Biography, Literature and Literary studies

In life there are a few major questions.

The search for a substitute for religion, Adalaide Kirby Morris argues, occupies Stevens' poetic energy from his earliest to his latest work.

In an era of rapid technological change, are qualitative researchers taking advantage of new and innovative ways to gather, analyse and share community narratives?

This publication characterizes the environmental burden of disease in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), measured by the excess number of deaths and illnesses in the population due to exposure to environmental hazards.

Rediscovers a Catholic literary tradition and exposes the anti-Catholicism of mainstream Tudor and Stuart literature.

"e;Uniformly excellent"e; essays on the work of the renowned author and his "e;extraordinary relevance in the present moment"e; (Choice).

One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924.

Text & Presentation is an annual anthology of essays devoted to all aspects of theatre and performance scholarship.

Im Münchener Abkommen einigten sich das nationalsozialistische deutsche Reich, das faschistische Italien und die Demokratien England und Frankreich im September 1938 auf die Zerschlagung der im Versailler Vertrag gegründeten und völkerrechtlich garantierten Tschechoslowakei.

A surreal fantasy plunging Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into a perilous intergalactic conflictSir Arthur Conan Doyle - the author, spiritualist and creator of the great rationalist detective, Sherlock Homes - is in search of home-grown fairies in the English village of Cottingley.

This exploration of one of the most concentrated immigrant communities in Britain combines a fascinating narrative history, an original theoretical analysis of the evolving relationship between progressive left politics and ethnic minorities, and an incisive critique of political multiculturalism.

"e;Young playwrights don't come much hotter than Phyllis Nagy"e; (Daily Telegraph)Includesher three Royal Court -performed plays Weldon Rising "e;Here is the bestnew play I have seen in many months.

Sequel to History offers a comprehensive definition of postmodernism as a reformation of time.

Salman Rushdie once observed that William Faulkner was the writer most frequently cited by third world authors as their major influence.

This WWII memoir offers a vivid chronicle of combat in Egypt with the 107th Royal Horse Artillery and a daring escape from an Italian POW camp.

Critical Trajectories: Culture, Society, Intellectuals brings together for the first time writings from one of the leading figures in cultural studies -- Tony Bennett.

*** Instant New York Times bestseller ****** USA Today bestseller ****** Wall Street Journal bestseller ***From legendary Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and MMA master Rickson Gracie comes a riveting, insightful memoir that weaves together the story of Gracies stunning career with the larger history of the Gracie family dynasty and the founding of the Ultimate Fighting Championship, showing how the connection between mind and body can be harnessed for success both inside and outside the ring.

Literary Research and the Literatures of Australia and New Zealand: Strategies and Sources is a research guide to the literatures of the two major countries of Oceania: Australia and New Zealand.

First published together in Latin in 1623, these two tracts, Enchyridion Physicae Restitutae and Arcanum were at once recognized to be among the clearest descriptions ever written of the hermetic cosmology and the alchemical work.

Where is God when life is filled with so much suffering?

Rethinking Organizational Change: The Role of Dialogue, Dialectic & Polyphony in the Organization makes an important scholarly contribution to our understanding of dialogue applied to the management of change.

This biography provides a concise, accurate, and lively account of one of the best known yet least understood figures of the Civil War, Robert E.

The crucial question is not whether or not there is offensive laughter but whether or not all laughter offends.

Intermediate Chinese is the ideal reference and practice book for students with some knowledge of the language.

Revisiting an almost-forgotten American interracial literary culture that advanced racial pluralism in the decades before the 1960sIn Impermanent Blackness, Korey Garibaldi explores interracial collaborations in American commercial publishing-authors, agents, and publishers who forged partnerships across racial lines-from the 1910s to the 1960s.

The third volume of Advances in Nutritional Research continues the precedent set in previous volumes of providing authoritative reviews on the current state of knowledge with respect to major topics of ongoing nutritional research.

Über 70 Jahre lang – von 1788 bis 1859 – verfasste Alexander von Humboldt zahlreiche Monographien, Hunderte von Aufsätzen und Tausende von Briefen.

This is the first book to discuss the full sweep of the work of J.

This book is a collection of essays that considers the continuing cultural relevance of the cyberpunk genre into the new millennium.

Found Anew is an anthology of new poetry and prose from writers with strong ties to the Palmetto State that creatively engages with historical photographs found in the digital collections of the University of South Carolina's South Caroliniana Library.

We Have Crossed Many Rivers: New Poetry from Africa is a fascinating anthology of some of the finest contemporary poetic voices from twenty-nine African countries.

With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever.

Die Edition des ‚Lanzelet‘ Ulrichs von Zatzikhoven ersetzt die alte Ausgabe Karl August Hahns und erfüllt damit ein langjähriges Desiderat der germanistischen Mediävistik.

The purpose of the BIAS is, year by year, to draw attention to all scholarly books and articles directly concerned with the matiere de Bretagne.

'Two hours ago I fell in love and trembled, and tremble still, and haven't a clue whom I should tell'From one of the truly singular and beloved poets of contemporary Italy, these are poems of the self, the body, pasta, cats, the city and - always, and above all - love.

Includes the plays And We'll Never be Parted, The Son, Visits and Meanwhile the lights go down and everything becomes blackIn And We'll Never be Parted, Jon Fosse exploits theatre's unique potential for ambiguity: as a woman anxiously waits for her husband, are we watching reality, fantasy, memory, or even a ghost story?

'Salman Rushdie's greatest novel' Sunday Times Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby is the last in line of a crooked and fantastical dynasty of spice merchants and crime lords from Cochin.

Focusing on texts from the late 1970s to the 1990s which document both changing attitudes to terminations of pregnancy and dramatic environmental, medical, and socio-political developments during southern Africa's liberation struggles, this book examines how four writers from Botswana, South Africa, and Zimbabwe address the ethics of abortion and reproductive choice.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

We were all equal, but sometimes the band could be led by whoever shouted the loudest.

This is the first full-length study of Jeanette Winterson's complete oeuvre, offering detailed analysis of her nine novels as well as addressing her non-fiction and minor fictional work.

Billy Wilkerson was the most powerful man in Hollywood during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s.

Born into obscurity in a rural backwater of central Spain in the waning years of the eighteenth century, Baldomero Espartero (1793-1879) led a life resembling that of a character created by Stendhal or Gabriel Garcia Marquez.