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The Real Wuthering Heights

The Story of The Withins Farms

By: Steven Wood,Peter Brears

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The Real Wuthering Heights

The Story of The Withins Farms

By: Steven Wood,Peter Brears

The definitive account of the life and work of Top Withins Farm, internationally famous as the inspiration for Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights, with a preface by Sir Tony Robinson.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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ISBN 10

1445653443

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9781445653440

All the King's Cooks

The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace

By: Peter Brears

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The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace

By: Peter Brears

The massive kitchens at Hampton Court were built to supply the entire household of Henry VIII. They were the first professional kitchens organised on such a scale. Brears provides a practical guide to their running, dispelling many of the misconceptions about the cooking and eating of meals in Tudor England. Including authentic recipes from the period, adapted for modern kitchens, such as Chicken Farced and Smothered Rabbit and White Leach (a form of cool jelly), All the King's Cooks is fully illustrated with colour photographs recreating the life of the kitchens. With the author's own detailed drawings, no other book gets so close to the sights, sounds and smells of the Tudor kitchen.

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221

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Souvenir Press

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0285640232

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9780285640238

Wakefield in 50 Buildings

By: Peter Thornborrow,Paul Gwilliam

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Wakefield in 50 Buildings

By: Peter Thornborrow,Paul Gwilliam

Explores the rich and fascinating history of Wakefield through an examination of some of its greatest architectural treasures.

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169

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445659077

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9781445659077

Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet

Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre

By: Lynette Hunter,Peter Lichtenfels

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Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet

Reading Strategies from Criticism, Editing and the Theatre

By: Lynette Hunter,Peter Lichtenfels

Through exciting and unconventional approaches, including critical/historical, printing/publishing and performance studies, this study mines Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to produce new insights into the early modern family, the individual, and society in the context of early modern capitalism. Inspired by recent work in cultural materialism and the material book, it also foregrounds the ways in which the contexts and the text itself become available to the reader today. The opening material on critical/historical approaches focuses on the way that readers have frequently read and played the text to explore issues that cluster around the family, marriage, gender and sexuality. Chapter two, on the ways that actors today inhabit character and create behaviour, provides intertextual comment on acting in the early modern period, and the connections between acting and social behaviour that inform self-image and the performance of identity both then and now. The third chapter on printing/publishing approaches to the text offers a detective story about the differences between Quarto One and Quarto Two, that focuses on the curious appearance in Quarto Two of material related to the law at word, phrase, line and scene level. The next three chapters integrate a close study of the language of the play to negotiate its potential significance for the present in the areas of: Family, Marriage, Gender and Sexuality; Identity, Individualism and Humanism; and the Law, Religion and Medicine. Among the startling aspects of this book are that it: - takes the part of Juliet far more seriously than other criticism has tended to do, attributing to her agency and aspects of character that develop the part suddenly from girl to woman; - recognizes the way the play explores early modern identity, becoming a handbook for individualism and humanism in the private domestic setting of early capitalism; and - brings to light the least recognized element in the play at the moment, its demonstration of the emerging structures of state power, governance by law, the introduction of surveillance, detection and witness, and the formation of what we now call the 'subject'. The volume includes on DVD a scholarly edition with commentary of the text of Romeo & Juliet, which re-instates many of the original early modern versions of the play.

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261

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Routledge

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1317089286

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9781317089285

Infelicities

Representations of the Exotic

By: Peter Mason

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Infelicities

Representations of the Exotic

By: Peter Mason

In Infelicities Peter Mason explores the texts, paintings, drawings, photographs, and museum displays in which the exotic has been represented from the early modern period to the present. He describes the unique iconography that Europeans developed to convey the exotic and the means they employed to display it once artifacts were brought to Europe. In both instances, the exotic object is taken out of its original context and given a meaning and significance it never had; this new meaning and significance, Mason argues, are derived from the imposition of European cultural values and the need to recontextualize the object in a European setting.

