In 1824 Meyrick published his great work, the three volume A critical Inquiry into Antient Armour. This three book set was illustrated in colour with Samuel's paintings and solidified his reputation as an authority in the study of arms and armour. With the publication of this set Samuel hoped to rectify historical inaccuracies that had found their way into the many displays of armour in such as the Tower of London and other collections.
Автор: Meyrick Gordon Название: Danger at My Heels: A Golden Age Mystery ISBN: 1912574799 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912574797 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Death was falling, swiftly, ruthlessly. It made you very conscious of living.
After eight years abroad, Michael Stephen is back in Second World War London--the fortunate survivor of a shipwreck. Avoiding the incessant bombing of the Blitz, he instead gets swept up into something even more perilous--a mystery involving an international plot. It is one which will strike at the heart of the British war effort.
The plot takes Stephen on an amazing journey of subterfuge, secret codes, nightclubs, spies, rural England and romance.
Danger at my Heels was originally published in 1943. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
Автор: Meyrick Sarah Название: Restless Wave ISBN: 1910674540 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781910674543 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11610.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: A powerful and engrossing family drama that`s full of surprises
Автор: Booth Meyrick Название: Rudolph Eucken: His Philosophy and Influence ISBN: 1077189516 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781077189515 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11440.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The book consists of twelve chapters, the first five being expository in character, while the remainder of the volume seeks to apply the principles of Eucken's philosophy to some of the central problems, social, educational, and religious, of modern life and thought. The book is written in a clear and dignified style throughout, and it will doubtless prove interesting and helpful to many to whom the ponderous works of Eucken himself would prove both difficult and tedious. It is only natural, however, that the characteristic which qualifies the value of Eucken's own books in the mind of the reader who insists upon reducing his philosophy to the recognizable terms and data of every-day and scientific experience, the addiction to the use of large and vague concepts which are nowhere subjected to careful analysis, should reappear in an exposition like the present one, and similarly detract from its value as a contribution to scholarship. Phrases like "the spiritual life," "the spiritual world," "spiritual values," and so on, appenr on almost every page. The contrast between nature and spirit, we are told, runs throughout the whole of Eucken's philosophy. "Is nature (that is, the world of matter seen in the light of science) the true basis of reality, of which spirit, if it be allowed to exist at all, is a by-product? Or is spirit the source and fundament of all reality, nature being ultimately dependent upon an invisible world? This is the great alternative" (pp. xi-xii).But if the whole of a philosophy is to be built around the antithesis of nature and spirit, if its central purpose is to establish the " independent existence" and the "supremacy of the spiritual world," it would seem to be a matter of first-rate importance to undertake a systematic analysis of the concepts in question; but, in spite of repeated attempts on Mr. Booth's part, his success in clearing up the meaning of these phrases is not much greater than attends the efforts of Eucken himself through many labored volumes. The writer has searched the present book in vain (as he has the pages of Eucken's own works) for a single or unambiguous meaning of the term "spiritual life," the existence and independence of which it is held to be the paramount duty of philosophy to establish. The spiritual life seems in places to mean nothing more than the psychical life, whose independent existence is asserted as against theories of materialism and epiphenomenalism; sometimes it seems to stand for the formal or rational character of experience; sometimes for a formative principle, a sort of Kantian transcendental self, which is responsible for the organization which experience presents; elsewhere an unknown psychic medium is invoked to account for the unity of consciousness, since this unity can not be explained by the brain (on the ground that the nerves entering the brain do not run together in a common center ); sometimes it figures as a personal activity, "the very core of human personality," while at other times it appears as a transcendental power or intelligence which is responsible for the telic movements of nature and history, something "closely analogous to the invisible and personally conducted network of communications which directs and unifies an army," an active, creative principle behind the whole universe, an "independent, self-active, purposive, personal life"; occasionally it seems to stand for the realm of values, or again for a moral excellence of character which can be achieved only by a new birth; then again the concept expands so as to include the sciences, "since they are a spiritualization of nature"; and so on, in a bewildering series of transformations. "It is by no means easy," the author confesses, "for those who are not thoroughly familiar with Eucken's thought to form a clear conception of the spiritual life as he understands it...
Автор: Julian Meyrick Название: Australian Theatre after the New Wave: Policy, Subsidy and the Alternative Artist ISBN: 9004339884 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004339880 Издательство: Brill Цена: 104930.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In Australian Theatre after the New Wave, Julian Meyrick charts the history of three ground-breaking Australian theatre companies, the Paris Theatre (1978), the Hunter Valley Theatre (1976-94) and Anthill Theatre (1980-94). In the years following the controversial dismissal of Gough Whitlam’s Labor government in 1975, these ‘alternative’ theatres struggled to survive in an increasingly adverse economic environment. Drawing on interviews and archival sources, including Australia Council files and correspondence, the book examines the funding structures in which the companies operated, and the impact of the cultural policies of the period. It analyses the changing relationship between the artist and the State, the rise of a managerial ethos of ‘accountability’, and the growing dominance of government in the fate of the nation’s theatre. In doing so, it shows the historical roots of many of the problems facing Australian theatre today.“This is an exceptionally timely book... In giving a history of Australian independent theatre it not only charts the amazing rise and strange disappearance of an energetic, radical and dynamically democratic artistic movement, but also tries to explain that rise and fall, and how we should relate to it now.”— Prof. Justin O’Connor, Monash University“This study makes a signi?cant contribution to scholarship on Australian theatre and, more broadly… to the global discussion about the vexed relationship between artists, creativity, government funding for the arts and cultural policy.”— Dr. Gillian Arrighi, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Автор: Meyrick Gordon Название: The Body on the Pavement: A Golden Age Mystery ISBN: 1912574810 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781912574810 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14710.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
"Murder's an ugly thing " Detective Inspector Haig said. "Maybe you'll not want to attend the funeral."
As the door closed, Thelma said, "I know one funeral I wouldn't mind attending."
With a million-dollar secret in his possession, a mysterious stranger travels from Australia to London to meet violent death just before he can accomplish his mission. And it is up to Rex Haig, of Scotland Yard, to find not only the stranger's murderer but to fathom his generation-dead reason for this most bizarre of visits.
Rex Haig uses a minor villain as bait to catch the killers--only to be led deeper into a baffling puzzle involving beautiful heiress Joan Hamilton; Tony Miller and his jealous mistress; operators of a confidence swindle of staggering proportions; and most bizarre of all, the mad occupant of the gloomy, castle-like Towers--an old man whose passion is playing with dolls
The Body on the Pavement was originally published in 1942. This new edition includes an introduction by crime fiction historian Curtis Evans.
Автор: Meyrick Denzil Название: Breath on Dying Embers ISBN: 1846974755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846974755 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 10290.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: It is through a gradual evolution, rather than by grand design, that the somewhat fragmented economic policies of the EU now appear to be heading towards a rather more robust and coherent economic governance. EU Economic Governance and Globalization considers the following crucial question as the EU enters its final stage of institution-building;
