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Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora.

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Zaungast und der Kosmokrator" ist eine bizarr-phantastische Erzählung voll von haarsträubenden, abstrusen Geschehnissen, voller Bosheiten und Scheußlichkeiten, die aber durch eine seltsame Form vergeistigten Humors erträglich, goutierbar wird. Ein Konglomerat aus Edgar Allan Poe, Ionescos absurdem Theater, Nietzsches Philosophie und Helge Schneider, verpackt in einen sich völlig konfus gestaltenden und (hoffentlich) dennoch spannenden Kriminal...

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Die heutigen gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse zeichnen sich durch eine Verschärfung der globalen Probleme und die zunehmende Prekärisierung der Lebensverhältnisse großer Teile der Weltbevölkerung aus. Gleichzeitig setzen die Protagonisten der "New Economy" große Hoffnungen in den technischen Fortschritt. Angesichts der Richtung der technischen und gesellschaftlichen Entwicklung wird jedoch bezweifelt, daß sich eine Humanisierung der Lebensverh...

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York Notes Advanced offer a fresh and accessible approach to English Literature. This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level and undergraduate students. Written by established literature experts, York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis, a range of critical perspectives and wider contexts.

A collection of stories of the author whose stories - whether they are set in Italy, Greece, India, or in England itself - contrast the freedom of paganism with the restraints of English civilization, the personal, sensual delights of the body with the impersonal, inhibiting rules imposed by society.

Presents chronologically works such as "Paterson", selections from "White Shroud", "Cosmopolitan Greetings", and including the poems "Howl" and "Kaddish" as well as songs, and notes by Ginsberg. This volume brings together the personal verse of an American poet.

A unique insider's view of today's complex and often contentious world of medicineAnxious about the prognosis, lost in a blur of technical jargon, and fatigued from worry or pain, people who are ill are easily overwhelmed by treatment choices. Told through eight gripping clinical dramas, Second Opinions reveals the forces at play in making critical medical decisions. Dr. Jerome Groopman illuminates the world of medicine where knowledge is impe...

Crossing cultures can be a stimulating and rewarding adventure. It can also be a stressful and bewildering experience. This title examines the psychological and social processes involved in intercultural contact, including learning new culture-specific skills and managing stress and coping with an unfamiliar environment.

Blasted" is Sarah Kane's first full-length play which opened in 1995 and was the sensation of that year's theatre season, making front-page headlines and outraging some critics who thought her premise that there was a connection between a rape in a Leeds hotel room and the hellish devastation of civil war was simply an attempt to shock audiences. The questions raised in this play about violence are at the heart of Kane's writing.

Supporting Lovelock's thesis that the Earth is a living being, Swan suggests natural sites such as Serpent Mound, Machu Pichu, and Kilauea Center have the power to move us in ways modern science cannot explain. ,

Fully revised second edition, with 4, 000 new entries in the unique and practical thematic arrangement.

Hugh Brogan was educated at Repton School and Cambridge. He worked on the Economist for two years before his first visit to the United States as a Harkness Fellow in 1962. He was a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge from 1963 to 1974 and thereafter, until his retirement in 1998, taught at the University of Essex. He has several published works, the most recent of which is 'Signalling from Mars: Selected Letters of Arthur Ransome' (1997).

Moon Launch! recreates the exciting story of the astronauts and engineers, scientists and technicians, politicians and public citizens who expanded the world's understanding of humanity's potential, the people responsible for the Project Apollo flights to the moon. Through their teamwork at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral became the spaceport for the nation and, in the minds of many, the gateway to the universe.A companion to Gateway ...

Move from the stressful "fast lane" to the "vast lane" of a meaningful life with renowned spiritual teacher Bo Lozoff. "Filled with lessons, wisdom practices, and love. An invitation to a life well lived".--Jack Kornfield, author of "A Path with Heart".

Imagism was a brief, complex yet influential poetic movement of the early 1900s, a time of reaction against late nineteenth-century poetry which Ezra Pound, one of the key imagist poets, described as 'a doughy mess of third-hand Keats, Wordsworth ...half-melted, lumpy'.