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Victorian Magic

By: Geoffrey Lamb

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First published in 1976. This title brings the Victorian era to life with stories of its spectacular leading magicians, conjurers, illusionists, escapologists, scientific experimenters and tricksters. Geoffrey Lamb describes the kind of people they were and the kind of things they did, whilst keeping intact the mystery surrounding their feats. This skilful reconstruction of this branch of nineteenth-century entertainment gives us a fascinating insight into Victorians and how they liked to be amused. This title will be of interest to students of history.

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Routledge

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1317273249

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Gandhi's Interpreter

A Life of Horace Alexander

By: Geoffrey Carnall

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Gandhi's Interpreter

A Life of Horace Alexander

By: Geoffrey Carnall

Horace Alexander was an English Quaker who negotiated relations between Indian nationalist leaders and the British Government in the years before the transfer of power. Alexander was Gandhi's trusted intermediary; at the same time, he enjoyed the confidence of British Conservative ministers and Labour representatives. Alexander avoided publicity so successfully that his role has almost entirely escaped the attention of historians, including his efforts to prevent the outbreak of the Second World War. This beautifully written biography relates the development of Alexander's commitment from its origins in Quaker pacifism and optimistic liberal ideology to its attempted realization of a humane and just international order. As Geoffrey Carnall demonstrates, Alexander believed in Gandhi's ideas and sought to interpret them in terms that were comprehensible to the West.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748641858

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9780748641857

How Economics Forgot History

The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science

By: Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

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How Economics Forgot History

The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science

By: Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

Hodgson calls into question the tendency of economic method to explain all economic phenomena using the same catch-all theories. He argues that you need different theories and that historical contexts must be taken into account.

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Psychology Press

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0415257166

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9780415257169

Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

By: Geoffrey William Bromiley

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Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

By: Geoffrey William Bromiley

Substantial articles on 2000+ Greek words that are theologically significant in the New Testament. Traces usage in classical Greek literature, the Septuagint, intertestamental texts, and the New Testament.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802822495

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9780802822499

Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

By: Geoffrey J. Matthews,Conrad Heidenreich,Byron Moldofsky,Thomas F. McIlwraith,John Warkentin

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Concise Historical Atlas of Canada

By: Geoffrey J. Matthews,Conrad Heidenreich,Byron Moldofsky,Thomas F. McIlwraith,John Warkentin

A distillation of sixty-seven of the best and most important plates from the original three volumes of the bestselling of the Historical Atlas of Canada.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802042031

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9780802042033

American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

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American Fiction, 1901-1925

A Bibliography

By: Geoffrey D. Smith

A 1997 bibliography of American fiction from 1901-1925.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521434696

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9780521434690

The Squire's Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

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The Squire's Tale

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Part Twelve In the list of scholarly problems it presents, The Squire’s Tale ranks among the highest in The Canterbury Tales. Being incomplete and coming to a halt on a baffling note-was it in fact evolving into a tale of incest?-the tale has undergone the most remarkable shift in critic acceptance of any of Chaucer’s works. This tale of oriental wonder, with its strong base in magic, excited the admiration of Chaucer’s contemporaries and inspired Spenser’s imitative speculation and Milton’s famous desire that the old poet be summoned up to finish his task. It retained for the eighteenth and most of the nineteenth centuries its Gothic fascination, being ranked with the very best of Chaucer’s work. In the second half of the twentieth century, it has been seen from a number of provocative perspectives. Is it a parody of the long Eastern romance? Is it a satire on the values of an aristocracy whose time is past? Is it a rhetorical joke on Chaucer’s part, extending the character of the young Squire into an earnest and somewhat naïve competition with his father, the Knight? The concerns of contemporary scholarship reveal as much about the critical temper of the time as about the work itself. On its own merits The Squire’s Tale compels our attention as an example of Chaucer’s wide-ranging and sometimes inscrutable genius. It provides us with an exotic literary type not otherwise represented in the Tales. It reverberates, in its discussion of ’gentilesse’ with other such discussions in Chaucer’s poetry; it demonstrates, in its use of the love-vision and the complaint, the experimental ways in which Chaucer handles the conventions of French poetry. Perhaps most fascinating is the range of Chaucer’s mind revealed by the casual uses of the science of his time: its knowledge of meteorology, optics, glass and metal work, astrology, and astronomy. The tale offers yet one more example of Chaucer’s genius at work, speaking to us in a voice that is at once suggestive, provocative, and mystifying as always.

