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Barentin's Manor - Excavations of the moated manor at Hardings Field, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire 1976-9 (Hardcover): Philip... Barentin's Manor - Excavations of the moated manor at Hardings Field, Chalgrove, Oxfordshire 1976-9 (Hardcover)
Philip Page, Kate Atherton, Alan Hardy
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Archaeological investigations at Harding's Field, Chalgrove, revealed the remains of one of the most complete examples of a moated medieval manor yet excavated in England. Evidence of a pre-moat occupation dating from the first half of the 13th century, which may not have been seigneurial, was succeeded in the mid 13th century by the construction of the moated manor house. The documentary evidence indicates that this house belonged to the Barentins, a prominent Oxfordshire family. The manor underwent considerable alterations and improvements during the following 200 years, particularly during the early part of the 14th century and, to a lesser extent, in the late 14th and early 15th century. It passed out of the hands of the Barentin family shortly before it was demolished in the late 15th century.

Turn On and Tune In - Psychedelics, Narcotics and Euphoriants (Hardcover): John Mann Turn On and Tune In - Psychedelics, Narcotics and Euphoriants (Hardcover)
John Mann; Contributions by John Emsley, Philip Ball, Philip Page, Joseph P. Michael, …
R824 Discovery Miles 8 240 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Timothy Leary's advice to "tune in, turn on and drop out" was a 1960s exhortation to experiment with LSD, but humans had been consuming ergot alkaloids related to lysergic acid diethylamide for at least a thousand years. Opium has been around even longer with its medicinal uses being known to the Ancient Sumerians as long ago as 3400 BC. This is the first book to cover all of the major psychoactive drugs (both natural and synthetic) in one volume, and the only one to cover all aspects of these drugs from their anthropological and sociological influences through to their chemistry and pharmacology. It covers a range of substances including LSD, opium, heroin, cocaine, cannabis, peyote, belladonna, mandrake, and absinthe. The book is highly readable and concentrates on the characters (e.g. authors, painters, pop stars, hippies, politicians and drug barons), both famous and infamous, who have ensured that psychoactive drugs hold an enduring fascination and interest for everyone. The basic chemistry and pharmacological activity covered together with a brief account of useful drugs that have emerged from a study of the psychoactive ones.

Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction (Paperback): Philip Page Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction (Paperback)
Philip Page
R982 Discovery Miles 9 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

As a reaction against persistent black exclusion from white American society, the novels of recent African American writers boldly celebrate the heritage of black culture. They acclaim a people once dispersed by racism and humiliation but now restoring its legacy of rich community life.

For close examination of this theme Philip Page brings together five novelists who are in the forefront of contemporary fiction and shows how their voices combine for an ongoing dialogue on the importance of community to the African American world.

Gaining its special force through addressing national concerns and through never backing away from the truth in the face of stubborn opposition, the fiction of Gaines, Naylor, Johnson, Cade-Bambara, and Wideman contributes to postmodernist debates on race, the repressed past, and the contemporary American conscience.

Dangerous Freedom - Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels (Paperback, New): Philip Page Dangerous Freedom - Fusion and Fragmentation in Toni Morrison's Novels (Paperback, New)
Philip Page
R1,127 Discovery Miles 11 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The novels of Toni Morrison depict a disjointed culture striving to coalesce in a racialized society. No other contemporary writer conveys this "double consciousness" of African American life so faithfully. As her characters struggle to negotiate meaningful roles and identities, and as they confront the inescapable issue of division, her novels are permeated with motifs of fragmentation. This divided entity is a theme repeated throughout Morrison's fiction. Operating on many levels, this plurality-in-unity affects narrators, chronologies, individuals, couples, families, neighborhoods, races. Philip Page's critical interpretation of Morrison's first six novels Sula, Song of Solomon, The Bluest Eye, Beloved, Jazz, and Tar Baby places her fiction in the forefront of American culture, African American culture and contemporary thought. Her fiction has the power to expand the souls of all readers by taking them into the recesses of other souls-in-process, by requiring them to work the traumas and dilemmas those other souls endure, and by challenging them to know, accept, and keep open their own dangerous freedom.

Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction / Philip Page. (Hardcover): Philip Page Reclaiming Community in Contemporary African American Fiction / Philip Page. (Hardcover)
Philip Page
R1,285 R1,015 Discovery Miles 10 150 Save R270 (21%) Out of stock

An examination of how the works of five African-American writers reveal the power of communal bonds

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