Author: John Robert Colombo
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888821386
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In these 60 eyewitness accounts of UFO activity over Canada, contributors recount their personal experiences of being abducted by aliens.
UFOs Over Canada
Author: John Robert Colombo
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888821386
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In these 60 eyewitness accounts of UFO activity over Canada, contributors recount their personal experiences of being abducted by aliens.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888821386
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
In these 60 eyewitness accounts of UFO activity over Canada, contributors recount their personal experiences of being abducted by aliens.
Mysteries of Ontario
Author: John Robert Colombo
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888822055
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book brings together some 500 accounts of strange events and eerie experiences in the province.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888822055
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book brings together some 500 accounts of strange events and eerie experiences in the province.
Lincolnshire Notes and Queries
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Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Lincolnshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Lincolnshire Notes & Queries
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Bulletin of the City Library
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Pages : 394
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The Rise of Mass Advertising
Author: Anat Rosenberg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192674773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The Rise of Mass Advertising is a first cultural legal history of advertising in Britain, tracing the rise of mass advertising c.1840-1914 and its legal shaping. The emergence of this new system disrupted the perceived foundations of modernity. The idea that culture was organized by identifiable fields of knowledge, experience, and authority came under strain as advertisers claimed to share values with the era's most prominent fields, including news, art, science, and religiously inflected morality. While cultural boundaries grew blurry, the assumption that the world was becoming progressively disenchanted was undermined, as enchanted experiences multiplied with the transformation of everyday environments by advertising. Magical thinking, a dwelling in mysteries, searches for transfiguration, affective connection between humans and things, and powerful fantasy disrupted assumptions that the capitalist economy was a victory of reason. The Rise of Mass Advertising examines how contemporaries came to terms with the disruptive impact by mobilizing legal processes, powers, and concepts. Law was implicated in performing boundary work that preserved the modern sense of field distinctions. Advertising's cultural meanings and its organization were shaped dialectically vis-Ă -vis other fields in a process that mainstreamed and legitimized it with legal means, but also construed it as an inferior simulation of the values of a progressive modernity, exhibiting epistemological shortfalls and aesthetic compromises that marked it apart from adjacent fields. The dual treatment meanwhile disavowed the central role of enchantment, in what amounted to a normative enterprise of disenchantment. One of the ironies of this enterprise was that it ultimately drove professional advertisers to embrace enchantment as their peculiar expertise. The analysis draws on an extensive archive that bridges disciplinary divides. It offers a novel methodological approach to the study of advertising, which brings together the history of capitalism, the history of knowledge, and the history of modern disenchantment, and yields a new account of advertising's significance for modernity.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192674773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. The Rise of Mass Advertising is a first cultural legal history of advertising in Britain, tracing the rise of mass advertising c.1840-1914 and its legal shaping. The emergence of this new system disrupted the perceived foundations of modernity. The idea that culture was organized by identifiable fields of knowledge, experience, and authority came under strain as advertisers claimed to share values with the era's most prominent fields, including news, art, science, and religiously inflected morality. While cultural boundaries grew blurry, the assumption that the world was becoming progressively disenchanted was undermined, as enchanted experiences multiplied with the transformation of everyday environments by advertising. Magical thinking, a dwelling in mysteries, searches for transfiguration, affective connection between humans and things, and powerful fantasy disrupted assumptions that the capitalist economy was a victory of reason. The Rise of Mass Advertising examines how contemporaries came to terms with the disruptive impact by mobilizing legal processes, powers, and concepts. Law was implicated in performing boundary work that preserved the modern sense of field distinctions. Advertising's cultural meanings and its organization were shaped dialectically vis-Ă -vis other fields in a process that mainstreamed and legitimized it with legal means, but also construed it as an inferior simulation of the values of a progressive modernity, exhibiting epistemological shortfalls and aesthetic compromises that marked it apart from adjacent fields. The dual treatment meanwhile disavowed the central role of enchantment, in what amounted to a normative enterprise of disenchantment. One of the ironies of this enterprise was that it ultimately drove professional advertisers to embrace enchantment as their peculiar expertise. The analysis draws on an extensive archive that bridges disciplinary divides. It offers a novel methodological approach to the study of advertising, which brings together the history of capitalism, the history of knowledge, and the history of modern disenchantment, and yields a new account of advertising's significance for modernity.
