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James Ward
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It's not easy being funny. True, there are countless jokes out there, covering every conceivable topic, and almost as many books on the subject. But, for the magician, most are…
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the…
When someone starts assassinating paparazzi in three countries, MI7 sits up. Apparently, the killer is none other than Dmitri Vassyli Kramski, retired SVR field-operative and former Kremlin protege. True, the…
In Afghanistan, British secret servicewoman Marcie Brown, posing as the third wife of one of ISAF’s most trusted operatives, is killed in a drone strike.
Or at least, that’s what…
By universal consensus, there’s only one exhibition worth seeing at this year’s Venice Biennale. Giuditta Cancellieri’s Il Timore di Dio, six paintings of something as yet undisclosed. Don’t bother buying…
A cabal of Russian oligarchs instigates unrest in the far east of Russia as the first stage of an attempt to unseat Vladimir Putin. Britain offers covert support in the…
World War Offshore - no one knows how it started, or who’s behind it, but one thing’s for certain: it’s the biggest anti-capitalist demonstration the world has ever seen. Hundreds…
Originally published as Adventures in stationery in Great Britain in 2014 by Profile Books Ltd. –Title page verso.
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Tracing the afterlives of the period from the 1980s to the present, it argues that these emerging and changing forms stage the period as a point of origin for the…
The idea for an international symposium on regulated streams was conceived over an open-faced sandwich at the R&dhus in Copenhagen when we attended the Congress of the Societas Internationalis Lim…
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
Innovative and well-written, Sexualities, Work and Organizations brings together and relates stories of minority sexual identity from six organizations drawn from three different industry sectors.
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We are surrounded by stationery: half-chewed Cristal Bics and bent paper clips, rubber bands to fiddle with or ping, blunt pencils, rubbers and Tipp-ex. From making correction fluid at home…
Originally published in 1913, this book presents the content of the Henry Sidgwick Memorial Lecture for 1912, which was delivered by James Ward at Newnham College, Cambridge. This book will…
Originally published in 1933, this book is largely based on English psychologist James Ward’s influential article for the Encyclopaedia Britannica in 1886. He argues strongly against the associationist school, which…
First published in 1899, this is the first of two volumes of lectures by Cambridge Professor James Ward (1843-1925), in which he argues for Idealism over Naturalism and Agnosticism. Volume…
First published in 1899, this is the first of two volumes of lectures by Cambridge Professor James Ward (1843-1925), in which he argues for Idealism over Naturalism and Agnosticism. The…
First published in 1899, these Gifford lectures by James Ward (1843-1925) argue for Idealism over Naturalism and Agnosticism. Volume 1 criticises the Mechanical Theory as a way of accounting for…
Renowned philosopher and psychologist James Ward (1843-1925) criticised the objective principles of scientific naturalism, concluding that matter derives from mind, which is given coherence by the existence of God. Based…
Hannah and Soraya are in the business of making rock music with a social conscience. The way Britain currently works, that means they’re ‘snowflakes’, ‘social justice warriors’, ‘virtue signallers’. They’ve…
The Latest Noel is a collection of poems on subjects as diverse as British Summer Time, car boot sales, the 20th century thinker Georges Bataille, the connection between bird watching…
Twenty-five poems covering subjects like the difference between Cow Parsley and Hogweed, the ghosts of Pevensey Castle, school exams, the history of flies, Rawls’s Veil of Ignorance, train journeys to…
21st Century Philosophy uses selected popular texts as a window through which to examine contemporary social and cultural issues. What are the long-term prospects for ‘New Atheism’? On balance, is…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the "public…
This book contains Volumes 1 and 2 of the original works. Found within are the Gifford Lectures delivered before the University of Aberdeen in the years 1896-1898. These lectures do…
Five ghost stories set in the real-life town of Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, England.
James Arthur Ward
Nimrod J. Bell worked as a conductor for several southern railroads in their formative period, from 1857 to 1894. After his career was cut short by an accident, he wrote…
James A. Ward
From Percy Harris, and his failed attempts at escapology and hypnotism, to Jimmy Jumper's search for love, the Stubbleton and District Magic Circle boasts some of the least employable magicians…
Wilbur H. Ping Ferry (1910-1995) was a self-styled town crank, an influential and iconoclastic figure who seemingly knew everyone worth knowing in the mid-20th century. Thi text is an account…
In late 1910, three American adventurers set off on a remarkable around-the-world journey by automobile. This book follows the drivers on their extraordinary trip.
James A Ward
In July 1965, an Artesian Turquoise Chevrolet caught the eye and the imagination of the author. Using the family car as a narrative thread, this work explores American history as…
William James Ward
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
James Ward Lee
In the first two essays in this volume - The Age of Dobie and The Age of McMurtry - James Ward Lee places the writers, the politicians, and the cultural…
Charles James Ward
This volume provides a comprehensive overview of Jamaica, its history, culture, and people, as presented at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. Ward's account is rich in detail and provides…
Tells the tale of ninety-five-year-old John Quincy Adams the Second (no relation to the famous historic figure), who meets a graduate student named Annie Baxter and agrees to help her…