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It's almost Christmas in Westie Green and the snowflakes are
falling. Nestled deep within the Highlands of Scotland lives an
enchanting community of West Highland Terriers, the Westie Hutters.
Roobie & Radley and their pet piglet Disco live at the Bones
Bakery where the ovens are busy cooking up Yummytastic Bone
Biscuits for Christmas. Grandpa Angus delivers these in his VW
Campervan, but he also needs to call on their help. Finding
reindeer in Westie Woods, a search to find Santa, and the Tree of
Awesomeness all add to the ingredients, making this Magical
Christmas Adventure almost as tasty as Grandma Soozie's Christmas
pudding and its hidden treasure. But can the little trio help
rescue Christmas?
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Wagon Wheels A'Rollin' (Hardcover)
Daisy Belle Catherine Brown Pier Ackley; Contributions by Joseph H. Pierre
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Remember the Hand studies a body of articulate manuscript books
from the Christian monasteries of northern Iberia in the tenth and
eleventh centuries. These exceptional, richly illuminated codices
have in common an urgent sense of scribal presence—scribes name
themselves, describe themselves, even paint their own portraits.
While marginal notes, even biographical ones, are a common feature
of medieval manuscripts, rarely do scribes make themselves so fully
known. These writers address the reader directly, asking for
prayers of intercession and sharing of themselves. They ask the
reader to join them in not only acknowledging the labor of writing
but also in theorizing it through analogy to agricultural work or
textile production, tending a garden of knowledge, weaving a text
out of words. By mining this corpus of articulate codices (known to
a school of Iberian codicologists, but virtually unstudied outside
that community), Catherine Brown recovers these scribes’
understanding of reading as a powerful, intimate encounter between
many parties—authors and their text, scribes and their pen,
patrons and their art-object, readers and the words and images
before their eyes—all mediated by the material object known as
the book. By rendering that mediation conspicuous and reminding us
of the labor that necessarily precedes that mediation, the scribes
reach out to us across time with a simple but profound directive:
Remember the hand. Remember the Hand is available from the
publisher on an open-access basis.
Born in the 1980s tells the story of a generation coming of age. As
the reality of the adult world begins to bite, love and lust,
broken dreams, heart-break, and emotional attachments take the
place of teenage hopes. This is about a generation finding its feet
and carving out its place in the world. Born in the 1980s is a
title in the Route series of contemporary stories.
This book provides comparison of Daniel Deronda with Anna Karenina
and Women in Love in order to answer the following questions: why
does one protagonist in each novel fail whilst another succeeds?
And what does the 'comparative' in 'comparative literature'
actually mean?
The elusive rationale for the Brescia Casket, an ivory reliquary
carved in northern Italy ca. 390, has long tantalized scholars. In
The Key to the Brescia Casket, Dr. Catherine Brown Tkacz reveals
that the secret to its meaning lies in exegetical typology-the
interpretation of Old Testament people and events as prefiguring
the Messiah. Typology, Tkacz argues, underlies the sophisticated
program of the ivory box, which features an unusually full
depiction of the Passion. Among the fifty-nine carvings on the
Brescia Casket, most of them depicting biblical events, are five
scenes of the Passion, more than any other monument prior to this
time period. These are arranged in historical order, which is also
rare in fourth-century Christian art. Tkacz contends that the
Casket is in effect a visual sermon on the unity of the Bible's two
testaments, an important theological issue of the time. This
wonderfully illustrated and rigorously interdisciplinary volume,
funded by a grant from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, grounds the
typological program of the Brescia Casket in fourth-century
thought. In so doing, it suggests the real possibility that
typology is more important for the understanding of Early Christian
art than has previously been appreciated.
