The Kings Touch

Author : Tom Sleigh
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1644451670
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King's Touch written by Tom Sleigh and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profound encounter with the hyperreality of our time of global upheaval, violence, and pandemic. Tom Sleigh’s poems are skeptical of the inevitability of our fate, but in this brilliant new collection, they are charged with a powerful sense of premonition, as if the future is unfolding before us, demanding something greater than the self. Justice is a prevailing force, even while the poems are fully cognizant of the refugee crisis, war, famine, and the brutal reality of a crowded hospital morgue. The King’s Touch collides the world of fact and the world of mystery with a resolutely secular register. The title poem refers to the once-held belief that the king, as a divine representative, is imbued with the power of healing touch. Sleigh turns this encounter between illness and human contact toward his own chronic blood disease and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and its mounting death tolls. One poem asks, “isn’t it true that no matter how long you / wear them, masks don’t grieve, only faces do?” In this essential new work, Sleigh shows how the language of poetry itself can revive and recuperate a sense of a future under the conditions of violence, social unrest, and global anxiety about the fate of the planet.

Author : Paul Kléber Monod
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300090666
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Power of Kings written by Paul Kléber Monod and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-11 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sweeping book explores the profound shift in the way European kings and queens were regarded by their subjects between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Once viewed as godlike beings, by 1715 monarchs had come to represent the human, visible side of the rational state. The author offers new insights into the relations between kings and their subjects and the interplay between monarchy and religion.

Author : Andrew Taylor
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0008119171
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King’s Evil (James Marwood & Cat Lovett, Book 3) written by Andrew Taylor and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-04-04 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of The HWA Gold Crown 2020 From the No.1 bestselling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court comes the next book in the phenomenally successful series following James Marwood at the time of King Charles II.

Author : Jude Morgan
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 0755385411
Total Pages : 527 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King's Touch written by Jude Morgan and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restored to the British throne in 1660 after years of exile, Charles II began a reign famous for dramatic events (the Plague, the Great Fire, the Dutch Wars), the flowering of science and the arts, and for notorious sexual liaisons. With a bevy of mistresses and flamboyantly addicted to high living, the Merry Monarch successfully presided over 'Merry Olde England' in an age of intrigue and religious dissent. When his tolerance extended to acknowledging his illegitimate son at court, James's life changed out of all recognition. This is the story of a remarkable man, and the spectacular upheavals and reverses of the time, told through the eyes of his illegitimate son, James, Duke of Monmouth.

Author : Jude Morgan
Publisher : Headline Review
ISBN 13 : 9780747269526
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King's Touch written by Jude Morgan and published by Headline Review. This book was released on 2002 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restored to the British throne in 1660 after years of exile, Charles II began a reign famous for dramatic events (the Plague, the Great Fire, the Dutch Wars), the flowering of science and the arts, and for notorious sexual liaisons. With a bevy of mistresses and flamboyantly addicted to high living, the Merry Monarch successfully presided over 'Merry Olde England' in an age of intrigue and religious dissent. When his tolerance extended to acknowledging his illegitimate son at court, James's life changed out of all recognition. This is the story of a remarkable man, and the spectacular upheavals and reversals of the time, told through the eyes of his illegitimate son, James, Duke of Monmouth.

Author : Stephen Brogan
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 0861933370
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Touch in Early Modern England written by Stephen Brogan and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2015 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First modern analysis of the custom of the "royal touch" in the Tudor and Stuart reigns.

Author : Marc Bloch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780880294089
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Royal Touch written by Marc Bloch and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Proctor
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599474212
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Templeton Touch written by William Proctor and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although John Templeton (1912–2008) simply considered himself a bargain hunter, those in the know on Wall Street considered him one of the greatest stock pickers of the twentieth century. Anyone prudent enough to have invested $10,000 in his Templeton Growth Fund when it was first established in 1954 would today have over $7 million to their name if they left those funds alone. Few mutual funds can match that kind of spectacular and consistent performance. How did he do it? What kind of principles guided his decisions through bull and bear markets? What was the secret to his success? Fortunately, generosity was one of Templeton’s defining characteristics, and he freely shared his investing wisdom with the world in The Templeton Touch. This edition, which has been greatly expanded and revised from the original 1983 publication, gives the reader an inside look at the mindset that made Templeton a Wall Street legend. His global focus, his relentless curiosity, his future-mindedness, his personal touch with clients, his willingness to take reasonable risks, his reliance on deep research and fundamental analysis— everything that set him apart from the crowd is covered here in great detail by authorized biographer William Proctor. This updated edition also contains a new section comprised of twenty-two interviews with those who knew and worked with Templeton, conducted by Scott Phillips. Among those interviewed are business luminaries like Jim Rogers, Julian Robertson, Steve Forbes, Prem Watsa, Mason Hawkins, and Michael Price. The Templeton Touch should be required reading for any investor, from the absolute novice to the most experienced. Not only could Templeton’s practical advice help guide investors through tricky market conditions, but the many insights into his character and his philosophies could help anyone live a more successful life.

Author : Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The King's Evil written by Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alexi Zentner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393244326
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lobster Kings: A Novel written by Alexi Zentner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mythical family saga steeped in the legends of the sea, The Lobster Kings is a "powerhouse of a novel" (Ben Fountain). The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years. Now, Woody Kings, the leader of the island's lobster fishing community and the family patriarch, teeters on the throne, and Cordelia, the oldest of Woody's three daughters, stands to inherit the crown. To do so, however, she must defend her island from meth dealers from the mainland, while navigating sibling rivalry and the vulnerable nature of her own heart when she falls in love with her sternman.