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Product Description: Bilingual Games - Challengers is a handy 72-page paperback book loaded with intriguing, challenging bilingual word games and crossword puzzles. The word games and puzzles are created from a unique combination of the English and Spanish languages...read more
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9780961745158 | K Alexander t Assoc, April 1, 1987, cover price $3.50 | About this edition: Bilingual Games - Challengers is a handy 72-page paperback book loaded with intriguing, challenging bilingual word games and crossword puzzles.
Product Description: The publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in September 2004 was an event of great literary and scholarly importance. In his Leslie Stephen Lecture, commemorating the founder of the original Dictionary of National Biography, the celebrated historian Keith Thomas surveys the many earlier attempts at collective biography, considers the relationship of the Oxford DNB to them, and offers a preliminary assessment of it...read more
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9780521671187 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2005, cover price $22.99 | About this edition: The publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography in September 2004 was an event of great literary and scholarly importance.
Product Description: This volume is a tribute to Sir Keith Thomas, one of Britain's greatest living historians, by distinguished scholars who have been his students. They describe the changing meanings of civility and civil manners since the sixteenth century, showing how the terms were used with respect to different people--women, the English and Welsh, imperialists, businessmen--and their effects in fields as varied as sexual relations, religion, urban politics, and private life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780198207108 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, July 13, 2000, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: This volume is a tribute to Sir Keith Thomas, one of Britain's greatest living historians, by distinguished scholars who have been his students.
Library:
9781934277133 | 1 lib/com edition (Crabtree Pub Co, February 15, 2008), cover price $17.99
Product Description: "Development Control" is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects. Drawing widely on the literature - the approach and treatment are very much geared to the needs of students on courses, rather than focusing on practical and "how-to-do-it" issues...read more
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9781857286267 | Ucl Pr Ltd, August 1, 1997, cover price $131.25 | About this edition: "Development Control" is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects.
Paperback:
9781857286274 | Routledge, August 1, 1997, cover price $66.95 | About this edition: Development Control" is a comprehensive introductory text for students of planning and related subjects.
Product Description: Now hundreds more individuals from all walks of life who died between 1986 and 1990 can be found in this latest volume of The Dictionary of National Biography. It is an impressive roll-call of 450 individuals prominent in British life...read more
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9780198652120 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1996, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Now hundreds more individuals from all walks of life who died between 1986 and 1990 can be found in this latest volume of The Dictionary of National Biography.
Product Description: Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was a novelist, political opportunist, and ultimately prime minister. He founded modern Conservatism and invented the political novel. Professor Vincent's fine short survey, which concentrates on his ideas on race, Judaism, religion, and politics, while analysing all his fiction, offers a superb introduction to Disraeli for students and general readers alike...read more
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9780192876812 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was a novelist, political opportunist, and ultimately prime minister.
Product Description: Hailed as "immediately and universally recognized as indispensable" (TLS) and "compellingly readable, richly researched, fascinatingly detailed, delightfully written" (LRB), here is a masterful exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives, illuminating the central values of early modern England, while casting incidental light on some of the perennial problems of human existence...read more
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9780199247233 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 15, 2009, cover price $45.00
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9780199580835 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 29, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Hailed as "immediately and universally recognized as indispensable" (TLS) and "compellingly readable, richly researched, fascinatingly detailed, delightfully written" (LRB), here is a masterful exploration of the ways in which people sought to lead fulfilling lives, illuminating the central values of early modern England, while casting incidental light on some of the perennial problems of human existence.
Product Description: This book contains studies of four of the most influential political theorists in the Western tradition: Machiavelli, whose name is a byword for duplicity, Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, Mill, liberal thinker and champion of individual liberty, and Marx, whose legacy has affected the lives of millions...read more
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9780192852540 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 1, 1992, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: This book contains studies of four of the most influential political theorists in the Western tradition: Machiavelli, whose name is a byword for duplicity, Hobbes, the first great English political philosopher, Mill, liberal thinker and champion of individual liberty, and Marx, whose legacy has affected the lives of millions.
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9780728202108 | Estates Gazette Ltd, December 13, 1994, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This book provides a clear and succinct account of the town and country planning system in Britain.
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9780394727127 | Pantheon Books, September 1, 1984, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: USA seller.
Hardcover:
9780844669113 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, July 1, 1997, cover price $33.00
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9780195111224, titled "Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500-1800" | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 1, 1996), cover price $24.95
Illustrates several occupations from farming to poetry, and analyzes how writers, theologians, economists, and journalists from antiquity to modern times have perceived the meaning of work to individual lives and to civilization.
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9780192142177 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 16, 1999, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Primal curse or sacred duty?
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9780192825315 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 31, 2001, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Illustrates several occupations from farming to poetry, and analyzes how writers, theologians, economists, and journalists from antiquity to modern times have perceived the meaning of work to individual lives and to civilization.
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9780728201569 | Estates Gazette Ltd, February 12, 1990, cover price $24.95
Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Helplessness in the face of disease and human disaster helped to perpetuate this belief in magic and the supernatural. As Keith Thomas shows, England during these years resembled in many ways today's "underdeveloped areas." The English population was exceedingly liable to pain, sickness, and premature death; many were illiterate; epidemics such as the bubonic plague plowed through English towns, at times cutting the number of London's inhabitants by a sixth; fire was a constant threat; the food supply was precarious; and for most diseases there was no effective medical remedy. In this fascinating and detailed book, Keith Thomas shows how magic, like the medieval Church, offered an explanation for misfortune and a means of redress in times of adversity. The supernatural thus had its own practical utility in daily life. Some forms of magic were challenged by the Protestant Reformation, but only with the increased search for scientific explanation of the universe did the English people begin to abandon their recourse to the supernatural. Science and technology have made us less vulnerable to some of the hazards which confronted the people of the past. Yet Religion and the Decline of Magic concludes that "if magic is defined as the employment of ineffective techniques to allay anxiety when effective ones are not available, then we must recognize that no society will ever be free from it."
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9780844664057 | Peter Smith Pub Inc, December 1, 1971, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Astrology, witchcraft, magical healing, divination, ancient prophecies, ghosts, and fairies were taken very seriously by people at all social and economic levels in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.
Paperback:
9780684145426 | Reprint edition (Macmillan Pub Co, April 1, 1986), cover price $24.00
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9780140137446, titled "Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-century England" | New edition (Penguin Uk, April 25, 2012), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This analysis of popular belief in England begins with the collapse of the medieval Church and ends with the change in the intellectual atmosphere around 1700.
9780195213607 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 1997), cover price $19.95
Hardcover:
9780199274871 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 18, 2004, cover price $46.00
Paperback:
9781939683472 | Zenescope Entertainment Inc, February 4, 2014, cover price $15.99
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