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The Queen of Scots = La reina di Scotia / by Della Valle, Federico,approximately 1560-1628,author.(CARDINAL)877573; Battista, Fabio,translator,editor.(CARDINAL)879880;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the moment of her spectacular death on the scaffold, the story of Mary Queen of Scots became nothing short of a sensation across Europe. She was executed on 8 February 1587, and her death was the climax of a captivity that lasted over eighteen years. Shortly after the event, Federico Della Valle, one of Italy's most accomplished dramatists of the time, composed La reina di Scotia (The Queen of Scots), a tragedy depicting the final hours of the Scottish queen's life. With its restrained tone, streamlined action, and refined poetic language, The Queen of Scots ranks among the very best of early modern Italian drama. In this book, Fabio Battista provides an English-language annotated edition of Della Valle's work, accompanied by a comprehensive introduction exploring the fictional afterlife of Mary Queen of Scots from the early modern period to today. The volume also includes the English translation of a widely circulated letter detailing the queen's momentous execution. Made available to an English-speaking audience for the first time, this tragedy is the earliest dramatic reworking of the death of Mary Queen of Scots in a modern vernacular, spearheading a tradition that endures to this day."--
Subjects: Drama.; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Captive queen : the decrypted history of Mary, Queen of Scots / by Scott, Jade,1989-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."For almost two decades before her execution at Fotheringhay Castle in 1587, Mary, Queen of Scots was a prisoner. From her chambers, she wrote countless letters, many encrypted using complex ciphers to prevent her communications from being intercepted. In this way, she used language to exert her will and her influence, even while incarcerated. More than four hundred years after Mary's death, the discovery of further encoded letters has led to renewed interest in the breadth of her correspondence while in captivity. In Captive Queen: The Decrypted History of Mary, Queen of Scots, Jade Scott draws on hundreds of these ground-breaking letters to create a vivid picture of one of history's most fascinating personalities. She interprets Mary's complex relationships with friends and enemies alike throughout the years of her imprisonment, illuminating Mary's strategic vision while bringing her captivity to life like never before." --
Subjects: Biographies.; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587.; Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587; Queens;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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Metal [videorecording] : a headbanger's journey / by Dunn, Sam.; McFadyen, Scot.; Wise, Jessica Joy.;
Special features: The definitive metal history family tree -- Mini-documentary on Norwegian black metal -- 17 extended interviews -- Travel outtakes -- Lemmy at the rainbow -- Director's commentary.Featuring Tony Iommi, Dee Snider, Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, Vince Neil, Bruce Dickinson, Ronnie James Dio, Lemmy.Examines the appeal of heavy metal music, featuring interviews with top stars.DVD; widescreen presentation; Dolby digital surround 5.1, Dolby digital surround stereo.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Rock films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Heavy metal (Music);
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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All according to God's plan : Southern Baptist missions and race, 1945-1970 / by Willis, Alan Scot,1968-(CARDINAL)468469;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index.All according to God's plan : an introduction -- "Go ye" : missions and race in Progressive Baptist theology -- All nations in God's plan : race, peace, and missions in the post-war world -- "Our preaching has caught up with us" : African missions and the race question -- An American Amos : Baptist missionaries and post-war American culture -- The Tower of Babel : language missions and the race question -- "Living our Christianity" : Southern Baptist missions and Blacks in America.
Subjects: Southern Baptist Convention; Racism; Racism.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Scotland's historic heraldry / by McAndrew, Bruce A.(CARDINAL)670098;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Origin, rules, and language of heraldry -- Early Scottish heraldry -- Earldoms and territorial lordships -- The great cause of 1291-92 : the competitors -- The Ragman Roll -- Early rolls of arms -- The Declaration of Arbroath -- Marshalling of arms -- Armoriaux universelles : Gelre and Bellenville -- The Scots Roll and its contemporaries -- Parliamentary lords and masters -- Sons and heirs, sons legitimate and otherwise -- Armorial of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount -- The Hague Roll -- Organisation by charge : the Scottish ordinary -- Lairds and lands : the borders -- Lairds and lands : the heartlands of Scotland -- Lairds and lands : Tayside and Grampian -- Lairds and lands : Highlands and islands -- Scots abroad -- The Union of the crowns.
