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Sybil West
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Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England
Originally published in 1977, this book investigates the controversial question as to whether England has seen two industrial revolutions, whether economic changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England deserve to be distinguished as a period in which an economic ‘revolution’ nearly took place, but eventually aborted. The book considers the changes that took place in the most important industries in the period and estimates the significance of these changes for the overall structure of the English economy. It also assesses the attitudes of the various historians involved in the debate and the nature of the evidence on which their arguments have been based. The combination of critical assessment in the introduction and the evidence of the 34 original documents will guarantee a wide readership of the book among students and teachers of economic history.
Between You and Me
Jade has always felt secure and loved - by her doting parents and her best friend, Jack, who everyone assumes she'll marry one day. But things start to go wrong when Jade feels that her parents and Jack are keeping secrets from her. The secrets turn out to be painful ones - her dad is nother real father, and Jack cannot love her as more than a friend because he's gay - but the strength of their relationships help them all to come through these revelations and reach a happy, life-affirming ending.
The Duchess of Coolgardie
The Duchess of Coolgardie by Euston Leigh is about the time-old fight between Bendigo Bill and Sailor Jack. Excerpt: "MINERS. (Give orders together.) A go of Irish. One of Scotch for me. Mine's rum shrub. Gin and bitters. Same as afore. Stout and bitter, Missis! Look sharp! Bustle now! Stir your stumps! KATH. (At counter.) Aist boys, aisy! Remember I have only one pair of hands. (THEY ALL go up to bar for their glasses, and pay during dialogue.)"
The Assassination Chain
...A book that goes into the whats, the whys, the wheres, and the hows of all the assassinations--and even into the Who of The Assassination Chain.
The Mystery of Irma Vep and Other Plays
“Ludlam’s is a dazzling and significant body of work, and it should be accorded a place of greatest regard and honor in the American dramatic literary canon. The plays are funny, erudite, poetic, transgressive, erotic, moving, and so theatrical they seem the Platonic ideal of everything we mean when we use that word. The plays are the sublime expressions of what Ludlam insisted was not an aesthetic, but a moral vision: anti-Puritan, unsentimentally utopian, sexually destabilizing—a transporting, a transcendence by means of deflation, a joyous and subversive, even dangerous revelry leading to revelation, a wise and ecstatic celebration of the world.” –Tony Kushner (from his Preface)...
Sybil Thorndike
Outside the theatrical profession Sybil Thorndike is no longer the household name she once was; she has become a historical figure. Yet her combative, inspiring life, her passionate concern for the state of the world as well as for her art, resonates with any age. As the actor Michael Macliammóir put it: 'Essentially English, she is yet nationless; essentially of her period, she is yet timeless.'
The Woman Who Ran Away
The Woman Who Ran Away is a mystery of sorts. Jack Waldek, the protagonist, is a senior tax manager with an obscure public accounting firm in New Jersey. He meets Fran Zetzmann when she occupies the next seat to him on an O’Hare to LaGuardia flight. Fran presumably holds a regional sales management position with an advertising representative firm and impresses Jack as an independent traveling lady. They develop a relationship which blooms into a comfortable weekend lover arrangement at Jack’s country place in a Pocono Mountains gated community called Knight Estates. Fran is a runner. She runs every weekend morning a distance of 1.8 miles regardless of weather. She leaves one Saturday mor...
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