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Murdock, Larry L. L. Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?: …and Other Essays on Antique Phrases and Midwest History. Lulu.com, 2008.

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Murdock, Larry L. L. Why did the Chicken Cross the Road?: …and Other Essays on Antique Phrases and Midwest History. Lulu.com, 2008.

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Ambrose, Bierce. Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Fantastic Fables. Fables from Fun. Aesopus Emendatus. Old Saws with New Teeth. Fables in Rhyme. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Ambrose, Bierce. Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce ...: The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Fantastic Fables. Fables from Fun. Aesopus Emendatus. Old Saws with New Teeth. Fables in Rhyme. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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Stancliffe, Stancliffe. Golf Do's and Dont's : Being a Very Little about a Good Deal: Together with Some New Saws for Old Wood - and Knots in the Golfer's Line Which May Help a Good Memory for Forgetting. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2023.

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Owen, Kenneth. Old Principles, New Constitutions, 1783–1790. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827979.003.0004.

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This chapter investigates the period between the federal Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the revision of the Pennsylvania State Constitution in 1790. Debates over the ratification of the US Constitution grew out of and reflected long-running Pennsylvanian debates over ideal forms of government. These debates—rhetorically and literally violent—saw Federalists adopt the language of their Anti-Federalist opponents in using popular sovereignty and a participatory political culture to justify their new frame of government. This widened debates on governmental reform to include extra-governmen

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Carroll, John M. China Hands and Old Cantons. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881814052.

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Early encounters between Britain and China are best known for igniting the First Opium War. Yet they also produced an enormous archive of writings by Britons who spent time in China. Frustrated with the restrictions imposed by the Manchu rulers of the Qing Empire, and unable to live or travel elsewhere apart from Canton and Macao, these diplomats, traders, missionaries, travelers, and military officers devoted thousands of pages to understanding China, its people, and their civilization. In China Hands and Old Cantons, John M. Carroll draws on this wealth of memoirs, ethnographic studies, trav

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Cohen, Robert. When the Old Left Was Young. Oxford University Press, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195060997.001.0001.

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The Depression era saw the first mass student movement in American history. The crusade, led in large part by young Communists, was both an anti-war campaign and a movement championing a broader and more egalitarian vision of the welfare state than that of the New Dealers. The movement arose from a massive political awakening on campus, caused by the economic crisis of the 1930s, the escalating international tensions, and threat of world war wrought by fascism. At its peak, in the late 1930s, the movement mobilized at least a half million collegians in annual strikes against war. Never before,

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Old-fashioned Amish Mennonite cookin' II: More sugarless favorites. Little Mountain Printing, 1997.

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Farriss, Nancy. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190884109.003.0001.

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Language diversification is as old as the human capacity for speech and along with it the need for translation. In the Old World multilingual diasporas and centuries-long contact facilitated communication across language boundaries. The formerly isolated and linguistically fragmented Americas presented a new and severe challenge to the Europeans, especially the Christian missionaries. Relying on language to convert the indigenous populations, they regarded the extreme degree of language diversity as exemplifying the curse of Babel and saw their role as an extension of the early age of the apos

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Jones, Peter, and Steven King, eds. Navigating the Old English Poor Law. British Academy, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5871/bacad/9780197266816.001.0001.

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This edition of 599 letters written by, for or about the poor to the early nineteenth century Cumbrian town of Kirkby Lonsdale provides a unique window onto the experiences, views and conditions of a much neglected group in English social history. The letters provide a sense of the emotional landscape of people who have so far largely escaped our attention, telling the intensely human stories of their hardships and the efforts they made to survive, often against considerable odds. However, they also give a real sense of the agency of the poor and their advocates, demonstrating time and again t

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Shattuck, Debra A. The 1890s: New Women, Bloomer Girls, and the Old Ball Game. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040375.003.0006.

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The 1890s saw a dramatic redefinition of femininity that coalesced into the image of the Gibson Girl and “New Woman.” Men like Bernarr Macfadden taught women that athleticism was a prerequisite of beauty; thousands of women began riding bicycles and playing vigorous sports with gusto. Women’s professional baseball shifted from theatrical to highly competitive and featured talented female players like Maud Nelson and Lizzie Arlington. Their “Bloomer Girl” teams barnstormed the country playing men’s amateur and semi-professional teams. Many decried the New Woman ideal and critics of female baseb

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Pippin, Robert B. In What Sense is Hegel’s Philosophy of Right “Based” on His Science of Logic? Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198778165.003.0004.

