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'Look, my lord! See heaven itself declares against your impious
intentions!' The Castle of Otranto (1764) is the first supernatural
English novel and one of the most influential works of Gothic
fiction. It inaugurated a literary genre that will be forever
associated with the effects that Walpole pioneered. Professing to
be a translation of a mysterious Italian tale from the darkest
Middle Ages, the novel tells of Manfred, prince of Otranto, whose
fear of an ancient prophecy sets him on a course of destruction.
After the grotesque death of his only son, Conrad, on his wedding
day, Manfred determines to marry the bride-to-be. The virgin
Isabella flees through a castle riddled with secret passages.
Chilling coincidences, ghostly visitations, arcane revelations, and
violent combat combine in a heady mix that terrified the novel's
first readers. In this new edition Nick Groom examines the reasons
for its extraordinary impact and the Gothic culture from which it
sprang. The Castle of Otranto was a game-changer, and Walpole the
writer who paved the way for modern horror exponents. ABOUT THE
SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made
available the widest range of literature from around the globe.
Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship,
providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable
features, including expert introductions by leading authorities,
helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for
further study, and much more.
The arrival of a stray pelican in Lighthouse Bay starts a chain of
events that leads Dilo the dolphin into a series of gripping
adventures.
Dilo decides it's time for another epic adventure. When he sets
off, the dolphin doesn't know that he has a passenger. A sucker
fish named Rema has secretly stuck herself to him.
What the Roman poet Horace can teach us about how to live a life of
contentment What are the secrets to a contented life? One of Rome's
greatest and most influential poets, Horace (65-8 BCE) has been
cherished by readers for more than two thousand years not only for
his wit, style, and reflections on Roman society, but also for his
wisdom about how to live a good life-above all else, a life of
contentment in a world of materialistic excess and personal
pressures. In How to Be Content, Stephen Harrison, a leading
authority on the poet, provides fresh, contemporary translations of
poems from across Horace's works that continue to offer important
lessons about the good life, friendship, love, and death. Living
during the reign of Rome's first emperor, Horace drew on Greek and
Roman philosophy, especially Stoicism and Epicureanism, to write
poems that reflect on how to live a thoughtful and moderate life
amid mindless overconsumption, how to achieve and maintain true
love and friendship, and how to face disaster and death with
patience and courage. From memorable counsel on the pointlessness
of worrying about the future to valuable advice about living in the
moment, these poems, by the man who famously advised us to carpe
diem, or "harvest the day," continue to provide brilliant
meditations on perennial human problems. Featuring translations of,
and commentary on, complete poems from Horace's Odes, Satires,
Epistles, and Epodes, accompanied by the original Latin, How to Be
Content is both an ideal introduction to Horace and a compelling
book of timeless wisdom.
Down-Home Comfort Foods at Their Best Everyone who knew Norma Jean
McQueen Haydel knew that she's a supreme cook and that she was the
steward of the McQueen family recipes. But she didn't measure when
she cooked. Or write things down. Norma Jean's brother Horace got
to worrying about this. He cooked, too, but his repertoire wasn't
as vast as Norma Jean's. So he began bothering her about writing
down how she made her many dishes. "I didn't want Norma Jean's
recipes, or our Mama's recipes, to be lost. We have kids coming.
And other folks love to eat at my sister's table, too." So the two
got busy recording their treasured family recipes from the South.
This collection of more than 250 dishes includes their best ones.
"This is food you will absolutely enjoy," said Horace.
"Traditional, full of marvelous flavor, 'enhanced' old-timeys."
Norma Jean and Horace put together the full line-up: crawfish
bisque, poblano cream soup, wilted spinach salad, smothered pork
ribs, zesty broasted chicken, baked catfish, cajun rice jambalaya,
stuffed cornbread, five-flavor pound cake, margarita pie, and on
and on.
-- Latin text in large, reproducible format
-- Literal translation
-- Sample tests
-- Extensive, up-to-date bibliography
Race and Gender in the Western Music History Survey: A Teacher's
Guide provides concrete information and approaches that will help
instructors include women and people of color in the typical music
history survey course and the foundational music theory classes.
