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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is the first study of noblewomen in 12th-century England and Normandy, and of the ways in which they exercised power. It draws on a rich mix of evidence to offer an important reconceptualization of women's role in aristocratic society, and in doing so suggests new ways of looking at lordship and the ruling elite in the high middle ages. The book considers a wide range of literary sources such as chronicles, charters, seals and governmental records to draw out a detailed picture of noblewomen in the 12th-century Anglo-Norman realm. It asserts the importance of the lifecycle in determining the power of these aristocratic women, thereby demonstrating that the influence of gender on lordship was profound, complex and varied.
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This is the age of the Telnarians. Their vast, corrupt empire spans galaxies, ruling by terror, slavery, and the lash. But, their corruption and brutality could spell their downfall for, on a thousand worlds of swords and science, the savage souls of true men will not be forever chained. A heroic tide is rising-and one warrior is born to lead the barbarian horde.From the savage death pits of the Ortung Vandals, to the murderous intrigues of the imbecile Emperor's court, to the perfumed cages of the luscious willing slaves, the giant Otto is carving a legend across the stars. When this gladiator and chieftain of the Wolfung worlds seeks to form a frontier legion of space barbarians, the nobles dare not refuse him; they have only the courage to try to murder him. But can even an empire's might stop such a man? ... Read more

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The massive Eastern State Penitentiary in the Fairmount section of Philadelphia, now a National Historic Landmark, is remarkable for its innovative architecture and its pioneering system of isolation in individual cells. Heir to the energetic Quaker reformist tradition of the 1820s, the penitentiary was a model of idealism in penal reform and a model of prison architecture for the world, visible in three hundred prisons worldwide that trace their paternity to Eastern State Penitentiary. This book shows how the novel experiment in prison reform contended with the realities of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and explores the legacy of this "crucible of good intentions." ... Read more

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The major theme of this volume is the records of the Anglo-Norman realm, and how they are used separately and in combination to construct the history of England and Normandy. The essays cover all types of written source material, including private charters and the official records of the chancery and Exchequer, chronicles, and personal sources such as letters, while some 100 previously unpublished documents are included in a series of appendices. There are studies here of particular Anglo-Normans, including a great aristocrat and a seneschal of Normandy; of records relating to Normandy surviving in England; of the Norman and English Exchequers, between them the financial mainstay of the king/dukes; of the controversial origins of the English Chancery records; and of Rosamund Clifford, the King's mistress. CONTRIBUTORS: NICHOLAS VINCENT, DAVID CARPENTER, DAVID CROOK, MARK HAGGER, DAVID CROUCH, MARIE LOVATT, DANIEL POWER. ... Read more

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Former Earthman Tarl Cabot is now a powerful Tarnsman of the brutal and caste-bound planet of Gor, also known as Counter-Earth. He embarks on an adventure in the dangerous and mysterious wilderness of Gor, pitting his warrior’s skills against treacherous outlaws, bandits and fighters. Three different women are working to bring change to Tarl’s far-from-peaceful life on Gor: Talena, his onetime queen and first love; Elizabeth, his brave fighting partner; and the Amazonian Verna, chief of the fierce and wild ... Read more

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An Interesting Book even for non-chess players
The author has exposed for us an unusual man. Arguably one of the most intelligent men ever to occupy a cell at Alcatraz, Whitaker seems to be almost the archtype of the evil genius.

A man who came from a comfortable background, a lawyer and one of the best chess players in the United States, Whitaker seemed unable to avoid becoming involved in crimes ranging from the extremely petty and sleazy to the truly dangerous -- Norman Tweed Whitaker was actually a minor player in the Lindbergh kidnapping.

Hilbert writes amusingly about a man of almost unbelievable character, the sort of person who treads the pages of a Jim Thompson or Burnett crime noir novel; but Whitaker was real.