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University of Oklahoma Press

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0806121548

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Fairbridge

Empire and Child Migration

By: Chris Jeffery,Geoffrey Sherington

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Fairbridge

Empire and Child Migration

By: Chris Jeffery,Geoffrey Sherington

This study investigates the motives for the establishment of the Fairbridge child migration scheme, examines its history in Australia and Canada, and outlines the experiences of many of the former child migrants.

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Routledge

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1136224866

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9781136224867

Prokaryotic Metabolism and Physiology

By: Byung Hong Kim,Geoffrey Michael Gadd

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Prokaryotic Metabolism and Physiology

By: Byung Hong Kim,Geoffrey Michael Gadd

Extensive and up-to-date review of key metabolic processes in bacteria and archaea and how metabolism is regulated under various conditions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107171733

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Economics and Evolution

Bringing Life Back Into Economics

By: Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

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Economics and Evolution

Bringing Life Back Into Economics

By: Geoffrey Martin Hodgson

How evolutionary ideas can be used to reconstruct economics.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472084232

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9780472084234

A Devotion to Their Science

Pioneer Women of Radioactivity

By: Marelene F. Rayner-Canham,Geoffrey Rayner-Canham

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A Devotion to Their Science

Pioneer Women of Radioactivity

By: Marelene F. Rayner-Canham,Geoffrey Rayner-Canham

Contains 17 full biographies and 6 briefer accounts of most of the early women pioneers in the study of radioactivity.

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Chemical Heritage Foundation

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0941901157

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9780941901154

British Multinational Banking, 1830-1990

By: Geoffrey Jones

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British Multinational Banking, 1830-1990

By: Geoffrey Jones

Analyses the emergence, growth and performance from the 1830s to the present

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Oxford University Press

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019820602X

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9780198206026

Freeing the Baltic, 1918–1920

By: Geoffrey Bennett

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Freeing the Baltic, 1918–1920

By: Geoffrey Bennett

In 1919, the new governments of the besieged Baltic states appealed desperately to the Allies for assistance. A small British flotilla of light cruisers and destroyers were sent to help, under the command of Rear Admiral Sir Walter Cowan. They were given no clear instructions as to what their objective was to be and so Cowan decided that he had to make his own policy. Despite facing a much greater force, Cowan improvised one of the most daring raids ever staged by the British Navy. He succeeded with devastating effect; outmaneuvering his enemies, sinking two Russian Battleships and eventually freeing the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

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Casemate Publishers

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1473893097

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London Jewry and London Politics 1889-1986

By: Geoffrey Alderman

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London Jewry and London Politics 1889-1986

By: Geoffrey Alderman

First Published in 1989 London Jewry and London Politics 1889-1986 is a study of the relationship between the London Jewish community, the London County Council, and the Greater London Council. Geoffrey Alderman draws on a wealth of primary and secondary material to illuminate a dialogue that began, a hundred years ago, in a mood of great optimism and co-operation, but which ended, in the early 1980s, in a welter of insults and antagonisms. Alderman adopts a chronological approach, looking first at the Jewish involvement in London government prior to the establishment of the London County Council in 1889. He then analyses the contribution made by London Jewry to the periods of progressive control and conservative rule. With the arrival of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe the nature of the Jewish electorate underwent considerable change and Alderman describes how the government exploited prejudice against the Jewish community causing LCC to adopt blatantly antisemitic policies. The Labour victory of 1934 was in part due to the Jewish vote, but the period of Labour rule was a disappointment and an anticlimax. This illuminating account of hundred years is an essential read for scholars and researchers of British history.

