Samuel Shaw

Immanuel Or True Religion, a Living Principle in the Minds of Men, and Welcome to Affliction

Comparing English with Latin. With a Comment for the Use of Riper Years; Containing the Elegancies, and Explaining the Difficult Phrases and Idioms, which Ar Peculiar to the Latin. Fitted to the Sense of the Learned Oxford-commentators Upon Lilly's Grammar

Grammatica Anglo-Romana: Or, A Syncritical Grammar, Teaching English Youth the Latin Tongue by Few and Easie Rules

Helen Cowie

Charles Avery

Robert Wenley

The forgotten story of the rhinoceros Miss Clara, the most famous animal of the eighteenth century. "Miss Clara" arrived in Europe from the Dutch East Indies in 1741 and was toured around Europe to huge acclaim and excitement. The first rhinoceros to be seen on mainland Europe since 1579, Clara quickly became an object of great wonder and affection. Her fame generated a massive industry in souvenirs and imagery, from life-size paintings by major masters to cheap popular prints. There were even Clara-inspired clocks and hairstyles. This book brings us the story of the phenomenon of Clara, with a particular focus on three-dimensional representations of her, set within the context of other celebrity pachyderms represented by artists between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. At the core of the book is a small bronze statue of Miss Clara held by the Barber Museum, where it is a favorite of visitors. Accompanying essays put the works in their proper historical and artistic context.

Miss Clara and the Celebrity Beast in Art 1500-1860

Sarah Shaw

Naomi Carle

Edwardian Culture: Beyond the Garden Party is the first truly interdisciplinary collection of essays dealing with culture in Britain c.1895-1914. Bringing together essays on literature, art, politics, religion, architecture, marketing, and imperial history, the study highlights the extent to which the culture and politics of Edwardian period were closely intertwined. The book builds upon recent scholarship that seeks to reclaim the term ‘Edwardian’ from prevalent, restrictive usages by venturing beyond the garden party – and the political rally – to uncover some of the terrain that lies between. The essays in the volume – which deal with both famous writers such as J. M. Barrie and Arnold Bennett, as well as many lesser-known figures – draw attention to the nuanced multiplicity of experience and cultural forms that existed during the period, and highlight the ways in which a closer examination of Edwardian culture complicates our definitions of ‘Victorian’ and ‘Modern’. The book argues that the Edwardian era, rather than constituting a coda to the Victorian period or a languid pause before modernism shook things up, possessed a compelling and creative tenor of its own.

Beyond the Garden Party

Edwardian Culture

Grammatica Anglo-Romana: Or, A Syncritical Grammar, Teaching English Youth the Latin Tongue by Few and Easy Rules, Comparing English with Latin

Christopher Plumb

Common and exotic, glamorous and ferocious, sociable and sullen: zebras mean many things to many people. But one facet of zebras universally fascinates: their stripes. The extraordinary beauty of zebras’ striped coats has ensured their status as one of the world’s most recognizable and popular animals. Zebra print is everywhere in contemporary society—on beanbags and bikinis, car seats and pencil cases. Many zoos house a zebra or two, and they are a common feature of children’s books and films. Zebras have been immortalized in paint by artists, including George Stubbs and Lucian Freud, and they even have a road crossing named after them. But despite their ubiquity, the natural and cultural history of zebras remain a mystery to most. Zebra is the most comprehensive and wide-ranging survey ever published of the natural and cultural history of this cherished animal, exploring its biology and cultural relevance in Africa and beyond. Few know that there are three species of zebra (plains, mountain, and Grévy's), that one of these is currently endangered, or that among the many subspecies was once found the quagga, an animal that once roamed southern Africa in large numbers before dying out in the 1880s. Drawing on a range of examples as dizzying as the zebra’s stripes, this book shows how the zebra’s history engages and intersects with subjects as diverse and rich as eighteenth-century humor, imperialism, and technologies of concealment. Including more than one hundred illustrations, many previously unpublished, Zebra offers a new perspective on this much-loved, much-depicted, but frequently misunderstood animal.

Zebra

Or, The Business of a Christian ... Represented in Several Sermons, Under the Following Titles, Viz. A Welcome to the Plague, A Farewel to Life, The Angelic Life

The Voice of One Crying in a Wilderness

Both Antecedaneous To, Concomitant Of, and Consequent Upon, a Sore and Heavy Visitation; Represented in Several Sermons. First, Preach'd to His Own Family, Lying Under Such Visitation: and Now Made Publick as a Thank-offering to the Lord His Healer. By S.S. a Servant of God in the Gospel of His Son

The Voice of One Crying in a Wilderness. Or, The Business of a Christian

The Voice of One Crying in a Wilderness. Or, the Business of a Christian, Both Antecedaneous To, Concomitant Of, and Consequent Upon, a Sore and Heavy Visitation: Represented in Several Sermons ... By S. S. a Servant of God in the Gospel of His Son [i.e. Samuel Shaw].

The Voice of one crying in the Wilderness; or, the business of a Christian both antecedaneous to, concomitant of, and consequent upon, a sore and heavy visitation, represented in several sermons

Defense Procurement and Research Authorization, 1961-1968

The House Armed Services Committee

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Immanuel. Or, a discovery of true Religion as it imports a living principle in the minds of Men, grounded upon Christ's Discourse with the Samaritaness ... Being the latter clause of The Voice crying in a Wilderness; or a continuation of the Angelical Life ... By S. S. [i.e. Samuel Shaw.] Few MS. notes

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