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Lord Jonathon Beckett’s mission is simple: retrieve Lady Hannah and place her under the protection of the Crown. But he isn’t prepared for the havoc she inflicts on his world, making him question whether his duty as an agent of the Crown should always come before his heart.Lady Hannah's father has uncovered evidence exposing a French traitor to the Crown. Willing to do anything to silence him, the traitor's primary target has become Lady Hannah. Keeping her safe means locking her away from Society, but she refuses to stand idly by, letting others put their lives on the line to protect her. Instead, she will stop at nothing to learn to defend herself, even at the risk of losing Lord Jonathon’s protection, or his affections.With a sinister scheme in play to collapse the English government from within, Lord Jonathon must protect Lady Hannah from the French spies intending to use her as a pawn in their game of treachery. But can he protect her from herself?

Indulge in ultimate comfort and softness with Warner Bros. Corpse Bride "Peculiar Place" Silk Touch Blanket. Made from 100% polyester, this blanket is silky smooth to the touch and provides the perfect amount of warmth. Measuring 50 x 60 in., it's the perfect size for snuggling up on the couch or adding an extra layer of coziness to your bed. The premium quality materials and expert craftsmanship ensure that this blanket will provide warmth and comfort for years to come. Treat yourself or someone special to the luxurious feel and stylish design of this must-have accessory. Color: Multi.

On October 3, 1968, a military junta led by General Juan Velasco Alvarado took over the government of Peru. In striking contrast to the right-wing, pro–United States/anti-Communist military dictatorships of that era, however, Velasco's "Revolutionary Government of the Armed Forces" set in motion a left-leaning nationalist project aimed at radically transforming Peruvian society by eliminating social injustice, breaking the cycle of foreign domination, redistributing land and wealth, and placing the destiny of Peruvians into their own hands. Although short-lived, the Velasco regime did indeed have a transformative effect on Peru, the meaning and legacy of which are still subjects of intense debate.The Peculiar Revolution revisits this fascinating and idiosyncratic period of Latin American history. The book is organized into three sections that examine the era's cultural politics, including not just developments directed by the Velasco regime but also those that it engendered but did not necessarily control; its specific policies and key institutions; and the local and regional dimensions of the social reforms it promoted. In a series of innovative chapters written by both prominent and rising historians, this volume illuminates the cultural dimensions of the revolutionary project and its legacies, the impact of structural reforms at the local level (including previously understudied areas of the country such as Piura, Chimbote, and the Amazonia), and the effects of state policies on ordinary citizens and labor and peasant organizations.

A Kirkus Best Book of 2018"Unlike anything I’ve read. With its broad scope and its intimacy and exactness, it cuts through the apparatus of life to the vivid moment. Haunting and huge, and funny and sensuous. It’s wonderful."—Tessa HadleyThe Costa Award-winning author of The Pike makes her literary fiction debut with an extraordinary historical novel in the spirit of Wolf Hall and Atonement—a great English country house novel, spanning three centuries, that explores surprisingly timely themes of immigration and exclusion.It is the seventeenth century and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great house and its park into a private realm of ornamental lakes, grandiose gardens, and majestic avenues designed by Mr. Norris, a visionary landscaper. In this enclosed world everyone has something to hide after decades of civil war. Dissenters shelter in the woods, lovers rendezvous in secret enclaves, and outsiders—migrants fleeing the plague—find no mercy.Three centuries later, far away in Berlin, another wall is raised, while at Wychwood, an erotic entanglement over one sticky, languorous weekend in 1961 is overshadowed by news of historic change. Young Nell, whose father manages the estate, grows up amid dramatic upheavals as the great house is invaded: a pop festival by the lake, a television crew in the dining room, a Great Storm brewing. In 1989, as the Cold War peters out, a threat from a different kind of conflict reaches Wychwood’s walls.Lucy Hughes-Hallett conjures an intricately structured, captivating story that explores the lives of game keepers and witches, agitators and aristocrats; the exuberance of young love and the pathos of aging; and the way those who try to wall others out risk finding themselves walled in. With poignancy and grace, she illuminates a place where past and present are inextricably linked by stories, legends, and history—and by one patch of peculiar ground.

The testimony of more than one hundred twenty-five biblical figures including David and Paul, Eve and Mary Magdalene, and Onesimus and Philemon emphasize that both the holiest and the most profane among us are irreducibly human

The best introduction to the social history of fox-hunting as the chief leisure activity of the English aristocracy, and of a central social institution and symbol of traditional pre-industrial society

Offers a new slant on life as a slave in the antebellum South and tells how slavery brought about its own end

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The U.S. death penalty is a peculiar institution, and a uniquely American one. Despite its comprehensive abolition elsewhere in the Western world, capital punishment continues in dozens of American states– a fact that is frequently discussed but rarely understood. The same puzzlement surrounds the peculiar form that American capital punishment now takes, with its uneven application, its seemingly endless delays, and the uncertainty of its ever being carried out in individual cases, none of which seem conducive to effective crime control or criminal justice. In a brilliantly provocative study, David Garland explains this tenacity and shows how death penalty practice has come to bear the distinctive hallmarks of America’s political institutions and cultural conflicts. America’s radical federalism and local democracy, as well as its legacy of violence and racism, account for our divergence from the rest of the West. Whereas the elites of other nations were able to impose nationwide abolition from above despite public objections, American elites are unable– and unwilling– to end a punishment that has the support of local majorities and a storied place in popular culture.In the course of hundreds of decisions, federal courts sought to rationalize and civilize an institution that too often resembled a lynching, producing layers of legal process but also delays and reversals. Yet the Supreme Court insists that the issue is to be decided by local political actors and public opinion. So the death penalty continues to respond to popular will, enhancing the power of criminal justice professionals, providing drama for the media, and bringing pleasure to a public audience who consumes its chilling tales. Garland brings a new clarity to our understanding of this peculiar institution– and a new challenge to supporters and opponents alike.

