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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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British Library

N018647

The French titlepage is on the verso of the half-title: 'Guide pour ceux qui commencement à apprendre la langue françoise: .. '.With a half-title and a final advertisement leaf.

London : printed by assignment from the executor of G. Keith, for B. Law, and J. Johnson, 1789. xxviii,346,[2]p. ; 12° ... Read more

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Support for the family is a key component of palliative care practice and philosophy, with both patient and family construed as the 'unit of care'. However, there is not always formal acknowledgement of the importance of the family carer role, or that of friends, neighbours and other non-professional, informal carers. Consequently, health and social care professionals find carer support work particularly challenging. Symptom management, personal care, and administering of medications are just some of the tasks taken on by this group of non-professionals, and the impact of this role can have negative emotional, physical, financial and social implications on the care-giver. Furthermore, family carers consistently report unmet needs, and there has been a lack of intervention studies aimed at improving carer support.

This book therefore provides an evidence-based, practical guide to enable health and social care professionals to assess and respond to family carer needs. It also explores the wider sociological, policy, and research issues related to family carers and palliative care. ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature. ... Read more

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Recent outbreaks of disease in domestic animals, humans and wildlife illustrate the relative importance of infectious diseases and the vulnerability of susceptible animals. Why do such diseases emerge? What are the factors that lead to dramatic epidemics? How can we apply our knowledge to improve the methods of control? These are just some of the questions addressed in this book, which seeks to develop and apply an ecological approach to an understanding of epidemiology in wild animal populations. The development of mathematical models in the dynamics of infectious diseases is a field that has seen rapid growth over the last decade. There is now a need to challenge these models with the data and to bring vets and field workers closer to the disease issues. This book was conceived to identify the exciting questions and set the future research agenda. 50 of the most active workers met in Trento, northern Italy, to brainstorm the issues, and from this the editors have moulded a synthesis that captures the excitement and importance of this expanding field. ... Read more

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This is the second volume in the history of the Hudson Bay Company, whose empire covered most of modern Canada and the Northwest United States. The proprietors were soldiers of fortune, mainly dispossessed Scots and Englishmen in the service of the Company of Adventurers of England, who became owners of one of history's most valuable and longest enduring land monopolies. "Ceasars of the Wilderness" continues the saga historian Peter Newman began in "Company of Adventurers". ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

A most extraordinary book!
This is, without question, the best historical book that I have read in many years!It is part of a three-book trilogy on how the Hudson's Bay COmpany (HBC) shaped Canada.This second book is the strongest of the three, and focuses on the period from the 1600's to the early 1800's when the HBC was primarily engaged in the fur trade in Canada and essentially providing the civil, social and political structure to Canada west of Ontario.The descriptions of the Northwest Company and the struggles between them and the HBC are fascinating.As an American with French-Canadian and Cree ancestors who paddled for both the Northwest Company and the HBC, it was as if I found where I have come from.I gave this book to my mother's companion of 27 years as a Christmas present.He died in hospice in mid-March, but not before finishing this volume.He was a history buff, with no Canadian or British heritage, yet it fascinated him enough that he looked forward to reading it each day when he had enough strength.In his last days, I read to him out loud some of the passages that he particularly liked, such as the description of the goings-on at the Beaver Club in Montreal.A book that can give you something to look forward each day while you are dying of lung cancer has much to be said for it.Thank you, Peter, for this book!

Great Insights in to Northern Canadian history.
As a Canadian and living in the Arctic I found this book to be very informative and giving more insight to historic events than what are normally taught in our schools.Peter Newman was able to write this without the typical constraints associated with being "politically correct".

If you're interested in true Canadian History, albeit one small part of it, definitely read this book.If you want an exciting and riveting book and don't have much of an interest in northen Canada then don't read it.

Its amazing that the Bay, and to a greater extent the British, were able to be successful.They seem to be more like a bunch of bumbling bafoons.

Not Very Exciting
This book is a review of a very successful real estate company in Canada. My more then exciting introduction is about how I felt about the book.There were facts, lots of them but overall no real excitement or much to get the normal reader interested in the book. I got through about 175 pages before I gave up. The author tried to punch up the book, but the subject matter did not lend its self to it, there is just noting scandalous or exciting about a well-run company. This is more of a 400-page case study best left to a university class on management.Unless you work here or are related to some on that does I doubt you would find much value in this book.