Comparison underlies all reading. Readers compare words to words,
and books to all the other books which they have read. Some books,
however, demand a particular comparative effort - for example,
novels which contain parallel plot lines. In this ambitious and
important study Catherine Brown compares Daniel Deronda with Anna
Karenina and Women in Love in order to answer the following
questions: why does one protagonist in each novel fail whilst
another succeeds? Can their failure and success be understood on
the same terms? How do the novels' uses of comparison compare to
each other? How relevant is George Eliot's influence on Lev
Tolstoi, and Tolstoi's on D. H. Lawrence? Does Tolstoi being a
Russian make this a 'comparative' literary study? And what does the
'comparative' in 'comparative literature' actually mean? Criticism
is combined with metacriticism, to explore how novels and critics
compare. Catherine Brown is a lecturer in English at St. Hilda's
College, Oxford.
Pastor and laity in the theology of Jean Gerson explores the pastoral teaching of one of Europe’s most influential churchmen of the early fifteenth century. Chancellor of the University of Paris from 1395 to 1429, Gerson is probably best known for his activities towards ending the Great Schism. But behind his public life lay a deep concern for the spiritual welfare of the people. Through an examination of Gerson’s sermons and writings for the laity, and of his many works giving guidance to bishops and parish priests about their roles as pastors, preachers and confessors, the book throws light on what the late medieval, pre-Reformation church was teaching the laity, and also on popular religious mentality in the period. The topics dealt with range from matters of high theological import such as justification, predestination and mysticism to the seven capital sins and all their branches, the art of preaching, women, marriage and children. Gerson’s teaching on these topics is put into a broad context and compared to that of some of his predecessors and contemporaries.
A detailed assessment of D. H. Lawrence's wide-ranging engagements
across the verbal, visual and performance arts Offers the most
comprehensive assessment yet of Lawrence's relationship with the
arts Places Lawrence in the context of the latest developments in
fields including life writing, posthumanism, queer theory, and
technology studies Considers Lawrence's continued reception in
other people's art, and the nature of his relevance today This book
includes twenty-eight innovative chapters by specialists from
across the arts, reassessing Lawrence's relationship to aesthetic
categories and specific art forms in their historical and critical
contexts. A new picture of Lawrence as an artist emerges, expanding
from traditional areas of enquiry in prose and poetry into the
fields of drama, painting, sculpture, music, architecture, dance,
historiography, life writing and queer aesthetics. The Companion
presents original research on topics such as Lawrence's politics in
his art, his representations of technology, his practice of
revising and rewriting, and the relationship between his criticism
and creation of prose, poetry and painting. This interdisciplinary
Companion also makes a strong case for Lawrence's continuing
relevance and aesthetic power, as represented by case studies of
his afterlives in biofiction, cinema, musical settings and
portraiture.
Pastor and Laity in the Theology of Jean Gerson explores the
pastoral teaching of one of Europe's most influential churchmen of
the early fifteenth century. Chancellor of the University of Paris
from 1395 to 1429, Gerson is probably best known for his activities
towards ending the Great Schism. But behind his public life lay a
deep concern for the spiritual welfare of the people. Through an
examination of Gerson's sermons and writings for the laity, and of
his many works giving guidance to bishops and parish priests about
their roles as pastors, preachers and confessors, the book throws
light on what the late medieval, pre-Reformation Church was
teaching the laity, and also on popular religious mentality in the
period. The topics dealt with range from matters of high
theological import such as justification, predestination and
mysticism to the seven capital sins and all their branches, the art
of preaching, women, marriage and children.
"The Jack Russell Terrier: Courageous Companion" is written for
each and every lover of this spunky dog. Everything about how to
select and care for your Jack Russell Terrier is included, from
health care and nutrition, to grooming and exercise needs. Readers
learn of the breed's unusual history, how to understand the breed
standard and what to expect from the energetic, fun-loving JRT. The
Jack Russell loves action, and the many ways to have fun with your
dog are described in full.
Howell Best of Breed Library
When our infrastructures deteriorate, when social benefits are
frozen, when our living conditions are precarious, it is because of
tax havens. A source of growing inequalities and colossal tax
losses, the use of tax havens by large corporations and wealthy
individuals explains the increasingly popular austerity policies of
governments in the West. With formidable efficacy and clarity, and
in the wake of the Paradise Papers leak, Alain Deneault raises the
political questions behind of this legalized theft: What are the
consequences of tax havens? How do we counter the private
sovereignty thus conferred on the powerful? As taxpayers shoulder
the social and financial burdens while corporations hide billions
in off-shore tax havens, Deneault identifies the urgent need to put
an end to this legalized theft.
