Product Description: For six exciting years Doug Thompson worked as a park ranger at Carlsbad Caverns National Park. In Underground Ranger he passes along the essence of what he learned on this unusual job and in his related adventures exploring the surrounding Chihuahuan Desert...read more

Product Description: The three novellas were written at quite different times and in differing circumstances and consequently reflect my concerns of their particular moment of creation, while nevertheless unifying around the central theme of inhuman abuses of power...read more

Product Description: Paris, June 1998, the day of the World Cup semi-final between France and Italy. The city is smouldering with hatreds. The fear in the air is palpable. Skinheads and Neo-Nazis are on the rampage. Giacomo Flores, a reporter for a prominent Italian daily paper, is moments away from meeting his grown-up, pregnant daughter Francesca, and his wayward son, Gianni, and a little later, Louis, his divorced wife's third child - and most important for him, Pauline herself - though not until the evening...read more

Product Description: A literary interpretation of the Christmas story, To The Great Sea imaginatively extends, probes, conjectures about and questions the original version to provide a much fuller and more humanly plausible version. What is this man afraid of? What is he fleeing from? Where is he going? Who, indeed, is he? Having crossed the great river, he has vague notions of heading westwards towards the Great Sea - until chance intervenes...read more

A collection of major critical writings by a founder of the Futurist movement includes the 'First Futurist Manifesto' and offers insight into how he endeavored to bridge a gap between art and life while bringing aesthetic innovations into the real world through his polemical writings and political activities.

Product Description: In the half-century following Pavese's death, much that was written about him sought principally to understand and define his complex character, and to determine his place within the twentieth-century Italian literary canon. Latterly, there appears to have been a significant shift in focus towards a closer reading of individual works or aspects or periods of his writing, the better to analyse and reveal the subtleties and depth of his vision...read more

New, completely revised second edition of the most detailed Mount Whitney Guidebook on the market is now available. Expanded trail guide includes new photos. Brand new sections include: Bears, Wildlife, Weather, History of Trail & Summit Hut, and Mountaineers Route.

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Product Description: This socio-political study traces the rise to power of a fascist dictatorship in Italy and its control of the state during World War II. It focuses specifically on the institutions of the fascist state, the suppression of anti-fascism, and the use of propaganda in maintaining the state...read more