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Charles Dickens

By: Michael Slater

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This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens? career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing--letters, journalism, shorter fiction, plays, verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationships among them. Slater's account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity, and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens? boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination with disorder, his organizational genius, his deep concern for the poor and outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales, and his hatred of tyranny. Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the languag

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Yale University Press

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0300165528

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9780300165524

John Charles Thomas

Beloved Baritone of American Opera and Popular Music

By: Michael J. Maher

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John Charles Thomas

Beloved Baritone of American Opera and Popular Music

By: Michael J. Maher

Buoyant, irrepressible and hot-tempered, John Charles Thomas captivated audiences worldwide with his incredible voice. The son of a minister, he studied voice at the Peabody Conservatory under the tutelage of Adelin Fermin, one of the few voice teachers in America capable of training Thomas in the French operatic style. By 1915, Thomas had become a leading performer on Broadway, and ten years later had embarked on a trans-Atlantic career in opera and concerts. At the height of his popularity from 1934 through 1946, he was a popular star of radio, phonographs, and the Metropolitan Opera, a favorite of both popular and classical audiences. His decision to leave opera and focus on his radio career during the Second World War cost him his reputation as a serious artist. The singer who introduced "Home on the Range" and launched many other American standards has been largely forgotten today. This thorough biography details Thomas's life and career. Beginning with his school days at the Peabody, it traces his Broadway career as the star of Step This Way and Maytime and his highly successful career as a concert, recording, and opera star. Appendices provide a discography of his recordings, a list of operatic appearances in Brussels and the United States, and the songs he performed on radio broadcasts from 1934 to 1948.

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McFarland

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0786483873

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9780786483877

Sir Charles Bell

His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy

By: Michael J. Aminoff MD, DSc, FRCP

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Sir Charles Bell

His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy

By: Michael J. Aminoff MD, DSc, FRCP

Sir Charles Bell (1774-1842), the Scottish anatomist-surgeon, was a true polymath. His original ideas on the nervous system have been likened to those of William Harvey on the circulation of blood, and his privately published pamphlet detailing his ideas about the brain has been called the Magna Carta of neurology. He described the separate functions of different parts of the nervous system, new nerves and muscles, and several previously unrecognized neurological disorders, and he characterized the features of the facial palsy and its associated features now named after him. His sketches and paintings of the wounded from the Napoleonic Wars and his essays on the anatomical basis of expression changed the way art students are taught and influenced British and European artists, particularly the Pre-Raphaelites. He was a renowned medical teacher who founded his own private medical school, took over the famous Hunterian school, and helped establish the University of London and the Middlesex Hospital Medical School. So how is it that a man of such influence is virtually unknown today by most neuroscientists, biologists, and clinicians? Sir Charles Bell: His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy discusses the work and teachings of this brilliant man. His reputation was tarnished by charges of intellectual dishonesty and fraud, but his work changed the way scientists and clinicians think about the nervous system and its operation in health and disease, led directly to the work of Charles Darwin on facial expressions, and influenced the way artists view the human body and depict illnesses and wounds. Masterfully written by Dr. Michael J. Aminoff in his signature approachable style, this is the perfect addition to any library of medical history.

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Oxford University Press

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0190614986

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9780190614980

Sir Charles Bell

His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy

By: Michael Jeffrey Aminoff

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Sir Charles Bell

His Life, Art, Neurological Concepts, and Controversial Legacy

By: Michael Jeffrey Aminoff

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Oxford University Press

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019061496X

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Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997

An American Artist’s Work

By: Michael Ray Charles

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Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997

An American Artist’s Work

By: Michael Ray Charles

Michael Ray Charles is a painter whose carefully crafted and faux-aged canvases and works on paper draw attention to race relations historically and in contemporary society. Borrowing pop culture images of characters such as Sambo, Buckwheat, and Aunt Jemima, Charles uses them ironically to comment on racial issues. His concerns range from how tobacco and liquor companies target marketing to minorities to the depiction of African Americans in the entertainment and sports industries to concepts of all-American (i.e., white) beauty. This book is the catalog of the first major solo exhibition of Charles' work, staged by Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University of Houston. It contains a broad range of color images of paintings and works on paper. In addition to the catalog entries, the book contains an interview between exhibit curator Don Bacigalupi, catalog essayist Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, and artist Michael Ray Charles, in which the artist discusses and interprets his work. An essay by writer and cultural historian Marilyn Kern-Foxworth situates Charles' work within contemporary African American culture.

