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Further Down Memory Lane

Early Life, Prose and Poetry

By: John R. Pearsall

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Further Down Memory Lane

Early Life, Prose and Poetry

By: John R. Pearsall

In this book you will find inspiration, building blocks for your life, and perhaps some rubble. Read it, enjoy it, and use it to broaden and enhance your life.

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Down Memory Lane

By: John R. Pearsall

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United States Marshal Preston Flynn, the mysterious young man who became a deputy marshal at age sixteen, displays his power of concentration and awesome physical strength that exceeds the bounds of human ability, defying the impossible. He agrees to help the small ranchers fight for survival against the cutthroat cattle buyers, being instrumental in forming a union that guarantees its members fair prices for their beef. The union president is shot and killed. The evidence of Flynn's investigation leads to Ben Sharp, a drifter. However, Judge Vanrail, jealous of Flynn's youth, ability, and reputation, claims his evidence is circumstantial, and orders Flynn to turn Sharp loose. The crimes against the union members continue. Flynn confronts Vanrail in anger, and Vanrail finds him in contempt, fines him, and strips him of his badge. He has no alternative but to move around the judge, if he is to protect the union members, forced to stop Sharp the only way left to him. Flynn ends up behind bars, facing a rope, and helpless when five outlaws decide to take over the town. For the first time Flynn begins to understand his unique power of concentration, and the mystery of his superhuman strength. The mystery of his parent's murder, (Book I) that he witnessed at age six, is finally solved, answering the question that has plagued him most of his life.

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1434384179

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Rodney's Room-Rhyming Poetry About Things Under the Sun

By: John Pearsall

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Rodney's Room-Rhyming Poetry About Things Under the Sun

By: John Pearsall

I have always been interested in rhyming poetry. I even have a tattered copy of the old, One Hundred One Famous Poems, where there is to my way of thinking some of the greatest use of the language other than the Holy Bible. Such poems as Trees by Kipling; and Laugh and the World Laughs With You have been an inspiration to me for many years. Every where I have been, in church, schools, work or Lodge over the past seventy years, I have written poetry about something. In this book, I have written about many things I have either seen in my office, remembered from my past or have seen out my office window.

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1467025283

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9781467025287

Embracing the Darkness

A Cultural History of Witchcraft

By: John Callow

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Embracing the Darkness

A Cultural History of Witchcraft

By: John Callow

As dusk fell on a misty evening in 1521, Martin Luther - hiding from his enemies at Wartburg Castle - found himself seemingly tormented by demons hurling walnuts at his bedroom window. In a fit of rage, the great reformer threw at the Devil the inkwell from which he was preparing his colossal translation of the Bible. A belief - like Luther's - in the supernatural, and in black magic, has been central to European cultural life for 3000 years. From the Salem witch trials to the macabre novels of Dennis Wheatley; from the sadistic persecution of eccentric village women to the seductive sorceresses of TV's Charmed; and from Derek Jarman's punk film Jubilee to Ken Russell's The Devils, John Callow brings the twilight world of the witch, mage and necromancer to vivid and fascinating life. He takes us into a shadowy landscape where, in an age before modern drugs, the onset of sudden illness was readily explained by malevolent spellcasting. And where dark, winding country lanes could terrify by night, as the hoot of an owl or shriek of a fox became the desolate cries of unseen spirits.Witchcraft has profoundly shaped the western imagination, and endures in the forms of modern-day Wicca and paganism. Embracing the Darkness is an enthralling account of this fascinating aspect of the western cultural experience.

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320

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1786732610

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9781786732613

Popular music on screen

By: John Mundy

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Popular music on screen

By: John Mundy

Popular Music on Screen examines the relationship between popular music and the screen, from the origins of the Hollywood musical to contemporary developments in music television and video. Through detailed examination of films, television programs and popular music, together with analysis of the economic, technological and cultural determinants of their production and consumption, the book argues that popular music has been increasingly influenced by its visual economy. Though engaging with the debates that surround postmodernism, the book suggests that what most characterizes the relationship between popular music and the screen is a strong sense of continuity, expressed through institutional structures, representational strategies and the ideology of "entertainment.

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Manchester University Press

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1526185962

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The First Great Awakening

Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775

By: John Howard Smith

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The First Great Awakening

Redefining Religion in British America, 1725–1775

By: John Howard Smith

The First Great Awakening, an unprecedented surge in Protestant Christian revivalism in the Eighteenth Century, sparked enormous of controversy at the time and has been a source of scholarly debate ever since. Few historians have sought to write a synthetic history of the First Great Awakening, and in recent decades it has been challenged as having happened at all, being either an exaggeration or an “invention.” The First Great Awakening expands the movement’s geographical, theological, and sociopolitical scope. Rather than focus exclusively on the clerical elites, as earlier studies have done, it deals with them alongside ordinary people, and includes the experiences of women, African Americans, and Indians as the observers and participants they were. It challenges prevailing scholarly opinion concerning what the revivals were and what they meant to the formation of American religious identity and culture. Cover image: NPG 131, George Whitefield by John Wollaston, oil on canvas, circa 1742. © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1611477158

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Further Down Memory Lane

Further Down Memory Lane

Down Memory Lane

Down Memory Lane

Rodney's Room-Rhyming Poetry About Things Under the Sun

Rodney's Room-Rhyming Poetry About Things Under the Sun

Embracing the Darkness

Embracing the Darkness

Popular music on screen

Popular music on screen

The First Great Awakening

The First Great Awakening

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