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Hegel famously says in the “Preface” to The Philosophy of Right that that outline or Grundriss presupposes “the speculative mode of cognition.” This is to be contrasted with what he calls “the old logic” and “the knowledge of the understanding” (Verstandeserkenntnis), a term he also uses to characterize all of metaphysics prior to his own. He makes explicit that he is referring to his book, The Science of Logic, but he does not explain the nature of this dependence anywhere in the book. This chapter attempts to explain the nature of this dependence, and to show that it is indeed crucial to und

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Sokolovsky, Jay, and Carl I. Cohen. Old Men of the Bowery: Strategies for Survival Among the Homeless. The Guilford Press, 1988.

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Sokolovsky, Jay, and Carl I. Cohen. Old Men of the Bowery: Strategies for Survival Among the Homeless. The Guilford Press, 1988.

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Ezell, Margaret J. M. The Theatre: On the London Stage and on the Page. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780191849572.003.0004.

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Although Parliament had officially closed the London commercial stages in 1642 and many of the old theaters including the Globe and the King’s Masquing House were destroyed, throughout the Commonwealth period illicit performances continued. Newsbooks record raids on illicit performances in the remaining theatres. The 1650s also saw an increase in printed play texts, often expressing royalist sympathies Many of the actors including Michael Mohun and Charles Hart served in the King’s army. Entertainments were still performed in private houses, schools, and universities. Towards the end of the Co

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Cave, Richard. Modernism and Irish Theatre 1900–1940. Edited by Nicholas Grene and Chris Morash. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198706137.013.9.

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Modernism, defined here initially in its key features across the art forms, was a strong countercurrent to the dominant style of realism in Irish theatre in the first decades of the twentieth century. This is particularly evident in the dance dramas of W. B. Yeats and his other experiments with non-realist dramatic forms. Séan O’Casey, in his controversial playThe Silver Tassieand later works, drew on the bold techniques of expressionism. Denis Johnston, who emerged as a playwright from the 1920s Dublin Drama League, gave the Gate Theatre one of its key early successes inThe Old Lady Says No!.

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Hoffman, Lawrence A. Jewish Liturgy and Jewish Scholarship: Method and Cosmology. Edited by Martin Goodman. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199280322.013.0029.

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The state of Jewish liturgy as a modern discipline has received treatment in many quarters. This article describes liturgical study in Judaism. It examines how Jewish liturgy is a discipline on its own. It now turns out that if it is a discipline, it is a very postmodern one, in the sense that it asks how Jews construct the meaning of their lives. New paradigms do not necessarily displace old ones; they build on them. The scientific rigour of the philologists is as important as ever; the reconstruction of piyyutim and rites serves as raw. With the abandoning of the model by which only origins

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Swann, Julian. Disgrace without Dishonour. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198788690.003.0011.

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Under the Old Regime, as today, dictionary definitions saw disgrace as almost synonymous with dishonour. Yet no matter how painful the impact of the sovereign’s displeasure many victims were convinced that they were suffering in a higher cause and that their punishment was in no way dishonourable. Using the examples of disgraced bishops, officers in the army, and judges, this chapter examines how they looked to religious, classical, legal, and historical examples to defend actions that had incurred the king’s wrath. It suggests that conscience, models of Christian or professional virtue, and t

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Prusin, Alexander. Resistance Movements. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041068.003.0006.

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Examines the emergence, make-up, and activities of the two resistance movements – the nationalist Chetniks and the communist Partisans - and the complexity of their relationship. Initially, they collaborated with one another, but their ultimate goals were mutually exclusive. The Chetniks under Draža Mihailović considered themselves a part of the Yugoslav royal army and saw their primary objective in preserving the old political and social order. Headed by Josip Broz Tito, the Partisans were equally determined to destroy that order and build a new one, modelled after the Bolshevik regime in Rus

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Sagan, Olivia, and James Withey, eds. What I Do to Get Through. Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781805015376.

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What a beautiful thing this little book is, packed with honest accounts of what people do to make themselves feel better. — from the Foreword by Cathy Rentzenbrink, author of The Last Act of Love and A Manual for Heartache A love letter to hobbies, this book is full of powerful stories of joy-sparking activities that cut through the fug, lift us up and make each day a little brighter. It’s a manifesto for learning and laughing that gives us permission to exercise a brilliant form of self-care. — Pooky Knightsmith, internationally renowned child and adolescent mental health expert This is a gre

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Feather, John. The Book Trade, 1770–1832. Edited by Alan Downie. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566747.013.013.

