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Drama + Theory

Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama

By: Peter Buse

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Drama + Theory

Critical Approaches to Modern British Drama

By: Peter Buse

Peter Buse illuminates the relationship between modern British drama and contemporary critical and cultural theory. He demonstrates how theory allows fresh insights into familiar drama, pairing well-known plays with classic theory texts. The theoretical text is more than applied to the dramatic text, instead Buse shows how they reflect on each other. Drama + Theory provides not only provides new interpretations of popular plays, but of the theoretical texts as well.

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Manchester University Press

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0719057221

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Making Theatre

From Text to Performance

By: Peter Mudford

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Making Theatre

From Text to Performance

By: Peter Mudford

The reality of a play is in its performance. Making Theatre focuses on the processes by which performance is realized, analyzing three major areas: "Words" and the interpretation of text; "Vision" including scenery, costume and lighting; and "Music" which illustrates the importance of music in all stage action.The forms of theater covered include straight drama, the musical and opera. Taking productions well-known on both sides of the Atlantic, Peter Mudford examines plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pirandello, Beckett, Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and David Mamet; musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim; and operas by Verdi, Wagner and Berg.This account of what makes theater important and how it works will be invaluable to teachers and students of drama and performance, as well as all those interested in theater as art.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567323234

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9780567323231

John Osborne

'Anger Is Not About...'

By: Peter Whitebrook

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John Osborne

'Anger Is Not About...'

By: Peter Whitebrook

This book has been nominated for both the Sheridan Morley Prize for biography, and the Theatre Book Prize. A story of a man whose star rose very quickly and very early, and fell slowly and inexorably. A story of a man who knew himself perhaps too well, but not particularly wisely. It is exhilarating, perplexing and tragic. This new biography offers the most rounded portrait of Osborne yet seen. By embedding him in a social and cultural as well as a biographical context, Whitebrook presents Osborne in a way that has not been attempted before. It is the first book to properly explore the importance of his early collaborative work with Anthony Creighton, his lasting friendship with Pamela Lane, and his deep spiritual beliefs. It reveals the autobiographical background to Look Back in Anger and Watch It Come Down and places his literary achievement within a quintessentially English tradition. Seldom has a dramatist so compulsively revealed so much of himself – his flaws, his anxieties, his passion and his hatred – as John Osborne. His was a dazzlingly high-octane performance and in a succession of increasingly ambitious plays written during the 50s and 60s, he was able to unite a profound, intuitive intelligence with a caustically honest depth of feeling. By refusing to submit to caution, he laid bare in some of the most poetic and incendiary language heard in the 20th-century theatre, not only his own struggles and contradictions but those of the era. Almost single-handedly, he made the theatre important again. Catapulted from obscurity to being the icon of his age when he was only twenty-five, Osborne was at the height of his fame equally celebrated and derided as ‘the Angry Young Man’. John Osborne: ‘Anger is not about’ examines his fractious, often chaotic personal life against the social and political background of his times. It provides an invigorating insight into his complex, often anguished personality and a fresh critical assessment of his writing. A vivid account not only of what it was like to be John Osborne, loyal and generous, scathing and brutal, but what it was like to be so restlessly a creative artist in the latter 20th century. Click here to read an exclusive extract in The Independent

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1783198761

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The Archaeology of Southern Africa

By: Peter Mitchell

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The Archaeology of Southern Africa

By: Peter Mitchell

Some of humanity's earliest ancestors lived in southern Africa and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and the emergence of complex cognition. Building on its rich rock art heritage, archaeologists have developed theoretical work that continues to influence rock art studies worldwide, with the relationship between archaeological and anthropological data central to understanding past hunter-gatherer, pastoralist, and farmer communities alike. New work on pre-colonial states contests models that previously explained their emergence via external trade, while the transformations wrought by European colonialism are being rewritten to emphasise Indigenous agency, feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline itself. Inhabited by humans longer than almost anywhere else and with an unusually varied, complex past, southern Africa thus has much to contribute to archaeology worldwide. In this revised and updated edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive and extensively illustrated synthesis of its archaeology over more than three million years.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009324764

