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The Boy who sailed with Blake

The Boy who sailed with Blake

W.H.G Kingston

Double 9 Books
2024
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"The Boy Who Sailed with Blake" by William Henry Giles Kingston is a historical adventure novel set in the 17th century. It follows the exciting journey of a young protagonist who becomes involved in naval operations under Sir Francis Blake, a historical naval figure. The novel focuses on adventure and naval history, depicting the thrilling experiences of life at sea. The young boy embarks on various sea voyages, showcasing the challenges and excitement of maritime exploration during Blake's era. Themes of courage are prominent, as the protagonist and his fellow sailors display bravery in numerous situations, including naval battles and conflicts. The story also highlights friendship and the strong bonds formed among the crew members, emphasizing the camaraderie and teamwork essential to their journey. The book provides insight into ship life, detailing the daily routines and practices aboard a 17th-century naval vessel. with authentic portrayals of the period's naval operations and cultural context. Overall, the novel combines these elements to create a captivating and immersive story of a young boy's adventure on the high seas. The young protagonist experiences firsthand the challenges of living and working at sea, from handling the ship's equipment.
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The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean

The Heir of Kilfinnan A Tale of the Shore and Ocean

W.H.G Kingston

Double 9 Books
2024
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"The Heir of Kilfinnan" by William Henry Giles Kingston is a historical novel set in the Scottish Highlands, blending elements of adventure, romance, and family drama against a richly detailed historical backdrop. The story revolves around the theme of inheritance, as the plot centers on the protagonist's claim to the Kilfinnan estate and the conflicts that arise from it. The Scottish Highlands provide a dramatic and picturesque setting, influencing the characters' experiences and interactions. As the narrative unfolds, the protagonist embarks on a series of adventures, showcasing bravery and heroism while navigating various challenges and dangers. Romance is a significant aspect of the story, with the protagonist's romantic relationships adding depth and complexity to the plot. Family dynamics play a crucial role, with family conflict and disputes over inheritance driving much of the drama. Mystery and intrigue also feature prominently, with secrets and unresolved issues contributing to the novel's suspenseful and engaging narrative. The book explores social class distinctions and the impact of societal roles on the characters' lives. "The Heir of Kilfinnan" offers a captivating blend of historical detail, adventure, romance, and family drama. Kingston's detailed portrayal of the historical setting and cultural context.
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Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor

Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor

W.H.G Kingston

Double 9 Books
2024
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"Will Weatherhelm, "The Yarn of an Old Sailor" by W.H.G. Kingston is a compelling adventure novel set in the 19th century that immerses readers in the life of a sailor and his maritime experiences. The story follows Will Weatherhelm, a young sailor who embarks on a sea voyage filled with daring exploits and personal growth. As the narrative unfolds, Will's journey takes him across the seas, encountering various challenges and adventures that test his courage and resilience. The novel vividly portrays ship life, capturing the essence of nautical fiction through detailed descriptions of maritime activities, the camaraderie among sailors, and the harsh realities of life at sea. The book also explores themes of heroism and coming-of-age, as Will matures from an inexperienced youth into a seasoned sailor. His experiences on the high seas shape his character and forge his destiny, reflecting the broader themes of exploration and personal development. Kingston's tale combines thrilling maritime adventure with rich character development, offering readers an engaging and authentic portrayal of the sailor's life and the spirit of exploration that defined the era.
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Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry

G.W. Gribble; Thomas L. Gilchrist

Pergamon Press
2000
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This volume of Progress in Heterocyclic Chemistry (PHC) is the twelfth annual review of the literature, covering the work published on most of the important heterocyclic ring systems during 1999, with inclusions of earlier material as appropriate. As in PHC-11, there are also three specialized reviews in this year's volume. In the inaugural chapter, Michael Groziak revitalizes the field of boron heterocycles, a relatively obscure class of heterocycles, but with a promising future. Heterocyclic phosphorus ylides are similarly a little known but useful class of compounds and Alan Aitken and Tracy Massil have provided a comprehensive review of them in Chapter 2. In Chapter 3 Jack Li discusses the remarkably versatile palladium chemistry in pyridine alkaloid synthesis.The subsequent chapters deal with recent advances in the field of heterocyclic chemistry arranged by increasing ring size and with emphasis on synthesis and reactions.
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The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

