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Operas in English: A Dictionary

Autor: Margaret Ross Griffel

Número de Páginas: 1015

In this revised and expanded edition of Operas in English: A Dictionary, Margaret Ross Griffel updates her work on operas written specifically to an English text, including not only works originally in English but also those set to new English librettos. Since the book’s initial publication in 1999, Griffel has added nearly 900 new items, bringing the total number of entries in this new edition to 4,400, covering the world of opera in English from 1634 through 2011. The front matter includes a brief history of English opera, to “set the stage” for the dictionary entries that follow. Listed alphabetically, each opera entry includes alternative titles; a full, descriptive title; the number of acts; composer’s name; librettist’s name, with original language of the libretto; the source of the text (date, place, and cast of the first performance); date of composition (if it occurred substantially earlier than the premiere); similar information for the first U.S. (including colonial) and British (England, Scotland, Wales) performances; brief plot summary; main characters (names and vocal ranges, where known); names of noteworthy numbers; comments on special musical problems...

Haughton Parish Register

Autor: Haughton (parish : Staffordshire, England)

Número de Páginas: 134

The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton

Autor: Susan E. Whyman

Número de Páginas: 364

The Useful Knowledge of William Hutton shows the rapid rise of a self-taught workman and the growing prominence of the city of Birmingham during the two major events of the eighteenth-century - the Industrial Revolution and the Enlightenment. Hutton achieved wealth, land, status, and literary fame, but later became a victim of violent riots. The book boldly claims that an understanding of the Industrial Revolution requires engagement with the figure of the 'rough diamond', a person of worth and character, but lacking in manners, education, and refinement. A cast of unpolished entrepreneurs is brought to life as they drive economic and social change, and improve their towns and themselves. The book also contends that the rise of Birmingham cannot be understood without accepting that its vibrant cultural life was a crucial factor that spurred economic growth. Readers are plunged into a hidden provincial world marked by literacy, bookshops, printing, authorship, and the spread of useful knowledge. We see that ordinary people read history and wrote poetry, whilst they grappled with the effects of industrial change. Newly discovered memoirs reveal social conflict and relationships in...

Sleeping Around

Autor: Mark Ravenhill , Hilary Fannin , Abi Morgan , Stephen Greenhorn

Número de Páginas: 87

Sleeping Around is by four top British playwrights from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales: Mark Ravenhill, Hilary Fannin, Stephen Greenhorn and Abi Morgan Sleeping Around is about love and sex in Britain as we approach the millennium. In a dozen scenes of likely and unlikely connections, two actors (Sophie Stanton and John Lloyd Fillingham) play a variety of couples whose ordinary lives erupt in extraordinary moments.

Haughton Parish Register

Autor: Staffordshire Parish Registers Society

Número de Páginas: 174

Singleman No More

Autor: Kevin Riley

Número de Páginas: 79

The struggles of the aptly-named Kevin Singleman to find both a life partner and to know Christ lead him on a tortuous and adventure-filled journey. As a natural introvert, he struggles with social situations. It's not until later in life that he begins to find success in both endeavors. Totally frustrated, he decides to give the Lord one year to help him solve his problems. During the following year, his life slowly but surely changes. His friend and former coworker, Paul McKay, is very strong in his faith, even through his struggles with multiple sclerosis. Paul is a beacon for Kevin and figures prominently in Kevin's accepting Christ as his Savior. At about the same time, Kevin joins a music therapy group through his father's battle after suffering a stroke. He becomes involved with Laura Antoni, a dark-haired, athletic caregiver for one of the patients. For the first time in his life, he experiences romantic success. "Have I finally met the love of my life?" Read the story to find out how Kevin becomes a single man no more.