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1000816982

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The Second World War

By: David Horner,Robin Havers,Alastair Finlan,Mark J Grove,Philip D. Grove,Paul Collier,Geoffrey Jukes,Russell Hart,Stephen A. Hart

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The Second World War

By: David Horner,Robin Havers,Alastair Finlan,Mark J Grove,Philip D. Grove,Paul Collier,Geoffrey Jukes,Russell Hart,Stephen A. Hart

Bringing together the work of nine leading historians, and superbly illustrated with contemporary photography and colour maps, The Second World War gives readers a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of history's greatest conflict. The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating and remarkable events in living memory. Labouring beneath a daily burden of fear, sacrifice, deprivation and uncertainty, soldiers and civilians of all nationalities were driven to extremes of selfless loyalty, dogged determination or bitter cruelty by the demands of a world at war. This book tells the stories of the men and women who lived and died during the Second World War, from politicians to factory workers, and from High Command to the conscripted men on the front lines. The experience of war is brought to life through a wealth of contemporary documentation, private writings and historical research, whilst the political, military and historical significance of the war is assessed and examined. From Europe's Western and Eastern Fronts to the war at sea, and from the Pacific to the Mediterranean and North Africa, every fighting front of the Second World War is covered in this truly comprehensive volume.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472833945

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The Taciturn Man

And Other Tales of Australia

By: Geoffrey Gibson

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The Taciturn Man

And Other Tales of Australia

By: Geoffrey Gibson

An immigrant's tale of an untamed country Alexander Gibson, my father, was a young Englishman who with his brother settled in Australiain the 1920s. The brothers each married one of the Solomon sisters just prior to the Great Depression.The Taciturn Man begins just after the Second World War when Alexander took up a roughbush sheep-grazing block in isolation among the tall trees of New England (New South Wales). I was born in 1937, and so I was just three years old when my father went to war, and age eightwhen he returned. Fortunately, by then I was old enough to absorb much of the material for thiscollection which I hope you will now enjoy. Praise for "The Taciturn Man" "A delightful memoir with all the emotions of life itself-seriousness, humor, joy and sadnessand more. The author's observations of people and lively writing style make ita great bedside book to be savored, rather than hurried through." --Deborah K. Frontiera, author of Fighting CPS: Guilty Until Proven Innocentof Child Protective Services Charges "The Taciturn Man is a trip through Australia's countryside that feels like a nostalgic summerbreeze as Gibson's personal narrative reveals its beauty, culture, and history through his ownexperiences and unique voice." --Susan Violante, author of "Innocent War: Behind an Immigrant's Past" About the AuthorGeoffrey Gibson grew up in rural Australia in the 1940s, earned his keep as a jackeroo (farmhand), had a brief stint in the Army, followed by thirty years as a suburban real estate agent inSydney. He has dabbled in politics, and in retirement now spends his time writing, surfing andmucking about with friends on the state's South coast. From the World Voices Series www.ModernHistoryPress.com

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Loving Healing Press

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1615991204

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9781615991204

Seapower

A Guide for the Twenty-First Century

By: Geoffrey Till

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Seapower

A Guide for the Twenty-First Century

By: Geoffrey Till

This revised, updated and expanded new edition of Geoffrey Till's acclaimed textbook provides an invaluable guide for anyone interested in the changing and crucial role of seapower in the twenty-first century.

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Routledge

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1134018584

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Medieval Sieges & Siegecraft

By: Geoffrey Hindley

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Medieval Sieges & Siegecraft

By: Geoffrey Hindley

Here Geoffrey Hindley serves us the history of military sieges from every angle, tracing the development of fortifications and equipment (offensive and defensive), penning vivid portraits of the weapons involved, exploring the psychology of laying siege, and even describing the role played by women and camp followers in battle. He shows siege tactics in action through real-life case studies of famous sieges that changed the course of history in medieval Europe and the Holy Land. His stimulating and accessible study will be fascinating reading for medieval specialists and for anyone who is interested in the history of warfare.

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Simon and Schuster

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162636866X

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in South Yorkshire

By: Geoffrey Howse

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Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in South Yorkshire

By: Geoffrey Howse

Geoffrey Howse explores the darker and sinister side of South Yorkshire's past in this diverse collection of crimes and foul deeds, taken from Victorian to modern times. Read about a shooting and 'mob rule' in Doncaster, sensational murder in Darfield, Mexborough, and Attercliffe; trade outrages in Sheffield and Rotherham, highway robbery at Wentworth, embezzlement in Barnsley and arson at Thorne. Unusual cases include a Doncaster elopement and robbery, burglaries by girls in Rotherham, the shocking killing of a police constable at Swinton and 'coal' riots and lawlessness in Wath-upon-Dearne and Hoyland. A dramatic event in Thurnscoe, a Wombwell stabbing affray and a variety of long forgotten tragedies and crimes are also explored in some detail.