In Peculiar Crossroads, Farrell O'Gorman explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor's and Walker Percy's vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns, O'Gorman asserts, these two unabashedly Catholic authors bequeathed a postmodern South of shopping malls and interstates imbued with as much meaning as Appomattox or Yoknapatawpha. O'Gorman builds his argument with biographical, historical, literary, and theological evidence, examining the writers' work through intriguing pairings, such as O'Connor's Wise Blood with Percy's The Moviegoer, and O'Connor's A Good Man Is Hard to Find with Percy's Lancelot. An impeccable exercise in literary history and criticism, Peculiar Crossroads renders a genuine understanding of the Catholic sensibility of both O'Connor and Percy and their influence among contemporary southern writers.

Peculiar ranks right up there with Redlight & The Question as one of The Slackers' most played & cherished albums in their arsenal. Pirates Press Records is proud to have teamed up with the band to bring you this incredible expanded gatefold version of Peculiar, including a bonus 45 carrying two additional tracks from the project not offered with the original Hellcat release.

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“Come, look out over my shoulder” – This is a little book for friends to share with friends.Thirty-one poems, accompanied by luminous photographs, invite you into grand and intimate worlds where nature offers comfort and insight. Collected Into five chapters— Bird, Plant, Land, Water and Air— the poems tell stories, reveal meaning in small moments and lead from surface appearances to deeper intuitions that nurture the spirit. Issuing from the author’s personal experience, each poem is an eloquent reach toward the light that radiates universally. Susan McBride Els is an award-winning garden and landscape designer living in Vermont. With this little volume of poetry, she returns to her first love. She earned her master’s degree in Creative Thinking in Literature and the Arts from the University of Massachusetts. Soon after, her first book, "Into the Deep: A Writer’s Look at Creativity," was published by Heineman Press. Following more than a decade of freelance writing and reviewing books for Publishers Weekly, she has happily spent most of her time with plants, stone and dirt— creating garden retreats and landscapes to bring people into nature— work prompted by imagined places of refuge. Now, she happily spends most of her time with words creating another place of refuge.

SIGNED, DEDICATED and DATED by the AUTHOR on the title-page.Loosely inserted is a SIGNED postcard from the author giving his Maryland address. A clean, tight copy of the first UK edition. No (other) insc. Spine of d/w sl. faded. 159pp. Size: 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall

In 2007, SAR celebrated its 100th anniversary. Established to promote the study of American antiquity, the School now supports wide-ranging programs dedicated to increasing our understanding of human culture and evolution through the arts, humanities, and social sciences. Drawing upon historical records and dozens of interview with scholars, artists, staff, and members of the Board of Managers, this book brings to life the people, debates, conflicts, and creativity that make the School an exciting and thought-provoking place to study, work, and create. It serves at once as the story of an exceptional institution and a fascinating history of anthropology and anthropology's diverse cast of characters.

Voted one of Christianity Today's 1997 Books of the Year Christians feel increasingly useless, argues Rodney Clapp, not because we have nothing to offer a post-Christian society, but because we are trying to serve as "sponsoring chaplains" to a civilization that no longer sees Christianity as necessary to its existence. In our individualistic, technologically oriented, consumer-based culture, Christianity has become largely irrelevant. The solution is not to sentimentally capitulate to the way things are. Nor is it to retrench in an effort to regain power and influence as the sponsor of Western civilization. What is needed is for Christians to reclaim our heritage as a peculiar people, as unapologetic followers of the Way. Within the larger pluralistic world, we need to become a sanctified, subversive culture that develops Christian community as a truly alternative way of life. Christians must learn to live the story and not just to restate it. Writing inclusively with considerable verve, Clapp offers a keen analysis of the church and its ministry as we face a new millennium.

First UK Edition, First Printing, (first impression) True first with a Full numberline to the copyright page as called for. A fine unread 1st impression in a fine jacket. Signed by the author Bruce Robinson to the title page. A collectors copy and very uncommon signed.

“Come, look out over my shoulder” – This is a little book for friends to share with friends.Thirty-one poems, accompanied by luminous photographs, invite you into grand and intimate worlds where nature offers comfort and insight. Collected Into five chapters— Bird, Plant, Land, Water and Air— the poems tell stories, reveal meaning in small moments and lead from surface appearances to deeper intuitions that nurture the spirit. Issuing from the author’s personal experience, each poem is an eloquent reach toward the light that radiates universally. Susan McBride Els is an award-winning garden and landscape designer living in Vermont. With this little volume of poetry, she returns to her first love. She earned her master’s degree in Creative Thinking in Literature and the Arts from the University of Massachusetts. Soon after, her first book, "Into the Deep: A Writer’s Look at Creativity," was published by Heineman Press. Following more than a decade of freelance writing and reviewing books for Publishers Weekly, she has happily spent most of her time with plants, stone and dirt— creating garden retreats and landscapes to bring people into nature— work prompted by imagined places of refuge. Now, she happily spends most of her time with words creating another place of refuge.

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