John Stubbs's Books

Paul Mellon's Legacy

A Passion for British Art : Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art

By: John Baskett,Jules David Prown,Duncan Robinson,Brian Allen,William S. Reese,William J. Reese,Yale Center for British Art,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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Paul Mellon's Legacy

A Passion for British Art : Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art

By: John Baskett,Jules David Prown,Duncan Robinson,Brian Allen,William S. Reese,William J. Reese,Yale Center for British Art,Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

Paul Mellon (1907--1999) was an unparalleled collector of British art. His collection, now at Yale in the museum and study center he founded to house it, rivals those in Britain’s national museums and is unquestionably the most comprehensive representation of British art held outside of the United Kingdom. This book and the exhibition that it accompanies celebrate the centenary of his birth. Five introductory essays examine Mellon’s extraordinary collecting activity, as well as his role in creating both the Yale Center for British Art and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London as gifts to his alma mater (Yale 1929). A lavishly illustrated catalogue section showcases 148 of the most exquisite and important paintings, watercolors, drawings, prints, sculpture, rare books, and manuscript material in the Yale Center’s collection, including major works by Thomas Gainsborough, Joshua Reynolds, George Stubbs, John Constable, and J. M. W. Turner.

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Yale University Press

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0300117469

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9780300117462

Secret Commandos

Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

By: John L. Plaster

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Secret Commandos

Behind Enemy Lines with the Elite Warriors of SOG

By: John L. Plaster

Major John L. Plaster recalls his remarkable covert activities as a member of a special operations team during the Vietnam War in a “comprehensive, informative, and often exciting…account of an important part of the overall Vietnam tragedy” (The New York Times). Before there were Navy SEALs, there was SOG. Short for “Studies and Operations Group,” it was a secret operations force in Vietnam, the most highly decorated unit in the war. Although their chief mission was disrupting the main North Vietnamese supply route into South Vietnam, SOG commandos also rescued downed helicopter pilots and fellow soldiers, and infiltrated deep into Laos and Cambodia to identify bombing targets, conduct ambushes, mine roads, and capture North Vietnamese soldiers for intelligence purposes. Always outnumbered, they matched wits in the most dangerous environments with an unrelenting foe that hunted them with trackers and dogs. Ten entire teams disappeared and another fourteen were annihilated. This is the dramatic, page-turning true story of that team’s dedication, sacrifice, and constant fight for survival. In the “gripping” (Publishers Weekly) Secret Commandos, John Plaster vividly describes these unique warriors who gave everything fighting for their country—and for each other.

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Simon and Schuster

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1439142475

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9781439142479

The Horse in Art

By: John Baskett

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The Horse in Art

By: John Baskett

Looks at painting and sculpture throughout history to examine the role and presentation of the horse in ancient, Oriental, medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern art.

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204

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Yale University Press

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030011740X

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9780300117400

Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad

By: John S. Adams

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Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad

By: John S. Adams

Reproduction of the original: Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad by John S. Adams

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306

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3734065194

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9783734065194

Delphi Complete Works of John Kendrick Bangs (Illustrated)

By: John Kendrick Bangs

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Delphi Complete Works of John Kendrick Bangs (Illustrated)

By: John Kendrick Bangs

The late nineteenth century American humorist John Kendrick Bangs was an inventive satirical writer, who inspired the genre of Bangsian fantasy. Famous works like ‘A House-Boat on the Styx’ employed a fantastical premise, involving the use of famous literary or historical individuals and their interactions in the Afterlife. In the popular magazines ‘Puck’ and ‘Life’, Bangs created numerous hilarious characters, including Jimmieboy, the Idiot, Alice in Blunderland, the Unwiseman and a popular Raffles spin-off series — all revealing his important contribution to the development of humorist literature. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Bangs’ complete fictional works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1)* Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Bangs’ life and works * Concise introductions to the novels and other texts * All 14 novels, with individual contents tables * Features rare novels appearing for the first time in digital publishing, including Bangs’ almost lost first novel, ‘Roger Camerden’ * The complete Idiot and Jimmieboy series * Images of how the books were first published, giving your eReader a taste of the original texts * Excellent formatting of the texts * All of the famous works are fully illustrated with the original artwork, with thousands of images * Rare magazine stories available in no other collection, including ‘The Paradise Club’ series * Includes Bangs’ rare non-fiction work ‘Uncle Sam, Trustee’, digitised here for the first time * Scholarly ordering of texts into chronological order and genresPlease visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titlesCONTENTS:The Novels Roger Camerden (1887) Toppleton’s Client (1893) Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica (1895) A Rebellious Heroine (1896) Emblemland (1901) Mollie and the Unwiseman (1902) Olympian Nights (1902) The Andiron Tales (1906) Alice in Blunderland (1907) The Whole Family: A Novel by Twelve Authors (1908) The Autobiography of Methuselah (1909) Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad (1910) Jack and the Checkbook (1911) From Pillar to Post (1916)The Jimmieboy Series Tiddledywink Tales (1891) The Tiddledywink’s Poetry Book (1892) In Camp with a Tin Soldier (1892) Half Hours with Jimmieboy (1893) The Mantel-Piece Minstrels, and Other Stories (1896) Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy (1902) Uncollected Jimmieboy TalesThe Raffles Series Mrs. Raffles (1905) R. Holmes & Co. (1906)The Idiot Series Coffee and Repartee (1893) The Idiot (1895) The Idiot at Home (1900) The Inventions of the Idiot (1904) The Genial Idiot (1908) Half-Hours with the Idiot (1917)Associated Shades Series A House-Boat on the Styx (1895) The Pursuit of the House-Boat (1897) The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899) Mr. Munchausen (1901)Other Short Fiction The Lorgnette (1886) New Waggings of Old Tales by Two Wags (1888) Three Weeks in Politics (1894) The Water Ghost, and Others (1894) The Paradise Club (1895) Paste Jewels (1897) Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others (1898) Peeps at Peoples (1899) The Dreamers: A Club (1899) The Booming of Acre Hill and Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life (1900) Over the Plum-Pudding (1901) Potted Fiction (1908) A Little Book of Christmas (1912)The Plays The Bicyclers, and Three Other Farces (1896)The Poetry Cobwebs from a Library Corner (1899)The Non-Fiction Uncle Sam, Trustee (1902)Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to purchase this eBook as a Parts Edition of individual eBooks

