John Blair
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Former hockey tough guy Bobby Banks wants to become a better person in order to keep his shaky camp business and family together. But the bank has refused him any further loans, his wife Sarah is keeping secrets from him, and his do-nothing son Sterling has just flunked out of university.
Matt Day, 16, wants to spend time at his grandparents' farm near the Reserve like every summer. But Dad isn't keen on the family's Mohawk culture, and he sends...
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"Winner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize, Pre-1600" "Shortlisted for the 2019 Wolfson History Prize, Wolfson Foundation" "One of History Today's Best Books of 2018" John Blair is Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Fellow in History at The Queen's College. His books include The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society and The Anglo-Saxon Age: A Very Short Introduction.
A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon...
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Dick Dale & the Del-Tones began holding weekend dances at the Rendezvous Ballroom in Balboa, California, in the summer of 1960. Over the next year and a half, Dale developed the sound and style that came to be known as "surf music." The result was the development of more powerful guitar amplifiers, a dramatic increase in the sales of Fender guitars and amplifiers, and a shift from New York to West Coast recording studios. More and more people were...
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I Never Went To Work is a collection of stories about life as a small animal veterinarian in the heart of the Midwest. Through this lens, Dr. John A. Blair shares his passion for animals and their human counterparts, his love of medicine and surgical technique, along with his desire to teach us about caring for these creatures that so greatly enrich our lives. These stories represent the human-animal companionship bond to its fullest. We should all...
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Over its fifty-year existence, John F. Blair, Publisher, has become known for its Southern folklore-its tales of ghosts, goblins, ghouls, spirits, witches, devils, phantoms, haints, boogers, boo-daddies, plat-eyes, demons, apparitions, Doppelgangers, banshees, disappearing hitchhikers, pirate legends, ghost dogs, dog ghosts, dogs who see ghosts . . .In recognition of its golden anniversary, the company offers this volume of twenty stories culled from...
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Very short introductions volume 18
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Rock and roll reference volume 32
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Popular Culture, Ink
Pub. Date
1990
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English
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Princeton paperbacks volume no. 65
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1965.
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English
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In an attempt to isolate and describe the characteristic poetic modern in which W. H. Auden has worked, Mr. Blair considers the whole range of Auden's poetry in the light of his own aesthetic views. He quotes from Auden's substantial body of critical writing, to present "Auden as artist". Nearly all of Auden's critics thus far have divided his work into periods on the basis of changes in his political, religious, or national affiliation. Mr. Blair...
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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2005
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English
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"The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society traces how the widespread foundation of monastic sites ('minsters') during c.670-730 gave the recently pagan English new ways of living, of exploiting their resources, and of absorbing European culture, as well as opening new spiritual and intellectual horizons. Through the era of Viking wars, and the tenth-century reconstruction of political and economic life, the minsters gradually lost their wealth, their independence,...
12) 12 o'clock boys
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English
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The 12 o'clock boys are a notorious urban dirt bike pack in Baltimore -- popping wheelies and weaving at excessive speeds through traffic, the group impressively evades the hamstrung police. In Lotfy Nathan's wild, dynamic documentary (three years in the making), their stunning antics are envisioned through the eyes of young adolescent Pug - a bright kid from the Westside obsessed with the riders and willing to do anything to join their ranks. ..Premiering...
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Distributed by Image Entertainment
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[2006]
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English
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Legendary monologist Spalding Gray takes you on an unforgettable and often hilarious journey through the pitfalls of the creative mind in this brilliant follow-up to his critical and audience favorite, 'Swimming to Cambodia.'
