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Metamorphica

Fiction

By: Zachary Mason

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A brilliant and daring novel that reimagines Ovid’s Metamorphoses In the tradition of his bestselling debut novel The Lost Books of the Odyssey, Zachary Mason’s Metamorphica transforms Ovid’s epic poem of endless transformation. It reimagines the stories of Narcissus, Pygmalion and Galatea, Midas and Atalanta, and strings them together like the stars in constellations—even Ovid becomes a story. It’s as though the ancient mythologies had been rewritten by Borges or Calvino; Metamorphica is an archipelago in which to linger for a while; it reflects a little light from the morning of the world.

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0374709831

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The Life of Saul Bellow

Love and Strife, 1965-2005

By: Zachary Leader

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The Life of Saul Bellow

Love and Strife, 1965-2005

By: Zachary Leader

When this second volume of The Life of Saul Bellow opens, Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters - rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing some of his greatest fiction (Mr Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift, all his best stories), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize. At eighty, he wrote his last story; at eighty-five, he wrote Ravelstein. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more dramatic than in volume 1. In the public sphere, he is embroiled in controversy over foreign affairs, race, religion, education, social policy, the state of culture, the fate of the novel. Bellow's relations with women were often fraught. In the 1960s he was compulsively promiscuous (even as he inveighed against sexual liberation). The women he pursued, the ones he married and those with whom he had affairs, were intelligent, attractive and strong-willed. At eighty-five he fathered his fourth child, a daughter, with his fifth wife. His three sons, whom he loved, could be as volatile as he was, and their relations with their father were often troubled. Although an early and engaged supporter of civil rights, in the second half of his life Bellow was angered by the excesses of Black Power. An opponent of cultural relativism, he exercised great influence in literary and intellectual circles, advising a host of institutes and foundations, helping those he approved of, hindering those of whom he disapproved. In making his case, he could be cutting and rude; he could also be charming, loyal, and funny. Bellow's heroic energy and will are clear to the very end of his life. His immense achievement and its cost, to himself and others, are also clear.

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Vintage

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1101875178

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Inventing Eden

Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England

By: Zachary McLeod Hutchins

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Inventing Eden

Primitivism, Millennialism, and the Making of New England

By: Zachary McLeod Hutchins

Previous scholars have noted the Puritans' edenic descriptions of New World landscapes, but Inventing Eden is the first study to fully uncover the integral relationship between the New England interest in paradise and the numerous iconic intellectual artifacts and social movements of colonial North America. Harvard Yard, the Bay Psalm Book, and the Quaker use of antiquated pronouns like thee and thou: these are products of a seventeenth-century desire for Eden. So, too, are the evangelical emphasis of the Great Awakening, the doctrine of natural law popularized by the Declaration of Independence, and the first United States judicial decision abolishing slavery. Be it public nudity or Freemasonry, Zachary Hutchins convincingly shows how a shared wish to bring paradise into the pragmatic details of colonial living had a profound effect on early New England life and its substantial culture of letters. Spanning two centuries and surveying the works of major British and American thinkers from James Harrington and John Milton to Anne Hutchinson and Benjamin Franklin, Inventing Eden is the history of an idea that irrevocably altered the theology, literature, and culture of colonial New England -- and, eventually, the new republic.

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Oxford University Press

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0199998159

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Beyond Punishment?

A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction

By: Zachary Hoskins

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Beyond Punishment?