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Delphi Classics

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1788779517

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9781788779517

Gaping Gulf, with Letters and Other Relevant Documents

By: John Stubbs

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Gaping Gulf, with Letters and Other Relevant Documents

By: John Stubbs

Banned by Queen Elizabeth I, Stubbs's Gaping Gulf outlines the Puritan's objections to Elizabeth's intended marriage with the French duke of Alencon, a nobleman sympathetic to the Huguenots.

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Associated University Presses

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0918016460

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9780918016461

Whistlejacket

By: John Hawkes

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Whistlejacket

By: John Hawkes

While investigating his mentor's life and death, Michael, a voyeuristic fashion photographer, travels through a Dionysian landscape where sex is daydream, women and horses share the same erotic power, and perversity is the rule. In his search, Michael uses photographs and paintings to visualize the past and thereby expose a family's decadent legacy of sex, lies, and betrayal.

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212

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Dalkey Archive Press

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1564781763

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9781564781765

After Lavinia

A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

By: John Watkins

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After Lavinia

A Literary History of Premodern Marriage Diplomacy

By: John Watkins

The Renaissance jurist Alberico Gentili once quipped that, just like comedies, all wars end in a marriage. In medieval and early modern Europe, marriage treaties were a perennial feature of the diplomatic landscape. When one ruler decided to make peace with his enemy, the two parties often sealed their settlement with marriages between their respective families. In After Lavinia, John Watkins traces the history of the practice, focusing on the unusually close relationship between diplomacy and literary production in Western Europe from antiquity through the seventeenth century, when marriage began to lose its effectiveness and prestige as a tool of diplomacy.Watkins begins with Virgil's foundational myth of the marriage between the Trojan hero Aeneas and the Latin princess, an account that formed the basis for numerous medieval and Renaissance celebrations of dynastic marriages by courtly poets and propagandists. In the book's second half, he follows the slow decline of diplomatic marriage as both a tool of statecraft and a literary subject, exploring the skepticism and suspicion with which it was viewed in the works of Spenser and Shakespeare. Watkins argues that the plays of Corneille and Racine signal the passing of an international order that had once accorded women a place of unique dignity and respect.

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Cornell University Press

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1501708511

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9781501708510

Darkness

A Novel

By: John Saul

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Darkness

A Novel

By: John Saul

“[John] Saul has the instincts of a natural storyteller.”—People Villejeune, Florida. A secluded little town at the edge of a vast, eerie swamp. Far from prying eyes. Far from the laws of civilization. Here folks live by their own rules—dark rites of altars and infants, candles and blood. Years ago the Andersons left town with a dream. Now they are back. To live out a nightmare. Something has been waiting for them. Something unspeakably evil. It feeds on the young and the innocent. And soon it will draw their teenage daughter into its unholy embrace. . . .

