To be a staff writer at "The New Yorker" during its heyday of the 1950s and 1960s was to occupy one of the most covetedand influentialseats in American culture. Witty, beautiful, and Irish-born Maeve Brennan was lured to such a position in 1948 and proceeded to dazzle everyone who met her, both in p[...]
Are you rushing through life as if it is something to be coped with rather than to be enjoyed?Is your body giving you warning signs of the mental and physical stress you are under?Typical symptoms of stress include backache, neck or shoulder tension, headaches, insomnia, frequent colds, asthma, dige[...]
Heart of Darkness author Joseph Conrad (born Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857) was a Polish writer who learned to read, write, and speak English after he was granted British nationality in 1886. Although his peers accepted him as a British gentleman, he never forgot where he came from. In fa[...]
Business Lessons from the Renaissance Master of Gaining and Maintaining Power Generally considered the father of modern political science--and political ethics in particular--Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Renaissance Italian writer, philosopher, humanist, historian, politician, and dipl[...]
Business Lessons from the Renaissance Master of Gaining and Maintaining PowerGenerally considered the father of modern political scienceand political ethics in particularNiccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was a Renaissance Italian writer, philosopher, humanist, historian, politician, and diplomat. A[...]
Is an impostor robbing you of God's love?We've bought into the lie that we are worthy of God's love only when our lives are going well. If our families are happy or our jobs are meaningful, life is a success. But when life begins to fall through the cracks and embarrassing sins threaten to reveal ou[...]
Change Your Posture, Change Your Life analyses the origin and development of the Alexander Technique, how it works and what are its benefits. In chapters ranging from 'The Secret Key to Good Posture' and 'The Hidden Obstacle to Improving Posture' to 'Your Inner Acrobat' and 'First Steps in Releasing[...]
Metabolomics is a multidisciplinary science used to understand the ways in which nutrients from food are used in the body and how this can be optimised and targeted at specific nutritional needs. Metabolomics as a Tool in Nutrition Research provides a review of the uses of metabolomics in nutritiona[...]
The Role of the Postal and Delivery Sector in a Digital Age describes the continuing problem of the decline of the postal sector in the face of electronic competition and offers strategies for the survival of mail services in a digital age. The topical chapters provide econometric analyses on the c[...]
Everyone knows Isabella, Lady Trent, to be the world's preeminent dragon naturalist. Here at last, in her own words, is the true story of a pioneering spirit who risked her reputation, prospects, and her life to satisfy scientific curiosity; of how she sought true love despite her lamentable eccentr[...]
Three years after her fateful journeys through Vystrana, the widowed Mrs. Camherst defies convention to embark on an expedition to the savage, war-torn continent of Eriga, home of the legendary swamp-wyrms of the tropics. Accompanied by an old associate and a runaway heiress, Isabella must brave hea[...]
"Wonders terrestrial and aquatic, ancient ruins, near drownings, and more kinds of dragon than you can shake a wing at..." >> Six years after her perilous exploits in Eriga, Lady Trent embarks on her most ambitious expedition yet: a two-year trip around the world aboard the Royal Survey Ship Basilis[...]
This guide acts a companion to the poetry of Sylvia Plath - arguably one of the 20th century's most important writers. It aims to meet the needs of students on both interdisciplinary and single-honours courses.[...]
England flourishes under the hand of its Virgin Queen: Elizabeth, Gloriana, last and most powerful of the Tudor monarchs. But a great light casts a great shadow. In hidden catacombs beneath London, a second Queen holds court: Invidiana, ruler of faerie England, and a dark mirror to the glory above. [...]
Developed at the turn of the century by F.M. Alexander, the Alexander Technique is a simple method of improving posture and body movement in order to reduce the physical and mental tensions that we accumulate throughout our lives. The practical value of learning to use muscles efficiently has been d[...]
Popular music in the Americas, from jazz, Cuban Latin and salsa to disco and rap, is overwhelmingly neo-African. Created in the midst of war and military invasion, and filtered through a largely European outlook, these musical forms are completely modern in their sensibilities: they are in fact the [...]
Charlotte Bronte's "Jane Eyre" is one of the most famous literay works of the nineteenth century and has inspired generations of students. This guide to the text introduces its contexts, language, reception and adaptation from its first publication to the present. It also includes points for discuss[...]
A comprehensive reconsideration of Graham Greene's use of Catholic and theological issues in his fictions and other writings from the 1920s until the 1980s. It focuses both on his best known novels and his less familiar works, including his short stories, plays, poetry, film scripts and reviewing, j[...]
A new gothic YA fantasy trilogy, set in England, about magicians and demons.
The Second Edition of Business-to-Business Marketing offers the same accessible clarity of insight, combined with updated and engaging examples. Each chapter contains a detailed case study to further engage the reader with the topics examined: Featuring updated case studies and a range of new exampl[...]
Dr Jonathan Wilson, Senior Lecturer, Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge[...]