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Michael

By: John Osborn

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Michael Lord is the second son in a wealthy family where the father believes in primogeniture. Set in 1990 on the Lord family estate in Somerset where the family manages their forests and Brainware, their software development company, the story describes Michael's strategies at age twenty to become the inheritor of the Lord family fortune by his twenty-first birthday. In a family brought up to ride, to sail and to rock climb Michael manages to demonstrate how he is a survivor and an opportunist where his future is concerned. Michael manages to merge studies, business opportunities, women, drugs, sex, plagiarism and family affairs in a variety of ways to advance his own future. Around this character of Michael, an intelligent but self-centred young man, the story describes the concerns and efforts of Anthony and Sylvia Lord, Michael's parents to understand their son as well as their three other children. The challenge of the second child in the Lord dynasty has been repeated in each previous generation. Just after Michael's twenty-first birthday, when he partially achieves his annual objective the story concludes with Michael being pressured to find a supposed lost or hidden part of the Lord family inheritance. In his efforts to find this at all costs Michael ends up paying a high price.

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1452036829

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9781452036823

What's in a Name?

By: Susan Osborn

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What's in a Name?

By: Susan Osborn

For each name Osborn provides a history, number, astrological sign, color, stone, element, and herb.

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Simon and Schuster

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0671025554

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9780671025557

Dispatches from Lincoln's White House

The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard

By: William Osborn Stoddard

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Dispatches from Lincoln's White House

The Anonymous Civil War Journalism of Presidential Secretary William O. Stoddard

By: William Osborn Stoddard

William O. Stoddard's memoirs as President Abraham Lincoln's third secretary revealøa perspective of the president rarely viewed. In this collection of 120 weekly dispatches submitted to the New York Examiner under the pseudonym "Illinois," Stoddard sheds new light on Lincoln and his era. These documents provide commentary on Lincoln's personal circumstances as well as events in Washington and on military, diplomatic, economic, and political developments. Although historians at times differ with Stoddard's accounts, he offers valuable descriptions of Lincoln, insight into the president's thoughts, and commentary on contemporary opinion.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803292902

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9780803292901

Rum Maniacs

Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic

By: Matthew Warner Osborn

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Rum Maniacs

Alcoholic Insanity in the Early American Republic

By: Matthew Warner Osborn

This important study explores the medicalization of alcohol abuse in the 19th century US” and its influence on American literature and popular culture (Choice). In Rum Maniacs, Matthew Warner Osborn examines the rise of pathological drinking as a subject of medical interest, social controversy, and lurid fascination in 19th century America. At the heart of that story is the disease that afflicted Edgar Allen Poe: delirium tremens. Poe’s alcohol addiction was so severe that it gave him hallucinations, such as his vivid recollection of standing in a prison cell, fearing for his life, as he watched men mutilate his mother’s body—an event that never happened. First described in 1813, delirium tremens and its characteristic hallucinations inspired sweeping changes in how the medical profession saw and treated the problems of alcohol abuse. Based on new theories of pathological anatomy, human physiology, and mental illness, the new diagnosis established the popular belief that habitual drinking could become a psychological and physiological disease. By midcentury, delirium tremens had inspired a wide range of popular theater, poetry, fiction, and illustration. This romantic fascination endured into the twentieth century, most notably in the classic Disney cartoon Dumbo, in which a pink pachyderm marching band haunts a drunken young elephant. Rum Maniacs reveals just how delirium tremens shaped the modern experience of alcohol addiction as a psychic struggle with inner demons.

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University of Chicago Press

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022609992X

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9780226099927

Everything in Its Right Place

Analyzing Radiohead

By: Brad Osborn

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Everything in Its Right Place

Analyzing Radiohead

By: Brad Osborn

Everything in its Right Place identifies the secret to Radiohead's immense commercial and critical success in the band's ability to navigate a sweet spot between expectation and surprise. The author uses tools from musical perception, semiotics, and music theory to demonstrate this reconciliation of extremes, and analyzes musical meaning with lyrics, biographical details, and intertextual relationships.

