Dr Alan G Smith (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 28 pages. Illustrated. Edwin A Dawes "A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities No.69 Dr.Francis G Benedict" / Stanley Watson "Watson / Morse Code" / S H Sharpe "Through Magic-Coloured Spectacles" / This Is Your Life - Cyril Golding" / G E Arrow smith "Many are Better than One!" / John Henry Grossman "Americana" (VM10).…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of Hardyan Folk Horror. Hardys novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardys Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of Englands rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardys world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat. "Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particular his rarely examined short fiction) and its adaptations as foundational in the development of folk horror in literature, film and television"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Condition: New. A new detailed international geologic time scale, including methodology and a wallchart. Editor(s): Gradstein, Felix M. (Universitetet i Oslo); Ogg, Dr. James G.; Smith, Alan G. Num Pages: 610 pages, 164 b/w illus. 24 colour illus. 63 tables. BIC Classification: RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 221 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1842. . 2005. 3rd ed. paperback. . . . . …

Condition: New. A new detailed international geologic time scale, including methodology and a wallchart. Editor(s): Gradstein, Felix M. (Universitetet i Oslo); Ogg, Dr. James G.; Smith, Alan G. Num Pages: 610 pages, 164 b/w illus. 24 colour illus. 63 tables. BIC Classification: RBG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 276 x 221 x 43. Weight in Grams: 1842. . 2005. 3rd ed. paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 68 pages. Features: Ford Motor Company ad inside front cover illustrates their manufacture of war materials; News digest includes the war in the air, an aerial 'second front', the Wendell Willkie Reports, and no 'fifth column' in Moscow; Editorial on the overseas cigarette muddle; Lew Hayman Looks at Football Stars - photo-illustrated article documents the outstanding players of the last decade; Fantastic Tomorrow - futuristic illustrated article on designs/architecture of tomorrow; Swan Song in Satin (short story); He Would Know About Beezy (short story); I Once Had a Heart (short story); Canada's Airlined Youth - photo-illustrated article on the training of Canadian Air Cadets, including photos of Air Marshal W.A. Bishop and Wing Commander D.R. (Don) MacLaren; A Man's Castle (short story); Hollywood news and photos; Land of Wish-It-Were (poem by a grasshopper); Prestone anti-freeze one-page ad includes nice illustration of horse-drawn sleigh; Canadian General Electric ad says "Eat Right. Keep Right"; Royal Canadian Air Force (R.C.A.F.) Air Crew one-page recruiting ad shows "A Veteran at 20!"; Rare one-page Canada Starch company one-page ad features article of saluting housewife in apron and title "Canada's Housoldiers are Serving the Nation"; Woodbury Soap one-page ad features photos of Betty Cordon; Pepsodent ad features photos of drum majorettes Charlene and Shirley; Beautiful one-page colour-photo-illustrated Woodbury Cold Cream ad features Ilona Massey in bed; Article on beauty and fashions; Woodbury Powder one-page ad features nice colour photo of Georgia Carroll; Fashion illustrations; Quotes from around the world; Colour Victory Bond ad inside back cover with title "Mother Budgets Our Future Now"; Nice back cover colour ad for Wabasso Cottons. and more. Unmarked with average wear. A worthy copy of this excellent wartime issue. Smith, Hall (cover); Warner, Charles; Franklin, Gerry; Quigley, Ray; Carstairs, Alan (illustrator). …

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 40 pages. Features: Illustrated Oxydol detergent ad; News digest includes 'what disappeared in 1941, 'the end of U.S. Neutrality', American labor quarrels', 'the Roosevelt touch', 'price-ceiling and inflation', and 'Rt. Hon. Arthur Meighen returns'; Anglo-American Link - photo-illustrated article on Viscountess Astor, M.P., who unites Britain with the U.S. by unique social gifts and will-power; Five Course Dinner (short story); The Corpse Wore a Derby (short story); Diamonds for Victory - photo-illustrated article suggests diamonds are 'cutting Hitler's throat'; By Midnight December Thirty-First (short story); The Marquis of Medicine Hat (continuation); Lana Turner photo in Woodbury Powder ad; Recipe section; From the Neck Up - beauty article with photos of seven Hollywood stars; Colourful patriotic back cover General Motors of Canada ad includes lyrics to the national anthem; and more. Unmarked with average wear. A sound copy of this excellent wartime issue. Taylor, G. Morris; Carstairs, Alan; Clymer, John F.; Lewicki; Smith, Ralph C.; Smith, Ralph (illustrator).…

