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The Notting Hill Mystery has been widely described as the first
detective novel. The story is told by the insurance investigator
Ralph Henderson, who is building a case against the sinister Baron
R___, suspected of murdering his wife in order to claim her life
insurance. Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue, including a
diabolical mesmerist, kidnapping by gypsies, slow-poisoners, a rich
uncle's will and three murders.Presented in the form of diary
entries, family letters, chemical analysis reports, interviews with
witnesses and a crime scene map, the novel displays innovative
techniques that would not become common features of detective
fiction until the 1920s. This novel launched the British Library
Crime Classics series in 2012, and is now reissued with a striking
new cover design
Turkism and the Soviets (1957) uses Turkish, Russian and Western
sources to present a remarkable study of the Turkish world and its
importance in international relations. It thoroughly examines the
two factors which give this huge ethnic group its great importance
- the strategic position of their territories and secondly their
homogeneity and common objectives. Throughout this book the role of
the Turkish peoples is examined as an issue intimately connected
with the problem of the USSR and Communism. The southern border of
the Soviet Union divides the Turkish world into two halves and
partially cuts through the living area of the Turkish people. This
is the area which contains the most important Soviet oil fields.
The section of the book which deals with the splintering away of
the Turkic portions of the USSR is of vital importance.
Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909) was, during his life, an
acclaimed and prolific writer in multiple genres: poetry, travel
sketches, personal memoir, and conversion narrative. His most
popular works were dispatches primarily from the South Sea Islands
but also extended into Palestine, Egypt, and what would become
known as Hawai'i, most of which were published in the San Francisco
Chronicle and then collected into books. For the Pleasure of His
Company: An Affair of the Misty City, Thrice Told (1903) is
Stoddard's only novel. This new edition, as with other works in
Penn Press's series Q19: The Queer American Nineteenth Century,
returns and reframes an important queer literary text to print. Set
mostly in and around San Francisco in the late nineteenth century,
the novel features a protagonist, Paul Clitheroe, who is an
aspiring writer living among the Bohemian artistic circles of that
place and time-the same circles Stoddard himself inhabited. The
novel is both formally experimental and largely autobiographical.
Thus Paul comes into contact, as Stoddard did, with writers,
artists, actors, directors, priests, adventurers, and many others
as he attempts to begin his career. Bohemian artistic life and
erotic experimentation go hand in hand here: Paul has multiple
relationships with other men even as he writes a novel that
features similar liaisons. At the very end of the story, while on a
cruise in the Pacific, Paul impulsively leaves his ship and
disappears in a canoe with some young Hawaiian men. This parallels
Stoddard's life too: he spent many long periods of his life in
Hawai'i, where he found the local homoerotic customs to his liking.
This Q19 volume also includes three of Stoddard's Hawaiian travel
sketches, which chronicle his intimate personal relationship with a
Hawaiian youth he calls Kana-Ana. The volume contains a full
critical introduction as well as extensive annotations explaining
textual references of various kinds and identifying parallels with
Stoddard's own life.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
In this 1912 edition of his 1911 history, Pulitzer Prize-winning
author Charles Warren sets out a historical sketch of law and
lawyers in America from the Revolutionary War until 1860. Warren
also includes an overview of the state of the law in England in the
17th and 18th centuries by way of background, and a chapter
especially devoted to the effect of the railway on the development
of American law in the Victorian era. This book will be useful to
legal historians both British and American, and to anyone with an
interest in the foundations of American legal institutions.
Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this
volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors
that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to
consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future
expansion of other renewable technologies.
Bringing together contributions from leading researchers, this
volume reflects on the political, institutional and social factors
that have shaped the recent expansion of wind energy, and to
consider what lessons this experience may provide for the future
expansion of other renewable technologies.
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Human Documents - Eight Photographers (Hardcover)
Robert Gardner; Edited by Charles Warren; Photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Adelaide de Menil, Kevin Bubriski, …
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In "Human Documents," Robert Gardner introduces the work of
photographers with whom he has worked over a period of nearly fifty
years under the auspices of the Film Study Center at Harvard. Their
images achieve the status of what Gardner calls "human documents":
visual evidence that testifies to our shared humanity. In images
and words, the book adds to the already significant literature on
photography and filmmaking as ways to gather both fact and insight
into the human condition. In nearly 100 images spanning geographies
and cultures including India, New Guinea, Ethiopia, and the United
States, Human Documents demonstrates the important role photography
can play in furthering our understanding of human nature and
connecting people through an almost universal visual language.
Author and cultural critic Eliot Weinberger contributes the
essay "Photography and Anthropology (A Contact Sheet)," in which he
provides a new and intriguing context for viewing and thinking
about the images presented here.
With photographs by Michael Rockefeller, Robert Gardner, Kevin
Bubriski, Adelaide de Menil, Christopher James, Jane Tuckerman,
Susan Meiselas, and Alex Webb.
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City (1903)
is a novel by Charles Warren Stoddard. Published toward the end of
Stoddard’s career as a poet and travel writer whose friends
included Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, For the Pleasure of His
Company: An Affair of the Misty City is a pioneering novel that
explores the ambitions of a young artist while illuminating the
struggles of gay men in a society that failed to accept them as
equals. At 25 years of age, Paul Clitheroe is “master of himself,
but slave to fortune.” A struggling writer, he lives a life of
ennui and excess, looking for love and success without being sure
of the shape of either. In the Misty City, he has begun making a
name for himself among local editors and readers, finally finding
publication for his work. Despite this modest success, he remains
unsatisfied, unsure of himself, and increasingly restless. Are his
mixed feelings merely a symptom of his poetic outlook, or something
else altogether? When the debonair Foxlair invites Paul to join him
on a voyage to the South Seas, a land of promise where gay men can
live without fear of reprisal, he wonders if there is a place for
him after all. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Charles Warren Stoddard’s For
the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City is a
classic work of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics, and
filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum of
nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to
Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book
takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema-verite, memoir and
autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from
classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent
important work like Film about a Woman Who. . ., Harlan County,
U.S.A., Sans Soleil, and Forest of Bliss.
Representations of reality are increasingly contested, in
courtrooms and in Congress, as well as in art. Asking what the art
of film can achieve, Helene Keyssar considers the history of
nonfiction films by women; Jay Cantor discusses film investigations
of the Holocaust; Patricia Hampl looks at how autobiographical
films render experience into narrative; Robert Gardner questions
the filmmaker's "impulse to preserve"; and poet Susan Howe explores
structures of mourning in several filmmakers. All the book's essays
provide deeply felt understanding of documentary film, and of how
we live with, an d within, images.
CONTRIBUTORS: Jay Cantor, Robert Gardener, Patricia Hampl, Maureen
Howard, Susan Howe, Helene Keyssar, Phillip Lopatte, Vlada Petric,
William Rothman, Charles Warren, Eliot Weinberger.
For the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City (1903)
is a novel by Charles Warren Stoddard. Published toward the end of
Stoddard's career as a poet and travel writer whose friends
included Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce, For the Pleasure of His
Company: An Affair of the Misty City is a pioneering novel that
explores the ambitions of a young artist while illuminating the
struggles of gay men in a society that failed to accept them as
equals. At 25 years of age, Paul Clitheroe is "master of himself,
but slave to fortune." A struggling writer, he lives a life of
ennui and excess, looking for love and success without being sure
of the shape of either. In the Misty City, he has begun making a
name for himself among local editors and readers, finally finding
publication for his work. Despite this modest success, he remains
unsatisfied, unsure of himself, and increasingly restless. Are his
mixed feelings merely a symptom of his poetic outlook, or something
else altogether? When the debonair Foxlair invites Paul to join him
on a voyage to the South Seas, a land of promise where gay men can
live without fear of reprisal, he wonders if there is a place for
him after all. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally
typeset manuscript, this edition of Charles Warren Stoddard's For
the Pleasure of His Company: An Affair of the Misty City is a
classic work of American literature reimagined for modern readers.
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South-Sea Idyls (Paperback)
Charles Warren Stoddard; Introduction by W.D. Howells
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Discovery Miles 5 710
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A pioneering California writer, Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909)
is best known for his homoerotic tales collected as South-Sea Idyls
and The Island of Tranquil Delights. Stoddard was a member of San
Francisco's Bohemian and journalistic circles, where he was
appreciated for his wit. His literary friendships and lasting
relationships included Ambrose Bierce, Ina Coolbrith, Bret Harte,
Robert Louis Stevenson, W. D. Howells, Henry Adams, Joaquin Miller,
Jack London, George Sterling, Bliss Carman, Yone Noguchi, George
Cabot Lodge, and Samuel Clemens.
This is a critical study of Scotland's land use and ownership.
Scotland is at the heart of modern sustainable upland management.
Large estates cover vast areas of mountain environment in Scotland,
with a deeply historical and unique tradition of land ownership and
land use. Over the modern period, the use of these lands by
stakeholders has developed into a forcing ground for large scale
upland management issues. This collection of cutting edge studies
is a first-to-press synthesis of studies carried out by the Centre
for Mountain Studies at Perth College, which will be both
enlightening and relevant to upland managers across Britain and
Europe. It will compare findings from privately-owned estates as
well as those owned by communities, charities and conservation
groups. With the Scottish Government promoting a vision of
environmental sustainability of land use and rural communities, and
all eyes on the reform of land use and ownership in Scotland, this
book will be extremely topical. It presents major new thinking on
upland estate management. It is the first dedicated textbook on
upland estate management. It features a respected and experienced
academic editorial team. It is an academic synthesis of theory and
practical case-studies.
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