Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Steroid Biochemistry, Volume 688 in the Methods of Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, containing chapters on a variety of timely topics, including Cytochrome P450 Enzyme, Steroidogenic P450s (CYP11A1, 17A1, 21A2, 11B1, and 11B5), Steroid 17 alpha-hydroxylase/17,20-lyase (Cytochrome P450 17A1), Enzymes of Estrogen Biosynthesis, Aromatase and Steroid Sulfatase, Estrogenic 17b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase, Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenases (HSD), 3a-Hydroxyssteroid Dehydrogenase, Approaches to Measuring 3b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 1, 3b-Hydroxysteroid Dehydrogenase Type 2, and much more.

A bright new voice from Bangladesh, in the literary tradition of Reading Lolita in Tehran and Burnt Shadows, on finding home and self.

On 21 July 1403 Sir Henry Percy - better known as Hotspur - led a rebel army out at Shrewsbury to face the forces of the king Henry IV.

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature.

Leftist thought and activism stands as a defining force in the articulation of political culture and policy in modern Japan.

'Adele's inner strength is truly remarkable.

A work of startling originality when it debuted in 1938, Thornton Wilder's Our Town evolved to be seen by some as a vintage slice of early 20th Century Americana, rather than being fully appreciated for its complex and eternal themes and its deceptively simple form.

When legislation was passed in 1948 giving women permanent status in the regular and reserve Navy, it was largely due to the efforts of Joy Bright Hancock, the author of this revealing memoir.

This is a classic real-life story of derring do on the high seas, complete with extreme risk, last-minute ingenuity and many near-misses.

This book is the first full-length study of Douglas Coupland, one of the twenty-first century's most innovative and influential novelists.

During the last few years, there has been growing medical interest in the problem of obesity.

Nach dem Ende der römischen Republik stellte sich für Augustus und seine Nachfolger die Aufgabe einer Restabilisierung der sozialen und politischen Ordnung.

This book addresses the shape of English studies beyond the 'center' by analyzing how the discipline has developed, and by considering how lessons from this analysis relate to the discipline as a whole.

Die Forensikerin Patricia Wiltshire berichtet von wahren Verbrechen und wie die Natur bei deren Aufklärung hilftBei jedem Kriminalfall werden Spuren in der Natur hinterlassen – aber die Natur hinterlässt auch Spuren an uns.

The new collection from 'one of America's most legendary living poets' (Ocean Vuong), written in the drive to fall in love with the world again not as it was, but as it iswhen the hammerapproached we thought is that thing coming this wayBreathing, moving, living on the page, CAConrad s exhilarating work is centred on the (Soma)tic ritual, their celebrated practice which draws on nature, crystals, meditation and interactions with strangers to create an extreme present of unfettered creativity from which poems can emerge.

In this instant and tenacious New York Times bestseller, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight ';offers a rare and revealing look at the notoriously media-shy man behind the swoosh' (Booklist, starred review), illuminating his company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands.

American Baptists emerged from the Civil War as a divided group.

Born in Belfast during World War II, raised in a working-class Protestant family, and educated on scholarship at Queen's University, writer Stewart Parker's story is in many ways the story of his generation.

A brilliant follow-up to Hidden Lives, Margaret Forster's most personal book yet takes up the story of her gritty, northern father, Arthur, intertwined with that of her sister-in-law, Marion, who died of cancer at almost half the age of the 96 year-old Arthur.

Through an analysis of textual representations of the American landscape, this book looks at how North America appeared in books printed on both sides of the Atlantic between the years 1660 and 1745.

Eclectic British author Alan Moore (b.

Thomas Cairns Livingstone began to note his day-to-day experiences in 1913 and continued faithfully for the next 20 years.

Cultural Production and the Politics of Women's Work in American Literature and Film emphasizes the interrelation among women's workplace roles, modes of authorship, and processes of subject-formation, pointing to some of the reasons for the persistence of limiting gender roles and occupational hierarchies that arose during the first 60 years of the 20th century.

In the wake of the Civil War, Constance Fenimore Woolson became one of the first northern observers to linger in the defeated states from Virginia to Florida.

This small-group study is based on Steve Harper's book Five Marks of a Methodist.

A dramatic short story from experienced foster carer Rosie Lewis.

The rise of Creative Writing has been accompanied from the start by two questions: can it be taught, and should it be taught?

Since 1938 and 1941, nutrient intake recommendations have been issued to the public in Canada and the United States, respectively.

This book focuses on food policy, and its relationship to public health, as an increasingly important issue in today's society.

Encounters, whether first or subsequent or whether cultural, economic, or ideological, mark the beginning of an acquaintance and measure both similarities and differences.

Through detailed discussion of plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe, Poole explores the supernatural in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England.

Best known for her Eisner Award-winning graphic novels, Exit Wounds and The Property, Rutu Modan's richly colored compositions invite readers into complex Israeli society, opening up a world too often defined only by news headlines.

An edition of Milton's later work rk includes the text of six books of Paradise Lost, The History of Britain and the whole of Samson Agonistes.

Contributes to Foucauldian scholarship by contextualizing Foucault''s key concepts and identifying current and emerging applications of his work.

Joan Fuster es va interessar pel 'Tirant lo Blanc' d'una manera particular al llarg de tota la seua vida, però les seues aproximacions a la novel·la cimera de la literatura catalana medieval han estat fins ara ben poc remarcades.

Erstmals wird hier das »Tagebuch während der Reise« von Max Weidenbach ungekürzt und kommentiert einer Leserschaft vorgestellt.

 

The culture of nineteenth-century Russia is often seen as dominated by realism in the arts, as exemplified by the novels of Leo Tolstoy and Ivan Turgenev, the paintings of 'the Wanderers,' and the historical operas of Modest Mussorgsky.

Millions of America's youth dream of playing major league baseball or in a college bowl game on New Year's Day.