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John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes
In John Banks’s Female Tragic Heroes, Paula de Pando offers the first monograph on Restoration playwright John Banks. De Pando analyses Banks’s civic model of she-tragedy in terms of its successful adaptation of early modern literary traditions and its engagement with contemporary political and cultural debates. Using Tudor queens as tragic heroes and specifically addressing female audiences, patrons and critics, Banks made women rather than men the subject of tragedy, revolutionising drama and influencing depictions of gender, politics, and history in the long eighteenth century.
John Banks
A revised edition of the 1997 biography of John Banks updates the subject's story by covering his exit from Parliament, the rekindling of his business career, his time in talkback radio and his election in 2001 as mayor of Auckland City. Described by biographer, Paul Goldsmith, as an essentially friendly biography, this portrait of John Banks provides a perceptive insight into the man behind the public image and the factors which motivated him to enter politics. Text well supplemented with black and white photographs and political cartoons.
The Instrumental Consort Repertory of the Late Fifteenth Century
Though individual pieces from the late fifteenth century are widely accepted as being written for instruments rather than voices, they are traditionally considered as exceptions within the context of a mainstream of vocal polyphony. After a rigorous examination of the criteria by which music of this period may be judged to be instrumental, Dr Jon Banks isolates all such pieces and establishes them as an explicit genre alongside the more commonly recognized vocal forms of the period. The distribution of these pieces in the manuscript and early printed sources of the time demonstrate how central instrumental consorts were to musical experience in Italy at this time. Banks also explores the social background to Italian music-making, and particularly the changing status of instrumentalists with respect to other musicians. Convincing evidence is put forward in particular for the lute ensemble to be a likely performance context for many of the surviving sources. The book is not intended to be a prescriptive account for the role of instruments in late medieval music, but instead restores an impressive but largely overlooked consort repertory to its rightful place in the history of music.
A DEADLY DENIAL
A tangled web of lies—no one left to trust. Someone is killing cops. Detective Maddie Divine has been reunited with her former partner, Darius Cutter, and the pair are assigned to find the madman who is murdering officers at an alarming rate. When a patrolman from the department is killed and his wife—who is also a cop— is the number one suspect, Maddie and Darius find themselves deep in a deceptive labyrinth of lies. Unfortunately, ladies’ man Darius is keeping secrets of his own that could taint the entire investigation. Extramarital affairs and witness tampering—not to mention Maddie's own personal secret weighing heavy on her mind. Is her dead husband trying to contact her from the grave? Or is she finally breaking down over the guilt of his death? As she pieces together clues from the murder, the body count rises, and Maddie knows she’s running out of time. Because the next death could be closer than anyone could imagine. Authentic Crime…Arresting Stories told by a retired LAPD officer.
Unpopular Culture
John R. Weeks based his study on long-term observations made at the British Armstrong Bank in the UK. Not one person, from the CEOs to the junior clerks had anything good to say about its corporate culture, yet the way things were done never seemed to alter.
Behavioral Neurobiology
Shaun D. Cain, The Journal of Experimental Biology --Book Jacket.
The Mobility Forum
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Emerald Fire
Her family secret is stolen by pirates. His business is in jeopardy if he doesn’t find it. An eerie prophecy throws them both into the path of danger. “You will fall in love with the characters right from the beginning. Chloe & Finn were destined for adventure. This book is a must read!” Consumed: Chloe Larson is a historian obsessed with clearing the name of her grandfather, eight greats back. After his heroic exploits during the Prussian Wars his life slid into oblivion and madness, taking with him the location of a queen’s priceless emerald dowry. The discovery of his cryptic journal offers a clue, except it’s been stolen and her only hope of recovery is proving uncooperative. R...
‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage
In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dance hall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.
