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From seaside summer holidays to vacations at an uncle's farm to everyday life in the town of Newry, this evocative and humorous memoir conjures a vivid picture of an ordinary--yet fascinating--Irish childhood in the 1940s and 1950s. Brian Cosgrove here describes a large, affectionate family dominated by the figures of his father, a hard-working pub owner, and his mother, an "ordinary/extraordinary" woman who died following a long battle with c...

Offers an introduction to the world of microlight flying that has endeared itself to several generations of pilots.

From whirling tornadoes to freezing blizzards, weather is a constantly changing force that affects everything around us. Explore the history and elements that make up the environment around us in DK Eyewitness Books: Weather.Superb color photographs of the sky in all kinds of weather conditions, together with specially built 3-D models, offer a unique and revealing view of weather, from calm summer days to the bitter storms of winter. Discover...

This text is an interesting look at the supernatural in literature through a series of essays. The essays either consider the supernatural as a recurrent literary category which reveals or implicates historically documented cultural formations, or else the writer explores in a related way how the handling of a supernatural theme in contemporary film illuminates current socio-cultural trends. The work is an excellent source for those interested...

The main purpose of this book is to validate a reading of Joyce in negative terms. Central to the enquiry is an examination of the roles of irony and of indeterminacy. The book looks at the influences of Friedrich Schlegel and Gustave Flaubert in relation to irony and how indeterminacy, in effect, ushers in the possibility of nihilism. The analysis of "Ulysses" culminates with the attempt (unavailing in both cases) to discover in either Bloom ...