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Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make ...
Jim DaviesProfessor Jim Davies' fascinating and highly accessible book, Riveted, reveals the evolutionary underpinnings of why we find things compelling, from art to religion and from sports to superstition.
Formal Methods: Foundations and Applications: 15th Brazilian ...
PreviewCompositionality 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 Great Radio Soap Operas
Jim CoxI'm also appreciative of several vintage radio club newsletter editors—Jim Adams , Peter Bellanca, Bill Davies, Jack French, Dan Haefele, Ken Krug and Jim Snyder—who perpetuate this avocation and who encouraged me to complete the ...
The Jungle Pecking Order: Where Are the Tigers?
Dr John DavisThe team which put the town on the map that day was: George Lewis, Bernard Cunniffe, Arthur Atkinson (capt), Jim Croston, Tommy Askin, Billy Davies, Les Adams, Pat McManus, Harold Haley, Tommy Taylor, Frank Smith Snr, Jim Crossley ...
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: ...
Specification and Proof in Real Time CSP
Jim DaviesThe research contained here represents the very latest work on the specification and verification of real-time systems.
A Distant Melody (Wings of Glory Book #1): A Novel
Sarah SundinYesterday my sister, Helen, received a telegram. Jim's destroyer was torpedoed off Guadalcanal a month ago. Oh, Allie, Jim was killed. Jim Carlisle? Handsome, charming Jim Carlisle, who teased his sister about her doll, who jitterbugged with ...
Landscaping and Horticulture
Paula WallaceJim Penman – Jim's Mowing Jim's Mowing began as a one-man business in 1982. Jim Penman, with a marketing budget of $24 and a dedication to customer service, started a business that eventually employed 30 subcontractors. Problems ...
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.
The Kate Shugak Investigation - Box Set: A Kate Shugak ...
Dana Stabenow“Thanks, Jim,” Willard said, sniffling. With a hungry glance fixed on the candy bar in Jim's hand, he said, “You going to eat that, Jim?” “Willard,” Jim said, holding the door open, “a store is where people buy things. They pay for them with money ...
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.
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 ...
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.
Jim Brown: A Hero's Life
Mike FreemanMost of all, he was the greatest football player of all time. He was Jim Brown. Jim Brown was an astonishing physical specimen with tremendous skills and intelligence.
ITIL Foundation All-in-One Exam Guide
Jim DaviesWritten by an Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) consulting and training expert, this all-new guide helps you pass the ITIL v3 Foundation certification exam and serves as an on-the-job reference.
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