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Battling Boxing Stories

Thrilling Tales of Pugilistic Puissance

By: Stan Trybulski,Wayne D. Dundee,Ron Fortier,Robert S. P. Lee,G. D. McFetridge,Arlette Lees,Terence Butler,Marc Spitzer,C. J. Henderson,Garnett Elliott,Penelope Stanhope,Michael A. Black,Lonni Lees,William Boyle

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BATTLING BOXING STORIES presents 15 of the most intense and hard-hitting stories about the puglisitic arts collected in one place and written by some of the best of today's new crop of exciting writers. The stories in this book highlight all types of boxers and all aspects of the sport, from amateur bouts and illegal street fights, to heavyweight championship events. These are wonderful stories with unforgettable characters who are full of passion and emotion, action and rage--heartfelt tales about real people fighting for their lives, their honor, and sometimes their very souls. Each story captures that rare magic--the combination of violence and magesty that takes place in the boxing ring. Your ears will still be ringing with the sting of these battles long after you finish this book! The authors featured include: Wayne D. Dundee, Stan Trybulski, Ron Fortier, Robert S. P. Lee, G. D. McFetridge, Arlette Lees, Terence Butler, Marc Spitzer, C. J. Henderson, Gary Lovisi, Garnett Elliott, Penelope Stanhope, Michael A. Black, Lonni Lees, and William Boyle.

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Wildside Press LLC

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1434448894

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9781434448897

The Georgians

The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-century Britain

By: Penelope J. Corfield

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The Georgians

The Deeds and Misdeeds of 18th-century Britain

By: Penelope J. Corfield

A comprehensive history of the Georgians, comparing past views of these exciting, turbulent, and controversial times with our attitudes today The Georgian era is often seen as a time of innovations. It saw the end of monarchical absolutism, global exploration and settlements overseas, the world's first industrial revolution, deep transformations in religious and cultural life, and Britain's role in the international trade in enslaved Africans. But how were these changes perceived by people at the time? And how do their viewpoints compare with attitudes today? In this wide-ranging history, Penelope J. Corfield explores every aspect of Georgian life--politics and empire, culture and society, love and violence, religion and science, industry and towns. People's responses at the time were often divided. Pessimists saw loss and decline, while optimists saw improvements and light. Out of such tensions came the Georgian culture of both experiment and resistance. Corfield emphasizes those elements of deep continuity that persisted even within major changes, and shows how new developments were challenged if their human consequences proved dire.

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501

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Yale University Press

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0300253575

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9780300253573

Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

By: Penelope J Corfield,Penelope J. Corfield

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Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

By: Penelope J Corfield,Penelope J. Corfield

The modern professions have a long history that predates the development of formal institutions and examinations in the nineteenth century. Long before the Victorian era the emergent professions wielded power through their specialist knowledge and set up informal mechanisms of control and self-regulation. Penelope Corfield devotes a chapter each to lawyers, clerics and doctors and makes reference to many other professionals - teachers, apothecaries, governesses, army officers and others. She shows how as the professions gained in power and influence, so they were challenged increasingly by satire and ridicule. Corfield's analysis of the rise of the professions during this period centres on a discussion of the philosophical questions arising from the complex relationship between power and knowledge.

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282

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Routledge

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1134596367

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9781134596362

Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England

Drama, Law, and Emotion

By: Penelope Geng

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Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England

Drama, Law, and Emotion

By: Penelope Geng

Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.

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276

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University of Toronto Press

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1487508042

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9781487508043

The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen

By: Penelope Hughes-Hallett

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The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen

By: Penelope Hughes-Hallett

A beautifully illustrated account of the letters and correspondence of Jane Austen. It has been said that Jane Austen the woman and Jane Austen the author are all of a piece, and nowhere is this more evident to the lovers of her novels than in the pages of her letters. This handsome celebration of Austen's letters is illustrated with portraits, facsimile letters, topographical engravings and fashion plates, all helping to bring to life the world Jane Austen inhabited. The letters, with an accompanying commentary by Penelope Hughes-Hallett, are separated into six periods of Jane Austen's life, between the years 1796, when she was twenty, and 1817, the year of her death. They celebrate Jane Austen's talent for expressing exactly what she perceived, making this an illuminating companion to her novels. Although the book follows a broadly chronological scheme, the letters are arranged round visual themes, including the Hampshire countryside, social life in Bath and London, domestic pursuits, paying visits and travelling by carriage. The author, who was born in Jane Austen's Hampshire village of Steventon, lectured on English Literature for the Open University and the Oxford University Department of External Studies.

