Product Description: National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistNew York Times Book Review, Times Literary Supplement and The Guardian Best Books of 2016Publishers Weekly Ten Best Nonfiction Books of 2016Thomas De Quincey was an obsessive...read more

Product Description: On the terrifying, chaotic night of April 14, 1912, while the Titanic was sinking, Bruce J. Ismay, the ship's owner, made a decision that would save his life - and end it. Ismay boarded a lifeboat meant for women and children, and within days became The Most Talked-of Man in the World...read more

Key Concepts in Public Health identifies fifty key concepts used across the discipline of public health in order to give the reader a broad perspective of the core topics relevant to training and practice. From epidemiology to health promotion, and ethics to leadership, the book offers an exciting guide to the multiprofessional field. Each entry features a snapshot definition of the concept, a broader discussion addressing the main issues and links to practice, key points relevant to the entry, case studies to illustrate the application to practice, and examples of further reading.

A fascinating and revealing look at complex relationships that mix love, ambition, talent, and need explores the dynamics between such artistic couples as Robert Graves and Laura Riding, Anans Nin and Henry Miller, and W. B. and George Yeats. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This collection of essays, by leading Byronists, explores the development of the myth of Byron and the Byronic, from the poet's self-representations to his various appearances in nineteenth and twentieth century literature and in drama, film, and portraiture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

This collection of essays by leading Byronists explores the development of the myth of Byron and the Byronic from the poet's self-representation to his various appearances in 19th and 20th century literature and in drama, film and portraiture. The book looks at the phenomena of Byronism through a variety of critical perspectives.