An exciting story of adventure, exploration and human folly.
This is the unvarnished history of the Hudsons Bay Company. Extremely well researched and a pleasure to read this is the story of the founding of the company that opened up Canada and the Artic to trade. Filled with stories of exploration, adventure, hard headed business and hardship on the frontier. This isn't just the story of the founders, but the nuts and bolts of survival at the edge of the known world. If you enjoy history and adventure this will be hard to put down. Vol. 2 is Caesers of the Wildnerness. ... Read more

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Presents the life and discusses the works of the controversial and influential American poet and critic. ... Read more

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Let's face it, few of us are likely to hack our way through the thickets (some of them rendered in Chinese) of Ezra Pound's Cantos.Even in college, in a course on
modern literature, we didn't actually read the Cantos, instead we read Hugh Kenner's book, The Pound Era.Still, one would like to understand what made
Pound such an important figure in the history of literature and Peter Ackroyd's slender and copiously illustrated biography accomplishes the task quite painlessly.

Besides helping us to understand what Pound was trying to achieve in his own poetry--which seems to have been an attempt to capture all of reality within the
confines of the poetic form--Mr. Ackroyd shows how profoundly Pound influenced other Modernists, in particular T. S. Eliot and James Joyce.I'd not
previously been aware of the degree to which Pound helped sculpt The Waste Land, to the point that Mr. Ackroyd gives him credit as its virtual co-author :

The transformation of The Waste Land effected by Pound is, although not total, nevertheless remarkable.What had been a longer,
more sustained and more elaborately lyrical work was changed into something less personal, tighter and more abrupt.It was precisely
these qualities which were to lend the poem its air of modernity--since, in large part, our notion of what is "modern" is derived from
Pound's work and criticism.

Where Joyce was concerned, Pound appears to have been one of his earliest proselytizers, publishing Portrait of the Artist in serial form in his magazine, The
Egoist, and Ulysses in the magazine, The Little Review.He also reviewed Joyce's work in every publication he could, extolling his virtues to anyone who would
listen.Yet, Pound also had the brutal honesty to assess Finnegan's Wake with the dismissal that it so richly deserved :

Nothing short of divine vision or a new cure for the clapp can possibly be worth all the circumambient peripherization.

Unfortunately for Pound, the harshness of that critique reveals a willingness to speak his mind and a forcefulness of opinion which were to get him in
considerable trouble when they combined with other personality traits to turn him into a Fascist propagandist.

Mr. Ackroyd convincingly locates the appeal of fascism to Pound in the poet's passion for organization and order, his belief in a cultural elite, and his adherence
to the odd economic theory of Social Credit, expounded by a Major C. H. Douglas :

Its doctrine states, quite simply, that once money has lost its natural basis in people's needs and aspirations--when, in other words,
it has been turned into a commodity merely to be bought and sold--then the nation and its culture sour.Money is a complex
measure of man's time and the worth of his labour; when it becomes an anonymous entity to be hoarded and manipulated, all other
human and social values shift downward.But there was also a blindingly simple economic point to be made in this connection:
the bankers control money at the expense of everyone else in the community.

His belief in a social hierarchy is a classic enough conservative position, likewise his fear of cultural decline.And the rest of Pound's ideas were probably
harmless in themselves, even if some were bizarre; but it is this last notion, that the problems one perceives in the world are necessarily a product of some kind of
conspiracy, that represents the dangerous spark that all too often ignites hatreds like anti-Semitism.True conservatism requires the recognition that disorder
and decline are natural phenomena, resulting from the debased desires of the masses.Those who are unable to accept this reality and instead try to blame
shadowy conspirators are dangerously deluded.

Sadly, Pound fell prey to just such delusions and ended up making radio broadcasts for Mussolini during WWII.The result of these pro-fascist, anti-American,
anti-Semitic soliloquies was a 1943 indictment for treason and eventual arrest and, following a finding of insanity, confinement to St. Elizabeth's mental
hospital in Washington, DC.He was kept there until the charge of treason was dismissed on April 18, 1958.Upon his release, Pound moved back to Italy where
he lapsed into a depressive silence and spent his final years in and out of clinics, futilely trying to find some way to recapture his creative powers.

If in the end it is not possible for us to feel too much sympathy for a man who betrayed his wife--with a mistress named Olga Rudge by whom he had a daughter
and who eventually became his constant companion--and his country, and who spewed venomous hatred of Jews, perhaps it is still possible to acknowledge his
achievements, or at least his aspirations, as an artist.Here's how Mr. Ackroyd summarizes Pound's own literary legacy :

Pound attempted to recreate the whole world in the image of himself and his poetry--despite the divisive tendencies of the age,
and the obsessive weaknesses of his own character.

