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Dr. Syn's creator cannot but write interestingly. . . . Some of the strange stories are horrible and not for the squeamish." - Sydney Morning Herald "These tales of terror and violence are quite nightmarish in their exciting conception." - Glasgow Evening News "Master of the Macabre is certainly macabre and provides just what you want, if you enjoy reading of 'ghosts and ghoulies, long leggity beasties and things that go bump in the ...

The diversity of gay men's life writing since the Stonewall Inn riots is not limited to the coming-out story. Memoirs, personal essays, fictionalized autobiographies, and other forms of life writing witnessing to gay experience adopt many narrative paradigms and are profoundly self-reflexive about how they construct gay male identity. Exposures emphasizes both this critical perspective and the risk-taking, personal as much as artistic, assumed...

This study attempts to analyze diverse aspects of the corporeality of cultural others in Middle English oriental romances. The theoretical introduction situates the romances in the context of anthropology of the body. The analysis includes a psychoanalytical perspective on an oriental female body in Chaucer's Squire's tale and Sir Ferumbras, anthropophagy in Richard le Coer de Lyon, slavery and hybridity in Floris and Blancheflour, Roberto Esp...

MIDNIGHT IN SAVANNAH...It's a city of beauty, history...hauntings. And one of the most haunted places in Savannah is a tavern called The Dragonslayer, built in the 1750s. The current owner, Gus Anderson, is a descendant of the original innkeeper and his pirate brother, Blue.Gus summons his granddaughter, Abigail, home from Virginia, where she's studying at the FBI Academy. When she arrives, she's devastated to find him dead. Murdered. But Abby...

Filled with period art and photographs, anecdotes, and portraits of unique characters from the era, this fascinating book by an award-winning author looks at the rise and fall of the disastrous social experiment known as Prohibition. It began with the best of intentions. Worried about the effects of alcohol on American families, mothers and civic leaders started a movement to outlaw drinking in public places. Over time, their protests, petitio...

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These classic tales from #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts prove that sometimes bending the rules is the only way to win... Rules of the Game Professional baseball player Parks Jones is insufferable, with an inflated ego Brooke Gordon is dying to pop. Unfortunately, he's also brilliant and her client's spokesman. Brooke knows she can handle Parks, as long as she keeps her intense attraction to herself. But Parks has other plans...

After winning his battle against cancer, Beauregard Cates wants to live life to the fullest. But traveling the world has left him desiring the one thing he thinks he can't have: a family of his own and a place to call home. Growing up in a family of overachievers, Jenna Jay Scroggs has never felt like she fits in. That's why she fights for the underdog, and how she ends up in New York City. But when a silver-haired cowboy comes to the Big Appl...

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Promise, a ranching community in the Hill Country, is a place with a mysterious past and a secret or two hidden under its everyday exterior. It's also a place where family and friendship are the things that really matter. This two-in-one volume includes "Caroline's Child" and "Dr. Texas." Reissue.

An original novel set in the universe of Star Trek: The Original Series!

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Mufid al-'Ibad, of which this book is a translation, is a summation of all the previous commentaries on the work of Ibn 'Ashir on Ash'ari 'aqida, Maliki fiqh and Junaydi tasawwuf and is augmented not infrequently by the author's own subtle understanding of the finer aspects of the 'amal of the people of Madina.Shaykh Ahmad bin al-Bashir al-Qalawi ash-Shinqiti (1216 AH/1802 CE- 1276 AH/1853 CE), whose lineage can be traced to Abu Bakr as-Siddiq...

McCarry's brilliant debutNthe first book in an exciting YA trilogyNtells the story of two best friends on the verge of a terrifying divide when they begin to encounter a cast of strange and mythical characters.

Bildungsexpansion, Rationalisierung, Demokratisierung - die Universität Kiel sah sich wie andere westdeutsche Hochschulen in den 1960er Jahren mit Anforderungen konfrontiert, die ihr bisheriges Selbstverständnis in Frage stellten. Welche Maßnahmen ergriffen die Verantwortlichen in Universität und Politik? Wer reformierte, wer blockierte? Wie verhielten sich institutionelle Reform und studentische Revolte zueinander? Auf Basis eines eigenen Ins...

Bei den Anschlägen auf das World Trade Center in New York kamen über dreitausend unschuldige Menschen ums Leben. Entsprechend schockiert wurden die Taten in der westlichen Welt als barbarische Akte des Terrorismus gebrandmarkt. Wir können jedoch mit guter Wahrscheinlichkeit davon ausgehen, dass die Männer, welche die Flugzeuge in die Türme des World Trade Center lenkten, diese Sicht der Dinge nicht teilten. Vielmehr ist davon auszugehen, dass ...

Dieser Sammelband präsentiert aktuelle Studien sowie Forschungsprojekte zur Entwicklung von Wörterbüchern und Nachschlagewerken im Bereich der deutsch-spanischen/spanisch-deutschen Lexikographie. Die Beiträge umfassen Erörterungen über den heutigen Stand der kontrastiven deutsch-spanischen Lexikographie und Auseinandersetzungen mit wenig erforschten Gebieten. Es finden sich Überlegungen zu wünschenswerten Verbesserungsvorschlägen in den vorlie...

Rebellion in the Province is the history of the most radical and militant farmers' movement of the Weimar Republic, the Landvolkbewegung (Rural People's Movement). This book reveals how economic crisis triggered protests that began with appeals for assistance but escalated to demonstrations, tax-strikes and bombings. The history of this unique movement is significant not only for the forms and expressions of its protests, but for the light it ...

This rich and varied collection of papers is concerned with feedback in the language learning context. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of the feedback process including peer feedback, online feedback, learner-centred feedback, feedback formulation as well as feedback on specific skill areas. With its blend of theoretical overviews, action research-based empirical studies and practical implications, it will be a valuable resource for...

Is a common European Holocaust memory possible? The author approaches this question by analyzing Polish and German cinema after 1989, and the public debates on the past that have surrounded the filmic narratives. Of all media, cinema has exerted the broadest impact in the formation of collective memory regarding the Holocaust. Despite the distance in time, and especially since the fall of communism, this traumatic chapter in European history h...