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Fantasy novel by the World Fantasy Award-winning editor and author. "Few writers can genuinely touch the quality of nightmare...the fear that formless and almost banal stems from the sleeping mind. John Bellairs did it with THE FACE IN THE FROST... James Blaylock can do it. And now there is also THE SHATTERED GODDESS." --Mary Gentle

..".a first rate...focussed guide through the rhetorical literature...this books is of enduring worth...' Andras Hamori, "Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1984.

Regardless of who you are or what you want, you can negotiate anything promises Herb Cohen, the world's best negotiator. From mergers to marriages, from loans to lovemaking, the #1 bestseller You Can Negotiate Anything proves that "money, justice, prestige, love-it's all negotiable." Hailed by such publications as Time, People, and Newsweek, Cohen has advised presidents on everything from domestic policy to hostage crises to combating internal...

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, his last literary work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol, ” a product of his own prison experience, and four complete plays: Lady Windermere's Fan, his first ...

Uncle Tom, Topsy, Sambo, Simon Legree, little Eva: their names are American bywords, and all of them are characters in Harriet Beecher Stowe's remarkable novel of the pre-Civil War South. Uncle Tom's Cabin was revolutionary in 1852 for its passionate indictment of slavery and for its presentation of Tom, "a man of humanity, " as the first black hero in American fiction. Labeled racist and condescending by some contemporary critics, it remains ...

To free his father and himself from his mother's tyranny, Pierre Riviere decided to kill her. On June 3, 1835, he went inside his small Normandy house with a pruning hook and cut to death his mother, his eighteen-year-old sister, and his seven-year-old brother. Then, in jail, he wrote a memoir to justify the whole gruesome tale. Michel Foucault, author of "Madness and Civilization and Discipline and Punish, " collected the relevant documents o...

Unlike most Chinese-American studies which focus on large urban concentrations sustained by continuous immigration, this study centers on a small Chinese enclave located in a rural Southern biracial society. It focuses upon three generations of Chinese undergoing social change in an area within the state of Mississippi known as the Delta. This isolated group of people, having little contact with other U.S. Chinese communities, remained nearly ...

This book grew out of a graduate course given in the Physics Department of the City College of New York for the first time during the 1976-1977 academic year and a series of lectures given at the Catholic University of Louvain, at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium during the Spring and Summer of 1977. I am indebted to Professor F. Brouillard and the DYMO group at that institution for the stimulation and hospitality provided during that period. In both...

James Higgins's readings of the work of six very diverse modern Peruvian poets - Eguren, Vallejo, Belli, Cisneros, Moro, Ad¿- reveal their common dilemma: how to reconcile the dichotomies of their society, and their common artistic stance: that of the outcast who perceives a higher reality in a visionary, surreal world.

Late Latin and Early Romance presents a theory of the relationship between Latin and Romance during the period 400-1250. The central hypothesis is that what we now call 'Medieval Latin' was invented around 800 AD when Carolingian scholars standardised the pronunciation of liturgical texts, and that otherwise what was spoken was simply the local variety of Old French, Old Spanish, etc. Thus, the view generally held before the publication of thi...

Twenty-one papers on various aspects of Athenian art and society by the students and friends of Homer A. Thompson, a noted classical archaeologist and excavator of the Athenian Agora. The volume includes many papers on sculpture (including Nancy Bookidis on Attic terracotta sculpture and Brunhilde Ridgway on the features of kouroi and korai in Archaic Athens), some on architecture (including William B. Dinsmoor Jr. on the Pinakotheke), and a f...

Documentation and description of the history and substance of the hoard, lost for over two centuries since its original 18th century discovery, and found once more in the Queen's collection.

Epicurus in the Archives of Athens (Diskin Clay), The Nature of the Late Fifth Century Revision of the Athenian Law Code (Kevin Clinton), A Lekythos in Toronto and the Golden Youth of Athens (Henry R. Athens and Hestiaia (Malcolm F. Regulations for an Athenian Festival (Michael B. Sepulturae Intra Urbem and the Pre-Persian Walls of Athens (F.

12 lectures, Dornach, November 26 - December 31, 1922 (CW 219)"Think of the earth with the air around it, farther outward is the cosmic ether, gradually passing over into the spiritual sphere. Here on Earth, we inhale and exhale the air. This is the rhythm of breathing. But out yonder, we pour our being into the cosmos, receiving into ourselves the Logos and the cosmic thoughts. There, we let the world, the universe, speak to us. This, too, ta...

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For several centuries prior to the founding of the Theosophical Society in 1875, individual 'theosophers' in Britain and Europe were quietly in touch with one another all seekers of the inward way. Theosophic Correspondence (1792 1797) is a series of inspiring letters, personal and philosophic, exchanged during the climactic days of the French Revolution between Kirchberger, member of the Sovereign Council at Berne, Switzerland, and Saint-Mart...

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For centuries, the strange and beautiful Tarot cards have been an endless source of fascination. Now one of the foremost authorities in the field reveals the intricacies of this ancient art. With detailed reproductions and explanations, Eden Gray offers explicit advice about the three different methods of reading the cards and using the Tarot for divination and meditation. Both beginning students and advanced devotees will find in this book in...

The Biological Investigation of Sexuality and Anxiety" is composed of three essential contributions from the period: "The Orgasm as an Electrophysical Discharge, " "Sexuality and Anxiety" and "The Bioelectrical Function of Sexuality and Anxiety, "Reich's detailed report on the physiological experiments in which he sought proof for his orgasm theory.

First published in 1982. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.