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Red Sea Coral Reefs

By: Gunnar Bemert,Rupert Ormond

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First published in 1981. The Red Sea is a distinctive and unique tropical sea, and the only enclosed coral sea in the world. This book are the impressions and images from the author who has been a professional diver and photographer since 1975. working on the east coast of the Red Sea. He shares his exciting and fantastic times in Saudi Arabia, maligning that the Red Sea remains an unparalleled source of surprises, entertainment, and beauty.

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Routledge

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1317848985

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9781317848981

The Popes

Every Question Answered

By: Rupert Matthews

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The Popes

Every Question Answered

By: Rupert Matthews

This comprehensive historical reference covers the Apostolic Succession from St. Peter to Pope Francis, plus a selection of Papal Bulls and teachings. The papacy is a unique religious office. Lasting two millennia, it is one of the oldest and most enduring institutions in the world. The line of authority linking the current pope to the ministry of Jesus Christ has continued unbroken over the centuries. The Popes: Every Question Answered presents pertinent facts and fascinating details about all 266 popes, from St. Peter to Pope Francis I. Covering controversies, triumphs, and reforms from the Late Roman Period to the twenty-first century, this is an indispensable reference guide for theological students and people of all faiths.

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920

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Simon and Schuster

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1626862702

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9781626862708

Physic and Philanthropy

A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936-1986

By: A. Rupert Hall,B. A. Bembridge

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Physic and Philanthropy

A History of the Wellcome Trust 1936-1986

By: A. Rupert Hall,B. A. Bembridge

The Wellcome Trust is a charitable institution supporting medical and allied research throughout the world. This History of the Trust marks the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary in 1986. Professor A. Rupert Hall, a prominent science historian, long associated with the Trust, and B. A. Bembridge, a retired Trust scientist, have written this lucid and well informed account which charts the development of the organisation from its inception in 1936 to the present day. Within this framework, there is an underlying discussion of the 'philosophy' of the financial endowment of science and medicine. The Wellcome Trust has had an enormous impact on medical research over the years. This volume provides a unique insight into the development of a leading scientific research body, and its relevance to similar institutions the world over.

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506

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CUP Archive

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0521326397

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9780521326391

Madness, Masks, and Laughter

An Essay on Comedy

By: Rupert D. V. Glasgow

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Madness, Masks, and Laughter

An Essay on Comedy

By: Rupert D. V. Glasgow

Madness, Masks, and Laughter: An Essay on Comedy is an exploration of narrative and dramatic comedy as a laughter-inducing phenomenon. The theatrical metaphors of mask, appearance, and illusion are used as structural linchpins in an attempt to categorize the many and extremely varied manifestations of comedy and to find out what they may have in common with one another. As this reliance on metaphor suggests, the purpose is less to produce The Truth about comedy than to look at how it is related to our understanding of the world and to ways of understanding our understanding. Previous theories of comedy or laughter (such as those advanced by Hobbes, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Bergson, Freud, and Bakhtin) as well as more general philosophical considerations are discussed insofar as they shed light on this approach. The limitations of the metaphors themselves mean that sight is never lost of the deep-seated ambiguity that has made laughter so notoriously difficult to pin down in the past." "The first half of the volume focuses in particular on traditional comic masks and the pleasures of repetition and recognition, on the comedy of imposture, disguise, and deception, on dramatic and verbal irony, on social and theatrical role-playing and the comic possibilities of plays-within-plays and "metatheatre," as well as on the cliches, puns, witticisms, and torrents of gibberish which betray that language itself may be understood as a sort of mask. The second half of the book moves to the other side of the footlights to show how the spectators themselves, identifying with the comic spectacle, may be induced to "drop" their own roles and postures, laughter here operating as something akin to a ventilatory release from the pressures of social or cognitive performance. Here the essay examines the subversive madness inherent in comedy, its displaced anti-authoritarianism, as well as the violence, sexuality, and bodily grotesqueness it may bring to light. The structural tensions in this broadly Hobbesian or Freudian model of a social mask concealing an anti-social self are reflected in comedy's own ambivalences, and emerge especially in the ambiguous concepts of madness and folly, which may be either celebrated as festive fun or derided as sinfulness. The study concludes by considering the ways in which nonsense and the grotesque may infringe our cognitive limitations, here extending the distinction between appearance and reality to a metaphysical level which is nonetheless prey to unresolvable ambiguities." "The scope of the comic material ranges over time from Aristophanes to Martin Amis, from Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais, and Shakespeare to Oscar Wilde, Joe Orton, John Barth, and Philip Roth. Alongside mainly Old Greek, Italian, French, Irish, English, and American examples, a number of relatively little-known German plays (by Grabbe, Tieck, Buchner, and others) are also taken into consideration."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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400

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838635598

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9780838635599

The Artificial Empire

The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges

By: Giles Henry Rupert Tillotson

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The Artificial Empire

The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges

By: Giles Henry Rupert Tillotson

This book discusses the role of the visual arts in the assertion of European colonial power, examining the representation of Indian scenery and architecture by British artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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176

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Psychology Press

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0700712828

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9780700712823

Rupert Annual 2022

By: Rupert

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Rupert Annual 2022

By: Rupert

In this year's Rupert Annual, Rupert goes on an adventure with the frogs, befriends the young Hamish, rescues a merboy and much more! Enjoy a brand-new story 'Rupert and the Christmas Ribbon', originated and illustrated by Stuart Trotter, plus a selection of much-loved activities to complete at home. The stories included are: Rupert and Hamish Rupert and the Angry Sea Rupert and the Housemouse Rupert and the Train Journey Rupert and the Raft Rupert and the Christmas Ribbon.

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120

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Farshore

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0755501063

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9780755501069

Letters from Rupert Brooke to His Publisher, 1911-1914

By: Rupert Brooke

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Letters from Rupert Brooke to His Publisher, 1911-1914

By: Rupert Brooke

Chronicles the preparations for Brooke's first published volume of verse and attitude towards his fledgling literary career

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Octagon Press, Limited

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0374909970

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9780374909970

Book's by Rupert Ormond

Red Sea Coral Reefs

Red Sea Coral Reefs

The Popes

The Popes

Physic and Philanthropy

Physic and Philanthropy

Madness, Masks, and Laughter

Madness, Masks, and Laughter

The Artificial Empire

The Artificial Empire

Rupert Annual 2022

Rupert Annual 2022

Letters from Rupert Brooke to His Publisher, 1911-1914

Letters from Rupert Brooke to His Publisher, 1911-1914

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