A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction

By: Zachary Hoskins

People convicted of crimes are subject to a criminal sentence, but they also face a host of other restrictive legal measures: Some are denied access to jobs, housing, welfare, the vote, or other goods. Some may be deported, may be subjected to continued detention, or may have their criminal records made publicly accessible. These measures are often more burdensome than the formal sentence itself. In Beyond Punishment?, Zachary Hoskins offers a philosophical examination of these burdensome legal measures, called collateral legal consequences. Drawing on resources in moral, legal, and political philosophy, Hoskins analyzes the various kinds of collateral consequences imposed in different legal systems and the important moral challenges they raise. Can collateral legal consequences ever be justified as forms of criminal punishment or as civil measures? Hoskins contends that, considered as forms of punishment, such restrictions should be constrained by considerations of proportionality and offender reform. He also argues that they may in a limited range of cases be permissible as risk-reductive civil measures. Whether considered as criminal punishment or civil measures, however, collateral legal consequences are justifiable in a far narrower range of cases than we find in current legal practice. Considering just how pervasive collateral legal consequences have become and their dramatic effects on offenders' lives, Beyond Punishment? sheds valuable light on whether these restrictive measures are ever morally justified.

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Oxford University Press

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0190942622

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Vengeance

A Novel

By: Zachary Lazar

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Vengeance

A Novel

By: Zachary Lazar

“Tense and evocative . . . . Despite its powerful social critique, Vengeance is cautious and prismatic, openly troubled by its own claims to authority.” —Katy Waldman, The New Yorker As the narrator attempts to sort out what happened in King’s life—paying visits to his devoted mother, his estranged young daughter and her mother, his girlfriend, his brother, and his cousin—the writer’s own sense of identity begins to feel more and more like a fiction. He is one of the “free people” while Kendrick, who studies theology and philosophy, will never get his only wish, expressed plainly as “I just need to get out of here.” The dichotomy between their lives forces the narrator to confront the violence in his own past, and also to reexamine American notions of guilt and penance, racial bias, and the inherent perversity of punitive justice. It is common knowledge that we have an incarceration crisis in our country. Vengeance, by way of vivid storytelling, helps us to understand the failure of empathy and imagination that causes it.

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Catapult

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1936787784

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Ethical Imperialism

Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009

By: Zachary M. Schrag

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Ethical Imperialism

Institutional Review Boards and the Social Sciences, 1965–2009

By: Zachary M. Schrag

A powerful indictment of the IRB regime. University researchers in the United States seeking to observe, survey, or interview people are required first to complete ethical training courses and to submit their proposals to an institutional review board (IRB). Under current rules, IRBs have the power to deny funding, degrees, or promotion if their recommended modifications to scholars’ proposals are not followed. This volume explains how this system of regulation arose and discusses its chilling effects on research in the social sciences and humanities. Zachary M. Schrag draws on original research and interviews with the key shapers of the institutional review board regime to raise important points about the effect of the IRB process on scholarship. He explores the origins and the application of these regulations and analyzes how the rules—initially crafted to protect the health and privacy of the human subjects of medical experiments—can limit even casual scholarly interactions such as a humanist interviewing a poet about his or her writing. In assessing the issue, Schrag argues that biomedical researchers and bioethicists repeatedly excluded social scientists from rule making and ignored the existing ethical traditions in nonmedical fields. Ultimately, he contends, IRBs not only threaten to polarize medical and social scientists, they also create an atmosphere wherein certain types of academics can impede and even silence others. The first work to document the troubled emergence of today's system of regulating scholarly research, Ethical Imperialism illuminates the problems caused by simple, universal rule making in academic and professional research. This short, smart analysis will engage scholars across academia.

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JHU Press

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0801899141

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9780801899140

Less Than a Year to Live

By: Dr. Kelly Zachary-Arnold

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Less Than a Year to Live

By: Dr. Kelly Zachary-Arnold

Dr. Kelly Zachary-Arnold was shocked to hear the words Im sorry, you had a heart attack, and you are in heart failure! This is the true, medically documented story of a Christian doctor as she is faced with a terminally ill heart and is given less than a year to live. You will cry and laugh and then you will believe and rejoice at the God of all gods.