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The British book trade evolved into a fully modern industry during this period. Its modernity was signalled by more effective copyright laws, clearer divisions of labour and responsibility, and the emergence of publishing as a distinctive branch of the trade. The period saw a significant increase in the publication of fiction as a purely commercial phenomenon. Publishers, booksellers, the owners of circulating libraries, and authors all benefited from this. New and more standardized formats developed, including the ‘three-decker’ and the one-volume cheap reprint, which were to characterize muc

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Trollope, Anthony. Cousin Henry. Edited by Julian Thompson. Oxford University Press, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/owc/9780199537679.001.0001.

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Henry Jones, an unprepossessing London insurance clerk, knows that his uncle has disinherited him. The old man‘s will, made out at the last minute in favour of Henry‘s charming cousin Isabel Brodrick, lies neatly folded in a well-thumbed volume of sermons in his book-room; Henry saw him put it there before he died. Unfortunately nobody else knows where the will is, and Henry stands to lose everything by making the knowledge public. Cousin Henry, first published in 1879, is one of the most unusual and intriguing of Trollope‘s shorter novels and its unlikely hero is a timid coward consumed by gu

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Randall, Tresa. Hanya Holm and an American Tanzgemeinschaft. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036767.003.0006.

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Hanya Holm arrived in the United States in September 1931 to open the New York Wigman School, created under the patronage of impresario Sol Hurok. On the heels of Mary Wigman's first, highly acclaimed U.S. tour from 1930 to 1931, interest in the Wigman method was high among American dancers, and a small staff from the Wigman Central Institute in Dresden, led by Holm, were sent to New York to capitalize on it. This chapter counters the standard narrative of Holm's assimilation and Americanization. Focusing on Holm's writings during her early years in the United States, it demonstrates how she s

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Nathiel, Susan. Daughters of Madness. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400637896.

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June was 9 years old when she came home from school and her schizophrenic mother met her at the door, angrily demanding to know, Who the hell are you? What are you doing in my house? Tess's mother would wait outside church, then scream at family friends as they emerged, accusing them of spying and plotting to kill her. Five-year-old Tess and her 7-year-old brother would cry and beg their mother to take them home as onlookers stared. These are just two of the stories among dozens gathered for this book. The children, now adults, grew up with mentally ill mothers at a time when mental illness wa

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Bakan, Michael B. Mara Chasar. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190855833.003.0003.

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“I love spinny chairs!” the eleven-year-old writer, poet, dancer, musician, and sometime goofball Mara Chasar shrieks gleefully as she spins round and round in a sober black office chair. “Spinny chair! Everyone loves the spinny chair!!” So begins a 2013 conversation that will change the course of the entire Speaking for Ourselves project. Mara has Asperger’s syndrome, but while she acknowledges the myriad challenges of living with this condition, she demands acceptance of it and of herself on her own terms. Autism awareness is not enough, she proclaims. Autism acceptance is what’s needed. “Wh

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Byrd, James P. Jonathan Edwards, War, and the Bible. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190249496.003.0012.

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James P. Byrd reminds us of the militaristic context in which Jonthan Edwards lived. Edwards himself was fully aware of the rivalry between Catholic France and Protestant England, and he saw the battles waged between these two powers on American soil as part of a larger cosmic struggle. What is sometimes forgotten, however, is that Edwards brought meaning to this setting by probing Scripture for what it had to say about war. Edwards preached a number of sermons on war during his lifetime, and from Scripture he found support for just wars and for the duty of citizens to serve in battle. By expl

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Heirbaut, Dirk. Feudal Law. Edited by Heikki Pihlajamäki, Markus D. Dubber, and Mark Godfrey. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198785521.013.13.

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Historians of a previous generation saw feudalism as a creation of the Carolingians, which was to be found mainly in the heartland of their empire. However, in 1994 Susan Reynolds demolished this view: feudalism is not medieval, but the product of the early modern era, albeit with roots in the medieval Libri Feudorum. Reynolds and others were right in attacking the old views but, on the other hand, recent research also shows that in at least four pioneering regions feudalism already appears in the eleventh century, before the Libri Feudorum. However, the latter helped to spread feudalism to ot

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Nowakowska, Natalia. A New Narrative? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813453.003.0002.

