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Complete State Trials of the Tudor Era

By: James D. Taylor Jr.

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Complete State Trials of the Tudor Era

By: James D. Taylor Jr.

This book presents the documentation of all known recorded capital trials within the Tudor dynasty, each encapsulating the drama and intrigue of real history as Tudor law evolved from following the monarch’s will to following clearly-established law. While capital punishment was common, several individuals accused of treason skillfully and successfully defended themselves. The names of many of the subjects will be familiar to those who are interested in Tudor history, as they were prominent enough to be mentioned in books about the rulers they served. Biographies have been published about some of these individuals, including the events that led up to their trials, but all too often the trials themselves have been left out or have been included only by way of a few excerpts, so that this volume is the first to include as many as presented here. Some books about the period include the word ‘Trial of’ was in the title, but still only short excerpts of the actual trial are included. Other books on Tudor personalities are more about entertainment than factual history, enhanced by embellishing a few facts and rather skillfully weaving them into a great story that totally excludes the trials. The inducement to put together this book is two-fold. First, it is my opinion that the trials are an integral part of the individual’s biographical story and of history; secondly, some readers of my past publications have asked for a book just about the trials of those best known to readers interested in English Tudor history. The trials included in this edition are accumulated from many sources. Only a very few have been left out because actual trial records were not found, only a conglomeration of notes from many sources that give the reader a basic account of the legal proceeding. During the reign of Elizabeth I, record keeping and trial transcripts became more frequent and regular.

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Algora Publishing

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1628943777

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Aniventure

By: James Talbott

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Aniventure

By: James Talbott

A whole new way to enjoy roleplaying games in the media of Japanese Anime. Includes a brand new, high flying dice mechanic: The Stacks System. Covers all genres, from Shounen and Action to Romance and Comedy. Highly customisable, with hundreds of powers, mannerisms, gadgets and mecha for your character to use. Build it how you want to play it. For more details, see the blog page at http: //detarame.wordpress.com/aniventure/ This is the Paperback and PDF downloadable edition. For the more durable Hardback, http: //www.lulu.com/product/hardcover/aniventure-5/11917823

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1446156486

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Across the Top of the World

The Quest for the Northwest Passage

By: James Delgado

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Across the Top of the World

The Quest for the Northwest Passage

By: James Delgado

The centuries-long quest for the fabled Northwest Passage rivals the story of Antarctic exploration for heroism, drama, and tragedy. Expedition after expedition set off in search of a sea route connecting Europe with Asia's riches; each expedition suffered extreme hardship and ended in defeat, until Roald Amundsen finally succeeded in 1903-06. Across the Top of the World brings this incredible saga to life through exhaustive research, grim firsthand accounts, and hundreds of dramatic images. Paintings, engravings, and photos of the intrepid men and their ships, as well as of relics and archaeological sites, provide a poignant and compelling link with the past, while landscapes and seascapes of the harsh yet beautiful Arctic illustrate the challenges that faced explorers. Covering all the major expeditions in detail, and written with passion and authority, this book is both a scholarly reference and an eminently readable history of Arctic exploration.

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D & M Publishers

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1926706536

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Polar Pioneers

John Ross and James Clark Ross

By: Maurice James Ross

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Polar Pioneers

John Ross and James Clark Ross

By: Maurice James Ross

In 1829 he mounted a private expedition to search for the passage, during which he became trapped in the Canadian Arctic and survived a four-year ordeal of isolation and hardship. He proved that whatever his shortcomings as an explorer, he could never be accused of lacking courage.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773512349

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Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes]

A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: William James Mills

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Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes]

A Historical Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

By: William James Mills

Covers the entire history of Arctic and Antarctic exploration, from the voyage of Pytheas ca. 325 B.C. to the present, in one convenient, comprehensive reference resource. Exploring Polar Frontiers: A Historical Encyclopedia is the only reference work that provides a comprehensive history of polar exploration from the ancient period through the present day. The author is a noted polar scholar and offers dramatic accounts of all major explorers and their expeditions, together with separate exploration histories for specific islands, regions, and uncharted waters. He presents a wealth of fascinating information under a variety of subject entries including methods of transport, myths, achievements, and record-breaking activities. By approaching polar exploration biographically, geographically, and topically, Mills reveals a number of intriguing connections between the various explorers, their patrons and times, and the process of discovery in all areas of the polar regions. Furthermore, he provides the reader with a clear understanding of the intellectual climate as well as the dominant social, economic, and political forces surrounding each expedition. Readers will learn why the journeys were undertaken, not just where, when, and how.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1576074234

