Biography, Literature and Literary studies

Looking Through You: Northern Chronicles, the sequel to renowned Belfast poet and author Gerald Dawe's critically acclaimed In Another World: Van Morrison and Belfast, is the evocative record of the musical, literary and artistic influences that inspired and forged Dawe's awakening as a poet, and his career in Irish literature.

Germanic mythology is currently experiencing a significant boom in audiovisual media, especially among younger audiences.

Phytochemicals: Mechanisms of Action is the latest volume in a highly regarded series that addresses the roles of phytochemicals in disease prevention and health promotion.

For fans of Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild andSuleika Jaouad's Between Two Kingdoms, the invigorating true story of a man and his dog who circled the globe on foot.

Bring greater satisfaction to your relationship in every way--emotionally, spiritually, and physically--whether you're preparing for your honeymoon or are empty nesters looking for a new spark.

Narcoepics Unbound foregrounds the controversial yet mostly untheorized phenomenon of contemporary Latin American 'narcoepics.

Pastor Blackstone is once again on a spiritual journey to the subcontinent of India.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare's work and his time.

This book contributes to various political debates about Central Europe in terms of its literary-symbolic geography.

Sir William Richard Gowers was one of the pre-eminent clinical neurologists of the nineteenth century.

This book provides extensive information on the chemicals that inhabit our environment, our food, our water and our air and the impact that they may be having on human health.

Jeremy Citrome employs the language of contemporary psychoanalysis to explain how surgical metaphors became an important tool of ecclesiastical power in the wake of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215.

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

In response to the events following September 11, a number of leading cultural studies and interpretive qualitative researchers write from their own experiences and hearts.

This book breaks new ground by showing that the work of David Foster Wallace originates from and functions in the space between philosophy and literature.

Prison Writing and the Literary World tackles international prison writingand writing about imprisonment in relation to questions of literary representationand formal aesthetics, the "e;value"e; or "e;values"e; of literature,textual censorship and circulation, institutional networks and literary-criticalmethodologies.

In Minefield six Falklands/Malvinas war veterans who once faced each other across a battlefield now face each other across a stage.

Newman himself called the Oxford University Sermons, first published in 1843, `the best, not the most perfect, book I have done'.

An insider's view of the opera world from one of its greatest figures.

Reference to or quotation from someone's speech, thoughts, or writing is a key component of narrative.

First published in 1984, this biography gives an account of Jonathan Swift's political ideas and provides a critical commentary on his major works.

An introduction to the work of Zadie Smith, placing her fiction in a clear historical and theoretical context, and exploring her work in relation to contemporaneity and postcolonialism.

In der Kinder- und Jugendbuchforschung gilt übereinstimmend, dass im Gegensatz zur allgemeinen Literaturgeschichtsschreibung eine verlässliche Materialbasis noch vollständig fehlt und die vorhandenen Lücken nur schrittweise geschlossen werden können.

Taking Care, based on twenty-six interviews and other autobiographical narratives, challenges the negative stereotypes about mothers with disabilities.

The Reformed Church historian and orientalist Johann Heinrich Hottinger (1620-1667) is a key figure in the history of Arabic and Islamic studies in early modern Europe.

LAS ESPERADAS MEMORIAS DE UNA DE LAS LÍDERES POLÍTICAS MÁS IMPORTANTES DE NUESTRO TIEMPO.

In classical mythology, Phaethon is the child of the sun god Helios, who tries to drive his father's chariot and is killed in the attempt.

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.

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This book offers a clear and stimulating introduction to Homer's Iliad, the greatest poem of Western culture.

Wales may be small, but culturally it is richly varied.

The Fear of Islam investigates the context of Western views of Islam and offers an introduction to the historical roots and contemporary anxiety regarding Islam within the Western world.

Transcribing a text within a Medieval manuscript was often not a culturally and ideologically neutral act.

Alexander Pushkin was Russia's first true literary genius.

The first collection of letters in English by one of the great writers of the twentieth centuryThis is the first collection in English of the extraordinary letters of one of the great writers of the twentieth century.

New York Times Bestseller on disentangling faith but keep your belief in Jesus intact.

An overview of the life, work and continuing importance of the pre-eminent African American intellectual of the twentieth century.

Schwerpunkt des Jahrbuchs 2002/2003 sind - mit Tamara Ramsay, Astrid Lindgren und Enid Blyton - Klassiker der Kinder- und Jugendliteratur.

At the core of this book lies the relation between Power (as socio-political phenomenon) and the novel (as literary discourse).

Die Idylle steht im Spannungsfeld von Kitsch und Katastrophe, das Nils Jablonski durch medienkomparatistische close readings literarischer, filmischer und televisiver Texte untersucht.

A cardiologist and his patient tell a true story of surviving and thriving, in a book both informational and inspirational.

Homespun Faith, The Rest of the Story, Volume One, continues the autobiographical story of Daisy's life in devotional form, which was begun in Homespun Faith, Reflections on the Seasons of Life.

Lange Zeit wurde Literatur von Roma gar nicht oder wenn nach stereotypen Bewertungsmustern betrachtet.