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Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

Luke Gibbons

In Joyce’s Ghosts, Luke Gibbons mounts a powerful argument that this view is mistaken: Joyce’s Irishness is intrinsic to his modernism, informing his most distinctive literary experiments.
Thunderbolt Jaxon

Thunderbolt Jaxon

Dave Gibbons

THUNDERBOLT JAXON TP Written by Dave Gibbons Art by John Higgins Cover by Gibbons Collecting the 5-issue reimagining of a classic British hero!
Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

Joyce's Ghosts: Ireland, Modernism, and Memory

Luke Gibbons

This book is sure to become a landmark study of this enduring and widely read novelist, and advances our understanding of the connections between modernism and the nation.
The Gospel of Luke

The Gospel of Luke

Luke Timothy Johnson

What makes this commentary on Luke stand apart from others is that, from beginning to end, this is a literary analysis.
Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts:

Herod as a Composite Character in Luke-Acts:

Frank Dicken

2.1.3 Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom, The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative Yamazaki-Ransom's ... in Luke's thought. YamazakiRansom's objective is to discuss how Luke redefines “the idea of the people of God...by redefining the opponents ...
Transformations in Irish culture

Transformations in Irish culture

Luke Gibbons

From a variety of perspectives, the essays explore the complex intersections between culture and politics, nation and state, periphery and centre, and 'high' and 'popular' culture in Irish life.
Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the ...

Edmund Burke and Ireland: Aesthetics, Politics and the ...

Luke Gibbons

This study argues that Burke's influential early writings on aesthetics are intimately connected to his politics.
Santa Who?

Santa Who?

Gail Gibbons

In telling the rich history of the Christmas gift-giver, Gail Gibbons draws upon many cultures.
The Lost Boys' Appreciation Society

The Lost Boys' Appreciation Society

Alan Gibbons

And they're all living with the memories of someone they can never replace. Alan Gibbons has an extraordinary knack of knowing just what it's like to be a teenager.
Missionaries and Monsters

Missionaries and Monsters

William J. Gibbons

Clues to undiscovered species have been left by missionaries and pastors throughout the world, and explorer Bill Gibbons is hot on their trail.
Luke's Gospel

Luke's Gospel

Jonathan Knight

Luke's Gospel provides a comprehensive and schematic reading of Luke's Gospel, one of the most important books detailing the life and works of Christ, in six main parts.
Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts

Characters and Characterization in Luke-Acts

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Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom's The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative and Joshua Yoder's Representatives of Roman Rule both examine Luke's portrayal of authority figures, discussing what the texts might tell us about the third evangelist's ...
Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The Quiet Man to Dancing at ...

Contemporary Irish Cinema: From The Quiet Man to Dancing at ...

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Kevin Rockett, Luke Gibbons, and John Hill (Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse Univ. Press, 1988), 147-93. Although Brook (ibid., 15) links the "moral occult of melodrama to what he calls a "post-sacred era," it is also apparent that the workings of ...
The Devil in Soho:

The Devil in Soho:

Jean Shorney

Harlow left three children, Leanne, Lorna and Luke.'” “Jesus, man, I didn't make no connection at first.” Ru snaps his fingers suddenly, startling me from my uneasy retrospection. “Luke Harlow. I know him. If it's that Luke Harlow of course.
Opening the Mind or Drawing Boundaries?: History Texts in ...

Opening the Mind or Drawing Boundaries?: History Texts in ...

