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Incomparable Poetry

An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature

By: Robert Kiely

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Incomparable Poetry

An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature

By: Robert Kiely

Incomparable Poetry: An Essay on the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 and Irish Literature is an attempt to describe the ways in which the financial crisis of 2007-8 impacted literature in Ireland, and thereby describe the ways in which poetry engages with, is structured by, and wrestles with economic issues.Ireland and its contemporary poetry is a particularly suitable case study for studying the effect of the economic crisis on Anglophone poetry, because poetry in Ireland has a special relationship to the state and economy due to its status as a postcolonial nation-state. Beginning with a summary of recent Irish economic and cultural history, and moving across experimental and mainstream poetry, this essay outlines how the poetry of Trevor Joyce, Leontia Flynn, Dave Lordan, and Rachel Warriner addresses in its form and content the boom years of the Celtic Tiger and the financial crisis.Incomparable Poetry also discusses the concerns and historical contexts these poets have turned to in order to make sense of these events - including Chinese history, accountancy, sexual violence, and Iceland's economic history. In contemporary Irish poetry, the author argues, we see a significant interest in matching capitalism's accounting abilities, but in this attempt, these poems often end up broken by the imposition of an external conceptual framework or economic logic. Robert Kiely grew up in Cork, Ireland and now lives in London. His critical work has been published in Irish University Review, Journal of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, The Parish Review, and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd'hui. His chapbooks include How to Read (Crater, 2017) and Killing the Cop in Your Head (Sad, 2017). He is Poet-in-Residence at University of Surrey for 2019-20.

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1950192830

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Presidential Power

Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-first Century

By: Robert Y. Shapiro,Martha Joynt Kumar,Lawrence R. Jacobs

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Presidential Power

Forging the Presidency for the Twenty-first Century

By: Robert Y. Shapiro,Martha Joynt Kumar,Lawrence R. Jacobs

A collection of essays that reevaluates Richard Neustadt's place in presidential studies and shows that, while Neustadt's classic work remains a beacon for the study of the presidency, it no longer offers a reliable roadmap embodying the consensus among contemporary scholars.

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Columbia University Press

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0231109326

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Waterloo Station

A History of London's busiest terminus

By: Robert Lordan

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Waterloo Station

A History of London's busiest terminus

By: Robert Lordan

London's Waterloo Station is Britain's biggest and busiest railway terminal and, at over 170 years old, has a rich and fascinating history to discover. This book takes an in-depth look at the terminal's past, covering all decades from the 1840s to the present day. With over 160 archive and contemporary photographs, it includes: Waterloo's precursor, Nine Elms; the expansion and chaos that occurred in the late nineteenth century; how Waterloo fared during the two World Wars and the Necropolis Railway which, for almost ninety years, conveyed coffins to Brookwood Cemetery. The curious satellite station, Waterloo East, is covered along with the Waterloo and City line link to the capital's financial heart. There is the story behind London's first Eurostar terminal and the station's impact on popular culture, including literature, film, television, art and music. Finally, there is a revealing insight into what lies beneath the station, in the vast, cavernous area that the public never get to see.....

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The Crowood Press

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1785008692

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Living with War

Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory

By: Robert Teigrob

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Living with War

Twentieth-Century Conflict in Canadian and American History and Memory

By: Robert Teigrob

Canada and the United States: we think of one as a peaceable kingdom, the other as a warrior nation. But do our expectations about each country’s attitudes to war and peace match the realities? In Living with War, Robert Teigrob examines how war is experienced and remembered on both sides of the 49th parallel. Surveying popular and scholarly histories, films and literature, public memorials, and museum exhibits in both countries, he comes to some startling conclusions. Americans may seem more patriotic, even jingoistic, but they are also more willing to debate the pros and cons of their military actions. Canadians, though more diffident in their public displays of patriotism, are more willing than their southern neighbors to accept the official narrative that depicts just wars fought in the service of a righteous cause. A provocative book that complements critiques of contemporary Canadian militarism such as Warrior Nation, Living with War offers an intriguing look at the relationship with the military past on both sides of the border.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442699183

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Politics Is a Joke!

