Biography, Literature and Literary studies

A whistling through teeth.

This book focuses on a close analysis of selected speeches of Winston Churchill in the House of Commons and some of the responses from fellow MPs from 1933-1940 in peace and war, during the rise of Hitler, and concentrates on foreign affairs.

Outsold only by the Bible and Shakespeare, the works of Agatha Christie stand as some of the most celebrated crime fiction of our era.

Whatever Happened to the Washington Reporters, 19782012, is the first book to comprehensively examine career patterns in American journalism.

Shows that the writings of Paul Bowles, who is often seen as a literary renegade, owe much to the antinomian American tradition of Emerson and his literary descendants.

Following the publication of Ghost Town (2005), a complex, globally conscious genealogy of millennial Manhattan, McGrath's transnational status as an English author resident in New York, his pointed manipulation of British and American contexts, and his clear apprehension of imperial legacies have all come into sharper focus.

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Richard II (1377-99) has long suffered from an unusually unmanly reputation.

Sympathy and the State in the Romantic Era explores a fascinating connection between two seemingly unrelated Romantic-era discourses, outlining the extent to which eighteenth and early nineteenth century theories of sympathy were generated by crises of state finance.

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met.

This book rethinks the influence that early medieval studies and Grail narratives had on modernist literature.

"e;Very few men,"e; said Bakunin, "e;have read as much, and, it may be added, have read as intelligently, as M.

Winner of the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and shortlisted for the Governor-General's Award for fiction and the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, Caroline Adderson's short fiction collection travels far and wide.

Originally published in 1947 and presenting the famed poet-novelist against the background of contemporary thought and society, Harvey Curtis Webster shows that Hardy's later works give consistent evidence of hope; that pervasive pessimism was by no means the keynote of Hardy's thought.

This volume examines the evolution of the depictions of black femininity in French visual culture as a prism through which to understand the Global North's destructive relationship with the natural world.

Major General Maurice Rose (1899-1945), commander of 3rd Amored, First Army's legendary "e;Spearhead"e; division, was the highest-ranking American Jewish officer ever killed in battle, and the only individual casualty to spark a War Crimes Investigation.

The Culture Cultis an acerbic critique of that longing widespread in society today to ?

Includes the plays A New York Threesome, (My Brother's Conversion; Madam Butterfly's Child; Manhattan Breast Company), Mad Margaret's Revenge andThe Jolly Folly of Polly, the Scottish Trolley DollyFivebite-size pieces of theatre that deal with perception: the characters in these theatrical hors d'oeuvres find their view of themselves at odds with the way the rest of the world sees them.

This collection of primary sources examines literary and cultural criticism over the long nineteenth century.

Thoroughly revised and expanded, Introduction to Attic Greek, 2nd Edition gives student and instructors the most comprehensive and accessible presentation of ancient Greek available.

Master culinary skills and prepare for assessment with the book which professional chefs have relied on for over 50 years to match the qualification and support their training and careers.

The lifelong care required for bariatric surgery patients often presents colleagues in the office with the situation of having to identify surgical and nutritive complications related to the previous surgery.

Race, Memory and the Apartheid Archive: Towards a Transformative Psychosocial Praxis draws on a psychosocial approach that is uniquely suited to the socio-historical and psychical analysis of racism.

Covering the gap between basic textbooks and over-specialized scientific publications, this is the first reference available to describe this interdisciplinary topic for PhD students and scientists starting in the field.

Nachtdenken heißt die Welt zerdenken.

A BRONT ENCYCLOPEDIA This lively, absorbing, meticulously researched compendium is a rich resource both for the general reader and for the specialist Bront scholar.

This book substantiates two claims.

A bold new interpretation of Nat Turner and the slave rebellion that stunned the American SouthIn 1831 Virginia, Nat Turner led a band of Southampton County slaves in a rebellion that killed fifty-five whites, mostly women and children.

The present work is a pioneering effort to highlight life and works of the choicest great English novelists.

The story of Frank Lloyd Wright's life is no less astounding than his greatest architectural works.

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Jonathan Williams's poetry has been described as brilliant, sensuous, lyrical, quirky, suave, vital, joyful, sardonic, melodious, passionate, alive, pyrotechnic.

This book offers a thorough review of the scientific research that links the consumption of grapes to better health.

Madly after the Muses examines the use of Graeco-Roman samplings in the Bengali works of Michael Madhusudan Datta (1824-1873), the nineteenth-century poet and playwright.

An original investigation of Woolf''s ambivalent attitude to her Victorian past and the modernist present, first published in 2007.

Remember when Trump was a great boss, a great father, and a great businessman, before the liberal media rewrote that narrative?

What's it like growing up as the offspring of rock royalty?

Fat bodies of today are commonly assumed to have no future at all.

Winner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke.