Explains and defines words and phrases used in Latin texts; includes a table of root words.

"Rappaport appears genuinely concerned about the excess focus of financial community on short-term results at the expense of long term value and has produced a well-researched and coherently argued work." ("Decision", Jan 2012).[...]

Beneath the surface of the apparently untutored and deceptively frank Abraham Lincoln ran private tunnels of self-taught study, a restless philosophical curiosity, and a profound grasp of the fundamentals of democracy. Now, in Lincoln: A Very Short Introduction, the award-winning Lincoln authority [...]

This concise volume is at once an excellent introduction to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason and an original analysis of Kant's ideas. Intended to be read in conjunction with Kant's text, Ewing's commentary systematically examines the Critique chapter by chapter. It offers valuable guidance to new stu[...]

Combining place and fiction in an imaginative interpretation of ten sites in the city of London, CJ Lim and Ed Liu take well-known institutions, epochs and lifestyles in the British capital and renders them fantastic in a string of architectural short stories. The medium is an intersection of paper [...]

Edith Wharton, Kate Chopin, and Ellen Glasgow are among the featured authors in this splendid anthology. The tales include Joyce Carol Oates' "Heat," Flannery O'Connor's "The Life You Save May Be Your Own," Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' "Gal Young 'Un," and "Why I Live at the P.O." by Eudora Welty.[...]

A Short History of Early Modern England presents the historical and cultural information necessary for a richer understanding of English Renaissance literature.[...]

Traditionally, psychoanalytic treatment has been a lengthy endeavour, requiring a long-term commitment from patient and analyst, as well as vast financial resources. More recently, short-term approaches to psychoanalytic treatment have proliferated. One of the most well-known and thoroughly studied [...]