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William Faulkner

Self-Presentation and Performance

By: James G. Watson

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William Faulkner

Self-Presentation and Performance

By: James G. Watson

In his life and writings, William Faulkner continually created and "performed" selves. Even in letters, he often played a part—gentleman dandy, soldier, farmer—while in his fictions these and other personae are counterpoised against one another to create a world of controlled chaos, made in Faulkner's own protean image and reflective of his own multiple sense of self. In this groundbreaking book, James Watson draws on the entire Faulkner canon, including letters and photographs, to decipher the complicated ways in which Faulkner put himself forth as the artist he felt himself to be through written performances and displays based on the life he actually lived and the ones he imagined living. The topics Watson treats include the overtly performative aspects of The Sound and the Fury, self-presentation and performance in private records of Faulkner's life, the ways in which his complicated marriage and his relationships to male mentors underlie his fictions' recurring motifs of marriages and fatherhood, Faulkner's readings of Melville, Hawthorne, and Thoreau and the problematics of authorial sovereignty, his artist-as-God creation of a fictional cosmos, and the epistolary relationships with women that lie in the correspondence behind Requiem for a Nun.

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273

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University of Texas Press

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0292757883

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9780292757882

Medieval Studies

An Introduction, Second Edition

By: James M. Powell

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Medieval Studies

An Introduction, Second Edition

By: James M. Powell

In addition to sections devoted to Latin paleography, diplomatics, computer-assisted research, numismatics, archaeology, problems in chronology, and prospography, this text describes state-of-the-art research methodology and critical approaches to English literature, Latin philosophies, law, science, art and music.

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460

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Syracuse University Press

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0815625561

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9780815625568

Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky

A Political Biography

By: James E. St. Clair,Linda C. Gugin

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Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky

A Political Biography

By: James E. St. Clair,Linda C. Gugin

Fred M. Vinson, the thirteenth Chief Justice of the United States, started his political career as a small-town Kentucky lawyer and rose to positions of power in all three branches of federal government. Born in Louisa, Kentucky, Vinson earned undergraduate and law degrees from Centre College in Danville. He served 12 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he achieved acclaim as a tax and fiscal expert. President Roosevelt appointed him to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and later named him to key executive-branch positions. President Truman appointed him Secretary of the Treasury and then Chief Justice. The Vinson court was embroiled in critical issues affecting racial discrimination and individual rights during the cold war. Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky: A Political Biography offers a wealth of insight into one of the most significant and highly regarded political figures to emerge from Kentucky.

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420

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813170354

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9780813170350

The Advantages of Richmond, Virginia, as a Manufacturing and Trading Centre

By: George Watson James

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The Advantages of Richmond, Virginia, as a Manufacturing and Trading Centre

By: George Watson James

Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385432723

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9783385432727

William Faulkner, Letters & Fictions

By: James G. Watson

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William Faulkner, Letters & Fictions

By: James G. Watson

Besides the groundbreaking novels and stories that brought him fame, William Faulkner throughout his life wrote letters—to his publisher, his lovers, his family, and his friends. In this first major study of epistolarity in Faulkner's work, James G. Watson examines Faulkner's personal correspondence as a unique second canon of writing, separate from his literary canon with its many fictional letters but developing along parallel lines. By describing the similarity of forms and conventions in Faulkner's personal and fictional correspondence, Watson clearly demonstrates that Faulkner's personal experience as a writer of letters significantly shaped his imaginative work early and late. Letters are always about themselves; they re-create a world between the sender and the receiver. In this illuminating study, Faulkner's personal letters are treated as a form of reflexive writing: first-person narratives in which Sender self-consciously portrays Self to a specific Receiver, likewise portrayed in the letter-text. This duality of actual experience and imaginative re-creation measures the personal distances between the life of the writer and the written self-image. It reveals that letters are at once fragments of autobiography and fictions of self. Such "laws of letters" apply equally to the letters that appear throughout Faulkner's novels and stories. The twenty-one letters and telegrams in The Sound and the Fury, for example, portray character, propel plot, and convey important themes of failed communication and broken identity. From Soldiers' Pay to his last work, Faulkner's carefully lettered canon of fiction is dramatic evidence of his understanding of epistolarity and of the extent to which he adapted letters, including some of his own, to shape his fictional world.

