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Raymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history releasing Spaniards form the shackles of Romantic myth and allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe Born in humble circumstances he journeyed through a fascinating period in twentiethcentury British history vaulting the class barriers that were still very much in place in the England of his day and turning himself into an interested and acutely observant member of the exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy even becoming a keen huntsman Familiar with the intricate and secret highways and byways of Oxford both as an undergraduate at Christ Church and later as a Fellow of All Souls and of New College he eventually became Warden of St Antonys Throughout his Oxford life he met and befriended some of the most important eccentric and charismatic intellectual figures of the entire twentieth century But he was also on firstname terms with aristocrats prime ministers artists spies the foremost US players in the Cold War and military leaders in Francoist Spain This biography tells a story that is in some ways stranger than fiction By tracing the various facets of Raymond Carrs life and personality as intellectual traveller social chameleon academic mover and shaker lover of politics and unrepentant enquirer into anything and everything to do with life and human history the author builds a masterly picture of the society into which he was born the politics and culture of a England that is now lost to us and the work of one of Englands major Hispanists Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
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Raymond Carr pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history releasing Spaniards form the shackles of Romantic myth and allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe Born in humble circumstances he journeyed through a fascinating period in twentiethcentury British history vaulting the class barriers that were still very much in place in the England of his day and turning himself into an interested and acutely observant member of the exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy even becoming a keen huntsman Familiar with the intricate and secret highways and byways of Oxford both as an undergraduate at Christ Church and later as a Fellow of All Souls and of New College he eventually became Warden of St Antonys Throughout his Oxford life he met and befriended some of the most important eccentric and charismatic intellectual figures of the entire twentieth century But he was also on firstname terms with aristocrats prime ministers artists spies the foremost US players in the Cold War and military leaders in Francoist Spain This biography tells a story that is in some ways stranger than fiction By tracing the various facets of Raymond Carrs life and personality as intellectual traveller social chameleon academic mover and shaker lover of politics and unrepentant enquirer into anything and everything to do with life and human history the author builds a masterly picture of the society into which he was born the politics and culture of a England that is now lost to us and the work of one of Englands major Hispanists Published in association with the Canada Blanch Centre for Contemporary Spanish Studies
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Raymond Carr born 1919 pioneered a new way of looking at modern Spanish history releasing Spaniards from the shackles of Romantic myth and allowing them to see their nation as a country like any other rather than one set apart from the rest of Europe Born in humble circumstances Carr journeyed through a fascinating period in 20thcentury British history vaulting the class barriers that were still very much in place in the England of his day and turning himself into an interested and acutely observant member of the exclusive and decadent world of the late aristocracy even becoming a keen huntsman Familiar with the intricate and secret highways and byways of Oxford both as an undergraduate at Christ Church and later as a Fellow of All Souls and of New College Carr eventually became Warden of St Antonys Throughout his Oxford life he met and befriended some of the most important eccentric and charismatic intellectual figures of the entire 20th century But he was also on firstname terms with aristocrats prime ministers artists spies the foremost US players in the Cold War and military leaders in Francoist Spain This biography tells a story that is in some ways stranger than fiction By tracing the various facets of Raymond Carrs life and personality as intellectual traveller social chameleon academic mover and shaker lover of politics and unrepentant inquirer into anything and everything to do with life and human history the book builds a masterly picture of the society into which he was born the politics and culture of an England that is now lost to us and the work of one of Englands major Hispanists
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IdiomaLanguage Español Raymond Carr fue capaz de transformar la manera de escribir la historia de España y hacer que los españoles percibieran su propia tierra como un país normal libre de excepcionalidades y romanticismos esencialistas Singular transeúnte de una época y una sociedad fascinantes el insigne hispanista consiguió franquear las barreras de la Inglaterra más clasista y penetrar en el universo exclusivo y decadente de la aristocracia hasta convertirse en un sir amante de la caza del zorro Un hombre de Oxford que transitó desde su época de estudiante a sus años de warden sus colleges más idiosincrásicos con sus mundos cerrados y misteriosos A lo largo de su vida trató con algunas de las figuras intelectuales más relevantes excéntricas y carismáticas del siglo XX Pero además frecuentó aristócratas primeros ministros bohemios espías capitostes americanos de la Guerra Fría y militares del franquismo Esta biografía narra una vida que ha superado la ficción A través de la figura de Raymond Carr en sus diversas dimensiones intelectual viajero geográfico y social gestor académico político impenitente curioso y sobre todo ávido explorador de la vida y de la historia la autora desvela magistralmente los rasgos de la sociedad la política y la cultura del mundo irrepetible que rodeó al hispanista inglés Nota Los envíos a España peninsular Baleares y Canarias se realizan a través de mensajería urgente No aceptamos pedidos con destino a Ceuta y Melilla