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Across England with a Project Manager

A Journey into Retirement

By: Peter Teasdale

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Across England with a Project Manager

A Journey into Retirement

By: Peter Teasdale

Planning the long walk (across England) and delivering on the plan would require accountability and discipline . . . Moreover, it would be an ideal transition between working and not working, by providing an entirely different life experience, requiring us to react and adapt, on the fly, or rather, on the foot. Are you recently retired or nearing retirement and find yourself wondering, what’s next? Do you enjoy long-distance walking and/or travelling? Does the idea of a post-career adventure intrigue you? In 2018, after retiring from their civil service jobs, Peter Teasdale and his wife Shelley decided to transition from working to not working in a unique way—they embarked on a three-week, 190 mile walk across England, from St. Bees on the Atlantic Ocean to Robin’s Bay on the North Sea, known as the Coast to Coast Walk, made famous by Alfred Wainwright, who wrote a book about his trek in 1972. Across England with a Project Manager is brimming with information about the couple’s two-year planning phase of the trip, including logistics, supplies, accommodations, and training, and the execution of the journey, chronicling the sites, foods, people, and more that they experienced along the way as well as lessons they learned and advice for anyone who is considering their own long-distance walk. Inspired by the travel books—and more specifically—the observational humour of Bill Bryson, Paul Theroux, and Tony Hawks, Peter documents their Coast to Coast Walk experiences with witty insight, bringing charm to this post-retirement adventure.

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FriesenPress

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1039184499

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Quantum Confined Laser Devices

Optical gain and recombination in semiconductors

By: Peter Blood

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Quantum Confined Laser Devices

Optical gain and recombination in semiconductors

By: Peter Blood

The semiconductor laser, invented over 50 years ago, has had an enormous impact on the digital technologies that now dominate so many applications in business, commerce and the home. The laser is used in all types of optical fibre communication networks that enable the operation of the internet, e-mail, voice and skype transmission. Approximately one billion are produced each year for a market valued at around $5 billion. Nearly all semiconductor lasers now use extremely thin layers of light emitting materials (quantum well lasers). Increasingly smaller nanostructures are used in the form of quantum dots. The impact of the semiconductor laser is surprising in the light of the complexity of the physical processes that determine the operation of every device. This text takes the reader from the fundamental optical gain and carrier recombination processes in quantum wells and quantum dots, through descriptions of common device structures to an understanding of their operating characteristics. It has a consistent treatment of both quantum dot and quantum well structures taking full account of their dimensionality, which provides the reader with a complete account of contemporary quantum confined laser diodes. It includes plenty of illustrations from both model calculations and experimental observations. There are numerous exercises, many designed to give a feel for values of key parameters and experience obtaining quantitative results from equations. Some challenging concepts, previously the subject matter of research monographs, are treated here at this level for the first time.

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OUP Oxford

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0191064653

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Understanding Alan Bennett

By: Peter Wolfe

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Understanding Alan Bennett

By: Peter Wolfe

A study of the actor, director, playwright and lyricist, Alan Bennett. Peter Wolfe demonstrates that Alan Bennett's success in many spheres was no fluke, and his theatrical eminence has always been accompanied by awards and professional recognition. His play Single Spies won the Oliver Award as England's Best Comedy in 1989. The casts of his plays, starting with Forty Years On in 1968, have included such luminaries as Sir John Gielgud, Sir Alec Guinness, Joan Plowright, Maggie Smith, Alan Bates and Daniel Day Lewis. His screenwriting earned The Madness of King George a nomination for an Academy Award. This book seeks to illuminate the writer whose instinct for artistic choices has helped him to succeed on his own terms.

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Univ of South Carolina Press

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1570032807

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Innovation

The History of England Volume VI

By: Peter Ackroyd

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Innovation

The History of England Volume VI

By: Peter Ackroyd

Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later. Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades. It was a century of enormous change, encompassing two world wars, four monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI and the Queen), the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party, women's suffrage, the birth of the NHS, the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T.S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, from the end of the post-war slump to the technicolor explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock, and from Thatcher to Blair. A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, Innovation is Peter Ackroyd writing at the height of his powers.

