Product Description: Between two stools investigates the representation of scatology - humorous, carnivalesque, satirical, damning and otherwise - in English literature from the middle ages to the eighteenth century. While a number of recent publications have attempted to analyse the employment of scatology in literature, culture or the arts, they remain, to date, rare examples of a preparedness to discuss such material...read more

Product Description: This spell-binding magical fantasy weaves a tale filled with action, adventure and intrigue replete with dark creatures and evil unstoppable forces. Join these colorful characters as Wizardess Marigold and friends battle for survival...read more

Product Description: For centuries, we have been told William Shakespeare was the author of his famous collection of sonnets. An industry was created and thrives today to sustain and benefit from Shakespeare's name. But what if Shakespeare was not the author of the sonnets? What if what we have been told about the sonnets is fiction, not fact? In "Ordering" Shakespeare, author Peter J...read more

Product Description: The second edition of the casebook, which is suitable either for a one- or two-semester course, strives to make constitutional law easily teachable and readily accessible for students. The authors have selected the cases very carefully and provided fuller versions of the opinions so that students get a good sense of the Court's reasoning...read more

Taking a fresh and innovative approach to the complexities and challenges inherent in organizational learning diversity, the authors show that there are no generic solutions. They argue there is no 'best way' of planning, organizing and implementing learning in relation to the workplace and instead provide context-specific solutions to the dilemmas and issues that diversities present. With an international approach, grounded in theory and incorporating strong practical examples, this book is essential reading for all those studying, teaching or practising human resource development, human resource management or professional education. 

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Product Description: In common with the editor of the first edition, my own personal involvement with tin chemistry began when I had the privilege of studying for a PhD degree under the supervision of Professor Alwyn G. Davies FRS at University College London (UCL) almost exactly 30 years ago...read more

Product Description: Into Statistics: A Guide to Understanding Statistical Concepts in Engineering and the Sciences is a textbook for undergraduate students with a view to teaching the formal concepts of statistics in a lively relevant way. Features of the book include: - software applications (MINITAB); - real data in examples and exercises; - innovative exercises of grades difficulty following each chapter; - real situations that students can relate to; - extensive use of data analytic techniques with step-by-step worked examples and integrated use of software; - interesting diverse application areas including engineering, business and social science; - emphasis on the visual qualities of data; - innovative computer exercises finish each chapter...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Returning to the scene of his happiest childhood memories in the hope of reaffirming his beliefs, Jam Knowles is shattered by an encounter with Charmaine, a young reporter who reawakens the ghosts of Jam's past during an interview. Tour.

Product Description: This volume approaches Shakespeare's play from four declared positions within literary criticism: mythic; performance study; feminist; and Lacanian. It aims to illustrate how complex critical theories might affect critical practice in detail and to illuminate both the play and the theories themselves...read more

Product Description: 'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.' - Terence Hawkes, Cahiers Elisabethains Shakespeare studies have become increasingly politicised and clashes of opinion amongst scholars are not uncommon...read more

Product Description: Dark days for Hal Andrews, New York artist and scion of an eccentric New England family. His cat has just died in a plunge from his apartment window. His brother Beck, manic-depressive and hopelessly nostalgic, is about to marry Lisa Lyman, heiress to the Family Wipes fortune and certifiably the world’s most abominable girl...read more

In this coming-of-age story, Sam Grace, on vacation from prep school, is held hostage by the manager of a supermarket, nearly killed by a young couple he has befriended, and rejected by a beautiful former classmate