This work of intellectual and cultural history seeks to understand
the recurring connection of teaching with contradiction in some
major texts of the European Middle Ages. It moves comfortably
between patristic and monastic exegesis, the Paris schools of the
twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and late medieval Spain; between
Latin and vernacular, between religious and secular. It assimilates
the methodologies of religious and erotic texts, thereby displaying
the investment of each in the sensuality and analytical power of
language.
The book begins by exploring Christian exegesis, in which biblical
contradiction is the textual incarnation of a Truth that is at once
and paradoxically singular and multiple. Exegesis teaches us of the
possibility of maintaining the truth in one biblical proposition
and, equally and simultaneously, in its apparent opposite. Under
the aegis of dialectic and the Aristotelian rule of
non-contradiction, however, we are next taught to read "either/or,"
and to resolve contradiction not through suspension and
multiplicity, as in exegesis, but rather through a judgment that
favors either one proposition or the other. The writers studied
here are John of Salisbury, whose "Metalogicon" is an ostensibly
moderating critique of the intellectual extremism of the School of
Paris logicians, and Peter Abelard, in whose life and writing the
forces of contradiction work with maiming and illuminating
violence.
The book then considers the teaching-textuality of two great
secular works of the Middle Ages, formed under the double
instruction of the master disciplines of monastic exegesis and
dialectic and under the tutelage of Ovid. Calling simultaneously on
the "both-and" of exegesis and the "either/or" of dialectic, the
teaching of these two texts is both biblical and
worldly--impossibly, both at once, always in motion. The "De Amore"
of Andreas Capellanus teaches two opposite propositions and
commands that either one or the other must be chosen, yet in
practice shows each proposition to be deeply embedded in the other.
The concluding chapter turns from the Latin to the vernacular
tradition to study one of the lesser-known examples of
contradictory teaching, the fourteenth-century "Libro de Buen Amor"
of Juan Ruiz, whose titular "good love" conflates the contrary
things of spiritual and carnal love, while reminding readers that
the difference between the two is urgently consequential.
It's almost Christmas in Westie Green and the snowflakes are
falling. Nestled deep within the Highlands of Scotland lives an
enchanting community of West Highland Terriers, the Westie Hutters.
Roobie & Radley and their pet piglet Disco live at the Bones
Bakery where the ovens are busy cooking up Yummytastic Bone
Biscuits for Christmas. Grandpa Angus delivers these in his VW
Campervan, but he also needs to call on their help. Finding
reindeer in Westie Woods, a search to find Santa, and the Tree of
Awesomeness all add to the ingredients, making this Magical
Christmas Adventure almost as tasty as Grandma Soozie's Christmas
pudding and its hidden treasure. But can the little trio help
rescue Christmas?
In response to rapid and unsettling social, economic, and climate
changes, fearmongering now features as a main component of public
life. Right-wing nationalist populism has become a hallmark of
politics around the world. No less so in Quebec. Alexa Conradi has
made it her life's work to understand and to generate thoughtful
debate about this worrisome trend. As the first president of Quebec
solidaire and the president of Canada's largest feminist
organisation, the Federation des femmes du Quebec, Conradi refused
to shy away from difficult issues: the Charter of Quebec Values,
religion and Islam, sovereignty, rape culture and violence against
women, extractive industries and the treatment of Indigenous women,
austerity policy and the growing gap between rich and poor. This
determination to address uncomfortable subjects has made
Conradi--an anglo-Montrealer--a sometimes controversial leader. In
Fear, Love, and Liberation in Contemporary Quebec , Conradi invites
us to take off our rose-coloured glasses and to examine Quebec's
treatment of women with more honesty. Through her personal
reflections on Quebec politics and culture, she dispels the myth
that gender equality has been achieved and paves the way for a more
critical understanding of what remains to be done.
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