 | Wittenberg (Oberon Modern Plays)
Publication Date: June 12, 2012| Series: Oberon Modern Plays Join the jury as two of history’s most stubborn intellectuals go head-to-head in an entertaining battle of reason versus faith. ...
 |  | Traveller's Belle Amour (Traveller's S, V 2)
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|  | Imposter (Premier Mystery Series #2)
Publication Date: January 2, 2007Matt Kelly's knack for concealing his identity is his greatest asset as a federal agent.But when an assignment gets personal, discovering who he really is may prove to be the toughest mission of all. ...
|  | The War of the End of the World
Release Date: July 22, 2008Deep within the remote backlands of nineteenth-century Brazil lies Canudos, home to all the damned of the earth: prostitutes, bandits, beggars, and every kind of outcast. It is a place where history and civilization have been wiped away. There is no money, no taxation, no marriage, no census. Canudos is a cauldron for the revolutionary spirit in its purest form, a state with all the potential for a true, libertarian paradise--and one the Brazilian government is determined to crush at any cost. In perhaps his most ambitious and tragic novel, Mario Vargas Llosa tells...
|  | The Lieutenant Of San Porfirio
Publication Date: August 6, 2012Something is afoul in the Revolutionary Socialist Republic of Venezuela. Despite food shortages, blackouts and the terrible violence, El Comandante's iron grip is stronger than ever. Newly decorated Lieutenant Juan Marco Machado lovingly caresses his shiny AK-103 as he thinks about his promotion and what he would be willing to do to defend his revolution, and his position. He is about to find out it's more than he ever would have believed. Doña Esmeralda is in trouble. Ordered to demonstrate her solidarity for the revolution and open her colonial mansion ...
|  | Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
Publication Date: April 8, 2004From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination. Now, in Egyptian Mythology, Geraldine Pinch offers a comprehensive introduction that untangles the mystery of Egyptian Myth.Spanning Ancient Egyptian culture--from 3200 BC to AD 400--Pinch opens a door to this hidden world and casts light on its often misunderstood belief system. She discusses the nature of myths and the history of Egypt, from the predynastic t...
| | Marking Time Pb Play (J Hyem) (Acting Edition)
Publication Date: October 1998| Series: Acting Edition In a tiny, tatty room in a teachers' centre, Team B are up to their eyebrows in A Level English Literature marking. Elsewhere in the building, the dreaded Team A are coping far better. Doors slam, tempers are lost, and personalities crumble as the situation becomes ever more chaotic. ...
|  | Faust: Part 1
Publication Date: December 7, 2001Goethe's classic, enlivened by Randall Jarrell's fine translation and Peter Sís's dark, dreamy illustrationsRandall Jarrell's translation of Faust is one of his most important achievements. In 1957 he inscribed Goethe's motto on the first page of his notebook--"Ohne Hast aber ohne Rast" ("Without haste but without rest")--and from then until his death in 1965 he worked on the masterpiece of his "own favorite daemon, dear good great Goethe." His intent was to make the German poetry free, unrhymed poetry in English. He all but finished the job before he d...
|  | Living Peace: Poetic Reflections of a Korean Zen Master
Publication Date: March 2004Living Peace is the first English translation of Zen Master Kyunghoon Sunim's extensive body of poetry. It contains 57 of his most loved poems, as well as insightful commentary from Zen monk Hyedang Sunim. The poems are artfully rendered into English by Banyahaeng Chookyung Lee.An elegantly designed, spiritually inviting book, Living Peace introduces the voice of a contemporary Zen master to the English-speaking world. As the title suggests, the book invites us to step away from a life often fragmented by desire and enter instead a life rooted in the principles of...
|  | Converse in the Spirit: William Blake, Jacob Boehme, and the Creative Spirit
Publication Date: May 2004Converse in the Spirit is a comparative study of the writings of William Blake and the German visionary philosopher Jacob Boehme. It argues that the relationship between Blake and Boehme was a meeting of like minds that transcended place and time, that each regarded himself as part of a community of vision, and aspiration, and believed that any predominant form ofthought and understanding was only partial. --This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition....
