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Geek Sweets

An Adventurer's Guide to Baking Wizardry

By: Jenny Burgesse

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Geek Sweets

An Adventurer's Guide to Baking Wizardry

By: Jenny Burgesse

Master the magic of fantasy and sci-fi-inspired baking with recipes for creative cookies, cakes and more to please any geek with a sweet tooth! Written for bakers of all skill levels, Geek Sweets offers step by step instructions that take you from baking basics to crazy concoctions in no time. After covering essential skills and recipes for easy cookies, cupcakes, cake pops, and other treats, author Jenny Burgesse shows you how to build on these fundamentals to create wonderfully geeky confections—from Zombie Cake Pops and Cutie Mark Cupcakes to Frozen in Carbon-bite Chocolate Bars and Dothraki Horse Heart treats. Geek Sweets also includes theme party ideas—including Star Wars, Game of Thrones, Walking Dead, and other viewing parties—with cocktail recipes and a companion website with printables to enhance all of your geeky gatherings.

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Mango Media Inc.

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1633536157

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9781633536159

Power Play

The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

By: Jenny Adams

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Power Play

The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

By: Jenny Adams

The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste, and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. In Power Play, Jenny Adams looks to medieval literary representations to ask what they can tell us both about the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and about the society these changes reflected. In its Western form, chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse; in some manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans, farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities. Power Play is the first book to ask why chess became so popular so quickly, why its pieces were altered, and what the consequences of these changes were. More than pleasure was at stake, Adams contends. As allegorists and political theorists connected the moves of the pieces to their real-life counterparts, chess took on important symbolic power. For these writers and others, the game provided a means to figure both human interactions and institutions, to envision a civic order not necessarily dominated by a king, and to imagine a society whose members acted in concert, bound together by contractual and economic ties. The pieces on the chessboard were more than subjects; they were individuals, playing by the rules.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812201043

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9780812201048

Medieval Merchants

York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages

By: Jennifer Kermode,Jenny Kermode

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Medieval Merchants

York, Beverley and Hull in the Later Middle Ages

By: Jennifer Kermode,Jenny Kermode

An analysis of merchant lives in three northern British cities in the later middle ages.

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408

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Cambridge University Press

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0521522749

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9780521522748

Court, Kirk, and Community

Scotland 1470-1625

By: Jenny Wormald

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Court, Kirk, and Community

Scotland 1470-1625

By: Jenny Wormald

Contextualizes the refugee crisis through a historical study of Muslim mobility and violence.

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288

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748629017

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9780748629015

James VI and I

Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald

By: Jenny Wormald

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James VI and I

Collected Essays by Jenny Wormald

By: Jenny Wormald

The renowned historian Jenny Wormald was a ground-breaking expert on early modern Scottish history, especially Stewart kingship, noble power and wider society. She was most controversial in her book-length critique of Mary, Queen of Scots. Unfortunately, Jenny never got round to producing a similar monograph on a monarch she was infinitely more fond of, King James VI and I, before her untimely death in 2015. In the absence of such a book, this volume brings together all the major essays by Jenny on James. She wrote on almost every aspect and every major event of James' reign, from the famous Gunpowder Plot, the Plantation of Ulster, the Gowrie Conspiracy, to the witchcraft panics, as well as James' extensive writings. She wrote extensively on James' Scottish rule, but she was also keenly interested in James as the first king of all of Britain, and many of her essays unpick the issues surrounding the Union of the Crowns and James' rule over all three of his kingdoms. This book is an invaluable resource for any scholar on this crucial time in the history of the British Isles.

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716

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Birlinn Ltd

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1788854799

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9781788854795

A-Z of Elgin

Places-People-History

By: Jenny Main

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A-Z of Elgin

Places-People-History

By: Jenny Main

Explore the town of Elgin in Moray in this fully illustrated A-Z guide to its history, people and places.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445692120

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9781445692128

Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale

by Sydney Owenson

By: Jenny McAuley

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Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale

by Sydney Owenson

By: Jenny McAuley

This is the first modern scholarly edition of Florence Macarthy: An Irish Tale (1818). Owenson's seventh novel, it is the most sophisticated of her four 'national tales'. Owenson combined conventional romance plotlines with the political and social problems in Ireland, following the passing of the Act of Union in 1800.

