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She's Leaving Home

By: William Shaw

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London, 1968: The body of a teenage girl is found just steps away from the Beatles' Abbey Road recording studio. The police are called to a residential street in St John's Wood where an unidentified young woman has been strangled. Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen believes she may be one of the many Beatles fans who regularly camp outside Abbey Road Studios. With his reputation tarnished by an inexplicable act of cowardice, this is Breen's last chance to prove he's up to the job. Breen is of the generation for whom reaching adulthood meant turning into one's parents and accepting one's place in the world. But the world around him is changing beyond recognition. Nothing illustrates the shift more than Helen Tozer, a brazen and rambunctious young policewoman assisting him with the case. Together they navigate a world on edge, where conservative tradition gives way to frightening new freedoms -- and troubling new crimes.

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0316246832

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9780316246835

Play with Fire

By: William Shaw

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Play with Fire

By: William Shaw

In hedonistic 1960s London, a police detective investigates the unexpected connections between two suspicious deaths: a call girl and a rock star. In the summer of '69, the hard-living rockers of the British Invasion still rule London when former Rolling Stone Brian Jones is found floating in the pool of his palatial home. On a quiet residential block that should be far removed from the swinging party scene, Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen investigates the murder of a young woman. But the victim, known professionally as Julie Teenager, was a call girl for the rich and famous. Her client list is long, and thick with suspects-all rich, powerful, and protected. As DS Breen hones in on his prime target, he receives a pointed warning: Watch your back. Fortunately, Breen doesn't have to work alone. His keenly intuitive, deeply moral partner Helen Tozer, despite the pregnancy that's interrupted her policing career, can't help being drawn into the case of a girl used and cast aside. Tense and dramatic, unfolding at a blistering pace, Play With Fire is a gripping police thriller set in the darkly technicolor world of the 1960s.

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Mulholland Books

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0316563382

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9780316563383

The Idea of the Actor

By: William B. Worthen

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The Idea of the Actor

By: William B. Worthen

Analyzing the relationship between dramatic action and the controversial art of acting, William Worthen demonstrates that what it means to act, to be an actor, and to communicate through acting embodies both an ethics of acting and a poetics of drama. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400857538

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9781400857531

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy

The Making of GKC, 1874-1908

By: William Oddie

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Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy

The Making of GKC, 1874-1908

By: William Oddie

On the publication of Orthodoxy in 1908, Wilfrid Ward hailed G. K. Chesterton as a prophetic figure whose thought was to be classed with that Burke, Butler, Coleridge, and John Henry Newman. When Chesterton died in 1936, T. S. Eliot pronounced that 'Chesterton's social and economic ideas were the ideas for his time that were fundamentally Christian and Catholic'. But how did he come by these ideas? Eliot noted that he attached 'significance also to his development, to his beginnings as well as to his ends, and to the movement from one to the other'. It is on that development that this book is focused. Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy is an exploration of G.K. Chesterton's imaginative and spiritual development, from his early childhood in the 1870s to his intellectual maturity in the first decade of the twentieth century. William Oddie draws extensively on Chesterton's unpublished letters and notebooks, his journalism, and his early classic writings, to reveal the writer in his own words. In the first major study of Chesterton to draw on this source material, Oddie charts the progression of Chesterton's ideas from his first story (composed at the age of three and dictated to his aunt Rose) to his apologetic masterpiece Orthodoxy, in which he openly established the intellectual foundations on which the prolific writing of his last three decades would build. Part One explores the years of Chesterton's obscurity; his childhood, his adolescence, his years as a student and a young adult. Part Two examines Chesterton's emergence on to the public stage, his success as one of the leading journalists of his day, and his growing renown as a man of letters. Written to engage all with an interest in Chesterton's life and times, Oddie's accessible style ably conveys the warmth and subtlety of thought that delighted the first readership of the enigmatic GKC.

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416

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OUP Oxford

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0191614866

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9780191614866

The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Vol. I.

By: Francis J. Troubat,William W. Haly

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The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Vol. I.

By: Francis J. Troubat,William W. Haly

Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3752524715

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9783752524710

Wilde Writings

Contextual Conditions

By: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies

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Wilde Writings

Contextual Conditions

By: William Andrews Clark Memorial Library,University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies

Featuring thirteen original essays that examine Wilde's achievements as an aesthete, critic, dramatist, novelist, and poet, this provocative and ground-breaking volume ushers the field of Oscar Wilde studies into the twenty-first century.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802035329

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9780802035325

Parson Henry Renfro

Free Thinking on the Texas Frontier

By: William C. Griggs

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Parson Henry Renfro

Free Thinking on the Texas Frontier

By: William C. Griggs

The years following the Texas Revolution held even more turbulent events as diverse droves of pioneers crossed the Sabine and Red Rivers to start new lives in Texas. Early Texas society contended with religious issues, family life in a rugged environment, and the Civil War. This cultural history was clearly reflected in the life of frontier preacher Henry C. Renfro. Migrating to Texas in 1851, Renfro enrolled in the fledgling Baylor University and became a Baptist preacher. Eventually disillusioned with Baptist orthodoxy, Renfro was disenfranchised on charges of infidelity as he embraced the ideals of the Free Thought Movement, inspired by the writings of men such as Thomas Paine, Spinoza, and Robert Ingersoll. Renfro's Civil War experience was no less unusual. Serving as both soldier and chaplain, Renfro left a valuable legacy of insight into the conflict, captured in a wealth of correspondence that is in itself significant. Drawing on a vast body of letters, speeches, sermons, and oral histories that had never before been available, this chronological narrative of "The Parson's" life describes significant changes in Texas from 1850 to 1900, especially the volatile formation and growth of Baptist churches in North Central Texas. William Griggs' study yields numerous new details about the Free Thought Movement and depicts public reaction to sectarian leaders in nineteenth-century Texas. The author also describes the developing Central Texas region known as the Cross Timbers, including the personal dynamics between a frontier family and its patriarch and encompassing such issues as property conflicts, divorce, and family reconciliation. This work unlocks an enlightening, engaging scene from Texas history.

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University of Texas Press

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0292775652

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9780292775657

The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969

By: William J. Ryczek

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The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969

By: William J. Ryczek

This book traces the history of the New York Mets from the franchise's inauspicious beginnings--the 1962 team, led by Casey Stengel and made up of players like Rod Kanehl and Jay Hook, lost 120 games--through the miraculous championship season of 1969. Based on interviews with more than one hundred former players and extensive research by one of the more highly regarded baseball historians writing today, the book covers the era in unprecedented detail. Any Met fan from the 1960s will find some familiar stories along with some they've probably never read before. Presented in an easy-to-read, narrative style, this book traces the rapid ascent of the Mets and explores the reasons for their early failure and dramatic success.

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McFarland

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078645525X

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9780786455256

True Heroines

Police Women Killed in the Line of Duty Throughout the United States, 1916-1999

By: William Wilbanks

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True Heroines

Police Women Killed in the Line of Duty Throughout the United States, 1916-1999

By: William Wilbanks

Describes the circumstances and events which led to the 138 women law enforcement officers who died in the line of duty, the identity of their perpetrator(s), and the deposition of the case, with a biography and photo of each officer and their descendants. Author Dr. William Wilbanks carefully researched each case and unveiled the mystery of unsolved deaths.

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Turner Publishing Company

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1563115239

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9781563115233

Accrington Pals: The 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment

A History of the Battalion Raised from Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley and Chorley in World War One

By: William Bennett Turner

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Accrington Pals: The 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment

A History of the Battalion Raised from Accrington, Blackburn, Burnley and Chorley in World War One

By: William Bennett Turner

Follow the footsteps of the Pals in their journey from Lancashire to their training camps in England and Wales and to the villages and battlefields of France. A comprehensive account, with maps and pictures, of a Pals Battalion's service throughout the war.

