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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, ...
Education and Conflict: Complexity and Chaos

Education and Conflict: Complexity and Chaos

Lynn Davies

This is the first time that so many aspects of conflict and education have been brought together in one sustained argument.
Cold Creek

Cold Creek

Jay Nelson

“Lynn Terry.” she said, boredom and disdain in her voice. “We have to listen to Lynn Terry six days a week, and we have to listen to Miss Fielding talk about Lynn Terry all the time on top of it. Why, Lynn Terry wouldn't make the semifinals in ...
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, ...
The Post Office Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk

The Post Office Directory of Norfolk & Suffolk

E.R. Kelly

... Norwich Rudd W. Grimston, Lynn Ruddock T. Burston, Diss Rudling J. Town green, Wymondham Rumbles J. Guanock field, Lynn Russell H. Exton's road, Lynn Russell J. Cawston, Alderford Russell J. Heacham, Lynn Russell R. Blakeney, ...
Hiwmor Nigel

Hiwmor Nigel

Davies Lynn

Mae Nigel Owens yn cael ei nabod fel un o ddyfarnwyr gorau'r byd. Ond mae hefyd yn ddigrifwr llwyddiannus sydd wrth ei fodd yn dweud jocs.
Educating Against Extremism

Educating Against Extremism

Lynn Davies

This book explores the relationship of education to extremism and examines how education could counter its more dangerous forms. Formal education does little to prevent people joining extremist groups.
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.
Annual Report of the Lynn Public Schools of the City of Lynn

Annual Report of the Lynn Public Schools of the City of Lynn

Lynn (Mass.). Public Schools

GRADUATES PICKERING JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ! ll l i Herbert Walter Nelson of the LYNN. Sara Evelyn Abbott Edward Bacon Frances Clinton Bailey A. Porter Bancroft Lois Batchelder Olive Berry Chester P. Bond Mildred Louise Bond ...
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: ...
Hard Men of Welsh Rugby

Hard Men of Welsh Rugby

Lynn Davies

Who are the hardest men of Welsh Rugby? Here are the stories of twenty of the toughest Welsh Rugby Union players who fought valiantly for pride and honour in the days prior to the game turning professional in 1995.
Hard Men of wel Rugby

Hard Men of wel Rugby

Lynn Davies

This book looks at 20 rugby union players who fought on wel pitches for little but pride and honour in the days prior to the game turning professional in 1995, such as Dai Morris, Graham Price, Ray Prosser, Brian Thomas, Delme Thomas, Geoff ...
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.
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.
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.
Teenage Revolution

Teenage Revolution

Alan Davies

When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad.
The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in ...

The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in ...

Felicia Ann Kornbluh

Burson, Joyce, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Day, Edwin, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Duncan, Ruby, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Edelman, Peter and Marian Wright Edelman, by Nick Kotz and Mary Lynn Kotz Espada, Frank, ...
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  ...
Metal Worker. Plumber and Steam Fitter

Metal Worker. Plumber and Steam Fitter

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The Lynn Fountain Filter. We show in the accompanying illustration a broken view of the Lynn fountain filter, made by the Lynn Filter Mfg. Company, 1602- 1616 Gest street, Cincinnati, Ohio. The general features of the filter are shown in the cut, ...
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.

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