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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

HE COURTED HER WITH PUNCH LINES . Middle-aged stand-up comedian Josh Steinberg, formerly the star of his own popular TV series, finds himself struggling to keep his career alive, playing seedier and seedier clubs. Plump, balding, and plain-looking, he has never had much luck with women. That is, until Josh meets Holly Brannigan while performing his stand-up act in a comedy club. Holly, an attractive, intelligent, and divorced 50-year-old busin...

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Excerpt from The Hospital Library, Books for the Patients: Plea for a Trained Librarian, Administration, Selection of Books, Separate Children's Library, Library Technic, Distribution of Books, the Library as an Adjunct to Other DepartmentsThe value of the library being conceded, the question remains, how can it be most economic ally created and efficiently maintained?Without doubt, for the larger hospitals, general and mental, an organized, c...

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This new full edition of Butler's classic Lives of the Saints in 12 volumes incorporates modern research and insights. This volume provides biographical data on saints whose celebrations and feasts are observed in the month of June.

Taking a highly practical, applied approach this book provides an excellent applied introduction to sports sociology. Written by a collection of leading practitioners in the field, this book seeks to demonstrate how sociological theory can be understood and applied in the practical worlds of sport. In the first section contributors from the UK discuss key issues from a British perspective, exploring the relevance of sociology to the sports pra...

Excerpt from A Thousand Books for the Hospital Library: Selected From the Shelf-List of the Library of McLean Hospital, Waverley, Massachusetts The editors Offer this list merely as a guide towards the selection of wholesome, readable literature for those who are ill either physically or mentally. While it has been compiled with the requirements of the latter class of patients in mind, it would seem no less suitable for the former, or, in fac...

The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family that kept the group together long after the men had ceased to be frien...

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Margaret Forster was one of the UK's most prolific and respected authors. Born in Cumbria to working class parents in 1938, she published her first novel at the age of twenty two. Since then she has written 25 novels as well as 9 non-fiction titles - a mixture of award-winning biography and memoir. Kathleen Jones, a biographer, poet and fellow Cumbrian, explores Margaret's books against the background of her life - divided between the qui...

Weaving together intimate details from Katherine Mansfield's letters and journals with the writings of her friends and acquaintances, Kathleen Jones creates a captivating drama of this fragile yet feisty author: her life, loves and passion for writing. The story takes us beyond Mansfield's death in 1923 to explore the life of her husband, John Middleton Murry - and his relationship with three further wives - as he manipulated the posthumous pu...

The Political Interests of Gender starts from the premise that contemporary political theory is inadequate when approached from the perspective of gender. The book indicts contemporary political analysis for its silence about or ignorance of women's interests, and challenges the hypothesis that the central concepts of political thought and its basic techniques are value neutral. The contributors go on to consider what political theory and po...

In the revival of interest in Celtic spirituality, the stories of theCeltic saints have been retold, often festooned with legend andfolklore. The holy men and women who witnessed to the Christian faith with great courage and steadfastness in a very harsh ''world deserve better than this, argues Kathleen Jones, and inWho Are The Celtic Saints? she sets out discover the truth about these remarkable figures whose distinctive spirituality remainsa...

The Saints of the Anglican Calendar introduces us to the 232 men and women who are commemorated in the Common Mrship Calendar. Nearly five hundred years after the Reformation, the Church of England is coming to a fuller appreciation of the saints, and their contribution to our spiritual heritage. 1! ` it . le .11 .1 r , e: Mediaeval accounts of saints' lives were often marred by confitsion and contradictory oral traditions, the writers' desire...

A lively and informative introduction to some 300 men and women from different Christian traditions and different eras who have come to be regarded as holy. We meet them not as spiritual superstars but as real people whose example can inspire us today. Based on recent scholarship which has endeavoured to separate reliable historical facts from unhelpful or exaggerated legends, this popular introductioin to the saints and to their place in t...

What was once described as an undesirable swampland has been transformed into one of the most beautiful and wealthiest neighborhoods in America. Chicago's Gold Coast neighborhood, developed in the late 1800s, was first called the Astor Street District. It was named after one of the first multimillionaires in the United States, John Jacob Astor--even though Astor never lived in Chicago. In 1885, Astor Street District's first mansion was built. ...