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  • THE MAKING OF A MARXIST PHILOSOPHER
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    THE MAKING OF A MARXIST PHILOSOPHER
    SEAN SAYERS
    The Making of a Marxist Philosopher is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from renowned Marxist philosopher Sean Sayers. His father was the son of a Jewish-Irish businessman who was a friend of Michael Collins and other leaders in the Irish struggle for independence. He became a writer who was given his first job by T. S. Eliot, shared a flat with Geo...

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  • THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT THE BELLONA CLUB
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    THE UNPLEASANTNESS AT THE BELLONA CLUB
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    When General Fentiman is found dead in his armchair at the exclusive Bellona Club, what seems like a peaceful passing soon unravels into a perplexing mystery that only the astute Lord Peter Wimsey can untangle. As he navigates through a web of family secrets, financial intrigue, and wartime memories, Wimsey uncovers a trail that leads him to question the very nature of honor an...

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  • CLOUDS OF WITNESS
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    CLOUDS OF WITNESS
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    When Lord Peter Wimsey's brother, the Duke of Denver, stands accused of murder, the aristocratic sleuth must navigate a labyrinth of secrets, lies, and hidden motives to uncover the truth. Set against the backdrop of the English countryside, "Clouds of Witness" by Dorothy L. Sayers masterfully intertwines elements of mystery and social commentary, exploring themes of justice, h...

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  • LORD PETER VIEWS THE BODY
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    LORD PETER VIEWS THE BODY
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    In "Lord Peter Views the Body," Dorothy L. Sayers presents a collection of twelve captivating short stories featuring the astute and charming Lord Peter Wimsey. Each tale showcases his unparalleled detective skills as he navigates through a series of perplexing mysteries, from eerie disappearances to baffling murders. Sayers masterfully blends wit, intellect, and suspense, crea...

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  • UNNATURAL DEATH
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    UNNATURAL DEATH
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    Unnatural Death is a mystery novel written by Dorothy L. Sayers and published in 1927. The story is centered around the suspicious death of an elderly lady named Miss Agatha Dawson, who appeared to die of natural causes but had made a remark suggesting she may have been murdered. Lord Peter Wimsey, a wealthy amateur detective, becomes interested in the case and begins to invest...

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  • A MANUAL OF CHILDREN'S LIBRARIES
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    A MANUAL OF CHILDREN'S LIBRARIES
    W.C. BERWICK SAYERS
    This book, first published in 1932, is a guide to the details required of a successful children’s library, not just the books and catalogue, but also the different staffing needs of a collection aimed purely at children. ...

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  • LIBRARY LOCAL COLLECTIONS
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    LIBRARY LOCAL COLLECTIONS
    W.C. BERWICK SAYERS
    This book, first published in 1939, looks at the collecting, conserving and use of the materials of local history, collected in local libraries. It examines the methods of arranging, cataloguing and displaying such materials as prints, photographs and maps, as well as official papers, manuscripts and letters. ...

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  • SIGMUND FREUD
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    SIGMUND FREUD
    JANET SAYERS
    Sigmund Freud: The Basics is an easy-to-read introduction to the life and ideas of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis and a key figure in the history of psychology. Janet Sayers provides an accessible overview of Freud’s early life and work, beginning with his childhood. Her book includes the stories of his most famous patients: Dora, Little Hans, the Rat Man, Judge S...

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  • WHOSE BODY?
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    WHOSE BODY?
    DOROTHY LEIGH SAYERS
    The stark naked body was lying in the tub. Not unusual for a proper bath, but highly irregular for murder -- especially with a pair of gold pince-nez deliberately perched before the sightless eyes. What's more, the face appeared to have been shaved after death. The police assumed that the victim was a prominent financier, but Lord Peter Wimsey, who dabbled in mystery detection ...

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  • THE PROMISE OF NOSTALGIA
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    THE PROMISE OF NOSTALGIA
    NICOLA SAYERS
    The Promise of Nostalgia analyses a range of texts – including The Virgin Suicides, both the novel by Jeffrey Eugenides’ and Sofia Coppola’s screen adaptation, photography of Detroit’s ‘abandoned spaces’, and blogger Tavi Gevinson's media output – to explore nostalgia as a prominent affect in contemporary American cultural production. Counter to the prevalent caricature of nost...