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Oxford University Press

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0190629231

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9780190629236

The Wild Frontier

Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

By: William M. Osborn

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The Wild Frontier

Atrocities During the American-Indian War from Jamestown Colony to Wounded Knee

By: William M. Osborn

The real story of the ordeal experienced by both settlers and Indians during the Europeans' great migration west across America, from the colonies to California, has been almost completely eliminated from the histories we now read. In truth, it was a horrifying and appalling experience. Nothing like it had ever happened anywhere else in the world. In The Wild Frontier, William M. Osborn discusses the changing settler attitude toward the Indians over several centuries, as well as Indian and settler characteristics—the Indian love of warfare, for instance (more than 400 inter-tribal wars were fought even after the threatening settlers arrived), and the settlers' irresistible desire for the land occupied by the Indians. The atrocities described in The Wild Frontier led to the death of more than 9,000 settlers and 7,000 Indians. Most of these events were not only horrible but bizarre. Notoriously, the British use of Indians to terrorize the settlers during the American Revolution left bitter feelings, which in turn contributed to atrocious conduct on the part of the settlers. Osborn also discusses other controversial subjects, such as the treaties with the Indians, matters relating to the occupation of land, the major part disease played in the war, and the statements by both settlers and Indians each arguing for the extermination of the other. He details the disgraceful American government policy toward the Indians, which continues even today, and speculates about the uncertain future of the Indians themselves. Thousands of eyewitness accounts are the raw material of The Wild Frontier, in which we learn that many Indians tortured and killed prisoners, and some even engaged in cannibalism; and that though numerous settlers came to the New World for religious reasons, or to escape English oppression, many others were convicted of crimes and came to avoid being hanged. The Wild Frontier tells a story that helps us understand our history, and how as the settlers moved west, they often brutally expelled the Indians by force while themselves suffering torture and kidnapping.

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Random House

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0307561178

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9780307561176

Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings

By: Sarah Osborn

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Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings

By: Sarah Osborn

Riveting and eloquent, the collected writings of a key figure—and one of the first female leaders—of the eighteenth-century evangelical movement Sarah Osborn (1714–1796) was one of the most charismatic female religious leaders of her time and one of relatively few colonial women whose writings have been preserved. This volume reprints selections from Osborn’s fascinating manuscripts, including her memoir, letters, and diaries. An evangelical Christian who led popular revival meetings at her own home, Osborn was also a gifted writer who recorded the story of her life. In thousands of pages of manuscripts, Osborn chronicled her personal struggles alongside the great events of her age, including the Great Awakening, the French and Indian War, the moral crisis posed by slavery, and the American Revolution. A rare opportunity to hear an early American woman speak about her faith and her religious leadership, this masterfully edited work is also an invaluable resource for understanding the rise of evangelical Christianity.

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Yale University Press

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0300188315

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9780300188318

Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment

By: Ian Osborn

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Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment

By: Ian Osborn

A psychiatrist explores how the Christian faith can play an important part in bringing relief to OCD sufferers.

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Brazos Press

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1587432064

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9781587432064

Secret Yeovil

By: Bob Osborn

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Secret Yeovil

By: Bob Osborn

Explore the secret history of Yeovil through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445674912

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9781445674919

The Autocratic Academy

Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities

By: Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

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The Autocratic Academy

Reenvisioning Rule within America's Universities

By: Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn

Critics of contemporary US higher education often point to the academy’s “corporatization” as one of its defining maladies. However, in The Autocratic Academy Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn argues that American colleges and universities have always been organized as corporations in which the power to rule is legally vested in and monopolized by antidemocratic governing boards. This institutional form, Kaufman-Osborn contends, is antithetical to the free inquiry that defines the purpose of higher education. Tracing the history of the American academy from the founding of Harvard (1636), through the Supreme Court’s Dartmouth v. Woodward ruling (1819), and into the twenty-first century, Kaufman-Osborn shows how the university’s autocratic legal constitution is now yoked to its representation on the model of private property. Explaining why appeals to the cause of shared governance cannot succeed in wresting power from the academy’s autocrats, Kaufman-Osborn argues that American universities must now be reincorporated in accordance with the principles of democratic republicanism. Only then can the academy’s members hold accountable those chosen to govern and collectively determine the disposition of higher education’s unique public goods.

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Duke University Press

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1478024399

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9781478024392

Yeovil From Old Photographs

By: Bob Osborn

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Yeovil From Old Photographs

By: Bob Osborn

A fascinating look at the history of Yeovil and its inhabitants through a collection of beautiful photographs.