G.W. Dahlquist

Penguin Books Ltd
2008
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G.W. Dahlquist's The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, the first in the series of adventures of Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson and followed by The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage, is a rip-roaring tale like no other.In The Glass Books of The Dream Eaters three most unlikely but nevertheless extraordinary heroes become inadvertently involved in the diabolical machinations of a cabal bent upon enslaving thousands through a devilish 'process':Miss Temple is a feisty young woman with corkscrew curls who wishes to learn why her fiancé Roger broke off their engagement...Cardinal Chang was asked to kill a man, but finding his quarry already dead he is determined to learn who beat him to it and why...And Dr Svenson is chaperone to a dissolute Prince who has become involved with some most unsavoury individuals...An adventure like no other, in a mysterious city few have travelled to, featuring a heroine and two heroes you will never forget.Fantastic. Somewhere between Dickens, Sherlock Holmes and Rider Haggard. I was in seventh heaven - Kate Mosse, author of LabyrinthA page-turner, a rollicking ride. As stupendous as it is stupefying - Giles Foden, GuardianAn erotically charged, rip-roaring adventure for adults with scarcely a dull moment to be had, which defies its great length to keep the reader on the edge of his seat - Daily MailG.W. Dahlquist fell asleep when trapped by a snowstorm, and The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in his dreams. He is the author of the The Dark Volume and The Chemickal Marriage, the next books in the series.
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The Dark Volume

The Dark Volume

G.W. Dahlquist

Penguin Books Ltd
2009
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Some books are good. . .others are plain evil: the adventures of our three intrepid heroes continue in the breath-taking sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters, in G.W. Dahlquist's The Dark Volume, within which resides every reader's blackest nightmare . . .On a barren coast, young heiress Miss Temple awakes from a fever to discover herself friendless, alone - and having shot her fiancé stone dead. Fleeing from suspicious villagers and attacks by 'wolves', Miss Temple finds herself with a most unlikely travelling companion in the shape of the seductive and deadly Contessa di Lacquer-Sforza.Meanwhile, assassin Cardinal Chang and surgeon Dr Svenson are following an orgy of destruction and corruption, involving books of blue glass, to the ruins of Harschmort House, where a mysterious and vile volume is being hunted by a diabolical cabal bent on world domination.As Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson uncover further devilish treachery, so the terrifying secrets contained in The Dark Volume are revealed one by one.'Fans of a ripping yarn will find it hard to resist' Metro'Undeniably moreish . . . curl up with this under a rug' London PaperWhen G. W. Dahlquist fell asleep during a snowstorm, his first book The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters came to him in a dream. This is his second novel. The third volume in the series, The Chemickal Marriage is also available from Penguin.
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From Gibbon to Auden

From Gibbon to Auden

G.W. Bowersock

Oxford University Press Inc
2009
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For several decades G. W. Bowersock has been one of our leading historians of the classical world. This volume collects seventeen of his essays, each illustrating how the classical past has captured the imagination of some of the greatest figures in modern historiography and literature. The essays here range across three centuries, the eighteenth to the twentieth, and are divided chronologically. The great Enlightenment historian Edward Gibbon is in large part the unifying force of this collection as he appears prominently in the first four essays, beginning with Bowersock's engaging introduction to the methods and genius behind The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Gibbon's profound influence is revealed in subsequent essays on Jacob Burckhardt, the nineteenth-century scholar famous for his history of the Italian Renaissance but whose work on late antiquity is only now being fully appreciated; the modern Greek poet Constantine Cavafy, whose annotations on Gibbon's Decline and Fall tell us much about his own historical poems; and finally W. H. Auden, whose poem and little known essay "The Fall of Rome" were, in quirky ways, tributes to Gibbon. The collection reprints Auden's poem and essay in full. The result is a rich survey of the early modern and modern uses of the classical past by one of its most important contemporary commentators.
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827-8

Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827-8

G.W.F. Hegel

Oxford University Press
2007
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The Hegel Lectures Series Series Editor: Peter C. Hodgson Hegel's lectures have had as great a historical impact as the works he himself published. Important elements of his system are elaborated only in the lectures, especially those given in Berlin during the last decade of his life. The original editors conflated materials from different sources and dates, obscuring the development and logic of Hegel's thought. The Hegel Lectures series is based on a selection of extant and recently discovered transcripts and manuscripts. The original lecture series are reconstructed so that the structure of Hegel's argument can be followed. Each volume presents an accurate new translation accompanied by an editorial introduction and annotations on the text, which make possible the identification of Hegel's many allusions and sources. Lectures on the Philosophy of Spirit 1827-8 Robert Williams provides the first full view of Hegel's Philosophy of Subjective Spirit in his translation of this recently discovered manuscript. Hegel's lectures of 1827 go far beyond the previously published Encyclopedia outline, and provide a new introduction to the Philosophy of Spirit. Since they come from a single source, they are not editorial constructions like the previously published supplemental materials (Zusaetze). The new material provides the only explicit grounding of the concept of right presupposed by the Philosophy of Right, grounds Hegel's account of the virtues in love and mutual recognition, gives further insight into Hegel's theory of madness/dementia, and elaborates Hegel's difficult account of the role of mechanical memory in transcendental deduction of objectivity. The edition should stimulate and open up interest in Hegel's Philosophy of Spirit, a neglected area in Hegel scholarship, but one to which Hegel himself attached special importance and significance.
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The Throne of Adulis

