Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Discussions about the nature of the emotions in Hellenistic philosophy have aroused intense scholarly interest over the last few years.

The discovery of the modern-day coelacanth will forever be linked with the name of JLB Smith.

Includes ten volumes, which are suitable for Defoe scholars and academics of eighteenth-century history, religion and literature.

Wer Geschichte studiert, befasst sich auch mit Herodots »Historien«.

This Companion offers fresh critical perspectives on T.

An engaging overview for students and readers of Atwood''s life, works, contexts and reception.

This book presents a collective attempt to chart the rise and development of the Chicago School during the decades that followed WWII.

The publication of "e;The White Chalk of Days: The Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series Anthology"e; commemorates the tenth year of the Contemporary Ukrainian Literature Series.

Medieval America analyzes literary, legal, and historical archives that help tell a new story about the formation of American culture.

Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of 'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his narrators' emotionally fraught worlds.

Tamim Ansary's passionate personal journey through two cultures in conflict, West of Kabul, East of New York.

How communities can collaborate across systems and sectors to address environmental health disparities; with case studies from Rochester, New York; Duluth, Minnesota; and Southern California.

China's most important love comedy, Wang Shifu's Xixiangji, or The Story of the Western Wing, is a rollicking play that chronicles the adventures of the star-crossed lovers Oriole and Student Zhang.

This is the first hands-on methods guide for second-language (L2) reading research.

Forty years after Roe v.

The concept of food and nutrition security has evolved and risen to the top of the international policy agenda over the last decade.

Fully updated and with completely reworked text and images, this is the Fourth Edition of the acclaimed The Mammals of Australia.

America operates by ableist norms, which often silence or hide from view those with a disability.

This is Volume seven in a collection of ten of the Selected Works of I.

»Wo andere Völker nach den Sternen greifen, fangen die Schweizer an zu klettern«, schreibt Hugo Loetscher.

Ray should have died on three separate occasions when he was in the ICU.

In diesem grundlegenden Werk geht es um die Darstellung und Interpretation einer Kulturgeschichte der Literatur im Spannungsfeld von buchstäblichem Verstehen und symbolischer Deutung.

Originally published in 1926.

A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) are major plays by Tennessee Williams, one of America's most significant dramatists.

The Christian faith is difficult--intellectually, morally, and spiritually.

The True Story of an Uncharted Journey Through the AfterlifeAs a world war raged around him, a young soldier named George Ritchie barely comprehended his own death as he left the physical world--only to return minutes later.

Just War theory - as it was developed by the Catholic theologians of medieval Europe and the jurists of the Renaissance - is a framework for the moral and legal evaluation of armed conflicts.

Signs and Cities is the first book to consider what it means to speak of a postmodern moment in African-American literature.

This novel and informative book discusses the various aspects of seafood quality.

A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for George Meredith's The Ordeal of Richard Feverel, published in 1859 and regarded as his best work.

Celebrations of literary fictions as autonomous worlds appeared first in the Renaissance and were occasioned, paradoxically, by their power to remedy the ills of history.

The powerful true story of life with Rod Ansell, known by many as 'the original Crocodile Dundee'.

Die zu der Sammlung der hippokratischen Schriften gehörende Abhandlung nimmt im Corpus eine Sonderstellung ein, da sie mit ziemlicher Sicherheit einem bestimmten Autor zugewiesen werden kann: Polybos, dem Schüler und Schwiegersohn des Hippokrates.

What's in a shadow?

Condemned by the mother of Jamie Bulger and acclaimed by the critics - for tackling the subject of child killers - this is the controversial new play from the winner of the Sunday Times Playwriting Prize 2001Few kids have a secret as chilling as Timmy's.

Living on Luck is a collection of letters from the 1960s mixed in with poems and drawings.

Before she became the Notorious R.

Diet Evaluation: A Guide to Planning a Healthy Diet provides knowledge about diet and health along with an accurate and convenient way to assess the nutritional adequacy of individual and family diets.

This book rethinks Victorian biography and some of its major practitioners from the perspectives of Bakhtinian and Foucauldian discourse theory.

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A major addition to the Cambridge Texts series of writings by Thomas Aquinas (1225–74).

A controversial new play which deals with issues such as Muslim fundamentalism, a jihad for an Islamic state, and the conflict between Cypriots living in North London.

The ultimate subject of Maya Catherine's stunning debut collection is violence.

August 1781 saw the publication of a manual on fox hunting that would become a classic of its genre.

This book explores the language of judges.

Taking as its premise the belief that communalism is not a resurgence of tradition but is instead an inherently modern phenomenon, as well as a product of the fundamental agencies and ideas of modernity, and that globalization is neither a unique nor unprecedented process, this book addresses the question of whether globalization has amplified or muted processes of communalism.