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With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Stephen Arkin, San Francisco State University.Katherine Mansfield is widely regarded as a writer who helped create the modern short story. Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1888, she came to London in 1903 to attend Queen's College and returned permanently in 1908. her first book of stories, In a German Pension, appeared in 1911, and she went on to write and publish an extraordinary body of work. This edition of The Collected Stori...

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Numer dopuszczenia: 8/2006.

A brilliant split page novelty book from bestselling author-illustrator, Nick Sharratt.A great reissuing of a perennially popular split-page book inviting children to howl with laughter at the fantastic and fantastical food concoctions they create.Do you like ketchup on your cornflakes? No? Well flip 1/2 the page and try it with something else!With superb, satisfying novelty features:Spiral bound with pages split in halfbright and fun illustrationshilarious wordplayTwo of Nic...

With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Emeritus John Chapple, University of Hull. The sheer variety and accomplishment of Elizabeth Gaskell's shorter fiction is amazing. This new volume contains six of her finest stories that have been selected specifically to demonstrate this, and to trace the development of her art. As diverse in setting as in subject matter, these tales move from the gentle comedy of life in a small English country town in Dr Harrison's Confessions, t...

Pierwszy tom podręcznika pediatrii, którego autorami są specjaliści z Instytutu Pediatrii Collegium Medicum UJ, adresowany jest głównie do studentów medycyny. W sposób wyczerpujący i usystematyzowany przedstawiono w nim zasady badania fizykalnego dziecka w różnych okresach jego rozwoju, a na podstawie aktualnie obowiązujących zaleceń podano zasady żywienia zdrowego i chorego dziecka oraz zasady profilaktyki w pediatrii. Ponadto w kolejnych rozdziałach omówiono semiotykę, a ta...

Choroby okresu noworodkowegoChoroby układu oddechowegoChoroby alergiczneChoroby tkanki łącznejGenetyka klinicznaPodręcznik adresowany jest przede wszystkim do studentów medycyny. Mamy nadzieję, że zainteresuje także szersze grono czytelników - przede wszystkim lekarzy pediatrów - i będzie użyteczny w nauce i pracy oraz pozwoli odpowiedzieć na wiele pytań dotyczących chorego dziecka. Powstał dzięki bogatemu doświadczeniu klinicznemu lekarzy -specjalistów pediatrii z Instytutu ...

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With an Introduction and Notes by Dr T.C.B.Cook. Count Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) is best known for War and Peace and Anna Karenina, commonly regarded as amongst the greatest novels ever written. He also, however, wrote many masterly short stories, and this volume contains four of the longest and best in distinguished translations that have stood the test of time. In the early story Family Happiness, Tolstoy explores courtship and marriage from the point of view of a young wife....

A new version of John Payne's Victorian translation, with an Introduction by Cormac O Cuilleanain. 1348. The Black Death is sweeping through Europe. In Florence, plague has carried off one hundred thousand people. In their Tuscan villas, seven young women and three young men tell tales to recreate the world they have lost, weaving a rich tapestry of comedy, tragedy, ribaldry and farce. Boccaccio's Decameron recasts the storytelling heritage of the ancient and medieval worlds ...

A NEW ANGLE ON POWER FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MASTER OF THE FORM'Essential rules for the new Machiavellis' Daily Express'Astonishing' The Times 'The modern Machiavelli' Daily Mail When raised to the level of art, seduction - an indirect and subtle form of power - has toppled empires, won elections and enslaved great minds. Immerse yourself in the twenty-four maneuvers and strategies of the seductive process, the ritual by which a seducer gains mastery over the obje...

"This delightfully written, lesson-laden book deserves a place of its own in the Baseball Hall of Fame." ―ForbesMoneyball is a quest for the secret of success in baseball. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis follows the low-budget Oakland A's, visionary general manager Billy Beane, and the strange brotherhood of amateur baseball theorists. They are all in search of new baseball knowledge―insights that will giv...

Selected and Edited with an Introduction and Notes by David Blair, University of Kent at Canterbury. Late in the eighteenth century authors began to write ‘Gothic’ stories as a way of putting literature back in touch with the irrational, the supernatural and the bizarre, which had been neglected in the ‘Age of Reason’. This superb new collection brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales from the period in ...

