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The Irish Detective

Autor: Brian Monk

Número de Páginas: 130

A Detective from Ireland, David Coen, sent to work in Paris for the first time as an undercover operative. Finding friends within The French Police, comrades in arms and his new partner Julien. Another Parisian Detective. Both men experienced in law enforcement, murder drug squad experience and special forces training. Planning to take down The Milieu Corsican Mafia and all their Godfathers. Within Paris and also on the island of Corsica itself. Fast car chases and expert driving from both our undercover hero’s as they infiltrate the Parisian gang working for The Milieu headquarters in Paris. Having to do bank jobs and other villainous crimes as gang members, to prove their worth. Waiting for the right time to allow their Police Chief to take down the whole Mafia circles in Paris and Corsica. An action adventure for those fans of espionage and action-adventure. The author has some experience working with detectives for research purposes and as a private detective himself. Watching his detective friends stalking gangs in Dublin Ireland, working undercover and studying IRA. involvement in Irish criminal organisations. Loosely based on a true story

The Baronetage of England

Autor: William Betham

Número de Páginas: 580

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Autor: Jonathan Rose

Número de Páginas: 548

This landmark book traces the rise and decline of the British autodidact from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Using innovative research techniques and a vast range of unexpected sources such as workers' memoris, social surveys and library registers, Rose shows which books people read, how and why they educated themselves, and what they knew. In the process he shines a bold new light on working class politics, ideology, popular culture and the life of the mind. This book has won the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Award 2001, the SHARP History Book Prize, the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History 2001 and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities Book Award. Book jacket.

The Rule of Freedom

Autor: Patrick Joyce

Número de Páginas: 296

The liberal governance of the nineteenth-century state and city depended on the "rule of freedom". As a form of rule it relied on the production of certain kinds of citizens and patterns of social life, which in turn depended on transforming both the material form of the city (its layout, architecture, infrastructure) and the ways it was inhabited and imagined by its leaders, citizens and custodians. Focusing mainly on London and Manchester, but with reference also to Glasgow, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, colonial India, and even contemporary Los Angeles, Patrick Joyce creatively and originally develops Foucauldian approaches to historiography to reflect on the nature of modern liberal society. His consideration of such "artifacts" as maps and censuses, sewers and markets, public libraries and parks, and of civic governments and city planning, are intertwined with theoretical interpretations to examine both the impersonal, often invisible forms of social direction and control built into the infrastructure of modern life and the ways in which these mechanisms both shape culture and social life and engender popular resistance.

The Writing Culture of Ordinary People in Europe, C.1860-1920

Autor: Martyn Lyons

Número de Páginas: 291

A fascinating account of how ordinary people met the challenges of literacy in modern Europe, as distances between people increased.

Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office

Número de Páginas: 788

History of Duchess County, New York. With Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers

Autor: James Hadden Smith

Número de Páginas: 706

Reprint of the original, first published in 1683.

Oraefi

Autor: Ófeigur Sigurðsson

Número de Páginas: 205

Austrian toponymist Bernhardt Fingerberg makes his way back to civilization following a solo expedition out on Vatnajokull Glacier, barely alive. While recuperating, Dr. Lassi digs into the scholar's strange trek into the treacherous mountainous wasteland of Iceland: Öræfi. Was he really researching place names out there, or retracing the footsteps of a 20-year-old crime involving someone very close to him?

The Media and Hurricanes Katrina and Rita

Autor: J. Sylvester

Número de Páginas: 246

Although the impact of Hurricane Katrina has certainly been felt in political, economic, and social terms, the impacts on and of the media have largely been ignored. This book tells the stories of the reporters, newspapers, and broadcast stations most affected by Katrina and details their struggles to cover the aftermath.

The future sustainability of the higher education sector

Autor: Great Britain: Parliament: House Of Commons: Education And Skills Committee

Número de Páginas: 484

Vol. 1, containing the main report, is also available (ISBN 9780215035868)

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

Autor: R. Patten , J. Bowen

Número de Páginas: 345

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.

The Military Memoir and Romantic Literary Culture, 1780-1835

Autor: Neil Ramsey

Número de Páginas: 288

Examining the memoirs and autobiographies of British soldiers during the Romantic period, Neil Ramsey explores the effect of these as cultural forms mediating warfare to the reading public during and immediately after the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. Forming a distinct and commercially successful genre that in turn inspired the military and nautical novels that flourished in the 1830s, military memoirs profoundly shaped nineteenth-century British culture's understanding of war as Romantic adventure, establishing images of the nation's middle-class soldier heroes that would be of enduring significance through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

