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  • The Three Estates

    A Pleasant Satire in Commendation of Virtue and in Vituperation of Vice

    by Nigel Mace ...
    This is the first ever English translation of Sir David Lindsay’s masterpiece of 16th-century Scottish political theatre, Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis in Commendatioun of Vertew and Vituperatioune of Vyce. The work’s importance lies in its status as a well-known piece of national literature, and as a historical document of interest to historians of Scottish and European court politics ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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    The "I" of Leadership

    Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing

    by Nigel Nicholson ...
    Narrated by Mace Colin ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 56 min

    Nigel Nicholson explains the emergence of leaders in different epochs and cultures. His approach is rooted in evolutionary science and the latest thinking about how cultures and leadership co-evolve over time and place. The essence of leadership is the successful crafting of an identity that merges the leader and the surrounding culture or zeitgeist. The I of leadership is this merger of ... Read more

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  • The Bourgeois

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  • Sexagon

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  • The Historical Novel, Transnationalism, and the Postmodern Era

    Presenting the Past

    by Susan Brantly ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Comparative Literature
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  • Playful Intelligence

    Digitizing Tradition

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    Narrative Forms of Global Isolation

    by Dr Jeanne-Marie Jackson ...
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  • Other Country

    Barry Lopez and the Community of Artists

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    The award-winning American environmental writer Barry Lopez has traveled extensively in remote and populated parts of the world. Lopez’s fiction and nonfiction focus on the relationship between the physical landscape and human culture, posing abiding questions about ethics, intimacy, and place.Other Country presents a full-scale treatment of Lopez’s work. James Perrin Warren examines the ... Read more

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  • Text/Events in Early Modern England

    Poetics of History

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