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Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750 c.1840

By: Mark Towsey

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Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750 c.1840

By: Mark Towsey

Presents a dramatic account of how readers across the English-speaking world used history to understand the Age of Enlightenment and Revolutions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108483003

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9781108483001

Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field

By: Mark Burford

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Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field

By: Mark Burford

Drawing on and piecing together a trove of previously unexamined sources, this work is a critical study of the renowned African American gospel singer Mahalia Jackson (1911-1972).

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497

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0190634901

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9780190634902

The Devil's Pitchfork

By: Mark Terry

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What would happen if terrorists got their hands on a virus -- a terrifying mix of Ebola, hepatitis, and bubonic plague -- with the potential to wipe out humanity? This is the crisis that Derek Stillwater faces as troubleshooter for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. A specialist in biological and chemical weapons, he's in a breathtaking race to find the terrorist thieves and destroy Chimera M13. There's little evidence, except for the recording of a familiar voice that reminds him of an army buddy who's dead. Questioning his sanity and failing to keep his panic attacks at bay, Stillwater has no choice but to follow his instincts while scientists work on a vaccine in Washington, D.C. He just might have a chance in hell of ending the madness -- if only the government's most experienced immunological researcher hadn't become infected.

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385

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Llewellyn Worldwide

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0738708836

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9780738708836

Superman vs. Hollywood

How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon

By: Jake Rossen,Mark Millar

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Superman vs. Hollywood

How Fiendish Producers, Devious Directors, and Warring Writers Grounded an American Icon

By: Jake Rossen,Mark Millar

Superman has fought for nearly seven decades to conquer radio, television, and film—but his battles behind the scenes have proved a far greater threat than any fictional foe. For the first time, one book unearths all the details of his turbulent adventures in Tinseltown. Based on extensive interviews with producers, screenwriters, cast members, and crew, Superman vs. Hollywood spills the beans on Marlon Brando's eccentricities; the challenges of making Superman appear to fly; the casting process that at various points had Superman being played by Sylvester Stallone, Neil Diamond, Nicolas Cage, Ashton Kutcher, and even Muhammad Ali; and the Superman movies, fashioned by such maverick filmmakers as Kevin Smith and Tim Burton, that never made it to the screen.

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352

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Chicago Review Press

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1569765014

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9781569765012

Eight Lessons in Love

A Domestic Violence Reader

By: Mark Spilka

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Eight Lessons in Love

A Domestic Violence Reader

By: Mark Spilka

A critical study of eight fictional treatments of domestic violence, combining professional understanding of domestic violence with fictional attempts to cope with the theme. Includes complete stories by Ernest Hemingway, John Cheever, George Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, John Steinbeck, Isaac Bashevis Singer, James Joyce, and Ann Petry. For students and academics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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406

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University of Missouri Press

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0826211232

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9780826211231

The Engines of European Integration

Delegation, Agency, and Agenda Setting in the EU

By: Mark A. Pollack

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The Engines of European Integration

Delegation, Agency, and Agenda Setting in the EU

By: Mark A. Pollack

The European Union is composed of its fifteen member governments, yet these governments have chosen repeatedly to delegate executive, judicial and legislative powers and substantial discretion to supranational institutions such as the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the European Parliament. In The Engines of European Integration, the first full-length study of delegation in the European Union and international politics, Mark Pollack draws on principal-agent analyses of delegation, agency and agenda setting to analyze and explain the delegation of powers by governmental principals to supranational agents, and the role played by those agents in the process of European integration. In the first part of the book, Pollack analyses the historical and functional patterns of delegation to the Commission, the Court of Justice, and the Parliament, suggesting that delegation to the first two is motivated by a desire to reduce the transaction costs of EU policymaking, as predicted by principal-agent models, while delegation of powers to the Parliament fits poorly with such models, and primarily reflects a concern by member governments to enhance the democratic legitimacy of the Union. The second part of the book focuses on the role of supranational agents in both the liberalization and the re-regulation of the European market, and suggests that the Commission, Court, and Parliament have indeed played a causally important role alongside member governments as "the engines of integration," but that their ability to do so has varied historically and across issue-areas as a function of the discretion delegated to them by the member governments.

