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Woman Much Missed is the first book-length study of the many poems that Thomas Hardy composed in the wake of the death of his first wife Emma. It shows how Emma's writings and experiences were fundamental to Hardy's evolution into both a best-selling novelist and into one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century

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Imagine being trained to be one of the world's best soldiers at Fort McClellan Military Base in Anniston, Alabama.You can now call yourself a United States Army Military Policeman.Now imagine twenty years later, something is seriously wrong with your health. You go to the VA, and the first question they ask you is "Did you serve at Ft. McClellan?" After you answer "Yes" they tell you there is nothing they can do for you. They just will not hel...

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts - difficult problems or issues with no best practices - that force you to choose among various compromises to succeed. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed architectures. Architecture veterans and practicing consultants Neal Ford, Mark Richards, Pramod Sadalage, and Zhamak Dehghani discuss stra...

Ride with Dominique as he navigates through the all the challenges of his new-found freedom and maintaining it. As he tries to stay away from vices that could make him an inmate again, he follows the guidance of a worldly woman. Will she lead him to the life of his dreams? Or does she carry the keys to his prison cell?

BOOK DESCRIPTION Body language plays an essential role in people's everyday lives. After 9/11 life in America is no longer the same. The world we knew is rapidly changing. New ways of protecting ourselves, doing business, and meeting personal challenges are on everyone's mind. But how can a knowledge of body language help? Based on the latest research available, this book tells readers how to identify the signs, signals, hints, and clues that ...

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Die Anime-Abenteuer "Dreamland: Invasion der Area 51" und "Auf der Suche nach der Unendlichkeit" mit David Tennant als DOCTOR WHO erscheinen erstmals in deutscher Sprachfassung als exklusive DVD- und Blu-ray Premiere.Doctor Who - Auf der Suche nach der UnendlichkeitDer Doktor (David Tennant) und seine Begleiterin Martha (Freema Agyeman) durchstreifen fremde und wunderschöne Welten auf der Suche nach der Unendlichkeit - dem legendären, verschol...

2015 Winner of the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism. This Dialogue of One collects thirteen essays on English, French and American poets by one of the era's most engaging and highly esteemed poet-critics. Witty, astute and wide-ranging.

Port Aransas, known colloquially as Port A, is on Mustang Island, one of the Texas barrier islands. This community grew from the seed of El Mar Rancho, the homestead an Englishman established for his family in 1855"the name Port Aransas was adopted in 1910. The evolution of Port A includes the guiding of sport fishermen to the hard-fighting tarpon fish, bouncing back from five major hurricanes, and the development of tourism that has made the ...

Body language and Behavioral Profiling" is a timely book on the vital roles of nonverbal communications and people reading in our everyday lives. We all use body language to communicate our innermost feelings, thoughts, and attitudes along with spoken words. Knowing the hints, clues, signals, and signs that people use in business and social settings helps people to interpret behavioral motives, and enables them to rapidly organize information ...

An exuberant, versatile, and complex debut US collection from one of the United Kingdom's most respected poets.

An exuberant, versatile, and complex debut US collection from one of the United Kingdom's most respected poets.

Fail Better is a catalogue of selected artworks by British-born artist James R Ford, with accompanying texts, interviews and essays, from 2008-2013. "Forever playfully exploring the intimate relationships between physical media and everyday life: Ford's investigations into, and reflections on, existential nature and the use of conventional materials and modes of presentation reveal countless nuanced contradictions as well as a fascination with...

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For fans of professional football who thought they had read everything about the history of the game, Mark L. Ford breaks new ground with this account of the NFL preseason. Described as "test labs" by Ford, preseason games are a time for trying out new strategies, considering future rule changes, and implementing television coverage innovations. For thousands of players who vie for a spot in the league every summer, the preseason is also the d...

Literary Nonfiction. Essays. Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Pegasus Award for Poetry Criticism from The Poetry Foundation. This immensely readable, informative, and witty series of essays by Mark Ford collects some of his best writing on poets and poetry, originally published in London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books. This is a book all lovers of great poetry will want to own and read. THIS DIALOGUE OF ONE collects thirteen essays...

S"omething We Have That They Don't presents a variety of essays that explore the rich and complex history of Anglo-American poetic relations of the last seventy-five years. Since the dawn of Modernism poets on either side of the Atlantic have frequently inspired each other's developments, from Frost's galvanizing advice to Edward Thomas to rearrange his prose as verse, to Eliot's and Auden's enormous influence on the poetry of their adopted na...

London has long been understood through the poetry it has inspired. Mark Ford has assembled the most capacious and wide-ranging anthology of poems about London to date, from Chaucer to Wordsworth to the present day, providing a chronological tour of urban life and of English literature. The volume includes an introductory essay by the poet.