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The Sign of Four

By: Stephen Herman,Steve Herman

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The Sign of Four

By: Stephen Herman,Steve Herman

Radio talk show host teams up with in contemporary Sherlock Holmes style mystery.

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Gravier House Press, LLC

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0967117925

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9780967117928

The Lore of the Playground

One hundred years of children's games, rhymes and traditions

By: Steve Roud

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The Lore of the Playground

One hundred years of children's games, rhymes and traditions

By: Steve Roud

From conkers to marbles, from British Bulldog to tag, not forgetting 'one potato, two potato' and 'eeny, meeny, miny, mo', The Lore of the Playground looks at the games children have enjoyed, the rhymes they have chanted and the rituals and traditions they have observed over the past hundred years and more. Each generation, it emerges, has had its own favourites - hoops and tops in the 1930s, clapping games more recently. Some pastimes, such as skipping, have proved remarkably resilient, their complicated rules carefully handed down from one class to the next. Many are now the stuff of distant memory. And some traditions have proved to be strongly regional, loved by children in one part of the country, unknown to those elsewhere. All are brilliantly and meticulously recorded by Steve Roud, who has drawn on interviews with hundreds of people aged from 8 to 80 to create a fascinating picture of all our childhoods.

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Random House

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1407089323

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9781407089324

Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon

The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism

By: Steve Newman

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Ballad Collection, Lyric, and the Canon

The Call of the Popular from the Restoration to the New Criticism

By: Steve Newman

The humble ballad, defined in 1728 as "a song commonly sung up and down the streets," was widely used in elite literature in the eighteenth century and beyond. Authors ranging from John Gay to William Blake to Felicia Hemans incorporated the seemingly incongruous genre of the ballad into their work. Ballads were central to the Scottish Enlightenment's theorization of culture and nationality, to Shakespeare's canonization in the eighteenth century, and to the New Criticism's most influential work, Understanding Poetry. Just how and why did the ballad appeal to so many authors from the Restoration period to the end of the Romantic era and into the twentieth century? Exploring the widespread breach of the wall that separated "high" and "low," Steve Newman challenges our current understanding of lyric poetry. He shows how the lesser lyric of the ballad changed lyric poetry as a whole and, in so doing, helped to transform literature from polite writing in general into the body of imaginative writing that became known as the English literary canon. For Newman, the ballad's early lack of prestige actually increased its value for elite authors after 1660. Easily circulated and understood, ballads moved literature away from the exclusive domain of the courtly, while keeping it rooted in English history and culture. Indeed, elite authors felt freer to rewrite and reshape the common speech of the ballad. Newman also shows how the ballad allowed authors to access the "common" speech of the public sphere, while avoiding what they perceived as the unpalatable qualities of that same public's increasingly avaricious commercial society.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812202937

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9780812202939

The Happy Burden of History

From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood

By: Andrew S. Bergerson,K. Scott Baker,Clancy Martin,Steve Ostovich

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The Happy Burden of History

From Sovereign Impunity to Responsible Selfhood

By: Andrew S. Bergerson,K. Scott Baker,Clancy Martin,Steve Ostovich

Germans are often accused of failing to take responsibility for Nazi crimes, but what precisely should ordinary people do differently? Indeed, scholars have yet to outline viable alternatives for how any of us should respond to terror and genocide. And because of the way they compartmentalize everyday life, our discipline-bound analyses often disguise more than they illuminate. Written by a historian, literary critic, philosopher, and theologian, The Happy Burden of History takes an integrative approach to the problem of responsible selfhood. Exploring the lives and letters of ordinary and intellectual Germans who faced the ethical challenges of the Third Reich, it focuses on five typical tools for cultivating the modern self: myths, lies, non-conformity, irony, and modeling. The authors carefully dissect the ways in which ordinary and intellectual Germans excused their violent claims to mastery with a sense of ‘sovereign impunity.’ They then recuperate the same strategies of selfhood for our contemporary world, but in ways that are self-critical and humble. The book shows how viewing this problem from within everyday life can empower and encourage us to bear the burden of historical responsibility ‐ and be happy doing so.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110246376