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  • BOY CRAZY
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    BOY CRAZY
    JANET SAYERS
    In answering these questions, Janet Sayers highlights the revolution wrought in both sexes' psychology by adolescence, particularly by its fantasies of divided selves and loves and of 'boy crazy' grandiosity and romance. Illustrated throughout with fascinating examples from a groundbreaking study of adolescent memories and dreams, Boy Crazy presents an engaging account of this ...

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  • THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MEDIA STUDIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES
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    THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO MEDIA STUDIES AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES
    JENTERY SAYERS
    Although media studies and digital humanities are established fields, their overlaps have not been examined in depth. This comprehensive collection fills that gap, giving readers a critical guide to understanding the array of methodologies and projects operating at the intersections of media, culture, and practice. Topics include: access, praxis, social justice, design, interac...

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  • ART, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND ADRIAN STOKES
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    ART, PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND ADRIAN STOKES
    JANET SAYERS
    Illustrated with Barbara Hepworth's abstract stone carving, with other works of art, and with fascinating vignettes from Adrian Stokes's writing, this biography highlights his revolutionary emphasis on the materials-led inspiration of architecture, sculpture, painting, and the avant-garde creations of the Ballets Russes. In also detailing Stokes's role as catalyst of the transf...

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  • SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH
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    SOCIOLINGUISTIC RESEARCH
    ROBERT LAWSON AND DAVE SAYERS
    Shortlisted for the LSA Leonard Bloomfield Book Award 2017 Sociolinguistic Research: Application and Impact provides a unique overview of international research projects, showcasing their positive outcomes and offering critical insights and constructive critiques into the meaning of ‘impact’ in contemporary research. The book includes: original findings from cutting-edge resear...

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  • FREUD'S ART - PSYCHOANALYSIS RETOLD
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    FREUD'S ART - PSYCHOANALYSIS RETOLD
    JANET SAYERS
    In Freud's Art – Psychoanalysis Retold Janet Sayers provides a refreshing new introduction to psychoanalysis by retelling its story through art. She does this by bringing together experts from psychoanalysis, art history, and art education to show how art and psychoanalysis illuminate each other. Freud's Art begins with major founders of psychoanalysis - Freud, Jung, Spielrein ...

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  • THE LORD PETER WIMSEY MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
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    THE LORD PETER WIMSEY MYSTERIES VOLUME ONE
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    A special edition of the first three classic mysteries featuring British aristocrat and sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey. A gentleman needs hobbies. For Lord Peter Wimsey—a Great War veteran with a touch of shell shock—collecting rare books, sampling fine wines, and catching criminals help pass the time. In Whose Body?, a dead man wearing nothing but a pince-nez is found in the bathtub...

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  • MRS. SIGOURNEY OF HARTFORD
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    MRS. SIGOURNEY OF HARTFORD
    EDNA EDITH SAYERS / DIANA MOORE
    Lydia Huntley was born in 1791 in Norwich, CT, the only child of a poor Revolutionary war veteran. But her father’s employer, a wealthy widow, gave young Lydia the run of her library and later sent her for visits to Hartford, CT. After teaching at her own school for several years in Norwich, Lydia returned to Hartford to head a class of 15 girls from the best families. Among he...

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  • WHOSE BODY?
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    WHOSE BODY?
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    In the debut mystery in Dorothy L. Sayers's acclaimed Lord Peter Wimsey series, the case of a dead bather draws Lord Peter into the first of many puzzling mysteries Lord Peter Wimsey spends his days tracking down rare books, and his nights hunting killers. Though the Great War has left his nerves frayed with shellshock, Wimsey continues to be London's greatest sleuth—and he's a...

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  • MARXISM AND HUMAN NATURE
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    MARXISM AND HUMAN NATURE
    SEAN SAYERS
    Is there such a thing as human nature? Here Sean Sayers defends the controversial theory that human nature is in fact an historical phenomenon. He gives an ambitious and wide ranging defence of the Marxist and Hegelian historical approach and engages with a wide range of work at the heart of the contemporary debate in social and moral philosophy. ...

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  • ENGELS REVISITED (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
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    ENGELS REVISITED (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    SAYERS, JANET / EVANS, MARY / REDCLIFT, NANNEKE
    This reissued work, first published in 1987, examines the problematic and divisive attitudes which bourgeois and socialist feminists take to the question of the links between patriarchy and capitalism and the importance of class conflict as a major cause of women's subordination. Engels still occcupies a central role in this debate and feminists writing in the hundred years sin...

