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Emotional intelligence (EI) and emotional quotient (EQ) are critical to your success and knowing how to use them can improve your care, organization, and life.

Witty Riddles for Witty Kids is a fun riddle book that contains 511 tough riddles and tricky brain teasers of medium to hard difficulty. This book is great for children as well as the whole family who like to solve difficult riddles. It makes a great gift for kids and grandkids alike. Witty Riddles for Witty Kids is perfect for families, parties, and youth group events! The brain teasers of this book will challenge the wits of children o...

After the singularity of Astral Weeks in 1968, the 1970s were the formative years for the solo career of one of the acknowledged giants of modern music. Van Morrison was one of the music legends who defined the decade, with every album bringing out different aspects to Morrison's vast musical spectrum.

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Mechanical Design Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, is a straight-talking and forward-thinking reference covering the design, specification, selection, use and integration of the machine elements that are fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications. This updated edition includes new material on tolerancing, alternative approaches to design, and robotics, as well as references to the latest ISO and US engineering regulations. Se...

A complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements that considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature.

These groundbreaking and award winning works provide valuable in-depth information on topics which traditional reference works often neglect. Reflecting the growth of cross-disciplinary concerns, these encyclopedias covers fields such as film and media, sports, gender, food and wine, education, literature, technology, politics and linguistics. The entries include short biographies of influential figures, as well as brief factual pieces, major ...

The Twentieth Century in Poetry" examines Britain's poetry through the events of the twentieth century, as well as British history through its representation in poetry. Peter Childs demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. Accessible and informative, his work covers the Georgians, First World War poetry, Eliot, Yeats, the thirties, post-war poetry, contemporary...

Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and obsessions seem to tie Barnes's oeuvre together (love, death, art, history, truth, and memory). Chapters provide detailed readings of each major publi...

Renowned author Peter Childs explores the intricacies of Ian McEwan's haunting novel providing a guide to the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds it.

EM Forster's most challenging work, "A Passage to India" has since 1924 provoked debate on topics from imperialism to modernism to ethnicity, sexuality and symbolism. This book introduces not only the novel but the key issues which surround it. It offers a contextual and biographical overview, with a chronology of important dates.

This Sourcebook introduces readers not only to Forster's text, but to the contexts within which the novel was written and to crucial trends in the interpretation of the work.

A 21st Century update of Roger Fowler's 1973 "Dictionary of Modern Critical Terms "that contained entries written by such giants of Literary Theory as Terry Eagleton, Malcolm Bradbury and Victor and Lorna Sage, this is an essential reference book for students of literature at all levels. INCLUDES: - An exhaustive range of entries, covering such topics as genre, form, cultural theory and literary technique- New definitions of contemporary criti...

Texts shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural, and media texts ranging from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites, and lyrics to such films as The Matrix and Harry Potter, to television shows like Big Brother, and to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using o...

Texts shows students how to use literary theory to approach a wide range of literary, cultural, and media texts ranging from short stories, autobiographies, political speeches, websites, and lyrics to such films as The Matrix and Harry Potter, to television shows like Big Brother, and to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos. Each chapter combines an introduction to the text and aspects of its critical reception with an analysis using o...

Covers the design, specification, selection, use and integration of machine elements fundamental to a range of engineering applications.

A fresh set of concerns face the 21st century British novelist. In this study of the four key novelists Zadie Smith, Nadeem Aslam, Hari Kunzru and David Mitchell, the changes in narrative approaches and critical directions of a new post-1989 fiction are explored.

This book takes eight important literary texts and provides some of the most significant post-colonial readings of them published in the last fifteen years. Topics include cannibalism, slavery, the harem, missionary work, gender, nationalism and the Rushdie affair. The book offers theoretical approaches to specific texts including: Shakespeare's The Tempest, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, BrontÎí's Jane Eyre, Kipling's Kim, Conrad's Heart of Darknes...

Julian Barnes is a comprehensive introductory overview of the novels that situates his work in terms of fabulation and memory, irony and comedy. It pursues a broadly chronological line through Barnes's literary career, but along the way it also shows how certain key thematic preoccupations and obsessions seem to tie Barnes's oeuvre together (love, death, art, history, truth, and memory). Chapters provide detailed reading of each major publicat...