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Subtitled, "John Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery & The Formation Of A National Aesthetic".

L'autrice di questo volumetto, è nata a Polizzi generosa un paesino arroccato su una montagna delle Madonie in provincia di Palermo. Abita da moltissimi anni a San Francesco al campo in provincia di Torino.

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Cet ouvrage reflète la richesse et la diversité des recherches en slavistique qui sont menées actuellement en Suisse. Plusieurs aspects de la slavistique y sont ainsi représentés, tels que la linguistique et l¿analyse littéraire, les études du folklore et de l¿histoire des idées. La plupart des contributions de ce recueil sont consacrées à la langue, à la littérature et à l¿histoire des idées russes, mais le lecteur y trouvera aussi plusieurs ...

This book presents the first detailed analysis of the mechanism of translating the Polish past tense into French. Grounded in the field of aspectual research, this study bridges the gap between theory and practice by presenting a set of equivalency rules for Polish past imperfective verb forms and French past tenses. Drawing on a wide selection of Polish literary texts and their translations into French, the author analyses the translation of ...

The U.S. Armed Forces series introduces young readers to the history, purpose, people, technology, and important missions of each military branch. Each book in this series includes timelines, charts, graphs, diagrams, maps, and vibrant photos to engage young readers and inspire a love of reading. U.S. Armed Forces is a series of AV2 media enhanced books. A unique book code printed on page 2 unlocks multimedia content. These books come alive wi...

The intricate diplomacy that led to the peace agreement in Bosnia, known as the Dayton Accords, is here revealed in unprecedented detail. Based on thousands of still-classified government documents and dozens of interviews with key participants, this is a comprehensive story of high-level diplomacy, told from the inside.

Since its establishment in 1985 the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies has regularly hosted international, interdisciplinary conferences, especially an annual Easter Conference. The 2006 MANCASS Easter conference titled 'Royal Authority: Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England' focused on historical contributions analysing sources of knowledge about royal power, and others which pinpointed loss of power or insecure pretensions to the ...

Fictions of Appetite explores and investigates the aesthetic significance of images of food, appetite and consumption in a body of modernist literature published in Italian between 1905 and 1939. The corpus examined includes novels, short stories, poems, essays and plays by F.T. Marinetti, Aldo Palazzeschi, Massimo Bontempelli, Paola Masino and Luigi Pirandello. The book underlines the literary relevance and symbolic implications of the «culin...

The "modern" world of G. K. Chesterton's day was one that often celebrated the independence and courage of heretics, while decrying the rigidity of conservative orthodoxy. In this classic collection of twenty essays, Chesterton uses wit and paradox to take on the popular philosophers of his day, including Henrik Ibsen, George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Rudyard Kipling, Oscar Wilde, and Friedrich Nietzsche. In taking on the "heretics"--modern t...

Exploring the Spiritual Formation of Emerging Adults"A thoughtful, well-informed analysis of the spiritual lives of today's emerging adults, this book provides a smooth integration of social science research and Christian insights. The authors go beyond the data to offer helpful suggestions for engaging these young people in religious life. Everyone who cares about guiding the spiritual development of emerging adults will benefit from reading ...

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Dieser Band untersucht die literarische und filmische Behandlung halböffentlicher Räume im Verlauf des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Bahnhöfe, Hotels und Cafés werden hier als topografische Fixpunkte verstanden, die angesichts politischer, kultureller und sozialer Veränderungen jeweils neu erschlossen oder wahrgenommen werden. Auf diese Weise können Narrative konkretisiert, soziale Konstellationen ausgeleuchtet und historische Umbrüche nachvollzie...

Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-length examination of studies of skin color in the Society. She places the genre of the voyage to the moon in the context of early modern discourses about human difference, and argues that Cavendish¿s Blazing World and Swift¿s Gulliver¿s Travels sat...

Joshua Barkan is assistant professor of geography at the University of Georgia.

A study of imperial expansion and local transformation on Russia's Don Steppe frontier during the age of Peter the Great.

Charting attempts to regulate the obscene within the Britain Empire, and the resulting contradictions that sustained imperial and colonial regimes.

The literature on trench journalism is well established for Britain and France during the First World War, but this book is the first systematic study in English of German soldier newspapers as a representation of daily life and beliefs on the front. Printed by and for soldiers at or near the front line these newspapers were read by millions of 'ordinary soldiers'. They reveal an elaborately defined understanding of comradeship and duty. The w...

This book explores the story in words and pictures of the Cosens Pleasure Steamers.