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The Killer

By: Tom Wood

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After a routine job turns into a fight for his life, professional killer Victor races across Europe to find out who bought his services and why they now want him dead, a trip that causes him to stumble into an international conspiracy that spans four continents.

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0312547021

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Historical Dictionary of Soccer

By: Tom Dunmore

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Historical Dictionary of Soccer

By: Tom Dunmore

The Historical Dictionary of Soccer presents a comprehensive history of the game through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, numerous appendixes that list everything from the FIFA World Player of the Year to FIFA World Cup Winners and Runners-Up to the UEFA Ch...

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Scarecrow Press

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0810871882

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50 Economics Classics

Revised Edition, Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

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50 Economics Classics

Revised Edition, Your shortcut to the most important ideas on capitalism, finance, and the global economy

By: Tom Butler-Bowdon

Economics drives the modern world and shapes our lives, but few of us feel we have time to engage with the breadth of ideas in the subject. 50 Economics Classics is the smart person's guide to two centuries of discussion of finance, capitalism and the global economy. From Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations to Thomas Piketty's bestseller Capital in the Twenty-First Century, here are the great reads, seminal ideas and famous texts, clarified and illuminated for all. The revised edition will: · include 5-6 new titles addressing some more up to date areas of the subject such as The Bitcoin Standard, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism and Discrimination and Disparities · have a revised introduction to reflect on the current turbulence and challenges facing the global economy over the next decade · have some of the less relevant titles removed 'Something of a modern classic in its own right.' E&T magazine '50 Economics Classics is a celebration of the large imaginative canvasses of the great economists. Butler-Bowdon's choices are broad, interdisciplinary and compellingly idiosyncratic. His chapters are not simply straight summaries of the chosen works, but thoughtful reflections on why we should care about this or that book and what its relevance is for us today. Butler-Bowdon's renderings are done so well that one might never bother going back to the original! Professional economists, students and general readers alike will find much here to delight in and many new byways to explore.' Niall Kishtainy, Fellow in Economic History, London School of Economics

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Nicholas Brealey

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1399804383

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50 Shades of Rust

Barn Finds You Wish You'd Discovered

By: Tom Cotter

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50 Shades of Rust

Barn Finds You Wish You'd Discovered

By: Tom Cotter

101 barn-find tales sure to entice any car collector. In recent years, the quest to find and restore forgotten automotive gems has generated a cult-like following - a very large cult-like following. So large, in fact, that the subject of automotive archaeology has inspired an entire genre of television programs, including Counting Cars, Desert Car Kings, Chasing Classic Cars, One of a Kind, What's My Car Worth?, and numerous others. Author Tom Cotter is at the forefront of this movement with his In the Barn series, a line of books that inspired many of the above-mentioned television programs. 50 Shades of Rust collects 90-plus of the all-time best barn-find stories. Each story is accompanied by photographs from the scenes of the finds, creating a heavily illustrated book unlike any barn-find book yet published.

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Motorbooks

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1627883711

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Persona Non Grata

The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age

By: Tom Flanagan

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Persona Non Grata

The Death of Free Speech in the Internet Age

By: Tom Flanagan

Now in paperback, a passionate and edgy defense of free speech in Canada, and the role the internet plays in the issue--from an acclaimed writer and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. On February 28th, 2013, Tom Flanagan, well-known author, University of Calgary professor, and former advisor to Prime Minister Stephen Harper, made comments about the punishment for viewing child pornography that were tweeted from the event he was speaking at and broadcast worldwide. Following the event, in the two-and-a-half hours it took to drive from Lethbridge to his home in Calgary, Flanagan's career and reputation came under siege. Every media outlet made the story front-page news, most of them deriding Flanagan and casting him as a pariah. His university, the Prime Minister's Office, other influential politicians, and much of the media, including the CBC, made him persona non grata before he even had a chance to explain the comments he made. Persona Non Grata is a superb and convincing defense of free speech--not just in Canada but everywhere--in the age of the Internet, a double-edged sword when it comes to freedom of expression.