The Living and the Dead

Autor: Anthony J. Enciso

Número de Páginas: 777

A teenage son makes a strange discovery one morning at the back of his parents closet. Wrapped in red silk and hidden beneath a pile of old photos is a beautiful samurai sword in its scabbard. When the boy confronts his father with his discovery, he soon learns the tragic story behind its acquisition and its villainous former owner. His fathers tale of one mans ultimate devotion to the woman he loves and the sacrifices he was willing to make in her name begins to unfold, changing the boy forever. Nate Walker had lived a lonely existence, tormented for much of his young life by the nightmares of an abusive childhood and his bouts with his personal demons. But when Sarah Ross entered his life by chance and fell in love with him, his life suddenly took on a whole new meaning. A lifetime of happiness no longer seemed an unattainable dream. Little did Nate know, however, that a lone bullet fired on a warm summer night in Las Vegas would drastically alter his life and threaten to destroy his future with the woman he loves more than life itself. The shadows from her past would catch up to them in the worst way possible. After burying his older brother, Mark ODane, Sarahs ex-fianc and the ...

Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks, with Some Account of Their Descendants

Autor: Clarence Vernon Roberts , Warren Smedley Ely

Número de Páginas: 744

Early Friends Families of Upper Bucks is a collection of genealogical and historical information pertaining to the first settlers of the upper part of Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Separate chapters are assigned to each family, and approximately 12,000 persons are named and identified. The genealogies commence with the first of the Bucks County line (usually during the period of the eighteenth century, but also earlier) and proceed, on average, through about eight generations.

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 162

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The Proper Wife

Autor: Julia Justiss

Número de Páginas: 299

A rakish colonel wanting a wife locks horns with a headstrong beauty in this Regency romance. A virtuous virgin—that’s what he needed A thrifty, industrious, wholesome bride! Certainly not an exotic aristocrat like Clarissa Beaumont, who set trends and dazzled suitors with equal passion. A more unsuitable wife St. John Sandiford found impossible to imagine! Why then couldn’t he get Clarissa out of his mind—or his heart? A good set-down—that’s what he deserved! Though Sinjin Sandiford was rightly called “hero,” he could sometimes fall short of “gentleman,” Lady Beaumont fumed. Why, the cad had refused her help in making an advantageous match—yet still he managed to stir the most unseemly feelings within her . . . ! Praise for The Proper Wife “A spirited Regency-era romance that far outshines the usual fare. . . . Readers will devour [Justiss’s] tantalizing tale with gusto.” —Publishers Weekly “Justiss skillfully blends traditional Regency attention to detail with a touch of humor and of irony, but, best of all, with a witty love story.” —Romantic Times

The New England Historical & Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal

Número de Páginas: 426

The New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Número de Páginas: 468

Beginning in 1924, Proceedings are incorporated into the Apr. number.

Rivermen

Autor: Frederic S. Colwell

Número de Páginas: 231

Rivermen examines the mythic context and psychological dimensions of the river and its source through an investigation of the recurring motifs associated with the source in classical and English literature -the heroic quest, the river journey, and the naiad or muse. Frederic Colwell focuses on the writings of those redoubtable rivermen, the English Romantic poets. He explores poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, and Shelley, showing that the image of the river is used in their work as a compelling archetype and a metaphor for the nature and process of the creative impulse. From the preface: "Unlike the rhythms of oceans, rivers have direction and a purposive flow. The river's will is always its own, not laid down by man, for whom the river passage demands a surrender to its will, its currents and eddies. To move with the flow is to course with time and change; to stand astride or view it from a height offers the prophetic stance by which we contemplate its entire passage, its past, present, and the brightening waters or rippling shoals ahead."

Reading as a Philosophical Practice

Autor: Robert Piercey

Número de Páginas: 142

Reading as a Philosophical Practice asks why reading—everyday reading for pleasure—matters so profoundly to so many people. Its answer is that reading is an implicitly philosophical activity. To passionate readers, it is a way of working through, and taking a stand on, certain fundamental questions about who and what we are, how we should live, and how we relate to other things. The book examines the lessons that the activity of reading seems to teach about selfhood, morality and ontology, and it tries to clarify the sometimes paradoxical claims that serious readers have made about it. To do so, it proposes an original theoretical framework based on Virginia Woolf’s notion of the common reader and Alasdair MacIntyre’s conception of practice. It also asks whether reading can continue to play this role as paper is replaced by electronic screens.

