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Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, ...

Rebranding Rule: The Restoration and Revolution Monarchy, ...

Kevin Sharpe

In the climactic part of his three-book series exploring the importance of public image in the Tudor and Stuart monarchies, Kevin Sharpe employs a remarkable interdisciplinary approach that draws on literary studies and art history as well ...
Has Science Displaced the Soul?: Debating Love and Happiness

Has Science Displaced the Soul?: Debating Love and Happiness

Kevin Sharpe

With doctorates in both mathematics and theology, Kevin Sharpe explores these notions and asks the question, Has Science Displaced the Soul?
Sleuthing the Divine: The Nexus of Science and Spirit

Sleuthing the Divine: The Nexus of Science and Spirit

Kevin Sharpe

Sharpe, a leader in the field, engagingly seeks the reality of God in the world, even as he eschews traditional theological terms and authorities.
The Personal Rule of Charles I

The Personal Rule of Charles I

Kevin Sharpe

In doing so, the book offers a vivid new perspective on the origins of the English Civil War.
Remapping Early Modern England: The Culture of ...

Remapping Early Modern England: The Culture of ...

Kevin Sharpe

A collection of new and previously-published essays on the culture of the English Renaissance state.
Zizek and Politics: A Critical Introduction

Zizek and Politics: A Critical Introduction

Matthew Sharpe

The Antinomies of Žižek's Sociopolitical Reason', in Matthew Sharpe, Geoff Boucher and Jason Glynos (eds), Traversing the Fantasy: Critical Responses to Slavoj Žižek. London: Ashgate, pp. 147–68. Sharpe, Matthew (2007). 'De Maistre  ...
Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

Poetry and Politics in the English Renaissance

David Norbrook

Work hy Jonathan Goldherg, Kevin Sharpe, James Doelman, and others is redressing the halance, hut there is much more to he done."' As in many other cases, however, focusing on a politics of identity may lose sight of other political stakes.
Vida

Vida

Marge Piercy

Kevin had been leadership from the first day they'd run upstate, the first night they had slept in a car Kevin had stolen. A BOD without Kevin was inconceivable. Kevin, Kiley and Lark had been the original and lasting power figures from that ...
Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England

Reading Authority and Representing Rule in Early Modern England

Kevin Sharpe

Examples are drawn from a broad range of source, including royal portraits, architecture, coins and medals and written texts.This is a volume that presents the history of society and state as a cultural as well as an institutional or ...
Not that Kind of Girl

Not that Kind of Girl

Siobhan Vivian

OTHER TITLES AVAILABLE FROM Bronxwood Coe Booth Kendra Coe Booth Tyrell Coe Booth Being Kevin Brooks Black Rabbit Summer Kevin Brooks Candy Kevin Brooks Dawn Kevin Brooks Kissing the Rain Kevin Brooks Lucas Kevin ...
Sir Robert Cotton, 1586-1631

Sir Robert Cotton, 1586-1631

Kevin Sharpe

A scholarly study of Sir Robert Cotton as antiquary and politician.
Blott On The Landscape

Blott On The Landscape

Tom Sharpe

Tom Sharpe's comedy lies as much in his language and the pace of the dialogue as in the outrageous muddles and confusions of his comic situations' The Times 'This exuberant novel will cheer all those who dislike bureaucracy' Daily Telegraph ...
You Were Wrong: A Novel

You Were Wrong: A Novel

Matthew Sharpe

Matthew Sharpe addresses his heady themes with warmth and charisma. You Were Wrong is a lovingly satiric, intelligent, and deeply enjoyable novel with a voice all its own.
Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Friedrich Schiller: Drama, Thought and Politics

Lesley Sharpe

Lesley Sharpe assesses Schiller's development as a dramatist, poet and thinker against the background of his life.
The Gropes

The Gropes

Tom Sharpe

'This is a romp with many of the staples of Sharpe's bestselling comedy' Daily Mail 'The funniest novelist writing today' The Times 'An immense gift for social satire ... the action is unflagging' Daily Telegraph 'A major craftsman in the ...
Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day

Remember, Remember: A Cultural History of Guy Fawkes Day

J. A. Sharpe

James Sharpe teases apart the tangled web of religion and politics that gave rise to the plot and wittily shows how celebration of that fateful night has changed over the centuries.
Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism

