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Down from the Attic

Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s

By: John T. Soister,Henry Nicolella

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Down from the Attic

Rare Thrillers of the Silent Era through the 1950s

By: John T. Soister,Henry Nicolella

Much has been written (and rewritten) about classic horror and science fiction films like Nosferatu and Metropolis, as well as not-so-classic pictures like Bride of the Monster and The Hideous Sun Demon. Yet some genre films have fallen through the cracks. The 24 films--some elusive, some easily found on YouTube--examined in this book all suffered critical neglect and were prematurely stacked in the attic. The authors bring them back into the light, beginning with Der Tunnel (1915), about the building of a transatlantic tunnel, and ending with The Emperor's Baker--The Baker's Emperor (1951), a bizarre Marxist take on the Golem legend. A variety of thrillers are covered--Fog (1933), Return of the Terror (1934), Forgotten Faces (1928)--along with such sci-fi leaps into the future as The Sky Ranger (1921), High Treason (1929) and Just Imagine (1930). Early adaptations include The Man Who Laughs (1921), The Monkey's Paw (1923), Hound of the Baskervilles (1937) and Sweeney Todd (1928). Rare stills and background material are included in a discussion of Hispanic vintage horror. The career of exploitation auteur, Bud Pollard (The Horror, 1933) is examined.

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McFarland

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0786498315

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Logic from A to Z

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Glossary of Logical and Mathematical Terms

By: John B. Bacon,Michael Detlefsen,David Charles McCarty

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Logic from A to Z

The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Glossary of Logical and Mathematical Terms

By: John B. Bacon,Michael Detlefsen,David Charles McCarty

First published in the most ambitious international philosophy project for a generation; the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Logic from A to Z is a unique glossary of terms used in formal logic and the philosophy of mathematics. Over 500 entries include key terms found in the study of: * Logic: Argument, Turing Machine, Variable * Set and model theory: Isomorphism, Function * Computability theory: Algorithm, Turing Machine * Plus a table of logical symbols. Extensively cross-referenced to help comprehension and add detail, Logic from A to Z provides an indispensable reference source for students of all branches of logic.

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Routledge

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1134971044

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Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

By: Rosalind Carey,John Ongley

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Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

By: Rosalind Carey,John Ongley

Academic philosopher, logician, public intellectual, educator, political activist, and freethinker, Bertrand Russell was and remains a colossus. No other single philosopher in the last 200 years can be said to have created so much and influenced so many. His Principia Mathematica, written with A. N. Whitehead, ranks as one of the greatest books on logic since Aristotle. His philosophical work on language, meaning, logic, mind, and metaphysics formed the basis of 20th-century philosophy. Russell was active in numerous political movements of liberation and peace, and his popular writings, including the best-selling History of Western Philosophy, won the Nobel prize in literature in 1950. Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy offers a comprehensive, current guide to the many facets of Russell's work. Through its chronology, introductory essay, bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on concepts, people, works, and technical terms, Russell's impact on philosophy and related fields is made accessible to the reader in this must-have reference.

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336

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Scarecrow Press

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0810862921

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9780810862920

The Philosophy of Postconstructivism

By: John Ryskamp

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The Philosophy of Postconstructivism

By: John Ryskamp

Three essays from the point of view of postconstructivism.

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214

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Lulu.com

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0557531136

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9780557531134

Cometography: Volume 5, 1960-1982

A Catalog of Comets

By: Gary W. Kronk,Maik Meyer,David Allan John Seargent

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Cometography: Volume 5, 1960-1982

A Catalog of Comets

By: Gary W. Kronk,Maik Meyer,David Allan John Seargent

Definitive reference on comets seen from 1960 to 1982, for amateur and professional astronomers, and historians of science.