Historical Collections of Harrison County, in the State of Ohio, with Lists of the First Land-owners, Early Marriages, to 1841, Will Records, to 1861, Burial Records of the Early Settlements, and Numerous Genealogies

Autor: Charles Augustus Hanna

Número de Páginas: 652

Excerpt from Historical Collections of Harrison County, in the State of Ohio: With Lists of the First Land-Owners, Early Marriages, (to 1841), Will Records, (to 1861), Burial Records of the Early Settlements, and Numerous Genealogies Anniversary Discourse Delivered in the Ridge Church by Rev. Robert Herron, D. D Dec. 13, 1873: Uhrichsville, 1874. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The History of the Part of West Somerset

Autor: Sir Charles Edward Heley Chadwyck-healey

Número de Páginas: 638

The Tenmile Country and Its Pioneer Families

Autor: Howard L. Leckey

Número de Páginas: 786

Reprint, with additional material, of the 1950 ed. published in 7 v. by the Waynesburg Republican, Waynesburg, Pa., and in this format in Knightstown, Ind., by Bookmark in 1977.

The Family Of Brice and Cathy Alvord

Autor: Brice Alvord

Número de Páginas: 445

This book is history of 47 generations of our family. Complete with pedigree trees and individual data.

Batman Detective Infinite tome 1

Autor: Mariko Tamaki

Número de Páginas: 280

Lorsque sa fille est tuée au cours de la vague de crimes qui s’abat sur Gotham City, Roland Worth, une montagne de muscles et d’argent de deux mètres de haut, se lance dans une quête personnelle de vengeance contre Batman, responsable présumé de ce chaos. Victime d’une machination savamment orchestrée, le Chevalier Noir désargenté ne pourra compter que sur son intelligence et le peu d’équipement qui lui reste…

New York Magazine

Número de Páginas: 162

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

The Old Families of Salisbury and Amesbury, Massachusetts

Autor: David Webster Hoyt

Número de Páginas: 1103

Includes some families from Newbury, Haverhill, Ispwich, and Hampton.

Complicit

Autor: Winnie M Li

Número de Páginas: 416

"After a long-buried, harrowing incident, a woman whose promising film career was derailed has an opportunity for revenge in this visceral and timely thriller about power, privilege, and justice"--

Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century

Autor: Sondra Bacharach , Siv B. Fjærestad , Jeremy Neil Booth

Número de Páginas: 245

Collaboration in the arts is no longer a conscious choice to make a deliberate artistic statement, but instead a necessity of artistic survival. In today’s hybrid world of virtual mobility, collaboration decentralizes creative strategies, enabling artists to carve new territories and maintain practice-based autonomy in an increasingly commercial and saturated art world. Collaboration now transforms not only artistic practices but also the development of cultural institutions, communities and personal lifestyles. This book explores why collaboration has become so integrated into a greater understanding of creative artistic practice. It draws on an emerging generation of contributors—from the arts, art history, sociology, political science, and philosophy—to engage directly with the diverse and interdisciplinary nature of collaborative practice of the future.

Lost Library Complete Series

Autor: Kate Baray

Número de Páginas: 994

When a magical book shows up, Lizzie enters a world of adventure and supernatural wonders. A three book collection full of action, romance, and werewolves, including Lost Library, Spirited Legacy, Defensive Magic, and Necromancy. Lost Library A mysterious book opens up a world of magic! John arrives on Lizzie's doorstep looking for answers she doesn't have. She may have a magical book, but she hasn't a clue what to do with it. And John's revelation that he's werewolf doesn’t help. Take a romp through Lizzie's life as she discovers creatures that go bump in the night and maybe love. Spirited Legacy Spectral visitations in a magical library. Lizzie receives an offer she can't refuse: an internship working in the Lost Library, home to hundreds of spelled books. And to make the deal even sweeter, her prospective boss has offered to act as her magic mentor. What's a girl to say, but yes? Except...there are the questions of her unresolved love affair, her recently acquired arch enemy, and a haunting past. Defensive Magic When wolves fight... What will the neighbors think? After an adventurous trip to Europe, Lizzie and John return home hoping for a little R & R. What they find is no...

