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'Beautiful and deep ... a sumptuous treat for any book lover' The
Independent 'Food for short story lovers everywhere' Irish Times *A
major celebration of the French short story and Spectator Book of
the Year* The short story has a rich tradition in French
literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous
practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for
rediscovery. The first volume spans four hundred years, taking the
reader from the sixteenth century to the 'golden age' of the fin de
siècle. Its pages are populated by lovers, phantoms, cardinals,
labourers, enchanted statues, gentleman burglars, retired
bureaucrats, panthers and parrots, in a cacophony of styles and
voices. From the affairs of Madame de Lafayette to the polemic
realism of Victor Hugo, the supernatural mystery of Guy de
Maupassant to the dark sensuality of Rachilde, this is the place to
start for lovers of French literature, new and old. Edited and with
an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and
translator.
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Moojag and the Lost Memories
N.E. McMORRAN; Illustrated by Kyra-Sky Foster
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Sequel to the award-winning neurodivergent, cli-fi adventure
mystery 'Moojag and the Auticode Secret'.
----------------------------------- When Nema returns to Gajoomdom
she discovers three forgetful grannies who've totally lost track of
time. If she and Moojag can't help them remember, everyone's
memories are in danger. But turns out not everyone is who they
thought they were. Who will they rescue? Will they rescue them in
time? -------------------------------------- The Lost Memories,
inspired by the author's gran and living with dementia and
disability during the pandemic, shows us the impact of loss and the
power of memory. A multi-generational adventure, recommended for
readers nine years and over. You'll whizz through this one, like
the wrinkly new characters who star in it!
One 'alone, but not lonely' boy's triumph over adversity, motivated
by his dream of becoming a professional footballer and a longing
for truth and connection. Street's childhood memoir is a sensitive
and honest portrayal, through a poetic autistic lens, of growing up
with learning differences and epilepsy in an unconventional family
during the 1950s and 60s. A unique and vivid social document of the
period, highlighting much of the discrimination still faced by
minority and disabled communities today.
Award winning, quirky cli-fi fantasy adventure for readers 10 years
and up. If Nema can't uncover a lost boy's true identity in time
they may never escape the sticky world he designed... When Nema and
her friends discover a hidden sugar-hooked society holding lost
kids, they find their perfect world in danger. The strange, sticky
place hides the truth about Nema's missing brother, and a plot to
destroy the free life she knows. But only they can reverse a code
to prevent a rock candy robot invasion and rescue the captives.
Fail and they might never make it back home...
A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2022 'Beautiful and deep ... a
sumptuous treat for any book lover' The Independent 'There is so
much to discover in these stories - both history and food for short
story lovers everywhere' Irish Times A major new celebration of the
French short story The short story has a rich tradition in French
literature. This feast of an anthology celebrates its most famous
practitioners, as well as newly translated writers ready for
rediscovery. Here are decadent tales, 'bloody tales', fairy tales,
detective stories and war stories. They are stories about the self
and the other, husbands, wives and lovers, country and city, rich
and poor. The first volume spans four hundred years, taking the
reader from the sixteenth century to the 'golden age' of the fin de
siecle. Its pages are populated by lovers, phantoms, cardinals,
labourers, enchanted statues, gentleman burglars, retired
bureaucrats, panthers and parrots, in a cacophony of styles and
voices. From the affairs of Madame de Lafayette to the polemic
realism of Victor Hugo, the supernatural mystery of Guy de
Maupassant to the dark sensuality of Rachilde, this is the place to
start for lovers of French literature, new and old. Edited and with
an introduction by Patrick McGuinness, academic, writer and
translator.
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The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback)
Marquis de Sade; Translated by Will McMorran, Thomas Wynn
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WINNER OF THE 2017 SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE A new translation of
Sade's most notorious, shocking and influential novel. This
disturbing but hugely important text has influenced countless
individuals throughout history: Flaubert and Baudelaire both read
Sade; the surrealists were obsessed with him; film-makers like
Pasolini saw parallels with twentieth-century history in his
writings; and feminists such as Andrea Dworkin and Angela Carter
clashed over him. This new translation brings Sade's provocative
novel into Penguin Classics for the first time, and will reignite
the debate around this most controversial of writers.
Amid the decline of many of Japan's rural communities, the hot
springs village resort of Kurokawa Onsen is a rare, bright spot.
Its two dozen traditional inns, or ryokan, draw nearly a million
tourists a year eager to admire its landscape, experience its
hospitality, and soak in its hot springs. As a result, these ryokan
have enticed village youth to return home to take over successful
family businesses and revive the community. Chris McMorran spent
nearly two decades researching ryokan in Kurokawa, including a full
year of welcoming guests, carrying luggage, scrubbing baths,
cleaning rooms, washing dishes, and talking with co-workers and
owners about their jobs, relationships, concerns, and aspirations.
He presents the realities of ryokan work-celebrated, messy,
ignored, exploitative, and liberating-and introduces the people who
keep the inns running by making guests feel at home. McMorran
explores how Kurokawa's ryokan mobilize hospitality to create a
rural escape from the globalized dimensions of everyday life in
urban Japan. Ryokan do this by fusing a romanticized notion of the
countryside with an enduring notion of the hospitable woman
embodied by nakai, the hired female staff who welcome guests, serve
meals, and clean rooms. These women are the face of the ryokan. But
hospitality often hides a harsh reality. McMorran found numerous
nakai in their 50s, 60s, and 70s who escaped violent or unhappy
marriages by finding employment in ryokan. Yet, despite years of
experience, nakai remain socially and economically vulnerable.
