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This edition of new translations brings together the most extensive collection of Paul Valéry's verse, from the adolescent years marked by mysticism, Mallarmé, and the Symbolist movement, to the three great works of maturity (The Young Fate, Album of Early Verse, and Charms) and later verse.

The story of how the post-war Labour government under Clement Attlee re-fashioned Britain is a familiar one. This is the alternative story of how the Conservatives envisioned Britain's post-war future, revealing the bold, at times utopian, plans that British Conservatives drew up for Britain and the post-war world.

Everything you need to know to pass the European Exam in Core Cardiology (EECC) is in this book. Based on the bestselling MCQs for Cardiology Knowledge Based Assessment this new resource has been fully updated and refreshed to reflect the ESC core curriculum for cardiology.

This new anthology brings together a generous selection of famous wartime poets alongside works by civilians and soldiers, offering a symphony of different voices, all connected in their shared experience of the Second World War. An introduction provides historical context and biographical accounts of each poet.

This volume is the fullest treatment in print of the Viking-Age economy in the Isle of Man, cataloguing the coin collection in Douglas and revealing a system that used silver and other metals on a substantial scale, in the form of bullion as well as coin. At least one identifiable group of coins was made on Man itself in the eleventh century.

Theophilus Opoku, a 19th-century pastor in the Gold Coast, wrote 37 reports to the Basel Mission between 1868 and 1908. In this volume, Gilbert and Jenkins introduce and annotate his detailed and vivid reports, which provide rare insight into conversion, rites, everyday life, and conflict in the kingdom of Akuapem.

Teaching English Pronunciation for a Global World is a practical guide for all teachers to help their students with pronunciation. The activities take a clear step-by-step approach explaining how to get the best out of an activity and why it works.

A new edition of The Well of Loneliness, one of the most influential and widely read books in LGBTQ+ history.

This book uses the impact of Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859) in the 50 years after its publication to explore the hidden role of generations in the cultural history of Victorian Britain, and to challenge conventional notions of the 'Darwinian Revolution' by examining how people from all sections of society responded to Darwin's writings.

Containing over 600 Single Best Answer questions, the fourth edition of Oxford Assess and Progress: Clinical Medicine is an essential revision guide.

A. J. Raffles is a gentleman by day, thief by night, performing elaborate heists in late Victorian London amongst clubland bachelors, hansom cabs, champagne suppers, Australian heiresses, and South African diamond moguls.

Legal Professional Privilege in Criminal Investigations and Proceedings is about the law of legal professional privilege and its practical application in criminal cases and internal investigations. This book provides a single point of reference for all criminal practitioners regardless of the type of case in which they are involved.

Prize-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and memoirist Michèle Roberts tells of her experience of reading the novels of French writer Colette, whose work has inspired and encouraged her throughout her own writing life.

Drawing from existing theory, policy, practice and speculative design about how cities may evolve, the book illustrates key concepts using case studies that respond to the complex relationships between human and non-human others (such as animals and plants, as well as soil, rivers, data and sensors) in urban space.

In this incisive introduction, leading Plath scholar Heather Clark explores the intersections between Plath's life and work while discussing key themes in Plath's poetry collections The Colossus and Ariel, her novel The Bell Jar, and her short stories.

Just Prospering? explores an important debate about the value of justice in Ancient Greece. Anderson begins with an analysis of the 5th Century BCE sophists and their novel philosophical debates about justice, before turning to Plato's Republic which, he argues, cannot be understood without attending to the sophistic dialogue.

Drawing from existing theory, policy, practice and speculative design about how cities may evolve, the book illustrates key concepts using case studies that respond to the complex relationships between human and non-human others (such as animals and plants, as well as soil, rivers, data and sensors) in urban space.

A close reading of James Baldwin's short story "Sonny's Blues" with references to Baldwin's famous essay The Fire Next Time, which provides insight into his life and ideas about art. Jenks unpacks his close relationship to the story, which he has been reading and teaching at writing workshops for more than thirty-five years.

Explores family reactions to mass death events in early twentieth-century Britain to show how families pushed against state-imposed memorial narratives and created objects to enable themselves to mourn. This is a unique, comparative, and domestic perspective on mourning that makes important contributions to the field of death studies.

Iona Heath relates the importance that John Berger's work and friendship had on her working life as a GP. It includes extracts from letters that span 20 years of her correspondence with John Berger.

This book introduces the concepts of elasticity and defects in crystals in the traditional continuum way and also in terms of atomic interactions.