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WestBow Press

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1973635429

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Cultural Mega-Events

Opportunities and Risks for Heritage Cities

By: Zachary M. Jones

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Cultural Mega-Events

Opportunities and Risks for Heritage Cities

By: Zachary M. Jones

Mega-events have long been used by cities as a strategy to secure global recognition and attract future economic investment. However, while cultural mega-events like the European Capital of Culture have become increasingly popular, cities have begun questioning the traditional model of other events such as the Olympic Games with many candidate cities cancelling bids in recent years. This approach to planning and developing cities through mega-events introduces a broad range of physical effects and nuanced institutional changes for cities, particularly for the more sensitive heritage areas of cities. This book explores these issues by first examining the dynamics of cities’ attempts to reduce overall costs and increase the sustainability of these large events by further embedding them within the existing fabric of the city and second by studying in depth the impact on the heritage of host cities. This book investigates three World Heritage Cities: Genoa, Liverpool and Istanbul, each of which have hosted the European Capital of Culture and introduced a variety of opportunities and risks for their heritage. The book highlights the potential benefits and challenges of integrating event and heritage planning to provide lessons that can help future historic cities and heritage decision makers better prepare for such events.

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Routledge

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1000028089

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Playing Saint

A Novel

By: Zachary Bartels

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Playing Saint

A Novel

By: Zachary Bartels

Yesterday, Parker Saint’s only concern was his swiftly rising star power. Today, he’s just trying to stay alive. Parker Saint is living the dream. A cushy job at a thriving megachurch has him on the verge of becoming a bestselling author and broadcast celebrity—until life takes an abrupt turn that lands him on the wrong side of the law. To avoid a public scandal, he agrees to consult with the police on a series of brutal murders linked by strange religious symbols scrawled on each victim. Parker tries to play the expert, but he is clearly in over his head. Drawn ever deeper into a web of intrigue involving a demanding detective, a trio of secretive Vatican operatives, and a centuries-old conspiracy to conceal a mysterious relic, he realizes for the first time that the battle between good and evil is all too real—and that the killer is coming back . . . this time for him. “A thought-provoking exploration into the power of faith and the reality of evil. Filled with memorable characters and tight writing, Playing Saint is an impressive debut from an author to watch.” —Steven James, bestselling author of Placebo and The Queen

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1401690572

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Reading Blake's Songs

By: Zachary Leader

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Reading Blake's Songs

By: Zachary Leader

First appearing in 1981, this book was the first full-length study of the Songs of Innocence and Experience to be published in almost fifteen years. The book provides detailed readings of each poem and its accompanying design, to redirect attention to the nature and achievement of the book as a whole, to Songs as a single, carefully unified work of verbal and visual art. Particularly close attention is paid, not only to the designs Blake etched to accompany his poems, but also to the many books and treatises for and about children to which, it is argued, Songs alludes or is indebted. Like so many important works of this period, Songs is shown to be autobiographical in nature, one of Blake’s attempts to order and account for the conflicts and crises of his own art and life. Its story is that of an artist’s growth into and out of vision, and of his gradual realization of the dangers and deficiencies of the prophetic mode.

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Routledge

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1317381238

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Letters of love - Inspiration, Gratitude, Hope

A Compiliation of Letters from Around the World

By: Melissa Desveaux,Carol Ann Gvineria,Jovaniah Nastili,Pallavee Periapayen,Veronica Sanchez De Darivas,Kerri-Ann Sheppard,Lovena Sunassee,Zachary Shiloh Watts

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Letters of love - Inspiration, Gratitude, Hope

A Compiliation of Letters from Around the World

By: Melissa Desveaux,Carol Ann Gvineria,Jovaniah Nastili,Pallavee Periapayen,Veronica Sanchez De Darivas,Kerri-Ann Sheppard,Lovena Sunassee,Zachary Shiloh Watts