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St. Martin's Press

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1250135540

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9781250135544

Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan

Volume 5: Survey, Zooarchaeology and Ethnoarchaeology

By: James R. Battenfield,Susan Ellis,Peter R.W. Popkin

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Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan

Volume 5: Survey, Zooarchaeology and Ethnoarchaeology

By: James R. Battenfield,Susan Ellis,Peter R.W. Popkin

In Excavations at Tall Jawa, Jordan, Volume 5, the authors present their research in the areas of regional survey, salvage excavation, zooarchaeology, ceramic typology, experimental archaeology and ethnoarchaeology. This work illustrates areas threatened and later destroyed by modern development and is a contribution to heritage documentation. These studies illuminate aspects of family and town life in the Iron Age, Roman, Byzantine and Late Ottoman–Early Mandate periods in central Jordan.

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BRILL

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9004316205

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9789004316201

The Hidden Places of the Lake District and Cumbria

By: Peter Long

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The Hidden Places of the Lake District and Cumbria

By: Peter Long

This is the 6th edition of Hidden Places exploring one of the U.K's most popular regions for visitors and will be printed in full colour The Lake District is famous for its grand, austere mountain scenery intersected by fast flowing rivers and languid lakes but it also offers visitors much more - isolated hamlets and picturesque villages, quiet lanes and a deep literary and industrial heritage. The ideal subject for the Hidden Places, the book is packed with information and coloured photographs on the more secluded and little known venues for food, accommodation and places of interest as well as the more enduring attractions of the region. This edition incorporates the redesigned covers for regional titles and features eye-catching photographs of the Whislatter Pass, Whitehaven and Wastwater.

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Travel Publishing Ltd

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190200793X

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Concept Development in the Secondary School

By: Peter Langford

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Concept Development in the Secondary School

By: Peter Langford

Originally published in 1987, this book introduces the reader to work on the intellectual development of adolescents relevant to the secondary school teacher. It covers the teaching of English, history, geography, economics, politics, legal studies, physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics. Although it emphasises the continuing importance of Piaget’s thought, the book aims to introduce readers to the non-Piagetian research that had taken place in recent years.

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Routledge

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1317226895

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Mushrooms

The natural and human world of British fungi

By: Peter Marren

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Mushrooms

The natural and human world of British fungi

By: Peter Marren

Mushrooms, the first of a major new series of books on British natural history, provides a remarkable insight into the natural and human world of fungi. Peter Marren, in his inimitable, relaxed style, guides the reader through the extraordinary riches of this often overlooked group, from the amazing diversity of forms and lifestyles that populate the fungal landscape, to the pursuit of edible fungi for the pot, and the complexities of identification thrown up by our modern understanding of DNA. Throughout the book, the author tells a story rich in detail about how we have come to appreciate and, in some cases, fear the mushrooms and toadstools that are such an integral part of the changing seasons. Marren also provides a refreshingly candid view of our attempts to name species, the role of fungi in ecosystems, and our recent efforts to record and conserve them.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1472958500

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9781472958501

Field Archaeology

An Introduction

By: Peter Drewett

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Field Archaeology

An Introduction

By: Peter Drewett

Peter Drewett's comprehensive survey explores every stage of the dig process, from the core work of discovery and excavation to the final product; the published archaeological report.

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Routledge

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113682538X

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Diaries, 1969-1977

By: Peter Nichols

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Diaries, 1969-1977

By: Peter Nichols

This candid and often hilarious, personal account of Nichols' experiences of being an up and coming successful writer, also reveals a man still coping with the daily grind of everyday living in the 70s. For some it will bring back memories, while for others it will provide an insight into the 70s.

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Nick Hern Books

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1854594745

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Simon Gray Unbound

The Journey of a Dramatist

By: Peter Wolfe

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Simon Gray Unbound

The Journey of a Dramatist

By: Peter Wolfe

The work of English playwright Simon Gray (1936-2008) has always resisted ideological and stylistic labels. His artistic independence has also had an unwelcome side effect: It cost him the critical attention garnered by his peers. This book, the first monograph on Gray, examines his oeuvre from the early plays, which hack away at the formalism and humanism of traditional English satire, to the later ones, in which he explores English professionals and their problems connecting with each other. If Gray remains the least known major English dramatist of his day, he's also one of the boldest and best.

