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The Meaning of Everything : The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary de Simon Winchester

Erasmus: The Education of a Christian Prince with the Panegyric for Archduke Philip of Austria (Cambridge Texts in the H de Erasmus

The Iliad of Homer; translated by Samuel Butler, edited by Louise R. Loomis de Homer

Myself as witness de James Goldman

Royal web de Ladislas Farago

Violin de Anne Rice

Blood and money de Thomas Thompson

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Sobre mimI am a doctoral candidate at U. Texas, Arlington. My doctoral research is in executions (hangings, beheadings, etc.) but my interests include, European dynastic history, France, Germany, Britain, Russia; also gay/sexual issues.

Sobre a minha bibliotecaMy library reflects my interest in history - specifically my research in execution and torture. But it also includes my interest in dynastic history and politics. Of course, the gay and lesbian materials also make up a substantial chunk. In addition, my interest in literature, and philosophy, and mystery also shows up.

Before becoming a grad student, I managed a book store, plus I've always been a bibliophile, even as a child who didn't know the meaning of that word.

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Lendo atualmenteCatherine the Great: Love, Sex, and Power de Virginia Rounding

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Or combine both interests in travellers' descriptions of imprisonment and punishment along the Silk Road! (I think there might be something in Ibn Battuta. . .)

escrito por Winter_Maiden, às 11:16 am (EST) , Aug 8, 2009

Thanks for finding my library interesting! As a scholar who wrote her dissertation on tricksters, I applaud your choice of topic, and wish you all the best with it.

Visiting the jail museum on Beale Street in Memphis (the building is also a working precinct, or used to be), I'm struck by how popular imprisonment and execution is in tourism--not just Alcatraz or the memorials to the witch trials in Salem, but in cities and small towns all over America, and indeed the world. Perhaps a distant echo of the appeal of public executions? Even the city zoo in my home town used to provide a jail-cell backdrop as one of the options for those having souvenir photos taken.

escrito por Winter_Maiden, às 3:12 pm (EST) , Jul 28, 2009

Heya,
It's interesting that you picked up on the crime/punishment section of my library - I'd forgotten it was there. I used ideas about the dispersion of the disciplinary gaze in my Honours' thesis. I've always had a bit of interest in policing and criminal punishment, which I suppose is not surprising given that "European" Australia started out as a penal settlement. I've strayed to the sunnier side of Victorianism in my PhD - gentility, fashion and fainting damsels, but I do have the occasional hankering for the marcabre.

Can you tell me what aspect of executions your thesis is focused on?
Cheers,
Jen.

escrito por MysteryWatcher, às 8:04 pm (EST) , Jan 10, 2008

Dear Alex,
I just noticed (and I swear I don't know how I missed it) that you added me to your interesting libraries list. First, cheers for that, and second, huh? Compared to your library mine is an anorexic, unfocused, wouldn't-show-to-my-supervisor excuse for a library. Wow, by the way. I console myself with the fact that I haven't been updating it lately (I promise! I promise!) and that you are hopefully further along in your PhD than I am (10 months): if not, please lie.

It's really bugging me as to where we would have run into each other. Have we chatted on the Graduate group site? Or did you see one of my insane postings somewhere? I think that everyone chasing a PhD is a little insane, either that or the process itself unhinges us.

Love to hear from you,
Jen.

escrito por MysteryWatcher, às 7:31 am (EST) , Dec 12, 2007

Hey Alex!

Thanks for accepting my invite. It's great to have you on my friends list. Good luck with your PhD. It's a fascinating topic that has always interested me as well.

Take care,
Patrick

escrito por patnelsonchilds, às 2:46 pm (EST) , Nov 26, 2007

Hello, fellow former book store manager!

Your library looks pretty interesting too. What do you think of Engel's Lord High Executioner? I enjoyed it a lot but I don't have a lot of background knowledge on the subject.

escrito por teratologist, às 3:00 pm (EST) , Oct 15, 2007

Hi Alex. Check you email. I found my old public executions bibliography (from 1985!).

escrito por dpbrewster, às 10:40 am (EST) , Aug 27, 2007

Hi Alex,

I'm led here by your review of "The Best of Don Marquis". Someone has combined the titles "Sun dial time" and "Love sonnets of a caveman" with it. Do you know whether that is right or wrong? See my query http://www.librarything.com/talktopic.ph... in the Combiners! group.

