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How did Shakespeare sound to the audiences of his day? For the first time this disc offers listeners the chance to hear England's greatest playwright performed by a company of actors using the pronunciation of his time. Under the guidance of Ben Crystal, actor, author of Shakespeare on Toast and an expert in original Shakespearian pronunciation, the company performs some of Shakespeare's best-known poems, solo speeches and scenes from the plays. Hear new meanings uncovered, new jokes revealed, poetic effects enhanced. The CD is accompanied by an introductory essay by Professor David Crystal. An essential purchase for every student and lover of Shakespeare.

This series offers a unique interactive approach that will encourage learners to become involved in the interactive process of these plays, whilst exposing them to the atmosphere and history of the age, in a fun and stimulating way. An extensive amount of background and supporting material is offered in a user-friendly way with exciting features make the plays become visually real. Each exciting page offers: -complete text done in an attractive double-page spread layout a glossary of what the words and phrases mean thought-provoking notes and activities on each page that: explain difficult language, explore characters, themes, words and images, provide useful background information and stimulate thoughts on how to stage the play. This series also offers activities at the end of each act to facilitate understanding. At the back of each book, notes are included, providing information on the world of William Shakespeare.

Impact helps teenage learners to better understand themselves, each other, and the world they live in. By encouraging self-expression, global citizenship, and active participation, Impact motivates students to explore who they are and who they want to be, all while learning English!

The Split Editions of Life offer 6 units of the Student's Book and 6 units of the Workbook together with all 12 videos from the Student's Book on one DVD as well as the complete Workbook Audio CD. Combo Split A is units 1 - 6.

Amazing and inspiring business journeys of real people in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom! Their struggles, what motivated them and how they kept on going and believed in their dreams. There are some fantastic business gems in this book that you do not want to miss. "They believed they could, so they did!"

Contains mathematical ideas and activities, covering a wide range of learning goals at Key Stages 1 and 2. This book covers such topics as: matching, ordering, patterns, counting, number bonds, mathematical language, shape and place value.

This volume brings together a range of miscellaneous short texts by Voltaire, mostly undated and principally manuscript fragments. From thoughts on the souls of animals, to how he organised his papers to a joke proxy granting unlimited powers to act on his behalf, these scraps shed light on Voltaire's working methods and on the possible subjects of texts that he never published. Most notably, it contains a supplement adding nineteen fragments to the edition of Voltaire's Notebooks (OCV, vol.81-82). Contributors: David Adams, Andrew Brown, Marie-Helene Cotoni, Nicholas Cronk, Jean Dagen, Stephanie Gehanne Gavoty, Myrtille Mericam-Bourdet, Christiane Mervaud, Gillian Pink, John Renwick, Gerhardt Stenger, David Williams.

Magic is not too strong a term for the appeal of this unique group of plants, the Mesembs. Radiant in flower and highly diverse in form and stature, this group includes plants as small as wheat grains or as big as a rhinoceros. Their fruits are as complex as any in the floral kingdom or as simple as saltshakers. Mesembs have captured the imagination of botanists, horticulturalists and travellers for many centuries. This title is a must for anyone who want to experience the magic of mesembs.

Au cours des derniers mois de la vie, Voltaire se consacre a un projet de grande envergure, ses "Dialogues d'Evhemere", qui font la synthese de sa pensee en matiere de religion et de philosophie. L'entree triomphale a Paris sera par la suite l'occasion de retrouvailles avec l'Academie francaise, pour laquelle Voltaire projette un nouveau dictionnaire de langue francaise, ouvrage qui ne verra malheureusement pas le jour. Les Comediens-Francais de meme recoivent sa derniere esquisse de tragedie, "Agathocle". Ce volume regroupe egalement de nombreux courts textes de cette periode, y compris le poeme "Les Adieux a la vie".

