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A Love of Reading

Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

By: Robert Adams

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A Love of Reading

Reviews of Contemporary Fiction

By: Robert Adams

Every year, Robert Adams prepares a series of five reviews of contemporary novels, to be delivered alone on a theatre stage to sold-out audiences in Toronto and Montreal. In A Love of Reading Adams has now gathered 18 of his most brilliant reviews, from Jack Maggs by Peter Carey and The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, to A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry and Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler. In them he skillfully interweaves a nimble and entertaining discussion of plot, theme, and characterization with fascinating historical, biographical, and literary context. He is repeatedly drawn to the spectacle of less-than-perfect humans making their way in a hostile world, and as a result a review by Robert Adams is almost always a hugely satisfying mix of rich pathos and abundant humour. Famously, Adams reads a book a day, from which he selects only those novels that are truly extraordinary, that have made him see some part of the world or some aspect of the human condition in a new light – because for Adams, the best books always take the reader on a journey, with a destination very distant from the point of departure. It should be not only a journey of discovery – an exploration of the author’s vision – but also of risk. By matching one’s own vision to that of the author, says Adams, the reader enters an exciting negotiation to produce a new vision of his own. This joint enterprise between reader and writer, the shared risk and the wonder of discovery, is the foundation of A Love of Reading. • For the last six years, Robert Adams has presented an annual series of book reviews to sold out audiences. Eighty per cent of Adams’ 3,000 subscribers in Toronto and Montreal renew for the following season • This book is a selection of modern classics from a discriminating and entertaining guide • Perfect for reading groups • Quill & Quire, noting the jump in sales of any book reviewed by Adams, has called the phenomenon “The Adams Effect”

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McClelland & Stewart

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155199447X

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The Enemy in Our Hands

America's Treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror

By: Robert C. Doyle

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The Enemy in Our Hands

America's Treatment of Enemy Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror

By: Robert C. Doyle

Revelations of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war on terror marked a watershed momentin the study of modern warfare and the treatment of prisoners of war. Amid allegations of human rights violations and war crimes, one question stands out among the rest: Was the treatment of America's most recent prisoners of war an isolated event or part of a troubling and complex issue that is deeply rooted in our nation's military history?Military expert Robert C. Doyle's The Enemy in Our Hands: America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror draws from diverse sources to answer this question. Historical as well as timely in its content, this work examines America's major wars and past conflicts -- among them, the American Revolution, the Civil War, World Wars I and II, and Vietnam -- to provide understanding of the UnitedStates' treatment of military and civilian prisoners. The Enemy in Our Hands offers a new perspective of U.S. military history on the subject of EPWs and suggests that the tactics employed to manage prisoners of war are unique and disparate from one conflict tothe next. In addition to other vital information, Doyle provides a cultural analysis and exploration of U.S. adherence to international standards of conduct, including the 1929 Geneva Convention in each war. Although wars are not won or lost on the basis of how EPWs are treated, the treatment of prisoners is one of the measures by which history's conquerors are judged.

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491

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813125898

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9780813125893

The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910–1966

By: Christopher Robert Reed

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The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910–1966

By: Christopher Robert Reed

The Chicago NAACP was one of the first branches created in an effort to attain first-class citizenship for African Americans. Through the first six decades of white resistance, black indifference, and internal group struggle, the branch endured the effects of two world wars, national depression, the Cold War, and growing class differentiation among blacks. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Jane Addams, Dr. Charles E. Bentley, and Earl B. Dickerson were some early reformers who influenced the development of the Chicago NAACP during these earliest days.

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Indiana University Press

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025333313X

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A Prisoner's Duty

Great Escapes in U.S. Military History

By: Robert C. Doyle

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A Prisoner's Duty

Great Escapes in U.S. Military History

By: Robert C. Doyle

With you-are-there immediacy, prisoner of war expert Robert Doyle provides a penetrating look at some of the most daring escapes in American history. From the American Revolution and Civil War, to the war in the Persian Gulf, to the undeclared war in Southeast Asia, these extraordinary true stories form a riveting history that reads like a rapid-fire thriller. Includes an exploration of the psychology of escape, as well as a look at escape in popular books and films.

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Bantam

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0553579738

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9780553579734

Henry Fothergill Chorley

A Victorian Artist

By: Robert Terrell Bledsoe

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Henry Fothergill Chorley

A Victorian Artist

By: Robert Terrell Bledsoe

First published in 1998, this book focuses on the once celebrated but now neglected musical journalism of Henry Forthergill Chorley. For nearly forty years he effectively used his acerbic pen and idiosyncratic critical judgments to celebrate the works of Rossini, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Gounod and Sullivan, and to scorn those of Schumann , Verdi and Wagner. This book also discusses his friendships with literary figures such as Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Felicia Hemans, as well as his ongoing efforts to establish himself as a novelist as well as a journalist.

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Routledge

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042984395X

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The Nature of Narrative

Revised and Expanded

By: Robert Scholes,James Phelan,Robert Leland Kellogg

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The Nature of Narrative

Revised and Expanded

By: Robert Scholes,James Phelan,Robert Leland Kellogg

For the past forty years The Nature of Narrative has been an essential work for students of literature, teachers, writers, and scholars. Countering the tendency to view the novel as the paradigm case of literary narrative, Robert Scholes and Robert Kellogg offered a compelling history of narrative from antiquity to the twentieth century. Their main goal was to describe and analyze the nature of narrative's key elements: meaning, character, plot, and point of view. The Fortieth Anniversary Edition of this groundbreaking work has been revised and expanded to include a new preface and a lengthy chapter by James Phelan on developments in narrative theory since 1966. This new material describes the principles and practices of structuralist, cognitive, feminist, and rhetorical approaches to narrative, paying special attention to their work on character, plot, and narrative discourse. A continued leader in the field of narrative studies, The Nature of Narrative offers unique and invaluable histories of both narrative and narrative theory.

