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The stories of Mary Gordon return us to the pleasure of this writer's craft and to her monumental talent as an observer of character and of the ever-fading American Dream. These pieces encompass the pre- and postwar Irish American family life she circles in the early "Temporary Shelter" series, as well as a wealth of new fiction that brings her contemporary characters into middle age, it is their turn to face bodily decline, mortality, and the...

Frost, bestselling author of "The Greatest Game Ever Played, " returns with the story of the match that turned the pastime of golf into a professional sport--when Harvie Ward and Ken Venturi played against Ben Hogan and Byron Nelson in the greatest private match ever played.

In this lively narrative, award-winning author Michael Kammen presents a fascinating analysis of cutting-edge art and artists and their unique ability to both delight and provoke us. He illuminates America's obsession with public memorials and the changing role of art and museums in our society. From Thomas Eakins's 1875 masterpiece "The Gross Clinic, " (considered "too big, bold, and gory" when first exhibited) to the bitter disputes about Ma...

McInerney gathers more than five years worth of essays and continues his exploration of whats new, whats enduring, and whats surprising in the world of wine, giving his palate a complete workout and the reader an indispensable, idiosyncratic guide to a world of almost infinite variety.

This volume, with more than 400 reproductions, will be the most comprehensive publication to date on Lucian Freud, covering a span of seventy years and including many works not previously reproduced. The result is a corpus of great works that reveal him to be the premier heir today of Rembrandt, Courbet, and Cézanne. The book includes not only Freud's paintings but also his sketches, woodcuts, and powerful etchings. While the bulk of his paint...

The incredible real-life cases behind TV's hit crime drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, including photos. The crimes, the suspects, the trials-as they really went down. True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit focuses on twenty-five of the scandalous true crimes that real detectives have grappled with-the facts behind the fictionalized stories on the phenomenally popular TV show. Beyond the actual crimes, the entire criminal pro...

Second in a hot and naughty trilogy from the author of Nauti Boy. Angela Knight says, "When I'm in the mood for steamy romance, I read Lora Leigh." So do readers who devoured the author's first novel in the Mackay Cousins trilogy, Nauti Boy. Now, in Nauti Nights, Leigh delivers an even hotter tale of a Kentucky marine who'll anything to get the woman he wants. Luckily for him, she wants it bad. James "Dawg" Mackay has lusted after sweet Crista...

From his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his "amatory career, " an adventurous Victorian known only as "Walter" records a breathtaking carnal epic through hundreds of sexual encounters during an era of notorious repression. Revised reissue.

In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just 26 years old, opened one of the first art galleries in Greenwich Village and set about turning the art world upside down.

Wiley Pathways Human Resource Management walks readers through the steps involved in managing the most important component of a company - its employees. The skills-based approach covers everything from designing a new position and the interview process to administering benefits and managing workplace safety so students will be able to apply their knowledge in a professional setting.

Iris Murdoch was the author of twenty-six bestselling novels. Her many love affairs, her war-work with UNRRA, her move from early communism to Thatcherism, her later life as a secular saint, her sad decline from Alzheimer's - all these events are detailed in this accessible chronological account of a world-famous and much loved British writer.

A Journey Called Aging travels through the sights, landmarks, decisions, and challenges of the years between older adulthood and death. The book focuses major task areas that include: discovering and maintain purpose, holding and building relationships, balancing autonomy, dependence, and interdependence, and facing loss and change.

The objective of this book is to motivate an appreciation of contemporary statistical techniques within the context of engineering. The author presents an optimum blend between statistical thinking and statistical methodology through emphasis of a broad sweep of "tools" rather than endless streams of seemingly unrelated methods and formulae. The book has many novel features, including (among others) the connection that is made (but rarely illu...

Analyzes the attitude towards Muslims, Islam, and Islamic culture as presented in sources written by Jewish authors in the Iberian Peninsula between the tenth and the twelfth centuries. This book explores the shifting ways in which Jewish authors constructed communal identity of Muslims and Islamic culture, and how these views changed overtime.

While work in theology and religious studies by scholars in Latin America and by Latino/a scholars in the United States has made substantial contributions to the current scholarship in the field, there are few projects where scholars from these various co

The Potency Principles demystifies Tantric sex for anyone interested in heightening pleasure in-and out of-the bedroom. The guidance within will help you master the art of lovemaking to feel both relaxed and energized, as well as to expand your consciousness and broaden your spiritual perspective. By simply rewiring your thinking, you can achieve the best, most rapturous and blissfully uplifting sex possible. Seasoned educator and sexual heale...

Please don't kill me! Please don't kill me! His victims will plead for their lives. His victims are mostly unassuming, everyday people, yet he is not picky. He will dabble in killing prostitutes, cops and whoever dares to cross him. Silas is a man filled with pure unremorseful revenge. The police seem baffled at the killings "this sort of thing just don't happen here." If not here, where? The killer tends to play Cat and Mouse with the authori...

Das Abbild, das uns die moderne westliche Stadt bietet, gleicht zunehmend kontrollierten Playscapes, die wie Themenparks und Shopping Malls zur Maximierung von Vergnügen und Profit optimiert sind. Privatisierung, themenspezifische Organisation, Branding und Überwachung sind einige Merkmale dieser Montage, in der die Stadt zugleich Bühne und Erzählung ist. "Entertainment Cities" verortet aktuelle Stadtformationen im Kontext urbaner Typologien -...

Casting the tumultuous history of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam against the rich canvas of the Near East, The Biblical World reveals how three great religions emerged from the same cradle. Author Jean-Pierre Isbouts employs a non-denominational perspective and a wide range of sources-from ancient hieroglyphic texts to the latest scientific findings-to place Bible stories in the framework of history. Chronologically arranged chapters detail ...

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