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833

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Cambridge University Press

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052187226X

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9780521872263

In Dante's Wake

Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

By: John Freccero

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In Dante's Wake

Reading from Medieval to Modern in the Augustinian Tradition

By: John Freccero

Waking to find himself shipwrecked on a strange shore before a dark wood, the pilgrim of the Divine Comedy realizes he must set his sights higher and guide his ship to a radically different port. Starting on the sand of that very shore with Dante, John Freccero begins retracing the famous voyage recounted by the poet nearly 700 years ago. Freccero follows pilgrim and poet through the Comedy and then beyond, inviting readers both uninitiated and accomplished to join him in navigating this complex medieval masterpiece and its influence on later literature. Perfectly impenetrable in its poetry and unabashedly ambitious in its content, the Divine Comedy is the cosmos collapsed on itself, heavy with dense matter and impossible to expand. Yet Dante’s great triumph is seen in the tiny, subtle fragments that make up the seamless whole, pieces that the poet painstakingly sewed together to form a work that insinuates itself into the reader and inspires the work of the next author. Freccero magnifies the most infinitesimal elements of that intricate construction to identify self-similar parts, revealing the full breadth of the great poem. Using this same technique, Freccero then turns to later giants of literature— Petrarch, Machiavelli, Donne, Joyce, and Svevo—demonstrating how these authors absorbed these smallest parts and reproduced Dante in their own work. In the process, he confronts questions of faith, friendship, gender, politics, poetry, and sexuality, so that traveling with Freccero, the reader will both cross unknown territory and reimagine familiar faces, swimming always in Dante’s wake.

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823264297

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9780823264292

After Paradox

By: John Ryskamp

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After Paradox

By: John Ryskamp

Discusses the state of disciplines and ideas after the disenchantment with "paradox" as a method of argumentation.

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0557129036

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The Twenty-First Century

By: John Ryskamp

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The Twenty-First Century

By: John Ryskamp

The author's postconstructivist aesthetic applied to poetry.

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154

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0557537657

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9780557537655

Dante's Political Purgatory

By: John A. Scott

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Dante's Political Purgatory

By: John A. Scott

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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151280679X

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9781512806793

A Commentary on Livy, Books 38-40

By: John Briscoe

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A Commentary on Livy, Books 38-40

By: John Briscoe

Books 38-40 of Livy's History of Rome cover the years 189-179 BC. They contain two famous and much-discussed episodes: the trials of the Scipios, and the so-called Bacchanalian conspiracy. Other notable matters described are the end of the war with the Aetolian League and Manlius Vulso's campaign in Asia Minor, the censorship of the elder Cato, and the fatal quarrel in the Macedonian royal house. This commentary, conceived on the same scale as Briscoe's earlier commentaries on Books 31-33 and 34-37, aims to elucidate historical, literary, textual, and linguistic aspects of Livy's narrative. When Polybius, Livy's main source for events in the Hellenistic world, full references to the relevant passages of the former are given, with citation of the opening and closing words. A substantial Introduction discusses sources and methods of composition, language and style, the manuscripts, the calendar and chronology, Roman policy in northern Italy, and the Roman legions of the period.

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640

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OUP Oxford

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019156947X

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9780191569470

Peter of Savoy

The Little Charlemagne

By: John Marshall

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Peter of Savoy

The Little Charlemagne

By: John Marshall

Where did the story that ended with the great Edwardian castles of north Wales begin? How was it that hundreds of men from Savoy built castles in north Wales? Whose stylised statue sits outside the Savoy Hotel in London on the site of his former palace? Whose castle of Pevensey endured successfully the longest English siege? Why does much of Switzerland speak French to this day? Why do we find elements of the Magna Carta in the Statutes of Savoy? Who was one of the greatest figures of the thirteenth century? Peter of Savoy, known to chroniclers of his homeland as The Little Charlemagne. Peter of Savoy came to England as the uncle of Queen Alianor de Provence, the consort of King Henry III. He quickly found favour as one of Henry’s closest advisers and noblemen. Peter was in effect Queen Alianor’s right-hand man in England, her protector, and subsequently the protector of Lord Edward, the future King Edward I. He played a key role in Henry’s military and diplomatic efforts to recover his ancestral lands in France which culminated in the 1259 Treaty of Paris. This rapprochement between the Capetians and Plantagenets might have warded off the Hundred Years War, but it was not to be. Nonetheless, the nineteenth-century monks of Savoy thought it his greatest accomplishment. Peter played a key role in the Second Baronial War which engulfed Henry’s reign, at first siding with Simon de Montfort but then changing sides as the reform movement veered toward xenophobia. Returning to Savoy he laid the foundations for the County of Savoy to become a powerful Duchy which in turn almost became a country before it was dismembered by Switzerland, Italy and France. His historical reputation suffered at the hands of English chroniclers keen to eulogise the Montfortian regime. This work is an attempt to discover the real Peter of Savoy.

