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Book At Home and Astray

    Book Details:
  • Author : Philip Howell
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2015-04-13
  • ISBN : 081393687X
  • Pages : 307 pages

Download or read book At Home and Astray written by Philip Howell and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2015-04-13 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the British consider themselves a nation of dog lovers, what we have come to know as the modern dog came into existence only after a profound, and relatively recent, transformation in that country’s social attitudes and practices. In At Home and Astray, Philip Howell focuses on Victorian Britain, and especially London, to show how the dog’s changing place in society was the subject of intense debate and depended on a fascinating combination of forces even to come about. Despite a relationship with humans going back thousands of years, the dog only became fully domesticated and installed at the heart of the middle-class home in the nineteenth century. Dog breeding and showing proliferated at that time, and dog ownership increased considerably. At the same time, the dog was increasingly policed out of public space, the "stray" becoming the unloved counterpart of the household "pet." Howell shows how this redefinition of the dog’s place illuminates our understanding of modernity and the city. He also explores the fascinating process whereby the dog’s changing role was proposed, challenged, and confronted—and in the end conditionally accepted. With a supporting cast that includes Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Thomas Carlyle, and Charles Darwin, and subjects of inquiry ranging from vivisection and the policing of rabies to pet cemeteries, dog shelters, and the practice of walking the dog, At Home and Astray is a contribution not only to the history of animals but also to our understanding of the Victorian era and its legacies.

Book Of Things Gone Astray

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janina Matthewson
  • Publisher : HarperCollins UK
  • Release : 2014-08-28
  • ISBN : 0007562489
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Of Things Gone Astray written by Janina Matthewson and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mrs Featherby had been having pleasant dreams until she woke to discover the front of her house had vanished overnight ...

Book Led Astray  The Best of Kelley Armstrong

Download or read book Led Astray The Best of Kelley Armstrong written by Kelley Armstrong and published by Tachyon Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the many worlds of #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong (Otherworld, Cainsville). As her SyFy channel series, Bitten, enters its second season, Armstrong continues to breathe new life into city-dwelling vampires, werewolves, and zombies. Now travel even further with her, to a post-apocalyptic fortress, a superstitious village, a supernatural brothel, and even feudal Japan. In Led Astray, you’ll discover the stories of new characters from within and outside Armstrong’s popular novels. Here you will find two original tales from Cainsville, plus journeys to and beyond the worlds of Darkest Powers, Age of Legends, Otherworld, and more. Bold and humorous, passionate and heart-stopping, here is Kelley Armstrong at her versatile best.

Book Analytical Concordance to the Bible on an Entirely New Plan

Download or read book Analytical Concordance to the Bible on an Entirely New Plan written by Robert Young and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 1112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Analytical Concordance to the Bible

Download or read book Analytical Concordance to the Bible written by Robert Young and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Legs Get Led Astray

Download or read book Legs Get Led Astray written by Chloe Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Most of these essays were originally published in Legs get led astray (Future Tense Books, 2012). "Silence," "Mirrors," "Major dramatic question," and "Your adventures change" are new to this edition"--Title page verso.

Book Astray

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  • Author : Emma Donoghue
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2012-10-30
  • ISBN : 0316206261
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book Astray written by Emma Donoghue and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Room comes a moving set of historical stories spanning centuries and continents. ​ The fascinating characters that roam across the pages of Emma Donoghue's stories have all gone astray: they are emigrants, runaways, drifters, lovers old and new. They are gold miners and counterfeiters, attorneys and slaves. They cross other borders too: those of race, law, sex, and sanity. They travel for love or money, incognito or under duress. With rich historical detail, the celebrated author of Room takes us from puritan Massachusetts to revolutionary New Jersey, antebellum Louisiana to the Toronto highway, lighting up four centuries of wanderings that have profound echoes in the present. Astray offers us a surprising and moving history for restless times.

Book A Traitor to His Species

Download or read book A Traitor to His Species written by Ernest Freeberg and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an award-winning historian, the outlandish story of the man who gave rights to animals. In Gilded Age America, people and animals lived cheek-by-jowl in environments that were dirty and dangerous to man and beast alike. The industrial city brought suffering, but it also inspired a compassion for animals that fueled a controversial anti-cruelty movement. From the center of these debates, Henry Bergh launched a shocking campaign to grant rights to animals. A Traitor to His Species is revelatory social history, awash with colorful characters. Cheered on by thousands of men and women who joined his cause, Bergh fought with robber barons, Five Points gangs, and legendary impresario P.T. Barnum, as they pushed for new laws to protect trolley horses, livestock, stray dogs, and other animals. Raucous and entertaining, A Traitor to His Species tells the story of a remarkable man who gave voice to the voiceless and shaped our modern relationship with animals.