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Signal

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0771030835

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Broken Scales

Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America

By: Tom Diaz

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Broken Scales

Race and the Crisis of Justice in a Divided America

By: Tom Diaz

Humans are a species that classifies. We arrange the flow of the things and events that we see and experience, place them into categories, and erect boundaries around those categories. Among the boundaries that we erect are those that we put around groups of “other” human beings. The evil side of human classification of other human beings is that we sometimes create false categories of other people, as is often the case in racial, ethnic, and religious stereotypes. This unmindful creation of empty categories of human characteristics is what happened during two periods crucial to the construction of race in America. This is racism. The United States is in a period of deep cultural flux and conflict, much of it seen through the lens of race. Tom Diaz proposes that the everyday actions of ordinary people, in the context of extreme political and cultural polarization, distort the criminal justice system and betray the lofty ideals expressed in American founding documents and centuries of Anglo-American articulations of basic human rights. These everyday actions range across a spectrum from the armed intervention of private citizens in the forms of individual action, neighborhood watches, and citizen’s arrests, to the expectations imposed on law enforcement, in particular, and the criminal justice system in general.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1538138514

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Space Shuttle Stories

Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions

By: Tom Jones

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Space Shuttle Stories

Firsthand Astronaut Accounts from All 135 Missions

By: Tom Jones

Experience all 135 NASA space shuttle missions ever flown through the words of the astronauts themselves in this spectacularly illustrated volume With more than 600 photos from the NASA archives, this guide is perfect for fans of space history and spaceflight NASA's space shuttle was the world's first reusable spacecraft, accomplishing many firsts and inspiring generations across its 30-year lifespan as America's iconic spaceship. In Space Shuttle Stories, shuttle astronaut Tom Jones interviewed more than 130 fellow astronauts for personal vignettes from each mission, complemented by their written accounts for all 135 space shuttle missions, from Columbia's maiden flight in 1981 to the final launch of Atlantis in 2011. The book is a major contribution to the historical record of a momentous era of spaceflight. Each mission profile includes: An astronaut narrative that immerses the readers in their personal mission experience Data about the mission, crew, launch, landing, duration, and highlights Captivating photographs rarely seen by the public The Space Shuttle program’s 6 orbiter vehicles (Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour) carried a total of 355 astronauts into orbit on 135 missions aimed at cutting-edge scientific research, satellite launch, retrieval and repair, collaborative work with the Russian Mir station, the launching and servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope, and the construction of the International Space Station. Space Shuttle Stories focuses on the lived, human experiences of larger-than-life space missions. It's a definitive oral history that captures the importance, wonder, and exhilaration of the Space Shuttle era.

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Smithsonian Institution

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1588347540

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The National Road

Dispatches from a Changing America

By: Tom Zoellner

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The National Road

Dispatches from a Changing America

By: Tom Zoellner

This collection of "eloquent essays that examine the relationship between the American landscape and the national character" serves to remind us that despite our differences we all belong to the same land (Publishers Weekly). “How was it possible, I wondered, that all of this American land––in every direction––could be fastened together into a whole?” What does it mean when a nation accustomed to moving begins to settle down, when political discord threatens unity, and when technology disrupts traditional ways of building communities? Is a shared soil enough to reinvigorate a national spirit? From the embaattled newsrooms of small town newspapers to the pornography film sets of the Los Angeles basin, from the check–out lanes of Dollar General to the holy sites of Mormonism, from the nation’s highest peaks to the razed remains of a cherished home, like a latter–day Woody Guthrie, Tom Zoellner takes to the highways and byways of a vast land in search of the soul of its people. By turns nostalgic and probing, incisive and enraged, Zoellner’s reflections reveal a nation divided by faith, politics, and shifting economies, but––more importantly––one united by a shared sense of ownership in the common land.

