Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Everybody's Boswell
Author: James BoswellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hebrides
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Everybody's
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
The Club
Author: Leo DamroschPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300217900
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
The story of the group of extraordinary eighteenth-century writers, artists, and thinkers who gathered weekly at a London tavern Named one of the 10 Best Books of 2019 by the New York Times Book Review - A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019 - A Kirkus Best Book of 2019 "Damrosch brings the Club's redoubtable personalities--the brilliant minds, the jousting wits, the tender camaraderie--to vivid life."--New York Times Book Review "Magnificently entertaining."--Washington Post In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo Damrosch brings alive a brilliant, competitive, and eccentric cast of characters. With the friendship of the "odd couple" Samuel Johnson and James Boswell at the heart of his narrative, Damrosch conjures up the precarious, exciting, and often brutal world of late eighteenth-century Britain. This is the story of an extraordinary group of people whose ideas helped to shape their age, and our own.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 874
Book Description
Includes Part 1, Number 2: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (July - December)
Everybody's Magazine
Author: Everybody's Boswell
Author: James BoswellVisions of an Unseen World
Author: Sasha HandleyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317315251
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A study of the production, circulation and consumption of English ghost stories during the Age of Reason. This work examines a variety of mediums: ballads and chapbooks, newspapers, sermons, medical treatises and scientific journals, novels and plays. It relates the telling of ghost stories to changes associated with the Enlightenment.
Library Service
Author: Detroit Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
Volumes 4-14 include 55th-65th Annual report of the Detroit library commission. 1919/20-1929/30.
Your Library
Author: Something to Cry About
Author: Susan M. TurnerPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889209456
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
Why does our society think it is okay to hit children? Almost everyone thinks it is wrong to abuse a child. But many parents and teachers believe it is okay to spank children, rap their knuckles, slap their faces, pull their hair and yank their arms, as long as the punishment does not result in serious injury or death, and is intended to improve a child’s behaviour. Susan M. Turner explores the historical, psychological, sociological and legal foundations of this belief from a philosophical perspective and argues why it should be abandoned. Something to Cry About presents evidence from recent studies showing that all forms of corporal punishment pose significant risks for children and that none improves behaviour in the long term. Dr. Turner also examines Section 43 of the Canadian Criminal Code — a law that protects those who punish children in their care by allowing them to hit the children as long as such punishment is “reasonable,” even though Canadian case law shows that “reasonable” has included breaking a child’s fingers. Turner presents a comprehensive argument in favour of repeal. In Something to Cry About, Turner takes a definite stand, but does so in a way that invites critical dialogue. Her work is the first to set out the debate over corporal punishment in multidisciplinary terms pertinent to Canadian society. She brings together in one place a wide variety of thought and data which can be consulted by all Canadians concerned with the welfare of children.