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Batsford Books

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1849946167

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9781849946162

Blooms and Brushstrokes

A floral history of Australian art

By: Penelope Curtin,Tansy Curtin

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Blooms and Brushstrokes

A floral history of Australian art

By: Penelope Curtin,Tansy Curtin

Blooms and Brushstrokes takes you on a unique journey through the history of Australian art, one flower at a time, examining the blooms depicted in still lifes, floral portraits, decorative interiors and botanical illustrations by a long line of Australian artists. Mother-and-daughter team Penelope and Tansy Curtin start this fascinating journey in the late eighteenth century, when the traditions adhering to the Western art canon were transplanted into the newly colonised Australia. They follow it through the rapidly developing artistic styles of the early twentieth century, to the new media of the contemporary period. These works of art also shine a light on the role and importance of plants and flowers in everyday life. They illustrate changing floral fashions, as well as highlighting flowers in their various forms - cut flowers, pot plants and gardens. And along the way you'll encounter many of Australia's most significant artists, including John Glover, Arthur Streeton, Margaret Preston, Grace Cossington Smith, John Brack and Margaret Olley, as well as some of Australia's most beautiful, and sometimes intriguing, native flora, such as the waratah and Sturt's desert pea, not to mention perennial garden favourites like roses, sweet peas and daisies. Spectacular, intimate, engaging and meticulously researched - and full of interesting and quirky facts about the flowers and the artists themselves, Blooms and Brushstrokes is a book for art, flower and history lovers alike.

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Wakefield Press

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1743056494

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9781743056493

Playing the Game

Western Women in Arabia

By: Penelope Tuson

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Playing the Game

Western Women in Arabia

By: Penelope Tuson

The lives of the Western women who lived, worked and travelled in Arabia in the first half of the 20th century have been largely ignored by historians. Penelope Tuson tells the stories of these women. Sometimes flamboyant and unconventional, sometimes conservative and conformist, all of them wanted in some way to be a part of British imperial life. Some were prepared to "play the game", others were not and could even be regarded as difficult and dangerous. "Playing the Game" explores how these women negotiated power and position in the Empire and how conventional female roles were defined by the masculine perspecitves and hierarchies of imperial authority, often with the collusion of the women themselves actively, but also sometimes despite their attempts to subvert the stereotypes.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857715704

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9780857715708

Shelter from the Storm

By: Penelope Janu

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Shelter from the Storm

By: Penelope Janu

When Patience Cartwright is stranded in her home town, the last thing she expects is a second chance at love... Fiercely independent naval officer, Patience Cartwright has never had a place to call home, but she knows where she doesn't belong. After an unhappy childhood and a badly broken heart, she'll never return to the country. But to save her career, Patience is forced to accept a secondment - to an environmental team working near the town where she grew up. There she encounters once more the infuriatingly attractive biologist Hugo Halstead - the very man she's sworn never to forgive. Given their history, Hugo, as self-assured and honest as Patience is secretive and self-contained, has vowed never to trust her again, but that doesn't stop him feeling just as helplessly drawn to her complicated mix of courage and fragility as he ever was. As Patience recuperates from a life-threatening illness in the small country town of Horseshoe Hill, she realises the beauty of the landscape and close-knit community promise something very different to the future she's mapped out. But could the secrets she keeps and the shadows of her past, send her adrift all over again? PRAISE FOR PENELOPE JANU 'A rural story that has it all ... simmering romance [...], a complex heroine and a swoon-worthy hero. What's not to love?' Karly Lane, bestselling Australian author

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HarperCollins Australia

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1867223643

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9781867223641

Once in a Blue Moon

By: Penelope Williamson

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Once in a Blue Moon

By: Penelope Williamson

A richly emotional story of love and passion, from the bestselling author of Keeper of the Dream. To Jessalyn Letty, a wild, flame-haired child of the storm-tossed Cornish moors, McCady Trelawny was the most fascinating man she had ever met. Returning from a long journey, McCady found that the laughing, barefoot girl had blossomed into a bold, ravishing woman. Theirs was a love that comes along only once in a blue moon. . . .

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Dell

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0440211085

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9780440211082

Book's by Penelope Stanhope

Battling Boxing Stories

Battling Boxing Stories

The Georgians

The Georgians

Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

Power and the Professions in Britain 1700-1850

Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England

Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England

The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen

The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen

Blooms and Brushstrokes

Blooms and Brushstrokes

Playing the Game

Playing the Game

Shelter from the Storm

Shelter from the Storm

Once in a Blue Moon

Once in a Blue Moon

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