This complement to the "Corpus des notes marginales series" reproduces marginalia by Voltaire found in works outside of his personal library in both printed books and manuscripts. It occupies a unique place within the series as some of the texts included therein were annotated by Voltaire not for his own use but for friends, acquaintances and correspondents. The volume therefore offers a rare glimpse at marginalia whose chief purpose was to impress a certain image of Voltaire himself upon the recipients of the annotated works. A retrospective introduction to the "Corpus des notes marginales de Voltaire" series provides a fascinating portrait of Voltaire as a reader. Contributors: Samuel Bailey, Jean Dagen, Ethel Groffier, John R. Iverson, Edouard Langille, Christiane Mervaud, Christophe Paillard, Jean-Alexandre Perras, Gillian Pink, John Renwick, Alain Sandrier, Gerhardt Stenger, Gemma Tidman, David Williams, Irina Zaitseva.

Contents: Discours de Maitre Belleguier, ancien avocat, sur le texte propose par l'universite de la ville de Paris, pour le sujet des prix de l'annee 1773 Edition critique par John Renwick. Le Philosophe par Monsieur Du Marsay Edition critique par Nicholas Cronk. Lettre anonyme adressee aux auteurs du 'Journal encyclopedique' au sujet d'une nouvelle epitre de Boileau a Monsieur de Voltaire Critical edition by Nicholas Cronk. Lettre sur la pretendue comete Critical edition by Robert L. Walters. Voltaire et l'affaire Morangies 1773 Editions critiques par John Renwick. Fragment sur le proces criminel de Monbailli Edition critique par John Renwick. La Tactique Critical edition by John R. Iverson. Aventure de la memoire Edition critique par John RenwickFragment d'une lettre sur les dictionnaires satiriques avec La Reponse a cette lettre par Monsieur de Morza, edition critique par Jeroom Vercruysse. Shorter verse of 1773 Critical edition by Simon Davies."

The volume can be used as a stand-alone volume, or as a companion volume to Juta's Complete Textbook of Medical Surgical Nursing. Juta's Introduction to Paediatric Surgical Nursing is easy to read and content can be integrated into everyday activities in the paediatric surgical ward. Chapter features include: - Clear illustrations that show anatomical anomalies - Medico-legal and ethical considerations for conditions - 'Clinical alert', 'Nursing alert' and 'Practice alert' and 'Information' boxes that highlight important information - Pre- and post-operative care plans - Learner activities at the end of each chapter Juta's Introduction to Paediatric Surgical Nursing meets the requirements of the current nursing programmes and the proposed updates and is suitable as a prescribed textbook for learners registered in these programmes: Auxiliary nurse, Staff nurse and Professional nurse. It is also recommended as a reference for clinical nurse practitioners.

Ce volume donne un bon apercu des combats qui occupent Voltaire au debut des annees 1770: qu'il s'agisse de se battre pour la survivance du theatre francais issu du Grand Siecle ("Les Pelopides"), de defendre son Dieu contre les materialistes radicaux ("Reponse au Systeme de la nature", "Lettres de Memmius a Ciceron"), de denoncer l'asservissement des mainmortables de Franche-Comte ("Au roi en son conseil", "Nouvelle requete"), ou encore de fustiger les travers de son epoque et l'obscurantisme de l'Eglise ("Les Deux Siecles", "Le Pere Nicodeme"), Voltaire continue a monter au creneau a 75 ans passes pour defendre ses convictions.

In 1766, while Voltaire was heavily involved in the Sirven case, he was also busy defending his own reputation. His "Lettre pastorale a Monsieur l'archeveque d'Auch" and "Satire contre Monsieur Lefranc de Pompignan" perpetuated feuds against old enemies, while his "Petit Commentaire" called for greater tolerance for the philosophes in general. A biography of Henri IV that made no reference to Voltaire's work as a historian impelled him to write the scathing "Le President de Thou justifie". An unauthorised, maliciously edited collection of his letters, which was potentially damaging to the Sirven campaign, prompted the "Appel au public contre un recueil de pretendues lettres". But Voltaire reserved his harshest treatment for Rousseau and the Genevan pastor Jacob Vernet. The "Lettre au docteur Jean-Jacques Pansophe", a litany of apparent contradictions in Rousseau's works, appeared in England during Rousseau's stay there. It was followed by the "Lettre de Monsieur de Voltaire a Monsieur Hume", giving Voltaire's account of Rousseau's life, and by "Notes" on that letter. Vernet was ridiculed in the "Lettre curieuse de Monsieur Robert Covelle" and the "Eloge de l'hypocrisie". The shorter verse presents a more affable side to Voltaire as he flatters nobles, writers and younger women.