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233

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University of Texas Press

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1477303421

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9781477303429

Darwin's Wager

Cannibal Genes, the Human Ape, and Evolution's Final Battle

By: James B. Miles

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Darwin's Wager

Cannibal Genes, the Human Ape, and Evolution's Final Battle

By: James B. Miles

When the father of gene-centred evolutionary biology, George C. Williams, asked the world’s largest university press to publish a popular-level exposé of Darwin’s wager, he was told the idea was far too radical to put in front of the reading public. Because Darwin wagered in 1871 that humankind is born just another cannibalistic great ape, and that it falls on culture, not biology, to civilise us. Darwin’s wager explains mathematically the enormous power of culture, yet that only by acknowledging this can societies become moral and just. Though many, including the United States, may well never get there. Darwin’s wager has been buried, suppressed, for a century and a half. Darwin couldn’t get the idea out, and the giants of modern evolutionary biology couldn’t get the idea out. So on this 150th anniversary we will fight Darwin’s final battle for him.

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368

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1800461666

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9781800461666

The Free Will Delusion

How We Settled for the Illusion of Morality

By: James B. Miles

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The Free Will Delusion

How We Settled for the Illusion of Morality

By: James B. Miles

Poverty is not accident, but design. We are not all equal before the law. And the central message of contemporary ethics is that only some people matter.

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312

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1784628328

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9781784628321

Raptors of the World

By: James Ferguson-Lees,David A. Christie

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Raptors of the World

By: James Ferguson-Lees,David A. Christie

Plates 1-3 illustrate representatives, in flight, of all 78 genera, grouped by size and zoogeographical regions.".

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618127623

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9780618127627

The Making of Psychotherapists

An Anthropological Analysis

By: James Davies

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The Making of Psychotherapists

An Anthropological Analysis

By: James Davies

Here, for the first time, is a book that submits the psychoanalytic training institute to deep anthropological scrutiny. It expertly uncovers the hidden institutional devices used to transform trainees into professionals. By attending closely to what trainees feel, do, and think as they struggle towards professional status, it exposes the often subtle but deeply penetrating effects psychoanalytic training has upon all who pass through it; effects that profoundly shape not only therapists (professionally and personally), but also the community itself. The author's fascinating and original data is culled from his extensive fieldwork, his case-studies of clinical work, and his interviews with teachers, senior practitioners and trainees. This book is written to be accessible to all those who have an interest in the therapeutic profession from the professional (whether psychotherapist or anthropologist) to the trainee and general reader.

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180

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Routledge

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0429921373

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9780429921377

Supercritical Fluid Technology (1991)

Reviews in Modern Theory and Applications

By: Thomas J. Bruno,James F. Ely

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Supercritical Fluid Technology (1991)

Reviews in Modern Theory and Applications

By: Thomas J. Bruno,James F. Ely

In this volume, we have collected a series of reviews that cover both experimental and theoretical work geared toward the more exact requirements of current SFE applications. While we have artificially divided the volume into experimental and theoretical sections, natural overlaps will be apparent. Many of the papers on experimental and theoretical sections, natural overlaps will be apparent. Many of the papers on experimental technique contain discussions on equation of state correlations. Indeed, a good deal of the experimental work is intimately tied to a mathematical description of fluid mixtures. The theoretical section presents reviews that cover the modern theory of critical phenomena, methods to correlate near critical experimental results and approaches to understanding the behavior of near critical fluids from microscopic theory. It is hoped that the scope of these reviews will provide the reader with the basis to further develop our understanding of the behavior of supercritical fluids.

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948

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CRC Press

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1351357506

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9781351357500

Neurobehavioral Toxicology: Peripheral nervous system

By: Stanley Berent,James Wilson Albers

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Neurobehavioral Toxicology: Peripheral nervous system

By: Stanley Berent,James Wilson Albers

This book, the first of three volumes, provides a thorough background to the emerging field of neurobehavioral toxicology by looking at current clinical approaches and tests, as well as assessing current clinical research. The analysis of the impact of toxins on the human nervous system is particularly pertinent given the ongoing expansion of pharmaceuticals, industrial hazards, biological warfare and global pollution. A comprehensive introduction to neurobehavioral toxicology, this work will be of interest to practicing neurologists and neuropsychologists, as well as to occupational medicine physicians and medical toxicologists.