How TV Comedians Are Remaking Political Life

By: S. Robert Lichter

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Politics Is a Joke!

How TV Comedians Are Remaking Political Life

By: S. Robert Lichter

Does late night political humor matter? Are late-night comedians merely entertaining, or do they have the power to influence the way we think about politics and politicians? Politics Is a Joke! situates late night comedy in the historical context of political humor and demonstrates how the public turn to this venue for political information, and are in turn affected by it. Using exclusive data collected by the Center for Media and Public Affairs, the authors conduct a detailed and exhaustive analysis of political jokes on late night TV shows dating back to 1992 in order to pinpoint the main targets and themes of late-night comedy. Politics Is a Joke! uses a wide range of examples, from jokes about politicians' physical appearance and sex scandals to jokes about Congress and even the news media, to assess and understand the impact of political humor on political institutions, politicians and their policies and behavior. Engagingly written with analysis of jokes from comedians like Jay Leno, Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, Politics is a Joke! is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the crucial role late night comedy plays in our political universe - and anyone who enjoys a good laugh.

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Routledge

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0429961847

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Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-skilled Employees

Advances for Economic Regeneration

By: Claretha Hughes,Lionel Robert,Kristin Frady,Adam Arroyos

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Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-skilled Employees

Advances for Economic Regeneration

By: Claretha Hughes,Lionel Robert,Kristin Frady,Adam Arroyos

Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-Skilled Employees explores the rapidly changing use of digital and systems innovations in the management of specific sectors of the workforce in the modern workplace across different industrial contexts.

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Emerald Group Publishing

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1789730791

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Political Campaign Communication

Principles and Practices

By: Judith S. Trent,Robert V. Friedenberg,Robert E. Denton Jr.

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Political Campaign Communication

Principles and Practices

By: Judith S. Trent,Robert V. Friedenberg,Robert E. Denton Jr.

Now in its seventh edition, Political Campaign Communication provides a realistic understanding of the strategic and tactical communication practices utilized in contemporary political campaigns. It draws on a wealth of examples from local to national political campaigns and communication theory to illustrate principles and practices of campaigns such as functions, stages, communicative styles, public speaking, debates, interpersonal communication, political advertising, and the use of the internet and new media. Trent, Friedenberg, and Denton's classic text has been updated to reflect recent election campaigns, including the 2010 congressional elections and the initial stages of the 2012 presidential election. Many sections now focus on the most recent presidential elections, and the campaigns of Barack Obama and John McCain. In addition, the authors have examined the expanding role of the internet in political campaigns. Political Campaign Communication continues to be a classroom favorite-a thoroughly researched, insightful, and reader-friendly text.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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144220673X

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Second Sight

By: Robert V. Hine

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Second Sight

By: Robert V. Hine

He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial vision, returning Hine to the world of the sighted. "The trauma seemed instructive enough" for him to begin a journal. That journal is the heart of Second Sight, a sensitively written account of Hine's journey into darkness and out again. The first parts are told simply, with little anguish. The emotion comes when sight returns; like a child he discovers the world anew—the intensity of colors, the sadness of faces grown older, the renewed excitement of sex and the body. With the understanding and insights that come from living on both sides of the divide, Hine ponders the meaning of blindness. His search is enriched by a discourse with other blind writers, humorist James Thurber, novelist Eleanor Clark, poet Jorge Luis Borges, among others. With them he shares thoughts on the acceptance and advantages of blindness, resentment of the blind, the reluctance with sex, and the psychological depression that often follows the recovery of sight. Hine's blindness was the altered state in which to learn and live, and his deliverance from blindness the spur to seek and share its lessons. What he found makes a moving story that embraces all of us—those who can see and those who cannot. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995. He knew he was going blind. Yet he finished graduate school, became a history professor, and wrote books about the American West. Then, nearly fifty, Robert Hine lost his vision completely. Fifteen years later, a risky eye operation restored partial visio

