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  • We Are Only Ghosts

    A Remarkable Novel of Survival in the Wake of WWII

    by Jeffrey L. Richards ...
    **An exhilarating, brutally candid saga about sexuality and war, tenderness and trauma, young passion and fierce hate, as a teenage boy’s unexpected, complicated relationship with a Nazi officer in a WWII death camp is resurrected in 1960s New York City.We Are Only Ghosts depicts queer desire against the horrors of death camps and the psychosis of those who got out alive—haunted forever by those ... Read more

    $12.89 CAD

  • Cyberspace and National Security

    Threats, Opportunities, and Power in a Virtual World

    by Derek S. Reveron, Patrick Jagoda, Herbert Lin, Steven Bucci, David P. Fidler, Richard B. Andres, Jeffrey R. Cooper, Chris C. Demchak, Brandon Valeriano, Ryan Maness0, James Joyner1, Nikolas K. Gvosdev2, Nigel Inkster3, John B. Sheldon4 ...
    In a very short time, individuals and companies have harnessed cyberspace to create new industries, a vibrant social space, and a new economic sphere that are intertwined with our everyday lives. At the same time, individuals, subnational groups, and governments are using cyberspace to advance interests through malicious activity. Terrorists recruit, train, and target through the Internet, hackers ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • We Are Only Ghosts: Sneak Peek

    by Jeffrey L. Richards ...
    **Be one of the first to read this sneak preview sample edition before the full length novel comes out!An extraordinary, emotionally intense novel spanning World War II Europe to 1960s New York City with an unsettling psychological edge, We Are Only Ghosts depicts not only the horrors of the death camps but the toll on those who survived—powered by a story of the unexpected, complicated connection ... Read more

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  • Sex, Dissidence and Damnation

    Minority Groups in the Middle Ages

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    For the authorities in medieval Europe, dissent struck at the roots of an ordered, settled world. It was to be crushed - initially by reason and argument, eventually by torture. Jeffrey Richards examines the wretched lives of heretics, witches, Jews, lepers and homosexuals and uncovers a common motive for their persecution: sexual aberrance. ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

  • From Peanut Farmer To President

    The Biography Life and Legacy of Jimmy Carter

    by Richard Jeffrey ...
    Series series Politics and celebrities books
    FROM PEANUT FARMER TO PRESIDENTRichard Jeffrey delivers yet another succinct and riveting account of Jimmy Carter, one of history's most fascinating characters.One of the most revered former presidents in the world, Jimmy Carter is the longest-living president in American history. President Carter, who helped broker a durable peace between Egypt and Israel while being driven by real conviction, ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Visions of Yesterday

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    Film is an important source of social history, as well as having been a popular art form from the early twentieth century. This study shows how a society, consciously or unconsciously, is mirrored in its cinema. It considers the role of the cinema in dramatizing popular beliefs and myths, and takes three case studies – American populism, British imperialism, German Nazism – to explain how a nation ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • The Golden Age of Pantomime

    Slapstick, Spectacle and Subversion in Victorian England

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Of all the theatrical genres most prized by the Victorians, pantomime is the only one to have survived continuously into the twenty-first century. It remains as true today as it was in the 1830s, that a visit to the pantomime constitutes the first theatrical experience of most children and now, as then, a successful pantomime season is the key to the financial health of most theatres. Everyone ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • The Lost Worlds of John Ford

    Beyond the Western

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    The great director John Ford (1894-1973) is best known for classic westerns, but his body of work encompasses much more than this single genre. Jeffrey Richards develops and broadens our understanding of Ford's film-making oeuvre by studying his non-Western films through the lens of Ford's life and abiding preoccupations. Ford's other cinematic worlds included Ireland, the Family, Catholicism, War ... Read more

    $47.49 CAD

  • Swordsmen of the Screen

    From Douglas Fairbanks to Michael York

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cinema
    This fascinating study of the genre of swashbuckling films received wide critical acclaim when it was first published in 1977. Jeffrey Richards assesses the contributions to the genre of directors, designers and fencing masters, as well as of the stars themselves, and devotes several chapters to the principal subjects if the swashbucklers – pirates, highwaymen, cavaliers and knights. The result is ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • China and the Chinese in Popular Film

    From Fu Manchu to Charlie Chan

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Cinema and Society
    There's a folk memory of China in which numberless yellow hordes pour out of the 'mysterious East' to overwhelm the vulnerable West, accompanied by a stereotype of the Chinese as cruel, cunning and depraved. Hollywood films played their part in perpetuating these myths and stereotypes that constituted 'The Yellow Peril'. Jeffrey Richards examines in detail how and why they did it. He shows how the ... Read more

    $49.69 CAD

  • Consul of God (Routledge Revivals)

    The Life and Times of Gregory the Great

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Gregory the Great, whose reign spanned the years between 590 and 604 A.D., was one of the most remarkable figures of the early medieval Papacy. Aristocrat, administrator, teacher and scholar, he ascended the throne of St Peter at a time of acute crisis for the Roman Church.Consul of God, first published in 1980, revises the traditional picture of Pope Gregory. It examines how he organised the ... Read more

    Was $83.81 CAD Now $74.19 CAD

  • The Popes and the Papacy in the Early Middle Ages (Routledge Revivals)

    476-752

    by Jeffrey Richards ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    There has been a tendency to the view the history of the early medieval papacy predominantly in ideological terms, which has resulted in the over-exaggeration of the idea of the papal monarchy. In this study, first published in 1979, Jeffrey Richards questions this view, arguing that whilst the papacy’s power and responsibility grew during the period under discussion, it did so by a series of ... Read more

    $126.41 CAD