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    Ten Poems about Butterflies

    Butterflies must be the most beautiful of all insects. They are with us while the warm weather lasts, and seeing a Brimstone in a garden early in the year is…

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    Performing Arguments

    Maura Giles-Watson

    Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by recovering, tracing, and analyzing the trope and tradition of aestheticized argumentation as a…

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    Wild Words at the Grave of Dafydd ap Gwilym

    Giles Watson

    Since the age of seventeen, Giles Watson has been fascinated by the work of the fourteenth century Welsh poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym, and has previously published modern English paraphrases of…

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    Saints, Birds and Devils

    Giles Watson

    Saints, Birds and Devils takes readers on a poetic tour of mediaeval European history, with a focus on the relationships between birds and human beings. The poems respond to a…

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    On the Chalk

    Giles Watson

    From one October to the next, Giles Watson's lyric poems celebrate the landscape, antiquities, flora and fauna of the Ridgeway Path. Each poem is accompanied by a photograph, and arranged…

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    Rivals of Dafydd ap Gwilym

    Giles Watson

    The fourteenth century Welsh bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym, left a lasting impression on the poetry of his age: verse which often addressed preoccupations we still share today. This collection includes…

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    A Glister of Leaves

    Giles Watson

    Between 31 March and 13 May, 2020, Giles Watson went into self-isolation during the Covid-19 outbreak, and sought mental and spiritual refreshment in memories of some of his most beloved…

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    I Dream in White Horses

    Giles Watson

    'I Dream in White Horses' is a collection of lyric poems inspired by the Ridgeway Path, accompanied by the author's own paintings and pastels. The poems celebrate the path itself…

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    The Butcher’s Wife

    Giles Watson

    The Butcher's Wife has an extraordinary secret: amongst the slaughtered animals which are hung each day in the cellar of her house, there are some which still have souls imprisoned…

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    Dafydd Ap Gwilym: Paraphrases and Palimpsests

    Giles Watson

    These 99 paraphrases of the works of the fourteenth century Welsh poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym, explore the extraordinary diversity of his work, from poems inspired by love and nature, through…

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    Pearl

    Giles Watson

    A new translation of the fourteenth century Middle English poem. (Please note: although the illustrations are in colour in the preview, they are black and white in the printed copy.)

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    A New Holland Miscellany

    Giles Watson

    Illustrated with pictures from late eighteenth and early nineteenth century natural history books, A New Holland Miscellany is a series of poetic monologues which narrate encounters between colonial settlers and…

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    Mimma

    Giles Watson

    The shadow of Fascism spreads across Italy as Mimma, a young journalist from Turin, takes refuge at her Uncle Lorenzo's nightclub in Soho, London. As another World War becomes inevitable…

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    A Glister of Leaves

    Giles Watson

    Between 31 March and 13 May, 2020, Giles Watson went into self-isolation during the Covid-19 outbreak, and sought mental and spiritual refreshment in memories of some of his most beloved…

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    Real Myth

    Giles Watson,Buffarches

    From legends of the Furies to the shower scene from ‘Psycho’, from the gentleness of Melangell to the fury of Andraste, this collection explores folk-tales and myths through a range…

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    The Garden of the Badhbh (Black and White Edition)

    Giles Watson, Buffarches

    88 feet below Messines Ridge, an enormous charge of explosives lurks in the darkness, waiting to be detonated under the German trenches, whilst members of the Royal Irish Rifles prepare…

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    Crash Course General Medicine

    Inez Eiben, Paola Eiben, Pennylouise Hever, Megan Giles

    Crash Course - your effective every-day study companion PLUS the perfect antidote for exam stress! Save time and be assured you have the essential information you need in one place…

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    Lover of Cold Weather

    Giles Watson, Martin Williamson

    In this companion volume to their earlier collaboration, 'Recollections', Giles Watson's poems and Martin Williamson's photographs combine to evoke the changing moods of the seasons of a British year from…

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    Recollections

    Giles Watson, Martin Williamson

    'Recollections' takes readers on a tour through England and Wales, in search of ancient landscapes, churches, abbeys, hillforts and castles. Martin Williamson's vivid, colourful, energetic paintings are accompanied by Giles…

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    Western Desert Sublime - the Craig Edwards Gift to the ANU

    Anne Martin; Linda Syddick Napaltjarri (Artist); Lorna Napanangka (Artist); Dorothy Napangardi (Artist); Nyungawarra Ward Napurrula (Artist); Ningura Napurrula (Artist); Jorna Newberry (Artist); Mel Yamba Nungurrayi (Artist); Naata Nungurrayi (Artist); Tiger Palpatja (Artist); Ray James Tjangala (Artist); Ian McLean; Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri (Artist); Pinta Pinta Tjapanangka (Artist); Wimmitji Tjapangati (Artist); George Tjungurrayi (Artist); Yannima Pikarli Tommy Watson (Artist); Brian Schmidt; Queenie McKenzie (Artist); Yinarupa Gibson Nangala (Artist); Esther Giles Nampitjinpa (Artist); Kayi Kayi Nampitjinpa (Artist); Nyurapayia Nampitjinpa (Artist); Tjawina Porter Nampitjinpa (Artist)

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    The Social Meanings of Language, Dialect and Accent: International Perspectives on Speech Styles

    This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people…

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    The Social Meanings of Language, Dialect and Accent: International Perspectives on Speech Styles

    This volume represents a unique contribution to the area of language attitudes research with its focus on how languages, dialects and accents induce us to form social judgments about people…

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    Justin’s Epitome of the Philippic Histories: Extracted from Gnaeus Po

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    The complete English text. Primary source history for Alexander the Great and his successors.

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    Producing Christian Culture: Medieval Exegesis and Its Interpretative Genres

    Producing Christian Culture takes as its thread the ‘interpretative genres’ within which medieval people engaged with the Bible. Contributors to the volume present specific material as a case study illustrative…

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    Producing Christian Culture: Medieval Exegesis and Its Interpretative Genres

    Producing Christian Culture takes as its thread the ‘interpretative genres’ within which medieval people engaged with the Bible. Contributors to the volume present specific material as a case study illustrative…

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    Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America

    Edited by National Book Award finalist Ibi Zoboi, Black Enough is an essential collection of captivating stories about what it’s like to be young and black. A powerful collection that…

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