Richard Barber's Books

The Reign of Chivalry

By: Richard W. Barber

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Richard Barber, author of Holy Grail: The History of a Legend and King Arthur: Hero and Legend, has written an engaging and intriguing book on one of the most original concepts of the medieval mind. Profusely illustrated and redesigned for a new generation of readers. Profusely illustrated and redesigned for a new generation of readers, Richard Barber's classic The Reign of Chivalry presents a broad picture of the chivalric world, and shows how chivalry affected or was affected by greatsocial movements, great writers and great events, and analyses the legacy it passed down to later ages. The opening chapter looks at the central figure of the whole chivalric world, the knight, and asks why he is such a different figure from other fighting men. Following sections deal with chivalry in relation to the main themes of medieval literature, especially the vast cycle of Arthurian romances, and discuss the attitudes towards chivalry of writers such as Jean Froissart, whose pages cast a golden glow over the harsh realities of war. Later sections look at chivalry's influence on the Renaissance and later culture, beginning with the knight's transition to gentleman. The element by which chivalry is now most remembered, its respectful, even adoring, attitude towards women, is the subject of a wide-ranging discussion, covering both medieval reality and modern ideals. Richard Barber, author of Holy Grail: History of a Legend, Myths and Legends of the British Isles and King Arthur: Hero and Legend, has written an engaging and intriguing book on one of the most original concepts of the medieval mind.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

220

Publisher

Boydell Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1843831821

ISBN 13

9781843831822

Pilgrimages

By: Richard Barber

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pilgrimages

By: Richard Barber

This is the first book to offer a survey of the great pilgrimage traditions. It outlines the history of different customs & merges common themes, revealing surprising similarities in practice among pilgrims of widely differing beliefs & times

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

172

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published Date

ISBN 10

0851154719

ISBN 13

9780851154718

King Arthur

Hero and Legend

By: Richard Barber

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

King Arthur

Hero and Legend

By: Richard Barber

Provides information on the actual life of King Arthur along with the development of the legends that surround his life.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

246

Publisher

Boydell Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0851152546

ISBN 13

9780851152547

Londinium: A Biography

Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century

By: Richard Hingley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Londinium: A Biography

Roman London from its Origins to the Fifth Century

By: Richard Hingley

*** Winner of the PROSE Award (2019) for Classics *** This major new work on Roman London brings together the many new discoveries of the last generation and provides a detailed overview of the city from before its foundation in the first century to the fifth century AD. Richard Hingley explores the archaeological and historical evidence for London under the Romans, assessing the city in the context of its province and the wider empire. He explores the multiple functions of Londinium over time, considering economy, industry, trade, status and urban infrastructure, but also looking at how power, status, gender and identity are reflected through the materiality of the terrain and waterscape of the evolving city. A particular focus of the book is the ritual and religious context in which these activities occurred. Hingley looks at how places within the developing urban landscape were inherited and considers how the history and meanings of Londinium built upon earlier associations from its recent and ancient past. As well as drawing together a much-needed synthesis of recent scholarship and material evidence, Hingley offers new perspectives that will inspire future debate and research for years to come. This volume not only provides an accessible introduction for undergraduate students and anyone interested in the ancient city of London, but also an essential account for more advanced students and scholars.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

401

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1350047317

ISBN 13

9781350047310

Shakespeare among the Moderns

By: Richard L. Halpern

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Shakespeare among the Moderns

By: Richard L. Halpern

Modernist writers, critics, and artists sparked a fresh and distinctive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays which has proved remarkably tenacious, as Richard Halpern explains in this lively and provocative book. The preoccupations of such high modernists as T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and James Joyce set the tone for the critical reception of Shakespeare in the twentieth century. Halpern contends their habits of thought continue to dominate postmodern schools of criticism that claim to have broken with the modernist legacy.Halpern addresses such topics as imperialism and modernism's cult of the primitive, the rise of mass culture, modernist anti-semitism, and the aesthetic of the machine. His discussion considers figures as diverse as Orson Welles and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Shakespeare critics including Northrop Frye, Cleanth Brooks, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Cavell. Shakespeare's works have been subjected to a continuing process of historical reinterpretation in which every new era has imposed its own cultural and ideological presuppositions on the plays. The most enduring contribution of modernism, Halpern suggests, has been the juxtaposition of an awareness of historical distance and a mapping of Shakespeare's plays onto the present. Using modernist themes and approaches, he constructs new readings of four Shakespeare plays.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

