Product Description: On Cup Final Day, before the match begins, proceedings are interrupted by the deadliest shot in football history – a round from a sniper rifle intended for the Prime Minister. With the nation’s security services severely comprised, who should the PM call but his friend, the SAS veteran, Bladon? With the help of his beautiful wife Lexi, Bladon begins the hunt for the assassin and in the process discovers that a ruthless enemy has obtained a gun so powerful it can destroy missiles in flight and lay down devastating fire against any opposing forces...read more

Product Description: This book explores the reasons for difficulties in making cycling mainstream in many cultures, despite its claims for being one of the most sustainable forms of transport. In conditions of relatively low use, cycle users become more closely identified with their means of transport than users of other modes...read more

Product Description: Choice in transport is a complex issue and related to a wide range of factors including socio-economic variables and the nature of transport infrastructure and the physical geography of an area. As well as the rational and measurable factors, there are other complex and subtle factors including the influences of culture and social norms...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: This title presents an analysis of the religious and feminist bases of de Navarre's humor. The author emphasizes Marguerite's use of stock medieval comic patterns. This book examines the humor developed by Marguerite de Navarre in the so-called "Heptameron", her short-story collection emulating Boccaccio's "Decameron" but published incomplete after her death...read more

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

Product Description: Rodopi. 1999, 232pp

Product Description: Examines the six theorists of humour who have emerged as particularly influential in the 20th century: Henri Bergson, Sigmund Freud, Mikhail Bakhtin, Arthur Koestler, Northop Frye and Helene Cixous. Their major theories are reviewed and tested, and set in context with each other...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Focusing on the works of Rabelais, this text identifies certain authorial strategies of variety, such as visual detail, character function, spatiality and temporality. It indicates how these are combined to create a textual pattern which maximizes the reader's initiative and allows him to enjoy literary freedom...read more

Product Description: This text reassesses the literary relationship linking Henry Miller and Francois Rabelais in terms of readings, imitations, and analogies. It uses a Bakhtinian approach to explore how Miller, as a 20th-century anarchist and rebel, could realize his kinship with Rabelais, a 16th-century humanist and Christian...read more