The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance
Introduction Billy Collins Translator’s Introduction Edith Grossman
2006
John Betjeman: Collected Poems
Introduction Andrew Motion
Twentieth-Century Scottish Poetry
Language and Liberty Douglas Dunn “Alasdair Maclean withdrew his poems, on political grounds, from this paperback edition [2006]. Several new poets have been added.”
Thomas Hardy: The Time-Torn Man
Map showing the area around Higher Bockhampton and Max Gate Prologue Part One: 1940-1867 Mother Child The Bookish Boy Friends and Brothers The Londoner Part Two: 1867-1874 The Clever Lad’s Dream Lyonnesee The True Vocation Easy to Die A Short Visit to the Continent Part Three: 1875-1905 Dreaming the Heath Hardy Joins a Club The …
Beyond Band of Brothers
Author’s Preface Prelude to the Paperback Edition Prologue Band of Brothers Beginnings There Is Nothing Easy in Easy Company From Benning to Shanks Old Beyond My Years In the Time of Achilles Day of Days Carentan Holland The Island In War’s Dark Crucible Interlude Surrounded Again The Final Patrols Victory Finding Peace After a Lifetime …
The Poetry Handbook (2nd Edition)
Preface to the second edition Abbreviations Introduction Metre Form Layout Punctuation Lineation Rhyme Diction Syntax History Biography Gender Exams and Written Work Glossary and Index of Technical Terms Select Bibliography and Further Reading Index of Poems and Poets Quoted and Cited
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
An explanatory note: in which the origins of this book are clarified Preface to the revised and expanded edition Introduction: The Hidden Side of Everything: [rtoc]In which the book’s central idea is set forth: namely, if morality represents how people would like the world to work, then economics shows how it actually does work — Why the …
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As Used On the Famous Nelson Mandela: Underground Adventures in the Arms and Torture Trade
A Note to the Skim Reader Introduction: How To Be An Arms Dealer Part One: At the Heart An Answer Waiting to Happen We Are the New Masters Now! New Labour 1997 The Bad, the Ugly and the Illegal Desert Storm Codes Are Made to Be Broken Acronyms, Subsidies and Lies Bung Ho! Part Two: At …