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  • Killing the Dead

    Vampire Epidemics from Mesopotamia to the New World

    by John Blair ...
    A riveting history of vampire panics across cultures and down through the millennia—and why killing the dead is better than killing the livingKilling the Dead provides the first in-depth, global account of one of the world’s most widespread yet misunderstood forms of mass hysteria—the vampire epidemic. In a spellbinding narrative, John Blair takes readers from ancient Mesopotamia to present-day ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Building Anglo-Saxon England

    by John Blair ...
    A radical rethinking of the Anglo-Saxon world that draws on the latest archaeological discoveriesThis beautifully illustrated book draws on the latest archaeological discoveries to present a radical reappraisal of the Anglo-Saxon built environment and its inhabitants. John Blair, one of the world's leading experts on this transformative era in England's early history, explains the origins of towns ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Hockey Camp Summer

    by John Blair ...
    With his hockey career behind him, Bobby Banks wants to become a better person to keep his nearly insolvent summer camp and fracturing family together. The bank has refused him any further loans, his wife is keeping secrets from him, and his do-nothing son has just flunked out of university. Matt Day, 16, wants to spend his summer at his grandparents' farm near the Reserve like every year. However ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Southern California Surf Music, 1960-1966

    by John Blair ...
    Series series Images of America
    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 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Anglo-Saxon Age

    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Blair ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a brief introduction to the political, social, religious, and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Tender Gaze

    Compassionate Encounters on the German Screen, Page, and Stage

    by Anna-Rebecca Nowicki, Joseph Rockelmann & Christina Joseph Rockelmann, Dr Christina Weiler, John Blair, Mary-Elizabeth O'Brien, Nancy Nenno, Dr Gary Schmidt, Erika Nelson Mukherjee, Nikhil Sathe, Professor Lorna Martens ...
    The gaze, understood as a way of looking at others that involves contemplation and the operation of power, has an extensive history of iterations such as the male gaze (Mulvey), the oppositional gaze (hooks), and the postcolonial gaze (Said). This essay collection develops a supplemental theory of what Muriel Cormican has coined the "tender gaze" and traces its occurrence in German film, theater, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Anxious Journeys

    Twenty-First-Century Travel Writing in German

    by Professor Karin Baumgartner, John Blair, Magda Tarnawska Senel, Monika Shafi, Professor Muriel Cormican, Nicole Coleman, Nicole Grewling, Sunka Simon, Andrew Wright Hurley0, Anke S. Biendarra1, Carola Daffner2, Christina Gerhardt3, Christina Kraenzle4, Gundela Hachmann5, Heather Merle Benbow6 ...
    The rich contemporary literature of travel has been the focus of numerous recent publications in English that seek to understand how travel narratives, with their distinctive representations of identities, places, and cultures, respond to today's globalized, high-speed world characterized by the dual mass movements of tourism and migration. Yet a corresponding cutting-edge discussion of twenty ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Playful Song Called Beautiful

    by John Blair ...
    Series series Iowa Poetry Prize
    Playful Song Called Beautiful ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought, places where “there is no stranger who is / stranger than you, no / familiar who’s more / familiar.” In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line stanzas, Blair wanders among universal orders and failures of desire, where the unlikeliness of any ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England

    by Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, Donald Scragg ...
    Widely acknowledged as the essential reference work for this period, this volume brings together more than 700 articles written by 150 top scholars that cover the people, places, activities, and creations of the Anglo-Saxons.The only reference work to cover the history, archaeology, arts, architecture, literatures, and languages of England from the Roman withdrawal to the Norman Conquest (c.450 – ... Read more

    $176.00 USD

  • American Standard

    by John Blair ...
    Series series
    Winner of the 2002 Drue Heinz Literature PrizeSelected by Elizabeth HardwickIt is difficult to see what lurks beneath the surface of a muddy river, an alligator-infested lake, or a John Blair short story. The deep currents that drive a demure, devout, church-going woman to shoot her husband; the ripple effect of a midnight rendezvous at church youth camp that goes slightly—then horribly—askew; the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Audiobook

    The Old Inn (Unabridged)

    by Madison Cawein ...
    Narrated by Georgia Fortenberry, John Blair, Margaret Brose ...

    Unabridged

    17 min

    In the quaint, secluded village of Willow Creek, nestled amidst rolling hills and whispering willows, stands The Old Inn. Its weathered facade and creaky floorboards hold secrets that have been whispered through generations. As the sun dips below the horizon, casting an eerie glow upon the inn, a group of strangers arrives, each with their own hidden past and unspoken desires. Among them is a ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • Roman Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Salway ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond. Its involvement with Rome started long before the Conquest launched by the Emperor Claudius in 43 AD, and it continued to be a part of the Roman world for some time after the final break with Roman rule. Bringing together ... Read more

    $7.99 USD