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9783110246377

Paul's Large Letters

Paul's Autographic Subscription in the Light of Ancient Epistolary Conventions

By: Steve Reece

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Paul's Large Letters

Paul's Autographic Subscription in the Light of Ancient Epistolary Conventions

By: Steve Reece

At the end of several of his letters the apostle Paul claims to be penning a summary and farewell greeting in his own hand: 1 Corinthians, Galatians, Philemon, cf. Colossians, 2 Thessalonians. Paul's claims raise some interesting questions about his letter-writing practices. Did he write any complete letters himself, or did he always dictate to a scribe? How much did his scribes contribute to the composition of his letters? Did Paul make the effort to proofread and correct what he had dictated? What was the purpose of Paul's autographic subscriptions? What was Paul's purpose in calling attention to their autographic nature? Why did Paul write in large letters in the subscription of his letter to the Galatians? Why did he call attention to this peculiarity of his handwriting? A good source of answers to these questions can be found among the primary documents that have survived from around the time of Paul, a large number of which have been discovered over the past two centuries and in fact continue to be discovered to this day. From around the time of Paul there are extant several dozen letters from the caves and refuges in the desert of eastern Judaea (in Hebrew, Aramaic, Nabataean, Greek, and Latin), several hundred from the remains of a Roman military camp in Vindolanda in northern England (in Latin), and several thousand from the sands of Middle and Upper Egypt (in Greek, Latin, and Egyptian Demotic). Reece has examined almost all these documents, many of them unpublished and rarely read, with special attention to their handwriting styles, in order to shed some light on these technical aspects of Paul's letter-writing conventions.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567669084

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9780567669087

Rare Birds Day by Day

By: Steve Dudley,Tim Benton,Peter Fraser,John Ryan

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Rare Birds Day by Day

By: Steve Dudley,Tim Benton,Peter Fraser,John Ryan

Covering 282 rare species and sub-species (plus records for a further 18 Category D species) found in Britain and Ireland, around 20,000 individual records of rare birds are listed in diary style, with each individual bird appearing on the date on which it was originally found, along with all the other rare birds found on that date between 1958 and 1994. Rare Birds Day by Day follows three earlier Poyser titles looking at scarce and rare birds recorded in Britain and Ireland, Scarce Migrant Birds in Britain and Ireland (Sharrock, 1974), Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland (Sharrock & Sharrock, 1976) and Rare Birds in Britain and Ireland (Dymond, Fraser & Gantlett, 1989). Like these previous books, this latest rare bird title has been brought to you by well-known and experienced British birders and rare bird finders. This book, however, differs markedly from the earlier volumes, in that it moves away from the traditional presentation of species in systematic order. Each record is listed in county order and is accompanied by the finding site, number of birds (for multiple records) and length of stay (for those birds remaining for more than one day). This new and novel way of presenting rare bird data will prove fascinating to anyone with an interest in finding and watching rare migrant and vagrant species. It will also prove a valuable and fun tool for the keenest rarity hunters, enabling them to use the book as a rare bird predictor, by following closely the birds found on each date over the 36 years covered by the book. The book is enlivened with illustrations by Dave Nurney, most of them specifically prepared for this volume.

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A&C Black

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1408137941

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9781408137949

The Darkness of the Present

Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly

By: Steve McCaffery

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The Darkness of the Present

Poetics, Anachronism, and the Anomaly

By: Steve McCaffery

The Darkness of the Present includes essays that collectively investigate the roles of anomaly and anachronism as they work to unsettle commonplace notions of the “contemporary” in the field of poetics. In the eleven essays of The Darkness of the Present, poet and critic Steve McCaffery argues that by approaching the past and the present as unified entities, the contemporary is made historical at the same time as the historical is made contemporary. McCaffery’s writings work against the urge to classify works by placing them in standard literary periods or disciplinary partitions. Instead, McCaffery offers a variety of insights into unusual and ingenious affiliations between poetic works that may have previously seemed distinctive. He questions the usual associations of originality and precedence. In the process, he repositions many texts within genealogies separate from the ones to which they are traditionally assigned. The chapters in The Darkness of the Present might seem to present an eclectic façade and can certainly be read independently. They are linked, however, by a common preoccupation reflected in the title of the book: the anomaly and the anachronism and the way their empirical emergence works to unsettle a steady notion of the “contemporary” or “new.”

