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Instruments of Darkness

Witchcraft in Early Modern England

By: James Sharpe

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Instruments of Darkness

Witchcraft in Early Modern England

By: James Sharpe

The first comprehensive scholarly history of witchcraft in England in over eighty years.

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Witchcraft in Early Modern England

By: James Sharpe

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Witchcraft in Early Modern England

By: James Sharpe

With the renewed interest in the history of witches and witchcraft, this timely book provides an introduction to this fascinating topic, informed by the main trends of new thinking on the subject. Beginning with a discussion of witchcraft in the early modern period, and charting the witch panics that took place at this time, the author goes on to look at the historical debate surrounding the causes of the legal persecution of witches. Contemporary views of witchcraft put forward by judges, theological writers and the medical profession are examined, as is the place of witchcraft in the popular imagination. Jim Sharpe also looks at the gender dimensions of the witch persecution, and the treatment of witchcraft in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. Supported by a range of compelling documents, the book concludes with an exploration of why witch panics declined in the late seventeenth century and early eighteenth century.

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Routledge

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1317881303

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A Fiery & Furious People

A History of Violence in England

By: James Sharpe

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A Fiery & Furious People

A History of Violence in England

By: James Sharpe

*Chosen as a Book of the Year by The Times, History Today and the Sunday Telegraph* ‘Wonderfully entertaining, comprehensive and astute.’ The Times ‘Genuinely hard to put down.’ BBC History Magazine From murder to duelling, highway robbery to mugging: the darker side of English life explored. Spanning some seven centuries, A Fiery & Furious People traces the subtle shifts that have taken place both in the nature of violence and in people’s attitudes to it. How could football be regarded at one moment as a raucous pastime that should be banned, and the next as a respectable sport that should be encouraged? When did the serial killer first make an appearance? What gave rise to particular types of violent criminal - medieval outlaws, Victorian garrotters – and what made them dwindle and then vanish? Above all, Professor James Sharpe hones in on a single, fascinating question: has the country that has experienced so much turmoil naturally prone to violence or are we, in fact, becoming a gentler nation? ‘Wonderful . . . A fascinating and rare example of a beautifully crafted scholarly work.’ Times Higher Education ‘Sweeping and ambitious . . . A humane and clear-eyed guide to a series of intractable and timely questions.’ Observer ‘Deeply researched, thoughtfully considered and vividly written . . . Read it.’ History Today ‘Magisterial . . . The outlaw’s song has surely never been better rendered.’ Times Literary Supplement

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Random House

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1446456137

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The Bewitching of Anne Gunter

A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England

By: James Sharpe

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The Bewitching of Anne Gunter

A Horrible and True Story of Deception, Witchcraft, Murder, and the King of England

By: James Sharpe

In 1604, 20-year-old Anne Gunter was bewitched: she foamed at the mouth, contorted wildly in her bedchamber, went into trances. Her garters and bodices were perpetually unlacing themselves. Her signature symptom was to vomit pins and "she voided some pins downwards as well by her water or otherwise.." Popular history at its best, "The Bewitching of Anne Gunter" opens a fascinating window onto the past. It's a tale of controlling fathers, willful daughters, nosy neighbors, power relations between peasants and gentry, and village life in early-modern Europe. Above all it's an original and revealing story of one young woman's experience with the greatly misunderstood phenomenon of witchcraft. James Sharpe is Professor of History at York University and the author of "Instruments of Darkness: Witchcraft in" "Early Modern History" and other works of social history.

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1136056068

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A "SHARPE" VIEW: From an outhouse to an overnight guest at the White House

By: Sharpe James

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A "SHARPE" VIEW: From an outhouse to an overnight guest at the White House

By: Sharpe James

A SHARPE VIEW BRINGS TO LIFE Newark's longest serving (1986-2006) modern day Mayor Sharpe James whose extroverted personality, leadership style that bordered on civic and religious frenzy, emotional speeches defending Newark and his intemperate letters to his critics and detractors, part historian, part street fighter and always entertaining, made Newark a destination city and placed its future on a very high moral plane. Dr. Clement Price, Professor of history at Rutgers University, Newark Campus, Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience, Star Ledger, April 2, 2006.James' Legacy: A proud Newark. Former NJ Governor Thomas H. Kean as President of Drew University in honoring Mayor James with its Doctor of Humane Letters, called James a modern-day Nehemiah. He entered local government when Newark was still reeling from the riots of the 1960s. He has called upon the citizens of Newark to help him rebuild the City's great heritage. Sharpe James the former athlete, athletic director, college professor, Newark ward councilman, councilman-at-large, mayor and state senator, now spends time writing his memoir, mentoring youths, and caring for his wife of fifty-eight years Mary, and his 107 years old mother, Beulah, who takes no prescription medicine. God's benevolence has been our lighthouse steering us through troubled waters

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Covenant Books, Inc.