When a painful day turns your your world to darkness, know that Love is still around you. From pregnancy loss to community compassion, family gratitude to self-love, surviving trauma to paying tribute to heroes past and present, this book filled with letters written by authors from around the globe. No two letters are alike, but each one is penned from a place of overwhelming love. This heartfelt compilation is the follow-up to the international best-selling first volume of Letters of Love. It follows each writiers difficult journey through adversity and heartache to reconnect with their happiness. A love letter to love itself, enter into poignant world of gratitude that proves love is always present despite your circumstances Reviews: "Melissa writes from the heart, a heart that has experienced the pain of unimaginable loss and has picked itself back up again to grow and love more children. This is bravery and courage, her words will offer much comfort to many women through their heartbreak" - Sam Payne - Co-Founder & CEO The Pink Elephants Support Network Lovena’s letter is filled with words of wisdom, hope and gratitude. Some of the thoughts allow me to draw inspiration from as a writer. Having reminders for myself allows me to grow as an individual. These words that Lovena have mentioned “You don’t need to be perfect because perfect is fantasy”. This is so true in many ways, as we all wish for that fantasy in our life. Even my own fantasy for self actualisation can be fruitful in so many ways. Lovena really makes you feel that her words are a lesson for all of us to follow. As a fellow contributor with Lovena, I have appreciated and stood by the lessons that she has taught, and her Letter in this book is a reflection of that. - David Vine An inspired writing of a Being connected to Love that reminds us how to give Thanks to all those who, with their Presence, have been giving us the infinite fuel that guides, leads and accompanies us on this journey towards the Light from which we originate. For the same reason, I understand why the author of these lines should have the name of Veronica: "Carrier of Victory". - Dr. Alejandro Cuevas Arriagada Physician - Surgeon from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and Specialist in Psychiatry from the University of Chile. ‘’I have had the honour to give my input to the text written by Pallavee Y. Periapayen on Celebrating Women Empowerment – our source of inspiration and belief in the future. The way she described the glory to all the ladies who had a mark in bringing and being the change is so deep, well structured, inspiring and above all makes us reminiscize the greatness of all these women who have been role models sometimes in the shadow and sometimes in the limelight to pave the way and inspire young women. It also depicts their perseverance, their beliefs, their selfless efforts and their might and plights in bringing their contribution to the cause of building a society, mentality and new world with equality, justice and hope for the future. The use of inspiring words to commemorate and revitalise them in our daily quest to forge a better world is laudable. I fully associate myself to this initiative. I have no hesitation in commending the Letters of Love Book as a source of motivation to all the active ladies engaged in the construction of a new era of hope.’’ - Ms Naveena RAMYAD Chief Government Whip (Republic of Mauritius)

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0645217530

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But First, Coffee

A Guide to Brewing from the Kitchen to the Bar

By: Jordan Michelman,Zachary Carlsen

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But First, Coffee

A Guide to Brewing from the Kitchen to the Bar

By: Jordan Michelman,Zachary Carlsen

Everything you need to know about brewing, using, and enjoying coffee at home, featuring more than 40 recipes, from morning cup to coffee-spiked nightcap. This entertaining and informative coffee book from the cofounders of Sprudge, the world’s most popular coffee website, shows readers the many ways they can enjoy coffee at home, from detailed instructions on countertop brewing methods like Chemex, AeroPress, and French press to recipes that use coffee as an ingredient in cocktails, milkshakes, floats, and even a spice rub. Whether you use an automatic coffee maker or a fancy La Marzocco espresso machine, this book will build your coffee-crafting knowledge, with recipes such as Caffe con Panna (a shot of espresso topped with whipped cream), Affogato (espresso poured over ice cream), a coffee-chocolate syrup, and the classic Espresso Martini. The book also includes tips and guidance on the gear you need to create the home coffee experience that’s right for you; expert instructions for more than two-dozen brewing methods for coffee and espresso; and sections on how to build a mug collection and how to find the best coffee beans on the market. Part barista recipe book, part mixology book, But First, Coffee has all the coffee recipes you need to keep the java flowing from morning to night. Anyone searching for coffee gifts need look no further—But First, Coffee covers every possible way to enjoy this crucial beverage

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Union Square & Co.

