A GOOD HOUSEKEEPING READER FAVOURITE'Funny, poignant, smart and wonderfully, achingly real' SARAH WATERS'Rambunctiously funny' THE TIMES, Book of the Year'I can't think of another author who can make me ricochet so quickly from painful empathy to helpless laughter' ERIN KELLYWho do you choose when the cracks begin to show?
Diversity among Architects presents a series of essays questioning the homogeneity of architecture practitioners, who remain overwhelmingly male and Caucasian, to help you create a field more representative of the population you serve.
The book draws from literary, psychological, and sociological perspectives to discuss and to illustrate how these perspectives contribute to instructional practices in Young Adult Literature.
The first English translation of the self-proclaimed "e;Viscount"e; Emilio Lascano Tegui-a friend of Picasso and Apollinaire, and a larger-than-life eccentric in his own right-On Elegance While Sleeping is the deliciously macabre novel, part Maldoror and part Dorian Gray, that established its author's reputation as a renegade hero of Argentine literature.
Inspired by the author's own experiences and stories passed down, Willie Sawgrass takes place in the wilderness of Southwest Florida in the early 1900s, when the cattle and fishing industries were strong but rum running was more lucrative.
Freed from the influence of The Voice, Syd and her companions discover that life on their own presents painful new challenges and even greater threats.
"e;This experimental work is not for the faint of heart, but it is laced with meditations that will appeal to readers concerned with poetrys role in the world.
'Sprightly Maltese Falconesque skulduggery full of reverses and betrayals' Kirkus ReviewsRoy Case, ex-Royal Air Force turned cargo pilot, lands in Nicosia to discover that his employers have gone bankrupt.
As one of the first academic monographs on Keith Haring, this book uses the Pop Shop, a previously overlooked enterprise, and artist merchandising as tools to reconsider the significance and legacy of Haring's career as a whole.
A moving spiritual masterpiece that shows the true meaning of divinity in a hostile world A young, shy, sickly priest is assigned to his first parish, a sleepy village in northern France.
A quietly powerful addition to the canon of migrliterature The Moscow TimesNo longer at home in Russia, but not quite assimilated into the American mainstream, the daily lives of Russian immigrants are fueled by a combustible mix of success and alienation.
Re-issued in its original full length, this acclaimed and bestselling romantic historical novel by award-winning author Ciji Ware tells the true story of passionate and flamboyant Jane Maxwell, the 4th Duchess of Gordon (1749-1812).
This book explores male friendship in America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries through Mark Twain and the relationships he had with William Dean Howells, Joseph Twichell, and Henry H.
Maître Nicolas Kléber appartient à cette catégorie de jeunes gens à qui tout sourit : il est beau, brillant et promène à son bras une ravissante créature.
Thomas Ausa, an obscure but adequately credentialed professor of American International Relations, at the end of his career imagined he might best illustrate what he called the "e;themes"e; or "e;frames"e; or "e;buzzwords"e; of American foreign policy by telling a few stories about typical Americans living through these pandemic times in ways he hoped would illustrate terms like "e;deterrence,"e; "e;containment,"e; "e;asymmetrical warfare,"e; and "e;mutual assured destruction.
From the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Like You comes a heartwarming story about childhood friends, broken lives, and an age-old promise, proving it's never too late for love.
Der Inhalt:Das Skript zum Kreditsicherungsrecht umfasst sowohl die Realsicherheiten des Sachenrechts (Hypothek, Grundschuld, Pfandrechte, Sicherungsübereignung usw.
Introduction by George Easter, Editor and Publisher ofDeadly Pleasures MagazineLegendary LA sleuth Jack Liffey is back, and facing down a changing world, when his brazen daughter Maeve enlists him to help find Benjya gay social justice activist gone missing.
This book is a collection of key legal decisions affecting Indigenous Australians, which have been re-imagined so as to be inclusive of Indigenous people's stories, historical experience, perspectives and worldviews.
'Desire, class and Welsh nationalism prove a combustible combination in this brooding literary romance' Observer'At once a love story and a simmering tale of class, identity, and masculinity' i paper'Evokes North Wales in all its complexity, in water, resin and sky' Jessica Andrews_______Geth and Olwen live in different worlds.
Wie kann man den Fußstapfen des Vaters entkommen oder gar entwachsen, wenn dieser den Titel »Kaiser der Schuhe« innehat, eine Schuhfabrik sein Eigen nennt und auch sonst mit seinen Spleens recht einnehmend bis übergriffig ist?