Lost Library

Autor: Kate Baray

Número de Páginas: 308

FREE urban fantasy shifter romance, first book in a complete series! A mysterious and magical book: What’s the point of a book that can’t be read? Lizzie hasn’t a clue, but she does know there’s magic afoot. When a handsome stranger shows up on her doorstep asking questions and expecting her to have all the answers, she can’t decide if she wants to thump him or kiss him. And John's revelation that he's a werewolf doesn’t simplify matters. Before Lizzie can catch her breath, she and John are caught up in an evil mastermind’s bid for power. Can she and John put a stop to their newfound enemy's plans? Take a romp through the life of the quirky and well-meaning Lizzie as she discovers magic, creatures that go bump in the night, and maybe love. Lost Library is the first novel in a complete four-book series, including: Lost Library Spirited Legacy Defensive Magic Necromancy. Also in the Lost Library World: Spirelli Paranormal Investigations: Season One, Entombed Lost Library Witches: Witch's Diary Keywords: free first-in-series, free series starter, spells, magic library, free urban fantasy novel, free urban fantasy book, free urban fantasy witches, free urban fantasy...

Epistolary Responses

Autor: Anne Bower

Número de Páginas: 234

Letters - a most traditional and old-fashioned form of discourse - continue to offer special opportunities for writers and readers in the postmodern era. Bower explores the way letters shape the act of writing and writing as act.

Text & Presentation, 2012

Autor: Graley Herren

Número de Páginas: 227

Text & Presentation is an annual publication devoted to all aspects of theatre scholarship. It represents a selection of the best research presented at the international and interdisciplinary Comparative Drama Conference.

Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy

Autor: Jon Cogburn

Número de Páginas: 330

This volume will convince readers that the swift ascent of the tabletop role-playing game Dungeons and Dragons to worldwide popularity in the 1970s and 1980s is “the most exciting event in popular culture since the invention of the motion picture.” Dungeons and Dragons and Philosophy presents twenty-one chapters by different writers, all D&D aficionados but with starkly different insights and points of view. It will be appreciated by thoughtful fans of the game, including both those in their thirties, forties, and fifties who have rediscovered the pastime they loved as teenagers and the new teenage and college-student D&D players who have grown up with gaming via computer and console games and are now turning to D&D as a richer, fuller gaming experience. The book is divided into three parts. The first, “Heroic Tier: The Ethical Dungeon-Crawler,” explores what D&D has to teach us about ethics and about how results from the philosophical study of morality can enrich and transform the game itself. Authors argue that it’s okay to play evil characters, criticize the traditional and new systems of moral alignment, and (from the perspective of those who love the game) tackle...

Fiction and Art

Autor: Ananta Ch. Sukla

Número de Páginas: 642

The nature of fiction has long been debated across the humanities, and is of considerable importance for philosophical aesthetics, literary theory, narratology and the history of ideas. This volume offers something entirely new: a selection of multidisciplinary perspectives on fiction written by an international team of contributors at the forefront of their fields, providing a spectrum of approaches to compare and contrast. This volume, divided between historical, cognitive, aesthetic and non-western approaches, targets a wide range of topics, including mathematics, history, religion and metaphysics. This is a seminal volume on one of the most important topics in the humanities.

The John Updike Encyclopedia

Autor: Jack De Bellis

Número de Páginas: 584

John Updike is one of the most seminal American writers of the 20th century and one of the most prolific as well. In addition to his best-selling novels, he has written numerous poems, short stories, reviews, and essays. His writing consistently reveals stylistic brilliance, and through his engagement with America's moral and spiritual problems, his works chronicle America's hopes and dreams, failures and disappointments. Though he is an enormously popular writer, the complexity and elegance of his works have elicited growing scholarly attention. Through several hundred alphabetically arranged entries, this book provides both casual and serious readers an exceptional guide to his life and writings. Whether the reader is seeking a novel summary, an authoritative analysis of subjects, elucidation of an allusion, or a point about Updike's life or manner of composition, the encyclopedia is indispensable. A chronology summarizes the major events in Updike's career, while an introductory essay examines his progress as a writer, from his crafted light verse and informed reviews to his innovative novels and stories. The entries that follow summarize Updike's books, describe all major...

