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Reading Masques interweaves analysis of text, music, and spectacle with research into the printing, marketing, and readership of masques, demonstrating the masque's importance beyond the social and historical parameters of other studies. It draws together masques by Jonson, Milton, Davenant, and Shirley with others by lesser known authors.

Rev. ed. of: Tobacco and public health: science and policy. 2004.

This book explores the theme of Christian conversion to Islam in 12 early-modern English plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Massinger and others. In these works, conversion from Christianity to Islam is represented as both erotic and tragic: as a sexual seduction and a fate worse than death. Degenhardt examines the theatre's treatment of the intercourse between the Christian and Islamic faiths to reveal connections between sexuality, race and conf...

What is the relationship between perception and action, between an organism and its environment, in explaining consciousness? This book is an interdisciplinary exploration of the relationship between perception and action, with a focus on the debate about the dual visual systems hypothesis, against action oriented theories of perception.

This text provides a groundbreaking look at sexual instincts and offers a clinical psychologist's and sex therapist's insights and solutions to the challenges of monogamous relationships.

Over 400 eye-popping photos provide a decade-long tour of graffiti in New York City. Walls, trucks, and subway cars are featured with graffiti by the crews X-Men, KD, TNB, 156, RIS, AOK, TC-5, FAME CITY, COD, XTC, TFP, MCI, IF, DYM, 718, TD4, SMART, TATS CRU, FLY-ID, GFR, AKB, and many more. Because New York City has made a concerted effort to remove graffiti from the city, the images captured here will never be seen again. Walls were repainte...

Alameda, Oakland, and Berkeley, California (across the bay from San Francisco), don't have much in common at first glanceuntil after dark. Visit with none-too-friendly ghosts of the Pardee Home Museum who, even now, still talk to visitors. Learn about the poltergeist in a medical office that levitates ashtrays and throws typewriters. Read about a threatening, smoky wraith that glides across the gym at the Alameda High School. Explore Mound Str...

This collection gathers a set of central papers from the emerging area of ethics and climate change.

Tour the "Show-me State" to lonely cemeteries, abandoned buildings, and into Bigfoot-infested woods. Tales of the supernatural include a UFO crash and government cover-up, encounters with a mid-Missouri dogman, Bigfoot encounters in Southern Missouri, and the spirits that haunt an abandoned nursing home in Walt Disney's boyhood home. Did Mark Twain dictate a novel through a Ouija board? Does a secret UFO base exist in Jefferson City? Was a Mis...

Boston after dark is the town that scared and repulsed even Edgar Allan Poe, inspired H.P. Lovecraft, and brought the hunting of witches and murder of hapless innocents to American shores. Come to the Boston Common and walk over a thousand bodies of the long-dead. Take in some theater and be sure to excuse yourself when passing by the seat that only seems empty. Head out to the swampy suburbs, dance with the Will o' the Wisps and hike along th...

Tour Indiana University's spooky Bloomington campus and Southern Indiana's haunted houses and creepy corners. Be introduced to timeless campus ghosts such as the Girl in Yellow of Read Hall who stumbles about looking for her sliced-away face, the shadow dog that growls and patrols the Indiana Memorial Union, and the Lady in Black who has drifted along sidewalks of East Third Street since 1911. The mysterious Buskirk-Showers Mansion is where on...

Do you know what an "urban legend" is? They are those stories that make the rounds at high school hangouts and college dorms, camping trips and late night sleepovers, offices and water coolers as frightening tales too good to be true, and too scary to be fiction. These stories include the short and shivery legend, "The Vanishing Hitchhiker, " the macabre comedy, "The Hook, " and the scream-till-you-drop terror tale, "Bloody Mary." Experience t...

Entering battle by parachute was the easy part. Packed with information for U.S. Airborne enthusiasts of all kinds, this volume provides a critical context for both the collector of U.S. Airborne memorabilia, and a methodology for living historians to research and translate the real-life story of the legendary U.S. Parachute Infantrymen to the hobby environment. Over 100 full-color images including battle recreation photographs, charts, tactic...

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Little Friends helps you to make learning English simple and fun for very young learners. The engaging characters and enjoyable, age-appropriate activities create a positive learning environment where students can develop vocabulary skills, learn English sounds through phonics, discover the numbers 1-10, and practise pre-reading and pre-writing skills. Little Friends is the starter level for First Friends but can be used on its own as a on...

Aim High is a six-level course that develops language learning through carefully chosen vocabulary (including words from the Oxford 3000(TM)), texts which are interesting, and essential study skills. The Classroom Presentation Tool brings easy-to-use digital features to the front of the classroom for heads-up lessons and the Online Practice (available at levels 1 - 5) provides extra homework activities that can be automatically marked and that...

Aim High is a six-level course that develops language learning through carefully chosen vocabulary (including words from the Oxford 3000(TM)), texts which are interesting, and essential study skills. The Classroom Presentation Tool brings easy-to-use digital features to the front of the classroom for heads-up lessons and the Online Practice (available at levels 1 - 5) provides extra homework activities that can be automatically marked and that...

The Mystery Fancier Volume 2 Number 4, July 1978, contains: "The Caper Novels of Tony Kenrick, " by George Kelley, "Robert Rostand and Mike Locken, " by Theodore P. Dukeshire, "Bowlers, Beer, Bravado, and Brains: Anthony Gilbert's Arthur Crook, " by Jane S. Bakerman, "Raymond Chandler on Film, Addendum, " by Charles Shibuk, "It's About Crime, " by Marvin Lachman, "Thomas Chastain and the New Police Procedural, " by Larry L. French, and "The Ne...