Set in the second half of the eighteenth century, Barry Lyndon is the fictional autobiography of an adventurer and rogue whom the reader is led to distrust from the very beginning. Born into the petty Irish gentry, and outmanoeuvred in his first love-affair, a ruined Barry joins the British army. [...]
Renowned poet William Carlos Williams and literary innovator Louis Zukofsky maintained a relationship through correspondence as both collaborators and friends between 1928 and 1963. Their letters have remained largely unpublished until now. Edited by Barry Ahearn, The Correspondence of William Carlo[...]
En modern och redan berömd bok om att ge och ta emot andlig vägledning. De båda författarna har både psykologisk och teologisk skolning tillsammans med lång praktisk erfarenhet av att möta människor i andliga samtal. Boken har överallt fått mycket goda recensioner. Detta är en språkligt [...]
Authoritative biography of cult writer William Burroughs (1914-1997).
Iconoclast; visionary; homosexual crusader; drug advocate; teacher and elder statesman to Jack Kracouac, Allen Ginsberg and the Beats; anti-hero guru to each successive counter-culture generation: Willaim Burroughs remains one of the most complex and controversial American writers of the twentieth c[...]
Known as an advocate for the endangered earth, Barry Lopez is one of America's preeminent writers on nature. This invigorating book invites readers to sit down with Lopez and his friend William E. Tydeman to engage with their conversations about activism, the life of the mind, and all things literar[...]
Title: The Luck of Barry Lyndon, a romance of the last century.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats[...]
It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, 'I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius.' This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual radical poli[...]
Like Tom Jones before him, Barry Lyndon is one of the most lively and roguish characters in English literature. He may now be best known through the colourful Stanley Kubrick film released in 1975, but it is Thackeray who, in true 19th-century style, shows the darker side of this 18th-century hero; [...]
I en tid med en rikholdig flora av forklaringsmodeller og ytringer om åndelighet har vi mer enn noen gang i vår religiøse søken behov for egne åndelige erfaringer vi kan ha tillitt til. Vi trenger veiledere som selv har erfaring fra å gå veien, som kan hindre åndelig forvirring og la våre e[...]
Criminalistics is that sub-field of Forensic Science dealing with the collection, preservation, examination, and interpretation of physical evidence. The role of the Criminalist is to analyze, compare, identify, and interpret physical evidence in the crime lab. This textbook covers the basics of Cri[...]
This second edition of Social Injustice and Public Health is a comprehensive, up-to-date, evidence-based resource on the relationship of social injustice to many aspects of public health. With contributions from leading experts in public health, medicine, health, social sciences, and other fields, t[...]
Deals with the design, collection, analysis, and reporting of marketing research data relevant to a firm's current and future needs. This text helps students learn about traditional types of marketing research, such as designing questionnaires, as well as the technological developments that facilita[...]
A new and simple learn-by-picture method that makes it easy for anyone aged twelve and up to perform all the classic sleights just as they are done by the world's greatest professional magicians. Long-time magician Bill Tarr has teamed up with Barry Ross, an illustrator famous for his instructional [...]
The Brief Edition of Western Civilization presents a strong chronological and political framework and seamlessly integrates the social and cultural forces that have shaped the western past. Two related themes are pursued throughout: 1) Europe in relation to the rest of the world and non-Western infl[...]
Guides students in thinking about moral issues that frequently arise in business situations and helps them develop the reasoning and analytical skills to resolve those issues. This book presents a comprehensive, flexible, and pedagogically proven course of study that explores the intersections of co[...]
This book presents an easy-to-read discussion of domain decomposition algorithms, their implementation and analysis. The relationship between domain decomposition and multigrid methods is carefully explained at an elementary level, and discussions of the implementation of domain decomposition method[...]
A complete handbook for replacements for vacuum tubes and picture tubes. This is the most accurate, up-to-date guide available to determine direct substitutes for receiving tubes and picture tubes.[...]