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Hawk Quest

By: Robert Lyndon

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The year is 1072. The Normans have captured England. The Turks have captured a Norman knight. And in order to free him, a soldier named Vallon must capture four rare hawks. On a heart-stopping journey to the far ends of the earth, braving Arctic seas, Viking warlords, and the blood-drenched battlefields, Vallon and his comrades must track down their quarry one by one in a relentless race against time. The scale is huge. The journey is incredible. The history is real. This is Hawk Quest.

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Redhook

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031621955X

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9780316219556

Inaugural Wounds

The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-century English Narratives

By: Robert E. Lougy

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Inaugural Wounds

The Shaping of Desire in Five Nineteenth-century English Narratives

By: Robert E. Lougy

Desire, Jacques Lacan suggests, is a condition or expression of our wounded nature. But because such desire is also unconscious, it can be expressed only indirectly, for what we consciously desire is hardly ever what we really want. Desire makes itself known, but disguises its presence--appearing, for example, in unconscious but repetitive, and sometimes even self-destructive, patterns of behavior. Informed by the voices of Freud and Lacan regarding the nature of language and desire, Inaugural Wounds examines the ways in which five major nineteenth-century English writers explored the trajectories and shapes of desire. Arguing that we need to give to novels the same kind of close scrutiny we give to poetry, author Robert Lougy suggests that when we do so, we discover that they often astound us by the resonance and range of their language, as well as by their ability to take us to strange and haunting places. The five narratives examined--Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit, William Thackeray's Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo, Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth, Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure--testify to the mysterious origins of desire. Although each of the novels tells its own story in its own way, they share a fascination with the nature of desire itself. Drawing upon recent work that has challenged historicist approaches toward nineteenth-century British literature, Professor Lougy uses the insights of psychoanalysis to enable us to more fully appreciate the depth and power of these novels. Of great value to Victorian and psychoanalytic scholars, Inaugural Wounds will be useful for teaching undergraduates as well.

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Ohio University Press

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0821415638

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9780821415634

Lethal Hindsight

By: Robert Abel Jr. MD

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Lethal Hindsight

By: Robert Abel Jr. MD

The Story Summary: When a unique North Korean formula falls into the hands of a rogue German industrialist, a strange chain of events begins to unfold. Gerhardt Kruger wants to see Germany return to its rightful place in the world. This fast-paced international thriller will involve two governments and a unique plot that could change the course of history. The rates of cataract triple in the Washington metropolitan area, and bizarre votes are made in the Senate Armed Services Committee. The level of deceit unfolds around a unique scientific concept. When Lauren Chandler, ophthalmic surgeon and researcher, stumbles onto the plot, she puts her life and her fathers life in jeopardy. Ruthless killers will not allow anything to derail the plan as international tensions rise.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1450011128

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9781450011129

Orange Lips and the Barbecue People, and Other Plays

By: Robert Reichardt

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Orange Lips and the Barbecue People, and Other Plays

By: Robert Reichardt

This collection contains six fascinating comedies by the avant-garde playwright, Robert Reichardt. Each is unique in its subject matter, and dazzling in originality. ORANGE LIPS AND THE BARBECUE PEOPLE answers the question about what happens to people when they wind up in Purgatory -- that in-between place described by Dante. Do they just sit and wait? No, they barbecue and run the lives of selected people still on Earth. A group of obnoxious barbecue people get involved with the family of Kenny "Orange Lips" Jung, and this leads to riotous conflict. ECHO AND THE CAMOUFLAGE, is set in modern Chicago, and is loosely based on the Greek Myth of Echo, Narcissus, and Queen Hera. A young blind girl, Echo Seltsam, is suddenly cured and transformed by a miracle into The Blue Lady -- a person of unlimited power. What she does with it, and how it effects her narcissistic, camouflage-wearing Father, Jerry, and others provides the comic structure of the play. The short play, KAREN, THE FUSE LADY, describes a bizarre Summer "romance" in a cheap Chicago tenement, as a young renter becomes involved with his neurotic neighbor. He battles to save his electricity (and sanity) from a woman who has other ideas about how he should live his life. HAT-P-1, OR A BIG CRUNCH. After scientists predict the Universe will soon end in a "Big Crunch," a group gathers in an affluent Chicago suburb for a black-tie party to comfort one another. It doesn't work out that way. The guests soon discover a lot about one another (not much of it good), and engage in various forms of escapism -- primarily focused on unrealistic thoughts about going to HAT-P-1, a newly discovered gigantic planet so light and fluffy it would float on water.