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Routledge

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131730411X

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9781317304111

Outlaw Rhetoric

Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England

By: Jenny C. Mann

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Outlaw Rhetoric

Figuring Vernacular Eloquence in Shakespeare's England

By: Jenny C. Mann

A central feature of English Renaissance humanism was its reverence for classical Latin as the one true form of eloquent expression. Yet sixteenth-century writers increasingly came to believe that England needed an equally distinguished vernacular language to serve its burgeoning national community. Thus, one of the main cultural projects of Renaissance rhetoricians was that of producing a "common" vernacular eloquence, mindful of its classical origins yet self-consciously English in character. The process of vernacularization began during Henry VIII’s reign and continued, with fits and starts, late into the seventeenth century. In Outlaw Rhetoric, Jenny C. Mann examines the substantial and largely unexplored archive of vernacular rhetorical guides produced in England between 1500 and 1700. Writers of these guides drew upon classical training as they translated Greek and Latin figures of speech into an everyday English that could serve the ends of literary and national invention. In the process, however, they confronted aspects of rhetoric that run counter to its civilizing impulse. For instance, Mann finds repeated references to Robin Hood, indicating an ongoing concern that vernacular rhetoric is "outlaw" to the classical tradition because it is common, popular, and ephemeral. As this book shows, however, such allusions hint at a growing acceptance of the nonclassical along with a new esteem for literary production that can be identified as native to England. Working across a range of genres, Mann demonstrates the effects of this tension between classical rhetoric and English outlawry in works by Spenser, Shakespeare, Sidney, Jonson, and Cavendish. In so doing she reveals the political stakes of the vernacular rhetorical project in the age of Shakespeare.

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Cornell University Press

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0801464579

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9780801464577

River Tees

From Source to Sea

By: Tosh Warwick,Jenny Parker

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River Tees

From Source to Sea

By: Tosh Warwick,Jenny Parker

A look at the history and folklore of this iconic river in North East England

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180

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445635089

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9781445635088

Nature's Engraver

A Life of Thomas Bewick

By: Jenny Uglow

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Nature's Engraver

A Life of Thomas Bewick

By: Jenny Uglow

In this superb biography, Uglow tells the story of the farmers son who influenced book illustration for a century to come. It is a story of violent change, radical politics, lost ways of life, and the beauty of the wild--a journey to the beginning of a lasting obsession with the natural world.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226823911

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9780226823911

The Trials of Orpheus

Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime

By: Jenny C Mann

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The Trials of Orpheus

Poetry, Science, and the Early Modern Sublime

By: Jenny C Mann

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to know: How do words produce action? In The Trials of Orpheus, Jenny Mann examines the key role the Orpheus story played in helping early modern writers and thinkers understand the mechanisms of rhetorical force. Mann demonstrates that the forms and figures of ancient poetry indelibly shaped the principles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific knowledge. Mann explores how Ovid's version of the Orpheus myth gave English poets and natural philosophers the lexicon with which to explain language's ability to move individuals without physical contact. These writers and thinkers came to see eloquence as an aesthetic force capable of binding, drawing, softening, and scattering audiences. Bringing together a range of examples from drama, poetry, and philosophy by Bacon, Lodge, Marlowe, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and others, Mann demonstrates that the fascination with Orpheus produced some of the most canonical literature of the age. Delving into the impact of ancient Greek thought and poetry in the early modern era, The Trials of Orpheus sheds light on how the powers of rhetoric became a focus of English thought and literature.

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Princeton University Press

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0691219249

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9780691219240

Aspects of Northern Lincolnshire

Discovering Local History

By: Jenny Walton

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Aspects of Northern Lincolnshire

Discovering Local History

By: Jenny Walton

The Aspects series takes readers on a voyage of nostalgicdiscovery through their town, city or area. This best selling series has now arrived, for the first time, in Northern Lincolnshire. Jenny Walton has highlighted many wonders of the Northern Lincolnshire area, by using the talent of local authors. Aspects of Northern Lincolnshire, is a local history book with a difference. Delving into a wide geographical area that is steeped in a special history of its own. We look at various subjects from the works of local historians including; The Founding Legend of Grimsby; The Drowning of the Ancholme Valley; The Stately Keels that Once Sailed the Humber; World War II Airfields; A Pre-Enclosure Farm in Barrow; Letters From A Naval Gunner Who Sailed With Nelson's Fleet; and Walking the Clay Bank. All this and much more Northern Lincolnshire's history has been captivated with fascinating illustrations in Aspects of Northern Lincolnshire.

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Casemate Publishers

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178337893X

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9781783378937

Ideas in History 7

Journal of the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas

By: Katarina Leppänen,Rebecka Lettevall,Anna Bohlin,Jenny Bergenmar,Eve Annuk,Kalle Pihlainen,Kristin Rodier

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Ideas in History 7

Journal of the Nordic Society for the History of Ideas

By: Katarina Leppänen,Rebecka Lettevall,Anna Bohlin,Jenny Bergenmar,Eve Annuk,Kalle Pihlainen,Kristin Rodier

Ideas in History is the result of collaborative efforts among nearly a dozen universities and colleges throughout the Nordic countries. The purpose of these initiatives is to further awareness of research, resources, and activities in the field of intellectual history in the Nordic countries as well as internationally. The journals introduces Nordic and international readerships to some of the finest work in intellectual history by Nordic-based scholars as well as international authors. The purpose of the journal is to create a meeting ground for the study of ideas in historical context across disciplinary, geographical and institutional boundaries. Ideas in History welcomes interdisciplinary approaches to intellectual history at the same time it acknowledges specific traditions in the field. Ideas in History seeks a pluralism of methodological approaches to intellectual history: reflections on the field, historical contexts studied, subject matter for intellectual-historical investigation, critical understandings of relations between the intellectual past and present as well as the comprehension of culturally, politically and geographically diverse intellectual traditions.

