"The Divine Comedy" has been a cornerstone of Western literature for the better part of a millennium. In this work, Joseph Gallagher brings the power and prestige of this medieval classic to a new generation of readers - taking them on a guided tour through heaven, purgatory, and hell.
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Enjoy the most healthful and luxurious beauty treatments from the best spas worldwide, using ingredients from your own kitchen. The pursuit of beauty today is happily fused with a desire for inner health. Drawing from her extensive travels, fashion model Dawn Gallagher presents a natural, multicultu[...]

The most student-friendly and engaging geography course - now even better. Help support your lower ability students with the geog.1 basics OxBox CD-ROM & Teacher's Book. geog.1 basics works alongside the students' book with specially tailored questions and accessible worksheets. Resources can be cus[...]

Foreign investment has been widely perceived as a panacea for developing countries--as a way to reduce poverty and kick-start sustainable modern industries. The Enclave Economy calls this prescription into question, showing that Mexico's post-NAFTA experience of foreign direct investment in its info[...]

Interprofessional collaborations to prevent the social exclusion of children and young people call for new professional skills and understandings. This book draws on an examination of these ways of working to make clear what these new skills and understandings are and how they can be developed.[...]

The EU's single currency crisis and the ensuing human costs have led to Europe's biggest disaster since 1945. This book examines each of its stages and the political and social impact, and reveals the longer-term origins of the crisis, particularly the failure of elites to promote a genuine European[...]

In 1832-34, German scientist Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied travelled the interior regions of North America to document what he regarded as vanishing cultures. Accompanying him was the twenty-two-year-old Swiss artist Karl Bodmer (1809-93), whom Maximilian employed to create a "faithful and vivid[...]

The worst customer situations demand more of front-line employees than good intentions and the right attitude. These kinds of issues can send seasoned service professionals into red alert, and require the communication skills of a crisis counselor. "The Customer Service Survival Kit" explains how to[...]

Build a private cloud with the leading virtualization platform Driven by virtualization, the investment and adoption of cloud computing continues to grow at an impressive rate. Virtualization is the enabling technology for private clouds so it's no wonder customers who use VMware vSphere are leve[...]

E"veryone's bringing baggage to this baby shower..."
After her divorce, Carmen James is still trying to get back on her feet when fate pulls the rug out from under her. She's pregnant--and she's not sure who's the father. Just one more thing for her impossible-to-please family to worry about. On[...]