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This study offers an authoritative introduction to Elizabeth Bowen's works, revealing both their pleasures for the fiction-addict and their fascinations for the literary critic, theorist, and historian. It also provides a lucid introduction -- by demonstration -- to psychoanalytic modes of reading, and shows how such readings are enriched by an understanding of the writer's life and times. Elizabeth Bowen is one of the finest writers of fictio...

This book is well written and informative, and Halpern's humor is delightful."-- "Choice

A wonderful overview of our search for signs of intelligent life in the universe

Once given as premiums and sold inexpensively in department stores, Watt Pottery pieces are now valuable collectibles. For over 40 years a family firm in central Ohio produced these items, gracing the kitchens and dining rooms of American homes coast to coast. This book presents the history of the pottery and traces its product and pattern development. Original research and 800 beautiful color images enable readers to identify pieces, includin...

The exquisite diversity of textiles in this book will fascinate all who behold them! Southeast Asian textiles have long been recognized on the world's international market as superb examples of textile art. This book explores their artistic significance, providing an overview of the various styles, designs, and decorative techniques through over 260 color photographs. It gives practical suggestions for collectors on how to care for, value, and...

The advances in technology surrounding pacemakers has led to an inevitable increase in the complexity of ECG interpretation of pacemaker-generated rhythms. Simplified Interpretation of Pacemaker ECGs offers a step-by-step description of pacemaker ECG interpretations.After a brief refresher course on basic ECG interpretation, the reader is provided with an overview of the conduction system of the heart. The hardware associated with pacing is th...

Traditional requiem texts, among them the anonymous medieval Latin poem Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath"), have inspired an untold number of composers in different ages and serving different religions, Western and Eastern. This book, the first comprehensive survey of requiem music for nearly half a century, provides a great deal of diverse and detailed information that will be of use to the professional musician, the musical scholar, the choral condu...

The areas featured include: specialist jargon found in a TV studio, and on location, the vocabulary of radio production, terms used in multimedia, specialist language of film production, comprehensive Job and skills definitions, and frequently accessed organisations associated with practical media production. If you are studying or starting work in the media, this dictionary is an essential companion and a comprehensive guide to successful and...

The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare′s Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare′s tragedies. ∗ Contains original essays on every Shakespearean tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus.

From the Cannes film festival and Brigitte Bardot to virtual film stars and Virginie Ledoyen, French film stars embody glamour and sex appeal and sometimes controversy. This text analyzes the major French stars of the last fifty years, paying detailed attention to screen performance, representation in the popular press, and social and political contexts of their work.

Unbeschwerte Dolce Vita: Das ist das Leben, von dem Tom Ripley in seinem New Yorker Kellerloch träumt - und das sein Schulfreund Dickie Greenleaf führt. Dickies Vater, ein reicher Reeder, bittet Tom, nach Italien zu fahren und seinen >verlorenen Sohn< nach Amerika zurückzuholen: ein Traumauftrag für einen armen Nobody wie Tom. Noch ahnt niemand, wie weit Ripley gehen wird, um für immer zu Dickies Welt zu gehören. 40 Jahre nach René Cléments Ku...

Ein kleiner Ort an der tunesischen Küste. Ein amerikanischer Schriftsteller, der an einem Buch mit dem Titel Das Zittern des Fälschers arbeitet und ungeduldig auf Nachrichten von seiner Geliebten wartet. Ein schemenhafter Besucher im Dunkeln, dem der panische Schriftsteller seine Schreibmaschine entgegenschleudert. In gleißender Hitze, in einer fremden Welt, wo Leichen so schnell verschwinden wie tote Katzen, treffen die amerikanische und die ...

Dot-to-dot puzzles are accompanied by easy-to-follow adventures in this activity book. Both entertaining and educational, this book encourages children in the acquisition of number skills and helps them practise drawing skills.

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Here's what the critics said about the Trevor Merriden's book IRRESISTIBLE FORCES - The Business Legacy of Napster and the Growth of the Underground Internet:"It is wonderful journal-of-record stuff ...." - The Guardian "In this captivating account ... Irresistible Forces is an essential read ... and for any interested web user, it's a fine browse". - Globebooks.com"... well researched and brilliantly clear. [It's] not the only book written...

An illustrative and communicative course designed for adults of all ages. This book gives students, a thorough grounding in the skills required to understand, speak, read and write contemporary French. It consists of 12 illustrated chapters covering different broad themes and providing plenty of diverse material from technical to light-hearted.

Written and edited by a distinguished group of physical geographers, Contemporary Meanings in Physical Geography covers a diverse and lively selection of topics and offers guides to the contemporary debates in the philosophy of physical geography. This book is an essential companion to anyone studying, or with an interest in, physical geography.

At last, a complete new edition of the poetry of Robert Louis Stevenson. During his lifetime Stevenson published A Child's Garden of Verses (1885), Penny Whistles, Underwoods (1887) and Ballads(1890). There were also various private press adventures in poetry with his stepson Lloyd Osbourne, and the posthumous Songs of Travel (1895), and New Poems (1918). This new edition contains these collections and also some of Stevenson's printed and manu...

Cheyne Scarne was a gambler... and he took the big plunge when he bet his life to get to the inner circle of the Grand Wheel. Because the Wheel was the ultimate Syndicate - the final Mafia - that controlled all that was illegal in all the planets under human control. But Cheyne was not to know whether he had won or lost when he gained his point. Because the Wheel had plans for him. And they made him the historic offer he could not refuse. Ther...

In this extraordinary book, Parker traces nothing less than the current scientific version of the creation of the universe."--"The Antioch Review