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Our three existing master narratives of the early Reformation in Poland are all over a century old and mutually contradictory, drawing on different sources to serve differing confessional and national/ist agendas. This chapter offers a fresh narrative of the impact of Lutheranism on the Polish composite monarchy to c.1540, synthesizing these older accounts and updating them with new research findings. This is a narrative in three parts: early signs (1517–24), the great Reformation year (1525), and aftershocks (1526–40). The chapter discusses the challenges of measuring ‘Lutheran’ sentiment, se

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Clark, Emily Suzanne. African American Religions in the Nineteenth Century. Edited by Paul Harvey and Kathryn Gin Lum. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190221171.013.23.

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The typical story of African American religions narrates the development and power of the Protestant black church, but shifting the focus to the long nineteenth century can reorient the significance of the story. The nineteenth century saw the boom of Christian conversions among African Americans, but it also was a century of religious diversity. All forms of African American religion frequently pushed against the dominance of whiteness. This included the harming and cursing element of Conjure and southern hoodoo, the casting of slaves as Old Israel awaiting their exodus from bondage, the comm

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Kelly, Catriona. The New Soviet Man and Woman. Edited by Simon Dixon. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199236701.013.024.

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The heady post-revolutionary years saw the formation of canons of ‘Soviet behaviour’ that remained recognizable in later generations, even when some thought them controversial or absurd. The new ideals were not simply imposed ‘from above’; they were created with the enthusiastic participation of individual Soviet citizens and of key ‘collectives’, including schools, workplaces and the Komsomol. Since coherence was meant to be achieved as much throughexclusionas throughinclusion, the strong sense of what was ‘Soviet’ (asceticism—the exercise of an ‘iron will’—self-sacrifice) was meant to be off

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Jassen, Alex P. The Prophets in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Edited by Carolyn J. Sharp. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199859559.013.20.

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This chapter examines the reception of the prophets in the Dead Sea Scrolls. It begins by outlining what books of the sectarian communities of the Dead Sea Scrolls would have been considered in the corpus of ancient prophets. The chapter then analyzes growing centrality of the interpretation of prophetic texts for Jews in the Second Temple period. The Pesharim interpret the words of the ancient prophets as literary ciphers that when properly decoded reveal the origins, unfolding history, and eschatological future of the sectarian communities. Expanded prophetic narratives appropriate the voice

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L’Abate, Luciano. The Praeger Handbook of Play across the Life Cycle. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216000280.

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This volume shows how we play at various ages and stages, and why play is so vital to our wellbeing. Most American adults have little respect for play, for themselves or, increasingly, for their children. Are we losing anything with this attitude? Yes, says longtime clinical psychologist Luciano L’Abate. In a book that has a message for us all, L’Abate presents research showing that play, as one scholar put it, “is not a luxury, but rather a crucial dynamic of healthy physical, intellectual, social, and emotional development at all age levels.” The Praeger Handbook of Play across the Life Cycl

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Palmer, Landon. Rock Star/Movie Star. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190888404.001.0001.

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When midcentury Hollywood found itself struggling to compete within an expanding entertainment media landscape, certain producers and studios saw an opportunity in making films that showcased performances by rock ’n’ roll stars. Such stars eventually found cinema to be a useful space to extend their creative practices, and the motion picture and recording industries increasingly saw cinematic rock stardom as a profitable means to connect multiple media properties. This book examines how casting rock stars for film provided a tool for bridging new relationships across media industries and pract

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Quirke, Antonia. Jaws. British Film Institute, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781839023668.

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This study of Jaws (1975) examines how Steven Spielberg’s breakout film not only redefined the thriller but also pioneered the summer blockbuster, cementing his reputation as a master filmmaker. Against the odds of a catastrophic location shoot, 27-year-old Spielberg delivered a film so effective that it became the highest-grossing movie of its time, transforming Hollywood’s approach to event cinema. Adapted from Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel, and Steven Spielberg's second feature, Jaws became a cultural phenomenon, its story of a great white shark terrorising a New England beach town st

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Colls, Robert. This Sporting Life. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198208334.001.0001.

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This is a history of sport as one of England’s great civil cultures. It addresses ‘sports’ as athletic competitions, ‘sport’ as fun and games and showing off, and sporting occasions as a mixture of both. The subject does not lend itself to simple definitions, and the book does not try to impose any. By and large, it takes sport as it found it in the lives of the people. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from oil paintings to handbills, from the criminal to the constitutional, all the chapters begin with a ‘thick’ description of a sporting event before spreading the net to bring in the longer

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Webber, David M. A World of Challenge and Opportunity. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423564.003.0002.

