fables’ (1727), structured as octosyllabic illustrations of moral themes, often satirical in tone. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature’s finest poets, with superior formatting. This volume presents Gay’s complete poetical works, with related illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Gay’s life and works * Concise introduction to Gay’s life and poetry * Complete poetical works of John Gay, based on the Lawrence and Bullen Edition, 1893 * Includes Gay’s famous plays, including all of the ballad operas * Images of how the poetry books were first printed, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the poems * Special alphabetical contents tables for the poetry * Easily locate the poems you want to read * Includes Gay’s letters — spend hours exploring the poet’s personal correspondence * Gay’s important prose pamphlet ‘The Present State of Wit’ * Features two biographies, including Samuel Johnson’s famous account of Gay’s life — discover the poet’s intriguing past * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to see our wide range of poet titles CONTENTS: The Life and Poetry of John Gay Brief Introduction: John Gay Complete Poetical Works of John Gay List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Dramatic Works The Mohocks Three Hours after Marriage The Beggar’s Opera Polly Acis and Galatea Achilles The Letters List of Letters The Pamphlet The Present State of Wit The Biographies Gay by Samuel Johnson John Gay by Henry Austin Dobson Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of poetry titles or buy the entire Delphi Poets Series as a Super Set

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Delphi Classics

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1788779649

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Reading Freud

Explorations & Entertainments

By: Peter Gay,Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay

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Reading Freud

Explorations & Entertainments

By: Peter Gay,Sterling Professor of History Peter Gay

Essays discuss Freud's interest in Shakespeare, his choices for the names of his six children, his love of science, and his ambivalent feelings toward his father.

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Yale University Press

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0300046812

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9780300046816

Freud

A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

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Freud

A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

A biography and study of the psychoanalyst's career, family, personal life, and professional struggles.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393318265

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9780393318265

Progress and Values in the Humanities

Comparing Culture and Science

By: Volney Patrick Gay

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Progress and Values in the Humanities

Comparing Culture and Science

By: Volney Patrick Gay

Money and support tend to flow in the direction of economics, science, and other academic departments that demonstrate measurable "progress." The humanities, on the other hand, offer more abstract and uncertain outcomes. A humanist's objects of study are more obscure in certain ways than pathogens and cells. Consequently, it seems as if the humanities never truly progress. Is this a fair assessment? By comparing objects of science, such as the brain, the galaxy, the amoeba, and the quark, with objects of humanistic inquiry, such as the poem, the photograph, the belief, and the philosophical concept, Volney Gay reestablishes a fundamental distinction between science and the humanities. He frees the latter from its pursuit of material-based progress and restores its disciplines to a place of privilege and respect. Using the metaphor of magnification, Gay shows that, while we can investigate natural objects to the limits of imaging capacity, magnifying cultural objects dissolves them into noise. In other words, cultural objects can be studied only within their contexts and through the prism of metaphor and narrative. Gathering examples from literature, art, film, philosophy, religion, science, and psychoanalysis, Gay builds a new justification for the humanities. By revealing the unseen and making abstract ideas tangible, the arts create meaningful wholes, which itself is a form of progress.

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Columbia University Press

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0231147902

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9780231147903

A Godless Jew

Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis

By: Peter Gay

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A Godless Jew

Freud, Atheism, and the Making of Psychoanalysis

By: Peter Gay

Argues that Freud was an atheist and that atheism was an important prerequisite for his development of psychoanalysis

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Yale University Press

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0300046081

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The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People

Building a Foundation for Better Understanding

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities

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The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People

Building a Foundation for Better Understanding

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on the Health of Select Populations,Committee on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Health Issues and Research Gaps and Opportunities