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University of Alabama Press

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0817357335

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A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Enhancing Academic Practice

By: Heather Fry,Steve Ketteridge,Stephanie Marshall

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A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education

Enhancing Academic Practice

By: Heather Fry,Steve Ketteridge,Stephanie Marshall

First published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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1134109091

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Scottish Gods

Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012

By: Bruce Steve Bruce

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Scottish Gods

Religion in Modern Scotland 1900-2012

By: Bruce Steve Bruce

Steve Bruce here presents a highly readable account of the changing nature and place of religion in Scotland in an increasingly irreligious society. In 1900 Scotland was a largely Presbyterian country and the Christian churches were a major social force. Now less than 10 per cent of Scots attend church. As religion has declined, it has become more varied: Catholicism has grown as have Charismatic Christian fellowships; Buddhist and Hindu themes have 'easternised' our religious vocabulary; a significant Muslim population has become established; and a notable number of Scots now pursue personal spiritual interests in forms which would once have been dismissed as pagan. Both this decline and the diversification deserve explanation. The Protestant-Catholic divide has faded but Scots have new controversies over the proper public place of religion in the light of growing secularization and diversification. The growth of individual liberty and increasing cultural diversity combine to weaken all shared beliefs by changing religion from a social matter into a private personal concern. All religious groups are faced with the choice of either accommodating that trend and losing their distinctiveness or resisting it and making membership too costly for most potential adherents. This radical remapping of Scotland's religious character is a fascinating summary of a remarkable career of research and analysis by one of Scotland's leading social historians.Topics include: Lewis, Orkney and Shetland compared; the integration of the Irish; the growth and decline of the Catholic Church; Scotland Orange and Protestant; the Post-War Kirk; factionalism in the conservative Presbyterian churches; the failure of the charismatic movement in Scotland; Samye Ling and Buddhism; Findhorn and New Age spirituality; Scots Muslims; and arguments over the ordination of women and gay rights.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748682910

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At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

By: Steve Mentz

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At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean

By: Steve Mentz

Fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery.

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1847064930

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9781847064936

Doing Creative Writing

By: Steve May

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Doing Creative Writing

By: Steve May

The ideal guide to the 'what, how and why' of creative writing courses, designed for anyone beginning or contemplating a course and wondering what to expect and how to get the most from their studies.

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Routledge

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1134143125

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The Out of Bounds Church?

Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change

By: Steve Taylor

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The Out of Bounds Church?

Learning to Create a Community of Faith in a Culture of Change

By: Steve Taylor

What’s Going on Out There?Author Steve Taylor takes trips to the edge of the church envelope and sends us back what he’s finding inside the emerging church around the globe. From the revival of ancient spiritual practices to the rise of multimedia, each of his posts sketches a view of the body of Christ in wild flux. Topics include: birth; pilgrimage; community; creativity; DJing; and leading and following.

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Zondervan

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0310873487

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9780310873488

First Expressions

Innovation and the Mission of God

By: Steve Taylor

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First Expressions

Innovation and the Mission of God

By: Steve Taylor

Seeking insight from the real-life development of the earliest expressions of emerging church from their birth, through times of adolescent angst and into the reality of adulthood, this book offers a unique insight into the long-term sustainability of fresh expressions.

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SCM Press

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033405849X

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Emotional Literacy at the Heart of the School Ethos

By: Steve Killick

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Emotional Literacy at the Heart of the School Ethos

By: Steve Killick

Includes CD-Rom ′This book will educate and enthuse teachers about emotional literacy, while providing them with a host of practical suggestions for working with children to increase awareness, understanding and control of their feelings′ - Professor Neil Frude, Clinical Psychologist, Western Mail Translating the theory of emotional literacy into a practical, whole-school approach, this book is written for teachers, psychologists and lecturers wishing to introduce and implement: o the rationale o the practice o the policy development. Drawing on his practical experience as a consultant with a special school, the author provides everything you will need to deliver a full training programme on this subject, including activities and a Powerpoint presentation on a CD-rom. His work explains the importance of considering children′s emotional life in school situations and gives practical skills to help nurture children′s emotional development. Dr Steve Killick is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist who works in the NHS with young people with severe mental health problems. He has worked in both adult and child mental health and education settings and also works as a consultant and trainer for organisations and individuals. He has recently worked with Headlands School in Wales to produce an emotional literacy programme for organisational change and curriculum development.