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304

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JHU Press

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0801858801

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9780801858802

The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops

By: Malcolm J. Hawkesford,Peter Barraclough

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The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops

By: Malcolm J. Hawkesford,Peter Barraclough

Efforts to increase efficient nutrient use by crops are of growing importance as the global demand for food, fibre and fuel increases and competition for resources intensifies. The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops provides both a timely summary of the latest advances in the field as well as anticipating directions for future research. The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops bridges the gap between agronomic practice and molecular biology by linking underpinning molecular mechanisms to the physiological and agronomic aspects of crop yield. These chapters provide an understanding of molecular and physiological mechanisms that will allow researchers to continue to target and improve complex traits for crop improvement. Written by leading international researchers, The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops will be an essential resource for the crop science community for years to come. Special Features: coalesces current knowledge in the areas of efficient acquisition and utilization of nutrients by crop plants with emphasis on modern developments addresses future directions in crop nutrition in the light of changing climate patterns including temperature and water availability bridges the gap between traditional agronomy and molecular biology with focus on underpinning molecular mechanisms and their effects on crop yield includes contributions from a leading team of global experts in both research and practical settings

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512

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John Wiley & Sons

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081381992X

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9780813819921

The Herculaneum Pottery

Liverpool's Forgotten Glory

By: Peter Hyland

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The Herculaneum Pottery

Liverpool's Forgotten Glory

By: Peter Hyland

The emergence of Herculaneum pottery in early nineteenth-century Liverpool marked a pivotal moment in the clay arts. This book provides a comprehensive history of Herculaneum pottery—highly sought after in North America—and its rapid rise to international prominence. Renowned Liverpool porcelain collector Peter Hyland examines the pottery's relatively brief heyday from about 1800 to 1820. He then re-defines its niche within the wider context of the established Liverpool pottery tradition, which dates back to 1700. Liverpool's earthenware and porcelain were exported around the world, and Hyland investigates records to reveal the surprising extent to which the United States and Canada relied on Herculaneum for their fine wares. Ultimately, he considers why the pottery factory failed, showing how competition from Merseyside led to the factory's eventual closure in 1840. Building on the seminal work of Alan Smith, Peter Hyland's study draws on new scholarly research and recent excavations to reveal the extensive range of wares and decorations made at the Herculaneum factory. This new edition is illustrated with a wealth of full-color images, and it will stand as the definitive text on Herculaneum pottery.

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296

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Liverpool University Press

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0853239797

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9780853239796

The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England

By: Peter Edwards

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The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England

By: Peter Edwards

A study of the flourishing market for horses in pre-industrial England.

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224

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Cambridge University Press

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0521520088

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9780521520089

Inventing Pollution

Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800

By: Peter Thorsheim

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Inventing Pollution

Coal, Smoke, and Culture in Britain since 1800

By: Peter Thorsheim

Going as far back as the thirteenth century, Britons mined and burned coal. Britain’s supremacy in the nineteenth century depended in large part on its vast deposits of coal, which powered industry, warmed homes, and cooked food. As coal consumption skyrocketed, the air in Britain’s cities and towns filled with ever-greater and denser clouds of smoke. Yet, for much of the nineteenth century, few people in Britain even considered coal smoke to be pollution. Inventing Pollution examines the radically new understanding of pollution that emerged in the late nineteenth century, one that centered not on organic decay but on coal combustion. This change, as Peter Thorsheim argues, gave birth to the smoke-abatement movement and to new ways of thinking about the relationships among humanity, technology, and the environment. Even as coal production in Britain has plummeted in recent decades, it has surged in other countries. This reissue of Thorsheim’s far-reaching study includes a new preface that reveals the book’s relevance to the contentious national and international debates—which aren’t going away anytime soon—around coal, air pollution more generally, and the grave threat of human-induced climate change.

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429

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Ohio University Press

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0821446274

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9780821446270

Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

By: Peter Dauvergne

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Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

By: Peter Dauvergne

Historical Dictionary and Environmentalism, Third Edition provides a balanced and wide-ranging overview of the most important events, issues, organizations, ideas, and people shaping the direction of environmentalism worldwide. This book is global in scope, covering a large range of perspectives and countries with a focus on the period since 1960. This book contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has more than 400 cross-referenced entries on organizations, people, issues, events, and countries shaping environmentalism. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about environmentalism.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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153819144X

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9781538191446

All the King's Cooks

The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace

By: Peter Brears

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All the King's Cooks

The Tudor Kitchens of King Henry VIII at Hampton Court Palace

By: Peter Brears

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Souvenir Press

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0285640232

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Book's by Peter Brears

The Real Wuthering Heights

The Real Wuthering Heights

All the King's Cooks

All the King's Cooks

Wakefield in 50 Buildings

Wakefield in 50 Buildings

Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet

Negotiating Shakespeare's Language in Romeo and Juliet

Infelicities

Infelicities

The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops

The Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops

The Herculaneum Pottery

The Herculaneum Pottery

The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England

The Horse Trade of Tudor and Stuart England

Inventing Pollution

Inventing Pollution

Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

Historical Dictionary of Environmentalism

All the King's Cooks

All the King's Cooks

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