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Joseph Ashby's Victorian Warwickshire

Joseph Ashby's Victorian Warwickshire

Joseph Ashby

Joseph Ashby of Tysoe, the agricultural trade unionist, published a series of articles in the Warwick Advertiser. This book contains extracts from his articles illustrated by photographs.
The Media and the Models of Masculinity

The Media and the Models of Masculinity

Mark Moss

See LeRoy Ashby, With Amusementfor All: A History ofAmerican Popular Culture since 1830 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006), pp. 471—472. 16. LeRoy Ashby, With Amusementfor All, p. 471. 17. LeRoy Ashby, With Amusement  ...
Ashby

Ashby

Maurice Valency

Ashby, an artist and confidence man during the thirties, seems only to care for money, but idealistically joins the Civil War in Spain
Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

Twentieth Century Music and the Question of Modernity

Eduardo de la Fuente

Ashby, Arved (2004a) 'Introduction' in Arved Ashby (ed.) The Pleasure of Modernist Music, Rochester: University of Rochester Press: 1–19. ——(2004b) ' Modernism Goes to the Movies' in Arved Ashby (ed.) The Pleasure of Modernist Music, ...
Materials and Sustainable Development

Materials and Sustainable Development

Michael F. Ashby

This book, from noted materials selection authority Mike Ashby, provides a structure and framework for analyzing sustainable development and the role of materials in it.
Celtic Studies in Europe and Other Essays

Celtic Studies in Europe and Other Essays

Seán Ó Lúing

The first book he translated was Is trua nd fanann an oige, the reminiscences of Micheal O''Guiheen, the last of the Great Blasket poets and storytellers, under the title A pity youth does not last. In this Tim used his own Kerry English, the language Micheal O''Guiheen would have used if Irish had disappeared from the Great Blasket, as it had from Tim''s own part of Kerry long before he was born. In this he followed the example of his old schoolmaster Bryan MacMahon, translator of Peig, ...
Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse in ...

Endangered Children: Dependency, Neglect, and Abuse in ...

LeRoy Ashby

Endangered Children traces the history of dependent, neglected, and abused children from the colonial era to the present. LeRoy Ashby poses the question "Who speaks for the children?
A Day in Our Life

A Day in Our Life

Seán Ó Criomhthain

In A Pity Youth Does Not Last* Micheal O''Guiheen ''The Poet'' mourned the Island''s decline, and Sean O''Crohan''s A Day in Our Life tells of Islanders in exile, which for them it was, even when they could see the Blasket every day of their lives from their mainland homes. Maurice O''Sullivan''s style is lyrical and spontaneous as he recalls boyhood wonders on his magic island at the rim of the western world. The style of Micheal O''Guiheen is that of his mother Peig Sayers, whose scribe he ...
The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young ...

The Failed Century of the Child: Governing America's Young ...

Judith Sealander

A minor note: Both historians Linda Gordon and LeRoy Ashby attribute this quotation to Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott's ... Security Act. LeRoy Ashby does not cite the Hearings but, rather, quotes Linda Gordon's Pitied but Not Entitled: Single  ...
The Image of the Nation: The History of Folklore Collecting ...

The Image of the Nation: The History of Folklore Collecting ...

Jean Marie Maguire

Autobiographies written by Blasket Islanders, which are great folklore documents, include Tomás O Crohan''s The Islandman, Maurice O''Sullivan''s Twenty Years a- Growing, Micheál O''Guiheen''s It''s a Pity Youth does not Last and Peig Sayer''s, Peig Peig is undoubtedly one of the most influential, and widely-read, Irish books of the twentieth century." Micheál O'' Guiheen, Peig Sayers son, described a visit from the collector Robin Flower, there to gather stories from his mother, one ...
Regression Smoothing of Pairwise-correlated Data

Regression Smoothing of Pairwise-correlated Data

Mark Arved Ashby

Regression Smoothing of Pairwise-Correlated Data by Mark Arved Ashby B.A. ( University of Rochester) 1984 M.S. (Medical College of Wisconsin) 1987 A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor ...
Popular Music and the New Auteur: Visionary Filmmakers after MTV

Popular Music and the New Auteur: Visionary Filmmakers after MTV

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Visionary Filmmakers after MTV Arved Ashby ... of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data Popular music and the new auteur: visionary filmmakers after MTV / edited by Arved Ashby. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index.
The Guardian

The Guardian

Micheal Arthur James Hay

Philip will read the chronicle to find out, but does the story end with the last page or live on eternally in the blood of an immortal?
In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs

In Julia's Kitchen with Master Chefs

Julia Child

With more than 100 color photographs by Micheal McLaughlin
Mosaic of Juxtaposition: William S. Burroughs’ Narrative ...

Mosaic of Juxtaposition: William S. Burroughs’ Narrative ...

Micheal Sean Bolton

Yet, these novels continue to generate new interest and inspire new insights among an increasing and evolving readership.
A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the ...

A Pity Youth Does Not Last: Reminiscences of the Last of the ...

Micheál O'Guiheen

Often they're chased away, but they come hack again and again.' 'Not coming before you in your story, Paidin, did you hear any word over amongst them at all that the people of England were going to make a settlement?' asked Sean Carney.
Prism International

Prism International

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Micheal Sean Bolton Noctuid The morning throws crosses into a reek of tobacco smoke and perfume. Flecks of dead skin float through light: a small Gothic. A warm stranger struggles for contact against the constricting flesh of her host.
William Jennings Bryan: champion of democracy

William Jennings Bryan: champion of democracy

LeRoy Ashby

A biography of this outspoken American hero who took strong stands on a variety of subjects, including the Scopes evolution question.
Research Guide to American Literature

Research Guide to American Literature

John Cusatis

.James Island Charter High School, Charleston, S.C. Micheal Sean Bolton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arizona State University Marshall Boswell . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rhodes College Park Bucker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . University of South ...
Julie: A Novel

Julie: A Novel

Maurice Valency

The narrator, an English professor, begins an affair with Julie, a twenty-five-year-old graduate student, but she seems more interested in Ashby, his artist friend
The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind

The Green Ghost: William Burroughs and the Ecological Mind

Chad Weidner

Micheal Sean Bolton says that not only does Burroughs' writing problematize the narrative voice, but “through the notion of the word virus, [Burroughs] institutes a host/parasite binary within the individual's subjectivity,” which results in what can  ...
Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe

Forever Stardust: David Bowie Across the Universe

Will Brooker

One way into understanding this approach to Bowie is through Micheal Sean Bolton's 2014 monograph on William Burroughs. On an immediate level, the parallels between Bowie and Burroughs are extremely suggestive. Bowie, of course ...
Rosa Parks: Freedom Rider

Rosa Parks: Freedom Rider

Ruth Ashby

Profiles the African American woman who sparked a bus boycott when she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus to a white person.

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