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197 (1974): 392–404. Luke, Carmen, Suzanne de Castell and Allan Luke. “ Beyond Criticism: The Authority of the School Textbook,” in Language, Authority and Criticism, edited by Suzanne de Castell, Carmen Luke and Allan Luke, 245– 260.
The Rotarian

The Rotarian

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One participant, 16-year-old Luke Cashman of Melbourne (wearing a red cape), represented Argentina. "It's a great experience," said Luke, "because it teaches you to look at a situation from different perspectives." Luke, who hopes to become  ...
Weird School Day

Weird School Day

Alan Gibbons

She has feathers and fur and whiskers and wings. She's all mixed up! A delightful story about starting school from million-copy-selling author Alan Gibbons writing with his daughters, Megan and Rachel.
Tool Book

Tool Book

Gail Gibbons

What are tools? How do they help us make things? For busy toddlers keen on building, Gail Gibbons presents the answers to those questions in this cheerful board book introduction to tools and what they do.
Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle

Marcion and Luke-Acts: A Defining Struggle

Joseph B. Tyson

Building on recent scholarship that argues for a second-century date for the book of Acts, Marcion and Luke-Acts explores the probable context for the authorship not only of Acts but also of the canonical Gospel of Luke.
Michael Gibbons of South Carolina and His Descendants: ...

Michael Gibbons of South Carolina and His Descendants: ...

Laura Vivian Gibbons Hersperger

22 Sep 1953 in Florence Co., SC, son of Myrtlee McKenzie and William Thomas Spencer, Sr., m. 13 Dec 1980 in Pinewood, SC, to Cheryl Eloise Stack b. 21 Nov 1958 in Georgetown Co., SC, daughter of Marguerite Ridgill and Charles Nelson  ...
Representatives of Roman Rule: Roman Provincial Governors in ...

Representatives of Roman Rule: Roman Provincial Governors in ...

Joshua Yoder

137 In The Roman Empire in Luke's Narrative, Kazuhiko Yamazaki-Ransom focused on Luke's portrayal of Jewish and Gentile rulers in Luke-Acts.138 Focusing on the biblical narratives and Second Temple literature, he discerned common ...
Border crossing: film in Ireland, Britain and Europe

Border crossing: film in Ireland, Britain and Europe

John Hill

6 The best historical overview of the cinema in Ireland is Kevin Rockett, Luke Gibbons and John Hill, Cinema and Ireland (London: Routledge, 1988). 7 Quoted in Terence Brown, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History (London: Fontana, 1981), ...
A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People

A Theology of Community Organizing: Power to the People

Chris Shannahan

For information about the Islamic Foundation, see http://www.islamicfoundation. org.uk, accessed 11 May 2010. For information about Luke Bretherton, see http:// divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/luke-bretherton. It should be noted that Luke  ...
Theory and Practice of Leadership

Theory and Practice of Leadership

Roger Gill

3 Barry Gibbons (2003), in an interview with David Creelman, 'Thinking out loud with Barry Gibbons', www.HR.com 4 Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and Jack Zenger (2000), Building your leadership brand. Leader to Leader, 15, Winter, 40– 46 ...
Contemplating Christ with Luke

Contemplating Christ with Luke

George Pell

Cardinal George Pell's Contemplating Christ with Luke comprises a series of reflections on a year's Sunday readings from the Gospel of St. Luke.
Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts

Evelyn Waugh’s Satire: Texts and Contexts

Naomi Milthorpe

Stella Gibbons, Cold Comfort Farm (London: Penguin, 2000), 8. 2. Reggie Oliver, Out of the Woodshed: The Life of Stella Gibbons (London: Bloomsbury, 1998), 111. Faye Hammill and Jonathan Greenberg both note this in discussing Cold ...
Representations of the Afterlife in Luke-Acts

Representations of the Afterlife in Luke-Acts

Alexey Somov

A significant advance in research on the ideas of the afterlife in Luke– Acts is presented in Outi Lehtipuu's work, The Afterlife Imagery in Luke's Story of the Rich Man and Lazarus. Lehtipuu neither attempts to frame these ideas as a ...
Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications: 15th Brazilian ...

Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications: 15th Brazilian ...

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Compositionality and Refinement in Model-Driven Engineering Jim Davies, Jeremy Gibbons, David Milward, and James Welch Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3QD, UK {jim.davies,jeremy.gibbons ...
The Destiny of Violet and Luke

The Destiny of Violet and Luke

Jessica Sorensen

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR Luke Price's life has always been about order, control, and acting tough on the outside.

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