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David Ellis attempts to clarify what is at once the most intriguing and baffling aspect of Wordsworth's great autobiographical poem.

This book provides comprehensive information on the nature and status of public employment in six western nations during the 1980s.

This book reinterprets the British class structure and its evolution from the mid-nineteenth century to the 1980s.

Comparison of structures and mechanisms of elastic proteins in relation to their biological roles.

A collection of essays on the juvenilia of famous authors including Austen, the Bront s, George Eliot and Virginia Woolf.

The central theme here is the constant confrontation of theory and practice in the work of Baudelaire, Mallarm and Val ry.

Originally published in 1988, John Ford: Critical Re-Visions offers a wholesale reconsideration of the reputation of a major Caroline playwright.

Bradley Koetting is an atavism. A thing - like the working cowboy, Nature, God or sex - which persists, though someone somewhere is always sounding its death knell. A poet, writing not to please a writing workshop or an inner circle or his own ego, but from a bald need to communicate experience. Communicating it bluntly, honestly. At the edge, there's always the possibility of falling off, a "lacunal fall, " to use one of the poet's phrases. B...

The U.S. Navy's front line, land-based maritime patrol aircraft, the Lockheed P-3 Orion is a highly capable anti-submarine warfare platform. Conceived as a replacement for the P-2 Neptune and P-5 Marlin, the P-3 first flew in 1961. It was loosely based on the design of the Lockheed L-188 Electra passenger aircraft. Equipped with four Allison T56 turboprop engines, the P-3 has the speed of a fast propeller-powered fighter and a range of nearly ...

In the summer of 1997, Tim Doherty set off alone on a daunting round-the-world cycle tour, which turned out to be even more awe-inspiring than he could have hoped. For this book, he has taken the most fascinating and humorous experiences from his diaries and woven them together into a collection of true short-stories. With many beautiful photographs, sketches and maps, "This Breathtaking World" is a vivid and very personal account of life on t...

This memoir provides an eyewitness account of several of the actions of the 1808 Andalusian campaign, culminating in the battle of Baílen and the capitulation of Dupont's entire army. Very little material has hitherto been available in English dealing with this campaign-thus the reader can expect to discover fresh details and new insights not available in the general histories of the Peninsular War.