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AuthorHouse

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143898538X

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9781438985381

Undying

By: Robert Bowden

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Undying

By: Robert Bowden

Eve awoke with tears streaming down her cheeks. As she had done too many times recently, she had cried herself awake. She glanced over to the nightstand through the blur of tear filled eyes where the digital readout told her it was 2:00. The same as yesterday and the day before. In fact, as far back as she could remember in recent history, it didnt matter what time she went to bed, she always woke up at the same time

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1483685241

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Communication and Empire

Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930

By: Dwayne R. Winseck,Robert M. Pike

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Communication and Empire

Media, Markets, and Globalization, 1860–1930

By: Dwayne R. Winseck,Robert M. Pike

Filling in a key chapter in communications history, Dwayne R. Winseck and Robert M. Pike offer an in-depth examination of the rise of the “global media” between 1860 and 1930. They analyze the connections between the development of a global communication infrastructure, the creation of national telegraph and wireless systems, and news agencies and the content they provided. Conventional histories suggest that the growth of global communications correlated with imperial expansion: an increasing number of cables were laid as colonial powers competed for control of resources. Winseck and Pike argue that the role of the imperial contest, while significant, has been exaggerated. They emphasize how much of the global media system was in place before the high tide of imperialism in the early twentieth century, and they point to other factors that drove the proliferation of global media links, including economic booms and busts, initial steps toward multilateralism and international law, and the formation of corporate cartels. Drawing on extensive research in corporate and government archives, Winseck and Pike illuminate the actions of companies and cartels during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth, in many different parts of the globe, including Africa, Asia, and Central and South America as well as Europe and North America. The complex history they relate shows how cable companies exploited or transcended national policies in the creation of the global cable network, how private corporations and government agencies interacted, and how individual reformers fought to eliminate cartels and harmonize the regulation of world communications. In Communication and Empire, the multinational conglomerates, regulations, and the politics of imperialism and anti-imperialism as well as the cries for reform of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth emerge as the obvious forerunners of today’s global media.

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Duke University Press

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0822389991

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9780822389996

The King of the Alley

William Duer, Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768-1799

By: Robert Francis Jones

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The King of the Alley

William Duer, Politician, Entrepreneur, and Speculator, 1768-1799

By: Robert Francis Jones

Jones offers a full study of the career of late-18th century entrepreneur William Duer, a member of the New York State Convention and the Continental Congress, and assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury when the Federal government was organized. Duer had a role in all the significant changes that occurred during the revolutionary period.

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256

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American Philosophical Society

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0871692023

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9780871692023

Truman Capote Enfant Terrible

By: Robert Emmet Long

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Truman Capote Enfant Terrible

By: Robert Emmet Long

A close look at the genesis of one of America's great modern writers Robert Emmet Long presents a full account of Truman Capote's early life, making use of Capote's unpublished papers. Topics covered include his strange relationship with his beautiful but immature mother (she was sixteen years old when capote was born) as well as his friendships with a series of rich and talented women. Combining biographical insights with literary criticism, Truman Capote, Enfant Terrible presents a grand overview of a complex and fascinating author: one who remained a child in appearance and behavior; a southerner who strayed from the south; a celebrity while living in the most solitary realm of his vast imagination.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1441191127