|  | Sailing Lake Mareotis
Publication Date: May 21, 2012Sailing Lake Mareotis, Eamonn Wall's sixth collection to be published by Salmon Poetry, is both thematically and formally his most diverse and engaging work to date. In lyric poems, satires, and flash fictions, Wall engages robustly and ironically with the contemporary American and Irish worlds. He explores what is on the surface and what is hidden from view, particularly the lives of individuals who are forced to live on the margins of American and Irish societies. ...
|  | Writing Activity Book (British Museum)
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|  | The Primacy of Semiosis: An Ontology of Relations (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication)
Publication Date: November 11, 2006| Series: Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication How do things come to stand for something other than themselves? An understanding of the ontology of relations allows for a compelling account of the action of signs. The Primacy of Semiosis is concerned with the ontology of relations and semiosis, the action of signs. Drawing upon the work of Gilles Deleuze, John Deely, and John Poinsot, Paul Bains focuses on the claim that relations are 'external' to their terms, and seeks to give an ontological account of this purported externality of relations.Bai...
|  | Journals of Woodrow Wyatt (Vol 3)
Publication Date: October 12, 2001The third and final volume of Wyatt's scandalous journals In this final volume of Woodrow Wyatt's journals, running from the April 1992 election until three months before he died in December 1997, Wyatt is in his late seventies, but his access to those in power is undiminished. John Major, Norman Lamont and Rupert Murdoch play leading roles as Wyatt writes his columns in The Times and the News of the World, amuses the Queen Mother on the race course, lobbies for his causes and his friends, and, of course, continues to drink the finest wines and smoke the lar...
|  | A Caress of Twilight (Meredith Gentry, Book 2)
Release Date: March 4, 2003“I am Princess Meredith, heir to a throne—if I can stay alive long enough to claim it.” After eluding relentless assassination attempts by Prince Cel, her cousin and rival for the Faerie crown, Meredith Gentry, Los Angeles private eye, has a whole new set of problems. To become queen, she must bear a child before Cel can father one of his own. But havoc lies on the horizon: people are dying in mysterious, frightening ways, and suddenly the very existence of the place known as Faerie is at grave risk. So now, while she enjoys the greatest pleasu...
|  | Bannon's Brides
Publication Date: July 21, 2010Jail or prostitution? Fiona Quinn chooses neither.On a wagon train bound for Oregon , the newly-contracted mail-order bride braves rattlesnakes, Indians, and depraved buffalo hunters who kidnap her.But nothing tests her mettle like Cordell Bannon, the wagon master poised to steal her heart. Cordell Bannon signed a contract to safely deliver thirty mail-order brides to their husbands.Yet one bride stirs his emotions, threatening his oath of celibacy and making him choose between his job and his passion.Can he stand by as she marries another, or will he claim her...
|  | Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
Release Date: April 30, 1996Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, rejacketed and republished alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called 'Footsteps' and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works of modern literary exploration ever published.Sleeping rough, he retraces Robert Louis Stevenson's famous journey through the Cevennes. Caught up in the ...
| | God And Sherlock Holmes A Study In The Life And Literature Of Arthur Conan Doyle
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|  | Murder in Jerusalem: A Michael Ohayon Mystery (Michael Ohayon Mysteries)
Release Date: August 7, 2007| Series: Michael Ohayon MysteriesWhen a woman's body is discovered in the wardrobe warehouses of Israel Television, Chief Superintendent Michael Ohayon embarks on a tangled and bloody trail of detection through the corridors and studios of Israel's official television station, and through the fears, loves, and contradictions of the people who work there. It is an eye-opening journey that brings into question the very ideals upon which Ohayon—and indeed the entire nation—was raised, ideals that may have led to terrible crimes....
|  | Thor, Vol. 1
Publication Date: October 7, 2009| Grade Level: 4 and up Two of comicdom's classic creators collaborate as Thor returns from Heroes Reborn to find the gods of at least three pantheons against him! Plus: Who is the Destroyer, and who will be destroyed? Guest-starring Spider-Man, Namor the Sub-Mariner, and the Avengers! Collects Thor #1-8, and Peter Parker: Spider-Man #2. ...
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