Single Issue Magazine. Condition: Good. First Edition. 64 pages. Features: Cover photo of "Dr. Weir's Young Men" manning guns on ship; Great Ford Motor Company of Canada colour ad inside front cover shows their heavy vehicles at use on the fighting front and on the home front; Nice colour half-page Ritz crackers ad shows male and female members of Canada's forces and encourages readers to invite them to their homes; Interesting comments by Dr. H.L. Stewart as speculation over invasion of continental Europe rises; Photo of Lieut.-General H.D.G. Crerar; One-page colour illustration of frigate H.M.C.S. Swansea by Gordon Grant; One-page ad for Sisman Shoes of Aurora, Ontario highlights their desire to 'make your new shoes'; Telling the Score - article on Canada's Wartime Information Board with photos of Davidson Dunton and John Grierson; All Fixed for Saturday (short story); Canada Catches On - photo-illustrated article explains how wartime production has brought a flood of new technical and manufacturing knowledge to Canada; Maypole on Ice (short story); A Time for Tact (short story); Maggie Make-Believe; Dr. George Weir's Young Men - Lt.-Col. Donald Hugh Williams is Army Venereal Disease (V.D.) Control Officer, Dr. George F. Davidson is head of the Canadian Welfare Council, Flt.-Lt. James Sinclair, Canada's beloved soldier-politician (Grandfather of Justin Trudeau), and Captain Iann Eisenhardt, National Director of Physical Fitness for the Dept. of P.& N.R.; Hollywood Report; Aewsome two-colour centrefold Victory Bond ad features huge caption "Invasion" and illustration foreshadowing the imminent massive invasion of continental Europe (D-Day); Time Stops in Italy - photo-illustrated article on the "downtrodden race" of Italians; Attractive colour one-page Dunlop Fort tire ad shows their logo with sunbeams bearing down on the fruited plain behind; Kitchen article entitled "The Cupboard is Bare"; Nice Swift Canadian one-page colour ad features advice from Martha Logan; Great one-page colour GM ad features illustration of their 6-pounder anti-tank gun in use, with ominous black background; Fashion illustrations and article entitled 'Weddings and War Brides'; Woodbury Powder ad features lovely colour photo of Judy Garland; World Sayings; Nice colour recruiting ad inside back cover for Canadian Women's Army Corps (C.W.A.C.) is titled "New Faces - New Places" and shows ladies visiting attractive foreign site; Colour back cover for Old Dutch cleanser shows long row of shiny silver pots; and more. Average wear. A sound vintage copy of this sensational wartime issue. Grant, Gordon; Holmgren, John; Jousset, Albert D.; Russell, Alan; Leake, Gerald Franklin; (illustrator).…

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of Hardyan Folk Horror. Hardys novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardys Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of Englands rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardys world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat. "Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particular his rarely examined short fiction) and its adaptations as foundational in the development of folk horror in literature, film and television"-- This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of Hardyan Folk Horror. Hardys novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardys Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of Englands rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardys world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat. "Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particular his rarely examined short fiction) and its adaptations as foundational in the development of folk horror in literature, film and television"-- This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition takes the uncanny and unsettling fiction of Thomas Hardy as fundamental in examining the lineage of Hardyan Folk Horror. Hardys novels and his short fiction often delve into a world of folklore and what was, for Hardy the recent past. Hardys Wessex plays out tensions between the rational and irrational, the pagan and the Christian, the past and the 'enlightened' future. Examining these tensions in Hardy's life and his work provides a foundation for exploring the themes that develop in the latter half of the 20th century and again in the 21st century into a definable genre, folk horror. This study analyses the subduing function of heritage drama via analysis of adaptations of Hardy's work to this financially lucrative film market. This is a market in which the inclusion of the weird and the eerie does not fit with the construction of a past and its function in creating a nostalgia of a safe and idyllic picture of Englands rural past. However, there are some lesser-known adaptations from the 1970s that sit alongside the unholy trinity of folk horror: the adaptation for television of the Wessex Tales. From a consideration of the epistemological fissure that characterize Hardys world, the book draws parallels between then and now and the manifestation of writing on conceptual borders. Through this comparative analysis, Thomas Hardy and the Folk Horror Tradition posits that we currently exist on a moment of fracture, when tradition sits as a seductive threat. "Examines the recent resurgence of folk horror and argues that Thomas Hardy is one of its progenitors by analysing his prose (in particular his rarely examined short fiction) and its adaptations as foundational in the development of folk horror in literature, film and television"-- This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…