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Catapult

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1640094938

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Arsene Wenger - Pure Genius

By: Matt & Tom Oldfield,Tom Oldfield

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Arsene Wenger - Pure Genius

By: Matt & Tom Oldfield,Tom Oldfield

In his 15 seasons at the club, the world-class Fenchman has developed the Gunners into a team capable of challenging for top domestic and European honours every year. His three Premiership titles - two of which came in 'Double' winning campaigns - are evidence of Wenger's unique tactical skill and his famous ability to spot talented young footballers. The phenomenal Gunners boss, nicknamed 'The Professor', has signed a new contract which commits him to the club until 2013 and Arsenal fans can look forward to a bright red future.

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1843586819

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Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian,Tom Griffiths

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Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By: Brian Christian,Tom Griffiths

An exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind. What should we do, or leave undone, in a day or a lifetime? How much messiness should we accept? What balance of the new and familiar is the most fulfilling? These may seem like uniquely human quandaries, but they are not. Computers, like us, confront limited space and time, so computer scientists have been grappling with similar problems for decades. And the solutions they’ve found have much to teach us. In a dazzlingly interdisciplinary work, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths show how algorithms developed for computers also untangle very human questions. They explain how to have better hunches and when to leave things to chance, how to deal with overwhelming choices and how best to connect with others. From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one’s inbox to peering into the future, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

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Henry Holt and Company

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1627790373

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Faces of Nationalism

Janus Revisited

By: Tom Nairn

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Faces of Nationalism

Janus Revisited

By: Tom Nairn

In "The Modern Janus", Nairn argued for the democratic necessity of nationalism in the modern world. In this work, he addresses the subsequent upheavals caused by nationalism

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1859841945

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History's Lost Moments

The Stories Your Teacher Never Told You

By: Tom Horton

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History's Lost Moments

The Stories Your Teacher Never Told You

By: Tom Horton

A collection of newspaper columns that appeared in The Moultrie news, a weekly newspaper serving Mount Pleasant and the east of the Cooper area of Charleston County.

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1466929170

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Arsene Wenger - Pure Genius

By: Matt Oldfield,Tom Oldfield

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Arsene Wenger - Pure Genius

By: Matt Oldfield,Tom Oldfield

Revised and fully up-to-date, thisbiography includes the 20092010 season and tells the story of one of world football's true mastermindsArsene Wenger transformed Arsenal football club. The world-class manager from France developed the Gunners into a team capable of challenging for top domestic and European honors every year. His three Premiership titlestwo of which came in "Double" winning campaignsare evidence of Wenger's unique tactical skill and his famous ability to spot talented young athletes. Arriving almost unknown to English football, his incredible achievements have shown that Arsene and Arsenal have been a perfect fit. He inspired the likes of Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Vieria, and Thierry Henry to produce the best form of their careers. Now the phenomenal boss, nicknamed "The Professor," has signed a new contract which commits him to the club until 2011, and Arsenal fans can look forward to a bright, red future.

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1843581892

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Arsene Wenger - The Unauthorised Biography of Le Professeur

By: Matt & Tom Oldfield,Tom Oldfield

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Arsene Wenger - The Unauthorised Biography of Le Professeur

By: Matt & Tom Oldfield,Tom Oldfield

Few can match the tremendous impact that Arsene Wenger has had since his arrival at Arsenal in 1996.After over 1,000 games with the club, the world-class Frenchman has developed the Gunners into a team capable of challenging for top domestic and European honours every year. His three Premiership titles are evidence of Wenger's unique tactical skill and his famous ability to spot talented young footballers, while the 2014 FA Cup win silenced those who began to doubt his cerebral approach to management in a season dominated by bitter historical rivalries.The phenomenal Gunners boss, nicknamed 'Le Professeur', is one of the most respected managers in English football. This fully up-to-date biography tells the story of one of world football's leading masterminds, and what might be next for the club legend once his Arsenal days draw to a close.

