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An essential guide to the ways information has shaped and been shaped by societies.
Thanks to recent advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. How did information become…
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Ann Blair
This study of Bodin’s Universae naturae theatrum reveals how he combined arguments from reason, experience and authority to undermine traditional Aristotelian conclusions and proposed instead a natural philosophy based on…
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Ann Blair Kloman
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Cheryl-Ann Blair
Are you tired of ineffective debates and not being able to be persuasive? Do you see others who can instantly connect to others and seem to be able to sway…
Eight essays by major authors who attempt to find out who read, published, or advertised what, when, and where from the European Renaissance on.
Contributors: Alexander Bevilacqua, Ann Blair, Daniela Bleichmar, William J. Bulman, Frederic Clark, Anthony Grafton, Jill Kraye, Yuen-Gen Liang, Elizabeth McCahill, Nicholas Popper, Amanda Wunder
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Anthony Grafton
The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the criminal…
Ann M. Blair
Examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, focusing on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in…
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Anne E. Blair
Henry Lodge became US ambassador to South Vietnam in 1963. This text focuses on his ambassadorship until June 1964, examining the constraints and possibilities inherent in the Vietnam situation at…
Anne Clayton
The book was written for Anne's great granddaughter Blaire. It is meant to teach the colour words and the days of the week. For more practice in learning the colour…
In this tribute to Anthony Grafton, fifty-eight contributors present new research across the many areas in which Grafton has been active in the history of scholarship and learned culture.
Contributors: Ann Blair, Simona Boscani Leoni, John Hedley Brooke, Nicolas Brucker, Katherine Calloway, Kathleen Crowther, Brendan Dooley, Peter Harrison, Barbara Hunfeld, Eric Jorink, Scott Mandelbrote, Brian W. Ogilvie, Martine Pecharman…
Anne Frances Pulling
Blair County is a picturesque area of five hundred thirty square miles, carved from the foothills of the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania. Its lush forests, fertile valleys, and exquisite…
and Ann Blair,Karen Eden,Neville Harris
The first study to examine in detail the legal processes involved in challenging permanent exclusion. The findings reveal serious deficiencies in the appeal system, including a failure to deal fairly…
ENG:The internet and digital technologies have generated a flood of texts and widespread worries about information overload. But this phenomenon is not unique to our age. Already centuries ago scholars…
Alexis Koetting
Author of Encore and Triple Threat. Nominated for both the 2016 Bony Blithe Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best First Novel.
Cold cases, buried secrets, and a race…
Emily Ann Millikan Blair
Winner of 2020 North Carolina Genealogical Society’s Excellence In Publishing, Until We Sleep Our Last Sleep is the unedited Quaker diary of Emily Millikan Blair 1889 to 1930. Emily writes…
Emily Millikan Blair was a descendant of North Carolina’s Millikan and Blair families who saved patriots in the Revolutionary War and supported abolitionists in the Civil War. While she mentions…
Anne Frank
This new translation of Anne Frank’s classic diary–including material omitted from previous publciations–captures the youthful exuberance, spirit and tragedy of a girl whose words have given testament to the horrors…
In July 1942, thirteen-year-old Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the occupation, went into hiding in an Amsterdam warehouse. Over the next two years Anne describes in her diary the…
A landmark history that traces the creation, management, and sharing of information through six centuriesThanks to modern technological advances, we now enjoy seemingly unlimited access to information. Yet how did…
Lecturer in International Relations and Asian Studies Anne Blair (Victoria University of Technology)
A team of leading scholars explores Milton’s relationship to his contemporaries and early eighteenth-century heirs. The essays collected here cover a range of topics from Milton’s poetic style to political…
Helen Ann Young
Grandad and Hellie invite you to find out about the elements of Earth, Air, Fire and Water. ‘A wonderful and real life adventure created for you to experience our natural…
This textbook provides a comprehensive review of gynecological imaging in infancy, childhood, and adolescence. Congenital abnormalities are addressed in chapters reviewing structural abnormalities of the reproductive tract and disorders of…
Julie Anne Laser-Maira, David Blair, Jamie Blair Echevarria, Darin Wallis, Orion Castro, Jason Conger
Though a number of books covering adolescent substance abuse are available, there are very few resources that explore the topic in the context of Family Systems Therapy (FST). Youth and…
Roger D. Blair (University of Florida),Francine Lafontaine (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
This 2005 book describes in much detail both how and why franchising works. It also analyses the economic tensions that contribute to conflict in the franchisor-franchisee relationship. The book includes…
John Tobey,Jeffrey Slater,Jamie Blair,Jennifer Crawford,Anne Fischer
The Videos on DVD provide a lecture for each section of the textbook. Video lectures cover important definitions, procedures and concepts from the section by working through examples and exercises…
Joseph Lidster
The hit BBC series is back! Big Finish bring new life to the popular Doctor Who spin-off, in a series of six new audio dramas…
Julien Fronsacq,Samuel Gross,Anne Jean-Richard Largey
Informed by the Swiss tradition of geometric abstraction and monochrome, Swiss painter Croci-Torti is building a cogent body of works dealing with architecture and renewing the eternal parameters of painting…
Steven N. Blair,Andrea L. Dunn,Bess H. Marcus,Ruth Ann Carpenter,Peter Jaret
Active Living Every Day, Third Edition, is a behavior change strategy book intended to help the reader become more physically active. It includes activities and tools within every chapter to…
Juno Dawson
The hit BBC series is back! Big Finish bring immortal Time Agent Captain Jack Harkness and his worldwide Torchwood colleagues back to audio life for a fresh run of six…
Matt Fitton,Gareth David-Lloyd,Tim Foley
Torchwood One - we defend the British Empire. We keep everyone safe. For your own good. Something’s happened. Something’s twisted its way into Torchwood One. When humanity’s threatened, Yvonne Hartman…
Lou Morgan
Big Finish picks up events after Miracle Day and Aliens Among Us with Torchwood: God Among Us. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and is not suitable for younger listeners.
The 1940s is a lost decade in horror cinema, undervalued and written out of most horror scholarship. This book deconstructs persistent scholarly discourse by re-evaluating the historical, political, economic, and…
Alexandria Riley,Robin Bell,Tim Foley,James Goss
Big Finish picks up the events after Miracle Day, after Aliens Among Us with Torchwood: God Among Us. NOTE: Torchwood contains adult material and is not suitable for younger listeners.
James Goss,Guy Adams,John Dorney,Tim Foley
Big Finish picks up the events after Miracle Day, after Aliens Among Us with Torchwood: God Among Us. When a God comes to Cardiff, the world goes to Hell.
Inventing a Voice is a comprehensive work on the lives and communication of twentieth-century first ladies. Using a rhetorical framework, the contributors look at the speaking, writing, media coverage and…