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0520919122

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Exploring Gogol

By: Robert A. Maguire

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Exploring Gogol

By: Robert A. Maguire

For the past 150 years, critics have referred to 'the Gogol problem', by which they mean their inability to account for a life and work that are puzzling, often opaque, yet have proved consistently fascinating to generations of readers. This book proceeds on the assumption that Gogol's life and work, in all their manifestations, form a whole; it identifies, in ways that have eluded critics to date, the rhetorical strategies and thematic patterns that create the unity. These larger concerns emerge from a close study of the major texts, fictional and nonfictional, and in turn are set in a broad artistic and intellectual context, Russian and European, with special attention to German philosophy, the visual arts, and Orthodox Christian theology.

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0804765324

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The Gargoyle Trilogy

The Complete Series

By: Robert A. Adamcik

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The Gargoyle Trilogy

The Complete Series

By: Robert A. Adamcik

All three books in Robert A. Adamcik's 'The Gargoyle Trilogy', now available in one volume! Nautical Strike: A past special mission cost U.S. Navy Reserve Lieutenant Commander James Robert "Bob" Morgan an eye. Now, he's a CIA analyst working at Langley. When Morgan's close friend is killed in an ambush, he volunteers to find the source of weapons being supplied to insurgents in Mali, and stop the atrocities before more American lives are lost. But Not even Morgan is prepared for the scope of the terrorists' ultimate goal, which will reshape the world order if he can’t stop them. Personal Strike: It’s been a time of peace and quiet for Morgan and Cat, but their celebration is cut short when a new enemy strikes close to home. Hantu, a criminal organization with a score to settle against Morgan, kidnaps his ex-wife. Meanwhile, Cat is called back to London to deal with the man who changed the course of her life. The two threads collide in a cataclysm of sudden violence and death... and only one side can emerge victiorious. Final Strike: This time, the battleground is the fjords of Norway, but the enemy remains the same, the international criminal organization Hantu. Morgan and Cat are married on the museum ship H.M.S. Warrior, but the celebrations end when Hantu executes its deadly final plan: a series of devastating attacks around the world. With allies both old and new, Gargoyle and Calico are now in a globe-spanning race against the clock. Can they stop the Hantu and bring their leader to justice?

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Encyclopaedia of Propaganda

By: Robert Cole

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Encyclopaedia of Propaganda

By: Robert Cole

The Encyclopedia of Propaganda examines all aspects of propaganda through history, and is organized in an A to Z format. The set defines the arenas in which propaganda is used such as politics, war, advertising and media; pinpoints the political systems in which it is used, such as Nazism, Communism and McCarthyism; and describes notable progenitors of propaganda and their works, including Hitler and "Mein Kampf", Machiavelli and "The Prince", Sun Tzu and "The Art of War", and Plato and "The Republic". "The Encyclopedia of Propaganda" also examines noteworthy individuals who have employed propaganda to further their own agenda, including Walt Disney, Fidel Castro, Jane Fonda, the Rev. Jerry Falwell, Saddam Hussein, Rush Limbaugh and Eleanor Roosevelt. Organizations which have utilized propaganda in a systematic fashion are also included, among them the Black Panther Party, the Sandinista National Liberation Front, and the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals. This well organized, easy-to-use reference should be a valuable research tool for students of world history, politics and literature.