This book provides a reconceptualization of the principles that
shape the decisions instructors should make when crafting the
syllabus. It offers new perspectives on canonical composers and
pieces that take into account musical, cultural, and social
contexts where women and people of color are present. Secondly, it
suggests new topics of study and pieces by composers whose work
fits into a more inclusive narrative of music history. A thematic
approach parallels the traditional chronological sequencing in
Western music history classes. Three themes include people and
communities that suffer from various kinds of exclusion: Locales
& Locations; Forms & Factions; Responses & Reception.
Each theme is designed to uncover a different cultural facet that
is often minimized in traditional music history classrooms but
which, if explored, lead to topics in which other perspectives and
people can be included organically in the curriculum, while not
excluding canonical composers.
Originally published in 1956, this book considers the practical
problems of economic development in countries in which the
prevailing outlook and a recent or probable increase in population
growth make it difficult to escape from a ‘Malthusian
situation.’ This book develops a valuable analytical apparatus
with which it then examines the problems of capital formation,
investment, economies of scale and the effective supply of labour,
all in relation to population growth. Social, institutional and
cultural factors are integrated with the economic.
Agricultural Co-operation in the Soviet Union (1929) examines
agriculture in the USSR as the government was restructuring all
national economic life and enterprise on a state socialist basis.
It looks at the significance of farming co-operatives in Soviet
agricultural planning and describes the actual work of the
agricultural co-operatives.
"Walpole's achievement has to be saluted all the more when it is
realized that single-handedly he determined (or distorted) the
writing of landscape architecture history to this day' John Dixon
Hunt in Greater Perfection: the practice of garden theory" By a
mile, this is the most brilliant and most influential essay ever
written on English garden history. For two centuries it mapped the
whole landscape of the subject. However, the author was partial in
the highest degree. Horace Walpole believed in progress, in
modernisation, and the superiority of everything English to almost
everything that had gone before. He had a special dislike of
Baroque gardens, as exemplified by Versailles, which for him
symbolised absolutism, tyranny, and the oppression of nature.
A rich exploration of American artworks that reframes them within
current debates on race, gender, the environment, and more Object
Lessons in American Art explores a diverse gathering of
Euro-American, Native American, and African American art from a
range of contemporary perspectives, illustrating how innovative
analysis of historical art can inform, enhance, and afford new
relevance to artifacts of the American past. The book is grounded
in the understanding that the meanings of objects change over time,
in different contexts, and as a consequence of the ways in which
they are considered. Inspired by the concept of the object lesson,
the study of a material thing or group of things in juxtaposition
to convey embodied and underlying ideas, Object Lessons in American
Art examines a broad range of art from Princeton University's
venerable collections as well as contemporary works that
imaginatively appropriate and reframe their subjects and style,
situating them within current social, cultural, and artistic
debates on race, gender, the environment, and more. Distributed for
the Princeton University Art Museum
Originally published in 1973. This final collection of thought by
founder of the New School for Social Research in New York, Horace
M. Kallen, touches on topics from language to death and from
freedom to value. The author's treatise explores his understanding
of logic and existence.
This book explores the role of institutions in economic growth,
looking in particular at specific Asian countries and at particular
cities within those countries. It considers a wide range of factors
besides institutions, including the law, cultural factors and
overall government arrangements. The differences between the
countries studied are highlighted, and the impact of these
differences assessed: the impact of English common law on
arrangements in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia; sharia law in
Malaysia; the differing lengths of time of colonial rule; the
extent to which Chinese family businesses control an economy. Also
studied are the degree to which the law is effectively applied, and
a range of other social, economic and cultural factors. The book's
conclusions as to which factors have the greatest impact will be of
considerable interest to economists of Asia and those interested in
economic growth more widely.
Originally published in 1973. This final collection of thought by
founder of the New School for Social Research in New York, Horace
M. Kallen, touches on topics from language to death and from
freedom to value. The author's treatise explores his understanding
of logic and existence.
