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Daniel Mackay Trench-- Gentleman in a Cane-bottomed Chair
Biography of Daniel Mackay Trench (1867-1964) who was born in Jamaica and educated in Scotland. He immigrated to the United States where he settled in Texas. Later in life, he lived in Oklahoma. Includes genealogical tables of his ancestors and descendants with Setser, Downs, Mackay, and related families.
The Law Reports
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The Law Reports
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The Fantasy Role-Playing Game
Many of today's hottest selling games--both non-electronic and electronic--focus on such elements as shooting up as many bad guys as one can (Duke Nuk'em), beating the toughest level (Mortal Kombat), collecting all the cards (Pokemon), and scoring the most points (Tetris). Fantasy role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons, Rolemaster, GURPS), while they may involve some of those aforementioned elements, rarely focus on them. Instead, playing a fantasy role-playing game is much like acting out a scene from a play, movie or book, only without a predefined script. Players take on such roles as wise wizards, noble knights, roguish sellswords, crafty hobbits, greedy dwarves, and anything else one ca...
Phenomenological Approaches to Popular Culture
Within popular culture studies, one finds discussions about quantitative sociology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, myth criticism, feminism, and semiotics, but hardly a word on the usefulness of phenomenology, the branch of philosophy concerned with human experience. In spite of this omission, there is a close relationship between the aims of phenomenology and the aims of popular culture studies, for both movements have attempted to redirect academic study toward everyday lived experience. The fifteen essays in this volume demonstrate the way in which phenomenological approaches can illuminate popular culture studies, and in so doing they take on the entire range of popular culture.
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