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Charlie Carr is Petievichs brilliant creation a bullish Treasury Agent in the streetsmart sadeyed tradition of Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler In OneShot Deal Carr rips the lid off an intricate scheme to print ten million in US Treasury notes on stolen government security paper a scam that begins in the inner sanctum of the US Mint and ends in a pool of blood beneath the smoking barrel of Carrs 357 magnum
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Sir Raymond Carr is one of the worlds leading authorities on the history of Spain In Spain A History he and eight other leading scholarsincluding Sebastian Balfour and Felipe FernandezArmestoprovide an authoritative overview of a country that has played a vital role in the history of the Western world Here is an uptodate and engaging tour of Spain through the ages We read of prehistoric Spain and of the imposition of Roman rule which created the idea of Hispania as a single entity There are knowledgeable discussions of the Visigoth monarchy Moorish Spain the establishment of an empire and the eighteenthcentury Enlightenment all of which not only chart the political and economic development of Spain but also examine the extraordinary artistic and literary achievements of the Spanish people We read of the rise of liberalism in the nineteenth century and of its fall which ushered in a period of political instability culminating in the Civil War and authoritarian rule The book concludes with a look at modern Spain as a fully integrated and enthusiastic member of the European community Attractively illustrated with eight pages of color plates and twentyfour blackandwhite plates Spain A History is the best historical account of Spain currently available for general readers
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Philip Kerr delivers a novel with the noir sensibility of Raymond Chandler the realpolitik of vintage John le Carr
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This anthology samples for interested professionals the more significant scholarly forays into what has come to be known as the neardeath experience Contributors include the editors Carl BBecker Daniel B Carr Kimberly Clark John C Gibbs Michael Grosso Anthony Lee Raymond A Moody Jr Russell Noyes Jr Annalee R Oakes Kenneth Ring Ernst A Rodin Michael Sabom who also contributes the foreword Carl Sagan Ronald K Siegel and Donald J Slymen Blue cloth wsilver lettering to front coverspine 289 pages A nice copy in dust jacket wrubbing thin impressionsscratches light chipping to cornersspine ends Uncommon in decent condition and boasting a dust jacket Size 8vo over 7¾ 9¾ tall
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Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition lyric writing and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carrs The Windward RoadPeter Matthiessen nbspArchie Carr shows that he can write about people and forests engagingly and accurately without recourse to fake adventures or gringo condescensionNew York Times nbspArchie Carrs story is his love for the rural high tropics of Central America revealed with grace and humor in the personal account of the years 194549 that he spent in Honduras with his family as a teacher at the Agricultural School run by the United Fruit Company nbspHigh Jungles and Low has four parts each written in a distinctive style The Land is descriptive and includes a candid chapter on Yankee relations with Latin America People in the Land is anecdotal with sketches of the hill people of Honduras The Sweet Sea a short history of Nicaragua reveals the biological drama of four centuries of turmoil in that country Hall of the Mountain Cow is Carrs onemonth diary of a 100mile walk along the Mosquito Shore the rain forest of the Caribbean coast
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Illuminated by the same joyful curiosity and erudition lyric writing and plain love of life that made a classic of Archie Carrs The Windward RoadPeter Matthiessen nbspArchie Carr shows that he can write about people and forests engagingly and accurately without recourse to fake adventures or gringo condescensionNew York Times nbspArchie Carrs story is his love for the rural high tropics of Central America revealed with grace and humor in the personal account of the years 194549 that he spent in Honduras with his family as a teacher at the Agricultural School run by the United Fruit Company nbspHigh Jungles and Low has four parts each written in a distinctive style The Land is descriptive and includes a candid chapter on Yankee relations with Latin America People in the Land is anecdotal with sketches of the hill people of Honduras The Sweet Sea a short history of Nicaragua reveals the biological drama of four centuries of turmoil in that country Hall of the Mountain Cow is Carrs onemonth diary of a 100mile walk along the Mosquito Shore the rain forest of the Caribbean coast
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Poetry Michael Carr is the editor of A BOOK OF PROPHESIES a notebook by John Wieners written in 1971 and found in a collection at Kent State University Assisted by an advisory group made up of Jim Dunn Raymond Foye and Charlie Shively Bootstrap has made arrangements to publish this gem of history which opens with a piece titled 2007 that foreshadows the surreal and prophetic landscape in which we liveone that is positively past postmodern and pop culture
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In gentle rhyming text Sarah Raymond Cunningham explores the curiosity and wonder of a childs life from the playroom to the playground dinnertime to alone time all with a recurring chorus May God bless you and keep you Perfect as a gift for baptisms baby dedications showers First Communions or graduations May God Bless You and Keep You will give encouragement and blessing to kids at any stage in the wonderous journey of growing up
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