A thematically developed collection from Arkansas poet Marck L. Beggs' including an extended dialogue between Henry David Thoreau and Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber.

A collection and explanation of many different types of important progressions for the intermediate and advanced guitarist.

THE STORY: It's a sunny day and Sara Jane is trying valiantly to keep it that way. Her young husband, Jerry, is away at war, and though Sara Jane believes in the cause, nothing has seemed quite right lately—especially the last few messages from Jerry. At least she has her piano—and Jerry’s bourbon—to keep her company as she tries to figure things out. But how far will she go to keep the impending storm at bay? ARLINGTON is a stirring, funny and powerful new work from playwright/novelist Victor Lodato and award-winning composer Polly Pen.

Music is said to be the most autonomous and least representative of all the arts. However, it reflects in many ways the realities around it and influences its social and cultural environments. Music is as much biology, gender, gesture - something intertextual, even transcendental. Musical signs can be studied throughout their history as well as musical semiotics with its own background. Composers from Chopin to Sibelius and authors from Nietzsche to Greimas and Barthes illustrate the avenues of this new discipline within semiotics and musicology.

We’ve all had days when if we didn’t laugh, we’d cry. Whether it’s a domestic drama, career cockup or just a run-of-the-mill disaster, we’ve all been there – no matter who we are. In this hilarious and moving collection, well-known Australians from all walks of life share their stories as a kind of mass therapy; a feel-good tonic for when the proverbial sh*t hits the fan. From Annabel Crabb’s tale of Russian interference in the birth of her first child to Kate McClymont on how to manage mobsters, or Frank Moorhouse on the worst possible Valentine’s Day to Emma Alberici on moving to London with three small children, these entertaining tales of woe remind us that this too shall pass.

This book takes a different approach to the history of philosophy, exploring a neglected theme, the relationship between catastrophe and philosophy. The book analyzes this theme within texts from ancient times to the present, from a global perspective. The book’s focus is timely and relevant today, as the planet is certainly facing a number of impending catastrophes right now, e.g., environmental degradation, overpopulation, the threat of nuclear war, etc.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Winnie and Wolf is the story of the remarkable relationship between Winifred Wagner and Adolf Hitler that took place during the years between the two world wars, as seen through the eyes of the secretary at the Wagner House in Bayreuth. Winifred, an English girl, was brought up in an orphanage and married at the age of eighteen to the son of Germany's most controversial genius. She is a passionate Germanophile, a Wagnerian dreamer, and a Teutonic patriot. In the debacle of the post-Versailles world, the Wagner family hopes for the coming of a Parsifal, a mystic idealist and redeemer. In 1923, they meet their Parsifal-a wild-eyed Viennese opera fanatic named Adolf Hitler. He has already made a name for himself in some sections of German society through rabble-rousing and street-corner speeches. It is Winifred, though, who truly believes in him. Both have known the humiliation of poverty and a deep anger at the society that excluded them. They find in each other an unusual kinship that begins with a passion for opera. In A. N. Wilson's boldest and most ambitious novel yet, the world of the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany is brilliantly recreated, and forms the backdrop to this incredible bond, which ultimately reveals the remarkable capacity of human beings to deceive themselves.

This volume looks at the shifting role of aesthetics in Latin American literature and literary studies, focusing on the concept of 'ethical responsibility' within these practices. The contributing authors examine the act of reading in its new globalized context of postcolonial theory and gender and performance studies.

Thomas Hardy Was Equally Eminent As A Novelist And A Poet And Thus Holds A Unique Place In English Literature.More Than Seven Decades After His Death, Thomas Hardy Is Still Surprisingly Alive If Uninterrupted Critical Attention Is A Test.The Nineteen Essays Included In The Volume Thirteen On Hardy S Fiction, Five On His Poetry, And One On General Overview Cover A Broad Range Of Critical Perspective On Hardy S Fiction And Poetry, Which Include The Comparative, The Freudian, The Existentialist, The Absurdist, The Psychospatial, The Feminist, The Aesthetic-Artistic, The Historicist, The Dialectical, The Mythical, The Symbolic, Among Others.The Collection Will Be Relevant And Useful To Both Students And Scholars Of English Literature As It Brings Into Focus A Wide Spectrum Of Interesting Sidelights On, And Illuminating Analyses Of The Various Dimensions Of Hardy S Works; Some Of The Papers Are Refreshingly Original And Perceptive In Their Approach To And Treatment Of The Respective Subjects.As A Great Writer Hardy Has Remained Problematic, Demanding That His Readers Wrestle With Him. The Present Volume Claims To Have Joined That Unbroken Wrestle More Than A Century-Old With The Words And Meanings Of Hardy S Works.Contributions From The Eminent Scholars In The Field Have Enhanced The Value Of The Collection.