John Reeve Carpenter's Books

Pirates

Scourge of the Seas

By: John Reeve Carpenter

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Pirates

Scourge of the Seas

By: John Reeve Carpenter

You won't need a bottle of rum to enjoy the exploits of these famous and fearsome swashbucklers. There's a galleon's worth of action in this awesome exploration of pirates--their weapons, adventures, legends, language, and lost treasures. See what life was really like aboard a pirate ship; Meet Blackbeard, Calico Jack, and a host of other villainous adventurers as they sail through the high seas in search of plunder; Learn about their ships, flags, and weaponry, from cutlasses to blunderbusses, sangrenels to musketoons. If you are looking for exotic desert islands and sword-wielding desperadoes, they are here, but you will also learn what life was really like for the scourge of the seas: what motivated them, what kept them together, the hardships they had to endure, and the adventures they sought

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402763115

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9781402763113

Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

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Doggett's New York City Directory

By: John Doggett

Reprint of the original, first published in 1845.

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470

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385263557

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9783385263550

The Films of John Carpenter

By: John Kenneth Muir

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The Films of John Carpenter

By: John Kenneth Muir

The films of John Carpenter cover a tremendous range and yet all bear his clear personal stamp. From the horrifying (Halloween) to the touching (Starman) to the controversial (The Thing) to the comic (Big Trouble in Little China), his films reflect a unique approach to filmmaking and singular views of humanity and American culture. This analysis of Carpenter's films includes a historical overview of his career, and in-depth entries on each of his films, from 1975's Dark Star to 1998's Vampires. Complete cast and production information is provided for each. The book also covers those films written and produced by Carpenter, such as Halloween II and Black Moon Rising, as well as Carpenter's work for television. Appendices are included on films Carpenter was offered but turned down, the slasher films that followed in the wake of the highly-successful Halloween, the actors and characters who make repeated appearances in Carpenter's films, and ratings for Carpenter's work. Notes, bibliography, and index are included.

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277

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McFarland

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0786493488

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9780786493487

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

By: John M. Bowers,Peter Steffensen

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Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

By: John M. Bowers,Peter Steffensen

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 traces J. R. R. Tolkien's critical engagements with Geoffrey Chaucer from his undergraduate Oxford essays in 1913 to remarks in his retirement lecture in 1959. Reprinted with both Tolkien's own annotations and new notes from the authors, this book analyses his major articles such as ^"Chaucer as a Philologist: The Reeve's Tale", as well as his unpublished edition of the Reeve's Tale and his lectures on the Clerk's Tale and the Pardoner's Tale. Though his scholarship was best known for his work on Beowulf, Tolkien was also an expert on Geoffrey Chaucer. He lectured on Chaucer, edited Chaucer, and published essays on Chaucer. Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-59 reprints many of these works for the first time, and documents Tolkien's career-long engagement with the poet and traces his influence in Tolkien's own works. Bowers and Steffensen reveal how the Reeve's Tale was a source for Tolkien's description of Merry and Pippin's battle with Saruman, and how the Pardoner's Tale influenced Tolkien's own story of men fighting to the death over a gold treasure. Chaucer emerges as a major source of inspiration for Tolkien's creative writings and profoundly formative in the creation of The Lord of the Rings.

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Oxford University Press

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0192665294

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9780192665294

The Canterbury Tales

A Play Based on the Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

By: John O'Connor

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The Canterbury Tales

A Play Based on the Poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

By: John O'Connor

Dramascripts is an outstanding series of playscripts that are ideal for mixed class reading and performance. This extensive series of scripts encourages students to explore language and a variety of dramatic genres including myths and legends, classic Shakespeare, adventure, thriller, romance and more. Each edition provides guidance and activities alongside the text.

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Nelson Thornes

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0174326580

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9780174326588

Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

A Short Introduction

By: John C. Hirsh

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Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

A Short Introduction

By: John C. Hirsh

This concise and lively survey introduces students with no prior knowledge to Chaucer, and particularly to The Canterbury Tales. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales. Introduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote. Provides essential facts about Chaucer, as well as a framework for thinking about his poetry. Encourages an engaged reading of The Canterbury Tales. Introduces students to the historical and religious background needed to understand the contexts in which Chaucer wrote.