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511

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OUP Oxford

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0191530646

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9780191530647

Rhetoric and the Republic

Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America

By: Mark Garrett Longaker

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Rhetoric and the Republic

Politics, Civic Discourse, and Education in Early America

By: Mark Garrett Longaker

Casts a revealing light on modern cultural conflicts through the lens of rhetorical education. Contemporary efforts to revitalize the civic mission of higher education in America have revived an age-old republican tradition of teaching students to be responsible citizens, particularly through the study of rhetoric, composition, and oratory. This book examines the political, cultural, economic, and religious agendas that drove the various—and often conflicting—curricula and contrasting visions of what good citizenship entails. Mark Garrett Longaker argues that higher education more than 200 years ago allowed actors with differing political and economic interests to wrestle over the fate of American citizenship. Then, as today, there was widespread agreement that civic training was essential in higher education, but there were also sharp differences in the various visions of what proper republic citizenship entailed and how to prepare for it. Longaker studies in detail the specific trends in rhetorical education offered at various early institutions—such as Yale, Columbia, Pennsylvania, and William and Mary—with analyses of student lecture notes, classroom activities, disputation exercises, reading lists, lecture outlines, and literary society records. These documents reveal an extraordinary range of economic and philosophical interests and allegiances—agrarian, commercial, spiritual, communal, and belletristic—specific to each institution. The findings challenge and complicate a widely held belief that early-American civic education occurred in a halcyon era of united democratic republicanism. Recognition that there are multiple ways to practice democratic citizenship and to enact democratic discourse, historically as well as today, best serves the goal of civic education, Longaker argues. Rhetoric and the Republic illuminates an important historical moment in the history of American education and dramatically highlights rhetorical education as a key site in the construction of democracy.

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290

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University of Alabama Press

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0817315470

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9780817315474

Llangorse Crannog

The Excavation of an Early Medieval Royal Site in the Kingdom of Brycheiniog

By: Alan Lane,Mark Redknap

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Llangorse Crannog

The Excavation of an Early Medieval Royal Site in the Kingdom of Brycheiniog

By: Alan Lane,Mark Redknap

The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next four years. In 1988 dendrochronological dates from submerged palisade planks established its construction in the ninth century, and a combined off- and on-shore investigation of the site was started as a joint project between Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. The subsequent surveys and excavation (1989-1994, 2004) resulted in the recovery of a remarkable time capsule of life in the late ninth and tenth century, on the only crannog yet identified in Wales. This publication re-examines the early investigations, describes in detail the anatomy of the crannog mound and its construction, and the material culture found. The crannog’s treasures include early medieval secular and religious metalwork, evidence for manufacture, the largest depository of early medieval carpentry in Wales and a remarkable richly embroidered silk and linen textile which is fully analysed and placed in context. The crannog’s place in Welsh history is explored, as a royal llys (‘court’) within the kingdom of Brycheiniog. Historical record indicates the site was destroyed in 916 by Aethelflaed, the Mercian queen, in the course of the Viking wars of the early tenth century. The subsequent significance of the crannog in local traditions and its post-medieval occupation during a riotous dispute in the reign Elizabeth I are also discussed. Two logboats from the vicinity of the crannog are analysed, and a replica described. The cultural affinities of the crannog and its material culture is assessed, as are their relationship to origin myths for the kingdom, and to probable links with early medieval Ireland. The folk tales associated with the lake are explored, in a book that brings together archaeology, history, myths and legends, underwater and terrestrial archaeology.