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1685262430

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Postmodern Portfolio Theory

Navigating Abnormal Markets and Investor Behavior

By: James Ming Chen

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Postmodern Portfolio Theory

Navigating Abnormal Markets and Investor Behavior

By: James Ming Chen

This survey of portfolio theory, from its modern origins through more sophisticated, “postmodern” incarnations, evaluates portfolio risk according to the first four moments of any statistical distribution: mean, variance, skewness, and excess kurtosis. In pursuit of financial models that more accurately describe abnormal markets and investor psychology, this book bifurcates beta on either side of mean returns. It then evaluates this traditional risk measure according to its relative volatility and correlation components. After specifying a four-moment capital asset pricing model, this book devotes special attention to measures of market risk in global banking regulation. Despite the deficiencies of modern portfolio theory, contemporary finance continues to rest on mean-variance optimization and the two-moment capital asset pricing model. The term postmodern portfolio theory captures many of the advances in financial learning since the original articulation of modern portfolio theory. A comprehensive approach to financial risk management must address all aspects of portfolio theory, from the beautiful symmetries of modern portfolio theory to the disturbing behavioral insights and the vastly expanded mathematical arsenal of the postmodern critique. Mastery of postmodern portfolio theory’s quantitative tools and behavioral insights holds the key to the efficient frontier of risk management.

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Springer

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1137544643

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A Few Marines

By: James W. Hammond

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A Few Marines

By: James W. Hammond

This is the first of a proposed series of books about the Marine Corps during the last one hundred-plus years. The genre is fiction but the episodes make being a Marine meaningful.

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Trafford Publishing

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1412010055

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Global Terrorism

By: James M. Lutz,Brenda J. Lutz

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Global Terrorism

By: James M. Lutz,Brenda J. Lutz

This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to global terrorism, intended to help students understand the history, politics, ideologies & strategies of both contemporary & older terrorist groups.

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Psychology Press

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0415700507

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9780415700504

East and Southeast Asia 2022–2023

By: James E. Hoare

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East and Southeast Asia 2022–2023

By: James E. Hoare

The World Today Series: East & Southeast Asia provides historical background on the evolution of Modern East & Southeast Asia to help readers gain a thorough understanding of contemporary developments in this vital region. Broad introductory regional chapters are followed by sections on each country in the region. The combination of factual accuracy and up-to-date detail make this an outstanding resource for researchers, practitioners in international development, media professionals, government officials, potential investors, and students to understand the immediate background of contemporary developments.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538165899

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In Clouds of Glory

American Airmen Who Flew with the British During the Great War

By: James J. Hudson

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In Clouds of Glory

American Airmen Who Flew with the British During the Great War

By: James J. Hudson

Profiles the twenty-eight Americans who joined the Royal Air Force and became aces during the first World War

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557281246

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Modern Food Microbiology

By: James M. Jay,Martin J. Loessner,David A. Golden

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Modern Food Microbiology

By: James M. Jay,Martin J. Loessner,David A. Golden

With thirty revised and updated chapters the new edition of this classic text brings benefits to professors and students alike who will find new sections on many topics concerning modern food microbiology. This authoritative book builds on the trusted and established sections on food preservation by modified atmosphere, high pressure and pulsed electric field processing. It further covers food-borne pathogens, food regulations, fresh-cut produce, new food products, and risk assessment and analysis. In-depth references, appendixes, illustrations, index and thorough updating of taxonomies make this an essential for every food scientist.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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0387234136

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9780387234137

Ehud's Dagger

Class Struggle in the English Revolution

By: James Holstun

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Ehud's Dagger

Class Struggle in the English Revolution

By: James Holstun

In this meticulously researched, award-winning book, James Holstun details seventeenth-century England's first capitalist revolution, and its first anti-capitalist revolutions, in a stirring project of Marxist history from below.

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Verso Books

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1789608236

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A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion

Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates

By: James Cox

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A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion

Key Figures, Formative Influences and Subsequent Debates

By: James Cox

Provides an introduction and overview to the Phenomenology of Religion through describing, analysing and evaluating the ideas of key thinkers in the phenomenology of religion. This book also examines the thinking of scholars within the Dutch, British and North American 'schools' of religious phenomenology.

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A&C Black

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0826452906

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Portrait of a Scientific Racist

Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi

By: James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.

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Portrait of a Scientific Racist

Alfred Holt Stone of Mississippi

By: James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.