At a time when lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals-often referred to under the umbrella acronym LGBT-are becoming more visible in society and more socially acknowledged, clinicians and researchers are faced with incomplete information about their health status. While LGBT populations often are combined as a single entity for research and advocacy purposes, each is a distinct population group with its own specific health needs. Furthermore, the experiences of LGBT individuals are not uniform and are shaped by factors of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographical location, and age, any of which can have an effect on health-related concerns and needs. The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People assesses the state of science on the health status of LGBT populations, identifies research gaps and opportunities, and outlines a research agenda for the National Institute of Health. The report examines the health status of these populations in three life stages: childhood and adolescence, early/middle adulthood, and later adulthood. At each life stage, the committee studied mental health, physical health, risks and protective factors, health services, and contextual influences. To advance understanding of the health needs of all LGBT individuals, the report finds that researchers need more data about the demographics of these populations, improved methods for collecting and analyzing data, and an increased participation of sexual and gender minorities in research. The Health of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People is a valuable resource for policymakers, federal agencies including the National Institute of Health (NIH), LGBT advocacy groups, clinicians, and service providers.

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National Academies Press

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0309379091

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9780309379090

Honey from the Lion

Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalism

By: Gay Doug

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Honey from the Lion

Christianity and the Ethics of Nationalism

By: Gay Doug

Doug Gay explores the ethics of nationalism, recognising that for many Christians, churches and theologians, nationalism has often been seen as intrinsically unethical due to a presumption that at best it involves privileging one nation’s interests over anothers and at worst it amounts to a form of ethnocentrism or even racism.

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SCM Press

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0334052041

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9780334052043

Freud: A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

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Freud: A Life for Our Time

By: Peter Gay

A national bestseller "A magisterial contribution to the history of ideas. A fresh, illuminating perspective on one of the pivotal figures of our time." —J. Anthony Lukas "[This] remarkable biography… briskly traces the story of Freud's life and education, deftly weaving the familiar narrative with a style that makes it seem fresh and lively." —Chicago Tribune

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393072347

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9780393072341

The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

By: Gay Salisbury,Laney Salisbury

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The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race Against an Epidemic

By: Gay Salisbury,Laney Salisbury

A stirring tale of survival, thanks to man's best friend." —Seattle Times When a deadly diphtheria epidemic swept through Nome, Alaska, in 1925, the local doctor knew that without a fresh batch of antitoxin, his patients would die. The lifesaving serum was a thousand miles away, the port was icebound, and planes couldn't fly in blizzard conditions—only the dogs could make it. The heroic dash of dog teams across the Alaskan wilderness to Nome inspired the annual Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race and immortalized Balto, the lead dog of the last team whose bronze statue still stands in New York City's Central Park. This is the greatest dog story, never fully told until now.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393076210

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9780393076219

Vocabulary in Action

Lessons from Great Literacy Teachers

By: Gay Fawcett

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Vocabulary in Action

Lessons from Great Literacy Teachers

By: Gay Fawcett

This book will take you into the classrooms of great literacy teachers from around the United States who have designed successful vocabulary instruction for their grades K-6 classrooms. Each teacher will share vocabulary routines that he or she uses on a regular basis, including his or her favorite, which you can use as-is or adapt for your own classroom. Through their stories you will be encouraged to examine your vocabulary instruction and consider what you can do to help students who have vocabulary gaps and further enrich the vocabulary of those students who don't.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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161048875X

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9781610488754

Selected Poems

By: John Gay

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Selected Poems

By: John Gay

First Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Taylor & Francis

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0415967392

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9780415967396

Gifts and Graces

Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan

By: David Gay

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Gifts and Graces

Prayer, Poetry, and Polemic from Lancelot Andrewes to John Bunyan

By: David Gay

This book explores early modern debates over prayer and liturgy from Anglican and Puritan perspectives, highlighting the poetic representation of prayer on both sides of the controversy.