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1454947705

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Health Services Management

Competencies and Careers

By: Zachary Pruitt, PhD, MHA, FACHE

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Health Services Management

Competencies and Careers

By: Zachary Pruitt, PhD, MHA, FACHE

Health Services Management: Competencies and Careers provides students in healthcare administration and management, public health, and other healthcare sectors with the necessary knowledge, practical understanding, and fundamental skills to become successful, confident, and empathetic health services managers in this exciting and growing field. The text incorporates fundamental management competencies in every chapter and supplies relevant examples of managerial decision-making and problem-solving in various health service delivery settings. Written with Generation Z students in mind, this book takes on a straightforward approach to planning, organizing, directing, and leading, and imparts important knowledge on the science of evidence-based management. Health Services Management covers the roles and functions of health services managers and breaks down the variety of subjects they must understand to be thoughtful and effective. Chapters cover the dynamic challenges in managing interpersonal relationships, navigating leadership and change, and balancing professionalism and ethics to prepare future leaders for the obstacles ahead. Students are also given a better understanding of population health management and community collaboration, healthcare governance, strategic planning and marketing, human resource management, organizational design, project management, financial management, and much more. Health Services Management is a foundational textbook for anyone seeking a challenging and enriching career as a health services manager. Key Features: Provides an easy-to-read text with an engaging style that will appeal to current and future health services managers Listen to more than 30 informational interviews with health services management professionals discussing career topics including roles, responsibilities, and the value of the health service management profession to clinicians and patients Features engaging professional development reflections and career boxes that provide guidance on the technical skills and professional insights needed to succeed in health services management careers Students have access to a glossary featuring more than 700 key terms Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring chapter PowerPoints, Test Banks, an Instructor Manual with learning activities, discussion and essay questions for each chapter, and additional resources to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text

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Springer Publishing Company

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0826148077

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The Great Society Subway

A History of the Washington Metro

By: Zachary M. Schrag

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The Great Society Subway

A History of the Washington Metro

By: Zachary M. Schrag

As Metro stretches to Tysons Corner and beyond, this paperback edition features a new preface from the author. Drivers in the nation's capital face a host of hazards: high-speed traffic circles, presidential motorcades, jaywalking tourists, and bewildering signs that send unsuspecting motorists from the Lincoln Memorial into suburban Virginia in less than two minutes. And parking? Don't bet on it unless you're in the fast lane of the Capital Beltway during rush hour. Little wonder, then, that so many residents and visitors rely on the Washington Metro, the 106-mile rapid transit system that serves the District of Columbia and its inner suburbs. In the first comprehensive history of the Metro, Zachary M. Schrag tells the story of the Great Society Subway from its earliest rumblings to the present day, from Arlington to College Park, Eisenhower to Marion Barry. Unlike the pre–World War II rail systems of New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, the Metro was built at a time when most American families already owned cars, and when most American cities had dedicated themselves to freeways, not subways. Why did the nation's capital take a different path? What were the consequences of that decision? Using extensive archival research as well as oral history, Schrag argues that the Metro can be understood only in the political context from which it was born: the Great Society liberalism of the Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon administrations. The Metro emerged from a period when Americans believed in public investments suited to the grandeur and dignity of the world's richest nation. The Metro was built not merely to move commuters, but in the words of Lyndon Johnson, to create "a place where the city of man serves not only the needs of the body and the demands of commerce but the desire for beauty and the hunger for community." Schrag scrutinizes the project from its earliest days, including general planning, routes, station architecture, funding decisions, land-use impacts, and the behavior of Metro riders. The story of the Great Society Subway sheds light on the development of metropolitan Washington, postwar urban policy, and the promises and limits of rail transit in American cities.