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Pen and Sword History

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1399065688

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9781399065689

A Smaller English Dictionary

By: John Ogilvie

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A Smaller English Dictionary

By: John Ogilvie

Reprint of the original, first published in 1872. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3382146304

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9783382146306

Voyage Charters

By: Julian Cooke,Tim Young,Michael Ashcroft,Andrew Taylor,John Kimball,David Martowski,LeRoy Lambert,Michael Sturley

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Voyage Charters

By: Julian Cooke,Tim Young,Michael Ashcroft,Andrew Taylor,John Kimball,David Martowski,LeRoy Lambert,Michael Sturley

Widely regarded as the leading authority on voyage charters, this book is the most comprehensive and intellectually-rigorous analysis of the area, is regularly cited in court and by arbitrators, and is the go-to guide for drafting and disputing charterparty contracts. Voyage Charters provides the reader with a clause-by-clause analysis of the two major charterparty forms: the Gencon standard charterparty contract and the Asbatankvoy form. It also delivers thorough treatment of COGSA and the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules, a comparative analysis of English and United States law, and a detailed section on arbitration awards. This book is an indispensable, practical guide for both contentious and non-contentious shipping law practitioners, and postgraduate students studying this area of law.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000586286

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9781000586282

The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island

By: John A. Strong

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The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island

By: John A. Strong

Although the Montaukett were among the first tribes to establish relations with the English in the seventeenth century, until now very little has been written about the evolution of their interaction with the settlers. John A. Strong, a noted authority on the Indians of New York State's Long Island, has written a concise history that focuses on the issue of land tenure in the relations between the English and the Montaukett. This study covers the period from the earliest contacts to the New York Appellate Court decision in 1917—which declared the tribe to be extinct—to their current battle for the federal recognition necessary to reclaim portions of their land. Strong also looks at related issues such as cultural assimilation, political and social tensions, and patterns of economic dependency among the Montaukett.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815656459

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9780815656456

Johannis de Trokelowe Et Henrici de Blaneforde Chronica Et Annales

AD 1259-1296, 1307-1324, 1392-1406

By: John de Trokelowe,Henry de Blaneforde

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Johannis de Trokelowe Et Henrici de Blaneforde Chronica Et Annales

AD 1259-1296, 1307-1324, 1392-1406

By: John de Trokelowe,Henry de Blaneforde

A pioneering 1866 edition of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century historical source material from the influential medieval centre of learning at St Albans.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108046819

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Down from the Attic

Down from the Attic

Logic from A to Z

Logic from A to Z

Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

Historical Dictionary of Bertrand Russell's Philosophy

The Philosophy of Postconstructivism

The Philosophy of Postconstructivism

Cometography: Volume 5, 1960-1982

Cometography: Volume 5, 1960-1982

In Dante's Wake

In Dante's Wake

After Paradox

After Paradox

The Twenty-First Century

The Twenty-First Century

Dante's Political Purgatory

Dante's Political Purgatory

A Commentary on Livy, Books 38-40

A Commentary on Livy, Books 38-40

Peter of Savoy

Peter of Savoy

A Smaller English Dictionary

A Smaller English Dictionary

Voyage Charters

Voyage Charters

The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island

The Montaukett Indians of Eastern Long Island

Johannis de Trokelowe Et Henrici de Blaneforde Chronica Et Annales

Johannis de Trokelowe Et Henrici de Blaneforde Chronica Et Annales

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