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1445665271

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9781445665276

Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal

By: Sherard Osborn

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Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal

By: Sherard Osborn

Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal or, eighteen months in the polar regions in search of Sir John Franklins expedition in 1850/51 to which is added the career, last voyage, and fate of Captain Sir John Franklin.

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3752589647

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9783752589641

African Art Reframed

Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture

By: Bennetta Jules-Rosette,J.R. Osborn

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African Art Reframed

Reflections and Dialogues on Museum Culture

By: Bennetta Jules-Rosette,J.R. Osborn

Once seen as a collection of artifacts and ritual objects, African art now commands respect from museums and collectors. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and J.R. Osborn explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa. The authors take a three-pronged approach. Part One ranges from curiosity cabinets to virtual websites to offer a history of ethnographic and art museums and look at their organization and methods of reaching out to the public. In the second part, the authors examine museums as ecosystems and communities within communities, and they use semiotic methods to analyze images, signs, and symbols drawn from the experiences of curators and artists. The third part introduces innovative strategies for displaying, disseminating, and reclaiming African art. The authors also propose how to reinterpret the art inside and outside the museum and show ways of remixing the results. Drawing on extensive conversations with curators, collectors, and artists, African Art Reframed is an essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252052153

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9780252052156

Something Written in the State of Denmark: An Actor's Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company

An Actor's Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company

By: Keith Osborn

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Something Written in the State of Denmark: An Actor's Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company

An Actor's Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company

By: Keith Osborn

Following in the footsteps of Nick Asbury's bestselling Exit Pursued by a Badger, actor and Royal Shakespeare Company alumnus Keith Osborn tells the story of the company's extraordinary 2008/9 season in Stratford and London, with much drama on and off stage. Keith appeared in Gregory Doran's acclaimed productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Love's Labours Lost and, of course, Doran's Hamlet with David Tennant in the title role. Keith's blog was followed by thousands of loyal readers, the book contains some new material covering the early parts of the season and a short account of the BBC's filming of Hamlet in the summer of 2009, rounded out with many rehearsal and production photos taken throughout the season.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1849432813

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9781849432818

Shot in Alabama

A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers

By: Frances Osborn Robb

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Shot in Alabama

A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers

By: Frances Osborn Robb

A sumptuously illustrated history of photography as practiced in the state from 1839 to 1941 offering a unique account of the birth and development of a significant documentary and artistic medium

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University of Alabama Press

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081731878X

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9780817318789

Inside the White House in War Times

Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary

By: William Osborn Stoddard

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Inside the White House in War Times

Memoirs and Reports of Lincoln's Secretary

By: William Osborn Stoddard

Of the three secretaries who assisted President Abraham Lincoln?John G. Nicolay, John Hay, and William O. Stoddard?only Stoddard wrote an extended memoir about his time in the Executive Mansion. First published in 1890, the book vividly depicts the president?s agonizing reaction to the defeats at Fredericksburg and Chancellorsville, the difficulties encountered (and presented) by Mary Lincoln, the president?s relations with George B. McClellan and other generals, and the anxiety preceding the Merrimack?s epic battle with the Monitor. ø In 1866 Stoddard also penned thirteen ?White House Sketches? about his time in Lincoln?s service. Originally published in an obscure New York newspaper, these essays?never previously collected?supplement Stoddard?s memoir. Together the memoir and sketches provide an intimate look at the sixteenth president during a time of crisis.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803292570

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9780803292574

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Michael

What's in a Name?

What's in a Name?

Dispatches from Lincoln's White House

Dispatches from Lincoln's White House

Rum Maniacs

Rum Maniacs

Everything in Its Right Place

Everything in Its Right Place

The Wild Frontier

The Wild Frontier

Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings

Sarah Osborn’s Collected Writings

Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?

Secret Yeovil

Secret Yeovil

The Autocratic Academy

The Autocratic Academy

Yeovil From Old Photographs

Yeovil From Old Photographs

Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal

Stray Leaves from an Arctic Journal

African Art Reframed

African Art Reframed

Something Written in the State of Denmark: An Actor's Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Something Written in the State of Denmark: An Actor's Year with the Royal Shakespeare Company

Shot in Alabama

Shot in Alabama

Inside the White House in War Times

Inside the White House in War Times

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