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  • British and Irish Women Writers and the Women's Movement

    Six Literary Voices of Their Times

    by Jill Franks ...
    This study pairs selected Irish and British women novelists of three periods, relating their voices to the women's movements in their respective nations. In the first wave, nationalist and militant ideologies competed with the suffrage fight in Ireland. Elizabeth Bowen's The Last September illustrates the melancholy of gender performance and confusion of ethnic identity in the dying Anglo-Irish ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin

    Little Men, Big Auteurs

    by Jill Franks ...
    The comic archetype of the Little Man--a "nobody" who stands up to unfairness--is central to the films of Woody Allen and Charlie Chaplin. Portraying the alienation of life in an indifferent world with a mix of pathos, irony and slapstick, both adopted absurdist personas--Chaplin's bumbling yet clever Tramp with his shabby clothes, and Allen's fool with his metaphysical witticisms and proclivity ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Social Identity and Literary Form in the Victorian Novel

    Race, Class, Gender and the Uses of Genre

    by Jill Franks ...
    Enormous social changes during the Victorian era inspired some of the finest novels in the English language. In the final decades of the century, rigid application of gender rules and class hierarchies began to relax. Consciousness of the injustice of class- and gender-based discrimination was growing. Meanwhile, bias against nonwhite peoples was worsening. The British used scientific racism to ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Poetic Justice

    Rereading Plato's "Republic"

    by Jill Frank ...
    When Plato set his dialogs, written texts were disseminated primarily by performance and recitation. He wrote them, however, when literacy was expanding. Jill Frank argues that there are unique insights to be gained from appreciating Plato’s dialogs as written texts to be read and reread. At the center of these insights are two distinct ways of learning to read in the dialogs. One approach that ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • A Democracy of Distinction

    Aristotle and the Work of Politics

    by Jill Frank ...
    Offering an ancient education for our times, Jill Frank's A Democracy of Distinction interprets Aristotle's writings in a way that reimagines the foundations, aims, and practices of politics, ancient and modern. Concerned especially with the work of making a democracy of distinction, Frank shows that such a democracy requires freedom and equality achieved through the exercise of virtue.Moving back ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Every Stranger a God

    Hiking The English Moors

    by Jill Franks ...
    Jill Franks is a professor of English and Film Studies whose scholarly books treat subjects such as film comedians, the British women's movement, and modernists' work on islands. This is her first non-scholarly work, yet her vocation is never far off the page: she enjoys literature too much to leave it out. After completing the Camino de Santiago in 2012 she vowed to hike across a different ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Dictionary of Daily Life of Indians of the Americas

    Edited by Frank Gille ...
    DICTIONARY OF DAILY LIFE OF INDIAN OF THE AMERICAS contains information on the customs, ways, ceremonies, tribal languages, cultural characteristics, weapons, food, drink, clothing, myths, legends, and many, many more articles. From the Aleuts of the Arctic region to Onas in southern Argentina and Chile, this is a contemporary work and its intention is to bring modern day insights to the ... Read more

    $89.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Couch City

    Socrates Against Simonides

    by Harry Berger ...
    Crowning six decades of literary, rhetorical, and historical scholarship, Harry Berger, Jr., offers readers another trenchant reading. Berger subverts the usual interpretations of Plato's kalos kagathos, showing Socrates to be trapped in a double ventriloquism, tethered to his interlocutors' speech acts even as they are tethered to his.Plato's Republic and Protagoras both reserve a small but ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alexander Wilson

    Enlightened Naturalist

    by Edward H. Burtt Jr., Gerard Carruthers, Frank Gill, Irving N. Rothman, Rick Wright, John Kricher, William E. Davis, Jr. ...
    Series series Aperçus: Histories Texts Cultures
    When talking about the Enlightenment, ornithology is seldom the first topic of conversation. Still, Enlightenment and ornithology converge in one important respect, that of abundance. In our time, new-wave ornithologists have renewed their faith in eighteenth-century expectations for the discovery of a gigantic number of bird species. It is at this intersection between abundant modern science and ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    A Thousand Roads Home

    by Carmel Harrington ...
    Narrated by Jill Crawford, Frank Grimes ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 11 min

    ‘Warm, uplifting & important…a very VERY special book’ Marian Keyes ‘Beautifully moving and uplifting’ Cecelia Ahern‘Convincing characters, always gripping, endearing, with a cracking pace’ IRISH INDEPENDENT‘Beautifully written, emotionally intelligent & moving in the extreme’ DAILY MAILMeet Tom. Or Dr O’Grady, as he used to be called. When you pass him on the street, most people don’t even give ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Industrial Relations in the Future

    Trends and Possibilities in Britain over the Next Decade

    by Michael Poole, William Brown, Jill Rubery, Keith Sisson, Roger Tarling, Frank Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1984, Industrial Relations in the Future highlights probable developments in Britain’s system of industrial relations into the 1990s. It also provides a basis for further and detailed analysis and debate of issues central to the nation’s future. Written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields, the three main sections give reviews from three contrasting traditions- ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Romany Life

    Enriched edition. Experienced and Observed during many Years of Friendly Intercourse with the Gypsies

    by Frank Cuttriss, Morgan Gill ...
    In "Romany Life," Frank Cuttriss delves into the rich and often misunderstood world of the Romani people, offering an insightful exploration of their unique culture, traditions, and societal dynamics. Through a blend of lyrical prose and meticulous research, Cuttriss constructs a vivid tapestry that captures the spirit of Romani life, marrying anecdotal narratives with sociological insights to ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus