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Dunnock behaviour and social evolution

Dunnock behaviour and social evolution

Nicholas B. Davies

In 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.
The Place of Argument: Essays in Honour of Nicholas G. Round

The Place of Argument: Essays in Honour of Nicholas G. Round

Rhian Davies

ANNY BROOKSBANK JONES and RHIAN DAVIES It is a truism of contemporary publishing that the mark of a strong collection of academic essays is its coherence. The Oxford English Dictionary reflects this term's deployment in several quite ...
The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

The Kershner families of Maryland, 1731-1977

Mary Kershner Maxwell

Peter Peter Peter Peter (M) Nicholas Nicholas *l20 ac Nicholas *128 ac Nicholas *l28 ac Nicholas Nicholas Nicholas *5 persons Peter Peter* Anth'y* blksmith l50 a Peter *l76 a Peter* BPS Anthony *l50 a Anthony *150 a Anthony Martin *0 ...
Shalom and the Ethics of Belief: Nicholas Wolterstorff's ...

Shalom and the Ethics of Belief: Nicholas Wolterstorff's ...

Nathan D. Shannon

he central concern of the present study is Nicholas Wolterstorff's theory of situated rationality. In Wolterstorff's view, the ... 1.1 NICHOLAS P. WOLTERSTORFF, CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER In 2002, Nicholas P. Nicholas P. Wolterstorff, Christian ...
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, ...
The Journal

The Journal

American-Irish Historical Society

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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, ...
Opera

Opera

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Susannah Self, Helen Williams. Rebecca de Pont Davies. Denisc Mulholland. Andrew Burden. Howard Milner, Richard Chew, Rene Linnenbank, c. Nicholas Kok. p. David Freeman, on September 4. 8, 1 1. 13.15.18,20 London, Barbican.
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.
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: ...
The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of ...

The Ancient and Present State of the County and City of ...

Charles Smith

Nicholas Gough. John Core. John White. Nicholas Mulgan. John Rope. Thomas Hull. Nicholas Gough. William Sattadel. Nicholas Mulgan. Nicholas Mulgan. William Corr, William Corr. John Rope. Foulke Commerford. 1449 William A. D. M A Y ...
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.
The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Waterford: ...

The Great Charter of the Liberties of the City of Waterford: ...

Waterford (Ireland)

1438 Nicholas Murgart. 1439 J'ihn Rope. 144r» Thomas Hull.. 1441 Nicholas Gough. 1442 William Sattadel. 1443 Nicholas Mulgan. 1444 Nicholas Mulgan. 1445 William Corr. 1446 William Corr. 1447 John Rope. 1448 Foulke Commerford.
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.
Teenage Revolution

Teenage Revolution

Alan Davies

When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad.
Dictionary of Labour Biography

Dictionary of Labour Biography

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K. Gildart, D. Howell ... Thomas Eurig Davies, Y Prifathro Thomas Rees – Ei fywyd a'i waith (Llandysul, 1939); D. Gwenallt Jones (gol), ... 4 Spring 1979, 54– 64; Islwyn Pritchard, 'Thomas Evan Nicholas' in D. Ben Rees (gol), Herio'r Byd.
The history, topography and antiquities of the county and ...

The history, topography and antiquities of the county and ...

R H. Ryland

1437 John White ' 1438 Nicholas Mulgan ] 439 John Rope 1440 Thomas Hull 1441 Nicholas Gough 1442 William Sattadel 1443 Nicholas Mulgan 1444 Nicholas Mulgan 1445 William Corr 1446 William Corr 1447 John Rope 1448 Foulke ...
Introduction to Veterinary Genetics

Introduction to Veterinary Genetics

Frank W. Nicholas

Frank W. Nicholas ... Ben Hayes, John James, Hannah Nicholas, Belinda Norris, Jonathan Usmar, Bethany Wilson, Peter Thomson, Claire Wade, Noelle Cockett, Rob Banks, Mohammad Shariflou, Malcolm Ferguson-Smith, and Xuan Zhang.
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  ...
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.
There Really Is a Santa Claus: The History of St. Nicholas & ...

There Really Is a Santa Claus: The History of St. Nicholas & ...

William J. Federer

Saint Nicholas - Sinter Klaas - Santa Claus Read the story of Nicholas, 3rd Century Bishop of Myra, Asia Minor (present day Turkey) and how over time stories of his holy, generous life were embelished into legend.
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.

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