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JHU Press

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0801889065

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"Hamlet" After Q1

An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text

By: Zachary Lesser

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"Hamlet" After Q1

An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text

By: Zachary Lesser

In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple with a radically new—or rather, old—Hamlet in which the characters, plot, and poetry of Shakespeare's most famous play were profoundly and strangely transformed. Q1, as the text is known, has been declared a rough draft, a shorthand piracy, a memorial reconstruction, and a pre-Shakespearean "ur-Hamlet," among other things. Flickering between two historical moments—its publication in Shakespeare's early seventeenth century and its rediscovery in Bunbury's early nineteenth—Q1 is both the first and last Hamlet. Because this text became widely known only after the familiar version of the play had reached the pinnacle of English literature, its reception has entirely depended on this uncanny temporal oscillation; so too has its ongoing influence on twentieth- and twenty-first-century ideas of the play. Zachary Lesser examines how the improbable discovery of Q1 has forced readers to reconsider accepted truths about Shakespeare as an author and about the nature of Shakespeare's texts. In telling the story of this mysterious quarto and tracing the debates in newspapers, London theaters, and scholarly journals that followed its discovery, Lesser offers brilliant new insights on what we think we mean by Hamlet.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812246616

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Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Conservation of West Virginia's Ohio River Floodplain Crayfishes (Decapoda, Cambaridae)

By: Zachary J. Loughman,Thomas P. Simon

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Zoogeography, Taxonomy, and Conservation of West Virginia's Ohio River Floodplain Crayfishes (Decapoda, Cambaridae)

By: Zachary J. Loughman,Thomas P. Simon

The crayfish fauna of West Virginia consists of 23 species and several undescribed taxa. Most survey efforts documenting this fauna have been conducted in lotic waterways throughout the Appalachian plateau, Allegheny Mountains, and Ridge and Valley physiographic provinces. Bottomland forests, swamps, and marshes associated with large river floodplains such as the Ohio River floodplain historically have been under-surveyed, though these habitats harbor the richest primary burrowing crayfish fauna in West Virginia. The crayfish fauna of West Virginia?s Ohio River floodplain was surveyed from 2004 through 2009.ÿ From this survey, nine species from four genera were documented inhabiting the floodplain. Zoogeography, biology, and conservation status is provided for the nine species encountered in the survey, as well as a review of crayfish collection methods and a dichotomous key to West Virginia Ohio River floodplain crayfish species.

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PenSoft Publishers LTD

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9546425702

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Technology Transfer and US Public Sector Innovation

By: Albert N. Link,Zachary T. Oliver

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Technology Transfer and US Public Sector Innovation

By: Albert N. Link,Zachary T. Oliver

Technology Transfer and US Public Sector Innovation provides an overview of US technology policies that are the genesis for observed technology transfer activities. By describing the technology transfer process from US federal laboratories and other public sector organizations, this exploration informs the reader in detail of how the transfer process behaves and the social benefits associated with it.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1788976568

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Bound for Work

Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965

By: Zachary Kagan Guthrie

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Bound for Work

Labor, Mobility, and Colonial Rule in Central Mozambique, 1940-1965

By: Zachary Kagan Guthrie

Diverging from the studies of southern African migrant labor that focus on particular workplaces and points of origin, Bound for Work looks at the multitude of forms and locales of migrant labor that individuals—under more or less coercive circumstances—engaged in over the course of their lives. Tracing Mozambican workers as they moved between different types of labor across Mozambique, Rhodesia, and South Africa, Zachary Kagan Guthrie places the multiple venues of labor in a single historical frame, expanding the regional historiography beyond the long shadow cast by the apartheid state while simultaneously exploring the continuities and fractures between South Africa, southern Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa. Kagan Guthrie’s holistic approach to migrant labor yields several important conclusions. First, he highlights the importance of workers’ choices, explaining not just why people moved but why they moved in the ways they did: how they calculated the benefits of one destination over another, and how they decided when circumstances made it necessary to move again. Second, his attention to mobility gives a much clearer view of the mechanisms of power available to colonial authorities, as well as the limits to their effectiveness. Finally, Kagan Guthrie suggests a new explanation for the divergent trajectories of southern and sub-Saharan Africa in the aftermath of World War II.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813941555

