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Delphi Complete Works of John Ford (Illustrated)

By: John Ford

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Delphi Complete Works of John Ford (Illustrated)

By: John Ford

A prominent dramatist of the Caroline period, John Ford was notable for writing revenge tragedies featuring scenes of austere beauty, insight into human passions and grand poetic diction. His masterpiece ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore concerns controversial themes that engage audiences to this day. Ford also wrote comedies, history plays and tragicomedies, distinguished by highly wrought blank verse and tragically frustrated characters, whose intense desires are frustrated by circumstance. These dramas have cemented his reputation as the most important playwright during the reign of King Charles I. This eBook presents John Ford’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, concise introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Ford’s life and works * Concise introductions to the major plays * All the dramas (collaborations and solo plays), with individual contents tables * Features rare texts appearing for the first time in digital publishing * Includes Sir Robert Howard’s play ‘The Great Favourite’, believed by some to be based on a lost Ford play * Excellent formatting of the texts * Rare poetry and prose works * Includes a special ‘Glossary of Jacobean Language’, helping comprehension of the language * Features a bonus biography – discover Ford’s world * Ordering of texts into chronological order and genres Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles CONTENTS: The Collaborative Plays The Laws of Candy (1620) The Witch of Edmonton (1621) The Welsh Ambassador (1623) The Spanish Gypsy (1623) The Sun’s Darling (1624) The Fair Maid of the Inn (1626) The Solo Plays The Queen (1627) The Lover’s Melancholy (1628) The Broken Heart (1629) ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore (1631) Love’s Sacrifice (1632) Perkin Warbeck (1633) The Fancies Chaste and Noble (1636) The Lady’s Trial (1638) The Great Favourite, or the Duke of Lerma by Sir Robert Howard (1668) The Poetry Fame’s Memorial (1606) The Monarchs Meeting (1606) A Funerall Elegye (1612) Christ’s Bloody Sweat (1613) Shall I Die? (c. 1635) The Prose Honor Triumphant (1606) The Golden Mean (1613) A Line of Life (1620) The Biography John Ford by Adolphus William Ward Glossary of Jacobean Language Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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1801700923

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Myths, Legends, and Heroes

Essays on Old Norse and Old English Literature in Honour of John McKinnell

By: John McKinnell

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Myths, Legends, and Heroes

Essays on Old Norse and Old English Literature in Honour of John McKinnell

By: John McKinnell

In Myths, Legends, and Heroes, editor Daniel Anzelark has brought together scholars of Old Norse-Icelandic and Old English literature to explore the translation and transmission of Norse myth, the use of literature in society and authorial self-reflection, the place of myth in the expression of family relationships, and recurrent motifs in Northern literature. The essays in Myths, Legends, and Heroes include an examination of the theme of sibling rivalry, an analysis of Christ's unusual ride into hell as found in both Old Norse and Old English, a discussion of Beowulf's swimming prowess and an analysis of the poetry in Snorri Sturluson's Edda. A tribute to Durham University professor John McKinnell's distinguished contributions to the field, this volume offers new insights in light of linguistic and archaeological evidence and a broad range of study with regard to both chronology and methodology.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802099475

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Delphi Complete Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Illustrated)

By: Francis Beaumont,John Webster

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Delphi Complete Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Illustrated)

By: Francis Beaumont,John Webster

Regarded by some as second only to Shakespeare, the Jacobean dramatists Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher collaborated to produce some of the finest plays of the seventeenth century. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Beaumont and Fletcher’s complete works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 2) * Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Beaumont and Fletcher’s lives and works * Concise introductions to the plays * ALL 58 plays, with individual contents tables * Features all the plays written with other collaborators, many appearing for the first time digital publishing * Images of how the plays were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the Jacobean texts * Excellent formatting of the plays * Also includes the poetry of Beaumont and Fletcher * Easily locate the poems or scenes you want to read * Includes rare and disputed plays * Special criticism section, with essays evaluating Beaumont and Fletcher’s contribution to literature * Features two biographies – explore Beaumont and Fletcher’s Jacobean world * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * UPDATED with improved texts CONTENTS: Beaumont’s Solo Plays The Knight of the Burning Pestle The Masque of the Inner Temple and Gray’s Inn Fletcher’s Solo Plays The Faithful Shepherdess Valentinian Monsieur Thomas The Woman’s Prize; or the Tamer Tamed Bonduca The Chances Wit Without Money The Mad Lover The Loyal Subject The Humorous Lieutenant Women Pleased The Island Princess, The Wild Goose Chase The Pilgrim A Wife for a Month Rule a Wife and Have a Wife Beaumont and Fletcher’s Plays The Woman Hater Cupid’s Revenge Philaster; or Love Lies A-Bleeding The Maid’s Tragedy A King and No King The Captain The Scornful Lady Love’s Pilgrimage The Noble Gentleman Beaumont and Fletcher’s Plays Revised by Massinger Thierry and Theodoret The Coxcomb Beggars’ Bush Love’s Cure Fletcher and Massinger’s Plays Sir John Van Olden Barnavelt The Little French Lawyer A Very Woman; Or, the Prince of Tarent The Custom of the Country The Double Marriage The False One The Prophetess The Sea Voyage The Spanish Curate The Lovers’ Progress or the Wandering Lovers The Elder Brother Fletcher, Massinger and Field’s Plays The Honest Man’s Fortune The Queen of Corinth The Knight of Malta Fletcher and Shakespeare’s Plays Henry VIII The Two Noble Kinsmen Cardenio (Lost) Fletcher, Middleton and Rowley’s Collaboration Wit at Several Weapons Fletcher and Rowley’s Play The Maid in the Mill Fletcher and Field’s Play Four Plays; or Moral Representations, in One, Morality Fletcher, Massinger, Jonson and Chapman’s Play Rollo Duke of Normandy; or the Bloody Brother Fletcher and Shirley’s Play The Night Walker; or the Little Thief Contested Fletcher Plays The Nice Valour; or the Passionate Madman The Laws of Candy The Fair Maid of the Inn The Faithful Friends The Coronation The Poetry Beaumont’s Poetry Fletcher’s Poetry First Folio Commendatory Verses List of Poems in Alphabetical Order The Criticism Notes on Beaumont and Fletcher by Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Three Masterpieces by Walter W. Greg The Later Elizabethans by Ashley H. Thorndike The Biographies Francis Beaumont: Dramatist by Charles Mills Gayley Beaumont and Fletcher by Algernon Charles Swinburne and Margaret Bryant

