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Excerpt from The Illinois Central Heritage, 1851-1951: A Centenary AddressThey recommended, I nominated, and The Board elected Wayne Johnston President of the Illinois Cen tral Railroad, on February 23rd 1945.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology...

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This wide-ranging study starts with an analysis of the late-medieval church, the book then charts the progress of reform and the impact of the Reformation.

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Managing a software development project is a complex process. There are lots of deliverables to produce, standards and procedures to observe, plans and budgets to meet, and different people to manage. Project management doesn't just start and end with designing and building the system. Once you've specified, designed and built (or bought) the system it still needs to be properly tested, documented and settled into the live environment. This ca...

Illuminates the ways we link language, loss, history and memory. This work features two major poems namely "The Sunflower", and "Les Baillessats".

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Solitude, solace, and consolation are among the themes explored in this poetry collection that considers the ways that language, loss, history, and memory are linked together. The centerpieces of this collection are two major poems--"Les Baillessats, " a relaxed, sunny poem written for a newborn son, and "The Sunflower, " an elegy for a father that is a technically dazzling extended meditation on death, family, and religious faith.

This unique collection of essays explores medieval and early modern Troilus-texts from Chaucer to Shakespeare, looking at the powerful potential of emotions to shape and critique complex notions of temporality and textuality. The contributors show how medieval and early modern fictions of Troy use love (and other emotions generated and absorbed by love) as a means of approaching the past and the problem of tradition. Because of the long textua...

Jeder kennt Robin Hood, den Rebell aus dem Sherwood Forest. Dieses Buch erzählt die Geschichte seiner Legende. Seit dem Mittelalter kursieren Erzählungen über ihn und sie haben sich bis in die heutige Populärkultur fortgesetzt. Zahlreiche Kinofilme zeigen seine Taten immer wieder in neuem Licht. Doch gab es ihn, den "wahren", den "historischen" Robin Hood? Andrew James Johnston begibt sich auf die Spuren dieses Helden, dessen Bild die Zeiten ü...

Until recently, the critical reception of historical fiction was dominated by two theoretical paradigms: György Lukács's Marxist view and Linda Hutcheon's concept of 'historiographic metafiction'. We are now entering a new phase as the discussion of the historical novel is rapidly becoming more inclusive, more tolerant and, above all, more diverse. It is before the backdrop of these changes in the critical debate that the contributions to this...

This book (hardcover) is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from...

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. W...

This collection of essays on a broad variety of issues from the fields of English and Germanic historical linguistics as well as medieval English culture and literature celebrates the distinguished career of Klaus Dietz. Despite pursuing different interests and employing different methodologies, the contributions all share a serious commitment to the fundamental importance of texts for the inquiry into the history of language, culture and lite...

Ein spannendes Epochengemälde aus dem glanzvollen 18. Jahrhundert Was für ein Geheimnis macht den Fürsten Talleyrand so unbesiegbar? Brillant, charmant und undurchdringlich ist er der Drahtzieher am glänzenden Hof von Versailles, denn er kennt das Vermächtnis der Bourbonen. Es geht zurück auf ein riskantes Abenteuer, das einst die Krone Frankreichs rettete. Auf seinem Weg zur Macht setzt Talleyrand immer wieder die Drohung ein, dieses Wissen ...

Die eine ist mit dem mächtigsten Mann Roms verheiratet: Calpurnia, Caesars Frau. Die andere ist seine Geliebte: Kleopatra, Ägyptens Königin. Als Kleopatra in Rom erscheint, muss nicht nur Calpurnia um ihren Ehemann bangen, denn die schöne Kleopatra verfolgt ihre Ziele mit eisernem Blick. Da erfährt Calpurnia, dass man plant, ihren Mann zu ermorden ... Ein spannender historischer Roman um Intrigen, Liebe und Leidenschaft, der einen ganz neuen ...