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Letter from New York 2023 (New edition)
Helene Hanff; Introduction by Jean Hanff Korelitz; Illustrated by Bruce Eric Kaplan
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Manderley Press is delighted to announce the publication of a
brand-new edition of Helene Hanff's Letter from New York - another
literary jewel from the author of 84, Charing Cross Road. To
showcase this wonderful book, we commissioned the New York Times
bestselling author Jean Hanff Korelitz (The Plot) to pen a new
introduction - she is a cousin of Helene Hanff's, and was inspired
to become a writer after meeting her as a teenager. The front cover
was specially designed by New Yorker illustrator Bruce Eric Kaplan,
also a fan of the author and a resident of New York City too. Over
several years, Helene Hanff read aloud these stories of her life in
New York for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. This book is a collection
of selected scripts from this series, composed with a British
audience in mind, in which the author offers us a glimpse into her
own everyday tales of the city. Written in her trademark whimsical
and upbeat style, Helene Hanff transports us right to the heart of
Manhattan in the 1980s, describing her favourite places, people and
pets with gentle humour, and introducing the reader to the ups and
downs of life in a high-rise apartment building in New York City
("the last small town in America"). We are introduced to Bentley,
the Old English Sheepdog belonging to a neighbour who captured the
author's heart; we take a stroll through the beautiful
Shakespeare's Garden in Central Park; and we join the author to
enjoy annual city parades down Fifth Avenue - especially the St
Patrick's Day parade, when the whole of New York turned green. And
we meet Helene's friends: Arlene, whose glamorous social life - and
wardrobe - puts Hanff's tiny apartment and simple writer's life
into perspective, and Nina, whose garden on the sixteenth-floor
overflows with flowers and fruit trees. Finally, we accompany the
author as she travels to London to celebrate the opening night of
the dramatisation of her best-selling book 84, Charing Cross Road.
What started out as a six-month trial in 1978 eventually turned
into a six-year project, during which time Helene Hanff captivated
radio audiences with her monthly broadcasts - each one a love
letter to her beloved NYC. Long before the cast of Friends - and
Sarah Jessica Parker's iconic evocation of life in the city -
recreated a New York existence for us to experience vicariously,
these 5-minute vignettes were the perfect way for native New
Yorkers and international readers alike, to revel in the quotidian
as well as the glamour of city life, and to discover the unexpected
hidden gems - and treasured traditions - of New York City. Letter
from New York is still a delight to read, 40 years after it was
first written - a timeless and beguiling tale of everyday life in
this great city, by one of the best-loved authors of the
20th-century.
Modern society is currently facing a cascade of environmental
crises. Moving forward, it will be the job of current and future
generations to develop sound and creative approaches to addressing
them. This book attempts to provide insight into the ways in which
society can confront modern agricultural, environmental, and
resource challenges. In particular, it provides an economic lens
with which to examine and confront these issues. The first part of
the book introduces a general economic framework that can be used
to analyze these issues. Subsequent chapters rely on this framework
to introduce and explain specific concepts in agricultural,
environmental, and resource economics, including (but not limited
to) non-renewable and renewable resource management, pesticide use,
and climate change. The book develops quantitative tools that the
readership can use to analyze and better understand the
complexities of these challenges. Each chapter includes specific
applications, and an accompanying Appendix includes a longer list
of practice problems that can be brought into courses as exercises.
