A practical guide to the current Jewish interpretation of topics of universal interest, this reference features around 1400 entries, describing all the key aspects of religion, culture and history in Judaism.[...]

Writing in a rich, sensual style, Lavinia Kent tells a fresh and memorable story that is sure to garner many fans and launch a promising new career.[...]

Regency England just got real(ity)Episode 1: How Kathryn Got Her Passion BackKathryn, Duchess of Harrington, has theperfect life: a handsome duke for a husband, richesto spare, a house in Mayfair, and the right groupof friends. The only thing she doesn't have is herhusband in her bed. But she's abou[...]

From a masterful writer of myth and fantasy, a beautiful reimagining of one of the most pivotal characters in Virgil's "Aeneid" As the story goes, Virgil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he is destined to build an empire. Lavinia herself never speaks a word. Now, Ursula[...]

What is social policy, and why are welfare systems important? How have they been affected by the global financial crisis? The fourth edition of this well-respected textbook provides an excellent introduction to social policy in the twenty-first century. Expert contributors examine the development, d[...]

Tells the story of the adventures that music leads us into - getting drunk, falling in love, cutting our hair, wanting to change the world - as well as the darker side of the adolescent years: loneliness, bullying, getting arrested.[...]

If Lavinia Greenlaw's Minsk was about home, her new collection tests the proximities of elsewhere, 'the circle round our house', the road between two lives. Its title recalls a phrase of Robert Lowell's to describe Elizabeth Bishop - one of the book's presiding spirits, with her insistence on the pr[...]

Lavinia Mitton follows the changes in hospital treatment that took place during the Victorian era and explores the different types of hospitals that were available, from the celebrated specialist institutions served by famous surgeons to the appalling workhouse infirmaries where the patients were lo[...]

This is the first volume to overview the complex Romanian transitional justice effort.

Presents an introduction to philosophical thinking on psychoanalysis and also conveys the complexity of the subject.[...]

In 1819, a young man outwitted death at the hands of John and Lavinia Fisher and sparked the hunt for Charleston's most notorious serial killers. Former homicide investigator Bruce Orr follows the story of the Fishers, from the initial police raid on their Six Mile Inn with its reportedly grisly cel[...]