Schiller's Aesthetic Essays: Two Centuries of Criticism

Lesley Sharpe

He sums up the eighteenth century while anticipating modern ideas; his notions of the naive and the sentimental, of art as play, and of beauty as semblance, have had a lasting impact on aesthetic speculation.Dr Sharpe's book is the first ...
Indecent Exposure

Indecent Exposure

Tom Sharpe

'Explosively funny, fiendishly inventive' Sunday Times 'What clinches the novel's success is Mr Sharpe's brilliant comic style. his phrasing, his timing, and his extraordinarily deft handling of the minutiae of comic incidents make for real ...
In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

In the Wake: On Blackness and Being

Christina Sharpe

In this original and trenchant work, Christina Sharpe interrogates literary, visual, cinematic, and quotidian representations of Black life that comprise what she calls the "orthography of the wake.
Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series 2)

Grantchester Grind: (Porterhouse Blue Series 2)

Tom Sharpe

'The best of British farce-masters is back' Mail on Sunday 'Has all the ingredients of a classic Sharpe novel - grotesque characters, outlandish plot, scabrous dialogue' The Times 'Dynamic, fertile, knockabout energy' Evening Standard 'A ...
Promise Of Hunters Ridge

Promise Of Hunters Ridge

Sarah Barrie

He thought about that as what was left of Cathy Sharpe was zipped inside a body bag. 'I want to talk to the housemate.' At six o'clock he went to the gym. After spending most of the day working on Cathy Sharpe's murder, Ben needed to work ...
The Kevin James Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About ...

The Kevin James Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About ...

Donald Munoz

Kevin J. O'Connor (actor) 'Kevin James O'Connor'[http://www.filmreference.com/ film/34/KevinJOConnor.html Kevin J. O'Connor Biography (1963)] (born November 15, 1963) is an American actor. Kevin McKenna 'Kevin James McKenna' (born ...
Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the ...

Criticism and Compliment: The Politics of Literature in the ...

Kevin Sharpe

Criticism and Compliment examines the poems, plays and masques of the three figures who succeeded Ben Jonson as authors of court entertainments in the England of Charles I. The courtly literature of Caroline England has been dismissed by ...
Wilt In Nowhere: (Wilt Series 4)

Wilt In Nowhere: (Wilt Series 4)

Tom Sharpe

'Tom Sharpe is back and he's on cracking form' Daily Mail 'One of the most widely enjoyed comic writers in Britain ... his position at the heart of British comedy is as assured as that of the seaside postcard' Observer ''Our funniest living ...
Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law

Transgender Jurisprudence: Dysphoric Bodies of Law

Andrew Sharpe

' -Res Publica (Vol 8(3) 2002 pp 275-283 at pp 282-283), Dr Surya Munro of the Department of Law, Keele University '[Sharpe] expresses the hope that the book has made an important contribution ... That it has done so is beyond doubt.
Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology / Ergebnisse ...

Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology / Ergebnisse ...

W. Arber

Bull. 23, 161–168 (1967) SUBAK-SHARPE, J. H.: The genetics of herpesvirus. Cancer Res. 33, 1385–1392 (1973) SUBAK-SHARPE, J. H., BRow N, S. M., RITCHIE, D. A., TIMBURY, M. C., HALLIBURTON, I. W.: Herpes virus genetics. Advanc.
Ceremony of Innocence: A Memoir

Ceremony of Innocence: A Memoir

Roger Dean Sharpe

In Ceremony of Innocence Roger Sharpe proposes creation of an institute for training small group leaders who would welcome dialogue among participants, invite reconciliation, and encourage the rebuilding of American communities across ...
Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture

Petrocultures: Oil, Politics, Culture

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Notable here is Christina Sharpe's provocative account of slavery's Middle Passage as the forgotten space at the heart of The Forgotten Space. See Christina Sharpe, In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Durham: Duke University Press, ...
Shifting the Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of ...

Shifting the Boundaries: Transformation of the Languages of ...

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Transformation of the Languages of Public and Private in the Eighteenth Century Dario Castiglione, Lesley Sharpe. Six Theodor Gottlieb von Hippel: Argumentative Strategies in the Debate on the Rights of Women Lesley Sharpe In his famous ...
Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England

Culture and Politics in Early Stuart England

Kevin Sharpe

This book opens a new agenda for the study of the politics of culture and the culture of politics in early modern England. -- Publisher's website.

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