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  • Dickens and the Workhouse:Oliver Twist and the London Poor

    Oliver Twist and the London Poor

    by Ruth Richardson ...
    The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination.Internationally, the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twist's workhouse had been found, and made public the news that both the workhouse and Dickens's old home were ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy:Bodies, books, fortune, fame

    Bodies, books, fortune, fame

    by Ruth Richardson ...
    Gray's Anatomy is probably one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: an illustrated textbook of anatomy that is still a household name 150 years since its first edition, known for its rigorously scientific text, and masterful illustrations as beautiful as they are detailed.The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy tells the story of the creation of this remarkable book, and the individuals who ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Dickens and the Workhouse

    Oliver Twist and the London Poor

    by Ruth Richardson ...
    The recent discovery that as a young man Charles Dickens lived only a few doors from a major London workhouse made headlines worldwide, and the campaign to save the workhouse from demolition caught the public imagination. Internationally, the media immediately grasped the idea that Oliver Twist's workhouse had been found, and made public the news that both the workhouse and Dickens's old home were ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

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    Little Susys Little Servants (Unabridged)

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    by Elizabeth PRENTISS ...
    Narrated by Linnea Steese, Ruth Richardson, John Switzer, Timothy Pugh ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 33 min

    “As Little Susy had a kind mamma to take care of her, you will, perhaps, wonder why God gave her also, a great many servants of her own. He gave her so many, that you might spend your whole life in reading about them. But I shall tell you of only a very few, and then you can ask your mamma to talk to you about the others. For the little servants Susy had, you have, too.” ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Death

    Edited by Sarah L. Richardson, Sarah E. Wagner, Ruth E. Toulson ...
    Series series Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
    Shaped by important shifts in the field and a global pandemic, this Handbook provides a fresh look at the anthropology of death. It is split into five parts, with chapters examining how deathcare happens and the kinds of relationships that arise between the living, the dying, and the dead; how rituals change and also endure; and how societies make sense of and live with death – both everyday and ... Read more

    $131.19 USD

  • Analysing Fascist Discourse

    European Fascism in Talk and Text

    Edited by Ruth Wodak, John E. Richardson ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Studies in Discourse
    This book focuses primarily on continuities and discontinuities of fascist politics as manifested in discourses of post-war European countries. Many traumatic pasts in Europe are linked to the experience of fascist and national-socialist regimes in the 20th century and to related colonial and imperialist expansionist politics. And yet we are again confronted with the emergence, rise and success of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Black Cat Weekly #124

    by Robert Lopresti, Travis Richardson, Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier, Diana Deverell, Hal Charles, Earl Derr Biggers, Sam Merwin, Edmond Hamilton, Frank Belknap Long, Roger Dee ...
    This issue, we are happy to reprint Earl Derr Biggers’ third entry in the classic Charlie Chan detective series, Behind That Curtain. But the highlights don’t stop there! We have an original mystery by Travis Richardson (thanks to acquiring editor Michael Bracken), a great modern mystery by Ashley-Ruth M. Bernier (thanks to acquiring editor Barb Goffman), an original science fiction story from ... Read more

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    25 Frisky Feline Tales, Old and New

    by Gary Lovisi, Pamela Sargent, John Russell Fearn, Andrew Lang, Sydney J. Bounds ...
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  • The Victorian City

    Everyday Life in Dickens' London

    by Judith Flanders ...
    The New York Times –bestselling author presents an extraordinary, revelatory portrait of everyday life on the streets of Dickens' London.The nineteenth century was a time of unprecedented change, and nowhere was this more apparent than London. In only a few decades, the capital grew from a compact Regency town into a sprawling metropolis of 6.5 million inhabitants, the largest city the world had ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

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  • The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked-Room Mysteries

    Edited by Otto Penzler ...
    **The Most Complete Collection of Impossible Crime Stories Ever Assembled, with puzzling mysteries by Stephen King, Dashiell Hammett, Lawrence Block, Agatha Christie, Georges Simenon, Dorothy L. Sayers, P. G. Wodehouse, Erle Stanley Gardner, and many, many moreTHE BLACK LIZARD BIG BOOK OF LOCKED-ROOM MYSTERIES: An empty desert, a lonely ski slope, a gentleman’s study, an elevator car—nowhere is a ... Read more

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  • The R.A. Lafferty Fantastic MEGAPACK®

    by R.A. Lafferty ...
    Without a doubt, Raphael Aloysius Lafferty (1914-2002) was one of the most quirky and unusual authors every to work in science fiction. That's saying a lot. His stories are often unusual, challenging, uncategorizable, and brilliant. This collection assembles 18 of them, including his very first story. Included are: ALOYSADAM HAD THREE BROTHERSSEVEN-DAY TERRORDAY OF THE GLACIERSODOM AND GOMORRAH, ... Read more

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  • Dickens: History in an Hour

    by Kaye Jones ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.Charles Dickens remains – 200 years after his birth – arguably Britain’s most successful writer. Works such as Great Expectations and Oliver Twist have amused and inspired readers in all languages since their original publication in the nineteenth century, and have been adapted countless times for the stage and screen.Dickens: History in an ... Read more

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