Subjects: Family histories.; Crests; Devices (Heraldry); Heraldry;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The code book : how to make it, break it, hack it, crack it / by Singh, Simon.(CARDINAL)643460;
Includes bibliographical references and index.THE CIPHER OF MARY QUEEN OF SCOTS -- The birth of cryptography, the substitution cipher and the invention of codebreaking by frequency analysis -- THE ANONYMOUS CODEBREAKER -- The Vigenere cipher, why cryptographers seldom get credit for their breakthroughs and a tale of buried treasure -- THE MECHANIZATION OF SECRECY -- The Zimmermann telegram, the Enigma machine and how cryptography changed the courses of World Wars I and II -- THE LANGUAGE BARRIER -- The impenetrability of unknown languages, the Navajo code talkers of World War II and the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs -- ALICE AND BOB Go PUBLIC -- Modern cryptography, the solution to the so-called key-distribution problem and the secret history of nonsecret encryption -- PRETTY GOOD PRIVACY -- The politics of privacy, the future of cryptography and the quest for an uncrackable code.A history of codes and the methodologies for forming and breaking them, from ancient times to modern computers. It's known as the science of secrecy. Cryptography: the encoding and decoding of private information. And it is history's most fascinating story of intrigue and cunning. From Julius Caesar and his Caesar Cipher to the code used by Mary Queen of Scots and her conspiracy to the use of the Engima machine during the Second World War, Simon Singh follows the evolution of secret writing. Accessible, compelling, and timely, this international bestseller, now adapted for young people, is sure to make readers see the past-and the future-in a whole new way.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Coding theory.; Cryptography.;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 5
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The hangover part II [videorecording] by Armstrong, Scot; Bartha, Justin(CARDINAL)342974; Cooper, Bradley(CARDINAL)342977; Galifianakis, Zach(CARDINAL)341241; Goldberg, Danny,1950-; Helms, Ed(CARDINAL)342976; Mazin, Craig,1971-; Phillips, Todd,1970-(CARDINAL)342967; Warner Home Video (Firm)(CARDINAL)218485;
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha, Zach Galifianakis.Two years after the bachelor party in Las Vegas, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu's wedding. Stu's plan for a subdued pre-wedding brunch, however, goes seriously awry.Rating: R; for pervasive language, strong sexual content including graphic nudity, drug use and brief violent images.Blu-ray ; widescreen ; requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Comedy films; Feature films; Bridegrooms; Brunches; Weddings;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Carolina Scots : an historical and genealogical study of over 100 years of emigration / by Kelly, Douglas F.(CARDINAL)168098; Kelly, Caroline Switzer.(CARDINAL)119723;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 403-407) and index.Part One: From Scotland to Carolina - Part Two: Genealogy of Representative Carolina Scots Families .Out of his experience of growing up in a typical Scottish family of the upper Cape Fear Valley in Eastern North Carolina in the 1940s and '50s, and of several years of study in Scotland in the '60s and '70s, Douglas Kelly has woven together the story of two cultures: Scottish Highland and Eastern Carolina. He combines colorful strands of cultural, linguistic, educational, political and religious history, with a careful genealogy of the first four or five generations of some sixty-five different family groups, who emigrated from the Scottish Highlands and Islands to the Cape Fear Valley of North Carolina and the neighboring Pee Dee Valley of South Carolina, from 1739 to the early 1840s. North Carolina is believed to have been the largest Scottish settlement anywhere in the world outside Scotland, and its emigrants have formed the backbone of large sections of both Carolinas for some 250 years. It may become a classic study of one of the original headwaters of Southern culture: Carolina Gaeldom, which sent an overflowing stream of hundreds of thousands of settlers into the Deep South and Southwest throughout the 19th century, thus profoundly shaping this huge region, and playing its part in making America what it is today. It has been hailed as the only major study so far of the early emigrations prior to the Clearances. The story is made more real through over 100 photographs, maps and engravings from the period, chronicling the history of housing among these Scots from castles and huts in 18th century Scotland to still extant log cabins, upcountry mansions, slave quarters and old Presbyterian Churches in both N. and S. Carolina. There is also a unique appendix to Chapter III of Part I on the historic and current status of the Gaelic language in Carolina. (At one time it was the second language of the Cape Fear region). Help is provided throughout the genealogies on how to find more information, including rare and unpublished sources. The complete index lists more than 7,000 different names, in addition to place names and subject matter.
Subjects: Family histories.; Scottish Americans; Scottish Americans; Scottish Americans; Scottish Americans;
Available copies: 42 / Total copies: 51
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The hangover part II [videorecording] /
Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, Justin Bartha, Zach Galifianakis.Two years after the bachelor party in Las Vegas, Phil, Stu, Alan, and Doug jet to Thailand for Stu's wedding. Stu's plan for a subdued pre-wedding brunch, however, goes seriously awry. Special features included.Rating: R; for pervasive language, strong sexual content including graphic nudity, drug use and brief violent images.Blu-ray, widescreen.Requires Blu-ray player.
Subjects: Comedy films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Bachelor parties; Bridegrooms; Recollection (Psychology); Weddings;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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The story of English / by McCrum, Robert.(CARDINAL)145690; Cran, William.(CARDINAL)185744; MacNeil, Robert,1931-2024.(CARDINAL)159113;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-438) and index.Machine generated contents note: List of Maps ix -- New Introduction to the Third Edition xi -- Introduction: Speaking of English i -- 1 An English-Speaking World 9 -- 2 The Mother Tongue 46 -- 3 A Muse of Fire 90 -- 4 The Guid Scots Tongue 130 -- 5 The Loaded Weapon 170 -- 6 Black on White zo9 -- 7 Pioneers! 0 Pioneers! 251 -- 8 The Echoes of an English Voice 293 -- 9 The New Englishes 337 -- 10 Next Year's Words 375 -- Notes and Sources 395 -- Select Bibliography 437 -- Acknowledgements 439 -- Index 441.
Subjects: English language;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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