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‘I’m an outsider to the end of my days!’ Jude Fawley’s hopes of a university education are lost when he is trapped into marrying the earthy Arabella, who later abandons him. Moving to the town of Christminster where he finds work as a stonemason, Jude meets and falls in love with his cousin Sue Bridehead, a sensitive, freethinking ‘New Woman’. Refusing to marry merely for the sake of religious convention, Jude and Sue decide instead to live together, but they are shunned by society and poverty soon threatens to ruin them. Jude the Obscure, Hardy’s last novel, caused a public furore when it was first published, with its fearless and challenging exploration of class and sexual relationships. This edition uses the unbowdlerized text of the first volume edition of 1895, and also includes a list for further reading, appendices and a glossary. In his introduction, Dennis Taylor examines biblical allusions and the critique of religion in Jude the Obscure, and its critical reception that led Hardy to abandon novel writing.
This series in intended for those students following advanced level
social biology and related syllabuses. Each text deals with a
specific topic area and the series as a whole provides a
stimulating introduction to a subject of growing importance. The
control of disease and the active encouragement of good health is a
major priority of nations worldwide. This book gives a detailed
study of a number of diseases and health problems from which common
themes and underlying principles emerge. Details of transmission,
treatment and control are covered as well as epidemiology and
sociooeconomic factors - particularly the implications of AIDS.
Topics range from infectious diseases, pulmonary disease and
malaria to immunology, transplantation and physical fitness.
Intimate Warfare: The True Story of the Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward
Boxing Trilogy traces the lives and careers of two legendary
fighters-Micky Ward, a humble, hardscrabble, blue-collar Irishman
from Lowell, Massachusetts, and Arturo Gatti, a handsome, flashy,
charismatic Italian-born star who was raised in Montreal. Dennis
Taylor and John J. Raspanti paint a vivid portrait of these two
fighters who ushered each other into boxing lore and formed an
unlikely friendship despite their brutal battles in the ring.
Gatti's life would end tragically and mysteriously just a few years
later, but his name and Ward's remain tied together in boxing
history. In Intimate Warfare, each of the three spectacular fights
between Gatti and Ward, two of which were named The Ring magazine's
"Fight of the Year," are described in detail. Multiple photographs
from the trilogy highlight the intensity and power of these epic
collisions. With a foreword by former world champion and
International Boxing Hall of Famer Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, this
book will be of interest to all fans of boxing.
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