Since the death of Thomas Bernhard in 1989, the literary reputation of this complex and unique writer has risen to the point that he is now regarded a ...
Depictions of children have had a prominent place in Chinese art since the Song period (960-1279). Yet one would be hard pressed to find any significa ...
From the James Beard award--winning author of Sauces-a new classic on French cuisine for today's cook His award-winning books have won the praise of T ...
Within a few short years, fiber optics has skyrocketed from an interesting laboratory experiment to a billion-dollar industry. But with such meteoric ...
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was a worldrenowned Irish author. Born in Dublin, he moved to London when he turned twenty. Having rejected formal sch ...
In the Hands of Strangers is a collection of documents by writers and witnesses from the past, both black and white, that offer perspectives on the tr ...
A resource covering over 1,000 food ingredients, including natural ingredients, FDA-approved artificial ingredients and additives, and food processing ...
A resource covering over 1,000 food ingredients, including natural ingredients, FDA-approved artificial ingredients and additives, and food processing ...
Sleep disturbances are commonplace problems that cause great distress to sufferers and their families. They are implicated in a variety of problems, f ...
In twentieth-century African American fiction, music has been elevated to the level of religion primarily because of its Orphic, magical power to unse ...
This volume--a collection and synthesis of key research studies since the program's inception over three decades ago--serves as a marker of the signif ...
British Science Fiction Cinema is the first substantial study of a genre which, despite a sometimes troubled history, has produced some of the best Br ...
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date paperback dictionary of botany available. Drawing on the information contained in the acclaimed Oxford D ...
From acid rain, CFC's, and the greenhouse effect to the food-chain and the gene bank, Oxford's thoroughly revised Dictionary of Ecology, Second Editio ...
This dictionary is a comprehensive and up-to-date reference work on all aspects of the study of animals. Now fully revised for this new edition, with ...
A Concise German Grammar aims to equip undergraduates with a comprehensive yet compact account of German grammar. This book is clear and accessible an ...
Folklore emphasizes those bodies of North American and European scholarship that have influenced each other most profoundly since the discipline's inc ...
