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The English language is vast enough to supply a word for every occasion--and this linguistic "wunderkammer" is here to prove precisely that. Each day has its own dedicated entry, on which a curious or notable eventÐand an equally curious or notable wordÐare explored.8, are explored.

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Eine Routineoperation endet im Chaos: Gabriel Allon und sein Team überwachen zusammen mit Agenten des MI6 einen russischen Überläufer in Wien. Er ist auf dem Weg in ein sicheres Haus der Briten. Doch kurz bevor er das Gebäude erreicht, wird der Mann von einem vermummten Motorradfahrer auf offener Straße hingerichtet. Tags darauf berichten Medien weltweit über den erschossenen Russen und zeigen ein Foto von Gabriel in der Nähe des Tatorts. Allo...

Understanding addiction is no longer just about understanding neurons or genes, broken brain functioning, learning or faulty choices. Oliver J. Morgan provides a fresh take on addiction and recovery by presenting a more inclusive framework than traditional understanding. Cutting- edge work in attachment, interpersonal neurobiology and trauma is integrated with ecological-systems thinking to provide a consilient and comprehensive picture of add...

By bringing the work of Mansfield and von Arnim together - including on matters of artistry, on mourning, on gardens, on female resistance - this book establishes shared preoccupations in ways that refine and extend our knowledge of writing in the period.

This book examines an important figure of Hindu mythology and literature who until now has been almost entirely ignored by scholars of Indian religion: Pradyumna, the son of the Hindu god Krsna. Pradyumna: Lover, Magician and Scion of the Avatara assembles the most important narratives of this character, offering a long-view analysis of his evolving mythology over the period 300-1300 CE.

From experiments in language and identity to innovations in the novel, the short story and life narratives, the contributors discuss the way in which Bowen's work straddles, informs and defies the existing definitions of modernist and postmodernist literature which dominate twentieth-century writing.

This book provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.

Although we tend to think of the American Revolution as an act of treason against Great Britain (which it was), revolutionary Americans regularly employed the law of treason against those people perceived as aiding the British. But, in revolutionary Pennsylvania, juries did something astonishing, they regularly acquitted people accused of treason. The Trials of Allegiance explains why: the juries were carefully selected in ways that benefited ...

Eine Geschichte über die Poesie der kleinen Dinge und das Glück des Augenblicks Ivy Silvergren ist zehn, als ihre Mutter Lila, in jungen Jahren eine ebenso gefeierte wie umstrittene Dichterin, spurlos verschwindet. Ivy und ihr Vater, ebenfalls Schriftsteller mit bewegter Vergangenheit, bleiben mit nichts als Fragen zurück. Trost findet Ivy, indem sie verlorenen Dingen, die sie auf der Straße aufliest, eine eigene Geschichte schenkt: einem g...

London, 1398. A nearly 60 year old Geoffrey Chaucer is unexpectedly drawn into the impending duel between Henry Bolingbroke and Thomas Mowbray. To protect himself, he decides to keep a journal that chronicles the final two and a half years of his life, providing us with a fascinating look into late 14th century England, the women and men this pre-eminent medieval English poet loves, the intrigues of the Richardian court, and what compels someo...

A practical guide that promotes music learning by experience rather than imitation and memorization.

David Abulafia's new book guides readers along the world's greatest bodies of water to reveal their primary role in human history. The main protagonists are the three major oceans-the Atlantic, the Pacific, and the Indian-which together comprise the majority of the earth's water and cover over half of its surface. Over time, as passage through them gradually extended and expanded, linking first islands and then continents, maritime networks de...

West Germany and the Iron Curtain takes a fresh look at the history of the Federal Republic and the German re-unification process from the spatial perspective of the West German borderlands that emerged along the volatile inter-German border after 1945. The book is the first environmental history of the Iron Curtain.

In this short introduction, David Gunkel examines the shifting world of artificial intelligence, mapping it on to everyday 21st century life and probing the consequences of this ever-growing industry and movement.

Drei Geschichten aus Divoisia.Eine geheimnisvolle Macht treibt die Menschen aus ihrer Heimat in den Westen. Als die Erde zu beben beginnt, ist die Menschheit gezwungen, ihr Schicksal in die eigene Hand zu nehmen. Erlebe, ob Ayva, Rayko und Loth sich im Chaos der zerbrechenden Welt behaupten können.Drei Autoren.Drei Geschichten.Eine Welt.

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...[R]eplete with insights and nuggets of wisdom" (The Washington Post), Philip Schultz's wry and incisive poetic voice takes on both the eternal questions of meaning and happiness and essentially modern complexities. At once philosophical and droll, he explores life's luxuries and challenges with masterly precision.