A Hundred English Working-Class Lives, 1900-1945

Autor: Rebecca Ball

Número de Páginas: 286

Stanley Rice, born in London in 1905, began his autobiography by stating that his life was ‘an ordinary average life with all its ups and downs’. Stanley may have described his life as ordinary, and yet he lived through a period of rapid social change, including two world wars. Despite this, Stanley assumed that his life story would be of little interest to most readers, as he had not achieved great fame or any notable accolades. This book argues that this is exactly why historians should focus on such life stories, as there is much to be gained by focusing on memories of ‘ordinary average lives’, as they can expand our knowledge of the past, often revealing firsthand experiences that have been excluded from the historical record. This book does not intend to be a general social history of the working class. Rather, it is a work of memory, drawing upon a microhistory methodology to examine how a sample of one hundred working-class autobiographers remembered and wrote about living through years that were punctuated by two worldwide conflicts and a global economic depression.

Textual Practice

Autor: Terence Hawkes

Número de Páginas: 153

First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Atlantic Bonds

Autor: Lisa A. Lindsay

Número de Páginas: 306

A decade before the American Civil War, James Churchwill Vaughan (1828–1893) set out to fulfill his formerly enslaved father’s dying wish that he should leave America to start a new life in Africa. Over the next forty years, Vaughan was taken captive, fought in African wars, built and rebuilt a livelihood, and led a revolt against white racism, finally becoming a successful merchant and the founder of a wealthy, educated, and politically active family. Tracing Vaughan’s journey from South Carolina to Liberia to several parts of Yorubaland (present-day southwestern Nigeria), Lisa Lindsay documents this “free” man’s struggle to find economic and political autonomy in an era when freedom was not clear and unhindered anywhere for people of African descent. In a tour de force of historical investigation on two continents, Lindsay tells a story of Vaughan’s survival, prosperity, and activism against a seemingly endless series of obstacles. By following Vaughan’s transatlantic journeys and comparing his experiences to those of his parents, contemporaries, and descendants in Nigeria and South Carolina, Lindsay reveals the expansive reach of slavery, the ambiguities of...

Congressional Record

Autor: United States. Congress

Número de Páginas: 1276

The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Le Carton

Autor: Clement Michel

Número de Páginas: 92

4h. - 3f. - Durée 1h40 Vincent arrive chez son meilleur ami Antoine pour l'aider à déménager. Il n'a pas dormi de la nuit, il est surexcité par la soirée qu'il vient de passer avec une créature de rêve. Une fois de plus, il a trompé Marine. Quelques minutes plus tard, l'interphone sonne : c'est Marine. Elle cherche Vincent. Pour éviter les explications, Vincent se cache sous un carton vide. Tout irait « bien » si Marine, se croyant seule avec Antoine, ne commençait pas à lui faire des avances. Toute la journée, Antoine assiste au défilé de ses amis, venus l'aider. Une véritable valse dont il devient le centre. Comme on débarrasse ses affaires, on va débarrasser ses états d'âme... Un déménagement qui n'était pas prévu. Commence alors une folle journée où sept personnages vont plutôt déballer leurs histoires qu'emballer des cartons.

Memoir of Augustine Vincent, Windsor herald

Autor: Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas

Número de Páginas: 156

Social Change in the History of British Education

Autor: Joyce Goodman , Gary Mcculloch , William Richardson

Número de Páginas: 291

This work provides an overall review and analysis of the history of education and of its key research priorities in the British context. It investigates the extent to which education has contributed historically to social change in Britain, how it has itself been moulded by society, and the needs and opportunities that remain for further research in this general area. Contributors review the strengths and limitations of the historical literature on social change in British education over the past forty years, ascertain what this literature tells us about the relationship between education and social change, and map areas and themes for future historical research. They consider both formal and informal education, different levels and stages of the education system, the process and experience of education, and regional and national perspectives. They also engage with broader discussions about theory and methodology. The collection covers a large amount of historical territory, from the sixteenth century to the present, including the emergence of the learned professions, the relationship between society and the economy, the role of higher technological education, the historical...

The Universal Way of Salvation in the Thought of Augustine

Autor: Thomas P. Harmon

Número de Páginas: 247

This work examines Augustine's critique of his Roman predecessors to reveal key aspects of Christ's mediation of the universal way of salvation. Porphyry of Tyre had noticed that Christianity can make a claim that pagan religion and pagan philosophy cannot: that all types of human being can be saved through the one salvific action of Christ mediated sacramentally through the one Catholic Church. Augustine's response to Porphyry is grounded firmly on Christology, especially on what Augustine sees to be the unique act of Christ as mediator, based in turn on Christ's unique position as true God and true man, which in turn is capable of healing the whole man and, by healing the whole man, also healing each of the parts of the soul. Christ himself, as concretely universal, is capable of saving each and any type of human being, no matter which part of the soul rules within him, Augustine counters, which is not a claim his pagan interlocutors can replicate. In addition to careful considerations of ancient authors like Plato, Cicero, Varro, and Porphyry, this book also ranges through Plutarch, Shakespeare, and contemporary political thinkers like Pierre Manent and Leo Strauss; scholars of ...

