The Royal Gunroom at Sandringham [hardcover] Baker, David J. [Sep 01, 1989]

The Royal Gunroom at Sandringham

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Baker, David J.

Antiques & Collectibles

Phaidon/Christie's

Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Stanford Univ Pr

In early modern England, while moralists railed against the theater as wasteful and depraved and inflation whittled away at the value of wages, people attended the theater in droves. On Demand draws on recent economic history and theory to account for this puzzling consumer behavior. He shows that during this period demand itself, with its massed acquisitive energies, transformed the English economy. Over the long sixteenth-century consumption burgeoned, though justifications for it lagged behind. People were in a curious predicament: they practiced consumption on a mass scale but had few acceptable reasons for doing so. In the literary marketplace, authors became adept at accommodating such contradictions fashioning works that spoke to self-divided consumers: Thomas Nashe castigated and satiated them at the same time . William Shakespeare satirized credit problems. Ben Jonson investigated the problems of global trade, and Robert Burton enlisted readers in a project of economic betterment.

On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England

Business & Money

Economics

Stanford University Press

Fusing historiography with literary criticism, Between Nations produces an array of unexpected readings of early modern texts. Starting from the premise that England has never been able to emerge or define itself in isolation from its neighbors on the British Isles, this book places Renaissance England and its literature at a meeting of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh histories. It ranges from the late sixteenth through the late seventeenth centuries and deals with the "reigns" of three monarchs and one regicide―those of Elizabeth I, James I, Charles II, and Oliver Cromwell. However, it shifts the domain they ruled from the customary center into interactions between England and the other British polities. The author argues that England was able to develop into what we call a "nation" only in and by means of its relations with the other proto-"nations" that often it was also suppressing. Among the authors who served one or more of the four English rulers are Shakespeare, Spenser, and Marvell, who are studied here in the way they responded to the complexities of British history that encompassed their "nation." They not only participated in nation building/destroying, but their works are shown often to be meditations on that process and their own roles in the process. In Henry V, for example, Shakespeare both produces a vision of an ideal Britain and inscribes into his play the voices of various British peoples that are meant to be subsumed. Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland, which is often taken as an anti-Gaelic screed, is more plausibly seen as a text compounded of heterogeneous cultural influences, many of them originating from within Ireland. The complexity of the text reflects Spenser's own situation as a colonial official exiled from one British nation, England, to another, Ireland. In "An Horation Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland," Marvell explicitly considers the consequences of a campaign that historians have called the "War of the Three Kingdoms." In that, and in a later poem, "The Loyal Scot," Marvell emerges as a shrewd commentator on the British politics of his day. Throughout, the book demonstrates that historical readings of this period's English literary works can be as multivalent and multicentric as the British history that produced them.

British & Irish

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Putzier, John

Management & Leadership

Amacom Books

This book provides practical guidance to emergency personnel and others in the event of having to manage individual or mass chemical casualties as part of their work in a civilian ambulance service or hospital. The text considers the nature and basic science of the hazards faced as well as the practical management of persons exposed to chemicals and toxins (which although of biological origin behave as chemicals in terms of their effects and transmission). 
Individual chapters cover the development and classification of chemical toxic agents, how exposure can occur and how medical personnel should be involved in its management . There is also consideration of the nature of toxic trauma and the pathophysiological processes involved, together with a systematic approach to early and continuing management supported by specific examples of incidents. This guide is a useful practical resource for emergency medical and paramedical personnel involved in the management of mass chemical casualties and with ensuring safe operating procedures within potentially contaminated areas to prevent secondary casualties from a chemical release.

Toxic Trauma: A Basic Clinical Guide

Medical Books

Medicine

Springer

Artificial Ventilation: A Basic Clinical Guide

Winner of BMA Medical Book Award, Highly Commended in Public HealthWritten for medical professionals, this book provides a concise reference with clear guidelines on how to manage both the victims of chemical agent exposure and the site of the incident. David Baker considers the nature and basic science of the hazards faced as well as the practical management of persons exposed to chemicals and toxins. Praise for the first edition"Toxic Trauma is a welcome addition to the literature. . . . Although written for clinicians, the book contains chapters that should be read by administrators and other health care professionals to ensure they understand and can inform the public in a balanced manner about the logistic considerations, and widespread consequences across systems when an event does occur. Any healthcare library should consider this book an essential text."--Michael Nurok, American Journal of Disaster Medicine"This book excels as a reference for those interested in learning about and designing systems to better handle toxic trauma."--Michael D. Zwank, Doody’s Book Reviews

Adopting an approach that parallels conventional trauma management teaching systems such as ATLS, this text goes well beyond existing texts to offer a holistic guide to treating patients exposed to industrial toxins and chemical warfare agents.

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The Royal Gunroom at Sandringham

Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain

On Demand: Writing for the Market in Early Modern England

Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question of Britain

The Everything HR Kit: A Complete Guide to Attracting, Retaining, and Motivating High-Performance Employees

Toxic Trauma: A Basic Clinical Guide

Artificial Ventilation: A Basic Clinical Guide

Toxic Trauma: A Basic Clinical Guide

Toxic Trauma: A Basic Clinical Guide