Through this intimate and inventive ethnography of a year in a
ryokan, McMorran highlights the importance of both the generational
work of ryokan owners and the daily work of their employees, while
emphasizing the gulf between them. With its focus on small,
family-owned businesses and a mobile, vulnerable workforce, Ryokan
makes an invaluable contribution to scholarship on the Japanese
workplace. It also will interest students and scholars in
geography, mobility studies, and women's studies and anyone who has
ever stayed at a ryokan and is curious about the work that takes
place behind the scenes.
This diary of John Munro Mackenzie describes, in detail, life on
the island of Lewis as seen through the eyes of the Chamberlain of
the Lews to Sir James Matheson. Mackenzie records each day of that
year, his work and whom he meets.
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Geologically Active - Proceedings of the 11th IAEG Congress. Auckland, New Zealand, 5-10 September 2010 (Hardcover, New)
Al Williams, G.M. Pinches, C.Y. Chin, T.J. McMorran, C.I. Massey
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Geologically Active contains over 500 papers from 44 countries
worldwide, which were presented at the 11th Congress of the IAEG,
and includes the state-of-the-art on practise in engineering
geology. Engineering geology now extends into a host of linked
fields: disaster risk management and climate change, preservation
of lifelines, geophysics, interpretation of satellite imagery,
communication, instrumentation, mining, tunnelling, groundwater,
rehabilitation and brown-field development, wine, recyclable
materials, ethics, and education. Communication with
non-specialists and developing green solutions has never been more
important and the industry is evolving tools and emerging ideas to
more appropriately achieve this.
This volume brings together engineering, science and practice to
focus on the very real effects of active geological processes on
communities and infrastructure and their development. The theme of
Geologically Active is developed through five chapters focussing on
assessment and identification of natural hazards, the meeting of
geological phenomena with people and infrastructure to create risk,
approaches to hazard mitigation around the world, application of
engineering geological techniques and practice, site investigation
and geotechnical modelling, and engineering geology in the global
economy, bridging the gap between scientists, engineers and
non-practitioners in a changing world environment. Geologically
Active encourages the transformation of science research into
practice, offering a connection between scientific progress and
community resilience, and will be invaluable to engineering and
geological academics and consultants, government organizations, and
power and mining companies.
'It is time to die, Madame: there shall be no mercy for you..!' It
was one of the most shocking crimes of the seventeenth century, and
would provide Sade with the inspiration for the last novel he
published. The beautiful and virtuous Euphrasie, admired by the
King himself, falls in love with the young and handsome Alphonse,
Marquis de Gange. Within the forbidding walls of his castle in
Provence, however, sinister forces are conspiring against the young
couple. Alphonse's brothers, the Abbe and the Chevalier, want
Euphrasie for themselves. Published in English for the first time,
The Marquise de Gange is a neglected Gothic classic by one of the
most notorious authors in the literary canon. Although a departure
from his earlier pornographic and libertine works, beneath the
novel's thin veneer of respectability lurks the same subversive
presence of an author plotting against virtue in distress.
In a paradigm shift away from classical understandings of geometry,
nineteenth-century mathematicians developed new systems that
featured surprising concepts such as the idea that parallel lines
can curve and intersect. Providing evidence to confirm much that
has largely been speculation, Joyce and Geometry reveals the full
extent to which the modernist writer James Joyce was influenced by
the radical theories of non-Euclidean geometry. Through close
readings of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Joyce's notebooks, Ciaran
McMorran demonstrates that Joyce's experiments with nonlinearity
stem from a fascination with these new mathematical concepts. He
highlights the maze-like patterns traced by Joyce's characters as
they wander Dublin's streets; he explores recurring motifs such as
the topography of the Earth's curved surface and time as the fourth
dimension of space; and he investigates in detail the enormous
influence of Giordano Bruno, Henri Poincare, and other writers who
were critical of the Euclidean tradition. Arguing that Joyce's
obsession with measuring and mapping space throughout his works
encapsulates a modern crisis between geometric and linguistic modes
of representation, McMorran delves into a major theme in Joyce's
work that has not been fully explored until now. A volume in the
Florida James Joyce Series, edited by Sebastian D. G. Knowles
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG97-B1179Appendix contains text of 12 acts. Includes
index.London: Butterworth: Shaw & Sons, 1904. lxxvi, 648, 129
p.; 22 cm
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
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Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
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typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have
occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor
pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original
artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe
this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections,
have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing
commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We
appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the
preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
This diary of John Munro Mackenzie describes, in detail, life on
the island of Lewis as seen through the eyes of the Chamberlain of
the Lews to Sir James Matheson. Mackenzie records each day of that
year, his work, whom he meets, places visited, matters discussed
and his regular meetings with Lord and Lady Matheson. The book
should be of interest to all those who wish to know more of the
history of Lewis. Is should also be of use as a contemporary record
of a time from which few written records survive.
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Sade's Sensibilities (Hardcover)
Kate Parker, Norbert Sclippa; Contributions by Mladen Kozul, Will McMorran, Natania Meeker, …
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Sade's Sensibilities tells a new story of one of the most enduring
and controversial figures in European literature. Blending ideas
about subjectivity, identity and natural philosophy with politics
and pornography, D.A.F. de Sade has fascinated writers and readers
for two hundred years, and his materialist account of the human
condition has been widely influential in post-structuralism,
nihilism, and feminism. This new collection of essays considers
Sade's Enlightenment legacy, both within and beyond the narratives
of radicalism and aberration that have historically marked the
study of his oeuvre. From different points of view, these essays
argue that Sade engaged with and influenced traditional
Enlightenment paradigms-particularly those related to sensibility,
subjectivity, and philosophy-as much as he resisted them. They thus
recover a Sade more relevant, even foundational to our twenty-first
century understanding of modernity, selfhood, and community. In
Sade's Sensibilities Sade is no longer a solitary, peripheral
radical, but an Enlightenment philosopher in his own right.
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