Voice of the Past

Autor: Paul Thompson

Número de Páginas: 383

Presents an introduction to the use of oral sources by the historian.

Artisans Abroad

Autor: Fabrice Bensimon

Número de Páginas: 301

Between 1815 and 1870, when European industrialisation was in its infancy and Britain enjoyed a technological lead, thousands of British workers emigrated to the continent. They played a key role in several sectors, like textiles, iron, mechanics, and the railways. These men and women thereby contributed significantly to the industrial take-off in continental Europe. Artisans Abroad examines the lives and trajectories of these workers who emigrated from manufacturing centres in Britain to France, Belgium, Germany, and other countries, considering their mobilities, their culture, their politics, and their relations with the local populations. Fabrice Bensimon reminds us that the British economy was not just oriented towards the Empire and the USA, but also towards the continent, long before the European Union and Brexit, and shows the critical role played by migrant workers in the Industrial Revolution. Artisans Abroad is the first social and cultural history of this forgotten migration.

Un octogénaire imaginatif - Huit nouvelles

Autor: Yves Raynouard

Número de Páginas: 122

Vous recherchez un peu d’humour ? Voici quelques nouvelles qui devraient vous plaire. Tantôt fantasmagoriques, tantôt tirées de l’actualité, ces nouvelles vous réservent quelques surprises... Parfois, ce sera à vous, ami lecteur, de vous approprier l’histoire et choisir parmi plusieurs chutes... À moins que vous ne préfériez imaginer une fin plus surprenante encore !

Journal des tribunaux et de jurisprudence

Número de Páginas: 506

1001 TV Series

Autor: Paul Condon

Número de Páginas: 960

This is the ultimate book for the Netflix and boxset generation, featuring all the greatest drama series ever broadcast as well as the weirdest game shows, controversial reality TV experiments and breathtaking nature documentaries. It is a must for anyone who wants to know why India's Ramayan is legendary, why Roots was groundbreaking, or what the ending of Lost was all about. Written by an international team of critics, authors, academics, producers and journalists, this book reviews TV series from more than 20 countries, highlights classic episodes to watch and also provides cast summaries and production details.

Television Introductions

Autor: Vincent Terrace

Número de Páginas: 401

Since the beginning of network television, many shows have been preceded by an announcement or theme song that served various purposes. In the 1950s and ’60s, it was common for announcers to declare that a program had been “brought to you by” a sponsor who paid for the privilege of introducing a show. Other programs, such as The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, and The Odd Couple,provided a brief encapsulation of the show’s subject matter, a practice that has continued for recent shows like Alias, Battlestar Galactica, Person of Interest, and the various editions of Law & Order. In Television Introductions: Narrated TV Program Openings since 1949, Vincent Terrace has assembled openings for more than nine hundred television shows from the past seven decades. The only documented history of narrated television program introductions, this volume is arranged by type of programming, such as comedy, drama, Western, game show, soap opera, and children’s show. In addition to quoting the opening material, entries provide information about each show’s network history and years of broadcast. Many entries include descriptions of the show, the names of announcers, and a list of main cast...

A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Or Military Services

Autor: United States. Census Office. 6th Census, 1840

Número de Páginas: 204

Sixth Census of the United States, 1840

Autor: United States. Census Office

Número de Páginas: 208

A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Or Military Services

Autor: U. S. Department Of State Staff

Número de Páginas: 582

The body of this consolidated work is a list of 25,000 Revolutionary War pensioners still living in 1840, with their ages and the names of the heads of families with whom they were residing. Based upon the returns of the Sixth Census of the U.S., the arrangement is by state or territory, thereunder by county, and in the case of some counties, by minor subdivision. Thus a good deal about the origins of settlers of each county of the United States, as well as the magnitude of migration into the various areas of the country, can be gleaned from an examination of this work. The Census of Pensioners is here reprinted with the typescript index to the work prepared by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1965.

A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Or Military Service

Autor: United States. Census Office 6th Census, 1840

Número de Páginas: 266

Solarsystem

Autor: Laurent Schweizer

Número de Páginas: 81

« – Les WARRIORS sont prêts à faire la guerre. Ils sentent la faille s’ouvrir en eux comme s’ils étaient violés. Tuer devient le seul ACTE qu’ils désirent accomplir ! J’essaie de vider mon esprit. J’essaie d’estimer les chances de victoire que peut avoir Vincent en poussant des milliers de teenagers et de militaires à tuer. Je regarde les armes posées sur la table. Je regarde, sur les baies vitrées, la réflexion des mots affirmant que tuer est une fête, que les ACTES à venir ne visent pas des innocents, que les WARRIORS ne doivent jamais sous-estimer ou surévaluer leur CIBLE avant sa destruction. » De nationalité suisse, Laurent Schweizer a publié trois romans : Naso lituratus (Actes Sud, 2001), Prions (Seuil, 2004) et Latex (Seuil, 2008).