In the years after Reconstruction, racial tension soared, as many white southerners worried about how to deal with the millions of free African Americans among them -- an issue they termed the "negro problem." In an attempt to maintain the status quo, white supremacists resurrected old proslavery arguments and sought new justification in scientific theories purporting to "prove" people of African descent inherently inferior to whites. In Portrait of a Scientific Racist James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., reveals how the conjectures of one of the country's most prominent racial theorists, Alfred Holt Stone, helped justify a repressive racial order that relegated African Americans to the margins of southern society in the early 1900s. In this revealing biography, Hollandsworth examines the thoughts and motives of this renowned man, focusing primarily on Stone's most intensive period of theorizing, from 1900 to 1910. A committed and vocal white supremacist, Stone believed black southern workers were inherently lazy, a trait he attributed to their African genes and heritage. He asserted that slavery helped improve the black race but that opportunities still existed during Reconstruction to mold the freedmen into efficient workers. Stone's central -- yet unspoken -- goal was to devise a way to maintain an obedient, productive labor force willing to work for low wages. Writing from both Washington, D.C., and his cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, Stone published numerous essays and collected more than 3000 articles and pamphlets on the "American Race Problem" -- including those written by bitter racists and enthusiastic "race boosters." Though Stone lacked the credentials typically associated with scholarly experts of the time, he became an authority on the subject of black Americans, in part because of his close friendship with fellow scientific racist and statistician Walter F. Willcox. An early member of the American Economic Association and other academic groups, Stone went on to serve as head scholar of a division for race studies within the Carnegie Foundation. Interestingly, Stone recruited W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington to collaborate with him on a major study for the Foundation, continuing his tendency to incorporate all perspectives into his study of race. Hollandsworth uses Stone's extensive correspondence with Willcox, Du Bois, and Washington, as well as his personal writings -- both published and unpublished -- to reveal the secrets of this misguided, yet fascinating, figure.

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LSU Press

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0807154679

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9780807154670

Financial Valuation

Applications and Models

By: James R. Hitchner

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Financial Valuation

Applications and Models

By: James R. Hitchner

Real world applications and professional consensus by nationally recognized valuation experts Filled with a wealth of detail, practice tips, and examples, Financial Valuation: Applications and Models, Third Edition brings together thirty nationally recognized names in the valuation industry hailing from a variety of professional specializations-including accounting, business appraisal, and financial analysis-to provide practitioners with an indispensable reference on various valuation issues. Assembled by valuation authority James Hitchner, these contributors analyze, explain, and collaborate on the most effective valuation procedures to share real-world applications in the field of financial valuations. Written by 30 top experts in business valuations field Provides the valuation theory, the consensus view on application, and then the tools to apply it An all-encompassing valuation handbook that presents the application of financial valuation theory for business appraisers and consultants New chapters on Assessing Risk and Expert Witness Testimony Expands chapter on Cost of Capital Comprehensive in coverage and authoritative in treatment, James Hitchner's Financial Valuation, Third Edition provides trusted, complete business valuation information for CPAs, appraisers, analysts, attorneys, and corporate executives.

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0470915242

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9780470915240

The Feud That Wasn’t

The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas

By: James M. Smallwood

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The Feud That Wasn’t

The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas

By: James M. Smallwood

Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called “Taylor-Sutton feud” has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas. Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition from pro-Union law enforcement officials, often led by William Sutton. From 1871 until his eventual arrest, notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin served as enforcer for the Taylors. In 1874 in the streets of Comanche, Texas, on his twenty-first birthday, Hardin and two other members of the Taylor ring gunned down Brown County Deputy Charlie Webb. This cold-blooded killing—one among many—marked the beginning of the end for the Taylor ring, and Hardin eventually went to the penitentiary as a result. The Feud That Wasn’t reinforces the interpretation that Reconstruction was actually just a continuation of the Civil War in another guise, a thesis Smallwood has advanced in other books and articles. He chronicles in vivid detail the cattle rustling, horse thieving, killing sprees, and attacks on law officials perpetrated by the loosely knit Taylor ring, drawing a composite picture of a group of anti-Reconstruction hoodlums who at various times banded together for criminal purposes. Western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen will heartily enjoy this colorful and meticulously researched narrative.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1603440178

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Instruments of Darkness

Instruments of Darkness

Witchcraft in Early Modern England

Witchcraft in Early Modern England

A Fiery & Furious People

A Fiery & Furious People

The Bewitching of Anne Gunter

The Bewitching of Anne Gunter

A "SHARPE" VIEW: From an outhouse to an overnight guest at the White House

A "SHARPE" VIEW: From an outhouse to an overnight guest at the White House

Postmodern Portfolio Theory

Postmodern Portfolio Theory

A Few Marines

A Few Marines

Global Terrorism

Global Terrorism

East and Southeast Asia 2022–2023

East and Southeast Asia 2022–2023

In Clouds of Glory

In Clouds of Glory

Modern Food Microbiology

Modern Food Microbiology

Ehud's Dagger

Ehud's Dagger

A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion

A Guide to the Phenomenology of Religion

Portrait of a Scientific Racist

Portrait of a Scientific Racist

Financial Valuation

Financial Valuation

The Feud That Wasn’t

The Feud That Wasn’t

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