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Bill and Evelyn Harrison lead dauntingly normal lives. Until, that
is, they fall victims to their Hormones.Testosterone, in between
working on Bill's bald patch and making him needlessly aggressive,
is spurring him on to make idiotic remarks: 'Oi! You! How dare you
say my wife's attractive!'Evelyn's Oestrogen and Progesterone,
meanwhile, are in love with their power: 'We're soothing.''.but
spiteful.''We're regular.''.but unpredictable.''We could spend the
morning giving her cramps.''.or take the week off an let her worry
about her period being late.''We're a paradox.'They're your
conflicting impulses; they're your basest instincts; they're the
perpetrators of your most embarrassing and humiliating moments, and
the instigators of pure bliss. They're the realisation of your
worst fears.Meet the Hormones.
'This sentence is false' - is that true? The 'Liar paradox'
embodied in those words exerted a particular fascination on the
logicians of the Western later Middle Ages, and, along with similar
'insoluble' problems, forms the subject of the first group of
articles in this volume. In the following parts Professor Spade
turns to medieval semantic theory, views on the relationship
between language and thought, and to a study of one particular
genre of disputation, that known as 'obligationes'. The focus is on
the Oxford scholastics of the first half of the 14th century, and
it is the name of William of Ockham which dominates these pages - a
thinker with whom Professor Spade finds himself in considerable
philosophical sympathy, and whose work on logic and semantic theory
has a depth and richness that have not always been sufficiently
appreciated.
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On the Water (Paperback)
H.M. van den Brink; Translated by Paul Vincent
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A "powerful tale of romantic regret" (The Seattle
Post-Intelligencer), Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001, and
finalist for the French Prix Medicis, On the Water tells the
poignant story of Anton and David, two oarsmen trained by a
mysterious German coach in the golden Amsterdam summer of 1939.
Anton stands on the banks of his beloved river years later, on the
wintry eve of Holland's liberation, and mourns a lost world. David,
his Jewish teammate and quiet obsession from that magical summer,
has disappeared, and the boathouse is now derelict and deserted.
Spare, lyrical, and nuanced, On the Water is quietly enormous,
capturing a moment so precise and exact it is as if caught in amber
-- a rowing club in Amsterdam and two of its competitors from very
different backgrounds, set against the backdrop of the oncoming
war. The menace of tragedy to come is subtly woven into the story
of the two boys whose only concerns are practices, races, and
themselves. In the end, all that is left for Anton is the memory of
his supreme happiness that summer. ."..beautiful, vivid
writing...van den Brink describes the grace, ecstasy, and agony of
rowing, the miracle of its teamwork harmony." -- Carmela Ciuraru,
The Washington Post Book World "[A] small miracle of a book." --
Daniel Topolski, The Guardian
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My Little War (Paperback)
Louis Paul Boon; Translated by Paul Vincent
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R264
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Following in the footsteps of C?line and Joyce, and anticipating
the gritty worldview of Burroughs and Bukowski...
The gilt-lettered advertisement outside Madame Brulot's pension in
the shabby rue d'Armaille promises a 'first-class family boarding
house' and 'modern conveniences'. One thing is certain: few emerge
from their stay at the Villa des Roses unscathed. The seduction of
the new maid Louise, the tragic suicide of Monsieur Brizard, the
champagne birthday party for Madame Dumoulin, the antics of Chico
the monkey - these are just some of the incidents and characters
that cause a sensation in the bittersweet and blackly comic world
of the Villa des Roses.
The Flemish writer Dani?l Robberechts (1937-1992) refused to
identify his books as novels, stories, or essays, according them
all equal status as, simply, writing. This liberation from genre
gives his work, for all its apparent simplicity, an elusive,
hypnotic quality, and no more so than in his debut, "Arriving in
Avignon," which records a young man's first encounter with that
labyrinthine city, and his likewise meandering relationship with a
girl from his home town--and indeed virtually every woman he meets.