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Casemate Publishers

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184563103X

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9781845631031

Changing Sux

By: Geoffrey Mcclelland

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Changing Sux

By: Geoffrey Mcclelland

This book is about how success comes in many ways good and bad. It is about living. This book is about guiding your kids in positive directions and training your mind to help you and not destroy you the book is about beliefs and the power they can have over us weather they are false or true the power is the same. This is about focus and determination, about the way i felt with uncertainty, doubts, frustration, depression, anger, desperateness, willingness, hollowness and how i learned to fill that emptiness. This book is about the pain i inflicted on my kids and how i spent the rest of my life repairing it. This is about having no idea of how to be a father, a friend, a partner, a husband and this book is about learning to understand yourself and others.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1456844105

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Marriage in the Book of Tobit

By: Geoffrey David Miller

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Marriage in the Book of Tobit

By: Geoffrey David Miller

Apart from Genesis, Tobit contains more information about marriage than any other biblical book. It reflects third-century beliefs and customs yet also serves a didactic function, teaching Diaspora Jews what they should value in their own marriages. This monograph elucidates these elements by asking four questions: 1) Whom should one marry? 2) How does one get married? 3) What role does God play in marriage? 4) What do actual marriages look like? By contextualizing Tobit in light of the Old Testament and relevant Ancient Near Eastern texts, one can appreciate the book's unique claims. Endogamy is defined more narrowly than in other Old Testament texts as Israelites are now enjoined to marry close relatives. Monetary matters such as the payment of the bride-price are downplayed, while adherence to the Mosaic Law is emphasized in the marriage contract and the wedding ceremony. Furthermore, intertextual links with Genesis 24 cast Tobiah and Sarah as founders of a "new Israel", showing that God becomes involved in their marriage so that the nation of Israel will not die out. Finally, the author's portrayal of three married couples in the book reveals much about gender roles and also creates a realistic portrait of the marital relationship in terms of communication, cooperation, and conflict.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110247879

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9783110247879

The Poems of Shelley: Volume Two

1817 - 1819

By: Kelvin Everest,Geoffrey Matthews

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The Poems of Shelley: Volume Two

1817 - 1819

By: Kelvin Everest,Geoffrey Matthews

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) was one of the major Romantic poets, and wrote what is critically recognised as some of the finest lyric poetry in the English language. This is the second volume of the five-volume The Poems of Shelley, which presents all of Shelley’s poems in chronological order and with full annotation. Date and circumstances of composition are provided for each poem and all manuscript and printed sources relevant to establishing an authoritative text are freshly examined and assessed. Headnotes and footnotes furnish the personal, literary, historical and scientific information necessary to an informed reading of Shelley’s varied and allusive verse. This volume makes extensive use of the Shelley manuscripts in the Bodleian Library and draws on the substantial recent research which has appeared on Shelley's text and contexts, and on members of his circle such as Mary Shelley, Byron, Godwin and others. It offers significant new datings and contextual exposition of major works including Prometheus Unbound, Laon and Cythna, 'Julian and Maddalo', The Cenci, and Shelley's translations from the Greek, notably his highly original translation of Euripides' The Cyclops. There are also comprehensive treatments of some of Shelley's best known shorter poems, such as 'Lines written among the Euganean Hills' and 'Ozymandias'. The annotation demonstrates the extraordinary range and richness of Shelley's literary intelligence, and situates his work in the revolutionary politics and social upheavals of the early nineteenth century. The text and annotation are supported by an extensive bibliography, a chronology, indexes, and appendices which include a detailed examination of the history of the Cenci story. The volumes of The Poems of Shelley form the most comprehensive edition of Shelley's poetry available to students and scholars.