Haptic Allegories

Autor: Kathleen Gough

Número de Páginas: 217

Kinship and Performance in the Black and Green Atlantic advances an innovative and compelling approach to writing comparative studies of performance in transnational, intercultural relation to one another. Its chosen subject in this case is the cultural and political intersection of African and Irish diasporic peoples and movements. Gough approaches her subject via five key flashpoints in Black/Green relations, moving from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. In turn, each of these is related to mediums of performance that were prevalent at the time, such as abolitionist oratory and melodrama, photography and tableaux, architecture and folk drama, television and political demonstrations, and visual art and dramaturgy. By examining the unlikely kinship between social actors such as Ida B. Wells and Maud Gonne, Lady Augusta Gregory and Zora Neale Hurston, and Bernadette Devlin and Alice Childress, along with a host of old and new theatrical characters, this book explores how a transmedial investigation of gender, community, and performance allows for a revision of historiography in Atlantic studies, while the study itself revises and reimagines key concepts...

Justice, Conflict and Wellbeing

Autor: Brian H. Bornstein , Richard L. Wiener

Número de Páginas: 360

Justice, conflict and wellbeing are large topics that occupy researchers from a variety of disciplines, as well as laypeople and policy makers. The three concepts are closely connected: conflict often (though not always) impairs wellbeing, whereas justice often (though not always) enhances it; perceived injustice is a common source of conflict, at multiple levels and calls for justice are a common response to conflict. In addition, each construct has subtypes, such as distributive and procedural justice, individual and group conflict and physical and psychological wellbeing. Although there are established traditions of research on the topics in multiple disciplines, there is little cross-fertilization across disciplines. This volume brings together researchers from social, clinical and educational psychology; law and political science. The unifying theme is how injustice and conflict pose threats to wellbeing, at the micro (individual) and macro (groups and societies) levels. Multi- and interdisciplinary research are at the vanguard of science in the twenty-first century and the present work applies multi and interdisciplinary perspectives to the important real-world topics of...

The History of Johnson County, Missouri

Número de Páginas: 1078

The History of Johnson County, Missouri, Including a Reliable History of the Townships, Cities, and Towns ...

Número de Páginas: 1148

History and Genealogy of Fenwick's Colony

Autor: Thomas Shourds

Número de Páginas: 618

Founded in 1675, Fenwick's Colony was the first permanent English-speaking settlement in the entire Delaware Valley. Constituting one-tenth of West New Jersey, Fenwick's Colony absorbed the nearby settlements of Finns and Swedes and attracted to itself a great number of immigrant Quakers. This book is a composite history and genealogy of the Colony, and the bulk of it is comprised of scores of family histories.

Whispered Secrets

Autor: Adrian Ferruelo

Número de Páginas: 286

Whispered Secrets When a girl with a broken heart and no faith in love, crosses paths with her crush, the boy who represents everything she fears but also everything she secretly longs for, her world is turned upside down. Between secrets, broken promises, and starlit nights, they will discover that sometimes love is the answer—even when everything seems to be against them.

The Towers Of Silence

Autor: Paul Scott

Número de Páginas: 434

It is the last, bitter days of World War II and the British Raj in India is crumbling. Ensconced in the Indian Hill Station of Pankot are the English wives, mothers, daughters and widows of the officers embroiled in the ongoing conflict. With their old beliefs and assumptions under increasingly virulent attack, all eyes are upon Captain Merrick and the British military to protect them in this troubled time. But Merrick, though outwardly a consummate professional, is brutal and corrupt, and not even his machinations can stop the change that is swiftly and inevitably approaching, change which is increasingly undermining the old myth of British invincibility...