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Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...
Davies Owen3 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, ...
A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist
Robertson DaviesWe 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
PreviewImpacts 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 ...
ReadCHAPTER 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.
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies
Carl SpadoniUsing 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
Thomas M. KittsBased 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: ...
PreviewDavies, 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
Robertson DaviesEd. 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
Ray DaviesThe book is interspersed with lyrics and also includes photographs from Davies's own collection and the Kinks’ archive.
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
Nick DaviesHow do they get away with it? In this enormously engaging book, naturalist and scientist Nick Davies reveals how cuckoos trick their hosts.
Morkan's Quarry: A Novel
Steve YatesKreft 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 ...
Robertson Davies: man of myth
Judith Skelton GrantDrawing 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.
Camden Market
Caitlin DaviesStruggling 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
PreviewFor 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
Gloria DaviesGloria 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 ...
Bryan DaviesPainstakingly 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
Peter DaviesIn this text, Peter Davies provides a concise exploration of the enigmatic force of Blake's extraordinary life and literary ouput.
The Veresov
Nigel DaviesIn 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
Nigel DaviesGrandmaster 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.
On Stone and Scroll: Essays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies
James Keltie AitkenEssays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies James Keltie Aitken, Graham I. Davies, Katharine Julia Dell, Brian A. Mastin. The Significance of Rhetoric in the Greek Pentateuch JAMEs K. AITKEN Any reader of the Septuagint is confronted from the ...
Guide to the Use of Materials in Waters
Michael DaviesDavies and Scott, directors of an international corrosion consulting company, cover all construction materials used in potable and freshwaters, seawater, and industrial water in this reference for engineers, managers, plant operators, and ...
Play the Catalan
Nigel DaviesGrandmaster Nigel Davies presents a major study of the Catalan, providing a reliable and dynamic repertoire for White and covering the main plans for both sides.
Cuckoos, Cowbirds and Other Cheats
Nick DaviesNick Davies describes the natural histories of all the brood parasites and examines the questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race between parasites and their hosts.
The Trompowsky
Nigel DaviesIn this book Grandmaster Nigel Davies presents the reader with up-to-date coverage of this ever-expanding opening. Using model games for both White and Black, he studies the key strategies and tactics associated with the Trompowsky.
Main Street blues: the decline of small-town America
Richard O. DaviesRichard O. Davies takes the reader through two hundred years of American history as reflected in the small Ohio farming village of Camden.
Can Financial Markets be Controlled?
Howard DaviesFinancial firms are regulated as never before. But have these measures been successful, and do they go far enough? In this smart new polemic, former central banker and financial regulator, Howard Davies, responds with a resounding ‘no’.
Liturgical Time Bombs In Vatican II: Destruction of the ...
Michael DaviesMichael Davies shows how Fr. Annibale Bugnini--before his dismissal by Pope Paul VI under suspicion of being a Freemason--was able to "reform" the Catholic Mass into the constantly evolving liturgy.
The Boys Who Cycled Europe
Alex Pavitt... James Duffy, Martin McKibbin, Frances Lucibello, Mike Davies, Bob and Pam Davies, Mark Priestner, Ralph Odell, Monty Duggal, Simon McCormick, and Sandrina Parry-Bargiacchi. Also I would like to thank any future donations made 212.
Dunnock behaviour and social evolution
Nicholas B. DaviesIn this book Nick Davies gives a full account of the mating systems of the dunnock or hedge sparrow, Prunella modularis, which include pairs, a male with twofemales, two males with one female, and several males with several females.
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