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Twayne's United States Authors, English Authors, and World Authors Series present concise critical introductions to great writers and their works. Devoted to critical interpretation and discussion of an author's work, each study takes account of major literary trends and important scholarly contributions and provides new critical insights with an original point of view. An Authors Series volume addresses readers ranging from advanced high scho...

Torn between the competing forces of scholarship as a profession and scholarship as a calling - between Babel and the Ivory Tower - the modern academic faces a dilemma: should she or he try to preserve the soul of higher education by cultivating the Muse of personal knowledge, or renounce the Music and imitate a technician? Having come to the end of his own scholarly career, W. David Shaw felt out of place in the technological realm academia h...

Fully updated and beautifully illustrated, this revised second edition of the best-selling textbook Fashion Buying explores the activities, processes and people involved in fashion buying, breaking down the five key areas of buying activity, the role of the fashion buyer, sources of buying inspiration, suppliers, sourcing and communication, merchandise planning and trends in fashion buying.Featuring completely revised content on retail typolog...

In 1851, Elanor Creesy, in a position almost unheard of for a woman in the mid-nineteenth century, served as the navigator on the maiden voyage of the clipper ship Flying Cloud -- traveling from New York to San Francisco in only eighty-nine days. This swift passage set a world record that went unbroken for more than a century. Upon arrival in San Francisco, Flying Cloud became an enduring symbol of a young nation's frontier spirit. Illustrated...

New "PC" edition with introduction by David Edgar.

An essential revision tool for the FRCR anatomy examination, including 10 mock examinations and 200 images, comprehensively covering the curriculum.

The premise of Spiritual Liaisons is simple: asking God to help as a matchmaker during the conduct of your relationship search. The book is anecdotal, in that it's all about the author and his wife, who developed a relationship while online dating, using Christian websites. The chronology of events for the couple is non-specific, however, basic guidelines, advice, struggles, triumphs, pitfalls, and common-sense protocols will enable the reader...

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For over 20 years David Shaw has been a regular visitor to the beautiful and historic city of York and during his pleasant stays he gradually became aware of the enormous wealth of reporrted ghost sightings in the area. The walks in this illustrated book include descriptions of hauntings in 60 locations.

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In The Ghost behind the Masks, W. David Shaw traces Shakespeare's influence on nine Victorian poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti, Thomas Hardy, Matthew Arnold, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Algernon Swinburne, Arthur Hugh Clough, and George Meredith. Often, he writes, the transparency of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian poets and the degree of their engagement with Shakespeare exist in inverse ratio. Instead of imit...

The idea for publishing these books on the mechanism of action and on the biosynthesis of antibiotics was born of frustration in our attempts to keep abreast of the literature. Gone were the years when we were able to keep a biblio­ graphy on antibiotics and feel confident that we could find everything that was being published on this subject. These fields of investigation were moving for­ ward so rapidly and were encompassing so wide a range ...

The idea for publishing these books on the mechanism of action and on the biosynthesis of antibiotics was born of frustration in our attempts to keep abreast of the literature. Gone were the years when we were able to keep a biblio­ graphy on antibiotics and feel confident that we could find everything that was being published on this subject. These fields of investigation were moving for­ ward so rapidly and were encompassing so wide a range ...

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Excerpt from Eldorado or California: As Seen by a Pioneer, 1850-1900 There are still living, after the lapse of fifty years, many Pioneers, and more of their descendants, to whom I trust the following pages will bear more than a passing interest. To the pioneers they will restore the fast fading recollections of events in which their experiences were to a large extent very similar to my own. One by one our comrades are dropping from sight, pa...

The first Europeans to follow the explorers of the eighteenth century into the South Pacific were missionaries. They were sent by an Evangelical Christian organization called The London Missionary Society, whose aim was to bring the word of the Bible to all peoples ¿ ¿to illume a dark and sinful world¿. Their first target was Tahiti, an island of extravagant beauty, inhabited by a people of astonishing sophistication. The missionaries settled ...

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