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Casemate Publishers

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1783832304

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9781783832309

Confederacy of Ambition

William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory

By: William L. Lang

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Confederacy of Ambition

William Winlock Miller and the Making of Washington Territory

By: William L. Lang

The promise of opportunity drew twenty-seven-year-old Illinois schoolteacher William Winlock Miller west to the future Washington Territory in 1850. Like so many other Oregon Trail emigrants Miller arrived cash-poor and ambitious, but unlike most he fulfilled his grandest ambitions. By the time of his death in 1876, Miller had amassed one of the largest private fortunes in the territory and had used it creatively in developing the region’s assets, leaving a significant mark on the territory’s political and economic history. Appointed Surveyor of Customs at the newly created Port of Nisqually in 1851, Miller was the first federal official north of the Columbia River. Two years later he helped organize the new territory‘s Democratic Party and quickly became a political and financial confidant of governor Isaac Stevens. His involvement in the Indian conflict in 1855–56, a term in the territorial legislature, and his bankrolling of key politicians made him the territory’s most effective political networker. His role as a “hip-pocket banker” in a region without established banks made him a powerful financial broker and a major player in territorial affairs. But in his pursuit of success Miller compromised another ambition he carried west from Illinois. He postponed marriage and family until only a few years before his death and agonized about relationships with his family in Illinois. His experience reminds us that the pioneer settlement era was a period of social dislocation and that public economic and political success could mask personal disappointment. Lang’s biography takes readers into the heart of Washington territorial politics, where alliances often hinged more on mutual economic interest than political principles and nearly all agreed that government should encourage ambitious and energetic men. In this world, Lang argues, Miller succeeded because he parlayed his talents in camaraderie politics and sharp-pencil business affairs with an unabashed mining of governmental opportunities. William Lang’s account of William Winlock Miller and the first quarter century of Washington’s history offers a new view of the pioneer era, emphasizing that the West was developed in large measure by men like Miller who manipulated government and its resources to their own and the region’s advantage.

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University of Washington Press

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0295802774

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9780295802770

Pulp Fiction to Film Noir

The Great Depression and the Development of a Genre

By: William Hare

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Pulp Fiction to Film Noir

The Great Depression and the Development of a Genre

By: William Hare

During the Great Depression, pulp fiction writers created a new, distinctly American detective story, one that stressed the development of fascinating, often bizarre characters rather than the twists and turns of clever plots. This new crime fiction adapted brilliantly to the screen, birthing a cinematic genre that French cinema intellectuals following World War II christened "film noir." Set on dark streets late at night, in cheap hotels and bars, and populated by the dangerous people who frequented these locales, these films introduced a new antihero, a tough, brooding, rebellious loner, embodied by Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon and Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep. This volume provides a detailed exploration of film noir, tracing its evolution, the influence of such legendary writers as Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler, and the films that propelled this dark genre to popularity in the mid-20th century.

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McFarland

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0786490292

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9780786490295

The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats

Volume IV, 1905-1907

By: William Butler Yeats

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The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats

Volume IV, 1905-1907

By: William Butler Yeats

Vol 2 edited by Warwick Gould, John Kelly, Deirdre Toomey Vol 3 edited by John Kelly and Ronald Schuchard Includes bibliographical references and index v 1 1865-1895 -- only held v 2 1896-1900 -- v 3 1901-1904.

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0198126840

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9780198126843

Zero Point

Power of the Gods

By: William James

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Zero Point

Power of the Gods

By: William James

When Professors James Flanagan and Thomas Nellings from Brooklyn College of Natural History embark on a trip to Kentucky to inspect recently discovered artifacts in Mammoth Cave, they expect to find typical North American remains. But from the moment they inspect the artifacts, they know their lives have changed forever. The first indication of anything unusual is the discovery of cuneiform hieroglyphics-the earliest form of writing dating back 6,000 years in Mesopotamia. It's a mystery how writing of this kind has found its way to the United States. As Flanagan and Nellings explore deeper into the cavern, the pair discern a unique energy form; this Zero Point Energy could be the Holy Grail to unlimited energy which unscrupulous people would do anything to own. But they are truly shocked when they find an alien spacecraft ensconced deep below the earth. Their routine investigation quickly turns into a high-stakes adventure that could eliminate humanity's dependence on fossil fuels. Flanagan and Nellings could lose their lives or usher in a new age of peace and prosperity. But will humanity survive long enough to make the transition?

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William James

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0595528228

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9780595528226

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She's Leaving Home

She's Leaving Home

Play with Fire

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The Idea of the Actor

The Idea of the Actor

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy

Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy

The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

The Practice in Civil Actions and Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Wilde Writings

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Parson Henry Renfro

Parson Henry Renfro

The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969

The Amazin' Mets, 1962-1969

True Heroines

True Heroines

Accrington Pals: The 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment

Accrington Pals: The 11th (Service) Battalion (Accrington) East Lancashire Regiment

Confederacy of Ambition

Confederacy of Ambition

Pulp Fiction to Film Noir

Pulp Fiction to Film Noir

The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats

The Collected Letters of W. B. Yeats

Zero Point

Zero Point

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