Maybe in this sense we can see writ small in him the larger tragedy of the 20th Century, of men trying to prove themselves equal to the Creator, but failing
horribly, and finding it necessary to lash out against others to explain the failure.

GRADE : B+ ... Read more

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In 1609, Henry Hudson, under contract with the Dutch East India Company, set out to discover the lucrative Northwest Passage. The Hudson River Valley is what he discovered instead, and along its banks Dutch culture took hold. While the Dutch influence can still be seen in local architecture and customs, it is food and drink that Peter Rose has made her life's work. From beer to bread and cookies to coleslaw, "Food, Drink and Celebrations of the Hudson Valley Dutch" is a comprehensive look at this important early American influence, complete with recipes to try. ... Read more

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Although each of the eight stories in this collection is different,all share common characteristics. They are experiments; differing in convention, in characterisation and in genre, but uniting around the common narratives of time, memory and identity. The tropes of crime, murder and the paranormal are used to examine the contradictions between the abstract understanding and the physical reality - the lived experience - that compose such concepts. These are stories about the reconciliation of these ideas in the midst of the human obsession with immortality and frailty. ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA)

N016095



London : printed for George Keith, 1776. xiii,[1],67,[1]p.,plate ; 12° ... Read more

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Chapters: Gary Ablett, Sr., Terry Wallace, Leigh Matthews, Lance Franklin, Dermott Brereton, Peter Hudson, Peter Everitt, Darren Jarman, Jason Dunstall, Nathan Thompson, Shane Crawford, Ben Allan, Peter Knights, Paul Salmon, Trent Croad, Michael Tuck, John Barker, Rhan Hooper, Jade Rawlings, Andrew Demetriou, Angelo Lekkas, Sam Mitchell, Brent Guerra, Gary Ayres, Luke Hodge, Josh Thurgood, Rick Davies, Robert Dipierdomenico, Stuart Dew, John Kennedy, Sr., Steve Malaxos, Campbell Brown, Nick Holland, Daniel Chick, John Winneke, Jonathan Hay, John Platten, Ricky Nixon, Bob Keddie, Brad Scott, Rodney Eade, Alan Joyce, Len Thomas, Allan Hird, Daniel Harford, Shaun Burgoyne, David Parkin, Rob Dickson, Shaun Rehn, Brent Renouf, Brad Sewell, Stephen Gilham, Mark L. Williams, Joel Smith, Zac Dawson, Joshua Gibson, Kingsley Hunter, Cameron Stokes, Tim Boyle, Beau Muston, Tony Hall, Peter Schwab, Graham Arthur, Tommy Lahiff, Luke Mcpharlin, Gary Buckenara, Clinton Young, Travis Tuck, Ken Judge, Simon Minton-Connell, Max Bailey, Robert Campbell, Ben Mcglynn, Garry Moss, Xavier Ellis, Col Austen, Grant Birchall, Richie Vandenberg, Chance Bateman, Peter Crimmins, Brendan Whitecross, Todd Ridley, Matthew Young, Jarryd Roughead, Vin Doherty, John Peck, Shane Savage, Mark Bunn, Tony Symonds, Luke Brennan, Simon Beaumont, Michael Osborne, Russell Greene, Rod Lester-Smith, Bill Twomey, Sr., Josh P. Kennedy, Jordan Lewis, Ryan Schoenmakers, Don Roach, Danny Jacobs, Paul Harding, Rick Ladson, Bohdan Jaworskyj, Frank Aked, Sr., Max Mcmahon, Andrew Collins, Les Hughson, Bert Chandler, Tony Woods, Simon Taylor, Geoff Ablett, Nathan Lonie, Rodney Olsson, Brett Johnson, Jim Francis, Barry Rowlings, Barry Metcalfe, Ern Utting, Albert Chadwick, Clayton Thompson, Beau Dowler, Greg Madigan, Peter J. Welsh, Mitchell Thorp, Keith Shea, Terry Moore, Andy Bennett, Laurence Cordner, Gordon Bowman, Kevin Curran, Herb Turner, Jim Jackson, Darrin Pritchard, Rob...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=670124 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Peter Hudson, Adrian Fletcher, Wayne Fox, Trevor Sprigg, Rodney Eade, Simon Wiggins, Daryn Cresswell, Darryl Sutton, Rex Garwood, Billy Picken, Aaron Joseph, Peter Street, Alan G. Scott, Col Deane, Eric Huxtable, Max Mcmahon, Ryan Harwood, Andy Lovell, Allan Leitch, Terry Cashion, John Chick, George Cole, Barry Strange, Shane Fell, Garney Goodrick, John Klug, Robert Groenewegen. Excerpt:Personal information Aaron Joseph (born 4 July 1989) is an Australian rules footballer with the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League . Joseph is a midfielder who played junior football in Tasmania with the Glenorchy Football Club and the Tassie Mariners . He represented Tasmania at the 2007 AFL National Under 18 Championships, where he impressed sufficiently to be named on the interchange bench in the Under 18s All-Australian Team . He was passed over in the 2007 AFL National Draft, but was selected by the Carlton Football Club with its first pick ( #2 overall) in the 2008 Rookie Draft. He then spent the 2008 season playing exclusively with Carlton's VFL affiliate, the Northern Bullants . Joseph first appeared for Carlton in the 2009 NAB Cup, where he played all three games for Carlton. Appearing mainly in a defensive, tagging role, Joseph was lauded for his performance in the semi-final against Geelong's Gary Ablett, Jr. , and was made a nominated rookie for the 2009 season. He made his debut in the first round of the season, and played several tagging roles early in the season. He received a Rising Star nomination in Round 11 after tagging St Kilda's Stephen Milne out of the game, and earning 19 disposals himself. He would go on to play every game for the season, win the Blues' Best First Year Player award, and finish tenth in the best and fairest. Joseph was promoted from ... ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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Harvard University Graduate School of Education Gutman