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192

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470776935

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9780470776933

Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300

By: John Sabapathy

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Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300

By: John Sabapathy

The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. A mentality emerged that trusted to procedures of accountability as a means of controlling officers' conduct. The mentality was not inherently new, but it became qualitatively more complex and quantitatively more widespread in this period, across European countries, and across different sorts of officer. The officers exposed to these methods were not just 'state' ones, but also seignorial, ecclasistical, and university-college officers, as well as urban-communal ones. This study surveys these officers and the practices used to regulate them in England. It places them not only within a British context but also a wide European one and explores how administration, law, politics, and norms tried to control the insolence of office. The devices for institutionalising accountability analysed here reflected an extraordinarily creative response in England, and beyond, to the problem of complex government: inquests, audits, accounts, scrutiny panels, sindication. Many of them have shaped the way in which we think about accountability today. Some remain with us. So too do their practical problems. How can one delegate control effectively? How does accountability relate to responsibility? What relationship does accountability have with justice? This study offers answers for these questions in the Middle Ages, and is the first of its kind dedicated to an examination of this important topic in this period.

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336

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Oxford University Press

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0192587234

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9780192587237

Chaucer and Dissimilarity

Literary Comparisons in Chaucer and Other Late-medieval Writing

By: John J. McGavin

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Chaucer and Dissimilarity

Literary Comparisons in Chaucer and Other Late-medieval Writing

By: John J. McGavin

It looks out, in a groundbreaking study, to the use of similes in other late-medieval poems."--BOOK JACKET.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838638147

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9780838638149

St Paul's Cathedral

Archaeology and History

By: John Schofield

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St Paul's Cathedral

Archaeology and History

By: John Schofield

This is the first volume concerned solely with the archaeology of a major late 17th century building in London, and the major changes it has undergone. St Paul’s Cathedral in the City of London was built in 1675–1711 to the designs of Sir Christopher Wren and has been described as an iconic building many times. In this major new account, John Schofield examines the cathedral from an archaeological perspective, reviewing its history from the early 18th to the early 21st century, as illustrated by recent archaeological recording, documentary research and engineering assessment. A detailed account of the construction of the cathedral is provided based on a comparison of the fabric with voluminous building accounts which have survived and evidence from recent archaeological investigation. The construction of the Wren building and its embellishments are followed by the main works of later surveyors such as Robert Mylne and Francis Penrose. The 20th century brought further changes and conservation projects, including restoration after the building was hit by two bombs in World War II, and all its windows blown out. The 1990s and first years of the present century have witnessed considerable refurbishment and cleaning involving archaeological and engineering works. Archaeological specialist reports and an engineering review of the stability and character of the building are provided.

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209

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Oxbow Books

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1785702785

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9781785702785

Chaucer in Modern English Prose The Canterbury Tales

By: John Edmonds

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Chaucer in Modern English Prose The Canterbury Tales

By: John Edmonds

This book presents Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in modern English prose. Already Middle English is sufficiently obscure to deter even those interested in English literature. How many have read the whole of the Canterbury Tales? Even fewer will have read his other works. The purpose of this book is to allow the reader easy access to Chaucer's meaning apart from the poetic presentation. This is to put more emphasis on what he says rather than the way he says it. Chaucer's works are a commentary on 14th century life and literature, much of it in prose. There are then two reasons for reading Chaucer. One is for social history, and the other for his poetry. To separate the two can only make his work more accessible. Hopefully this will lead to a greater appreciation of medieval English literature in general.

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Lulu.com

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1847281850

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9781847281852

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

By: John M. Bowers

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Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

By: John M. Bowers

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer uncovers the story of an unpublished and previously unknown book by the author of The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien worked between 1922 and 1928 on his Clarendon edition Selections from Chaucer's Poetry and Prose, and though never completed, its 160 pages of commentary reveals much of his thinking about language and storytelling when he was still at the threshold of his career as an epoch-making writer of fantasy literature. Drawing upon other new materials such as his edition of the Reeve's Tale and his Oxford lectures on the Pardoner's Tale, this book reveals Chaucer as a major influence upon Tolkien's literary imagination.

