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Difficult pasts

Post-Reformation memory and the medieval romance

By: Mimi Ensley

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Difficult pasts

Post-Reformation memory and the medieval romance

By: Mimi Ensley

Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such proclamations, though, the Middle English romance genre remained popular across the early modern period. Difficult pasts examines the reception of Middle English romances after the Protestant Reformation in England, arguing that the genre’s popularity rested not in its violent or superstitious qualities, but in its multivocality. Incorporating insights from book history, reception history and cultural memory studies, Ensley argues that the medieval romance book became a flexible site of memory with which early modern readers could both connect with and distance themselves from the recent ‘difficult past’, a past that invited controversy and encouraged divided perspectives. Central characters in this study range from canonical authors like Geoffrey Chaucer and Edmund Spenser to less studied figures, such as printer William Copland, Elizabethan scribe Edward Banister and seventeenth-century poet and romance enthusiast, John Lane. In uniting a wide range of romance readers’ perspectives, the book complicates clear ruptures between manuscript and print, Catholic and Protestant, or medieval and Renaissance. Difficult pasts reveals how the romance book offers a new way to understand the simultaneous change and continuity that defines post-Reformation England.

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Manchester University Press

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1526157888

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9781526157881

Once Upon a Secret

My Affair With President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

By: Mimi Alford

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Once Upon a Secret

My Affair With President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath

By: Mimi Alford

A former mistress of the 35th President breaks 40 years of silence to present a deeply personal and emotionally charged memoir of their 18-month relationship when she was a college intern at the White House. 125,000 first printing.

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210

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Random House Incorporated

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1400069106

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9781400069101

The New Ayn Rand Companion

By: Mimi R. Gladstein

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The New Ayn Rand Companion

By: Mimi R. Gladstein

An essential guide to the life and works of Ayn Rand, the book chronicles and summarizes her writings, presents information about her national and global impact—and the response to it—and provides the most comprehensive bibliography published to date. Written by an independent scholar who is not part of either the Ayn Rand establishment or the Ayn Rand detractor camp, The New Ayn Rand Companion builds on the foundation of the original. New materials about Rand's posthumous publications, the latest biographical information, and summaries of books and articles about Rand, published since her death, have been added. Burgeoning interest in Rand, the publication of her Letters and Journals and Russian Writings, and the growing body of critical works necessitates an expanded and revised edition of the Ayn Rand Companion. This new edition is the only general reference work that covers the complete Rand corpus, including both those works published during her life and those published to date.

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174

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313007586

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9780313007583

Shadowhunter's Guide

City of Bones

By: Mimi O'Connor

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Shadowhunter's Guide

City of Bones

By: Mimi O'Connor

Don’t miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, soon to be a major motion picture in theaters August 2013. Delve deep into the world of the Shadowhunters with this ultimate guide that’s based on The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones movie. This comprehensive book features full-color photographic portraits and profiles of the film characters, quotes from the script, detailed information on downworlders, Shadowhunters, the Clave, and more. Fans of the movie won’t want to miss this must-have guide to the realm of the blockbuster City of Bones movie!

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Simon and Schuster

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144249588X

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9781442495883

The Second Assistant

A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder

By: Clare Naylor,Mimi Hare

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The Second Assistant

A Tale from the Bottom of the Hollywood Ladder

By: Clare Naylor,Mimi Hare

Los Angeles Times bestseller A fast-paced, breezy read about life at the bottom of the Hollywood food chain, for fans of The Devil Wears Prada and The Nanny Diaries No political science degree could ever prepare Elizabeth Miller for her new job as a second assistant at The Agency, whose clients include everyone you’ve never met—but you know who they’re sleeping with. A former congressional intern in Washington, Lizzie made a bid for a life change that landed her a job a world away, where ethics and First Amendment debates take a backseat to pleading the Fifth for Ritalin-snorting boss Scott Wagner. He’s the hottest young agent in Hollywood, who devotes his days to playing online poker—that is, when he’s not closing a $30 million deal for one of his AAA-list clients. And while getting six-hundred-dollar highlights from Cameron’s colorist or organizing the strippers for George’s birthday party come close to causing heart failure for this East Coast girl, the real dangers lurk elsewhere. But Lizzie is a survivor, and no Machiavellian assistant, lecherous producer, or power struggle at The Agency can douse her nascent dreams of climbing up the Hollywood ladder. But first she has to run down to the Coffee Bean to pick up that triple espresso, or Scott is going to throw something....

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385

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Penguin

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1101213256

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9781101213254

City of Bones: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion

By: Mimi O'Connor

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City of Bones: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion

By: Mimi O'Connor

When Clary Fray heads out to a New York nightclub with her best friend Simon, she isn't expecting to witness a murder, much less one committed by three teenagers bedecked with odd tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. And she's more than a little startled when the body disappears into thin air. Soon Clary is introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters, a secret army of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world and back to their own. And she's introduced with a vengeance, when Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque monster. How could a mere human survive such an attack and kill a demon? The Shadowhunters would like to know... Get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bonesmovie with this official companion book. This fan favourite features full-colour photos from the set, designers' sketches, interviews with the cast and crew, and more! From the screenwriting process to the casting decisions to the director's vision, this definitive book is a must-have for fans of the blockbuster film!