Introduction and Notes by Janet Beer, Manchester Metropolitan University. The House of Mirth tells the story of Lily Bart, aged 29, beautiful, impoverished and in need of a rich husband to safeguard her place in the social elite, and to support her expensive habits - her clothes, her charities and her gambling. Unwilling to marry without both love and money, Lily becomes vulnerable to the kind of gossip and slander which attach to a girl who has been on the marriage market fo...

With a new Introduction by Professor Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D. The Forsyte Saga is Galsworthy’s enduringly popular masterpiece. Initially, the plot centres on Soames Forsyte, a successful solicitor living in London with his beautiful wife, Irene. A pillar of the late-Victorian upper middle class, wealthy and well-connected, he seems to lead an enviable life. But beneath the respectable exterior lie acute tensions and frustrations. The marriage of Soames and Irene culminates i...

Introduction and Notes by Ian F.A. Bell, Professor of English Literature, University of Keele. Washington Square marks the culmination of James's apprentice period as a novelist. With sharply focused attention upon just four principal characters, James provides an acute analysis of middle-class manners and behaviour in the New York of the 1870's, a period of great change in the life of the city. This change is explored through the device of setting the novel's action during t...

Translated by W.H.White and A.K.Stirling. With an Introduction by Don Garrett. Benedict de Spinoza lived a life of blameless simplicity as a lens-grinder in Holland. And yet in his lifetime he was expelled from the Jewish community in Amsterdam as a heretic, and after his death his works were first banned by the Christian authorities as atheistic, then hailed by humanists as the gospel of Pantheism. His Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order shows us the reality behind this...

Książka stanowi publikację wykładu wygłoszonego przez abpa J. Życińskiego, jako laureata dorocznie przyznawanej przez TN KUL nagrody im. ks. Idziego Radziszewskiego. Nagroda ta przyznawana jest za całokształt dorobku naukowego w duchu humanizmu chrześcijańskiego. Treść książki stanowią laudacja prof. dr hab. Władysława Stróżewskiego oraz wykład ks. prof. dr hab. Józefa Życińskiego na temat: „Kosmiczna perspektywa kulturowej ewolucji człowieka”.

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics’ Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare’s works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies, but it remains deeply controversial. The text may seem anti-Semitic; yet repeate...

Translated by George Chapman, with Introductions by Jan Parker. Hector bidding farewell to his wife and baby son, Odysseus bound to the mast listening to the Sirens, Penelope at the loom, Achilles dragging Hector's body round the walls of Troy - scenes from Homer have been reportrayed in every generation. The questions about mortality and identity that Homer's heroes ask, the bonds of love, respect and fellowship that motivate them, have gripped audiences for three millennia....

Edited, introduced and annotated by Cedric Watts, M.A., Ph.D., Emeritus Professor of English, University of Sussex. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series, with Henry V as its inaugral volume, presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing endeavours to take account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Henry V is the most famous and influential of Shakespeare's history plays. Its powerful patriotic r...

Translated, with an Introduction and Notes by John R. Williams. Goethe's Faust is a classic of European literature. Based on the fable of the man who traded his soul for superhuman powers and knowledge, it became the life's work of Germany's greatest poet. Beginning with an intriguing wager between God and Satan, it charts the life of a deeply flawed individual and his struggle against the nihilism of his diabolical companion Mephistopheles. Part One presents Faust's pact wit...

Editedand with an Introduction and Notes by Dr Keith Carabine. University of Kent at Canterbury. Uncle Tom's Cabin is the most popular, influential and controversial book written by an American. Stowe's rich, panoramic novel passionately dramatises why the whole of America is implicated in and responsible for the sin of slavery, and resoundingly concludes that only ‘repentance, justice and mercy’ will prevent the onset of ‘the wrath of Almighty God!’. The novel gave such a te...

W podręczniku podano podstawowe wiadomości z zakresu wyposażenia laboratorium, zasad pobierania próbek do analiz w przemyśle spożywczym oraz analizy ilościowej, wagowej i objętościowej. Omówiono metody oznaczania węglowodanów, białek tłuszczów oraz kwasowości w produktach spożywczych. Podano również ogólne wiadomości o analizie mikrobiologicznej żywności, powietrza, wody i sprzętu.

With an Introduction by Derek Matravers. In The Social Contract Rousseau (1712-1778) argues for the preservation of individual freedom in political society. An individual can only be free under the law, he says, by voluntarily embracing that law as his own. Hence, being free in society requires each of us to subjugate our desires to the interests of all, the general will. Some have seen in this the promise of a free and equal relationship between society and the individual, w...