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9781441191120

Ghost Traps

Stories

By: Robert Abel

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Ghost Traps

Stories

By: Robert Abel

Ghost Traps is a collection of twelve stories about characters who are on the edge and under duress, individuals backed against a wall as they try to free themselves from their own limitations, habits, and destructive desires. In the title story, Harper learns to fish from a man whose son is “catching hell” in the Korean War. When the son returns, he begins stealing lobsters from Harper’s traps, and Harper, out of a sense of obligation and guilt, teaches him to fish, vainly hoping it will help the man put together the pieces of a life that war shattered. In “The Connoisseur,” a wealthy collector on an archeological dig in the Himalayan foothills realizes he “knows how to stay out of jail, charge rent, build hotels, and pass Go,” but has not spiritual life. Unlike his guide, a Sherpa, who could remain content with nothing but the Himalayas, the collector finds himself wanting in all but material success. Whether they win or lose, Robert Abel’s characters make the best of circumstance with creativity, wit, passion, and endurance. In “Lawless in New York,” Professor Alice Reinquist, the sole woman in her university’s delegation to an academic conference, maintains her sense of humor by thinking of Wonder Woman’s Gold Lasso, which makes “even the most cunning of evildoers unable to prevaricate.” Tracey Wynn, a woman who considers herself on loan to her aloof boyfriend, keeps her options open by always leaving a portion of her neck exposed because she “cannot stand being closed in by anything and because she knows it invites at least a fantasy kiss.” In “Appetizer,” a man fishing in Alaska resourcefully asks two hungry grizzly bears, “How much love can $600 worth of salmon buy?” Although many of these characters inhabit a world in which the bottom is about to fall out, they invariably find good reason—and courage—to take the next treacherous step. From the salty waters of Cape Cod Canal to the mountains of Tibet; from a Puerto Rican pub to an elegant New York bar where “Susan Sontag and Norman Mailer had no doubt insulted each other,” Ghost Traps is filled with people hustling for survival and fighting for identity in a world reluctant to give anyone an even break.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820345741

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9780820345741

The Sword and the Dagger

A Novel

By: Robert Cochran

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The Sword and the Dagger

A Novel

By: Robert Cochran

The Sword and the Dagger is an epic YA historical adventure by debut novelist Robert Cochran, the Emmy Award-winning executive producer and co-creator of the hit TV series 24. When empires clash, a Princess, a Knight, and an Assassin embark on the quest of a lifetime During the time of the Crusades, an unlikely trio—a Christian princess, her affianced prince, and a Muslim assassin—embarks on a quest to the court of the most fearsome warrior the world has ever known, Genghis Khan. A rousing tale of adventure and romance about three young people who must grapple with fundamental issues of loyalty, friendship, faith, honor, and courage against the backdrop of conflicts that still resonate today. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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401

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Tor Teen

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1466893451

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9781466893450

Linguistic Theory

The Discourse of Fundamental Works

By: Robert De Beaugrande

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Linguistic Theory

The Discourse of Fundamental Works

By: Robert De Beaugrande

In Linguistic Theory, Robert de Beaugrande analyses linguistic theories not as abstract ideas or theses, but as the process and product of theoretical discourse. He argues that the best documentation of this discourse can be found in the 'fundamental' works of major linguists from Ferdinand de Saussure to Teun van Dijk and Walter Kintsch. He therefore employs the highly unusual strategy of a close reading of these works as discourse performances and strives to uncover their main points and characteristic moves in the linguist's own words. Through this approach, the reader is able to appreciate and understand the variety and controversy among linguistic theories as they have emerged and developed in interaction with each other. Special scrutiny is allocated to the issue of how far the active practice of the linguists followed their own theories and proposals, and why. The author concludes by assessing the prospects for linguistics to be drawn from the retrospect in the previous chapters.

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491

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Routledge

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1317900642

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9781317900641

Book's by Robert Walter

Hawk Quest

Hawk Quest

Inaugural Wounds

Inaugural Wounds

Lethal Hindsight

Lethal Hindsight

Orange Lips and the Barbecue People, and Other Plays

Orange Lips and the Barbecue People, and Other Plays

Undying

Undying

Communication and Empire

Communication and Empire

The King of the Alley

The King of the Alley

Truman Capote Enfant Terrible

Truman Capote Enfant Terrible

Ghost Traps

Ghost Traps

The Sword and the Dagger

The Sword and the Dagger

Linguistic Theory

Linguistic Theory

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