Author: British Library. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Catalogue of Printed Music in the British Library to 1980
Author: British Library. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Journal of a Lady of Quality
Author: Janet SchawPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1429016949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Alexander and Janet Schaw, Scottish siblings, began a journey in 1774 that would take them from Edinburgh to the Caribbean Islands and then to America. Part of the early wave of Scottish colonization, the pair visited family and friends who had already established themselves in the colonies. ""Journal of a Lady of Quality"" is Janet Schaw's account of this voyage through letters to a friend in Scotland. The letters describe the sights, scenery, and social life she encountered, but they also reveal the political atmosphere of an America on the verge of revolution. Stephen Carl Arch provides a new introduction for this Bison Books edition.
The Era Almanack
Author: Streets with a Story
Author: Eric A. WillatsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780951187104
Category : Islington (London, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Actors by Daylight
Author: Passages from the American Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne
Author: Nathaniel HawthornePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Mysteries of Police and Crime
Author: Arthur George Frederick GriffithsPublisher: Library of Alexandria
ISBN: 1465604197
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
ÊIt may be said that society itself creates the crimes that most beset it. If the good things of life were more evenly distributed, if everyone had his rights, if there were no injustice, no oppression, there would be no attempts to readjust an unequal balance by violent or flagitious means. There is some force in this, but it is very far from covering the whole ground, and it cannot excuse many forms of crime. Crime, indeed, is the birthmark of humanity, a fatal inheritance known to the theologians as original sin. Crime, then, must be constantly present in the community, and every son of Adam may, under certain conditions, be drawn into it. To paraphrase a great saying, some achieve crime, some have it thrust upon them; but most of us (we may make the statement without subscribing to all the doctrines of the criminal anthropologists) are born to crime. The assertion is as old as the hills; it was echoed in the fervent cry of pious John Bradford when he pointed to the man led out to execution, ÒThere goes John Bradford but for the grace of God!Ó Criminals are manufactured both by social cross-purposes and by the domestic neglect which fosters the first fatal predisposition. ÒAssuredly external factors and circumstances count for much in the causation of crime,Ó says Maudsley. The preventive agencies are all the more necessary where heredity emphasises the universal natural tendency. The taint of crime is all the more potent in those whose parentage is evil. The germ is far more likely to flourish into baleful vitality if planted by congenital depravity. This is constantly seen with the offspring of criminals. But it is equally certain that the poison may be eradicated, the evil stamped out, if better influences supervene betimes. Even the most ardent supporters of the theory of the Òborn criminalÓ admit that this, as some think, imaginary monster, although possessing all the fatal characteristics, does not necessarily commit crime. The bias may be checked; it may lie latent through life unless called into activity by certain unexpected conditions of time and chance. An ingenious refinement of the old adage, ÒOpportunity makes the thief,Ó has been invented by an Italian scientist, Baron Garofalo, who declares that Òopportunity only reveals the thiefÓ; it does not create the predisposition, the latent thievish spirit.
1972: the Future of Sex
Author: The Wardrobe EnsemblePublisher: Nick Hern Books
ISBN: 9781848428478
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A 60-minute devised romp through the ins and outs of those excellently awkward first sexual encounters.
Push Comes to Shove
Author: Twyla TharpPublisher: Bantam Books
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Issued to coincide with the Twyla Tharp-Mikhail Baryshnikov national tour, premier choreographer Twyla Tharp reveals her extraordinary odyssey that changed contemporary dance. She recounts her unique story, from her childhood to her training in classical ballet to her struggle to find her own vision. Photographs.
Painting Dublin, 1886-1949
Author: Kathryn MilliganPublisher:
ISBN: 9781526161185
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This book explores artists' visualisations of Dublin during a key period of the city's political and social history. Based on close and contextual readings of original paintings and prints, along with new archival research, it shows how artists in Ireland creatively responded to the urban environment where they lived and worked.