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Revised in light of the most recent research, this new edition brings the story of the Central African region completely up-to-date. Particular attention is given to the liberation struggle and the fortunes of the independent regime of Zimbabwe.

Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna."Every-single-day, " she answers. "Papa too.

Modern readers of Melville ... are unlikely to know either the extent of classical allusions or the author's intention in using them in his writing. Coffler's volume assists in answering these as well as other related questions. Five indexes and a substantial glossary make up the bulk of the volume. ... It is through the glossary that the reader gains insight into how Melville may have been informed by the classics. Thus the glossary not only ...

?This work consists of a listing of basic reference sources in the field of medicine and allied health and a thesaurus-index providing quick access to the cited sources. The citations section contains 447 items ranging from atlases, dictionaries, encyclopedias, and indexes to textbooks, guide books, and manuals. It is a well-chosen list of materials for a basic medical or health sciences collection including publications from major association...

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Humphrey Carpenter worked at the BBC before becaming a full-time writer in 1975. He was the author of 14 of the well-loved Mr Majeika titles as well as two Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits titles for children. He was also the co-author, with his wife Mari Prichard, of The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. He was an eminent figure in the world of adult literature and published award-winning biographies including, among others, those...

Duxbury attempts to document the connections between the rock and classical music genres by listing recorded examples of rock instrumentals and songs that borrow from the classics, and orchestral versions of songs originally composed and/or recorded by rock musicians...There are appendices of 'selective' lists: big-band versions of the classics, etc. The general index includes the names of classical composers, rock groups and artists, orchestr...

Two thirds of a century after it first appeared, this last volume of Delbruck's fundamental work on military history has been translated into English. The work remains essential for the history of European warfare. Choice

?The essays present a variety of definitions of, and problems in defining, the fantastic.' ... This collection is by no means a complete representation of authors of the fantastic, ... but it is an important addition to the growing body of scholarly work on a genre with a rich and varied history, and an inexhaustible appeal and relevance, no matter the age. From the introduction by Eric S. Rabkin, who gives an overview of the fantastic and exp...

?Melba ... comes alive in this important review....' The editor has compiled an important overview of her career from contemporary and unimpeachable sources, interspersed with his own comments. ... The book's organization is as superb as its authority. There is a complete discography with important notes, a good bibliography and index, a title index of the recordings, and pages of black and white photographs. Most important, Melba's articles o...

, " . . must not be missed, either by mothers and their doulas, or by doctors, or by an educated, independent public." Conrad Arensberg, Columbia University

Part travel book, part autobiography, and part social commentary, Life on the Mississippi is a memoir of the cub pilot's apprenticeship, a record of Twain's return to the river and to Hannibal as an adult, a meditation on the harsh vagaries of nature, and a study of the varied and sometimes violent activities engaged in by those who live on the river's shores.

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In spirit, Percy Shelley was perhaps the most essentially romantic poet of his age. Intense, idealistic, personal, his is the poetry of youth. His brief, impetuous life aroused great controversy, and, like Byron, he lives on outside his verse. Shelley's work has been criticized for its undisciplined emotionalism. But essentially he was a poet of ideas, and in his search for truth and original human perfection, Shelley was inspired as much by t...