The Throne of Adulis

G.W. Bowersock

Oxford University Press Inc
2013
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Just prior to the rise of Islam, in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a holy war between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. The Jewish kingdom, composed of ethnic Arabs who had converted to Judaism more than a century before, had launched a bloody pogrom against Christians in the region. The ruler of Ethiopia, who claimed descent from the union of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and even was rumored to possess an object no less venerable than the Ark of the Covenant, aspired both to protect the persecuted Christians and to restore Ethiopian control in the Arabian Peninsula. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, who had established Christian churches in Ethiopia beginning in the fourth century, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, who supported the Jews in a proxy war with Byzantium. Our knowledge of these events derives mostly from an inscribed throne at the Ethiopian port of Adulis seen and meticulously described by a Christian merchant known as Cosmos in the sixth century. Trying to decipher and understand this monument takes us directly into religious conflicts that occupied the nations on both sides of the Red Sea in late antiquity. Using the writings of Cosmas and archaeological evidence from the period, historian G. W. Bowersock offers a narrative account of this fascinating but overlooked chapter in pre-Islamic Arabian history. The extraordinary story told in Throne of Adulis provides an important and much neglected background for the rise of Islam as well as the collapse of the Persian Empire before the Byzantines.
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Baptism and the Anglican Reformers

Baptism and the Anglican Reformers

G.W. Bromiley

JAMES CLARKE CO LTD
2023
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Writing in the middle of the twentieth century, G.W. Bromiley was acutely aware of the renewal of debates surrounding baptism taking place within the Anglican church and elsewhere. These debates, which are still the cause of denominational division, can be best understood by tracing them back to their origins in the sixteenth century. Analysing the Anglican Reformers' views on baptism's sacramental status, its liturgical format and its theological substance, Bromiley places the current diversity of positions in its proper context. The legitimacy of infant baptism, the authority of ministers and the efficacy of grace are all discussed. Whether a scholar of ecclesiological and doctrinal history, or of the current debate within and between churches, this study is essential reading on the question of baptism past and present.
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Baptism and the Anglican Reformers

Baptism and the Anglican Reformers

G.W. Bromiley

JAMES CLARKE CO LTD
2023
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Writing in the middle of the twentieth century, G.W. Bromiley was acutely aware of the renewal of debates surrounding baptism taking place within the Anglican church and elsewhere. These debates, which are still the cause of denominational division, can be best understood by tracing them back to their origins in the sixteenth century. Analysing the Anglican Reformers' views on baptism's sacramental status, its liturgical format and its theological substance, Bromiley places the current diversity of positions in its proper context. The legitimacy of infant baptism, the authority of ministers and the efficacy of grace are all discussed. Whether a scholar of ecclesiological and doctrinal history, or of the current debate within and between churches, this study is essential reading on the question of baptism past and present.
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Thomas Cranmer, Theologian

Thomas Cranmer, Theologian

G.W. Bromiley

JAMES CLARKE CO LTD
2023
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In his important evaluation of the theological leader of the English Reformation, G.W. Bromiley charts Cranmer's doctrinal views, scriptural interpretation and liturgical composition. His nuanced position on various controversial issues of the day, not least baptism, is articulated with clarity and care, and his ecumenical sensitivity is foregrounded. While arguably more adept as a scholar than as a creative theologian in his own right, Cranmer's writing nevertheless formed the cornerstone of future Anglican theology. Through his Articles of Religion (42, later reduced to 39) and the Book of Common Prayer, he set the parameters within which the Church of England was to operate. Perhaps most significantly, as Bromiley shows, his extensive citation of patristic sources established a precedent for his successors that continues today. Written by one of the great ecclesiastical historians of the twentieth century, Thomas Cranmer, Theologian is the essential starting point for understanding Cranmer's influence and legacy in the Anglican church.
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Thomas Cranmer, Theologian

Thomas Cranmer, Theologian

G.W. Bromiley

JAMES CLARKE CO LTD
2023
sidottu
In his important evaluation of the theological leader of the English Reformation, G.W. Bromiley charts Cranmer's doctrinal views, scriptural interpretation and liturgical composition. His nuanced position on various controversial issues of the day, not least baptism, is articulated with clarity and care, and his ecumenical sensitivity is foregrounded. While arguably more adept as a scholar than as a creative theologian in his own right, Cranmer's writing nevertheless formed the cornerstone of future Anglican theology. Through his Articles of Religion (42, later reduced to 39) and the Book of Common Prayer, he set the parameters within which the Church of England was to operate. Perhaps most significantly, as Bromiley shows, his extensive citation of patristic sources established a precedent for his successors that continues today. Written by one of the great ecclesiastical historians of the twentieth century, Thomas Cranmer, Theologian is the essential starting point for understanding Cranmer's influence and legacy in the Anglican church.
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The King’s Reformation