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1910630934

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The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition

By: John W. Riggs

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The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition

By: John W. Riggs

In the Reformed tradition, the Lord's Supper is a sacrament that draws on a rich and deep tradition in its theology and practice. In this new volume in the Columbia Series in Reformed Theology, John Riggs provides a comprehensive overview of the most important Reformed theologians and confessions on the sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Riggs identifies the theology of true mystical union with Christ in the Supper as both a theological legacy the Reformed tradition inherited and a theological achievement that it refined. Ideal for studies in Reformed and liturgical theology, this is an important resource for investigating the eucharistic theology of the Reformed tradition.

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Westminster John Knox Press

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1611645980

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International Development Of Health Psychology

By: John Weinman,Mary A. Jansen

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International Development Of Health Psychology

By: John Weinman,Mary A. Jansen

First Published in 1991. With any new area of research, particularly one in which development has been so rapid and influential, it is important to take stock of progress and identify critical issues. Health Psychology shows great potential both as a research area and a profession, and the careful planning of good quality research and of appropriately structured training programs if imperative if this potential is to be realised. this book explores the way in which this discipline has developed internationally and the nature of different types of training programs which have emerged. This book is intended for health psychologists who are interested in the latest developments in their field around the world and will be particularly valuable to those responsible for training programs.

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Routledge

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1134343868

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9781134343867

Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective

By: John B. Williamson,Fred C. Pampel

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Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective

By: John B. Williamson,Fred C. Pampel

This work makes extensive use of seven well-developed historical case studies describing the evolution of public old-age security in industrial nations (Germany, United Kingdom, Sweden, and the United States) and developing nations (Brazil, Nigeria, and India). The authors focus on specifying contexts in which general theoretical perspectives can be used to account for these developments. One of the few studies which integrates historical and quantitative data, this accessible work will prove helpful to students and researchers of the welfare state, aging policy, and comparative sociology.

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Oxford University Press

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0195361695

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Capitalisms Compared

Welfare, Work, and Business

By: John R. Bowman

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Capitalisms Compared

Welfare, Work, and Business

By: John R. Bowman

How different would Americans’ lives be if they had guaranteed access to health care, generous public pensions, paid family leave, high-quality public pre-school care, increased rights at work, and a greater say in how corporations are run? This one-of-a-kind book emphasizes that differences in policies and institutions affect the lives of citizens by comparing health, pension, and family policies, as well as labor markets and corporate governance in the United States, Sweden, and Germany. Demonstrating that the US model of capitalism is not the only one that is viable, Bowman encourages students not only to rethink their assumptions about what policy alternatives are feasible, but also to learn more about American capitalism through insightful contrast. Covering a wide range of policy areas and written in a crisp, engaging style, Capitalisms Compared is a perfect companion for courses in political economy and public policy.

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CQ Press

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1483323714

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Jungle Ace

The Story of One of the Usaaf's Great Fighter Leaders, Col. Gerald R. Johnson

By: John R. Bruning

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Jungle Ace

The Story of One of the Usaaf's Great Fighter Leaders, Col. Gerald R. Johnson

By: John R. Bruning

Flying P-38s, Jerry Johnson shot down 24 aircraft in 265 combat missions in the Pacific theater. At the age of only twenty-four, he commanded the highest-scoring fighter group in the Pacific. Tragically, though Johnson had survived three combat tours, which included a mid-air collision with a Japanese aircraft and being shot down by friendly fire, the new father disappeared without a trace while flying a courier mission one month after the war’s end.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1612340865

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Saint Francis and the Sultan

The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter

By: John V. Tolan

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Saint Francis and the Sultan

The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter

By: John V. Tolan

In September, 1219, Francis of Assisi went to Egpyt to preach to Sultan al-Malik al-Kâmil. John Tolan examines the varying depictions of this brief but highly significant meeting and how they reveal the changing fears and hopes that Muslim-Christian encounters have inspired in European artists and writers in the centuries since.

