“john blair”

John Blair's Very Short Introduction to the Anglo-Saxon Age covers the emergence of the earliest English settlements to the Norman victory in 1066. This book is a brief introduction to the political, social, religious, and cultural history of Anglo-Saxon England and it is the most comprehensive and ... More

From the impact of the first monasteries in the seventh century, to the emergence of the local parochial system five hundred years later, the Church was a force for change in Anglo-Saxon society. It shaped culture and ideas, social and economic behaviour, and the organization of landscape and settle... More

The first study of Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman canals and waterways, this book is based on new evidence surrounding the nature of water transport in the period. England is naturally well-endowed with a network of navigable rivers, especially the easterly systems draining into the Thames, Wash and H... More

Green is the color of beginnings, of memory and regeneration, of the "fluid arc of what has been, / forever becoming us." John Blair's debut poetry collection, The Green Girls, takes the reader on a journey through life as it explores such subjects as marriage, family, and sex. Written in several vo... More

Winner of the 2002 Drue Heniz Literature Prize, this collection contains short stories set mostly in central Florida, populated by people living lives of disquieting longing and stubborn isolation.... More

Leaving the city smog behind them, the Bridgeman family moves to the picturesque tourist town of FISSURE ROCK, where 16-year-old Jim becomes infatuated with his beautiful intelligent classmate Cynthia. But all is not as idyllic as it seems. First Jim notices cracks in his family relationships. Attem... More

Leaving the city smog behind them, the Bridgeman family moves to the picturesque tourist town of FISSURE ROCK, where 16-year-old Jim becomes infatuated with his beautiful intelligent classmate Cynthia. But all is not as idyllic as it seems. First Jim notices cracks in his family relationships. Attem... More