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University of Toronto Press

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1487505280

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Shelter of Leaves

A Novel

By: Lenore H. Gay

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Shelter of Leaves

A Novel

By: Lenore H. Gay

On Memorial Day, a series of bomb explosions shuts down major cities across the US. Her apartment in ruins, Sabine flees Washington DC and begins a grueling journey on foot that brings her to West Virginia, where she finds safety at an abandoned farmhouse with other refugees. For Sabine, family is a vague memory—she can’t even remember her last name. Without an identity, she hides—although thirty-five, she pretends to be twenty-eight, even to the refugee she falls in love with. But Sabine wants to recover her identity. Despite gangs, bombings, riots, and spreading disease, she longs to return to a family she has begun to recall—a mother, a father, and brothers. Are they alive, surviving, in hiding as she is? Do they await news, and hope to reconcile? Even in harrowing times, Sabine’s desires to belong and to be loved pull her away from shelter.

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Simon and Schuster

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1631521020

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9781631521027

Environmental Instrumentation

By: Leo J. Fritschen,Lloyd W. Gay

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Environmental Instrumentation

By: Leo J. Fritschen,Lloyd W. Gay

The rapid increase in environmental measurements during the past few decades is associated with (1) increasing awareness of the complex relations linking biological responses to atmospheric variables, (2) development of improved data acquisition and handling equipment, (3) the application of modeling to environmental problems, and (4) the implementation of large, cooperative studies of international scope. The consequences of man's possible alteration of the environment have increased our interest in the complex nature of biological responses to meteorological variables. This has generated activity in both measurements and in the application of modeling techniques. The virtual explosion of modeling activity is also associated with the development oflarge computers. The testing of these models has demonstrated the need for more, different, and better environmental data. In addition, technological developments, such as integrated circuits, have reduced the cost, power consumption, and complexity of data acquisition systems, thus promoting more environmental measurements. The emergence of scientific cooperation on a global scale has increased measurement activities markedly. The International Geophysical Year (1958) has been followed by the International Hydrologic Decade, the Inter national Biological Program, the Global Atmospheric Research Program, and a host of environmental studies of a regional nature that have all emphasized field data collection.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461262054

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9781461262053

The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

By: Peter Gay

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The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud

By: Peter Gay

With the same sweep, authority, and originality that marked his best-selling Freud: A Life for Our Time, Peter Gay here takes us on a remarkable journey through middle-class Victorian culture. Gay's search through middle-class Victorian culture, illuminated by lively portraits of such daunting figures as Bismarck, Darwin and his acolytes, George Eliot, and the great satirists Daumier and Wilhelm Busch, covers a vast terrain: the relations between men and women, wit, demagoguery, and much more. We discover the multiple ways in which the nineteenth century at once restrained aggressive behavior and licensed it. Aggression split the social universe into insiders and outsiders. "By gathering up communities of insiders," Professor Gay writes, the Victorians "discovered--only too often invented--a world of strangers beyond the pale, of individuals and classes, races and nations it was perfectly proper to debate, patronize, ridicule, bully, exploit, or exterminate." The aggressions so channeled or bottled could not be contained forever. Ultimately, they exploded in the First World War.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393243451

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9780393243451

The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud)

By: Peter Gay

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The Cultivation of Hatred: The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud (The Bourgeois Experience: Victoria to Freud)

By: Peter Gay

The author of the bestseller Freud presents a close examination of the aggression--and debate about aggression--that raged through the Victorian Age. Gay looks at the works of such figures as Theodore Roosevelt and Nietzsche to present penetrating new insights.

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0393312240

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9780393312249

Enlightenment Volume 1

By: Peter Gay

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Enlightenment Volume 1

By: Peter Gay

The eighteenth century Enlightenment marks the beginning of the modern age when the scientific method and belief in reason and progress came to hold sway over the Western world. In the twentieth century, however, the Enlightenment has often been judged harshly for its apparently simplistic optimism. Here a master historian goes back to the sources to give us both a more sophisticated and intriguing view of the philosophes, their world and their ideas.

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Knopf

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030783137X

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9780307831378

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

By: Penny Gay

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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies

By: Penny Gay

Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.

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1139469770

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9781139469777

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