Hesistant and cautious, unable quite to enter nor turn away, the
young man seems to circle Avignon endlessly, in the process
attempting to delay his inevitable descent into maturity and
monogamy. What seems at first like a cross between a memoir and a
guidebook comes in time to be the story of a young man's dogged yet
futile quest to know his own mind--unless it's the ancient city of
Avignon itself that is our real protagonist: a mystery that can be
approached, but never wholly solved.
From the West Indies to Shanghai, this collection of contemporary
short stories opens up a new world of Dutch writing to English
language readers. Subjects range from poetry to paranoia, power and
desire as the reader is taken on a voyage around the globe, or
focussed on a claustrophobic homeland. The variety of style,
subject and thinking among authors from a small country may
surprise, until we remind ourselves that Holland has been both a
crossroads in Europe and an imperial power. This is an intense,
powerful collection which sets the internal world of individuals
against backgrounds such as the politics of post-Cold War Europe,
and colonial, seafaring traditions. "In Praise of Navigation"
provides an overarching view of twentieth century Dutch writing in
a field where many outstanding writers are poorly represented in
translation and deserve a wider audience. It is a companion volume
to "In a Different Light" - a collection of contemporary
Dutch-language poets in translation, published by Seren in 2002.
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Love's Perfumes (Paperback)
Rita Rahman; Volume editing by Paul Vincent; Translated by Paul Vincent
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Myrna, a caribbean environmentalist, meets Arno, a high ranking
dutch civil servant at the world food summit in the Netherlands.
Arno suffers from delibitating insomnia, and Myrna has access to a
traditional technique of sleep therapy that she has learnet from
her grand mother. The string of stories that Myrna narrates to Arno
as therapy evokes her own journey adulthood. They also describe the
political turmoil of the Caribbean islands, and events unfold the
realities of the colonial past.
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Amsterdam Tales (Paperback)
Helen Constantine; Translated by Paul Vincent
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In this volume Paul Vincent presents a compelling collection of
prose fiction, memoirs and anecdotes centring on Amsterdam from the
seventeenth to the twenty-first century. His selection offers a
rare insight into the history and culture of the city. The subjects
range from Rembrandt to the persecution of the Jews in World War 2,
from barricades in a working-class district during the Depression
to a writer's unhealthy obsession with a massage parlour. These
eighteen newly-translated tales give the reader, and the traveller,
a tantalizing glimpse of the Amsterdam that lies beyond the tourist
guidebooks.
`I was born in Belgium, I’m Belgian. / But Belgium was never born
in me.’ So writes Leonard Nolens in `Place and Date’, which
captures a mood of political and social disillusionment amid a
generation of Dutch-speaking Belgians. And throughout this
selection we encounter a poet engaged with the question of national
identity. Frequently the poet moves into that risky terrain, the
firstperson plural, in which he speaks as and for a generation of
Flemings, embodying an attitude towards artistic and political
commitment that he considers its defining mark. `We curled up
dejectedly in the spare wheel of May sixtyeight’, he writes in
the selection’s central sequence `Breach’. Nolens’ poetry is
haunted by giants of twentieth-century European lyricism, by Rilke,
Valéry, Neruda, Mandelstam and Celan, with whom he has arguably
more affinity than with much poetry from the Dutch-language canon.
Signaling by diffusible morphogens, such as Hedgehog, Wingless,
TGF-ss, and various growth factors, is essential during
embryogenesis. The establishment of concentration gradients of
these morphogens is vital for developmental patterning, ensuring
that distinct differentiated cell types appear in the right place
and at the right time in forming tissues.
Written and edited by experts in the field, this collection from
Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology explores how morphogen
gradients are generated and interpreted during development. The
contributors examine the regulation of morphogen synthesis,
trafficking, and diffusion, as well as the complex webs of
signaling mechanisms and transcriptional responses in recipient
cells --whose fates are dictated by these morphogens. Including
discussion of the roles of morphogen gradients in various tissues
in organisms from yeast to humans, the volume is a vital reference
for developmental biologists and cell biologists wishing to know
how cell fate is determined during embryogenesis
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