Strangers in Blood

Autor: Jennifer S. H. Brown

Número de Páginas: 296

For two centuries (1670-1870), English, Scottish, and Canadian fur traders voyaged the myriad waterways of Rupert's Land, the vast territory charted to the Hudson's Bay Company and later splintered among five Canadian provinces and four American states. The knowledge and support of northern Native peoples were critical to the newcomer's survival and success. With acquaintance and alliance came intermarriage, and the unions of European traders and Native women generated thousands of descendants. Jennifer Brown's Strangers in Blood is the first work to look systematically at these parents and their children. Brown focuses on Hudson's Bay Company officers and North West Company wintering partners and clerks-those whose relationships are best known from post journals, correspondence, accounts, and wills. The durability of such families varied greatly. Settlers, missionaries, European women, and sometimes the courts challenged fur trade marriages. Some officers' Scottish and Canadian relatives dismissed Native wives and "Indian" progeny as illegitimate. Traders who took these ties seriously were obliged to defend them, to leave wills recognizing their wives and children, and to secure...

Television Series of the 1960s

Autor: Vincent Terrace

Número de Páginas: 249

By 1960, watching television had become the pastime of millions of viewers around the world. Week after week, audiences tuned in to watch their favorite programs and catch up with their favorite characters. During the 1960s, some of the most beloved shows of all time originally aired, including The Andy Griffith Show, The Fugitive, Get Smart, The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and The Wild, Wild West. Even after these shows departed the airwaves, they lived on in syndication, entertaining several generations of viewers. Devoted and casual fans alike can probably remember basic facts about these shows—like the name of Rob Petrie’s boss on The Dick Van Dyke Show or the original captain of the USS Enterprise—but more obscure facts, like Barney Fife’s middle name, might be harder to recall. In Television Series of the 1960s: Essential Facts and Quirky Details, Vincent Terrace presents readers with a cornucopia of information about more than seventy-five programs from the decade. For example, did you know that on The Addams Family, Lurch’s mother wanted him to become a jockey? Or that on The Avengers, John Steed had a pet dog named Freckles? Or that Patty and Cathy Lane of The Patty...

Encyclopedia of Television Pilots

Autor: Vincent Terrace

Número de Páginas: 371

On November 27, 1937, NBC presented TV's first pilot film, Sherlock Holmes (then called an "experiment"). Thousands of pilot films (both unaired and televised) have been produced since. This updated and restyled book contains 2,470 alphabetically arranged pilot films broadcast from 1937 to 2019. Entries contain the concept, cast and character information, credits (producer, writer, director), dates, genre and network or cable affiliation. In addition to a complete performer's index, two appendices have been included: one detailing the pilot films that led to a series and a second that lists the programs that were spun off from one series into another. Never telecast pilot films can be found in the companion volume, The Encyclopedia of Unaired Television Pilots, 1945-2018. Both volumes are the most complete and detailed sources for such information, a great deal of which is based on viewing the actual programs.

A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary Or Military Services, with Their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshals of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census

Autor: United States. Census Office

Número de Páginas: 208

Larry Cohen

Autor: Tony Williams

Número de Páginas: 381

Now in a revised edition, this book is the only published study devoted to Larry Cohen and his significance as a great American filmmaker. The first edition is long out of print and often sought after. This edition covers all the director's films, television work and screenplays, and contains an updated interview with the director as well as interviews with his colleagues Janelle Webb Cohen, Michael Moriarty and James Dixon. The filmography and bibliography are also updated.

Catalog of Copyright Entries

Autor: Library Of Congress. Copyright Office

Número de Páginas: 1140

Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in Visual Arts

Autor: Pamela J. Eyerdam

Número de Páginas: 350

Use the Internet to teach visual arts and refine students' critical thinking skills! This book is based on the Discipline-Based Art Education program, a proven art instruction program that teaches everything from the creative process and art history to criticism and aesthetics. An abundance of primary source Web sites and background information is offered. The main focus of the book is western art history and painting, but examples of sculpture, drawings, prints, and architecture are included, along with a chapter on diversity. Part I provides background material. A brief history of art education is presented, followed by a review of the components of design elements and principles. The book describes using the Internet as a primary source by identifying and evaluating websites. Part II follows the program through the main historical periods, from prehistoric and ancient Middle Eastern art, through the Renaissance, through the 20th century. A bibliography and index are included.