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1784182532

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Poetic Language

Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present

By: Tom Jones

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Poetic Language

Theory and Practice from the Renaissance to the Present

By: Tom Jones

The first study of poetic language from a historical and philosophical perspectiveIn a series of 12 chapters, exemplary poems - by Walter Ralegh, John Milton,William Cowper, William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Frank O'Hara, Robert Creeley, W. S. Graham, Tom Raworth, Denise Riley and Thomas A. Clark - are read alongside theoretical discussions of poetic language. The discussions provide a jargon-free account of a wide range of historical and contemporary schools of thought about poetic language, and an organised, coherent critique of those schools (including analytical philosophy, cognitive poetics, structuralism and post-structuralism). Via close readings of poems from 1600 to the present readers are taken through a wide range of styles including modernist, experimental and innovative poetries. Paired chapters within a chronological structure allow lecturers and students to approach the material in a variety of ways (by individual chapters, paired historical periods) that are appropriate to different courses.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748656189

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If I Should Die

By: Tom Hampshire

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If I Should Die

By: Tom Hampshire

This is a story of Africa, shown at its most cruelest and tender moments. It is a story of violence set against the breathtaking beauty of the land, where cicades sing their interminable song and elephants gambol in a mud hole. It is a story of vengeance and endurance. It is not a story of Black against White, but of the resistance to the winds of change; the drawing in an empires and the global trend towards righting past wrongs. It is a conflict where Sergeant Wilson and his men fight a war they know they cannot win, but they fight it anyways, because it is their job. Appalling events personalize the conflict into a brutal and unremitting contest to the death between Sergeant Wilson and the leader of a terrorist band, known as 'Chaka', the best men each side has to offer, Severely wounded and taken across the border for interrogation Sergeant Wilson is beyond pain. Hopelessly in love, the beautiful Sally Ferguson arrives in the same country and with the aid of friends attempts to discover where Bob us being held, with the ill-conceived idea of affecting a rescue. She finds herself in a terrifying situation. It is also a story of love and passion, where a frightened woman kills and finally gives her life for the man she loves. The story is unremitting in its action and the saddest thing about it is that most of it could have happened. It is set in Nyanga, a make-believe country in Africa. But those who were there will know.

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1412052548

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What Does It Mean For The Gods To Exist?

By: Tom Swiss

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What Does It Mean For The Gods To Exist?

By: Tom Swiss

What is a god? What does it mean to exist? Can one be both an atheist and a Pagan? Do ancient spiritual traditions have any lessons relevant to the Ferguson and Baltimore Uprisings? Could the Buddha legitimately be called a humanistic Pagan? Is nudity - going "skyclad" - too wild for modern spiritual seekers? Does the culture of Burning Man share values with the modern Pagan revival? Explore these and other questions in this collection by one of the most original and outspoken writers in contemporary Paganism. Includes twenty-six pieces by Tom Swiss, including his complete run on the Patheos Pagan "Agora" blog.

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Lulu.com

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1365222462

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Pogba (Ultimate Football Heroes - Limited International Edition)

By: Matt & Tom Oldfield

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Pogba (Ultimate Football Heroes - Limited International Edition)

By: Matt & Tom Oldfield

Complete your collection with these limited Ultimate Football Heroes International editions – now with a bonus World Cup chapter. Pogba tells the exciting story of how French wonder-kid Paul Pogba became Europe's best young player, and finally fulfilled his dream of returning to his boyhood club Manchester United in a world-record transfer. The sky is the limit for United's new star.

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Dino Books

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178606930X

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Beckham (Classic Football Heroes - Limited International Edition)

By: Matt & Tom Oldfield

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Beckham (Classic Football Heroes - Limited International Edition)

By: Matt & Tom Oldfield

Complete your collection with these limited Ultimate Football Heroes International editions – now with a bonus World Cup chapter. In 2002, during the final moments of injury time, David Beckham scored an incredible free-kick, securing England a place in the World Cup. It was this moment that ensured that Beckham would become one of the most loved English footballers, as well as a Manchester United and Real Madrid hero. During a career which spanned twenty years, Beckham won an impressive nineteen major trophies. This is the story of a true sportsman, who earned respect and loyalty from his fans around the world.