N003332



London : printed for George Keith; and sold by the author, 1763. xxviii,343,[1]p. ; 12° ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Hudson, Mal Pascoe, John K. Watts, Burnie Payne, Trevor Leo, Mark Browning, Dennis Munari, Paul Sproule, Scott Wade, Ron Savage. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: New Norfolk, TFL (19631966) Glenorchy Football Club, TFL (19751976; 19781982) Total Goals:1721 Goals Peter John Hudson AM (b. 1946) is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history. Hudson was prolific in his goal scoring in all senior competitions in which he competed. Originally from Tasmania, Hudson played with New Norfolk Football Club, in the Tasmanian Football League kicking 378 goals in 78 games. He then played 130 games with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (now the Australian Football League). During this time he kicked 727 goals. Following his Hawthorn days he returned to Tasmania, playing a further 81 games for Glenorchy Football Club during which he kicked an amazing 616 goals. Some records state he kicked 769 goals for Glenorchy Football Club. Over his career he kicked 1,874 goals in senior matches spanning the period 1963 to 1982. His impressive tally increases to 2,191 when night series and representative games are included, averaging over 7 goals a game over his entire career. Hudson was kept goalless just three times during his senior career, by Richmond's Barry Richardson in 1969, Carlton's Rod Austin in 1977 and Brucey Greenhill of TFL club Sandy Bay in 1978. Hudson's ability to win the ball was hard to pinpoint. There were times he seemed to gain possession of the ball ever so quietly and with consistent, nonchalant ease his tally of goals for the game would gradually climb. Among his armoury of skills, he seemed to have the ability to quietly sneak away from t...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2811396 ... Read more

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Chapters: Terry Wallace, Leigh Matthews, Lance Franklin, Dermott Brereton, Peter Hudson, Peter Everitt, Darren Jarman, Jason Dunstall, Shane Crawford, Ben Allan, Peter Knights, Paul Salmon, Sam Mitchell, Gary Ayres, Luke Hodge, John Kennedy, Sr., Nick Holland, Daniel Chick, John Platten, Bob Keddie, David Parkin, Brad Sewell, Joel Smith, Graham Arthur, Col Austen, Russell Greene, Andrew Collins, Kevin Curran, Alec Albiston, Roy Simmonds, Bert Mills, Brendan Edwards, Ian Law, Don Scott, Jack Blackman, Stan Spinks, Andy Angwin, Ted Fletcher, Jim Bohan, Allan Woodley, Ernie Loveless, Jack Sharpley, Kelvin Moore, Jack Barker, Alf Hughes. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 152. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Playing statistics to end of Round 11, 2009 season . Terry Wallace (born 13 December 1958) is a former professional Australian rules football player and coach. As a player, his career spanned three VFL/AFL clubs; most notably Hawthorn where he played in three premierships as well as achieving All-Australian selection, and two Best and Fairests with the Footscray Football Club. As coach, he took the Western Bulldogs from 15th in 1996 to 3rd when he featured in the documentary Year of the Dogs a position in which the club held in 1997 and 1998 during which he was named coach of the All-Australian team. Wallace's coaching style is considered to be innovative and he is credited with having started the modern practice of sides warming up the side on the field before a match. However Wallace's coaching career at Richmond between 2005 and 2009 was not so successful and he stepped down from coaching on 1 June 2009. His last game as coach of the Richmond Tigers was against the Western Bulldogs on the 5th of June. It was later announced that his successor as coach would be Jade Rawlings. Wal...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=312147 ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.
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Harvard University Graduate School of Business

