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Teenage Revolution

Teenage Revolution

Alan Davies

When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad.
Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to ...

Introduction to Applied Linguistics: From Practice to ...

Alan Davies

Second Edition t r o duct ionto A An Introductionto Applied Linguistics FromPracticetoTheorySecondEdition ALAN DAVIES This new textbook series provides advanced introductions to the main areas of study in contemporary Applied ...
Atherton Collieries

Atherton Collieries

Alan Davies

The illustrated history of the Atherton collieries from local mining expert Alan Davies.
The Autonomy of Labour Law

The Autonomy of Labour Law

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Alan Bogg, Cathryn Costello, Anne CL Davies, Jeremias Prassl. CONTENTS. Editors' Preface v List of Contributors Introduction: Exploring Autonomy 1 Alan Bogg, Cathryn Costello, ACL Davies and Jeremias Prassl Part I: Labour Law's ...
Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...

Davies Owen

3 For a thorough account of cunning-folk in this period see Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (London, 2003); Owen Davies, Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Manchester, 1999), pp. 214–29; Owen Davies, ...
Skills Outlooks and Passions

Skills Outlooks and Passions

Alan Davies

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of the study of the personal aspect of political processes.
Experimenting with Uncertainty: Essays in Honour of Alan Davies

Experimenting with Uncertainty: Essays in Honour of Alan Davies

C. Elder

A collection of 28 invited papers surveying the state of the art in language testing.
A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist

Robertson Davies

We would like to thank our readers, Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey, James Neufeld, Judith Skelton Grant and John Grant, and to acknowledge the support and enthusiasm from our publisher, Doug Pepper, and our editor, Jenny Bradshaw, ...
Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences

Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences

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Impacts and Consequences Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland. Contributors. John Rallingall: New Zealand Institute of Economic ... Gloria Davies: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University gloria. davies ...
Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...

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CHAPTER I. MR. OWEN'S EARLY HISTORY. THE REv. GRIFFITH DAVIES Owen was the second surviving son of the late Thomas and Benedicta Davies Owen, and born on Sunday the 24th day of January, 1790, at Llanrwst, in Denbighshire.
The Biggest Twitch: Around the World in 4,000 birds

The Biggest Twitch: Around the World in 4,000 birds

Alan Davies

This book is the story of their great expedition, searching for birds from Ecuador to Ethiopia via Argentina, Australia and Arizona.
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

A Bibliography of Robertson Davies

Carl Spadoni

Using Davies' archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history ...
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else

Thomas M. Kitts

Based on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date.
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...

The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...

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Davies, Owen. A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in NineteenthCentury Somerset. Bruton, 1999. Davies,Owen. Witchcraft, Magicand Culture, 1736–1951 . Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1999. Davies, Owen. CunningFolk: ...
Conversations with Robertson Davies

Conversations with Robertson Davies

Robertson Davies

Ed. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. The Rebel Angels. Toronto: Macmillan, 1981. Brothers in the Black Art. Vancouver: Alcuin Society, 1981. Robertson Davies: The Well-Tempered Critic. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant.
Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff

Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff

Ray Davies

The book is interspersed with lyrics and also includes photographs from Davies's own collection and the Kinks’ archive.
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature

Nick Davies

How do they get away with it? In this enormously engaging book, naturalist and scientist Nick Davies reveals how cuckoos trick their hosts.
By God's Design: Overcoming Same Sex Attraction - A True Story

By God's Design: Overcoming Same Sex Attraction - A True Story

Judith Hartzell

—Bob Davies, Past president of Exodus International, Coauthor of Coming Out of Homosexuality with Lori Rentzel and of Someone I Love Is Gay with Anita Worthen Willa and Alan Medinger were an inspiration of hope and encouragement to ...
Robertson Davies: man of myth

Robertson Davies: man of myth

Judith Skelton Grant

Drawing on interviews with the Canadian novelist himself and an unprecedented access to his notebooks and family papers, a detailed biography traces the evolution of Davies's work and the relationship between his life and his fiction.
Morkan's Quarry: A Novel

Morkan's Quarry: A Novel

Steve Yates

Kreft insisted this was enemy territory, very much the haunt of Sam Davies, the man they were after. A pack of fool targets around a fire was what made filth like Davies trouble for the Union. “These very houses right here belonged to families  ...
Camden Market

Camden Market

Caitlin Davies

Struggling stallholders have built up fashion empires. Caitlin Davies tells all these stories and more in an illustrated history full of personal memories and previously unpublished archive images.
Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties

Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties

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For example, Patricia Morley overstates the case when she argues that the narratives are “united by a religious myth of achieved freedom and spiritual growth.” Such a confident assertion that Davies' protagonists achieve liberty neglects a ...
Lu Xun's Revolution

Lu Xun's Revolution

Gloria Davies

Gloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place.
A Boy from Botwood: Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland ...

A Boy from Botwood: Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland ...

Bryan Davies

Painstakingly researched after the long-hidden manuscript’s discovery by Bryan Davies and Andrew Traficante, this is an account without parallel in the Canadian experience of the Great War.
William Blake

William Blake

Peter Davies

In this text, Peter Davies provides a concise exploration of the enigmatic force of Blake's extraordinary life and literary ouput.
The Veresov

The Veresov

Nigel Davies

In this book, Grandmaster Nigel Davies arms the reader with an all-in-one repertoire with the white pieces, with the Veresov being the central line.
The Grunfeld Defence

The Grunfeld Defence

Nigel Davies

Grandmaster Nigel Davies takes an in-depth look at the Gr¿nfeld Defence, one of Black's most fashionable openings and a choice of both Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov.

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