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The Nature of Narrative

Revised and Expanded

By: Robert Scholes,James Phelan,Robert Kellogg

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The Nature of Narrative

Revised and Expanded

By: Robert Scholes,James Phelan,Robert Kellogg

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been a seminal work for literary students, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, authors Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg in the original edition offered a compelling history of the genre narrative from antiquity to the twentieth-century, even as they carried out their main task of describing and analyzing the nature of narrative's main elements: meaning, character, plot, and point of view. Their history emphasized the broad sweep of literary narrative from ancient times to the contemporary period, and it included a chapter on the oral heritage of written narrative and an appendix on the interior monologue in ancient texts. The fortieth anniversary edition of this groundbreaking work has been revised and expanded to include a new preface and a lengthy chapter on developments in narrative theory since 1966 by James Phelan. This chapter describes the principles and practices of structuralist, cognitive, feminist, and rhetorical approaches to narrative, paying special attention to their work on plot, character, and narrative discourse. A continued leader in the field of narrative studies, The Nature of Narrative offers unique and invaluable histories of both narrative and narrative theory.

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Oxford University Press

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0199837821

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A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and other Negotiable Paper

Vol. I

By: James Barr Ames

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A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and other Negotiable Paper

Vol. I

By: James Barr Ames

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

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3368862839

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Sounding Imperial

Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730–1820

By: James Mulholland

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Sounding Imperial

Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730–1820

By: James Mulholland

Spoken words come alive in written verse. In Sounding Imperial, James Mulholland offers a new assessment of the origins, evolution, and importance of poetic voice in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. By examining a series of literary experiments in which authors imitated oral voices and impersonated foreign speakers, Mulholland uncovers an innovative global aesthetics of poetic voice that arose as authors invented new ways of crafting textual voices and appealing to readers. As poets drew on cultural forms from around Great Britain and across the globe, impersonating “primitive” speakers and reviving ancient oral performances (or fictionalizing them in verse), they invigorated English poetry. Mulholland situates these experiments with oral voices and foreign speakers within the wider context of British nationalism at home and colonial expansion overseas. Sounding Imperial traces this global aesthetic by reading texts from canonical authors like Thomas Gray, James Macpherson, and Felicia Hemans together with lesser-known writers, like Welsh antiquarians, Anglo-Indian poets of colonialism, and impersonators of Pacific islanders. The frenetic borrowing, movement, and adaptation of verse of this time offers a powerful analytic by which scholars can understand anew poetry’s role in the formation of national culture and the exercise of colonial power. Sounding Imperial offers a more nuanced sense of poetry’s unseen role in larger historical processes, emphasizing not just appropriation or collusion but the murky middle range in which most British authors operated during their colonial encounters and the voices that they used to make those cross-cultural encounters seem vivid and alive.

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JHU Press

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1421408554

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9781421408552

When Hollywood Came to Town

A History of Movie Making in Utah

By: James D'Arc

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When Hollywood Came to Town

A History of Movie Making in Utah

By: James D'Arc

For nearly a hundred years, the state of Utah has played host to scores of Hollywood films, from potboilers on lean budgets to some of the most memorable films ever made, including The Searchers, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Footloose, and Thelma & Louise. This book gives readers the inside scoop, telling how these films were made, what happened on and off set, and more. As one Utah rancher memorably said to Hollywood moviemakers "don't take anything but pictures and don't leave anything but money.

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Gibbs Smith

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1423619846

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Poets, Players, and Preachers

Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Anne James

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Poets, Players, and Preachers

Remembering the Gunpowder Plot in Seventeenth-Century England

By: Anne James

On the night of November 4th 1605, the English authorities uncovered an alleged plot by a group of discontented Catholics to blow up the Houses of Parliament with the lords, princes, queen and king in attendance. The failure of the plot is celebrated to this day and is known as Guy Fawkes Day. In Poets, Players and Preachers, Anne James explores the literary responses to the discovery of the Gunpowder Plot in poetry, drama, and sermons. This book is the first full-length study of the literary repercussions of the conspiracy. By analyzing the genres of poems, plays, and sermons produced between 1605 and 1688, the author argues that not only did the continuous reinterpretation of the conspiracy serve religious and political purposes but that such literary reinterpretations produced generic changes.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442649372

