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The Complete Works of John Galsworthy

By: John Galsworthy

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The Complete Works of John Galsworthy

By: John Galsworthy

The Forsyte Saga was the title originally destined for that part of it which is called "The Man of Property"; and to adopt it for the collected chronicles of the Forsyte family has indulged the Forsytean tenacity that is in all of us. The word Saga might be objected to on the ground that it connotes the heroic and that there is little heroism in these pages. But it is used with a suitable irony; and, after all, this long tale, though it may deal with folk in frock coats, furbelows, and a gilt-edged period, is not devoid of the essential heat of conflict. Discounting for the gigantic stature and blood-thirstiness of old days, as they have come down to us in fairy-tale and legend, the folk of the old Sagas were Forsytes, assuredly, in their possessive instincts, and as little proof against the inroads of beauty and passion as Swithin, Soames, or even Young Jolyon. And if heroic figures, in days that never were, seem to startle out from their surroundings in fashion unbecoming to a Forsyte of the Victorian era, we may be sure that tribal instinct was even then the prime force, and that "family" and the sense of home and property counted as they do to this day, for all the recent efforts to "talk them out." So many people have written and claimed that their families were the originals of the Forsytes that one has been almost encouraged to believe in the typicality of an imagined species. Manners change and modes evolve, and "Timothy's on the Bayswater Road" becomes a nest of the unbelievable in all except essentials; we shall not look upon its like again, nor perhaps on such a one as James or Old Jolyon. And yet the figures of Insurance Societies and the utterances of Judges reassure us daily that our earthly paradise is still a rich preserve, where the wild raiders, Beauty and Passion, come stealing in, filching security from beneath our noses. As surely as a dog will bark at a brass band, so will the essential Soames in human nature ever rise up uneasily against the dissolution which hovers round the folds of ownership.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465510613

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9781465510617

The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford

1601-1850

By: Scott Mandelbrote,John Davis

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The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford

1601-1850

By: Scott Mandelbrote,John Davis

Edition, with full notes and apparatus, of a text which sheds much light on university affairs at the time. The Warden's Punishment Book is a record of punishments imposed on the Fellows of All Souls College, Oxford, for minor infringements of the statutes and of College discipline, from its inception in 1601 until 1851. It is a uniquedocument in terms of its scope and detail among the College records of Oxford and Cambridge and provides significant insights into the daily life and personal relationships of such an institution during the early modern period. This volume presents an edition of the text of the Punishment Book, with a substantial biographical register detailing the careers of those mentioned as punishers or punished. An introduction explains the significance and context of the Punishment Book within collegiate, university, and social history. Scott Mandelbrote is Fellow, Perne Librarian, and Director of Studies in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was formerly Fellow and Sub-Warden of All Souls College, Oxford; John H.R. Davis is an Honorary Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, of which he was Warden between 1995 and 2008. He is an anthropologist and was Professor of Social Anthropology at the Universityof Oxford, and, before that, at the University of Kent at Canterbury.

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256

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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0904107264

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9780904107265

Plays in the Fourth Seires

By: John Galsworthy

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By: John Galsworthy

Reproduction of the original: Plays in the Fourth Seires by John Galsworthy

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3752355492

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9783752355499

Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World

By: John Granger Cook

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Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World

By: John Granger Cook

John Granger Cook traces the use of the penalty by the Romans until its probable abolition by Constantine. Rabbinic and legal sources are not neglected. The material contributes to the understanding of the crucifixion of Jesus and has implications for the theologies of the cross in the New Testament. Images and photographs are included in this volume.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161560019

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9783161560019

Richard Potter

America's First Black Celebrity

By: John A. Hodgson

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Richard Potter

America's First Black Celebrity

By: John A. Hodgson

Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813941059

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9780813941059

The Engineer's Career Guide

By: John A. Hoschette

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The Engineer's Career Guide

By: John A. Hoschette

This is the most complete career resource guide book for engineers dealing with the non-technical side of engineering. It provides career advice for engineers at all stages of their careers, whether newly graduated, mid-career, or soon-to-be-retired. This book provides many real world, practical, proven, common sense career tips supported by actual work and experiences/examples. Tips deal with problems the engineer may encounter with supervisors, co-workers and others in the corporation. The book provides step-by-step guidance on how to deal with career problems and come out ahead.

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640

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470503505

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9780470503508

Eclectic Journal of Medicine

By: John Bell

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Eclectic Journal of Medicine

By: John Bell

Reprint of the original, first published in 1837.