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University of Texas Press

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0941193128

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9780941193122

From Oxenstierna to Charles XII

Four Studies

By: Michael Roberts

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From Oxenstierna to Charles XII

Four Studies

By: Michael Roberts

Essays, by the doyen of historians of Sweden, on Oxenstierna, Charles X and Charles XII.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521528615

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9780521528610

Bug Watching with Charles Henry Turner

By: Michael Elsohn Ross

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Bug Watching with Charles Henry Turner

By: Michael Elsohn Ross

Focusses on Charles Henry Turner and his study of insects and their behavior

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Millbrook Press

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157505003X

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9781575050034

Wildlife Watching with Charles Eastman

By: Michael Elsohn Ross

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Wildlife Watching with Charles Eastman

By: Michael Elsohn Ross

Presents a biography of Charles Eastman, the Native American physician, writer, and naturalist, focusing on his study of animals and their behavior. Provides tips on how to observe neighborhood wildlife.

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Millbrook Press

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1575050048

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The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage

By: J. M. Dubbey,John Michael Dubbey

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The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage

By: J. M. Dubbey,John Michael Dubbey

This book describes Babbage's work on the design and implementation of the difference and analytical engines.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521524768

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9780521524766

Charles Dickens on the Screen

The Film, Television, and Video Adaptations

By: Michael Pointer

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Charles Dickens on the Screen

The Film, Television, and Video Adaptations

By: Michael Pointer

This comprehensive survey of the screen adaptations of the works of Charles Dickens covers the worldwide film, television and video dramatizations from 1897-1993. It contains a catalog of more than 350 TV productions with cast lists and credits.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810829606

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9780810829602

Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine

Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic

By: Michael Cody

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Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine

Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic

By: Michael Cody

From 1803 to 1807, Charles Brockden Brown served as editor and chief contributor to the Literary Magazine, and American Register, a popular Philadelphia miscellany. His position allowed him to observe and comment upon life in the United States and transatlantic world during the nineteenth century's first decade. This book considers how Brown's Literary Magazine contributed to the development of cultural cohesiveness and political stability in the young United States. It explores the intellectual and cultural setting in which this Philadelphia miscellany was published, the political writing that appears in what Brown claimed was a politically neutral venue, and the social and cultural criticism that attempts to guide the development of the American character. During his twenty years as an author, he participated in disseminating texts of cultural and literary worth. Brown's essays and reviews assisted in the establishment of reading habits in America and influenced the public reception of the early American press.

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McFarland

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0786417846

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9780786417841

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

By: Michael Wallis

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Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

By: Michael Wallis

This engaging biography exactly and vividly catches the tone of a region, a time, and a man."—Larry McMurtry From the best-selling author of Billy the Kid and Route 66, a true-life story of a notorious outlaw that magnificently re-creates the vanished, impoverished world of Dust Bowl America. Michael Wallis evokes the hard times of the era as he follows the life of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd from his coming of age, when there were no jobs and no food, to his descent into a life of petty crime, bootlegging, murder, and prison. Before long he was one of the FBI's original "public enemies." After a series of spectacular bank robberies he was slain in an Ohio field in 1934 at the age of thirty. Pretty Boy is social history at its best, portraying, with a sweeping style, the larger story of the hardscrabble farmers whose lives were so intolerably shattered by the Depression.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393342182

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9780393342185

In Spite of Innocence

Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases

By: Michael L. Radelet,Hugo Adam Bedau,Constance E. Putnam

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In Spite of Innocence

Erroneous Convictions in Capital Cases

By: Michael L. Radelet,Hugo Adam Bedau,Constance E. Putnam

The stories of some 400 innocent Americans who were falsely convicted of capital crimes.

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UPNE

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1555531970

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9781555531973

Charles Bronson

The 95 Films and the 156 Television Appearances

By: Michael R. Pitts

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Charles Bronson

The 95 Films and the 156 Television Appearances

By: Michael R. Pitts

This work covers Bronson's entire output in film and on television, and includes many film stills and photographs. Alphabetical entries list film or episode, complete cast and credits, and year of release. Accompanying each entry's plot synopsis and discussion is a survey of the critical responses to the work. The great Charles Laughton once said Bronson "has the strongest face in the business, and he is also one of its best actors." Pretty high praise for an actor who, though loved by fans worldwide, has been consistently underestimated by critics. Bronson's career has spanned five decades, from such television appearances in The Fugitive, Rawhide, Bonanza and Have Gun, Will Travel as well as the telemovie A Family of Cops (1995) and its two sequels. He will long be remembered for his role as urban vigilante Paul Kersey in the Death Wish films. Bronson is one of the most enigmatic, and also most recognizable, of all film stars.

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McFarland

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1476610355

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Sir Charles Bell

Sir Charles Bell

Sir Charles Bell

Sir Charles Bell

Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997

Michael Ray Charles, 1989-1997

From Oxenstierna to Charles XII

From Oxenstierna to Charles XII

Bug Watching with Charles Henry Turner

Bug Watching with Charles Henry Turner

Wildlife Watching with Charles Eastman

Wildlife Watching with Charles Eastman

The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage

The Mathematical Work of Charles Babbage

Charles Dickens on the Screen

Charles Dickens on the Screen

Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine

Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

Pretty Boy: The Life and Times of Charles Arthur Floyd

In Spite of Innocence

In Spite of Innocence

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson

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