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Book A Cameo of Captain Thomas Rowley

Download or read book A Cameo of Captain Thomas Rowley written by Ian A. Ramage and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Norfolk Island  1788 1813

Download or read book Norfolk Island 1788 1813 written by James Hugh Donohoe and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mauritius Command

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patrick O'Brian
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1994
  • ISBN : 9780393037043
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book The Mauritius Command written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Maturin brings Captain Jack Aubrey secret orders to lead an expedition against the French islands of Mauritius and La Reunion, but the conduct of two of his own officers threatens the success of the mission.

Book The American Hereford Record  and Hereford Herd Book

Download or read book The American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book

Download or read book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Association and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brief history of Hereford cattle: v. 1, p. 359-375.

Book The Social Life of Coffee

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brian Cowan
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-01
  • ISBN : 0300133502
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book The Social Life of Coffee written by Brian Cowan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What induced the British to adopt foreign coffee-drinking customs in the seventeenth century? Why did an entirely new social institution, the coffeehouse, emerge as the primary place for consumption of this new drink? In this lively book, Brian Cowan locates the answers to these questions in the particularly British combination of curiosity, commerce, and civil society. Cowan provides the definitive account of the origins of coffee drinking and coffeehouse society, and in so doing he reshapes our understanding of the commercial and consumer revolutions in Britain during the long Stuart century. Britain’s virtuosi, gentlemanly patrons of the arts and sciences, were profoundly interested in things strange and exotic. Cowan explores how such virtuosi spurred initial consumer interest in coffee and invented the social template for the first coffeehouses. As the coffeehouse evolved, rising to take a central role in British commercial and civil society, the virtuosi were also transformed by their own invention.

Book The Argonaut

Download or read book The Argonaut written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Picture Books

Download or read book Old Picture Books written by Alfred William Pollard and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Teaching    Proper    Drinking

Download or read book Teaching Proper Drinking written by Maggie Brady and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Teaching ‘Proper’ Drinking?, the author brings together three fields of scholarship: socio-historical studies of alcohol, Australian Indigenous policy history and social enterprise studies. The case studies in the book offer the first detailed surveys of efforts to teach responsible drinking practices to Aboriginal people by installing canteens in remote communities, and of the purchase of public hotels by Indigenous groups in attempts both to control sales of alcohol and to create social enterprises by redistributing profits for the community good. Ethnographies of the hotels are examined through the analytical lens of the Swedish ‘Gothenburg’ system of municipal hotel ownership. The research reveals that the community governance of such social enterprises is not purely a matter of good administration or compliance with the relevant liquor legislation. Their administration is imbued with the additional challenges posed by political contestation, both within and beyond the communities concerned. ‘The idea that community or government ownership and management of a hotel or other drinking place would be a good way to control drinking and limit harm has been commonplace in many Anglophone and Nordic countries, but has been less recognised in Australia. Maggie Brady’s book brings together the hidden history of such ideas and initiatives in Australia … In an original and wide-ranging set of case studies, Brady shows that success in reducing harm has varied between communities, largely depending on whether motivations to raise revenue or to reduce harm are in control.’ — Professor Robin Room, Director, Centre for Alcohol Policy Research, La Trobe University

Book Bad Boys

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Burroughs Hannsberry
  • Publisher : McFarland
  • Release : 2014-05-05
  • ISBN : 9781476604831
  • Pages : 797 pages

Download or read book Bad Boys written by Karen Burroughs Hannsberry and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 797 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The film noir male is an infinitely watchable being, exhibiting a wide range of emotions, behaviors, and motivations. Some of the characters from the film noir era are extremely violent, such as Neville Brand’s Chester in D.O.A. (1950), whose sole pleasure in life seems to come from inflicting pain on others. Other noirs feature flawed authority figures, such as Kirk Douglas’s Jim McLeod in Detective Story (1951), controlled by a rigid moral code that costs him his marriage and ultimately his life. Others present ruthless crime bosses, hapless males whose lives are turned upside down because of their ceaseless longing for a woman, and even courageous men on the right side of the law. The private and public lives of more than ninety actors who starred in the films noirs of the 1940s and 1950s are presented here. Some of the actors, such as Humphrey Bogart, Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Mitchum, Raymond Burr, Fred MacMurray, Jack Palance and Mickey Rooney, enjoyed great renown, while others, like Gene Lockhart, Moroni Olsen and Harold Vermilyea, were less familiar, particularly to modern audiences. An appendix focuses on the actors who were least known but frequently seen in minor roles.

Book The American Shorthorn Herd Book

Download or read book The American Shorthorn Herd Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short horn Cattle

Download or read book Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short horn Cattle written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.

Book A Commonwealth of Thieves

Download or read book A Commonwealth of Thieves written by Thomas Keneally and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this spirited history of the remarkable first four years of the convict settlement of Australia, Thomas Keneally offers us a human view of a fascinating piece of history. Combining the authority of a renowned historian with a brilliant narrative flair, Keneally gives us an inside view of this unprecedented experiment from the perspective of the new colony’s governor, Arthur Phillips. Using personal journals and documents, Keneally re-creates the hellish overseas voyage and the challenges Phillips faced upon arrival: unruly convicts, disgruntled officers, bewildered and hostile natives, food shortages, and disease. He also offers captivating portrayals of Aborigines and of convict settlers who were determined to begin their lives anew. A Commonwealth of Thieves immerses us in the fledgling penal colony and conjures up the thrills and hardships of those first four improbable years.

Book The Motion Picture Guide

Download or read book The Motion Picture Guide written by Jay Robert Nash and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coates s Herd Book

Download or read book Coates s Herd Book written by Henry Strafford and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Billboard

    Book Details:
  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 916 pages

Download or read book The Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings

Download or read book Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings written by Mary Harrod Northend and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: