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Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make ...

Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make ...

Jim Davies

Professor 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 ...

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 Great Radio Soap Operas

The Great Radio Soap Operas

Jim Cox

I'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?

The Jungle Pecking Order: Where Are the Tigers?

Dr John Davis

The 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 ...

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.
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: ...
Specification and Proof in Real Time CSP

Specification and Proof in Real Time CSP

Jim Davies

The 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

A Distant Melody (Wings of Glory Book #1): A Novel

Sarah Sundin

Yesterday 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

Landscaping and Horticulture

Paula Wallace

Jim 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

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.
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.
The Kate Shugak Investigation - Box Set: A Kate Shugak ...

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

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.
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  ...
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.
Jim Brown: A Hero's Life

Jim Brown: A Hero's Life

Mike Freeman

Most 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

ITIL Foundation All-in-One Exam Guide

Jim Davies

Written 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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