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401

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Bantam

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0307768015

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9780307768018

Mulberry Ridge

By: John F. Kulick

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Mulberry Ridge

By: John F. Kulick

The year 2042, the place; Mulberry Ridge.... a cul-de-sac located in the Sagging Tree Retirement Community near the famous Texas Hill Country due west of the city of Austin. The Sagging Tree Retirement Community is a peaceful place where old folks enjoy their golden years entertaining themselves with elderly activities and such. The residents of Mulberry Ridge on the other hand are the complete opposite. They refuse to allow father time to interrupt their "gettin' busy and livin'". The men and their wives are a bunch of rebel rousing, beer drinking and gun carrying trouble makers. Even though they are all well into their 60s and one old fart is well into his 80s, they never miss a good party. The local sheriff has his hands full as his men spend a lot of time at Mulberry Ridge. The residents do take pride in the fact they have never burned anything down. They live as neighbors on Mulberry Ridge not because they love each other, but because no one else will tolerate them as neighbors. The residents; JOHN Q. GRUBER-SMOOCH "Trucker John" has been married eleven times and has nineteen daughters. Refers to his ex-wives and daughters as "The Pack of Hounds." They on the other hand refer to him as "The Dirty Old Egg Suckin' Buzzard." He chases women but wouldn't know what to do with one if he caught her. Is content to chase his nurse HEATHER WASHINGTON "Nurse Heather" who has her hands full dodging the clutches of the old goat. The neighbors GARY "Dead Eye" LOUDERMILK (retired Texas Lawman) and his wife CECILIA "the Neighborhood Watch Committee Snoop," KRISTINE "TIght Fisted Penny Pincher" WILBERFORCE," her ex-husband RALPH "Scared of his own Shadow" ESCANABA, BRANDY "California Surfer Girl" CARBONI and her husband VINNY "Brooklyn Bob" and finally TARA JO "The Muffin Baking QUEEN" BUTTS and her husband Randall "Flash." Trucker John's neighbors are each a story within themselves as they rally around John causing all sorts of mischief around Mulberry Ridge, Sagging Tree Retirement Community and the surrounding countryside as well as on their outing to Las Vegas. I'll call it mischief, you call it what you like...

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176

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Trafford Publishing

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1412034310

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9781412034319

The Honourable Schoolboy

A George Smiley Novel

By: John le Carré

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The Honourable Schoolboy

A George Smiley Novel

By: John le Carré

In the second part of John le Carré's Karla Trilogy, the battle of wits between spymaster George Smiley and his Russian adversary takes on an even more dangerous dimension. As the fall of Saigon looms, master spy George Smiley must outmaneuver his Soviet counterpart on a battlefield that neither can afford to lose. The mole has been eliminated, but the damage wrought has brought the British Secret Service to its knees. Given the charge of the gravely compromised Circus, George Smiley embarks on a campaign to uncover what Moscow Centre most wants to hide. When the trail goes cold at a Hong Kong gold seam, Smiley dispatches Gerald Westerby to shake the money tree. A part-time operative with cover as a philandering journalist, Westerby insinuates himself into a war-torn world where allegiances—and lives—are bought and sold. Brilliantly plotted and morally complex, The Honourable Schoolboy is the second installment of John le Carré's renowned Karla triology and a riveting portrayal of postcolonial espionage. With an introduction by the author.

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Penguin

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1101528753

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9781101528754

Language Diversity in the Classroom

By: John Edwards

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Language Diversity in the Classroom

By: John Edwards

This book provides comprehensive coverage of language contact in classroom settings. Particularly highlighted are the range and implications of attitudes towards languages and dialects - with close attention to nonstandard varieties - studies of Black English, foreign-language teaching and learning, as well as broad consideration of the assumptions and intentions underpinning bilingual and multicultural education.

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347

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Multilingual Matters

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1847692257

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9781847692252

Anthony Trollope

A Companion

By: Nicholas Birns,John F. Wirenius

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Anthony Trollope

A Companion

By: Nicholas Birns,John F. Wirenius

Anthony Trollope's novels and stories entertain while vividly bringing the Victorian era to life. His deep empathy for the underdog led him to subvert conventions, exploring the lives of women, as well as men, and choosing as heroes and heroines outsiders who would be viewed with suspicion by his readers. Trollope's profound insight to human nature made him the first novelist in English to develop three dimensional characters and to create the novel sequence. This literary companion introduces readers to his life and work. A-to-Z entries explore Trollope's short story collections, and nonfiction contributions, as well as important themes in the works. This companion also includes fresh voices of contributors that bring in their contemporary insights to bear on Trollope's achievements, facilitating the understanding of Trollope's perspectives in relation to feminism, queer studies, and transnationalism.

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McFarland

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147664425X

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9781476644257

Book's by John Stubbs

Paul Mellon's Legacy

Paul Mellon's Legacy

Secret Commandos

Secret Commandos

The Horse in Art

The Horse in Art

Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad

Town and Country, or, Life at Home and Abroad

Delphi Complete Works of John Kendrick Bangs (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of John Kendrick Bangs (Illustrated)

Gaping Gulf, with Letters and Other Relevant Documents

Gaping Gulf, with Letters and Other Relevant Documents

Whistlejacket

Whistlejacket

After Lavinia

After Lavinia

Darkness

Darkness

Mulberry Ridge

Mulberry Ridge

The Honourable Schoolboy

The Honourable Schoolboy

Language Diversity in the Classroom

Language Diversity in the Classroom

Anthony Trollope

Anthony Trollope

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