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SAGE

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1849202559

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Shipwreck Modernity

Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719

By: Steve Mentz

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Shipwreck Modernity

Ecologies of Globalization, 1550–1719

By: Steve Mentz

Shipwreck Modernity engages early modern representations of maritime disaster in order to describe the global experience of ecological crisis. In the wet chaos of catastrophe, sailors sought temporary security as their worlds were turned upside down. Similarly, writers, poets, and other thinkers searched for stability amid the cultural shifts that resulted from global expansion. The ancient master plot of shipwreck provided a literary language for their dislocation and uncertainty. Steve Mentz identifies three paradigms that expose the cultural meanings of shipwreck in historical and imaginative texts from the mid-sixteenth through the early eighteenth centuries: wet globalization, blue ecology, and shipwreck modernity. The years during which the English nation and its emerging colonies began to define themselves through oceangoing expansion were also a time when maritime disaster occupied sailors, poets, playwrights, sermon makers, and many others. Through coming to terms with shipwreck, these figures adapted to disruptive change. Traces of shipwreck ecology appear in canonical literature from Shakespeare to Donne to Defoe and also in sermons, tales of survival, amateur poetry, and the diaries of seventeenth-century English sailors. The isolated islands of Bermuda and the perils of divine anger hold central places. Modern sailor-poets including Herman Melville serve as valuable touchstones in the effort to parse the reality and understandings of global shipwreck. Offering the first ecocritical account of early modern shipwreck narratives, Shipwreck Modernity reveals the surprisingly modern truths to be found in these early stories of ecological collapse.

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U of Minnesota Press

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1452945543

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Prior to Meaning

The Protosemantic and Poetics

By: Steve McCaffery

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Prior to Meaning

The Protosemantic and Poetics

By: Steve McCaffery

Prior to Meaning collects a decade of writing on poetry, language, and the theory of writing by one of the most innovative and conceptually challenging poets of the last twenty-five years. In essays that are wide ranging, richly detailed, and novel in their surprising juxtapositions of disparate material, Steve McCaffery works to undo the current bifurcation between theory and practice--to show how a poetic text might be the source rather than the product of the theoretical against which it must be read.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810117908

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National Security Through a Cockeyed Lens

How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy

By: Steve A. Yetiv

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National Security Through a Cockeyed Lens

How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy

By: Steve A. Yetiv

A study examining how poor decision-making based on mental errors or cognitive biases hurts American foreign policy and national security. Author Steve A. Yetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research on cognitive biases to illuminate some of the key pitfalls in our leaders’ decision-making processes and some of the mental errors we make in perceiving ourselves and the world. Tracing five U.S. national security episodes?the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan; the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan administration; the rise of al-Qaeda, leading to the 9/11 attacks; the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq; and the development of U.S. energy policy?Yetiv reveals how a dozen cognitive biases have been more influential in impacting U.S. national security than commonly believed or understood. Identifying a primary bias in each episode?disconnect of perception versus reality, tunnel vision (“focus feature”), distorted perception (“cockeyed lens”), overconfidence, and short-term thinking?Yetiv explains how each bias drove the decision-making process and what the outcomes were for the various actors. His concluding chapter examines a range of debiasing techniques, exploring how they can improve decision making. Praise for National Security through a Cockeyed Lens “Yetiv’s volume could be one of the key books for presidents and their advisers to read before they begin making decisions.” —William W. Newmann, H-Diplo “The principles in this book deserve wide recognition. Yetiv places necessary focus on lapses in decision making that are important to acknowledge.” —James Lebovic, Political Science Quarterly

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Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM

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1421411261

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9781421411262

Lyme Regis Through Time

By: Steve Wallis

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Lyme Regis Through Time

By: Steve Wallis

Lyme Regis is Dorset's most westerly town, lying hard by the Devon border. It is famous as one of the main attractions of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site, and also has important literary connections with Jane Austen and is the setting for John Fowles novel The French Lieutenant s Woman. Historically, Lyme Regis was a port and fishing town, and its centre extends up a steep hill from the coast. Lyme Regis Through Time looks at the old part of the town in particular, together with its wider setting in the spectacular local landscape, and some of the surrounding villages. This book is beautifully illustrated with century-old photographs and postcards paired with modern images.

