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Beauty and the Beast may be a tale as old as time, but never has it been more imaginatively told than in the 1987-1990 live action television series created by Ron Koslow. The concept has a noble lion-man, Vincent (Ron Perlman), a member of a vast wondrous community located beneath the streets of Manhattan, who saves the life of New York socialite turned assistant district attorney Catherine Chandler (Linda Hamilton). As he nurses her back to ...

Written in lively rhyming verse, this is a delightful and amusing story about a small boy and his mischievous purple pen. The boy's teacher, a Police Inspector, and even the Queen, become embroiled in the naughty pen's antics. What will the boy do about the trouble that his inky friend is causing him?

This groundbreaking volume examines the transnational dimensions of Black Power - how Black Power thinkers and activists drew on foreign movements and vice versa how individuals and groups in other parts of the world interpreted 'Black Power, ' from African liberation movements to anti-caste agitation in India to indigenous protests in New Zealand.

Have you ever needed to discover the truth? Solve a riddle? Or felt the desire to seek adventure? If the answer to any of these questions is yes, then you have just qualified to read this book. Join Nola, Nick and Sebastian in their quest through danger, mystery, fear and laughter. Assisted by Housden and Tatty Bojangles, they fight against evil to regain ownership of the Sprickle. You will be captivated.

Assessing the most valuable technology for an organization is becoming a growing challenge for business professionals confronted with an expanding array of options. This book is an A-Z compendium of technological terms written for the non-technical executive, allowing quick identification of what the term is and why it is significant. This is more than a dictionary - it is a concise review of the most important aspects of information technolog...

This book is concerned with our ideological, technical and emotional investments in reclaiming medieval for contemporary popular culture. The authors illuminate both medieval and contemporary popular culture in surprising and productive ways while interrogating the many ways in which metamedievalism reinterprets and reconceptualises the medieval.

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Anything can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Wouldn't you rather know that you had done everything in your power to have prepared yourself for that moment when something goes wrong? None of us plan to fail, but we may fail to plan.In Sentinel, author Patrick McNamara provides an instructional guide filled with survival techniques for the family. Drawing from his background as a special-operations agent for twenty-two years, McNamara d...

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In ricordo di Claudio Sensi, Professore di Letteratura Italiana all'Università di Torino, il volume raccoglie contributi di ricercatori attivi in Europa, in particolare nelle Università di Caen e di Cagliari, legati da rapporti professionali e di amicizia tra loro e con lo studioso scomparso. In omaggio a Sensi, i saggi, in francese e in italiano, concernono epoche e argomenti lui cari, dal Duecento alla contemporaneità: Dante, l'epoca barocca...

Irus Braverman is Associate Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Geography at the University at Buffalo, SUNY. She is the author of Planted Flags: Trees, Land, and Law in Israel/Palestine (2009).

This book presents us with a concise history of the Germanic people, embedded in European and eben world history.

Dramaturge dont l'oeuvre est la plus jouée en France, Shakespeare est également un auteur à dimension mondiale, dont les textes sont le terrain par excellence où les critiques de tous bords viennent tester leurs théories. Ce livre analyse l'impact des théories postmodernistes et poststructuralistes sur le domaine des études littéraires, et plus particulièrement sur celui des études shakespeariennes. Loin des dogmes, et sans sombrer dans le pas...

While a number of published works approach the shared concerns of Ireland and Scotland, no major volume has offered a sustained and up-to-date analysis of the cultural connections between the two, despite the fact that these border crossings continue to be politically suggestive. The current collection addresses this area of comparative critical neglect, focusing on writers, from Charles Robert Maturin to Liam McIlvanney, whose work offers ins...

The hip is a challenging joint to image. The neighboring anatomy, including bones, tnedons, ligaments and intra-articular anatomy has to be taken into consideration. This title focuses on the Magnetic Resonance imaging of the hip.

A lively illustrated collection of short essays on a wide range of aspects of Austen's life, work and times.

Immigration has become a contentious issue in Europe in recent decades, with immigrants being accused of resisting integration and threatening the secular fabric of nationhood. The most extreme form of this unease has invented and demonized an Islamic 'other' within Europe. This book poses central questions about this global staging of difference. How has such anxiety increased exponentially since 9/11? Why has the Muslim veil been singled out...

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Amidst prevailing debates that construe rationality and emotionality as polar opposites, this book explores the manner in which emotions shape not only prevailing conceptions of rationality, but also culture in general terms, making room for us to speak of an 'emotional culture' specific to late-modern societies. Presenting case studies involving cultural artefacts, narratives found in fictional and non-fictional literature and television prog...

This book discusses how the plurality of legal norms operating in the European Union can be balanced to produce a functioning, sustainable and legitimate legal system. It provides an extensive database of 2004-2009 national judgments of national courts in Latvia and Estonia, and offers an extensive comparative review of the jurisprudence of constitutional and supreme courts, as well as providing insight into the jurisprudence of ordinary natio...