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169

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Museum Tusculanum Press

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8763554240

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9788763554244

The Writer's Retreat

By: Jenny Sue Baker

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The Writer's Retreat

By: Jenny Sue Baker

“Let go, let God...” In The Writer’s Retreat, Sarah Connelly leaves the comforts of Boston for an innocuous lake in the Midwest. Her intent: to finish her first book, a travel romance novel, in the backdrop of an idyllic—if stereotypical—rental cabin. With her deadline creeping ever-closer, Sarah hopes that her tranquil getaway will give her ample time to finish without distraction. Despite Sarah’s plan for peace and productivity she encounters obstacles that delay her writing efforts. Travel setbacks launch her into a week filled with unpredictable mishaps and serendipitous moments. While Sarah troubleshoots the plan to meet her deadline, she also finds herself at odds with an ex-boyfriend who makes a bold attempt to win her back. A crossroads of creative struggle and romantic trouble causes Sarah to wonder whether the best plan is actually no plan at all. Will Sarah be able to clear her mind and relinquish her expectations? Will she finally accept the strange and the beautiful as she encounters it?

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146

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New Degree Press

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ISBN 13

9798885045292

Looking for Mr. Nobody

The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees

By: Jenny Rees

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Looking for Mr. Nobody

The Secret Life of Goronwy Rees

By: Jenny Rees

Goronwy Rees (1909-1979) was one of the most gifted and promising figures in the constellation of British poets, journalists, and intellectuals of the 1930s that included Louis MacNeice, W. H., Auden, C. Day Lewis, Isaiah Berlin, and Anthony Blunt. Like many liberals of his generation, he was shocked by the effects of the Depression and correspondingly sympathetic to the Communist regime in Russia. Guy Burgess, of the Cambridge spies--Burgess, Maclean, Philby, and Blunt, admitted his espionage to Rees. His association with Burgess was to blight the rest of Rees's life. When Burgess defected in 1951, and Rees denounced him to MI5, Rees was viewed more as a spy out to save his own skin than as an honorable citizen. His anonymous, sensationalist articles in The People, denouncing Burgess's political activities and all but naming names, condemned him with the British intellectual community--not for his politics but for his betrayal of a friend. Colleagues and acquaintances accused him of trying to initiate a McCarthyite witch-hunt. He lost his job. His academic career was ruined. In Looking for Mr. Nobody, Jenny Rees deals with many of the old charges made against her father in her search for the answer to her own question, "Was he, too, a spy?" Had he joined up with Burgess and Blunt and passed secrets to the Soviet Union? Her quest for the truth reveals a fascinating portrait of a brilliant but flawed man of letters, handsome and seductively charming, caught up in the radical, political commitments of the 1930s, Communist Party membership, and his tortured relationship with the notorious Cambridge spies.

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Routledge

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1351320505

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9781351320504

Losing It

By: Melvin Burgess,Anne Fine,Keith Gray, Editor,Mary Hooper,A. S. King,Sophie McKenzie,Patrick Ness,Bali Rai,Jenny Valentine,Andrew Smith

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Losing It

By: Melvin Burgess,Anne Fine,Keith Gray, Editor,Mary Hooper,A. S. King,Sophie McKenzie,Patrick Ness,Bali Rai,Jenny Valentine,Andrew Smith

A travesty. A violation. An ecstasy. A disappointment. An instant. A lie. A theft. A rite of passage. Whatever you call it, there's only one first time. A.S. King, Melvin Burgess, Keith Gray, Patrick Ness, Anne Fine, Sophie McKenzie, Bali Rai, Jenny Valentine, Mary Hooper, and Andrew Smith. Some of today's leading international YA authors contributed to this hard-hitting collection of original short stories: some funny, some moving, some haunting, but all revolving around the same subject—virginity.

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Carolrhoda Lab ®

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1467739731

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9781467739733

Dangerous Friends

My Father and the Cambridge Spy Ring

By: Jenny Rees

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Dangerous Friends

My Father and the Cambridge Spy Ring

By: Jenny Rees

Originally published as LOOKING FOR MR NOBODY A fascinating true story of one man's connection to the Cambridge Spy Ring and his daughter's search for the truth. 'A book which deserves nothing but praise' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'What makes [this book] memorable is Rees's moving account of her own attempt to come to terms with her father's "secret" ... her poignant memoir gives a rare insight into the experiences of families whose fathers joined the ranks of "Stalin's Englishmen"' SUNDAY TIMES Since Goronwy Rees's death, his daughter Jenny has had to cope with the frequently made allegation that her father was another of the spies recruited at Cambridge in the 1930s. He never disguised his friendship with Guy Burgess who, with Donald Maclean, had defected to Moscow in 1951, and in 1979 Rees helped Andrew Boyle unmask Anthony Blunt, the Fourth Man. So, was Rees himself actually a spy? The opening of KGB files has acted as a spur to Jenny Rees in her quest to exorcise the past. The result is full of unexpected revelation, made all the more moving as she discovers for the first time the secret life of her father. Previously published as LOOKING FOR MR NOBODY

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