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445636158

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9781445636153

Romance for Sale in Early Modern England

The Rise of Prose Fiction

By: Steve Mentz

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Romance for Sale in Early Modern England

The Rise of Prose Fiction

By: Steve Mentz

The major claim made by this study is that early modern English prose fiction self-consciously invented a new form of literary culture in which professional writers created books to be printed and sold to anonymous readers. It further claims that this period's narrative innovations emerged not solely from changes in early modern culture like print and the book market, but also from the rediscovery of a forgotten late classical text from North Africa, Heliodorus's Aethiopian History. In making these claims, Steve Mentz provides a comprehensive historicist and formalist account of prose romance, the most important genre of Elizabethan fiction. He explores how authors and publishers of prose fiction in late sixteenth-century England produced books that combined traditional narrative forms with a dynamic new understanding of the relationship between text and audience. Though prose fiction would not dominate English literary culture until the eighteenth century, Mentz demonstrates that the form began to invent itself as a distinct literary kind in England nearly two centuries earlier. Examining the divergent but interlocking careers of Robert Greene, Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Lodge, and Thomas Nashe, Mentz traces how through differing commitments to print culture and their respective engagements with Heliodoran romance, these authors helped make the genre of prose fiction culturally and economically viable in England. Mentz explores how the advent of print and the book market changed literary discourse, influencing new conceptions of what he calls 'middlebrow' narrative and new habits of reading and writing. This study draws together three important strains of current scholarly inquiry: the history of the book and print culture, the study of popular fiction, and the re-examination of genre and influence. It also connects early modern fiction with longer histories of prose fiction and the rise of the modern novel.

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Routledge

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1351902598

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9781351902595

Bible Encoded Crop Circle Gods

The Bible and Crop Circles Are Decoded to Reveal Their Common Source. Four Alien Mysteries Explained--Origin of Ufos, Mars Structures, Crop Circles, and the Torah's Text.

By: Steve Canada

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Bible Encoded Crop Circle Gods

The Bible and Crop Circles Are Decoded to Reveal Their Common Source. Four Alien Mysteries Explained--Origin of Ufos, Mars Structures, Crop Circles, and the Torah's Text.

By: Steve Canada

The Torahs text, the first five books of the Bible, dictated to Moses by Yahweh on Mount Sinai about 3400 years ago, contains throughout its chapters multiple encoded names of those 12 alien beings identified in crop circles, the Anunnaki of Nibiru (10th solar system planet), who established all human civilizations. The main gods of those various religions are also encoded in the Torah, found very close in the encrypted text with the corresponding Anunnaki names from the ruling Council of 12. Their home planets name, Nibiru, and the biblical version, Olam, are encoded in the Torah close to all 12 Anunnaki names. The terms cropcircle and OlamUFOs are also found encoded, along with Mars Face and all related descriptions of it such as Earth, gold, discoverer, Nibiru, hero, king, Alalu, Mars and carve. Ill never think of crop circles the same way again. Father Charlie Moore, Catholic priest, attorney, and interdisciplinarian scholar, April 29, 1995, Santa Cruz, after our panel presentation together. Steve Canada, who reads the signs in heaven and on Earth. Michael Hesemann, March 5, 2001, Laughlin, Nevada, at UFO Conference; a major UFO and crop circle researcher, a German journalist accredited to the Vatican, and author of The Fatima Secret (Dell pb, 2000) Steve Canada, the man who reads the message in the crop like Daniel read the mene-tekal Michael Hesemann, March 5, 2001 [see Daniel 2:29-45, 5:25, and 4:23]

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1467027529

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The Price of Dormice

By: Steve Lunn

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The Price of Dormice

By: Steve Lunn

When Mick's life is almost ended by Oxford's influential chief planner Conrad, the near-miss and ensuing violence awaken his sense of justice. Conrad, deeply embedded in Oxford's elite, colludes with venerable St Mark's College in their sale of a 650-acre farm for development. Strategically located in the OxCam Growth Arc, the development will involve bulldozing a nature reserve and its dormice. Mick joins fellow ordinary people in protest. Meanwhile Conrad's wife Kimberley demands a divorce and extends a helping hand to Mick. Tragedy strikes when two people, believed to be Conrad and Kimberly, die in a suspected arson attack on their home. Mick becomes prime suspect. Unable to prove his innocence, he realises truth hardly matters in this game of privileged versus powerless. The privileged set the rules, forcing Mick and friends to resort to blackmail and guerrilla tactics. Amidst murders, romance blooms, yet the fate of the dormice hangs in the balance.

