John Norris's Books

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

By: John Sutherland

With over 900 biographical entries, more than 600 novels synopsized, and a wealth of background material on the publishers, reviewers and readers of the age the Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction is the fullest account of the period's fiction ever published. Now in a second edition, the book has been revised and a generous selection of images have been chosen to illustrate various aspects of Victorian publishing, writing, and reading life. Organised alphabetically, the information provided will be a boon to students, researchers and all lovers of reading. The entries, though concise, meet the high standards demanded by modern scholarship. The writing - marked by Sutherland's characteristic combination of flair, clarity and erudition - is of such a high standard that the book is a joy to read, as well as a definitive work of reference.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

955

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317863321

ISBN 13

9781317863328

The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America

Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations

By: John A. Booth,Mitchell A. Seligson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America

Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations

By: John A. Booth,Mitchell A. Seligson

This book examines citizens' attitudes toward the legitimacy of their political systems and the relationship between political legitimacy and democratic stability.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

377

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521515890

ISBN 13

9780521515894

The American Decisions

By: John Proffatt

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The American Decisions

By: John Proffatt

Containing All the Cases of General Value and Authority decided in The Courts of the Several Satates from the earliest issue of the state reports to the year 1862

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

769

Publisher

Рипол Классик

ISBN 10

5879474607

ISBN 13

9785879474602

John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837

Volume V

By: John Clare

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837

Volume V

By: John Clare

Completing the influential Oxford edition of Clare's collected poems, this volume presents the poems of the Northborough period of Clare's creativity. As with other volumes in the edition, many of the poems have never before been published, and Clare's spelling, punctuation, grammar, and vocabulary have all been carefully preserved. This final volume also includes corrections to the texts, variants, and notes in previously-published volumes in the series, along with a cumulative glossary and cumulative indices of first-lines and titles that will assist readers in their use of the edition as a whole. Clare's poetry deals not only with his own countryside, but also with its ceremonies and celebrations, its customs and games, its political, economic, and religious concerns, its proverbs, tales, and songs - indeed, with all aspects of its popular culture. The poems of the Northborough period are some of Clare's best work, demonstrating a particularly concise vision of Clare's experience of Nature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

868

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198123868

ISBN 13

9780198123866

History of Nebraska, Fourth Edition

By: Ronald C. Naugle,James C. Olson,John J. Montag

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

History of Nebraska, Fourth Edition

By: Ronald C. Naugle,James C. Olson,John J. Montag

History of Nebraska was originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial. This one-volume history quickly became the standard text for the college student and reference for the general reader, unmatched for generations as the only comprehensive history of the state. This fourth edition, revised and updated, preserves the spirit and intelligence of the original. Incorporating the results of years of scholarship and research, this edition gives fuller attention to such topics as the Native American experience in Nebraska and the accomplishments and circumstances of the state’s women and minorities. It also provides a historical analysis of the state’s dramatic changes in the past two decades.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

471

Publisher

U of Nebraska Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0803286309

ISBN 13

9780803286306

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735–1738

"So Glorious an Undertaking"

By: John Thomas Scott

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735–1738

"So Glorious an Undertaking"

By: John Thomas Scott

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735-1738 considers the fascinating early history of a small group of men commissioned by trustees in England to spread Protestantism both to new settlers and indigenous people living in Georgia. Four minister-missionaries arrived in 1736, but after only two years these men detached themselves from the colonial enterprise, and the Mission effectively ended in 1738. Tracing the rise and fall of this endeavor, Scott’s study focuses on key figures in the history of the Mission including the layman, Charles Delamotte, and the ministers, John and Charles Wesley, Benjamin Ingham, and George Whitefield. In Scott’s innovative historical approach, neglected archival sources generate a detailed narrative account that reveals how these men’s personal experiences and personal networks had a significant impact on the inner-workings and trajectory of the Mission. The original group of missionaries who traveled to Georgia was composed of men already bound together by family relations, friendships, and shared lines of mentorship. Once in the colony, the missionaries’ prospects altered as they developed close ties with other missionaries (including a group of Moravians) and other settlers (John Wesley returned to England after his romantic relationship with Sophy Hopkey soured). Structures of imperialism, class, and race underlying colonial ideology informed the Anglican Mission in the era of trustee Georgia. The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia enriches this historical picture by illuminating how a different set of intricacies, rooted in personal dynamics, was also integral to the events of this period. In Scott’s study, the history of the expansive eighteenth-century Atlantic world emerges as a riveting account of life unfolding on a local and individual level.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

391

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1611463114

ISBN 13

9781611463118

Tinselfish: The scripts from season one, Book 1

The Scripts from Season One

By: John Garvey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Tinselfish: The scripts from season one, Book 1

