Cyber Ireland explores, for the first time, the presence and significance of cyberculture in Irish literature. Computers are intimately tied up with the socio-economic phenomenon known as the Celtic Tiger, as some critics have argued, funding the boom and then creating the bust. Through novels by co[...]
This six-level series of factual readers allows English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses. The use of the plus symbol (+) highlights the[...]
How do ducks stay dry? What is sheep's hair called? Why do peacocks have long feathers? read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers, a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics.[...]
How tall is the tallest skyscraper? Which is the biggest rocket? Which beetle is as heavy as a hamster? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers,a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics.[...]
What is a volcano? Why do volcanoes erupt? Where is the highest volcano on Earth? Read and discover the facts in Macmillan Factual Readers,a six-level series which allows young English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics.[...]
This six-level series of factual readers allows English language learners to explore a variety of fascinating real-world topics. Each reader has been carefully graded to reinforce the main structures and vocabulary covered in most major language courses. The use of the plus symbol (+) highlights the[...]
French journalist Claire Parnet's famous dialogues with Gilles Deleuze offer an intimate portrait of the philosopher's life and thought. Conversational in tone, their engaging discussions delve deeply into Deleuze's philosophical background and development, the major concepts that shaped his work, a[...]
Even in our increasingly sexualized culture hard-core pornography and the representation of explicit sex is still hard to swallow. This lively and provocative new collection of essays by leading scholars explores screen representations of pornography and sex in a variety of cultural, historical, and[...]
Even in our increasingly sexualized culture hard-core pornography and the representation of explicit sex is still hard to swallow. This lively and provocative new collection of essays by leading scholars explores screen representations of pornography and sex in a variety of cultural, historical, and[...]
1976: Peggy Hillcoat is eight. She spends her summer camping with her father, playing her beloved record of The Railway Children and listening to her mother's grand piano, but her pretty life is about to change.
Her survivalist father, who has been stockpiling provisions for the end which i[...]
Samuel Pepys is the astonishing biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 2002 Whitbread Book of the Year. "Immaculately well done. Tomalin has managed to unearth a wealth of material about the uncharted life of Samuel Pepys". (Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday). "Sex, drink, plague, fire, music, mar[...]
Jane Austen is the celebrated biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin. "A perfect biography: detailed, witty, warm. Tomalin involves us so deeply that Austen's final illness and death come almost as a personal tragedy to the reader". (Dirk Bogarde, Daily Telegraph, Books of the Year). "Truly [...]
Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband but a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized [...]
Acclaimed as the greatest comic actress of her generation, Dora Jordan played a quite different role offstage as the mistress of one of the sons of George lll. Dora bore him ten children, and they lived in quiet happiness in Bushy Park on the Thames until the unexpected news arrived of his ascendanc[...]
Pursuing art and adventure across Europe, Katherine Mansfield lived and wrote with the Furies at her heels. Dying at the age of only 34, she became posthumously one of the most influential writers of the last century. Sexually ambiguous, craving love yet quarrelsome and capricious, she glittered in [...]
Witty, courageous and unconventional, Mary Wollstonecraft was one of the most controversial figures of her day. She published "A Vindication of the Rights of Women", lived through the Terror in France, had an illegitimate daughter and married the philosopher William Godwin before dying in childbirth[...]
Situation--a unique set of conditions produced in both space and time and ranging across material, social, political, and economic relations--has become a key concept in twenty-first-century art. Rooted in artistic practices of the 1960s and 1970s, the idea of situation has evolved and transcended t[...]
The desire to move viewers out of the role of passive observers and into the role of producers is one of the hallmarks of twentieth-century art. This tendency can be found in practices and projects ranging from El Lissitzky's exhibition designs to Allan Kaprow's happenings, from minimalist objects t[...]
Rev. ed. of: Understanding organisational context. 2nd ed. 2004.
The tourism industry is in a constant state of flux, where trends and attitudes are frequently susceptible to outside influences including factors such as technological and economic change The Business of Tourism by Chris Holloway and Claire Humphreys is the ideal textbook to help you to not only un[...]
As the world population ages and people live longer, nurses and healthcare workers, no matter what area they work in, will encounter older people. This guide aims to provide you with the basic but fundamental knowledge you will need to care for older people.[...]
Danish filmmaker Thomas Vinterberg's searing film Festen ("The Celebration") was the first film from the Dogme 95 stable. Adhering to Dogme's cinematic purity - no artificial lighting, no superficial action, no credit for the director, and only handheld cameras for equipment - Festen was a commercia[...]