Thomas Sankara was one of Africa's most important anti-imperialist
leaders of the late 20th Century. His declaration that fundamental
socio-political change would require a 'certain amount of madness'
drove the Burkinabe Revolution and resurfaced in the country's
popular uprising in 2014. This book looks at Sankara's political
philosophies and legacies and their relevance today. Analyses of
his synthesis of Pan-Africanism and humanist Marxist politics, as
well as his approach to gender, development, ecology and
decolonisation offer new insights to Sankarist political
philosophies. Critical evaluations of the limitations of the
revolution examine his relationship with labour unions and other
aspects of his leadership style. His legacy is revealed by looking
at contemporary activists, artists and politicians who draw
inspiration from Sankarist thought in social movement struggles
today, from South Africa to Burkina Faso. In the 30th anniversary
of his assassination, this book illustrates how Sankara's political
praxis continues to provide lessons and hope for decolonisation
struggles today.
This book explores the role of institutions in economic growth,
looking in particular at specific Asian countries and at particular
cities within those countries. It considers a wide range of factors
besides institutions, including the law, cultural factors and
overall government arrangements. The differences between the
countries studied are highlighted, and the impact of these
differences assessed: the impact of English common law on
arrangements in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia; sharia law in
Malaysia; the differing lengths of time of colonial rule; the
extent to which Chinese family businesses control an economy. Also
studied are the degree to which the law is effectively applied, and
a range of other social, economic and cultural factors. The book's
conclusions as to which factors have the greatest impact will be of
considerable interest to economists of Asia and those interested in
economic growth more widely.
This volume illustrates Melford Spiro's explorations of key
relationships among culture, society, and human nature. He
addresses such fundamental issues as the limitations of cultural
relativism, the problem of explanation in the social sciences, and
the importance of a comparative approach to the study of social and
cultural systems. Spiro believes that deep motivational and
cognitive structures underlie human behavior. He argues that these
structures can be explained by the evolutionary history of our
species and by social experience.
The recent debate on the consequences of structural adjustment for
developing economies, which took place between the World Bank and
the United Nation's Economic Commission on Africa, underlines the
need for further investigation of this important economic strategy.
Tanzania, which for a decade had stood as a symbol of opposition to
the Internation
An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and
presidency by one of his closest advisors. Horace Busby was one of
LBJ’s most trusted advisors; their close working and personal
relationship spanned twenty years. In The Thirty-First of March he
offers an indelible portrait of a president and a presidency at a
time of crisis. From the aftereffects of the Kennedy assassination,
when Busby was asked by the newly sworn-in president to sit by his
bedside during his first troubled nights in office, to the concerns
that defined the Great Society—civil rights, the economy, social
legislation, housing, and the Vietnam War—Busby not only
articulated and refined Johnson's political thinking, he also
helped shape the most ambitious, far-reaching legislative agenda
since FDR's New Deal. Here is Johnson the politician, Johnson the
schemer, Johnson who advised against JFK’s choice of an open
limousine that fateful day in Dallas, and Johnson the father,
sickened by the deaths of young men fighting and dying in Vietnam
on his orders. The Thirty-first of March is a rare glimpse into the
inner sanctum of Johnson's presidency, as seen through the eyes of
one of the people who understood him best.
Originally published in 1906, Horace Kephart's Camping and
Woodcraft: A Handbook for Vacation Campers and Travelers in the
Woods stands more than a century later as a classic in outdoors
writing. Praised byField & Stream as "an encyclopedia of living
in the open," it provides expertly detailed answers to hundreds of
practical problems that arise on every outing in the great
outdoors. Within Camping and Woodcraft, you'll find tips on:
*Catching and cooking game with minimal effort *Practical
provisions to bring *Navigating unfamiliar trails and terrains
*Setting up camp *Useful woodsmanship and marksmanship skills to
learn *And dozens more topics Delivering timeless instructional
wisdom, Camping and Woodcraft belongs on the shelf and in the
backpack of every camper, hiker, and outdoor aficionado.
Natural products that have both plant growth regulatory properties and pharmaceutical properties are examined in this book. This is the first and most up-to-date text linking agrochemistry and pharmaceutical chemistry in an easy to read presentation for practitioners in both fields.
Due to the intense and widespread attention being given to the undesirable side-effects of commercial herbicide products such as residual contamination, resistance, ecosystem impairments, and waste generation, the discovery of new, natural herbicides that are biologically safe will prove to be significant and profitable.
Featuring over 200 tables, Biologically Active Natural Products: Agrochemicals is very useful to those in the agrochemical and pharmaceutical industries, as well as those in biochemistry, plant pathology, and natural products study and development.
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