The King’s Reformation

G.W. Bernard

Yale University Press
2007
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A major reassessment of England’s break with Rome Henry VIII’s reformation remains among the most crucial yet misunderstood events in English history. In this substantial new account G. W. Bernard presents the king as neither confused nor a pawn in the hands of manipulative factions. Henry, a monarch who ruled as well as reigned, is revealed instead as the determining mover of religious policy throughout this momentous period. In Henry’s campaign to secure a divorce from Catherine of Aragon, which led him to break with Rome, his strategy, as Bernard shows, was more consistent and more radical than historians have allowed. Henry refused to introduce Lutheranism, but rather harnessed the rhetoric of the continental reformation in support of his royal supremacy. Convinced that the church needed urgent reform, in particular the purging of superstition and idolatry, Henry’s dissolution of the monasteries and the dismantling of the shrines were much more than a venal attempt to raise money. The king sought a middle way between Rome and Zurich, between Catholicism and its associated superstitions on one hand and the subversive radicalism of the reformers on the other. With a ruthlessness that verged on tyranny, Henry VIII determined the pace of change in the most important twenty years of England’s religious development.
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Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn

G.W. Bernard

Yale University Press
2011
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A new look at Henry VIII's second wife, Anne Boleyn"Will certainly make readers think again about what we really know about Henry VIII's most controversial wife—and what we have merely become accustomed to believe we know about her."—Paul Hammer, University of Colorado at Boulder In this groundbreaking new biography, G. W. Bernard offers a fresh portrait of one of England’s most captivating queens. Through a wide-ranging forensic examination of sixteenth-century sources, Bernard reconsiders Boleyn’s girlhood, her experience at the French court, the nature of her relationship with Henry, and the authenticity of her evangelical sympathies.He depicts Anne Boleyn as a captivating, intelligent, and highly sexual woman whose attractions Henry resisted for years until marriage could ensure legitimacy for their offspring. He shows that it was Henry, not Anne, who developed the ideas that led to the break with Rome. And, most radically, he argues that the allegations of adultery that led to Anne’s execution in the Tower could be close to the truth.
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The Late Medieval English Church

The Late Medieval English Church

G.W. Bernard

Yale University Press
2013
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The later medieval English church is invariably viewed through the lens of the Reformation that transformed it. But in this bold and provocative book historian George Bernard examines it on its own terms, revealing a church with vibrant faith and great energy, but also with weaknesses that reforming bishops worked to overcome. Bernard emphasizes royal control over the church. He examines the challenges facing bishops and clergy, and assesses the depth of lay knowledge and understanding of the teachings of the church, highlighting the practice of pilgrimage. He reconsiders anti-clerical sentiment and the extent and significance of heresy. He shows that the Reformation was not inevitable: the late medieval church was much too full of vitality. But Bernard also argues that alongside that vitality, and often closely linked to it, were vulnerabilities that made the break with Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries possible. The result is a thought-provoking study of a church and society in transformation.
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Gentlemen of the Blade

Gentlemen of the Blade

G.W. Stephen Brodsky

Praeger Publishers Inc
1988
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Brodsky contends that three factors--constitutional, commercial, and technological--in turn, have caused Britain to raise large citizen forces. Because Britain traditionally has been an unmilitary state which has not maintained large standing armies, this ethos of amateurism merged with the professionalism of the Regular Army. He argues that it is this unique influence of amateurism which historically has been central to the British profession of arms and vital to its spirit of service. A wide range of prose and poetry illustrates that spirit and the military cultural experience in which it evolved in Great Britain from the Restoration through World War II. In an overview of later developments, including the Falklands War, Brodsky enunciates the challenge facing the traditional ethos in the nuclear age. Analyzing the effect of the literary idiom, he questions the future direction of representative literature.
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Flowers of the Caribbean

Flowers of the Caribbean

G W Lennox; S A Seddon

Macmillan Caribbean
1979
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Anyone visiting the Caribbean for the first time cannot fail to be impressed by the richness and luxuriance of the vegetation. All the photographs included in this book have been taken of plants growing in their natural surroundings in the Caribbean and one of the most striking features which immediately impresses visitors, is the abundance of flowering trees. They appear to be especially exotic when in blossom and the second section of this book is devoted to the most common of these flowering trees.
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Trees of the Caribbean

Trees of the Caribbean

G W Lennox; S A Seddon

Macmillan Caribbean
1980
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This book is invaluable to the casual visitor or tourist to the Caribbean in helping to identify the more common and interesting trees likely to be encountered during a short stay in the islands. Each species is illustrated with at least one colour photograph and detailed information is given about leaf shape, leaf size and colour, together with descriptions of the specific flowers and fruits. Should the reader wish to study particular species in more detail, the botanical family name is supplied together with the relevant scientific name.
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