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514

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Psychology Press

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1841695653

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9781841695655

Philosophies of Organizational Change

Perspectives, Models and Theories for Managing Change

By: Aaron C.T. Smith,James Skinner,Daniel Read

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Philosophies of Organizational Change

Perspectives, Models and Theories for Managing Change

By: Aaron C.T. Smith,James Skinner,Daniel Read

This revised and extended second edition evaluates the diverse approaches to organizational change that have defined the field. Explaining the assumptions and implications that accompany these diverse philosophies, this book demystifies the complexities of conflicting perspectives and delivers valuable insights into the research and practice of organizational change.

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328

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1839105097

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9781839105098

Representing Schizophrenia in the Media

A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage

By: James Balfour

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Representing Schizophrenia in the Media

A Corpus-Based Approach to UK Press Coverage

By: James Balfour

This book presents a critical analysis of ways in which schizophrenia and people with schizophrenia are represented in the press. Interrogating a 15-million-word corpus of news articles published by nine UK national newspapers over a 15-year period, the author draws on techniques from corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis to identify the most frequent and salient linguistic features used by journalists to influence and reflect broader public attitudes towards people with schizophrenia. In doing so this book: Evaluates the extent to which media representations are accurate and the extent to which they are potentially helpful or harmful towards people living with schizophrenia; Employs a bottom-up approach guided by linguistic patterns, such as collocates and keywords, identified by corpus software; Contributes to the de-stigmatisation of schizophrenic disorder by unveiling some of the widespread misconceptions surrounding it; Applies a mixed-methods approach in order to expose attitudes and beliefs found ‘between the lines’ – values and assumptions which are often implicit in the way language is used and therefore not visible to the naked eye. The findings of this monograph will be relevant to advanced students and researchers of health communication, corpus linguistics and applied linguistics and will also carry importance for journalists and mental health practitioners.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000812995

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9781000812992

Rheumatic Diseases in Older Adults, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

By: James D. Katz,Brian Walitt

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Rheumatic Diseases in Older Adults, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

By: James D. Katz,Brian Walitt

This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Drs. James D. Katz and Brian Walitt of the NIH, is devoted to Rheumatic Diseases in Older Adults. Articles in this outstanding issue include Rheumatology Pharmacotherapy Pearls for the General Practitioner; Sarcopenia - Pathogenesis and Management; Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases; Osteoarthritis; Regional Rheumatic Disorders and Rehabilitation in Older Adults; Rheumatological Manifestations of Malignancy; Sjögren’s Syndrome; Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Patients with Rheumatic Diseases; Gaps in Aging Research as it Applies to Rheumatological Clinical Care; and Update on Crystal-induced Arthritides.

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169

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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032349658X

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9780323496582

Joyce's Dante

Exile, Memory, and Community

By: James Robinson

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Joyce's Dante

Exile, Memory, and Community

By: James Robinson

Joyce's engagement with Dante is a crucial component of all of his work. This title reconsiders the responses to Dante in Joyce's work from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man to Finnegans Wake. It presents that encounter as an historically complex and contextually determined interaction reflecting the contested development of Dante's reputation, readership and textuality throughout the nineteenth century. This process produced a 'Dante with a difference', a uniquely creative and unorthodox construction of the poet which informed Joyce's lifelong engagement with such works as the Vita Nuova and the Commedia. Tracing the movement through Joyce's writing on exile as a mode of alienation and charting his growing interest in ideas of community, Joyce's Dante shows how awareness of his changing reading of Dante can alter our understanding of one of the Irish writer's lasting thematic preoccupations.

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247

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Cambridge University Press

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1316739139

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9781316739136

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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Medieval Studies

Medieval Studies

Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky

Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson of Kentucky

The Advantages of Richmond, Virginia, as a Manufacturing and Trading Centre

The Advantages of Richmond, Virginia, as a Manufacturing and Trading Centre

William Faulkner, Letters & Fictions

William Faulkner, Letters & Fictions

Darwin's Wager

Darwin's Wager

The Free Will Delusion

The Free Will Delusion

Raptors of the World

Raptors of the World

The Making of Psychotherapists

The Making of Psychotherapists

Supercritical Fluid Technology (1991)

Supercritical Fluid Technology (1991)

Neurobehavioral Toxicology: Peripheral nervous system

Neurobehavioral Toxicology: Peripheral nervous system

Philosophies of Organizational Change

Philosophies of Organizational Change

Representing Schizophrenia in the Media

Representing Schizophrenia in the Media

Rheumatic Diseases in Older Adults, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Rheumatic Diseases in Older Adults, An Issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Joyce's Dante

Joyce's Dante

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