The Scripts from Season One

By: John Garvey

Zeph's new in town. He finds a room in West Hollywood and shares the house with two ultrasleek gender illusionists who style themselves after classic movie goddesses Lauren Bacall and Rita Hayworth. A private investigator named O'Keefe stops by, and Zeph finds himself drawn into an investigation surrounding the disappearance of a porn-studio owner and one of his stars. The missing porn star is, not by coincidence, the boyfriend of one of Zeph's new housemates. Another investigation involves the drug-related murder of a club kid. O'Keefe is one of the suspects because he was the last person seen with the victim. A large, menacing drag queen, who took the rap for the murder of a dancer at a gay club in Miami, is now out on parole and is trying to track down her accomplice. She hires O'Keefe to find a "lost love." The series continues in Book 2.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

366

Publisher

Lulu.com

Published Date

ISBN 10

0615143342

ISBN 13

9780615143347

Lawrence the Lawnmower

By: John J. Healy

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Lawrence the Lawnmower

By: John J. Healy

Lawrence The Lawnmower is a collection of events, that occur in and around the home of the Baderway Family. These events are recorded through the eyes of a small spider called Doris.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

166

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3746047625

ISBN 13

9783746047621

The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee

The Forgotten Case against an American Icon

By: John Reeves

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee

The Forgotten Case against an American Icon

By: John Reeves

History has been kind to Robert E. Lee. Woodrow Wilson believed General Lee was a “model to men who would be morally great.” Douglas Southall Freeman, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his four-volume biography of Lee, described his subject as “one of a small company of great men in whom there is no inconsistency to be explained, no enigma to be solved.” Winston Churchill called him “one of the noblest Americans who ever lived.” Until recently, there was even a stained glass window devoted to Lee's life at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Immediately after the Civil War, however, many northerners believed Lee should be hanged for treason and war crimes. Americans will be surprised to learn that in June of 1865 Robert E. Lee was indicted for treason by a Norfolk, Virginia grand jury. In his instructions to the grand jury, Judge John C. Underwood described treason as “wholesale murder,” and declared that the instigators of the rebellion had “hands dripping with the blood of slaughtered innocents.” In early 1866, Lee decided against visiting friends while in Washington, D.C. for a congressional hearing, because he was conscious of being perceived as a “monster” by citizens of the nation’s capital. Yet somehow, roughly fifty years after his trip to Washington, Lee had been transformed into a venerable American hero, who was highly regarded by southerners and northerners alike. Almost a century after Appomattox, Dwight D. Eisenhower had Lee’s portrait on the wall of his White House office. The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee tells the story of the forgotten legal and moral case that was made against the Confederate general after the Civil War. The actual indictment went missing for 72 years. Over the past 150 years, the indictment against Lee after the war has both literally and figuratively disappeared from our national consciousness. In this book, Civil War historian John Reeves illuminates the incredible turnaround in attitudes towards the defeated general by examining the evolving case against him from 1865 to 1870 and beyond.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

261

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1538110407

ISBN 13

9781538110409

Beyond Hell and Back

How America's Special Operations Forces Became the World's Greatest Fighting Unit

By: Dwight Jon Zimmerman,John D. Gresham

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Beyond Hell and Back

How America's Special Operations Forces Became the World's Greatest Fighting Unit

By: Dwight Jon Zimmerman,John D. Gresham

An inside look at seven of the most harrowing and significant Special Operations missions ever. Courage beyond reason. Loyalty beyond faith. Perseverance in the face of overwhelming adversity. These are just some of the qualities of the members of the U.S. Special Operation Forces. BEYOND HELL AND BACK details the seven defining Special Ops missions that have made the Special Operation Forces the best fighting unit in the world, including: *THE RESCUE OF BAT-21: The largest and longest Combat Search and Rescue mission in the Vietnam War lasted 17 days and cost the lives of 13 Americans—all to rescue one man and the invaluable knowledge he alone possessed. * TASK FORCE NORMANDY: Planned in secrecy and executed with flawless efficiency, Task Force Normandy was an Army/Air Force Special Operations joint op that fired the opening shots behind enemy lines in Operation Desert Storm. *OPERATION EAGLE CLAW: The devastating Special Forces operation mounted to retrieve 52 American hostages in Iran resulted in the deaths of eight members of the rescue team. This failure ultimately led to the creation of Special Operations Command. *BASHER 52: Captain Scott O'Grady was shot down over the "no fly" zone above Bosnia, and his daring rescue was one of the Marine Corps' finest operations ever. These are a few of the dramatic true tales that represent the defining moments that helped shape the operational methods, planning, and deployment for all future Special Ops missions. BEYOND HELL AND BACK is the greatest collection of Spec Ops missions ever assembled.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

324

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1466858427

ISBN 13

9781466858428

Book's by John Norris

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction

The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America

The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America

The American Decisions

The American Decisions

John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837

John Clare: Poems of the Middle Period, 1822-1837

History of Nebraska, Fourth Edition

History of Nebraska, Fourth Edition

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735–1738

The Wesleys and the Anglican Mission to Georgia, 1735–1738

Tinselfish: The scripts from season one, Book 1

Tinselfish: The scripts from season one, Book 1

Lawrence the Lawnmower

Lawrence the Lawnmower

The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee

The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee

Beyond Hell and Back

Beyond Hell and Back

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email