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Materials of the Mind

Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920

By: James Poskett

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Materials of the Mind

Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920

By: James Poskett

Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters stretching around the globe. Materials of the Mind tells the story of how phrenology changed the world--and how the world changed phrenology. This is a story of skulls from the Arctic, plaster casts from Haiti, books from Bengal, and letters from the Pacific. Drawing on far-flung museum and archival collections, and addressing sources in six different languages, Materials of the Mind is the first substantial account of science in the nineteenth century as part of global history. It shows how the circulation of material culture underpinned the emergence of a new materialist philosophy of the mind, while also demonstrating how a global approach to history could help us reassess issues such as race, technology, and politics today.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226820645

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9780226820644

Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides

By: James Sallis

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Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides

By: James Sallis

Winner of the 2019 H.R.F. Keating Award for the best biographical or critical book related to crime fiction Originally published by Gryphon Books in 1993, Difficult Lives was one of the earliest attempts to track the legacy of original paperback writers such as Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Chester Himes. The individual essays on these three first appeared in literary magazines. Difficult Lives visits a rare moment when daylight was showing around the seams of American society and visions quite in contrast to the sanctioned version drifted to the surface in books one bought off racks in drugstores and bus stations -- stark, bonelike, disturbing books. We're pleased to make Difficult Lives available again, doubling your pleasure by pairing it with Hitching Rides, an equal volume of new essays on other crime writers including Derek Raymond, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patricia Highsmith and Shirley Jackson.

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Bedford Square Publishers

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0857302574

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9780857302571

Climbing Colorado's Thirteeners

The Best Hikes and Scrambles over 13,000 Feet

By: James Dziezynski

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Climbing Colorado's Thirteeners

The Best Hikes and Scrambles over 13,000 Feet

By: James Dziezynski

This book is a collection of the very best non-technical hikes and scrambles on Colorado's 13,000-foot mountains. It will showcase 50 select routes on the most exciting, beautiful, and adventurous of the 637 officially recognized thirteeners. A balance of difficulty will roughly be divided into thirds: easier (about 25% of the routes), modest (50%), and difficult (25%). While the guide will cover the entire state of Colorado, there will be a slight bias toward summits within a two-hour drive of the Denver/Boulder metro area. Each of the 50 chapters includes full-color photography and maps. None of the routes are harder than class 3, making this guide suitable to hikers of all skill levels, with no need to use technical mountaineering gear. Detailed write-ups include accurate driving directions, at-a-glance stats for the peak, a turn-by-turn description of the primary route, optional route info, and when relevant, interesting history or stories about the featured peak. Fees, permits, and an index with info such as thirteener lists, helpful USFS contacts, hiking groups, and online resources are also provided.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1493046217

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9781493046218

Arctic Workhorse

The RCMP Schooner St. Roch

By: James P. Delgado

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Arctic Workhorse

The RCMP Schooner St. Roch

By: James P. Delgado

Dodging between the Arctic floes, almost crushed several times, the little RCMP vessel St. Rochwas the first ship to conquer the hazardous Northwest Passage from west to east. Two years later, in 1944, she did it from east to west. Arctic Workhorseis a biography of St. Roch, from her construction in Vancouver in 1928, through her working life and famous voyages, to her resting place at the Vancouver Maritime Museum.

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0920663869

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Complete State Trials of the Tudor Era

Complete State Trials of the Tudor Era

Aniventure

Aniventure

Across the Top of the World

Across the Top of the World

Polar Pioneers

Polar Pioneers

Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes]

Exploring Polar Frontiers [2 volumes]

The Nature of Narrative

The Nature of Narrative

A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and other Negotiable Paper

A Selection of Cases on the Law of Bills and Notes and other Negotiable Paper

Sounding Imperial

Sounding Imperial

When Hollywood Came to Town

When Hollywood Came to Town

Poets, Players, and Preachers

Poets, Players, and Preachers

Materials of the Mind

Materials of the Mind

Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides

Difficult Lives - Hitching Rides

Climbing Colorado's Thirteeners

Climbing Colorado's Thirteeners

Arctic Workhorse

Arctic Workhorse

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