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  • MANAGING SPORT AND LEISURE FACILITIES
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    MANAGING SPORT AND LEISURE FACILITIES
    PHILIP SAYERS
    Concise and thoroughly detailed Managing Sport and Leisure Facilities is a clean operating guide to leisure management by contract, providing expert advice for both contractor and client. The author includes extracts from the relevant legislation and tender documents, and shows you how to submit a winning tender. He provides guidance on how to carry out customer surveys and als...

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  • OUTCASTS AND ANGELS
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    OUTCASTS AND ANGELS
    EDNA EDITH SAYERS
    In 1976, Trent Batson and Eugene Bergman released their classic Angels and Outcasts: An Anthology of Deaf Characters in Literature. In it, they featured works from the 19th and 20th centuries by well-known authors such as Charles Dickens and Eudora Welty. They also presented less-well-known deaf authors, and they prefaced each excerpt with remarks on context, societal perceptio...

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  • BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON
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    BUSMAN'S HONEYMOON
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    In this installment of the "literate and delightful" Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries, Harriet Vane's honeymoon with the dapper British detective is marred by murder ( Chicago Tribune ). It took several near-death experiences for Lord Peter Wimsey to convince Harriet Vane to be his wife, but she has finally relented. When the dapper detective marries Britain's most popular mystery a...

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  • CLOUDS OF WITNESS
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    CLOUDS OF WITNESS
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    Lord Peter Wimsey is shocked by the news that his own brother has been arrested for murder: "First-rate" ( Chicago Sun-Times ). After three months in Corsica, Lord Peter Wimsey has begun to forget that the gray, dangerous moors of England ever existed. But traveling through Paris, he receives a shock that jolts him back to reality. He sees it in the headlines splashed across ev...

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  • THE FIVE RED HERRINGS
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    THE FIVE RED HERRINGS
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    "Beyond question one of the most skillful mystery writers . . . offers a first rate piece of work. . . . Lord Peter Wimsey [is] at his amusing best. . . . The book is a treat" ( The New York Times ). The majestic landscape of the Scottish coast has attracted artists and fishermen for centuries. In the idyllic village of Kirkcudbright, every resident and visitor has two things i...

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  • GAUDY NIGHT
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    GAUDY NIGHT
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    Oxford is full of memories—and threats of murder—for Harriet Vane and Lord Peter Wimsey in this mystery that "stands out even among Miss Sayers's novels" ( The Times Literary Supplement ). Since she graduated from Oxford's Shrewsbury College, Harriet Vane has found fame by writing novels about ingenious murders. She also won infamy when she was accused of committing a murder he...

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  • HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY
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    HANGMAN'S HOLIDAY
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg confront menaces from purloined pearls to poisoned port in tales from "one of the greatest mystery story writers" ( Los Angeles Times ). In the annals of mystery writing, Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg are among the most memorable detectives. Lord Peter—noble by birth, brilliant by nature—is a fly in the ointment of criminals across Britai...

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  • HAVE HIS CARCASE
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    HAVE HIS CARCASE
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane investigate a dead body on the beach in this "nearly perfect detective story" by the author of Busman's Honeymoon ( Saturday Review ). Harriet Vane has gone on vacation to forget her recent murder trial and, more importantly, to forget the man who cleared her name—the dapper, handsome, and maddening Lord Peter Wimsey. She is alone on a beach w...

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  • IN THE TEETH OF THE EVIDENCE
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    IN THE TEETH OF THE EVIDENCE
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    An irresistible collection of "truly remarkable" stories from the master of classic mysteries, featuring Lord Peter Wimsey and Montague Egg ( The New York Times). Most noblemen would prefer to avoid a charred corpse in a garage. But Lord Peter Wimsey has never seen such a body, and cannot resist the opportunity when it comes along. The corpse is burned beyond recognition, but t...

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  • LORD PETER VIEWS THE BODY
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    LORD PETER VIEWS THE BODY
    DOROTHY L. SAYERS
    A dozen whodunits to challenge the ingenious British aristocrat and sleuth—from "one of the greatest mystery story writers" ( Los Angeles Times ). Some aristocrats spend their lives shooting, but Lord Peter Wimsey is a hunter of a different kind: a bloodhound with a nose for murder. Before he became Britain's most famous detective, Lord Peter contented himself with solving the ...

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