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Oxford University Press

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0192580299

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9780192580290

Medieval England

Rural Society and Economic Change 1086-1348

By: Edward Miller,John Hatcher

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Medieval England

Rural Society and Economic Change 1086-1348

By: Edward Miller,John Hatcher

This is the first volume of a two-volume study of medieval England covering the period between the Norman Conquest and the Black Death. The book opens with a summary portrait of the English economy and society in the reign of William I. It goes on to examine in detail the population increase from 1086 to 1349 and to investigate the structure of society where relationships were rooted in the dependence of man upon man.

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Routledge

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1317872894

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9781317872894

The Life & Times of Chaucer

By: John Gardner

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The Life & Times of Chaucer

By: John Gardner

DIV The pinnacle of Gardner’s medieval scholarship: a fascinating re-creation of the world of one of history’s greatest writers In this exquisite biography, John Gardner brings to life Geoffrey Chaucer, illuminating his writings and their inspiration like never before. Through exhaustive research and expert storytelling, Gardner takes readers through Chaucer’s varied career—from writing The Canterbury Tales to performing diplomatic work at the Parliament—and creates a fully realized portrait of an author whose work would remake the English language forever. Written with passion and insight, this a must-read for those interested in Chaucer and the medieval time period. This ebook features a new illustrated biography of John Gardner, including original letters, rare photos, and never-before-seen documents from the Gardner family and the University of Rochester Archives. /div

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Open Road Media

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1453203788

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9781453203781

Race and the Law in South Carolina

From Slavery to Jim Crow

By: John Wertheimer

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Race and the Law in South Carolina

From Slavery to Jim Crow

By: John Wertheimer

This first title in the “Law, Literature & Culture” series uses six legal disputes from the South Carolina courts to illuminate the complex legal history of race in the U.S. South from slavery through Jim Crow. The first two cases—one criminal, one civil—both illuminate the extreme oppressiveness of slavery. The third explores labor relations between newly emancipated Black agricultural workers and white landowners during Reconstruction. The remaining cases investigate three prominent features of the Jim Crow system: segregated schools, racially biased juries, and lynching, respectively. Throughout the century under consideration, South Carolina’s legal system obsessively drew racial lines, always to the detriment of non-white people, but it occasionally provided a public forum within which racial oppression could be challenged. The book emphasizes how dramatically the degree of legal oppressiveness experienced by Black South Carolinians varied during the century under study, based largely on the degree of Black access to political and legal power. “Recent arguments in African American History have emphasized the theme of continuity. . . . Race and Law in South Carolina recovers the theme of change over time by showing just how things have changed, and it does so through patient, thick description.” —H. Robert Baker, Georgia State University “This book and its concomitant student project is an exciting endeavor. . . . The cases are captivating and accessibly written, making this a possible college classroom read.” —Vanessa Blanck, Rowan University

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346

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Amherst College Press

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1943208336

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9781943208333

Horror Films of the 1990s

By: John Kenneth Muir

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Horror Films of the 1990s

By: John Kenneth Muir

This filmography covers more than 300 horror films released from 1990 through 1999. The horror genre's trends and cliches are connected to social and cultural phenomena, such as Y2K fears and the Los Angeles riots. Popular films were about serial killers, aliens, conspiracies, and sinister "interlopers," new monsters who shambled their way into havoc. Each of the films is discussed at length with detailed credits and critical commentary. There are six appendices: 1990s cliches and conventions, 1990s hall of fame, memorable ad lines, movie references in Scream, 1990s horrors vs. The X-Files, and the decade's ten best. Fully indexed, 224 photographs.

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McFarland

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0786484802

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9780786484805

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Pirates

Pirates

Doggett's New York City Directory

Doggett's New York City Directory

The Films of John Carpenter

The Films of John Carpenter

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

Tolkien on Chaucer, 1913-1959

The Canterbury Tales

The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

Chaucer and the Canterbury Tales

Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300

Officers and Accountability in Medieval England 1170-1300

Chaucer and Dissimilarity

Chaucer and Dissimilarity

St Paul's Cathedral

St Paul's Cathedral

Chaucer in Modern English Prose The Canterbury Tales

Chaucer in Modern English Prose The Canterbury Tales

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Tolkien's Lost Chaucer

Medieval England

Medieval England

The Life & Times of Chaucer

The Life & Times of Chaucer

Race and the Law in South Carolina

Race and the Law in South Carolina

Horror Films of the 1990s

Horror Films of the 1990s

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