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Spain's cultural and intellectual exchanges with Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century.

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A reading of women's post-war literary representations in terms of exemplarity.

This is a comprehensive, original and accessible account of all aspects of Jean Cocteau's work in the cinema. It is the first major study in English to appear for over forty years and casts new light on Cocteau's most celebrated films as well as those often neglected or little known.Jean Cocteau is not only one of French cinema's greatest and most influential auteurs whose work covered all the major genres but also an experimenter, collaborato...

Winner, 2nd Place, Fiction, 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Winner, 1st Place, Regional Fiction, 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards Shaken Allegiances spans 48 hours in a world askew-almost absurd-just after a devastating earthquake has struck and isolated Montréal Island in the dead of an icy winter, one week before a referendum on Québec's secession from Canada. No power, no communications, no access, and -40°F, but no heroe...

Frances Presley's Lines of sight brings together all her poems from 'Stone settings and longstones', a sequence framed by the Neolithic stone monuments on Exmoor. The poems reflect the fragile, elusive and even disputed existence of these sites, as well as the enduring landscape which surrounds them. They reveal, too, more recent layers of history, and the creation of new stone settings. The writings of a local woman archaeologist are also a s...

SPSS syntax is the command language used by SPSS to carry out all of its commands and functions. In this book, Jacqueline Collier introduces the use of syntax to those who have not used it before, or who are taking their first steps in using syntax. Without requiring any knowledge of programming, the text outlines: - how to become familiar with the syntax commands, - how to create and manage the SPSS journal and syntax files, - and how to ...

Uniquely revealing interviews with one of the world's greatest living composers.

This book makes available a generous array of [Chute's] narrative poems, most of them originally published by small presses, sometimes in limited editions. Besides, it collects eight shorter poems from literary magazines. Admirers of Chute's work, whose numbers must surely be growing, will be glad to find so many of his essential poems so conveniently gathered together. X.J.Kennedy Each of [Chute's] poems is a search for meaning, that pecul...

The author's in-depth knowledge, gleaned from his years of experience, shines through. An important work from a respected voice in the medical profession."--Janine Pearson, head of Voice and Coaching, Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

This study locates debates over the origin of the Gypsies in their historical perspective. Starting with a consideration of the early modern description of Gypsies as Egyptians, land pirates and vagabonds, the volume goes on to examine the racial classification of the nineteenth century and the emergence of the ethnic Gypsy in the twentieth century.

A comprehensive introductory resource with entries covering the development of money and the functions and dysfunctions of the monetary and financial system.

This volume covers the start of James Monroe's tenure as U.S. minister to France, commencing with his appointment in May 1794 and running through March 1796, a year before his return home. Consisting mainly of Monroe's correspondence with the U.S. and French governments, and with fellow American diplomats, the documents in this volume shed much light on the controversy surrounding the Jay Treaty and on Monroe's efforts to secure the release of...

When Peter Robinson published Untitled Deeds in 2004, a number of his readers expressed surprise that the writer who, as early as 1983, had been described as 'the finest poet of his generation' in PN Review and, two decades later in The Reader, 'the finest poet alive', should suddenly emerge from his exile in Japan as an aphorist. What had happened? While the Western world was declaring war on an abstraction, Robinson had been drawing up peace...

Reprint from the original MG workshop manual. Covers all passenger cars from 1927 to 1939

Die viel beachtete amerikanische Forschungsreise von Alexander von Humboldt in den Jahren 1799-1804 fand ihren Niederschlag in drei Werken des Naturforschers, die seinen Ruf als Wissenschaftler und Bergminenexperte endgültig festigen sollten. Die erste große Expedition führte im Februar 1800 von Caracas zum Fluss Apure und auf diesem in das Strombett des Orinoko, das stromaufwärts so weit wie möglich in südlicher Richtung befahren, dann aber v...

In diesem 1797 erstmals erschienenen äußert umfassenden Werk zeichnet Johann Friedrich Gmelin die Geschichte der Chemie als Wissenschaft seit dem Wiederaufleben der Wissenschaft bis zum Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts ebenso akribisch wie spannend nach.

China has long claimed the ownership of a network of widely-scattered islands and their surrounding waters and resources in the South China Sea. These claims overlap in a substantial way with those of at least three ASEAN countries: Vietnam, the Philippines and Malaysia. To this day, the South China Sea has remained one of the region's most dangerous 'flashpoints'. Despite regional efforts to calm the situation, the complicated nature of the i...

In November 2008, Center for Asia-Pacific Area Studies (CAPAS), Academia Sinica, Taiwan, the ASEAN Studies Centre (ASC), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (ISEAS), Singapore, and the Taiwan Institute of Economic Research (TIER) organized a symposium in Taipei on ASEAN-Taiwan economic relations. The symposium concluded that while a free trade agreement between Taiwan and ASEAN was not, for political reasons, possible at the moment, Taiwan bu...