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  • ABIDING DARKNESS

    originally published as Black or White

    by JOHN AUBREY ANDERSON ...
    Series Book 1 - THE BLACK OR WHITE CHRONICLES
    Abiding Darkness is Christian fiction… part suspense, part thriller, part romance. Set in Mississippi cotton country, the story anchors itself in the relationship between two children.It’s 1945… and the war in Europe has just ended.Missy Parker is the crown princess of the Parker family. At seven years of age she’s beautiful, wealthy, willful, and tough as a tractor tire. Junior Washington is an ... Read more

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  • Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects

    by John Aubrey ...
    "Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects" is a collection of essays and reflections by John Aubrey, a notable 17th-century English antiquary and biographer. The work showcases Aubrey's diverse interests, ranging from natural history to folklore, and provides a unique glimpse into the intellectual landscape of his time. His engaging prose and keen observations reveal the curiosities of the world around ... Read more

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  • Scientific Lives

    by John Aubrey ...
    Series series Hesperus Classics
    "The honourable Robert Boyle esq., the son of Richard Boyle, the first Earl of Cork, was born at Lismore in the county of Cork. He was nursed by an Irish nurse, after the Irish manner, where they put the child in a pendulous satchel instead of a cradle, with a slit for the child' s head to peep out." This new selection from John Aubrey' s enormous work of 17th-century biography, Brief Lives, ... Read more

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  • Transmutations

    by John Aubrey ...
    Gods and monsters live in and around us, they are passed from generation to generation through stories of romance and adventure and warnings against the night. Sometimes cruel, often loving, these stories are windows into worlds at once strange and personal. ... Read more

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  • Black Seraphim

    by John Aubrey ...
    Mama tries to save her daughter from a marriage that has killed her two sons. An angel black with the names of his petitioners hears her pleas and offers her salvation at a price, since no prayer is answered without a cost…. ... Read more

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  • Aubrey's Brief Lives: A Selection

    by John Aubrey ...
    'I here lay down to you the truth, and nothing but the truth: the naked and plain truth, which is here exposed so bare that the very pudenda are not covered, and affords many passages that would raise a blush in a young virgin's cheek.' The Langley Press edition includes the lives of Aubrey's most famous subjects, including Shakespeare, Chaucer, Milton and Sir Walter Ralegh. This selection ... Read more

    $3.21 USD

  • Delphi Collected Works of John Aubrey Illustrated

    by John Aubrey ...
    Series Book 20 - Delphi Series Fifteen
    The antiquarian and biographer John Aubrey is best known for vivid, intimate and at times acerbic sketches of his famous seventeenth century contemporaries. His celebrated ‘Brief Lives’ are not biographies in the strict sense, being based on observation and gossip, offering engaging portraits that are graced by picturesque and revealing detail. Winning great acclaim with later generations, they ... Read more

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  • The Classic Collection of John Aubrey. Illustrated

    The Natural History of Wiltshire, Miscellanies, Brief Live

    by John Aubrey ...
    This beautifully illustrated volume brings together the essential works of John Aubrey — 17th-century English antiquary, biographer, and eccentric observer of the world — in one definitive collection. With a unique voice that blends curiosity, wit, and a pioneering spirit, Aubrey offers a remarkable window into the people, places, and superstitions of his time. Included in this collection: The ... Read more

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  • The Natural History of Wiltshire

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Rich Natural and Historical Landscape of Wiltshire

    by John Aubrey, Brooke Sellers ...
    In "The Natural History of Wiltshire," John Aubrey presents a meticulously detailed exploration of the geological and historical fabric of Wiltshire. Written in the 17th century and characterized by its captivating blend of anecdotal narrative and scientific observation, the work offers insights into the region's flora, fauna, and antiquities. Aubrey's literary style reflects the burgeoning of ... Read more

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  • Aubrey's Brief Lives: Thomas Hobbes

    by John Aubrey, Simon Webb, William Duggan ...
    Series series Aubrey's Brief Lives
    'When he was at Florence he contracted a friendship with the famous Galileo Galileo, whom he extremely venerated and magnified; and not only as he was a prodigious wit, but for his sweetness of nature and manners.They pretty well resembled one another as to their countenances, as by their pictures doth appear; were both cheerful and melancholic-sanguine; and had both a consimility of fate, to be ... Read more

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  • Aubrey's Brief Lives: The Elizabethans

    by John Aubrey ...
    Aubrey tells us that from an early age he liked to talk to old people, ‘as living histories’. Since the biographer was born in 1626, many of the human chronicles he consulted would have had fresh memories of the Elizabethan age.This selection, the second from the Langley Press, covers the most famous Elizabethans John Aubrey wrote about, who were not included in 'Aubrey's Brief Lives: A Selection' ... Read more

    $1.61 USD

  • Neo-nationalism and Universities

    Populists, Autocrats, and the Future of Higher Education

    Edited by John Aubrey Douglass ...
    The rise of neo-nationalism is having a profound and troubling impact on leading national universities and the societies they serve. This is the first comparative study of how today's right-wing populist movements and authoritarian governments are threatening higher education.Universities have long been at the forefront of both national development and global integration. But the political and ... Read more

    $43.49 USD