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The Last Con

By: Zachary Bartels

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The Last Con

By: Zachary Bartels

THE KNIGHTS OF MALTA WERE THERE WHEN JERUSALEM FELL, THEY WERE THERE WHEN THE TEMPLARS DISINTEGRATED, AND THEY’RE THERE NOW . . . WAITING IN DETROIT FOR A BORN-AGAIN CON MAN TRYING TO SAVE HIS FAMILY. Former con man Fletcher Doyle is finally home after six years in the pen. He’s working a menial job, regaining his bearings in the world, and trying to revive his relationships with his wife and twelve-year-old daughter. No easy feat. But when Fletcher and his family go on a mission trip to Detroit—in the company of the condescending church leader who also happens to be his landlord—Fletcher finds his old life waiting for him. Within hours of arriving in the city, he’s been blackmailed into doing a job for a mysterious criminal who calls himself The Alchemist. A series of relics hidden by the Knights of Malta, as ancient as they are priceless, are in the sights of The Alchemist. What he needs is a gifted grifter with a background in ecclesiastical history . . . what he needs is Fletcher Doyle. Between hiding his reawakened criminal life from his wife and trying to hide her from their relentless landlord, Fletcher is ready to give up. But when his family is drawn into the dangerous world he can’t shake, Fletcher is forced to rely on his years in the game to save the only people who mean more to him than the biggest con in history.

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Thomas Nelson

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1401690580

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The Happy Atheist

By: Paul Zachary Myers

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The Happy Atheist

By: Paul Zachary Myers

The creator of the popular science blog "Pharyngula" presents a biting assessment of religious fanaticism that imparts his infectious disdain for such topics as creationism, biblical literalism, and "intelligent design" theory.

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey

A Novel

By: Zachary Mason

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The Lost Books of the Odyssey

A Novel

By: Zachary Mason

A New York Times Bestseller A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Zachary Mason's brilliant and beguiling debut novel reimagines Homer's classic story of the hero Odysseus and his long journey home after the fall of Troy. With hypnotic prose, terrific imagination, and dazzling literary skill, Mason creates alternative episodes, fragments, and revisions of Homer's original that, taken together, open up this classic Greek myth to endless reverberating interpretations. The Lost Books of the Odyssey is punctuated with great wit, beauty, and playfulness; it is a daring literary page-turner that marks the emergence of an extraordinary new talent.

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0312680465

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When the Wind Blows

By: Zachary Alan Fox

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When the Wind Blows

By: Zachary Alan Fox

From the author of the acclaimed "All Fall Down" comes this story of a single father who, according to a death certificate, died as an infant 30 years ago in a town he never heard of. Now, an uncertain past is beckoning from the deceptively peaceful community of Harmony, Colorado, where secrets of a heinous old crime are hidden away in the Rocky Mountains. Someone will kill to keep them hidden forever.

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Pinnacle Books

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0786006587

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The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 2

Love and Strife, 1965-2005

By: Zachary Leader

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The Life of Saul Bellow, Volume 2

Love and Strife, 1965-2005

By: Zachary Leader

The second volume in the life of literary giant Saul Bellow, vividly capturing a personal life that was always tumultuous and career that never ceased being triumphant. Bellow, at forty-nine, is at the pinnacle of American letters--rich, famous, critically acclaimed. The expected trajectory is one of decline: volume 1, rise; volume 2, fall. Bellow never fell, producing in the latter half of his life some of his greatest fiction (Mr. Sammler's Planet, Humboldt's Gift), winning two more National Book Awards, a Pulitzer Prize, and the Nobel Prize. At eighty, he wrote his last story; at eighty-five, he wrote Ravelstein. In this volume, his life away from the desk, including his love life, is if anything more dramatic than in the first. In the public sphere, he is embroiled in controversy over foreign affairs, race, religion, education, social policy, the state of culture, the fate of the novel. In this stunning second volume, Zachary Leader shows that Bellow's heroic energy and will were present to the very end of his life. His immense achievement and its cost, to himself and others, continue to be worth the examination of this vivid work of literary scholarship.

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1101910186

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