This book is a critical study of the development of English prose fiction from the Elizabethan period (1558) to the early eighteenth century. Paul Salzman traces the earliest forms of narrative prose, including romances, adventure stories, morality plays, and proto-novellas that preceded the modern novel. Through literary historical analysis and critical reading, the book explains the cultural,…
The book presents ten essays focusing on the state of knowledge of some basic issues of nutrition in various periods and the ways of thinking about them, e.g., the digestion of food, the utilization of nutrients and their conversion into body substance, obesity, dietary standards or the need for specific nutrients. In the introduction, Professor Guggenheim endeavors to place each essay in its h…
Chung Kuo is the epic story of this "War of Two Directions" - a grand conflict between the Western idea of progress and the Eastern belief in stability. In its pages we follow the fortunes of four young men from all walks of Chung Kuo society - from the son of a T'ang to a slave born in the rubble beneath the city's foundations - and it is their strengths, dreams, passions, and struggles that m…
Jeff Shaara has enthralled readers with his New York Times bestselling novels set during the Civil War and the American Revolution. Now the acclaimed author turns to World War I, bringing to life the sweeping, emotional story of the war that devastated a generation and established America as a world power. Spring 1916: the horror of a stalemate on Europe’s western front. France and Great B…
Contents: 1. Narration 2. Description 3. Process 4. Definition 5. Division and classification etc.
Each chapter of the reader is structured around a single topic, with articles that reflect different disciplines, viewpoints, and ways of writing. This approach exposes students to a range of models chosen to broaden their disciplinary horizons and sustain their interest. Along with updated classic chapters on Cinderella, Obedience to Authority, Biotechnology, and Business Ethics, the sixth edi…
The contents of this book: 1. Language and Dialect Diversity 2. Language Usage and Social Interaction
This book, therefore, and I (like the authors before me) will attempt to help students learn to accomplish specific tasks especially reading, speaking, and writing. This book aims to develop the student's ability to use the language in purposeful acts of communication. Students must be made to realize that language as a tool of communication must be diligently learned. The text also provides…
This dictionary provides over 45.000 entries covering all areas of law, plus relevant terms in related spheres of expertise, and is based on the 3rd ed. of the book, which provides over 100.000 entries and over 135.000 equivalents. These are the dictionaries that lawyers, translators, and those working in English and Spanish in law and associated fields have been trusting since the first editio…
Since June 1964, Nelson Mandela has been imprisoned in South Africa. His speeches and writings have been banned, his words and voice cut off from his people. A whole generation has been born and grown up while he has been in jail, yet, in the words of Nadine Gordimer, "there is no black child in whose face, at the mention of his name, there is not instant recognition." For Nelson Mandela is a l…