Metamorphoses: A new verse translation
Preface Chronology Introduction Denis Feeney Further Reading Translator’s Note David Raeburn Metamorphoses Notes Glossary index Map of Ovid’s Mediterranean World
Penguin
The New Penguin Book of Love Poetry
Introduction Jon Stallworthy
India in Slow Motion
Introduction The Reinvention of Rama Misplaced Charity Corruption from Top to tail Altered Altars Creating Cyberabad The Sufis and a Plain Faith Farmer’s Reward A Tale of Two Brothers The Water Harvesters Paradise Lost Conclusion
National Service: A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963
Definitions, Facts and Uncertainties National Service Writing The Politics of Conscription, 1945-1949 The Experience of Conscription, 1945-1949 Boys: National Servicemen before call-up Call-up Basic training Making Men Officers Other Ranks The Queen’s Hard Bargains Korea Imperial Emergencies Suez Ending National Service A Cold-blooded view The Demography of National Service Ranks in the British Armed Forces …
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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 …
The Classical World
Hadrian and the Classical World Part One – The Archaic Greek World Homeric Epic The Greeks’ Settlements Aristocrats The Immortal Gods Tyrants and Lawgivers Sparta The Eastern Greeks Towards Democracy The Persian Wars The Western Greeks Part Two – The Classical Greek World Conquest and Empire A Changing Greek Cultural World Pericles and Athens The …
Berlin: The Downfall 1945
Berlin in the New Year The ‘House of Cards’ on the Vistula Fire and Sword and ‘Noble Fury’ The Great Winter Offensive The Charge to the Oder East and West Clearing the Rear Areas Pomerania and the Oder Bridgeheads Objective Berlin The Kamarilla and the General Staff Preparing the Coup de Grâce Waiting for the Onslaught …
Auditioning for the Musical Theatre
Foreword Charles Strouse Introduction The Audition How to Act a Song What To Sing and How to Sing It Presentation How to Play a Comedy Song Stage Fright! Sixteen Bars Please Don’t Shoot the Piano Player! Voice Teachers versus Vocal Coaches Dressing for Success Dancers Are Different Tactics for Survival A Compendium of Audition Songs
Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality
Copy appears to be Proof Copy of reissue of 2000’s The Battle, which may then have been extended slightly for the ISBN given here of The Battle of Britain: Myth and Reality Preface The Setting The Adversaries The Battle A Victory of Sorts Notes Tables and Maps
English Mystery Plays: A selection
Introduction by Peter Happé A Note on Books The Pre-Reformation Banns of the Chester Cycle
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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Six Not-So-Easy Pieces
Publisher’s Note Introduction Roger Penrose Special Preface Feynman’s Preface Vectors [rtoc] Symmetry in physics Translations Rotations Vectors Vector algebra Newton’s laws in vector notation Scalar product of vectors [/rtoc] Symmetry in Physical Laws [rtoc] Symmetry operations Symmetry in space and time Symmetry and conservation laws Mirror reflections Polar and axial vectors Which hand is right? …
Six Easy Pieces
Publisher’s note Introduction Paul Davies Special Preface Feynman’s Preface Atoms in Motion [rtoc] Introduction Matter is made of atoms Atomic processes Chemical reactions [/rtoc] Basic Physics [rtoc] Introduction Physics before 1920 Quantum physics Nuclei and particles [/rtoc] The Relation of Physics to Other Sciences [rtoc] Introduction Chemistry Biology Astronomy Geology Psychology How did it …
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
Author’s note Introduction The North and South of Temperament Part One: The Extrovert Ideal [rtoc] The Rise of the “Mighty Likeable Fellow”: How Extroversion Became the Cultural Ideal The Myth of Charismatic Leadership: The Culture of Personality, a Hundred Years Later When Collaboration Kills Creativity: The Rise of the New Groupthink and the Power of Working …
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Introduction Part I: Two Systems[rtoc] The Characters of the Story Attention and Effort The Lazy Controller The Associative Machine Cognitive Ease Norms, Surprises and Causes A Machine for Jumping to Conclusions How Judgements Happen Answering an Easier Question[/rtoc] Part II: Heuristics and Biases[rtoc] The Law of Small Numbers Anchors The Science of Availability Availability, Emotion …
Six Thinking Hats®
Preface [rtoc] Introduction Six Hats, Six Colours Using the Hats [/rtoc] The White Hat [rtoc] The White Hat: Facts and Figures What Hat Thinking: Whose Fact Is It? White Hat Thinking: Japanese Style Input White Hat Thinking: Facts, Truth and Philosophers White Hat Thinking: Who Puts on the Hat? Summary of White Hat Thinking [/rtoc] …