Utilities are required to measure TOC concentrations in treatment
plant influents and waters that contain a variety of dissolved
molecules and organic particles. Uncertainties about the analytical
accuracy of TOC measurements are the result of inadequate
proficiency evaluation standards. The three primary research goals
of the project were to: (1) develop total organic carbon (TOC)
standards that can be used with all TOC methodologies to evaluate
performance; (2) determine the ability of different TOC
methodologies to accurately measure TOC; (3) test the ruggedness of
the proficiency standards in a round-robin survey involving a large
number of laboratories. A fourth goal was to determine the
contribution of natural organic particles and suspended organic
carbon (SOC) in the formation of DBPs. In general, all laboratories
performed well in the analysis of an easily oxidized standard,
potassium hydrogen phthalate (KHP). In contrast, several analysts
had difficulty in efficiently separating an inorganic C (IC)
amendment from the KHP standard when a 30 mg IC/L spike was added
to the standard.Averaged over all instruments and analysts,
standards that were solutions were analyzed with 92 9 per cent
recovery, while standards that were particles were analyzed with 55
21 per cent recovery. The project data suggest that particles can
compete with dissolved precursor material in reactions with applied
disinfectants and contribute DBP precursors Originally published by
AwwaRF for its subscribers in 2003
Modern society is currently facing a cascade of environmental
crises. Moving forward, it will be the job of current and future
generations to develop sound and creative approaches to addressing
them. This book attempts to provide insight into the ways in which
society can confront modern agricultural, environmental, and
resource challenges. In particular, it provides an economic lens
with which to examine and confront these issues. The first part of
the book introduces a general economic framework that can be used
to analyze these issues. Subsequent chapters rely on this framework
to introduce and explain specific concepts in agricultural,
environmental, and resource economics, including (but not limited
to) non-renewable and renewable resource management, pesticide use,
and climate change. The book develops quantitative tools that the
readership can use to analyze and better understand the
complexities of these challenges. Each chapter includes specific
applications, and an accompanying Appendix includes a longer list
of practice problems that can be brought into courses as exercises.
Journey into the world of Minecraft in this Step 3 Step into
Reading, the only official leveled reader series based on
Minecraft, one of the world's best-selling video game! Minecraft®
is one of the best-selling video game of all time! And now learning
to read has never been more fun for players of the game ages 4 to
7. They’ll get a great introduction to the game’s most
mysterious biomes when two players, Emmy and Birch--and their tame
wolf Byte--set out on an epic adventure to explore a dark Minecraft
mansion! Look for these other great Minecraft® titles: •
Survival Mode! (Minecraft) • Mobs in the Overworld! (Minecraft)
• Escape from the Nether (Minecraft • The Sky's the
Limit (Minecraft) Step 3 readers feature engaging characters
in easy-to-follow plots about popular topics for children who are
ready to read on their own. © 2023 Mojang AB. All Rights
Reserved. Minecraft, the Minecraft logo, the Mojang Studios logo
and the Creeper logo are trademarks of the Microsoft group of
companies.
Inviting Interruptions: Wonder Tales in the Twenty-First Century
anthologizes contemporary stories, comics, and visual texts that
intervene in a range of ways to challenge the popular perception of
fairy tales as narratives offering heteronormative happy endings
that support status-quo values. The materials collected in Inviting
Interruptions address the many ways intersectional issues play out
in terms of identity markers, such as race, ethnicity, class, and
disability, and the forces that affect identity, such as
non-normative sexualities, addiction, abuses of power, and forms of
internalized self-hatred caused by any number of external
pressures. But we also find celebration, whimsy, and beauty in
these same texts-qualities intended to extend readers' enjoyment of
and pleasure in the genre. Edited by Cristina Bacchilega and
Jennifer Orme, the book is organized in two sections. ""Inviting
Interruptions"" considers the invitation as an offer that must be
accepted in order to participate, whether for good or ill. This
section includes Emma Donoghue's literary retelling of ""Hansel and
Gretel,"" stills from David Kaplan's short Little Red Riding Hood
film, Bryan Kamaoli Kuwada's story about stories rooted in Hawaiian
tradition and land, and Shary Boyle, Shaun Tan, and Dan Taulapapa
McMullin's interruptions of mainstream images of beauty-webs,
commerce, and Natives. ""Interrupting Invitations"" contemplates
the interruption as a survival mechanism to end a problem that has
already been going on too long. This section includes reflections
on migration and sexuality by Diriye Osman, Sofia Samatar, and Nalo
Hopkinson; and invitations to rethink human and non-human relations
in works by Anne Kamiya, Rosario Ferr? (R), Veronica Schanoes, and
Susanna Clark. Each text in the book is accompanied by an editors'
note, which offers questions, critical resources, and other links
for expanding the appreciation and resonance of the text. As we
make our way deeper into the twenty-first century, wonder tales-and
their critical analyses-will continue to interest and enchant
general audiences, students, and scholars.
Cynthia Kaplan takes us on a hilarious and sometimes
heartbreaking journey through her unique, uncensored world--her
bungled romantic encounters and unsung theatrical experiences; her
gadget-obsessed father, her pill-popping therapist, and her
eccentric grandmothers; her fearless husband, whom she engages in
an ongoing battle over which of them is the most popular person in
their apartment; and, of course, her vengeful, power-hungry
one-year-old son.