Siegfried Sassoon
Author: Jean Moorcroft Wilson
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415967136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon is one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, the second volume of her best-selling, authorized biography, Wilson completes her definitive analysis of his life and works, exploring Sassoon's experiences after the Great War. For many people, Sassoon exists primarily as a First World War poet and bold fighter, who earned the nickname 'Mad Jack' in the trenches and risked Court Martial, possibly the firing squad, with his public protest against the War. Much less is known about his life after the Armistice. Wilson uncovers a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hess, the flamboyant Ivor Novello and the exotic and bejeweled Hon. Stephen Tennant. This period also sees Sassoon establishing close friendships with some of the greatest literary figures of the age, Hardy, Beerbohm, E. M. Forster and T. E.Lawrence among them. Sassoon himself said that most people thought he had died in 1919. But Wilson shows that his poetry is, if anything, more powerful in the second half of his life. Based on a decade of meticulous research and interviews with many who knew Sassoon well, much of the material is published here for the first time. Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches completes a fascinating story that is beautifully told.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415967136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon is one of the twentieth century's greatest icons and Jean Moorcroft Wilson is the leading authority on him. In Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches, the second volume of her best-selling, authorized biography, Wilson completes her definitive analysis of his life and works, exploring Sassoon's experiences after the Great War. For many people, Sassoon exists primarily as a First World War poet and bold fighter, who earned the nickname 'Mad Jack' in the trenches and risked Court Martial, possibly the firing squad, with his public protest against the War. Much less is known about his life after the Armistice. Wilson uncovers a series of love affairs with such larger-than-life characters as Queen Victoria's great-grandson, Prince Phillip of Hess, the flamboyant Ivor Novello and the exotic and bejeweled Hon. Stephen Tennant. This period also sees Sassoon establishing close friendships with some of the greatest literary figures of the age, Hardy, Beerbohm, E. M. Forster and T. E.Lawrence among them. Sassoon himself said that most people thought he had died in 1919. But Wilson shows that his poetry is, if anything, more powerful in the second half of his life. Based on a decade of meticulous research and interviews with many who knew Sassoon well, much of the material is published here for the first time. Siegfried Sassoon: The Journey from the Trenches completes a fascinating story that is beautifully told.
Secret Gardens, Satanic Mills
Author: Mary Jo Maynes
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Essays on the history of girlhood in modern Europe.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253217103
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Essays on the history of girlhood in modern Europe.
Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Hampstead, Holburn & St Pancras
Author: Mark Aston
Publisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1783408286
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Read about crimes over the centuries in this historic area of London—includes photos and illustrations. In this collection of true crime stories, each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit, and pure malice in this corner of London. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted, bringing to life the sinister history of this part of the capital over the last four hundred years. Included are tales of assassination, highway robbery, and duels, as well as the infamous case of Dr. Crippen in 1910 and the story of the last women to be hanged in Britain.
Publisher: Wharncliffe
ISBN: 1783408286
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Read about crimes over the centuries in this historic area of London—includes photos and illustrations. In this collection of true crime stories, each chapter investigates the darker side of humanity in cases of murder, deceit, and pure malice in this corner of London. From crimes of passion to opportunistic killings and coldly premeditated acts of murder, the full spectrum of criminality is recounted, bringing to life the sinister history of this part of the capital over the last four hundred years. Included are tales of assassination, highway robbery, and duels, as well as the infamous case of Dr. Crippen in 1910 and the story of the last women to be hanged in Britain.
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