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Book Guild Publishing

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1835741991

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The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands

By: Rob Humphreys,Darren (Norm) Longley,Helena Smith,James Stewart,Steve Vickers

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The Rough Guide to Scottish Highlands & Islands

By: Rob Humphreys,Darren (Norm) Longley,Helena Smith,James Stewart,Steve Vickers

This new, full-color Rough Guide to the Scottish Highlands & Islands is the definitive travel guide to this untamed region, with detailed, stylish maps and stunning photography to bring it all to life. From the deserted white strands of South Harris to moody Glen Coe, this is the perfect place to drop off the radar, whether you're camping wild or staying in a boutique hideaway. The Munro summits are as much of a challenge as ever, and the Highlands are also packed with countless other opportunities for adventure, from world-class sea kayaking and mountain biking to near empty surf-breaks. Whether you're traveling by car, bike, or public transportation, this guide's comprehensive travel advice will help you find your way around easily and point you in the direction of incredible animals such as puffins and whales. Up-to-date and honest reviews of all the best accommodations and home-grown, fresh eating options for all budgets will all ensure that you maximize your time in the most stunning part of Scotland. Now available in ePub format.

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Penguin

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0241007704

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9780241007709

The Performativity of Value

On the Citability of Cultural Commodities

By: Steve Sherlock

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The Performativity of Value

On the Citability of Cultural Commodities

By: Steve Sherlock

The Performativity of Value: On the Citability of Cultural Commodities addresses the increased commodification of language in the U.S. cultural economy. The marketing of cultural commodities in formats such as websites, videos, movies, books, online games, or television episodes—as distributed across a wide range of technological devices—means that language is moving across situational contexts to an unprecedented degree. Just as authors quote or paraphrase sources in the construction of a text, subjects “cite” the commodified words, images, and works of others as they construct their social identities. Steve Sherlock discusses how consumer citational practices generate demand for those cultural commodities which align the self with particular subcultural groups. By “re-citing” the exchange value frame within which language itself has acquired an economic worth, consumer citational practices have become performative of the U.S. cultural economy. In order to describe this process, the book extends the work of Judith Butler on the performativity of gender to the performativity of exchange value, as well as to the performativity of subcultural values. The book also develops a critique of the increasing commodification of language in the contemporary economy. Sherlock follows Butler in developing a model of performativity based on Jacques Derrida’s work, particularly regarding the citability of language into new situational contexts. Derrida’s critique of the metaphysics of presence in Western philosophy and culture is extended toward a critique of the assumed presence of exchange value in the cultural marketplace. The book also incorporates the work of the Bakhtin Circle into this framework—especially their insight into how everyday utterances, which “report on” the words of others, become a site for the re-negotiation of values between self and others. The re-citational process used in contemporary identity construction can thus either re-cite the current cultural economy, or resist it. The Performativity of Value contributes to themes examined in social theory, social psychology, literary theory, continental philosophy, and cultural studies, and thus will be of interest to students and scholars working in those areas.

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0739168622

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Performing Mixed Reality

By: Steve Benford,Gabriella Giannachi

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Performing Mixed Reality

By: Steve Benford,Gabriella Giannachi

A computer scientist and a performance and new media theorist define and document the emerging field of mixed reality performance. Working at the cutting edge of live performance, an emerging generation of artists is employing digital technologies to create distinctive forms of interactive, distributed, and often deeply subjective theatrical performance. The work of these artists is not only fundamentally transforming the experience of theater, it is also reshaping the nature of human interaction with computers. In this book, Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi offer a new theoretical framework for understanding these experiences—which they term mixed reality performances—and document a series of landmark performances and installations that mix the real and the virtual, live performance and interactivity. Benford and Giannachi draw on a number of works that have been developed at the University of Nottingham's Mixed Reality Laboratory, describing collaborations with artists (most notably the group Blast Theory) that have gradually evolved a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to combining practice with research. They offer detailed and extended accounts of these works from different perspectives, including interviews with the artists and Mixed Reality Laboratory researchers. The authors develop an overarching theory to guide the study and design of mixed reality performances based on the approach of interleaved trajectories through hybrid structures of space, time, interfaces, and roles. Combinations of canonical, participant, and historic trajectories show how such performances establish complex configurations of real and virtual, local and global, factual and fictional, and personal and social.