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Simon and Schuster

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1471119718

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9781471119712

Island Futures

Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

By: Mimi Sheller

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Island Futures

Caribbean Survival in the Anthropocene

By: Mimi Sheller

In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on postearthquake reconstruction in Haiti, flooding on the Haitian-Dominican border, and recent hurricanes, Sheller shows how ecological vulnerability and the quest for a "just recovery" in the Caribbean emerge from specific transnational political, economic, and cultural dynamics. Because foreigners are largely ignorant of Haiti's political, cultural, and economic contexts, especially the historical role of the United States, their efforts to help often exacerbate inequities. Caribbean survival under ever-worsening environmental and political conditions, Sheller contends, demands radical alternatives to the pervasive neocolonialism, racial capitalism, and US military domination that have perpetuated what she calls the "coloniality of climate." Sheller insists that alternative projects for Haitian reconstruction, social justice, and climate resilience—and the sustainability of the entire region—must be grounded in radical Caribbean intellectual traditions that call for deeper transformations of transnational economies, ecologies, and human relations writ large.

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128

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Duke University Press

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1478012730

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9781478012733

Pediatric Emergency Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics

By: Mimi Lu,Dale P. Woolridge,Ann Dietrich

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Pediatric Emergency Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics

By: Mimi Lu,Dale P. Woolridge,Ann Dietrich

This issue focuses on Pediatric Emergency Medicine in the topic areas of: Seizure, Pain and Sedation, Trauma, Cardiac Emergencies, Shock, Asthma, Infant Fever, Head Injuries and Concussions, and more!

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429

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323186211

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9780323186216

Architectural Involutions

Writing, Staging, and Building Space, c. 1435-1650

By: Mimi Yiu

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Architectural Involutions

Writing, Staging, and Building Space, c. 1435-1650

By: Mimi Yiu

Winner of the MLA Prize for Independent Scholars Taking the reader on an inward journey from façades to closets, from physical to psychic space, Architectural Involutions offers an alternative genealogy of theater by revealing how innovations in architectural writing and practice transformed an early modern sense of interiority. The book launches from a matrix of related “platforms”—a term that in early modern usage denoted scaffolds, stages, and draftsmen’s sketches—to situate Alberti, Shakespeare, Jonson, and others within a landscape of spatial and visual change. As the English house underwent a process of inward folding, replacing a logic of central assembly with one of dissemination, the subject who negotiated this new scenography became a flashpoint of conflict in both domestic and theatrical arenas. Combining theory with archival findings, Mimi Yiu reveals an emergent desire to perform subjectivity, to unfold an interior face to an admiring public. Highly praised for its lucid writing, comprehensive supplementary material, and engaging tone, Architectural Involutions was the winner of the 2016 MLA Prize for Independent Scholars.

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331

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Northwestern University Press

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0810167735

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9780810167735

Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark

A Life of Service

By: Mimi Clark Gronlund

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Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark

A Life of Service

By: Mimi Clark Gronlund

An associate justice on the renowned Warren Court whose landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education overturned racial segregation in schools and other public facilities, Tom C. Clark was a crusader for justice throughout his long legal career. Among many tributes Clark received, Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger opined that "no man in the past thirty years has contributed more to the improvement of justice than Tom Clark." Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark is the first biography of this important American jurist. Written by his daughter, Mimi Clark Gronlund, and based on interviews with many of Clark's judicial associates, friends, and family, as well as archival research, it offers a well-rounded portrait of a lawyer and judge who dealt with issues that remain in contention today—civil rights, the rights of the accused, school prayer, and censorship/pornography, among them. Gronlund explores the factors in her father's upbringing and education that helped form his judicial philosophy, then describes how that philosophy shaped his decisions on key issues and cases, including the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, the investigation of war fraud, the Truman administration's loyalty program (an anti-communist effort), the Brown decision, Mapp v. Ohio (protections against unreasonable search and seizure), and Abington v. Schempp (which overturned a state law that required reading from the Bible each day in public schools).

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University of Texas Press

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0292779143

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9780292779143

Advanced Introduction to Mobilities

By: Mimi Sheller

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Advanced Introduction to Mobilities

By: Mimi Sheller

Leading mobilities theorist Mimi Sheller offers an up-to-date, comprehensive analysis of the complex mobility disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath in this timely Advanced Introduction. It outlines the formation of the interdisciplinary field of mobility studies, arguing that mobilities theory is crucial to planning post-pandemic recovery, sustainable communities, and low-carbon transitions. From tourism to migration to urban infrastructure, to informal and reproductive mobilities, Sheller reveals how multiple im/mobilities are interconnected, as the novel coronavirus reminds us as it hitchhikes across the globe through its human hosts.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788979575

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9781788979573

Book's by Mimi Godfrey

Difficult pasts

Difficult pasts

Once Upon a Secret

Once Upon a Secret

The New Ayn Rand Companion

The New Ayn Rand Companion

Shadowhunter's Guide

Shadowhunter's Guide

The Second Assistant

The Second Assistant

City of Bones: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion

City of Bones: The Official Illustrated Movie Companion

Island Futures

Island Futures

Pediatric Emergency Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics

Pediatric Emergency Medicine, An Issue of Emergency Medicine Clinics

Architectural Involutions

Architectural Involutions

Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark

Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark

Advanced Introduction to Mobilities

Advanced Introduction to Mobilities

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