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When Virginia Woolf first met Vita Sackville-West at Clive Bell's home in 1922, she wrote that Vita made her feel 'virgin, shy, & schoolgirlish'. But over the next three years Vita charmed away her shyness, and at the end of 1925 made Virginia her lover. Vita and Virginia examines the creative intimacy between the two women, interpreting both their relationship and their work in the light of their experience as married lesbians. The contradict...

A spirited effort to restore the importance of rhetoric, this book examines its early development in the classical era, its triumph during the Renaissance, and its subsequent decline. While acknowledging rhetoric's general loss of prestige, the author asserts its value in modern times as an indispensable vehicle for style and thought in the work of Joyce, Orwell, Jarrell, and others, and concludes by surveying rhetoric's fragmentation and misa...

Rules are a central component of such diverse enterprises as law, morality, language, games, religion, etiquette, and family governance, but there is often confusion about what a rule is, and what rules do. Offering a comprehensive philosophical analysis of these questions, this book challenges much of the existing legal, jurisprudential, and philosophical literature, by seeing a significant role for rules, an equally significant role for thei...

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Illustrative examples from recent research publications and "classic" studies are prominently featured throughout the book. Research techniques are highlighted in "special interest" boxes. Illustrations and descriptions of research techniques are provided with examples such as fire-scars from trees used to reconstruct disturbance, fossil pollen used to reconstruct vegetation change and plant migration, transect and quadrate sampling. Includes ...

An important new resource for the international utility market Flexible AC Transmission System (FACTS) technology is fast becoming a mainstay of modern electrical power systems. Thyristor-based controllers such as Static Var Compensator (SVC) and Thyristor Controlled Series Capacitor (TCSC) constitute the key components of FACTS technology that have wide application potential around the world, especially in the restructured power system envir...

Grasso explores the ways in which black and white 19th-century women writers define, express, and dramatize anger. Offering close readings of works by Lydia Maria Child, Maria W. Stewart, Fanny Fern, and Harriet Wilson, she shows how women used an aesthetic of discontent to address such complex social and political issues as slavery, industrialization, imperialism, and race relations.

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Focusing on a series of autobiographical texts, published and private, well known and obscure, this book examines the writing of domestic life on the 19th-century North American frontier. It explores domestic details in the autobiographical writing of British and Anglo-American female emigrants.

Do you know students who need a strategy for success? There's a good chance Getting School-Wise can provide the answers. This versatile book outlines a valuable set of academic coping skills in a fun and accessible format. Developing organization skills, describing different learning styles, and teaching students how to listen more effectively are all covered in order to help students to perform better in the classroom. These strategies will h...

High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is a procedure for separating components from a mixture of chemical substances, a combination of separation, identification, and quantitative measurements. Solvent selection is perhaps the most commonly overlooked parameter in HPLC. Even the most experienced analytical chemist tends to select one of three familiar solvents. The HPLC Solvent Guide provides detailed coverage of all commonly used HPLC...

The first collection of short stories published by Peter Carey, whose other books include "Bliss", "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda", which was awarded the 1988 Booker Prize. The stories, set in an ominous near-future that has a feel of contemporary life, are by turn bizarre and funny.

This fourth collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for stage contains his highly acclaimed translations of Aeschylus, Aristophanes and Euripides. Included are the plays The Oresteia, and The Common Chorus (Parts I and II). This volume contains introductions, written by Tony Harrison, to each of the plays.

Offers an account of 18-month journey through the world of a people who have no intention of vanishing into the past. This book retraces the history of the ever-expanding white frontier, from the first eighteenth-century explorer to the wildest corporate energy dreams.

Sharing the preoccupations of the songs and including moving elegies to Paul's wife, Linda, they give us unique access to the inner life of one of the most influential figures in popular culture of the last fifty years.

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This report describes a structured implicit review form designed for use in the outpatient setting. The form was developed as part of a broader Medicare beneficiary complaints process to improve physician peer review reliability. It was designed specifically for evaluating care that occurs in the outpatient setting and is intended to be used after a formal training session.

Pawel, ein junger Geschäftsmann, der es zu einem bescheidenen Textilhandel gebracht hat, erwacht in einer Trümmerlandschaft. Der Spiegel im Bad ist zerschlagen, Tuben, Bürsten und Fläschchen liegen auf dem Boden, Kleider sind aus dem Schrank gerissen. Er verläßt seine Wohnung und fährt durch Warschau, getrieben von Unruhe und Angst. Er hat Schulden, man ist ihm auf den Fersen, er braucht Geld. Ein Freund, Jacek, an den er sich um Hilfe wendet,...

*"Bin Laden's genesis and genius are all chronicled in Jacquard's sweeping account of the Saudi born terrorist and his brotherhood. The book rightfully brings into focus the role of modern media, especially satellite TV and the Internet, in bin Laden's cunning wager that he could defeat the U.S. as a world power. A chilling read, a must read for all who continue to grapple with the twin legacy of hatred and hope from September 11."--Bruce B. L...

The relationship between traditional myths and fairytales and current fiction novels featuring women as crime-solvers is examined in this work. Using theories from Joseph Campbell, C.G. Jung and others, the author asserts that plots and imagery in these novels conform to quest narratives outlined in classical myths and traditional fairytales. Narcissus, Medusa, Orpheus and Orestes are a few of the figures emerging in todays mystery fiction. Am...