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Routledge

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1317901061

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9781317901068

Keyguide to Information Sources in Museum Studies

By: Peter Woodhead,Geoffrey Stansfield

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Keyguide to Information Sources in Museum Studies

By: Peter Woodhead,Geoffrey Stansfield

This revised and updated edition provides an integrated guide to the documentation, reference aids and key organizational sources of information about museums and museum studies worldwide. Part One provides an overview of museums and the literature about them. Part Two is an annotated bibliography, and Part Three is an international directory of organizations. A detailed index completes the work.

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Taylor & Francis

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0720121515

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9780720121513

The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels

By: Geoffrey Sedlezky

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The Significance of Doorway Positions in English Medieval Parochial Churches and Chapels

By: Geoffrey Sedlezky

This book analyses the positions of external church doorways in England to investigate the significance that positioning had for the function and design of these buildings. The author proposes a link between the design and function of parochial churches and chapels with the number and attributes of their doorways.

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Archaeopress Publishing Ltd

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1803275766

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Chaucer ́s Works

Volume 5

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

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Chaucer ́s Works

Volume 5

By: Geoffrey Chaucer

Reproduction of the original: Chaucer ́s Works by Geoffrey Chaucer

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3734039541

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9783734039546

Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of Contract

By: M. P. Furmston,Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire,Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot

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Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of Contract

By: M. P. Furmston,Geoffrey Chevalier Cheshire,Cecil Herbert Stuart Fifoot

Cheshire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of Contract stands as one of the classic textbooks on contract law more than 50 years after the publication of the first edition. Michael Furmston combines an authoritative account of the principles of the law of contract with thought-provoking analysis and insights, and the clarity of the narrative brings understanding of complex contractual issues to a wider readership. Each topic is clearly signposted for ease of navigation, and the text contains numerous references to additional primary and secondary sources to take the reader even further into the subject. The text is invaluable to students reading courses in contract, the law of obligations, and common law. It is also of real use to students of other disciplines needing a clear overview of the law of contract, and is often used as a first point of reference for practitioners. Online Resource Centre Student resources: - Annual updates- Web links

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199287562

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9780199287567

Matriarch

An Australian Novel of Love and Wa

By: Geoffrey Hope Gibson

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Matriarch

An Australian Novel of Love and Wa

By: Geoffrey Hope Gibson

ÿ"Powerful and unforgettable." At the beginning of the twentieth century, the son of an English lord settles in Australia and marries an indigenous woman. It is an age when interracial relationships are not only misunderstood, but result in family conflict, disgrace, and disinheritance. Then the Christian missionaries come. They destroy the timeless culture and beliefs of Australia's indigenous people, leaving them to flounder in a soup of the white man's religious beliefs. The great-grandmother's telling of the family story is the nourishment that holds it together through war, and the constant battle to adjust and exist in a white man's world. The Christian missionaries will not tolerate any belief or view other than their own. Amid all this religious and racial conflict, the great-grandchildren adjust and eventually prosper. The young man distinguishes himself in the conflict in Vietnam, while his sister finds her place and flourishes in the food and catering industry. From the Boer War through two World Wars, the Vietnam War, and the last decades of the twentieth century, Matriarch takes readers on an eye-opening journey through Australian history, culminating in a serial murder mystery that opens old family wounds. Author Geoffrey Hope Gibson's historical sweep of Australia's past is as broad as James A. Michener's. His style is reminiscent of Richard Llewellyn's depictions of Wales and Argentina, and his depiction of Aborigine mistreatment rivals the most frightening moments in Tayeb Salih's classic postcolonial novelÿSeason of Migration to the North. "Matriarchÿis a captivating story that will take readers through time within the aboriginal heart in Australia, and feel the raw truth of their history and social evolution to current times. A Must Read!" --Susan Violante, Managing Editor of Reader Views, and author ofÿInnocent War "This sprawling epic tale of love, marriage, injustice, ancestors, misguided religion, grief, rage, and murder is a testament to how the past never dies. In one family's struggles, Gibson creates a story that calls forth the best and worst of what it means to be human. Powerful and unforgettable." --Tyler R. Tichelaar, Ph.D., and award-winning author ofÿNarrow LivesÿandÿThe Best Place Learn more at www.GeoffreyGibson.com From the World Voices Series Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com Fiction : Sagas Fiction : Thrillers : Historical

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1615992707

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