Burned Bridge
The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War. Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral...
Asperger's Children
In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, treating those children he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as compassionate and devoted, Asperger was in fact ...
Polynomial Methods and Incidence Theory
The past decade has seen numerous major mathematical breakthroughs for topics such as the finite field Kakeya conjecture, the cap set conjecture, Erd?s's distinct distances problem, the joints problem, as well as others, thanks to the introduction...
Diaspora Politics
This book is intended to fill in a gap in the study of modern ethno-national diasporas. Thus, against the background of current trends - globalization, democratization, the weakening of the nation-state and massive transstate migration, it examine...
Diaspora Politics
This book is intended to fill in a gap in the study of modern ethno-national diasporas. Thus, against the background of current trends - globalization, democratization, the weakening of the nation-state and massive transstate migration, it examine...
The Theory of the Growth of the Firm
There are not many books that are genuine classics, and only a handful in business and management whose insights and ideas last for 50 years and more. This book is one of the very few 'must reads' for anybody seriously interested in the role of ma...
Complete Poems
When she died in poverty at 31, Edith Södergran had been dismissed as a mad, megalomaniac aristocrat by most of her Finnish contemporaries. Today she is regarded as Finland’s greatest modern poet. Her poems – written in Swedish – are intensely visionary, and have been compared with Rimbaud’s, yet they also show deep affinities with Russian poetry, with the work of Blok, Mayakovsky and Severyanin in particular. Born in 1892 of a Finno-Swedish family, Edith Södergran grew up in Raivola, a village on the Russian border, but was educated at a German school in St Petersburg. Her early influences were Goethe and Heine, and she wrote first in German. The driving force of Edith Södergran’s mature Swedish poetry was her struggle against TB, which she contracted in 1908. For much of her short life she was a semi-invalid in sanatoria in Finland and Switzerland. Her last years were spent amid the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and in desperate poverty in Raivola, where she died in 1923. Edith
Ethics of Remembering
What are the ethical responsibilities of the historian in an age of mass murder and hyper-reality? Can one be postmodern and still write history? For whom should history be written? The author explores these questions through the figure of the &qu...
Saints and Postmodernism
"In this exciting and important work, Wyschogrod attempts to read contemporary ethical theory against the vast unwieldy tapestry that is postmodernism. . . . [A] provocative and timely study."-Michael Gareffa, Theological Studies "A...
Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris
Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings, and exquisite poetry--these features have historically made Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris one of the most influential of Gre...
Pompeii...Buried Alive!
Pompeii...Buried Alive!
Boots and Mistletoe
Cowboy boots, mistletoe, and a holiday do-over... Last Christmas, nothing was going Quinn's way. Then she met him. Their connection was intense, but the timing was all wrong-so they went their separate ways. But this year, everything in her life is better. Well, almost everything. Somewhere along the line, she lost her holiday spirit. Could it be that she left it with the handsome cowboy she never quite got over? Jackson wasn't looking for romance when he met Quinn. But there was something about her that grabbed his heart and wouldn't let go. Now that they're together again, he can't help but wonder if she'd ever be willing to give up the bright lights of the city for country life with a simple rancher like him... As stockings are hung and trees are trimmed, can Quinn and Jackson find a way to claim their second chance at happily ever after? Or will the magic of the season fail them yet again? Boots and Mistletoe is book 1 in the new, clean and wholesome, Cowboy Christmas contemporary
The Cowboy Under The Mistletoe
It'll take more than the magic of the season to help this grump find her happily ever after... Christmas isn't Kelly's thing. Ignoring it every year in Bora Bora is much more her speed. But her plans are ruined when her best friend announces she's getting married on Christmas Eve. Getting through the event with her sanity intact will not be easy. Especially since the cheerful and ridiculously handsome best man seems so determined to annoy her at every turn. After meeting his friend's fianc e, Wyatt assumed her maid of honor would be equally charming. He was wrong. Kelly is one of the most uppity, bossy, and annoyingly beautiful women he's ever met. But when he needs help saving his embattled ranch, it's Kelly who comes to his aid. Could it be that a heart of gold beats beneath her prickly exterior? When all is said and done, can these two polar opposites find enough common ground (and courage) to take a shot at love? The Cowboy Under the Mistletoe is book 2 in the clean and wholesome