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1317471989

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The Democracy of God

An American Catholicism

By: Robert Willis

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The Democracy of God

An American Catholicism

By: Robert Willis

Crisis grips the American Catholic community. Church professionals abandon it in record numbers while many who remain grapple with low morale, overwork, and compensatory addictions. Schools either close or laypeople staff them. Parishes consolidate, bereft of pastors and communicants. The people itself lies fragmented, a landscape of polarized groups, a kaleidoscope of political partisans more than gatherings of the faithful. Its future hangs in the balance. Current leaders fixate on two plans. In one they march steadfastly into the past, pursuing the illusion of a remnant group of the righteous armored by uniformity, a sorry substitute for a religious community. In another they resolutely protect the status quo. Before the eyes of an incredulous people they are transforming the church into a museum of religious artifacts, a fitting destination for inquisitive tourists, occasional visitors, and the uninvolved. The author offers a third alternative. Calling upon the democratic attempts of John Carroll and John England, the incisive comments of Tocqueville about religion in a democracy, and the theology of Vatican II, he challenges bishops to forsake their status as minor lords in a medieval monarchy and, instead, to embrace a servant leadership within the People of God.

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0595379222

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9780595379224

Special Report on Surnames in Ireland

Together with Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland

By: Sir Robert Edwin Matheson

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Special Report on Surnames in Ireland

Together with Varieties and Synonymes of Surnames and Christian Names in Ireland

By: Sir Robert Edwin Matheson

This work shows the areas with which family names have tended to be associated over the years, and where they appear with the most frequency, making it a valuable tool in tracing Irish origins.

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0806301872

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Capt’n Bob’s Adventures in Child Psychology

By: Robert Belenky

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Capt’n Bob’s Adventures in Child Psychology

By: Robert Belenky

A professional memoir, informally written, that begins with a story of the author, his ancestors, his childhood and his education. The focus, however, is on the high spirited experiences that have marked his career whether in Boston, Vermont, Russia or Haiti, working mostly with the poor. -- taken from back cover.

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1483426572

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A Practical Guide to Theoretical Frameworks for Social Science Research

By: Andrea J. Bingham,Robert Mitchell,Daria S. Carter

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A Practical Guide to Theoretical Frameworks for Social Science Research

By: Andrea J. Bingham,Robert Mitchell,Daria S. Carter

This practical book offers a guide to finding, choosing, and applying theoretical frameworks to social sciences research, and provides researchers with the scaffolding needed to reflect on their philosophical orientations and better situate their work in the existing landscape of empirical and theoretical knowledge. Using a multifaceted approach, the book provides clear definitions, primary tenets, historical context, highlights of the challenges and contemporary discussion and, perhaps more importantly, concrete and successful examples of studies that have drawn on and incorporated each theoretical framework. The authors define and explain the connections among such concepts as ontology, epistemology, paradigm, theory, theoretical frameworks, conceptual frameworks, and research methodology; describe the process of finding and effectively using theoretical and conceptual frameworks in research; and offer brief overviews of particular theories within the following disciplines: sociology, psychology, education, leadership, public policy, political science, economics, organizational studies, and business. The book also has a dedicated chapter on critical theories, and for each theory, provides a definition, explores how the theory is useful for researchers, discusses the background and foundations, outlines key terms and concepts, presents examples of theoretical applications, and gives an overview of strengths and limitations. This book offers a useful starting point for any researcher interested in better situating their work in existing conceptual and theoretical knowledge, but it will be especially useful for graduate students and early career researchers who are looking for clear definitions of complex terms and concepts, and for an introduction to useful theories across disciplines.

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1003847234

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Incomparable Poetry

Incomparable Poetry

Presidential Power

Presidential Power

Waterloo Station

Waterloo Station

Living with War

Living with War

Politics Is a Joke!

Politics Is a Joke!

Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-skilled Employees

Managing Technology and Middle- and Low-skilled Employees

Political Campaign Communication

Political Campaign Communication

Second Sight

Second Sight

Exploring Gogol

Exploring Gogol

The Gargoyle Trilogy

The Gargoyle Trilogy

Encyclopaedia of Propaganda

Encyclopaedia of Propaganda

The Democracy of God

The Democracy of God

Special Report on Surnames in Ireland

Special Report on Surnames in Ireland

Capt’n Bob’s Adventures in Child Psychology

Capt’n Bob’s Adventures in Child Psychology

A Practical Guide to Theoretical Frameworks for Social Science Research

A Practical Guide to Theoretical Frameworks for Social Science Research

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