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Molecules with Silly Or Unusual Names

By: Paul W. May

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Molecules with Silly Or Unusual Names

By: Paul W. May

This popular science book shows that chemists do have a sense of humor, and this book is a celebration of the quirky side of scientific nomenclature. Here, some molecules are shown that have unusual, rude, ridiculous or downright silly names. Written in an easy-to-read style, anyone ? not just scientists ? can appreciate the content. Each molecule is illustrated with a photograph and/or image that relates directly or indirectly to its name and molecular structure. Thus, the book is not only entertaining, but also educational.

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189

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World Scientific

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1848162073

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9781848162075

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

The Paper Revolution

By: Steven W. May

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English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

The Paper Revolution

By: Steven W. May

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture: The Paper Revolution traces the development of a new type of scribal culture in England that emerged early in the fourteenth century. The main medieval writing surfaces of parchment and wax tablets were augmented by a writing medium that was both lasting and cheap enough to be expendable. Writing was transformed from a near monopoly of professional scribes employed by the upper class to a practice ordinary citizens could afford. Personal correspondence, business records, notebooks on all sorts of subjects, creative writing, and much more flourished at social levels where they had previously been excluded by the high cost of parchment. Steven W. May places literary manuscripts and in particular poetic anthologies in this larger scribal context, showing how its innovative features affected both authorship and readership. As this amateur scribal culture developed, the medieval professional culture expanded as well. Classes of documents formerly restricted to parchment often shifted over to paper, while entirely new classes of documents were added to the records of church and state as these institutions took advantage of relatively inexpensive paper. Paper stimulated original composition by making it possible to draft, revise, and rewrite works in this new, affordable medium. Amateur scribes were soon producing an enormous volume of manuscript works of all kinds--works they could afford to circulate in multiple copies. England's ever-increasing literate population developed an informal network that transmitted all kinds of texts from single sheets to book-length documents efficiently throughout the kingdom. The operation of restrictive coteries had little if any role in the mass circulation of manuscripts through this network. However, paper was cheap enough that manuscripts could also be readily disposed of (unlike expensive parchment). More than 90% of the output from this scribal tradition has been lost, a fact that tends to distort our understanding and interpretation of what has survived. May illustrates these conclusions with close analysis of representative manuscripts.

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289

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Oxford University Press

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0198878001

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9780198878001

Moods and Modes

Vagrant Writings

By: George W. May

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Moods and Modes

Vagrant Writings

By: George W. May

Collection of writings of George W. May. (From the Preface) “In this incongruous collection of my writings comprising various literary forms, one may trace the development or non-development of my literary power from age 12 to age 90.

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279

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Turner Publishing Company

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1681622947

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9781681622941

ChronicToo

Shattered: Inspirational Stories to Restore the Soul

By: Cornelius W. May

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Shattered: Inspirational Stories to Restore the Soul

By: Cornelius W. May

Scars. We all have them. Some are physical and others, emotional. We were injured in one way or another. Our physical scars are quite visible, but our emotional scars are not. These internalized misfortunes remain with us, as if stored away below deck. Buried feelings, without warning, can be triggered and abruptly resurface at any time. Please know, you are not alone. Each of us carries invisible wounds, and we may even cry invisible tears. I can identify and fully understand. Unlike healing physical pain, there are no ointments or lotions to treat our fractured emotions. I guess that’s why we try to repress them inside. Yet the biblical psalmist said, “He restores my soul.” And that restoration is available to you and me. No pain has to be in vain. Telling stories of God’s renewing strength through personal setbacks, trials, and adversity, I share what I believe to be enlivening pathways to lasting wholeness. Join me in an adventure toward soothing our silent suffering and healing our hidden hurts. The body and soul are connected. By addressing one, the other is likewise affected. May God graciously touch those deep recesses of pain accumulated along life’s path. Hope awaits. Cornelius W. May (Neal) holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from Ashland Theological Seminary and has served as a Senior Pastor for over forty years. Neal attended Kent State University in the turbulent 1960s and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with a Minor in Education. As a seasoned minister, Dr. May has experienced the balance of both Spirit and Word, illumination and reason. He was founder and president of Hosanna Bible Training Center and instructor of Biblical Interpretation and Contemporary Preaching. In addition, he continues to serve as an adjunct professor for Ashland Seminary, where he has taught Small Group Ministry, Communication and Conflict in the Church, and Archaeology of the New Testament. www.theredemptioncenter.church 128

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159

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Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.

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1639618473

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9781639618477

Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth

A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book

By: Steven W. May,Arthur F. Marotti

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A Yorkshire Yeoman's Household Book

By: Steven W. May,Arthur F. Marotti

In Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth, Steven W. May and Arthur F. Marotti present a recently discovered "household book" from sixteenth-century England. Its main scribe, John Hanson, was a yeoman who worked as a legal agent in rural Yorkshire. His book, a miscellaneous collection of documents that he found useful or interesting, is a rare example of a middle-class provincial anthology that contains, in addition to works from the country’s cultural center, items of local interest seldom or never disseminated nationally. Among the literary highlights of the household book are unique copies of two ballads, whose original print versions have been lost, describing Queen Elizabeth’s procession through London after the victory over the Spanish Armada; two poems attributed to Elizabeth herself; and other verse by courtly writers copied from manuscript and print sources. Of local interest is the earliest-known copy of a 126-stanza ballad about a mid-fourteenth-century West Yorkshire feud between the Eland and Beaumont families. The manuscript’s utilitarian items include a verse calendar and poetic Decalogue, model legal documents, real estate records, recipes for inks and fish baits, and instructions for catching rabbits and birds. Hanson combined both professional and recreational interests in his manuscript, including material related to his legal work with wills and real estate transactions. As May and Marotti argue in their cultural and historical interpretation of the text, Hanson’s household book is especially valuable not only for the unusual texts it preserves but also for the ways in which it demonstrates the intersection of the local and national and of popular and elite cultures in early modern England.

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Cornell University Press

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0801455553

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9780801455551

Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland

By: Steven W. May,Alan Bryson

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Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland

By: Steven W. May,Alan Bryson

In Renaissance England and Scotland, verse libel was no mere sub-division of verse satire but a fully-developed, widely-read poetic genre in its own right. This fact has been hidden from literary historians by the nature of the genre itself: defamation was rigorously prosecuted by state and local authorities throughout the period. Thus most (but not all) libelling, in verse or prose, was confined to manuscript circulation. This comprehensive survey of the genre identifies all sixteenth-century verse libel texts, printed and transcribed. It makes fifty-two of the least familiar of these poems accessible for further study by providing critical texts with glosses and explanatory notes. In reconstructing the contexts of these poems, we identify a number of the libellers, their targets, the circumstances of attack, and the workings of the scribal networks that disseminated many of them over wide areas, often for decades. The book's concentration on poems restricted to manuscript circulation throws substantial new light on the nature of Renaissance scribal culture. As poetic technicians, its practitioners were among the age's most experimental and creative. They produced some of the most popular, widely read works of their age and beyond, while their output established the foundation upon which the seventeenth-century tradition of verse libel developed organically.

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Oxford University Press

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0191059730

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9780191059735

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Molecules with Silly Or Unusual Names

Molecules with Silly Or Unusual Names

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

English Renaissance Manuscript Culture

Moods and Modes

Moods and Modes

ChronicToo

ChronicToo

Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth

Ink, Stink Bait, Revenge, and Queen Elizabeth

Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland

Verse Libel in Renaissance England and Scotland

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