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Maffeo Vegio (1407-1458) was the outstanding Latin poet of the first half of the fifteenth century. This volume includes Book XIII of Vergil's "Aeneid, " Vegio's famous continuation of the Roman epic, which was extremely popular in the later Renaissance, printed many times and translated into every major European language (and even into Scottish). It also contains three other epic works: "Astyanax, " based on an episode in the "Iliad", "The Go...

Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought--ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world--are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge available on major social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas.

Important ideas that helped shape 20th-century thought--ideas which continue to hold great significance for anyone interested in the social world--are made accessible in this illuminating volume. Readers will be motivated to delve into the deeper pool of knowledge available on major social theorists and their groundbreaking ideas.

In "The New Woman in Early Twentieth-century Chinese Fiction, " Jin Feng discusses representations of women in May Fourth fiction, issues of gender, modernity, individualism, subjectivity, and narrative strategy. In this thought-provoking book about a crucial period of Chinese literature, Feng argues that male writers such as Lu Xun, Yu Dafu, Ba Jin, and Mao Dun created fictional women as mirror images of their own political inadequacy, but th...

Feminism and the Final Foucault is the first systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perspectives on the later work of philosopher Michel Foucault. Rather than simply debating the merits or limitations of Foucault's later work, the essays in this collection examine women's historical self-practices, conceive of feminism as a shared ethos, and consider the political significance of this conceptualization in order to elucidat...

Richard Holt draws on his extensive experience in discourse analysis and Web design to present a picture of the Internet as a potentially powerful tool of civic discourse in the third millennium. Beginning with background on two of the Internet's most prevalent communication forms, email discussion messages and Web pages/sites, the book introduces the concepts of monologism and dialogism. Holt advocates a method of discursive analysis called d...

The reasons why people arise to express dissatisfaction with their present, and how they imagine and work towards an alternative, have enduring relevance. The reform campaigns of 19th-century Britain are of interest not only in their own right, but also because of what they reveal about processes of political and social change. This book examines the personal, social, political, ideological, and tactical components of radicalism in Britain bet...

Die Reihe »Reparaturanleitung« ist der professionelle Begleiter für jeden technisch versierten Schrauber. Schritt-für-Schritt-Anleitungen machen Wartung und Reparatur an Motor, Fahrwerk und Fahrzeug-Elektronik zum Kinderspiel. Druck auf Bestellung: Dieses Buch wird exklusiv für Sie produziert. Rücksendung und Umtausch sind bei diesem Angebot ausgeschlossen.

Der Bericht des Sohnes geht aus von den Gesprächen mit dem Vater. Wir begegnen dem jungen Auguste Renoir mit seiner frühen Leidenschaft für das Zeichnen und Malen, erleben das Wachsen seines künstlerischen Selbstbewußtseins, seine Auseinandersetzung mit der Macht der Konvention, schließlich den Durchbruch der neuen originalen Malerei, die Licht und Schönheit zu unerhörten neuen Gebilden von Farbe und Form befreit. Das Lebensbild ist in einen v...

Tom Ripley ist ein sympathisch-unmoralischer Exil-Amerikaner, der südlich von Paris ein luxuriöses Leben führen will - um jeden Preis. Immer wieder gelingt es dem erfolgreichen Serienhelden, sich vor der Polizei und seinen Verfolgern hakenschlagend aus dem Staub zu machen und dem erwartbaren Verbrecherschicksal eine Nase zu drehen.

In diesem Band (Nr. 5256) werden alle Modelle der Suzuki DL 1000 V-Strom ab Modelljahr 2002 behandelt

Alasdair Gray is an old, asthmatic Glaswegian who lives by painting, writing and book design. He is currently working on a book about his visual art, A Life in Pictures, copiously illustrated, to be published by Canongate in 2008.

Sith Abuda is drawn to his mother. He can't explain his attraction, or his strange dreams and nightmares. But he knows he's falling in love with her day by day: though it troubles him, it no longer matters. Just when he thinks he has everything under control, an old rival, Michael, his sworn nemesis, returns, bringing with him memories of an old war. The dreams become more disturbing and intense for Sith Abuda. He can't sleep, and finds Sophia...

Following on from the success of Usborne's other card games, this language pack features everyday objects such as apples and balloons. Readership level: 3+.

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Activity Books

High quality cards illustrated with hand-made model characters and the word. Readership level: 3+.

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / General

Lyons provides a fresh and thought-provoking understanding of the children's public mental health system, as well as the need to foster its evolution and improvement. He presents the history of child mental health systems, including the U.S. system's roots and the early 19th-century case of the Wild Boy of Aveyron, which demonstrated the potentially therapeutic effects of environment. He shows us why modern leaders and Presidents have issued c...

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A devastating portrayal of a woman on the verge of madness . . . His writing is as spare and sharp as ever." Daily MailThe Courage Consort, possibly the seventh best-known a cappella vocal ensemble in Britain, are given two weeks in a Belgian chateau to rehearse their latest commission, the monstrously complicated Partitum Mutante. Their composer is a maniac, the group is full of sexual tension and fiercely differing temperaments - and what of...