Ce volume contient plusieurs textes importants de Voltaire composes en 1766/1767: la "Relation de la mort du chevalier La Barre", qui fait partie de la lutte voltairienne contre l'infame; les "Lettres a Son Altesse Monseigneur le prince de ***", dans lesquelles Voltaire fait l'apologie de certains ecrivains 'antichretiens', precurseurs de l'esprit philosophique; et "Les Honnetetes litteraires", un 'compendium de traits d'erudition, de droiture et de charite'.

The first of three volumes of Voltaire's writings of 1746-1748, containing a major tragedy ("Semiramis", edited by Robert Niklaus), a comedy ("La Femme qui a raison", edited by Russell Goulbourne and Mark Waddicor), as well as the "Discours de M. de Voltaire a sa reception a l'academie francaise", edited by Karlis Raveskis, and Voltaire's shorter verse of 1746-1748, edited by R. A. Nablow. It underscores how Voltaire deployed his consummate skill as a writer across the full breadth of genres and forms, establishing himself as a multifaceted public intellectual.

This volume brings together a group of works which have never been edited before, and makes an important contribution to the study of Voltaire and music history. Voltaire's role as a courtier during this period was a complex one, as he sought to serve at both the French and Prussian courts; the names of the addressees of the verse written at this time show the numerous contacts made by Voltaire during his travels abroad and particularly during his postings to Berlin and the Hague. On his return to France in 1743, his attention turned to the court at Versailles, and there followed two royal commissions, "La Princesse de Navarre" and "Le Temple de la gloire", both written in collaboration with Rameau with whom Voltaire had a stormy working relationship. Although neither work received the critical acclaim Voltaire had hoped for, the first did secure for him the position of historiographe du roi and is integral to his ongoing experimentation in comic drama.

The Herbarium Handbook has been an important reference for herbarium collections care and management since it was first published in 1989. This completely new edition is the essential resource for all botanists, herbarium managers and technicians involved with the making and maintenance of herbarium collections. Based on standard herbarium practices and personal experience from experts at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the book also draws on examples from partners and collaborators around to world, making it accessible and adaptable for all herbarium practitioners. The book covers everything from creating herbarium collections, preparing and caring for specimens, managing a herbarium building, through to public engagement and outreach. It is the essential reference for anyone working in this field.

This volume contains further full critical editions of some of Voltaire's many and varied writings of 1772. When Voltaire hears that Gustav III has assumed power in Sweden after a coup d'etat, he welcomes a new member to the club of enlightened rulers with the poem "Au roi de Suede, Gustave III". He returns to legal considerations, this time in their relation to religious toleration, in the "Reflexions philosophiques sur le proces de mademoiselle Camp", and the abuse of ecclesiastical privilege is attacked in "La Voix du cure sur le proces des serfs du Mont-Jura". The theme of religious intolerance surfaces again in his treatment of the Crusades in "Quelques petites hardiesses de Mr. Clair, a l'occasion d'un panegyrique de Saint Louis". He also publishes a treatise of sceptical deism, oddly entitled "Il faut prendre un parti ou le principe d'action". Voltaire continued to write poetry in a range of styles and genres: two verse satires, "Les Systemes" and "Les Cabales", a slighter work, "Jean qui pleure et qui rit", and towards the end of the year, one of his most important poems, the "Epitre a Horace", which shows him comparing notes with Horace as to how each of them will be treated by posterity: 'J'ai vecu plus que toi; mes vers dureront moins.'

This volume completes the edition of Voltaire's writings of 1746-1748, highlighting once again the incredible diversity of Voltaire's oeuvre. It contains some short texts published for the first time in the Dresden edition of 1748, notably on political and military topics. In particular, this volume reflects some of the fruits of Voltaire's years as royal historiographer, with his writings on Louis XIV and Louis XV anticipating his later monumental "Siecle de Louis XIV".

Issue 13 of this twice-yearly journal. It explores and assesses the past of the socialist movement and broader contextual processes. Topics include Wollstonecroft's daughters (Clarissa Campbell Orr), shop floor citizens (James Hinton), and class and politics in Keighley 1880-1914 (David James).