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Oxford University Press

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019923972X

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Oscillation in Literary Modernism

By: John Francis Harty

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Oscillation in Literary Modernism

By: John Francis Harty

While the two modernist novels considered in this book, Samuel Beckett's Murphy and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano, were initially understood within the categories of stoic and tragic despair, more recent criticism has focused upon their carnivalesque dimension. The identification of these hermeneutic polarities presented the author with the challenging problem which underlies the present analysis, namely the question concerning the structural relationship between the contesting thematics. Drawing upon the paradigm of oscillation as established within the natural sciences, and adding a figurative dimension to the concept, the author has adapted this model as a key to unravelling the narrative buoyancy and structural coherence which sustain these novels of Modernism. The book elucidates how the carnivalesque challenge to despair contributes towards innovative narrative configurations, galvanizing the thematic antipodes into vertiginous microcosms of defiant selfhood.

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Peter Lang

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3631593937

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The Obedient Servant

Doncaster borough police 1836-1968

By: John Brown

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The Obedient Servant

Doncaster borough police 1836-1968

By: John Brown

At a time when policing is undergoing significant changes, in particular the move to regional arrangements and the focus on international criminality, The Obedient Servant remembers the period when a relatively small town in the north of England had its own local police force. Doncaster Borough police was part of, and could not be separated from, the town and its community as it grew from a small market town to a major industrial borough. The Obedient Servant is about some of the people in that force, the style of policing influenced by a powerful watch committee, and how the town managed to fight off the constant attempts by central government to amalgamate the Doncaster police with the surrounding West Riding of Yorkshire. The Obedient Servant also focuses on how the force was involved with vagrancy and the administration of the Poor Laws and Union workhouses, and the danger of assault faced by the Victorian policemen who could not call upon limitless resources to support them in a confrontation. As the town grew in size, the force had to deal with militant suffragettes, and it also provided many of its officers to the armed services in both World Wars. The police force’s problems continued to grow, and from the early 1950s onward it became apparent that the town could not sustain its own police force for much longer. In 1968, after 132 years, the Doncaster Borough police became part of the new West Yorkshire police. This fascinating story of the Doncaster Borough police force will particularly appeal to those interested in police history, as well as those familiar with that part of South Yorkshire.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1785890387

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Learning from Museums

By: John H. Falk,Lynn D. Dierking

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Learning from Museums

By: John H. Falk,Lynn D. Dierking

This is the second edition ofJohn H. Falk and Lynn D. Dierking’s ground-breaking book, Learning from Museums. While the book still focuses on why, how, what, when, and with whom, people learn from their museum experiences, the authors further investigate the extension of museums beyond their walls and the changing perceptions of the roles that museums increasingly play in the 21st century with respect to the publics they serve (and those they would like to serve). This new edition offers an updated and synthesized version of the Contextual Model of Learning, as well as the latest advances in free-choice learning research, theory and practice, in order to provide readers a highly readable and informative understanding of the personal, sociocultural and physical dimensions of the museum experience. Falk and Dierking also fill in gaps in the 1st edition. Falk’s research focuses increasingly on the self-related needs that museums meet, and these findings enhance the personal context chapter. Dierking’s work delves deeply into the macro-sociocultural dimensions of learning, a topic not discussed in the sociocultural chapter in the first edition. Emphasizing the importance of time (and space), the second edition adds an entirely new chapter to describe the important dimension of time. They also insert findings from the burgeoning field of neuroscience. Latter chapters of the book discuss the evolving role of museums in the rapidly changing Information /Learning Society of the 21st century. New examples and suggestions highlight the ways that the new understandings of learning can help museum practitioners reinvent how museums can and should support the public’s lifelong, life-wide and life-deep learning.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442276002

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Delphi Complete Works of John Ford (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of John Ford (Illustrated)

Myths, Legends, and Heroes

Myths, Legends, and Heroes

Delphi Complete Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Beaumont and Fletcher (Illustrated)

The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition

The Lord's Supper in the Reformed Tradition

International Development Of Health Psychology

International Development Of Health Psychology

Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective

Old-Age Security in Comparative Perspective

Capitalisms Compared

Capitalisms Compared

Jungle Ace

Jungle Ace

Saint Francis and the Sultan

Saint Francis and the Sultan

Oscillation in Literary Modernism

Oscillation in Literary Modernism

The Obedient Servant

The Obedient Servant

Learning from Museums

Learning from Museums

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