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Oxbow Books

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1789253098

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9781789253092

The Whooper Swan

By: Mark Brazil

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The Whooper Swan

By: Mark Brazil

This is the first ever monograph on the Whooper Swan. This species is found in the northern Palearctic and is the world's most widely distributed swan. It is a familiar bird in northern Europe and across Asia to the far East, and is particularly noticeable when migrating between breeding and wintering grounds in large, noisy flocks. This migratory behaviour makes it a powerful symbol of seasonal change, and this, together with the bird's beautiful appearance, make it a popular subject of folklore and legend. For much of its range the Whooper Swan is the archetypal 'wild swan', and its voice and appearance is deeply evocative of time and place. This book looks at all aspects of the life and times of this enchanting bird. The book includes chapters on taxonomy, population, range and distribution, diet, breeding biology, behaviour, migratory behaviour and longevity, as well as taking a look at the swan's associations with our own species in history and legend and throughout its geographic range. This book is a brilliantly readable and exhaustively researched monograph. It is illustrated throughout with numerous photographs and line drawings, illustrating various aspects of the species' behaviour and morphology. It will appeal greatly to all those with an interest in birdwatching, especially those who already know something of this wonderful and inspirational bird.

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521

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A&C Black

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1408128675

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9781408128671

Human Rights and Criminal Justice

By: Ben Emmerson,Andrew Ashworth,Alison Macdonald,Mark A. Summers

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Human Rights and Criminal Justice

By: Ben Emmerson,Andrew Ashworth,Alison Macdonald,Mark A. Summers

A survey of Czech business law, tax and accounting regulations. The political, legal and economic systems of the Republic are outlined.

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Sweet & Maxwell

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1847039111

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9781847039118

Ireland's Immortals

A History of the Gods of Irish Myth

By: Mark Williams

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Ireland's Immortals

A History of the Gods of Irish Myth

By: Mark Williams

A sweeping history of Ireland's native gods, from Iron Age cult and medieval saga to the Celtic Revival and contemporary fiction Ireland’s Immortals tells the story of one of the world’s great mythologies. The first account of the gods of Irish myth to take in the whole sweep of Irish literature in both the nation’s languages, the book describes how Ireland’s pagan divinities were transformed into literary characters in the medieval Christian era—and how they were recast again during the Celtic Revival of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A lively narrative of supernatural beings and their fascinating and sometimes bizarre stories, Mark Williams’s comprehensive history traces how these gods—known as the Túatha Dé Danann—have shifted shape across the centuries. We meet the Morrígan, crow goddess of battle; the fire goddess Brigit, who moonlights as a Christian saint; the fairies who inspired J.R.R. Tolkien’s elves; and many others. Ireland’s Immortals illuminates why these mythical beings have loomed so large in the world’s imagination for so long.

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608

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Princeton University Press

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069118304X

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9780691183046

Composition in Four Keys

Inquiring Into the Field : Art, Nature, Science, Politics

By: Mark Wiley,Barbara Gleason,Louise Wetherbee Phelps

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Composition in Four Keys

Inquiring Into the Field : Art, Nature, Science, Politics

By: Mark Wiley,Barbara Gleason,Louise Wetherbee Phelps

Intended primarily for courses required of graduate students teaching composition and upper-division students majoring in rhetoric, Composition in Four Keys introduces novice scholars to the literature of composition and rhetoric and helps them find patterns to make that literature intelligible.

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McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

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155934265X

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9781559342650

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Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750 c.1840

Reading History in Britain and America, c.1750 c.1840

Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field

Mahalia Jackson and the Black Gospel Field

The Devil's Pitchfork

The Devil's Pitchfork

Superman vs. Hollywood

Superman vs. Hollywood

Eight Lessons in Love

Eight Lessons in Love

The Engines of European Integration

The Engines of European Integration

Rhetoric and the Republic

Rhetoric and the Republic

Llangorse Crannog

Llangorse Crannog

The Whooper Swan

The Whooper Swan

Human Rights and Criminal Justice

Human Rights and Criminal Justice

Ireland's Immortals

Ireland's Immortals

Composition in Four Keys

Composition in Four Keys

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