I hope you non-chess players give this book a shot. ... Read more

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Very Poor Quality Book
I will be sending this book back as it is just a photo copy of a book! The photographs are of very poor photocopy quality and hardly visible. I feel the is desceptive advertising as the book was $29.00. I hope Amazon is more careful in how it advertizes books. I feel it should state when a book is a photocopy. Be warned. ... Read more

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This collection of poems and plays by Oliver St John Gogarty (1878-1957) brings together his fifteen volumes of poetry, including his Collected Poems. It also contains poems published individually in various journals and 232 hitherto unpublished poems; as well, there are three Abbey plays--Blight, A Serious Thing, and The Enchanted Trousers--published under the nom-de-plume Gideon Ouseley, together with Incurables and the incomplete Wavelengths. ... Read more

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A wonderful synergy and collaboration.
I suppose that I bought this because of years of admiration for both Sargent and his friends, the Wertheimer family. Lord knows, it took me a few years to finally get a copy. The museum didn't anticipate the demand beyond just those attending the show in New York and printed too few copies.
Wertheimer was a Jewish dealer in art in turn of the 20th Century London. And the son of an arts dealer. Depending upon your character, you believe that he, with a good eye, presciently recognized the talent of the young Sargent newly settled in Britain and took a warm, avuncular and genuine liking to the man. Or you believe that Wertheimer cunningly assessed the odds and profits about this budding art star and, perhaps via some Mesmer, clouded Sargent under his dark and Asian spells. In fact, Wertheimer commisioned, and that seems too commercial a word for the relationship, young Sargent to paint Wertheimer's family. Asher invited Sargent into his home to paint anything that struck Sargent. Well, yes, even the several and beloved family dogs. Sadly, the lead painting of the group, of Asher Wertheimer and his favorite black poodle, was declared "too oriental" by the art critics of London. Yes, in this published, scarcely disguised bigotry Asher was said too oriental a subject and presumably his poodle too. This book, intentionally or not, presents both sides of the issue. On the one hand, argument is made that Sargent caught the man (and his family) just as he was, interior and exterior. Brilliantly. Contrariwise, there is criticism that such accuracy was also bigotry. Asher was given too oriental a face. But, accurately? For me this book really descends into a sort of circular schizophrenia. Sargent paints Asher with his beloved poodle and a signature cigar, both interpreted as included due some malevolent artistic eye. The cigar or just the pose and poise of Asher's hand with the cigar is interpreted as a grasping. I'm only a simple artist. To me I see only an affectionate and accurate depiction of a mentor returning the good feeling. Yet absolutely brilliantly done. Pure genius. The poodle in the lower left a museum worthy portrait in its own right. How was Asher supposed to be portrayed, as an Eskimo? Should he have been holding a frying pan? Should Asher have appeared open, with lolling carmine tongue but the poodle hooded and quick? Hey, sometimes a cigar is just a cigar! What anal and hyperanalytical nonsense.
But I go on too long. The quality of the reproductions is not the best. There is the unnecessary inclusion of some fiction, some novella if you will about sitting for Sargent. Trevor Fairbrother has an essay viewing Sargent (again) through his mauve-colored lenses explaining at least some of Sargent's genius as due Sargent's putative homosexuality. And at least some reasonableness in the booklet setting the Wertheimer commisions in the context of the ubiquitous and sometimes quite nasty antisemitism of the times.
I have this little and little more than booklet as an item of those times. I admire Sargent. I admire Asher Wertheimer and his family and am grateful for his support of Sargent early in his career. I can readily agree that both men genuinely liked each other and their families. I am glad that Wertheimer donated the some dozen paintings to the Tate. I'm glad that some other (Jewish) person donated the money the Tate said it need to display the suite. Although it isn't always crystal clear from the account in this book, the partnership of Wertheimer and Sargent was a triumph for art and for humanity. The show and this accompanying little book surely were intended to document and celebrate this fact. It succeeded only in part. ... Read more