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The Serpent and the Spirit
Discusses the case of Reverend Glenn Summerford through the eyes of various people; Summerford was tried in Scottsboro, Alabama, in early 1992 for trying to kill his wife with snakes he handled in church.
Serpent-handling Believers
Burton seeks to present a balanced view of the remote churches of East Tennessee where believers take literally the words of Saint Mark: "and they shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing, it shall not hurt them."
Thomas Munro
Thomas Munro was among the most important of British thinker-administrators who shaped imperial rule in India. He was the creator, in the early nineteenth century, of the revenue and administrative system of two vast territories that were controlled by colonial authority from Madras andBombay, and his life stands even today as a symbol of the more thoughtful and humane aspects of foreign rule over India. This scholarly biography draws for the first time upon the full range, hitherto unavailable, of the Munro papers to present a revealing insight into the intellectual basis ofearly colonialism, and the influence of Thomas Munro in the shaping of British policy.
The Book-hunter, Etc
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Some Ballad Folks
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Is Work Good for Your Health and Well-being?
Increasing employment and supporting people into work are key elements of the Government's public health and welfare reform agendas. This independent review, commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions, examines scientific evidence on the health benefits of work, focusing on adults of working age and the common health problems that account for two-thirds of sickness absence and long-term incapacity. The study finds that there is a strong evidence base showing that work is generally good for physical and mental health and well-being, taking into account the nature and quality of work and its social context, and that worklessness is associated with poorer physical and mental health. Work can be therapeutic and can reverse the adverse health effects of unemployment, in relation to healthy people of working age, for many disabled people, for most people with common health problems and for social security beneficiaries.
Fictional Worlds
Created worlds may resemble the actual world, but they can just as easily be deemed incomplete, precarious, or irrelevant. Why, then, does fiction continue to pull us in and, more interesting perhaps, how? In this beautiful book Pavel provides a poetics of the imaginary worlds of fiction, their properties, and their reason for being.
Voices Worth the Listening
"Based on recorded interviews with three different women in different parts of Appalachia, Thomas Burton's carefully crafted oral history lends a timely ear to the lives of three contemporary Appalachian women recounted in their own words. Essentialist stereotypes and misplaced debates about Appalachian character are never far from any study of this region's people-and seem closer still in the wake of J. D. Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy-but as readers will find here, individuals who dwell in the region have stories of their own to tell, each one differing from the other, insisting on a fresh hearing"--
The Richard Burton Diaries
The irresistible, candid diaries of Richard Burton, published in their entirety “Just great fun, and written out of an engaging, often comical bewilderment: How did a poor Welshman become not only a star, but a player on the world stage that was Elizabeth Taylor’s fame?”—Hilton Als, NewYorker.com “Of real interest is that Burton was almost as good a writer as an actor, read as many as three books a day, haunted bookstores in every city he set foot in, bought countless books on every conceivable subject and evaluated them rather shrewdly. . . . Apt writing abounds.”—John Simon, New York Times Book Review Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Acade...
Voices Worth the Listening
"Based on recorded interviews with three different women in different parts of Appalachia, Thomas Burton's carefully crafted oral history lends a timely ear to the lives of three contemporary Appalachian women recounted in their own words. Essentialist stereotypes and misplaced debates about Appalachian character are never far from any study of this region's people-and seem closer still in the wake of J. D. Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy-but as readers will find here, individuals who dwell in the region have stories of their own to tell, each one differing from the other, insisting on a fresh hearing"--