Kaplan's voice is a lot like the one in our heads--the one that
most of us are only willing to listen to late at night . . . maybe
while locked in a closet. What a relief it is that someone finally
admits that she is afraid of nearly everything; that she is jealous
even of people whose lives are on the verge of collapse; and that
she has, at times, tried to pass for a gentile.
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Oedipus Redeemed (Hardcover)
Kalman J. Kaplan; Foreword by Matthew B. Schwartz
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R823
R678
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Suitable for upper level advanced management or cost accounting
courses at the undergraduate or MBA/graduate level. Assumes
knowledge of management and/or cost accounting. This text provides
leading-edge treatment of innovative management accounting issues
used by major companies throughout the world. Takes a systematic
management- oriented approach to advanced management topics. Each
chapter is accompanied by cases to illustrate the concepts
discussed.
Houseplants have the power to transform any room. With their lush
foliage and structural beauty, they help create indoor oases that
bring a sense of tranquility to our busy lives. Fostering a
connection to plants has many positive implications for us and our
environment by strengthening our relationship with the natural
world. In Plantopedia, Lauren Camilleri and Sophia Kaplan from Leaf
Supply present the definitive guide to keeping happy, healthy
houseplants in any space. Featuring: * More than 130 plant profiles
including foliage plants, succulents and cacti, as well as rarer
gems of the plant world. * Detailed care information including
troubleshooting tips and tricks to ensure that your houseplants
thrive. * Plants for all levels of indoor gardeners, from budding
novices to green thumbs and beyond.
Truly pocket-sized and light, Kaplan's NCLEX Medication Review
provides a concise, portable review of 300+ medications frequently
prescribed in clinical practice. Reorganized to combine related
therapies, this slim volume reviews only the medications and key
details that are most likely to be tested—ideal for the home
stretch of exam prep, when you can’t afford to be overwhelmed.
Streamlined Review Flashcard-style pages with more than 300
frequently prescribed medications, grouped by medication category
& subcategory Expertly revised and up-to-date content, with
nursing considerations, adverse effects, and purpose for each
medication Organized to combine related therapies and facilitate
learning of meds with similar profiles Features: important
alternate uses of medications, black box warnings Appendix of
medical abbreviations for quick reference Alphabetical index of
medications by generic name for quick page reference Convenient
phonetic pronunciation keys Expert Guidance Simple, powerful tips
for retaining medication content Reviewed and updated by Kaplan's
team of expert nursing faculty and pharmacology specialists. We
invented test prep—Kaplan (www.kaptest.com) has been helping
students for almost 80 years. Our proven strategies have helped
legions of students achieve their dreams.
This exciting book brings the often-overlooked southern Maya region
of Guatemala into the spotlight by closely examining the ""lost
city"" of Chocola. Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umana prove
that Chocola was a major Maya polity and reveal exactly why it was
so influential. In their fieldwork at the site, Kaplan and Paredes
Umana discovered an extraordinarily sophisticated underground
water-control system. They also discovered cacao residues in
ceramic vessels. Based on these and other findings, the authors
believe that cacao was consumed and grown intensively at Chocola
and that the city was the center of a large cacao trade. They
contend that the city's wealth and power were built on its abundant
supply of water and its command of cacao, which was significant not
just to cuisine and trade but also to Maya ideology and cosmology.
Moreover, Kaplan and Paredes Umana detail the ancient city's
ceramics and add over thirty stone sculptures to the site's
inventory. Because the southern Maya region was likely the origin
of Maya hieroglyphic writing and the Long Count calendar, scholars
have long suspected the area to be important. This pioneering field
research at Chocola helps explain how and why the region played a
leading role in the rise of the Maya civilization.
A series of essays on Nordic Folklore, Mythology and Culture in
honor of John Lindow. Edited by Merrill Kaplan and Timothy R.
Tangherlini, contributors also include Margaret Clunies Ross, Gisli
Sigurosson, Jens Peter Schjodt, Anders Andren, Lars Lonnroth, Carol
J. Clover, Ulfar Bragason, Kendra Willson, Ulf Palmenfelt, Thomas
A. Dubois, Terry Gunnell, JoAnn Conrad, Hanne Pico Larsen, Tok
Thompson, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein, and Kirsten Thisted.
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