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  • SEAGOING
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    SEAGOING
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    "The great virtue of McCormick's memoirs is their blunt honesty. He writes with a persuasive directness about what happened to him and what he believes..."--Arts and Letters The title of John McCormick's autobiographical book, may be taken both literally and symbolically. In a literal sense, going to sea was an early and powerful ambition, while seagoing is also a metaphor for ...

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  • FICTION AS KNOWLEDGE
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    FICTION AS KNOWLEDGE
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    Critics of fiction have long been aware that the romantic movement in Europe and America gave a powerful impulse to the art of fiction. The exact nature of that impulse has resisted analysis like so much associated with romanticism. In Fiction as Knowledge John McCormick reaches for precision, proposing that much of the vitality of modern fiction derives from romantic conceptio...

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  • AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN LITERARY IMAGINATION
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    AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN LITERARY IMAGINATION
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    Western culture is composed of a subtle and complex mixture of influences: religious, philosophical, linguistic, political, social, and sociological. American culture is a particular strain, but unless European antecedents and contemporary leanings are duly noted, any resulting history is predestined to provincialism and distortion. In his account of American literature during ...

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  • CATASTROPHE AND IMAGINATION
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    CATASTROPHE AND IMAGINATION
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    Since World War II critics have been predicting the decline of the novel. This book argues that the novel is not dead. Looking at American and English fiction it claims that the novel can not only change the possibilities of art, but also contribute to awareness of life's possibilities. ...

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  • ANOTHER MUSIC
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    ANOTHER MUSIC
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    As the essays in this book attest, in a time of specialization John McCormick chose diversification, a choice determined by a life spent in many occupations and many countries. After his five years in the U. S. Navy in the Second World War, the academy beckoned by way of the G. I. Bill, graduate training, and a career in teaching. Prosperity in the American university at the ti...

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  • CARROTS, STICKS AND SERMONS
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    CARROTS, STICKS AND SERMONS
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    The literature on policy strategies, instruments, and styles is impressive. Still, a complex variety of theoretical and conceptual approaches and analytical tools hamper a good overview. Carrots, Sticks, and Sermons proposes such a framework for the field and clearly shows how public policy instruments are classified, packaged, and chosen, while highlighting the role evaluation...

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  • GEORGE SANTAYANA
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    GEORGE SANTAYANA
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth, George Santayana was a highly esteemed and widely read writer of philosophy, poetry, essays, memoirs, and even a best-selling novel, The Last Puritan. After a period of relative neglect, interest in his work has revived. A complete edited edition of his works is in progress and he has become the object of renewed ...

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  • BULLFIGHTING
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    BULLFIGHTING
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    Ernest Hemingway, best-known to layman and aficionado alike, in his fiction described bullfighting, or toreo, as a cross between romantic risk and a drunken party, or as an elaborate substitute for war, ending in wounds or death. Although his descriptions of the "beauty"in toreo are lyrical, they are short on imaginative creation of how such beauty, through techniques and disci...

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  • ACID EARTH
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    ACID EARTH
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    Acid rain was one of the major environmental issues of the 1980s. But while industrialized countries have taken measures to reduce the emissions that lead to acidification, the problems have not gone away. Trees are still dying, lakes are still being made uninhabitable; buildings are still corroding; and human health is still suffering. The most worrying trend is the repetition...

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  • BRITISH POLITICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
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    BRITISH POLITICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    Britain has an immense range of environmental law and the reputation for largely ignoring it. John McCormick describes the fascinating story of the political growth of that law, and the pressures, the compromises, the parliamentary and civil service opportunism that allowed the edifice to grow over the greater part of a century. He tells the story of the absolute change in poli...

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  • IMPROVING LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
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    IMPROVING LEARNING HOW TO LEARN
    MARY JAMES / ROBERT MCCORMICK / PAUL BLACK / PATRICK CARMICHAEL / MARY-JANE DRUMMOND / ALISON FOX / JOHN M
    Learning how to learn is an essential preparation for lifelong learning. Whilst this is widely acknowledged by teachers, they have lacked a rich professional knowledge base from which they can teach their pupils how to learn. This book makes a major contribution to the creation of such a professional knowledge base for teachers by building on previous work associated with ‘form...

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  • POPULAR THEATRES OF NINETEENTH CENTURY FRANCE
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    POPULAR THEATRES OF NINETEENTH CENTURY FRANCE
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    This is the only book to provide an account of how popular theatre developed from the fairground booths of the eighteenth century to become a vehicle of mass entertainment in the following century. Whereas other studies offer a traditional approach to the theatres of high culture, John McCormick takes the role of impartial historian, uncovering the popular theatres of the boule...

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  • THE PEOPLE'S PRINCES
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    THE PEOPLE'S PRINCES
    JOHN P. MCCORMICK
    A new window into Machiavelli’s idea of virtuous leadership and the appropriate relationship among leaders, common citizens, and elites. For more than a decade, John P. McCormick has been at the forefront of a new wave of scholarship that reveals the anti-elitist and democratic commitments at the center of Niccolo Machiavelli’s political thought. In The People’s Princes, McCorm...

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  • THE VICTORIAN MARIONETTE THEATRE
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    THE VICTORIAN MARIONETTE THEATRE
    JOHN MCCORMICK
    In this fascinating and colorful book, researcher and performer John McCormick focuses on the marionette world of Victorian Britain between its heyday after 1860 and its waning years from 1895 to 1914. Situating the rich and diverse puppet theatre in the context of entertainment culture, he explores both the aesthetics of these dancing dolls and their sociocultural significance...

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