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Henry Irving's Impressions of America

Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations

By: Joseph Hatton

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Henry Irving's Impressions of America

Narrated in a Series of Sketches, Chronicles, and Conversations

By: Joseph Hatton

The noted English actor recounts his travels to some big American theatre towns with his theatre company and co-star Ellen Terry.

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Applewood Books

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1429004568

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9781429004565

Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D.

Late Missionary to the Jews and Muhammadans in Persia, Bokhara, Cashmeer, Etc.

By: Joseph Wolff

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Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D.

Late Missionary to the Jews and Muhammadans in Persia, Bokhara, Cashmeer, Etc.

By: Joseph Wolff

An invigorating 1861 account of a Jewish Christian convert's missionary work in the Middle East, India, Africa and the USA.

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621

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Cambridge University Press

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1108053726

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9781108053723

Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton

Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond

By: Joseph S. Jenkins

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Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton

Election and Grace as Constitutional in Early Modern Literature and Beyond

By: Joseph S. Jenkins

Reading God's will and a man's Last Will as ideas that reinforce one another, this study shows the relevance of England's early modern crisis, regarding faith in the will of God, to current debates by legal academics on the theory of property and its succession. The increasing power of the dead under law in the US, the UK, and beyond-a concern of recent volumes in law and social sciences-is here addressed through a distinctive approach based on law and humanities. Vividly treating literary and biblical battles of will, the book suggests approaches to legal constitution informed by these dramas and by English legal history. This study investigates correlations between the will of God in Judeo-Christian traditions and the Last Wills of humans, especially dominant males, in cultures where these traditions have developed. It is interdisciplinary, in the sense that it engages with the limits of several fields: it is informed by humanities critical theory, especially Benjaminian historical materialism and Lacanian psychoanalysis, but refrains from detailed theoretical considerations. Dramatic narratives from the Bible, Shakespeare, and Milton are read as suggesting real possibilities for alternative inheritance (i.e., constitutional) regimes. As Jenkins shows, these texts propose ways to alleviate violence, violence both personal and political, through attention to inheritance law.

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249

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Routledge

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1317116658

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9781317116653

The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain

By: Joseph Stubenrauch

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The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain

By: Joseph Stubenrauch

It demonstrates that developments in technology, commerce, and infrastructure in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were closely linked to theological shifts and changing modes of religious life as British evangelicals developed new methods of spreading the gospel and new forms of personal religious practice.

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298

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Oxford University Press

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019878337X

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9780198783374

The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940

A Celebration of Height

By: Joseph J. Korom

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The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940

A Celebration of Height

By: Joseph J. Korom

The skyscraper is an American invention that has captured the public's imagination for over a century. The tall building is wholly manmade and borne in the minds of those with both slide rules and computers. This is the story of the skyscraper's rise and the recognition of those individuals who contributed to its development. This volume is unique; its approach, information, and images are fresh and telling. The text examines America's first tall buildings -- the result of twelve years of in-depth research by an accomplished and published architect and architectural historian. Over 300 compelling photographs, charts, and notes make this the ultimate tool of reference for this subject. Biographies woven throughout with period norms, politics and lifestyles help to place featured skyscrapers in context. Quite simply, there is no book like this. The text, carefully and insightfully written, is clear, concise, and easily digestible, the text being the product of well-documented original research written in an informative tone. The American Skyscraper 1850-1940: A Celebration of Height is a richly documented journey of a fascinating topic, and it promises to be a superb addition to libraries, schools of architecture, students of architecture, and lovers of art.

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552

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Branden Books

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0828321884

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9780828321884

Familiarity Breeds Content

New and Selected Essays

By: Joseph Epstein

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Familiarity Breeds Content

New and Selected Essays

By: Joseph Epstein

A collection of personal essays from America’s most revered essay writer, Joseph Epstein. America’s greatest living essayist writes about life and aging and being all too nicely out of it. In these personal pieces, he takes on topics as varied as grieving for a dead son, learning Latin late in life, and the pleasures of living with cats. Epstein gives us a “bonfire of his own vanities,” his thoughts about why watching sports is so impossibly seductive, what it is like to be short, and why he misses smoking even decades as a health-obsessed non-smoker. Above all, he writes about the literary life and the endless joys that reading and writing have brought to a self-confessed “lucky man.”