T186762

With two final advertisement leaves.

London : printed for J. Johnson, 1791. vi,[2],116,[4]p.,plates ; 12° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
Western literary study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others. Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
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British Library

T116154

With a final leaf containing a table and advertisement.

London : printed for George Keith ; and sold by the author, 1766. xxiv,346,[2]p. ; 12° ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Peter Hudson, Mal Pascoe, Adrian Fletcher, Stuart Spencer, Trevor Sprigg, Rex Garwood, Len Pye, Ricky Graham, Graham Hunnibell, Tony Martyn, Albert Collier, Burnie Payne, Trevor Leo, Rodney Olsson, Danny Noonan, Wayne Weidemann, Andy Bennett, Geoff Whitton, Terry Cashion, Scott Wade, John Richmond, Michael Seddon, David Code. Excerpt:Personal information Adrian Fletcher (born 10 October 1969) is a former Australian rules footballer and current assistant coach. He is regarded as one of football's nomads, having played for four Australian Football League clubs in his 13 year career. Fletcher's play relied on being an excellent play reader which resulted in him being a prolific possession gatherer, especially by handball . Early career Fletcher was recruited from Glenorchy Football Club , Tasmania with the 20th selection in the 1988 VFL Draft by the Geelong Football Club after winning the William Leitch Medal as the best player in the Tasmanian Football League . He played 23 games for Geelong between 1989 and 1991, kicking a total of 10 goals. From the Cats he was traded to St Kilda for the 1992 season, where he played 22 games and also kicked 10 goals. Due to a contract dispute, he left the Saints and was selected by the Brisbane Bears with the 4th selection in the 1993 Pre-season Draft. Brisbane career Fletcher made his name as a tough, ball-winning midfielder at Brisbane. Between 1993 and 1996, Fletcher played 86 of a possible 90 games, finishing in the top five of the club champion award in each year. He was a significant player in the Bears' 1996 preliminary final loss to North Melbourne playing on the half back line. In 1997, however, his form slumped after the lack of a solid pre-season. He fought back, however, and ended up with a season average of 19 possessions per game... ... Read more

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Chapters: Peter Hudson, Darrel Baldock, Wayne Fox, Rex Garwood, Len Pye, Ricky Graham, Graham Hunnibell, Cameron Clayton, Trevor Leo, Rod Grinter, Arthur Olliver, Bob Lynch, Noel Clarke. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: New Norfolk, TFL (19631966) Glenorchy Football Club, TFL (19751976; 19781982) Total Goals:1721 Goals Peter John Hudson AM (b. 1946) is a former Australian Rules Football player, considered one of the greatest full-forwards in the game's history. Hudson was prolific in his goal scoring in all senior competitions in which he competed. Originally from Tasmania, Hudson played with New Norfolk Football Club, in the Tasmanian Football League kicking 378 goals in 78 games. He then played 130 games with the Hawthorn Football Club in the Victorian Football League (now the Australian Football League). During this time he kicked 727 goals. Following his Hawthorn days he returned to Tasmania, playing a further 81 games for Glenorchy Football Club during which he kicked an amazing 616 goals. Some records state he kicked 769 goals for Glenorchy Football Club. Over his career he kicked 1,874 goals in senior matches spanning the period 1963 to 1982. His impressive tally increases to 2,191 when night series and representative games are included, averaging over 7 goals a game over his entire career. Hudson was kept goalless just three times during his senior career, by Richmond's Barry Richardson in 1969, Carlton's Rod Austin in 1977 and Brucey Greenhill of TFL club Sandy Bay in 1978. Hudson's ability to win the ball was hard to pinpoint. There were times he seemed to gain possession of the ball ever so quietly and with consistent, nonchalant ease his tally of goals for the game would gradually climb. Among his armoury of skills, he seemed to hav...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2811396 ... Read more