Book The Topical Excerpt Library

Download or read book The Topical Excerpt Library written by Euclid Beauclerc Rogers and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Led Astray by a Rake

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  • Author : Sara Bennett
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-05-21
  • ISBN : 0061878162
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book Led Astray by a Rake written by Sara Bennett and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-05-21 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hunt is on for the perfect husband . . . Beneath Livy Monteith's icy blonde exterior beats a passionate heart, a heart that will not abide by society's rules. No, Livy will simply not marry the proper young man her parents have chosen for her husband. She'd rather die! But even her friends at Miss Debenham's Finishing School are shocked by the man she desires. Lord Dominic Lacey, the man they call Wicked Nic, is quite handsome, even more notorious, and every bit a scoundrel. Nic thinks he knows all about Livy. She's a proper young lady from an upstanding family, the kind of woman any respectable man would be thrilled to take as his bride—but Nic is not a respectable man. For Livy, even being seen with him would lead to certain scandal. So why is the ravishing innocent doing everything in her power to seduce him? Bedding her would be a delight. But a sinful night with a man like Nic would lead a girl very far astray indeed . . .

Book Representation  Achieved and Astray

Download or read book Representation Achieved and Astray written by G. Bingham Powell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-09 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces, explains and evaluates processes of democratic ideological representation from voter choices, through election laws, to the formation of parliamentary governments.

Book Astray  Gated Sequel

Download or read book Astray Gated Sequel written by Amy Christine Parker and published by Ember. This book was released on 2015-08 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Random House Children's Books, 2014.

Book Lead Me Astray

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sondi Warner
  • Publisher : W by Wattpad Books
  • Release : 2022-03-15
  • ISBN : 1777290066
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Lead Me Astray written by Sondi Warner and published by W by Wattpad Books. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Overlay City in New Orleans—a shadowy in-between where the paranormal and the real world meet. Its newest resident: Aurie Edison. A victim of a hit-and-run, Aurie now exists as a ghost in this mysterious realm. Convinced there is more to her death than what she remembers, Aurie sets out to uncover the truth. She soon finds herself in the company of Mys, a psychic empath, whose need to help others trumps all else, and Zyr, a werewolf detective able to work both the human and occult worlds. As they begin to piece together the events leading up to her death, Aurie can’t deny the deeper connection developing between them. Yet, with each new secret suggesting a more sinister danger at play, they realize they may not make it out (dead or) alive. Undeniably queer and devilishly sexy, Lead Me Astray will take you to the shadowy depths of New Orleans and never let you go.

Book The Industrial School Journal

Download or read book The Industrial School Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Old Wells Dug Out  Being a Third Series of Sermons     Delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle  Etc

Download or read book Old Wells Dug Out Being a Third Series of Sermons Delivered in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Etc written by Thomas de Witt TALMAGE and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Swimming for life  being a 4th ser  of sermons

Download or read book Swimming for life being a 4th ser of sermons written by Thomas De Witt Talmage and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Saints Astray

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jacqueline Carey
  • Publisher : Hachette UK
  • Release : 2011-11-22
  • ISBN : 1455504688
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Saints Astray written by Jacqueline Carey and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post-apocalyptic scifi meets urban fantasy in Jacqueline Carey's sequel to Santa Olivia as two girls fight to stay together and change the world. After their escape from military custody, Loup Garron and her girlfriend Pilar have a chance to reinvent their lives thousands of miles away from the forgotten and disenfranchised Texas border town and military zone of Santa Olivia. Thanks to Loup's genetically engineered gifts of strength, speed, and an innate fearlessness, as well as Pilar's unexpected skill with a pistol, they find new careers as high-priced bodyguards for a world famous British rock band. Back in the States, an investigation into the existence of Santa Olivia, also known as Outpost 12, begins in Washington, D.C. When the key witness with evidence to expose the military cover-up, their old comrade Miguel, vanishes, the case seems lost. The abandoned citizens of Santa Olivia need a champion, a voice raised on their behalf, which pushes Loup and Pilar into a hard choice. If Loup returns to U.S. soil, she'll be an outlaw. If she's caught, she'll be taken into custody again; and this time, there may be no escape. But if she and Pilar don't fight for the freedom of those they left behind, no one will.