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Biography Of Peter Cook

Biography Of Peter Cook

Harry Thompson

Early that summer Noel Slocock's father lent his son a Hillman Huskey car, and he, Peter, Michael Bawtree, Jonathan Harlow and Peter Raby packed a couple of tents and set out to discover England. There was no set pattern to the trip.
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reader's Companion

The Importance of Being Earnest: A Reader's Companion

Peter Raby

Analyzes both the social context and the literary artistry of Oscar Wilde's comedic play
The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde

Peter Raby

The volume provides a detailed chronology of Wilde's work, a bibliography for further reading, and illustrations from important productions.
Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers

Bright Paradise: Victorian Scientific Travellers

Peter Raby

Never have more significant journeys been made. . . . Enthusiastic, informed and racy, this is one of the most invigorating accounts of the exploits of people from an age whose intrepidity is staggering.
Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

Peter Raby

In 1858, aged thirty-five, weak with malaria, isolated in the remote Spice Islands, Alfred Russel Wallace wrote to Charles Darwin: he had, he said excitedly, worked out a theory of natural selection.
Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz

Fair Ophelia: A Life of Harriet Smithson Berlioz

Peter Raby

The remarkable life and career of Harriet Smithson Berlioz, a talented actress who became a symbol of the Romantic spirit.
The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter

The Cambridge Companion to Harold Pinter

Peter Raby

28 Harold Pinter, The Caretaker, Complete Works: Two, p. 19. 29 Harold Pinter, The Collection, Complete Works: Two, p. 151. 30 Harold Pinter, in Conversations with Pinter, ed. Gussow, p. 71. The reference is to The Birthday Party, Complete ...
Qajar portraits

Qajar portraits

Julian Raby

Abolala Soudavar has suggested that he might be identified as Yahya, one of the sons of Sani' al-Mulk, and a cousin of Kamal al-Mulk. Though both he and his father were known as Abu'l Hasan (n and 1n, respectively), there is no evidence,  ...
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 ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Peter Pan - Hello, my name is Peter

Robert Steiner

Sixty years after the original story, Wendy must face her fears and weaknesses and return to Neverland to rescue Peter from certain doom in this final and most touching chapter of the ever youthful legend of Peter Pan.
Before I Met You: A Novel

Before I Met You: A Novel

Lisa Jewell

Peter Lawler. He sounded like he might be a financial adviser. Or a solicitor. The intercom crackled, and the sound of an elderly lady's voice emerged. “Yes?” “Oh, hello. I'm looking for a Peter Lawler.” “Who?” “Peter Lawler.” “Peter Morler?” “No ...
Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the ...

Producing Predators: Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the ...

Michael D. Wise

... Saje Mathieu, Paul McCutcheon, James McWilliams, Nic Mink, Dave Morton, Kevin Murphy, Andy Paul, Trey Proctor, Megan Raby, Harriet Ritvo, Ryan Shapiro , Adam Sowards, Rebecca Woods, and this book's anonymous reviewers for their  ...
Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, ...

Contesting White Supremacy: School Segregation, Anti-Racism, ...

Timothy J. Stanley

Leslie G. Roman and Linda Eyre (New York: Routledge, 1997), 205-31; Rebecca Raby, '“There's No Racism at My School, It's Just Joking Around”: Ramifications for Anti-Racist Education,' Race Ethnicity and Education 7, 4 (2004): 367-83.
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (N.R.A.), ...

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6/Boundary Marker 59931 B Peter Strauss Ranch Entrance Arch 59932 C Peter Strauss Ranch Swimming Pool 7 59933 C Peter Strauss Ranch Water Tank 59935 B Peter Strauss Ranch Terrazzo Dance Floor 59935 C Peter Strauss Ranch ...
Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Complex Population Dynamics: A Theoretical/empirical Synthesis

Peter Turchin

Many people provided extensive comments on previous book drafts, or draft chapters: Alan Berryman, Lev Ginzburg, Roger Nisbet, Peter Hudson, Alexei Sharov, Peter Kareiva, Mauricio Lima, Peter Abrams, Jason Matthiopoulos, Larry Mueller ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

God Had Me In His Hands All The Time

Willie M. Graham

Peter was Nan's nephew and Lulla's grandson. Peter was a baby when he came to live with Lulla. He was her only grandchild because Lulla only had one child, a son. Peter's mama didn't want him when he was born. They say Peter's mama told Peter's daddy, “I don't want no black baby and if you don't come and git th bastard I'm gonna git rid of him. I don't care what you do wit him you can throw him in th river forwhatIcare. Jes git him away from me.” Dey say she was white or half ...
Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Peter Between Jerusalem and Antioch: Peter, James, and the ...

Jack J. Gibson

John Strazicich writes: The apostle (Peter) does not yet understand the universalistic interpretation of 110;"53. It is obvious that, for him, 'all flesh' has a distinctive Jewish interpretation, since on the Day of Pentecost he is addressing his own ...
Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar: a retrospective

Peter Hujar

Peter Hujar, a New Yorker of Ukrainian descent, died of AIDS in 1987.
In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

In Heaven Everything is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter ...

Josh Frank

Maybe we'll lunch at the Harvard Club on me—Thanks, Alan, say hi to Fam— Love, Peter Peter set his head down on the table ... He had written a letter to Alan Siegal with an update about the recent developments with his screen-writing and  ...
James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

James, 1 & 2 Peter, and Early Jesus Traditions

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The author of 2 Peter is no exception to that rule as he evokes the gospel tradition as a source of reliable testimony which ... Philosophical Quarterly 47 ( 1997), pp.227–32; Peter Lipton, 'The Epistemology of Testimony', Studies in History and ...

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