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426

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OUP USA

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0195151755

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Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville

Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America's Deadliest Prison

By: Robert Scott Davis

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Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville

Essays on the Secret Social Histories of America's Deadliest Prison

By: Robert Scott Davis

The name Andersonville has come to be synonymous with "American death camp." Its horrors have been portrayed in histories, art, television, and movies. The trial of its most famous figure, Captain Henry Wirz, still raises questions about American justice. This work unlocks the secret history of America's deadliest prison camp in ways that will spur debate for many years to come."--BOOK JACKET.

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Mercer University Press

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0881460125

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9780881460124

How Children Develop

By: Robert S. Siegler,Judy S. DeLoache,Nancy Eisenberg

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How Children Develop

By: Robert S. Siegler,Judy S. DeLoache,Nancy Eisenberg

An highly anticipated new text for the topically-organized child development course, written by three of the field's most accomplished researchers.

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760

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Macmillan

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1572592494

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Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense

By: Robert Shimonski

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Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense

By: Robert Shimonski

At a time when online surveillance and cybercrime techniques are widespread, and are being used by governments, corporations, and individuals, Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense gives you a practical resource that explains how these activities are being carried out and shows how to defend against them. Expert author Rob Shimonski shows you how to carry out advanced IT surveillance and reconnaissance, describes when and how these techniques are used, and provides a full legal background for each threat. To help you understand how to defend against these attacks, this book describes many new and leading-edge surveillance, information-gathering, and personal exploitation threats taking place today, including Web cam breaches, home privacy systems, physical and logical tracking, phone tracking, picture metadata, physical device tracking and geo-location, social media security, identity theft, social engineering, sniffing, and more. - Understand how IT surveillance and reconnaissance techniques are being used to track and monitor activities of individuals and organizations - Find out about the legal basis of these attacks and threats — what is legal and what is not — and how to defend against any type of surveillance - Learn how to thwart monitoring and surveillance threats with practical tools and techniques - Real-world examples teach using key concepts from cases in the news around the world

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Syngress

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0128014687

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9780128014684

Chaucer and Language

Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele

By: Robert Myles,David A. Williams

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Chaucer and Language

Essays in Honour of Douglas Wurtele

By: Robert Myles,David A. Williams

Every poet arrives at some sense of how language works. Chaucer's engagement, like that of the greatest literary figures, goes beyond the brilliant, skilful use of language as a tool of expression, beyond what we usually call "talent." He brings to the creative use of signification a sophisticated philosophical questioning of the very nature of language, of how we know and how we signify. Chaucer and Language argues that Chaucer's work points to answers to these questions, emphasizing that in various ways Chaucer made language itself the subject of his writing. The polyvalent nature of signs and the ambiguity this makes possible are discussed as one aspect of Chaucer's use of language as subject, as is irony. Chaucer's extension of the concept of language to include relics and the Eucharist, his exploitation of equivocation and the lie, and the semiotic dimensions of his poetic themes are also treated. These issues derive directly from the long tradition of mediaeval sign theory and anticipate the major issues of the modern theory of signs that is semantics.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773569200

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9780773569201

Senate, 1789-1989, V. 4

Historical Statistics, 1789-1992

By: Robert C. Byrd

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Senate, 1789-1989, V. 4

Historical Statistics, 1789-1992

By: Robert C. Byrd

Includes lists, tables, and statistics on: Senators; Senatorial elections; Sessions; Party leadership and organization; Committees; Senate organization; and Senate powers.

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Government Printing Office

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0160632560

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Netnography

Redefined

By: Robert V Kozinets

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Netnography

Redefined

By: Robert V Kozinets

Social media and Internet data offer rich opportunities and vexing challenges for sociocultural research. Explaining and extending prior approaches, Netnography: Redefined is an indispensable guide to the understanding and conduct of Internet ethnography. With this volume, netnography is upgraded, updated and renewed with the latest netnographic research from media anthropology, geography, education, library sciences, travel and tourism, linguistics, media and cultural studies, sociology, sexuality, addiction research, gaming studies, and nursing, and multiple examples from the worlds of Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other social media sites. Like its predecessor, Netnography: Redefined includes full, step-by-step procedural guidelines for the accurate and ethical conduct of netnography. Yet this edition adapts netnography to include big data and social media analytics, as well as further incorporating notions of network analysis. It deepens the practice of netnography through participative engagement, introspection, alternative representation, and a new humanist focus. Netnography: Redefined presents readers with up-to-date guidelines for the most fully realized and distinctive form of online ethnographic research yet developed.

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SAGE

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147392703X

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Book's by Robert Ransom Kellogg

A Love of Reading

A Love of Reading

The Enemy in Our Hands

The Enemy in Our Hands

The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910–1966

The Chicago NAACP and the Rise of Black Professional Leadership, 1910–1966

A Prisoner's Duty

A Prisoner's Duty

Henry Fothergill Chorley

Henry Fothergill Chorley

The Nature of Narrative

The Nature of Narrative

Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville

Ghosts and Shadows of Andersonville

How Children Develop

How Children Develop

Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense

Cyber Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Defense

Chaucer and Language

Chaucer and Language

Senate, 1789-1989, V. 4

Senate, 1789-1989, V. 4

Netnography

Netnography

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