306

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1501725483

ISBN 13

9781501725487

Making Democracy Work Better

Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect

By: Richard A. Couto

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Making Democracy Work Better

Mediating Structures, Social Capital, and the Democratic Prospect

By: Richard A. Couto

The decade of the 1980s marked a triumph for market capitalism. As politicians of all stripes sought to reinvent government in the image of private enterprise, they looked to the voluntary sector for allies to assuage the human costs of reductions in public policies of social welfare. This book details the "savage side" of market capitalism in Appalachia and explains the social, political, and economic roles that mediating structures play in mitigating it. Profiling the work of twenty-three such mediating structures--community-based organizations that battled to provide social safety nets, fight environmental assaults, and upgrade the education and job skills of Appalachian residents--Richard Couto distills the practical lessons to be found in their successes and shortcomings. Couto argues that a broader set of democratic dimensions be used in taking the measure of civil society and public policy in the twenty-first century. He shows that mediating structures promote the democratic prospect of reduced inequality and increased communal bonds when they provide and advocate for new forms and increased amounts of social capital--the public goods and moral resources that we invest in one another as members of a community.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

364

Publisher

UNC Press Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0807861081

ISBN 13

9780807861080

Delphi Collected Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton (Illustrated)

By: Sir Richard Francis Burton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Delphi Collected Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton (Illustrated)

By: Sir Richard Francis Burton

www.delphiclassics.com

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

12817

Publisher

Delphi Classics

Published Date

ISBN 10

1786560550

ISBN 13

9781786560551

Conundrum

Why Every Government Gets Things Wrong - And What We Can Do About It

By: Richard Bacon

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Conundrum

Why Every Government Gets Things Wrong - And What We Can Do About It

By: Richard Bacon

Government failure is affecting everyone. The single mum worried sick by a tax credit demand from HMRC to 'repay' thousands of pounds she never received; the family whose holiday was ruined because the Passport Office couldn't issue passports in time; the school that couldn't open at the start of term because CRB checks were being carried out by an organisation in meltdown; the farmers led to bankruptcy and even suicide by a Kafkaesque system for administering farm payments; and rail operators facing an uncertain future because the Department for Transport inadvertently landed the whole rail franchising system in chaos. Why is government getting it so wrong? Richard Bacon and Christopher Hope delve into the astonishing world of cock-ups and catastrophes and ponder why those at the top continue to fall short.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Biteback Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1849546169

ISBN 13

9781849546164

Chicago Census Report

By: Richard Edwards

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Chicago Census Report

By: Richard Edwards

Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

402

Publisher

BoD – Books on Demand

Published Date

ISBN 10

3382108534

ISBN 13

9783382108533

Interference & Other Stories

By: Richard Hoffman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Interference & Other Stories

By: Richard Hoffman

Interference & Other Stories of characters who express their feelings in a variety of ideas, thoughts and questions. Hoffman's writing makes us consider and question our own position on each subject covered in the book. The novel explores death, yearning, understanding and curiosity. We read about a police man who is still hurting from his son's death but is trying to move on by marrying his girlfriend. We learn about another man who is a recovered alcoholic and keeps busy by working in his car shop and being an advisor for a guy who is part of Alcoholics Anonymous. Additional stories are about a father and his son leaving the grocery store and a woman speaking to a marine over lunch asking questions about joining and what it is like. One story that I could relate to is "Sundown Jesus." A young man, Geory, goes to visit his uncle in a nursing home. When Geory gets there a doctor speaks with him about giving his uncle medication for his depression. Geory prefers to see his uncle first before giving permission. During his visit Geory finds that his uncle is ready to die. Other readers might find it easy to relate to because they may have elderly friends in nursing homes. The story that I found most compelling was "The Wrong Sunday." It starts out with a young boy, Marty, sleeping with a rosary. Instead of going to his parent's room after a bad dream he prays. When his family is getting ready for church, Marty is told that his grandfather has died. Marty's father does not handle this well and this sight hurts Marty. Marty starts to believe that his grandfather died because of a bad dream and is afraid that this can happen to him. The story is sad but opens our minds by looking into a topic that many children might think of. It also creates us as readers to revisit our bad dreams. Between these short stories there are short snip-bits about a guy. A guy who goes into a therapists office, a barbershop, a guy looking for work, one with a story and a guy going to heaven. The therapist one is humorous and makes you open your eyes, others convey a deep thought that might bore your mind. Overall, the best short story is the last story, "Interference." Hoffman examines the natural fights and frustration between family members as well as the need and crave for something that is so close. You'll read the ending at least three times, questioning what happened.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