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1786069415

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Mainstreaming Black Power

By: Tom Adam Davies

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Mainstreaming Black Power

By: Tom Adam Davies

Mainstreaming Black Power upends the narrative that the Black Power movement allowed for a catharsis of black rage but achieved little institutional transformation or black uplift. Retelling the story of the 1960s and 1970s across the United States—and focusing on New York, Atlanta, and Los Angeles—this book reveals how the War on Poverty cultivated black self-determination politics and demonstrates that federal, state, and local policies during this period bolstered economic, social, and educational institutions for black control. Mainstreaming Black Power shows more convincingly than ever before that white power structures did engage with Black Power in specific ways that tended ultimately to reinforce rather than challenge existing racial, class, and gender hierarchies. This book emphasizes that Black Power’s reach and legacies can be understood only in the context of an ideologically diverse black community.

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Univ of California Press

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0520965647

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That Dark Remembered Day

By: Tom Vowler

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That Dark Remembered Day

By: Tom Vowler

LONGLISTED FOR THE GUARDIAN NOT THE BOOKER PRIZE One family, one town, devastated by one tragic event. Can you ever know what those closest to you are really capable of? When Stephen gets a phone call to say his mother isn't well, he knows he must go to her straight away. But he dreads going back there. He has never been able to understand why his mother chose to stay in the town he grew up in, after everything that happened. One day's tragic events years before had left no one living there untouched. Stephen's own dark memories are still poisoning his life, as well as his marriage. Perhaps now is the time to go back and confront the place and the people of his shattered childhood. But will he ever be able to understand the crime that punctured their lives so brutally? How can a community move on from such a terrible legacy?

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Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings

Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon

By: Tom de Bruin

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Fan Fiction and Early Christian Writings

Apocrypha, Pseudepigrapha and Canon

By: Tom de Bruin

What can contemporary media fandoms, like Anne Rice, Star Wars, Batman, or Sherlock Holmes, tell us about ancient Christianity? Tom de Bruin demonstrates how fandom and fan fiction are both analogous and incongruous with Christian derivative works. The often-disparaging terms applied to Christian apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, such as fakes, forgeries or corruptions, are not sufficient to capture the production, consumption, and value of these writings. De Bruin reimagines a range of early Christian works as fan practices. Exploring these ancient texts in new ways, he takes the reader on a journey from the 'fix-it fic' endings of the Gospel of Mark to the subversive fan fictions of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, and from the densely populated storyworld of early Christian art to the gatekeeping of Christian orthodoxy. Using theory developed in fan studies, De Bruin revisits fundamental questions about ancient derivative texts: Why where they written? How do they interact with more established texts? In what ways does the consumption of derivative works influence the reception of existing traditions? And how does the community react to these works? This book sheds exciting and new light on ancient Christian literary production, consumption and transmission.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567706648

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Imitation and Society

The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant

By: Tom Huhn

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Imitation and Society

The Persistence of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and Kant

By: Tom Huhn

This book reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. Standard accounts of the aesthetic theories of this era hold that the idea of mimesis was supplanted by the far more robust and compelling doctrines of taste and aesthetic judgment. Since the idea of mimesis was taken to apply only in the relation of art to nature, it was judged to be too limited when the focus of aesthetics changed to questions about the constitution of individual subjects in regard to taste. Tom Huhn argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgment and taste. Mimesis also thereby became enmeshed in the ideas of sociality contained, often only implicitly, within the new accounts of aesthetic judgment. The book proceeds by reading three of the foundational treatises in aesthetics—Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Hogarth’s Analysis of Beauty, and Kant’s Critique of Judgment—with an eye for discerning where arguments and analyses betray mimetic structures. Huhn attempts to explicate these books anew by arguing that they are pervaded by a mimetic dynamic. Overall, he seeks to provoke a reconsideration of eighteenth-century aesthetics that centers on its continuity with traditional notions of mimesis.