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McFarland

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0786485302

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Carnegie

By: Peter Krass

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Carnegie

By: Peter Krass

One of the major figures in American history, Andrew Carnegie was a ruthless businessman who made his fortune in the steel industry and ultimately gave most of it away. He used his wealth to ascend the world's political stage, influencing the presidencies of Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and Theodore Roosevelt. In retirement, Carnegie became an avid promoter of world peace, only to be crushed emotionally by World War I. In this compelling biography, Peter Krass reconstructs the complicated life of this titan who came to power in America's Gilded Age. He transports the reader to Carnegie's Pittsburgh, where hundreds of smoking furnaces belched smoke into the sky and the air was filled with acrid fumes . . . and mill workers worked seven-day weeks while Carnegie spent months traveling across Europe. Carnegie explores the contradictions in the life of the man who rose from lowly bobbin boy to build the largest and most profitable steel company in the world. Krass examines how Carnegie became one of the greatest philanthropists ever known-and earned a notorious reputation that history has yet to fully reconcile with his remarkable accomplishments.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118208587

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9781118208588

Stories of Lost Souls

By: Peter F Damsberg

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Stories of Lost Souls

By: Peter F Damsberg

Stories from the edge of reality which impinge upon the reality of the present. Mysteries, murders, and fantastic tales.

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Lulu.com

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0244122229

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9780244122225

Dialects of English

Studies in Grammatical Variation

By: Peter Trudgill,J. K. Chambers

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Dialects of English

Studies in Grammatical Variation

By: Peter Trudgill,J. K. Chambers

This collection consists of 15 articles by an international group of linguists and 7 essays by the editors, tackling a broad range of issues and representing some of the most authoritative work in English dialect grammar. Individual chapters cover the full international range of English dialects, from the centre of Sydney to the shores of Newfoundland, and from the Scottish borders to the Appalachian Mountains. Soundly based on empirical research, they are rich in data of great interest in itself, but no article is merely descriptive. The editors have selected papers for their value in contributing to the reader's broader understanding of the theoretical issues concerning dialectology as a whole. As a result, dialectology is presented as a major scholarly discipline drawing creatively on such areas as linguistics, sociology, psychology, history, geography and even philosophy. These and other themes are explored in a wide-ranging Introduction by the editors, which sets the individual pieces and the subject in context for the reader.

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Routledge

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1315505436

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9781315505435

The Battle Of France

Then And Now

By: Peter Cornwell

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The Battle Of France

Then And Now

By: Peter Cornwell

Peter Cornwell tells the story of the greatest air battle of the Second World War when six nations were locked in combat over north-western Europe for a traumatic six weeks in 1940. He describes the day-to-day events as the battle unfolds, and details the losses suffered by all six nations involved: Britain, France, Holland, Belgium, Germany and, rather belatedly, Italy. As far as RAF fighter squadrons in France were concerned, it was an all-Hurricane show, yet it was the Blenheim and Battle crews who suffered the brunt of the casualties. Every aircraft lost or damaged through enemy action while operating in France is listed together with the fate of the crews. The RAF lost more than a thousand aircraft of all types over the Western Front during the six-week battle, the French Air Force 1,400, but Luftwaffe losses were even higher at over 1,800 aircraft.

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After the Battle

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1399076876

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9781399076876

Gardens of North Carolina

A Traveler's Guide

By: Peter Loewer

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Gardens of North Carolina

A Traveler's Guide

By: Peter Loewer

Full-color photographs. Information for visitors.

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Stackpole Books

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0811733742

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A Structural Atlas of the English Dialects

By: Peter Anderson

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A Structural Atlas of the English Dialects

By: Peter Anderson

First published in 1987, this atlas identifies structural patterns which exist in the sound systems of the dialects of England. It regards variation, not as something to be ignored or avoided, but as a central and essential feature of dialect, which must be accounted for in a systematic way. The study identifies some of the more prominent structural boundaries between dialect areas and argues that discrete boundaries do not exist: rather there are a number of areas separated by bands of dialects in which conflicting partial systems exist.