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Since it was globalisation that, in part at least, necessitated the break from ‘old Labour’, chapter 2 begins by locating the New Labour project within the context of the global economy, and the various ways in which the perceived realities of ‘globalisation’ were internalised and articulated by various government officials. The place of Gordon Brown, this chapter argues, was crucial in this. His role as architect-in-chief of the New Labour project reveals an interesting paradox at the heart of the party’s thinking and discourse regarding globalisation. For while colleagues frequently viewed g

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Holmes, Sean P. Ain’t No Peace in the Family Now. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037481.003.0007.

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This chapter focuses on new technology and its impact on acting as an occupation. It begins by describing how the advent of film transformed patterns of employment in the commercial entertainment industry. Returning to the theme of cultural hierarchy, it goes on to argue that even as the legitimate theater drifted toward the periphery of the nation's cultural life, the old theatrical elite continued to claim the right, through the mechanism of the Actors' Equity Association (AEA), to speak for the entire acting community. After examining working conditions in the motion picture studios, it tur

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Elster, Jon. France before 1789. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691149813.001.0001.

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This book traces the historical origins of France's National Constituent Assembly of 1789, providing a vivid portrait of the ancien régime and its complex social system in the decades before the French Revolution. The book's author writes in the spirit of Alexis de Tocqueville, who described this tumultuous era with an eye toward individual and group psychology and the functioning of institutions. Whereas Tocqueville saw the old regime as a breeding ground for revolution, the author, more specifically, identifies the rural and urban conflicts that fueled the constitution-making process from 17

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York, Neil L. Turning the World Upside Down. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216027997.

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York illustrates how Revolutionary Americans founded an empire as well as a nation, and how they saw the two as inseparable. While they had rejected Britain and denounced power politics, they would engage in realpolitik and mimic Britain as they built their empire of liberty. England had become Great Britain as an imperial nation, and Britons believed that their empire promised much to all fortunate enough to be part of it. Colonial Americans shared that belief and sense of pride. But as clashing interests and changing identities put them at odds with the prevailing view in London, dissident c

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Longman III, Tremper. The Book of Ecclesiastes. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/bci-009t.

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Ecclesiastes is one of the most fascinating — and hauntingly familiar — books of the Old Testament. The sentiments of the main speaker of the book, a person given the name Qohelet, sound incredibly modern. Expressing the uncertainty and anxieties of our own age, he is driven by the question, "Where can we find meaning in the world?" But while Qohelet's question resonates with readers today, his answer is shocking. "Meaningless," says Qohelet, "everything is meaningless." How does this pessimistic perspective fit into the rest of biblical revelation? In this commentary Tremper Longman III addre

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Tonge, Jonathan, Máire Braniff, Thomas Hennessey, James W. McAuley, Clare Rice, and Sophie A. Whiting. The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/9780191982699.001.0001.

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Abstract Northern Ireland’s political system is dominated by an Irish Catholic nationalist versus British Protestant unionist fault-line, based on the long-running argument over whether the province should remain part of the United Kingdom or form part of a United Ireland. Yet the largest category of elector in Northern Ireland says they are neither a unionist nor a nationalist and the third largest party is now Alliance, which declares itself neutral on the constitutional future of the region. This book analyses the rise of Alliance. How has a party which eschews ethnic bloc politics, has no

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Bowen, A. J. Plutarch: The Malice of Herodotos. Liverpool University Press, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9780856685682.001.0001.

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The Malice of Herodotus can perhaps best be described as the world's earliest known book review. But it is much more than that, for in the course of 'correcting' with considerable vituperation what he saw as Herodotus' anti-Greek bias, Plutarch tells us much about his own attitude to writing history. So that together with Lucian's How to Write History, it forms a basic text for the study of Greek historiography. It is also perhaps the most revealing example of Plutarch's prose style with its rhetorical variety and energy and odd mixture of good and bad argument. But in citing lost works, Pluta

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Owens, Jonathan. Dialects (speech communities), the apparent past, and grammaticalization. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198701378.003.0008.

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Over a long-term time frame in a language with several discrete dialects, how far does grammaticalization theory elucidate the history of individual morphemes? This issue is addressed using the tense/mode prefix b-, found in Gulf/Najdi, Yemeni, Uzbekistan, Nigerian, and Egyptian/Levantine Arabic. It is argued that while standard grammaticalization theory correctly predicts its assumed origin, from a variant of the verb ‘want’ (yibġa, yiba, yibbi > *b-), it does little to predict its further development. This paper first examines the functions of the prefix *b-. Once integrated as a prefix,

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