 | Integrated Chinese: Simplified Characters Textbook, Level 1, Part 1
Publication Date: August 6, 2008| ISBN-10: 0887276385 | ISBN-13: 978-0887276385| Edition: 3rd This new edition of integrated Chinese is an oustanding achievement. It covers the first semester of study andsystematically introduces over 150 essential vocabulary words. Presents key grammatical structures through clear and jargon-free explanations. Integrates interactive activities for practicing interpersonal,presentational, and interpretive language skills.Complete with interesting cultural notes, useful authentic materials, and a wealth of interactive exercises, the authors, have outdone ...
 |  | The Keeper's Son (Josh Thurlow Series #1)
Release Date: August 26, 2004Haunted by inner demons, Josh Thurlow returns home to Killakeet Island to command a small Coast Guard patrol boat manned by a colorful crew of locals. Dominating the glorious beauty of the little island is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, kept for generations by the Thurlow family. Its presence is a continuous reminder to Josh of the mysterious loss of his baby brother at sea seventeen years before, a tragedy for which he was blamed. But Josh is convinced that his brother might still be alive and begins searching for him even after German U-boats arrive and soa...
|  | La hora del angel (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: March 1, 2012Despues de una infancia dificil, en la que Toby O´Dare sufre la perdida de su madre y sus dos hermanos pequenos, su vida queda vacia de ilusiones; ya casi no puede recordar sus aspiraciones religiosas, su amor por su instrumento favorito, ni las ganas que algun dia tuvo de salvar a su familia. Su unico empeno es su ocupacion actual: trabaja como asesino a sueldo para un hombre al que llama ""The Rigth Man"" y en su fuero interno suena con que los homicidios que comete pudieran tener un motivo digno. Solamente hay un refugio que le produce cierta sensacion ...
|  | Heart of Darkness
Release Date: January 28, 2008ReadHowYouWant publishes a wide variety of best selling books in Large and Super Large fonts in partnership with leading publishers. EasyRead books are available in 11pt and 13pt. type. EasyRead Large books are available in 16pt, 16pt Bold, and 18pt Bold type. EasyRead Super Large books are available in 20pt. Bold and 24pt. Bold Type. You choose the format that is right for you.It is an unusual, symbolic novella that presents the story of Charlie Marlow who recounts his adventures on the ship. Adorned with vigorous descriptive and eloquent style, its motifs are ...
|  | The Art of Courtly Love
Publication Date: April 15, 1990| Series: Records of Western Civilization SeriesAfter becoming popularized by the troubadours of southern France in the twelfth century, the social system of 'courtly love' soon spread. Evidence of the influence of courtly love in the culture and literature of most of western Europe spans centuries. This unabridged edition of codifies life at Queen Eleanor's court at Poitiers between 1170 and 1174 into 'one of those capital works which reflect the thought of a great epoch, which explain the secret of a civilization.' This translation of a work that may be vi...
|  | The Property of a Lady
Release Date: January 1, 1991The magnificent Ivanoff emerald: It surfaced at Christie's at Geneva, "The Property of a Lady"--a lady now sought by powerful men intent on seizing a legacy that could tilt the world balance of power . . . The terrifying Ivanoff secret: She lived like a pauper with a royal ransom in gems, determined to carry her secret to the grave . . . until an act of love and a public auction brought the world--and the curse--to her door . . . The last of the Ivanoffs--pawns in a...
|  | Pericles: The Oxford Shakespeare (Oxford World's Classics)
Publication Date: October 15, 2008| Series: Oxford World's Classics Pericles was one of the most popular plays of its time, and it has regained much of that popularity today. In a wide-ranging introduction, Roger Warren draws on his experience of the play in rehearsal and performance to explore the reasons for this enduring popularity. Unfortunately Pericles survives only in a corrupt text, the Quarto of 1609, in which many passages are nonsensical and others appear to be missing altogether. Earlier editions have merely cleaned-up the Quarto, but this edition offers a conjectural reconstruct...
|  | English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama
Publication Date: June 22, 2006Drawing on classical and contemporary medical texts, histories, and cosmographies, Mary Floyd-Wilson demonstrates that the Renaissance understanding of identities contradicted many modern stereotypes concerning racial and ethnic differences.English writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries labored to reinvent ethnology to their own advantage, paving the way for the invention of more familiar racial ideas. Floyd-Wilson highlights these English revisionary efforts in her transformational readings of the period's drama; including Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Jo...
|  | Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Publication Date: January 1, 1963Robert Greene (1558-1592) was the author of romances, pamphlets, lyrics, and plays. He was educated at Cambridge and Oxford, and led a remarkably irresponsible and dissolute life. The comedy Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay was probably written and produced around 1589, and was first printed in 1594. Its account of the marvelous exploits of Friar Bacon is drawn from The Famous Historie of Fryer Bacon, a sixteenth-century account of the legends surrounding the Oxford Franciscan, Roger Bacon (b. 1214). The play was an important influence both on Marlowe's Doctor Fa...