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Routledge

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1317487524

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Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom

Eschatological Meals and Scenes of Utopian Abundance in the New Testament

By: Peter-Ben Smit

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Fellowship and Food in the Kingdom

Eschatological Meals and Scenes of Utopian Abundance in the New Testament

By: Peter-Ben Smit

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universit'at Bern, 2001.

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Mohr Siebeck

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3161492714

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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - 4th ANZ Edition - E-Book

By: Peter Harris,Nicholas Vardaxis,Louise Purtell

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Mosby's Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions - 4th ANZ Edition - E-Book

By: Peter Harris,Nicholas Vardaxis,Louise Purtell

Trusted resource for students and educators in Australia and New Zealand Mosby’s Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions Australian and New Zealand edition is an established and acclaimed reference guide suitable for all students and clinicians wanting current, accurate definitions of medical terms. The fourth edition has been updated to reflect the latest changes in healthcare terminology, and retains the comprehensiveness, clarity and currency that readers expect from the Mosby Dictionary. It provides full coverage of nearly 40,000 terms as well as images, tables, graphs and an anatomy and physiology atlas for deeper insight into complex concepts. This resource is an ideal support for students throughout their studies in medicine, nursing and the broader health professions, and will remain a definitive reference for all clinicians who understand the importance of accurate terminology for better patient care. • Nearly 40,000 clear, precise entries –updated to take in recent healthcare developments to support study and research use • Over 2,000 high quality images and a detailed colour anatomy atlas to enhance comprehension • More than 30 medical and health specialties represented – suitable for all healthcare students, educators and clinicians • Local spelling conventions and phonetic pronunciation guides throughout – suitable for readers in Australia and New Zealand • Etymologies revised to ensure currency • Comprehensive entries for numerous drugs and medications • Useful appendices, including normal laboratory values for adults and children, units of measurement, nutrition guidelines, assessment guides, immunisation schedules, infection control and herb-drug interactions • An eBook included with print purchase

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0729598705

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9780729598705

How It Is with Miracles

By: Peter Ohren

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How It Is with Miracles

By: Peter Ohren

One day in the middle of a brutal Michigan winter, retired farmer Les Fields is found half-frozen in his barn. He is naked, smeared with animal blood, and raving that Christ appeared to him. He claims God wants a statue made for the church of Saint Cecelia's in the struggling farming community of Decker. Has Jesus really appeared to the troubled farmer? Or has Les simply slipped into madness? The parishioners of Saint Cecelia's must decide. How It Is With Miracles is a powerful story about the nature of faith, told from the perspectives of the three men at the center of the controversy, the troubled farmer, an aged priest and a young artist. As Les's neighbor one day points out to Father Greg, "You know how it is with miracles, Father. Sometimes they're in the eye of the beholder." You too must decide. But miraculous or not, events in Decker that winter and spring profoundly change the lives of the people involved.

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iUniverse

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0595338682

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Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram

Down to Philip

By: Peter Bing,Jon Bruss

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Brill's Companion to Hellenistic Epigram

Down to Philip

By: Peter Bing,Jon Bruss

Important research in recent decades, along with the publication of P.Mil.Vogl. VIII 309 ('the Milan Posidippus papyrus') in 2001, have reinvigorated the study of Hellenistic epigram. Yet, scholarship on this genre often remains fragmented according to disciplinary sub-specialty and approach: some scholars focus on poets of Meleager’s Garland, others on Philip’s; some on inscriptional epigram, others on literary; each approaching the genre with different motives and questions. In this volume, expert scholars offer those less familiar with the genre an introduction to all aspects of Hellenistic epigram—from models and forms inherited from inscriptional epigram to poetology, sub-genera, epigrammatic intertexts, and ancient and modern reception. Even specialists will find here fresh explorations of epigram, along with new directions for scholarship.

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