This volume brings together for the first time influential essays and reviews by one of our most important literary critics. Spanning three decades, the essays concern themselves with the most central development themes in recent criticism, from the New Criticism to the much-debated "Newreading" and[...]

Firmly grounded by the hallmark strengths of all Norton Anthologies thorough and helpful introductory matter, judicious annotation, complete texts wherever possible The Norton Anthology of English Literature, The Major Authors has been revitalized in this Eighth Edition through the collaboration bet[...]

The authors of Social Identifications set out to make accessible to students of social psychology the social identity approach developed by Henri Tajfel, John Turner, and their colleagues in Bristol during the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Hogg and Dominic Abrams give a comprehensive and readable account[...]

The death of a parent marks an emotional and psychological watershed in a person's life. For children and teenagers, the loss of a parent if not handled sensitively can be a lasting trauma, and for adults too, a parent's death can be a tremendous blow. When Parents Die speaks to bereaved children of[...]

An innovative program for successfully diagnosing and treating hypothyroidism discusses the symptoms of the ailment, uses helpful charts and questionnaires to helpf diagnose sufferers, and offers a complete therapeutic regimen that combines safe hormones with specific nutritional advice and alternat[...]

A guide to Photoshop CS4 that shows you how to retouch, color correct, manipulate, and combine images. It sheds light on optimal ways to create special effects for digital or film-based images, and then use them on the Web or in print. It covers topics ranging from image-editing basics to techniques[...]

"A Glossary of Literary Terms, International Edition," will deepen your understanding of and insights into the literature you love - whether it's classic Greek, modern mysteries, cutting-edge drama, or any other form - and it will open the worlds of literary forms you have yet to discover.[...]

Shetland has a history unique in Europe, for over the past two centuries it was a place where women dominated the family, economy, and the cultural imagination. Women ran households and crofts without men. They maintained families and communities because men were absent. And they constructed in thei[...]

Suitable for practitioners at various levels of sport who work with athletes and anger, both on and off the field, this book presents the anger management programmes for different populations, from school athletes to prison in-mates. It helps you understand how to approach an anger problem, and how [...]

This book argues that history and sociology share the same vital preoccupation: the desire to unravel the puzzle of human agency. How do large-scale social transformations occur, and what is the role of the individual in them? Phil Abrams devotes three chapters to the development of industrialism an[...]

A paradigm-shifting blend of science, religion, and philosophy for agnostic, spiritual-but-not-religious, and scientifically minded readers
Many people are fed up with the way traditional religion alienates them: too easily it can perpetuate conflict, vilify science, and undermine reason. Nancy [...]