Mistletoe And The Billionaire's Cowgirl
He's the last man she wants this holiday season. Too bad he's exactly what she needs... Country music superstar Presley has way too much on her plate. Her performance and promotion schedule is packed, and Christmas is quickly approaching. And to make matters worse, it seems she's been targeted by a stalker. The very last thing she needs right now is a romantic entanglement with the grumpy jerk who owns the casino where she's taken up residence--no matter how annoyingly handsome and persistent he is. Markus is used to getting whatever--and whoever--he wants. Money and power can do that for a man. But Presley is...different. She has more money and power than she knows what to do with. So, what could he possibly do to impress her? Well, maybe he could start by dealing with the stalker she doesn't take seriously enough for his liking... Can this pair of complete opposites grab their happily ever after--and maybe a kiss under the mistletoe--before Presley's stalker ruins their chances for
The Valley of Decision
The Valley of Decision
Nature Notes of an Edwardian Lady
The perfect book not only for the thousands of fans of the Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady but all lovers of nature and nature writing. The writing and paintings, created at the same time as those for Country Diary in 1905 and 1906, follows the seasons at her English home with her charming notes, diary entries, quotes and her choice of poems that celebrate nature, from Wordsworth to Yeats, plus a few of her own. The paintings in Nature Notes have not been seen for decades and can be enjoyed by a new generation of nature lovers in a beautifully produced volume. This treasure of work from a bygone age has a resonance for today s readers as nature writing has proven time and again one of the most cherished forms of writing. And this calm, elegant book on nature is the perfect volume to have as you watch the changing of the seasons yourself.
The Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady
The Country Diary of An Edwardian Lady
Three Greek Plays
Three Greek Plays
Ethan Frome, Summer, Bunner Sisters
These brilliantly wrought, tragic novellas explore the repressed emotions and destructive passions of working-cass people far removed from the social milieu usually inhabited by Edith Wharton's characters. Ethan Frome is one of Wharton's most famous works; it is a tightly constructed and almost unbearably heartbreaking story of forbidden love in a snowbound New England village. Summer, also set in rural New England, is often considered a companion to Ethan Frome - Wharton herself called it 'the hot Ethan' - in its portrayal of a young woman's sexual and social awakening. Bunner Sisters takes place in the narrow, dusty streets of late-nineteenth-century New York, where the constrained but peaceful lives of two spinster shopkeepers are shattered when they meet a man who becomes the unworthy focus of all their pent-up hopes. All three of these novellas feature realistic and haunting characters as vivid as any Wharton ever conjured, and together they provide a superb introduction to the
Age of Innocence
'Wharton's dazzling skills as a stylist, creator of character, ironical observer and unveiler of passionate, thwarted emotions have earned her a devoted following' Sunday Times Newland Archer and May Welland are the perfect couple. He is a wealthy...
Ever-Present Past
"A great lady with a disciplined and noble mind and an unquenchable love of good literature. In this volume, we can still hear that calm but not passionless voice explaining the grandeurs and difficulties of some of her favorite books and com...
Age of Innocence
The Age of Innocence
Mythology
The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes. Edith Hamilton's mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Nors...
Penguin Readers Level 4: The Age of Innocence (ELT Graded Reader)
Penguin Readers is an ELT graded reader series for learners of English as a foreign language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations and language learning exercises, the print edition also includes instructions to access supporting materia...
Crossover Queries
Exploring the risks, ambiguities, and unstable conceptual worlds of contemporary thought, Crossover Queries brings together the wide-ranging writings, across twenty years, of one of our most important philosophers. Ranging from twentieth-century E...
Touchstone
New York lawyer Stephen Glennard, in an effort to raise money to pay for his upcoming wedding to his sweetheart, sells love letters written to him by deceased author Margaret Aubyn. Unsurprisingly, this action comes back to haunt him and his marri...
Experiencing Ritual
Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings-the view of millions of African...
House of Mirth
The House of Mirth follows the tragic fall of Lily Bart, a beautiful socialite who loses her footing in the savage social-climbing world of New York high society in the nineteenth century. Lily Bart has no fortune, but she possesses everything els...
Brothers of Gwynedd Quartet
From Edith Pargeter, who also wrote as Ellis Peter, BROTHERS OF GWYNNED is an epic quartet of novels telling the dramatic tale of Llewelyn, the first true Prince of Wales. 'A richly textured tapestry of medieval Wales' Sunday Telegraph Llewelyn ha...