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464

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Simon and Schuster

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1668009722

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9781668009727

The Shop

The University of Melbourne, 1850-1939

By: Richard Joseph Wheeler Selleck

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The Shop

The University of Melbourne, 1850-1939

By: Richard Joseph Wheeler Selleck

Telling as much a social, educational, and cultural story as institutional history, this detailed account chronicles the ideological patterns, internal and countrywide conflicts, and student experiences at the University of Melbourne from 1850 to 1939. The daily life of staff, professors, and students are recounted during times of turmoil and peace in Australia, including the depression of the 1890s and World War I. The account offers a window into the pedagogical conflicts and research achievements of one of Australia's oldest continuing educational institutions.

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892

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Melbourne Univ. Publishing

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0522850510

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9780522850512

The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

By: Joseph Campana,Theodore Bale,Atia Sattar,Beth A. McCoy,Robin Blyn,Dennis Allen,Timothy Sweet,Charles M. Tung,Aaron Jaffe,Grant Farred,Seth Morton

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The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

By: Joseph Campana,Theodore Bale,Atia Sattar,Beth A. McCoy,Robin Blyn,Dennis Allen,Timothy Sweet,Charles M. Tung,Aaron Jaffe,Grant Farred,Seth Morton

“By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera.”—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology The modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the conventional archive found in a university, a corporation, or a governmental holding. In form, methodology, and content, The Year’s Work in the Oddball Archive offers a counterargument to a more reasoned form of storing and recording the avant-garde (or the post-avant-garde), the perverse, the off, the bent, the absurd, the quirky, the weird, and the queer. To do so, it positions itself within the history of mirabilia launched by curiosity cabinets starting in the mid-fifteenth century and continuing to the present day. These archives (or are they counter-archives?) are located in unexpected places—the doorways of Katrina homes, the cavity of a cow, the remnants of extinct animals, an Internet site—and they offer up “alternate modes of knowing” to the traditional archive. “An unruly―and much-needed―model for how to do the archive differently.”—Scott Herring, author of The Hoarders: Material Deviance in Modern American Culture “It was a pleasure to read through this collection, and I suspect some of the essays, if not the entire book, will find itself on the syllabus for my Archive and Ephemera graduate course.”—Museum Anthropology Review “A finely wrought collection of curiosities . . . A vital intervention into how we talk about the stuff that surrounds us.”—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy Anthology

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448

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Indiana University Press

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025301851X

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9780253018519

The Feast of Christmas

By: Joseph F. Kelly

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The Feast of Christmas

By: Joseph F. Kelly

Many Christians struggle to balance the religious and secular elements of Christmas, but the history of the feast shows that this is nothing new. The religious Christmas has changed over the centuries and, contrary to many critics, is thriving today. This brief, accessible account will explain that: The first Christians did not celebrate Christmas at all. The earliest mention of the feast occurs in the fourth century. In the Middle Ages Christmas moved into northern Europe where it became a major winter festival, competing with the pagan Yule. During the sixteenth century some Christians objected to Christmas because they claimed it had no biblical foundation. In England and New England the Puritans made it a crime to celebrate it! The modern secular Christmas arose in the nineteenth century, but the religious Christmas continued to grow in popularity and meshed well with the developing emphasis on Christmas as a day for family and friends. In today's world, rampant consumerism threatens the religious Christmas, but it continues not only to survive but to flourish, taking on new life and new forms. By tracing these and other aspects of the religious celebration of Christmas through the centuries, Joseph F. Kelly does much more than provide us with interesting facts. He reassures us that though the religious Christmas may not be in its traditional form, it is indeed alive and well, and has a bright and promising future.

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Liturgical Press

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0814639321

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9780814639320

Book's by Joseph Irving

Henry Irving's Impressions of America

Henry Irving's Impressions of America

Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D.

Travels and Adventures of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, D.D., LL.D.

Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton

Inheritance Law and Political Theology in Shakespeare and Milton

The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain

The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Industrial Britain

The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940

The American Skyscraper, 1850-1940

Familiarity Breeds Content

Familiarity Breeds Content

The Shop

The Shop

The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

The Feast of Christmas

The Feast of Christmas

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