126

Publisher

New River Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

089823297X

ISBN 13

9780898232974

The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

[2 volumes]

By: Ulrich Marzolph,Richard van Leeuwen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

[2 volumes]

By: Ulrich Marzolph,Richard van Leeuwen

The most comprehensive treatment of the Arabian Nights ever published, with more than 800 detailed encyclopedic entries and a wealth of authoritative essays and resources. The tales of the Arabian Nights have long been the focus of scholarly research and critique, but no English language work has ever attempted an all-embracing treatment of them. The fruit of years of research, The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia is the first comprehensive reference work introducing both the Arabian Nights and the context of their genesis and aftermath in Near Eastern, European, and world culture. Editors Ulrich Marzolph, one of the world's foremost scholars of Near Eastern narrative culture, and Richard van Leeuwen, a prominent scholar of the Arabian Nights, present detailed, authoritative, and up-to-date research on virtually all aspects of the tales, including major protagonists, themes, important translations, textual history, adaptations, reworkings, works inspired by the Arabian Nights, and aspects of literary theory, and provide extensive bibliographies for each tale. In addition to the 800+ encyclopedic entries and numerous essays, the work introduces research that has not previously been published, making it an invaluable resource to scholars, educators, students, and the general public, as well as an essential addition to the core collection of academic and public libraries.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

950

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

185109640X

ISBN 13

9781851096404

Democracy and Elections

By: Richard S. Katz

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Democracy and Elections

By: Richard S. Katz

Analyzing the electoral systems of various countries, including those of developing nations, this work examines the relationship between democratic theory values and the electoral institutions used to achieve them. Empirical data is used to find the institutions most appropriate to each model.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

358

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195044290

ISBN 13

9780195044294

Modern Multithreading

Implementing, Testing, and Debugging Multithreaded Java and C++/Pthreads/Win32 Programs

By: Richard H. Carver,Kuo-Chung Tai

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Modern Multithreading

Implementing, Testing, and Debugging Multithreaded Java and C++/Pthreads/Win32 Programs

By: Richard H. Carver,Kuo-Chung Tai

Master the essentials of concurrent programming,including testingand debugging This textbook examines languages and libraries for multithreadedprogramming. Readers learn how to create threads in Java and C++,and develop essential concurrent programming and problem-solvingskills. Moreover, the textbook sets itself apart from othercomparable works by helping readers to become proficient in keytesting and debugging techniques. Among the topics covered, readersare introduced to the relevant aspects of Java, the POSIX Pthreadslibrary, and the Windows Win32 Applications ProgrammingInterface. The authors have developed and fine-tuned this book through theconcurrent programming courses they have taught for the past twentyyears. The material, which emphasizes practical tools andtechniques to solve concurrent programming problems, includesoriginal results from the authors' research. Chaptersinclude: * Introduction to concurrent programming * The critical section problem * Semaphores and locks * Monitors * Message-passing * Message-passing in distributed programs * Testing and debugging concurrent programs As an aid to both students and instructors, class libraries havebeen implemented to provide working examples of all the materialthat is covered. These libraries and the testing techniques theysupport can be used to assess student-written programs. Each chapter includes exercises that build skills in programwriting and help ensure that readers have mastered the chapter'skey concepts. The source code for all the listings in the text andfor the synchronization libraries is also provided, as well asstartup files and test cases for the exercises. This textbook is designed for upper-level undergraduates andgraduate students in computer science. With its abundance ofpractical material and inclusion of working code, coupled with anemphasis on testing and debugging, it is also a highly usefulreference for practicing programmers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

480

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons

Published Date

ISBN 10

0471744166

ISBN 13

9780471744160

Book's by Richard Barber

The Reign of Chivalry

The Reign of Chivalry

Pilgrimages

Pilgrimages

King Arthur

King Arthur

Londinium: A Biography

Londinium: A Biography

Shakespeare among the Moderns

Shakespeare among the Moderns

Making Democracy Work Better

Making Democracy Work Better

Delphi Collected Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton (Illustrated)

Delphi Collected Works of Sir Richard Francis Burton (Illustrated)

Conundrum

Conundrum

Chicago Census Report

Chicago Census Report

Interference & Other Stories

Interference & Other Stories

The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

The Arabian Nights Encyclopedia [2 volumes]

Democracy and Elections

Democracy and Elections

Modern Multithreading

Modern Multithreading

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email