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338560754X

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9783385607545

The Vertical Mosaic

An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition

By: John Porter

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The Vertical Mosaic

An Analysis of Social Class and Power in Canada, 50th Anniversary Edition

By: John Porter

John Porter’s landmark study of social and ethnic inequality, The Vertical Mosaic, became an instant classic when it was first published in 1965. A national best seller that sold more than 100,000 copies, the book was the first major study of Canada’s class structure and one of the foundational texts in Canadian sociology. Sociologist Irving Louis Horowitz described it as “the sociological study of present-day Canada.” Fifty years later, the book retains vast significance both for its powerful critique of social exclusivity in a country that prides itself on equality and diversity and for its influence on generations of sociological researchers. The 50th Anniversary Edition features new material which contextualizes the legacy of this important book: a foreword by Porter’s colleague, Wallace Clement, and his biographer, Rick Helmes-Hayes, and a new introductory essay by historian Jack Jedwab and sociologist Vic Satzewich.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442624302

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9781442624306

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

By: John Dittmer

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Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

By: John Dittmer

This is the best treatment scholars have of black life in a southern state at the beginning of the twentieth century." -- Howard N. Rabinowitz, Journal of American History "The author shows clearly and forcefully the ways in which this [white] system abused and controlled the black lower caste in Georgia." -- Lester C. Lamon, American Historical Review. "Dittmer has a faculty for lucid exposition of complicated subjects. This is especially true of the sections on segregation, racial politics, disfranchisement, woman's suffrage and prohitibion, the neo-slavery in agriculture, and the racial violence whose threat and reality hung like a pall over all of Georgia throughout the period." -- Donald L. Grant, Georgia Historical Quarterly.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252008138

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9780252008139

Strange But True, America

Weird Tales from All 50 States

By: John Hafnor

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Strange But True, America

Weird Tales from All 50 States

By: John Hafnor

Contains 101 curious tales and oddball facts about events and people from the fifty states.

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John Hafnor

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0964817551

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The Skin Game; A Tragicomedy

Fourth Series - in large print

By: John Galsworthy

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The Skin Game; A Tragicomedy

Fourth Series - in large print

By: John Galsworthy

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387024452

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9783387024456

Man of the Century

Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945

By: John Ramsden

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Man of the Century

Winston Churchill and His Legend Since 1945

By: John Ramsden

Man of the Century is the often surprising story of how Winston Churchill, in the last years of his life, carefully crafted his reputation for posterity, revealing him to be perhaps the twentieth century's first, and most gifted, "spin doctor." Ramsden draws on fresh material and extensive research on three continents to argue that the statesman's force of personality and romantic, imperial notion of Britain has contributed directly to many of the political debates of the last decades--including American involvement in Vietnam and the role of the Anglo-American alliance in promoting and protecting a certain vision of world order.

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Columbia University Press

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0231131062

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9780231131063

The Fellowship

The Story of a Revolution

By: John Gribbin

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The Fellowship

The Story of a Revolution

By: John Gribbin

From the bestselling author of Science: A History comes the enthralling story of a revolution that shook the world. Seventeenth-century England was racked by civil war, plague and fire; a world ruled by superstition and ignorance. A series of meetings of 'natural philosophers' in Oxford and London saw the beginning of a new method of thinking based on proof and experiment. John Gribbin's gripping, colourful account of this unparalleled time of discovery explores the impact of the Royal Society, culminating with Isaac Newton's revolutionary description of the universe and Edmund Halley's prediction of the return of a comet in 1759. This compelling book shows the triumph not as the work of one isolated genius, but of a Fellowship.

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Penguin UK

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0141902949

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Annals of Cambridge

Vol. II

By: Charles Henry Cooper,John William Cooper

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Annals of Cambridge

Vol. II

By: Charles Henry Cooper,John William Cooper

Reprint of the original, first published in 1842.

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650

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3385129702

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9783385129702

Galsworthy Five Plays

Strife; Justice; The Eldest Son; The Skin Game; Loyalties

By: John Galsworthy

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Galsworthy Five Plays

Strife; Justice; The Eldest Son; The Skin Game; Loyalties

By: John Galsworthy

John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over modern audiences and the strength and relevance of the issues he raise In Strife, Galsworthy deals with industrial relations; in Justice, with prison life - it was one of the few plays to effect real reforms. The Eldest Son is also about injustice - one law for the rich, another for the poor; The Skin Game, Galsworthy's first commercial success, presents class conflict; while Loyalties, 'a crime drama', is about division and prejudice. John Galsworthy is a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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140814851X

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Book's by John Fellows

The Complete Works of John Galsworthy

The Complete Works of John Galsworthy

The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford

The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford

Plays in the Fourth Seires

Plays in the Fourth Seires

Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World

Crucifixion in the Mediterranean World

Richard Potter

Richard Potter

The Engineer's Career Guide

The Engineer's Career Guide

Eclectic Journal of Medicine

Eclectic Journal of Medicine

The Vertical Mosaic

The Vertical Mosaic

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

Black Georgia in the Progressive Era, 1900-1920

Strange But True, America

Strange But True, America

The Skin Game; A Tragicomedy

The Skin Game; A Tragicomedy

Man of the Century

Man of the Century

The Fellowship

The Fellowship

Annals of Cambridge

Annals of Cambridge

Galsworthy Five Plays

Galsworthy Five Plays

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