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Main Street blues: the decline of small-town America

Main Street blues: the decline of small-town America

Richard O. Davies

Richard O. Davies takes the reader through two hundred years of American history as reflected in the small Ohio farming village of Camden.
Sports in American Life: A History

Sports in American Life: A History

Richard O. Davies

The third edition of author Richard O. Davies? highly praised narrative of American sports, Sports in American Life: A History, features extensive revisions and updates to its presentation of an interpretative history of the relationship of ...
America's Obsession: Sports and Society Since 1945

America's Obsession: Sports and Society Since 1945

Richard O. Davies

As the first in a series of books on America since 1945, Davies' book offers insightful historical interpretation as it examines sports as a microcosm of America's national life.
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, ...
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, ...
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.
The Church of England Magazine

The Church of England Magazine

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H. E. J. Howard, D.D., dean; G. Hodson, M.A., archdeacon of Stafford; Thomas Hill, B.D., archdeacon of Derby ; John Allen, ... Richard Davies, M.A., archdeacon of Brecon ; John Williams, M.A., archdeacon of Cardigan; Richard Venables, D.D. , ...
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A. Cullis, Edwin Garland, George Gilbert, My les Adama, Richard Angrave, Alfied H. Barter, William Ash Basse«, AVilliam ... William Cooper, John Stain Cowling, Arthur Edward Culling, Ancell Davies, Richard Deakin, George W. Uurrant, Jo*.
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 Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of ...

The Church of England magazine [afterw.] The Church of ...

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H. E. J. Howard, D.D., dean; G. Hodson, M.A., archdeacon of Stafford; Thomas Hill, B.D., archdeacon of Derby; John Allen, ... Richard Davies, M.A., archdeacon of Brecon ; John Williams, M.A., archdeacon of Cardigan; Richard Venables, D.D. , ...
Modernise Or Decline: Policies to Maintain the Universal ...

Modernise Or Decline: Policies to Maintain the Universal ...

Richard Hopper

... Pitney Bowes; Peter Davies, Lansdowne Partners; Lord Dearing; Steve Gill, Hewlett Packard; Richard Gillingwater, Cass Business School; Alan Halfacre, Mail Users Association; Paul Hatch, IPC Media; Professor Dieter Helm, New College, ...
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.
Faith in the Age of Science: Atheism, Religion, and the Big ...

Faith in the Age of Science: Atheism, Religion, and the Big ...

Mark Silversides

(Penguin, 2007) Davies, Paul: The Mind of God: Science and the Search for Ultimate Meaning (Penguin, 1993) Dawkins, Richard: The Blind Watchmaker ( Penguin, 1991) Dawkins, Richard: The Extended Phenotype (OUP, 1999) Dawkins, ...
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.
Crossroads [10]

Crossroads [10]

Davies, Richard

This series provides a developmental approach to instruction over the four grades, and reflects congruence with all Canadian curricula, while meeting a wide range of student interests.
Teenage Revolution

Teenage Revolution

Alan Davies

When Alan Davies was growing up he seemed to drive his family mad.
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.
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.
Handbook for Doctor of Ministry Projects: An Approach to ...

Handbook for Doctor of Ministry Projects: An Approach to ...

Richard E. Davies

Emphasizing empirical research, this handbook will serve as a reference from the initial idea through the analysis of findings.
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 ...

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