Regards, Jim Roberts

escrito por jimroberts, às 6:33 am (EST) , Aug 15, 2007

Alex,

Thank you for the nice compliment. You too have some titles of which I am envious. It's cool that we share interests in several different areas. I often find that these similar libraries are concentrated only in a particular aspect of each person's collection. I purchased my first copy of Debrett's nearly 20 years ago while I was in college because the university library had only old editions and I was looking for updated titled family histories. I remember trying to save up for it and then having to borrow money from my parents to cover the cost. Matt

escrito por MDTufts, às 2:06 pm (EST) , Jul 29, 2007

Alex,
Royal Scandals is not a "must" read, it doesn´t add much to Royal readers´knowledge, it is a compilation of the dirty deeds of royals in the past up to the Duke of Windsor. At least for me there wasn´t anything new but as a "nothing else to do book" and a bit of entertainment it is fine. I think that most of us know about Richard the Lion-heart, what Henry VIII did to his wives and that the late Queen Mary had "collecting" habits. I got it as a Christmas present so I had fun reading it. If I come across something really of interest I´ll let you know.
Best wishes,
Menarue

escrito por Menarue, às 3:21 am (EST) , Jan 14, 2007

Have you read "Royal Scandals" by Michael Farquhar yet? Lots of things we already know but amusing.
Menarue

escrito por Menarue, às 10:03 am (EST) , Jan 10, 2007

Merry Christmas from my library to yours with many Royal additions this coming year.
Menarue

escrito por Menarue, às 3:20 am (EST) , Dec 18, 2006

We share Justice in the Sarladais -- have you taken Dr. Reinhardt's class?
I received my Bachelor's in History from UTA, and may return there is I ever decide to go on to a PhD.

Fascinating subject for a doctorate! Have you found many primary sources?
On a related subject, there is a museum in London that I happened on accidentally built on the site of the original "Clink" prison that had some fascinating information about imprisonment and torture!

Jenn

escrito por Meijhen, às 3:44 pm (EST) , Nov 27, 2006

Thank you for your note. So royal biographies are not that fashionable now, never mind I love them and I am pleased to hear that you do. Keep in touch.
Menarue

escrito por Menarue, às 9:07 am (EST) , Nov 6, 2006

Dear Alex,
We share 17 books, I thought that I would not have any about executions but going through my list I have two "Crimes and Punishment" but there is no author, just BPC Publishing. I am not going to keep them by the way but the other shared interests are ok,
Menarue

escrito por Menarue, às 4:47 am (EST) , Oct 23, 2006

Fascinating (and slightly kinky, if I may say so!) PhD topic. I once visited a torture museum in Carcassonne which you would probably love! Best wisbes, Eccentrica

escrito por eccentrica, às 9:50 am (EST) , Aug 10, 2006

Excellent list! I have many books on public executions -- at one point I was very interested in visual and pictorial aspects -- Hopefully I'll get them cataloged before too long. I'm about 10% there. Good luck on the dissertation.

escrito por dpbrewster, às 11:52 pm (EST) , Jun 4, 2006

I've entered most of what I have in the UK, next step will be to tackle my Canadian collection.

escrito por afingh, às 8:09 am (EST) , Mar 28, 2006

Dear Alex,
Hello fellow UTA doctoral candidate. Why am I not surprised that we have similar reading interests?! Have you entered everything? I am perhaps 1/3 of the way through - too busy after Christmas break. Time to get back to it.
Julie

escrito por NWGirl, às 4:13 pm (EST) , Mar 11, 2006

Dear Alex,

Thank you for thanking me. We've got a lot to go, but this software will help us know what we have and be able to find it.

Ellen

escrito por ellenandjim, às 7:59 pm (EST) , Sep 28, 2005

I've got almost everything entered - have not done cook books yet - probably another 15 - 30 there. I think I have only tagged about 1/3 to 1/2.

escrito por AlexTheHunn, às 10:25 am (EST) , Sep 24, 2005

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