|  | Los siete libros de la Diana (Narrativa) (Spanish Edition)
Publication Date: August 31, 2011| Series: Narrativa Los siete libros de la Diana tiene como precedente las églogas de Garcilaso de la Vega y la poesía pastoril de España. La Diana se distingue por ser escrita en una mezcla de verso y prosa y por unificar diversos «ambientes» en la misma historia. Entre otros, incluye el ambiente pastoril, el sobrenatural, el urbano y aun el morisco. La familia árabe de los Abencerrajes fue muy influyente en Granada durante el siglo XV. Su rivalidad con la de los Cegríes, en constantes guerras civiles, fue decisiva en la ca...
|  | Du Domaine Euclidienne (Poesie/Gallimard) (French Edition)
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|  | The Ash Range
Publication Date: May 5, 2005Laurie Duggan was born in Melbourne in 1949 and lives in Brisbane. He is the author of eleven collections of poetry in Australia, as well as a volume of cultural history "Ghost Nation: Imagined Space and Australian Visual Culture 1901-1939" (2001). "The Ash Range", originally published by Picador Australia in Sydney in 1987, won the Victorian Premier's New Writing Award that year, and is a major milestone in the author's career. The book is a long work that mixes prose, poetry, reportage and illustrations - somewhat in the manner of William Carlos Williams' "Pate...
|  | Engines of the Imagination: Renaissance Culture and the Rise of the Machine
Publication Date: December 22, 2007| ISBN-10: 041535062X | ISBN-13: 978-0415350624| Edition: New Ed At what point did machines and technology begin to have an impact on the cultural consciousness and imagination of Europe? How was this reflected through the art and literature of the time? Was technology a sign of the fall of humanity from its original state of innocence or a sign of human progress and mastery over the natural world? In his characteristically lucid and captivating style, Jonathan Sawday investigates these questions and more by engaging with the poetry, philosophy, art, an...
|  | Forgiving the Gift: The Philosophy of Generosity in Marlowe and Shakespeare (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)
Publication Date: February 29, 2012| Series: Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self-interest.The prologue reads Marlowe's Dr. Faustus to show how the play aligns gift and grace, depicting Faustus's famous bond as the instrument simultaneously of reciprocal ex...
|  | Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel: From Leavis to Levinas
Publication Date: August 19, 1999| ISBN-10: 0415198968 | ISBN-13: 978-0415198967In Postmodernity, Ethics and the Novel Andrew Gibson sets out to demonstrate that postmodern theory has actually made possible an ethical discourse around fiction. Each chapter elaborates and discusses a particular aspect of Levinas' thought and raises questions for that thought and its bearing on the novel. It also contains detailed analyses of particular texts. Part of the book's originality is its concentration on a range of modernist and postmodern novels which have seldom if ever served as the basis for ...
|  | The Ax
Publication Date: June 1, 1997The multi-award-winning, widely-acclaimed mystery master Donald E. Westlake delivers a masterpiece with this brilliant, laser-sharp tale of the deadly consequences of corporate downsizing.Burke Devore is a middle-aged manager at a paper company when the cost-cutting ax falls, and he is laid off. Eighteen months later and still unemployed, he puts a new spin on his job search -- with agonizing care, Devore finds the seven men in the surrounding area who could take the job that rightfully should be his, and systematically kills them. Transforming himself from mild...
|  | WW III
Release Date: August 28, 1990In the Pacific--Off Koreans east cost, 185 miles south of the DMZ, six Russian-made TU-22M backfires come in low, carrying two seven-hundred-pound cluster bombs, three one-thousand-pound "iron" bombs, ten one-thousand-pound concrete-piercing bombs, and fifty-two-hundred-pound FAEs.In Europe--Twenty Soviet Warsaw Pact infantry divisions and four thousand tanks begin to move. They are preceded by hundreds of strike aircraft. All are pointed toward the Fulda Gap. And World War III begins... ...
|  | The Butterfly Virus: A Thriller
Publication Date: February 2, 2009A fast paced techno thriller, in the vein of Michael Crichton, "The Butterfly Virus" takes you on an action packed thrill ride into the unthinkable. Dr. Daniel Lamb, a renowned genetic engineer working on a revolutionary breakthrough in human cloning technology, is called into action when an unknown virus breaks out in the southwest. They gain an ally in John Featherstone, an archeologist, whose work on ancient Native American cultures provides a critical key to the unfolding global events. Why is the military activating Operation Cave Eagle? Why are some pe...
|  | The Franchise Affair
Release Date: August 18, 1998Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise. It appeared that she was in some serious trouble: Miss Sharpe and her mother were accused of brutally kidnapping a demure young woman named Betty Kane. Miss Kane's claims seemed highly unlikely, even to Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, until she described her prison -- the attic room with its cracked window, the kitchen, and the ...
|  | Diamond Solitaire (Peter Diamond Mystery)
Publication Date: October 1993| Series: Peter Diamond Mystery When an autistic Japanese child is mysteriously abducted inLondon, ex-police detective Peter Diamond begins a desperate searchthat takes him from the sumo-wrestling world of Japan to New York'shigh finance district. 20,000 first printing. $20,000 ad/promo. Tour. ...
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