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Letters of E. B. White" touches on a wide variety of subjects, including the "New Yorker" editor who became the author's wife, their dachshund, Fred, with his "look of fake respectability", and White's contemporaries, from Harold Ross and James Thurber to Groucho Marx and John Updike and, later, Senator Edmund S. Muskie and Garrison Keillor. Updated with newly released letters from 1976 to 1985, additional photographs, and a new foreword by Jo...

Das zweite Buch des damals 30-jährigen McEwan, das bei seinem Erscheinen 1978 sofort die Bestsellerliste der >Sunday Times< stürmte! Sieben bestechende Erzählungen vom Meister der Kurzgeschichten - zum Wiederlesen und Neuentdecken: >Pornographie / Betrachtungen eines Hausaffen / Zwei Fragmente: März 199-, Samstag und Sonntag / Der kleine Tod / Zwischen den Laken / Hin und Her / Psychopolis<.

Criminal defense attorney Jack Swyteck learns that the sins of the past never die. . . Many years ago, Jack Swyteck saved Theo Knight's life. Theo grew up on the streets of Miami's roughest neighborhood and lost his mother to a violent crime. By the time he was a teenager, he was on Death Row for a murder he didn't commit. Jack was the lawyer who proved him innocent. Now a successful bar owner, Theo has turned things around. But he needs Jack'...

Jennifer Hedda analyzes the ideas and activities of the parish clergy serving in St. Petersburg, the capital of imperial Russia, in order to discover how the Russian Orthodox Church responded theologically and pastorally to the profound social, economic, and cultural changes that transformed Russia during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The challenges of modernity forced the Orthodox clergy, like other members of educated society, to re-exa...

This study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing that transnational studies reinforce essentialist conceptions of identity and cultural authenticity in diasporic communities, and thus frustrate the promotion of ethnic co-existence and social cohesion in multi-ethnic societies.

This work includes international secondary literature on anti-Semitism published throughout the world, from the earliest times to the present. It lists books, dissertations, and articles from periodicals and collections from a diverse range of disciplines. Written accounts are included among the recorded titles, as are manifestations of anti-Semitism in the visual arts (e.g. painting, caricatures or film), action taken against Jews and Judaism...

DAS heuristische Spitzenwerk der Mittelaltergermanistik, das für alle mediävistischen Disziplinen bis hin zur Medizingeschichte unentbehrlich ist. Das Werk dokumentiert nicht nur weitgehend umfassend den gegenwärtigen Forschungsstand innerhalb des definierten Rahmens, es zeigt in den Veränderungen der Artikel zwischen Bd. 1 und Bd. 11 die Präzisierungen in der Forschungs- und Darstellungsmethodik. Daher ist dieses Lexikon auch von hohem fachge...

In der Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel sind 350.000 Bücher aus der Zeit vor 1830 überliefert. Die Sammlung von Porträtstichen umfasst ca. 25.000 Blätter. In der Reihe A des Katalogs erschienen zunächst 28 Bildbände. Die neun Textbände liefern Angaben zu den abgebildeten Personen, Bildbeschreibungen sowie Angaben zum Künstler und zur angewendeten Technik. Das Supplement ergänzt in sechs Bänden 3.000 nach Erscheinungsbeginn des Katalogs ne...

Die Schriftenreihe des Instituts für Zeitungsforschung der Stadt Dortmund beschäftigt sich zentral mit den Printmedien und dem Journalismus als professioneller Tätigkeit. Berücksichtigt werden historische, regionale wie empirische Perspektiven in vielfältiger Form, aufbereitet in Monographien, Nachschlagewerken, Konferenzbeiträgen, biographischen Darstellungen und Textdokumentationen.

A selection of poems ("like tattered battle-flags on barbed-wire") written between 1984 and 2007 covering the everyday themes of love, loss, madness, and death ... not always seriously.

A comprehensive reference on state-of-the-art risk assessment methodologies for drinking water Risk Assessment for Chemicals in Drinking Water discusses the major steps and goals in risk assessments and suggests ways to improve the methodologies and accuracy, while consolidating up-to-date information on the current principles and practices in one authoritative reference. After an enlightening overview of risk assessment practices and regulat...

Papers from The American Ceramic Society's 31st International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 21-26, 2007. Focuses on recent advances in coating development, processing, structural design, microstructure and property characterization, and life prediction.

Praise for the First Edition: "Very valuable." -Journal of the American Aging Association "Remarkably comprehensive yet concise and contains something for everyone . . . a wide range of 'Cell Biologists' will find this book valuable." -Cell Biology International "A broadly conceived and lively account of mitochondrial biology and biochemistry . . . [written] with such clarity and spark, and in such an organized and complete manner." -Bioche...

The Fourth Edition offers a broadened and restructured "Backgrounds and Sources" section that illuminates the social and intellectual climate of the 1890s and includes thought-provoking material by Jay Martin, Charles J. LaRocca, and Perry Lentz on Crane's use of the Battle of Chancellorsville. "Criticism" includes an expanded introduction by Donald Pizer covering major critical approaches to the novel and fourteen assessments that reflect the...

This is an excellent textbook for which there is currently a niche in the market. The chapters on rationing, professionalism, politics of clinical knowledge and the politics of democracy and participation are particularly strong and will be invaluable to students of health policy, health studies and health service research' - Professor Michael Calnan, University of Bristol Written by leading academics in their field, this book provides a clea...

In the third adventure of Griffin's #1 "New York Times" bestselling series, the growing UN/Iraq oil-for-food scandal leads Delta Force Major Charley Castillo and his team to Uruguay, where the man they are seeking is murdered right before their eyes. The killers leave just enough of a trail for Castillo to pick up the scent. Available in a tall Premium Edition.

Understanding of biblical poetry is enhanced by the study of its structure. In this book Adele Berlin analyzes parallelism, a major feature of Hebrew poetry, from a linguistic perspective. This new edition of Berlin??'s study features an additional chapter, ?The Range of Biblical Metaphors in Smikhut, ? by late Russian linguist Lida Knorina. Berlin calls this addition ?innovative and instructive to those who value the linguistic analysis of po...

This definitive picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is an unforgettable portrait of a man whose dream changed America--and the world--forever.

Newlywed Noriko begins to suspect that her new in-laws charming eccentricities may in fact contain hints of something more sinister. As she probes deeper into their secrets and past, she begins to see shadows around every corner, in this stunning tour de force of psychological suspense.

This volume of "Midwest Studies" focuses on the currently hot topic in ethics and action theory of shared intentions and relates it to issues in collective responsibility. Each of the essays in the volume is by an internationally known scholar who has published seminal pieces on various aspects of the concepts of shared intention and collective responsibility. Features all new essays that expand the discussion and invite those interested in th...