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MIT Press

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0262546507

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9780262546508

Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues

By: Jared S. Colton,Steve Holmes

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Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues

By: Jared S. Colton,Steve Holmes

Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues offers a framework for theorizing ethics in digital and networked media. While the field of rhetoric and writing studies has traditionally given attention to Plato’s Gorgias and Phaedrus dialogues, this volume updates Aristotle’s basic framework of hexis for the digital age. According to Aristotle, “When men change their hexeis—their dispositions, habits, comportments, and so on, in relation to an activity—they change their thought.” Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues argues that virtue ethics supports postmodern criticisms of rational autonomy and universalism while also enabling a discussion of the actual ethical behaviors that digital users form through their particular communicative ends and various rhetorical purposes. Authors Jared Colton and Steve Holmes extend Aristotle’s hexis framework through contemporary virtue ethicists and political theorists whose writing works from a tacit virtue ethics framework. They examine these key theorists through a range of case studies of digital habits of human users, including closed captioning, trolling, sampling, remixing, gamifying for environmental causes, and using social media, alongside a consideration of the ethical habits of nonhuman actors. Tackling a needed topic with clarity and defined organization, Rhetoric, Technology, and the Virtues carefully synthesizes various strands of ethical thinking, convincingly argues that virtue ethics is a viable framework for digital rhetoric, and provides a practical way to assess the changing hexeis encountered across the network of ethical situations in the digital world.

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University Press of Colorado

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1607328062

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9781607328063

Cornish Pirates

Legends

By: Steve Tomlin

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Cornish Pirates

Legends

By: Steve Tomlin

The club’s most iconic and successful players and managers.

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298

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Amberley Publishing Limited

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1445646579

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9781445646572

Irish Boxing Review: 2012 Edition

By: Steve Wellings

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Irish Boxing Review: 2012 Edition

By: Steve Wellings

The Irish boxing review covers all of the talking points and events from across the Irish boxing scene and beyond. Reports, news, articles, features, previews and photographs plus much more. "Finally a boxing book that pulls it all together: Fights, fighters, dates and proper 'live' reports. It's my type of boxing book - no fantasy, just the truth. Perfect." Steve Bunce "The Irish Boxing Review was a welcome addition to the fight scene here, and Steve Wellings as expected did a fine job, with interesting and informative articles. I look forward very much to the 2012 edition and long may Irish Boxing Review continue." Thomas Myler

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Lulu.com

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1471017362

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9781471017360

The Way Things Aren't

Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error : Over 100 Outrageously False and Foolish Statements from America's Most Powerful Radio and TV Commentator

By: Steve Rendall,Jim Naureckas,Jeff Cohen,Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (Organization)

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The Way Things Aren't

Rush Limbaugh's Reign of Error : Over 100 Outrageously False and Foolish Statements from America's Most Powerful Radio and TV Commentator

By: Steve Rendall,Jim Naureckas,Jeff Cohen,Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (Organization)

It also has features such as "Limbaugh versus Limbaugh" with examples of Limbaugh contradicting himself, cartoons by Garry Trudeau and Tom Tomorrow, seven things you can do about Rush Limbaugh, a postcard to mail to the talkshow host about his Limbecile statements, and a foreword to Limbaughland by Molly Ivins that is as scary as it is funny.

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134

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156584260X

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9781565842601

Steve Roden in Between

A 20 Year Survey

By: Steve Roden,Howard N. Fox

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Steve Roden in Between

A 20 Year Survey

By: Steve Roden,Howard N. Fox

Southern California artist Steve Roden is known as more than a painter; his internationally acclaimed, multi-media sound-driven works use musical scores that offer him a set of options to compose a segment of painting, sculpture, or other formal composition. This template results in a startlingly diverse array of images, objects, sounds and spaces. Roden's every artwork, whatever its form, is both familiar yet utterly unexpected. He's an eccentric virtuoso whose paintings look abstract, but only in the way that a chair, a tree, a face or even a Pop-Tart becomes abstract the longer you look at it. This catalog of a 20-year mid-career survey of Roden's work includes an illustrated essay by curator Howard N. Fox and a CD with the four soundtracks from Roden installations.

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1893900142

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