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Penn State Press

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0271031859

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Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge (Text Only)

By: Tom Bower

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Conrad and Lady Black: Dancing on the Edge (Text Only)

By: Tom Bower

The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City, the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society. This new paperback edition will be fully updated to include details of Black’s high-profile trial for corporate fraud, sure to claim international attention.

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0007388861

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The House of Beckham

Money, Sex and Power

By: Tom Bower

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The House of Beckham

Money, Sex and Power

By: Tom Bower

For fans and watchers of the Beckham Netflix documentary who want the rest of the story—an explosive tell-all account of the real lives of David and Victoria Beckham. As one of the most famous and influential couples in the world, David and Victoria Beckham have attained iconic status. The ultimate power couple have together built a multi-billion-dollar global brand. For decades, adoring fans have been captivated by the glamorous world they have created, while their unrivalled fusion of showbiz, fashion, football and celebrity has been cultivated alongside the image of a strong marriage. When the much-trailed Netflix documentary Beckham aired in 2023, viewers were offered an even more intimate insight into their private lives. Produced by the Beckhams themselves, the series raised many questions, not only about their success and personal relationship, but also about the ruthlessly successful management of their image in the media. Are their lives really as perfect as the Beckhams would like the world to believe? Through extensive research, expert sourcing and interviews with insiders, Britain’s most celebrated investigative biographer, Tom Bower, has unearthed a succession of revelations that give surprising insight into the reality of ‘Brand Beckham’. Exploring the couple’s relationship, and the truth about their football and fashion careers, their finances and their new life in Miami, The House of Beckham unravels the extraordinary reality of the business-savvy cultural icons to tell an engrossing, often astonishing story of money, sex and power.

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0063422883

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Beckham

Both Feet on the Ground: An Autobiography

By: David Beckham,Tom Watt

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Beckham

Both Feet on the Ground: An Autobiography

By: David Beckham,Tom Watt

Perfect for fans of the hit Netflix docuseries, Beckham. The autobiography of arguably the world’s most celebrated sports icon, David Beckham—a classic rags to riches saga of a boy, born into a poor East End London family, with prodigious talent and a father who believed in him and supported him until he became the most gifted athlete of his generation and his nation’s captain. In his own words, Beckham talks about the pressures of celebrity, his controversial and celebrated career, his marriage to Victoria Beckham and family, and, of course, life as the world’s best-known soccer player. In Beckham, the ordinary guy who fate decided would be lifted to glory tells the story of how it all happened.

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0061738832

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Lady Lorene

The Truckie Queen

By: Tom Dawkins

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Lady Lorene

The Truckie Queen

By: Tom Dawkins

Lady Lorene - The Truckie Queen is the story of Lorene Whittam, a wife and mother who has earned a reputation as an icon of the bush and a legend of the livestock transport industry. Lorene was born and raised in Mount Compass, south of Adelaide. While working at the local milk factory she met a young truck driving entrepreneur, Mac Whittam, from nearby Ashbourne. Over almost five decades of marriage, Lorene and Mac built a successful transport company, raised four sons and travelled throughout Australia carting livestock and other goods. Throughout, Lorene successfully managed to juggle the responsibilities of family and business, especially when the boys were young. Soon Lorene became a well known face around the stockyards and earned herself the nickname, Lady Lorene, The Truckie Queen. While Mac has now retired, Lorene maintains a very active role in the family business, continuing to attend country sheep and cattle markets, as she has done since the late 1970s. This is the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman. Her relentless hard work has earned her respect in one of the most male dominated and old fashioned environments imaginable. But it is also the story of the Australian livestock transport industry during times of remarkable change.

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Allen & Unwin

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1743319150

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