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Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 45.95This wide-ranging volume goes to the heart of the revisionist debate about the crisis of government that led to the English Civil War. The author tackles questions about the patronage that structured early modern society, arguing that the increase in royal bounty in the early seventeenth century redefined the corrupt practices that characterized early... more...
Swimming Home
And Other Stories Publishing 2011; US$ 11.65Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. more...
The Art of Translation
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2011; US$ 143.00Jiří Levý?s seminal work, The Art of Translation , considered a timeless classic in Translation Studies, is now available in English. Having drawn on adjacent disciplines, the methodology of Czech functional sociosemiotic structuralism and the state-of-the art in the West, Levý synthesized his findings and experience in the field presenting them... more...
Europe's Digital Revolution
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 55.95Europe's Digital Revolution assesses the impact of digital broadcasting on regulatory practices in Europe. The current roles and responsibilities of nation states and the EU will have to respond to rapid technological and market developments. Levy considers how these responsibilities are likely to be divided in the future, and which are the emerging... more...
Ready, Steady, Go!
Crown Publishing Group 2002; US$ 19.00It?s the summer of 1966... The fundamental old ways: chastity, rationality, harmony, sobriety, even democracy: blasted to nothing or crumbling under siege. The city glows. It echoes. It pulses. It bleeds pastel and fuzzy, spicy, paisley and soft. This is how it's always going to be: smashing clothes, brilliant music, easy sex, eternal youth,... more...
Rat Pack Confidential
Crown Publishing Group 1999; US$ 15.95For the first time, the full story of what happened when Frank Sinatra brought his best pals to party in a land called Vegas. January 1960. Las Vegas is at its smooth, cool peak. The Strip is a jet-age theme park, and the greatest singer in the history of American popular music summons a group of friends there to make a movie. One is an insouciant... more...
My Tummy Hurts
Touchstone 2004; US$ 19.95A road map for understanding and managing children's stomach problems -- from symptoms to treatment, and everything in between From baby's colic to an older child's complaint of "my tummy hurts," abdominal distress is painful for kids and worrisome to parents, ranking second only to upper respiratory tract infections as the most common reason... more...
Exploring the Use of Microworld Models to Train Army Logistics Management Skills
RAND Corporation 2001; US$ 9.95This text recounts a study organized as part of an effort to design a particular kind of training for the "Theater Support Command" - a US Army organization. The main goal was to teach participants the effects in distribution and time of their decisions using microworld-based training. more...
Ana Pauker
University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95In her own day, Ana Pauker was named "The Most Powerful Woman in the World" by Time magazine. Today, when she is remembered at all, she is thought of as the puppet of Soviet communism in Romania, blindly enforcing the most brutal and repressive Stalinist regime. more...
Female Chauvinist Pigs
Free Press 2005; US$ 14.95Meet the Female Chauvinist Pig--the new brand of "empowered woman" who wears the Playboy bunny as a talisman, bares all for Girls Gone Wild, pursues casual sex as if it were a sport, and embraces "raunch culture" wherever she finds it. If male chauvinist pigs of years past thought of women as pieces of meat, Female Chauvinist Pigs of today are doing... more...









